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10 AM AFTER LOVE HERE WE ARE MONDAY REUNION EDT 89 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 94 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 116 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 95 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro TIFF Industry Selects TIFF Industry Selects TIFF Industry Selects Private Screening B I P B I P B B

GOD YOU’RE SUCH A PRICK I USED TO GO HERE ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHORTA HUANGHUATANG 94 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 80 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 95 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro Private Screening Private Screening 100 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro TIFF Industry Selects B B Private Screening I P B I P B A GOOD MAN MISS THE YEAR OF FURY OTHER ANGLE PICTURES 108 min, | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 107 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 102 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro PROMO REEL TIFF Industry Select Private Screening Private Screening P B B 32 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro I B Private Screening B

11 AM AKILLA’S ESCAPE INCONVENIENT INDIAN PENGUIN BLOOM THE THIRD DAY EDT 90 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 90 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 95 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 117 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro Special Event Official Selection Official Selection Official Selection I P B I P B I P B I P B

THE BOY FROM MEDELLÍN LIFT LIKE A GIRL PIECES OF A WOMAN 95 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 92 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 126 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro Special Event Official Selection Official Selection I P B I P B I P B

ENEMIES OF THE STATE LIMBO PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER 104 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 103 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME Official Selection Official Selection 95 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro I P B I P B Official Selection I P B GAZA MON AMOUR NO ORDINARY MAN 87 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 84 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro SHORT CUTS PROGRAMME 02 Official Selection Official Selection 100 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro I P B I P B Official Selection I P B

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SEP 10 AND TOMORROW THE ENTIRE LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE MY NAME IS FRANCESCO TOTTI TELEFILM CANADA FIRST LOOK 10 AM WORLD 85 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 106 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 51 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro EDT 111 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro TIFF Industry Selects TIFF Industry Selects Private Screening TIFF Industry Selects I B B I B I B THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN THE TRANSLATOR BABYSPLITTERS 90 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 113 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 105 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 119 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro TIFF Industry Selects Private Screening TIFF Industry Selects Private Screening B I B I B B MY HEART GOES BOOM! SAINT-NARCISSE THE GARDEN 90 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 101 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 115 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro TIFF Industry Selects TIFF Industry Selects TIFF Industry Selects B P B I P B

SEP 10 ANOTHER ROUND* THE DISCIPLE ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI... SPRING BLOSSOM* 11 AM 116 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 127 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 114 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 73 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro EDT Official Selection Official Selection Official Selection Official Selection I P B I P B BEGINNING* UNDER THE OPEN SKY 125 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro GET THE HELL OUT SHIVA BABY 126 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro Official Selection 96 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 77 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro Official Selection Official Selection Official Selection I P B DAVID BYRNE’S I P B I P B AMERICAN UTOPIA THE WAY I SEE IT 105 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro NIGHT OF THE KINGS SHORT CUTS PROGRAMME 01 102 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro Official Selection 93 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro 97 min. | TIFF Digital Cinema Pro Special Event P Official Selection Official Selection I P B I P B I P B

Akilla’s Escape During what is supposed to be a simple, the sensationalism of the crime genre in this Charles Officer routine handoff, 38-year-old drug trader intelligent, distinctive, and sensitively ren- CANADA, 2020 Akilla Brown is suddenly caught in the mid- dered neo-noir–meets–coming-of-age story. English dle of a violent robbery. Narrowly making it With Jamaican gang culture and the reach 90 minutes | Colour/DCP (D-Cinema) out alive, he captures one of the thieves, a of its rampant international drug trade as a Production Company: Canesugar Filmworks teenaged Jamaican boy named Sheppard. biting political backdrop, Akilla’s Escape is Executive Producer: Martin Katz, Michael A. Levine, Under the pressure of the criminals who a wide-eyed look at social violence and the Karen Wookey, Reservoir Producer: Jake Yanowski, Charles Officer hired him, Akilla must set things right and toll it takes on Black lives. Screenplay: Charles Officer, Wendy “Motion” Brathwaite retrieve the stolen goods over the course of CAMERON BAILEY Cinematographer: Maya Bankovic one arduous night. Editor: Andres Landau Production Designer: Diana Abbatangelo When Akilla discovers that Sheppard’s Charles Officer was born in Toronto. He studied visual art at Sound: Brad Dawe gang has ties to the Garrison Army, the Cambridge University and communication design at OCAD Original Score: Saul Williams, Robert “3D” Del Naja same crime organization he fell into as a University. His credits include Nurse.Fighter.Boy (08), which Principal Cast: Saul Williams, Thamela Mpumlwana, played the Festival, Mighty Jerome (12), Unarmed Verses (17), Donisha Prendergast, Ronnie Rowe Jr., Olunike Adeliyi, child, he has to confront his own traumatic and Invisible Essence: The Little Prince (18). Akilla’s Escape Shomari Downer, Colm Feore, Bruce Ramsay, Vic Mensa origins and becomes compelled to help the (20) is his latest film. US Sales Agent: XYZ Films boy survive — and possibly even make the escape that he never could. Set in parallel PLANET AFRICA 25 timelines in present-day Toronto and 1990s Launched in 1995 for a decade-long run at the Festival, Planet Africa brought together films from across the African Brooklyn, Akilla’s Escape illustrates how the continent and diaspora to showcase Black creativity. Now, oppressive cycle of violence manifests in dif- in the age of Black Lives Matter, we continue to celebrate ferent generations and just how difficult it the voices that this programme first amplified 25 years ago. is to break. Poet-musician-actor Saul Williams — who also collaborated with Massive Attack’s 3D on the soundtrack — brings a subtle gravity to the role of the film’s quietly tortured pro- tagonist. Returning to the landscape of the urban drama that helped make his name with Nurse.Fighter.Boy (2008), award-winning writer-director Charles Officer circumvents

