Toronto International Film Festival Coverage:2009:List of Films
34th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films
Here’s a complete list of the films and presentations at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival:
10101 | T. Marie | Wavelengths |
25 Carat (25 Kilates) | Patxi Amezcua | Contemporary World Cinema |
5 Dysfunctional People in a Car | Pat Mills | Short Cuts Canada |
75 El Camino | Sami Khan | Short Cuts Canada |
Accident | Soi Cheang | Vanguard |
Adrift (Choi Voi) | Bui Thac Chuyen | Contemporary World Cinema |
L’ Affaire Farewell (Farewell) | Christian Carion | Special Presentations |
An Afternoon with Chris Rock | Mavericks | |
Agora | Alejandro Amenábar | Gala Presentations |
Air Doll (Kuki Ningyo) | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Masters |
Ajami | Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Contemporary World Cinema |
All Fall Down | Philip Hoffman | Canada First! |
The Angel (Engelen) | Margreth Olin | Discovery |
Antichrist | Lars von Trier | Masters |
The Ape (Apan) | Jesper Ganslandt | Vanguard |
Applause | Martin Pieter Zandvliet | Discovery |
The Armoire | Jamie Travis | Short Cuts Canada |
The Art of the Steal | Don Argott | Real to Reel |
At the End of Daybreak | Ho Yuhang | Contemporary World Cinema |
Baaria (Baarìa) | Giuseppe Tornatore | Special Presentations |
Backstory | Mark Lewis | Future Projections |
Backstory/Cinema Museum | Future Projections | |
Backyard | Carlos Carrera | Contemporary World Cinema |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Werner Herzog | Special Presentations |
Balibo | Robert Connolly | Contemporary World Cinema |
The Band That Wouldn’t Die | Barry Levinson | Mavericks |
Bare Essence of Life | Satoko Yokohama | Discovery |
Bassidji | Mehran Tamadon | Real to Reel |
Beautiful Kate | Rachel Ward | Discovery |
Bena | Niv Klainer | City to City |
Between Two Worlds (Ahasin Wetei) | Vimukthi Jayasundara | Visions |
Beyond the Circle (Britter Bairey) | Golam Rabbany Biplob | Contemporary World Cinema |
Big Dig (Blaumilch Canal) | Ephraim Kishon West | City to City |
Big Eyes (Einayim G’dolot) | Uri Zohar | City to City |
Big Head | Dylan Akio Smith | Short Cuts Canada |
Bitch Slap | Rick Jacobson | Midnight Madness |
Blessed | Ana Kokkinos | Contemporary World Cinema |
A Brand New Life (Ye Haeng Ja) | Ounie Lecomte | Discovery |
Bran Nue Dae | Rachel Perkins | Contemporary World Cinema |
Bright Star | Jane Campion | Special Presentations |
Broken Embraces | Pedro Almodóvar | Special Presentations |
Bunny & the Bull | Paul King | Vanguard |
Cairo Time | Ruba Nadda | Special Presentations |
Capitalism: A Love Story | Michael Moore | Special Presentations |
Carcasses | Denis Côté | Vanguard |
Carmel | Amos Gitaï | Masters |
Castaway on the Moon (Kim Ssi Pyo Ryu Gi) | Lee Hey-jun | Contemporary World Cinema |
Une Catastrophe | Jean-Luc Godard | Wavelengths |
Cell 211 (Celda 211) | Daniel Monzón | Contemporary World Cinema |
Chloe | Atom Egoyan | Gala Presentations |
La Chute (The Fall) | Ivan Grbovic | Short Cuts Canada |
Cinema Museum | Mark Lewis | Future Projections |
City of Life and Death (Nanjing Nanjing) | Lu Chuan | Special Presentations |
Cleanflix | Andrew James, Joshua Ligairi | Real to Reel |
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky | Jan Kounen | Gala Presentations |
Cole | Carl Bessai | Contemporary World Cinema |
Collapse | Chris Smith | Real to Reel |
