The 41st annual
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organi ...
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.
Jury members
Platform Jury
The jury for the
Platform section (in its second year) comprised
Brian de Palma
Brian Russell De Palma (; born September 11, 1940) is an Americans, American film director and screenwriter. With a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for work in the suspense, Crime film, crime, and psychological thriller genres. ...
(American director),
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (; ) 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 writes and directs his films. Though he ...
(Chadian director), and
Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi (; ; born 9 February 1979), sometimes credited Ziyi Zhang, is a Chinese actress, known for playing independent and strong-willed characters. Born and raised in Beijing, Zhang was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama in 1996. Th ...
(Chinese actress). The Platform section (named for Jia Zhangke's film ''
Platform
Platform may refer to:
Arts
* Platform, an arts centre at The Bridge, Easterhouse, Glasgow
* ''Platform'' (1993 film), a 1993 Bollywood action film
* ''Platform'' (2000 film), a 2000 film by Jia Zhangke
* '' The Platform'' (2019 film)
* Pla ...
'') consists of "12 films of high artistic merit that demonstrate a strong directorial vision". The jury awarded the $25,000 prize to ''
Jackie''.
Programmes
The following films were selected:
''Deadline'', 16 August 2016.
Gala presentations
* '' A Monster Calls'' by J. A. Bayona
Juan Antonio García Bayona (born 9 May 1975) is a Spanish filmmaker.
Bayona directed the 2007 horror film '' The Orphanage'', the 2012 drama film '' The Impossible'', the 2016 fantasy drama film '' A Monster Calls'', and the 2018 film '' Jura ...
* ''Arrival
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Film
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* ''The Arrival'' (1996 film), an American-Mexican science fiction horror film
* ''Arrival'' (film), a 2016 American science ...
'' by Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, OAL (; ; born October 3, 1967) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has received seven Canadian Screen Awards as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and two ...
* ''Deepwater Horizon
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'' by Peter Berg
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* ''The Edge of Seventeen
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The ...
'' by Kelly Fremon Craig
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* ''The Headhunter's Calling
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'' by Mark Williams
* ''The Journey Is the Destination'' by Bronwen Hughes
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Filmography
Films
Tel ...
* ''Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids
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'' by Jonathan Demme
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* '' LBJ'' by Rob Reiner
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* '' Loving'' by Jeff Nichols
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* ''The Magnificent Seven
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'' by Antoine Fuqua
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* ''Norman
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'' by Joseph Cedar
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Biography
Cedar was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in New York City. His father is biochemist Howard Cedar. When Joseph was ...
* ''Planetarium
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A dominant feature of most planetariums is ...
'' by Rebecca Zlotowski
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Early life
Zlotowski is of Poland, Polish-Morocco, Moroccan descent. Her father, Michel Zlotowski, is an English-French interpreter, while her Moroccan (born in ...
* '' The Promise'' by Terry George
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He was nominated ...
* ''Queen of Katwe
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'' by Mira Nair
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* '' The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America'' by Paul Dugdale
* ''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 fif ...
'' by Jim Sheridan
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* ''Snowden
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People
* Snowden (surname), a given name and a family name
* Edward Snowden, former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013
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'' by Oliver Stone
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* '' Strange Weather'' by Katherine Dieckmann
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Music video filmography
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* ''Their Finest
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'' by Lone Scherfig
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* ''A United Kingdom
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'' by Amma Asante
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Special presentations
* '' 150 Milligrams'' by Emmanuelle Bercot
Emmanuelle Bercot is a French actress, film director, and screenwriter.
Career Filmmaking
Bercot wrote, directed, and played a lead role in the film '' Clément'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film ...
* ''The Age of Shadows
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'' by Kim Jee-woon
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* '' All I See Is You'' by Marc Forster
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* ''American Honey
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'' by Andrea Arnold
Andrea Patricia Arnold OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actress. She won an Academy Award for her short film ''Wasp'' in 2005. Her feature films include '' Red Road'' (2006), '' Fish Tank'' (2009) and '' American Hon ...
* ''American Pastoral
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'' by Ewan McGregor
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* '' Asura: The City of Madness'' by Kim Sung-soo
* '' Barakah Meets Barakah'' by Mahmoud Sabbagh
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* ''Barry Barry may refer to:
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'' by Vikram Gandhi
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* ''Below Her Mouth
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'' by April Mullen
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Career
In 2012, Mullen became the first woman to direct a live action, fully stereoscopic 3D film, 3D feature film, ''Dead Before Dawn'' (2012)''.'' In 2015, she directed the neo-n ...
* ''The Birth of a Nation
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'' by Nate Parker
Nate Parker (born November 18, 1979) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has appeared in ''Beyond the Lights'', ''Red Tails'', ''The Secret Life of Bees (film), The Secret Life of Bees'', ''The Great Debaters'', Arbitrage (film), ''Arbitrage ...
* ''Birth of the Dragon
''Birth of the Dragon'' is a 2016 American martial arts action film directed by George Nolfi and written by Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele. The film stars Philip Wan-lung Ng, Xia Yu, Jin Xing, Qu Jingjing, Ron Yuan, and Billy ...
'' by George Nolfi
George Nolfi (born June 10, 1968) is an American filmmaker. He made his directorial debut in 2011 with sci-fi action, romance thriller, ''The Adjustment Bureau'' starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.
Early life
Nolfi was born in Boston. He grad ...
* ''Bleed for This
''Bleed for This'' is a 2016 American biographical sports film written and directed by Ben Younger and based on the life of former world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza. The film stars Miles Teller as Pazienza, with Aaron Eckhart, Katey Sagal, ...
'' by Ben Younger
Ben Younger (born October 7, 1972) is an American screenwriter and film director.
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 ...
* ''The Bleeder
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'' by Philippe Falardeau
Philippe Falardeau (; born February 1, 1968, in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
Early life
Falardeau was born and raised in Hull, Quebec. He later studied political science at the University of Ottawa, before trave ...
* ''Blue Jay
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'' by Alex Lehmann
* ''Brain on Fire
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'' by Gerard Barrett
* '' Brimstone'' by Martin Koolhoven
Martinus Wouter "Martin" Koolhoven (born 25 April 1969) is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. Internationally he is most known for ''Schnitzel Paradise'' (2005), ''Winter in Wartime (film), Winter in Wartime'' (2008) and ''Brimstone (2016 fi ...
* ''Brotherhood
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'' by Noel Clarke
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* '' Burn Your Maps'' by Jordan Roberts
* '' Carrie Pilby'' by Susan Johnson
* ''Catfight
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'' by Onur Tukel
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In 1997, Tukel wrot ...
* ''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 Stephen King's novel of the same name
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'' by Antonio Campos
* '' City of Tiny Lights'' by Pete Travis
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* ''The Commune
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'' by Thomas Vinterberg
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* ''A Death in the Gunj
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'' by Konkona Sen Sharma
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* ''Denial
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'' by Mick Jackson
* '' The Duelist'' by Aleksey Mizgirev
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* ''Elle
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** Elle Style Awards
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* ''Elle: ...
'' by Paul Verhoeven
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* ''The Exception
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'' by David Leveaux
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* ''Foreign Body
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'' by Raja Amari
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* '' Frantz'' by François Ozon
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* ''The Handmaiden
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'' by Park Chan-wook
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* ''Harmonium
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'' by Kōji Fukada
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Career
Born in Tokyo, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young. It was when he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discov ...
* ''I Am Not Madame Bovary
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'' by Feng Xiaogang
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* ''I, Daniel Blake
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'' by Ken Loach
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* ''In Dubious Battle
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'' by James Franco
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* ''It's Only the End of the World
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'' by Xavier Dolan
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* ''The Journey The Journey may refer to:
Film
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* ' ...
