TIFF Interest List 2020
This is a list to track films I want to catch at the virtual edition of The Toronto International Film Festival in 2020, including industry and private screenings.
As I watch things they will be moved to this list.
The list is in alphabetical order.
As I watch things they will be moved to this list.
The list is in alphabetical order.
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- DirectorCharles OfficerStarsSaul WilliamsThamela MpumlwanaDonisha Rita Claire PrendergastIn a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one gruelling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.Official Selection
- DirectorLluís DanésStarsRoger CasamajorNora NavasBruna CusíIn early 20th century Barcelona, little Teresa goes missing shocking the country. When police start investigating Enriqueta Martí, the "Vampiress of Raval", they cover a much more sinister affair.TIFF Private Screening
- DirectorEmmanuel CourcolStarsKad MeradDavid AyalaLamine CissokhoAn actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."TIFF Private Screening
- DirectorJohannes NaberStarsSebastian BlombergDar SalimVirginia KullThe grotesque, at times even surreal, true story of how the Iraq war was started based on nothing but fake intelligence and the involvement of the German government and the German secret service.TIFF Private Screening
- DirectorTommy OliverStarsMike Africa Jr.Carlos AfricaChuckie AfricaPhiladelphia native Tommy Oliver follows the efforts of Mike Africa Jr. to exonerate his parents, both incarcerated members of the revolutionary group MOVE.Official Selection
- DirectorRagnar BragasonStarsSigrún Edda BjörnsdóttirEyþór GunnlaugssonKarolina GruszkaIndiana lives in a council estate and makes her living preying on the welfare system. In her small private garden she tends to her award winning tree. When her only son turns up with a foreign girlfriend - Indiana's world is upended.TIFF Industry Selects
- DirectorArab NasserTarzan NasserStarsSalim DawHiam AbbassMaisa Abd ElhadiGaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, Issa hides it, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside, he feels that this discovery will change his life forever. Strangely, his confidence starts to grow and eventually he decides to approach Siham.Official Selection
- DirectorI.-Fan WangStarsBruce HungMegan LaiChung-Hua TouTaiwan's parliament turns deadly when a virus transforms politicians into ravenous zombie mutants.Official Selection
- DirectorEphraim AsiliStarsAurielle AkereleShirley ChisholmChris JarellA young man inherits his grandmother's house and, with the encouragement of his girlfriend, turns it into a Black socialist collective where community forms the basis of family.Official Selection
- DirectorJesse Noah KleinStarsSarah SutherlandJared AbrahamsonDominique Provost-ChalkleyWhen Dara returns home to reconnect with the husband and young daughter she left behind two years earlier, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her. whom she left two years earlier. LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE tells the story of a woman's struggle to regain the life she left behind.TIFF Industry Selects
- DirectorEmma DanteStarsAlissa Maria OrlandoSusanna PirainoAnita PomarioMaria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. When Antonella accidentally dies, the sisters' relationships are turned upside down for the rest of their lives.TIFF Private Screening
- DirectorJohan NijenhuisStarsHerman FinkersJohanna ter SteegeLeonie ter BraakA middle-aged veterinary surgeon, believing that his wife pampers him too much, fakes the onset of dementia to get away from her.TIFF Private Screening
- DirectorJoão Paulo Miranda MariaStarsAntonio PitangaAna Flavia CavalcantiSam LouwyckCristovam, a native from the brazilian hinterland, works in a milk factory in a former Austrian colony in Brazil. He feels lonely, ostracized by cultural and ethnic differences. One day, he discovers an abandoned house filled with objects that remind him of his origins. He slowly settles in this house. Curiously, more objects start to appear without explanation, as if the place was "alive".Official Selection
- DirectorRuben AlvesStarsAlexandre WetterPascale ArbillotIsabelle NantyA young man seeking his gender identity decides to take part in the Miss France beauty pageant.TIFF Private Screening
- DirectorArgyris PapadimitropoulosStarsDenise GoughSebastian StanYorgos PirpassopoulosA spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling (Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough as Mickey and Chloe), but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?TIFF Industry Selects
- DirectorLoretta ToddStarsGrace DoveAdam BeachTina LamemanIn an effort to turn her life around, a young indigenous woman returns to her hometown and discovers how dysfunctional her family has become.TIFF Industry Selects
- DirectorNicolas MauryStarsNicolas MauryNathalie BayeArnaud ValoisJérémie, a young man at his breaking point, leaves Paris to return to his intrusive mother in Limousin.TIFF Industry Selects
- DirectorJennifer AbbottJoel BakanStarsAnjali AppaduraiChris BarrettHeidi BoghosianExposes how companies are desperately rebranding as socially responsible - and how that threatens democratic freedoms.Official Selection
- DirectorCesc GayStarsJavier CámaraGriselda SicilianiBelén CuestaTwo couples explore the complexities of modern day relationships.TIFF Private Screening
- DirectorRandall StevensStarsLouis Gossett Jr.Tatyana AliBeverly ToddWhen a mysterious man appears in a small town, unexplained miracles start to occur, changing the lives of everyone he meets. There's a mother whose five-year-old boy has leukemia, two doctors - one an atheist haunted by his past, the other a brilliant young oncologist who places all her hope in the power of modern medicine - and a blind pastor whose son hasn't spoken a single word in 38 years. All of them will be brought together by the presence of this stranger, who teaches them the true meaning of faith and hope.TIFF Private Screening
- DirectorJake MahaffyStarsJulia OrmondEmma DraperCohen HollowayA pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents' old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reunion slowly turns terrifying.TIFF Private Screening
- DirectorBruce La BruceStarsFélix-Antoine DuvalTania KontoyanniAlexandra PetrachukWhen a young man who thought his mother was dead discovers that she may still be alive, he goes on a quest to find her. His journey takes him to a remote cabin in the woods where his mother lives in exile with a mysterious young woman.TIFF Industry Selects
- DirectorPhilipp YuryevStarsVladimir OnokhovKristina AsmusVladimir LyubimtsevA young hunter sets off on a journey to find a girl he saw on his computer.TIFF Private Screening
- DirectorLeonardo MedelStarsMariana Di GirólamoValeryia AlfirovichStephan CabezasVeronica, a very popular model on social networks, falls out of favor when she discovers that she is the main suspect in an investigation for the murder of her first daughter.TIFF Industry Selects
- DirectorRafa RussoStarsAlberto AmmannJoaquín FurrielDaniel GraoThe life of the writers of a television program in Uruguay is affected by the pressures of the military in the year that preceded the military coup of 1973.TIFF Private Screening