Colony | Carter Gunn, Ross McDonnell | Real to Reel |
Cooking with Stella | Dilip Mehta | Gala Presentations |
Cordão Verde (Green Belt) | Hiroatsu Suzuki, Rossana Torres | Wavelengths |
Covered | John Greyson | Short Cuts Canada |
Crab Trap (El Vuelco del Cangrejo) | Oscar Ruiz Navia | Discovery |
Crackie | Sherry White | Canada First! |
Cracks | Jordan Scott | Special Presentations |
Creation | Jon Amiel | Gala Presentations |
The Damned United | Tom Hooper | Gala Presentations |
Danse Macabre | Pedro Pires | Short Cuts Canada |
La Danse — Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris (La Danse — The Paris Opera Ballet) | Frederick Wiseman | Mavericks |
Daybreakers | Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | Midnight Madness |
The Day God Walked Away (Le Jour où Dieu est parti en voyage) | Philippe van Leeuw | Discovery |
The Day Will Come (Es Kommt der Tag) | Snne Schneider | Discovery |
Deadman | Chelsea McMullan | Short Cuts Canada |
Defendor | Peter Stebbings | Special Presentations |
Deliver Us from Evil (Fri os fra det onde) | Ole Bornedal | Contemporary World Cinema |
De Mouvement | Richard Kerr | Short Cuts Canada |
Les Derniers jours du monde (Happy End) | Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu | Special Presentations |
The Dirty Saints (Los Santos sucios) | Luis Ortega | Vanguard |
The Disappearance of Alice Creed | J Blakeson | Discovery |
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) | Yorgos Lanthimos | Contemporary World Cinema |
La Donation (The Legacy) | Bernard Émond | Masters |
The Double Hour (La Doppia Ora) | Giuseppe Capotondi | Contemporary World Cinema |
Down for Life | Alan Jacobs | Contemporary World Cinema |
Eamon | Margaret Corkery | Discovery |
Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Singularidades de uma rapariga loura) | Manoel de Oliveira | Masters |
Eclectic Method | Future Projections | |
Edge of the Desert | Lea Nakonechny | Short Cuts Canada |
An Education | Lone Scherfig | Special Presentations |
L’Enfer de Henri-Georges Clouzot (Inferno) | Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea | Real to Reel |
Enter the Void | Gaspar Noé | Vanguard |
Excited | Bruce Sweeney | Contemporary World Cinema |
Eyes Wide Open (Eynaim Pekukhot) | Haim Tabakman | Contemporary World Cinema |
Face (Visage) | Tsai Ming-liang | Visions |
Film for Invisible Ink, Case no. 142 Abbreviation for Dead Winter (Diminished by 1,794) | David Gatten | Wavelengths |
fish in barrel | Randall Okita | Short Cuts Canada |
Five Hours from Paris (Chamesh Shaot MeParis ) | Leon Prudovsky | Discovery |
Flash Camera Movie | Sebastjan Henrickson | Wavelengths |
FM/TRCS | Coleen Fitzgibbon | Wavelengths |
Found | Paramita Nath | Short Cuts Canada |
The Front Line (La Prima Linea) | Renato De Maria | Special Presentations |
Gaia | Jason Lehel | Visions |
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould | Michèle Hozer, Peter Raymont | Real to Reel |
George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead | George A. Romero | Midnight Madness |
George Ryga’s HUNGRY HILLS | Rob King | Canada First! |
Get Low | Aaron Schneider | Gala Presentations |
Gigante | Adrián Biniez | Discovery |
Giulia Doesn’t Date at Night (Giulia non esce la sera) | Giuseppe Piccioni | Contemporary World Cinema |
Glorious 39 | Stephen Poliakoff | Special Presentations |
Good Hair | Jeff Stilson | Special Presentations |
The Good Heart | Dagur Kári | Special Presentations |