'' by Nick Hamm
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* '' King of the Dancehall'' by Nick Cannon
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* ''La La Land
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'' by Damien Chazelle
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* ''The Limehouse Golem
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'' by Juan Carlos Medina
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* ''Lion
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'' by Garth Davis
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* '' The Long Excuse'' by 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 wi ...
* '' Manchester by the Sea'' by Kenneth Lonergan
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* ''Mascots
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'' by Christopher Guest
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* '' Maudie'' by Aisling Walsh
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* ''Mean Dreams
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'' by Nathan Morlando
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* ''Neruda Neruda may refer to:
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'' by Pablo Larraín
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* ''Nocturnal Animals
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'' by Tom Ford
Thomas Carlyle Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched Tom Ford (brand), his eponymous brand in 2005, having previously been the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent (brand), Yves Sai ...
* '' The Oath'' by Baltasar Kormákur
Baltasar Kormákur Baltasarsson is an Icelandic actor, theatre and film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films '' 101 Reykjavík'', '' The Sea'', '' A Little Trip to Heaven'', ''Contraband'', '' 2 Guns'', ''Eve ...
* ''Orphan
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'' by Arnaud des Pallières
Arnaud des Pallières (born 1 December 1961) is a French film director and screenwriter. His film ''Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas'' was screened in the main competition section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Political views ...
* ''Paris Can Wait
''Paris Can Wait'' is a 2016 comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by Eleanor Coppola in her narrative directorial debut, as all of her previous directorial efforts had been documentaries and short films. It stars Diane Lane, Alec Baldwi ...
'' by Eleanor Coppola
Eleanor Jessie Coppola ( Neil; May 4, 1936 – April 12, 2024) was an American documentary film director, screenwriter, and artist. She was married to director Francis Ford Coppola from 1963 until her death. She was best-known for her 1991 docum ...
* ''Paterson Paterson may refer to:
People
*Paterson (surname)
*Paterson (given name)
Places
Australia
*Paterson, New South Wales
* Paterson River, New South Wales
*Division of Paterson, an electoral district in New South Wales
* Paterson, Queensland, a loc ...
'' by Jim Jarmusch
James Robert Jarmusch ( ; born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter and musician.
He has been a major proponent of independent film, independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films such as ''Stranger Than Paradise'' ...
* ''Rage
Rage may refer to:
* Rage (emotion), an intense form of anger
Games
* Rage (collectible card game), a collectible card game
* Rage (trick-taking card game), a commercial variant of the card game Oh Hell
* ''Rage'' (video game), a 2011 first- ...
'' by Lee Sang-il Lee Sang-il () is a Korean name consisting of the family name Lee and the given name Sang-il. It may refer to:
* Lee Sang-il (footballer) (born 1979)
* Lee Sang-il (film director)
is a Korean-Japanese film director and screenwriter. Life ...
* '' (Re) Assignment'' by Walter Hill
Walter Hill (born January 10, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer known for his action films and revival of the Western (genre), Western genre. He has directed such films as ''The Driver'', ''The Warriors (film), The ...
* '' The Salesman'' by Asghar Farhadi
Asghar Farhadi ( ; born 7 May 1972)[Soureh Movie Database](_blank)
is an Iranian ...
* '' Salt and Fire'' by Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusu ...
* ''Sing
Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define singi ...
'' by Garth Jennings
Garth Jennings is an English director, screenwriter and actor.
Films he has directed in include ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', '' Son of Rambow'', ''Sing'', and ''Sing 2''. He co-founded the production company Hammer & Tongs.
E ...
* ''Souvenir
A souvenir ( French for 'a remembrance or memory'), memento, keepsake, or token of remembrance is an object a person acquires for the memories the owner associates with it. A souvenir can be any object that can be collected or purchased and trans ...
'' by Bavo Defurne
* ''Things to Come
''Things to Come'' is a 1936 British science fiction film produced by Alexander Korda, directed by William Cameron Menzies, and written by H. G. Wells. It is a loose adaptation of Wells' book '' The Shape of Things to Come''. The film stars Ra ...
'' by 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 ...
* ''Toni Erdmann
''Toni Erdmann'' is a 2016 comedy drama film, produced, written and directed by Maren Ade. It stars Peter Simonischek as an eccentric man who intrudes upon the life of his daughter, a career-focused business executive played by Sandra Hüller.
...
'' by Maren Ade
Maren Ade (; born 12 December 1976) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. Ade lives in Berlin, teaching screenwriting at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Together with Janine Jackowski and Jonas Dornbach, she ...
* ''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 ...
'' by Adam Smith
Adam Smith (baptised 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by some as the "father of economics"——— or ...
* ''Two Lovers and a Bear
''Two Lovers and a Bear'' is a 2016 Canadian drama film written and directed by Kim Nguyen and starring Tatiana Maslany and Dane DeHaan. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The film was release ...
'' by Kim Nguyen
Kim Nguyen (born 1974) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2012 film '' War Witch (Rebelle)'' which received numerous honours including an Academy Awards nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Early life
Bor ...
* '' Una'' by Benedict Andrews
Benedict Andrews (born 1972) 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 adaptation of '' Blackbird'' by Da ...
* ''Unless
''Unless'' is the final novel by Canadian writer Carol Shields, first published by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins in 2002. Semi-autobiographical, it was the capstone to Shields's writing career: she died shortly after its publicat ...
'' by Alan Gilsenan
Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director.
His most recent work include the award-winning cinema documentary ''The Days of Trees'', the feature film ''Unless'', based on a novel by Carol Shields and ''The Meeting,'' which h ...
* ''Voyage of Time
''Voyage of Time'' is a 2016 American experimental documentary film written and directed by Terrence Malick. The film is said to be an examination of the birth and death of the known universe. Malick had been working on the film for over forty y ...
'' by Terrence Malick
Terrence Frederick Malick (; born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood generation of filmmakers and received awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and ...
* ''Wakefield
Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 109,766 in the 2021 census, up from 99,251 in the 2011 census. The city is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolit ...
'' by Robin Swicord
Robin Stender Swicord (born October 23, 1952) is an American screenwriter, film director, and playwright, best known for literary adaptations. Her notable screenplays include ''Little Women'' (1994), '' Matilda'' (1996), ''Practical Magic'' (1998 ...
* ''Weirdos
''WeirdOs'' is the debut full-length studio album by British band O. It has received positive reviews from critics.
Reception
Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Heather Phares writing this music shows the band ...
'' by Bruce McDonald
* ''Window Horses
''Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming'' is a 2016 Canadian animated film written and directed by Ann Marie Fleming (sometimes stylized with the title in parentheses or written as ''Window Horses'' without a subtitle), and a gra ...
'' by Ann Marie Fleming
Ann Marie Fleming is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist. She was born in Okinawa, USCAR (nowadays Japan), in 1962 and is of Chinese, Ryukyuan and Australian descent. Her film '' Window Horses'' was released in 2016.
...
Midnight Madness
* ''The Autopsy of Jane Doe
''The Autopsy of Jane Doe'' is a 2016 supernatural horror film directed by André Øvredal, his first English-language film. It stars Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch as father-and-son coroners who experience supernatural phenomena while examining the ...
'' by André Øvredal
André Øvredal (; born 6 May 1973) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films '' Trollhunter'' (2010), '' The Autopsy of Jane Doe'' (2016), '' Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'' (2019) and '' The La ...
* ''The Belko Experiment
''The Belko Experiment'' is a 2016 American action horror film directed by Greg McLean and written by James Gunn, who also produced the film with Peter Safran. It stars John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley, Meloni ...
'' by Greg McLean
* ''Blair Witch
''Blair Witch'' is an American horror film, horror media franchise created by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez (director), Eduardo Sánchez, distributed by Artisan Entertainment (now Lionsgate) and produced by Haxan Films that consists of thr ...
'' by Adam Wingard
Adam Wingard ( ; born December 3, 1982) is an American filmmaker. He has served as a film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, actor, and composer on numerous American films.
Following an early career as a member of the mu ...
* '' Dog Eat Dog'' by Paul Schrader
Paul Joseph Schrader (; born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became known for writing the screenplay of Martin Scorsese's ''Taxi Driver'' (1976). He later continued his collaboration with Scor ...
* ''Free Fire Free Fire may refer to:
* ''Free Fire'' (film), a 2016 British action comedy film
* ''Free Fire'' (video game), a 2017 multiplayer online battle royale game
*''Free Fire'', a 2007 Joe Pickett novel by C. J. Box
Other uses
* Free-fire zone, a ...
'' by Ben Wheatley
Ben Wheatley (born 1972) is an English filmmaker, film editor, and animator. Beginning his career in advertising, Wheatley first gained recognition and acclaim for his commercials and short films, before transitioning into feature films and tele ...
* ''The Girl with All the Gifts
''The Girl with All the Gifts'' is a science fiction book by M. R. Carey, published in June 2014 by Orbit Books. It is based on his 2013 Edgar Award-nominated short story ''Iphigenia In Aulis'' and was written concurrently with the screenplay ...
'' by Colm McCarthy
* ''Headshot
A head shot or headshot is a photographic portrait in which the focus is on the subject's face. The term is usually applied to professional profile images on social media, images used on online dating profiles, and promotional images of actors, ...
'' by Kimo Stamboel
Kimo Stamboel (born Mochammad Maliki Stamboel on 25 June 1980) is an Indonesian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for his works on the horror genres both as himself and also as part of The Mo Brothers with friend Timo Tjahj ...
and Timo Tjahjanto
Timo Tjahjanto (; born Timothy Tjahjanto; 4 September 1980) is an Indonesian filmmaker known for his film works mostly on the horror and action genres. Tjahjanto owns the film production company Merah Production.
Apart from directing, producing, ...
* ''Rats
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents. Species of rats are found throughout the order Rodentia, but stereotypical rats are found in the genus ''Rattus''. Other rat genera include ''Neotoma'' (pack rats), '' Bandicota'' (bandicoot ...
'' by Morgan Spurlock
Morgan Valentine Spurlock (November 7, 1970 – May 23, 2024) was an American documentary filmmaker, writer, and television producer. He directed 23 films and was the producer of nearly 70 films throughout his career. Spurlock received acclaim f ...
* ''Raw
Raw is an adjective usually describing:
* Raw materials, basic materials from which products are manufactured or made
* Raw food, uncooked food
Raw or RAW may also refer to:
Computing and electronics
* .RAW, a proprietary mass spectrometry data ...
'' by Julia Ducournau
Julia Ducournau (; born 18 November 1983) is a French film director and screenwriter. She made her feature film debut in 2016 with '' Raw''. At the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, she won the Palme d'Or for her film '' Titane'', which made her the sec ...
* '' Sadako vs. Kayako'' by Kōji Shiraishi
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is primarily known for directing Japanese horror films, including ''Noroi: The Curse'' (2005), ''Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman'' (2007), ''Occult (film), Occult'', ''Teketeke ...
Masters
* '' After the Storm'' by Hirokazu Kore-eda
is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He began his career in television and has since directed more than a dozen feature films, including '' Nobody Knows'' (2004), '' Still Walking'' (2008), and '' After the Storm'' ( ...
* ''Afterimage
An afterimage, or after-image, is an image that continues to appear in the eyes after a period of exposure to the original image. An afterimage may be a normal phenomenon (physiological afterimage) or may be pathological (palinopsia). Illusory ...
'' by Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Witold Wajda (; 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "P ...
* '' Anatomy of Violence'' by Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta, (; born 15 September 1950) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996 film), ''Fire'' (1996), ''Earth (1998 film), Earth'' (1998), and ''Water (2005 film), Water'' (2 ...
* '' The Bait'' by Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Buddhadeb Dasgupta (11 February 1944 – 10 June 2021) was an Indian filmmaker and poet best known for his Bengali-language films like '' Bagh Bahadur'', '' Tahader Katha'', '' Charachar'' and ''Uttara''. Five of his films have won the Nation ...
* '' The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez'' by Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and photographer, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, Venice International Film ...
* '' Certain Women'' by Kelly Reichardt
Kelly Reichardt (; born March 3, 1964) is an American film director and screenwriter. She is known for her minimalism, minimalist films closely associated with slow cinema, many of which deal with working class, working-class characters in small ...
* '' Fire at Sea'' by Gianfranco Rosi
* ''Graduation
A graduation is the awarding of a diploma by an educational institution. It may also refer to the ceremony that is associated with it, which can also be called Commencement speech, commencement, Congregation (university), congregation, Convocat ...
'' by Cristian Mungiu
Cristian Mungiu (; born 27 April 1968) is a Romanian filmmaker. He won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for his film '' 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'', which he wrote and directed. He has also won the awards for Best Screenplay and ...
* '' Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy'' by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (; ) 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 writes and directs his films. Though he ...
* '' J: Beyond Flamenco'' by Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be among Spain's great filmmakers. He had a long and prolific career th ...
* '' Julieta'' by Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (; born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and author. His films are distinguished by Melodrama (film genre), melodrama, irreverent humour, bold colour, glossy décor, quotations from popular c ...
* '' Land of the Gods'' by Goran Paskaljević
Goran Paskaljević ( sr-cyr, Горан Паскаљевић; ; 22 April 1947 – 25 September 2020) was a Serbian and former Yugoslav film director.
Biography
Born in Belgrade, he was raised by his grandparents in Niš in southern Serbia, foll ...
* ''Ma' Rosa
''Ma' Rosa'' is a 2016 Filipino drama film directed by Brillante Mendoza and written by Troy Espiritu. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, Jaclyn Jose won the award for Best Actress. It wa ...
'' by Brillante Mendoza
Brillante Mendoza (; born July 30, 1960), also known as Dante Mendoza, is a Filipino independent filmmaker. Mendoza is known one of the key members associated with the Philippine New Wave.
Career
Mendoza was born and raised in San Fernando, ...
* '' The Net'' by Kim Ki-duk
Kim Ki-duk ( ; 20 December 196011 December 2020) was a South Korean film director and screenwriter, noted for his Idiosyncrasy, idiosyncratic Art film, art-house cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit ...
* '' Never Ever'' by Benoît Jacquot
Benoît Jacquot (; born 5 February 1947) is a French film director and screenwriter who has had a varied career in European cinema.
In July 2024, Jacquot was charged with rape, including of a minor, and was barred from directing and having cont ...
* ''Personal Shopper
A personal shopper is a person who helps others shop by giving advice and making suggestions. They are often employed by department stores and boutiques, although some are freelance or work exclusively online. Their focus is usually on clothes, a ...
'' by Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas (; born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his eclectic filmography, consisting of slow-burning Period Piece Films, period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs, an ...
* ''Pinneyum
''Pinneyum'' (English: ''Once Again'') is a 2016 Indian Malayalam-language Biographical crime drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Businessman Baby Mathew Somatheeram co-produced the film. The film portrays a lo ...
'' by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Adoor Gopalakrishnan (born 3 July 1941) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer and is regarded as one of the most notable and renowned filmmakers in India. With the release of his first feature film '' Swayamvaram'' (1972), G ...
* ''A Quiet Passion
''A Quiet Passion'' is a 2016 British biographical film written and directed by Terence Davies about the life of American poet Emily Dickinson. The film stars Cynthia Nixon as the reclusive poet. It co-stars Emma Bell as young Dickinson, Jenni ...
'' by Terence Davies
Terence Davies (10 November 1945 – 7 October 2023) was a British screenwriter, film director, and novelist. He is best known as the writer and director of autobiographical films, including '' Distant Voices, Still Lives'' (1988), '' The Long ...
