Tony Grisoni

Asif Kapadia’s genre-bending documentary set in the future tackles the biggest challenges endangering our present. 2073 is a “true sci-fi” horror. A warning of the world we will get if we don’t act now. Ghost lives off-grid in a dystopian New San Francisco in the year 2073. The world is controlled by Libertarians, Dictators and Tech Bros. There is no dissent, no freedom. Everyone is monitored, people disappear and the net is closing on Ghost. (labiennale.org)

Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad in the European city-state of Beszel, investigates the murder of a student from Beszel's twin-city of Ul Qoman - which occupies the same space but is perceived differently. (imdb)

A jaded, cynical commercial director travels to Spain to shoot an advertisement inspired by the tale of Don Quixote. He is horrified to discover that a shoemaker from a local village, whom he cast as the knight years ago in a student film, now genuinely believes he is the real Quixote. The director is involuntarily swept up as Quixote's squire in a surreal journey across Spain.

The newly elected Pope Pius XIII, the first American pontiff, shocks the Vatican with his conservative, ruthless, and secretive reign. A young, chain-smoking orphan raised by a nun, he challenges established Church traditions and the political power of the Cardinals. As he struggles with his own faith, he aims to radically transform Catholicism, demanding absolute devotion.

Saoirse Ronan (Hanna) stars in this adaptation of Meg Rosoff's award-winning near-future novel about an American teenager sent to live with her family in Britain on the eve of the Third World War, directed by Kevin McDonald (The Last King of Scotland). (tiff.net)

In this timely and ambitious four-part dramatic series, director Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) and celebrated British television writer Tony Grisoni tell the tragic tale of a "sleepy little English market town" turned upside down when one of its little-liked residents turns his guns on his fellow citizens. (tiff.net)

A rookie journalist looks to solve the increasingly vexing case of a serial killer on the loose.

Police corruption interferes with the search for a killer in Yorkshire, England.

The seemingly untouchable, corrupt West Yorkshire police, and the true evil mastermind behind the child abductions and murders of the last 14 years, can't resist doing it again. Against them, a fat useless lawyer, and one remorseful copper.

Escaping her abusive father, and estranged from her mother, Lucy is thrust upon the UK's disheveled care system. Samantha Morton's directorial debut, The Unloved is an elegiac look through the intimate eye of an unsettled girl's complex relationship with the increasingly unstable, alienating world around her.

During Harry Houdini's tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish psychic. The psychic and her daughter attempt to con Houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years. However all does not go to plan... (imdb)

Mr Karva runs a shady little empire in North London. We don't know exactly how he makes his money but we know it's probably not very nice. Mr Karva's stepson, Othello, has ambitions to take the old man's place; and Othello's fainthearted friend, Emilio, has ambitions of his own. (imdb)

Brothers in the Head is the feverish, mind-bending odyssey of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe who were plucked from obscurity by a 1970s music promoter and groomed into a boy band. (IFC Films)

After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with what's happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper's veil. (imdb)

This film follows the hazardous journey of two Afghan boys as they travel from Pakistan through Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and the UK in search of refuge in London. (Sundance Film Series)

Summer 1967 in Poland. For 12-year-olds Pawel, Piotr, Szymek and Elka, this will prove the most extraordinary summer of their lives. They meet a mysterious Jewish boy called Dawid Weiser. Dawid, a highly imaginative child, has discovered an old munitions camp. Dawid is planning something rather special. Using the old munitions, he treats his friends to a series of demonstrations of explosions. (movies.yahoo.com)

An eccentric journalist and his volatile psychopathic lawyer embark on a psychedelic journey across the Nevada desert to cover a motorcycle race. Fueled by a massive suitcase of mind-altering substances, their assignment devolves into a series of surreal hallucinations and chaotic encounters that explore the dark, fractured remnants of the American Dream during the early 1970s.

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes. (imdb)

Twin sisters who are worlds apart in every way become connected by the one man who tears them apart forever. (imdb)

Fantastical, larger-than-life family saga following Danilo and Rosa, Italian immigrants who abscond to London, learn secrets of gambling from a talking pig, and open a cafe in the East End, until their past catches up with them.