Key: 16mm, 35mm, 70mm - It'll be screened from a film print. (Probably only applicable to Wavelengths shorts from now on.) Features (40min. and up) are in bold. Shorts are in italics. ⚉ - I have seen this film. ★ - I have seen this film and recommend it (6.0 and higher) ✖ - I have seen this film and recommend that you don't (3.9 and lower). ♨ - This film can go to hell. ○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film. ஃ - I made this film. C - This film was made by a Canadian. If it's any good, Torontonians ought to be able to catch up with it soon enough. FS - This film is available for me to watch on Festival Scope. ® - This film has a Canadian distributor. ® - This film has a US distributor. Colour coding: NYFF - Main Selection only. SUNDANCE - Listen Up Cameron. BERLINALE - Alfred Bauer or bust. CANNES - I've seen maybe two of the Jury Prize winners and I really don't like one of them. LOCARNO - 5 hours and 38 minutes. VENICE - The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance. BIGGIES - Films by name directors that I'm actively anticipating, perhaps ill-advisedly. Also, films with raves from the other major festivals (Rotterdam, BAFICI, SxSW, Tribeca, etc.). (Colors trump each other hierarchically, so e.g. a film that played both Berlin and Cannes will be red, unless e.g. it ends up in the NYFF Main Slate in which case it will become purple.)
Special Presentations (71; last year: 81)
American Heist (Sarik Andreasyan)
Before We Go (Chris Evans)
Beyond the Lights (Gina Prince-Bythewood) ® ®
Breakup Buddies (Ning Hao)
Cake (Daniel Barnz) ®
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) ® ® ★
The Cobbler (Thomas McCarthy) ® ✖
Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) ® ® ✖
The Dead Lands (Toa Fraser)
Dearest (Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To) ⚉
The Drop (Michael R. Roskam) ® ®
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) ★
The Elephant Song (Charles Binamé) C ® ® ⚉
An Eye for Beauty (Denys Arcand) C ® ✖
Far From Men (David Oelhoffen) ⚉
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) ® ® ★
The Gate (Régis Wargnier)
Gemma Bovery (Anne Fontaine) ®
Gentlemen (Mikael Marcimain)
Gomorrah (Stefano Sollima) ®
Good Kill (Andrew Niccol) ®
The Good Lie (Philippe Falardeau) C ® ®
Hector and the Search for Happiness (Peter Chelsom) ® ®
Human Highway [Director’s Cut] (Bernard Shakey and Dean Stockwell) ®
The Humbling (Barry Levinson) ®
Hungry Hearts (Saverio Costanzo)
The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum) ® ®
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (Roger Allers, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Joan C. Gratz,Mohammed Saeed Harib, Tomm Moore, Nina Paley, Bill Plympton, Joann Sfar, & Michal Socha)
The Keeping Room (Daniel Barber)
The Last Five Years (Richard LaGravenese)
Learning to Drive (Isabel Coixet)
Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad)
Madame Bovary (Sophie Barthes)
Maggie (Henry Hobson)
Manglehorn (David Gordon Green) ⚉
Mary Kom (Omung Kumar)
Men, Women and Children (Jason Reitman) ® ®
Miss Julie (Liv Ullmann)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) C ® ® ⚉
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) ® ® ⚉
My Old Lady (Israel Horovitz) ® ®
Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley) ⚉
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy) ® ®
99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani) ®
October Gale (Ruba Nadda) C ®
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara) ⚉
Phoenix (Christian Petzold) ® ★
Preggoland (Jacob Tierney) C ®
Pride (Matthew Warchus) ® ®
The Reach (Jean-Baptiste Leonetti) ®
Red Amnesia (Wang Xiaoshuai)
Return to Ithaca (Laurent Cantet) ⚉
Revenge of the Green Dragons ((Andrew Lau & Andrew Loo) ® ®
Roger Waters The Wall (Sean Evans & Roger Waters)
Rosewater (Jon Stewart) ® ®
