Canadian Films (2011)

Canada First

• Amy George -- Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas, ON
• Leave It On The Floor -- Sheldon Larry, ON
• Nuit #1 -- Anne Emond, QC
• The Odds -- Simon Davidson, BC
• The Patron Saints -- Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky, QC
• Romeo Eleven (Roméo onze) -- Ivan Grbovic, QC
• Wetlands (Marécages) -- Guy Édoin, QC

Open Vault

• Hard Core Logo -- Bruce McDonald, 1996

City to City (2011)

• Caprichosos de San Telmo -- Alison Murray, Argentina/Canada
• The Cat Vanishes -- Carlos Sorin, Argentina
• Crane World -- Pablo Trapero, Argentina
• Fatherland -- Nicolás Prividera, Argentina
• Invasion -- Hugo Santiago, Argentina
• A Mysterious World -- Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina/Germany
• Pompeya -- Tamae Garateguy, Argentina
• The Stones -- Román Cárdenas, Argentina
• The Student -- Santiago Mitre, Argentina
• Vaquero -- Juan Minujín, Argentina

Contemporary World Cinema (2011)

• 388 Arletta Avenue -- Randall Cole, Canada
• Always Brando -- Ridha Béhi
• Azhagarsamy's Horse -- Suseendran, India
• Beauty -- Oliver Hermanus, South Africa/France
• Billy Bishop Goes to War -- Barbara Willis-Sweete, Canada
• Blood of my Blood -- João Canijo, Portugal
• Bonsái -- Cristián Jiménez, Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal
• Colour of the Ocean -- Maggie Peren, Germany
• Death for Sale -- Faouzi Bensaidi, Belgium/France/Morocco
• Elena -- Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia
• Extraterrestrial -- Nacho Vigalondo, Spain
• Footnote -- Joseph Cedar, Israel
• The Forgiveness of Blood -- Joshua Marston, USA/Albania/Denmark/Italy
• Free Men -- Ismaël Ferroukhi, France
• From Up on Poppy Hill -- Goro Miyazaki, Japan
• A Funny Man -- Martin P. Zandvliet, Denmark
• Future Lasts Forever -- Ozcan Alper, Turkey/France/Germany
• Good Bye -- Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
• Goodbye First Love -- Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany
• Guilty -- Vincent Garenq, France
• Gypsy -- Martin Šulík, Slovakia
• Heleno -- José Henrique Fonseca, Brazil
• Himizu -- Sion Sono, Japan
• Hotel Swooni -- Kaat Beels, Belgium
• I’m Yours -- Leonard Farlinger, Canada
• Islands -- Stefano Chiantini, Italy
• Juan of the Dead -- Alejandro Brugués, Spain/Cuba
• Land of Oblivion -- Michale Boganim, France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine
• Last Days in Jerusalem -- Tawfik Abu Wael, France/Israel/Palestine/Germany
• Last Winter -- John Shank, Belgium/France
• Lena -- Christophe Van Rompaey, The Netherlands/Belgium
• Lipstikka -- Jonathan Sagall, Israel/United Kingdom
• Lucky -- Avie Luthra, South Africa/United Kingdom
• Man on Ground -- Akin Omotoso, South Africa
• Michael -- Ribhu Dasgupta, India
• Michael -- Markus Schleinzer, Austria
• Miss Bala -- Gerardo Naranjo, Mexico
• Mr. Tree -- Han Jie, China
• Omar Killed Me -- Roschdy Zem, France
• Restoration -- Yossi Madmony, Israel
• Rose -- Wojciech Smarzowski, Poland
• Rough Hands -- Mohamed Asli, Morocco
• A Separation -- Asghar Farhadi, Iran
• The Silver Cliff -- Karim Aïnouz, Brazil
• Sisters&Brothers -- Carl Bessai, Canada
• Sons of Norway -- Jens Lien, Norway
• Superclásico -- Ole Christian Madsen, Denmark
• Think of Me -- Bryan Wizemann, USA
• UFO in her Eyes -- Xiaolu Guo, Germany
• Union Square -- Nancy Savoca, USA
• Your Sister's Sister -- Lynn Shelton, USA

Discovery (2011)

