A home-grown documentary opens the list of titles selected for the first edition of the competition
dedicated to genre films. For me you are Ceaușescu / Pentru mine tu ești Ceaușescu, director
Sebastian Mihăilescu's debut, won two major awards at Ji.hlava, and is one of the winners of the
DocLisboa Festival. An experimental mix of documentary and fiction, the film follows a casting session
for the role of Nicolae Ceaușescu as a young man, with young people aged between 15 and 22, who can
only imagine what life might have been like for the dictator in the 1930s.

Francesco Montagner's Brotherhood won a Golden Leopard at the 2021 Locarno International Film
Festival for the story of three Bosnian brothers born into a family of shepherds. Their lives are
dramatically transformed when their father, a preacher of Islam known for his radical beliefs, is
sentenced to prison.

Bucolic, director Karol Palka's first feature film, explores the world of a remote Polish village where
Denusia and her daughter live following the laws of nature, surrounded by animals and the spirits of
those who are no longer with us. Far from idealising rural life, the documentary builds a mesmerising
picture of loneliness and the need to belong. The world of the village, from a different perspective, is also
explored by director Morgane Dziurla-Petit, who documents her return to her homeland in Excess Will
Save Us. Reuniting with the people back home reveals that many of them share a common dream of
leaving the village where they have lived all their lives

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Filmed almost entirely in a car, The Plains (d. David Easteal) follows a man's conversations with his
companions on his daily journey home. From Venice Critics' Week comes to TIFF Mother Lode, Italian
director Matteo Tortone's debut, about the sacrifices working class people make to have a better living,
putting their own lives at risk.

With the demise of the Soviet Union, the people of the island of Ostrov - fishermen from father to son -
are left with nothing. Isolated and abandoned, today they live by poaching, risking their lives and freedom
every day to survive. Ostrov-Lost Island (dir. Svetlana Rodina, Laurent Stoop) will show TIFF
audiences a glimpse of their lives.

In Atlantide (r. Yuri Ancarani) a young man devotes all his time to his obsession of building a motorboat
that will help him set a new record in barchino afficionados community. The film had its international
premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in the parallel Venice Horizons section.

Following a clandestine radio broadcast, Channel 54, the debut feature by Argentinian director Lucas
Larriera, reveals a whole lot of bizarre characters and conspiracy theories born around the moon landing.
A mysterious murder case in a Brussels suburb proves to be a challenge for the police in the documentary
For a Fistfull of Fries (d. Jean Libon, Yves Hinant) where a casserole dish turns out to be the saving
evidence.

Films in the What’s up, doc? Competition will be available to watch at TIFF 2022 with TIFF Card
subscriptions, already available online in limited edition, on the Eventbook platform.
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