The 44^th Toronto International Film Festival (5-15 September) has announced the full line-up of the Discovery programme, which this year is changing and includes 37 films from up-and-coming filmmakers from all around the globe.

Cameron Bailey, TIFF’s co-head and artistic director, said about the selection: “This is where you want to look for the next decades’ masters, and it’s great to see long time TIFF programming associate Dorota Lech shaping the section as Discovery’s Lead Programmer.”

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Lech, who a couple of months ago took over the curation of the Discovery programme, added: “I’m thrilled to be curating the Discovery programme, a showcase of films that — regardless of form — expand, embolden, or even challenge notions of storytelling beyond what is established or expected. Expect the programme to push cinematic boundaries, pointing us in unexpected directions. As in previous years, it is a place to find work that could be poetic, bold, or challenging, but that is always passionate.”

In the selection, women’s voices are predominant as 54% of the films are directed by female filmmakers, while Chiara Malta’s fiction debut Simple Women [+leggi anche:
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The complete list of films selected:

Discovery

1982 [+leggi anche:
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AFRICA - Oren Gerner (Israel)
The Antenna - Orçun Behram (Turkey)
The Audition [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ina Weisse
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August [+leggi anche:
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Black Conflux - Nicole Dorsey (Canada)
Bring Me Home - Kim Seung-woo (South Korea)
A Bump Along The Way [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Shelly Love
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Calm With Horses [+leggi anche:
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Certified Mail - Hisham Saqr (Egypt)
Comets [+leggi anche:
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Disco [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jorunn Myklebust Syversen
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Easy Land - Sanja Zivkovic (Canada)
Entwined [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Minos Nikolakakis
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The Giant [+leggi anche:
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The Good Intentions - Ana García Blaya (Argentina)
Hearts and Bones - Ben Lawrence (Australia)
Hope [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maria Sødahl
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Kuessipan - Myriam Verreault (Canada)
Lina from Lima - María Paz González (Chile/Argentina/Peru)
The Lost Okoroshi - Abba Makama (Nigeria)
Love Me Tender [+leggi anche:
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Murmur - Heather Young (Canada)
My Life as a Comedian [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Gizem Erdogan
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Noura’s Dream [+leggi anche:
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The Obituary of Tunde Johnson - Ali LeRoi (USA)
Pompei [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Anna Falguères e John Shank
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Raf - Harry Cepka (Canada/USA)
The Rest of Us - Aisling Chin-Yee (Canada)
Sea Fever [+leggi anche:
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Simple Women [+leggi anche:
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Sole [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Carlo Sironi
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Son-Mother [+leggi anche:
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Stories From The Chestnut Woods [+leggi anche:
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Sweetness in the Belly [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
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Two of Us [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Filippo Meneghetti
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ZANA [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Antoneta Kastrati
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