World Cinema

• Christian SPARKES
• Canada
• 2023
• 104min

The mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a girl awash on their shores. He and his wife who have no children of their own, take care of her as if she were their own daughter...

• Toronto Platform

World Cinema

• Andrea DI STEFANO
• Italy
• 2022
• 125min

Italian film noir is entering a renaissance, and Andrea Di Stefano establishes himself as a master of the movement with The Last Night of Amore. On the eve of his honorable ...

• Berlin Special Gala

Wide Angle

• Hana MAKHMALBAF
• United Kingdom/Afghanistan/Iran
• 2023
• 65min

Hana Makhmalbaf’s The List begins where her father Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Talking with Rivers leaves off. When the US troops withdraw in August 2021, Afghanistan fell in...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pawo Choyning DORJI
• Bhutan/United States/France/Taiwan
• 2023
• 107min

In 2006, television and internet have finally arrived in Bhutan, and the nation, which has been a monarchy, is gearing up for its first-ever election in history. The upcoming elect...

• Toronto Centrepiece

Jiseok

• Yuya ISHII
• Japan
• 2023
• 144min

Yoko is a novelist who has gained fame for her work covering the Great East Japan Earthquake, but now she is unable to write a novel. Her husband is an aspiring director who create...

Wide Angle

• Asmae EL MOUDIR
• Morocco/Egypt/Saudi Arabia/Qatar
• 2023
• 96min

El Moudir’s exploration of identity through her mother in The Postcard (2020) continues through the grandmother in her latest film, which delves into the Moroccan contempora...

• Cannes the Golden Eye Documentary Prize

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Hao NING
• China
• 2023
• 125min

In 2006, Ning Hao delighted his fans in Busan with the closing film, Crazy Stone, at the Busan International Film Festival. This year, he returns after seventeen years with ...

Wide Angle

• Geonhee KIM
• Korea
• 2023
• 100min

The Night of the Factory Girls begins with contemplations on what existed in the past but have disappeared or left untold and forgotten in the present, reluctantly starting ...

Icons

• Ken LOACH
• United Kingdom/France/Belgium
• 2023
• 113min

The Old Oak is the story of a village in the Northeast of England, where the mine, the villages main source of employment, has closed, and people feel deserted by the system...

• Cannes Competition

Flash Forward

• DK WELCHMAN,Hugh WELCHMAN
• Poland/Serbia/Lithuania
• 2023
• 112min

According to Tolstoy, a village is its own world; if you observe and depict the events within the village properly, you can approach a universal truth applicable anywhere, anytime....

• Toronto Special Presentations