TIFF is such an influx of amazing cinema that honing down our must-sees is a dire task. But these five flicks certainly caught our attention. Check out our festival picks below (and, uh, pass the popcorn).
Bang Bang Baby: It’s like Little Shop of Horrors and Hairspray had a baby in this surreal, sock-hoppy flick about a small-town girl who finds herself face-to-face with her teen idol and primed for stardom, unless a strange chemical leak mutates her plans.
Songs She Wrote About People She Knows: Vancouver’s Kris Elgstrand wrote this caustic comedy, in which a 30-something office worker critiques her colleagues via pointed pop songs. Not only is it an original and hilarious premise, but the costuming and set smack satisfyingly of off-kilter Zooey Deschanel.
Eye & Mermaid: One part Steinbeck, one part Hans Christian Andersen, this darkly gorgeous short film by Saudi Arabian director Shahad Ameen follows 10-year-old Hanan’s mission to discover exactly how her fisherman father procures the luminous black pearls that sustain them.
Zero Recognition: Openly based off of Canadian pop-cultural touchstone Degrassi Junior High, this film follows Demi (Lauren Collins), an ex-moderately-famous person, as she navigates her love life after leaving the spotlight of Hollywood North.
The Golden Era: This Chinese drama portrays the lives of Xiao Hong, one of China’s most significant 20th-century female writers, who produced meticulous and profound novels about the realities of peasant women’s lives under Japanese occupation.
Lights, camera, action. —Adrienne Matei
The Toronto International Film Festival runs until September 14th, 2014. www.tiff.net
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