(TIFF) Toronto International Film Festival 2019 l Coming of Age
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- DirectorTaika WaititiStarsRoman Griffin DavisThomasin McKenzieScarlett JohanssonA young German boy in the Hitler Youth whose hero and imaginary friend is the country's dictator is shocked to discover that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
- DirectorJohn CrowleyStarsOakes FegleyAnsel ElgortNicole KidmanA boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.
- DirectorMati DiopStarsMame Bineta SaneAmadou MbowTraoreIn a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.
- DirectorVáclav MarhoulStarsPetr KotlárNina SunevicAlla SokolovaA young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
- DirectorBertrand BonelloStarsLouise LabèqueWislanda LouimatKatiana MilfortA man is brought back from the dead to work in the hell of sugar cane plantations. 55 years later, a Haitian teenager tells her friends her family secret - not suspecting that it will push one of them to commit the irreparable.
- DirectorAlma Har'elStarsShia LaBeoufLucas HedgesNoah JupeA young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health.
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsThorbjörn BjörnssonEsther BussMartin ClausenAfter a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
- DirectorTrey Edward ShultsStarsTaylor RussellKelvin Harrison Jr.Alexa DemieTraces the journey of a suburban family - led by a well-intentioned but domineering father - as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.
- DirectorCoky GiedroycStarsBeanie FeldsteinCleoDónal FinnA teenager living with her working-class family on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England, grows up to become a popular but conflicted music journalist.
- DirectorMinhal BaigStarsGeraldine ViswanathanJack KilmerGabriel LunaMuslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own.
- DirectorMakoto ShinkaiStarsKotaro DaigoNana MoriTsubasa HondaSet during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, high-school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather.
- DirectorGael García BernalStarsBenny EmmanuelLeidi GutiérrezGabriel CarbajalA group of teenagers in Mexico City set out to enrich their lives.
- DirectorAli LeRoiStarsSteven SilverSpencer NevilleNicola Peltz BeckhamA wealthy, Nigerian-American teen is pulled over by police, shot to death and immediately awakens, reliving the same day over and over, trapped in a terrifying time loop - forced to confront difficult truths about his life and himself.
- DirectorAmjad Abu AlalaStarsMustafa ShehataIslam MubarakMahmoud Maysara ElsarajShortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
- DirectorOualid MouanessStarsNadine LabakiMohamad DalliRodrigue SleimanDuring the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, an 11-year-old boy tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her while their teachers try to hide their fear of the conflict.
- DirectorKazik RadwanskiStarsLisa AitkenPat BiancoTiffany BlomA volatile young woman challenged by everyday social and professional encounters.
- DirectorSophie DeraspeStarsNahéma RicciRachida OussaadaNour BelkhiriaA modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy which falls within a social realism. To the law of men, the young Antigone apposes her own sets of values.
- DirectorRojda SekersözStarsJohan RheborgLoke HellbergElisabet XieNovelist Jonas Gardell adapts his own bestseller about growing up in 1970s-era Sweden with its countless perils, heartbreaks, and shifting alliances, in this painfully savvy feature from director Rojda Sekersöz (Beyond Dreams).
- DirectorMyriam VerreaultStarsAriel Fontaine St-OngeKatinen Grégoire-FontaineJoe FontaineTwo girls grow up as best friends in an Innu community who promised each other to stick together no matter what. But their friendship is shaken when Mikuan falls for a white boy.
- DirectorJorunn Myklebust SyversenStarsJosefine Frida PettersenJean Superbanan AndersenEspen Reboli BjerkeWhen a champion dancer begins to falter, her family questions her faith and prompts her to search for more radical solutions.
- DirectorAndrew PattersonStarsSierra McCormickJake HorowitzGail CronauerOne night in New Mexico, in the late 1950s, a switchboard operator and radio DJ discover a strange audio frequency which could change the future forever.
- DirectorAnthony ChenStarsYann Yann YeoJia Ler KohChristopher Ming-Shun LeeA teacher and student at a Singapore high school form a special, self-affirming bond.
- DirectorNicole DorseyStarsElla BallentineLuke BilykRyan McDonaldThe seemingly-separate lives of an anxious, disillusioned teen girl and a troubled, alienated man converge fatefully in this haunting exploration of womanhood, isolation, and toxic masculinity set in 1980s Newfoundland.
