SEDUCTION, SCANDAL AND STRANGER THAN FICTION DOCUMENTARIES IN A POWERFUL CANADIAN LINEUP AT TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival® unveils a lineup of Canadian features packed with world premieres ranging from first features from the brave new First Nations voice of Jeff Barnaby and audacious artists Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehman, to Canadian indie icon Bruce McDonald and the always provocative work of Denis Villeneuve, Michael Dowse, Jennifer Baichwal with Edward Burtynsky, Bruce Sweeney, Robert Lepage with Pedro Pires, Peter Stebbings and Ingrid Veninger. North American premieres include the latest from Xavier Dolan, Bruce LaBruce, Richie Mehta and Louise Archambault.

“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Steve Gravestock, Senior Programmer, TIFF. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”

“Canadian films and filmmakers are gaining more and more influence on global audiences each year,” said Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo, Canadian Features Programmer.” The diversity and curiosity of Canada’s filmmakers give them a unique ability to make films with wide ranging appeal and impact.”

The City of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding Canadian filmmakers, with the Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film being presented to the breakout Canadian filmmaker with the most impressive debut feature at the Festival. This year’s esteemed Canadian awards jury is: Liz Czach, author, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta and a former Festival programmer of Canadian film; Laurence Kardish, film historian, author and Senior Curator Emeritus of Film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Martin Katz, prolific feature film producer and founder of Prospero Films; and award-winning director, writer and actor Jacob Tierney.

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Enemy Denis Villeneuve, Canada/Spain World Premiere
Based on The Double by Nobel Laureate José Saramago, this film explores the troubled psyche of a man who is torn between his mistress and his wife. Jake Gyllenhaal gives a brilliant performance as both Adam and Anthony — a man and his double — engaged in a lethal and erotic battle.

The F Word Michael Dowse, Canada/Ireland World Premiere
When Wallace meets Chantry, it could be love at first sight… except she lives with her long-term boyfriend. And so Wallace, acting with both best intentions — and maybe a little denial — discovers the dirtiest word in romance: friends. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver and TIFF Rising Star Megan Park.

Gabrielle Louise Archambault, Canada North American Premiere
Gabrielle is a young woman with Williams syndrome who has a contagious joie de vivre and an exceptional musical gift. Since she met her boyfriend Martin at the recreation centre where they are choir members, they have been inseparable. However, because they are different, their loved ones are fearful of their relationship. As the choir prepares for an important music festival, Gabrielle does everything she can to gain her independence.

The Husband Bruce McDonald, Canada World Premiere
Henry is married, has a son, and a decent job in advertising. Trouble is his wife is in jail for sleeping with a 14-year-old boy. Struggling to keep it together and prepare for her release, an encounter with the boy — his rival — sends Henry on a path of self-destruction. Starring Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, August Diehl, Sarah Allen, Jodi Balfour and Stephen McHattie

Tom At The Farm (Tom à la ferme) Xavier Dolan, Canada/France North American Premiere
Tom, a young advertising copywriter, travels to the country for a funeral. There, he's shocked to find out no one knows who he is, or his relationship to the deceased, whose brother soon sets the rules of a twisted game. In order to protect the family's name and grieving mother, Tom now has to play the peacekeeper in a household whose obscure past bodes even greater darkness for his trip to the farm.

Watermark Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky, Canada World Premiere
Watermark is a feature documentary film that brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it, and the consequences of that use. Shot in stunning 5K ultra high definition video and full of soaring aerial perspectives.

DISCOVERY

All the Wrong Reasons Gia Milani, Canada World Premiere
Loss of one’s identity drives this ensemble film from first-time feature writer/director Gia Milani. Cory Monteith stars as an ambitious department store manager whose wife (Karine Vanasse) copes with a loss as co-worker (Kevin Zegers) battles back from a traumatic injury and cashier (Emily Hampshire) takes advantage of it all.

Rhymes for Young Ghouls Jeff Barnaby, Canada World Premiere
Kids on the Red Crow reservation are doomed. If you can't pay your "truancy tax", that's you up at the residential school, beat up and abused. At 15, Aila is the weed princess of Red Crow. After being thrown into the school’s dungeon, she decides to fight back.

Sarah Prefers To Run (Sarah préfère la course) Chloé Robichaud, Canada Toronto Premiere
Sarah is a gifted runner. Her life changes when she’s offered admission to Quebec’s best university athletics program in Montreal — far from her home. Sarah doesn’t have her mother’s financial support for the move, but she leaves anyway with her friend Antoine. Though barely out of their teens, they get married because they want the best scholarships and loans. Sarah doesn’t want to hurt anyone with the choices she makes, it’s just that she loves running more than anything else.

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA

A Journey (Une Jeune Fille) Catherine Martin, Canada World Premiere
Chantal is a secretive young girl who lives with her sick mother and unemployed father. When her mother dies, she leaves the family home for the Gaspé Peninsula. Bringing with her a photo of a beach where her mother longed to return, Chantal tries to find the place — but her efforts are in vain. After wandering around for days, she runs out of money and finds refuge with Serge, a taciturn farmer, on his small farm in the back country. Serge hires Chantal, and gradually they take to each other, forming a strong bond.

The Animal Project Ingrid Veninger, Canada World Premiere
A story about a father, a son, and six characters dressed in furry suits. An unorthodox acting teacher (Aaron Poole) attempts to push a group of eager young performers out of their comfort zones, while struggling with his own ability to live an authentic and fulfilling life with his teenage son.

Cinemanovels Terry Miles, Canada World Premiere
As a young woman (Lauren Lee Smith) prepares a memorial film retrospective for her late estranged father, his work begins to influence her life in strange and significant ways. Also starring Jennifer Beals and Ben Cotton.

Le Démantèlement Sébastien Pilote, Canada North American Premiere
Gaby owns a lamb farm. He has two daughters that he raised like princesses. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support so she doesn’t end up losing her house. Gaby decides to dismantle the farm.

The Dick Knost Show Bruce Sweeney, Canada World Premiere
The Dick Knost Show is a character-based satire on sports-talk culture. Dick Knost is a star sports talk host. He's prickly, acerbic and chronically impulsive. After dismissing the danger of concussions in hockey, he suffers a series of concussions himself, and faces the danger of losing his job, his friends and his identity.

Empire of Dirt Peter Stebbings, Canada World Premiere
Like many Native families, Lena Mahikan grew up in the cycle of abuse. Her father, a residential school survivor, was an alcoholic until he killed himself when Lena was 10. Her mother, only 14 years her senior, turned to the slots. By the time Lena was 15, she was pregnant and, before giving birth, was kicked to the curb by her mom. The cycle continues and Lena is now watching helplessly as her own daughter, Peeka, spirals out of control, landing herself in the hospital following a drug overdose. As a final attempt at survival, Lena decides to return home and face her own mother and a past she’s desperate to escape.

Siddharth Richie Mehta, Canada North American Premiere
After sending away his 12-year-old son Siddharth for work, Mahendra (a chain-wallah who fixes broken zippers on the streets) is relieved — his financial burdens will be alleviated. But when Siddharth fails to return home, Mahendra learns he may have been taken by child traffickers. With little resources and no connections, he travels across India in pursuit, with the hope that whatever force took his child away will return him unharmed.

Stay Wiebke von Carolsfeld, Canada/Ireland World Premiere
Stay is about people at a crossroads, struggling to find a home. Abbey finds herself in love with Dermot, a disgraced professor who retreated to the rugged expanse of Connemara. Their happy existence is upended when Abbey finds out that she is pregnant and Dermot refuses to consider fatherhood.

VANGUARD

Asphalt Watches Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehman, Canada World Premiere
Asphalt Watches is a true story. It is a feature-length animation based on a real-life hitchhiking trip taken by the two directors, Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver in the year 2000. The film details the hilarious and amazing journey of Bucktooth Cloud and Skeleton Hat as they travel eastward across Canada.

Gerontophilia Bruce LaBruce, Canada North American Premiere
The always provocative Bruce LaBruce is back with a new romantic comedy (of sorts).18-year-old Lake has a sweet activist girlfriend, but one day discovers he has an unusual attraction for the elderly. Fate conspires to land him a summer job at a nursing home where he develops a tender relationship with Mr. Peabody. Discovering that the patients are being over-medicated to make them easier to manage, Lake decides to wean him off his medication and help him escape, resulting in a humorous and heartfelt road trip that strengthens their bond.

MASTERS

Triptych (Triptyque) Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires, Canada World Premiere
Triptych is a contemporary urban saga that tells the story of Michelle, a schizophrenic bookseller; Marie, a singer and actress; and Thomas, a German neurologist. These three lives become the primary locus of personal identity and emotion, with their many manifestations, variations, and implications, through each character’s inner development and burning desire for self-expression.

Canadian films previously announced in the TIFF Docs programme include: Jody Shapiro’s Burt’s Buzz, Barry Avrich’s Filthy Gorgeous: The Extraordinary World of Bob Guccione, Alanis Obomsawin’s Hi-Ho Mistahey! and Allan Zweig’s When Jews Were Funny.

