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Toronto International Film Festival · 2025

Toronto International Film Festival 2025

Wavelengths

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6 films · 2 reviews

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Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The Resonance Field, leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing a journalist into a journey that shatters her understanding of consciousness and time.

(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kahlil Joseph; Writer: Saidiya Hartman, Irvin Hunt; Stars: Shaunette Renée Wilson, Penny Johnson Jerald, Zora Casebere, Kaneza Schaal, Jermell Deshauan, Peter Hernandez, Hope Giselle)

Copper (Cobre)

A long-suffering mine employee’s life takes an unexpected turn after he finds a corpse on the side of the road.

(Country: Mexico, Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Nicolás Pereda; Stars: Lázaro Rodríguez, Rosa Estela Juárez)

Dry Leaf

Review preview for Dry Leaf

The blurry, hazy images recorded entirely on a discontinued Sony Ericsson cellphone – frequently in long takes – make it a hardly digestible slow cinema challenge, yet rewarding as an aesthetic experience.

Lucija Furac · 3.5 out of 5
A father goes looking for his missing photographer daughter across rural Georgia.

(Country: Germany, Georgia; Year: 2025; Director: Alexandre Koberidze; Writer: Alexandre Koberidze; Stars: David Koberidze, Irina Chelidze, Giorgi Bochorishvili, Otar Nijaradze, Vakhtang Panchulidze)

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Magellan

Magellan is a navigator rebelling against the power of the King, due to his humanism and belief in justice. But once he is finally in command of the Spice Fleet, in which he will make the first circumnavigation of the Earth, what will his journey unravel about himself?

(Country: Philippines, Spain, Portugal, France; Year: 2025; Director: Lav Diaz; Writer: Lav Diaz; Stars: Gael García Bernal, Amado Arjay Babon, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Ângela Azevedo, Hazel Orencio, Ronnie Lazaro, Rafael Morais, Bong Cabrera, Tomás Alves, Ivo Arroja, Valdemar Santos, Sasa Cabalquinto, Mario Castro, Paulo Calatré, Max Grosse Majench)

Mare's Nest

Review preview for Mare's Nest

Rivers' dreamlike approach has the quality of memory in places, full of figments and fragments, although that inevitably means some episodes are more engaging than others.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
A child's adventures in an adult-free world.

(Country: UK, France; Year: 2025; Director: Ben Rivers; Writer: Ben Rivers, based on play The Word for Snow by Don DeLillo; Stars: Aonan Yang, Andreas Mendritzki, Fabrizio Polpettini, François Bonenfant)

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With Hasan In Gaza

What began as a search for a former prison mate from 1989 - a man lost to time and war - led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza, accompanied by Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. Documentary made from footage shot by the documentarian 21 years ago.

(Country: Palestine, Germany, France, Switzerland; Year: 2025; Director: Kamal Aljafari)