TIFF 2015: Special Presentations
1.
45 Years
(2015)
A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receives shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives. (95 mins.)
Director: Andrew Haigh
2.
About Ray
(2015)
After Ray decides to transition from female to male, Ray's mother, Maggie, must come to terms with the decision while tracking down Ray's biological father to get his legal consent. (87 mins.)
Director: Gaby Dellal
3.
Angry Indian Goddesses
(2015)
What holds them back, is what will set them free. (115 mins.)
Director: Pan Nalin
4.
Anomalisa
(2015)
A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary. (90 mins.)
Director: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman
5.
Beasts of No Nation
(2015)
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. (137 mins.)
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
6.
Being Charlie
(2015)
Charlie is a troublesome 18-year-old who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles... (97 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
7.
Black Mass
(2015)
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf. (123 mins.)
Director: Scott Cooper
8.
Body
(2015)
A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga might try to harm herself, since she's still grieving over her recently deceased mother, sends her to see a psychiatrist, Anna, who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way. (90 mins.)
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
9.
Born to Be Blue
(2015)
A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s. (97 mins.)
Director: Robert Budreau
10.
Brooklyn
(2015)
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within. (111 mins.)
Director: John Crowley
11.
The Club
(2015)
A crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs. (98 mins.)
Director: Pablo Larraín
12.
Colonia
(2015)
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from. (110 mins.)
Director: Florian Gallenberger
13.
The Danish Girl
(2015)
A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. (119 mins.)
Director: Tom Hooper
14.
The Daughter
(2015)
The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before. (96 mins.)
Director: Simon Stone
15.
Desierto
(2015)
A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a man who has taken border patrol duties into his own racist hands. (94 mins.)
Director: Jonás Cuarón
16.
Dheepan
(2015)
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris. (115 mins.)
Director: Jacques Audiard
17.
Equals
(2015)
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated. (101 mins.)
Director: Drake Doremus
18.
Families
(2015)
Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner... (113 mins.)
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
19.
The Family Fang
(2015)
A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared. (105 mins.)
Director: Jason Bateman
20.
Guilty
(2015)
An experienced investigator confronts several conflicting theories about the perpetrators of a violent double homicide. (132 mins.)
Director: Meghna Gulzar
21.
I Saw the Light
(2015)
The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life. (123 mins.)
Director: Marc Abraham
22.
I Smile Back
(2015)
Laney Brooks does bad things. Married with kids, she takes the drugs she wants, sleeps with the men she wants... (85 mins.)
Director: Adam Salky
23.
The Idol
(2015)
A film about the popular Palestinian singer Mohammad Assaf, from childhood to adulthood, and his life in Gaza until he won the Arab idol. (100 mins.)
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
24.
Into the Forest
(2015)
In the not too distant future, two young women who live in a remote ancient forest discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Informed only by rumor, they fight intruders, disease, loneliness & starvation. (101 mins.)
Director: Patricia Rozema
25.
The Lady in the Van
(2015)
A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway. (104 mins.)
Director: Nicholas Hytner
26.
Len and Company
(2015)
A successful music producer quits the industry and exiles himself in upstate New York, but the solitude he seeks is shattered when his estranged son and the pop star he's created come looking for answers. (102 mins.)
Director: Tim Godsall
27.
The Lobster
(2015)
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. (118 mins.)
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
28.
London Fields
(2016)
Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer. (118 mins.)
Director: Mathew Cullen
29.
Louder Than Bombs
(2015)
The fractious family of a father and his two sons confront their different feelings and memories of their deceased wife and mother, a famed war photographer. (109 mins.)
Director: Joachim Trier
30.
Ma ma
(2015)
In the aftermath of a tragedy a woman, Magda, reacts with a surge of newfound life that engulfs her circle of family and friends. (111 mins.)
Director: Julio Medem
31.
Maggie's Plan
(2015)
Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant Georgette. (98 mins.)
