World Cinema

• France
• 2023
• 116min

The Goldman Case, based on a true story, was one of the most talked about films in Cannes since its premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight this year. Pierre Goldman is a famous French far-left activist who was accused of killing two...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 77min

In a dingy motel located somewhere on the outskirts of the city, Min-cheol and Young-gyu are secretly recording guests who visit the motel. They then sell the footage to a loan shark to pay off their debts. Although they feel guil...

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• United States
• 2023
• 133min

Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham. Everyone?his students, his colleagues, and even the headmaster?finds his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go over the 1970 Christmas holiday, Paul remains at scho...

• Toronto Special Presentations

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• United States
• 2023
• 118min

A professional killer is on a mission to assassinate a man. The killer has patiently waited for the right moment to kill in an empty lot located across from the building where the targeted man lives. The killer keeps his eyes fixe...

• Venice Competition

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2023
• 104min

The mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a girl awash on their shores. He and his wife who have no children of their own, take care of her as if she were their own daughter. Soon they discover that the girl has mysterious ...

• Toronto Platform

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2023
• 125min

Italian film noir is entering a renaissance, and Andrea Di Stefano establishes himself as a master of the movement with The Last Night of Amore. On the eve of his honorable retirement, Inspector Franco Amore receives the news that...

• Berlin Special Gala

Wide Angle

• United Kingdom/Afghanistan/Iran
• 2023
• 65min

Hana Makhmalbaf’s The List begins where her father Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Talking with Rivers leaves off. When the US troops withdraw in August 2021, Afghanistan fell into the Taliban’s hands, and the fate of anti-Taliban artists and...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bhutan/United States/France/Taiwan
• 2023
• 107min

In 2006, television and internet have finally arrived in Bhutan, and the nation, which has been a monarchy, is gearing up for its first-ever election in history. The upcoming election sets people at odds with each other, as some s...

• Toronto Centrepiece

Jiseok

• Japan
• 2023
• 144min

Yoko is a novelist who has gained fame for her work covering the Great East Japan Earthquake, but now she is unable to write a novel. Her husband is an aspiring director who creates stop-motion animation but has never been recogni...

Wide Angle

• Morocco/Egypt/Saudi Arabia/Qatar
• 2023
• 96min

El Moudir’s exploration of identity through her mother in The Postcard (2020) continues through the grandmother in her latest film, which delves into the Moroccan contemporary history through a family and the grandmother. At its c...

• Cannes the Golden Eye Documentary Prize