31st Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films
The 31st edition of the Toronto International Film Festival will run from September 7th to the 16th, 2006. Here’s the complete list of films that will unspool over the 10 days.
CANADA FIRST!
| Film Title |
Director |
| Acts of Imagination |
Carolyn Combs |
| Cheech |
Patrice Sauvé |
| La Coupure |
Jean Châteauvert |
| End of the Line |
Maurice Devereaux |
| Everything's Gone Green |
Paul Fox |
| Fido |
Andrew Currie |
| Mercy |
Mazdak Taebi |
| A Stone's Throw |
Camelia Frieberg |
| Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi |
Noël Mitrani |
CANADIAN OPEN VAULT
| Film Title |
Director |
| Paperback Hero |
Peter Pearson |
CANADIAN RETROSPECTIVE - THE FILMS OF PETER METTLER
| Film Title |
Director |
| Balifilm |
Peter Mettler |
| Eastern Avenue |
Peter Mettler |
| Gambling, Gods and LSD |
Peter Mettler |
| Lancalot Freely |
Peter Mettler |
| Picture of Light |
Peter Mettler |
| Scissere |
Peter Mettler |
| Tectonic Plates |
Peter Mettler |
| The Top of his Head |
Peter Mettler |
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
| Film Title |
Director |
| 12:08 East of Bucharest |
Corneliu Porumboiu |
| Abeni |
Tunde Kelani |
| Antonia |
Tata Amaral |
| Beauty in Trouble |
Jan Hrebejk |
| Bella |
Alejandro Monteverde |
| The Bet Collector |
Jeffrey Jeturian |
| Born and Bred |
Pablo Trapero |
| The Bothersome Man |
Jens Lien |
| Candy |
Neil Armfield |
| Chronicle of an Escape |
Israel Adrián Caetano |
| Citizen Duane |
Michael Mabbott |
| Confetti |
Debbie Isitt |
| Copying Beethoven |
Agnieszka Holland |
| Diggers |
Katherine Dieckmann |
| Un Dimanche à Kigali |
Robert Favreau |
| The Dog Pound |
Manuel Nieto Zas |
| Falling |
Barbara Albert |
| A Few Days Later |
Niki Karimi |
| Fiction |
Cesc Gay |
| Four Minutes |
Chris Kraus |
| Grbavica |
Jasmila Zbanic |
| The Half Life of Timofey Berezin |
Scott Z. Burns |
| Hula Girls |
Lee Sang-il |
| Indigènes |
Rachid Bouchareb |
| The Italian |
Andrey Kravchuk |
| The Last Winter |
Larry Fessenden |
| Mainline |
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab |
| Monkey Warfare |
Reginald Harkema |
| Nouvelle Chance |
Anne Fontaine |
| Offside |
Jafar Panahi |
| Outsourced |
John Jeffcoat |
| Palimpsest |
Konrad Niewolski |
| Prague |
Ole Christian Madsen |
| Rain Dogs |
Ho Yuhang |
| Red Road |
Andrea Arnold |
| Requiem |
Hans-Christian Schmid |
| Retrieval |
Slawomir Fabicki |
| The Silence |
Cate Shortland |
| Sleeping Dogs |
Terrance Odette |
| Slumming |
Michael Glawogger |
| Starter for 10 |
Tom Vaughan |
| Suely in the Sky |
Karim Aïnouz |
| Summer '04 |
Stefan Krohmer |
| Summer Palace |
Lou Ye |
| Sweet Mud |
Dror Shaul |
| Times and Winds |
Reha Erdem |
| To Get to Heaven First You Have to
Die |
Djamshed Usmonov |
| La Tourneuse de Pages |
Denis Dercourt |
| Trance |
Teresa Villaverde |
| Transylvania |
Tony Gatlif |
| Twilight Dancers |
Mel Chionglo |
| Unnatural & Accidental |
Carl Bessai |
| The Violin |
Francisco Vargas Quevedo |
| Waiter |
Alex van Warmerdam |
| The Wake |
Nikos Grammatikos |
| The Way I Spent the End of the World |
Catalin Mitulescu |
| White Palms |
Szabolcs Hajdu |
| Winter Journey |
Hans Steinbichler |
DIALOGUES: TALKING WITH PICTURES
| Film Title |
Director |
| Grey Gardens |
David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer |
| La Haine |
Mathieu Kassovitz |
| The Harder They Come |
Perry Henzell |
| Let's Get Lost |
Bruce Weber |
| Psychiatry in Russia |
Albert Maysles |
| Velvet Goldmine |
Todd Haynes |
DISCOVERY
| Film Title |
Director |
| 7 Ans |
Jean-Pascal Hattu |
| The Art of Crying |
Peter Schønau Fog |
