The highly-anticipated Tom à la ferme, the newest film by Xavier Dolan and last year's Venice critics' darling (it won the FIPRESCI award), will premiere at TIFF. Dolan stars as a copywriter who goes to the countryside in order to attend a funeral and thus enters a sick game. Another sick game is entered by the protagonist of R 100, by Hitoshi Matsumoto.
Famed Korean director Kim Ki-duk pushes the boundaries yet once again, this time with Moebius, a film without dialogue in which a family gets pushed to utter ruin. Another family, this time with a small child, is caught in a drama about domestic violence – The Police Officer's Wife, winner of the 2013 Venice's Special Jury Prize. Chills down the spine come in the form of two films in which the directors chronicle their personal suffering: in New Boobs, director Sacha Polak finds out she's carrying the BRCA1 gene which is responsible for hereditary mammary cancer but who cannot decide whether to amputate the breasts or not; and in What Now? Remind Me, Joaquim Pinto, HIV positive and suffering from hepatitis, is the protagonist of a year of submitting himself to medical investigations and trial drugs with strong consequences.
Intense and highly controversial, L’Inconnu du lac, winner of the Best Director award in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes, follows the passionate love story of two men who meet by a lake. Sexual attraction between two young men is also the subject of the Swedish film Something Must Break, winner of the Tiger Award in Rotterdam. In Ruin - the Orizzonti Special Prize in Venice – two lovers run away from the dangerous and exploitive world of today's Cambodia.
