Media Release. Tiff Industry Selects Sales Titles
September 1, 2020 MEDIA RELEASE.
TIFF INDUSTRY SELECTS SALES TITLES ANNOUNCED FOR 2020
TORONTO — TIFF announced today TIFF Industry Selects, a curated selection of 30 global films beyond the Official Selection that are available for sale at this year’s Festival. These titles, hand selected by TIFF’s Industry and Festival Programming teams, are sure to garner interest from buyers, as they reflect the Festival’s global spirit and showcase a host of new voices and international talent. These films will be presented on the festival's dedicated platform for press & industry, TIFF Digital Cinema Pro, to accredited press and industry throughout the 45th Toronto International Film Festival.
“We’re delighted to present these director-driven and audience engaging sales titles from around the world,” said Geoff Macnaughton, Senior Director, Industry & Theatrical. “As always, the industry will have a strong and healthy lineup of content to watch and add to their slates. International buyers rely on Toronto to discover and buy the best cinema from across the globe, and we’re thrilled to support them this year with the TIFF Industry Selects distinction.”
As a major hub of sales activity, TIFF is the site of some of the industry’s most significant acquisitions each year. In previous years, sales coming out of the Festival have included B ad Education (2019), High Life ( 2018), and I, Tonya (2017). The titles highlighted in TIFF Industry Selects represent the best in international cinema from 29 different countries around the world.
2020 TIFF Industry Selects Titles
A Good Man M arie-Castille Mention-Schaar | France After Love Aleem Khan | United Kingdom And Tomorrow the Entire World Julia Von Heinz | Germany/France Apples Christos Nikou | Greece Baby Done C urtis Vowell | New Zealand Falling for Figaro Ben Lewin | Australia/United Kingdom The Garden Ragnar Bragason | Iceland Here We Are Nir Bergman | Israel/Italy Holler Nicole Riegel | USA In Between Dying Hilal Baydarov | Azerbaijan/Mexico/USA Karnawal Juan Pablo Félix | Argentina/Brazil/Chile/Mexico/Norway The Kid Detective Evan Morgan | Canada Kill It and Leave This Town Mariusz Wilczynski | Poland La Verónica Leonardo Medel | Chile Like a House on Fire Jesse Noah Klein | Canada Lovers Nicole Garcia | France Magic Mountains Urszula Antoniak | Netherlands
Monday Argyris Papadimitropoulos | United Kingdom/Greece/USA The Monopoly of Violence David Dufresne | France My Best Part Nicolas Maury | France My Heart Goes Boom! Nacho Álvarez | Spain/Italy My Name is Francesco Totti A lex Infascelli | Italy Passion Simple Danielle Arbid | France/Belgium/Lebanon Saint-Narcisse Bruce LaBruce | Canada Shorta Anders Ølholm, Frederik Louis Hviid | Denmark Should the Wind Drop N ora Martirosyan | France/Armenia/Belgium Sweat Magnus von Horn | Poland/Sweden The Ties Daniele Luchetti | Italy Tove Zaida Bergroth | Finland/Sweden The Translator Rana Kazkaz, Anas Khalaf | Syria/France/Belgium/Switzerland/Qatar
The TIFF Industry Selects programme is generously supported by National Promotional Agencies including German Films, the Icelandic Film Centre, I stituto Luce Cinecittà, the Israel Film Fund, Spain’s Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales, the New Zealand Film Commission and the Polish Film Institute.
Film professionals can access Industry Selects, Official Selection titles, and private screenings by registering for the Digital Pro Pass, that also includes the online Industry Conference events and online networking tools for producers, buyers, sales agents, and film creators. Industry registration closes tomorrow, September 2.
The 45th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival runs September 10–19, 2020.
For more information, please see tiff.net.
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About TIFF TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.
The Toronto International Film Festival is generously supported by Lead Sponsor Bell, Major Sponsors RBC, L’Oréal Paris, and Visa, and Major Supporters the Government of Ontario, Telefilm Canada, and the City of Toronto.
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