Toronto International Film Festival: 2023 festival guide
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1. Concrete Utopia (2023)
Not Rated | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Survivors from a massive earthquake struggle for a new life in Seoul.
Director: Tae-hwa Eom | Stars: Park Seo-joon, Lee Byung-hun, Park Bo-young, Kim Sun-young
Votes: 5,230
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
2. Dumb Money (2023)
R | 105 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
David vs. Goliath tale about everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (the video-game store) into the world's hottest company.
Director: Craig Gillespie | Stars: Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera
Votes: 41,302
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
3. Fair Play (2023)
R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement.
Director: Chloe Domont | Stars: Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, Eddie Marsan, Rich Sommer
Votes: 37,181
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
4. Flora and Son (2023)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A single mom at war with her son is trying to find a hobby for him. One day, she rescues a guitar from a dumpster.
Director: John Carney | Stars: Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Orén Kinlan, Marcella Plunkett
Votes: 12,654
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
5. Hate to Love: Nickelback (2023)
90 min | Documentary, Music
An intimate portrait of the Canadian stadium rockers roller coaster career. From their rural roots in Alberta to becoming one of the most successful, yet divisive acts in music history.
Director: Leigh Brooks | Stars: Daniel Adair, Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Nickelback
Votes: 122
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
6. Origin (2023)
PG-13 | 141 min | Drama, History
The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash, Emily Yancy
Votes: 4,290
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
7. Lee (2023)
R | 116 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Director: Ellen Kuras | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Kate Winslet, Andrea Riseborough, Josh O'Connor
Votes: 298
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
8. Next Goal Wins (2023)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The story of the infamously terrible American Samoa soccer team, known for a brutal 2001 FIFA match they lost 31-0.
Director: Taika Waititi | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana, David Fane
Votes: 21,780
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
9. Nyad (2023)
PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.
Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Stars: Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Anne Marie Kempf, Carolyn McCormick
Votes: 36,827
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
10. Solo (III) (2023)
101 min | Drama, Romance
Follows Simon, who must deal with the disappointment of two impossible loves: a passionate but destructive crush on Oliver and a distant and cold relationship with his mother Claire, who has just moved back in after a 15-year absence.
Director: Sophie Dupuis | Stars: Théodore Pellerin, Félix Maritaud, Vlad Alexis, Anne-Marie Cadieux
Votes: 283
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
11. Finestkind (2023)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A crew of fishermen tread dangerous waters when their debts start piling up.
Director: Brian Helgeland | Stars: Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega, Tommy Lee Jones
Votes: 7,433
Festival Category: Gala Presentation
12. The End We Start From (2023)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
A woman tries to find her way home with her newborn while an environmental crisis submerges London in floodwaters.
Director: Mahalia Belo | Stars: Jodie Comer, Joel Fry, Yves Rassou, Ramanique Ahluwalia
Votes: 3,767
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
13. A Normal Family (2023)
116 min | Drama
Jae-wan's occupation as a lawyer includes defending killers. His brother is a religious doctor who constantly puts his patients ahead of his own interests. A circumstance involving their teenage children tests the brothers' consciences.
Director: Hur Jin-ho | Stars: Sol Kyung-gu, Jang Dong-Gun, Kim Hee-ae, Claudia Kim
Votes: 172
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
14. The Movie Emperor (2023)
125 min | Comedy, Drama
Actor Lau Wai-Chi has a huge following of devoted followers and is always keeping an eye on his rivals. After accepting to play the lead in a modest indie drama, Lau begins the laborious process of mastering the acting skills for the role.
Director: Ning Hao | Stars: Ning Hao, Eliz Lao, Andy Lau, Tony Ka Fai Leung
Votes: 210
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
15. The New Boy (2023)
96 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
A nine-year-old Aboriginal Australian orphan boy arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun.
Director: Warwick Thornton | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Aswan Reid, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair
Votes: 1,054
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
16. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
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 living and the dead.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki, Aimyon
Votes: 50,886
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
17. Thank You for Coming (2023)
119 min | Comedy
When five best friends assemble together at a family gathering, they must navigate the hilarious and heartwarming consequences of their lie, discovering the true depth of their friendship and love.
