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36th Toronto International Film Festival
8 - 18 SEPTEMBER 2011
TIFF site
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People's Choice:
WHERE DO WE GO NOW
People's Choice - Midnight Madness:
THE RAID
People's Choice - Doc:
THE ISLAND PRESIDENT
Fipresci Prize - Discovery:
AVALON
Fipresci Prize - Special:
THE FIRST MAN
Canadian Feature:
MONSIEUR LAZHAR
Canadian First Film:
EDWIN BOYD


2011 Galas:
FROM THE SKY DOWN (opening film)
PAGE EIGHT (closing film)
ALBERT NOBBS
THE AWAKENING
BELOVED
BUTTER
A DANGEROUS METHOD
A HAPPY EVENT
HYSTERIA
THE IDES OF MARCH
KILLER ELITE
THE LADY
MACHINE GUN PREACHER
MONEYBALL
PEACE, LOVE AND MISUNDERSTANDING
STARBUCK
TAKE THIS WALTZ
TRESPASS
WINNIE
W.E.
F I L M S   I N C L U D E
360 (Meirelles, UK)
388 ARLETTA AVENUE (Cole, Can)
50/50 (Levine, US)
LAS ACACIAS (Giorgelli, Arg)
AFGHAN LUKE (Clattenburg, Can)
ALBERT NOBBS (Garcia, US)
ALMAYER'S FOLLY (Akerman, Bel)
ALPS (Lanthimos, Gr)
ALWAYS BRANDO (Behi, Tun)
AMY GEORGE (Lewis/Thomas, Can)
ANONYMOUS (Emmerich, UK)
ARIRANG (Kim, Kor)
THE ARTIST (Hazanavicius, Fr)
THE AWAKENING (Murphy, UK)
AZHAGARSAMY'S HORSE (Suseendran, Ind)
BACK TO STAY (Mumenthaler, Arg)
BEAUTY (Hermanus, SA)
BEHOLD THE LAMB (McIlduff, UK)
BELOVED (Honore, Fr)
BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR (Willis-Sweete, Can)
BLOOD OF MY BLOOD (Canijo, Por)
* BONSAI (Jimenez, Chl)
THE BOY WHO WAS KING (Paounov, Bul)
BREAKAWAY (Lieberman, Can)
* BREATHING (Markovics, Aut)
THE BROOKLYN BROTHERS BEAT THE BEST (O'Nan, US)
BUNOHAN (Said, Mal)
BUTTER (Smith, US)
CAFE DE FLORE (Vallee, Can)
THE CARDBOARD VILLAGE (Olmi, It)
CARRE BLANC (Leonetti, Fr)
CENTURY OF BIRTHING (Diaz, Ph)
COLOUR OF THE OCEAN (Peren, Ger)
COMIC-CON: EPISODE IV: A FAN'S HOPE (Spurlock, US)
CORIOLANUS (Fiennes, UK)
CRAZY HORSE (Wiseman, US)
CUCHERA (Laban, Ph)
CUT (Naderi, Jpn)
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS (Stillman, US)
A DANGEROUS METHOD (Cronenberg, Ger)
DARK HORSE (Solondz, US)
DARK GIRLS (Duke/Berry, US)
THE DAY (Aarniokoski, US)
DEATH FOR SALE (Bensaidi, Bel)
DEATH OF A SUPERHERO (FitzGibbon, Ire)
THE DESCENDANTS (Payne, US)
DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Petzold, Ger)
DREILEBEN: DON'T FOLLOW ME (Graf, Ger)
DREILEBEN: ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS (Hochhausler, Ger)
DRIVE (Refn, US)
DOPPELGANGER PAUL (Smith/Elgstrand, Can)
DUCH, MASTER OF THE FORGES OF HELL (Panh, Cmb)
THE EDUCATION OF AUMA OBAMA (Okpako, Ger)
EDWIN BOYD (Morlando, Can)
