Key
– Saw at TIFF Proper (between Sept. 4-14)
– Saw at Cannes
– Saw at TIFF pre-festival press screening
– Saw a screener of some kind
Tier 0
Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.9
Tier 1
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.9
Tier 2
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
– 7.7
Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
– 7.6
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) – 7.5
Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
– 7.3
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) – 7.1
Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux) – 7.1
Tier 3
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.9
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson) – 6.8
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.8
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) – 6.7
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) – 6.6
Heaven Knows What (Joshua & Benny Safdie) – 6.6
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 6.6
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 6.4
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur) – 6.3
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) – 6.2
Tier 4
La Sapienza (Eugène Green) – 6.1
Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) – 6.1
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed) – 6.1
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield) – 6.1
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) – 6.0
Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz)
– 6.0
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) – 6.0
Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.9
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) – 5.9
Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, & the inhabitants of Urk)
– 5.8
Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley)
– 5.8
Manglehorn (David Gordon Green)
– 5.7
While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach)
– 5.5
Sand Dollars (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas)
– 5.5
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) – 5.5
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) – 5.5
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To) – 5.5
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) – 5.4
Wild (Jean- Marc Vallée) – 5.4
Tier 5
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara) – 5.3
Wild Tales (Damian Szifron) – 5.3
Breathe (Mélanie Laurent) – 5.3
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) – 5.2
1001 Grams (Bent Hamer) – 5.2
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) – 5.1
Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire)
– 5.0
Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono)
– 5.0
Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman) – 5.0
The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro) – 4.9
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) – 4.9
From What is Before (Lav Diaz) – 4.9
’71 (Yann Demange)
– 4.9
A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hun) – 4.9
Run (Philippe Lacôte) – 4.9
Bird People (Pascale Ferran) – 4.8
Los Hongos (Oscar Ruiz Navia) – 4.8
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) – 4.8
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (Diep Hoang Nguyen) – 4.7
The Theory of Everything (James Marsh) – 4.7
Far from Men (David Oelhoffen)
– 4.6
A Girl at My Door (July Jung) – 4.6
Tier 6
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma) – 4.5
Elephant Song (Charles Binamé) – 4.4
Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman) – 4.2
Red Army (Gabe Polsk) – 4.2
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius) – 4.2
Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) – 4.0
An Eye for Beauty (Denys Arcand) – 3.8
Tier 7
Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) – 3.6
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland) – 3.5
Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) – 3.5
The New Girlfriend (François Ozon)
– 3.2
Fires on the Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto)
– 3.1
Return to Ithaca (Laurent Cantet)
– 3.0
Tier 8
Le beau danger (René Frölke) – 2.9
The Cobbler (Thomas McCarthy) – 2.7