Full 352 Film Line-Up For Toronto
Toronto International Film Festival released its full 352-film lineup, including the latest films from Paul Verhoeven, Ridley Scott, Anthony Minghella, Douglas McGrath and Patrice Leconte.
Toronto will unspool 352 films from 61 countries over its Sept. 7-16 run, well up on the 335 films screened last year. This year's crop includes 261 features, most of which are world, international or North American premieres.
A record 123 feature films and documentaries from EU member countries will unspool in Toronto.
British films bowing in Toronto include Shane Meadows' portrait of skinhead culture, "This is England," and Roger Michell's "Venus," the story of two old friends, played by Peter O'Toole and Leslie Phillips, whose lives change when a grand-niece arrives from the provinces.
Full Toronto Line-up
UK Involvement in bold
GALA
"After the Wedding," Susanne Bier (Denmark)
"All The King's Men," Steven Zaillian (USA)
"Amazing Grace," Michael Aped (U.K.)
"Away From Her," Sarah Polley (Canada)
"Babel," Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (USA)
"The Banquet," Feng Xiaogang (China)
"Black Book," Paul Verhoeven (The Netherlands/Germany/U.K./Belgium)
"Bobby," Emilio Estevez (USA)
"Bonneville," Christopher N. Rowley (USA)
"Breaking and Entering," Anthony Minghella (U.K.)
"Dixie Chicks -- Shut up and Sing," Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck (USA)
"For Your Consideration," Christopher Guest (USA)
"A Good Year," Ridley Scott (USA)
"Infamous," Douglas McGrath (USA)
"The Journals of Knud Rasmussen," Zacharias Kun U.K., Norman Cohn (Canada/Denmark)
"Mon Meilleur Ami," Patrice Leconte (France)
"Never Say Goodbye," Karan Johar (India)
"Penelope," Mark Palansky (U.K.)
"Volver," Pedro Almodovar (Spain)
"The White Planet," Thierry Piantanida, Thierry Ragobert, Jean Lemire (Canada/France)
MASTERS
"The Caiman," Nanni Moretti (Italy/France)
"Coeurs," Alain Resnais (France/Italy)
"Empz 4 Life," Allan King (Canada)
"I Am the Other Woman," Margarethe von Trotta (Germany)
"L'intouchable," Benoit Jacquot (France)
"Lights in the Dusk" Aki Kaurismaki (Finland/Germany/France)
"The Missing Star," Gianni Amelia (Italy)
"The Optimists," Goran Paskaljevic (Serbia)
"Rescue Dawn," Werner Herzog (USA)
"Strike," Volker Schlondorff (Germany/Poland)
"Le voyage en Armenie," Robert Guediguian (France)
"When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," Spike Lee (USA)
"The Wind that Shakes the Barley," Ken Loach (U.K./Ireland/Italy/Spain/Germany)
VISIONS
"August Days," Marc Recha (Spain)
"Bamako," Abderrahmane Sissako (France/Mali/USA)
"Belle Toujours," Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal/France)
"Big Bang Love, Juvenile A," Takashi Miike (Japan)
"Blessed are the Dreams of Men," Jem Cohen (USA)
"The Book of Revelation," Ana Kokkinos (Australia)
"Bugmaster," Katsuhiro Otomo (Japan)
"Building a Broken Mousetrap," Jem Cohen (USA)
"Cages," Olivier Masset-Depasse (Belgium)
"Climates," Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey/France)
"Colossal Youth," Pedro Costa (Portugal/France/Switzerland)
"D.O.A.P.," Gabriel Range (U.K.)
