Machete Maidens Unleashed!

Mark Hartley

Australia

From cult cinema documentary director Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood) comes this account of the wild and unruly world of genre filmmaking in the Philippines when the country was a back-lot for a bevy of B-movie mavericks and c...

Made In Dagenham

Nigel Cole

United Kingdom

Sally Hawkins stars as Rita O’Grady, the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the advent of the Equal Party Act. Working in extremely impoverished conditions for long, arduous hours, th...

The Majority

Seren Yüce

Turkey

A middle class young man rebels against his father's brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce's moral tale draws from the example of today's Turkish youth and the timeless shadow of father...

Make Believe

J. Clay Tweel

USA

Join a group of dedicated teen magicians as they amaze audiences by performing seemingly impossible feats while they pursue their dream of becoming the Teen World Champion Magician.

Mamma Gógó

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Iceland

Icelandic master Fridrik Thor Fridriksson returns with this disarmingly honest, semi-autobiographical portrait of a filmmaker's relationship with his ailing mother. Simultaneously poignant and funny, Mamma Gógó is fuelled by comp...

The Man of a Thousand Songs

William D. MacGillivray

Canada

Veteran East Coast filmmaker William MacGillivray returns to the Festival with this emotional, intimate and tender documentary about the life of fabled Atlantic songwriter Ron Hynes.

Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake

Perry Bard

Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake is a participatory video shot by people around the world who are invited to record images that re-interpret Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929). Participants upload images to B...

Mandoo

Ebrahim Saeedi

Iraq

After the death of Saddam, Shaho, an Iranian Kurd, is determined to take his ailing father back to his village so he can live out his final days in familiar surroundings. The only thing that stands in his way is a wide-eyed young...

Marimbas From Hell

Julio Hernández Cordón

Guatemala, France, Mexico

Don Alfonso loses his job playing the marimba, an indigenous, traditional Guatemalan instrument, at a hotel in Guatemala City. The marimba is considered old fashioned and there is little interest in hearing this type of music. He...

A Married Couple

Allan King

Canada

A restruck and restored version of master filmmaker Allan King's classic cinema-verité film, one of the most influential and celebrated Canadian films ever made, A Married Couple records the collapse of a middle class couple's ma...

Matariki

Michael Bennett

New Zealand

A violent tragedy has a harrowing impact on an already fragile marriage.

The Matchmaker

Avi Nesher

Israel

In 1968 Haifa, a teenage boy gets a summer job with a Holocaust survivor who makes ends meet by brokering marriages and smuggling goods. Throughout the summer, the mysterious matchmaker takes the boy on a dangerous coming of age ...

Mavericks: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is considered a cinematic treasure by art house aficionados. To get over his intimidating Thai name, he encourages westerners to call him Joe. Director of several features and dozens of short films, his ...

Mavericks: Bruce Springsteen

Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award®-winning musician Bruce Springsteen visits Toronto for the World Premiere of The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (playing separately at the Festival as a Gala). The docum...

Mavericks: Kelly Reichardt

Kelly Reichardt has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in American cinema with films such as Old Joy and Wendy & Lucy. Her latest film, Meek's Cutoff, is set in 1845 on the Oregon Trail and is her first departure from ...

Mavericks: Ken Loach & Paul Laverty

Director Ken Loach joined forces with writer Paul Laverty in the mid-1990s, and together they’ve injected their political passions into a dozen films. Their latest work, Route Irish, grapples with the Iraq war and the trend of us...

Meek's Cutoff

Kelly Reichardt

USA

It's 1845 and a wagon team of three families have hired a guide to take them on the Oregon Trail and over the Cascade Mountains. They become lost and while suffering from hunger, thirst and fear, they encounter a Native American ...

Microphone

Ahmad Abdalla

Egypt

A bold example of new north African cinema, Microphone mixes and remixes fiction and cinema verité as it follows an Egyptian expatriate's return to Alexandria, where he dives into a thriving underground music and arts scene.

Miral

Julian Schnabel

United Kingdom, Israel, France

From the director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls and Basquiat, comes Miral, the visceral, first-person diary of a young girl growing up in East Jerusalem as she confronts the effects of occupation and wa...

MODRA

Ingrid Veninger

Canada

In this authentic portrait of teenaged self-discovery, recently-dumped seventeen-year-old Lina and free spirit Leco travel to visit Lina's extended family in the quirky town of Modra, Slovakia.

Monsters

Gareth Edwards

United Kingdom

Six years after a probe carrying alien life samples crashes in Mexico, a photojournalist must escort his boss' daughter through the "Infected Zone" back to the safety of home in the US.

