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Get ready for TIFF 2016 with the line-up of this year's movies
Jake Gyllenhaal at the TIFF red carpet last year. Image by: @tiff_net verified Instagram
Culture & Entertainment
Get ready for TIFF 2016 with the line-up of this year's movies
With Canada's biggest film festival quickly approaching, we've got a list of TIFF's must-see flicks.
The Toronto International Film Festival, one of the biggest and most publicly attended film festivals in the world, has announced its 2016 lineup. We've got the full list of festival films (literally every film, from shorts to features and everything in between!), including Canadian highlights below. Stay tuned for the full official schedule, which will be released on August 23. You can purchase individual tickets to the movies you want to watch starting September 4 and the festival runs in Toronto from September 8 to September 18.
Canadian flicks you don't want to miss:
Whispering Breeze: L'Air de vent
Director: Jonathan Tremblay
Emma
Director: Martin Edralin
Black Code
Director: Nicholas de Pencier
TMG_103 (rough cut)
Director: Walter Woodman
Werewolf
Director:Ashley McKenzie
Mean Dreams
Director: Nathan Morlando
Nelly
Director: Anne Émond
North Wind (Tshiuetin)
Director: Caroline Monnet
Jean of the Joneses
Director: Stella Meghie
Twisted
Director: Jay Cheel
Nothing About Moccasins (Rien sur les mocassins)
Director: Eden Mallina Awashish
Cleo
Director: Sanja Zivkovic
Shahzad
Director: Haya Waseem
Mariner
Director: Thyrone Tommy
Mostly Sunny
Director: Dilip Mehta
SNIP
Director: Terril Calder
Giants of Africa
Director: Hubert Davis
Below Her Mouth
Director: April MullenCanada
The Stairs
Director: Hugh Gibson
Window Horses (The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming)
Director: Ann Marie Fleming
Ape Sodom
Director: Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice
Director: Alanis Obomsawin
HAND.LINE.COD
Director: Justin Simms
CYCLES
Director: Joe Cobden
Imitations
Directors: Fabian Velasco and Milos Mitrovic
Hello Destroyer
Director:Kevan Funk
Mutants
Director: Alexandre Dostie
Wild Skin (La peau sauvage)
Director:Ariane Louis-Seize
Prank
Director:Vincent Biron
The Smoke
Director:Rebecca Addelman
nirvanna the band the show
Directors:Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol
The Skyjacker's Tale
Director:Jamie Kastner
The Road to Webequie
Directors: Ryan Noth and Tess Girard
The Taste of Vietnam (Le goût du Vietnam)
Director:Pier-Luc Latulippe
DataMine
Director: Timothy Barron Tracey
Boundaries (Pays)
Director: Chloé Robichaud
Two Lovers and a Bear
Director: Kim Nguyen
3-Way (Not Calling)
Director: Molly McGlynn
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Director: Fred Peabody
Red of the Yew Tree (If ou le rouge perdu)
Director: Marie-Hélène Turcotte
5 Films About Technology
Director: Peter Huang
Plain and Simple (Tout simplement)
Director: Raphaël Ouellet
Late Night Drama (Drame de fin de soirée)
Director: Patrice Laliberté
Blind Vaysha
Director: Theodore Ushev
Untitled, 1925
Director: Madi Piller
The Headhunter's Calling
Director: Mark Williams
Weirdos
Director: Bruce McDonald
Gods Acre
Director: Kelton Stepanowich
Four Faces of the Moon
Director: Amanda Strong
Oh What a Wonderful Feeling
Director: François Jaros
Dark Adaptation
Director: Chris Gehman
The River of My Dreams
Director: Brigitte Berman
A Cool Sound from Hell
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Nutag – Homeland
Director: Alisi Telengut
Canadian international films:
Unless
Canada / Ireland
Director: Alan Gilsenan
350 MYA
Morocco / Canada
Director: Terra Long
Strange Vision of Seeing Things
Canada / Serbia
Director: Ryan Ferko