• Las Acacias -- Pablo Giorgelli, Argentina/Spain
• Alois Nebel -- Tomáš Lunák, Czech Republic/Germany/Slovakia
• Among Us -- Marco van Geffen, Netherlands
• Avalon -- Axel Petersén, Sweden
• Back to Stay -- Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina/Switzerland/Netherlands
  
• Behold the Lamb -- John McIlduff, United Kingdom
• Breathing -- Karl Markovics, Austria
• The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best -- Ryan O'Nan, USA
• Bunohan -- Dain Said, Malaysia
• Cuchera -- Joseph Israel Laban, Philippines
• The Good Son -- Zaida Bergroth, Finland
  
• Habibi -- Susan Youssef, Palestine/USA/Netherlands/United Arab Emirates
  
• Hanaan -- Ruslan Pak, South Korea
  
• Historias Que So Existem Quando Lembradas -- Julia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France
  
• The Invader -- Nicolas Provost, Belgium
  
• J'aime regarder les filles -- Frédéric Louf, France
• Lost in Paradise -- Ngoc Dang Vu, Vietnam
  
• The Other Side of Sleep -- Rebecca Daly, Ireland/Hungary/Netherlands
• Pariah -- Dee Rees, USA
  
• Roman's Circuit -- Sebastián Brahm, Chile/Argentina
  
• Summer Games -- Rolando Colla, Italy/Switzerland
  
• The Sword Identity -- Haofeng Xu, China
  
• Twiggy -- Emmanuelle Millet, France
  
• Twilight Portrait A-- ngelina Nikonova, Russia
  
• Volcano -- Rúnar Rúnarsson, Denmark/Iceland

Future Projections

• Memories of Idaho -- James Franco and Gus Van Sant
• Mr. Brainwash in Toronto -- Mr. Brainwash
• Buffalo Days -- Peter Lynch
• Rufus Corporation: whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir -- Eve Sussman
• Sanctuary -- Gregory Crewdson
• Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board -- Nicholas and Sheila Pye
• Sunday -- Duane Hopkins
• Plot Against Time -- David Rokeby
• Slow Action -- Ben Rivers
• Road Movie -- Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky
• Time as Activity -- David Lamelas

Gala Presentations (2011)

• Albert Nobbs -- Rodrigo Garcia, Ireland
• The Awakening -- Nick Murphy, United Kingdom
• Beloved -- Christophe Honoré, France
• Butter -- Jim Field Smith, USA
• A Dangerous Method -- David Cronenberg, France/Ireland/UK/Germany/Canada
• From the Sky Down -- Davis Guggenheim, USA
• A Happy Event -- Rémi Bezancon, France
• Hysteria -- Tanya Wexler, USA/United Kingdom
• The Ides of March -- George Clooney, USA
• Killer Elite -- Gary McKendry, USA/Australia
• The Lady -- Luc Besson, France/UK
• Machine Gun Preacher -- Marc Forster, USA
• Moneyball -- Bennett Miller, USA
• Page Eight -- David Hare, United Kingdom
• Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding -- Bruce Beresford, USA
• Starbuck -- Ken Scott, Canada
• Take this Waltz -- Sarah Polley, Canada
• Trespass -- Joel Schumacher, USA
• W.E. -- Madonna, UK
• Winnie -- Darrell J. Roodt, South Africa /Canada

Masters (2011)

• Almayer's Folly (La Folie Almayer) -- Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France
• Faust -- Alexander Sokurov, Russia
  
• Hard Core Logo II -- Bruce McDonald, Canada
• Le Havre -- Aki Kaurismäki, Finland
  
• I Wish (Kiseki) -- Hirokazu Kore-Eda, Japan
  
• The Kid with a Bike (Le Gamin au vélo) -- Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France/Italy
  
• Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da) -- Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey/Bosnia & Herzegovina
  
• Outside Satan (Hors Satan) -- Bruno Dumont, France
  
• Pina -- Wim Wenders, Germany/France
• Restless -- Gus Van Sant, USA
  
• Snows of Kilimanjaro (Neiges du Kilimandjaro) -- Robert Guédiguian, France
  
• This is not a Film -- Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran
• The Turin Horse -- Béla Tarr, Hungary
  