ELENA (Zvyagintsev, Rus)
EXTRATERRESTRIAL (Vigalondo, Sp)
FABLE OF THE FISH (Alix, Ph)
FAUST (Sokurov, Rus)
THE FIRST MAN (Amelio, It)
FOOTNOTE (Cedar, Isr)
THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD (Marston, US)
FREE MEN (Ferroukhi, Fr)
FROM THE SKY DOWN (Guggenheim, UK)
FROM UP ON POPPY HILL (Miyazaki, Jpn)
A FUNNY MAN (Zandvliet, Den)
FUTURE LASTS FOREVER Ozcan Alper, Tur)
GENERATION P (Ginzburg, Rus)
GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING (Belz, Ger)
* GIRL MODEL (Sabin/Redmon, US)
GOD BLESS AMERICA (Goldthwait, US)
GOOD BYE MOHAMMAD Rasoulof, Irn)
THE GOOD SON (Bergroth, Fin)
GOODBYE FIRST LOVE (Hansen-Love, Fr)
GOON (Dowse, Can)
GUILTY (Garenq, Fr)
GYPSY (Sulik, Svk)
HABIBI (Youssef, Pal)
HANAAN (Pak, Kor)
A HAPPY EVENT (Bezancon, Fr)
HARD CORE LOGO II (McDonald, Can)
HEADSHOT (Ratanaruang, Tha)
HELENO (Fonseca, Br)
HIMIZU (Sono, Jpn)
HISTORIAS QUE SO EXISTEM QUANDO LEMBRADAS (Murat, Br)
HOTEL SWOONI (Beels, Bel)
HOUSE OF TOLERANCE (Bonello, Fr)
HYSTERIA (Wexler, US)
I WISH (Kore-Eda, Jpn)
THE IDES OF MARCH (Clooney, US)
I'M CAROLYN PARKER (Demme, US)
IN DARKNESS (Holland, Pol)
IN MY MOTHER'S ARMS (Al Daradji/Al Daradji, Irq)
THE INCIDENT (Courtes, Fr)
INTO THE ABYSS (Herzog, US)
INTRUDERS (Fresnadillo, Sp)
THE INVADER (Provost, Bel)
ISLANDS (Chiantini, It)
J'AIME REGARDER LES FILLES (Louf, Fr)
JUAN OF THE DEAD (Brugues, Cub)
KEYHOLE (Maddin, Can)
THE KID WITH A BIKE (Dardenne/Dardenne, Bel)
KILL LIST (Wheatley, UK)
KILLER ELITE (McKendry, US)
KOTOKO (Tsukamoto, Jpn)
THE LADY (Besson, Fr)
LAND OF OBLIVION (Boganim, Fr)
LAST CALL AT THE OASIS (Yu, US)
LAST CHRISTEROS (Meyer, Mex)
LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM (Abu Wael, Isr)
THE LAST DOGS OF WINTER (Botes, NZ)
THE LAST GLADIATORS (Gibney, US)
LAST WINTER (Shank, Bel)
LE HAVRE (Kaurismaki, Fin)
LENA (Van Rompaey, Ned)
LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (To, Chn)
LIKE CRAZY (Doremus, US)
LIPSTIKKA (Sagall, Isr)
* THE LONELIEST PLANET (Loktev, US)
LOST IN PARADISE (Vu, Vie)
LOVE AND BRUISES (Ye, Chn)
LOVELY MOLLY (Sanchez, US)
LOW LIFE (Klotz/Perceval, Fr)
LUCKY (Luthra, SA)
MACHINE GUN PREACHER (Forster, US)
MAN ON GROUND (Omotoso, SA)
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (Durkin, US)
MICHAEL (Dasgupta, Ind)
* MICHAEL (Schleinzer, Aut)
* MISS BALA (Naranjo, Mex)
MR TREE (Jie, Chn)
MONEYBALL (Miller, US)
MONSIEUR LAZHAR (Falardeau, Can)
MONSTERS CLUB (Toyoda, Jpn)
THE MOTH DIARIES (Harron, Can)
THE MOUNTAIN (Salhab, Leb)
MUSHROOMS (Jayasundara, Ind)
MY WORST NIGHTMARE (Fontaine, Fr)
