The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which runs 5-15 September, yesterday revealed the 10 features making up its Platform line-up. Chosen to showcase strong individual visions and emerging international talent, the 10 films are eligible for the Platform Prize, an award of $20,000 CAD given to the section’s best film. The festival’s sidebar was first instituted nine years ago, with Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight and Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin [+lire aussi :
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The selection includes a few names familiar to festival watchers. Spanish genre director Nacho Vigalondo opens the section, with his film Daniela Forever [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]. Mexico's four-time Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto moves to the director’s chair for the Netflix-distributed Pedro Páramo, a Mexican magic-realist story sounding not far removed from his collaborations with Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Amongst the titles from newly emerging directors, standouts include the Ukrainian documentary Viktor, from the longtime war photographer Oliver Sarbil, focusing on a deaf person navigating the chaos and violence of the Russian invasion. Mr. K [+lire aussi :
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Canadian maestro Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica) heads the three-person jury, joined by Jane Schoenbrun, one of the year’s breakthrough filmmakers for I Saw the TV Glow, and South Korean filmmaker, Hur Jin-Ho, whose drama A Normal Family enjoyed a TIFF premiere last year. 

The full line-up is as follows: 

Daniela Forever [+lire aussi :
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The Wolves Always Come at Night [+lire aussi :
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Daughter’s Daughter - Huang Xi (Taiwan) 
Winter in Sokcho [+lire aussi :
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Paying For It - Sook-Yin Lee (Canada)
They Will Be Dust [+lire aussi :
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Pedro Páramo - Rodrigo Prieto (Mexico)
Viktor - Olivier Sarbil (Ukraine/USA)
Mr. K [+lire aussi :
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Triumph [+lire aussi :
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