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NEXT WAVE For the next generation of movie lovers: selections approved by our youth-driven TIFF Next Wave Committee.

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Men, Women & Children

Men, Women & Children

The latest feature from Jason Reitman (Up in the AirLabor Day) follows a group of teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives. A sterling ensemble cast includes Judy Greer, Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ansel Elgort, J.K. Simmmons, and Emma Thompson.

Tokyo Fiancée

Tokyo Fiancée

A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale of young love and cultural discovery.

Big Game

Big Game

Trapped in the wilderness after Air Force One is forced down by a terrorist attack, the President of the United States (Samuel L. Jackson) must rely on the survival skills of a 13-year-old woodsman, in this thriller co-starring Ray Stevenson, Jim Broadbent and Felicity Huffman.

Girlhood

Girlhood

Céline Sciamma (Water LiliesTomboy) returns to the Festival with this raw, raucous but tender look at a group of black high school students living in the tough banlieues of Paris. 

PLEASE NOTE: The 9:30pm screening (Scotiabank 3) ofGirlhood on Sunday, September 14 has moved to 9:30pm (Scotiabank 1).

Guidance

Guidance

Fabricating credentials to score a last-ditch job as a high school guidance counsellor, a boozing, drug-addled former child star becomes an improbable hit with his students by dispensing the worst advice possible, in this hilarious reprobate comedy from writer-director-star Pat Mills.

Laggies

Laggies

Following a dismal high school reunion and a disastrous proposal of marriage, a going-nowhere twentysomething (Keira Knightley) falls in with a carefree teenager (Chloë Grace Moretz) and takes a week off to reassess her life.

National Diploma

National Diploma

Director Dieudo Hamadi follows a group of teenagers in his hometown of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo, whose struggles to pass the state exam that is the key to their future are further complicated by their country's endemic culture of corruption.

Wet Bum

Wet Bum

An awkward teenage outcast (2014 TIFF Rising Star Julia Sarah Stone) finds unlikely companions in two aged residents of the retirement home in which she works, in this charming and poignant debut by Canadian director Lindsay MacKay. Starring Jenna Nye, Kenneth Welsh, Leah Pinsent and Craig Arnold.

What We Do In The Shadows

What We Do In The Shadows

Taika Waititi (BoyEagle vs Shark) and Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) co-direct and star in this hilarious mockumentary about a trio of vampires living in a New Zealand suburb who struggle to adapt to life in the 21st century.

X +Y

X +Y

A socially awkward teenage math prodigy (Asa Butterfield, The Boy in the Striped PyjamasHugo) finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad, in this warm and inspirational drama co-starring Sally Hawkins, Rafe Spall and Eddie Marsan.

 


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