NUIT #1 (Emond, Can)
THE ODDS (Davidson, Can)
OMAR KILLED ME (Zem, Fr)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Ceylan, Tur)
OSLO, AUGUST 31 (Trier, Nor)
THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP (Daly, Ire)
OUTSIDE SATAN (Dumont, Fr)
PAGE EIGHT (Hare, UK)
PARADISE LOST 3: PURGATORY (Berlinger/Sinofsky, US)
PARIAH (Rees, US)
THE PATRON SAINTS (Cassidy/Shatzky, Can)
PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE (Kessler, US)
PEACE, LOVE AND MISUNDERSTANDING (Beresford, US)
PEARL JAM TWENTY (Crowe, US)
PINA (Wenders, Ger)
PINK RIBBONS, INC (Pool, Can)
* PLAY (Ostlund, Swe)
PORFIRIO (Landes, Col)
THE RAID (Evans, Ina)
RAMPART (Moverman, US)
RANDOM (Green, UK)
REBELLION (Kassovitz, Fr)
RESTLESS (Van Sant, US)
RESTORATION (Madmony, Isr)
THE RIVER USED TO BE A MAN (Zabeil, Ger)
ROMAN'S CIRCUIT (Brahm, Chl)
ROMEO ELEVEN (Grbovic, Can)
ROSE (Smarzowski, Pol)
ROUGH HANDS (Asli, Mor)
SAMSARA (Fricke, US)
SARAH PALIN: YOU BETCHA! (Broomfield/Churchill, UK)
SEASONS OF LOVE (Kapur, Ind)
SHAME (McQueen, UK)
A SEPARATION (Farhadi, Irn)
THE SILVER CLIFF (Ainouz, Br)
SISTERS & BROTHERS (Bessai, Can)
SLEEPING BEAUTY (Leigh, Aus)
SLEEPLESS NIGHT (Jardin, Fr)
SMUGGLER (Ishii, Jpn)
SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO (Guediguian, Fr)
SNOWTOWN (Kurzel, Aus)
SONS OF NORWAY (Lien, Nor)
STARBUCK (Scott, Can)
THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY (Cousins, UK)
SUPERCLASICO (Madsen, Den)
SURVIVING PROGRESS (Roy/Crooks, Can)
SWIRL (Marins/Campolina, Br)
THE SWORD IDENTITY (Xu, Chn)
TAKE THIS WALTZ (Polley, Can)
THE TALL MAN (Krawitz, Aus)
* TERRAFERMA (Crialese, It)
THAT SUMMER (Garrel, Fr)
THINK OF ME (Wizemann, US)
THIS IS NOT A FILM (Panahi/Mirtahmasb, Irn)
THIS SIDE OF RESURRECTION (Sapinho, Por)
THREE LIVES (Petzold/Graf/Hochhausler , Ger)
TRESPASS (Schumacher, US)
TRISHNA (Winterbottom, UK)
THE TURIN HORSE (Tarr, Hun)
TWIGGY (Millet, Fr)
TWILIGHT PORTRAIT (Nikonova, Rus)
UFO IN HER EYES (Guo, Ger)
UNDEFEATED (Lindsay/Martin, US)
UNION SQUARE (Savoca, US)
URBANIZED (Hustwit, US)
VIOLET & DAISY (Fletcher, US)
VOLCANO (Runarsson, Den)
W.E. (Madonna, UK)
WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW: SEEDIQ BALE (Wei, Tai)
WE HAVE A POPE (Moretti, It)
WETLANDS (Edoin, Can)
WHORES' GLORY (Glawogger, Aut)
WINNIE (Roodt, SA)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Arnold, UK)
THE YEAR OF THE TIGER (Lelio, Chl)
YOU'RE NEXT (Wingard, US)
YOUR SISTER'S SISTER (Shelton, US)

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