Google Baby | Zippi Brand Frank | Real to Reel |
Greenpoint | Jim Jennings | Wavelengths |
Green Porno: Bon Appétit | Isabella Rossellini, Jody Shapiro | Future Projections |
GREEN PORNO: Scandalous Sea | Isabella Rossellini, Jody Shapiro, Rick Gilbert, Andy Byers, Claudio Campagna | Future Projections |
A Gun to the Head | Blaine Thurier | Contemporary World Cinema |
Hadewijch | Bruno Dumont | Special Presentations |
The Happiest Girl in the World (Cea mai fericita fata din lume) | Radu Jude | Discovery |
Heiran | Shalizeh Arefpour | Contemporary World Cinema |
Heliopolis (Heliopolis “Masr El Gedida”) | Ahmad Abdalla | Discovery |
Help Gone Mad (Sumashedshaya Pomosh) | Boris Khlebnikov | Contemporary World Cinema |
Les Herbes folles (Wild Grass) | Alain Resnais | Masters |
High Life | Gary Yates | Contemporary World Cinema |
A Hindu’s Indictment of Heaven | Dev Khanna | Short Cuts Canada |
Hipsters (Stilyagi) | Valery Todorovsky | Vanguard |
Hiroshima | Pablo Stoll | Visions |
The Hole | Joe Dante | Special Presentations |
Homeland Security | Isaac Cravit | Short Cuts Canada |
Honeymoons | Goran Paskaljevic | Masters |
Hotel Atlantico | Suzana Amaral | Masters |
Hotel Roccalba | Josef Dabernig | Wavelengths |
The House of Branching Love (Haarautuvan rakkauden talo) | Mika Kaurismäki | Contemporary World Cinema |
How to Fold a Flag | Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein | Real to Reel |
Huacho | Alejandro Fernández Almendras | Contemporary World Cinema |
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel | Brigitte Berman | Special Presentations |
I Am Love (Io sono l’amore ) | Luca Guadagnino | Visions |
I, Don Giovanni (Io, Don Giovanni ) | Carlos Saura | Gala Presentations |
If I Knew What You Said (Dinig Sana Kita) | Mike Escareal Sandejas | Contemporary World Cinema |
IKWÉ | Caroline Monnet | Short Cuts Canada |
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Terry Gilliam | Gala Presentations |
Imaginary Lovers/ A Vicious Undertow | Don McKellar Jesper Just | Future Projections |
In a City | Mark Lewis | Future Projections |
In Comparison (Zum Vergleich) | Harun Farocki | Wavelengths |
In Conversation with Michael Caine | Mavericks | |
Independencia | Raya Martin | Visions |
Interview with the Earth (Entrevista con la tierra ) | Nicolas Pereda | Short Cuts Canada |
The Invention of Lying | Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson | Special Presentations |
Irène | Alain Cavalier | Visions |
The Island | Trevor Anderson | Short Cuts Canada |
A History of Israeli Cinema Part 1 (Historia Shel Hakolnoah Israeli) | Raphaël Nadjari | City to City |
Jaffa (Kalat Hayam) | Keren Yedaya | City to City |
J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother) | Xavier Dolan | Special Presentations |
Jean Charles | Henrique Goldman | Contemporary World Cinema |
Jennifer’s Body | Karyn Kma | Midnight Madness |
The Joneses | Derrick Borte | Special Presentations |
Käfig (Cage) | Karl Kels | Wavelengths |
Kamui (Kamui Gaiden ) | Yoichi Sai | Special Presentations |
Karaoke | Chris Chong Chan Fui Malaysia | Visions |
Kelin | Ermek Tursunov Kazakhstan | Discovery |
Peter Berg presents Kings Ransom | Peter Berg | Mavericks |
Kirot | Danny Lerner | City to City |
The Last Days of Emma Blank (De laatste dagen van Emma Blank) | Alex van Warmerdam | Contemporary World Cinema |
Last Ride | Glendyn Ivin | Discovery |
Life Begins (La vie commence) | Émile Proulx-Cloutier | Short Cuts Canada |