- DirectorCarlo SironiStarsClaudio SegaluscioSandra DrzymalskaBruno BuzziLena is seven months pregnant and she's ready to sell the baby in her belly. Ermanno agrees to pretend to be the father. Fabio, the uncle of Ermanno, will pay them to buy the child that he and his wife Bianca cannot have. A fake adoption between relatives, a loophole to bypass the law cause in Italy the surrogate motherhood is forbidden. A world in which money is the only standard of value, the only thing that matter. Ermanno and Lena are two strangers that must pretend in public to be a couple and live together until the delivery. They are used to only think about themselves and they fight all the time. But living side by side they start becoming what they were only pretending to be.
- DirectorIna WeisseStarsNina HossSophie RoisThorsten MertenAnna Bronsky is a violin teacher at the Conservatoire. Against the advice of her colleagues, she imposes the admission of a pupil, in whom she sees a great talent. With a lot of involvement, she prepares Alexander for the end-of-year exam and neglects her young son Jonas, who is also a violinist and ice hockey fan. She moves away more and more from her husband, so fond of him, the French "luthier" Philippe Bronsky. At the approach of audition, Anna pushes Alexander towards performances more and more exceptional. The decisive day, an accident occurs, heavy consequence.
- DirectorHarry CepkaStarsGrace GlowickiJesse StanleyHarry CepkaRaf paints walls pink. Raf sees no future for herself. Raf meets Tal. Tal is charismatic. Tal is rich. Tal changes everything.
- DirectorJahmil X.T. QubekaStarsSivuyile NgesiZolisa XaluvaPatrick NdlovuAn aging, womanizing professional boxer and his career-criminal brother take one last shot at success and get more than they've bargained for.
- DirectorSarah GavronStarsBukky BakrayKosar AliD'angelou Osei KissieduA young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.
- DirectorHind MeddebThim NaccacheSummer 2016, Paris, refugees are camping in the Stalingrad district while waiting to regularize their situation.
- DirectorAtiq RahimiStarsAmanda MugabezakiAlbina KirengaMalaika UwamahoroA coming-of-age story about of a group of Rwandan schoolgirls at a Belgian-run Catholic boarding school.
- DirectorJoey KleinStarsNeve CampbellImogen PootsAlex WolffAfter the untimely death of his mother, a teenager befriends his charismatic but troubled next-door neighbor and becomes embroiled in a world of addiction and violence just as the opioid epidemic takes hold of their small town.
- DirectorDaniel BorgmanStarsVivelill Søgaard HolmPeter PlaugborgSofie GråbølThe dangerous paranoia lurking beneath the seemingly idyllic existence of a family of hermits living on a remote island begins to come to the fore when their daughter starts to question her parents' worldview.
- DirectorDavid RaboyStarsOdessa YoungBen SchnetzerJack KilmerA teenager's small town life is changed forever when a series of murders begin on the same night that her missing boyfriend suddenly reappears.
- DirectorEric BaudelaireStarsDavid PopAnida Ait AbdesselamFatimata SarrA collective project with students at a junior high school in a Paris suburb, about friendship, emancipation, trust, and the act of filmmaking for a generation raised by selfies and YouTube.
- DirectorPaula HernándezStarsErica RivasOrnella D'ElíaMarilú MariniTracking the tandem voyages of a mother and daughter into fraught emotional terrain, Argentinian director Paula Hernández examines the ways desire and expectation clash when familial pressures push women to their limits.
- DirectorArmando CapóStarsDamián González GuerreroAlejandro Guerrero MachadoGlenda Delgado DominguezCuba, summer 1994. In the midst of Periodo Especial, one of the greatest crises in the country's history, thousands of Cuban rafters try to reach the United States illegally, never sure if they'll make it out alive. With holidays starting, Carlos plunges into a carefree August, wandering around with his friends and falling in love for the first time. Little does he know about the country's uncertain future, until one by one, neighbors and friends leave in search of a better life, friendships break apart and families split up. In this hot summer, the world of Carlos will turn upside down.
- DirectorAnna FalguèresJohn ShankStarsAliocha SchneiderGarance MarillierVincent RottiersVictor and his little brother scrape by through the thieving of artifacts as part of a community of vagrant children.