30th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films
Here’s the complete list of films playing at this year’s festival.
CANADA FIRST!
| Film Title |
Director |
| The Cabin Movie |
Dylan Akio Smith |
| Les États Nordiques |
Denis Côté |
| Eve & the Fire Horse |
Julia Kwan |
| Familia |
Louise Archambault |
| Fetching Cody |
David Ray |
| The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico |
Michael Mabbott |
| Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés |
Robin Aubert |
| A Simple Curve |
Aubrey Nealon |
| Six Figures |
David Christensen |
| These Girls |
John Hazlett |
CANADIAN OPEN VAULT
| Film Title |
Director |
| Entre la Mer et l'eau douce |
Michel Brault |
CANADIAN RETROSPECTIVE
| Film Title |
Director |
| Cowboy and Indian |
Don Owen |
| The Ernie Game |
Don Owen |
| Gallery: A View of Time |
Don Owen |
| High Steel |
Don Owen |
| Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen |
Don Owen, Donald Brittain |
| Monique Leyrac in Concert |
Don Owen |
| Nobody Waved Goodbye |
Don Owen |
| Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail |
Don Owen |
| Partners |
Don Owen |
| Richler of St. Urbain Street |
Don Owen |
| Runner |
Don Owen |
| Snow in Venice |
Don Owen |
| Toronto Jazz |
Don Owen |
| Turnabout |
Don Owen |
| Unfinished Business |
Don Owen |
| You Don't Back Down |
Don Owen |
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
| Film Title |
Director |
| 06/05: The Sixth of May |
Theo Van Gogh |
| Adam's Apples |
Anders Thomas Jensen |
| All Souls |
Mijke de Jong, Eddy Terstall, Nicole van Kilsdonk, Gerrard
Verhage, Peter de Baan, Marco van Geffen, Norbert ter Hall,
Maarten Treurniet, Rita Horst, Meral Uslu, Hanro Smitsman... |
| American Gun |
Aric Avelino |
| Amu |
Shonali Bose |
| Angel |
Jim McKay |
| Backstage |
Emmanuelle Bercot |
| Battle in Heaven |
Carlos Reygadas |
| Border Café |
Kambozia Partovi |
| Brooklyn Lobster |
Kevin Jordan |
| C.R.A.Z.Y. |
Jean-Marc Vallée |
| Citizen Dog |
Wisit Sasanatieng |
| Dear Wendy |
Thomas Vinterberg |
| The Death of Mister Lazarescu |
Cristi Puiu |
| Douches Froides |
Antony Cordier |
| Dreaming of Space |
Alexey Uchitel |
| Eleven Men Out |
Róbert I. Douglas |
| The Fatalist |
João Botelho |
| The French Guy |
Ann Marie Fleming |
| Gentille |
Sophie Fillières |
| Gilaneh |
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab |
| The Grönholm Method |
Marcelo Piñeyro |
| L' Horloge Biologique |
Ricardo Trogi |
| I'm the Angel of Death - Pusher III |
Nicolas Winding Refn |
| Iron Island |
Mohammad Rasoulof |
| The Last Hangman |
Adrian Shergold |
| Linda Linda Linda |
Nobuhiro Yamashita |
| Lucid |
Sean Garrity |
| Mario's War |
Antonio Capuano |
| Marock |
Laïla Marrakchi |
| Mother of Mine |
Klaus Härö |
| La Neuvaine |
Bernard Émond |
| October 17, 1961 |
Alain Tasma |
| One Last Thing . . . |
Alex Steyermark |
| Opa! |
Udayan Prasad |
| Paradise Now |
Hany Abu-Assad |
| The Passion of Joshua, the Jew |
Pasquale Scimeca |
| Perpetual Motion |
Ning Ying |
| The President's Last Bang |
Im Sang-soo |
| Pusher |
Nicolas Winding Refn |
| River Queen |
Vincent Ward |
| Riviera |
Anne Villacèque |
| Runaway |
Tim McCann |
| Shadowboxer |
Lee Daniels |
| Shanghai Dreams |
Wang Xiaoshuai |
| Shooting Dogs |
Michael Caton-Jones |
| Something Like Happiness |
Bohdan Sláma |
| Sud Express |
Chema de la Peña, Gabriel Velázquez |
| Summer in Berlin |
Andreas Dresen |
| Sunflower |
Zhang Yang |
| Le Temps qui reste |
François Ozon |
| Transamerica |
Duncan Tucker |
| À travers la forêt |
Jean-Paul Civeyrac |
| Tsotsi |
Gavin Hood |
| Twelve and Holding |
Michael Cuesta |
| U-Carmen eKhayelitsha |
Mark Dornford-May |
| Va, Vis et Deviens |
Radu Mihaileanu |
