Passion Play

Mitch Glazer

USA

When a jazz trumpeter is taken to the desert and a gun held to his head, we are at the beginning of a delightful fable about romance and dreams. When he meets a beautiful woman who works as the Bird Woman in a circus, he falls ma...

Passione

John Turturro

Italy

John Turturro takes us on a voyage through the robust and diverse musical culture of Naples, combining archival footage with performances set in the streets, alleys, studios and labyrinths of the city.

Pastourelle

Nathaniel Dorsky

USA

"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister film to Aubade, is in the more tumultuous key of spring." (N. Dorsky)

Peep World

Barry Blaustein

USA

On the day of their father’s 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling that exposes the family’s most intimate secrets. The film stars Michael C. Hall, Sarah ...

Photofinish Figures

Paolo Gioli

Italy

With exhilirating rhythms and flashing sideways motion, the latest by celebrated Italian aritst Paolo Gioli is a 16mm, black and white ode to faces and the city. Il Finish delle Figure reminds one of Muybridge but relays a sense ...

The Piano in a Factory

Zhang Meng

China

To fight for custody of his daughter who loves playing the piano, a steel factory worker decides to forge a piano from scratch. An offbeat ballad of friendship and devotion, The Piano in a Factory is an endearing portrait of Chin...

Pink Saris

Kim Longinotto

United Kingdom

Acclaimed director Kim Longinotto is often drawn to tough women. Now she follows Sampat Pal Devi, the leader of the “Pink Gang,” who brings her own brand of justice to the streets of Uttar Pradesh, India, combating violence again...

Pinoy Sunday

Ho Wi Ding

Taiwan

Pinoy Sunday is the story of Manuel and Dado, two Filipino migrant workers, who discover a discarded sofa. This transforms their normal Sunday routine into a tale of adventure, perseverance and self-discovery.

The Pipe

Risteard Ó Domhnaill

Ireland

Irish farmers and fisherman rise up in protest when Shell tries to build a pipeline for natural gas through their county. The local confrontation reflects an international concern for how energy companies affect the environment a...

The Place in Between

Sarah Bouyain

France, Burkina Faso

Bouyain's sensitive debut is a portrait of women caught between Africa and Europe. A biracial woman travels from France to Burkina Faso in search of her mother. In France, a white woman seeks to learn an African language for reas...

Poetry

Lee Changdong

South Korea

Rhyme and crime intertwine in Poetry, the moving portrait of an elegant old lady pressured by incipient Alzheimer's as well as a lyrical take on creative discovery and an upsetting look at juvenile violence, by Korean master Lee ...

The Poll Diaries

Chris Kraus

Germany, Austria, Estonia

On the eve of World War I, a 14-year-old German girl returns to her home on the Baltic coast, a place uneasily shared by Germans, Russians and Estonians. While her morbid scientist father controls the family with a cruel hand, th...

Portrait, Teetrinken, Roter Vorhang

Helga Fanderl

Germany

Intimate Super 8 portraits from a great love affair.

Potiche

François Ozon

France

A bourgeois housewife (Catherine Deneuve) takes on a rough union leader (Gerard Depardieu) in François Ozon's sparkling comic war between the sexes, and the classes.

Poudre

Ky Nam Le Duc

Canada

Two young men, who have recently returned from military missions, struggle to reintegrate with civilian life while coping with the impact of their respective experiences.

Precious Life

Shlomi Eldar

Israel

With the help of a prominent Israeli journalist, Precious Life chronicles the struggle of an Israeli pediatrician and a Palestinian mother to get treatment for her baby, who suffers from an incurable genetic disease. Each must f...

The Princess Bride

Rob Reiner

USA

Follow Buttercup and Wesley (Robin Wright and Cary Elwes) as they do battle with pirates, sea monsters and an evil prince with the help of a rag tag crew: a flamboyant Spaniard (Mandy Patinkin), his slow-witted friend (Andre the ...

Le Projet Sapporo

Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre

Canada, Japan

This homage to acclaimed calligrapher Gazanbou Higuchi utilizes rotoscope animation to illustrate the craft of Japanese shodo.

The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town

Thom Zimny

USA

The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town takes us into the studio with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for the recording of their fourth album. Grammy and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny has collabo...

Promises Written in Water

Vincent Gallo

USA

Shot in black-and-white, this fiercely independent film traces the steps a young photographer takes to fulfil the dying wishes of a beautiful young woman, including getting a job in a funeral parlour so he can oversee her cremati...