SPECIAL EVENTS • 95 The Boy from Medellín J Balvin, the “Prince of Reggaeton,” is a Usually, the lives of pop stars are carefully Matthew Heineman Grammy-nominated global star. Even if filtered through media handlers. But Balvin USA, 2020 you don’t know his name, you can’t escape lets the cameras roll throughout a period of Spanish, English the ubiquitous beat of hits like “Mi Gente.” turmoil and uncertainty. We see him take 95 minutes | Colour/DCP 4K (D-Cinema) He’s been on Saturday Night Live and conflicting advice from advisors and wrestle Production Company: Our Time Projects/SB Films name-dropped by Barack Obama. So when with his conscience while struggling with Executive Producer: Fabio Acosta, Scooter Braun, Balvin planned the biggest concert of his anxiety and depression, which he speaks Jennifer McDaniels, Jenna Millman, J Balvin, Allison Kaye, Scott Manson, Juan Diego Villegas life in his birthplace of Medellín, it was about candidly. Producer: Juan Camilo Cruz, Myles Estey, natural for a documentary crew to tag along Everyone has a hard time setting aside Matthew Heineman, Joedan Okun — but no one could have predicted what they their own ego to listen and learn. For Balvin, Cinematographer: Drew Daniels, Clair Popkin, Max Preiss Editor: Sebastián Hernández, Fernando Villegas, would capture. it’s even harder when his 43 million follow- Pax Wasserman, David Zieff At the end of November 2019, Balvin’s ers on Instagram are ready to pounce if he Production Designer: return to Colombia coincides with a massive says too much or too little. There’s never Sound: Carlos Andrés Arcila, Boris Buckley, Miller Jesús Castro, Boris Alejandro Herrera, national strike against right-wing president been a music film with so much suspense. John Mathie Iván Duque. Balvin wants to unite people in DIANA SANCHEZ Original Score: H. Scott Salinas, Sky Rompiendo spreading good vibes, not divide them over With: J Balvin politics. “I’m not on the left or the right. I’m Matthew Heineman is based in New York City. He graduated International Sales Agent: Endeavor Content always walking forward,” he likes to say. But from Dartmouth College. He has directed the documentaries US Sales Agent: Endeavor Content Our Time (09), Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American in the lead-up to the concert, we watch his Healthcare (12), Cartel Land (15), The Third Man (16), and neutrality get challenged by street protests City of Ghosts (17). His narrative feature debut, A Private and calls from his fans to take a stand. War (18), played the Festival. The Boy from Medellín (20) Oscar-nominated filmmaker Matthew is his latest film. Heineman follows Balvin with incredible intimacy over a transformative week. The singer has to bridge the difference between his celebrity persona as J Balvin the jet- setting playboy versus the private José, who eschews alcohol and drugs in favour of meditation.

SPECIAL EVENTS • 96 Enemies of the State In 2010, law enforcement raided the Indiana academia. They also interview members of Sonia Kennebeck home of 25-year-old Matt DeHart, a former law enforcement. USA, 2020 Air National Guard member, and his parents. The film unfolds like an espionage mys- English The search warrant was for child pornog- tery. Strange details drop one after another: 104 minutes | Colour/DCP (D-Cinema) raphy. DeHart’s family adamantly denied How were Matt’s parents influenced by their Production Company: Codebreaker Films the charges. They believe the FBI wanted former careers as US military personnel and Executive Producer: Errol Morris DeHart’s computer drives because of his Cold War–era intelligence operators? Why Producer: Ines Hofmann Kanna Cinematographer: Torsten Lapp hacktivist involvement with Anonymous did Matt make mysterious trips to Mexico Editor: Maxine Goedicke and alleged ties to Wikileaks. DeHart spent and to the Russian embassy in Washington, Sound: Maren Poitras 21 months in prison ­— where he claims he DC? The filmmakers’ dogged investigation Original Score: Insa Rudolph was tortured — before being released on will keep you second-guessing until the International Sales Agent: Submarine Entertainment bond. He and his parents, Paul and Leann, very end. US Sales Agent: Submarine Entertainment then took the radical step of seeking political THOM POWERS asylum in Canada. That’s where this story begins. And it gets more strange from there. Sonia Kennebeck was born in Malacca, Malaysia, and lives Filmmaker Sonia Kennebeck previ- in New York City. She received her Master’s in international studies from American University in Washington, DC. She ously covered government intimidation directed eight television documentaries and did over 50 in her award-winning filmNational Bird, investigative reports for German public television before about drone whistleblowers. She brings a becoming a filmmaker. Her feature documentary debut, journalistic rigour to her reportage and an National Bird (16), premiered at Berlin and later received the Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize and an Emmy nomina- artistry to visual recreations that befit the tion. Enemies of the State (20) is her latest documentary. reputation of the film’s executive producer, Errol Morris. In the eyes of activists, the cause to #FreeMattDeHart was akin to the cases of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Investigating for several years, Kennebeck and producer Ines Hofmann Kanna gained close access to the DeHarts, and the family’s attorneys and followers in journalism and

