16mm, 35mm, 70mm - this movie will be screened from a film print (as per the festivalwebsiteprogramme guide) Features (40min. and up) are bold. Shorts are in italics. ⚫ - I have seen this film. ★ - I have seen this film and heartily recommend it (6.2 and higher). ○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film. C - this film is Canadian. If it's any good, Torontonians can catch it in Canada's Top Ten in January, or at the Royal. FS - this film is available for me to watch on Festival Scope. ® - This film has a Canadian Distributor* [*This used to be a one of the colour options below. When that was the case, it also included films that had only US distribution, and was limited to films with firm release dates in the three months following the festival. It's become too difficult to keep track of all that, and in the end it just isn't very useful for me if a film is greyed out and I can't tell if it'll be released in Toronto or if it's just a stateside opening. This new application of the ® indicator will still be useful, I think, for Americans who are trying to see films that won't get released, since most films open in both countries around the same time anyway.] The following colors trump each other hierarchically, so e.g. a film that plays both Berlin and Cannes will be Red, unless e.g. it is in the NYFF Main Slate in which case it will be purple. NYFF - Titles from the Main Selection only (sans Opening, Closing, Centerpiece films, because Hereafter). SUNDANCE - The good ones have already been released. BERLINALE - They had The Strange Little Cat, and some other movies that look all right I guess. CANNES - The Strange Little Cat played here, too. LOCARNO - MANAKAMANA looks to be as close to Leviathan as we're going to get this year. VENICE - Le Tsai... BIGGIES - Films by name directors that I'm anticipating, perhaps ill-advisedly; also, films with raves from the other major festivals (Rotterdam, BAFICI, SxSW, Tribeca, etc.).
Special Presentations (81; last year: 70)
All Is By My Side (John Ridley)
The Armstrong Lie (Alex Gibney) ®
Attila Marcel (Sylvain Chomet) ○
Bad Words (Jason Bateman)
Belle (Amma Asante)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To) ⚫
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche) ⚫ ®
Burning Bush (Agnieszka Holland) ⚫
Can a Song Save Your Life? (John Carney)
Cannibal (Manuel Martín Cuenca)
Child of God (James Franco) ○
Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée) C ®
Devil’s Knot (Atom Egoyan) C ®
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (Ned Benson)
Dom Hemingway (Richard Shepard)
Don Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) ®
The Double (Richard Ayoade) ®
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve) C ®
Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener)
Exit Marrakech (Caroline Link)
The F Word (Michael Dowse) C ®
The Face of Love (Arie Posin) ®
Fading Gigolo (John Turturro)
Felony (Matthew Saville)
The Finishers (Nils Tavernier)
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (Jasmila Žbanić)
Gabrielle (Louise Archambault) ⚫ C ®
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio) ⚫ ®
Going Away (Nicole Garcia)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) ○ ®
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino) ⚫ ®
Half of a Yellow Sun (Biyi Bandele)
Hateship Loveship (Liza Johnson)
How I Live Now (Kevin Macdonald) ®
The Husband (Bruce McDonald) C
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) ○
The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes) ⚫ ®
Joe (David Gordon Green)
Labor Day (Jason Reitman) ®
The Last of Robin Hood (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)
Le Week-End (Roger Michell) ○ ®
The Liberator (Alberto Arvelo)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda) ⚫ ®
L’intrepido (Gianni Amelio)
Love is the Perfect Crime (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) ○
Lucky Them (Megan Griffiths)
Man of Tai Chi (Keanu Reeves) ®
Mary, Queen of Scots (Thomas Imbach) ⚫
Mystery Road (Ivan Sen)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) ○
Omar (Hany Abu-Assad) ○
One Chance (David Frankel) ®
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) ★ ®