Rabbit Hole

John Cameron Mitchell

USA

A family navigates the deepest form of loss in John Cameron Mitchell's screen adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart deliver captivating performances as a husband an...

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

Jalmari Helander

Finland, Norway, France, Sweden

Santa Claus is somewhat less than jolly - in fact, he's the stuff nightmares are made of - in Jalmari Helander's Rare Exports, an atmospheric and witty re-working of a cherished folk tale.

rauscht

Yoel Meranda

Turkey

A politician's televised speech is utterly transformed into stunning abstraction.

Red Nights

Julien Carbon & Laurent Courtiaud

Hong Kong, China, France

This shocking debut by director duo Carbon and Courtiaud is a seductive cat-and-mouse thriller set in Hong Kong, about a woman's obsessive desire to own a rare object that hides a deadly and perverse secret.

Repeaters

Carl Bessai

Canada

Veteran director Carl Bessai returns with a tense thriller that follows three young addicts in a rehabilitation centre. Each day they live the same events over and over – a situation each responds to in radically different ways.

Rio Sex Comedy

Jonathan Nossiter

France, Brazil

Charting the misadventures of expatriates in Rio and their bungled search for both personal pleasure and social justice, the film is a deliriously insolent romp that explores the bizarre contradictions that are a fact of daily li...

Roadkill

Bruce McDonald

Canada

Le Roi des Dollars

Segundo de Chomón

France

Illusions of gutteral gold.

Roses à crédit

Amos Gitaï

France

A young couple marry in 1940s France and we follow the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the war, the wife finds herself increasingly caught up in acquiring material possessions whi...

Route 132

Louis Bélanger

Canada

A powerful drama directed by acclaimed veteran Louis Bélanger, Route 132 focuses on a man who loses a loved one and embarks on a journey in an attempt to rediscover his roots and come to terms with his grief.

Route Irish

Ken Loach

United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain

A British solider who worked with a security firm in Iraq attends the funeral of his best friend, killed on the notorious Baghdad highway Route Irish. Receiving an envelope containing his friend's cellphone with a video recording...

Ruhr

James Benning

Germany

Ruhr is legendary American filmmaker James Benning's monumental meditation on the Ruhr, the largest urban agglomeration in Germany. While Ruhr marks Benning's foray into both high-definition video and the European landscape (leav...

Sad Bear

Liz Van Allen Cairns, Joe LoBianco

Canada

Sad Bear collects people’s saddest objects to help them process past regrets. People are generally amenable to this, except for Steve, who can’t let go of his prized possession.

Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage

Ben Stassen

Belgium

Join Sammy the sea turtle on a fun and exciting 50 year journey through the oceans in this wonderfully crafted 3D animation that combines entertainment with an environmental message.

Sandcastle

Boo Junfeng

Singapore

A gentle and affectionate study of the themes of identity, history and memory, Boo Junfeng’s debut feature Sandcastle is a loving portrait of a young man coming to terms with the lives of his parents and his grandparents, while t...

Sarah's Key

Gilles Paquet-Brenner

France

While researching an article on the Vel’d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 France, Julia, an American journalist stumbles across the story of Sarah, a ten year old Jewish girl who desperately tried to save her younger brother from the police ...

Science Lab

Eytan Ipeker

Turkey

This short is a visual compedium of experimental techniques, all uncannily mined from footage of the filmmaker's piano keys.

Score: A Hockey Musical

Michael McGowan

Canada

A seventeen-year-old hockey player becomes an instant star when he is signed by a junior league team. He soon discovers that stardom comes with a price – including the expectation to fight on the ice. Score unites Canada’s nation...

A Screaming Man

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

France, Belgium, Chad

One of Africa's preeminent film artists, Haroun returns to themes of family and loyalty in war-torn Chad. A father and son work together at the pool of five-star hotel, but the civil war forces life-and-death choices upon them.

Sensation

Tom Hall

Ireland

Sensation details the relationship between Tipperary farmer Donal Duggan and a veteran Kiwi escort. They begin as client and call girl, evolve into something like lovers, then business partners and finally co-defendants.

September 12

Özlem Sulak

Turkey, Germany

In this meditative and monumental examination of the legacy of Turkey’s 1980 military coup, individual narrations of the tumultuous event are juxtaposed with quotidian routines, thirty years on.

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Silent Souls

Aleksei Fedorchenko

Russia

When Miron's beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye according to the rituals of the Merya culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero. The two men set out on a road trip thou...