50 Gaza mon amour After winning over TIFF audiences with At its core, Gaza mon amour is a romance Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser their raucous debut, Dégradé, in 2015, story anchored in the quiet chemistry PALESTINE/FRANCE/GERMANY/PORTUGAL/ twins Arab and Tarzan Nasser return between heavyweight actors Daw and QATAR, 2020 with their sophomore feature, Gaza mon Abbass. It is also layered with evocative Arabic amour. Also set in their native Gaza, here satire about repressed desire, and sex, and 87 minutes | Colour/DCP (D-Cinema) the brother directorial team explores a love affirms that life, in spite of everything, con- Production Company: Les Films du Tambour/ story between a 60-year-old fisherman, tinues on amidst the absurdity of living. Riva Filmproduktion/Ukbar Filmes/ Made in Palestine Project/Jordan Pioneers Issa (Salim Daw of Fauda fame), and a local KIVA REARDON Executive Producer: Julia Balaeskoul Nusseibeh, tailor, Siham (Succession’s Hiam Abbass). Johannes Jancke Issa, stoic and settled into bachelor liv- Arab Nasser and Tarzan Nasser are twin brothers born in Producer: Rani Massalha, Marie Legrand, Gaza. They each graduated with a BFA in painting from Gaza’s Michael Eckelt, Pandora da Cunha Telles, Pablo Iraola, ing, has been ignoring his sister’s ceaseless al-Aqsa University before turning to filmmaking with the Rashid Abdelhamid, Khaled Haddad pushes for him to find a fiancé. However, shorts Colourful Journey (10), Condom Lead (13), Apartment Screenplay: Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser, Fadette Drouard through stolen glances and awkward pauses, 10/14 (14), and With Premeditation (14). Their debut feature, (in collaboration) Cinematographer: Christophe Graillot it’s clear he carries a secret torch for Siham. Dégradé (15), screened at the Festival. Gaza mon amour (20) Editor: Véronique Lange One night while out fishing — within the lim- is their latest film. Production Designer: Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser ited radius Gazans are restricted to sailing Sound: Tim Stephan, Roland Vajs, Pedro Góis Original Score: Andre Matthias under the Israeli occupation — Issa brings in Principal Cast: Salim Daw, Hiam Abbass, an unexpected haul. Instead of the usual fish, Maisa Abd Elhadi, George Iskandar, Hitham Al Omari, his net emerges from the Mediterranean Manal Awad with a statue of Apollo. A statue that is International Sales Agent: Versatile very anatomical and in a very, er, excited state. Under the cover of darkness, Issa takes the statue home. But when a certain aforementioned protruding part is broken off, it sparks a series of comic events that force Issa out of his shell while also casting light on the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of life under the Occupation and, above all, on love.

