Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a perman ...
was held from 8 to 18 September 2016. The first announcement of films to be screened at the festival took place on 26 July. Almost 400 films were shown.
Awards
The festival's final awards were announced on 18 September.
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (; ar, محمد الصالح هارون) was born in 1961 in Abéché, Chad. He is a film director from Chad. He left Chad during the civil wars of the 1980s. Haroun is the first Chadian full-length film director. He both wri ...
(Chadian director), and Zhang Ziyi (Chinese actress). The Platform section (named for Jia Zhangke's film '' Platform'') consists of "12 films of high artistic merit that demonstrate a strong directorial vision". The jury awarded the $25,000 prize to '' Jackie''.
J. A. Bayona
Juan Antonio García Bayona (born 9 May 1975) is a Spanish film director.
He directed the 2007 horror film '' The Orphanage'', the 2012 drama film '' The Impossible'', and the 2016 fantasy drama film ''A Monster Calls''. Bayona's latest film ...
Denis Villeneuve
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Peter Berg
Peter Berg (born March 11, 1964) is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. His directorial film works include the black comedy ''Very Bad Things'' (1998), the action comedy ''The Rundown'' (2003), the sports drama '' Friday Night Lig ...
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The Edge of Seventeen
''The Edge of Seventeen'' is a 2016 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, in her directorial debut. The film stars Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, Kyra Sedgwick, and Haley Lu Richardson.
The f ...
The Journey Is the Destination
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Jonathan Demme
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Rob Reiner
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Loving
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* Love, a range of human emotions
* Loving (surname)
* ''Loving v. Virginia'', a 1967 landmark United States Supreme Court civil rights case
Film and television
* Loving (1970 film), ''Loving'' (1970 film), an American fi ...
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Jeff Nichols
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Planetarium
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Rebecca Zlotowski
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Education
A former student at prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rebecca Zlotowski received her teaching qualification in French modern literature in 2003. S ...
Terry George
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He was nominated ...
The Secret Scripture
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Plot summary
The main character is an old woman, Roseanne McNulty, who now resides in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. Having been a patient for some fift ...
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Jim Sheridan
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Between 1989 and 1993, Sheridan directed two critically acclaimed films set in Ireland, '' My Left Foot'' and '' In the Name of the Father'', and later directed the fi ...
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Snowden Snowden may refer to:
* Snowden (surname), a given name and a family name
People
* Edward Snowden, former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013
Music
* Snowd ...
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Oliver Stone
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Katherine Dieckmann
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Music video filmography
*" Shiny Happy People" by R.E.M.
*" Stand" by R.E.M.
*" Your Ghost" b ...
A United Kingdom
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Emmanuelle Bercot
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The Age of Shadows
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Marc Forster
Marc Forster (born 30 November 1969) is a Swiss filmmaker. He is best known for directing the feature films ''Monster's Ball'', '' Finding Neverland'', '' Stranger than Fiction'', ''The Kite Runner'', ''Quantum of Solace'', ''World War Z'', and ' ...
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American Honey
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Andrea Arnold
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American Pastoral
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Barry Barry may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Barry (name), including lists of people with the given name, nickname or surname, as well as fictional characters with the given name
* Dancing Barry, stage name of Barry Richards (born c. 195 ...
The Birth of a Nation
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Birth of the Dragon
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Bleed for This
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Ben Younger
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Biography Early life and career
Younger was born in Brooklyn, and raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish household in Eltingville, Staten Island and in Fair Lawn, New ...
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The Bleeder
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Philippe Falardeau
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Early life
Falardeau was born and raised in Hull, Quebec. He later studied political science at the University of Ottawa, before travelling ...
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Blue Jay
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Noel Clarke
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Burn Your Maps
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Catfight
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Onur Tukel
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Career
In 1997, Tukel wrote ...
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Christine
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People
* Christine (name), a female given name
Film
* ''Christine'' (1958 film), based on Schnitzler's play ''Liebelei''
* ''Christine'' (1983 film), based on King's novel of the same name
* ''Christine'' (1987 fil ...
City of Tiny Lights
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Konkona Sen Sharma
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Elle
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Paul Verhoeven
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Foreign Body
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Most references to foreign bodies involve propulsion through natural orifices into hollow organs.
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François Ozon
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Ozon is considered one of the most important modern French filmmakers. His films are characterized by aesthetic beauty, sharp satirical humor and a free-wheeli ...
Nick Hamm
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Hamm's most recent films, '' The Journey'' starring Timothy ...
Damien Chazelle
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For ''Whiplash'', he was nominated for t ...
Lion
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Miwa Nishikawa
is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Nishikawa received a degree in literature from the University of Waseda, and after working on several independent films as well as catching the eye of Hirokazu Kore-eda, her film making career took off ...
Christopher Guest
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Aisling Walsh
Aisling Walsh (born 1958) is an Irish screenwriter and director. Her work has screened at festivals around the world and she has won several accolades, including a BAFTA TV Award for '' Room at the Top'' (2012) as well as an Irish Film and Tele ...
Nathan Morlando
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Baltasar Kormákur
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Arnaud des Pallières
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The 66th ...
Eleanor Coppola
Eleanor Jessie Coppola (''née'' Neil; born May 4, 1936) is an American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer. She is married to director Francis Ford Coppola. She is most known for her 1991 documentary film '' Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmake ...
Jim Jarmusch
James Robert Jarmusch (; born January 22, 1953) is an American film director and screenwriter. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films including ''Stranger Than Paradise'' (1984), '' Down by Law'' (19 ...
