Germany will have a strong presence in this year’s Toronto International Film Festival which attract film lovers and industry professionals to Toronto as the largest North American film festival kicks off on September 5th and will run until September 15th.
Throughout the event 278 films will be screened which include 24 German productions and co-productions.
Here are some of the films, according to German Films DE:
Highlights
- EDGE OF NIGHT (MFP) will have its North American premiere in the Centrepiece section, the debut of Writer-director Türker Süer
- HAPPY HOLIDAYS (Red Balloon Film) by the Oscar-nominated Palestinian director Scandar Copti
- Ali Samadi Ahadi world premier SEVEN DAYS (brave new work)
- Mohammad Rasoulof’s THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Run Way Pictures)
- SAD JOKES (Postofilm) by writer-director-actor Fabian Stumm
- THE SUNSET SPECIAL 2 (Short Cuts) from filmmaker Nicolas Gebbe
- German director Edward Berger’s new film CONCLAVE in the section of Special Presentations
- German actor Daniel Brühl (GOOD BYE, LENIN!) can be seen in EDEN by Ron Howard
Centrepiece
AN UNFINISHED FILM by Lou Ye (SG/DE, Essential Filmproduktion)
CROCODILE TEARS by Tumpal Tampubolon (ID/FR/SG/DE, 2Pilots Filmproduction)
EDGE OF NIGHT by Türker Süer (DE/TR, MFP)
HAPPY HOLIDAYS by Scandar Copti (DE/PS/FR/IT, Red Balloon Film)
SEVEN DAYS (SIEBEN TAGE) by Ali Samadi Ahadi (brave new work)
THE LEGEND OF THE VAGABOND QUEEN OF LAGOS by The Agbajawo Collective (NG/DE, Die Gesellschaft DGS)
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG by Mohammad Rasoulof (DE/FR/IR, Run Way Pictures)
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo Harawe (AT/FR/DE/SO, NiKo Film)
TO A LAND UNKNOWN by Mahdi Fleifel (UK/FR/DE/GR/NL/QA/SA/PS, Salaud Morisset Germany)
Classics
TIME OF MATURITY (REIFEZEIT) by Sohrab Shahid Saless (PROVOBIS Gesellschaft für Film und Fernsehen)
Discovery
BONJOUR TRISTESSE by Durga Chew-Bose (CA/DE, Barry Film)
HORIZONTE by César Augusto Acevedo (CO/FR/LU/CL/DE, unafilm)
SAD JOKES by Fabian Stumm (Postofilm)
Platform
THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT by Gabrielle Brady (AU/MN/DE, Chromosom Film)
Primetime
FAMILIER SOM VORES (FAMILIES LIKE OURS) by Thomas Vinterberg (DN/FR/SE/CZ/NO/DE, Zentropa Berlin)
Short Cuts
THE SUNSET SPECIAL 2 by Nicolas Gebbe
Special Presentations
HARVEST by Athina Rachel Tsangari (UK/DE/GR/FR/US, MFP)
RUMOURS by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson (CA/DE, Maze Pictures)
THE ASSESSMENT by Fleur Fortuné (UK/DE/US, Augenschein Filmproduktion)
THE END by Joshua Oppenheimer (DN/DE/IR/IT/UK/SE, MFP)
TIFF Doc
TATA by Radu Ciorniciuc, Lina Vdovii (RO/DE/NL, Corso Film)
Wavelengths
GRAND TOUR by Miguel Gomes (PT/IT/FR/DE/JP/CN)
PEPE by Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias (DOM, NAM/DE/FR, Pandora Film Produktion)
VIET AND NAM by Quý Truong Minh (VN/PH/CH/SG/FR/QA/SA/DE, Scarlet Visions)
