29th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films
Get ready for no sleep. Get ready for popcorn overload. Here’s the complete list of films playing at the 29th Toronto International Film Festival:
CANADA FIRST
| Film Title |
Director |
| CQ2 (Seek You Too) |
Carole Laure |
| I, Claudia |
Chris Abraham |
| Ill Fated |
Mark A. Lewis |
| It's All Gone Pete Tong |
Michael Dowse |
| Jimmywork |
Simon Sauvé |
| Littoral |
Wajdi Mouawad |
| La Peau blanche |
Daniel Roby |
| Phil the Alien |
Rob Stefaniuk |
| Saint Ralph |
Michael McGowan |
| Seven Times Lucky |
Gary Yates |
CANADIAN OPEN VAULT
| Film Title |
Director |
| The Rowdyman |
Peter Carter |
CANADIAN RETROSPECTIVE
| Film Title |
Director |
| Attiuk |
Pierre Perrault, René Bonnière |
| La Bête luminese |
Pierre Perrault |
| Le Pays de la terre sans arbre ou le
Mouchouânipi |
Pierre Perrault |
| Un Pays sans bon sens! |
Pierre Perrault |
| Pour la suite du monde |
Pierre Perrault, Michel Brault |
| Le Règne du jour |
Pierre Perrault |
| Tête-à-la-Baleine |
Pierre Perrault, René Bonnière |
| La Traverse d'hiver à
l'Île-aux-Coudres |
Pierre Perrault, Réne Bonnière |
| Les Voitures d'eau |
Pierre Perrault |
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
| Film Title |
Director |
| 3-Iron |
Kim Ki-duk |
| After the Day Before |
Attila Janisch |
| Almost Brothers |
Lúcia Murat |
| The Alzheimer Case |
Erik Van Looy |
| Antares |
Götz Spielmann |
| As Follows |
Federico Veiroj |
| BOMBÓN - El Perro |
Carlos Sorin |
| Breaking News |
Johnnie To |
| Brodeuses |
Eléonore Faucher |
| Brothers |
Susanne Bier |
| Cool |
Theo van Gogh |
| Crónicas |
Sebastián Cordero |
| Days and Hours |
Pjer Zalica |
| Dead Man's Shoes |
Shane Meadows |
| Dear Frankie |
Shona Auerbach |
| Duck Season |
Fernando Eimbcke |
| Earth and Ashes |
Atiq Rahimi |
| L' Équipier |
Philippe Lioret |
| La Femme de Gilles |
Frédéric Fonteyne |
| Ferpect Crime |
Alex de la Iglesia |
| Hidden Flaws |
Paula van der Oest |
| The Holy Girl |
Lucrecia Martel |
| Hotel |
Jessica Hausner |
| The House Keys |
Gianni Amelio |
| Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup
d'enfants |
Yvan Attal |
| Innocent Voices |
Luis Mandoki |
| Lila dit ça |
Ziad Doueiri |
| The Limb Salesman |
Anais Granofsky |
| Little Sky |
María Victoria Menis |
| Ma Mère |
Christophe Honoré |
| Male Fantasy |
Blaine Thurier |
| Mon père est ingénieur |
Robert Guédiguian |
| My Summer of Love |
Pawel Pawlikowski |
| Mysterious Skin |
Gregg Araki |
| Niceland |
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson |
| Nobody Knows |
Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| Old Boy |
Park Chan-wook |
| Our Own |
Dmitry Meskhiyev |
| Plastic Flowers |
Liu Bingjian |
| Quill |
Yoichi Sai |
| Real Life |
Panos Koutras |
| Rois et reine |
Arnaud Desplechin |
| Rolling Family |
Pablo Trapero |
| Schizo |
Guka Omarova |
| Siblings |
David Weaver |
| Somersault |
Cate Shortland |
| Spider Forest |
Song Il-gon |
| Stray Dogs |
Marziyeh Meshkini |
| The Tuner |
Kira Muratova |
| Turtles Can Fly |
Bahman Ghobadi |
| Two Great Sheep |
Liu Hao |
| Unconscious |
Joaquín Oristrell |
| Up and Down |
Jan Hrebejk |
| Walk on Water |
Eytan Fox |
| Whisky |
Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll |
| Wilby Wonderful |
Daniel MacIvor |
| The Woodsman |
Nicole Kassell |
| The World |
Jia Zhang-ke |
DIALOGUES: TALKING WITH PICTURES
| Film Title |
Director |
| The Brood |
David Cronenberg |
| Diary of a Country Priest |