56 Inconvenient Indian Based on Thomas King’s award-winning touching, the film also takes direct aim Michelle Latimer 2012 study, The Inconvenient Indian: A at North America’s pernicious notion of CANADA, 2020 Curious Account of Native People in North history and truth. As King points out, the English, Inuktitut, Cree, Anishinaabemowin America, Michelle Latimer’s equally essen- claim that previous generations were igno- 90 minutes | Colour/DCP (D-Cinema) tial documentary examines the ongoing rant of the repercussions of their actions Production Company: 90th Parallel Productions/ colonization of Indigenous peoples in North is disgracefully self-serving — and only National Film Board of Canada America. If early colonization depended on allows those in power to return to the scene Executive Producer: Gordon Henderson, Anita Lee Producer: Stuart Henderson (90th Parallel Productions), force, in more recent decades it has focused of the crime to continue stealing land and Justine Pimlott, Jesse Wente on Indigenous history, culture, and tradi- resources. King concludes his narration with Screenplay: Michelle Latimer tions. History has been wiped out or twisted a powerful exhortation that we can do what Cinematographer: Chris Romeike Editor: Katie Chipperfield to serve the absurd self-justifying fantasies we want with his analysis, but we can no Sound: Brennan Mercer of the colonizers; traditions, language, and longer claim we were innocent or ignorant, Original Score: Brennan Mercer religion have been systemically suppressed making Inconvenient Indian one of the most Narrator: Thomas King via state institutions, meaning current gen- essential films at this year’s Festival. Canadian Distributor: National Film Board of Canada erations’ pursuit of their history is fraught STEVE GRAVESTOCK International Sales Agent: National Film Board of Canada with obstacles. Latimer brings these issues to the fore Michelle Latimer is a filmmaker, producer, and actor. She through a profoundly compelling array of holds a BFA in theatre performance and film studies from Concordia University. Her short films The Underground (14) techniques, including a voiceover by King, and Nuuca (17) both screened at TIFF. Her other directorial movie and archival footage, interviews, credits include the television series Rise (17) and Trickster dance, visual arts, and traditional customs (20), and the documentaries ALIAS (13) and Inconvenient like tattooing and hunting. Well-known fig- Indian (20). She is of Algonquin, Métis, and French heritage, from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (Maniwaki), Quebec, and grew ures like visual artist Kent Monkman and up in Thunder Bay, Ontario. filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril are among her subjects, along with hunters, community Content advisories: traditional customs and methods workers, and emerging film artists such as of hunting are employed in some scenes; instances of Nyla Innuksuk and her collaborators, who police brutality adapt genre devices to tell their own stories. While these pursuits of cultural mem- ory and awareness are invigorating and

62 Ash Ya Captain For over 20 years, Captain Ramadan coached physical and mental struggles, as Ramadan Lift Like a Girl world-class weightlifters in Alexandria, pushes her further and harder — often more Egypt. A larger-than-life character in his than any of his other athletes. But as time Mayye Zayed own right, Ramadan led his daughter, one marches on, bringing Zebiba more success, EGYPT/GERMANY/DENMARK, 2020 of Egypt’s most famous athletes, Nahla it also brings new challenges for the gym, her Arabic Ramadan, to become a world champion, team, and ultimately for Zebiba herself. 95 minutes | Colour/DCP (D-Cinema) and trained Abeer Abdel Rahman, the first KIVA REARDON Production Company: Cleo Media/JYOTI Film/ Arab woman to become a two-time Olympic Rufy’s Films Producer: Mayye Zayed medalist. Mayye Zayed’s observational Mayye Zayed is a director, cinematographer, editor, and Screenplay: Mayye Zayed documentary dives into the training of producer from Alexandria, Egypt. She studied telecommuni- Cinematographer: Mohamed El-Hadidi Ramadan’s new protégé: the determined cations and electronics engineering at Alexandria University Editor: Sarah Abdallah before becoming a Fulbright scholar, studying cinema and Sound: Samir Nabil, Brian Dyrby Zebiba (which means “raisin”), who dreams media at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and documen- Original Score: Marian Mentrup of lifting on the level of Captain’s past stars. tary film at MIT. She co-directed and co-wrote The Mice Room Shot over four years, starting when Zebiba (13), and directed the short A Stroll Down Sunflower Lane Presented by RBC. is 14 years old, Lift Like a Girl is an intimate (16). Lift Like a Girl (20) is her feature documentary debut. journey into the inner life of an aspiring ath- lete. Filmed largely at Ramadan’s outdoor TIFF NEXT WAVE gym and at weightlifting competitions, it Celebrating the highs and lows (and everything in between) of young voices in today’s fast-moving world. This film has captures feats of astonishing athleticism. been selected for the next generation of film lovers by the But it’s not just about muscle mass à la TIFF Next Wave Committee. Pumping Iron, as Zayed explores the com- plex bond between Zebiba and her Captain — a bond that is frequently unpredictable, sometimes volatile, but always rooted in what can only be described as an unshak- able faith. Zayed’s seamless cinematography takes on the perspective of the other lifters and of the crowd, and she doesn’t shy away from the losses and tears. The result captures Zebiba’s