Previously announced Canadian features in the Gala programme include Jonathan Sobol’s The Art of the Steal, Don McKellar’s The Grand Seduction and Jeremiah Chechik’s The Right Kind of Wrong.

Derek Lee and Clif Prowse’s Afflicted was previously announced in the Midnight Madness programme.

The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5 to 15, 2013.

The Festival offers the TIFF Choice 5-screening Canadian Pack including features and shorts ($79 for adults, $62 for students and seniors). Purchase Festival ticket packages online 24 hours a day at tiff.net/festival, by phone from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET daily at 416.599.TIFF or 1.888.599.8433, or visit the box office in person from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET daily at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West, until August 19.

About TIFF
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Berlin, Montréal, 12 August 2013. Canadian distributor Mongrel Media is pleased to announce that principal photography for Wim Wenders’ new film EVERY THING WILL BE FINE will start on August 13, 2013, in Montréal. The Oscar©-nominated director is making his film in 3D once again, following the worldwide success of his groundbreaking film PINA.

 Gian-Piero Ringel (Oscar© nomination for PINA) will again be the producer in his and Wenders' company, Neue Road Movies. The film stars James Franco (OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL; SPRING BREAKERS), Charlotte Gainsbourg (I’M NOT THERE; MELANCHOLIA) and Marie-Josée Croze (THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS; THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY). Benoît Debie (IRREVERSIBLE; ENTER THE VOID), who is particularly well known for his cooperation with Gaspar Noé, will be behind the camera.

EVERY THING WILL BE FINE, based on an original script by the Norwegian Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, tells the story of Tomas (James Franco), a writer who loses control of his life after a car accident. Even though he is not directly at fault, his relationship with his girlfriend breaks down because of this event and his life and work suddenly set off in a completely new direction. The film follows Tomas over a period of 12 years and tells an intimate story of guilt and the search for forgiveness.

Wim Wenders, who pioneered a new form of three-dimensional storytelling with his work on PINA, has continued to push for new possibilities of expression in 3D since then. Wenders says: “EVERY THING WILL BE FINE is an intimate drama that tells the story of a man who sees the world through different eyes after suffering a traumatic shock. He has to learn to accept what he can no longer change. We are entering new narrative territory with this project. I am convinced that the medium of 3D will be able to open up an entirely new dimension of emotional closeness to our story and its protagonists.”

EVERY THING WILL BE FINE is a production from Neue Road Movies in coproduction with Montauk Productions (Canada), Göta Film (Sweden), MER Film (Norway) and ZDF/ARTE, funded by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Eurimages, Filmförderungsanstalt, Deutscher Filmförderfonds and the German Federal Government Representative for Cultural and Media Affairs. HanWay Films in London is the world distributor. Filming starts on 13 August on location in Montréal and will continue after a break in winter 2014. EVERY THING WILL BE FINE will be released in 2014 in Germany by Warner Bros. Pictures Germany and in Canada by Mongrel Media.

ADDITIONAL GALAS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS, INCLUDING 12 WORLD PREMIERES,ANNOUNCED AS PART OF FESTIVAL LINEUP
Featuring new films by Sean Durkin, James Franco, Patrice Leconte, Hayao Miyazaki, Fred Schepisi, Kevin Macdonald and Johnnie To

TORONTO – The Toronto International Film Festival® has announced the addition of 3 Galas and 19 Special Presentations to the 2013 Festival programme, including a further 12 World Premieres. Representing countries from around the world, the Gala and Special Presentations programmes offer a lineup of diverse titles and genres.

Toronto audiences will be among the first to screen films by directors Fred Schepisi, Alberto Arvelo, Reha Erdem, Dexter Fletcher, Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, Megan Griffiths, Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu, Kevin Macdonald, Arie Posin, Charlie Stratton, Nils Tavernier and John Turturro.

The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5 to 15, 2013.

GALAS

Blood Ties Guillaume Canet, France/USA North American Premiere
New York, 1974. 50-year-old Chris has just been released on good behavior after spending several years in prison. Waiting for him reluctantly outside the prison gates is his younger brother, Frank, a cop with a bright future. Chris and Frank have always been different, yet blood ties are the ones that bind. Starring Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, Matthias Schoenaerts and James Caan.

Bright Days Ahead (Les Beaux jours) Marion Vernoux, France North American Premiere
César–winning French cinema icon Fanny Ardant stars in this sophisticated and sexy drama about a married woman in her 60s tumbling into an affair with a much younger man.

Words and Pictures Fred Schepisi, USA World Premiere
A writer (Clive Owen) whose talent has dried up and an artist (Juliette Binoche) struggling to paint, clash at the school where they teach, sparking both an unlikely romance and a school-wide war: which is more powerful, the word or the picture?

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

A Promise (Une Promesse) Patrice Leconte, Belgium/France North American Premiere
Germany, 1912. A youth of humble origins takes up a clerical post in a steel factory. Impressed by his work, the elderly owner takes him on as his private secretary and sets him up in his home. While there, the young man meets the owner’s beautiful and reserved wife — and falls helplessly in love with her, unbeknownst to the couple. But just as his employer announces that he is sending him to oversee his mines in Mexico, the wife makes him a startling promise. Starring Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman and Richard Madden.

The Armstrong Lie Alex Gibney, USA North American Premiere
In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong’s comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong’s confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong says himself, “I didn’t live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.”

Blind Detective Johnnie To, Hong Kong North American Premiere
Forced to leave service after he was afflicted with blindness, a former detective ekes out his living by solving cold cases for police rewards. When an attractive, young hit-team inspector enlists his help in a personal case, he decides to take a stab at it with his own personal agenda. Starring Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng.

Child of God James Franco, USA North American Premiere
Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee in the 1960s, Child of God tells the story of Lester Ballard, a dispossessed, violent man whom the narrator describes as “a child of God much like yourself perhaps.”Ballard's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Deprived of both his parents and a home, and with few other ties, Ballard descends to the level of a cave dweller, falling deeper into crime and degradation. Starring James Franco, Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson and Jim Parrack.

The Face of Love Arie Posin, USA World Premiere
Five years after losing the love of her life, Nikki falls in love again — at first sight. The object of her affection is Tom, an art teacher with a kind heart and a great zest for life, and also a near perfect double for Nikki's deceased husband. Seduced by the chance to live as if her husband was never lost, Nikki spirals into a fantasy of the present as past, while Tom must unravel the mystery behind her immediate and unconditional love. Starring Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams and Amy Brenneman.

Fading Gigolo John Turturro, USA World Premiere
Fioravante, at his friend Murray’s suggestion, enters into the world’s oldest profession, and ends up finding something he didn’t know he was looking for. Starring John Turturro, Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Liev Schreiber, Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara.

The Finishers Nils Tavernier, Belgium/France World Premiere
Julien, 17, is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy. Despite their love for him, his family is gradually falling apart under the strain of dealing with his disability. In a bid to bond with his father, Julien challenges him to participate with him in the Ironman race in Nice (French Riviera), a triathlon in which his father has previously competed. Starring Jacques Gamblin, Alexandra Lamy and Fabien Héraud.

How I Live Now Kevin Macdonald, United Kingdom World Premiere
Daisy, a teenaged New Yorker, is sent to England one summer to stay with cousins she has never met. Initially resentful, she soon finds herself living in a dreamy, pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love. But this perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a war. The family is separated and Daisy is forced to embark on a terrifying journey to be reunited with the boy she loves. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland and George MacKay.

The Last of Robin Hood Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, USA World Premiere
Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies’man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with underage starlet Beverly Aadland. The two had a high-flying affair that spanned the globe and was enabled by the girl’s fame-obsessed mother, Florence. It all came crashing to an end in October 1959 when events forced the relationship into the open, creating an avalanche of publicity castigating Beverly and her mother. The Last of Robin Hood is a story about the desire for fame and the price it exacts. Starring Dakota Fanning, Susan Sarandon and Kevin Kline.

The Liberator (Libertador) Alberto Arvelo, Venezuela/Spain World Premiere
The film is an epic adventure based on the incredible life of Simón Bolívar, the 19th-century revolutionary who fueled Latin America’s struggle for independence. Bolívar’s quests and military campaigns covered twice the territory of Alexander the Great. Golden Globe nominee Édgar Ramírez brings to life one of the most influential freedom fighters in history. Also starring María Valverde, Danny Huston, Erich Wildpret, Juana Acosta and Imanol Arias.

Love is the Perfect Crime (Amour Crime Parfait) Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu, France/Switzerland World Premiere
Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge, isolated chalet that they inherited when they were very young — he carries on one love affair after another with his students. Winter has almost ended when one of his most brilliant students, Barbara, suddenly disappears. Two days later, Marc meets Barbara’s mother, Anna, who wants to find out more about her vanished daughter. Starring Mathieu Amalric, Karin Viard, Maïwenn, Sara Forestier and Denis Podalydès.

Lucky Them Megan Griffiths, USA World Premiere
Lucky Them tells the story of Ellie Klug (Toni Collette), a rock journalist who is tasked with the painful assignment of exploring her own past. Joined by eccentric would-be documentarian Charlie (Thomas Haden Church), Ellie sets out on an emotional treasure hunt in order to finally rid herself of her "ghosts" and get on with her life. Also starring Ryan Eggold, Oliver Platt, Nina Arianda and Ahna O'Reilly.

