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The Seen and Unseen (Kamila Andini, Indonesia/Netherlands/ Australia/ Qatar) — Platform

By Michael Sicinski The Seen and Unseen is a truly singular film, but it does not relinquish its secrets easily. The story of two young twins, the...

Michael Sicinski

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5 17.09.2017

Never Steady, Never Still (Kathleen Hepburn, Canada)—Discovery

By Lydia Ogwang Determining the sum total of Kathleen Hepburn’s formally accomplished feature debut is daunting arithmetic. Protagonist Judy, a...

Lydia Ogwang

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9 17.09.2017

Kings (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, France/Belgium) — Gala Presentations

By Steve Macfarlane Using the 1992 riots that followed the acquittal of four LAPD officers caught on tape beating Rodney King as pretext for a...

Steve Macfarlane

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6 15.09.2017

Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler, US) — Midnight Madness

By Steve Macfarlane Was Vince Vaughn the Owen Wilson to Jon Favreau’s Wes Anderson? As woebegone drug runner Bradley Thomas, Vaughn delivers a...

Steve Macfarlane

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5 15.09.2017

Kissing Candice (Aoife McArdle, Ireland) — Discovery

By Robert Koehler Any discussion about Kissing Candice begins with cinematographer Steve Annis, who, up until now, has been a specialist in music...

Robert Koehler

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4 15.09.2017

I Love You, Daddy (Louis C.K., US) — Special Presentations

By Dan Sullivan Full disclosure: An issue of this publication (Issue 70, to be precise) appears laid atop the desk of Glenn Topher (Louis C.K.),...

Dan Sullivan

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8 14.09.2017

BOOM FOR REAL The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (Sara Driver, USA) — TIFF Docs

By Phil Coldiron GELDZAHLER: So they’re kinds [sic] of indexes to encyclopedias that don’t exist? BASQUIAT: I just like the names. Given that...

Phil Coldiron

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9 14.09.2017

Mom and Dad (Brian Taylor, US) — Midnight Madness

By Elena Lazic For his first solo directorial effort, Brian Taylor (of Neveldine/Taylor, the creative duo behind Crank and Ghost Rider: Spirit of...

Elena Lazic

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8 14.09.2017

Disobedience (Sebastián Leilo, UK) — Special Presentations

By Manuela Lazic Now fully crossed over into English-language filmmaking (following in the footsteps of his Hollywood-focused countryman Pablo...

Manuela Lazic

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7 14.09.2017

Chappaquiddick (John Curran, USA) — Gala Presentations

By Manuela Lazic It seems that the movies will never stop portraying the tormented lives of the Kennedys. After last year’s divisive Jackie,...

Manuela Lazic

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8 14.09.2017

Dark River (Clio Barnard, UK) — Platform

By Alysia Urrutia The places you’ve lived are like the people you’ve loved: you can leave them all you want but they’ll never be gone. The...

Alysia Urrutia

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7 14.09.2017

Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu, China/France) — Contemporary World Cinema

By Steve Macfarlane It’s no spoiler to say the whole damn system is found guilty as hell in Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White. While a sleepy coastal...

Steve Macfarlane

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9 14.09.2017

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh, USA) — Special Presentations

By Leonardo Goi Martin McDonagh’s rollicking and viciously funny revenge tale stars a memorable Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes, a mother who...

Leonardo Goi

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5 14.09.2017

Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton, Australia) — Platform

By Chelsea Phillips-Carr Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country attempts to be unique in every way possible, and nearly succeeds. An Australian Western...

Chelsea Phillips-Carr

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10 13.09.2017

Azmaish: A Journey Through the Subcontinent (Sabiha Sumar, Pakistan) — TIFF Docs

By Michael Sicinski While certainly informative and laudably humanist in intent, Azmaish poses a certain problem for this reviewer, simply from the...

Michael Sicinski

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9 13.09.2017

Alias Grace (Mary Harron, Canada/USA) — Primetime

By Angelo Muredda Margaret Atwood’s most genre-bending, postmodern novel gets a mostly straightforward Victorian adaptation in Mary Harron’s...

