Toronto International Film Festival 2023

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Riddle Of Fire Riddle Of Fire
Riddle Of Fire and Boy Kills World
Aggro Dr1ft (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Harmony Korine; Stars: Jordi Mollà, Travis Scott)
An action-movie miasma of skulls and swords, masks and machine guns, strippers and mobsters, horned demons and hot cars.
Boy Kills World (Country: Germany, South Africa, US; Year: 2023; Director: Moritz Mohr; Writer: Arend Remmers, Tyler Burton Smith; Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Brett Gelman, Isaiah Mustafa)
A dystopian fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf mute with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.
Dicks: The Musical (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Larry Charles; Writer: Aaron Jackson, Josh Sharp; Stars: Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Megan Thee Stallion, Bowen Yang, Aaron Jackson, Josh Sharp, Carlena Britch)
A pair of business rivals discover that they're identical twins and decide to swap places in an attempt to trick their divorced parents into getting back together.
Hell Of A Summer (Country: US, Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Billy Bryk, Finn Wolfhard; Writer: Billy Bryk, Finn Wolfhard; Stars: Finn Wolfhard, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Abby Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Julia Lalonde, Susan Coyne)
Counsellors at a summer camp are terrorised by a masked killer.
Kill (Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Nikhil Nagesh Bhat; Writer: Ritesh Shah; Stars: Tanya Maniktala, Laksh Lalwani, Raghav Juyal)
A train to New Delhi becomes a battleground as a pair of commandos faces an army of invading bandits.
When Evil Lurks When Evil Lurks
When Evil Lurks and Aggro Dr1ft
Naga (Country: Saudi Arabia; Year: 2023; Director: Meshal Aljaser; Stars: Adwa Bader, Yazeed Almajyul, Khalid Bin Shaddad)
A young woman stranded in the Arabian desert races to be home before curfew under the threat of extreme punishment from her scary strict father.
Riddle Of Fire (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Weston Razooli; Writer: Weston Razooli; Stars: Lio Tipton, Weston Razooli, Charles Halford, Phoebe Ferro)
Three mischievous children on dirt bikes, armed with paint guns and cocky attitudes, launch an attack at a local warehouse, outwitting a security guard and 'liberating' the very latest video game console for themselves - but to make use of it, they need to figure out the password with which their mother has locked the TV.
Sleep (Jam) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Jason Yu; Stars: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun)
A pregnant wife becomes worried about her husband's sleeping habits. What starts out as light sleep-talking soon escalates to unexpectedly grotesque behaviour. They consult a sleep clinic without success and as his nightmarish behaviour escalates, they desperately seek help from a shaman.
When Evil Lurks (Country: Argentina, US; Year: 2023; Director: Demián Rugna; Writer: Demián Rugna; Stars: Ezequiel Rodríguez, Luis Ziembrowski, Demián Salomón, Marcelo Michianaux, Federico Liss)
In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to give birth to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the man but merely succeed in helping him to deliver the inferno.
Working Class Goes To Hell (Country: Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croatia; Year: 2023; Director: Mladen Djordjevic; Writer: Mladen Djordjevic; Stars: Tamara Krcunovic, Leon Lucev, Momo Picuric)
A small-town labour union turns to the dark arts for empowerment against the corrupt forces in its community.
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