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Toronto International Film Festival 2024

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By The Stream (Country: South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Writer: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-hee, Cho Young)
Tale of loneliness, connection, and creativity that transpires during an annual skit festival at a women’s university.
Cloud (Kuraudo) (Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kurosawa Kiyoshi; Writer: Kurosawa Kiyoshi; Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Masataka Kubota)
An online scammer, reselling faulty products at preposterously high rates, is on the run after some of his customers decide to hit back.
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Front Row (Country: Algeria, France, Saudi Arabia; Year: 2024; Director: Merzak Allouache; Stars: Nabil Asli, Bouchra Roy, Fatiha Ouared)
Two feuding matriarchs behave badly at the beach
Youth (Hard Times) (Qing Chun (Ku)) (Country: France, Luxembourg, Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Wang Bing; Writer: Wang Bing)
Individual and collective stories unfold in Zhili's textile workshops, becoming more dramatic as the seasons go by. From atop a passageway, workers watch their boss beat up a supplier. In another workshop, the boss has taken off with all the money.
Youth (Homecoming) (Quin Chun Gui) (Country: France, Luxembourg, Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Wang Bing; Writer: Wang Bing)
Third instalment of a documentary trilogy about young Chinese workers. It follows them over Chinese New Year.
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