In addition to the 2014 Golden Bear winning film, Black Coal, Thin Ice, the Berlinale selection is present at TIFF via Dietrich Brüggemann's Stations of the Cross, a wonderful dark comedy about a teenager who, in an age dominated by mobile phones and Internet, wants to sacrifice herself to God – the film received the Best Screenplay award; Friedrich Schiller's love triangle The Beloved Sisters; The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared, the surprising story of a 100 year old man who decides it's not too late to start all over again; The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, an unconventional film about the short 2011 disappearance of the author, starring the man himself; or Love is Strange, by Ira Sachs, a film about same sex marriages.
A very special TIFFashion event is the premiere screening of Yves Saint Laurent, a film about the life and work of the famous fashion designer. Another not-to-be-missed screening is that of the newest Roman Polanski film which premiered internationally last year in Cannes and received the César Award for Directing - Venus in Fur, starring Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric. Those enamoured with Boris Vian's love novel „Moon Indigo” will be able to watch the film version, directed by Michel Gondry. The film is an ingenious examination of a fantastic world, it stars Audrey Tatou and Romain Duris and it received the César Award for Art Direction.
The Supernova selection also includes Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida (FIPRESCI award in Toronto), an unforgettable black&white and extremely stylish film about a young soon-to-become nun who wants to meet her family before her life changes forever, A Thousand Times Good Night (Grand Jury Prize in Montreal), a complex and tender drama about a war photographer (Juliette Binoche) who must choose between her family and her passion, The Golden Dream, a film about the American dream of Mexican teenagers, winner of the A Certain Talent award in Cannes 2013 and the grand Jury Prizes in Thessaloniki and Zurich. One of the Karlovy Vary winners, Papusza tells the remarkable based-on-actual-facts story of the only Roma female poet who was ever published.
TIFF audiences will also see Via Castellana Bandiera, which brought Elena Cotta the Coppa Volpi Award for Best Actress in Venice, Sex, Drugs and Taxation, the exceptional story of a take-no-prisoners partisan of absolute freedom and of a hedonist capitalist in Scandinavia's hippie era, or Of Horses and Men, a touching love story with humans and horses which brought Icelandic film director Benedikt Erlingsson the Best Debut Film Award in San Sebastian and the FIPRESCI Award in Tallinn and Goteborg.
