Key
– Saw at TIFF Proper (between Sept. 5-15)
– Saw at Cannes
– Saw at TIFF pre-festival press screening
– Saw a screener of some kind
Tier 0
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher) – 8.9
Tier 1
MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez) – 7.8
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) – 7.8
Tier 2
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) – 7.7
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.6
Bastards (Claire Denis) – 7.5
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) – 7.3
Tier 3
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke) – 6.8
Love is the Perfect Crime (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) – 6.6
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu) – 6.5
La última película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson) – 6.5
Moebius (Kim Ki-duk) – 6.4
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) – 6.4
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) – 6.3
Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke) – 6.2
A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop) – 6.2
Tier 4
Three Interpretation Exercises (Cristi Puiu) – 6.1
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) – 6.0
Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi & Kamboziya Partovi) – 5.9
Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche) – 5.9
Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton) – 5.9
Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo) – 5.9
The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard) – 5.8
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino) – 5.8
Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) – 5.7
Joe (David Gordon Green) – 5.7
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell) – 5.6
R100 (Hitoshi Matsumoto) – 5.6
Salvation Army (Abdellah Taïa) – 5.6
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 5.6
Story of My Death (Albert Serra) – 5.5
Gerontophilia (Bruce LaBruce) – 5.5
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Aleksei Fedorchenko) – 5.4
October November (Götz Spielmann) – 5.4
Tier 5
Blind Detective (Johnnie To) – 5.3
The Amazing Catfish (Claudia Sainte-Luce) – 5.3
Bright Days Ahead (Marion Vernoux) – 5.3
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra) – 5.2
The Summer of Flying Fish (Marcela Said) – 5.2
Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet) – 5.1
Bends (Flora Lau) – 5.1
Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan) – 5.0
Young & Beautiful (François Ozon) – 5.0
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) – 5.0
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) – 5.0
At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) – 4.9
A Field in England (Ben Wheatley) – 4.9
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam) – 4.9
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen) – 4.8
The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani) – 4.8
Gabrielle (Louise Archambault) – 4.8
The Square (Jehane Noujaim) – 4.7
The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes) – 4.7
Sarah Prefers to Run (Chloé Robichaud) – 4.6
Tier 6
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen) – 4.5
Siddharth (Richie Mehta) – 4.5
The Unknown Known (Errol Morris) – 4.4
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio) – 4.4
Le Week-End (Roger Mitchell) – 4.4
Mary Queen of Scots (Thomas Imbach) – 4.4
The Missing Image (Rithy Panh) – 4.3
Pays Barbare (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi) – 4.2
Burt’s Buzz (Jody Shapiro) – 4.2
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki) – 4.1
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok & Kim Byung-seo) – 4.1
Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof) – 4.0
Burning Bush (Agnieszka Holland) – 4.0
Child’s Pose (Calin Peter Netzer) – 3.9
Omar (Hany Abu-Assad) – 3.9
The Past (Asghar Farhadi) – 3.8
Tier 7
Thou Gild’st the Even (Onur Ünlü) – 3.6
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann) – 3.5
The Dismantling (Sébastien Pilote) – 3.2
The Art of the Steal (Jonathan Sobol) – 3.0
Tier 8
Real (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 2.8
The Battle of Tabatô (Joao Viana) – 2.2
Tier 9
Child of God (James Franco) – 1.8