Director: Karan Boolani | Stars: Bhumi Pednekar, Dolly Singh, Shibani Bedi, Shehnaaz Gill
Votes: 8,401
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
18. The Royal Hotel (2023)
R | 91 min | Thriller
Backpackers Hanna and Liv take a job in a remote Australian pub for some extra cash and are confronted with a bunch of unruly locals and a situation that rapidly leaps out of their control.
Director: Kitty Green | Stars: Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Herbert Nordrum, Dylan River
Votes: 9,237
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
19. Sly (2023)
R | 95 min | Documentary, Biography
The nearly fifty year prolific career of Sylvester Stallone, who has entertained millions, is seen in retrospective in an intimate look of the actor, writer, director-producer, paralleling with his inspirational life story.
Director: Thom Zimny | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Frank Stallone, John Herzfeld, Wesley Morris
Votes: 11,040
Festival Category: Gala Presentations
20. A Difficult Year (2023)
120 min | Comedy
Two swindlers, deep in debt, infiltrate a group of climate activists when they are attracted to the free food and drinks they are offered.
Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Stars: Pio Marmaï, Jonathan Cohen, Noémie Merlant, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 1,738
Festival Category: Special Presentations
21. American Fiction (2023)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama
A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.
Director: Cord Jefferson | Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander
Votes: 75,619
Festival Category: Special Presentations
22. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.
Director: Justine Triet | Stars: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz
Votes: 120,075
Festival Category: Special Presentations
23. Close to You (2023)
100 min | Drama
Follow Sam who has the chance to encounter with an old friend on his way back home to a dreaded family reunion that forces him to confront long-buried memories.
Director: Dominic Savage | Stars: Elliot Page, Hillary Baack, Wendy Crewson, Peter Outerbridge
Votes: 227
Festival Category: Special Presentations
24. Days of Happiness (2023)
118 min | Drama
Naïlle enters Emma's life after she re-evaluates her professional and personal relationships with a demanding partner. The cellist and single mother offers Emma a new family dynamic.
Director: Chloé Robichaud | Stars: Sophie Desmarais, Vincent Leclerc, Nour Belkhiria, Katherine Levac
Votes: 218
Festival Category: Special Presentations
25. The Rescue: The Weight of the World (2023)
95 min | Drama
Following the overthrow of the cruel dictatorship that had supplanted the country's long-standing democracy, Julio returns to Argentina with his family. After his brother is abducted he takes the lead in negotiations with the perpetrators.
Director: Daniela Goggi | Stars: Rodrigo de la Serna, Julieta Zylberberg, Germán Palacios, Jorge Marrale
Votes: 473
Festival Category: Special Presentations
26. Ezra (2023)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
EZRA centers on comedian Max co-parenting autistic son Ezra with ex-wife Jenna. Faced with crucial decisions about Ezra's future, Max and Ezra go on a life-changing cross-country road trip.
Director: Tony Goldwyn | Stars: Robert De Niro, Rose Byrne, Vera Farmiga, Rainn Wilson
Votes: 207
Festival Category: Special Presentations
27. Fingernails (2023)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Anna and Ryan have found true love, and it's proven by a controversial new technology. There's just one problem, as Anna still isn't sure. Then she takes a position at a love testing institute and meets Amir.
Director: Christos Nikou | Stars: Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White, Luke Wilson
Votes: 8,011
Festival Category: Special Presentations
28. Four Daughters (2023)
Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania | Stars: Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui, Nour Karoui
Votes: 2,728
Festival Category: Special Presentations
29. His Three Daughters (2023)
R | 101 min | Drama
A tense, captivating, and touching portrait of family dynamics starring Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha Lyonne as sisters who converge after their father's health declines.
Director: Azazel Jacobs | Stars: Jovan Adepo, Jasmine Bracey, Carrie Coon, Jose Febus
Votes: 181
Festival Category: Special Presentations
30. Hit Man (2023)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy
A professor moonlighting as a hit man of sorts for his city police department, descends into dangerous, dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to a woman who enlists his services.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Adria Arjona, Glen Powell, Retta, Austin Amelio
Votes: 1,092
Festival Category: Special Presentations
31. In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (2023)
209 min | Documentary
Paul Simon inside the studio making his new album Seven Psalms while looking back on his six-decade career with countless musical peaks from Sounds of Silence to Graceland.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Carrie Fisher, Art Garfunkel
Votes: 142
Festival Category: Special Presentations
32. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023)
134 min | Drama, History
A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala
Votes: 2,690
Festival Category: Special Presentations
33. Knox Goes Away (2023)
R | 114 min | Thriller
When a contract killer has a rapidly evolving form of dementia, he is offered an opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son.