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius) ® ⚉
A Second Chance (Susanne Bier)
Shelter (Paul Bettany)
The Sound and the Fury (James Franco)
St. Vincent (Theodore Melfi)
Still Alice (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)
The Theory of Everything (James Marsh) ® ® ⚉
Three Hearts (Benoît Jacquot) ® ®
Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman) ⚉
Top Five (Chris Rock)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) ® ® ★
Welcome to Me (Shira Piven) ®
While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach) ⚉
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) ® ® ⚉
Wild Tales (Damian Szifron) ® ® ⚉
Contemporary World Cinema (58; last year: 59)
Aire Libre (Anahí Berneri)
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) ® ★
Behavior (Ernesto Daranas)
Bird People (Pascale Ferran) ® ® ⚉
Black Souls (Francesco Munzi)
Breathe (Mélanie Laurent) ® ⚉
Charlie’s Country (Rolf de Heer)
Cut Bank (Matt Shakman)
Cut Snake (Tony Ayres) ®
The Dark Horse (James Napier Robertson)
Don’t Breathe (Nino Kirtadze)
The Farewell Party (Sharon Maymon & Tal Granit)
Felix and Meira (Maxime Giroux) C ®
Frailer (Mijke de Jong)
Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz) ® ★
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma) ® ⚉
The Grump (Dome Karukoski)
Heartbeat (Andrea Dorfman) C ®
High Society (Julie Lopes Curval)
Impunity (Jyoti Mistry)
In the Crosswind (Martti Helde)
Itsi Bitsi (Ole Christian Madsen)
Justice (Joel Lamangan)
Kabukicho Love Hotel (Ryuichi Hiroki)
Kill Me Three Times (Kriv Stenders)
Labyrinth of Lies (Giulio Ricciarelli)
Leopardi (Mario Martone)
The Lesson (Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov)
Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) ® ® ★
Love in the Time of Civil War (Rodrigue Jean) C ®
Lulu (Luis Ortega)
Margarita, with a Straw (Shonali Bose)
Meet Me in Montenegro (Alex Holdridge & Linnea Saasen)
Men Who Save the World (Liew Seng Tat)
Mirage (Szabolcs Hajdu)
Modris (Juris Kursietis)
Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux) ® ★
Out of Nature (Ole Giæver)
The Owners (Adilkhan Yerzhanov) FS
Partners in Crime (Chang Jung-Chi)
The Reaper (Zvonimir Jurić)
Red Rose (Sepideh Farsi)
Sand Dollars (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas) ⚉
Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) ✖
Tales (Rakhshan Bani-E’temad)
Teen Lust (Blaine Thurier) C ® ®
Tigers (Danis Tanović)
Today (Reza Mirkarimi)
Tokyo Fiancée (Stefan Liberski)
Tour de Force (Christian Zübert) FS
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur) C ® ★
Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman) ⚉
The Valley (Ghassan Salhab)
Venice (Kiki Álvarez)
Voice Over (Cristián Jiménez)
Where I Am King (Carlos Siguion-Reyna)
Who Am I – No System is Safe (Baran bo Odar)
Xenia (Panos H. Koutras) ®
Discovery (39; last year: 28)
Adult Beginners (Ross Katz)
Atlantic. (Jan-Willem van Ewijk)
Backcountry (Adam MacDonald) C ®
Bang Bang Baby (Jeffrey St. Jules) C
Big Muddy (Jefferson Moneo) C ®
Corbo (Mathieu Denis) C ®
The Crow’s Egg (M. Manikandan)
Dukhtar (Afia Nathaniel)
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (Nguyen Hoang Diep) ⚉
The Great Man (Sarah Leonor)
Guidance (Pat Mills) C
I Am Not Lorena (Isidora Marras)
In Her Place (Albert Shin) C
The Intruder (Shariff Korver)
La Salada (Juan Martín Hsu)
Life in a Fishbowl (Baldvin Zophoníasson)
The Little Death (Josh Lawson)
Los Hongos (Oscar Ruiz Navia) ⚉
Magical Girl (Carlos Vermut)
Mardan (Batin Ghobadi)
May Allah Bless France! (Abd Al Malik)
The Narrow Frame of Midnight (Tala Hadid)
OBRA (Gregorio Graziosi)
Run (Philippe Lacôte) ⚉
Second Coming (Debbie Tucker Green)
Senza nessuna pietà (Michele Alhaique)
’71 (Yann Demange) ⚉
Songs She Wrote About People She Knows (Kris Elgstrand) C
Stories of Our Lives (Anonymous)
Sway (Rooth Tang)
Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar)
The Tribe (Miroslav Slaboshpitsky) ® ⚉
UNLUCKY PLAZA (Ken Kwek)
The Valley Below (Kyle Thomas) C
The Vanished Elephant (Javier Fuentes-León)
Villa Touma (Suha Arraf)
We Were Wolves (Jordan Canning) C
Wet Bum (Lindsay Mackay) C + Red Alert (Barry Avrich)
X + Y (Morgan Matthews)
TIFF Docs (21; last year: 22)
Beats of the Antonov (Hajooj Kuka)
I Am Here (Lixin Fan)
Iraqi Odyssey (Samir)
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (Mami Sunada)
Merchants of Doubt (Robert Kenner) ® ®
Monsoon (Sturla Gunnarsson) C ®
National Diploma (Dieudo Hamadi)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) ® ★
Natural Resistance (Jonathan Nossiter)
The Price We Pay (Harold Crooks) C ®
Red Army (Gabe Polsk) ® ® ⚉
Roger & Me (1989, Michael Moore)
Seymour: An Introduction (Ethan Hawke)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed) ★
Sunshine Superman (Marah Strauch)
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield) ★
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) ⚉
This Is My Land (Tamara Erde)
The Wanted 18 (Amer Shomali & Paul Cowan) C
The Years of Fierro (Santiago Esteinou)
The Yes Men Are Revolting (Laura Nix & The Yes Men)
Gala Presentations (20; last year: 20)
Black and White (Mike Binder)
Boychoir (François Girard) ®
The Connection (Cédric Jimenez) ® ®
The Equalizer (Antoine Fuqua) ® ®
Escobar: Paradise Lost (Andrea Di Stefano) ® ®
The Forger (Philip Martin) ®
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) ® ® ⚉
Haemoo (Shim Sung-bo)
Infinitely Polar Bear (Maya Forbes) ® ®
The Judge (David Dobkin) ® ®
Laggies (Lynn Shelton) ® ®
A Little Chaos (Alan Rickman)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) C ® ® ★
The New Girlfriend (François Ozon) ✖
Pawn Sacrifice (Ed Zwick)
The Riot Club (Lone Scherfig)
Ruth & Alex (Richard Loncraine)
Samba (Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano) ®
This is Where I Leave You (Shawn Levy) C ® ®
Wild (Jean-Marc Vallée) C ® ® ⚉
Wavelengths (19, including shorts programs; last year: 21)
Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, & the inhabitants of Urk) ⚉
Fires on the Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto) ✖
From What is Before (Lav Diaz) ⚉
Heaven Knows What (Joshua & Benny Safdie) ★
Horse Money (Pedro Costa) ★
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) ® ★
La Sapienza (Eugène Green) ⚉
Le beau danger (René Frölke) ✖
Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire) ⚉
Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa) ® ⚉
The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro) ® ⚉
A Single Word (Mariama Sylla & Khady Sylla)
Songs from the North (Soon-mi Yoo) FS ○
Journey to the West with Spectrum Reverse Spectrum
– Spectrum Reverse Spectrum (Margaret Honda) 70mm ★
– Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) ★
Pimenta/ de Oliveira/ Abrantes ○
– The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees (Joana Pimenta)
– The Old Man of Belem (Manoel de Oliveira)
– Taprobana (Gabriel Abrantes)
Wavelengths 1: Open Forms
– brouillard – passage #14 (Alexandre Larose) 35mm ★
– Against Landscape (Josh Gen Solondz) ✖
– Open Form – Game on an Actress’s Face (KwieKulik Group) ★
– The Dragon is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark) 16mm ⚉
– Open Form – Street and Tribune in Front of PKiN (KwieKulik Group) ⚉
– Poetry for Sale (Friedl vom Gröller) 16mm ⚉
– Under a Changing Sky (Jean-Claude Rousseau) ⚉
– Panchrome I, II, III (T. Marie) ⚉
Wavelengths 2: Something in the Atmosphere
– The pimp and his trophies (Antoinette Zwirchmayr) 35mm ★
– The Innocents (Jean-Paul Kelly) ★
– Catalogue (Dana Berman Duff) ⚉
– Relief (Calum Walter) ⚉
– Red Capriccio (Blake Williams) ஃ
– Under the Atmosphere (Mike Stoltz) 16mm ★
– Beep (Kim Kyung-man) ⚉
Wavelengths 3: Tales Told
– Twelve Tales Told (Johann Lurf) 35mm ⚉
