Amy Adams and filmmaker Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) bring the acclaimed 2021 novel Nightbitch to life in this film about an overworked stay-at-home mom who can’t keep her emotions bottled up any longer. She starts to unravel as sees and hears things in the night that call to her. Oh, and she thinks she’s turning into a dog. 

Pamela Anderson returns to the big screen as an aging dancer forced to re-examine her life when the club she has worked at for 30 years announces its closing down in The Last Showgirl. Jamie Lee Curtis and Dave Bautista round out the cast of the film, which is directed by Gia Coppola (Palo Alto) of the Coppola family dynasty.

Toronto-based filmmaker Karen Chapman makes her dramatic feature debut with Village Keeper, the emotional story of a single-mother contending with her grief in the wake of her husband’s murder and the unusual coping mechanism that arises. Without giving too much away, it’s a film about community, service and catharsis.

Demi Moore plays a washed up actress turned TV-work out personality desperate to recapture the celebrity status of her youth personality in The Substance. The body-horror satire premiered earlier this year att the Cannes Film Festival to a lot of buzz, and follows Moore’s character, Elisabeth Sparkle, as she undergoes a blackmarket procedure that produces a younger version of herself (played by Margaret Qualley). You can probably guess how that goes. 

Set in an insular fishing village in Newfoundland, Sweet Angel Baby centres on Eliza, a beloved member of the community whose life is upturned when her secret social media persona is exposed. St John’s writer/director and costume designer Melanie Oates explores sexuality, belonging and conformity in small towns while paying homage to the stunning landscape of the province in which the movie is filmed.

In Rez Ball, Navajo filmmaker Sydney Freeland tells the story of the Chuska Warriors basketball team and their quest for championship glory following a series of devastating losses. Executive produced by LeBron James and co-written by Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo, the film is equal parts inspiring sports movie and sensitive cultural portrait.

Rungano Nyoni’s long awaited follow-up to the BAFTA award winning film, I Am Not a Witch, is On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, which will have its North American premiere at TIFF. The celebrated Zambian-Welsh writer/director incorporates surrealism into this exploration of family dynamics, secrets and collective denial in this film that takes place during the funeral rites following the death of an uncle.

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