Mother of Rock: Lillian Roxon

Paul Clarke

Australia

Witness to New York's infamous punk scene, Lillian Roxon chronicled the movement during the 1960s and 70s. Roxon mingled with the likes of John and Yoko, the Velvet Underground and Janis Joplin and was one of the first on the sce...

Mothers

Milcho Manchevski

Macedonia, France, Bulgaria

A child's friend is accosted by a flasher so she decides to go to the police herself; a film crew sets out to find the old traditions and discovers a grandmother living alone in an abandoned village; retired cleaning women are f...

My Joy

Sergei Loznitsa

Germany, Ukraine, The Netherlands

Truck driver Georgy sets out on a provincial Russian motorway for a routine delivery but a series of chance encounters see his journey spiral out of control. A roadside police check, a war veteran and a young prostitute lead him ...

My Only Sunshine

Reha Erdem

Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria

A potent, widescreen portrait of an Istanbul wild child. Hayat lives in a shack beside the Bosphorus sea with her criminal father and wheezing grandfather. Life is harsh, but Hayat watches and learns.

Mysteries of Lisbon

Raul Ruiz

Portugal/France

Based on a famous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel, Raul Ruiz's Mysteries of Lisbon follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with...

Neds

Peter Mullan

United Kingdom, France, Italy

Set in 1970s Glasgow, this film tells the story of a shy and intelligent young boy who, through a series of circumstances, turns into a NED - a non-educated delinquent. Attending a new school, he becomes increasingly violent and ...

Never Let Me Go

Mark Romanek

United Kingdom

Kathy (Carey Mulligan), Tommy (Andrew Garfield) and Ruth (Keira Knightley) spent their childhood at a seemingly idyllic boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school, the terrible truth of their fate is revealed and ...

A Night for Dying Tigers

Terry Miles

Canada

The night before Jack goes to prison for five years, his family gets together at their ancestral home for a farewell dinner. What begins as a civil, if not joyful, reunion quickly devolves into a morally questionable whirlwind of...

Norberto´s Deadline

Daniel Hendler

Uruguay, Argentina

Award-winning actor Daniel Hendler offers a hilarious account of a man trying to combat his shyness. After being fired from his job, Norberto tries his hand at real estate. His new boss suggests he take some personal affirmation ...

Norwegian Wood

Tran Anh Hung

Japan

Adapted from Haruki Murakami's bestselling novel. Watanabe, a quiet and serious college student, becomes deeply devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman with whom he shares the tragedy of their best friend’s de...

Nostalgia for the Light

Patricio Guzmán

France/Germany/Chile

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously ...

NYMan With A Movie Camera

Michael Nyman

Celebrated film composer (eg, The Piano) Michael Nyman poetically captures the everyday life of citizens around the world with this gorgeous ode to Dziga Vertov's early cinema masterpiece MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA.

October

Diego Vega Daniel Vega

Peru, Venezuela, Spain

Money-lender Clemente only knows how to relate to others through transactions. His life is turned upside down when someone leaves him a baby in a basket. A client, Sofia, steps in to help tend to the baby and Clemente is faced w...

Of Gods and Men

Xavier Beauvois

France

Based on a true incident where a group of monks were killed by Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria in 1995, we follow the spiritual lifestyle of the priests, their interaction with the locals and the events that lead up to the con...

Oki's Movie

Hong Sangsoo

South Korea

Oliver Sherman

Ryan Redford

Canada

Tensions arise when Sherman visits the home of Franklin, a fellow soldier who saved his life back in the war. Franklin has long since moved on – to a wife, two children and a reliable job, but the stability he has worked so hard ...

Otolith III

The Otolith Group

A 48-minute single-screen projection, Otolith III takes as its point of departure The Alien (1967), the unrealized sci-fi screenplay by legendary auteur Satyajit Ray about a friendly alien visiting a rural Bengal village. Filmed ...

Our Day Will Come

Romain Gavras

France

The highly anticipated debut by French director Romain Gravas (known for directing the controversial M.I.A. video Born Free) focuses on two outcast redheads - a bullied teen (Olivier Barthélémy) and a psychologist (Vincent Cassel...

Outbound

Bogdan George Apetri

Romania

Matilda, a feisty woman-child with a sordid past, is out on prison leave. Are twenty-four hours enough to make up for her mistakes and skip out of the country in time for a brand new life?

Outrageous!

Richard Benner

Canada

Outside the Law

Rachid Bouchareb

France, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy, Belgium

Bouchareb's follow-up to Days of Glory is an epic French gangster movie in the tradition of Once Upon a Time in America. The film follows three brothers from childhood in Algeria through turbulent years in Paris, as their paths d...

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Sophie Fiennes

United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands

Major contemporary artist Anselm Keifer profiled in the style of his work.