X Quinientos
Canada / Colombia / Mexico
Director: Juan Andres Arango
Anatomy of Violence
Canada / India
Director: Deepa Mehta
Your Mother and I
Canada / United Kingdom
Director: Anna Maguire
ARQ
USA / Canada
Director: Tony Elliott
The Journey is the Destination
United Kingdom / South Africa / Canada
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Birth of the Dragon
USA / China / Canada
Director: George Nolfi
A Funeral For Lightning
Canada / USA
Director: Emily Kai Bock
Old Stone (Lao shi)
Canada / China
Director: Johnny Ma
Small Fry –
USA / Poland / Canada
Director: Eva Michon
Maudie
Canada / Ireland
Director: Aisling Walsh
It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde)
Canada / France
Director: Xavier Dolan
International films:
Paterson
Director: Jim Jarmusch
City of Tiny Lights
Director: Pete Travis
Trespass Against Us
Director: Adam Smith
American Honey
Director: Andrea Arnold
The Wasted Times (Luo Man Di Ke Xiao Wang Shi)
Director: Cheng Er
Barry
Director: Vikram Gandhi
The Age of Shadows (MILJEONG)
Director: Kim Jee woon
Orphan (Orpheline)
Director: Arnaud des Pallières
Barakah Meets Barakah (Barakah yoqabil Barakah)
Director: Mahmoud Sabbagh
Salt and Fire
Director: Werner Herzog
Mascots
Director: Christopher Guest
Paris Can Wait
Director: Eleanor Coppola
LBJ
Director: Rob Reiner
Asura: The City of Madness
Director: Kim Sung-soo
The Oath (EIÐURINN)
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Frantz
Director: François Ozon
Lion
Director: Garth Davis
The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé! : A Trip Across Latin America
Director: Paul Dugdale
King of the Dancehall
Director: Nick Cannon
Blue Jay
Director: Alex Lehmann
Things to Come (L'Avenir)
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Loving
Director: Jeff Nichols
The Limehouse Golem
Director: Juan Carlos Medina
Planetarium
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Nocturnal Animals
Director: Tom Ford
The Handmaiden (Agassi)
Director: Park Chan-wook
Carrie Pilby
Director: Susan Johnson
Brimstone
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Elle
Director: Paul Verhoeven
A Monster Calls
Director: J. A. Bayona
Una
Director: Benedict Andrews
Daguerrotype (Le Secret de la chambre noire)
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Harmonium (Fuchi ni tatsu)
Director: Kôji Fukada
Foreign Body (Jassad Gharib, Corps Etranger)
Director: Raja Amari
Arrival
Director: Denis Villeneuve
BrOTHERHOOD
Director: Noel Clarke
The Salesman (Forushande)
Director: Asghar Farhadi
The Magnificent Seven
Director: Antoine Fuqua
A Death in the Gunj
Director: Konkona Sensharma
A United Kingdom
Director: Amma Asante
Toni Erdmann
Director: Maren Ade
JT + The Tennessee Kids
Director: Jonathan Demme
Catfight
Director: Onur Tukel
Neruda
Director: Pablo Larraín
American Pastoral
Director: Ewan McGregor
Deepwater Horizon
Director: Peter Berg
All I See Is You
Director: Marc Forster
The Secret Scripture
Director: Jim Sheridan
La La Land
Director: Damien Chazelle
The Commune (Kollektivet)
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Denial
Director: Mick Jackson
The Journey
Director: Nick Hamm
Queen of Katwe
Director: Mira Nair
Bleed for This
Director: Ben Younger
Manchester by the Sea
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Strange Weather
Director: Katherine Dieckmann
The Edge of Seventeen
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Sing
Director: Garth Jennings
Snowden
Director: Oliver Stone
Souvenir
Director: Bavo Defurne
I Am Not Madame Bovary
Director: Feng Xiaogang
The Birth of a Nation
Director: Nate Parker
Their Finest
Director: Lone Scherfig
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