| La Vie avec mon père |
Sébastien Rose |
| Viva Cuba |
Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti |
| Whole New Thing |
Amnon Buchbinder |
| The Willow Tree |
Majid Majidi |
| With Blood on My Hands - Pusher II |
Nicolas Winding Refn |
DIALOGUES: TALKING WITH PICTURES
| Film Title |
Director |
| Ghosts...of the Civil Dead |
John Hillcoat |
| Liza with A 'Z' |
Bob Fosse |
| Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream |
Stuart Samuels |
| My Dad Is 100 Years Old |
Guy Maddin |
| Rome Open City |
Roberto Rossellini |
| Stranded in Canton |
William Eggleston, Robert Gordon |
| The Wild, Wild Rose |
Wong Tin Lam |
| William Eggleston in the Real World |
Michael Almereyda |
DISCOVERY
| Film Title |
Director |
| 7 Virgins |
Alberto Rodríguez |
| Bam Bam and Celeste |
Lorene Machado |
| Benares |
Barlen Pyamootoo |
| Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon |
Khalo Matabane |
| Dam Street |
Li Yu |
| Day Break |
Hamid Rahmanian |
| Do U Cry 4 Me Argentina? |
Bae Youn-suk |
| Dreaming Lhasa |
Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam |
| Festival |
Annie Griffin |
| Kinetta |
Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Little Athens |
Tom Zuber |
| Look Both Ways |
Sarah Watt |
| The Masseur |
Brillante Mendoza |
| Pavee Lackeen |
Perry Ogden |
| A Perfect Day |
Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige |
| Sa-kwa |
Kang Yi-Kwan |
| Shark in the Head |
Maria Procházková |
| The Shore |
Dionysius Zervos |
| Sisters |
Julia Solomonoff |
| Someone Else's Happiness |
Fien Troch |
| Sorry,Haters |
Jeff Stanzler |
| Stoned |
Stephen Woolley |
| Time Off |
Francisca Schweitzer, Pablo Solís |
| The War Within |
Joseph Castelo |
| You Bet Your Life |
Antonin Svoboda |
MASTERS
| Film Title |
Director |
| Breakfast on Pluto |
Neil Jordan |
| Brokeback Mountain |
Ang Lee |
| Bubble |
Steven Soderbergh |
| Caché |
Michael Haneke |
| L' Enfant |
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne |
| Free Zone |
Amos Gitaï |
| Iberia |
Carlos Saura |
| Manderlay |
Lars von Trier |
| Memories in the Mist |
Buddhadeb Dasgupta |
| Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and company |
Allan King |
| No Direction Home: Bob Dylan |
Martin Scorsese |
| Obaba |
Montxo Armendáriz |
| The Sun |
Alexander Sokurov |
| Takeshis' |
Takeshi Kitano |
| Three Times |
Hou Hsiao-Hsien |
| Tideland |
Terry Gilliam |
MAVERICKS
| Film Title |
Director |
| Mavericks: Albert Maysles |
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| Mavericks: Ivan Reitman |
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| Mavericks: Laurie Anderson |
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| Mavericks: Nick Park |
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MIDNIGHT MADNESS
| Film Title |
Director |
| Bangkok Loco |
Pornchai Hongrattanaporn |
| Banlieue 13 |
Pierre Morel |
| The District! |
Áron Gauder |
| Evil Aliens |
Jake West |
| The Great Yokai War |
Takashi Miike |
| Hostel |
Eli Roth |
| Isolation |
Billy O'Brien |
| Metal: A Headbanger's Journey |
Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen, Jessica Joy Wise |
| Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic |
Liam Lynch |
| SPL |
Wilson Yip |
REAL TO REEL
| Film Title |
Director |
| 3 Friends |
Mingmongkol Sonakul, Aditya Assarat, Pumin Chinaradee |
| 51 Birch Street |
Doug Block |
| a/k/a Tommy Chong |
Josh Gilbert |
| All About Darfur |
Taghreed Elsanhouri |
| Ballets Russes |
Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine |
| Black Bull |
Pedro González-Rubio, Carlos Armella |
| Black Sun |
Gary Tarn |
| China Blue |
Micha Peled |
| A Conversation with Basquiat |
Tamra Davis |