Rock the Casbah Laïla Marrakchi, France/Morocco International Premiere
A bittersweet comedy that plays out around a family coming to terms with grief, disclosures, secrets and reckoning, Rock the Casbah follows one family during the three days of mourning called for by Moroccan custom, as they reunite in their deceased patriarch’s villa. When youngest daughter, Sofia, arrives unexpectedly, sparks start to fly. She left for America — against her father’s wishes — to become a successful actress, but she only ever landed roles in TV series playing terrorists. Secrets come out, throwing the order once maintained by their patriarch into turmoil. Starring Omar Sharif, Hiam Abbass, Nadine Labaki, Lubna Azabal and Morjana Alaoui.

Singing Women (Sarki Söyleyen Kadinlar) Reha Erdem, France/Germany/Turkey World Premiere
An unlikely group of distressed women struggle with their tribulations, but are united by extraordinary reserves of energy, courage, hope and faith. As the women transform their tragedy into songs of rebellion and life, they also infect the frustrated, never-grown-up child Adem with the joys of being human. The film follows the group throughout their inspiring journeys into different dimensions of existence. Starring Binnur Kaya, Philip Arditti, Kevork Malikyan and Aylin Aslım.

Southcliffe Sean Durkin, United Kingdom International Premiere
A sudden inexplicable spate of shootings rips through the market town of Southcliffe. The lives of those left behind are torn apart. In this haunting drama a journalist reporting on the tragedy finds himself back in the small town he grew up in, looking for answers from the shattered community whilst trying to reconcile the dark events from his own past. Starring Rory Kinnear, Sean Harris, Shirley Henderson, Anatol Yusef and Eddie Marsan.

Sunshine on Leith Dexter Fletcher, United Kingdom World Premiere
The sophomore feature from British actor-turned-director Dexter Fletcher (Wild Bill) stars Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur) and Jane Horrocks (Little Voice) in a vibrant cinematic adaptation of the acclaimed stage musical, inspired by the chart-topping album from Scottish band The Proclaimers. Also starring George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Antonia Thomas, Freya Mavor and Paul Brannigan.

Therese Charlie Stratton, USA World Premiere
Set in the lower depths of 1860s Paris, Therese is a tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge, based on Émile Zola’s scandalous novel. Trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Therese embarks on an illicit affair with her husband's childhood friend that leads to tragic consequences. Starring Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Felton, Jessica Lange and Oscar Isaac.

Unforgiven (Yurusarezarumono) Lee Sang-il, Japan North American Premiere
Lee Sang-il’s visionary remake of Clint Eastwood’s iconic Academy Award–winning film transposes the classic Western to Meiji-period Japan. The Tokugawa shogunate has just collapsed and the Ainu aborigines strive to settle the land alongside the newly established government. Jubei Kamata is a relic of the Tokugawa shogunate, and during that time his name alone terrorized the whole of Kyoto as he killed countless loyalists in the name of the Shogun. After the fall, he vanished from sight. More than 10 years later, Jubei has fathered children with an Ainu woman and lives in a secluded hamlet, barely making a living. His wife — who succeeded in transforming him from a man who kills — had died, leaving him to a quiet life raising his children and tending her grave. However, poverty leads Jubei to abandon his resolve and once again turn to a life of violence. Starring Akira Emoto, Koichi Sato and Ken Watanabe.

The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) Hayao Miyazaki, Japan North American Premiere
Hayao Miyazaki brings together aircraft engineer Jiro Horikoshi and author Tatsuo Hori, to create Jiro — a fictional character at the centre of this tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world. Featuring the voices of Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masahiko Nishimura, Jun Kunimura, Shinobu Otake and Mansai Nomura.

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WAVELENGTHS PUSHES CINEMATIC BOUNDARIES WITH DARING AUTEURS AND ARTISTS AT THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Including films by Ben Wheatley, Albert Serra, Kenneth Anger, David Rimmer, Lucy Raven, Tsai Ming-liang, Wang Bing, Helga Fanderl, Mati Diop, Robert Beavers, Miguel Gomes, Peter Hutton, Raya Martin and Mark Peranson, Jean-Marie Straub and more

TORONTO – For cinephiles, art-lovers and adventurous audiences, the Toronto International Film Festival’s Wavelengths programmecurates a bold and exciting collection of 46 works of varying length that expand the notions of cinema. The programme includes innovation in narrative and documentary filmmaking in addition to its four core experimental shorts programmes,which highlight the best in artist-made film and video from around the world. Bringing together celebrated auteurs like Albert Serra, Ben Wheatley, Cristi Puiu, Tsai-Ming liang and João Pedro Rodrigues, local talents Stephen Broomer and Chris Kennedy, and internationally renowned artists such as Nina Könnemann, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, and Kenneth Anger into one space, this lineup represents a diverse and dynamic range of visual expression.

“Following the success of last year’s expansion,Wavelengths continues its commitment to excellence in auteurist, experimental and artist-driven cinema,” said Andréa Picard, Wavelengths lead curator. “With a diverse programme that includes emerging and established artists alongside some of today’s most influential filmmakers, Wavelengths celebrates the art of cinema and participates in a rich international dialogue about the moving image.”

This year’s highlights include the world premiere of the Academy Film Archive’s restoration of David Rimmer’s classic of the Canadian avant-garde, Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper; the North American premieres of Catalan iconoclast Albert Serra’s Story of My Death, Rithy Panh’s A Missing Picture, winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and the latest film by Harvard’s innovative Sensory Ethnography Lab, MANAKAMANA by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez; the world premieres of Raya Martin and Mark Peranson’s anticipated La ultíma película, and new films by avant-garde masters Peter Hutton, Nathaniel Dorsky and Robert Beavers; Ramon Zürcher’s astonishing feature debut The Strange Little Cat; award-winning works A Thousand Suns by Mati Diop and Nefandus by Carlos Motta, as well as Akram Zaatari’s Venice Biennial commission, Letter to a Refusing Pilot.

SHORT FILM PROGRAMMES

Wavelengths 1: Variations On...
Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper David Rimmer (Restoration courtesy of Academy Film Archive), Canada
Pop Takes Luther Price,USA
Airship Kenneth Anger, USA
El Adios Largos Andrew Lampert,Mexico/USA
The Realist Scott Stark,USA

TIFF is honoured to launch Wavelengths 2013 with the world premiere of the Academy Film Archive’s new restoration of Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper, David Rimmer’s 1970 classic of the Canadian avant-garde. Opening with a fragment of a female factory worker as she unravels a sheet of cellophane, which then morphs into a mesmerizing wave of spectral apparitions and alchemical and sonic permutations, Variations perfectly sets the tone for this program of cinematic deviations. With Pop Takes, Luther Price transforms a terrific thrift-store find into a reflexive Warholian catwalk upon which twirling women and jaunty men sashay with decadent, late-’70s zeal, the film’s coarse optical sound and images in negative creating a strange dissonance with the poppy polka-dotted scene. Kenneth Anger’s Airship series consists of three short films, which exhume newsreel footage of mighty dirigibles hovering ominously in the sky. The filmmaker’s characteristic fusion of magic, symbolism, mystery and myth imbues the already incredible footage with an eerie, supernatural quality.

In El Adios Largos, artist-archivist Andrew Lampert undertakes a speculative restoration of Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye based on the premise that the film’s negative has been lost and the sole surviving print is incorrect in every way: 16mm rather than 35mm, black and white instead of Technicolor, and dubbed into Spanish (N.B. proper prints and a negative do exist, just not in Lampert’s possession!).With dubious methods used to achieve authenticity, El Adios Largos is at once an uncanny aesthetic experience and a playful exploration of the philosophical conundrums involved for those working to preserve film history for generations to come.

Finally, Scott Stark leads us through a dizzying array of consumer goods in his stereoscopic mannequin melodrama The Realist. Composed of flickering still images, this entrancing romp conjures retail worlds both familiar and strange, in which chiseled mannequins may in fact be communing with each other amid the overwhelming array of apparel. Whether viewed as consumerist critique or spellbinding, operatic fantasy, The Realist employs a deft binary structure that skews toward the metaphysical.

Wavelengths 2: Now & Then
Instants Hannes Schüpbach, Switzerland
Pepper’s Ghost Stephen Broomer, Canada
Man in Motion, 2012 (Homme en mouvement, 2012) Christophe M. Saber, Ruben Glauser and Max Idje, Switzerland
Flower Naoko Tasaka, Japan/USA
Constellations (Konstellationen) Helga Fanderl,Germany

Proposing simplicity as a radical antidote to today’s fervent desire for intricacy, these films and videos draw upon either a collaborative process or an intimate subjective encounter to explore the correspondence between images and their perception. Exquisitely shot on 16mm in the French countryside near Avignon, Hannes Schüpbach’s Instants explores the nature of spontaneous time as related to the thinking of French writer Joël-Claude Meffre, transcending portraiture as it not only records the poet working, but also develops a memory of its own. Pepper’s Ghost, by Torontonian Stephen Broomer, transforms an office formerly used for observation studies into a tunnel of performative, transfixing illusionism, creating surprising images using filters, fabric and a combination of sunlight and fluorescents. Recalling Slidelength (1969–71), Michael Snow’s slideshow of plastic gels and hand gestures, Pepper’s Ghost is a prolonged expression of demystified mystification, whose startling results are bolstered by a bold soundtrack. A contemporary version of Muybridgean motion studies meets Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase in Ruben Glauser, Max Idje and Christophe M. Saber’s Man in Motion, 2012. Constructed from the delays in real-time video feedback and recorded onto black-and-white 16mm, the film forms a multiple space via the shifting angles of view in the mysterious passages of a video eye.