"Dans les Villes," Catherine Martin (Canada)
"Day Night Day Night," Julia Loktev (USA)
"Day on Fire," Jay Anania (USA)
"Fantasma," Lisandro Alonso (Argentina)
"Flandres," Bruno Dumont (France)
"Gathering the Scattered Cousins," Akin Omotoso (South Africa)
"In Between Days," So Yong Kim (USA/Canada/South Korea) "Invisible Waves," Pen-ek Ratanruang (The Netherlands/Thailand/Hong Kong, China/South Korea)
"The Island," Pavel Lounguine (Russia)
"Khadak," Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth (Belgium/Germany/The Netherlands)
"Kinasha Palace," Zeka Laplaine (Democratic Republic of the Congo/France)
"No Place Like Home," Perry Henzell (Jamaica/USA)
"NYC Weights and Measures," Jem Cohen (USA)
"Sistagod," Yao Ramesar (Trinidad and Tobago)
"Takva -- A Man's Fear of God," Ozer Kiziltan (Turkey/Germany)
"Taxidermia," Gyorgy Palfi (Hungary/Austria/France)
"Ten Canoes," Rolf de Heer (Australia)
"Time," Kim Ki-dU.K. (South Korea)
"Zidane: Un Portrait du XXieme Siecle," Douglas Gordon, Phillipe Parreno (France/Iceland)
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
"10 Items or Less," Brad Silberling (USA)
"Alatriste," Agustin Diaz Yanes (Spain)
"Begone Dull Care," Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart (Canada)
"Blinkity Blank," Norman McLaren (Canada)
"Brand upon the Brain," Guy Maddin (USA/Canada)
"The Bubble," Eytan Fox (Israel)
"El Cantante," Leon Ichaso (USA)
"Catch a Fire," Phillip Noyce (U.K./South Africa/USA)
"A Chairy Tale," Norman McLaren, Claude Jutra (Canada)
"Congorama," Philippe Falardeau (Canada)
"Un Crime," Manuel Pradal (France)
"The Dog Problem," Scott Caan (USA)
"Exiled," Johnnie To (Hong Kong, China)
"The Fall," Tarsem (India/U.K./USA)
"Fay Grim," Hal Hartley (USA/Germany)
"The Fountain," Darren Aronofsky (USA)
"Golden Door," Emanuele Crialese (Italy/France)
"Hana," Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)
"Hen Hop," Norman McLaren (Canada)
"L'homme de sa Vie," Zabou Breitman (France/Italy)
"Horizontal Lines," Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart (Canada)
"Jindabyne," Ray Lawrence (Australia)
"Kabul Express," Kabir Khan (India)
"The Last Kings of Scotland," Kevin Macdonald (U.K.)
"The Last Kiss," Tony Goldwyn (USA)
"Little Children," Todd Field (USA)
"The Lives of Others," Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Germany)
"Love and Other Disasters," Alek Keshishian (France/U.K.)
"The Magic Flute," Kenneth Branagh (U.K./France)
"Manufactured Landscapes," Jennifer Baichwal (Canada)
"La Merle," Norman McLaren (Canada)
"Mon Colonel," Laurent Herbiet (France/Belgium)
"The Namesake," Mira Nair (USA)
"Neighbors," Norman McLaren (Canada)
"Nue Propriete," Joachim Lafosse (Belgium/France)
"Opening Speech," Norman McLaren (Canada)
"Pan's Labyrinth," Guillermo del Toro (Spain)
"Paris, Je T'aime," Bruno Podalydes, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel and Ethan Coen, Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, Christopher Doyle, Isabel Coixet, Nobuhiro Suwa, Sylvain Chomet, Alfonso Cuaron, Olivier Assayas, Oliver Schmitz, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali (France)
"Pas de Deux," Norman McLaren (Canada)
"The Pleasure of Your Company," Michael Ian Black (USA)
"The Postmodern Life of My Aunt," Ann Hui (China)
"Quelques Jours en Septembre," Santiago Amigorena (France/Italy)
"Seraphim Falls," David Von Ancken (USA)
"Snow Cake," Marc Evans (Canada/U.K.)
"Stars and Stripes," Norman McLaren (Canada)
"Stranger than Fiction," Marc Forster (USA)
"Synchomy," Norman McLaren (Canada)
"This is England," Shane Meadows (U.K.)
"Venus," Roger Michell (U.K.)
"Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the HEA," Ari Sandel (USA)
"Woman on the Beach," Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)
CANADIAN OPEN VAULT
"Paperback Hero," Peter Pearson (Canada)
CANADA FIRST!
"Acts of Imagination," Carolyn Combs (Canada)
"Cheech," Patrice Sauve (Canada)
"La Coupure," Jean Chateauvert (Canada)
"End of the Line," Maurice Devereaux (Canada)
"Everything's Gone Green," Paul Fox (Canada)
"Fido," Andrew Currie (Canada)
"Mercy," Mazdak Taebi (Canada/Iran)
"A Stone's Throw," Camelia Frieberg (Canada)
"Sur la Trace D'Igor Rizzi," Noel Mitrani (Canada)
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
"12:08 East of Bucharest," Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania)
"Abeni," Tunde Kelani (Nigeria/Benin)
"Antonia," Tata Amaral (Brazil)
"Beauty in Trouble," Jan Hrebejk (Czech Republic)
"Bella," Alejandro Monteverde (USA)
"The Bet Collector," Jeffrey Jeturian (The Philippines)
"Born and Bred," Pablo Trapero (Argentina/Italy/U.K.)
"The Bothersome Man," Jens Lien (Norway)
"Candy," Neil Armfield (Australia)
"Chronicle of an Escape," Israel Adrian Caetano (Argentina)
"Citizen Duane," Michael Mabbott (Canada)
"Confetti," Debbie Isitt (U.K.)
