ORENDA

Directed by: Pirjo Honkasalo (The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, Concrete Night)
Cast: Alma Pöysti (Fallen Leaves), Pirkko Saisio, Juhan Ulfsak, Hannu-Pekka Björkman
Written by: Pirkko Saisio
Produced by: Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff
Production Company: Bufo
Co-Production Companies: All Film (Estonia), Plattform Produktion (Sweden)
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Subtitled Versions: English
Status: Post-Production

Synopsis:

Orenda means an invisible force, a life spirit that inhabits everything living and lifeless: people, wind, birds, rabbits, stone. The one who serves Orenda and sings to it may receive its power. Exploring the themes of guilt and grace, the destinies of two women intertwine into a tense emotional thriller set on a remote island. The new film by highly established director Pirjo Honkasalo stars a recent Golden Globe nominee Alma Pöysti and Pirkko Saisio.

TIFF SCREENING SCHEDULE

Press & Industry - 13 Sep - 09:40 - Scotiabank 7
Public - 14 Sep - 18:45 - Scotiabank 9
Press & Industry - 15 Sep - 12:10 - Scotiabank 5
Public - 15 Sep - 15:35 - Scotiabank 11

JE’VIDA

Directed by: Katja Gauriloff
Genres: Drama
Cast: Agafia Niemenmaa (Je’vida as a child) Heidi Juliana Gauriloff (Je’vida as an adult) Sanna-Kaisa Palo, Seidi Haarla, Erkki Gauriloff, Matleena Fofonoff
Written by: Katja Gauriloff, Niillas Holmberg
Produced by: Joonas Berghäll, Satu Majava, Anna Nuru
Production Company: Oktober Oy
Release year: 2023
Country: Finland
Language: Skolt Sámi, Finnish
Subtitled Versions: English
Duration: 99 min

Synopsis:

An aunt and her niece who’ve never met before drive to Lapland to empty a house they’ve inherited. It turns out the withdrawn and distrusting aunt had been a victim of the assimilation policies and the niece has to make a big decision. By taking an interest in each other they find value in themselves and their roots.

Availability: World excluding Finland, Sweden, Norway

TIFF SCREENING SCHEDULE

Public - 8 Sep - 15:15 - Scotiabank 10
Press & Industry - 9 Sep - 15:40 - Scotiabank 7
Public - 10 Sep - 18:45 - Scotiabank 14
Press & Industry - 13 Sep - 09:45 - Scotiabank 9
Public - 16 Sep - 20:45 - Scotiabank 3

CHUCK CHUCK BABY

Directed by: Janis Pugh
Genres: Musical, Comedy, Drama
Cast: Louise Brealey (Brian and Charles, Sherlock), Annabel Scholey (The Split), Sorcha Cusack (Mrs Brown’s Boys), Celyn Jones (The Almond and the Seahorse)
Written by: Janis Pugh
Produced by: Anne Beresford, Adam Partridge, Andrew Gillman, Peggy Cafferty
Production Company: Artemisia Films Ltd
Co-Producers: Delta Pictures
Financiers: BFI, BBC Film, Ffilm Cymru Wales, Moment Film Group
Release year: 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Duration: 101 min

Synopsis:
A film of love, loss and music set amongst the falling feathers of a chicken factory.  

Present day, industrial North Wales. Helen, late 30’s, spends her nights packing chickens and her days caring for dying mother-figure Gwen.  

Helen’s mundane world takes a surprising turn with Joanne’s return; they were the objects of the other’s secret teenage passions. Encouraged by Helen, Joanne starts a playful wooing game.  As they fall in love, Helen’s zest for life returns but Joanne feels the walls close in as she faces something darker from her past. Helen’s world shatters when Gwen dies and Joanne’s painful memories make her flee.

Separated and alone, both women reflect on their unfulfilled chance. But they find the courage to let go of the past and allow their love to win.

Available Worldwide Excluding: Free TV UK (BBC)

“the delightful - and potential breakout hit - Chuck Chuck Baby”

“A bighearted, crowd-pleasing tale of love, liberation and female empowerment, it might well chime with the mood of post-Barbie cinemagoers.”
Review from Screendaily

“Janis Pugh’s musical still manages to be an audience-pleasing winner.”

