38th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films

Here’s a look at the films that will unspool at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

GALAS

  • American Dreams in China dir. Peter Ho-Sun Chan
  • The Art of the Steal dir. Jonathan Sobol
  • August: Osage County dir. John Wells
  • Blood Ties dir. Guillaume Canet
  • Bright Days Ahead (Les Beaux jours) dir. Marion Vernoux
  • Cold Eyes dir. Cho Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo
  • The Fifth Estate dir. Bill Condon
  • The Grand Seduction dir. Don McKellar
  • Kill Your Darlings John Krokidas
  • Life of Crime dir. Daniel Schechter
  • The Love Punch Joel Hopkins
  • The Lunchbox dir. Ritesh Batra
  • Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom dir. Justin Chadwick
  • Parkland dir. Peter Landesman
  • The Railway Man dir. Jonathan Teplitzky
  • The Right Kind of Wrong dir. Jeremiah Chechik
  • Rush dir. Ron Howard
  • Shuddh Desi Romance dir. Maneesh Sharma
  • Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon dir. Mike Myers
  • Words and Pictures dir. Fred Schepisi

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

  • 12 Years a Slave dir. Steve McQueen
  • A Promise (Une Promesse) dir. Patrice Leconte
  • All Is By My Side dir. John Ridley
  • The Armstrong Lie dir. Alex Gibney
  • Attila Marcel dir. Sylvain Chomet
  • Bad Words dir. Jason Bateman
  • Belle dir. Amma Asante
  • Blind Detective dir. Johnnie To
  • Blue Is The Warmest Color dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
  • Burning Bush dir. Agnieszka Holland
  • Can a Song Save Your Life? dir. John Carney
  • Cannibal (Caníbal) dir. Manuel Martín Cuenca
  • Child of God dir. James Franco
  • Dallas Buyers Club dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
  • Devil’s Knot dir. Atom Egoyan
  • The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her dir. Ned Benson
  • Dom Hemingway dir. Richard Shepard
  • Don Jon dir. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • The Double dir. Richard Ayoade
  • Enemy dir. Denis Villeneuve
  • Enough Said dir. Nicole Holofcener
  • Exit Marrakech dir. Caroline Link
  • The F Word dir. Michael Dowse
  • The Face of Love dir. Arie Posin
  • Fading Gigolo dir. John Turturro
  • Felony dir. Matthew Saville
  • The Finishers dir. Nils Tavernier
  • For Those Who Can Tell No Tales dir. Jasmila Žbanic’
  • Gabrielle dir. Louise Archambault
  • Gloria dir. Sebastián Lelio
  • Going Away (Il est parti dimanche) dir. Nicole Garcia
  • Gravity dir. Alfonso Cuarón
  • The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) dir. Paolo Sorrentino
  • Half of a Yellow Sun dir. Biyi Bandele
  • Hateship Loveship dir. Liza Johnson
  • How I Live Now dir. Kevin Macdonald
  • The Husband dir. Bruce McDonald
  • Ida dir. Pawel Pawlikowski
  • L’intrepido dir. Gianni Amelio
  • The Invisible Woman dir. Ralph Fiennes
  • Joe dir. David Gordon Green
  • Labor Day dir. Jason Reitman
  • The Last of Robin Hood dir. Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
  • The Liberator (Libertador) dir. Alberto Arvelo
  • Like Father, Like Son dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • Love is the Perfect Crime (Amour Crime Parfait) dir. Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu
  • Lucky Them dir. Megan Griffiths
  • Man of Tai Chi dir. Keanu Reeves
  • MARY Queen of Scots dir. Thomas Imbach
  • Mystery Road dir. Ivan Sen
  • Night Moves dir. Kelly Reichardt
  • Omar dir. Hany Abu-Assad
  • One Chance dir. David Frankel
  • Only Lovers Left Alive dir. Jim Jarmusch
  • The Past (Le Passé) dir. Asghar Farhadi
  • Philomena dir. Stephen Frears
  • Pioneer (Pionér) dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg
  • Prisoners dir. Denis Villeneuve
  • Quai d’Orsay dir. Bertrand Tavernier
  • REAL dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  • Rock the Casbah dir. Laïla Marrakchi
  • Singing Women (Sarki Söyleyen Kadinlar) dir. Reha Erdem
  • Southcliffe dir. Sean Durkin
  • Starred Up dir. David Mackenzie
  • Sunshine on Leith dir. Dexter Fletcher
  • Therese dir. Charlie Stratton
  • Third Person dir. Paul Haggis
  • Those Happy Years (Anni Felici) dir. Daniele Luchetti
  • Tom At The Farm (Tom à la ferme) dir. Xavier Dolan
  • Tracks dir. John Curran
  • Under the Skin dir. Jonathan Glazer
  • Unforgiven (Yurusarezarumono) dir. Lee Sang-il
  • Violette dir. Martin Provost
  • Visitors dir. Godfrey Reggio
  • Walesa. Man of Hope. (Walesa. Czlowiek z nadziei.) dir. Andrzej Wajda
  • Watermark dir. Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky
  • We are the Best! (Vi är bäst!) dir. Lukas Moodysson
  • Le Week-End dir. Roger Michell
  • The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) dir. Hayao Miyazaki
  • You Are Here dir. Matthew Weiner
  • Young and Beautiful (Jeune & jolie) dir. François Ozon