The Past (Asghar Farhadi) ⚫ ®
Philomena (Stephen Frears) ®
Pioneer (Erik Skjoldbjærg)
Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve) C ®
A Promise (Patrice Leconte)
Quai d’Orsay (Bertrand Tavernier)
Real (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) ○
Rock the Casbah (Laïla Marrakchi)
Singing Women (Reha Erdem)
Starred Up (David Mackenzie)
Southcliffe (Sean Durkin)
Sunshine on Leith (Dexter Fletcher)
Therese (Charlie Stratton)
Third Person (Paul Haggis) ®
Those Happy Years (Daniele Luchetti)
Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan) ○ C ®
Tracks (John Curran) ®
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen) ○ ®
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) ○
Unforgiven (Lee Sang-il)
Violette (Martin Provost)
Visitors (Godfrey Reggio) ®
Walesa. Man of Hope. (Andrzej Wajda)
Watermark (Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky) C ®
We are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson) ○
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki) ○
You Are Here (Matthew Weiner) ®
Young & Beautiful (François Ozon) ⚫ ®
Contemporary World Cinema (59, including the shorts programme; last year: 61)
The Animal Project (Ingrid Veninger) C ®
Bad Hair (Mariana Rondón)
Bastardo (Nejib Belkadhi)
The Bit Player (Jeffrey Jeturian)
Blind Dates (Levan Koguashvili)
Brazilian Western (René Sampaio)
Break Loose (Alexey Uchitel)
Child’s Pose (Calin Peter Netzer) ⚫
Cinemanovels (Terry Miles) C
Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke)
Cristo Rey (Leticia Tonos Paniagua)
The Dick Knost Show (Bruce Sweeney) C
The Dinner (Menno Meyjes)
The Dismantling (Sébastien Pilote) ⚫ C ®
Eastern Boys (Robin Campillo)
El Mudo (Diego & Daniel Vega) FS
Empire of Dirt (Peter Stebbings) C ®
An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (Danis Tanović)
Friends from France (Philippe Kotlarski & Anne Weil) ®
Giselle (Toa Fraser)
Heart of a Lion (Dome Karukoski)
Honeymoon (Jan Hrebejk)
Hotell (Lisa Langseth)
The Immoral (Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen)
Intruders (Noh Young-Seok)
iNumber Number (Donovan Marsh)
A Journey (Catherine Martin) C ®
The Kids from the Port (Alberto Morais)
Ladder to Damascus (Mohamad Malas)
Le Grand Cahier (János Szász)
Life’s a Breeze (Lance Daly)
Little Feet (Alexandre Rockwell)
The Major (Yuri Bykov) FS
Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof) ⚫
McCanick (Josh C. Waller) ®
Metalhead (Ragnar Bragason)
Ningen (Guillaume Giovanetti & Çagla Zencirci)
October November (Götz Spielmann) ○
Old Moon (Raisa Bonnet)
Palestine Stereo (Rashid Masharawi)
Paradise: Hope (Ulrich Seidl) ○
A Place in Heaven (Yossi Madmony)
Qissa (Anup Singh)
Rags and Tatters (Ahmad Abdalla)
The Sea (Stephen Brown)
The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard) ⚫ ®
Siddharth (Richie Mehta) ⚫ C
Something Necessary (Judy Kibinge)
Stay (Wiebke von Carolsfeld) C ®
Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini) FS
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) ★
This is Sanlitun (Róbert I. Douglas)
Unbeatable (Dante Lam)
Under the Starry Sky (Dyana Gaye)
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu) ○
White Lies (Dana Rotberg)
A Wolf at the Door (Fernando Coimbra)
The Wonders (Avi Nesher)
To Repel Ghosts: Urban Tales from the African Continent:
– Homecoming (Jim Chuchu)
– Berea (Vincent Moloi)
– To Repel Ghosts (Philippe Lacôte)
– Kwaku Ananse (Akosua Adoma Owusu)
– Noah’s Flood (Mark Dornford-May)
Discovery (28; last year: 27)
All About the Feathers (Neto Villalobos)
All the Wrong Reasons (Gia Milani) C ®
The Amazing Catfish (Claudia Sainte-Luce)
Around the Block (Sarah Spillane)
Bends (Flora Lau) ⚫
Beneath the Harvest Sky (Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly)
Bethlehem (Yuval Adler)
Bobô (Inês Oliveira)
Border (Alessio Cremonini)
Canopy (Aaron Wilson)
Fat (Mark Phinney)
Giraffada (Rani Massalha)
I Am Yours (Iram Haq)
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen) ⚫
The Militant (Manolo Nieto)
Miracle (Juraj Lehotsky) 35mm
My Love Awaits Me by the Sea (Mais Darwazah)
Of Good Report (Jahmil X.T. Qubeka)
Palo Alto (Gia Coppola)
Paradise (Mariana Chenillo)
1982 (Tommy Oliver)
Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Jeff Barnaby) C ®
Salvation Army (Abdellah Taia) ○
Sarah Prefers to Run (Chloé Robichaud) ⚫ C FS ®
South is Nothing (Fabio Mollo)
The Stag (John Butler)
The Summer of Flying Fish (Marcela Said) ⚫ FS
Trap Street (Vivian Qu)
TIFF Docs (22; last year: 29)
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Marcel Ophüls)
At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) ○ ®
Beyond the Edge (Leanne Pooley)
Burt’s Buzz (Jody Shapiro) ⚫ C
The Dark Matter of Love (Sarah McCarthy)
The Dog (Allison Berg & Frank Keraudren)
Faith Connections (Pan Nalin)
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story (Barry Avrich) C ®
Finding Vivian Maier (John Maloof & Charlie Siskel) ®
Hi-Ho Mistahey! (Alanis Obomsawin) C ®
Ignasi M. (Ventura Pons)
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) ⚫ ®
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann) ⚫ FS
The Mayor (Emiliano Altuna Fistolera)
Midway (Chris Jordan)
Mission Congo (David Turner & Lara Zizic)
The Square (Jehane Noujaim) ○
A Story of Children and Film (Mark Cousins) FS
Tim’s Vermeer (Teller) ®
The Unknown Known (Errol Morris) ○ ®
Unstable Elements (Madeleine Sackler)
When Jews Were Funny (Alan Zweig) C
Wavelengths (21, including shorts programmes; last year: 19)
The Battle of Tabatô (Joao Viana) [+ The Disquiet (Ali Cherri)] ⚫ FS
A Field in England (Ben Wheatley) ⚫ FS ®
La última película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson) [+ RP31 (Lucy Raven)] ★ 35mm ®
I’m the same, I’m an other (Caroline Strubbe)
MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez) ★ FS
The Missing Image (Rithy Panh) ⚫ ®
Pays Barbare (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi) ⚫ FS
The Police Officer’s Wife (Philip Gröning) ○
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell) ○
Story of My Death (Albert Serra) ○
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher) ★ FS
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang) ★
Three Interpretation Exercises (Cristi Puiu) ○
‘Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing) ○
A Thousand Suns And Letter To A Refusing Pilot
– A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop) ★
– Letter to a Refusing Pilot (Akram Zaatari)
Three Landscapes Preceded By Song And Spring ○
– Song (Nathaniel Dorsky) 16mm
– Spring (Nathaniel Dorsky) 16mm
– Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton)
Un Conte De Michel De Montaigne And The King’s Body And Redemption
– Un Conte de Michel de Montaigne (Jean-Marie Straub)
– The King’s Body (Joao Pedro Rodrigues) ⚫
– Redemption (Miguel Gomes) ⚫
Wavelengths 1: Variations On… ○
– Variations of a Cellophane Wrapper (David Rimmer) 16mm
– Pop Takes (Luther Price) 16mm
– Airship (Kenneth Anger)
– El Adios Largos (Andrew Lampert)
– The Realist (Scott Stark)
Wavelengths 2: Now & Then ○
– Instants (Hannes Schüpbach) 16mm
– Pepper’s Ghost (Stephen Broomer)
– Man in Motion, 2012 (Ruben Glamer) 16mm
– Flower (Naoko Tasaka)
– Constellations (Helga Fanderl) 16mm
Wavelengths 3: Farther Than the Eye Can See ○
– Farther Than the Eye Can See (Basma Alsharif)
– Main Hall (Philipp Fleischmann) 35mm
– 457 Broadway (Tomonari Nishikawa) 16mm
– Bann (Nina Könnemann)
– Suchy Pion (Wojckech Bakowski)
– Gowanus Canal (Sarah J. Christman) 16mm
– Nefandus (Carlos Motta)
Wavelengths 4: Elysium ○
– Trissákia 3 (Nick Collins) 16mm
– Brimstone Line (Chris Kennedy) 16mm
– Listening to the Space in My Room (Robert Beavers) 16mm
– Mount Song (Shambhavi Kaul)
– Natpwe, the feast of the spirits (Jean Dubrel)
Gala Presentations (20; last year: 20)
American Dreams in China (Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
The Art of the Steal (Jonathan Sobol) ⚫ C ®
August: Osage County (John Wells) ®
Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet) ○
Bright Days Ahead (Marion Vernoux) ⚫ ®
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok & Kim Byung-seo) ⚫
The Fifth Estate (Bill Condon) ®
The Grand Seduction (Don McKellar) C ®
Kill Your Darlings (John Krokidas) ®
Life of Crime (Daniel Schechter)
The Love Punch (Joel Hopkins) ®
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra) ⚫ ®
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Justin Chadwick) ®