64 Limbo In a remote corner of Scotland’s Outer comedic absurdism reminiscent of one of his Ben Sharrock Hebrides, surrounded by gale-force winds prime influences, Palestinian actor-director UNITED KINGDOM, 2020 and stormy seas, gifted young musician Elia Suleiman, carefully deploying dead- English, Arabic Omar and his fellow Syrian asylum seek- pan dialogue that is artfully delivered by 103 minutes | Colour/DCP (D-Cinema) ers endure a puzzling cultural-awareness El-Masry and Vikash Bhai (as Omar’s mus- Production Company: Caravan Cinema Ltd lesson from an oddball pair of locals. With tachioed, Freddie Mercury–obsessed friend Producer: Irune Gurtubai, Angus Lamont little else to do while awaiting letters about Farhad). Screenplay: Ben Sharrock Cinematographer: Nick Cooke their refugee status claims, Omar (Amir Inspired by personal stories from his Editor: Karel Dolak, Lucia Zucchetti El-Masry) and his flatmates otherwise pass network of friends in Damascus, where he Production Designer: Andy Drummond the time queuing up to hear the voices of studied shortly before the outbreak of the Sound: Ben Baird Original Score: Hutch Demouilpied loved ones on the island’s only payphone, or civil war, Sharrock affectionately imbues Principal Cast: Amir El-Masry, Sidse Babett Knudsen, heatedly debating the nuanced relationship his film’s characters with an unwavering dig- Vikash Bhai, Ola Orebiyi, Kwabena Ansah of Ross and Rachel while binge-watching a nity. Ideal for these socially distanced times, International Sales Agent: Protagonist Pictures donated Friends box set. Unable to play due Limbo has a kind of magic that connects us to a broken arm, Omar carries his grandfa- through the commonalities of cultures and ther’s oud with him while wandering the shared experiences. lonely landscape, as if weighed down by both DIANA SANCHEZ the burden and the comfort of memories of home and the life he knew. His brother, who Ben Sharrock is a writer-director from Edinburgh. He studied stayed behind to fight in Syria, is a source film at Screen Academy Scotland and Arabic in Damascus, later living in San Sebastian, Spain. His short films include of worry and an object of hero-worship as Patata Tortilla (15), which won two BAFTA New Talent awards. Omar questions his own decision to have His debut feature, Pikadero (15), won numerous awards ever left. including best feature at the Edinburgh International Film Director Ben Sharrock’s thoughtfully Festival and best European feature at Brussels. Limbo (20) composed frames, the gazes along paved is his second feature film. roads that stretch into the pale horizon of Omar’s seaside purgatory, convey the Content advisory: traumatic scene journey of self-conscious reckoning that continues long after an exodus. Sharrock’s script bridges dry British humour and a

65 No Ordinary Man Revered jazz musician Billy Tipton — born On a formal level, this film shares the vital- Aisling Chin-Yee, Dorothy Lucille Tipton —­ gained fame ity of its subjects, deftly connecting Tipton’s Chase Joynt throughout the United States in the 1940s identity to modern trans representation and ’50s. His trans identity was not known through clever editing and impassioned CANADA, 2020 English throughout the echelons of the jazz and pop perspectives. No Ordinary Man is ground- 80 minutes | Colour/DCP (D-Cinema) worlds, and it wasn’t revealed publicly until breaking in how it links Tipton’s story with

Production Company: Parabola Films after his death in 1989. For decades, Tipton the struggles and triumphs of the people who Producer: Sarah Spring was portrayed as an ambitious woman “pass- followed in his footsteps, presented in their Screenplay: Aisling Chin-Yee, Amos Mac ing” as a man in pursuit of a music career at own words. Cinematographer: Léna Mill-Reuillard RAVI SRINIVASAN Editor: Aisling Chin-Yee a time when the industry was dominated by Sound: Lynne Trépanier, Marie-Pierre Grenier men and trans representation was virtually Canadian Distributor: Les Films du 3 Mars non-existent. Since then, he has become a Aisling Chin-Yee is a Montreal-based filmmaker. Her pro- foundational icon of transmasculinity. ducer credits include the feature filmsRhymes for Young Ghouls (13), Last Woman Standing (13), and The Saver (15). Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt’s bril- Her feature directorial debut was the Festival selection The liantly crafted No Ordinary Man maps out Rest of Us (19). No Ordinary Man (20) is her latest work. Tipton’s undeniable legacy, while examin- ing the disgraceful media scrutiny and Chase Joynt is a transgender moving-image artist and writer questions of legitimacy his family endured whose films have won jury and audience awards internation- ally. He has a PhD in Cinema & Media Studies from York after his death. This thoughtful, timely University in Toronto. His directorial credits include the documentary embraces the challenge of documentary shorts STEALTH (14), Genderize (16), Between bringing Tipton’s words to life, reimagin- You and Me (16), and Framing Agnes (19). No Ordinary Man ing his narrative through a diverse group of (20) is his latest film. contemporary trans performers as they col- lectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero. Revealing their own stories of transitioning and laying bare their personal journeys, each individual reckons with their own singular path towards self-recognition, creating a unique tapestry of trans expression as we’ve never seen it before.

