The Circuit

Continuing its slow build, Toronto announced their Discovery program.  The two US entries are good reads. David Ross, screenwriter of “The Woods”, brings his directorial debut, “The Babysitters”, concerning a babysitting business that morphs into a prostitution ring.  In Mark Heller’s "The Passage", Stephen Dorff stars as an American in Morocco who falls in love with the right girl in the wrong culture. In fact, forbidden relationships seem to be a trend this year. Australian Peter Carstairs’ "September" is the story of a frowned-upon friendship between a white boy and an Aboriginal boy. “The World Unseen” by Shamim Sarif follows a love affair in 1950's apartheid South Africa. And Tamar van den Dop’s “Blind” is about a self-conscious albino woman who finds love with a blind man. Check out the full line-up here.  (Mike Jones)