Parkland (Peter Landesman) ○ ®
The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky)
A Random Desi Romance (Maneesh Sharma) ®
The Right Kind of Wrong (Jeremiah Chechik) C ®
Rush (Ron Howard) ®
Supermensch The Legend of Shep Gordon (Mike Myers)
Words and Pictures (Fred Schepisi)
Vanguard (16; last year: 15)
Asphalt Watches (Seth Scriver & Shayne Ehman) C
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) ⚫ ®
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam) ⚫ ®
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Aleksei Fedorchenko) ⚫ FS
The Fake (Yeon Sang-ho)
Gerontophilia (Bruce LaBruce) ⚫ C ®
Horns (Alexandre Aja) ®
People In Places (Juan Cavestany)
Proxy (Zack Parker)
The Sacrament (Ti West)
Sapi (Brillante Mendoza)
Sex, Drugs & Taxation (Christoffer Boe)
Soul (Chung Mong-Hong)
The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani) ○
Thou Gild’st the Even (Onur Ünlü) ⚫ FS
We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Simon Hawkins & Zeke Hawkins)
Masters (11; last year: 14)
Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) ○
Bastards (Claire Denis) ★ ®
Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi & Kamboziya Partovi) ⚫
Concrete Night (Pirjo Honkasalo)
Home From Home – Chronicle of a Vision (Edgar Reitz)
How Strange to be Named Federico: Scola Narrates Fellini (Ettore Scola)
Moebius (Kim Ki-duk)
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) ★
Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo) ○
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke) ★ ®
Triptych (Robert Lepage & Pedro Pires) C ®
City to City: Athens (10; last year: 10)
The Daughter (Thanos Anastopoulos) FS
The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (Elina Psykou) FS
J.A.C.E. – Just Another Confused Elephant (Menelaos Karamaghiolis)
Miss Violence (Alexandros Avranas)
September (Penny Panayotopoulou)
Standing Aside, Watching (Yorgos Servetas)
To the Wolf (Aran Hughes & Christina Koutsospyrou) FS
Unfair World (Filippos Tsitos)
Wasted Youth (2011, Argyris Papadimitropoulos & Jan Vogel) FS
Wild Duck (Yannis Sakaridis)
Midnight Madness (10; last year: 10)
Afflicted (Derek Lee & Clif Prowse) C ®
All Cheerleaders Die (Lucky McKee & Chris Sivertson)
Almost Human (Joe Begos)
The Green Inferno (Eli Roth) ®
Oculus (Mike Flanagan)
R100 (Hitoshi Matsumoto) ⚫
Rigor Mortis (Juno Mak)
The Station (Marvin Kren)
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono)
Witching & Bitching (Alex de la Iglesia)
Future Projections (9; last year: 8)
1. Camille Henrot: Grosse Fatigue (2013) – September 5 to 15
2. Ralph Steadman: Ralph Steadman For No Good Reason (1970-2013) – September 5 to 15
3. Radical Friend: Sweat (2012) – September 5 to 15
4. Candice Breitz: Treatment (2013) – September 5 to December 29
5. Marcel Dzama: Une Danse des Bouffons (or A Jester’s Dance) (2013) – September 5 to December 29
6. James Coupe: Swarm (2013) – September 5 to December 29
7. Jeremy Shaw: Introduction to the Memory Personality (2012/2013) – September 5 to December 29
8. Jamie Shovlin: Rough Cut (Hiker Meat) (2012-13) – September 5 to December 29
9. Laurel Woodcock: walkthrough (2013) – September 5 to December 29
Mavericks (9; last year: 7)
For No Good Reason (Charlie Paul)
In Conversation With…Irrfan Khan
In Conversation With…Spike Jonze
InRealLife (Beeban Kidron)
Made in America (Ron Howard)
Our Man In Tehran (Larry Weinstein & Drew Taylor)
12.12.12. (no director?)
What is Cinema? (Chuck Workman)
Women & Film 40th Anniversary – I Am Somebody (Madeline Anderson)
TIFF Cinematheque (7; last year: 7)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujiro Ozu) ○
Gun Crazy (1950, Joseph H. Lewis) ○ 35mm
Hiroshima mon amour (1959, Alain Resnais) ★
Le joli mai (1963, Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme) ○
Manila in the Claws of Light (1975, Lino Brocka) ○
Rome, Open City (1945, Roberto Rossellini) ★
Shivers (1975, David Cronenberg) ⚫
TIFF Kids (5; last year: 5)
Amazonia (Luc Marescot & Thierry Ragobert) ®
Antboy (Ask Hasselbalch)
Khumba (Anthony Silverston)
The World of Goopi and Bagha (Shilpa Ranade)
Zip and Zap and the Marble Gang (Oskar Santos)
Short Cuts Canada
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