TIFF13 Hierarchy

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