Leaves of Grass | Tim Blake Nelson | Special Presentations |
Partir (Leaving) | Catherine Corsini | Special Presentations |
Lebanon (Levanone) | Samuel Maoz | Visions |
Léger Problème | Hélène Florent | Short Cuts Canada |
Leslie, My Name Is Evil | Reginald Harkema | Vanguard |
Wavelengths 3: Let Each One Go Where He May | Ben Russell | Wavelengths |
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee | Apichatpong Weerasethakul / | Wavelengths |
Life According to Agfa (Ha’Chayim Al-Pi Agfa) | Assi Dayan 1992 | City to City |
Life During Wartime | Todd Solondz | Special Presentations |
Like You Know It All (Jal Aljido Motamyunseo) | Hong Sang-soo | Contemporary World Cinema |
London River | Rachid Bouchareb | Special Presentations |
Lourdes | Jessica Hausner | Contemporary World Cinema |
The Loved Ones | Sean Byrne | Midnight Madness |
Lumphini 2552 | Tomonari Nishikawa | Wavelengths |
M | Felix Dufour-Laperriere | Short Cuts Canada |
Machotaildrop | Corey Adams, Alex Craig | Canada First! |
Mall Girls (Galerianki) | Katarzyna Roslaniec | Discovery |
The Man Beyond the Bridge (Paltadacho Munis) | Laxmikant Shetgaonkar | Discovery |
Man v. Minivan | Spencer Maybee | Short Cuts Canada |
Mao’s Last Dancer | Bruce Beresford | Special Presentations |
Max Manus | Espen Sandberg, Joachim Roenning | Gala Presentations |
Melody for a Street Organ (Melodiya Dlya Sharmanki) | Kira Muratova | Masters |
Men on the Bridge( Köprüdekiler) | Asli Özge | Contemporary World Cinema |
The Men Who Stare At Goats | Grant Heslov | Gala Presentations |
The Misfortunates (De helaasheid der dingen) | Felix van Groeningen | Vanguard |
Moloch Tropical | Raoul Peck | Special Presentations |
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers | Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith | Real to Reel |
Mother | Bong Joon-ho | Special Presentations |
Mr. Nobody | Jaco Van Dormael | Special Presentations |
My Dog Tulip | Paul Fierlinger, Sandra Fierlinger | Discovery |
My Queen Karo | Dorothée van den Berghe | Vanguard |
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Werner Herzog | Special Presentations |
My Tehran for Sale | Granaz Moussavi | Discovery |
My Toxic Baby | Min Sook Lee | Short Cuts Canada |
My Year Without Sex | Sarah Watt | Contemporary World Cinema |
Naissances | Anne Emond | Short Cuts Canada |
Night Mayor | Guy Maddin | Short Cuts Canada |
Nora | Alla Kovgan, David Hinton | Discovery |
Northless (Norteado ) | Rigoberto Perezcano | Discovery |
On a Lonely Drive | Igor Drljaca | Short Cuts Canada |
Ondine | Neil Jordan | Special Presentations |
Ong Bak 2: The Beginning | Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai | Midnight Madness |
Out in that Deep Blue Sea | Kazik Radwanski | Short Cuts Canada |
Passage Briare | Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) | Wavelengths |
Passenger Side | Matthew Bissonnette | Contemporary World Cinema |
Le Père de mes enfants (Father of My Children ) | Mia Hansen-Løve | Contemporary World Cinema |
Perrier’s Bounty | Ian FitzGibbon | Special Presentations |
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands | Peter Mettler | Real to Reel |
Phantom Pain (Phantomschmerz) | Matthias Emcke | Gala Presentations |
Phantoms of Nabua | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Future Projections |
Phobidilia | Yoav Paz, Doron Paz | City to City |
Picture Start | Chris Doyle | Future Projections |