Robert Bresson |
| Heaven's Gate |
Michael Cimino |
| La Noire De... |
Ousmane Sembene |
| The Sweet Smell of Success |
Alexander Mackendrick |
| This Sporting Life |
Lindsay Anderson |
| Withnail & I |
Bruce Robinson |
DISCOVERY
| Film Title |
Director |
| Astronauts |
Santi Amodeo |
| Automne |
Ra'up McGee |
| Boats out of Watermelon Rinds |
Ahmet Uluçay |
| Buffalo Boy |
Minh Nguyen-Vô |
| Le Cou de la girafe |
Safy Nebbou |
| Crying? |
Alexandros Voulgaris |
| Electric Shadows |
Xiao Jiang |
| The Forest for the Trees |
Maren Ade |
| Hari Om |
Bharatbala |
| Harvest Time |
Marina Razbezhkina |
| In My Father's Den |
Brad McGann |
| Innocence |
Lucile Hadzihalilovic |
| Mirage |
Svetozar Ristovski |
| Off Beat |
Hendrik Hölzemann |
| Omagh |
Pete Travis |
| On the Outs |
Lori Silverbush, Michael Skolnik |
| The Overture |
Itthi-sunthorn Wichailak |
| Oyster Farmer |
Anna Reeves |
| Private |
Saverio Costanzo |
| Producing Adults |
Aleksi Salmenperä |
| Les Revenants |
Robin Campillo |
| Saving Face |
Alice Wu |
| Summer Storm |
Marco Kreuzpaintner |
| Symmetry |
Konrad Niewolski |
| Uno |
Aksel Hennie |
| Vento di Terra |
Vincenzo Marra |
| A Way of Life |
Amma Asante |
| Whisky Romeo Zulu |
Enrique Piñeyro |
MASTERS
| Film Title |
Director |
| 10 on Ten |
Abbas Kiarostami |
| 10e Chambre, instants d'audiences |
Raymond Depardon |
| À tout de suite |
Benoît Jacquot |
| Bad Education |
Pedro Almodóvar |
| Brides |
Pantelis Voulgaris |
| Café Lumière |
Hou Hsiao-hsien |
| Chased by Dreams |
Buddhadeb Dasgupta |
| Cinévardaphoto |
Agnès Varda |
| Demain on déménage |
Chantal Akerman |
| Eros |
Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Five |
Abbas Kiarostami |
| Human Touch |
Paul Cox |
| Land of Plenty |
Wim Wenders |
| Low Life |
Im Kwon-taek |
| Midwinter Night's Dream |
Goran Paskaljevic |
| Moolaadé |
Ousmane Sembene |
| The Ninth Day |
Volker Schlöndorff |
| Notre Musique |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| Salvador Allende |
Patricio Guzmán |
| Sucker Free City |
Spike Lee |
| Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow |
Theo Angelopoulos |
MIDNIGHT MADNESS
| Film Title |
Director |
| Calvaire |
Fabrice du Welz |
| Creep |
Christopher Smith |
| Dead Birds |
Alex Turner |
| Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence |
Mamoru Oshii |
| Kontroll |
Nimród Antal |
| The Machinist |
Brad Anderson |
| Rahtree: Flower of the Night |
Yuthlert Sippapak |
| The Raspberry Reich |
Bruce LaBruce |
| Saw |
James Wan |
| Zebraman |
Takashi Miike |
NATIONAL CINEMA PROGRAMME
| Film Title |
Director |
| Cape of Good Hope |
Mark Bamford |
| Drum |
Zola Maseko |
| Forgiveness |
Ian Gabriel |
| Max and Mona |
Teddy Mattera |
| Mozart - The Music of the Violin |
Mickey Madoda Dube |
| A South African Love Story: Walter and Albertina
Sisulu |
Toni Strasburg |
| Zulu Love Letter |
Ramadan Suleyman |
PLANET AFRICA
| Film Title |
Director |
| Aïcha |
Newton I. Aduaka |
| above & beneath |
René Alberta |
| Bullet Boy |
Saul Dibb |
| Gardiens de la Mémoire |
Eric Kabera |
| Le goot des jeunes filles |
John L'Écuyer |
| Le Grand Voyage |
Ismaël Ferroukhi |
| The Hero |
Zézé Gamboa |
| Kounandi |
Apolline Traoré |
| La Nuit de la vérité |
Fanta Régina Nacro |
| Off Duty |
Buboo Kakati |
| One Flight Stand |
Saladin Patterson |
| A Spoonful of Sugar |
Andrea Williams |
| Time Out |
Xelinda Yancy |
REAL TO REEL
| Film Title |
Director |
| Andrew and Jeremy Get Married |
Don Boyd |
| Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt |
Margaret Brown |
| Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat |
Zev Asher |
| Darwin's Nightmare |
Hubert Sauper |
| Double Dare |
Amanda Micheli |
| Le Fantôme d'Henri Langlois |
Jacques Richard |
| Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's
Gate |
Michael Epstein |
| Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry |
George T. Butler |
| Gunner Palace |
Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein |
| I Died in Childhood... |
Georgy Paradjanov |
| Kings of the Sky |
Deborah Stratman |
| The Last Victory |
John Appel |
| Letters to Ali |
Clara Law |
| Lightning in a Bottle |
Antoine Fuqua |
| Mondovino |
Jonathan Nossiter |
| ScaredSacred |
Velcrow Ripper |
| Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo
Dallaire |
Peter Raymont |
| Small Mall |
Róbert Douglas |
| Tell Them Who You Are |
Mark S. Wexler |
| Three of Hearts: a postmodern family |
Susan Kaplan |
| Touch the Sound |
Thomas Riedelsheimer |
| Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack
Johnson |
Ken Burns |
| A Whale of a Tale |
Peter Lynch |
| White Tower |
Su Qing, Mina |
| Writer of O |
Pola Rapaport |
| The Year of the Yao |
James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo |
| Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession |
Xan Cassavetes |
SHORT CUTS CANADA
| Film Title |
Director |
| Accordéon |
Michèle Cournoyer |
| Almost Forgot My Bones |
Katrin Bowen |
| Between Science and Garbage |
Pierre Hébert, Bob Ostertag |
| Birdlings Two |
Davina Pardo |
| Boyclops |
Jay Dahl |
| Build |
Greg Atkins |
| choke. |
David Hyde |
| Corps étrangers |
Simon Lavoie |
| Désastre |
Jay Field |
| Deux Enfants qui fument |
Sarah Fortin |
| Elephant Shoe |
Christopher Behnisch |
| Elliot Smelliot |
Anita Doron |
| Encre noire sur fond d'azur |
Félix Dufour-Laperrière |
| Filth |
Wrik Mead |
| The Finite |
Alexi Manis |
| Girl Cleans Sink |
Sook-Yin Lee |
| Groomed |
Joseph Raso |
| The Hill |
Deborah Chow |
| Hogtown Blues |
Hugh Gibson |
| Hotel Saudade |
Cameron Bailey |
| The Human Kazoo |
Fabrizio Filippo |
| Man Feel Pain |
Dylan Akio Smith |
| mary/me |
Kelly Egan |
| Milo 55160 |
David Ostry |
| More Sensitive |
Gail Noonan |
| Mothers, Fathers and Other Strangers |
Carl Knutson |
| My Old Man |
Alex Levine |
| Pigeon |
Anthony Green |
| Le Pont |
Guy Edoin |
| Rodéo |
Mélanie Dion |
| Ryan |
Chris Landreth |
| The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles |
Jeffrey St. Jules |
| Sissy Boy Slap Party |
Guy Maddin |
| Sombra Dolorosa |
Guy Maddin |
| Stronger |
Debra Felstead |
| Superhero Wannabe |
Patricia Harris Seeley |
| A Tale of Bad Luck |
Brad Peyton |
| Trouser Accidents |
Semi Chellas |
| white out |
Matt Sinclair-Foreman |
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
| Film Title |
Director |
| 5 x 2 - Cinq fois deux |
François Ozon |
| The Assassination of Richard Nixon |
Niels Mueller |
| Bluebird |
Mijke de Jong |
| Celebrating Brian Linehan |
|
| Childstar |
Don McKellar |
| Les Choristes |
Christophe Barratier |
| Crash |
Paul Haggis |
| A Dirty Shame |
John Waters |
| Enduring Love |
Roger Michell |
| The General |
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman |
| Haven |
Frank E. Flowers |
| Head in the Clouds |
John Duigan |
| Hotel Rwanda |
Terry George |
| Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold
Leventhal |
Jim Brown |
| Keane |
Lodge Kerrigan |
| Kung Fu Hustle |
Stephen Chow |