| As the Shadow |
Marina Spada |
| Bliss |
Sheng Zhimin |
| Cashback |
Sean Ellis |
| DarkBlueAlmostBlack |
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo |
| Falkenberg Farewell |
Jesper Ganslandt |
| Family Ties |
Kim Tae-yong |
| Glue |
Alexis Dos Santos |
| A Grave-Keeper's Tale |
Chitra Palekar |
| Griffin and Phoenix |
Ed Stone |
| King and the Clown |
Lee Jun-ik |
| London to Brighton |
Paul Andrew Williams |
| Out Of The Blue |
Robert Sarkies |
| Reprise |
Joachim Trier |
| The Silly Age |
Pavel Giroud |
| Thicker than Water |
Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson |
| True North |
Steve Hudson |
| Vanaja |
Rajnesh Domalpalli |
GALA PRESENTATIONS
| Film Title |
Director |
| After the Wedding |
Susanne Bier |
| All The King's Men |
Steven Zaillian |
| Amazing Grace |
Michael Apted |
| Away From Her |
Sarah Polley |
| Babel |
Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| The Banquet |
Feng Xiaogang |
| Black Book |
Paul Verhoeven |
| Bobby |
Emilio Estevez |
| Bonneville |
Christopher N. Rowley |
| Breaking and Entering |
Anthony Minghella |
| Dixie Chicks - Shut up & Sing |
Barbara Kopple |
| For Your Consideration |
Christopher Guest |
| A Good Year |
Ridley Scott |
| Infamous |
Douglas McGrath |
| The Journals of Knud Rasmussen |
Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn |
| Mon Meilleur Ami |
Patrice Leconte |
| Never Say Goodbye |
Karan Johar |
| Penelope |
Mark Palansky |
| Volver |
Pedro Almodóvar |
| The White Planet |
Thierry Piantanida, Thierry Ragobert, Jean Lemire |
MASTERS
| Film Title |
Director |
| Cœurs |
Alain Resnais |
| The Caiman |
Nanni Moretti |
| EMPz 4 Life |
Allan King |
| I Am the Other Woman |
Margarethe von Trotta |
| L' Intouchable |
Benoît Jacquot |
| Lights in the Dusk |
Aki Kaurismäki |
| The Missing Star |
Gianni Amelio |
| The Optimists |
Goran Paskaljevic |
| Rescue Dawn |
Werner Herzog |
| Strike |
Volker Schlöndorff |
| Le Voyage en Arménie |
Robert Guédiguian |
| When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four
Acts |
Spike Lee |
| The Wind that Shakes the Barley |
Ken Loach |
MAVERICKS
| Film Title |
Director |
| Vanguard Cinema: John Waters in conversation
with John Cameron Mitchell |
| An Evening with Michael Moore |
| The Making of a Bollywood Blockbuster |
MIDNIGHT MADNESS
| Film Title |
Director |
| The Abandoned |
Nacho Cerdá |
| All the Boys Love Mandy Lane |
Jonathan Levine |
| Black Sheep |
Jonathan King |
| Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make
Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhs |
Larry Charles |
| The Host |
Bong Joon-ho |
| Princess |
Anders Morgenthaler |
| S&MAN |
JT Petty |
| Severance |
Christopher Smith |
| Sheitan |
Kim Chapiron |
| Trapped Ashes |
Joe Dante, Ken Russell, Sean Cunningham, Monte Hellman, John
Gaeta |
MOZART'S VISIONARY CINEMA: NEW CROWNED HOPE
| Film Title |
Director |
| Daratt |
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun |
| Half Moon |
Bahman Ghobadi |
| Hamaca Paraguaya |
Paz Encina |
| I Don't Want to Sleep Alone |
Tsai Ming-liang |
| Moekgo and the Stickfighter |
Teboho Mahlatsi |
| Opera Jawa |
Garin Nugroho |
| Syndromes and a Century |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
REAL TO REEL
|
| Film Title |
Director |
| ...So Goes the Nation |
James Stern, Adam Del Deo |
| American Hardcore |
Paul Rachman |
| Blindsight |
Lucy Walker |
| A Cry in the Dark |
Haobam Paban Kumar |
| Deliver Us From Evil |
Amy Berg |
| Dong |
Jia Zhangke |
| L' Esprit des lieux |
Catherine Martin |
| Ghosts of Cité Soleil |
Asger Leth |
| Iran: Une Révolution
cinématographique |