| The Devil and Daniel Johnston |
Jeff Feuerzig |
| Diameter of the Bomb |
Steven Silver, Andrew Quigley |
| The Giant Buddhas |
Christian Frei |
| The Heart of the Game |
Ward Serrill |
| Into Great Silence |
Philip Groening |
| John & Jane |
Ashim Ahluwalia |
| Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man |
Lian Lunson |
| Overcoming |
Tómas Gislason |
| Pick Up the Mic |
Alex Hinton |
| Sisters in Law |
Kim Longinotto, Florence Ayisi |
| The Smell of Paradise |
Mariusz Pilis, Marcin Mamon |
| Souvenir of Canada |
Robin Neinstein |
| Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela |
Thomas Allen Harris |
| We Feed the World |
Erwin Wagenhofer |
| The Well |
Kristian Petri |
| Why We Fight |
Eugene Jarecki |
| Workingman's Death |
Michael Glawogger |
| Zizek! |
Astra Taylor |
SHORT CUTS CANADA
| Film Title |
Director |
| Une Âme nue glisse à l'eau vive |
Denis Chabot |
| The Argument (A 'Burnt Toast' Opera) |
Larry Weinstein |
| At the Quinte Hotel |
Bruce Alcock |
| Benediction |
Tess Girard |
| Berlin |
Sarah Galea-Davis |
| Big Girl |
Renuka Jeyapalan |
| Une Chapelle Blanche |
Simon Lavoie |
| Claude. |
Stéphane Lafleur, Louis-David Morasse |
| cNote |
Chris Hinton |
| Day of John |
Christopher R. Nash |
| Dumb Angel |
Deco Dawson |
| The First Day of My Life |
David Uloth |
| A Half Man |
Firas Momani |
| Hide |
Byron Lamarque |
| Hiro |
Matthew Swanson |
| Lake |
Ryan Redford |
| Leo |
David Hyde |
| Letters From R |
Ross Turnbull |
| Liberté conditionnelle |
Constant Mentzas |
| A Little Death - Cut Keith Cole |
Michael Caines, Keith Cole |
| Mixed Signals |
Richard Martin |
| My Uncle Navy and Other Inherited Disorders |
Adam Swica |
| Noise |
Greg Spottiswood |
| One Balloon |
Aruna Naimji, Aram Hekinian |
| Patterns |
Jamie Travis |
| Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriend: Ankara |
Don McKellar |
| Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriend: Istanbul |
Don McKellar |
| The Racist Brick |
Adam Brodie, Dave Derewlany |
| Room 710 |
Ann Marie Fleming |
| Le Rouge Au Sol |
Maxime Giroux |
| Shoulders on a Map |
Jason Britski |
| Still Life |
Jon Knautz |
| Tell Me |
Shandi Mitchell |
| There's a Flower in My Pedal |
Andrea Dorfman |
| Troll Concerto |
Alexandre Franchi |
| The True Story of Sawney Beane |
Elizabeth Hobbs |
| Unlocked |
Sook-Yin Lee |
| Unwritten... |
Kaare Andrews |
| Vancouver |
Jesse McKeown |
| Waiting |
Jamie M. Dagg |
| The Waldo Cumberbund Story |
Simon Ennis |
| what's up with the kids? |
Simon Davidson |
| The Wrong Number |
Adam Brodie, Dave Derewlany |
| Yesterday in Rwanda |
Davina Pardo |
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
| Film Title |
Director |
| 3 Needles |
Thom Fitzgerald |
| All the Invisible Children |
Mehdi Charef, Emir Kusturica, Spike Lee, Kátia Lund,
Jordan and Ridley Scott, Stefano Veneruso, John Woo |
| Les Amants Réguliers |
Philippe Garrel |
| April Snow |
Hur Jin-ho |
| Art Project: Ghosts of Woodrow |
Graeme Patterson |
| Bee Season |
Scott McGehee, David Siegel |
| Beowulf & Grendel |
Sturla Gunnarsson |
| Capote |
Bennett Miller |
| Dave Chappelle's Block Party |
Michel Gondry |
| Entre ses mains |
Anne Fontaine |
| Everlasting Regret |
Stanley Kwan |
| Everything Is Illuminated |
Liev Schreiber |
| Fateless |
Lájos Koltai |
| Harsh Times |
David Ayer |
| The House of Sand |
Andrucha Waddington |
| Imagine Me and You (Working Title) |
Ol Parker |
| Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang |
Shane Black |
| Little Fish |
Rowan Woods |
| A Little Trip to Heaven |
Baltasar Kormákur |
| Mistress of Spices |
Paul Mayeda Berges |
| Nanook of the North |
Robert J. Flaherty |
| Neverwas |
Joshua Michael Stern |
| The Notorious Bettie Page |