"Copying Beethoven," Agnieszka Holland (U.K./Hungary)
"Diggers," Katherine Dieckmann (USA)
"Un Dimanche a Kigali," Robert Favreau (Canada)
"The Dog Pound," Manuel Nieto Zas (Uruguay/Argentina/Canada/Spain)
"Falling," Barbara Albert (Austria)
"A Few Days Later ...," Niki Karimi (Iran)
"Fiction," Cesc Gay (Spain)
"Four Minutes," Chris Kraus (Germany)
"Grbavica," Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
"The Half Life of Timofey Berezin," Scott Z. Burns (USA)
"Hula Girls," Sang-il Lee (Japan)
"Indigenes," Rachid Bouchareb (France/Morocco/Algeria/Belgium)
"The Italian," Andrei KravchU.K. (Russia)
"The Last Winter," Larry Fessenden (USA/Iceland)
" Manline," Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab (Iran)
"Monkey Warfare," Reg Harkema (Canada)
"Nouvelle Chance," Anne Fontaine (France)
"Offside," Jafar Panahi (Iran)
" Outsourced," John Jeffcoat (USA)
"Palimpsest," Konrad Niewolski (Poland)
"Prague," Ole Christian Madsen (Denmark)
"Rain Dogs," Ho Yuhang (Malaysia)
"Red Road," Andrea Arnold (U.K./Denmark)
"Requiem," Hans-Christian Schmid (Germany)
"Retrieval," Slawomir Fabicki (Poland)
"The Silence," Cate Shortland (Australia)
"Sleeping Dogs," Terrance Odette (Canada)
"Slumming," Michael Glawogger (Austria/Switzerland)
"Starter for Ten," Tom Vaughan (U.K.)
"Suely in the Sky," Karim Ainouz (Brazil/Germany/France)
"Summer '04," Stefan Krohmer (Germany)' "Summer Palace," Lou Ye (China/France)
"Sweet Mud," Dror Shaul (Israel/Germany/Japan)
"Times and Winds," Reha Erdem (Turkey)
"To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die," Djamshed Usmonov (France/Germany/Russia/Switzerland)
"La Tourneuse de Pages," Denis Dercourt (France)
"Transe," Teresa Villaverde (Portugal/France/Russia/Italy)
"Transylvania," Tony Gatlif (France)
"Twilight Dancers," Mel Chionglo (The Philippines)
" Unnatural and Accidental," Carl Bessai (Canada)
"The Violin," Francisco Vargas Quevedo (Mexico)
"Waiter," Alex van Warmerdam (The Netherlands/Belgium)
"The Wake," Nikos Grammatikos (Greece)
"The Way I Spent the End of the World," Catalin Mitulescu (Romania/France)
"White Palms," Szabolcs Hajdu (Hungary)
"Winter Journey," Hans Steinbichler (Germany);
DISCOVERY
"7 Ans," Jean-Pascal Hattu (France)
"The Art of Crying," Peter Schønau Fog (Denmark)
"As the Shadow," Marina Spada (Italy)
"Bliss," Sheng Zhimin (China)
"Cashback," Sean Ellis (U.K.)
"Darkbluealmostblack," Daniel Sanchez Arevalo (Spain)
"Falkenberg Farewell," Jesper Ganslandt (Sweden)
"Family Ties," Tae-Yong Kim (South Korea)
"Glue," Alexis dos Santos (Argentina/U.K.)
"A Grave-Keeper's Tale," Chitra Palekar (India)
"Griffin & Phoenix," Ed Stone (USA)
"King and the Clown," Jun-ik Lee (South Korea)
"London to Brighton," Paul Andrew Williams (U.K.)
"Out of the Blue," Robert Sarkies (New Zealand)
"Reprise," Joachim Trier (Norway)
"The Silly Age," Pavel Giroud (Cuba)
"Thicker than Water," Arni Olafur Asgeirsson (Iceland/Denmark/Germany)
"True North," Steve Hudson (Germany/U.K./Ireland)
"Vanaja," Rajnesh Domalpalli (India/USA)
REAL TO REEL
"... So Goes the Nation," James Stern, Adam Del Deo (USA)
"American Hardcore," Paul Rachman (USA)
"Blindsight," Lucy Walker (U.K.)