* ''Safari
A safari (; originally ) is an overland journey to observe wildlife, wild animals, especially in East Africa. The so-called big five game, "Big Five" game animals of Africa – lion, African leopard, leopard, rhinoceros, African elephant, elep ...
'' by Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Maria Seidl (born 24 November 1952) is an Austrian film director, writer and producer. Among other awards, his film ''Dog Days'' won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice in 2001.
His 2012 film '' Paradise: Love'' competed for the Palme d'Or at ...
* ''Sieranevada
''Sieranevada'' is a 2016 Black film, black Comedy drama, comedy-drama film written and directed by Cristi Puiu and starring Mimi Brănescu. The plot follows a successful neurologist who attends a family meal supposed to commemorate his deceased ...
'' by Cristi Puiu
Cristi Puiu (; born 3 April 1967) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. With Anca Puiu and Alex Munteanu, in 2004 he founded a cinema production company, naming it Mandragora.
Early life, education and career
Cristian Emilian Puiu was ...
* '' Sweet Dreams'' by Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio (; born 9 November 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor.
Life and career
Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schooltea ...
* ''The Unknown Girl
''The Unknown Girl'' () is a 2016 mystery drama film directed by the Dardenne brothers, and starring Adèle Haenel, Jérémie Renier, and Louka Minnella.
''The Unknown Girl'' was selected to compete for the ''Palme d'Or'' at the 2016 Cannes ...
'' by Dardenne brothers
Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne (; born 21 April 1951) and Luc Dardenne (born 10 March 1954), collectively referred to as the Dardenne brothers, are a Belgian filmmaking duo. They write, produce, and direct their films together. Their work tend ...
* ''We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice
''We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice'' is a 2016 Canadian documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin about the First Nations in Canada, First Nations activist Cindy Blackstock and her court case against the federal government of Canada for underfunding ...
'' by Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin, (born August 31, 1932) is an Abenaki people, Abenaki American Canadian, American-Canadian filmmaker, singer, artist, and activist primarily known for her documentary films. Born in New Hampshire, United States and raised prima ...
* '' Yourself and Yours'' by Hong Sang-soo
Hong Sang-soo (Korean language, Korean: 홍상수; born 25 October 1960) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. An acclaimed and prolific filmmaker, Hong is known for his Slow cinema, slow-paced films about love affairs and everyday d ...
Next Wave
* '' Divines'' by Houda Benyamina
Houda Benyamina (born 1980) is a French director and screenwriter. She won the Cannes Film Festival Camera d'Or and César Award for Best First Feature Film for her 2016 film '' Divines''.
Career
In 2013, Benyamina directed the short film ''On th ...
* ''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 ...
'' by Kelly Fremon Craig
Kelly Fremon Craig (born May 28, 1980) is an American screenwriter, producer, and film director. She is known for writing and directing the 2016 coming-of-age dramedy ''The Edge of Seventeen'' and the 2023 adaptation of Judy Blume's classic mi ...
* '' Handsome Devil'' by John Butler John Butler may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* John "Picayune" Butler (died 1864), American banjo performer; may have been used by a number of performers
* John Butler (artist) (1890–1976), American artist
* John Butler (author) (born 1937), ...
* '' India in a Day'' by Richie Mehta
Richie Mehta is a Canadian film director and writer. His first feature film, '' Amal'', was released in 2008, and was nominated for Best Motion Picture and Best Director at the 29th Genie Awards.
In 2013, Mehta released two films he wrote ...
* '' Layla M.'' by Mijke de Jong
Mijke de Jong (born 23 September 1959) is a Dutch film director, screenwriter and producer. She is known for creating films such as ''Bluebird (2004 film), Bluebird'' (2004), ''Frailer (film), Frailer'' (2014), ''Layla M.'' (2016) and ''God Only ...
* ''Moonlight
Moonlight consists of mostly sunlight (with little earthlight) reflected from the parts of the Moon's surface where the Sun's light strikes.
History
The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras was aware that "''the sun provides the moon with its ...
'' by Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American filmmaker. After making his filmmaking debut with the short film ''My Josephine'' (2003), he directed his first feature film '' Medicine for Melancholy'' (2008) for which he received an Inde ...
* '' A Wedding'' by Stephan Streker
Stephan Streker is a Belgian film director and screenwriter.
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 ...
* '' The Wedding Ring'' by Rahmatou Keïta
Rahmatou Keïta is a Nigerien journalist, writer, and film director, whose film career began in 1990. She won the prestigious for ' (2005) and the Sojourner Truth Award for ''Al'lèèssi…'', her first feature film.
Life and career
Born in ...
* ''Window Horses
''Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming'' is a 2016 Canadian animated film written and directed by Ann Marie Fleming (sometimes stylized with the title in parentheses or written as ''Window Horses'' without a subtitle), and a gra ...
'' by Ann Marie Fleming
Ann Marie Fleming is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist. She was born in Okinawa, USCAR (nowadays Japan), in 1962 and is of Chinese, Ryukyuan and Australian descent. Her film '' Window Horses'' was released in 2016.
...
Documentaries
* '' Abacus: Small Enough to Jail'' by Steve James
* '' All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I. F. Stone'' by Fred Peabody
Fred or FRED may refer to:
People
* Fred (name), including a list of people and characters with the name
Mononym
* Fred (cartoonist) (1931–2013), pen name of Fred Othon Aristidès, French
* Fred (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2022), Frede ...
* ''Amanda Knox
Amanda Marie Knox (born July 9, 1987) is an American author, activist, and journalist. She spent almost four years incarcerated in Italy after her wrongful conviction in the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a fellow exchange student, with w ...
'' by Brian McGinn and Rod Blackhurst
* '' The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography'' by Errol Morris
Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of their subjects, and the invention of the Interrotron. In 2003, his '' The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Li ...
* '' Beauties of the Night'' by María José Cuevas
Maria may refer to:
People
* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages
Place names Extraterrestrial
*170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
*Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...
* '' Before the Flood'' by Fisher Stevens
Stephen Fisher (born November 27, 1963), known professionally as Fisher Stevens, is an American actor, director, producer and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Ben Jahveri in ''Short Circuit'' (1986) and ''Short Circu ...
* '' Bezness as Usual'' by Alex Pitstra
* '' Black Code'' by Nicholas de Pencier
Nicholas de Pencier is a Canadian cinematographer and filmmaker. The spouse and professional partner of filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal in Mercury Films, he is the cinematographer and producer on most of her films as well as codirector of the films '' ...
* '' Breaking Occupation'' by Brett Smith
Brett Smith (born June 8, 1992) is an American former professional football quarterback. He played college football at Wyoming. He attended Leslie Middle School in Salem, Oregon from 2004 to 07 and later graduated from West Salem High School in ...
* '' Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary'' by John Scheinfeld
* '' The Cinema Travellers'' by Shirley Abraham
''The Cinema Travellers'' is a 2016 documentary film about the travelling cinemas of India, directed by Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya. The film is produced by Cave Pictures, India, a company co-founded by Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya ...
and Amit Madheshiya
* '' Citizen Jane: Battle for the City'' by Matt Tyrnauer
Matt Tyrnauer is an American film director. He directed the documentary feature ''Valentino: The Last Emperor'' (2009), which was short listed for an Oscar (award), Oscar nomination in 2010, ''Citizen Jane: Battle for the City'' (2016), the Emm ...
* ''Forever Pure
''Forever Pure'' () is a 2016 UK-Israel documentary film, by Maya Zinshtein. The film is directed by Maya Zinshtein, and produced by Geoff Arbourne and Maya Zinshtein, co-produced by Torstein Grude and Alan Maher, and executive produced by Joh ...
'' by Maya Zinshtein
Maya may refer to:
Ethnic groups
* Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America
** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples
** Mayan languages, the languages of the Maya peoples
* Maya (East Africa), a po ...