La Pivellina | Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel | Discovery |
Pointless Film | Peter Wellington | Short Cuts Canada |
Police, Adjective | Corneliu Porumboiu Romania | Contemporary World Cinema |
Polterabend Hen Night | Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) | Wavelengths |
Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire | Lee Daniels | Gala Presentations |
Presumed Guilty (Presunto culpable) | Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith | Real to Reel |
Prince of Tears | Yonfan | Contemporary World Cinema |
Pro Agri | Nicky Hamlyn | Wavelengths |
A Prophet (Un Prophète ) | Jacques Audiard | Special Presentations |
Puccini Conservato | Michael Snow | Wavelengths |
Rabia | Sebastián Cordero | Contemporary World Cinema |
[REC] 2 | Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Midnight Madness |
Record | Dylan Reibling | Short Cuts Canada |
Reel Injun | Neil Diamond | Real to Reel |
Le Refuge (The Refuge) | François Ozon | Masters |
The Road | John Hillcoat | Special Presentations |
Road, Movie | Dev Benegal | Special Presentations |
Runaway | Cordell Barker | Short Cuts Canada |
Saint Louis Blues (Un Transport en commun) | Dyana Gaye | Discovery |
Same Same but Different | Detlev Buck | Contemporary World Cinema |
Samson & Delilah | Warwick Thornton | Discovery |
Sawasdee Bangkok | Wisit Sasanatieng, Aditya Assarat, Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Pen-ek Ratanaruang | Contemporary World Cinema |
Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story (Ehky Ya Schahrazad) | Yousry Nasrallah | Special Presentations |
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags | Marc Levin | Real to Reel |
The Search | Wan Ma Cai Dan | Contemporary World Cinema |
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de sus ojos) | Juan José Campanella | Special Presentations |
The Secret School (To Krifo Scholio) | Marina Gioti | Wavelengths |
Shameless (Nestyda) | Jan Hrebejk | Contemporary World Cinema |
She, a Chinese | Guo Xiaolu | Vanguard |
A Shine of Rainbows | Vic Sarin | Sprockets Family Zone |
Shirley Adams | Oliver Hermanus | Discovery |
Should I Really Do It? (Bunu Gerçekten Yapmali Miyim?) | Ismail Necmi | Discovery |
A Single Man | Tom Ford | Special Presentations |
Sixty Seconds of Regret | Ed Gass-Donnelly | Short Cuts Canada |
Slovenian Girl (Slovenka) | Damjan Kozole | Contemporary World Cinema |
Smoke | Nikos Theodosakis | Short Cuts Canada |
Snowblind | Vikram Jayanti | Real to Reel |
Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees (La Neige Cache l’ombre des Figuiers ) | Samer Najari | Short Cuts Canada |
Hanging Upside Down in the Branches (Kopfueber im Geaest ) | Ute Aurand | Wavelengths |
Soap | Dusty Mancinelli | Short Cuts Canada |
La Soga | Josh Crook | Discovery |
Solitary Man | Brian Koppelman, David Levien | Special Presentations |
Solomon Kane | Michael J. Bassett | Midnight Madness |
Sparrows | William Beaudine | Canadian Open Vault |
Speak City: Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak | Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak | Future Projections |
The Spine | Chris Landreth | Short Cuts Canada |
Spring Fever (Chun Feng Chen Ziu De Ye Wan) | Lou Ye | Vanguard |
S/T (Untitled ) | Lisandro Alonso | Wavelengths |
Le Streghe, femmes entre elles | Jean-Marie Straub | Wavelengths |
Suck | Rob Stefaniuk | Contemporary World Cinema |
Swimming Lesson | Caitriona Cantillon | Short Cuts Canada |