"A Cry in the Dark," Haobam Paban Kumar (India)
" Deliver Us From Evil," Amy Berg (USA)
" Dong," Jia Zhangke (China)
"L'Esprit des Lieux," Catherine Martin (Canada)
"Ghosts of Cite Soleil," Asger Leth (Denmark/USA)
"Iran: Une Revolution Cinematographique," Nader Takmil Homayoun (France)
"The Killer Within," Macky Alston (USA)
"Kurt Cobain About a Son," AJ Schnack (USA)
"Lake of Fire," Tony Kaye (USA)
"Made in Jamaica," Jerome Laperrousaz (France/USA)
"My Life as a Terrorist: The Story of Hans-Joachim Klein," Alexander Oey (The Netherlands)
"Office Tigers," Liz Mermin (U.K./Denmark)
"The Pervert's Guide to Cinema," Sophie Fiennes (U.K./Austria/The Netherlands)
"Primo Levi's Journey," Davide Ferrario (Italy)
"The Prisoner of How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair," Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein (Germany)
"Radiant City," Gary Burns, Jim Brown (Canada)
"Remembering Arthur," Martin Lavut (Canada)
"Sari's Mother," James Longley (USA)
"The Session is Open," Vincenzo Marra (Italy)
"Shame," Mohammed Naqvi (Pakistan/USA)
"Sharkwater," Rob Stewart (Canada)
"Shot in the Dark," Adrian Grenier (USA)
"The Sugar Curtain," Camila Guzman Urzua (France/Spain)
"Summercamp!," Sarah Price, Bradley Beesley (USA)
"Tales of the Rat Fink," Ron Mann (Canada)
"Tanju Miah," Sadik Ahmed (U.K.)
"These Girls," Tahani Rached (Egypt)
"The Filthy World," Jeff Garlin (USA)
"Toi, Waguih," Namir Abdel Messeeh (France)
"The U.S. vs. John Lennon," David Leaf, John Scheinfeld (USA)
"Very Nice, Very Nice," Arthur Lipsett (Canada)
"Yokohama Mary," TakayU.K.i Nakamura (Japan)
SHORT CUTS CANADA
"A L'Ombre," Simon Lavoie (Canada)
"L'Air De Rien," Frederick Pelletier (Canada)
"Aruba," Hubert Davis (Canada)
"The Broken Hearted," Antoinette Karuna (Canada)
"By The Hour," Bill Marchant (Canada)
"Christ in Wood," Alexander Winfield (Canada)
"Cloudbreaker," Adam Garnet Jones (Canada)
"Couldn't Be Happier," Jackie May (Canada)
"The Double Woman," Carla B. Guttmann (Canada)
"Down Payment on a Dead Horse," Jason Britski (Canada)
"Les Eaux Mortes," Guy Edion (Canada)
"The Ecstasy Note," Geoffrey Uloth (Canada)
"Elizabeth Short," Deco Dawson (Canada)
"The Eyes Of Edward James," Rodrigo Gudino (Canada)
"If I See Randy Again Do You Want Me To Hit Him With The Axe?," Vivieno Caldinelli (Canada)
"Intolerable," Alison Maclean (Canada/USA)
"Les Jours," Maxime Giroux (Canada)
"The Last Bang," Emmanuel Shirinian (Canada)
"A Life of Errors," Sheila Pye, Nicholas Pye (Canada)
"Love Seat," Kris Elgstrand (Canada)
"The Man Who Waited," Theodore Ushev (Canada)
"Ninth Street Chronicles," Megan Martin (Canada)
"Nude Caboose," Guy Maddin (Canada)
"Ou est Maurice?" Alek Rzeszowski, Matthew Rankin (Canada)
"Patterns 2," Jamie Travis (Canada)
"Patterns 3," Jamie Travis, (Canada)
"Plume," Chelsea McMullan (Canada)
"Pretty Broken," Cline Mayo (Canada)
"The Runner," Robert Deleskie (Canada)
"The Saddest Boy In The World," Jamie Travis (Canada)
"Saskatchewan Part 3," Brian Stockton (Canada)
"Screening," Anthony Green (Canada)
"Starlight Tour," Evan Crowe (Canada)
"Supposed To," Aleesa Cohene, (Canada)
"Suspect," Patricia Rozema, (Canada)
"Tell Me Everything," Brian D. Johnson (Canada)
"La Tete Haute," Ivan Grbovic (Canada)
"The Tragic Story of Nling," Jeffrey St. Jules (Canada)
"True Love," Adam Brodie, Dave Derewlany (Canada)
"The Wait," Ann Verrall (Canada);
WAVE LENGTHS
"18 Videos: #8," Kyle Canterbury (USA)
"3 Minuten," Christoph Brunner, (Austria)
"Afraid So," Jay Rosenblatt (USA)