TIFF DOCS

  • A Story of Children and Film dir. Mark Cousins
  • Ain’t Misbehavin’ dir. Marcel Ophüls
  • At Berkeley dir. Frederick Wiseman
  • Beyond the Edge dir. Leanne Pooley
  • Burt’s Buzz dir. Jody Shapiro
  • The Dark Matter of Love dir. Sarah McCarthy
  • The Dog dir. Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren
  • Faith Connections dir. Pan Nalin
  • Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story dir. Barry Avrich
  • Finding Vivian Maier dir. John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
  • Hi-Ho Mistahey! dir. Alanis Obomsawin
  • Ignasi M. dir. Ventura Pons
  • Jodorowsky’s Dune dir. Frank Pavich
  • The Last of the Unjust dir. Claude Lanzmann
  • The Mayor dir. Emiliano Altuna Fistolera
  • Midway dir. Chris Jordan
  • Mission Congo dir. David Turner and Lara Zizic
  • The Square (Al Midan) dir. Jehane Noujaim
  • Tim’s Vermeer dir. Teller
  • The Unknown Known dir. Errol Morris
  • Unstable Elements dir. Madeleine Sackler
  • When Jews Were Funny dir. Alan Zweig

CITY TO CITY (ATHENS)

  • The Daughter (I Kori) dir. Thanos Anastopoulos
  • The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (I Aionia Epistrofi tou Antoni Paraskeua) dir. Elina Psykou
  • J.A.C.E. — Just Another Confused Elephant dir. Menelaos Karamaghiolis
  • Miss Violence dir. Alexandros Avranas
  • September dir. Penny Panayotopoulou
  • Standing Aside, Watching (Na Kathese ke na Kitas) dir. Yorgos Servetas
  • To the Wolf (Sto Lyko) dir. Aran Hughes and Christina Koutsospyrou
  • Unfair World (Adikos Kosmos) dir. Filippos Tsitos
  • Wasted Youth dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel
  • Wild Duck dir. Yannis Sakaridis

MIDNIGHT MADNESS

  • Afflicted dir. Derek Lee and Clif Prowse
  • All Cheerleaders Die dir. Lucky McKee
  • Almost Human dir. Joe Begos
  • The Green Inferno dir. Eli Roth
  • Oculus dir. Mike Flanagan
  • R100 dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto
  • Rigor Mortis dir. Juno Mak
  • The Station (Blutgletscher) dir. Marvin Kren
  • Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Jigoku de Naze Warui) dir. Sion Sono
  • Witching & Bitching (Las brujas de Zugarramurdi) dir. Alex de la Iglesia

TIFF KIDS

  • Amazonia dir. Thierry Ragobert
  • Antboy dir. Ask Hasselbalch
  • KHUMBA dir. Anthony Silverston
  • The World of Goopi and Bagha dir. Shilpa Ranade
  • Zip and Zap and the Marble Gang dir. Oskar Santos

VANGUARD

  • Asphalt Watches dir. Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehman
  • Blue Ruin dir. Jeremy Saulnier
  • Borgman dir. Alex van Warmerdam
  • Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari dir. Alexey Fedorchenko
  • The Fake dir. Yeon Sang-ho
  • Gerontophilia dir. Bruce LaBruce
  • Horns dir. Alexandre Aja
  • People In Places (Gente En Sitios) dir. Juan Cavestany
  • Proxy dir. Zack Parker
  • The Sacrament dir. Ti West
  • Sapi dir. Brillante Mendoza
  • Sex, Drugs & Taxation (Spies & Glistrup) dir. Christoffer Boe
  • Soul dir. Chung Mong-Hong
  • The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears dir. Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
  • Thou Gild’st the Even dir. Onur Ünlü
  • We Gotta Get Out of This Place dir. Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins

TIFF CINEMATHEQUE

  • An Autumn Afternoon dir. Yasujiro Ozu
  • Gun Crazy dir. Joseph H. Lewis
  • Hiroshima mon amour dir. Alain Resnais
  • The Lovely Month of May (Le Joli Mai) dir. Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme
  • Manila in the Claws of Light (Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko Ng Liwanag) dir. Lino Brocka
  • Rome, Open City (Roma, città aperta) dir. Roberto Rossellini
  • Shivers dir. David Cronenberg

DISCOVERY

  • 1982 dir. Tommy Oliver
  • All About the Feathers (Por las Plumas) dir. Neto Villalobos
  • All the Wrong Reasons dir. Gia Milani
  • The Amazing Catfish (Los insólitos peces gato) dir. Claudia Sainte-Luce
  • Around the Block dir. Sarah Spillane
  • Bends dir. Flora Lau
  • Beneath the Harvest Sky dir. Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly
  • Bethlehem dir. Yuval Adler
  • Bobô dir. Inês Oliveira
  • Border dir. Alessio Cremonini
  • Canopy dir. Aaron Wilson
  • Fat dir. Mark Phinney
  • Giraffada dir. Rani Massalha
  • I Am Yours (Jeg Er Din) dir. Iram Haq
  • Ilo Ilo dir. Anthony Chen
  • The Militant (El Lugar Del Hijo) dir. Manolo Nieto
  • Miracle (Zázrak) dir. Juraj Lehotsky
  • My Love Awaits Me by the Sea (Habibi Bistanani And il Bahar) dir. Mais Darwazah
  • Of Good Report dir. Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
  • Palo Alto dir. Gia Coppola
  • Paradise (Paraiso) dir. Mariana Chenillo
  • Rhymes for Young Ghouls dir. Jeff Barnaby
  • Salvation Army (L’Armée du salut) dir. Abdellah Taïa
  • Sarah Prefers To Run (Sarah préfère la course) dir. Chloé Robichaud
  • South is Nothing (Il Sud è Niente) dir. Fabio Mollo
  • The Stag dir. John Butler
  • The Summer of Flying Fish (El verano de los peces voladores) dir. Marcela Said
  • Trap Street (Shuyin Jie) dir. Vivian Qu