Midnight Madness (2011)

• The Day -- Douglas Aarniokoski, USA
• God Bless America -- Bobcat Goldthwait, USA
• The Incident -- Alexandre Courtes, France
• Kill List -- Ben Wheatley, United
• Livid -- Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, France
• Lovely Molly -- Eduardo Sanchez, USA
• The Raid -- Gareth Evans, Indonesia
• Sleepless Night -- Frederic Jardin, France/Belgium/Luxembourg
• Smuggler -- Katsuhito Ishii, Japan
• You're Next -- Adam Wingard, USA

Real to Reel (2011)

• Arirang -- Kim Ki-Duk, South Korea
• The Boy Who Was King -- Andrey Paounov, Bulgaria/Germany
• Comic-Con: Episode IV – A Fan's Hope -- Morgan Spurlock, USA
• Crazy Horse -- Frederick Wiseman, USA/France
• Dark Girls -- Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry, USA
• Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell -- Rithy Panh, France/Cambodia
• The Education of Auma Obama -- Branwen Okpako, Germany
  
• Gerhard Richter Painting -- Corinna Belz, Germany
• Girl Model -- Ashley Sabin and David Redmon, USA
• I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful -- Jonathan Demme, USA
• In My Mother's Arms -- Atia Al Daradji and Mohamed Al Daradji, Iraq/Netherlands/United Kingdom
• Into the Abyss -- Werner Herzog, USA
• Last Call at the Oasis -- Jessica Yu, USA
• The Last Dogs of Winter -- Costa Botes, New Zealand
• The Last Gladiators -- Alex Gibney, USA
• Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory -- Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, USA
• Paul Williams Still Alive -- Stephen Kessler, USA
• Pink Ribbons, Inc -- Léa Pool, Canada
  
• Samsara -- Ron Fricke, USA
• Sarah Palin – You Betcha! -- Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill, United Kingdom
• The Story of Film: An Odyssey -- Mark Cousins, United Kingdom
• Surviving Progress -- Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, Canada
• The Tall Man -- Tony Krawitz, Australia
• Undefeated -- Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin, USA
• Urbanized -- Gary Hustwit, U.S./United Kingdom
• Whores' Glory -- Michael Glawogger, Austria/Germany

Special Presentations (2011)

• 11 Flowers -- Wang Xiaoshuai, China/France
• 50/50 -- Jonathan Levine, USA
• 360 -- Fernando Meirelles, UK/Austria/France/Brazil
• Afghan Luke -- Mike Clattenburg, Canada
  
• The Artist -- Michel Hazanavicius, France
• Americano -- Mathieu Demy, France
• Anonymous -- Roland Emmerich, Germany
• A Better Life -- Cédric Khan, France
• Breakaway -- Robert Lieberman, Canada
  
• Burning Man -- Jonathan Teplitzky, Australia
• Café de Flore -- Jean-Marc Vallée, Canada
• The Cardboard Village -- Ermanno Olmi, Italy
  
• Chicken with Plums -- Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium
• Coriolanus -- Ralph Fiennes, UK
• Countdown -- Huh Jong-ho, Korea
• Damsels in Distress -- Whit Stillman, USA
  
• Dark Horse -- Todd Solondz, USA
• Death of a Superhero -- Ian FitzGibbon, Germany/Ireland
  
• The Deep Blue Sea -- Terence Davies, UK
• The Descendants -- Alexander Payne, USA
• Drive -- Nicolas Winding Refn, USA
• Edwin Boyd -- Nathan Morlando, Canada
  
• Elles -- Malgoska Szumowska, France/Poland/Germany
• Eye of the Storm -- Fred Schepisi, Australia
• Friends with Kids -- Jennifer Westfeldt, USA
• Goon -- Mike Dowse, Canada
  
• Habemus Papam -- Nanni Moretti, Italy/France
• Headhunters -- Morten Tyldum Norway
• Hick -- Derick Martini, USA
• The Hunter -- Daniel Nettheim, Australia
• In Darkness -- Agnieszka Holland, Canada/Germany/Poland
• Intruders -- Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Spain
• Jeff, Who Lives at Home -- Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass, USA
• Keyhole -- Guy Maddin, Canada
  