Nader Takmil Homayoun |
| The Killer Within |
Macky Alston |
| Kurt Cobain About A Son |
AJ Schnack |
| Lake of Fire |
Tony Kaye |
| Made in Jamaica |
Jérôme Laperrousaz |
| My Life as a Terrorist: The Story of
Hans-Joachim Klein |
Alexander Oey |
| Office Tigers |
Liz Mermin |
| The Pervert's Guide to Cinema |
Sophie Fiennes |
| Primo Levi's Journey |
Davide Ferrario |
| The Prisoner or How I Planned to Kill Tony
Blair |
Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein |
| Radiant City |
Gary Burns, Jim Brown |
| Remembering Arthur |
Martin Lavut |
| Sari's Mother |
James Longley |
| The Session is Open |
Vincenzo Marra |
| Shame |
Mohammed Naqvi |
| Sharkwater |
Rob Stewart |
| Shot in the Dark |
Adrian Grenier |
| The Sugar Curtain |
Camila Guzmán Urzúa |
| Summercamp! |
Sarah Price, Bradley Beesley |
| Tales of the Rat Fink |
Ron Mann |
| Tanju Miah |
Sadik Ahmed |
| These Girls |
Tahani Rached |
| This Filthy World |
Jeff Garlin |
| Toi, Waguih |
Namir Abdel Messeeh |
| The U.S. vs. John Lennon |
David Leaf, John Scheinfeld |
| Very Nice, Very Nice |
Arthur Lipsett |
| Yokohama Mary |
Takayuki Nakamura |
SHORT CUTS CANADA
| Film Title |
Director |
| À l'ombre |
Simon Lavoie |
| L' Air de rien |
Frédérick Pelletier |
| Aruba |
Hubert Davis |
| The Broken Hearted |
Antoinette Karuna |
| By the Hour |
Bill Marchant |
| Christ in Wood |
Alexander Winfield |
| Cloudbreaker |
Adam Garnet Jones |
| Couldn't be Happier |
Jackie May |
| The Double Woman |
Carla B. Guttmann |
| Down Payment on a Dead Horse |
Jason Britski |
| Les Eaux mortes |
Guy Edoin |
| The Ecstasy Note |
Geoffrey Uloth |
| Elizabeth Short |
Deco Dawson |
| The Eyes of Edward James |
Rodrigo Gudiño |
| If I See Randy Again Do You Want Me to Hit Him
with the Axe? |
Vivieno Caldinelli |
| Intolerable |
Alison Maclean |
| Les Jours |
Maxime Giroux |
| The Last Bang |
Emmanuel Shirinian |
| A Life of Errors |
Sheila Pye, Nicholas Pye |
| Love Seat |
Kris Elgstrand |
| The Man Who Waited |
Theodore Ushev |
| Ninth Street Chronicles |
Megan Martin |
| Nude Caboose |
Guy Maddin |
| Où est Maurice? |
Alek Rzeszowski, Matthew Rankin |
| Patterns 2 |
Jamie Travis |
| Patterns 3 |
Jamie Travis |
| Plume |
Chelsea McMullan |
| Pretty Broken |
Cline Mayo |
| The Runner |
Robert Deleskie |
| The Saddest Boy in the World |
Jamie Travis |
| Saskatchewan Part 3 |
Brian Stockton |
| Screening |
Anthony Green |
| Starlight Tour |
Evan Crowe |
| Supposed To |
Aleesa Cohene |
| Suspect |
Patricia Rozema |
| La Tête Haute |
Ivan Grbovic |
| Tell Me Everything |
Brian D. Johnson |
| The Tragic Story of Nling |
Jeffrey St. Jules |
| True Love |
Adam Brodie, Dave Derewlany |
| The Wait |
Ann Verrall |
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
| Film Title |
Director |
| 10 Items or Less |
Brad Silberling |
| Alatriste |
Augustín Díaz Yanes |
| Begone Dull Care |
Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart |
| Blinkity Blank |
Norman McLaren |
| Brand upon the Brain! |
Guy Maddin |
| The Bubble |
Eytan Fox |
| El Cantante |
Leon Ichaso |
| Catch a Fire |
Phillip Noyce |
| A A Chairy Tale |
Norman McLaren, Claude Jutra |
| Congorama |
Philippe Falardeau |
| Un Crime |
Manuel Pradal |
| The Dog Problem |
Scott Caan |
| Exiled |
Johnnie To |
| The Fall |
Tarsem Singh |
| Fay Grim |
Hal Hartley |
| The Fountain |
Darren Aronofsky |
| Golden Door |
Emanuele Crialese |
| HANA |
Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| Hen Hop |
Norman McLaren |
| L' Homme de sa Vie |
Zabou Breitman |
| Horizontal Lines |
Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart |
| Jindabyne |
Ray Lawrence |
| Kabul Express |
