TIFF 2016: Contemporary World Cinema
by IMDb-Editors | created - 03 Aug 2016 | updated - 18 Aug 2016 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. After Love (2016)
100 min | Drama
After 15 years of marriage, a couple with two kids is about to divorce. Until the husband find a new place to live, they have to cohabit, and figure out how to share their belongings.
Director: Joachim Lafosse | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Cédric Kahn, Marthe Keller, Jade Soentjens
Votes: 2,444 | Gross: $0.01M
2. La mujer del animal (2016)
120 min | Drama
Amparo flees the convent and lands in a marginal neighborhood at her sister's house. Cousin Libardo becomes infatuated with Amparo, forcing her to live under his roof; the Animal's family, ... See full summary »
Director: Víctor Gaviria | Stars: Natalia Polo, Tito Alexander Gomez, Jesús Vásquez
Votes: 461
3. Apprentice (2016)
115 min | Drama
Inevitably, a transfer to a maximum security prison will eventually challenge the integrity and ethics of a young correctional officer on his way to become a chief executioner.
Director: Junfeng Boo | Stars: Firdaus Rahman, Wan Hanafi Su, Mastura Ahmad, Peter Boon Koh
Votes: 1,818 | Gross: $0.00M
4. Aquarius (I) (2016)
Not Rated | 146 min | Drama
Clara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho | Stars: Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos, Humberto Carrão
Votes: 20,752 | Gross: $0.29M
5. Pays (2016)
100 min | Drama
Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
Director: Chloé Robichaud | Stars: Emily VanCamp, Macha Grenon, Serge Houde, Rémy Girard
Votes: 280
6. Clair Obscur (2016)
105 min | Drama
Two Turkish women, one oppressed by sexist traditions and one liberated by modern mores, have more in common than it would seem.
Director: Yesim Ustaoglu | Stars: Funda Eryigit, Ecem Uzun, Mehmet Kurtulus, Okan Yalabik
Votes: 2,903
7. Death in Sarajevo (2016)
85 min | Drama
The major hotel Europe in Sarajevo will receive an important visit on the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, attack that triggered World War. As the manager of ... See full summary »
Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Snezana Vidovic, Izudin Bajrovic, Vedrana Bozinovic, Muhamed Hadzovic
Votes: 1,376
8. A Decent Woman (2016)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
A housemaid, working in an exclusive gated community in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, embarks on a journey of sexual and mental liberation in a nudist swinger-club boarding the high security walls.
Director: Lukas Valenta Rinner | Stars: Iride Mockert, Andrea Strenitz, Martín Shanly, Mariano Sayavedra
Votes: 516
9. Ember (II)
Sci-Fi | Announced
A documentary series director on her latest assignment covering an insufferable celebrity chef's restaurant opening discovers that the secret to its success is more than meets the eye.
10. Burn Country (2016)
102 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A former Afghan journalist seeking asylum discovers the dark underbelly of his new small-town home in Northern California.
Director: Ian Olds | Stars: Dominic Rains, Melissa Leo, James Franco, Rachel Brosnahan
Votes: 905
11. Handsome Devil (2016)
TV-MA | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Ned and Conor are forced to share a bedroom at their boarding school. The loner and the star athlete at this rugby-mad school form an unlikely friendship until it's tested by the authorities.
Director: John Butler | Stars: Fionn O'Shea, Ardal O'Hanlon, Amy Huberman, Ruairi O'Connor
Votes: 17,045
12. Heaven Will Wait (2016)
105 min | Drama
Director: Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Naomi Amarger, Sandrine Bonnaire, Clotilde Courau
Votes: 1,032
13. Indivisible (2016)
100 min | Drama
Daisy and Violet are twin sisters on the verge of turning 18. They are blessed with beautiful voices and are sought after to sing at weddings, communions and baptisms. Their real draw is ... See full summary »
Director: Edoardo De Angelis | Stars: Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana, Antonia Truppo, Tony Laudadio
Votes: 1,391
14. Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge (2016)
100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Follows the famous physicist and chemist Marie Curie and her struggle for recognition in the male-dominated science community in early 20th century France.
