TIFF15 Shortlist

One of the greatest debuts in cinema history, the effervescent first feature by French New Wave master Jacques Rozier returns in a sparkling new 35mm print created especially for TIFF Cinematheque.

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.

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A ruthless professional thief (Robert De Niro) and a fanatical detective (Al Pacino) go mano-a-mano in Michael Mann's epic-scale crime saga.

A pair of married white-collar swindlers run afoul of their latest victims, in this suspenseful crime drama from celebrated Filipino director Erik Matti.

French provocateur Gaspar Noé (Enter the Void) continues to push the envelope with this 3D melodrama featuring explicit, unsimulated sex.

This epic documentary by Marcel Ophüls (The Sorrow and the Pity) meditates on Western society's concepts of justice through comparisons of war crimes in Vietnam, Algeria, and Nazi Germany.

Five young sisters living in a coastal Turkish village on the Black Sea are placed under the tyrannical regime of traditional morality by their guardians, in the poignant, award-winning first feature by Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven.

Luchino Visconti's magisterial family saga — about an impoverished Sicilian clan who arrive in Milan in search of a better life — is regarded by many as the final masterpiece of classic Italian neorealism.

The first of Hungarian master Miklós Jancsó's historical epics is set in an isolated concentration camp in the 1860s, where imperial authorities use brutal methods to discover the nationalist rebels hiding within the ragtag group of prisoners.

A lecture-performance with music and film projection performed by Canadian artist Annie MacDonell and French artist Maïder Fortuné which explores an experimental form of cinematic memory.

Filmed over the course of thirty days at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Frederick Wiseman’s searing documentary is one of the greatest directorial debuts in the history of cinema, and also one of the most controversial.

TIFF is proud to present a special free screening of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of erotic fixation, featuring a live performance of Bernard Herrmann's brilliant score by members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.