Director: Rebecca Miller
32.
The Meddler
(2015)
An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away. (100 mins.)
Director: Lorene Scafaria
33.
Mountains May Depart
(2015)
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025. (131 mins.)
Director: Zhangke Jia
34.
Mr. Six
(2015)
A well respected man residing in what's left of old-Beijing attempts to exonerate his son from his wrongdoings with his own methods and beliefs. (134 mins.)
Director: Hu Guan
35.
Mustang
(2015)
When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged. (97 mins.)
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
36.
Mia Madre
(2015)
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother. (106 mins.)
Director: Nanni Moretti
37.
Office
(2015)
A man who supposley killed his family hides at his workplace and starts killing off his colleagues one by one. (111 mins.)
Director: Won-Chan Hong
38.
Our Brand Is Crisis
(2015)
A battle-hardened American political consultant is sent to help re-elect a controversial president in Bolivia, where she must compete with a long-term rival working for another candidate. (107 mins.)
Director: David Gordon Green
39.
Parched
(2015)
'Parched' is a story about women set in the heart of parched rural landscape of Gujarat, India. It traces... (116 mins.)
Director: Leena Yadav
40.
Room
(2015)
A kidnapped mother and son escape from a room in which they have endured imprisonment for the entirety of the boy's life. Upon breaking free from its confines, they experience a dramatic homecoming, provoking insight into the depths of imagination and the extent of a mother's love. (118 mins.)
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
41.
Sicario
(2015)
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. (121 mins.)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
42.
Son of Saul
(2015)
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son. (107 mins.)
Director: László Nemes
43.
Spotlight
(2015)
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. (128 mins.)
Director: Tom McCarthy
44.
Summertime
(2015)
There was little chance, in the year 1971, that Carole, a Paris Spanish teacher and feminist militant... (105 mins.)
Director: Catherine Corsini
45.
Sunset Song
(2015)
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s. (135 mins.)
Director: Terence Davies
46.
A Tale of Love and Darkness
(2015)
A drama based on the memoir of Amos Oz, a writer, journalist, and advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (95 mins.)
Director: Natalie Portman
47.
A Tale of Three Cities
(2015)
A Hong Kong war romantic film set in World War II based on the real-life story of Jackie Chan's parents, Charles and Lee-Lee Chan. (130 mins.)
Director: Mabel Cheung
48.
Trumbo
(2015)
In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. (124 mins.)
Director: Jay Roach
49.
Truth
(2015)
Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers. (125 mins.)
Director: James Vanderbilt
50.
Un + une
(2015)
French famous film score composer goes to India to compose the score for an Indian version of Juliet and Romeo film. He meets the wife of the French ambassador to India, and a complicated relationship ensues. (115 mins.)
Director: Claude Lelouch
51.
Victoria
(2015)
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret. (138 mins.)
Director: Sebastian Schipper
52.
Ville-Marie
(2015)
An actress mother and her estranged gay son's lives intersect with those of two medical professionals after an unexpected tragedy, forcing secrets to be revealed and personal demons to be dealt with. (101 mins.)
Director: Guy Édoin
53.
The Wait
(2015)
A mother unexpectedly meets her son's fiancée at a villa in Sicily and gets to know her as she waits for her son to arrive. (100 mins.)
Director: Piero Messina
54.
The Wave
(2015)
Even though awaited, no-one is really ready when the mountain pass of Åkneset above the scenic narrow Norwegian fjord Geiranger falls out and creates a 85-meter-high violent tsunami. A geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it. (105 mins.)
Director: Roar Uthaug
55.
Where to Invade Next
(2015 Documentary)
To learn what the USA can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully "invades" them to see what they have to offer. (120 mins.)
Director: Michael Moore
56.
The Witch
(2015)
A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession. (92 mins.)
Director: Robert Eggers
57.
Youth
(2015)
A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday. (124 mins.)
Director: Paolo Sorrentino