KALEIDOSCOPE NICKS THE SEVEN FIVE FOR WORLDWIDE SALES
Tuesday 25 August 2015; Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (KFD) today announces the acquisition of acclaimed documentary, The Seven Five, for worldwide sales (excluding North America and the UK).
Recently nominated for best documentary at The Edinburgh International Film Festival, The Seven Five tells the remarkable tale of the dirtiest cop in New York City history, Michael Dowd.
In the late 80s and early 90s, ...
PRODUCERS LAB TORONTO 2015 WITH HIGH-PROFILE PARTICIPANTS
EFP, OMDC and Toronto International Film Festival® announce producers for trans-Atlantic co-production platform
The sixth edition of PRODUCERS LAB TORONTO is set to launch during the Toronto International Film Festival® from September 9 to 12, 2015. Twenty four producers from Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have been chosen to exchange p...
WORLD PREMIERE
TIFF DOCS SECTION
OUR LAST TANGO
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DCP - HD - 2015 - 85 min - Argentina, Germany
Directed by German Kral
Produced by German Kral Filmproduktion, Lailaps Pictures
From Executive Producer Wim Wenders, Rodrigo Furth, Jakob Abrahamson
Original Language Spa...
New To Market,World Premiere and Opening Night film for the brand new competitive section Platform, we have Land of Mine from the hugely talented Martin Zandvliet (Applause which played TIFF in 2013 and, just announced, Europa's Kursk based on the true story of the stricken Russian submarine , written by Saving Private Ryan's Robert Rodat.). Land of Mine is a previously untold, shocking, powerful and incredibly moving story set at the end of World War 2.
Al...
The career
The Yellow Affair team is heading to Toronto (where GIRLS LOST will be featuring). We will also have a market screening for our New Release THE CARER in Toronto. Miira Paasilinna will be attending Montreal and will take meetings in the Hyatt Regency from Sept 3 - 7. Chris Howard will be attending Toronto and taking meetings...
ZOMBIEWORLD
100 min. Horror. HD. 2015. Complete.
Synopsis:
There is nowhere to hide...nowhere to run...the Zombie Apocalypse has come, and our world now belongs to the dead! From Ireland, Canada, Australia, Europe and all over the U.S., the bone-chilling news reports tell the same gruesome tale - walking corpses terrorize and devour the living. Only a few desperate humans find the courage to stand and fight for their last ...
2015 | ICELAND, DENMARK | DRAMA | ICELANDIC
Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson
Production: Nimbus Film & Nimbus Iceland
Cast: Atli Óskar Fjalarsson, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Rade Šerbedžija
Synopsis:
SPARROWS is a coming-of-age story about the 16-year old ...
CAMPUS CODE
Action / Sci-Fi
Director: Cathy Scorsese
Cast: Conor Leslie (Chained), Jack Falahee (How to Get Away with Murder), and featuring Martin Scorsese and Ray Liotta
Five college kids are just doing their thing - studying, dating, partying - when one of their classmates disintegrates right before their eyes, and they find themselves forced to battle security, the Griefers and eac...
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ORDEAL
GENRE: Action / Sci-Fi
DIRECTOR: Juan Felipe Orozco
(Greetings to the Devil - starring Edgar Ramirez)
PRODUCER: Moctezuma Esparza (Selena)
CAST: TBA
SYNOPSIS: A space smuggler must outrun dangerous creatures and fend off foes in a race against time to rescue his...
Disorder (Maryland) Alice Winocour, France/Belgium North American Premiere
In this masterfully engineered thriller, a young ex-soldier suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder protects a beautiful woman and her child from a brutal home invasion. Starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger.
Man Down Dito Montiel, USA North American Premiere
In a savage post-apocalyptic America, U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer searches desperately for the whereabouts of his estranged son and wife. Accompani...
Films from countries including Ethiopia, New Zealand, Peru, Israel, Indonesia, Germany, Australia, Spain, China, France, Japan, Iceland and Morocco in Festival spotlight TORONTO — A diverse and fascinating selection of 60 films from countries across the globe were announced today in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Contemporary World Cinema programme.
