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• The Boy and the Heron

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  This Japanese animated fantasy semiautobiographical film comes from acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki. In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Belfast

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  It was 1969, and in his mixed, working-class Ireland neighbourhood, young Buddy at least knew no shortage of indulgent infection from his mom and grandparents. However, the rising of the Troubles looked to splinter life in his community--and push…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parasite

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  Premiering at TIFF in 2019, Parasite went on to become the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Directed by South Korean director Bong Joon Ho, greed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Fiction

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  Winning TIFF's People's Choice Award in 2023 and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, American Fiction follows frustrated novelist Monk, who is fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Roma

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  Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron recreates the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the Indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monsoon Wedding

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  Second-runner up for TIFF's People's Choice Award in 2001, a stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India, in this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Call Me by Your Name

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  In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape in this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jojo Rabbit

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  Released in 2019 and directed by Australian Taika Waititi, this comedy-drama was adapted from the book Caging Skies and won TIFF's People's Choice Award in 2019. This World War II satire follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose worldview is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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  Winning TIFF's People's Choice Award in 2000, this critically acclaimed martial arts classic by Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee, sees a young Chinese warrior steal a sword from a famed swordsman and then escape into a world of romantic adventure with a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jallikattu

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  Beast, man and nature collide when a buffalo breaks free and causes a frenzy of ecstatic violence in this Indian Malayalam-language independent action thriller film directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery that premiered at TIFF in 2019.

• Life Is Beautiful

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  Winner of TIFF's People's Choice Award in 1998 and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Italian director Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful follows an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son as they become victims of the Holocaust, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Whale Rider

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  A story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize, by New Zealand director Niki Caro, and winner of TIFF's People's Choice Award in 2002.

• Micmacs

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  Second Runner up for the People's Choice Award in 2008, Micmacs is a French comedy film about a man and his friends who come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.

• Antonia's Line

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  Winner of TIFF's People's Choice Award in 1996 and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this Dutch film follows Antonia as she returns to her small hometown farm in the aftermath of WWII. Antonia and her free-spirited artist daughter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Made in Bangladesh

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  Premiering in 2019 at TIFF, this Bangladeshi drama film directed by Rubaiyat Hossain follows Shimu who fled her village as a child when her stepmother threatened to marry her off to a middle-aged man. Now 23 and living in the capital, she works…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Portrait of a lady on fire

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  On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman in this French historical romantic drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma.

• Two of Us

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  Premiering at TIFF in 2019, France-based Italian director Filippo Meneghetti's Two of Us follows pensioners Nina and Madeleine who have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades, but their bond is put to the test when they are suddenly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bacurau

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  Bacurau is a wild, weird, and politically charged revisionist western set in the near future, and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The fever

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  Justino, a 45-year-old Desana native, is a security guard at the Manaus harbour. As his daughter prepares to study medicine in Brasilia, Justino is taken over by a mysterious fever in this 2019 internationally co-produced drama thriller film written…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weathering With You

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  Set during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, high-school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather in this Japanese animated romantic fantasy film written…Read moreRead more of this annotation