”The performances are excellent, with Brealey in particular embodying such a sympathetic tone that you can’t help but root for her throughout.”
Review from Cineuropa

THE ROOSTER

Directed by: Mark Leonard Winter
Genres: Drama, Mystery
Cast: Hugo Weaving (Lord of the Rings, The Matrix), Phoenix Raei (The Night Agent, Clickbait, Below)
Written by: Mark Leonard Winter
Produced by: Geraldine Hakewill, MahVeen Shahraki
Production Company: Don’t Crow! Pty Ltd, Thousand Mile Productions Pty Ltd
Co-Producers: David Kelly
Release year: 2024
Country: Australia
Language: English
Duration: 101 min

Co-Financed by the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund

Synopsis:
Dan, an introverted police officer in a small country town, begins to unravel after he fails to follow police protocol when dealing with an incident involving his childhood friend Steve. The next day Steve’s body is found in the bush, buried in a shallow grave. Unfit to work and haunted by guilt, Dan spirals. When his pet rooster is killed by a fox, Dan lets go of the fragile tether he has on his sanity and retreats to camp out in the forest where Steve was found. After a chance encounter with an eccentric hermit living amongst the trees, Dan suspects that this man may have been the last person to see Steve alive. As Dan seeks answers, an unusual bond forms between the two men over games of table tennis. But all is not as it seems when Dan discovers that the hermit may have been responsible for a terrible act of violence.

Available Worldwide Excluding: Australia / New Zealand

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DELIRIUM

Directed by: Arró Stefánsson
Genre: Horror
Cast: Hjörtur Jóhann Jónsson, Heiddis Chadwick Hlynsdottir, Kristbjörg Kjeld (Driving Mum), Jóhann Sigurdsson (The Minister)
Written by: Arró Stefánsson
Produced by: Arnar Benjamín Kristjánsson, Arró Stefánsson, Claudia Grevsmühl, Stefán Lárus Stefánsson, Gu∂rún Bryndis Har∂ardóttir
Production Company: Delirium Films, Fenrir Films & 1801 Film Productions
Co-Producers: Freyr Árnason, Kári Steinarsson, Kristín Ósk Sævarsdóttir, Ottó Gunnarsson
Release year: 2023
Country: Iceland
Language: Icelandic
Duration: 83 min

Synopsis:
A young father is haunted by an evil force that threatens to tear his life apart after he finds a mysterious box inside his rental apartment where the previous guest killed himself. 

Available Worldwide Excluding: Iceland, Poland

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POWER OF LOVE

Directed by: Jonas Rothlaender
Genres: Drama
Cast: Saara Kotkaniemi, Nicola Perot, Outi Mäenpää, Cecilia Paul, Elmer Bäck, Timo Torikka
Written by: Jonas Rothlaender
Produced by: Luisa Leopold, Julia M. Müller, Dennis Schanz, Luis Singer
Production Company: StickUp Filmproduktion
Co-Producers: Misha Jari, Mark Lwoff (Bufo)
Release year: 2023
Country: Germany, Finland
Language: English, German, Finnish
Duration: 105 min

Synopsis:
Saara (35) and Robert (32) are high on their love. Just recently Robert moved from Berlin to Helsinki to give their relationship a real perspective. Their love is a constant play with gender role clichés and power relations, yet behind the unconventional façade, both have to struggle with their fears and insecurities. Looking forward to a time-out, the two set off to an extensive summer holiday on a lonely island in the Finnish archipelago. Triggered by the rough nature, the couple falls back into archaic patterns they are desperately trying to overcome.

Available Worldwide Excluding: Finland, Germany, South Korea

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Available Worldwide Excluding: Czech Republic, Slovakia

BROTHERS

Directed by: Tomas Masin
Genres: Cold War Thriller
Cast: Oskar Hes, Jan Nebdal, Stefan Konarske
Written by: Marek Epstein
Produced by: Petr Bilek, Benny Drechsel, Zuzana Mistrikova
Production Companies: Film Brigade, Rohfilm Productions, PubRes
Delivery: Q3-2023
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Language: Czech

Synopsis:
Based on a true story. 

The Year is 1953 and the Masin family is persecuted for its bourgeoisie ancestry under communist ruled Czechoslovakia. Stripped of their assets, brothers Radek and Josef believe, like their father, a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance, that the only way to fight oppression is with guns in their hands. 

The brothers, with their three friends, form an underground boy army that is responsible for a series of violent acts leading to an investigation by State Security Captain Koller, which results in the Masin Brothers becoming the most wanted men in the country. They attempt to emigrate to West Berlin to join the US Army and help liberate Czechoslovakia from the communists, but Captain Koller has not given up and mobilises a military operation, the size of which has not been seen since World War II, resulting in one of the largest manhunts in modern history.

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