* '' Gaza Surf Club'' by Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine
* ''Giants of Africa
''Giants of Africa'' is a 2016 Canadian documentary film, directed by Hubert Davis. '' by Hubert Davis
Hubert Ira Davis Jr. (born May 17, 1970) is an American college basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball, North Carolina Tar Heels men's team. Before his coaching care ...
* '' Gimme Danger'' by Jim Jarmusch
James Robert Jarmusch ( ; born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter and musician.
He has been a major proponent of independent film, independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films such as ''Stranger Than Paradise'' ...
* '' Girl Unbound'' by Erin Heidenreich
* '' Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee'' by Nanette Burstein
Nanette Burstein (born May 23, 1970) is an American film and television director. Burstein has produced, directed, and co-directed several documentaries including the Academy Award nominated and Sundance Special Jury Prize winning film '' On the ...
* ''I Am Not Your Negro
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'' by Raoul Peck
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* ''I Called Him Morgan
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'' by Kasper Collin
* ''In Exile In Exile may refer to:
Film and television
* ''In Exile'' (film) or ''Time Runner'', a 1993 science fiction film
* ''In Exile'' (TV series), a 1998 UK sitcom
Literature
* "In Exile" (short story), an 1892 short story by Anton Chekhov
*''In Exile'' ...
'' by Tin Win Naing
* '' India in a Day'' by Richie Mehta
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In 2013, Mehta released two films he wrote ...
* ''An Insignificant Man
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'' by Khushboo Ranka
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Film and television
* ''Khushboo'' (1954 film), a 1954 Bollywood film
* ''Khushboo'' (1975 film), a Hindi drama film by Gulzar
* Khushboo (1979 film), ...
and Vinay Shukla
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Profile
Vinay Shukla has been an active scriptwriter and director of Hindi films over the last three decades. His most well-known film, Godmother, ...
* '' Into the Inferno'' by Werner Herzog
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and Clive Oppenheimer
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Education
Oppenheimer studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge where ...
* ''The Ivory Game
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'' by Kief Davidson
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Biography
Davidson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short at the 2013 Academy Awards for his work on '' Open Heart'' with Cori Shepherd Stern.
Born and raise ...
and Richard Ladkani
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* '' Karl Marx City'' by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker
* '' Mali Blues'' by Lutz Gregor
* '' Mostly Sunny'' by Dilip Mehta
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* '' Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory'' by Mohanad Yaqubi
* ''Politics, Instructions Manual
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'' by Fernando León de Aranoa
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León de Aranoa entered the film industry as a screenwriter. He made his feature film directorial debut with '' Familia'', which won him the Goya Award fo ...
* '' The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent'' by Brigitte Berman
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Early life and work
Originally from West Germany, she moved to Canada with her family in childhood and studied ...
* '' Rodnye'' by Vitaly Mansky
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* ''The Sixth Beatle
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'' by Tony Guma and John Rose
* ''The Skyjacker's Tale
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'' by Jamie Kastner
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* ''The Stairs
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The band released one album and a handful of singles, prior to Lynn's departure ...
'' by Hugh Gibson
* '' The Terry Kath Experience'' by Michelle Sinclair
* ''The War Show
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The film recounts the Arab Spr ...
'' by Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon
* '' Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life'' by Fariborz Kamkari
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* ''A Decent Woman
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'' by Lukas Valenta Rinner
* '' After Love'' by Joachim Lafosse
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Career
Lafosse studied at the IAD (Institut des arts de diffusion) at Louvain-la-Neuve between 1997 and 2001. His graduation film ''Tribu'', a 24-minute short ...
* '' The Animal's Wife'' by Víctor Gaviria
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* ''Apprentice
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'' by Boo Junfeng
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* '' Aquarius'' by Kleber Mendonça Filho
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Early life
With a degree in journalism from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Kleber Mendonça Filho began his career as a fil ...
* '' Ayiti Mon Amour'' by Guetty Felin
* ''Blindness
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'' by Ryszard Bugajski
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* '' Boundaries'' by Chloé Robichaud
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Early life and education
Robichaud was ...
* ''Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces
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'' by Yousry Nasrallah
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Biography
Nasrallah was born to a Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Coptic Christian family in Cairo. He grew up in Zamalek, in central Cairo. He graduated in econo ...
* ''Death in Sarajevo
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'' by Danis Tanović
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Ta ...
* ''Ember
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'' by Zeki Demirkubuz
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Biography
Demirkubuz dropped out of high school and started working in a textile workshop. He ...
* '' The Fixer'' by Adrian Sitaru Adrian Sitaru () is a Romanian director, producer and actor, born in 1971. He is the author of several short films, of which ''Valuri'' ("Waves", 2007), the most well-known, has received numerous prizes.
Sitaru also worked with Costa Gavras in the ...
* '' Handsome Devil'' by John Butler John Butler may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* John "Picayune" Butler (died 1864), American banjo performer; may have been used by a number of performers
* John Butler (artist) (1890–1976), American artist
* John Butler (author) (born 1937), ...
* '' Heaven Will Wait'' by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
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* '' In Between'' by Maysaloun Hamoud
* '' Indivisible'' by Edoardo De Angelis
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Biography
In 2006 he graduated in directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 2011, he made his debut feature film '' Mozzarella Stories''. Se ...
* '' Mahana'' by Lee Tamahori
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* '' Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge'' by Marie Noëlle
* ''Mister Universo
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'' by Tizza Covi
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Since 1996 she works tog ...
and Rainer Frimmel
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Si ...
* '' Past Life'' by Avi Nesher
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Biography
Avi Nesher was born and raised in Ramat Gan, Israel. The child of a Romanian-born diplomat ...
* ''Pyromaniac
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'' by Erik Skjoldbjærg
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* '' The Rehearsal'' by Alison Maclean
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* '' The Road to Mandalay'' by Midi Z
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On November 7, 2016, his work '' The ...
* '' Santa & Andres'' by Carlos Lechuga
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Places
;Canada
* Carlos, Alberta, a locality
;United States
* Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community
* Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County
* Carlos, Minnesota, a small city
* Carlos, West Virginia
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* ''Soul on a String
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'' by Zhang Yang
* '' Tamara and the Ladybug'' by Lucía Carreras
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* '' Clair Obscur'' by Yeşim Ustaoğlu
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Life and career
Ustaoğlu was born in Kars, Sarıkamış and grew up in Trabzon on the Black Sea. After studying architecture at Karadeniz Technical University sh ...
* '' Tramps'' by Adam Leon
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The Cannes Film ...
* '' Vaya'' by Akin Omotoso
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Early life and education
Omotoso ...
* ''We Are Never Alone
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Cast
* Klaudia Dudová
* Zdeněk Godla
* Mi ...
'' by Petr Vaclav
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* Petr Aven (born 1955), Russian billionaire banker, economist and politician
* Petr Čech (born 1982 ...
* '' The Wedding Ring'' by Rahmatou Keïta
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Life and career
Born in ...
* ''White Sun
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'' by Deepak Rauniyar
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* ''The Women's Balcony
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'' by Emil Ben Shimon
* '' X500'' by Juan Andrés Arango
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'' by Ivan I. Tverdovsky
Contemporary World Speakers
* '' The Animal's Wife'' by Víctor Gaviria
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* ''Blindness
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'' by Ryszard Bugajski
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* '' In Between'' by Maysaloun Hamoud
* '' Mahana'' by Lee Tamahori
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* '' Past Life'' by Avi Nesher
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Biography
Avi Nesher was born and raised in Ramat Gan, Israel. The child of a Romanian-born diplomat ...
Vanguard
* '' The Bad Batch'' by Ana Lily Amirpour
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* '' Blind Sun'' by Joyce A. Nashawati
* '' Buster's Mal Heart'' by Sarah Adina Smith
* '' Colossal'' by Nacho Vigalondo
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Career
Vigalondo's first film was the 2003 Spanish-language short film '' 7:35 in the Morning'', about a suicide bomber who terrorizes a cafe, which was only eight m ...