Naoko Tasaka’s sphinx-like Flower unfolds like a children’s story before it plumbs the depths of both a physical and metaphorical surface, as straightforward narration gives way to sublimated abstraction. Employing a number of multi-format techniques, Flower displays a compelling, duelling impulse that hovers between a grid and a waterfall. Constellations, a recent grouping of 16mm colour silent blow-ups by Super 8 artist Helga Fanderl, returns the viewer to the natural world, whose beauty has been observed and rendered with a profound curiosity, a patient gaze and an extraordinary ability to capture visual patterns and textures. Whether following at close range the semi-circular motion of a handsome, pacing leopard, its spots evoking rhythmic patterns through Fanderl’s intuitive shooting process, or closely studying a tray of glassware on a ship as the sea reflects and refracts through their crystalline shapes, the artist fully gives herself over to the present moment and allows the audience to bask in it.

Wavelengths 3: Farther Than the Eye Can See
Farther Than the Eye Can See Basma Alsharif, United Arab Emirates
Main Hall Philipp Fleischmann, Austria
45 7 Broadway Tomonari Nishikawa, USA
Bann Nina Könnemann, Germany
Dry Standpipe (Suchy Pion) Wojciech Bakowski, Poland
Gowanus Canal Sarah J. Christman, USA
Nefandus Carlos Motta, USA/Spain

A sense of geographic, spatial and historical freefall attends this programme of works that takes its title from Basma Alsharif’s eponymous video. Visually gripping and intelligently constructed, Farther Than the Eye Can See continues Alsharif’s essayistic explorations of statelessness through a tale of a mass exodus of Palestinians from Jerusalem recounted over a dense, stroboscopic cityscape. A different stroboscopic effect is achieved in Philipp Fleischmann’s Main Hall, which uses 19 specially designed cameras to record the space inside the main exhibition hall of the Vienna Secession. While this bastion of modernity has been crucial to the development of Minimalism and Conceptual Art, film has eluded its mandate; Main Hall adds a purely cinematographic gesture (à la Gordon Matta-Clark) to the space’s history by having it look at its own architecture.

Overlapping light and space continue in Tomonari Nishikawa’s 45 7 Broadway, which captures the paralyzing pace and conflicting rhythms of Times Square. Shot on black-and-white 16mm through red, green and blue filters, then optically printed onto colour film through these same filters, 45 7 Broadway is less jazzy than Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie but equally eye-popping in its colour and illusionistic effect. With a focus on a decidedly less populated though equally uncanny urbanscape, in Bann Nina Könnemann clandestinely observes the increasingly ostracized smokers in London’s financial district, her keen eye and mischievous editing creating a portrait of alienation, self-consciousness, and perhaps even shame.

A raw, personal, confessional narration undercuts the abstract images in Polish artist, musician and poet Wojciech Bakowski’s interlaced video collage Dry Standpipe. Condensing home videos into blocks of abstraction, Bakowski creates a startling account of depression, numbness and paradoxical lucidity. Sarah J. Christman continues her 16mm ecological explorations with Gowanus Canal, in which contamination and compression of refuse intimate a stultifying state for one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States. In Carlos Motta’s award-winning Nefandus, a pristine flowing river in the Colombian Caribbean suppresses a tainted history of “wild” beauty and colonialist religious and sexual subjugation. An evocative essay on pre-conquest homoeroticism, Nefandus searches for traces of untold stories and stigmatized historical accounts.

Wavelengths 4: Elysium
Trissákia 3 Nick Collins, UK
Brimstone Line Chris Kennedy, Canada
Listening to the Space in my Room Robert Beavers, Switzerland
Mount Song Shambhavi Kaul, USA/India
Natpwe, the feast of the spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel, France/Burma

Beginning with the ruins of a Greek Byzantine church and ending with trance rituals in Burma, this programme sketches a trajectory of shifting perspectives and iconographic references, from the cloistered and intimate to the expansive and unrestrained. Nick Collins’ Trissákia 3 documents the eponymous c. 13th-century Greek church, its cracked though surprisingly intact frescoes, its crumbling stones and the dubious scaffolding that encases it, his camera revelling in the supernal beauty created by the light and shadow play resulting from its damaged openings. Delineated views similarly make up Chris Kennedy’s Brimstone Line, in which three freestanding grids placed along the Credit River in rural Ontario (reminiscent of the Dürer Grid used by Renaissance draughtsmen in order to achieve accurate proportions) become devices through which the stationary camera frames the landscape and motivates a series of zooms.

Ostensibly a portrait of a place where the artist had resided until recently, the new film by Robert Beavers conjures not only the memory but also the physical presence of those who have previously stayed there. Adhering to a solitary intimacy while simultaneously acting as an ode to human endeavour and shared impulses toward fulfillment through art, Listening to the Space in my Room is a moving testament to existence (whose traces are found in literature, music, filmmaking, gardening) and our endless search for meaning and authenticity. The film’s precise, yet enigmatic sound-image construction carries a rare emotional weight.

A strange yet familiar sense of place dominates Shambhavi Kaul’s deceptively disorienting and visually entrancing Mount Song. As a wild, foreboding gust courses through the night, a subdued elegance is brought forth from past cinema spectacles, whose generic, albeit highly suggestive set constructions remain lodged in the imaginary. In Natpwe, the feast of the spirits, co-directors Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel have produced an immersive, seemingly timeless document of an annual Burmese trance ritual that dates back to the 11th century. Shot in Super 8 and 16mm in sooty black and white, the film conveys the astonishing sense of liberation of tens of thousands of bodies and minds — a mass expression of faith, but also a rapturous respite from societal intolerance.

MEDIUM LENGTH FILMS

Un conte de Michel de Montaigne and The King’s Body and Redemption
Un conte de Michel de Montaigne Jean-Marie Straub North American Premiere
“How easily we pass from waking to sleeping! With how little interest we lose the knowledge of light and of ourselves! Peradventure, it could seem useless and against nature, the faculty of sleep which deprives us of all action and of all feeling, were it not that through this nature does instruct us that she hath equally made us to die as to live, and, from life, presents us the eternal state which she reserveth for us after it to accustom us the reunto and remove from us the fear of it.”
The King’s Body (O Corpo de Afonso) Jõao Pedro Rodrigues North American Premiere
How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout Portuguese history?
Redemption Miguel Gomes North American Premiere
1975, a village in Portugal: a child writes to his parents. 2011, Milan: an old man remembers his first love. 2012, Paris: a man talks to his baby daughter. 1977, Leipzig: a woman is getting married. Where and when have these four poor devils begun searching for redemption?

A Thousand Suns and Letter to a Refusing Pilot
A Thousand Suns (Mille soleils) Mati Diop International Premiere
Djibril Diop Mambety filmed Touki Bouki in 1972. Mory and Anta are in love. The two young lovers share the same dream of leaving Dakar to go to Paris, but when the time comes, Anta heads off andMory stays on the quays, alone and incapable of facing the demands of his land. Forty years later, A Thousand Suns (Mille Soleils) investigates the personal and universal heritage of Touki Bouki. What has happened since then? The hero in the film, Magaye Niang, has never left Dakar, and now, the old cowboy wonders what happened to Anta, the love of his youth. Family stories, exile and cinema blend in intimate and mythical spheres.
Letter to a Refusing Pilot Akram Zaatari North American Premiere
In the summer of 1982, a rumour made the rounds about an Israeli fighter pilot who had been ordered to bomb a target in Lebanon. Knowing the building was a school, he veered off course and dropped his bombs into the sea instead. Letter to a Refusing Pilot is a film that tells the story of a public school and the public housing project that surrounds it in Saida, and reflects on refusal as a decisive and generative act. The work considers the excavation of narratives and the circulation of images in times of war.

Three Landscapes preceded by Song and Spring
Song Nathaniel Dorsky Canadian Premiere
“Song was photographed in San Francisco from early October through the winter solstice in late December, 2012.” –N.D.
Spring Nathaniel Dorsky World Premiere
“Spring was photographed during the months following the winter solstice. I wanted to see if I could make a film that was in itself a garden, a film that, like the world of plants, would yearn and stretch in the oncoming light.” –N.D.
Three Landscapes Peter Hutton World Premiere
A silent film study of human figures on three distinct landscapes in the world. Detroit, Michigan, the Hudson River Valley, and the Dallol Depression in northeastern Ethiopia.

FEATURES

A Field in England Ben Wheatley, United Kingdom North American Premiere
A psychedelic trip into magic and madness from Ben Wheatley, award-winning director of Down Terrace, Kill List and Sightseers.

