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Everyone in the room decides her fiction is a confession, and she is expected to keep smiling through it.
Young Female Playwright
Pony Nicole Herauf
Everyone in the room decides her fiction is a confession, and she is expected to keep smiling through it.
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Ninety-six minutes of watching someone maintain a lie the way other people hold down a job.
White Lie
Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas
Ninety-six minutes of watching someone maintain a lie the way other people hold down a job.
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A pop career grown straight out of a wound, staged like grand opera and lit like a stadium.
Vox Lux
Brady Corbet
A pop career grown straight out of a wound, staged like grand opera and lit like a stadium.
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Rent is due, so the living room becomes a business — and then the business starts running him.
Toronto Apartment
Tristan Wheeler
Rent is due, so the living room becomes a business — and then the business starts running him.
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Every adult in the house is faking it too, and the film is generous enough to say so out loud.
Thumbsucker
Mike Mills
Every adult in the house is faking it too, and the film is generous enough to say so out loud.
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Three boys dare each other toward adulthood on a Lake Superior cliff, and the dare becomes the whole friendship.
Sleeping Giant
Andrew Cividino
Three boys dare each other toward adulthood on a Lake Superior cliff, and the dare becomes the whole friendship.
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A homesick freshman and his RA talk until sunrise, and the film bets everything on the talking.
Shithouse
Cooper Raiff
A homesick freshman and his RA talk until sunrise, and the film bets everything on the talking.
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A deadpan Berlin comedy where the laugh and the ache keep arriving in the same breath.
Sad Jokes
Fabian Stumm
A deadpan Berlin comedy where the laugh and the ache keep arriving in the same breath.
MOVIES
Two engineers build something in a garage, and the story quietly stops being theirs.
Primer
Shane Carruth
Two engineers build something in a garage, and the story quietly stops being theirs.
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A gross-out premise played with unnerving sincerity — the joke keeps landing and it keeps hurting.
The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man
Braden Sitter Sr.
A gross-out premise played with unnerving sincerity — the joke keeps landing and it keeps hurting.
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The world ends at midnight and Toronto responds with dinner parties, favourite records, and one honest conversation.
Last Night
Don McKellar
The world ends at midnight and Toronto responds with dinner parties, favourite records, and one honest conversation.
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Grief played as a filthy joke, until the joke stops being funny and the longing underneath shows through.
Dead Lover
Grace Glowicki
Grief played as a filthy joke, until the joke stops being funny and the longing underneath shows through.
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Fatherhood as a two-week bender: all games, no rules, and a love that keeps outrunning its own competence.
Daddy Longlegs
Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
Fatherhood as a two-week bender: all games, no rules, and a love that keeps outrunning its own competence.
MOVIES
A night-shift concierge, a mountain outlaw, a man adrift at sea, and one soul splitting between them.
Buster's Mal Heart
Sarah Adina Smith
A night-shift concierge, a mountain outlaw, a man adrift at sea, and one soul splitting between them.
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The best film from TIFF 2014
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Daniel Goldhaber
The best film from TIFF 2014
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The Climb
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