Angelo Muredda

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9 13.09.2017

Shiekh Jackson (Amr Salama, Egypt) — Special Presentations

By Willow Maclay Michael Jackson’s death sent shockwaves through popular culture around the world. Amr Salama’s film measures its impact in...

Willow Maclay

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8 13.09.2017

Disappearance (Ali Asgari, Iran) — Discovery

By Steve Macfarlane In Ali Asgari’s slow-burning melodrama Disappearance, a young unmarried couple (Sadaf Asgari and Amir Reza Ranjbaran) spend...

Steve Macfarlane

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9 13.09.2017

Black Cop (Cory Bowles, Canada) — Discovery

By Josh Cabrita The inciting central incident in Cory Bowles’ debut feature is an all-too-recognizable altercation between two belligerent, white...

Josh Cabrita

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8 13.09.2017

Victoria & Abdul (Stephen Frears, UK) — Special Presentations

By Chelsea Phillips-Carr Not content with a simple erasure of colonial violence under the veil of a feel-good prestige pic, Stephen Frears opts for...

Chelsea Phillips-Carr

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7 13.09.2017

Living Proof (Matt Embry, Canada) — TIFF Docs

By Aurélie Godet Canadian filmmaker Matt Embry is living proof that one can do well despite being stuck with multiple sclerosis, provided that one...

Aurélie Godet

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10 13.09.2017

Cocaine Prison (Violeta Ayala, Australia/Bolivia/France/US) — TIFF Docs

By Michael Sicinski There’s a scene early on in Cocaine Prison where we see several of the little brothers of Deisy Torrez, one of the film’s...

Michael Sicinski

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10 13.09.2017

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (Simon Lavoie, Canada) — Contemporary World Cinema

By Josh Cabrita A tale of a reclusive, degenerate family in rural Quebec in the 1930s, Simon Lavoie’s follow-up to Those Who Make Revolution...

Josh Cabrita

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10 12.09.2017

Princesita (Marialy Rivas, Chile/Argentina/Spain) — Discovery

By James Lattimer Some day, there’ll be a film about cult membership that doesn’t draw on the same hoary old clichés, but until then we have...

James Lattimer

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9 12.09.2017

Breathe (Andy Serkis, UK) — Gala Presentations

By Angelo Muredda Andy Serkis takes a left turn from performance-capture guru to prestige-pic helmer with this ingratiating and anonymously...

Angelo Muredda

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6 12.09.2017

The Swan (Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir, Iceland) — Discovery

By Michael Sicinski When someone makes their first film, it’s not uncommon for them to experience some difficulty controlling parameters such as...

Phil Coldiron

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6 12.09.2017

Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (Ivana Mladenovic, Romania/Serbia/Belgium) — Discovery

By Alysia Urrutia While on the surface Soldiers from Ferentari would appear to be wildly rugged in every possible sense—stark cinematography,...

Alysia Urrutia

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6 12.09.2017

The Motive (Manuel Martín Cuenca, Spain) — Special Presentation

By James Lattimer Watching The Motive is akin to hearing an artist expound at length on the tedious specifics of their process, a feeling made all...

James Lattimer

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6 12.09.2017

Tigre (Silvina Schnicer & Ulises Porra Guardiola, Argentina) — Discovery

By Lydia Ogwang The feature directorial debut by Silvina Schnicer and Ulises Porra Guardiola’s centres on matriarch Rina, a woman in her sixties...

Lydia Ogwang

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6 12.09.2017

Human Traces (Nic Gorman, New Zealand) — Discovery

By Aurélie Godet Scientific findings keep revealing, with an accelerated urgency, the disruptive and irreversible impact that human activities have...

Aurélie Godet

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5 12.09.2017

Cardinals (Grayson Moore & Aidan Shipley, Canada) — Discovery

By Lydia Ogwang Canadian newcomers Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley strike gold with veteran Sheila McCarthy in the lead role of Cardinals. McCarthy...

Lydia Ogwang

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6 12.09.2017

Molly’s Game (Aaron Sorkin, US) — Gala Presentations

By Manuela Lazic It took Aaron Sorkin 15 years to finally go from the writer’s desk to the director’s chair, and in some respects, Molly’s Game...

Manuela Lazic

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7 12.09.2017