Director: Michael Keaton | Stars: Michael Keaton, Ray McKinnon, Cassie Moronez, Paul Perri
Votes: 5,354
Festival Category: Special Presentations
34. La Chimera (2023)
130 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A group of archaeologists and the black market of historical artifacts.
Director: Alice Rohrwacher | Stars: Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Isabella Rossellini
Votes: 5,194
Festival Category: Special Presentations
35. Last Summer (2023)
104 min | Drama, Thriller
Follows Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Léa Drucker, Samuel Kircher, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau
Votes: 1,750
Festival Category: Special Presentations
36. Les Indésirables (2023)
105 min | Drama
A local activist and a budding young mayor clash over the best path forward for their impoverished suburb.
Director: Ladj Ly | Stars: Anta Diaw, Alexis Manenti, Aristote Luyindula, Steve Tientcheu
Votes: 407
Festival Category: Special Presentations
37. Memory (I) (2023)
R | 103 min | Drama
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.
Director: Michel Franco | Stars: Alan Nehama, Dutch Welch, Aliya Campbell, Donald McQueen
Votes: 3,562
Festival Category: Special Presentations
38. Daddio (2023)
R | 101 min | Drama
A woman taking a cab ride from JFK engages in a conversation with the taxi driver about the important relationships in their lives.
Director: Christy Hall | Stars: Dakota Johnson, Sean Penn, Marcos A. Gonzalez, Shannon Gannon
Votes: 146
Festival Category: Special Presentations
39. Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
106 min | Drama
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Hitoshi Omika, Ryô Nishikawa, Ryûji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani
Votes: 3,167
Festival Category: Special Presentations
40. The Taste of Christmas (2023)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Three separate groups navigate Christmas, the most emotionally fraught season of the year.
Director: Alejandro Lozano | Stars: Ari Albarrán, Pamela Almanza, Andrés Almeida, Isabella Arroyo
Votes: 73
Festival Category: Special Presentations
41. Monster (2023)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Thriller
A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi
Votes: 20,960
Festival Category: Special Presentations
42. Mother Couch (2023)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
Three children are brought together when their mother refuses to move from a couch in a furniture store.
Director: Niclas Larsson | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rhys Ifans, Taylor Russell, Ellen Burstyn
Votes: 154
Festival Category: Special Presentations
43. North Star (2023)
95 min | Drama
Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.
Director: Kristin Scott Thomas | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham, Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Votes: 99
Festival Category: Special Presentations
44. One Life (2023)
PG | 109 min | Biography, Drama, History
Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
Director: James Hawes | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 16,031
Festival Category: Special Presentations
45. Pain Hustlers (2023)
R | 123 min | Crime, Drama
Liza dreams of a better life for herself and her daughter. Hired to work for a bankrupt pharmaceutical company, Liza skyrockets with sales and into the high life, putting her in the middle of a federal criminal conspiracy.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, Catherine O'Hara, Chloe Coleman
Votes: 43,405
Festival Category: Special Presentations
46. Poolman (2023)
100 min | Comedy, Mystery
Darren Barrenman is an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno who spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live.
Director: Chris Pine | Stars: Chris Pine, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Annette Bening, Danny DeVito
Votes: 137
Festival Category: Special Presentations
47. Reptile (2023)
R | 134 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tom Nichols is a hardened New England detective, unflinching in his pursuit of a case where nothing is as it seems and it begins to dismantle the illusions in his own life.