Director: Marie Noëlle | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Arieh Worthalter, Charles Berling, Izabela Kuna
Votes: 1,605
15. Mister Universo (2016)
90 min | Drama
The young lion tamer Tairo is unhappy with his present life situation. He uses the loss of his talisman to make a trip through Italy searching for the man, who gave it to him a long time ago.
Directors: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel | Stars: Tairo Caroli, Wendy Weber, Arthur Robin, Lilly Robin
Votes: 194
16. Past Life (2016)
109 min | Drama
Past Life tracks the daring late 1970s odyssey of two sisters - an introverted classical musician and a rambunctious scandal sheet journalist - as they unravel a shocking wartime mystery that has cast a dark shadow on their entire lives.
Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Nelly Tagar, Joy Rieger, Doron Tavory, Evgenia Dodina
Votes: 612 | Gross: $0.09M
17. The Patriarch (2016)
103 min | Drama
From the author of "The Whale Rider", a tale of family rivalry and reconciliation, set against the stunning backdrop of rural New Zealand in the 1960s.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Temuera Morrison, Akuhata Keefe, Nancy Brunning, Jim Moriarty
Votes: 1,027
18. Pyromaniac (2016)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A ruthless pyromaniac is on the loose in a southern village of Norway. They don't know he's not a stranger, but one of them. We follow him, the fire brigade chief's own son, spreading fear in secret.
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg | Stars: Trond Nilssen, Per Frisch, Liv Bernhoft Osa, Henrik Rafaelsen
Votes: 1,046
19. The Rehearsal (2016)
102 min | Drama
First-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield.
Director: Alison Maclean | Stars: Michelle Ny, James Rolleston, Ella Edward, Erroll Shand
Votes: 315
20. White Sun (2016)
Not Rated | 89 min | Adventure, Drama
Anti-regime partisan Chandra confronts physical, social and political obstacles for his father's funeral. His search for a solution takes him to neighboring mountain villages and encounters with the police and rebel guerrillas. A portrait of post-civil war Nepal during the fragile deadlocked peace process.
Director: Deepak Rauniyar | Stars: Dayahang Rai, Asha Magrati, Rabindra Singh Baniya, Sumi Malla
Votes: 617
21. Tamara and the Ladybug (2016)
107 min | Drama
A story about feminine solidarity at México City. Doña Meche an old lonely lady and Tamara a mentally challenged woman in her forties, meet in their solitude in an endeavor to return a baby that Tamara took from a newspaper stand.
Director: Lucía Carreras | Stars: Cecilia Cantú, Ángeles Cruz, Manuel Jimènez Fraire, Mercedes Pascual
Votes: 108
22. Tramps (2016)
82 min | Adventure, Romance
A young man and woman find love in an unlikely place while carrying out a shady deal.
Director: Adam Leon | Stars: Callum Turner, Grace Van Patten, Michal Vondel, Mike Birbiglia
Votes: 6,281
23. Vaya (2016)
TV-MA | 115 min | Drama
Three people board a Johannesburg-bound train. Strangers, each on their own mission with a simple task to complete and in search of family to help them. But when they are betrayed by the ... See full summary »
Director: Akin Omotoso | Stars: Mncedisi Shabangu, Sihle Xaba, Msimang Sibusiso, Zimkhitha Nyoka
Votes: 126
24. We Are Never Alone (2016)
105 min | Drama
A paranoid prison guard moves into a village flanked by a state motorway. He befriends his new neighbour, an unemployed hypochondriac supported by his wife, working in the local grocery. ... See full summary »
Director: Petr Václav | Stars: Klaudia Dudová, Zdenek Godla, Miroslav Hanus, Karel Roden
Votes: 122
25. X500 (2016)
104 min | Drama
Thousands of kilometers apart, three young migrants undergo mental, emotional, and physical transformations in order to survive the violence of their new worlds.
Director: Juan Andrés Arango Garcia | Stars: Jembie Almazan, Jonathan Diaz Angulo, Bernardo Garnica Cruz
Votes: 239
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