A Spell to Ward off the Darkness Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, Estonia/France North American Premiere
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness follows a single character at three disparate moments in his life: as one member of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland, and as the singer of a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway.

I’m the same, I’m an other Caroline Strubbe, Belgium World Premiere
A man in his 30s is on the run with a nine-year-old girl. As they take a ferry to the United Kingdom, traces of a common past come to light — a past filled with loss and sorrow. Fleeing in secret, they end up hiding in a small apartment on the seafront, where they live day-to-day, exploring each other’s emotional territories. Mourning will bind them, but is this alliance of dependence appropriate for them and for the outside world?

La ultíma película Raya Martin and Mark Peranson, Canada/Denmark/Mexico/Philippines World Premiere
A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes.
Preceded by
RP31 Lucy Raven, USA Canadian Premiere
RP31 is an animation made from 31 film projection test patterns and calibration charts. Used in the motion picture industry to test for focus, aperture, field steadiness and framing, these patterns are images you're not supposed to see, which are made to make you see better.

MANAKAMANA Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, USA/Nepal North American Premiere
MANAKAMANA portrays pilgrims as they travel in state-of-the-art cable cars high above a Nepali jungle to the temple of the wishfulfilling goddess. Shot entirely inside airborne gondolas, this new work from the Sensory Ethnography Lab is a portrait of spiritual experience against a backdrop of rapid modernization. It extends the ambitions of transcendental cinema beyond the limits of fiction, documenting connections between the sacred and the profane in daily life.

Pays Barbare Yvervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, France North American Premiere
“A film necessary for us at this time, about fascism and colonialism... With our 'Analytical Camera”we returned to rummage in private and anonymous archives of Ethiopia over the film frames of the Italian colonial period (1935-1936). The Colonial eroticism. The naked body of women and the 'body' of the film. Images of the Duce in Africa. Body frames of Mussolini and the 'mass' 1945, after the Liberation.” – Yvervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi

Story of My Death Albert Serra, Spain/France North American Premiere
Loosely based on the autobiography of Casanova, the film depicts the journeys of the famous libertine from the joyful, sensual and rationalistic 18th century Europe to his last days where violence, sex and dark romanticism reigned.

Stray Dogs (Jiao You) Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan/France North American Premiere
A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets and malls surviving off free food samples. Each night the family takes shelter in an abandoned building. The father is strangely affected by a hypnotic mural adorning the wall of this makeshift home. On the day of the father's birthday the family is joined by a woman — might she be the key to unlocking the buried emotions that linger from the past?

The Battle of Tabatô Joao Viana, Portugal/Guinea-Bissau North American Premiere
After 30 years of exile, Baio is returning to Guinea-Bissau. His daughter Fatu is getting married to Idrissa, a famous African musician. The ceremony will take place in Tabatô, a village of griots and musicians.
Preceded by
The Disquiet, Ali Cherri World Premiere
Lebanon is a country whose geographical location on several fault lines has resulted in a number of violent earthquakes. Through an analytical approach to the seismic situation of the country, The Disquiet observes the catastrophe in the making. What if the threat of an imminent catastrophe was far more internal than ever suspected?

The Missing Picture (L’image manquante) Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France North American Premiere
“For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled over Cambodia... On its own, of course, an image cannot prove mass murder, but it gives us cause for thought, prompts us to meditate, to record history. I searched for it vainly in the archives, in old papers, in the country villages of Cambodia. Today I know: this image must be missing. I was not really looking for it; would it not be obscene and insignificant? So I created it. What I give you today is neither the picture nor the search for a unique image, but the picture of a quest: the quest that cinema allows.” – Rithy Panh

The Police Officer’s Wife Philip Gröning, Germany North American Premiere
A simple film. A man, a woman, a child. A small town. The square apartment. Perfect Sundays. The story of a young family. The ceaseless labour of love out of which emerges what is later called the soul of a person. Creating the cradle of love that nurtures the child’s evolving soul. Affection and distance. The father’s career at the local police department. And the mother solely devoted to caring for the child. The violence between husband and wife. We watch as this woman sinks. And how she does everything she can to save this child’s soul, to keep it intact, to let it grow. To teach the child love. The Police Officer’s Wife is a film about the virtue of love, the virtue of curiosity, the virtue of joy. And about the dark within us.

The Strange Little Cat Ramon Zürcher, Germany Canadian Premiere
A family get-together in a Berlin flat: preparations, conversations in the kitchen, an evening meal. Deliberately eschewing the larger picture, the film creates a wondrous world and assembles seemingly unspectacular details and snippets into an exciting choreography of the everyday.

‘Til Madness Do Us Apart Wang Bing, France/Hong Kong/Japan North American Premiere
Fifty men live in an isolated asylum for 12 months. They spend their days locked on one floor, with little contact even with the medical team. Each has been committed for a different reason. They have mental problems, killed people, or have upset some local officials. But once inside, they share the same empty life, walking along the same iron fence courtyard, looking for human warmth among their fellow sufferers.

Three Interpretation Exercises (Trois Exercises d’Interprétation) Cristi Puiu, Romania/France North American Premiere
Three films based on Three Conversations by Russian writer and philosopher Vladimir Solovyov. The actors' 'exercises' developed into a minimalistic trilogy on cinema and literature, social and spiritual life. The trilogy is the result of a workshop of famous Romanian director Cristi Puiu at the French artists’ studio Chantiers Nomades.

The Wavelengths Package is now on sale and includes 7 screenings (4 shorts programmes and 3 features) for $90, or $79 for students and seniors. Purchase Festival ticket packages online 24 hours a day at tiff.net/festival, by phone from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET daily at 416.599.TIFF or 1.888.599.8433, or visit the box office in person from10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET daily at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West, until August 19.

About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation andRBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.

TIFF KIDS PROGRAMME SATISFIES CINEPHILES OF ALL AGES AT THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival® presents an international selection of remarkable family-friendly cinema in the TIFF Kids® programme. This lineup represents a diverse range of cultural perspectives for both young and young-at-heart Festivalgoers with fantastical tales of courage, camaraderie, love and acceptance. With wonderfully vibrant visuals and skilfully woven fantasy, this year’s selection of extraordinary storytelling will inspire and entertain cinephiles from ages eight through 88.

Amazonia Thierry Ragobert, France/Brazil North American Premiere
Amazonia is a 3D odyssey into the world’s biggest rainforest. After a plane crash, Saï, a capuchin monkey born and raised in captivity, finds himself alone and lost in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle. Facing a new world in which dense vegetation covers everything, Saï has to find his way and survive the traps nature has laid out.

Antboy Ask Hasselbalch, Denmark World Premiere
Twelve-year-old Pelle accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers. With help from his friend, comic book nerd Wilhelm, Pelle creates a secret identity as the superhero Antboy and becomes a local crime fighter. When a supervillain, The Flea, enters the scene, Antboy must step up to the challenge.

KHUMBA Anthony Silverston, South Africa North American Premiere
Rejected by his superstitious herd, a half-striped zebra embarks on a daring quest to earn his stripes; but when he discovers a tyrannical leopard on his trail, he must find the courage and self-acceptance to save all the animals of the Great Karoo.

The World of Goopi and Bagha Shilpa Ranade, India World Premiere
Goopi and Bagha are two wise fools; one loves to sing and the other to play the drum. Despite their acute ineptness, their passion for music knows no bounds. When the villagers cannot bear to listen to them anymore, both are banished to the same forest. Here, Goopi and Bagha encounter each other and their fates become entwined for life. A strong and immediate bond is forged by these two hapless souls in search of connoisseurs of their musical craft.

Zip and Zap and the Marble Gang Oskar Santos, Spain World Premiere
Naughty twins Zip and Zap are punished and sent to summer school at Hope, a strict re-education centre run by the eye-patched Headmaster Falconetti, who rules with a heavy hand and forbids all forms of recreation and entertainment. They form the Marble Gang, the children’s Resistance, in order to defy the evil headmaster. Guided by intelligence, bravery and unbreakable faith in friendship, they uncover a mysterious secret hidden deep within the school and end up having the most exciting adventure of their lives.

All films are rated and children’s special pricing applies. Purchase Festival ticket packages online 24 hours a day at tiff.net/festival, by phone from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET daily at 416.599.TIFF or 1.888.599.8433, or visit the box office in person from10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET daily at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West, until August 19.

About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation andRBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.

FIFTH ANNUAL DOC CONFERENCE AT TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL EXPLORES NEW CREATIVE AND BUSINESS TRENDS
Guests include Alex Gibney, Gary Hustwit, Liesl Copland, Peter Broderick and Andrew Jarecki

TORONTO – The 38th Toronto International Film Festival® and TIFF Industry today announced the first details of the fifth annual TIFF Doc Conference, an intensive showcase of thought leaders on the creative and business sides of documentary filmmaking. The Conference, comprising panels, case studies, keynotes and end-of-day networking receptions, takes place September 10 and 11. This year’s event features filmmakers including Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney (The Armstrong Lie), Gary Hustwit (Helvetica) and Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans); and key industry players such as Liesl Copland (WME), Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting) and Nusrat Durrani (MTV World).

