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With a star studded selection of headliners and 37 world premières announced so far, the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival is the place to be if you want to get early sight of the coming year's big hitters. It opens with Kristoffer Borgli's Dream Scenario, which features Nicolas Cage, and includes work by Taika Waititi, Kaouther Ben Hania and Alice Rohrwacher.
The festival runs from 7 to 17 September.
View Films by Strand:
- Bell Lightbox
- Centrepiece
- Discovery
- Galas
- Industry Selects
- Midnight Madness
- Special Presentations
- TIFF Classics
- TIFF Docs
- Wavelengths
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Toronto Latest Reviews
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A hapless dreamer and would-be philosopher spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block in sunny LA. When he uncovers a water heist, he does what he can to protect the city.
![Boy Kills World](/images/stills/b/boy_kills_world_2023.jpg)
A dystopian fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf mute with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.
![The Dead Don't Hurt](/images/stills/d/dead_dont_hurt_2023.jpg)
A fiercely independent French Canadian woman embarks on an affair with a Danish immigrant.
![The End We Start From](/images/stills/e/end_we_start_from_2023.jpg)
A woman who along with her newborn try to find their way home as environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees a young family torn apart in the chaos.
![The Contestant](/images/stills/c/contestant_2023.jpg)
The story of a Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing.
![Close Your Eyes](/images/stills/c/close_your_eyes_2023_nt7BkPT.jpg)
A TV show looking into the mysterious disappearance of an actor leads a director on a journey into his own past while making discoveries in the present.
![In The Rearview](/images/stills/i/in_the_rearview_2023.jpg)
This fly-on-the-wall film captures Ukrainians as they are forced to leave their homes and drive into the unknown.
![Orlando, My Political Biography](/images/stills/o/orlando_my_political_biography_2023.jpg)
Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
![Sweet Dreams](/images/stills/s/sweet_dreams_2023.jpg)
When Dutch patriarch and plantation owner Jan dies suddenly in Indonesia, his son arrives from Europe with plans for radical change. But when Jan’s will puts his Indonesian concubine Siti at the forefront of the family estate, ideals prove to be futile and blood thicker than water.
![Sorry/Not Sorry](/images/stills/s/sorrynot_sorry_2023.jpg)
A re-examination of the case of Louis CK, who was accused of sexual harassment in 2017, exploring his comeback and the unseen effects of this on the women who spoke publicly about his behaviour.
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