Director: Grant Singer | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Justin Timberlake, Eric Bogosian, Alicia Silverstone
Votes: 87,589
Festival Category: Special Presentations
48. Rustin (2023)
PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
Director: George C. Wolfe | Stars: Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Aml Ameen
Votes: 12,493
Festival Category: Special Presentations
49. Seven Veils (2023)
107 min | Drama
An earnest theater director has the task of remounting her former mentor's most famous work, the opera Salome. Some disturbing memories from her past will allow her repressed trauma to color the present.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Douglas Smith, Rebecca Liddiard, Mark O'Brien
Votes: 193
Festival Category: Special Presentations
50. Shoshana (2023)
121 min | Drama, Thriller
Follows two Brit police officers Thomas Wilkin and Geoffrey Morton in their hunt for charismatic poet and Zionist freedom fighter Avraham Stern, who was plotting to evict British authorities.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Douglas Booth, Irina Starshenbaum, Harry Melling, Aury Alby
Votes: 190
Festival Category: Special Presentations
51. Sing Sing (2023)
R | 105 min | Drama
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
Director: Greg Kwedar | Stars: Colman Domingo, Sean Dino Johnson, Clarence Maclin, Paul Raci
Votes: 130
Festival Category: Special Presentations
52. Smugglers (2023)
129 min | Action, Crime
An action crime film set in the 1970s in a small, peaceful village by the sea where two women get unexpectedly caught up in a high-stakes smuggling scheme.
Director: Ryu Seung-wan | Stars: Kim Hye-su, Yum Jung-ah, Zo In-sung, Park Jeong-min
Votes: 1,209
Festival Category: Special Presentations
53. Swan Song (I) (2023)
100 min | Documentary
A deep look of the incredible devotion, artistry and sacrifices that Karen Kain and the National Ballet of Canada dancers make in their pursuit of creating something unique, meaningful and beautiful.
Director: Chelsea McMullan | Stars: Jurgita Dronina, Shaelynn Estrada, Karen Kain
Votes: 70
Festival Category: Special Presentations
54. The Beast (2023)
146 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
The plot is set partly in a near future in which artificial intelligence is in control of everyone's lives and human emotions are perceived as a threat.
Director: Bertrand Bonello | Stars: Léa Seydoux, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanda, Dasha Nekrasova
Votes: 1,614
Festival Category: Special Presentations
55. The Burial (II) (2023)
R | 126 min | Drama
Inspired by true events, a lawyer helps a funeral home owner save his family business from a corporate behemoth, exposing a complex web of race, power, and injustice.
Director: Maggie Betts | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones, Jurnee Smollett, Alan Ruck
Votes: 33,737
Festival Category: Special Presentations
56. The Convert (2023)
119 min | Action, Drama
A lay preacher who arrives at a British settlement in 1830s. His violent past is soon drawn into question and his faith put to the test, as he finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Guy Pearce, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Antonio Te Maioha, Jacqueline McKenzie
Votes: 140
Festival Category: Special Presentations
57. The Critic (II) (2023)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Critic is a story of ambition, blackmail and desire with a dazzling anti-hero at its dark heart. A whodunnit wrapped in a Faustian pact which winds tighter and tighter. Patrick Marber adapted the script from Anthony Quinn's novel.
Director: Anand Tucker | Stars: Romola Garai, Gemma Arterton, Ian McKellen, Mark Strong
Votes: 109
Festival Category: Special Presentations
58. The Dead Don't Hurt (2023)
R | 129 min | Drama, Western
Two pioneers fight for the survival of their lives and their love on the American frontier during the Civil War.
Director: Viggo Mortensen | Stars: Vicky Krieps, Viggo Mortensen, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt
Votes: 206
Festival Category: Special Presentations
59. The Holdovers (2023)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama
A cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston
Votes: 137,839
Festival Category: Special Presentations
60. The Peasants (2023)
R | 114 min | Animation, Drama, History
Jagna is a young woman determined to forge her own path in a late 19th century Polish village - a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by adherence to colorful traditions and deep-rooted patriarchy.
Directors: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman | Stars: Kamila Urzedowska, Robert Gulaczyk, Miroslaw Baka, Sonia Mietielica
Votes: 5,049
Festival Category: Special Presentations
61. The Zone of Interest (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte
Votes: 82,029
Festival Category: Special Presentations
62. Together 99 (2023)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of very different individuals who in 1975 lived in a commune called "Together". Now it is 1999, and the collective has turned into the world's smallest. It's time for a reunion with old friends.
Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: David Dencik, Henrik Lundström, Jonas Karlsson, Gustaf Hammarsten
Votes: 1,326
Festival Category: Special Presentations
63. Unicorns (II) (2023)
119 min | Romance
It follows a queer South Asian nightclub performer living a double life, and a young, single father who works as a mechanic. When they meet, a search for identity is sparked.
Directors: Sally El Hosaini, James Krishna Floyd | Stars: Ben Hardy, Hannah Onslow, Madelyn Smedley, Sagar Radia
Votes: 115
Festival Category: Special Presentations
64. Uproar (2023)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama
A 17 year-old student is forced to get off the fence he has actively sat on all his life to stand up for himself, his whanau (family) and his future in this heartwarming story of identity.
Directors: Paul Middleditch, Hamish Bennett | Stars: Minnie Driver, Rhys Darby, Julian Dennison, Craig Hall
Votes: 691
Festival Category: Special Presentations
65. Wicked Little Letters (2023)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When people in Littlehampton--including conservative local Edith--begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town's women investigate.
Director: Thea Sharrock | Stars: Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman, Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones
Votes: 10,437
Festival Category: Special Presentations
66. Stop Making Sense (1984)
PG | 88 min | Documentary, Music
Considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time, the live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and features Talking Heads' most memorable songs.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: David Byrne, Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steven Scales
Votes: 20,004 | Gross: $5.02M
Festival Category: Special Presentations
67. Wildcat (2023)
103 min | Biography, Drama
Follows the life of writer Flannery O'Connor while she was struggling to publish her first novel.
Director: Ethan Hawke | Stars: Laura Linney, Philip Ettinger, Rafael Casal, Cooper Hoffman
Votes: 232
Festival Category: Special Presentations
68. Ru (2023)
120 min | Drama
Based on the Governor General's Award-winning novel by Kim Thúy, Ru is the story of the arduous journey of a wealthy family fleeing from Vietnam, before landing in Quebec.
Director: Charles-Olivier Michaud | Stars: Chloé Djandji, Chantal Thuy, Jean Bui, Olivier Dinh
Votes: 287
Festival Category: Special Presentations
69. Quiz Lady (2023)
R | 99 min | Comedy
A game-show-obsessed woman and her estranged sister work together to help cover their mother's gambling debts.
Director: Jessica Yu | Stars: Awkwafina, Sandra Oh, Will Ferrell, Holland Taylor
Votes: 19,209
Festival Category: Special Presentations
70. The Promised Land (2023)
R | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Ludvig Kahlen who pursued his lifelong dream: To make the heath bring him wealth and honor.
Director: Nikolaj Arcel | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Melina Hagberg
Votes: 16,399
Festival Category: Special Presentations
71. The Movie Teller (2023)
116 min | Drama
María Margarita is the youngest of four siblings in a family living in a mining town in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The most special time of the week for this family is Sunday, when they ... See full summary »
Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Daniel Brühl, Antonio de la Torre, Sara Becker
Votes: 344
Festival Category: Special Presentations
72. Woman of the Hour (2023)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rodney Alcala was a killer in the midst of a killing spree when he brazenly took part in, and won a date on, the popular TV game show "The Dating Game."
Director: Anna Kendrick | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Tony Hale, Kelley Jakle, Jedidiah Goodacre
Votes: 97
Festival Category: Special Presentations
73. Fitting In (II) (2023)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A teen girl is diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have a sex life, propelling her to explore unusual methods. Her relationships are challenged with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.
Director: Molly McGlynn | Stars: Maddie Ziegler, Emily Hampshire, Djouliet Amara, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
Votes: 421
Festival Category: Centerpiece
74. 100 Yards (2023)
108 min | Drama
Follows two bitter rivals as they duel for stewardship of a wushu academy.
Directors: Haofeng Xu, Junfeng Xu | Stars: Xu Changchu, Jacky Heung, Maotao Hu, Bea Hayden Kuo
Votes: 54
Festival Category: Centrepiece
75. About Dry Grasses (2023)
Not Rated | 197 min | Drama
A young teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after four years of mandatory service in a remote village, but is accused of inappropriate contact by two students. After losing hope, a colleague offers him new perspectives on life.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Ece Bagci
Votes: 11,474
Festival Category: Centrepiece
76. A Happy Day (2023)
113 min | Comedy, Drama
Three teenage friends stuck in a frozen, hopeless place come up with a plan to escape over the mountain to a world where their dreams can be fulfilled. But when one of them falls in love, their plan begins to unravel.