“This is the Doc Conference’s most robust lineup in five years, and amplifies its reputation for major announcements and headline-grabbing presentations,” said Thom Powers, lead documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival. “We curate a roomful of visionary thinkers — spanning creativity, financing and distribution — that shouldn't be missed by anyone in the doc world.”

Tuesday, September 10

Keynote Conversation: Andrew Jarecki, New Revelations Ten Years After Capturing the Friedmans
Ten years ago, the Oscar-nominated doc Capturing the Friedmans reopened the case of Jesse Friedman who maintains he was wrongfully convicted of shocking crimes. Since then, the film’s director Andrew Jarecki has championed Friedman’s innocence. This summer, the district attorney issued a report upholding the conviction. But Jarecki has filmed participants – including alleged victims – telling a very different story. In this conversation, he shares never before seen footage and reflects on the role of the filmmaker embroiled in controversy.

The Fight for Fair Use: Alex Gibney
The U.S. Tennis Association has sued the makers of Venus and Serena, executive-produced by Alex Gibney, over the use of footage. In this conversation, Gibney, who also directs The Armstrong Lie, which has its North American premiere at the Festival, talks about what this case, and others, mean for the future of fair use.

Seeking Doc Makers: Al Jazeera America
Al Jazeera America offers exciting new opportunities for documentary makers. Its Documentary Unit is co-producing and acquiring one-offs and series, including a Sunday night primetime doc slot. Additionally, the weekly series Fault Lines showcases 25-minute correspondent-driven documentaries and will annually commission 12 to 15 films. Fault Lines senior producer Carrie Lozano and commissioning producer Lucy Kennedy will be joined by a representative from the Al Jazeera America Documentary Unit to discuss the new initiatives.

Case Study: MTV World’s Rebel Music
Rebel Music is a new MTV World documentary series looking into the lives of young people who are using art and music to ignite change in their countries. The series, which premieres this fall, travels to selected regions including Egypt, Afghanistan, Mali, India, Israel/Palestine, and will include a spin-off feature-documentary project. Nusrat Durrani, SVP/General Manager of MTV World, will discuss the ambitious project and its innovative efforts to engage new audiences.

Digital on Demand: Show Us the Numbers
Though Video on Demand is a fast-growing mode of film distribution, its non-traditional viewership reporting leaves filmmakers and producers in the dark about where and how audiences are engaging with their content. Liesl Copland of WME's Global Finance & Distribution Group discusses the future of Big Data and the need to change the system.

Case Study: Midway, the Art of Collaboration
In bringing the ambitious project Midway, which makes its world premiere at the Festival, to the big screen, the visual artist and first-time director Chris Jordan worked with highly-skilled collaborators. Producer Stephanie Levy, editor and writer Sabine Emiliani (March of the Penguins), composer and Oscar-nominated sound designer Erik Aadahl (Argo, Tree of Life), and Oscar-winning sound designer Ethan Van der Ryn (The Lord of the Rings, Argo) discuss the making of this unique film.

How to Build Long-Term Relationships with your Investors
As the co-founder and executive director of the equity fund Impact Partners, Dan Cogan has supported a distinguished slate of films including How to Survive a Plague, Hell and Back Again, The Cove, Detropia, The Island President and Midway. He'll share frank lessons on how filmmakers can best manage their relationships with the investors who make their work possible.

Sneak Preview: Tell Me Something
What can you learn from the world’s best documentary filmmakers? In her new book, Tell Me Something, which is being previewed at Doc Conference, Jessica Edwards solicits advice from over 50 acclaimed directors including Alex Gibney, Fred Wiseman, Errol Morris, and Jennifer Baichwal (all of whom have new films at the Festival). Edwards is joined by filmmaker and contributor Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Urbanized) to discuss the wisdom gleaned from the project.

Wednesday, September 11

Keynote: Peter Broderick: Becoming Truly Independent – The Best New Strategies
Leading distribution strategist Peter Broderick will share cutting-edge strategies filmmakers are using to succeed on the frontiers of documentary distribution. At the first Doc Conference in 2009, he gave the seminal presentation: Declaration of Independence: The Ten Principles of Hybrid Distribution. Since then, he has helped more than 300 filmmakers around the world maximize their distribution and revenues. He will reveal the latest on what is working, what to avoid, and how to build a sustainable career.

The “360 Equation”: The One Business Model Every Filmmaker Needs To Know
As distribution models continue to evolve in the digital age, savvy filmmakers are using their entrepreneurial skills and social media to sell both digital and physical goods directly to fans. Building upon acclaimed marketing campaigns for such films as Exit Through the Gift Shop and Senna, Marc Schiller, CEO and Founder of BOND Strategy and Influence, will share how filmmakers and distributors can fully leverage new direct-distribution channels.

Crowd-funding Case Study: Hondros: A Life in Frames
Greg Campbell (author of Blood Diamonds) was full of cautions about crowd-funding his first documentary about the photojournalist Chris Hondros. But this past summer, he set a Kickstarter goal of $30,000 and wound up raising close to $90,000. He talks about the lessons he learned raising money and building a community of supporters.

The Art of the Deal: Josh Braun
The Festival is an active marketplace for selling documentaries to distributors. Sales agent Josh Braun (Submarine Entertainment) has represented many prominent titles in recent years including Food, Inc; Cave of Forgotten Dreams; First Position and Casting By. This year, he's involved with The Unknown Known, The Dog and Dangerous Acts. He shares his insights on what makes a good or bad deal for filmmakers, and on new developments in splitting rights.

Distribution Case Study: The Act of Killing
Since its Festival premiere in 2012, The Act of Killing has become one of this year’s most critically-acclaimed films. Despite its tough subject matter – mass killings in Indonesia – the film had the strongest per-theater box office debut of any doc this year. Tim League, founder of the new distribution company Drafthouse Films, talks about the film’s success, festival strategy, director-involvement, social media tactics and press engagement.

Access to Doc Conference is a benefit of all TIFF Industry’s main pass options. For individuals that are only interested in attending the two day event, the Festival now offers a Doc Conference Pass. Online registration for the Doc Conference Pass, and other TIFF Industry pass options, is underway. The deadline to register online is August 23. Onsite registration opens on September 3rd. For more information, and to register, visit tiff.net/industry.

About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.

TIFF INDUSTRY PRESENTS 140 INTERNATIONAL GUEST SPEAKERS AND 50 HOURS OF PROGRAMMING DURING TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Featuring guests including Dede Gardner, Alison Thompson, Rich Gelfond, Greg Foster, Jeff Skoll, Jim Berk and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

TORONTO – TIFF Industry today announced the programming lineup that will run during the 38th Toronto International Film Festival®. Events include Moguls sessions with Plan B Entertainment’s Dede Gardner, Focus Features’ Alison Thompsonand IMAX’s Greg Foster and Rich Gelfond; a keynote address by Participant Media’s Jeff Skoll and Jim Berk; plus panels featuring a range of filmmakers, industry experts and more including Half of a Yellow Sun author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, casting director Kerry Barden, e2b Capital’s Cassian Elwes and trailer guru Mark Woollen.

“We're incredibly excited about this year’s seven-day slate of programming,” said Justin Cutler, Senior Manager, TIFF Industry Office. “The diverse group of creators, innovators and experts will provide a truly unique professional development experience for delegates attending the Festival.”

Running from September 6 to 12, the Industry Conference is an expansive professional development opportunity for registered delegates. The seven-day Conference will focus on a wide array of topics relevant to the industry, split into daily themes: Emerging Filmmakers, Financing, Co-production, Marketing, Creative Process, Distribution and Transmedia.

For registration and info for all TIFF Industry programmes, and more panel and guest announcements, visit tiff.net/industry.

FILMMAKERS’ LOUNGE

The Filmmakers’ Lounge is a meeting space for Festival filmmakers and industry professionals and the site for panels and industry sessions, as well as a place to meet, work or take a break. The Lounge features free WiFi and a variety of meeting spaces. Filmmakers’ Lounge is available to all Festival delegates and is open from September 5 to 13, from 9am to 7pm and on September 14 from 9am to noon. The Lounge is located in the TIFF Industry Centre at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 370 King St. West, Toronto.

MOGULS

This series of intimate, one-on-one sessions with some of the most powerful and influential movers and shakers of the film world offers a rare opportunity to gain insights into the inner workings of the creative and business minds that help shape the industry.

Greg Foster and Rich Gelfond
IMAX works closely with top filmmakers to help them present their movies at their very best, from production to presentation. IMAX’s network is among the most important and successful theatrical distribution platforms for major event films around the globe. This session offers an in-depth conversation with IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond and Greg Foster, CEO IMAX Entertainment and Senior Executive Vice President, IMAX Corp., who will discuss the Canadian company’s strategy for global success.

Dede Gardner
TIFF Industry proudly presents a conversation with Academy-Award nominee Dede Gardner, President of Plan B Entertainment, the production company helmed by Brad Pitt. Gardner has produced box-office hits such as Eat, Pray, Loveand World War Z, as well as art-house favourites like The Tree of Life and Killing Them Softly, and is currently at the Festival with Steve McQueen’s highly anticipated 12 Years A Slave.

