TIFF 2015: Gala Presentations
1.
Beeba Boys
(2015)
With the help of his recent recruit, a gang leader takes on an established crime lord in a battle for control over Vancouver's arms and drug trade. (103 mins.)
Director: Deepa Mehta
2.
Demolition
(2015)
As an investment banker struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash, his increasingly confessional series of letters to a vending machine company catch the attention of a customer service rep with whom he forms an unlikely connection. (101 mins.)
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
3.
Disorder
(2015)
Vincent is an ex-soldier with PTSD who is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he's out of town. Despite the apparent tranquility on Maryland, Vincent perceives an external threat. (98 mins.)
Director: Alice Winocour
4.
The Dressmaker
(2015)
A glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong. (118 mins.)
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
5.
Eye in the Sky
(2015)
Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare. (102 mins.)
Director: Gavin Hood
6.
Forsaken
(2015)
Kiefer and Donald Sutherland share the screen in this brooding western about an embittered gunslinger who attempts to make amends with his estranged father whilst their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers. (90 mins.)
Director: Jon Cassar
7.
Freeheld
(2015)
New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (103 mins.)
Director: Peter Sollett
8.
Hyena Road
(2015)
Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars - all stand at the intersection of modern warfare - a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems. (120 mins.)
Director: Paul Gross
9.
Legend
(2015)
The film tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the East End of London during the 1960s. (132 mins.)
Director: Brian Helgeland
10.
Lolo
(2015)
Violette, a 40-year old workaholic with a career in the fashion industry falls for a provincial computer geek, Jean-Rene, while on a spa retreat with her best friend. (99 mins.)
Director: Julie Delpy
11.
Man Down
(2015)
In a post-apocalyptic America, former U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer searches desperately for the whereabouts of his son, accompanied by his best friend and a survivor. (92 mins.)
Director: Dito Montiel
12.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
(2015)
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy. (108 mins.)
Director: Matt Brown
13.
The Martian
(2015)
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. (144 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
14.
Miss You Already
(2015)
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill. (112 mins.)
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
15.
Mississippi Grind
(2015)
Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis, in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what's been lost. (108 mins.)
Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
16.
Mr. Right
(2015)
A girl falls for the "perfect" guy, who happens to have a very fatal flaw: he's a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him. (90 mins.)
Director: Paco Cabezas
17.
The Program
(2015)
An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong. (103 mins.)
Director: Stephen Frears
18.
Remember
(2015)
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family. (94 mins.)
Director: Atom Egoyan
19.
Septembers of Shiraz
(2015)
Prior to the Iranian revolution it was a place where people of all religions were allowed to flourish. This is the story of a prosperous Jewish family who abandon everything before they are consumed by the passions of revolutionaries. (110 mins.)
Director: Wayne Blair
20.
Stonewall
(2015)
A young man's political awakening and coming of age during the days and weeks leading up to the Stonewall Riots. (129 mins.)
Director: Roland Emmerich