* ''Godspeed
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Godspeed may also refer to:
Literature
* ''Godspeed'' (Sheffield novel), a 1993 science fiction novel by Charles Sheffield
* ''Godspeed'', an unpublished novel ...
'' by Chung Mong-hong
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Career
Chung received Golden Horse Award for Best Director for ...
* ''I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
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'' by Oz Perkins
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* ''Interchange
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* Interchange (freight rail), the transfer of freight cars between railroad companies
* Interchange station, a rai ...
'' by Dain Iskandar Said
* '' Message from the King'' by Fabrice Du Welz
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Career
Fabrice du Welz, ...
* '' My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea'' by Dash Shaw
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* ''Nelly
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'' by Anne Émond
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Early life and education
Born in 1982, Anne Émond has lived and worked in Montreal since 2001. In 2005, she completed her undergraduate p ...
* '' Prevenge'' by Alice Lowe
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* '' The Untamed'' by Amat Escalante
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* '' Without Name'' by Lorcan Finnegan
Discovery
* '' ARQ'' by Tony Elliott
* '' Blessed Benefit'' by Mahmoud al Massad
* ''Boys in the Trees
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The lead single, " You Belong to Me", reached No. 6 on the ''Billboard'' Pop Singles chart, becoming Simon' ...
'' by Nicholas Verso
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He is best known for his TV directi ...
* '' Divines'' by Houda Benyamina
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Career
In 2013, Benyamina directed the short film ''On th ...
* '' The Empty Box'' by Claudia Sainte-Luce
* ''Flemish Heaven
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Plot
Monique runs a brothel together with her daughter Sylvie and some oth ...
'' by Peter Monsaert
* ''The Fury of a Patient Man
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The film won four Goya Awards, namely Best Film, Best New Director, Best Supporting A ...
'' by Raúl Arévalo
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* '' Godless'' by Ralitza Petrova
* '' The Giant'' by Johannes Nyholm
* ''Guilty Men
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'' by Iván D. Gaona
* ''The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
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'' by Juho Kuosmanen
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* '' Heartstone'' by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
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* '' Hello Destroyer'' by Kevan Funk
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* '' Hunting Flies'' by Izer Aliu
* '' In the Blood'' by Rasmus Heisterberg
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Heisterberg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and attended the National Film School of Denmark. He was a writer on ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' (2009) and ''A Royal Affair' ...
* '' In the Radiant City'' by Rachel Lambert
* '' Jean of the Joneses'' by Stella Meghie
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* ''Jeffrey
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* Jeffrey (name), including a list of people with the name
*Jeffrey's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
*Jeffrey City, Wyoming, United States
*Jeffrey Street, Sydney, Australia
* Jeffreys Bay, Western Cape, South Africa
Art ...
'' by Yanillys Perez
* ''Jesús
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'' by Fernando Guzzoni
* ''Joe Cinque's Consolation
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It is an account of Garner's presence at the separate trials of Anu Singh and her fr ...
'' by Sotiris Dounoukos Sotirios () or Sotiris () is a male given name of Greek origin, meaning "salvation" (, ). Sotiria () is the female version of the name. It's equivalent of "Salvatore" in Italian and "Salvador" in Spanish. It may refer to:
People Politicians and s ...
* ''Kati Kati
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'' by Mbithi Masya
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He is part of the experimental collective Just a Band (2008–2016, 2022-present) that became one of Kenya's most famous bands in the 2010s. He is cr ...
* ''Katie Says Goodbye
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The film h ...
'' by Wayne Roberts
* ''The Levelling
''The Levelling'' is a 2016 British drama film written and directed by Hope Dickson Leach.
It was screened in the Discovery section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
Plot
Clover, now nearly finished her veterinary training, arriv ...
'' by Hope Dickson Leach
* ''Little Wing
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'' by Selma Vilhunen
* ''Mad World
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'' by Wong Chun
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* ''Marija
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'' by Michael Koch
* '' A Wedding'' by Stephan Streker
Stephan Streker is a Belgian film director and screenwriter.
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 ...
* ''Old Stone
''Old Stone'' () is a 2016 Chinese-Canadian drama film directed by Johnny Ma. It was selected to be screened in the Discovery section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film tells the story of Lao Shi ( Chen Gang), a cab dri ...
'' by Johnny Ma
* ''Park
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'' by Sofia Exarchou
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* ''Prank
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'' by Vincent Biron
* ''The Red Turtle
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'' by Michaël Dudok de Wit
Michaël Dudok de Wit (; born 15 July 1953) is a Dutch animator, director and illustrator based in London. He won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for '' Father and Daughter'' (2000) and was nominated in the same category for '' Th ...
* ''Sami Blood
''Sami Blood'' () is a 2016 Swedish coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Amanda Kernell, as her feature film debut. The first 10 minutes of the film (and part of the end) comes directly from the short film ' (2015, dir. Amanda Kernell ...
'' by Amanda Kernell
Amanda Kernell (; born 9 September 1986) is a Swedish, Southern Sami director and screenwriter. She is best known for the movie '' Sami Blood'', which won several awards.
Early life and education
Amanda Kernell was born on 9 September 1986 in U ...
* ''Sand Storm
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'' by Elite Zexer
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Life and career
Elite gre ...
* ''Werewolf
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'' by Ashley McKenzie
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* '' Wùlu'' by Daouda Coulibaly
Platform
* ''Daguerrotype
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Invented by Louis Daguerre and introduced worldwide in 1839, t ...
'' by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic, author, actor, and a former professor at Tokyo University of the Arts (2005-2023).
Noted for his psychological films that often focus on ambiguous narratives and on their characters' i ...
* '' Goldstone'' by Ivan Sen
Ivan Sen (born 1972) is an Indigenous Australian filmmaker. He is a director, screenwriter and cinematographer, as well as an editor, composer, and sound designer. He is co-founder and director of Bunya Productions, and known for the 2013 film ...
* ''Heal the Living
''Heal the Living'' () is a 2016 drama film directed by Katell Quillévéré from a screenplay she co-wrote with Gilles Taurand, based on the 2013 novel ''Réparer les vivants'' (''Mend the Living'') by Maylis de Kerangal. It stars Tahar Rahim, Em ...
'' by Katell Quillévéré
Katell Quillévéré (; born 30 January 1980) is a French filmmaker.
Early life
Quillévéré is the daughter of an IT worker and science teacher. She was born and brought up in the Ivory Coast until the age of five. She comes from a Breton fa ...
* '' Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait'' by Khyentse Norbu
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* ''Home
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'' by Fien Troch
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Career
After graduating from the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel, Sint-Lukas art academy in Brussels in 2000, she achieved several nominations an ...
* '' Jackie'' by Pablo Larraín
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* ''Lady Macbeth
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'' by William Oldroyd
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Originally from Guildford, Surrey, he worked in theatre and directed short films before ...
* '' Layla M.'' by Mijke de Jong
Mijke de Jong (born 23 September 1959) is a Dutch film director, screenwriter and producer. She is known for creating films such as ''Bluebird (2004 film), Bluebird'' (2004), ''Frailer (film), Frailer'' (2014), ''Layla M.'' (2016) and ''God Only ...
* '' Searchers'' by Zacharias Kunuk
Zacharias Kunuk (, born November 27, 1957) is a Canadian Inuk producer and director, most notable for his film '' Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.'' It is the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced entirely in Inuktitut with an all Indige ...
and Natar Ungalaaq
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* ''Moonlight
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History
The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras was aware that "''the sun provides the moon with its ...