Alison Thompson
This conversation features one of the leading executives in independent film sales, Alison Thompson, Co-President of Focus Features International. Overseeing sales, distribution, marketing, publicity and aspects of European production and acquisitions, she has represented such prominent titles as Blue Jasmine, Brokeback Mountain, Cloud Atlas, Into the Wild, Moonrise Kingdom, Somewhere and Volver– among many others – during her illustrious career.

INDUSTRY DIALOGUES

Industry Dialogues is a speaker series examining the current and future state of the film industry and the craft of filmmaking.

Engaging Filmmakers and Audiences: A Keynote Conversation with Participant Media
Since its inception 10 years ago, Participant Media has made a significant impact in the industry by developing socially relevant and commercially viable feature films, documentaries and television. Against the backdrop of the highly anticipated world premiere of The Fifth Estate and North American premiere of The Unknown Known at the Festival, Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll and CEO Jim Berk hit the stage for a conversation about their vision and the day-to-day realities of the film business in North America and around the world. They will be joined by a number of key industry figures as they discuss their successes and lessons learned from the company’s expansion into new territories: the recently-launched TV channel Pivot, and digital site TakePart.com

TIFF 101
Whether you’re a Festival first-timer or veteran; a filmmaker or industry delegate, this TIFF Industry breakfast will be an invaluable resource. In addition to offering an insider’s look at maximizing time and taking advantage of resources available, it’s also a great way to meet colleagues and TIFF decision-makers in an informal environment. TIFF 101 features TIFF staffers Justin Cutler (Senior Manager, TIFF Industry Office), Christoph Straub (Manager, Industry Programming) and Hayet Benkara (Industry Project Manager, STUDIO).

Nurturing Emerging Talent
Meet the influencers, advocates and new talent leading the way in creative production. Panellists will share their experiences in the global film industry as they develop opportunities for emerging filmmakers. Panellists:
 Steven Markovitz, Suka! Productions
 Josh Penn, Producer, Beasts of the Southern Wild
 Neerja Narayanan, Fox Star Studios India
 Moderator: Wendy Mitchell, Screen International

Alternate Financing: The Road Less Travelled
Expert speakers discuss the advantages and limitations of different types of financing structures available to those who choose a non-traditional route to project-funding. Panellists:
 Elisabeth Holm, Kickstarter
 Vida Rizq, Aflamnah
 Catalina Briceno, Canada Media Fund
 Moderator: John Galway, The Harold Greenberg Fund

Micro-Budget Realities
As producers and content creators are increasingly expected to do more with less, this panel will deconstruct what it takes for micro-budget ($100,000 and under) success via a case study. Panellists:
 Katriel Schory, Israeli Film Fund
 Enrique Lopez, Producer, Gente in Sitios

Big Money: Private and Equity Financing
Insiders provide a window on how financing decisions are made in order to help demystify the role of private capital and its relationship with the film industry, and point producers to methods of unlocking these resources. Panellists:
 Kerry Barden, Casting Director
 Yewande Sadiku, Stanbic IBTC Capital Limited
 Moderator: Cassian Elwes, e2b Capital

Meet the EU Film Funders
For the first time, a selection of Europe’s biggest funding agencies will attend the Festival in official capacities. This panel introduces delegates to some of the major players and offers tips on how to access their various funding streams. Panellists:
 Cornelia Hammelmann, DFF (Germany)
 Roberto Olla, Eurimages (Italy)
 Isabel Davies, British Film Institute (UK)
 Moderator: Valerie Mouroux, Cinémas du Monde

Spotlight: Nigeria beyond Nollywood
Half of a Yellow Sun, a Festival Special Presentation, has been touted as the highest-budget film in the history of Nollywood, and was funded almost entirely by Nigerian investors. Delegates will learn about the new modes of production being explored in Nigerian cinema, and of the nation’s cinematic past, present and future. Panellists:
 Andrea Calderwood, Producer
 Biyi Bandele, Director and Screenwriter
 Kisha Cameron Dingle, Completion Films
 Moderator: Aboubakar Sanogo, Carlton University

Co-Production Case Studies
First-hand lessons in the dos and don’ts of co-production through a closer examination of official Festival selections produced across borders. Panellists:
 Sarika Hemi Lakhani, One Fine Day Films
 Moderator, John Hadity, Entertainment Partners

The Right Marketing Strategy for the Right Film
Filmmakers are increasingly required to balance business and creativity, making marketing and business strategies something with which they must become familiar. This panel offers a primer on reaching and engaging audiences and potential partners through research, brand integration and social metrics. Panellists:
 Marc Schiller, Bond 360
 Jamie Wilkinson, VHX

Engaging Your Audience
From content sourcing the next big thing and mobilizing for screen-time in theatres to generating the ‘buy-in’ for financial involvement, experts explore innovations in engaging a savvy digital audience. Panellists:
 J Joly, Cinecoup
 Nicolas Gonda, Tugg
 John Trigonis, IndieGogo

Cinematography and Technology – 4K: Beyond RED
With the advent of 4K and new forms of media and technology, this panel provides a state of the union on the latest largesensor cinematography. The discussion will give an overview of the latest gear and techniques, and looks at the impact of the technology from both creative and business perspectives. Panellists:
 Nick De Pencier, Cinematographer
 Moderator: David Leitner, Filmmaker Magazine

Story: From Page to Screen
A discussion of the shift from story to screenplay, and from screenplay to screen, with the expertise of high-profile authors and screenwriters associated with a range of official Festival film selections. Panellists:
 Franklin Leonard, Blcklst
 Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Author, Half of a Yellow Sun

Anatomy of a Trailer
Trailer guru Mark Woollen offers an intimate presentation on the anatomy of the trailer, giving insights into how the auteur driven cutting process can captivate and engage audiences.

Global State of VoD
Change is the only constant in the global Video on Demand marketplace. This panel will provide a look at the evolution of VoD in multiple territories including Mexico, Kenya, France and China. Panellists:
 Elizabeth Louise Hopkins, Cinepolis Klic
 Pierre Alexandre-Labelle, Under the Milky Way
 Allen Zhu, Youku Inc
 Marie Lora-Mungai, BuniTV
 Moderator: Wendy Bernfeld, Rights Stuff

New Tools of Direct Distribution
Innovators and thought-leaders in the direct-distribution world share their perspectives on the evolution of the industry and how new platforms can be used to aggregate, self-distribute, market and mobilize. The panel will discuss the state of the industry and the trends and challenges of online engagement for content creators and audiences. Panellists:
 Scott Glosserman, gathr
 Lee Waterworth, Yekra
 Greg Rubidge, Syndicado
 Jeremy Boxer, Vimeo
 Moderator: Brad Pelman, Pelman Corp

Releasing Strategies: Collapse of the Window
The collapse of the traditional windows for release creates both challenges and opportunities for content creators and distributors. This panel will discuss the new reality and various release strategies. Panellists:
 Philipp Hoffmann, VOD-consulting
 Sue Bruce-Smith, Film 4.0

The Business of Transmedia
A deconstruction of the decision-making process behind various business models from across the transmedia landscape, touching on budgetary issues, wire-models, deliverables, release schedules, and cross-platform operation. Panellists:
 William Mainguy, Reelhouse
 Ben Grass, Puregrass Films
 Andy Merkin, Mirada
 Moderator: Siobhann O Flynn, Transmedia 101 and CFC Media Lab

ADDITIONAL INDUSTRY PROGRAMMING AND INITIATIVES

indieWIRE @ Filmmakers' Lounge
September 7 to 10, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
indieWIRE’s popular Q&A sessions with some of the most notable actors and directors at the Toronto International Film
Festival return to Filmmakers’ Lounge.

Telefilm Canada's Talent to Watch
Telefilm Canada's Talent to Watch series of panel sessions is designed to spotlight the creative talents of the country's emerging and established filmmakers. This year’s lineup will feature sessions on Friday, September 6; Monday, September 9; and Tuesday, September 10.

Online registration for all TIFF Industry pass options is underway. The deadline to register online is August 23. Onsite registration opens on September 3rd. This year the Festival announced the new Conference Pass, which allows industry professionals to access Conference events, network at the Industry Centre, and take advantage of online resources. For more information visit: http://tiff.net/industry/registration.

About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.

FESTIVAL WELCOMES THE WORLD TO TORONTO WITH CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA PROGRAMME FEATURING PREMIERES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE
Contemporary World Speakers series returns with expert perspective from the University of Toronto's Munk School for Global Affairs

TORONTO – The Toronto International Film Festival® today announced the Contemporary World Cinema lineup featuring the best in cinema from around the globe. The programme presents the latest works from filmmakers Danis Tanović, Clio Barnard, Dante Lam, Götz Spielmann, Avi Nesher, Toa Fraser, Alexey Uchitel, Jan Hrebejk, János Szász, Noh Young-Seok, Mohammad Rasoulof and Alain Guiraudie. Contemporary World Cinema features premieres from countries including Brazil, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Israel, France, Slovenia, Venezuela, Tunisia, Qatar, South Africa, Romania, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Finland, Sweden, Kenya, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, South Korea, Denmark, Syria, Lebanon, India, Ireland, Iran, Japan, Puerto Rico, Palestine, Norway, the United Arab Emirates, Italy and Switzerland.