| Ladies in Lavender |
Charles Dance |
| The Libertine |
Laurence Dunmore |
| The Merchant of Venice |
Michael Radford |
| Millions |
Danny Boyle |
| Noel |
Chazz Palminteri |
| P.S. |
Dylan Kidd |
| Palindromes |
Todd Solondz |
| Promised Land |
Amos Gitaï |
| The Sea Within |
Alejandro Amenábar |
| Shadows of Time |
Florian Gallenberger |
| Sideways |
Alexander Payne |
| Silver City |
John Sayles |
| Steamboy |
Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Throw Down |
Johnnie To |
| When Will I Be Loved |
James Toback |
| Yes |
Sally Potter |
| Yesterday |
Darrell James Roodt |
VIACOM GALAS
| Film Title |
Director |
| Arsène Lupin |
Jean-Paul Salomé |
| Being Julia |
István Szabó |
| Beyond the Sea |
Kevin Spacey |
| Clean |
Olivier Assayas |
| Downfall |
Oliver Hirschbiegel |
| Five Children and It |
John Stephenson |
| A Good Woman |
Mike Barker |
| House of Flying Daggers |
Zhang Yimou |
| I Heart Huckabees |
David O. Russell |
| Imaginary Heroes |
Dan Harris |
| An Italian Romance |
Carlo Mazzacurati |
| Jiminy Glick in Lalawood |
Vadim Jean |
| Kinsey |
Bill Condon |
| Modigliani |
Mick Davis |
| The Motorcycle Diaries |
Walter Salles |
| Ray |
Taylor Hackford |
| Red Dust |
Tom Hooper |
| Return to Sender |
Bille August |
| Shark Tale |
Vicky Jenson, Bibo Bergeron, Rob Letterman |
| Stage Beauty |
Sir Richard Eyre |
VISIONS
| Film Title |
Director |
| 9 Songs |
Michael Winterbottom |
| Acapulco Gold |
André Forcier |
| Anatomie de l'enfer |
Catherine Breillat |
| Blood |
Jerry Ciccoritti |
| Días de Santiago |
Josué Méndez |
| Evolution of a Filipino Family |
Lav Diaz |
| The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things |
Asia Argento |
| A Hole in My Heart |
Lukas Moodysson |
| I Like It a Lot |
Jay Rosenblatt |
| L' Intrus |
Claire Denis |
| A Letter to True |
Bruce Weber |
| The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess |
Bruce McDonald |
| Los Muertos |
Lisandro Alonso |
| Primer |
Shane Carruth |
| Tarnation |
Jonathan Caouette |
| Thème Je |
Françoise Romand |
| Trauma |
Marc Evans |
| Tropical Malady |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
| Undertow |
David Gordon Green |
| Vital |
Shinya Tsukamoto |
| ZERO the inside story |
Elida Schogt |
WAVELENGTHS
| Film Title |
Director |
| ( ) |
Morgan Fisher |
| --- ------ (a.k.a. Short Line Long Line) |
Thom Andersen, Malcolm Brodwick |
| Anaconda Targets |
Dominic Angerame |
| Ber-Lin 99/00 |
André Lehmann |
| Bouquets 26-27 |
Rose Lowder |
| Chateau/Poyet |
Lawrence Jordan |
| Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in
Miniature |
Charlotte Pryce |
| Daylight Moon (A Quartet) |
Lewis Klahr |
| Enid's Idyll |
Lawrence Jordan |
| Le Fantôme de l'opératrice |
Caroline Martel |
| Flushing Meadows |
Joseph Cornell |
| Free To Go (Interlude) |
Andrew Noren |
| Golden Gate Bridge Exposure: Poised for Parabolas |
Lynn Marie Kirby |
| It's Not My Memory of It - Three Recollected
Documents |
Julia Meltzer, David Thorne |
| Line Describing a Cone |
Anthony McCall |
| Mirror |
Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet |
| Mouths of Ash |
Juan Manuel Echavarría |
| The Observatory |
Alexi Manis |
| Phantom |
Matthias Müller |
| Play |
Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet |
| Rose Hobart |
Joseph Cornell |
| Skagafjördur |
Peter Hutton |
| St. Ignatius Church Exposure: Lenten Light
Conversions |
Lynn Marie Kirby |
| Terrace 49 |
Janie Geiser |
| Williamsburg, Brooklyn |
Jonas Mekas |