Director: Hisham Zaman | Stars: Salah Qadi, Ravand Ali Taha, Mohamed Salah, Sarah Aman Mentzoni
Votes: 73
Festival Category: Centrepiece
77. A Ravaging Wind (2023)
94 min | Drama
Gripped by the blind faith of her father, Reverend Pearson, Leni accompanies him on his evangelical mission. A banal accident forces them to stop at El Gringo's garage. When the Reverend ... See full summary »
Director: Paula Hernández | Stars: Sergi López, Alfredo Castro, Almudena González, Joaquín Acebo
Votes: 74
Festival Category: Centrepiece
78. A Road to a Village (2023)
106 min | Drama
Maila, a basket weaver, his wife Maile, and seven-year-old son Bindray live a simple village life in the mountainous region of eastern Nepal. When a road to their village is finally built, ... See full summary »
Director: Nabin Subba | Stars: Dayahang Rai, Pashupati Rai, Prem Subba, Kulchandra Neupane
Votes: 30
Festival Category: Centrepiece
79. Banel & Adama (2023)
87 min | Drama
A young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.
Director: Ramata-Toulaye Sy | Stars: Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo, Binta Racine Sy, Moussa Sow
Votes: 402
Festival Category: Centrepiece
80. Chuck Chuck Baby (2023)
101 min | Drama
Helen lives with her ex-husband, his 20-year-old girlfriend, their new baby - and his dying mother Gwen. Her life is a grind, and like all the other women she toils with at the local chicken factory, is spent in service of the clock.
Director: Janis Pugh | Stars: Louise Brealey, Annabel Scholey, Emily Aston, Edyta Budnik
Votes: 44
Festival Category: Centrepiece
81. City of Wind (2023)
104 min | Drama
Ze, a 17-year-old, studies hard at school to succeed in the cold, callous society of modern Mongolia. When Ze encounters Maralaa, his senses are awakened and another reality seems possible.
Director: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir | Stars: Tergel Bold-Erdene, Nomin-Erdene Ariunbyamba, Anu-Ujin Tsermaa, Bulgan Chuluunbat
Votes: 160
Festival Category: Centrepiece
82. Close Your Eyes (2023)
169 min | Drama
A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez
Votes: 2,732
Festival Category: Centrepiece
83. Shadow of Fire (2023)
95 min | Drama, History, Mystery
In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Shuri, Mirai Moriyama, Ouga Tsukao, Hiroki Kono
Votes: 155
Festival Category: Centrepiece
84. Shayda (2023)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama
A young Iranian mother and her six-year-old daughter find refuge in an Australian women's shelter during the two weeks of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz).
Director: Noora Niasari | Stars: Leah Purcell, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Mojean Aria, Jillian Nguyen
Votes: 765
Festival Category: Centrepiece
85. Sira (2023)
122 min | Drama
After a brutal attack, a young nomad named Sira refuses to surrender to her fate without a fight and instead takes a stand against Islamist terror.
Director: Apolline Traoré | Stars: Nafisatou Cisse, Mike Danon, Lazare Minoungou, Abdramane Barry
Votes: 164
Festival Category: Centrepiece
86. Snow Leopard (2023)
109 min | Drama
A father and son argue over whether they should kill a snow leopard that broke into their home and killed 9 sheep.
Director: Pema Tseden | Stars: Jinpa, Ziqi Xiong, Tseten Tashi
Votes: 143
Festival Category: Centrepiece
87. Sweet Dreams (II) (2023)
R | 102 min | Drama
Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son - the child of his Indonesian housemaid.
Director: Ena Sendijarevic | Stars: Hayati Azis, Renée Soutendijk, Florian Myjer, Lisa Zweerman
Votes: 1,045
Festival Category: Centrepiece
88. The Breaking Ice (2023)
97 min | Drama, Romance
The blossoming relationship between three young adults in their twenties.
