2017 Toronto International Film Festival
The films showing at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival
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- DirectorJonas CarpignanoStarsPio AmatoIolanda AmatoKoudous SeihonIn A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region's factions - the local Italians, the African refugees and his fellow Romani. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets of their hometown. When Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he's ready to step into his big brother's shoes but soon finds himself faced with an impossible decision that will show if he is truly ready to become a man.
- DirectorDiego LermanStarsBárbara LennieDaniel AráozClaudio TolcachirA woman flies from Buenos Aires to be present for the birth of the child she has arranged to adopt. When the child is born, she is confronted with a demand from the biological mother's family for $10,000 and an adoption process confounded with moral and legal ambiguity.
- DirectorCãlin Peter NetzerStarsMircea PostelnicuDiana CavalliotiTania PopaToma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty and quickly fall in love.
- DirectorVivian QuStarsVicky ChenMeijun ZhouKe ShiIn a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are sexually assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she chooses to keep silence.
- DirectorMichel FrancoStarsEmma SuárezAna Valeria BecerrilEnrique ArrizonA pregnant 17-year-old decides to keep her condition to herself, enjoying a calm life in Puerto Vallarta. But, why on earth hadn't the inexperienced mother-to-be sought for assistance earlier? Can a mere child raise a kid on her own?
- DirectorBoris KhlebnikovStarsAleksandr YatsenkoIrina GorbachevaNikolay ShrayberA paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.
- DirectorTarique QayumiStarsHaji Gul AserLeena AlamZohra NasimA tale of one man's love of kite flying, told over five decades of political turmoil in Kabul, Afghanistan.
- DirectorPat MillsStarsMichelle McLeodBruce GrayAnastasia PhillipsIrene must endure two weeks of community service at a retirement home. Following her passion for cheerleading, she secretly signs up the senior residents to audition for a dance-themed reality show to prove that you don't need to be physically "perfect" to be perfectly AWESOME.
- DirectorUrszula AntoniakStarsAndrzej ChyraJakub GierszalChristian LöberA young Polish-born, Berlin-based lawyer working on refugee cases is unexpectedly reunited with his father, who is his only tie left with his homeland.
- DirectorKazuya ShiraishiStarsYû AoiSadao AbeTôri MatsuzakaTawako's boyfriend is not her kind, but she puts up with it in exchange for shelter. Her old boyfriend of almost a decade ago is long gone, and was also not nice, but like most girls she still reminisces about him and is attracted to his bad ways. Enter Mizushima who reminds Tawako of her old boyfriend, but soon more transpires to remind the girl of her old relationship.
- DirectorSimon BakerStarsSamson CoulterBen SpenceSimon BakerAfter developing an interest in surfing, a teenage boy and his friend forge an unlikely friendship with an older surfer.
- DirectorEllie HatfieldStarsDerek NelsonCarmen SilvaTiddles Raven
- DirectorStephan KomandarevStarsHaralan AlexandrovDimitar BanenkinVasil BanovMultiple stories of taxi drivers while they work one night.
- DirectorAli AsgariStarsNazanin AhmadiPedram AnsariSadaf AsgariDuring a dramatic night, two young lovers run from hospital to hospital seeking for an help for some complications after their first time. They'll have to confront with the indifference of some doctors and avoid them to call their parents.
- DirectorTeemu NikkiStarsMatti OnnismaaJari VirmanHannamaija NikanderA man who euthanizes animals as a side job runs afoul of a white supremacist.
- DirectorAlain GomisStarsVéro Tshanda Beya MputuGaetan ClaudiaPapi MpakaFélicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.
- DirectorRebecca DalyStarsVincent RomeoLars BrygmannClara RugaardRebbeca Daly's subtle and brilliantly realized parable , a teenage stranger welcomed into a household in a devout Catholic village gradually reveals his motives and what seem to be magical powers
- DirectorAndrea PallaoroStarsCharlotte RamplingAndré WilmsStéphanie Van VyveIntimate portrait of a woman drifting between reality and denial when she is left alone to grapple with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment.
- DirectorPhilippe Van LeeuwStarsHiam AbbassDiamand Abou AbboudJuliette NavisA mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.
- DirectorRobin AubertStarsMarc-André GrondinMonia ChokriCharlotte St-MartinIn the aftermath of an infectious outbreak, inhabitants of a village in rural Quebec find themselves confronting an invasion of ravenous zombie-like beings.
- DirectorAntonio Méndez EsparzaStarsAndrew BleechingtonRegina WilliamsRobert WilliamsStanding on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young black man in today's America. With his mother longing to find more to her life than parenting, Andrew is forced to take on the mounting pressure of family responsibility. His search for connection with an absent father, leads him to a dangerous crossroads.
- DirectorMina ShumStarsPei-Pei ChengTzi MaSandra OhAn aging woman questions her life after suspecting her husband is having an affair.
- DirectorSavi GabizonStarsElla ArmonyShai AviviShmil Ben AriA middle-aged Israeli bachelor is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son 20 years before, in this affecting drama from writer director Savi Gabizon.
- DirectorShirin NeshatShoja AzariStarsNeda RahmanianYasmin RaeisMehdi MoinzadehA film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum. Through her difficult journey, not unlike her heroine's, she must face the struggles and sacrifices, and the price that a woman must pay if she dares to cross the lines of a conservative male-dominated society.
- DirectorMouly SuryaStarsMarsha TimothyEgy FedlyTumpal TampubolonMarlina lives quietly in Sumba until one day a man named Markus and his gang try to rob her house and she kills him. Eventually, she is haunted by Markus, and her life turns in 180 degrees.