This is a big year for the Toronto International Film Festival, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It's a great place to catch the big titles likely to be making headlines over the coming year, and it often picks future award winners.

The festival runs from 4 to 14 September.

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Nuremberg
Nuremberg
Drama chronicles the events that brought the Nazi high command to justice following the Second World War.
Christy
Christy
The story of Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer of the Nineties.
Mare's Nest
Mare's Nest
A child's adventures in an adult-free world.
A Useful Ghost
A Useful Ghost
March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing the vacuum cleaner. But to become a useful ghost, she first needs to get rid of the useless ones.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation
Two Prosecutors
Two Prosecutors
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination... the desk of a newly appointed local prosecutor, who embarks on a quest for justice.
The Smashing Machine
The Smashing Machine
The story of legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr.
Dry Leaf
Dry Leaf
A father goes looking for his missing photographer daughter across rural Georgia.
Sound Of Falling
Sound Of Falling
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
Mirrors No.3
Mirrors No.3
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past...
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Toronto International Film Festival Features

It’s about re-enchantment
Christian Petzold on cinema history, lullabies, Laura, Rebecca and Miroirs No. 3
Contested stories
Siyou Tan on teenage friendships, ghosts and the search of truth in Amoeba
'I didn't make this film myself. The Islamic Republic made it by putting me in prison'
Jafar Panahi on the inspiration for It Was Just An Accident
'Simple is actually the hardest to do'
Eric San - aka Kid Koala - on minimalism and cherishing the moment in Space Cadet
Dual identity
Or Sinai on exploring the life of a migrant worker who returns home in Mama
'I admit it was crazy idea, but then film people are crazy'
Richard Linklater on chronicling the creation of Godard's Breathless in Nouvelle Vague
Slice of life... and fable
The President's Cake director Hasan Hadi on the challenges and craft behind his debut
A test of love
Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer on Honey Bunch
Tales from the tundra
Zacharias Kunuk on telling traditional stories in Wrong Husband

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