"Bouquets 28-30," Rose Lowder (France)
"Circa 1960," Chris Curreri (Canada)
"Ema-Emaki 2," Takashi Ishida (Japan/Canada)
"In This House," Akram Zaatari (Lebanon)
"Kristall," Christoph Girardet, Matthias Muller (Germany)
"Lancia Thema," Josef Dabernig (Austria)
"Lions and Tigers and Bears," Rebecca Meyers (USA)
"Memo To Pic Desk," Chris Kennedy, Anna van der Meulen (Canada)
"Nachstuck," Peter Tscherkassky (Austria)
"Poet's Dream," Larry Jordan (USA)
"Un Pont Sur La Drina," Xavier LU.K.omski (France)
"PSA. 09 Body Count," Cynthia Madansky (USA)
"PSA. 10 Occupation," Cynthia Madansky (USA)
"PSA. 14 Target," Cynthia Madansky (USA)
"Roads of Kiarostami," Abbas Kiarostami (Iran/South Korea
"Schuss!" Nicolas Rey (France)
"Seascape #1 Night, China Shenzhen 05," Olivo Barbieri (Italy)
"Silk Ties," Jim Jennings (USA)
"Song and Solitude," Nathaniel Dorsky (USA)
"Swivel," Oliver Husain (Germany)
"Tsuioku," Yuiko Matsuyama (Japan/Canada)
"V-R," Kyle Canterbury (USA)
"the Zone of Total Eclipse," Mika Taanila (Finland)
CANADIAN RETROSPECTIVE
"Balifilm," Peter Mettler (Canada)
"Eastern Avenue," Peter Mettler (Canada)
"Gambling, Gods And LSD," Peter Mettler (Canada / Switzerland)
"Lancalot Freely," Peter Mettler (Canada)
"Picture Of Light," Peter Mettler (Canada)
"Scissere," Peter Mettler (Canada)
"Tectonic Plates," Peter Mettler (Canada)
"The Top Of His Head," Peter Mettler (Canada)
DIALOGUES
"The Beales of Grey Gardens," Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ian Markiewicz (USA)
"La Haine," Mathieu Kassovitz (France)
"The Harder They Come," Perry Henzell (Jamaica)
"Let's Get Lost," Bruce Weber," (USA)
"Psychiatry in Russia," Albert Maysles (USA)
"Velvet Goldmine," Todd Haynes (U.K./USA)
MIDNIGHT MADNESS
"The Abandoned," Nacho Cerda (Spain)
"All the Boys Love Mandy Lane," Jonathan Levine (USA)
"Black Sheep," Jonathan King (New Zealand)
"Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan," Larry Charles (USA)
"The Host," Bong Joon-Ho (South Korea)
"Princess," Anders Morgenthaler (Denmark)
"S&Man," JT Petty (USA)
"Severance," Christopher Smith (U.K.)
"Sheitan," Kim Chapiron (France)
"Trapped Ashes," Joe Dante, Ken Russell, Sean Cunningham, Monte Hellman, John Gaeta (USA/Japan/Canada)
MAVERICKS
An Evening With Michael Moore
The Making Of A Bollywood Blockbuster: Karan Johar, Shah RU.K.h Khan, Rani MU.K.herji
Vanguard Cinema: John Waters In Conversation With John Cameron Mitchell
SPROCKETS FAMILY ZONE
"Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker," Geoffrey Sax (U.K.)
"The Hairy Tooth Fairy," Juan Pablo Buscarini (Argentina/Spain)
"U," Gregoire Solotareff, Serge Elissalde (France)
"The Ugly Duckling and Me," Michael Hegner, Karsten Kiilerich (Ireland/Denmark/France/Germany)
MOZART'S VISIONARY CINEMA: NEW CROWNED HOPE
"Daratt," Mahamat-saleh Haroun (France/Belgium/Chad/Austria)
"Half Moon," Bahman Ghobadi (Iran/Iraq/Austria/France)
"Hamaca Paraguaya," "Paz Encina (Paraguay/Argentina/The Netherlands/France/Austria/Germany)
"I Don't Want To Sleep Alone," Tsai Ming-Liang (Taiwan/France/Austria)
"Meokgo and the Stickfighter," Teboho Mahlatsi (South Africa/Austria)
"Opera Jawa," Garin Nugroho (Indonesia/Austria)
Syndromes and a Century," Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand/France/Austria)
VANGUARD
"2:37," Murali K. Thalluri (Australia), "Bunny Chow," John Barker (South Africa)
"Chacun Sa Nuit," Jean-Marc Barr, Pascal Arnold (France)
"Drama/Mex," Gerardo Naranjo (Mexico)
"Election," Johnnie To (Hong Kong/China