'' by Barry Jenkins
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* '' Nocturama'' by Bertrand Bonello
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* '' Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves'' by Mathieu Denis
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and Simon Lavoie
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'', by Nicole van Kilsdonk
Nicole may refer to:
People
* Nicole (name)
* Nicole (American singer) (born 1958), a contestant in season 3 of the American ''The X Factor''
* Nicole (Chilean singer) (born 1977)
* Nicole (German singer) (born 1964), winner of the 1982 Euro ...
*''The Eagle Huntress
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'' by Otto Bell
*''My Life as a Zucchini
My or MY may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* My (radio station), a Malaysian radio station
* Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe
* ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak
* ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon
Business
* Marke ...
'' by Claude Barras
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Barras was born in Sierre, Switzerland. He studied illustration and computer graphics at Emile Cohl School in Lyon and 3D infographics at ECAL. He then received a degree in an ...
*''Miss Impossible
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'' by Emilie Deleuze
Short Cuts
* ''3-Way (Not Calling)'' by Molly McGlynn
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Axel Teodor Danielson (23March 1867 – 21June 1949), was a Swedish editor-in-chief.
Career
Danielson was born in Älghult, Kronoberg County to parents Adolf Danielson and Emelie (née Löfgren). He was a typesetter apprentice in Visby ...
and Maximilien Van AertryckBlind Vaysha
''Blind Vaysha'' (French: ''Vaysha l'aveugle'') is a 2016 animated short by Theodore Ushev, produced by Marc Bertrand for the National Film Board of Canada, with the participation of ARTE France. Based on a story by Georgi Gospodinov, the film ...
'' by Theodore Ushev
Theodore Asenov Ushev (; born 4 February 1968) is a Bulgarian animator, film director and screenwriter based in Montreal. He is best known for his work at the National Film Board of Canada, including the 2016 animated short '' Blind Vaysha'', w ...
Sanja Živković Sanja Živković is a Serbian-Canadian film director, whose debut feature film '' Easy Land'' was released in 2019.
Born in Serbia, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, with her family during the Yugoslav Wars.Baisakhi Roy, Lisa Evans and Vivi ...
* ''Cul-de-Sac'' by Damon Russell
Damon Russell is a producer and director of television series and films. On June 29, 2016, Russell was inducted as a new member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Filmography
* In 2005 Russell produced two episodes of ''Made'', a ...
* ''CYCLES'' by Joe Cobden
Joe Cobden (born October 7, 1978 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He started performing at age 10 as a street vaudevillian, touring festivals worldwide. In 1996, at age 17, Cobden enrolled at Concordia University's Theat ...
* ''DataMine'' by Timothy Barron Tracey
* '' Emma'' by Martin Edralin
* ''Four Faces of the Moon'' by Amanda Strong
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* '' A Funeral for Lightning'' by Emily Kai Bock
* ''Gods Acre'' by Kelton Stepanowich
* ''Half a Man'' by Kristina KumricPatrice Laliberté
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Mariner
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'' by Thyrone Tommy
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Mutants
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'' by Alexandre DostieOh What a Wonderful Feeling
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He is a two-time winner of the award for Best Live Action Short Film at the Prix Jutra/Iris, winning at the 17th Jutra Awards in 2015 for ' ...]
Raphaël Ouellet
Raphael was an Italian Renaissance painter.
Raphael or Raphaël may also refer to:
Music
* Raphael (band), a Japanese rock band active 1997–2001
* ''Raphael'' (opera), an 1894 opera by Anton Arensky
*Raphael (musician), American musician and c ...
Marie-Hélène Turcotte
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In 2010, Turcotte directed a short film ''The Formation of Clouds''. It was ...
The Road to Webequie
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'' by Ryan Noth and Tess GirardRebecca Addelman
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Background an ...
Terril Calder
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Life and education
Calder was born in ...
Pier-Luc Latulippe Pier-Luc Latulippe is a Canadian film director from Quebec, most noted as codirector with Martin Fournier of the documentary films '' Manor (Manoir)''Odile Tremblay"Le «Manoir» des laissés-pour-compte" ''Le Devoir'', October 22, 2016. and '' Deh ...
* ''TMG_103 (rough cut)'' by Walter Woodman
* ''Transition'' by Milica TomovicCaroline Monnet
Caroline Monnet is an Anishinaabe French and Canadian contemporary artist and filmmaker known for her work in sculpture, installation, and film.
Early life and education
Monnet is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist and filmmaker based in ...
Ariane Louis-Seize
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Career
Short films
She received critical acclaim in 2016 for her first short film, '' Wild Skin (La Peau sauvage)'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for B ...
Festival Street
* ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off
''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' is a 1986 American Teen film, teen comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by John Hughes (filmmaker), John Hughes. The film stars Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, and Alan Ruck, with supporting roles from Jenn ...
'' by John Hughes John Hughes may refer to:
Arts and Entertainment Literature
*John Hughes (poet) (1677–1720), English poet
*John Hughes (1790–1857), English author
*John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–1887), Welsh poet
*John Hughes (writer) (born 1961), Australian au ...
* ''Labyrinth
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'' by Jim Henson
James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, animator, actor, and filmmaker who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets. Henson was also well known for creating ''Fraggle Rock'' ( ...
* ''The Man Trap
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'' by Marc Daniels
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Primetime
* ''Black Mirror
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'' by Charlie Brooker
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* ''Nirvanna the Band the Show
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The show was adap ...
'' by Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol
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* '' Transparent'' by Jill Soloway
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* '' Tuko Macho'' by The Nest Collective
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* '' Wasteland'' by Štěpán Hulík Štěpán () is both a masculine Czech given name, equivalent of the English Stephen, and a Czech surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given names
* Štěpán Hřebejk (b. 1982), Czech ice hockey player
* Štěpán Janáček (b. 1977), Cz ...
Public Programme
* ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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'' by John Hughes John Hughes may refer to:
Arts and Entertainment Literature
*John Hughes (poet) (1677–1720), English poet
*John Hughes (1790–1857), English author
*John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–1887), Welsh poet
*John Hughes (writer) (born 1961), Australian au ...
Cinematheque
* ''The Battle of Algiers
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'' by Gillo Pontecorvo
Gilberto Pontecorvo (; 19 November 1919 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for directing the landmark war docudrama '' The Battle of Algiers'' (19 ...
* ''A Cool Sound from Hell
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Plot summary
A young man (Anthony Ray) becomes disillusioned with the beat crowd he hangs with when they become involved with drugs.
Production
Furie's second film. ...
'' by Sidney J. Furie
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* ''Daughters of the Dust
''Daughters of the Dust'' is a 1991 independent drama film written, directed, and produced by Julie Dash. It is the first feature film directed by an African-American woman to receive a theatrical release in the United States.Michel, Martin (No ...
'' by Julie Dash
Julie Ethel Dash (born October 22, 1952) is an American filmmaker, music video and commercial director, author, and website producer. Dash received her Master of Fine Arts, MFA in 1985 at the UCLA Film School and is one of the graduates and filmm ...
* '' General Report on Certain Matters of Interest For a Public Screening'' by Pere Portabella
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* ''The Horse Thief
''The Horse Thief'' is a 1986 Chinese film by director Tian Zhuangzhuang. It follows one of Tian's favorite topics, Chinese minorities, a topic he touched upon in 1984's '' On the Hunting Ground'' and would return to in 2004's documentary, '' Delam ...
'' by Tian Zhuangzhuang
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Tian was born to an influential actor and actress in China. Following a short stint in the military, Tian began his artistic career first as an am ...
* '' Lumière!'' by Auguste and Louis Lumière
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and Thierry Frémaux
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Education and career
Frémaux has a '' diplôme d'études approfondies'' (equivalent to a ...
* '' One Sings, the Other Doesn't'' by Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter and photographer.
Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it easier ...
