Listly by Soubin Nath
The 40th annual Toronto International Film Festival is currently being held from 10 to 20 September 2015. On 28 July 2015, the first wave of films were announced for the festival, with Jean-Marc Vallée's Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts serving as the opening night film. Here are the 10 Notable Movies from TIFF 2015.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Toronto_International_Film_Festival#Gala_presentations
Directed by Deepa Mehta
With Randeep Hooda, Ali Momen, Sarah Allen, Waris Ahluwalia
Beeba Boys: a ferocious, adrenaline-charged Indo Canadian gang war, and a violent clash of culture and crime. Gang leader Jeet Johar and his young, loyal, and often-brutal crew dress like peacocks, love attention, and openly compete with an old style Indo crime syndicate to take over the Vancouver drug and arms scene. Blood is spilled, hearts are broken, and family bonds shattered as the Beeba ...
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
With Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Heather Lind, Chris Cooper
A successful investment banker struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash.
Directed by Julie Delpy
With Julie Delpy, Dany Boon, Vincent Lacoste, Karin Viard
Violette, a 40-year old workaholic with a career in the fashion industry falls for a provincial computer geek, Jean-Rene, while on a spa retreat with her best friend.
Directed by Atom Egoyan
With Dean Norris, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Jürgen Prochnow
The darkest chapter of the 20th century collides with a contemporary mission of revenge.
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
With Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Directed by Ridley Scott
With Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Directed by Brian Helgeland
With Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Paul Bettany
The film tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the East End of London during the 1960s.
Directed by Roland Emmerich
With Jeremy Irvine, Jonny Beauchamp, Joey King, Caleb Landry Jones
A young man's political awakening and coming of age during the days and weeks leading up to the Stonewall Riots.
Directed by Matt Brown
With Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones, Dev Patel, Stephen Fry
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Directed by Paul Gross
With Rossif Sutherland, Clark Johnson, Paul Gross, Allan Hawco
Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars - all stand at the intersection of modern warfare - a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems.
Born and brought up in Kerala, India. Now in Mumbai, India doing first year of my Masters in Film Studies (M.A)..