73 Nomadland The first few images of Frances McDormand of movie heroism, and shows us why these Chloé Zhao as Fern establish the will of this woman seeming outcasts define America, and mov- USA, 2020 straight away. She’s on her own, working ies, more than the big-screen protagonists English itinerant jobs, hitting the road when it’s time we’re used to. As we watch Fern eke out a 107 minutes | Colour / DCP (D-Cinema) to move on. “I’m not homeless,” she says to living in precarious jobs, try and fail and Production Company: Highwayman Films/Hear/ an inquiring friend’s daughter. “I’m just… try again to form relationships, and all Say Productions/Cor Cordium Productions houseless. Not the same thing.” against stunning expanses of desert and Producer: Chloé Zhao, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey Fern drives her old RV up and down the sky, it’s clear that we’re watching a portrait Screenplay: Chloé Zhao highways of America’s West, following the of America now. Cinematographer: Joshua James Richards seasons and seasonal jobs. When she discov- CAMERON BAILEY Editor: Chloé Zhao Production Designer: Joshua James Richards ers a community of like-minded nomads, Sound: Sergio Diaz her heart opens, but she’s cautious about Chloé Zhao was born in Beijing. She received her BA in politi- Principal Cast: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, forging bonds. One man she keeps running cal science from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, Linda May, Charlene Swankie and her MFA in film production from NYU. Her films include into (David Strathairn) looks like a perfect the shorts The Atlas Mountains (08), Daughters (09), and Canadian Distributor: Searchlight Pictures match, but what does Fern need with a boy- US Distributor: Searchlight Pictures Benachin (10), and the features Songs My Brothers Taught friend — or anyone, really. Me (15), which screened at TIFF Next Wave, and The Rider Adapting Jessica Bruder’s non-fiction (17), which played the Festival. Nomadland (20) is her latest book, Chloé Zhao writes, directs, and edits feature. with impressively crisp focus. The film gets into and out of every scene with rare econ- omy, cutting to the heart of each moment in our growing understanding of Fern. Nomadland arrives between Zhao’s award-winning prairie drama The Rider and her upcoming Marvel superhero movie, The Eternals. It’s yet more evidence of what makes her a singular filmmaker and one of the most important new voices in American cinema. Zhao seeks out characters living in the margins of society and on the periphery

72 Penguin Bloom Naomi Watts delivers an inspiring perfor- turn as Sam’s mum, and the amazing Glendyn Ivin mance in Glendyn Ivin’s Penguin Bloom, Rachel House, frequently seen in Taika AUSTRALIA, 2020 dramatizing the surprising, true-life story Waititi’s films, takes a memorable role English of a woman who suffers a traumatic accident as Sam’s kayaking teacher. Reminding us 95 minutes | Colour/DCP 4K (D-Cinema) and then finds a unique ally to pull her out why she’s one of cinema’s best at convey- Production Company: Made Up Stories/Broadtalk/ of despair. This portrait of a family finding ing conflicted inner life, Watts illuminates JamTart Films its way through crisis is both moving and a woman who believes she’s lost everything Executive Producer: Sonia Amoroso, George Kekeli, Meryl Metni, Ricci Swart, Sam Bloom, Cameron Bloom, heartwarming. that defines her, until she finds herself again. Bradley Trevor Greive, Joel Pearlman, Edwina Waddy, Australian Sam Bloom (Watts) is enjoying CAMERON BAILEY Jill Bilcock a blissful vacation in Thailand when a hor- Producer: Emma Cooper, Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky, Jodi Matterson, Naomi Watts rifying accident sends her falling storeys Glendyn Ivin was born in Tamworth, New South Wales, Screenplay: Shaun Grant, Harry Cripps down to the pavement. Life changes in an Australia. He directed the short filmCracker Bag (03), which Cinematographer: Sam Chiplin instant for her, but also for her husband, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and Last Ride (09), which Editor: Maria Papoutsis premiered at the Festival. His credits in television include Production Designer: Annie Beauchamp Cameron (Andrew Lincoln), and their three Puberty Blues (12–14), A Beautiful Lie (15), Safe Harbour Sound: Chris Goodes children. Back home, Sam’s painful adjust- (18), and The Cry (18). Penguin Bloom (20) is his latest film. Original Score: Marcelo Zarvos ment to her new disability leaves her unable Principal Cast: Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln, Jacki Weaver to appreciate her idyllic home and a family Content advisories: accident trauma, mature themes trying to connect. “It’s not enough,” she says International Sales Agent: Endeavor Content US Sales Agent: Endeavor Content plainly. When the family takes in a stray magpie, naming it Penguin for its black-and-white plumage, Sam is practically scornful. But the little bird cries when it needs help, forcing Sam to focus on more than her own hurt. Against her better judgment, Sam begins to tend to Penguin. What could come off as insanely corny benefits from its grounding in truth, its strong script, and terrific performances all around. Jacki Weaver makes a delicious

