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Watching Mountains, which just made its international debut as part of the Toronto Film Festival’s Centerpiece program, I could not help but think of two other landmark films it seems to recall in its own way. One was 2019’s The Last Black Man In San Francisc…

AGGRO DR1FT Section: Midnight Madness Director: Harmony Korine Screenwriter: Harmony Korine Logline: In a surreal, dystopian Miami, the world's greatest assassin is pursued by a demonic crime lord. U.S. Sales Agent: CAA Panelists: Harmony Korine (director) First Screening…

When I was in college cinema courses I made a Super 8 film called Movie Girl. It was a Hollywood-set love letter to movies centered on a Musso & Frank waitress who put herself dreamily into the plots of classic films. It won an award there but was the…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Tarsem Singh thought of his own sainted mother as he tried to understand why a Canadian woman of Indian heritage would plot to have her daughter abducted then murdered.  It was to be a significant moment as Singh prepared to shoot Dear Jassi, his first feature shot in India, the…

THE BEAST Director: Bertrand Bonello Screenwriter: Bertrand Bonello, Guillaume Bréaud, Benjamin Charbit Logline: In 2044, A.I. has taken over the world, and a woman named Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) is undergoing a treatment that will "purify" her by depriving her of strong emotions. In doing…

THE ZONE OF INTEREST Section: Special Presentations Director: Jonathan Glazer Writer: Jonathan Glazer Logline: Loosely based on the 2014 novel by the late Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest tells the story of concentration camp commandant Rudolph Höss (Christian Friedel), his wife…

SHOSHANA Section: Special Presentations Director: Michael Winterbottom Writers: Michael Winterbottom, Laurence Coriat, Paul Viragh Logline: Inspired by real events, Shoshana is a political thriller set in 1930s Tel Aviv, a brand new European-Jewish city being built on the shores of the…

THE DEAD DON’T HURT Section: Special Presentations Director: Viggo Mortensen Screenwriter: Viggo Mortensen Logline: In the 1860s, a French-Canadian flower seller (Vicky Krieps), and a Danish carpenter (Mortensen) meet in San Francisco. Fiercely independent, she refuses his offer of…

There’s a misconception that the British are a stoic people who just might get quite cross in the event of a zombie apocalypse. But the truth is rather different, as was shown in 2005, when six people were hospitalized and a man stabbed when an Ikea store in North London put 500 leather sofas on sale for…

BYE BYE TIBERIAS Director: Lina SoualemLogline: Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass (Succession) returns home with her daughter, filmmaker Lina Soualem, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of…

SEVEN VEILS Director: Atom EgoyanScreenwriter: Atom EgoyanLogline: Atom Egoyan and his Chloe star Amanda Seyfried reunite for this knotty psychodrama about a young theatre director forced to re-examine her own trauma while working on a remount of Salome. Panelist: Atom Egoyan (director/ writer…

CORRECTION: Andy Samberg was incorrectly listed as being one of the recent signatures on the open letter to TIFF against RBC. UPDATE, EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Oscar winner and environmental crusader Leonardo DiCaprio has added his name to the open letter to TIFF calling for the film…