Spotlighting work from some of the world’s finest international filmmakers, the lineup delivers an array of co...
Inconceivable! The 40th Toronto International Film Festival® today revealed that The Princess Bride script is the subject of the Jason Reitman Live Read — a unique event in which classic movie scripts are read by contemporary actors. The script of Rob Reiner’s beloved classic will be presented to audiences in a one-take read-through with Reitman narrating stage direction on Saturday, September 12 at 6 p.m.
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The Toronto International Film Festival® announced today its Discovery programme showcasing 30 outstanding and absorbing feature films, including 16 World Premieres, by first and second time directors from Canada and across the globe. “Discovery is the place where Festival audiences will find the future of filmmaking,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. “You can expect to uncover thrilling new voices, inspiring storytellers an...
The TIFF Next Wave committee of young film enthusiasts has hand-picked 10 Toronto International Film Festival® films that will resonate with their peers. Founded in 2010, the TIFF Next Wave Committee is a group of 12 students ranging in age from 15 to 18 and selected from a competitive pool of young film enthusiasts, hailing from schools across the Greater Toronto Area. In order to help their peers navigate the Festival, the Committee has identified the following youth-driven Festival select...
The Toronto International Film Festival® revealed the inaugural lineup for Platform, the new juried programme that champions director’s cinema from around the world.
“We created this new programme as a way to sharpen our focus on artistically ambitious cinema in our 40th year and we are thrilled to be able to put the spotlight on these 12 brilliant filmmakers this September,” said Piers Handling,...
Midnight Madness returns to the Toronto International Film Festival® to satiate late night audiences’ appetites for wild sensory stimulation. The programme will present the best in action, horror, shock and fantasy films from the rabble-rousers of cinema, opening with Jeremy Saulnier’s tense siege shocker Green Room. “Midnight Madness winds up Festival audiences as the days are winding down and they are hungry for more,” says Colin Geddes, International Programmer for...
Slate includes films from Barbara Kopple, Morgan Neville, Laurie Anderson, Amy Berg, Frederick Wiseman, Davis Guggenheim and a posthumous revelation by Sydney Pollack
The Toronto International Film Festival’s 2015 documentary programme presents a diverse mix of international works featuring a wide array of award-winning directors.
The TIFF Docs line-up includes revelatory looks at celebrated performers like Yo-Yo Ma, Arcade Fire and Sharon Jones; fresh global perspectives on Ukraine, Hai...
CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES PACK A POWERFUL PUNCH AT THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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THE PETROV FILE (Bulgaria/Germany)
directed by Georgi Balabanov (screenplay: Georgi Balabanov, Jean-Claude Carriere)
A prominent stage actor makes his return after the fall of the communist regime. Soon after, he gets an offer to lead a new political party. Can art and politics be separated under the "new" regime?
Balabanov’s clever approach to his story and characters created a piece that immediately captures the viewer's attention, w...
Revolution will be shown to all conference attendees at the 2015 Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, taking place in Washington, DC on November 18 & 19, 2015.
The Ninth Annual Greenbuild International Film Festival will be held Wednesday, Nov. 18 - Thursday, Nov. 19 10:00am - 6:00pm. This festival features documentaries, films, and informational videos that promotes innovative green building practices and...
VENICE 72: EGOYAN S "REMEMBER", A T.K.O. IN THE TENTH ROUND WITH PLUMMER'S BEST ACTOR LION IN THE BAG
by Alex Deleon
Coming on day numer Ten of the Mostra, about Egoyan's fantastic Post-Holocaust drama one can only say "Better Late than never", and this festival late comer is, if not a sure bet for the best film Golden Lion, a Best actor shoo-in for 85 year old Christopher Plummer as a ninety year old Auschwitz avenger who w...
Lao pao er (Mr. Six) by Chinese director Guan Hu is the closing film of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. The screening is scheduled on 12 September at 9:00 pm in the Sala Grande theater at the Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido.
The film is the story of Mr. Six, a notorious streetwise hooligan in Beijing when he was young. After 30 years, he is diagnosed with heart disease and lives by himself in a hutong. One day, his son, Xi...