77 Pieces of a Woman Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó spring framing its scenes of a woman forced Kornél Mundruczó (White God) is known for his unblinking to form a new relationship with her body. USA/CANADA, 2020 portraits of characters under pressure. Mundruczó draws not just on the power of English Working from a screenplay by Kata Wéber, his own Hungarian cinema, but also the clas- 126 minutes | Colour/DCP (D-Cinema) and in North America for the first time, he sic human dramas of 1970s American film. Production Company: BRON/Little Lamb directs Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Molly All of the actors here are strong, but casting Executive Producer: Martin Scorsese, Sam Levinson, Parker, and Ellen Burstyn in this moving Ellen Burstyn was a masterstroke. Stuart Manashil, Viktória Petrányi, Jason Cloth, Richard McConnell, Suraj Maraboyina, Aaron L. Gilbert, story of a couple navigating the deepest loss. CAMERON BAILEY Steven Thibault Martha (Kirby) is a tightly wound execu- Producer: Kevin Turen, Ashley Levinson, Aaron Ryder tive and Shawn (LaBeouf) a construction Kornél Mundruczó was born in Gödöllö, Hungary. He trained Screenplay: Kata Wéber as an actor at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, Cinematographer: Benjamin Loeb worker with a volatile past. They have later returning to study directing. His feature films as director Editor: Dávid Jancsó found love across a class divide and are include This I Wish and Nothing More (00); Pleasant Days Production Designer: Sylvain Lemaitre eagerly expecting their first baby. But com- (02), which won the Silver Leopard at Locarno; Johanna Sound: Christopher Scarabosio Original Score: Howard Shore plications with a midwife (Parker) interrupt (05); Delta (08), which won the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes; Principal Cast: Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen their planned home birth, sending the Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project (10); White God (14), Burstyn, Benny Safdie, Sarah Snook, Molly Parker, couple spiralling into tragedy in one shat- which won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes; Jupiter’s Jimmie Fails, Iliza Schlesinger Moon (17); and Pieces of a Woman (20). tering, bravura sequence. International Sales Agent: BRON Releasing What to do with their grief? At first US Sales Agent: BRON Releasing Content advisories: traumatic birth scene, child death Martha responds quietly, her body still telling her she is pregnant. Shawn looks for someone to blame for their loss, his fury ramping up alongside his helplessness. Martha’s mother (Burstyn) introduces her own unhelpful expectations. As Martha’s attempts to cope clash with the attitudes of her community, she realizes her only means of survival is to forge her own path. Shot in Montreal and set in Massachusetts, Pieces of a Woman has a sharp, wintry air, with the gradual release from winter into

78 Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig Márta Vizy (Natasa Stork) is a 39-year-old nelle “Mad Girl’s Love Song.” Preparations Hungarian neurosurgeon. After 20 years in to Be Together For an Unknown Period of tartó együttlétre the United States, she returns to Budapest Time spins a delicate web of contrasts and for a romantic rendezvous at the Liberty silent explosions that shift the viewer’s Preparations to Be Bridge with János (Viktor Bodó), a fellow understanding. Shot with impeccable sym- Together For an Unknown doctor she met at a conference in New metry on entrancing 35mm, it is an Orphic Period of Time Jersey. Márta waits in vain, while the love tale reminding us that, while the heart is an of her life is nowhere to be seen. When she abstruse trickster, the human brain — rul- Lili Horvát finally tracks him down, the bewildered man ing us with over 80 billion interconnected claims the two have never met. neurons — is our most complex organ. HUNGARY, 2020 Hungarian It’s unclear whether Márta’s wits are DOROTA LECH 95 minutes | Colour/DCP (D-Cinema) clouded by love or if other neurological reac- Production Company: Poste Restante tions are at play. Determined to solve the Lili Horvát grew up in Budapest. She studied audiovisual arts Producer: Péter Miskolczi, Lili Horvát, Dóra Csernátony enigma, Márta takes a position at a hospital at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and film directing at the Screenplay: Lili Horvát where, due to both her unfamiliarity with University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. Her credits Cinematographer: Róbert Maly include the shorts Summer Holiday (06) and Sunstroke (09), Editor: Károly Szalai the local culture and her exceptional talent, and the feature The Wednesday Child (15). Preparations to Be Production Designer: Sandra Sztevanovity she is an outsider. With graceful determina- Together For an Unknown Period of Time (20) is her latest film. Sound: Rudolf Várhegyi tion, she endures real and perceived slights Original Score: Gábor Keresztes Principal Cast: Natasa Stork, Viktor Bodó, while navigating the no man’s land separat- Benett Vilmányi ing love from madness. Like Madeleine in International Sales Agent: National Film Institute World Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Adèle H. in Truffaut’s Sales The Story of Adèle H., or Julie, Dominique, and Valentine, the women of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours trilogy, Márta is a strong yet vulnerable force who anchors herself in her feelings when faced with uncertainty. In her second feature, following The Wednesday Child (15), writer-director Lili Horvát evokes Sylvia Plath’s haunting villa-

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Black Bodies Shiluus Pilar Kelly Fyffe-Marshall Mountain Cat Yngwie Boley, Diana van Houten, J.J. Epping CANADA, 2020 English Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM, 2020 No dialogue 5 minutes | Colour/H264 MONGOLIA/UNITED KINGDOM, 2020 Mongolian 10 minutes | Colour/H264 14 minutes | Colour/H264 A beautifully poetic and extremely timely account of what Two young people’s daily fight for survival in a ravaged it means to be Black in 2020, Kelly Fyffe-Marshall’s pow- Set in contemporary Mongolia, Mountain Cat is a uniquely post-apocalyptic city takes an unexpected direction in erful Black Bodies is essential viewing. LISA HALLER layered and bold debut coming-of-age drama about an ill this chilling and riveting animation by the team of Yngwie teenager who unleashes a fiercely spirited side while on a Boley, Diana van Houten, and J.J. Epping. JASON ANDERSON healing journey. LH Content advisory: descriptions of racialized violence

