Other Films at the Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival also featured nine other movies about which I had already posted. Check them out here:

Women Without Men, directed by Shirin Neshat

White Material, directed by Claire Denis

Once Upon a Time Proletarian, directed by Xiaolu Guo

La Pivellina, directed by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel

Le père de mes enfants, directed by Mia Hansen-Love

Bright Star, directed by Jane Campion

Fish Tank, directed by Andrea Arnold

Jaffa, directed by Keren Yedaya

A Brand New Life, directed by Ounie Lecomte

White Material

Showing this weekend at the Venice Film Festival: White Material, directed by Claire Denis

Synopsis from the Venice Film Festival's website:

No more smirking. We’re stopping the bullshit right now and staying put. The regular army is preparing to reestablish order in the country. To clean up. To eliminate the rebel officer also known as the Boxeur and rid the countryside of roving child soldiers. All the expatriates have gone home, getting out before things turn nasty. Of the Vials, coffee planters who have lived here for two generations, Maria stands firm. She’s not about to give in to rumors or abandon her harvest at the first sound of gunfire. Just like her father-in-law and her exhusband who is also the father of her son (a little too much of a slacker in her opinion) she is convinced that Cherif, mayor of the neighboring town, will protect them. If she asks him he will save the plantation.