Kabir Khan |
| The Last King of Scotland |
Kevin Macdonald |
| The Last Kiss |
Tony Goldwyn |
| Little Children |
Todd Field |
| The Lives of Others |
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| Love and Other Disasters |
Alek Keshishian |
| The Magic Flute |
Kenneth Branagh |
| Manufactured Landscapes |
Jennifer Baichwal |
| Le Le Merle |
Norman McLaren |
| Mon Colonel |
Laurent Herbiet |
| The Namesake |
Mira Nair |
| Neighbours |
Norman McLaren |
| Nue Propriété |
Joachim Lafosse |
| Opening Speech |
Norman McLaren |
| Pan's Labyrinth |
Guillermo del Toro |
| Paris, Je T'aime |
Bruno Podalydès, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel and
Ethan Coen, Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, Christopher Doyle,
Isabel Coixet, Nobuhiro Suwa, Sylvain Chomet, Alfonso
Cuarón, Olivier Assayas, Oliver Schmitz, Richard
LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Wes Craven, Tom Tykwer,
Frédéric Auburtin, Gérard Depardieu, Alexander
Payne |
| Pas de deux |
Norman McLaren |
| The Pleasure of Your Company |
Michael Ian Black |
| The PostModern Life of My Aunt |
Ann Hui |
| Quelques Jours en Septembre |
Santiago Amigorena |
| Seraphim Falls |
David Von Ancken |
| Snow Cake |
Marc Evans |
| Stars and Stripes |
Norman McLaren |
| Stranger than Fiction |
Marc Forster |
| Synchromy |
Norman McLaren |
| This is England |
Shane Meadows |
| Venus |
Roger Michell |
| Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30
Days & 30 Nights-Hollywood to the Hea |
Ari Sandel |
| Woman on the Beach |
Hong Sang-soo |
SPROCKETS FAMILY ZONE
| Film Title |
Director |
| Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker |
Geoffrey Sax |
| The Hairy Tooth Fairy |
Juan Pablo Buscarini |
| U |
Grégoire Solotareff, Serge Elissalde |
| The Ugly Duckling and Me |
Michael Hegner, Karsten Kiilerich |
VANGUARD
| Film Title |
Director |
| 2:37 |
Murali K. Thalluri |
| Bunny Chow |
John Barker |
| Chacun sa nuit |
Jean-Marc Barr, Pascal Arnold |
| Drama/Mex |
Gerardo Naranjo |
| Election |
Johnnie To |
| Election 2 |
Johnnie To |
| The Hottest State |
Ethan Hawke |
| Jade Warrior |
Antti-Jussi Annila |
| Macbeth |
Geoffrey Wright |
| Renaissance |
Christian Volckman |
| Shortbus |
John Cameron Mitchell |
| Sleeping Dogs Lie |
Bobcat Goldthwait |
| Suburban Mayhem |
Paul Goldman |
VISIONS
| Film Title |
Director |
| August Days |
Marc Recha |
| Bamako |
Abderrahmane Sissako |
| Belle toujours |
Manoel de Oliveira |
| Big Bang Love, Juvenile A |
Takashi Miike |
| Blessed are the Dreams of Men |
Jem Cohen |
| The Book of Revelation |
Ana Kokkinos |
| The Bug Master |
Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Building a Broken Mousetrap |
Jem Cohen |
| Cages |
Olivier Masset-Depasse |
| Climates |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| Colossal Youth |
Pedro Costa |
| D.O.A.P. |
Gabriel Range |
| Dans les villes |
Catherine Martin |
| Day Night Day Night |
Julia Loktev |
| Day on Fire |
Jay Anania |
| Fantasma |
Lisandro Alonso |
| Flanders |
Bruno Dumont |
| Gathering the Scattered Cousins |
Akin Omotoso |
| In Between Days |
So Yong Kim |
| Invisible Waves |
Pen-ek Ratanaruang |
| The Island |
Pavel Lounguine |
| Khadak |
Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth |
| Kinshasa Palace |
Zeka Laplaine |
| No Place Like Home |
Perry Henzell |
| NYC Weights & Measures |
Jem Cohen |
| Sistagod |
Yao Ramesar |
| Takva - A Man's Fear of God |
Özer Kiziltan |
| Taxidermia |
György Pálfi |
| Ten Canoes |
Rolf de Heer |
| Time |
Kim Ki-duk |
| Zidane: Un Portrait du XXIe
Siècle |
Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno |
