Amanda

This playful and remarkably assured debut from writer-director Carolina Cavalli is a quirky character study of a young woman who, despite having everything going for her on the surface, struggles to make connections with others her age. Born into an upper-class family with a doting mother who foots the bill for her indolent lifestyle, 24-year-old Amanda spends time avoiding work and haunting the local cinematheque in Turin, where she looks for boyfriends but only finds “weird” misfits who mirror her own social situation of being alone every Saturday night. (Toronto International Film Festival)