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA

  • A Journey (Une Jeune Fille) dir. Catherine Martin
  • The Animal Project dir. Ingrid Veninger
  • Cinemanovels dir. Terry Miles
  • Le Démantèlement dir. Sébastien Pilote
  • The Dick Knost Show dir. Bruce Sweeney
  • Empire of Dirt dir. Peter Stebbings
  • Siddharth dir. Richie Mehta
  • Stay dir. Wiebke von Carolsfeld
  • A Place in Heaven (Makom be-gan eden) dir. Yossi Madmony
  • A Wolf at the Door (O Lobo atrás da Porta) dir. Fernando Coimbra
  • An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (Epizoda u životu beraca željeza) dir. Danis Tanovic
  • Bad Hair (Pelo Malo) dir. Mariana Rondón
  • Bastardo dir. Nejib Belkadhi
  • The Bit Player (Ekstra) dir. Jeffrey Jeturian
  • Blind Dates (Brma Paemnebi) dir. Levan Koguashvili
  • Brazilian Western (Faroeste Caboclo) dir. René Sampaio
  • Break Loose (Vosmerka) dir. Alexey Uchitel
  • Child’s Pose (Pozitia Copilului) dir. Calin Peter Netzer
  • Club Sandwich (Club Sándwich) dir. Fernando Eimbcke
  • Cristo Rey dir. Leticia Tonos Paniagua
  • The Dinner (Het Diner) dir. Menno Meyjes
  • Eastern Boys dir. Robin Campillo
  • El Mudo dir. Diego Vega and Daniel Vega
  • Friends from France (Les Interdits) dir. Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski
  • Giselle dir. Toa Fraser
  • Heart of a Lion (Leijonasydän) dir. Dome Karukoski
  • Honeymoon (Líbanky) dir. Jan Hrebejk
  • Hotell dir. Lisa Langseth
  • The Immoral (De Umoralske) dir. Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen
  • Intruders (Jo Nan-ja-deul) dir. Noh Young-Seok
  • The Kids from the Port (Los Chicos del Puerto) dir. Alberto Morais
  • iNumber Number dir. Donovan Marsh
  • Ladder to Damascus (Soullam iIa Dimashq) dir. Mohamad Malas
  • Le Grand Cahier (A Nagy Füzet) dir. János Szász
  • Life’s a Breeze dir. Lance Daly
  • Little Feet dir. Alexandre Rockwell
  • The Major dir. Yuri Bykov
  • Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Dast-neveshtehaa nemisoozand) dir. Mohammad Rasoulof
  • McCanick dir. Josh C. Waller
  • Metalhead (Málmhaus) dir. Ragnar Bragason
  • Ningen dir. Guillaume Giovanetti and Çagla Zencirci
  • October November (Oktober November) dir. Götz Spielmann
  • Old Moon (Luna Vieja) dir. Raisa Bonnet
  • Palestine Stereo (Falastine Stereo) dir. Rashid Masharawi
  • Paradise: Hope (Paradies: Hoffnung) dir. Ulrich Seidl
  • Qissa dir. Anup Singh
  • Rags and Tatters (Farsh wa ghata) dir. Ahmad Abdalla
  • The Sea dir. Stephen Brown
  • The Selfish Giant dir. Clio Barnard
  • Something Necessary dir. Judy Kibinge
  • Stop the Pounding Heart dir. Roberto Minervini
  • Stranger by the Lake dir. Alain Guiraudie
  • This is Sanlitun dir. Róbert I. Douglas
  • Unbeatable dir. Dante Lam
  • Under the Starry Sky (Des Etoiles) dir. Dyana Gaye
  • When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Cand se lasa seara peste Bucuresti sau Metabolism) dir. Corneliu Porumboiu
  • White Lies (Tuakiri Huna) dir. Dana Rotberg
  • The Wonders (Plaot) dir. Avi Nesher
  • To Repel Ghosts: Urban Tales from the African Continent
    • Homecoming (African Metropolis) dir. Jim Chuchu
    • Berea (African Metropolis) dir. Vincent Moloi
    • To Repel Ghosts (African Metropolis) dir. Philippe Lacôte
    • Kwaku Ananse dir. Akosua Adoma Owusu
    • Noah’s Flood (Unogumbe, Noye’s Fludde) dir. Mark Dornford-May

MASTERS

  • A Touch of Sin (Tian zhu ding) dir. Jia Zhangke
  • Abuse of Weakness (Abus de Faiblesse) dir. Catherine Breillat
  • Bastards (Les Salauds) dir. Claire Denis
  • Closed Curtain (Parde) dir. Kambozia Partovi and Jafar Panahi
  • Concrete Night dir. Pirjo Honkasalo
  • Home From Home — Chronicle of a Vision (Die Andere Heimat – Chronik einer Sehnsucht) dir. North American Premiere Edgar Reitz
  • How Strange to be Named Federico: Scola Narrates Fellini (Che strano chiamarsi Federico: Scola racconta Fellini) dir. Ettore Scola
  • Moebius dir. Kim Ki-duk
  • Norte, The End of History (Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan) dir. Lav Diaz
  • Our Sunhi (Uri Sunhi) dir. Hong Sangsoo
  • Triptych (Triptyque) dir. Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires

WAVELENGTHS

SHORT FILM PROGRAMMES

  • Wavelengths 1: Variations On…
    • Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper
    • Pop Takes dir. Luther Price
    • Airship dir. Kenneth Anger
    • El Adios Largos dir. Andrew Lampert
    • The Realist dir. Scott Stark
  • Wavelengths 2: Now & Then
    • Instants dir. Hannes Schüpbach
    • Pepper’s Ghost dir. Stephen Broomer
    • Man in Motion, 2012 (Homme en mouvement, 2012) dir. Christophe M. Saber, Ruben Glauser and Max Idje
    • Flower dir. Naoko Tasaka
    • Constellations (Konstellationen) dir. Helga Fanderl
  • Wavelengths 3: Farther Than the Eye Can See
    • Farther Than the Eye Can See dir. Basma Alsharif
    • Main Hall dir. Philipp Fleischmann
    • 45 7 Broadway dir. Tomonari Nishikawa
    • Bann dir. Nina Könnemann
    • Dry Standpipe (Suchy Pion) dir. Wojciech Bakowski
    • Gowanus Canal dir. Sarah J. Christman
    • Nefandus dir. Carlos Motta
  • Wavelengths 4: Elysium
    • Trissákia 3 dir. Nick Collins
    • Brimstone Line dir. Chris Kennedy
    • Listening to the Space in my Room dir. Robert Beavers
    • Mount Song dir. Shambhavi Kaul
    • Natpwe, the feast of the spirits dir. Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel

MEDIUM LENGTH FILMS

  • Un conte de Michel de Montaigne dir. Jean-Marie Straub
  • The King’s Body (O Corpo de Afonso) dir. Jõao Pedro Rodrigues
  • Redemption dir. Miguel Gomes
  • A Thousand Suns (Mille soleils) dir. Mati Diop
  • Letter to a Refusing Pilot dir. Akram Zaatari
  • Song dir. Nathaniel Dorsky
  • Spring dir. Nathaniel Dorsky
  • Three Landscapes dir. Peter Hutton

FEATURES

  • A Field in England dir. Ben Wheatley
  • A Spell to Ward off the Darkness dir. Ben Rivers and Ben Russell
  • I’m the same, I’m an other dir. Caroline Strubbe
  • La ultíma película dir. Raya Martin and Mark Peranson
  • RP31 dir. Lucy Raven
  • MANAKAMANA dir. Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
  • Pays dir. Barbare Yvervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
  • Story of My Death dir. Albert Serra
  • Stray Dogs (Jiao You) dir. Tsai Ming-Liang
  • The Battle of Tabatô dir. Joao Viana
  • The Disquiet dir. Ali Cherri
  • The Missing Picture (L’image manquante) dir. Rithy Panh
  • The Police Officer’s Wife dir. Philip Gröning
  • The Strange Little Cat dir. Ramon Zürcher
  • ‘Til Madness Do Us Apart dir. Wang Bing
  • Three Interpretation Exercises (Trois Exercises d’Interprétation) dir. Cristi Puiu

SHORT CUTS CANADA

  • A Grand Canal dir. Johnny Ma
  • A Time is a Terrible Thing to Waste dir. Leslie Supnet
  • An Extraordinary Person (Une Personne extraordinaire) dir. Monia Chokri
  • Anatomy of Assistance dir. Cory Bowles
  • Beasts in the Real World dir. Sol Friedman
  • Candy dir. Cassandra Cronenberg
  • The Chaperone 3D dir. Fraser Munden and Neil Rathbone
  • Cochemare dir. Maciek Szczerbowski and Chris Lavis
  • CRIME: Joe Loya – The Beirut Bandit dir. Alix Lambert and Sam Chou
  • Daybreak (Éclat du jour) dir. Ian Lagarde
  • Der Untermensch dir. Kays Mejri
  • Drop dir. Chris Goldade
  • The End of Pinky dir. Claire Blanchet
  • Firecrackers dir. Jasmin Mozaffari
  • Foreclosure dir. Wayne Robinson
  • Gloria dir. Victoria Theodore Ushev
  • Impromptu dir. Bruce Alcock
  • In Guns We Trust dir. Nicolas Lévesque
  • Jimbo dir. Ryan Flowers
  • Lay Over dir. Jordan Hayes
  • Method dir. Gregory Smith
  • Noah dir. Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg
  • Nous Avions dir. Stéphane Moukarzel
  • Numbers & Friends dir. Alexander Carson
  • Out dir. Jeremy Lalonde
  • Paradise Falls dir. Fantavious Fritz
  • Paradiso dir. Devan Scott
  • Pilgrims dir. Marie Clements
  • Portrait as a Random Act of Violence dir. Randall Okita
  • Relax, I’m From the Future dir. Luke Higginson
  • Remember Me (Mémorable moi) dir. Jean-Francois Asselin
  • Roland dir. Trevor Cornish
  • Sam’s Formalwear dir. Yael Staav
  • Seasick dir. Eva Cvijanovic
  • The Sparkling River dir. Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël
  • Subconscious Password dir. Chris Landreth
  • We Wanted More dir. Stephen Dunn
  • Yellowhead dir. Kevan Funk
  • Young Wonder dir. James Wilkes