• Killer Joe -- William Friedkin, USA
• Life Without Principle -- Johnnie To, Hong Kong
• Like Crazy -- Drake Doremus, USA
• Low Life -- Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval, France
  
• Martha Marcy May Marlene -- Sean Durkin, USA
• Mausam (Seasons of Love) -- Pankaj Kapur, India
  
• Melancholia -- Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany
• Monsieur Lazhar -- Philippe Falardeau, Canada
• The Moth Diaries -- Mary Harron, Canada/Ireland
• My Worst Nightmare -- Anne Fontaine, France/Belgium
  
• The Oranges -- Julian Farino, USA
• Pearl Jam Twenty -- Cameron Crowe, USA
• Rampart -- Oren Moverman, USA
• Rebellion -- Mathieu Kassovitz, France
  
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen -- Lasse Hallstrom, UK
• Shame -- Steve McQueen, UK
• A Simple Life -- Ann Hui, HK/China
• The Skin I Live In -- Pedro Almodóvar, Spain
• Sleeping Beauty -- Julia Leigh, Australia
  
• Take Shelter -- Jeff Nichols, USA
• Ten Year -- Jamie Linden, USA
• Terraferma -- Emanuele Crialese, Italy
• That Summer -- Philippe Garrel, France/Italy/Switzerland
  
• Trishna -- Michael Winterbottom, UK
• Twixt -- Francis Ford Coppola, USA
• Tyrannosaur -- Paddy Considine, UK
• Violet & Daisy -- Geoffrey Fletcher, USA
• Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale -- Wei Te-Sheng, Taiwan
  
• We Need to Talk About Kevin -- Lynne Ramsay, UK
• Where Do We Go Now? -- Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt
• Woman in the Fifth -- Pawel Pawlikowski, France/Poland/United Kingdom
• Wuthering Heights -- Andrea Arnold, United Kingdom

TIFF Kids (2011)

• First Position -- Bess Kargman, USA
• The Flying Machine -- Martin Clapp, Geoff Lindsey and Dorota Kobiela, Poland/China
• A Letter to Momo -- Hiroyuki Okiura, Japan
• A Monster in Paris -- Bibo Bergeron, France

Vanguard (2011)

• Carré Blanc -- Jean-Baptiste Leonetti, France/Luxembourg/Belgium/Switzerland
• Generation P -- Victor Ginzburg Russia/USA
• Headshot -- Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand/France
• i am a good person/ i am a bad person -- Ingrid Veninger, Canada
  
• Love and Bruises -- Lou Ye, China/France
• Oslo, August 31 -- Joachim Trier, Norway
• Snowtown -- Justin Kurzel, Australia
• The Year of the Tiger -- Sebastián Lelio, Chile

Visions (2011)

• ALPS -- Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece/France North American Premiere
• Century of Birthing -- Lav Diaz, The Philippines North American
• Cut -- Amir Naderi, Japan North American Premiere
• Dreileben (Three Lives) -- Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochhäusler , Germany North
• Fable of the Fish -- Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr., The Philippines
• House of Tolerance -- Bertrand Bonello, France
• KOTOKO -- Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan
• The Last Christeros -- Matias Meyer, Mexico/The Netherlands
• The Loneliest Planet -- Julia Loktev, USA/Germany
• Monsters Club -- Toshiaki Toyoda, Japan
• The Mountain -- Ghassan Salhab, Lebanon/Qatar
• Mushrooms -- Vimukthi Jayasundara, India/France
• Play -- Ruben Östlund, Sweden/France/Denmark
• Porfirio -- Alejandro Landes, Colombia/Spain/Uruguay/Argentina/France
• Random -- Debbie Tucker Green, United Kingdom
• The River Used to be A Man -- Jan Zabeil, Germany
• Swirl -- Helvecio Marins Jr. and Clarissa Campolina, Brazil
• This Side of Resurrection -- Joaquim Sapinho, Portugal

Wavelengths (2011)

Wavelengths 1: Analogue Arcadia

• Edwin Parker -- Tacita Dean, USA/United Kingdom
• Loutra/Baths -- Nick Collins, United Kingdom
• 99 Clerkenwell Road -- Sophie Michael, United Kingdom
• Empire -- Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/Austria
• Sack Barrow -- Ben Rivers, United Kingdom
• Ars Colonia -- Raya Martin, The Philippines/The Netherlands
• American Colour -- Joshua Bonnetta, USA/ Canada

