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ROYAL HOTEL Section: Gala Presentations Director: Kitty Green Screenwriter: Oscar Redding, Kitty Green Logline: Two American girls (Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick) run out of cash while backpacking around Australia. To get home, they take a job in a rowdy pub in a remote mining…

Watching Mountains, which just made its international debut as part of the Toronto Film Festival’s Centerpiece program, I could not help but think of two other landmark films it seems to recall in its own way. One was 2019’s The Last Black Man In San Francisc…

AGGRO DR1FT Section: Midnight Madness Director: Harmony Korine Screenwriter: Harmony Korine Logline: In a surreal, dystopian Miami, the world's greatest assassin is pursued by a demonic crime lord. U.S. Sales Agent: CAA Panelists: Harmony Korine (director) First Screening…

RUSTIN Section: Special Presentations Director: George C. Wolfe Screenwriter: Julian Breece, Dustin Lance Black Logline: In 1963, Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin (Colman Domingo) helps to organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, only to find himself marginalized by…

THE CRITIC Section: Special Presentations Director: Anand Tucker Screenwriter: Patrick Marber Logline: A savage newspaper theatre critic (Ian McKellen) teams up with an actress (Gemma Arteton) in an attempt to blackmail his editor in 1930s London. International Sales:…

When I was in college cinema courses I made a Super 8 film called Movie Girl. It was a Hollywood-set love letter to movies centered on a Musso & Frank waitress who put herself dreamily into the plots of classic films. It won an award there but was the…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Tarsem Singh thought of his own sainted mother as he tried to understand why a Canadian woman of Indian heritage would plot to have her daughter abducted then murdered.  It was to be a significant moment as Singh prepared to shoot Dear Jassi, his first feature shot in India, the…

ONE LIFE Section: Special Presentations Director: James Hawes Screenwriter: Lucinda Coxon, Nick Drake Logline: One Life tells the story of Sir Nicholas Winton (Anthony Hopkins), a British stockbroker who visited Prague in 1939 was shocked by the country's desperate situation…

PAIN HUSTLERS Section: Special Presentations Director: David Yates Screenwriter: Wells Tower Logline: Pain Hustlers is the story of a woman named Liza Drake (Emily Blunt), a struggling divorcee who gets a job at a low-rent pharma company. She transforms it into a hugely successful…

FINGERNAILS Director: Christos Nikou Section: Special Presentations Screenwriters: Christos Nikou, Sam Steiner, Stavros Raptis Logline: In the near-future, in a time when the existence of love can be scientifically proven with a simple procedure, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) finds…

QUIZ LADY Director: Jessica Yu Screenwriter: Jen D'Angelo Logline: Awkwafina and Sandra Oh play sisters who are forced to think on the fly when gangsters come to demand payment of their mother's gambling debts. US Distributors: Hulu, Disney+ Panelists: Jessica Yu (director) Fi…

I TOLD YOU SO Director: Ginevra Ellkann Screenwriters: Ginevra Elkann, Chiara Barzini, Ilaria Bernardini Logline: When a freak heatwave hits Rome in January, the lives of several very different people become unexpectedly intertwined. International Sales: The Match Factory Panelists…