Director: Anthony Chen | Stars: Dongyu Zhou, Haoran Liu, Chuxiao Qu, Ruguang Wei
Votes: 869
Festival Category: Centrepiece
89. The Delinquents (2023)
Unrated | 189 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Bank employee Morán schemes to steal enough money to never work again, then confess and serve prison time while his colleague hides the cash. Soon under investigative pressure, accomplice Román meets a woman who transforms him forever.
Director: Rodrigo Moreno | Stars: Daniel Elías, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino, Germán De Silva
Votes: 2,834
Festival Category: Centrepiece
90. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
87 min | Comedy
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
Director: Joanna Arnow | Stars: Joanna Arnow, Scott Cohen, Babak Tafti, Phillip Andry
Votes: 262
Festival Category: Centrepiece
91. The Monk and the Gun (2023)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
An American travels into Bhutan in search of a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again.
Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji | Stars: Tandin Wangchuk, Tandin Phubz, Kelsang Choejay, Tandin Sonam
Votes: 1,284
Festival Category: Centrepiece
92. The Nature of Love (2023)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sophia's life is turned upside down when she meets Sylvain. She comes from a wealthy family, while Sylvain comes from a family of manual workers. Sophia questions her own values after abandoning herself to her great romantic impulses.
Director: Monia Chokri | Stars: Magalie Lépine Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Francis-William Rhéaume, Monia Chokri
Votes: 1,590
Festival Category: Centrepiece
93. The Reeds (2023)
123 min | Drama
Set in a village in Anatolia at the foothills of the mountains, portraying the story of the resistance of a young man, Ali, against the domination of landlords and local gangs, striving to win back his wife's love and affection.
Director: Cemil Agacikoglu | Stars: Hilmi Ahiska, Sevgi Temel, Gökhan Yikilkan, Berkay Sanveren
Votes: 74
Festival Category: Centrepiece
94. The Settlers (2023)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, History
In Chile in 1901, three horseman are paid to protect a vast estate. Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a mixed-race sniper, who realizes that his true mission is to kill the indigenous population.
Director: Felipe Gálvez Haberle | Stars: Sam Spruell, Mark Stanley, Alfredo Castro, Benjamin Westfall
Votes: 2,924
Festival Category: Centrepiece
95. The Teachers' Lounge (2023)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
Director: Ilker Çatak | Stars: Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Rafael Stachowiak, Michael Klammer
Votes: 15,717
Festival Category: Centrepiece
96. They Shot the Piano Player (2023)
PG-13 | 104 min | Animation, Drama, History
New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.
Directors: Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Tony Ramos, Abel Ayala, Roberta Wallach
Votes: 570
Festival Category: Centrepiece
97. Toll (2023)
102 min | Crime, Drama
Suellen, a toll booth attendant, uses her job to help a gang of thieves steal watches so that she can afford to send her son to a gay conversion workshop.
Director: Carolina Markowicz | Stars: Maeve Jinkings, Thomas Aquino, Erom Cordeiro, Isac Graça
Votes: 364
Festival Category: Centrepiece
98. Upon Open Sky (2023)
117 min | Crime, Drama
Two teen brothers and their newly-met stepsister take a road trip to the Mexico-U.S. border in a tense revenge journey to track down the man responsible for the accident that caused their father's death.
Directors: Mariana Arriaga, Santiago Arriaga | Stars: Julio Bracho, Manolo Cardona, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Federica Garcia
Votes: 73
Festival Category: Centrepiece
99. We Grown Now (2023)
PG | 93 min | Drama
Two young boys, best friends Malik and Eric, discover the joys and hardships of growing up in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 1992 Chicago.
Director: Minhal Baig | Stars: Madisyn Barnes, Matthew Campbell, Giovani Chambers, David Folsom
Votes: 155
Festival Category: Centrepiece
100. Woodland (2023)
95 min | Drama
Based on a novel and the experience of the witnessing a terroristic gunman's attack in Vienna in 2020.
Director: Elisabeth Scharang | Stars: Gerti Drassl, Bogdan Dumitrache, Brigitte Hobmeier, Johannes Krisch
Votes: 71
Festival Category: Centrepiece
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