Wavelengths 2: Twenty Cigarettes

• Twenty Cigarettes -- James Benning, USA

Wavelengths 3: Serial Rhythms

• Found Cuban Mounts -- Adriana Salazar Arroyo, Costa Rica/Germany
• I Will Forget This Day -- Alina Rudnitskaya, Russia
• Sea Series #10 -- John Price, Canada
• Sailboat -- Joyce Wieland, Canada
• Bouquets 11-20 -- Rose Lowder, France
• A Preface to Red -- Jonathan Schwartz, USA
• Resonance -- Karen Johannesen, USA
• Optra Field VII-IX -- T. Marie, USA
• Chevelle -- Kevin Jerome Everson, Canada/USA

Wavelengths 4: Space is the Place

• 349 (for Sol LeWitt) -- Chris Kennedy, Canada
• Black Mirror at the National Gallery -- Mark Lewis, Canada, United Kingdom
• Untitled -- Neïl Beloufa, France
• Space is the Place -- Eriko Sonoda, Japan
• Young Pines -- Ute Aurand, Germany
• Coorow-Latham Road -- Blake Williams, Canada

Wavelengths 5: The Return/Aberration of Light

• The Return -- Nathaniel Dorsky, USA
• Aberration of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure -- Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder and Olivia Block, USA

The 2011 TIFF Season Has Begun

The first important press release of the year was issued back in May, when TIFF announced they will be adding a new venue: the Princess of Wales Theatre at 300 King Street West. TIFF will be "outfitting the Princess of Wales Theatre with a state-of-the-art projection and audio system for both film and digital cinema. We’ll be equipping the venue with the ability to play 35mm, DCP and HDCAM formats." It will be used for red carpet events during the first half of the fest.

But, to me, the TIFF season officially began yesterday yesterday:

Continuing its move southward, TIFF will open a new box office at Metro Hall (225 King Street West) and will no longer hold screenings at the Varsity. (Buy a 40 and pour some out, won't you?) It looks like all of the other venues will be the same as last year, with the Scotiabank again primarily hosting press and industry screenings. I'm glad to see Jackman Hall on the list and am hoping that means Wavelengths will be back there again.


TICKET PACKAGES
There are a few new "please help us fill all those empty seats" ticket packages:

TIFF CHOICE 5-Film Sampler Pack
Selected by TIFF programmers, this new package allows film lovers to experience films from a variety of Festival programmes.

MY CHOICE 20-Film Daytime
Enjoy 20 regular screenings beginning before 5:01 p.m.

Back Half Pack
Festival-goers can save 50 percent off the regular ticket price when they purchase this new 5-ticket pack, valid September 13 through to the end of the Festival.

And it looks like the old student discount has been reclassified for "film lovers 25 and under." Because those filthy-loaded grad students are always working the system.

IMPORTANT DATES

June 20:
TIFF Members can purchase ticket packages using Visa.

July 4:
Visa cardholders can order ticket packages online as of 10 a.m. ET. Visa Screening Room packages on sale.

Beginning July 11:
Ticket packages on sale for Visa, cash and debit purchases as of 10 a.m. ET.

August 23:
Festival Box Office at 225 King St. West opens. The Programme Book, Official Film Schedule and Advance Order Book, for selecting films within My Choice Packs, are available only at the Festival Box Office. The Film Schedule is available online at tiff.net/festival.

Aug 25 to 29:
Single tickets on sale to TIFF Members (based on giving levels).

August 29:
Completed Advance Order Books for My Choice Packs are due by 7 p.m. ET at the Festival Box Office for entry into the Advance Order Draw.

Beginning September 2:
Ticket package pick up and exchange begins.

Beginning September 3:
Single tickets à la carte are available for purchase beginning at 7 a.m. ET from the Festival Box Office, by phone at 416-599-TIFF or 1-888-599-8433, and online at tiff.net/festival (subject to availability).

September 8 to 18:
36th Toronto International Film Festival