Aniksha Point and Line to Plane Loose Fish Vincent Toi Sofia Bohdanowicz Francisco Canton, Pato Martinez CANADA, 2020 French, Creole CANADA/USA/ICELAND/RUSSIA, 2020 English MOROCCO/USA/ARGENTINA, 2020 Spanish 20 min | Colour/H264 18 minutes | Colour/H264 16 minutes | Colour/H264

In the wake of her arranged marriage, a young woman Working again with her regular collaborator Deragh In this richly detailed and humane hybrid of documentary in Mauritius begins a job at a call centre. Her first steps Campbell (who also appears in this year’s Short Cuts and drama by the Argentinian directing collective Pantera, toward independence have repercussions no one could selection Succor), Toronto’s Sofia Bohdanowicz explores a boy growing up in a port town in Morocco dreams of have expected, in this visually gorgeous and remarkably themes of loss, remembrance, and perception in a film that escaping into a different life than the one in store for him. sophisticated drama by Montreal-based director Vincent is remarkable for its intelligence and elegance. JA JA Toi. JA

Das Spiel The Game Roman Hodel SWITZERLAND, 2020 German, Italian, Swiss German, Turkish 17 minutes | Colour/H264

A welcome tonic for these sports-deprived times, Roman Hodel’s incredibly dynamic and wryly humorous docu- mentary presents a high-tension soccer match from the perspective of an ever-vigilant referee. JA

SHORT CUTS • 109 The Third Day Have you ever been drawn to a specific experience for the screen. Feel the magnetic Felix Barrett, Dennis Kelly place? Felt its magnetic pull? For British pull of this mysterious island and find out UNITED KINGDOM, 2020 mainlanders Sam (Jude Law) and Helen what happens on The Third Day. English (Naomie Harris), that place is the quaint GEOFF MACNAUGHTON 117 minutes | Colour/H264 island setting of The Third Day. Only acces- Directors: Marc Munden, Philippa Lowthorpe sible by causeway, the small, secluded town Felix Barrett is a graduate and Honorary Fellow in Drama Production Company: HBO/Plan B/Punchdrunk/ is home to islanders who proudly maintain of the University of Exeter. As founder and artistic director Sky Studios of the theatre company Punchdrunk, his projects include Executive Producer: Marc Munden, Philippa Lowthorpe, their ancestral traditions and way of life. Sleep No More (London, Boston, New York, and Shanghai), Dennis Kelly, Felix Barrett, Jeremy Kleiner, When Sam arrives, through strange happen- TV, and gaming. The Third Day is created by Felix and writer Dede Gardner, Brad Pitt stance the townsfolk are preparing for their Dennis Kelly. Producer: Adrian Sturges Screenplay: Dennis Kelly, Kit de Waal, Dean O’Loughlin annual summer festival — to which they Cinematographer: Benjamin Kracun, David Chizallet have decided to invite outsiders for the first Dennis Kelly grew up in Barnet, London. He has written for Editor: Nicolas Chaudeurge, Luke Dunkley time. Sam never intended to stay long, but theatre, TV, film, and radio. His credits include the stage Production Designer: Beck Rainford production Matilda the Musical (10), the series Pulling Sound: Nigel Albermaniche, Niv Adiri when the tide closes the causeway, he finds (06–09) and Utopia (13–14), and the film Black Sea (14). He Original Score: Cristobal Tapia de Veer, Dickon Hinchliffe shelter at a local inn and starts to learn why created The Third Day (20) with Felix Barrett. Principal Cast: Jude Law, Naomie Harris, other mainlanders keep telling him, “There’s Katherine Waterston, Paddy Considine, Emily Watson, Nico Parker, Charlotte Gairdner-Mihell something special about this place.” Marc Munden was born in London, England. His credits Created by Felix Barrett (founder and include the series The Mark of Cain (07), Utopia (13), Canadian Distributor: Crave National Treasure (16), The Secret Garden (20), and The US Distributor: HBO artistic director of the British theatre Third Day (20). International Sales Agent: HBO company Punchdrunk) and Dennis Kelly (playwright, and creator of Utopia), The Philippa Lowthorpe was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Third Day comprises three distinct parts: England. Her credits include the films The Other Boleyn Girl (03), Cider with Rosie (15), and Swallows and Amazons (16), “Summer,” following Sam; “Winter,” follow- and the series Call the Midwife (12– ), The Crown (16– ), Three ing Helen; and, in between, an immersive, Girls (17), and The Third Day (20). experiential event that challenges episodic form. Just as Barrett famously disrupted tra- ditional approaches to storytelling with Punchdrunk’s groundbreaking Sleep No More, he and Kelly create an almost visceral

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