Toronto International Film Festival
Cinema from Spain at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
- Blancanieves
- Directed by Pablo Berger
- A gorgeous, black-and-white homage to the Golden Age of Europe's silent cinema, the intoxicating Blancanieves relocates the tale of Snow White to a sweepingly romantic vision of 1920s Spain, where a young girl escapes from her wicked stepmother to find fame as a matador.
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- Clandestine Childhood (Infancia clandestina)
- Directed by Benjamín Ávila
- Set in 1979 during Argentina's military dictatorship, Benjamín Ávila's stylized, semi-autobiographical memoir follows the travails of a fifth-grader who is forced to live under an assumed identity in order to protect his resistance-fighter parents.
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- Dust (Polvo)
- Directed by Julio Hernández Cordón
- On a small Guatemalan village where many were "disappeared" during the country's civil war, a troubled young man struggles with the memory of his murdered father —and the nearby presence of the man who turned his father in— in this moving drama from director Julio Hernández Cordón.
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- Everybody has a plan (Todos tenemos a plan)
- Directed by Ana Piterbarg
- In this dazzling thriller from first-time feature filmmaker Ana Piterbarg, Viggo Mortensen (in his third Spanish-language film) is twice the badass as twin brothers whose deadly pact plunges them into the sordid depths of the Argentinean underworld.
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- Ghost graduation (Promoción fantasma)
- Directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera
- The Breakfast Club meets Ghostbusters in this raucous Spanish comedy, in which a paranormally-gifted high-school teacher is charged with helping a group of ghostly '80s-era teens with some unfinished business: passing their final exam.
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- Painless (Insensibles)
- Directed by Juan Carlos Medina
- In this fascinating allegorical horror-thriller, a brilliant young neurosurgeon emerges miraculously unharmed from a devastating car crash —only to discover a dark secret about his origins that stretches back to a series of bizarre experiments conducted at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War.
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- Sons of the clouds (Hijos de las nubes)
- Directed by Álvaro Longoria
- Academy Award®–winning actor Javier Bardem produced this urgent new documentary about how colonization of the Western Sahara has displaced nearly 200,000 people to refugee camps. Following our screening, Bardem joins us to discuss how he found out about this catastrophic human rights issue, and was determined to bring the cause of the Saharan refugees to attention of the UN Assembly.
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- The end (Fin)
- Directed by Jorge Torregrossa
- The first feature from Spanish director Jorge Torregrossa is a stunning apocalyptic thriller set against the awe-inspiring peaks of the Pyrenees, where a group of friends find themselves at the mercy of nature —and their own psychic demons— after a mysterious, all-encompassing blackout.
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- The Impossible (Lo imposible)
- Directed by Juan Antonio Garcia Bayona
- Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage) recreates the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in terrifyingly vivid detail in this grueling survival story about a married couple (Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor) searching for their missing children in the aftermath of the disaster.
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- Twice born (Volver a nacer)
- Directed by Sergio Castellitto
- Actor-director Sergio Castellitto (Don't Move) directs Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch in this vivid, full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo.
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- White Elephant (Elefante blanco)
- Directed by Pablo Trapero
- Two Catholic priests must contend with drug lords, corrupt cops and their own demons as they seek to care for the residents of a Buenos Aires slum in this gripping drama from acclaimed Argentinian director Pablo Trapero (Carancho).
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- Film
- Toronto
- Sep 6, 2012 – Sep 16, 2012
Venue
Various venues in Toronto
Phone
1-888-599-8433