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35th Toronto International Film Festival
9 - 19 SEPTEMBER 2010
TIFF site
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People's Choice:
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE
People's Choice - Discovery:
TOPP TWINS
People's Choice - Midnight Madness:
THE LOVED ONES
Fipresci Prize - Discovery:
THE MAN BEYOND THE BRIDGE
Fipresci Prize - Special:
HADEWIJCH
Canadian Feature:
CAIRO TIME
Canadian First Film:
THE WILD HUNT


2010 Galas:
THE BANG BANG CLUB
BARNEY'S VERSION
A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO ENDINGS
BLACK SWAN
CASINO JACK
THE CONSPIRATOR
THE DEBT
THE HOUSEMAID
JANIE JONES
THE KING'S SPEECH
LAST NIGHT
LITTLE WHITE LIES
PEEP WORLD
POTICHE
THE PROMISE
SARAH'S KEY
SCORE: A HOCKEY MUSICAL
THE TOWN
TRUST
WEST IS WEST
F I L M S   I N C L U D E
10 TO 11 (Esmer, Tur)
127 HOURS (Boyle, US)
13 ASSASSINS (Miike, Jpn)
22ND OF MAY (Mortier, Bel)
40 (Sahin, Tur)
753 MCPHERSON ST. (Everson, US)
8 1/2 SCREENS (Egoyan, Can)
AFRICA UNITED (Gardner-Paterson, UK)
AFTERSHOCK (Feng , Chn)
ALL ABOUT LOVE (Ann , Chn)
AMAZON FALLS (Bowen, Can)
AMIGO (Sayles, US)
L'AMOUR FOU (Thoretton, Fr)
ANNE TRUITT, WORKING (Cohen, US)
* ANOTHER YEAR (Leigh, UK)
ANPO (Hoaglund, Jpn)
ANYTHING YOU WANT (Manas, Sp)
ARMADILLO (Metz, Den)
AS IF I AM NOT THERE (Wilson, Ire)
ASCENTS IN FEBRUARY (Meranda, Tur)
AT ELLEN'S AGE (Marais, Ger)
ATLANTIQUES (Diop, Sen)
ATTENBERG (Tsangari, Gr)
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU (Ujica, Rom)
AUTUMN (Bashir, Ind)
BAD FAITH (Petri, Swe)
BALADA TRISTE: THE LAST CIRCUS (de la Iglesia, Sp)
THE BANG BANG CLUB (Silver, SA)
BARNEY'S VERSION (Lewis, Can)
BEAUTIFUL BOY (Ku, US)
BEGINNERS (Mills, US)
A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO ENDINGS (Sobol, Can)
BEHIND BLUE SKIES (Holm, Swe)
THE BIG PICTURE (Lartigau, Fr)
BIUTIFUL (Inarritu, Mex)
BLACK OCEAN (Hansel, Bel)
BLACK SWAN (Aronofsky, US)
BLAME (Henry, Aus)
BLESSED EVENTS (Stever, Ger)
BLOCK-C (Demirkubuz, Tur)
BLUE MANTLE (Meyers, US)
BLUE VALENTINE (Cianfrance, US)
BOXING GYM (Wiseman, US)
BREAK UP CLUB (Wong, Chn)
BRIGHTON ROCK (Joffe, UK)
BROWNIAN MOVEMENT (Leopold, Ned)
BUNRAKU (Moshe, US)
BURIED (Cortes, Sp)
BURNING BUSH (Grenier, Can)
THE BUTCHER, THE CHEF, AND THE SWORDSMAN (Wuershan, Chn)
THE CALL (Pasetto, Can)
CARANCHO (Trapero, Arg)
CASINO JACK (Hickenlooper, Can)
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (Herzog, US)
CEREMONY (Winkler, US)
CHICO & RITA (Trueba/Mariscal/Errando, Sp)
THE CHRISTENING (Wrona, Pol)
CINEMATOGRAPHIE (Fleischmann, Aut)
CIRKUS COLUMBIA (Tanovic, BiH)
CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER (Gibney, US)
COLD FISH (Sono, Jpn)
COLOR FIELD FILMS 1 & 2 (Brookshire, US)
COMING ATTRACTIONS (Tscherkassky, Aut)
COMPLINE (Dorsky, US)
CONFESSIONS (Nakashima, Jpn)
THE CONSPIRATOR (Redford, US)
CONVICTION (Goldwyn, US)
COOL IT (Timoner, US)
CRYING OUT (Aubert, Can)
CURLING (Cote, Can)
DARK CLOUD (Patterson, Tur)
THE DAY WAS A SCORCHER (Jacobs, US)
DAYDREAM NATION (Goldbach, Can)
THE DEBT (Madden, UK)
DEEP IN THE WOODS (Jacquot, Fr)
DELPHINE DE OLIVEIRA (vom Groller, Aut)
DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME (Tsui , Chn)
DHOBI GHAT (Rao, Ind)
DIRTY GIRL (Sylvia, US)
THE DITCH (Wang , Fr)
EASY A (Gluck, US)