Symbol (Shinboru ) | Hitoshi Matsumoto | Midnight Madness |
Future Projections: BAND | Adam Pendleton | Future Projections |
Tamalpais | Chris Kennedy | Wavelengths |
Tanner Hall | Francesca Gregorini, Tatiana von Furstenberg | Contemporary World Cinema |
The Origins of Factum | Candice Breitz | Future Projections |
THE SHAPE OF THINGS CIVILIZATION THIS TRANSITION… | Oliver Pietsch, Marco Brambilla, Jeremy Shaw | Future Projections |
The Wild Hunt | Alexandre Franchi | Canada First! |
The Time that Remains | Elia Suleiman | Contemporary World Cinema |
Timetrip (Vølvens Forbandelse) | Mogens Hagedorn | Sprockets Family Zone |
Titan | Klaus Lutz | Wavelengths |
Toad’s Oil (Gama no Abura ) | Koji Yakusho | Discovery |
To Die Like a Man (Morrer como um homem ) | João Pedro Rodrigues | Visions |
Together (Sammen ) | Matias Armand Jordal | Discovery |
The Topp Twins | Leanne Pooley | Real to Reel |
To the Sea (Alamar) | Pedro González-Rubio | Visions |
A Town Called Panic (Panique au village ) | Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar | Midnight Madness |
The Translator | Sonya Di Rienzo | Short Cuts Canada |
Trash Humpers | Harmony Korine | Visions |
The Traveller (Al Mosafer) | Ahmed Maher | Special Presentations |
Triage | Danis Tanovic | Special Presentations |
The Trotsky | Jacob Tierney | Special Presentations |
Tungijuq | Felix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphael | Short Cuts Canada |
Turtle: The Incredible Journey | Nick Stringer | Sprockets Family Zone |
Two Projects by Frederick Kiesler (Zwei Projekte von Friedrich Kiesler) | Heinz Emigholz | Wavelengths |
Under the Mountain | Jonathan King | Sprockets Family Zone |
Unlocked | Mio Adilman | Short Cuts Canada |
The Unloved | Samantha Morton | Discovery |
Valhalla Rising | Nicolas Winding Refn | Special Presentations |
Vengeance | Johnnie To | Special Presentations |
Videocracy | Erik Gandini | Real to Reel |
Vincere | Marco Bellocchio | Masters |
The Vintner’s Luck | Niki Caro | Special Presentations |
Vision | Margarethe von Trotta | Masters |
Vive la Rose | Bruce Alcock | Short Cuts Canada |
Volta | Ryan Mullins | Short Cuts Canada |
V.O.S. | Cesc Gay | Contemporary World Cinema |
Vs. | Ben Bruhmuller | Short Cuts Canada |
The Waiting City | Claire McCarthy | Special Presentations |
The Warrior and the Wolf (Lang Zai Ji) | Tian Zhuang Zhuang | Special Presentations |
Waterfront Follies | Ernie Gehr | Wavelengths |
Wavelengths 1: Titans | Wavelengths | |
Wavelengths 2: Pro Agri | Wavelengths | |
Wavelengths 5: Une Catastrophe | Wavelengths | |
Wavelengths 4: In Comparison | Wavelengths | |
Wavelengths 6: Flash Point Camera | Wavelengths | |
Wheat (Mai Tian) | He Ping | Special Presentations |
Whip It | Drew Barrymore | Special Presentations |
White Material | Claire Denis | Masters |
The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) | Michael Haneke | Masters |
The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights | Emmett Malloy | Vanguard |
The Wild Hunt | Alexandre Franchi | Canada First! |
The Wind Journeys (Los Viajes del viento) | Ciro Guerra | Contemporary World Cinema |
The Window (Janala ) | Buddhadeb Dasgupta | Masters |
Women Without Men | Shirin Neshat | Special Presentations |
Working on the Douro River | Manoel de Oliveira | Masters |
Year of the Carnivore | Sook-Yin Lee | Canada First! |
The Young Victoria | Jean-Marc Vallée | Gala Presentations |
Youth in Revolt | Miguel Arteta | Special Presentations |