Make the most of your TIFF experience by catching acquisition titles, films still seeking distribution in North America. TIFF may be your one chance to see these on a big screen.
Toronto International Film Festival
TIFF16: Below Her Mouth is cringeworthy
Below Her Mouth attempts provocation and frank depictions of lesbian sex, but it forgets the emotion in its love story.
TIFF16: After Love is a tense post-marital drama
After Love, the follow-up to The White Knights from director Joachim Lafosse, is a tense and heartbreaking post-marital drama about a couple with twins who have decided to break up, but haven’t quite managed to sever all their ties, starting with their home.
Poetry and identity in NFB animated feature Window Horses
In Window Horses, writer-director Ann Marie Fleming gets very specific about the alienation her poet Rosie has experienced as a Chinese-Iranian Canadian, and in turn, finds something more universal about displacement and the diaspora.
TIFF16: Miss Impossible is a crowd-pleasing coming-of-ager
Miss Impossible (Jamais Contente) is like if We Are The Best! were just about the spunky, outspoken Klara and she joined a band in which she was the only girl.
TIFF16: Sieranevada traps you at a family gathering for 3 hours
With a running time of almost three hours, Cristi Puiu’s Sieranevada unfolds almost entirely in real time as Lary endures a final ceremony for his recently deceased father at his mother’s apartment.