The Toronto Int'l Film Fest cannot be ignored. With the other major festivals (including Cannes, Berlin and, of course, Sundance) in the western hemisphere, they help set the agenda for the next season of indie films.
(The above trailer is from the sci-fi indie feature (and potential sleeper hit) Never Let Me Go, which will be released by Fox Searchlight in the US. The trailer doesn't look like sci-fi at all, which we LOVE. Readers of the hugely popular book know differently though.)
Read on to discover the other new independent sci-fi flicks coming out of Toronto this fall.
Toronto International Film Festival: September 9th - 18th, 2010
The Adder's Bite (short film) - Though not technically science fiction, director Firas Momani's short is set in the micro world of parasites. "Designed as a quasi sci-fi choreography," the film implements the ideas of Nietzsche in a "visual poem that disturbs and mesmerizes."
Never Let Me Go (feature film) - Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightly star in director Mark Romanek's English period film set in a mysterious boarding school where something is not quite right.
File Under Miscellaneous (short film) - Set in a dystopian future, director Jeff Barnaby brings us a uniquely original story of a "spiritually exhausted Mi'kmaq man" reassigned to shed his identity and assimilate. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's poem, Walking Around.
The Substitute (feature film) - This sci-fi comedy about a 12 year-old trying to convince his friends and family that his new teacher is an alien won the 2008 Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children.
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