Site and Vision: Short and Experimental Film

Slaveship

T. Marie

USA

The apocalyptic sublime of J. M. W. Turner’s 1840 masterpiece The Slave Ship, with its firery conflagration and strewn debris amid wild waters, is the source for T. Marie’s time-based pixel painting-film Slaveship.

The Sleeping Beauty

Catherine Breillat

France

An epic fantasia of a young girl's coming-of-age, featuring Catherine Breillat's signature take on gender relations and breathtaking cinematography.

Slidelength

Michael Snow

Michael Snow's Slidelength is a companion piece to his groundbreaking and iconic film, Wavelength, selected as one of the "100 Essential" films of all time by TIFF and after which TIFF's avant-garde section was named. A looped ph...

Small Town Murder Songs

Ed Gass-Donnelly

Canada

A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life. The film stars Peter Storma...

Soft Rains #6: Suburban Horror (part 1)

Kevin and Jennifer McCoy

The Soft Rains series consist of miniature robotic film sets that recreate familiar cinema archetypes and genres. For this work, the McCoys created a tiny diorama of an unsettling suburban idyll inspired by David Lynch's Blue Vel...

Les Softies

Emmanuel Shirinian, Russell Bennett

Canada

Chooch and Ponch are hit men. While waiting to knock off a mark, they ponder what life might have in store if they quit their day jobs and pursued their unrealized potential.

The Solitude Of Prime Numbers

Saverio Constanzo

Italy

Two youngsters discover that they are doomed to live parallel lives, always linked but never joined. One has to deal with the effects of a serious skiing accident while the other must come to grips with negligence that led to the...

Somersault in a Coffin

Dervis Zaim

Turkey

A thief with bizarre compulsions -- and possibly good reasons -- tries to get by in this essential Istanbul film.

Sophie Lavoie

Anne Émond

Canada

Anne Émond delivers a stripped-down study of a young woman participating in a patient interview during her doctor’s appointment.

Soul of Sand

Sidharth Srinivasan

India

The Soul of Things

Dominic Angerame

USA

Luscious chiaroscuro images of the construction and destruction of modern structures exposing the inner soul of things. An ode to human endeavour as much as a harkening back to the 20s and 30s city symphony films.

The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical

Sarah McCarthy

United Kingdom, India

For one emotional night, a group of children living in a slum in Mumbai, India, get a chance to experience a different world as they perform The Sound of Music with a classical orchestra, fostering hopes that it could change thei...

Special Treatment

Jeanne Labrune

France, Luxembourg, Belgium

A high class prostitute and an eminent psychoanalyst discover that they share many things in common. They are both unhappy with their professions, seeking a way out that involves unique contact with each other's worlds.

Stake Land

Jim Mickle

USA

In the aftermath of a vampire epidemic, a teen is taken in by a grizzled vampire hunter on a road trip through a post-apocalyptic America, battling both the bloodsuckers and a fundamentalist militia that interprets the plague as ...

State of Violence

Khalo Matabane

South Africa, France

In his follow-up to Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon, Khalo Matabane delivers a potent drama about a South African corporate leader whose past as a violent revolutionary comes back to threaten him.

Stone

John Curran

USA

Robert De Niro and Edward Norton deliver powerful performances as a seasoned corrections official and a scheming inmate whose lives become dangerously intertwined. Stone weaves together the parallel journeys of two men grappling ...

straitscaping

Yoel Meranda

Turkey

Yoel Meranda completely transforms brief footage of a ferry trip across the Bosphorus.

The Strange Case of Angelica

Manoel de Oliveira

Portugal, Spain, France, Brazil

Manoel de Oliveira, a 101-year-old filmmaker, returns to the Douro River, the site of his first short, Douro Faina Fluvial, to create a surprising tale about a metaphysical love that defies reason. Photographer Isaac becomes smit...

Submarine

Richard Ayoade

United Kingdom

British comic Richard Ayoade delivers his hotly-anticipated feature debut Submarine. One boy must fight to save his mother from the advances of a mystic and simultaneously lure his eczema-strafed girlfriend in to the bedroom arme...

Summer of Goliath

Nicolás Pereda

Mexico, Canada, Netherlands

Toronto resident Nicolas Pereda explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary to evoke the atmosphere of the place in his latest feature, Summer of Goliath. It's a hot summer in the rural Mexican community of Huilotepec...

SUPER

James Gunn

USA

After his wife (Liv Tyler) leaves him for a drug dealer (Kevin Bacon), a frustrated husband (Rainn Wilson) decides he will win her back as Crimson Bolt, a costumed vigilante armed with a monkey wrench. His actions bring him an ad...