Mary Harron |
| Oliver Twist |
Roman Polanski |
| Romance & Cigarettes |
John Turturro |
| Seven Swords |
Tsui Hark |
| Shopgirl |
Anand Tucker |
| Sketches of Frank Gehry |
Sydney Pollack |
| Slow Burn |
Wayne Beach |
| The Squid and the Whale |
Noah Baumbach |
| Sympathy for Lady Vengeance |
Park Chan-wook |
| Thank You For Smoking |
Jason Reitman |
| Thumbsucker |
Mike Mills |
| Tim Burton's Corpse Bride |
Mike Johnson, Tim Burton |
| Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story |
Michael Winterbottom |
| Trust the Man |
Bart Freundlich |
| Vers Le Sud |
Laurent Cantet |
| Wah-Wah |
Richard E. Grant |
| Winter Passing |
Adam Rapp |
| The World's Fastest Indian |
Roger Donaldson |
| Zozo |
Josef Fares |
VIACOM GALAS
| Film Title |
Director |
| Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story |
John Gatins |
| Edison |
David J. Burke |
| Elizabethtown |
Cameron Crowe |
| L' Enfer |
Danis Tanovic |
| A History of Violence |
David Cronenberg |
| In Her Shoes |
Curtis Hanson |
| The Matador |
Richard Shepard |
| Mrs. Harris |
Phyllis Nagy |
| Mrs. Henderson Presents |
Stephen Frears |
| The Myth |
Stanley Tong |
| North Country |
Niki Caro |
| Pride and Prejudice |
Joe Wright |
| Proof |
John Madden |
| Revolver |
Guy Ritchie |
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada |
Tommy Lee Jones |
| Walk the Line |
James Mangold |
| Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit |
Nick Park, Steve Box |
| Water |
Deepa Mehta |
| Where the Truth Lies |
Atom Egoyan |
| The White Masai |
Hermine Huntgeburth |
VISIONS
| Film Title |
Director |
| 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous |
Stewart Main |
| L' Annulaire |
Diane Bertrand |
| Attente |
Rashid Masharawi |
| Be With Me |
Eric Khoo |
| Bed Stories |
Kirill Serebrennikov |
| Brothers of the Head |
Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe |
| Un Couple parfait |
Nobuhiro Suwa |
| Delicate Crime |
Beto Brant |
| Drawing Restraint 9 |
Matthew Barney |
| Duelist |
Lee Myung-se |
| Fallen |
Fred Kelemen |
| The Forsaken Land |
Vimukthi Jayasundara |
| Frankie |
Fabienne Berthaud |
| Gabrielle |
Patrice Chéreau |
| I Am |
Dorota Kedzierzawska |
| Lie With Me |
Clement Virgo |
| Mary |
Abel Ferrara |
| Monobloc |
Luis Ortega |
| The Pianotuner of Earthquakes |
Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay |
| The Porcelain Doll |
Péter Gárdos |
| The Proposition |
John Hillcoat |
| The Quiet |
Jamie Babbit |
| Les Saignantes |
Jean-Pierre Bekolo |
| La Trahison |
Philippe Faucon |
| Twilight |
Victoria Gamburg |
| Wassup Rockers |
Larry Clark |
| The Wayward Cloud |
Tsai Ming-liang |
WAVELENGTHS
| Film Title |
Director |
| (Re)collection |
Arshia Haq |
| Aerial |
Margaret Tait |
| Album |
Matthias Müller |
| Black Belt Test Exposure |
Lynn Marie Kirby |
| Close Quarters |
Jim Jennings |
| Douro, Faina Fluvial |
Manoel de Oliveira |
| Essex Street Market |
Ernie Gehr |
| Fugitive L(i)ght |
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof |
| Greene Street |
Ernie Gehr |
| Half-Moon for Margaret |
Ute Aurand |
| India |
Ute Aurand |
| Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine |
Peter Tscherkassky |
| Lapse Lose All |
Alexi Manis, Kathryn MacKay |
| Mouse Heaven |
Kenneth Anger |
| Noon Time Activities |
Ernie Gehr |
| not a matter of if but when |
Julia Meltzer, David Thorne |
| Pyramid Lake Piaute Reservation Exposure |
Lynn Marie Kirby |
| Ruby Skin |
Eve Heller |
| Shape Shift |
Scott Stark |
| site specific_LAS VEGAS 05 |
Olivo Barbieri |
| site specific_ROMA 04 |
Olivo Barbieri |
| SSHTOORRTY |
Michael Snow |
| Wavelength |
Michael Snow |
| Workers Leaving the Factory (After Lumière) |
Ernie Gehr |