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Dutch-Canadian feature In Alaska has been selected for the Special Presentations section of the 51st Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film will celebrate its world premiere at TIFF, which runs September 10–20. Directed by Jaap van Heusden and Vinnie Karetak, In Alaska is set in a tiny village in Alaska, where 17-year-old Woody (played by debut actor Leo Matthew Temela) is so desperate he shoots the oil pipeline and becomes a most-wanted terrorist. Hunted by seasoned FBI agent Susan Tarheel (Noomi Rapace), he runs by all-terain vehicle, hitchhiking, and on foot, vanishing into the wild and across the Canadian border to the Inuit community where his mother grew up. As Tarheel gets closer, a strange maternal bond grows between them, and Woody begins, at last, to learn what it means to be alive. In Alaska is produced by IJswater Films in co-production with Experimental Forest Films (Canada), Uuktumiaq Studios (Canada) and EO Television. International sales are handled by WTFilms. https://lnkd.in/effHxXHn