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with u ...
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Sing
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Souvenir
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Bavo Defurne
Saint Bavo of Ghent (also known as Bavon, Allowin, Bavonius, Baaf; AD 622–659) is a Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint. He was the son of Pepin of Landen and the brother of saints Begga and Gertrude of Nivelles.
Life
Bavo was born nea ...
Mia Hansen-Løve
Mia Hansen-Løve (born 5 February 1981) is a French film director, screenwriter, and former actress. She has won several accolades for her work. Her first feature film, '' All Is Forgiven'', won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film in 2007 ...
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Toni Erdmann
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In Spanish, Italian, Croatian and Finnish, it is a masculine given name used as a short form of the names derived from Antonius like Antonio, Ante or Anttoni.
In Danish, English, Finnish, No ...
Trespass Against Us
''Trespass Against Us'' is a 2016 crime drama film directed by Adam Smith and written by Alastair Siddons. The film stars Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Sean Harris, Lyndsey Marshal, Rory Kinnear, and Killian Scott.
It was selected to be ...
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Adam Smith
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Kim Nguyen
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Benedict Andrews
Benedict Andrews is an Australian theatre and film director, based in Reykjavík. Born in Adelaide in 1972, he was educated at Flinders University Drama Centre. His first feature film '' Una'' (an adaption of '' Blackbird'' by David Harrower) ...
Terrence Malick
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Wakefield
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Robin Swicord
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Window Horses
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Paul Schrader
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The Girl with All the Gifts
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Headshot
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Rats
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Sadako vs. Kayako
is a 2016 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Kōji Shiraishi. It is a crossover of the '' Ju-on'' and the ''Ring'' series. The film was first teased as an April Fools' joke on April 1, 2015, but was later confirmed on December 10 to ...
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Kōji Shiraishi
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is primarily known for directing Japanese horror films, most notably ''Noroi: The Curse''.
Background
Kōji Shiraishi was born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. After graduating fr ...
Andrzej Wajda
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Anatomy of Violence
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Deepa Mehta
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''Earth'' was submitted by India as its official ...
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer. He is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Docu ...
Kelly Reichardt
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Reich ...
Graduation
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Cristian Mungiu
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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (; ar, محمد الصالح هارون) was born in 1961 in Abéché, Chad. He is a film director from Chad. He left Chad during the civil wars of the 1980s. Haroun is the first Chadian full-length film director. He both wri ...
Carlos Saura
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Pedro Almodóvar
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Ma' Rosa
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Benoît Jacquot
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Life and career
Born in Paris, Jacquot began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films, inclu ...
Olivier Assayas
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Pinneyum
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A Quiet Passion
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Safari
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Ulrich Seidl
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His 2012 film '' Paradise: Love'' competed for the Palm ...
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Sieranevada
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Cristi Puiu
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Early life, education and career
Cristian Emilian Puiu was ...
The Unknown Girl
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''The Unknown Girl'' was selected to compete for the '' Palme d'Or'' at the 2016 Cannes F ...
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Dardenne brothers
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The Dardennes ...
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We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice
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Divines
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Houda Benyamina
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Benyamina was born in Viry-Châtillon, Paris in a Moroccan ...
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The Edge of Seventeen
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The f ...
Mijke de Jong
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Moonlight
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Illumination
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Barry Jenkins
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Stephan Streker
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Biography
Stephan Streker was born in Brussels, and first became a journalist with the aim of meeting the people he admired most in the world – filmmakers. In this capacity, he pu ...
Window Horses
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Errol Morris
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Nicholas de Pencier
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Brett Smith
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Hig ...
Forever Pure
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Hubert Davis
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Jim Jarmusch
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I Am Not Your Negro
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I Called Him Morgan
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Kasper Collin
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His first feature documentary was '' My Name Is Albert Ayler'' which was well received when ...
An Insignificant Man
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Werner Herzog
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The Ivory Game
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Si ...
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On November ...
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Plot
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Career
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Career
Chung received Golde ...
Fabrice Du Welz
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Nelly
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Prevenge
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Alice Lowe
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Blessed Benefit
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Cast
* Mahmoud al Massad as Ibrahim
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Mahmoud al Massad
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Boys in the Trees
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Houda Benyamina
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People Ancient Romans
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Guilty Men
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Juho Kuosmanen
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Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
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Hello Destroyer
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Kevan Funk
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Rasmus Heisterberg
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In the Radiant City
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Cast
* Michael Abbott Jr. as Andrew Yurley
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Jeffrey
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Fernando Guzzoni
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Joe Cinque's Consolation
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Katie Says Goodbye
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Little Wing
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Selma Vilhunen
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Marija
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Stephan Streker
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Biography
Stephan Streker was born in Brussels, and first became a journalist with the aim of meeting the people he admired most in the world – filmmakers. In this capacity, he pu ...
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Old Stone
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Elite Zexer
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Ashley McKenzie
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Khyentse Norbu
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Natar Ungalaaq
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Illumination
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Barry Jenkins
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Mathieu Denis
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Simon Lavoie
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Nicole van Kilsdonk
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People
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Claude Barras
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Filmography
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Da ...
Charlie Brooker
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Nirvanna the Band the Show
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Premise
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Career
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The Horse Thief
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Tian Zhuangzhuang
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Auguste and Louis Lumière
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Thierry Frémaux
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Agnès Varda
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Marlon Brando
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Pan's Labyrinth
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Jonathan Demme
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93 Days
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Steve Gukas
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Education
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The Arbitration
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Niyi Akinmolayan
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Okafor's Law
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