Directed by Deepa Mehta.
Midnight’s Children
Spanning decades and generations, celebrated Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s highly anticipated adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize®–winning novel is an engrossing allegorical fantasy in which children born on the cusp of India’s independence from Britain are endowed with strange, magical abilities.
Sun. Sept. 9 | Roy Thomson Hall | 6:30 PM | Premium
Mon. Sept. 10 | TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 | 9:00 AM
Directed by Asoka Handagama
Him, Here, After
Returning to his community after defeat in the Sri Lankan civil war, a former Tamil cadre known only as “Him” faces hostility, suspicion and bitter recriminations in Asoka Handagama’s beautifully elegiac meditation on the aftermath of war.
Fri. Sept. 7 | Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6 | 9:00 PM
Mon. Sept. 10 | TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 | 3:15 PM
Sat. Sept. 15 | TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 | 9:30 PM
Directed by Mira Nair
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber and Kate Hudson co-star in this adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s international best-selling novel, about a young Pakistani man (Riz Ahmed) whose pursuit of corporate success on Wall Street leads him on a strange path back to the world he had left behind.
Sat. Sept. 8 | Roy Thomson Hall | 9:30 PM | Premium
Sun. Sept. 9 | The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema | 11:45 AM
Sun. Sept. 16 | Ryerson Theatre | 2:30 PM
Directed by Gauri Shinde
English Vinglish
Legendary Indian actress Sridevi returns to the screen after a fifteen-year absence in this funny and touching story about an Indian woman who struggles to learn the English language in order to overcome her insecurities.
Fri. Sept. 14 | Roy Thomson Hall | 9:30 PM | Premium
Sat. Sept. 15 | TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 | 12:15 PM
Directed by Girish Kasaravalli
The Tortoise, An Incarnation
In Girish Kasaravalli’s gently philosophical character piece, a humble, low-level civil servant cast as the lead in a popular TV serial chronicling the life of Gandhi finds uncanny echoes between his own life and that of the legendary leader — and sets out to correct their mutual failings.
Mon. Sept. 10 | TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 | 9:45 PM
Tues. Sept. 11 | Jackman Hall (AGO) | 9:30 AM
Sat. Sept. 15 | Scotiabank 9 | 12:00 PM
Directed by Shambhavi Kaul
21 Chitrakoot
Uncanny and visually enthralling, Shambhavi Kaul’s 21 Chitrakoot exhumes a mystical land composed of 1980s chroma-key backdrops from a famous Indian television series. With barely tempered chaos, melancholia replaces nostalgia as abstraction and narrative duel for eminence in a fractured, abandoned utopia.
Fri. Sept. 7 | Jackman Hall (AGO) | 7:00 PM
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