* ''One-Eyed Jacks
''One-Eyed Jacks'' is a 1961 American Western film directed by and starring Marlon Brando, his only directorial credit. Brando portrays the lead character Rio, and Karl Malden plays his partner, "Dad" Longworth. The supporting cast features Pin ...
'' by Marlon Brando
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* ''Pan's Labyrinth
''Pan's Labyrinth'' () is a 2006 dark fantasy film written, directed and co-produced by Guillermo del Toro. The film stars Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, and Ariadna Gil.
The story takes place in Spain in the summe ...
'' by Guillermo del Toro
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* ''Something Wild Something Wild may refer to:
Film and TV
* ''Something Wild'' (1961 film), a drama starring Carroll Baker and Ralph Meeker
* ''Something Wild'' (1986 film), a comedy-thriller starring Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, and Ray Liotta
* "Something ...
'' by Jonathan Demme
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City to City: Lagos
* '' '76'' by Izu Ojukwu
Izu Ojukwu is a Nigerian film director. In 2007, he won ''Best Director'' for '' Sitanda'' at the 3rd Africa Movie Academy Awards, which received nine nominations and won five awards at the event, including ''Best Picture'' and ''Best Nigerian F ...
* ''93 Days
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'' by Steve Gukas
Steve Gukas is a Nollywood filmmaker, film director, director and film producer, producer who believes that films should be used to address the ills of the society.
Education
Gukas studied Television Production at NTA TV College in Jos, Theatre ...
* ''The Arbitration
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'' by Niyi Akinmolayan
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* '' Green White Green'' by Abba Makama
* '' Just Not Married'' by Uduak-Obong Patrick
* ''Okafor's Law
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'' by Omoni Oboli
Omoni Oboli (born 22 April 1978) is a Nigerian actress, scriptwriter, film director, producer and digital filmmaker. She studied at the New York Film Academy and has written several screenplays, including The Figurine (2009), ''Anchor Baby (fil ...
* ''Taxi Driver
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'' by Daniel Emeke Oriahi
* '' The Wedding Party'' by Kemi Adetiba
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Early life
Kemi Adetiba was born in Lagos, Nigeria ...
Wavelengths
* ''025 Sunset Red
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Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs.
Mathematics
5 is a Fermat pri ...
'' by Laida Lertxundi
Laida Lertxundi is a Spanish artist, filmmaker and professor of fine arts based in the United States and the Basque Country.
Biography
Born in 1981 in Bilbao, Spain. She moved to study in the United States. Lertxundi received an MFA from the ...
* '' 350 MYA'' by Terra Long
* '' As Without So Within'' by Manuela de Laborde
* '' Austerlitz'' by Sergei Loznitsa
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Biography
Loznitsa was born on 5 September 1964 in the ...
* '' An Aviation Field'' by Joana Pimenta
* '' Ayhan and Me'' by Belit Sag
* '' Burning Mountains that Spew Flame'' by Helena Girón
Helena may refer to:
People
*Helena (given name), a given name (including a list of people and characters with the name)
*Katri Helena (born 1945), Finnish singer
*Saint Helena (disambiguation), this includes places
Places
Greece
* Helena ( ...
and Samuel M. Delgado
* ''By the Time It Gets Dark
By or BY may refer to:
Places
* By, Doubs, France, a commune
* By, Norway, a village
Codes
* Belarus ISO country code
** .by, country-code top-level domain for Belarus
* Burundi
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'' by Anocha Suwichakornpong
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* ''Children of Lir
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'' by Katherin McInnis
* ''Cilaos
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'' by Camilo Restrepo
* ''Dark Adaptation
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Human vision is unable to distinguish colors in conditions of very low luminance because the hue-sensitive photoreceptor cells on the retina are ...
'' by Chris Gehman
* '' The Death of Louis XIV'' by Albert Serra
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* '' The Dreamed Ones'' by Ruth Beckermann
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Early life and e ...
* '' The Dreamed Path'' by Angela Schanelec
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Her film ''Places in Cities'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. In 2019, Schanelec won th ...
* '' Ears, Nose and Throat'' by Kevin Jerome Everson
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* '' Flowers of the Sky'' by Janie Geiser
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* ''Foyer
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'' by Ismaïl Bahri
* '' General Report II: The New Abduction of Europe'' by Pere Portabella
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* '' Hermia & Helena'' by Matías Piñeiro Matías is the Spanish version of Matthias. In Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish) and in Portuguese it is unaccented as Matias.
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
*Matías Alemanno, Argentine rugby pla ...
* ''The Human Surge
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debut feature film, after having made a number of short features. ''The Human Surge'' is divided in ...
'' by Eduardo Williams
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* '' Há Terra!'' by Ana Vaz
* '' I Had to Nowhere to Go'' by Douglas Gordon
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Work
Much of Gordon's ...
* '' I'll Remember You As You Were, Not As What You'll Become'' by Sky Hopinka
* '' Incantati'' by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
Jean-Marie is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Jean-Marie Carroll (born 1956), English musician and composer
* Jean-Marie Abgrall (born 1950), French psychiatrist, criminologist, specialist in forensic medic ...
* ''Indefinite Pitch
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or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies. ...
'' by James N. Kienitz Wilkins
* '' Kékszakállú'' by Gastón Solnicki
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* '' Luna e Santur'' by Joshua Gen Solondz
* '' Mimosas'' by Oliver Laxe
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* ''Nightlife
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'' by Cyprien Gaillard Cyprien may refer to:
* , a 2009 film with Catherine Deneuve
* , a masculine given name
* Tropical Storm Cyprien, a short-lived tropical cyclone
People
* Glynn Cyprien, American basketball coach
* Jean-Pierre Cyprien, former French footballer ...
* '' The Ornithologist'' by João Pedro Rodrigues
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Career
Having studied at the School of Theatre and Cinema of Portugal, Rodrigues started his career as an assistant di ...
* '' Rudzienko'' by Sharon Lockhart
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* '' Singularity'' by Albert Serra
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* '' Strange Vision of Seeing Things'' by Ryan Ferko
* '' Ta'ang'' by Wang Bing
* '' Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon'' by Tomonari Nishikawa
* ''Untitled
Untitled may refer to:
Artworks
The following artworks are sorted by the name of their artist.
B
* ''Untitled (Pope)'', a panel painting by Francis Bacon
* ''Untitled (2004)'', by Banksy
* ''Untitled'' (1982 Basquiat devil painting), by Ameri ...
'' by Björn Kämmerer
* '' Untitled, 1925'' by Madi Piller
* '' Venus Delta'' by Antoinette Zwirchmayr
* '' The Watershow Extravaganza'' by Sophie Michael
* ''What's New
What's New may refer to:
Music
* What's New?, a song composed by Bob Haggart in 1939
* ''What's New?'' (album), by Sonny Rollins, 1962
* ''What's New'' (Bill Evans album), 1969
* ''What's New'' (Linda Ronstadt album), 1983
* '' What's New!!!'', ...
'' by Nina Könnemann
* ''The Woman Who Left
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'' by Lav Diaz
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Canada's Top Ten
In December, TIFF programmers released their annual Canada's Top Ten
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list of the films selected as the ten best Canadian films of 2016.["TIFF announces lineup for Canada's Top 10 Film Festival"]
CBC News
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, 7 December 2016. The selected films received a follow-up screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
TIFF Lightbox is a cultural centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the first five floors of the Lightbox and Festival Tower on the northwest corner of King Street and John Street.
TIFF Lightbox features five cinemas, two restaurants, ma ...
as a "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in January 2017, as well as in selected other cities including Vancouver
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, Calgary
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, Edmonton
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, Regina, Saskatoon
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, Winnipeg
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, Ottawa
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, Montreal
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and Halifax.[
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Features
Short films
References
External links
Official site
2016 Toronto International Film Festival
at IMDb
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2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
2016 film festivals
2016 in Toronto
2016 in Canadian cinema
2016 festivals in North America
September 2016 in Canada