– San Siro (Yuri Ancarani) ⚉
– Intransit (Jakrawal Nilthamrong) 35mm ⚉
– Canopy (Ken Jacobs) ★
– Detour de Force (Rebecca Baron) ★
Wavelengths 4: Night Noon
– Lunar Almanac (Malena Szlam) 16mm ★
– Deep Sleep (Basma Alsharif) ⚉
– Orizzonti Orizzonti! (Anna Marziano) ⚉
– The Policeman’s House (Mich’ael Zupraner) ⚉
– Night Noon (Shambhavi Kaul) ★
– Sea of Vapors (Sylvia Schedelbauer) ⚉
Masters (14; last year: 11)
The Face of an Angel (Michael Winterbottom)
Foreign Body (Krzysztof Zanussi)
The Golden Era (Ann Hui) ® ®
Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard) ® ® ★
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo) ★
Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) ® ® ⚉
Murder in Pacot (Raoul Peck)
1001 Grams (Bent Hamer) ⚉
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson) ★
Revivre (Im Kwon-taek) ○
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) ⚉
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) ® ® ★
Trick or Treaty? (Alanis Obomsawin) C ®
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) ★
Vanguard (12; last year: 16)
Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) ® ® ★
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland) ® ✖
Goodnight Mommy (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala)
Hyena (Gerard Johnson)
Luna (Dave McKean)
Over Your Dead Body (Takashi Miike)
Shrew’s Nest (Juanfer Andrés & Esteban Roel) ® ®
Spring (Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
They Have Escaped (JP Valkeapää)
The Voices (Marjane Satrap)
Waste Land (Pieter Van Hees)
The World of Kanako (Tetsuya Nakashima)
Midnight Madness (10; last year: 10)
Big Game (Jalmari Heleander)
Cub (Jonas Govaerts)
The Editor (Matthew Kennedy & Adam Brooks) C
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (Mark Hartley) ® ®
The Guest (Adam Wingard) ® ®
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) ® ® ⚉
[REC] 4: Apocalypse (Jaume Balagueró) ® ®
Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono) ⚉
Tusk (Kevin Smith) ®
What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi)
Mavericks (9; last year: 9)
Do I Sound Gay? (David Thorpe)
The 50 Year Argument (Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi)
Mavericks Conversation With… Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua
Mavericks Conversation With… Juliette Binoche
Mavericks Conversation With… Reese Witherspoon
Mavericks Conversation With… Richard Gere
Mavericks Conversation With… Robert Duvall
Mavericks Conversation With… Jon Stewart
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Julie Taymor)
City to City: Seoul (8; last year: 10)
Alive (Park Jung-bum) ○
A Dream of Iron (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park) FS
A Girl at My Door (July Jung) ⚉
A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hun) ⚉
Cart (Boo Ji-Young)
Confession (Lee Do-yun)
Gyeongju (Zhang Lu) FS
Scarlet Innocence (Yim Pil-sung)
TIFF Cinematheque (8; last year: 7)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov) ✖
Crime Wave (1985, John Paizs) C ○
Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Ôshima) ○
Dragon Inn (King Hu) ○
The Goddess (Wu Yonggang) ⚉
In Comparison (Harun Farocki) ★
My Darling Clementine (John Ford) ○
Speaking Parts (1989, Atom Egoyan) C ○
Future Projections (5; last year: 9)
Anna and the Tower (Lynne Marsh)
BMX Channel + Midnight Traceur (Shaun Gladwell)
Nature of the Self (Laurent Montaron)
Provenance (Amie Siegel) ○
Some Graphic Sex, Heavy Drinking, Bloody Violence, and Dirty Language: Seven One-Minute Feature-Like Films About Seoul (Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries)
TIFF Kids (4; last year: 5)
Labyrinthus (Douglas Boswell)
Paper Planes (Robert Connolly)
Secrets of War (Dennis Bots)
Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore)
Short Cuts Canada
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