Toronto International Film Festival 2021
This is a list of movies from TIFF 2021 which I have seen, using my TIFF Interest List as the source and listed in chronological viewing order.
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- DirectorClint BentleyStarsClifton Collins Jr.Moises AriasMolly ParkerAn aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.Seen at Sundance 2021
- DirectorPhil ConnellStarsCloris LeachmanAndrew BushellSheldon McIntoshA rookie drag queen reeling from a break-up escapes to the country, where he finds his grandmother in steep decline but desperate to avoid the local nursing home.Seen at BFI Flare [TIFF Market]
- DirectorNatalie MoralesStarsMark DuplassNatalie MoralesDesean TerryA Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship.Seen via a Film Independent member’s screening [TIFF Market]
- DirectorMaria SchraderStarsMaren EggertDan StevensSandra HüllerIn order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.Seen on its UK digital release via Curzon
- DirectorValerie BuhagiarStarsNatascha McElhoneSteven LoveMichela FarrugiaIn a small Mediterranean village, Carmen has looked after her brother, the local priest, for her entire life. When the Church abandons Carmen, she is mistaken for the new priest. Carmen begins to see the world, and herself, in a new light.TIFF Industry Selects
- DirectorLeyla BouzidStarsSami OutalbaliZbeida BelhajamorDiong-Kéba TacuFollows Ahmed, a 18-year old, French of Algerian origin, who meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl. He discovers a collection of sensual and erotic Arab literature and falls in love with Farah and he tries to resist the desire.TIFF Industry Selects
- DirectorReem MorsiStarsAlexia FastShawn DoyleJosh CruddasAfter a young woman witnesses a mob hit, a seasoned assassin and his psychotic partner must track her down before she turns them in, but she proves to be the hardest mark to kill.TIFF Industry Selects
- DirectorMalachi SmythStarsWill PoulterJohnny FlynnLydia WilsonTwo small time crooks drive to a secluded cafe for a big 'score'.TIFF Industry Selects
- DirectorTea LindeburgStarsFlora Ofelia Hofmann LindahlIda Cæcilie RasmussenPalma Lindeburg LethOn a farm in the late 1800s, an intense wait begins when a mother goes into a complicated labour and 14-year-old Lise must prepare herself for a night that could change her life forever.
- DirectorTrent O'DonnellStarsJake JohnsonSusan SarandonD'Arcy CardenLeif is left with a conditional inheritance when his estranged mother Honey dies. Before he can move into her picturesque Yosemite cabin, he has to complete her elaborate, and sometimes dubious, to-do list.TIFF Market
- DirectorPotsy PonciroliStarsTim Blake NelsonScott HazeGavin LewisA farmer takes in an injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse comes for the money, he must decide who to trust. Defending a siege, he reveals a gunslinging talent calling his true identity into question.TIFF Industry Selects
- DirectorMichael McGowanStarsAlison PillSarah GadonMare WinninghamBased on the 2014 international best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows is the poignant story of two sisters, one a concert pianist obsessed with ending her life, and the other a writer who, in wrestling with this decision, makes profound discoveries about her herself.
- DirectorJustine BatemanStarsOlivia MunnLuke BraceyJustin TherouxViolet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.
- DirectorIldikó EnyediStarsLéa SeydouxGijs NaberLouis GarrelJacob Störr, a sea captain, makes a bet in a café with a friend, to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy.
- DirectorDavid BeltonBjorn JohnsonStarsJames BarrettClaire BeckmanDonald ByrdDocumentary collects accounts of 9/11, recorded in the months after the attacks, and present-day testimonials from the same eyewitnesses.
- DirectorLuàna BajramiStarsLuàna BajramiAndi BajgoraEra BalajThree young and free-spirited women decide to escape their daily lives and form a gang.
- DirectorBlaine ThurierStarsAlanna BaleLuke BilykBenjamin SutherlandWhen Anna, a centuries old vampire, watches Robbie, a charming but reckless young man, recover from his alcoholism, she decides to quit blood and restore her humanity.
- DirectorKhadar Ayderus AhmedStarsOmar AbdiYasmin WarsameKadar Abdoul-Aziz IbrahimIn times of misfortune, Guled and his family have to push themselves to the limits in order to reunite with their family.
- DirectorFabrice du WelzStarsBenoît PoelvoordeMélanie DouteyAlba Gaïa BellugiThe lives of a wealthy publisher and her novelist husband are changed by the arrival of a mysterious young woman at their country mansion.
- DirectorAga WoszczynskaStarsDobromir DymeckiAgnieszka ZulewskaJean-Marc BarrA young couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. What they find, however, does not meet their expectations.
- DirectorAntoine FuquaStarsJake GyllenhaalRiley KeoughPeter SarsgaardA demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
- DirectorShasha NakhaiRich WilliamsonStarsLiam DiazMekiya FoxAnna Claire BeitelScarborough is the film adaptation of the award-winning novel by Catherine Hernandez. Over the course of a school year, 3 kids in a low-income neighbourhood find community and friendship at a drop-in reading program.
- DirectorBrian PetsosStarsAndy GarciaEmory CohenMegan FoxFledgling writer Samuel Liston and his experiences with Floyd Deveraux, the enigmatic middle-aged father of two who enlists Samuel to write his biography.TIFF Market
- DirectorAntoneta Alamat KusijanovicStarsGracija FilipovicLeon LucevDanica CurcicA teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
- DirectorJimmy ChinElizabeth Chai VasarhelyiStarsBancha DuriyapuntApakorn YoukongkaewAnan SurawanA chronicle of the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.