EASY MONEY (Espinosa, Swe)
THE EDGE (Uchitel, Rus)
EROTIC MAN (Leth, Den)
ESSENTIAL KILLING (Skolimowski, Pol)
EVEN THE RAIN (Bollain, Sp)
EVERYTHING MUST GO (Rush, US)
EVERYWHERE WAS THE SAME (Al Sharif, Pal)
FILM SOCIALISM (Godard, Swi)
FIRE OF CONSCIENCE (Lam, Chn)
THE FIRST GRADER (Chadwick, UK)
FORCE OF NATURE: THE DAVID SUZUKI MOVIE (Gunnarsson, Can)
THE FOUR TIMES (Frammartino, It)
THE FOURTH PORTRAIT (Chung, Tai)
FUBAR II (Dowse, Can)
THE GAME OF DEATH (Nick/Bornot, Fr)
GENPIN (Kawase, Jpn)
GET OUT OF THE CAR (Andersen, US)
GIRLFRIEND (Lerner, US)
GOOD NEIGHBOURS (Tierney, Can)
GORBACIOF: THE CASHIER WHO LIKED GAMBLING (Incerti, It)
GRIFF THE INVISIBLE (Ford, Aus)
GUEST (Guerin, Sp)
HAIR (Pirselimoglu, Tur)
HALF OF OSCAR (Cuenca, Cub)
HEARTBEATS (Dolan, Can)
HENRY'S CRIME (Venville, US)
HEREAFTER (Eastwood, UK)
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING (Chow, Can)
HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (Hamer, Nor)
HOME MOVIE (Price, Can)
A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE (Wingard, US)
THE HOUSE BY THE MEDLAR TREE (Scimeca, It)
THE HOUSEMAID (Im, Kor)
HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER (Popogrebsky, Rus)
HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY (Shapiro, Can)
THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER (Riklis, Isr)
THE HUNTER (Pitts, Irn)
I AM SLAVE (Range, UK)
I SAW THE DEVIL (Kim , Kor)
I WISH I KNEW (Jia Zhangke, Chn)
THE ILLUSIONIST (Chomet, UK)
I'M STILL HERE (Affleck, US)
IN A BETTER WORLD (Bier, Den)
INCENDIES (Villeneuve, Can)
INSIDE AMERICA (Eder, Aut)
INSIDE JOB (Ferguson, US)
INSIDIOUS (Wan, US)
INTO THE WIND (Nash, US)
IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY (Boden/Fleck, US)
JACK GOES BOATING (Hoffman, US)
JALOUX (Demers, Can)
JANIE JONES (Rosenthal, US)
JONAS MEKAS IN KODACHROME DAYS (Jacobs, US)
JUCY (Alston, Aus)
JULIA'S EYES (Morales, Sp)
K.364 A JOURNEY BY TRAIN (Gordon, UK)
KABOOM (Araki, US)
KARLA AND JONAS (Bostrup, Den)
THE KING'S SPEECH (Hooper, UK)
L.A. ZOMBIE (LaBruce, Ger)
LANDSCAPE, SEMI-SURROUND (Sonoda, Jpn)
LAPLAND ODYSSEY (Karukoski, Fin)
LAST NIGHT (Tadjedin, Fr)
LATE AUTUMN (Kim, Kor)
LEAP YEAR (Rowe, Mex)
LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN (Lau, Chn)
LEONA ALONE (Husain, Can)
LET ME IN (Reeves, UK)
LIFE, ABOVE ALL (Schmitz, SA)
THE LIGHT THIEF (Kubat, Kyr)
LITTLE SISTER (Bowen, Chn)
LITTLE WHITE LIES (Canet, Fr)
LOOK, STRANGER (Javitch, US)
LOPE (Waddington, Br)
LOVE CRIME (Corneau, Fr)
MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! (Hartley, Aus)
* MADE IN DAGENHAM (Cole, UK)
THE MAJORITY (Yuce, Tur)
MAKE BELIEVE (Tweel, US)
MAMMA GOGO (Fridriksson, Ice)
THE MAN OF A THOUSAND SONGS (MacGillivray, Can)
MANDOO (Saeedi, Irq)
MARIMBAS FROM HELL (Cordon, Gua)
MATARIKI (Bennett, NZ)
THE MATCHMAKER (Nesher, Isr)
MEEK'S CUTOFF (Reichardt, US)
MICROPHONE (Abdalla, Egy)
MIRAL (Schnabel, UK)
MODRA (Veninger, Can)
MONSTERS (Edwards, UK)
MOSCOW 11:19:31 (Nyman, UK)
MOTHER OF ROCK: LILLIAN ROXON (Clarke, Aus)
MOTHERS (Manchevski, Mac)
MY JOY (Loznitsa, Ger)
MY ONLY SUNSHINE (Erdem, Tur)
MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Ruiz, Por)
NEDS (Mullan, UK)
NEVER LET ME GO (Romanek, UK)
A NIGHT FOR DYING TIGERS (Miles, Can)
NORBERTO'S DEADLINE (Hendler, Uru)
NORWEGIAN WOOD (Hung, Jpn)
NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT (Guzman, Chl)
NOT BE OR... (Meranda, Tur)
OCTOBER (Vega/Vega, Per)
OF GODS AND MEN (Beauvois, Fr)
OKI'S MOVIE (Hong , Kor)
OLIVER SHERMAN (Redford, Can)
ON THIN ICE (Kaygun, Tur)
ONE (Heller, Aut)
OUR DAY WILL COME (Gavras, Fr)
OUTBOUND (Apetri, Rom)
OUTSIDE THE LAW (Bouchareb, Fr)
* OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW (Fiennes, UK)
PASSION PLAY (Glazer, US)
PASSIONE (Turturro, It)
PASTOURELLE (Dorsky, US)
PEEP WORLD (Blaustein, US)
PHOTOFINISH FIGURES (Gioli, It)
THE PIANO IN A FACTORY (Zhang , Chn)
PINK SARIS (Longinotto, UK)
PINOY SUNDAY (Ho , Tai)
THE PIPE (O'Domhnaill, Ire)
THE PLACE IN BETWEEN (Bouyain, Bur)
POETRY (Lee , Kor)
POTICHE (Ozon, Fr)
PRECIOUS LIFE (Eldar, Isr)
THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN (Zimny, US)
PROMISES WRITTEN IN WATER (Gallo, US)
RABBIT HOLE (Mitchell, US)
RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE (Helander, Fin)
RAUSCHT (Meranda, Tur)
RED NIGHTS (Carbon/Courtiaud, Chn)
REPEATERS (Bessai, Can)
RIO SEX COMEDY (Nossiter, Br)
LE ROI DES DOLLARS (de Chomon, Fr)
ROSES A CREDIT (Gitai, Fr)
ROUTE 132 (Belanger, Can)
ROUTE IRISH (Ken Loach, UK)
RUHR (Benning, Ger)
SAMMY'S ADVENTURES: THE SECRET PASSAGE (Stassen, Bel)
SANDCASTLE (Boo , Sin)
SARAH'S KEY (Brenner, Fr)
SCORE: A HOCKEY MUSICAL (McGowan, Can)
A SCREAMING MAN (Haroun, Cha)
SENSATION (Hall, Ire)
SEPTEMBER 12 (Sulak, Tur)
SILENT SOULS (Fedorchenko, Rus)
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY (Breillat, Fr)
SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS (Gass-Donnelly, Can)
THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS (Constanzo, It)
SOMERSAULT IN A COFFIN (Zaim, Tur)
SOUL OF SAND (Srinivasan, Ind)
THE SOUL OF THINGS (Angerame, US)
THE SOUND OF MUMBAI: A MUSICAL (McCarthy, UK)
SPECIAL TREATMENT (Labrune, Fr)
STAKE LAND (Mickle, US)
STATE OF VIOLENCE (Matabane, SA)
STONE (Curran, US)
STRAITSCAPING (Meranda, Tur)
THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (de Oliveira, Por)
SUBMARINE (Ayoade, UK)
SUMMER OF GOLIATH (Pereda, Mex)
SUPER (Gunn, US)
TABLOID (Morris, US)
TAMARA DREWE (Frears, UK)
(Frears, UK)
TEARS OF GAZA (Lokkeberg, Nor)
TENDER SON: THE FRANKENSTEIN PROJECT (Mundruczo, Hun)
THAT GIRL IN YELLOW BOOTS (Kashyap, Ind)
THREE (Tykwer, Ger)
TOKYO - EBISU (Nishikawa, Jpn)
THE TOWN (Affleck, US)
TRACKER (Sharp, NZ)
TRIGGER (McDonald, Can)
THE TRIP (Winterbottom, UK)
TROIS TEMPS APRES LA MORT D'ANNA (Martin, Can)
TRUST (Schwimmer, US)
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Weerasethakul, Tha)
A USEFUL LIFE (Veiroj, Uru)
VANISHING ON 7TH STREET (Anderson, US)
VICTORIA, GEORGE, EDWARD & THATCHER (Cooper, UK)
VIVA RIVA! (Munga, Con)
WAITING FOR "SUPERMAN" (Guggenheim, US)
WASTED ON THE YOUNG (Lucas, Aus)
THE WAY (Estevez, US)
THE WARD (Carpenter, US)
WEST IS WEST (De Emmony, UK)
WHAT I MOST WANT (Castagnino, Arg)
WHAT'S WRONG WITH VIRGINIA (Black, US)
WHEN MY CHILD IS BORN (Guo/Ke , Chn)
THE WHISTLEBLOWER (Kondracki, Can)
WHITE IRISH DRINKERS (Gray, US)
WINDFALL (Israel, US)
WOMB (Fliegauf, Ger)
WOMEN ART REVOLUTION: A SECRET HISTORY (Hershman, US)
YOU ARE HERE (Cockburn, Can)
YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (Allen, UK)
ZEPHYR (Bas, Tur)

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