For a second year, TIFF partners with the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs on the Contemporary World Speakers series. This initiative pairs five films in the Contemporary World Cinema programme with expert scholars from the Munk School. Audiences will have the chance to interact with filmmakers and scholars in extended discussions following each film’s second public screening. Speakers include Ron Deibert, Janice Gross Stein, Robert Austin, Ron Levi and Michael Ignatieff. The Contemporary World Speakers series is programmed in conjunction with the TIFF Adult Learning department.

A Place in Heaven (Makom be-gan eden) Yossi Madmony, Israel North American Premiere
Jewish religious law permits the trade of a seemingly non-transferrable concept: another person’s place in heaven. This is the story of a highly-decorated retired general who, in a moment of arrogance during his youth, sold his place in heaven to an army cook for a plate of shakshouka.

A Wolf at the Door (O Lobo atrás da Porta) Fernando Coimbra, Brazil World Premiere
A child is kidnapped. At the police station, Sylvia and Bernardo, the victim’s parents, and Rosa, the main suspect and Bernardo’s lover, give contradictory evidence which will take audiences to the gloomiest corners of desires, lies, needs and wickedness in the relationship of these three characters. Starring Leandra Leal and Milhem Cortaz.

An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (Epizoda u životu beraca željeza) Danis Tanović Bosnia-Herzegovina/France/Slovenia North American Premiere
A humble man desperately tries to save his partner's life when she is callously denied much-needed treatment for a miscarriage. A critical social commentary from the award-winning director of Cirkus Columbia and Academy Award and Golden Globe winner No Man’s Land. Starring Senada Alimanovic, Nazif Mujic, Sandra Mujic, Šemsa Mujic.
*Robert Austin, Professor of Political Science and Lecturer, is a Munk School expert on East Central and Southeastern European Affairs. He will speak about An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker in an extended Q&A session following one of the screenings.

Bad Hair (Pelo Malo) Mariana Rondón, Venezuela World Premiere
A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale. Starring Samantha Castillo and Samuel Lange.

Bastardo Nejib Belkadhi, Tunisia/France/Qatar World Premiere
Mohsen (Abdel Moneem Chouayat), has always lived with the stigma of being a bastard and saddled with the nickname Bastardo, but when a GSM relay is installed on his roof, he has a reversal of fortune. As his power grows, he has to wrest control over his poor neighbourhood from Larnouba (Chedly Arfaoui), the unscrupulous local mobster — and, in the process, slips into the dark world of power.

The Bit Player (Ekstra) Jeffrey Jeturian, Philippines International Premiere
The Bit Player is a socio-realist drama-comedy that follows a seemingly usual day in the life of Loida Malabanan (Vilma Santos-Recto) as she embarks on yet another day on the set of a soap opera as an extra. As the shoot goes on, we get a glimpse of the truth in the ruling system of the production as well as the exploitation of marginalized labourers like her.

Blind Dates (Brma Paemnebi) Levan Koguashvili, Georgia World Premiere
When 40-year old history teacher Sandro falls in love with the mother of one of his students, he learns that her husband is getting released from prison. Sandro offers to drive the woman to the prison gates but instead of leaving, he stays to drive her and her husband home.

Brazilian Western (Faroeste Caboclo) René Sampaio, Brazil Canadian Premiere
João de Santo Cristo is a young boy, who abandons his poor life in the Brazilian outback to try his luck in the capital, Brasília. A story of love, hate, revenge and violence freely inspired by the Brazilian song Faroeste Caboclo by Renato Russo. Starring Fabrício Boliveira and Isis Valverde.

Break Loose (Vosmerka) Alexey Uchitel, Russia World Premiere
Russian director Alexey Uchitel (The Edge) returns with this explosive, pulse-pounding crime drama about the violent rivalry that erupts when an elite police operative falls for a gangster’s moll.

Child's Pose (Pozitia Copilului) Calin Peter Netzer, Romania North American Premiere
Well-to-do, well-connected Bucharest society lady Cornelia takes the driver’s seat when her 34-year-old son gets involved in a deadly accident. Through her stifling love, she’s kept the hard realities of life away from him. Starring Bogdan Dumitrache and Luminita Gheorghiu.

Club Sandwich (Club Sándwich) Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico World Premiere
Paloma and her 15-year-old son Hector have a very strong and special relationship. When on holiday on the seaside, Hector meets Jazmin, a teenage girl with whom he discovers love and sexuality. Trying to keep Hector close to her, Paloma has a hard time accepting that he will eventually grow up.

Cristo Rey Leticia Tonos Paniagua, Dominican Republic/France/Haiti World Premiere
The story of a shantytown of Santo Domingo where the Haitian Janvier and the Dominican Rudy — half-brothers who hate each other — will fight for the love of the same woman.
*Ron Deibert, Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, is an expert on issues related to technology, media, and world politics. He will speak about Cristo Rey in an extended Q&A session following one of the screenings.

The Dinner (Het Diner) Menno Meyjes, The Netherlands World Premiere
Adapting a Dutch bestseller inspired by a shocking real-life crime, Menno Meyjes (screenwriter of The Color Purple and Lionheart) directs this excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills. Starring Jacob Derwig, Thekla Reuten, Daan Schuurmans, and Kim van Kooten.

Eastern Boys Robin Campillo, France North American Premiere
They come from all over Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine, Moldavia. The eldest ones appear no older than 25. They spend their time hanging around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. They might be prostitutes. Daniel, a discreet man in his early 50s, has his eye on one of them. Starring Olivier Rabourdin.

El Mudo Diego Vega and Daniel Vega, Peru/France/Mexico North American Premiere
After a short investigation, police conclude that the gunshot that nearly killed Judge Constantino Zegarra was nothing more than a stray bullet. But Constantino, who unlike his peers fervently adheres to the letter of the law, is convinced someone tried to take him out. He re-opens the investigation, and soon finds himself breaking some of his own rules to prove himself right.

Friends from France (Les Interdits) Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski, France/Germany/Canada/Russia World Premiere
1979: Cousins Carole and Jérôme go on an organized trip to Odessa, behind the Iron Curtain. During the day, posing as tourists celebrating their engagement, they visit monuments and museums. In the evening they slip away from the group and meet “refuseniks”, Jews persecuted by the Soviet regime for wanting to leave the country. While Carole is motivated by political commitment and a taste for risk, Jérôme’s motivation is Carole.
*Michael Ignatieff, Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs, is an internationally renowned writer, journalist, former politician, and expert on foreign affairs. He will speak about Friends from France in an extended Q&A session following one of the screenings.

Giselle Toa Fraser, New Zealand International Premiere
Giselle is acclaimed director Toa Fraser's interpretation of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's production of Giselle. The classic story of love, eroticism and death has been reinterpreted by Fraser to include both the onstage performance of the ballet, and an offstage romance that tells of two itinerant dancers, separated by time, distance and their abiding love for each other.

Heart of a Lion (Leijonasydän) Dome Karukoski, Finland/Sweden World Premiere
Teppo falls in love with Sari but this is no ordinary love affair. Teppo is a central figure in a neo-Nazi group and Sari’s son Rhamadhani is black. When Sari gets pregnant, Teppo decides to make peace with Rhamadhani. When his brother and the Nazi group threaten their peace, he is forced to make a choice between love and hate. Starring Peter Franzén and Laura Birn.

Honeymoon (Líbanky) Jan Hrebejk, Czech Republic/Slovakia International Premiere
The arrival of an uninvited guest casts a shadow over an idyllic wedding celebration in this wonderfully fraught meditation on guilt and forgiveness, directed by prolific Czech filmmaker Jan Hrebejk (The Holy Quaternity). Starring Ana Geislerova, Stanislav Majer and Jiri Cerny.

Hotell Lisa Langseth, Sweden/Denmark World Premiere
Mentally bruised Erika starts group therapy and enters a new world with new acquaintances. In the pursuit of a life-changing adventure, the group seeks a place of absolute anonymity. Starring Alicia Vikander, David Dencik and Mira Eklund.

The Immoral (De Umoralske) Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen, Norway World Premiere
Camilla and William are not able to adapt to the Norwegian welfare paradise. When the authorities want to take Camilla’s baby, the two drifters run away into the woods. There, William suggests that Camilla becomes a prostitute so they can buy themselves a camper and drive to Spain. But in order to sell sex they need a house. Starring Hanne Backe-Hansen, Kjetil Krogstad Skrede and Daniel Gjerde.

Intruders (Jo Nan-ja-deul) Noh Young-Seok, South Korea World Premiere
A writer hides away at an isolated B&B only to encounter a series of life-threatening characters. Starring Jun Suk-ho and Oh Taekyung.

The Kids from the Port (Los Chicos del Puerto) Alberto Morais, Spain North American Premiere
In this charming neorealist gem set on the sleepy outskirts of Valencia, young Miguel and his friends undertake a seemingly simple mission on behalf of Miguel’s grandfather that teaches them all a lesson in real independence.

iNumber Number Donovan Marsh, South Africa World Premiere
When undercover cop Chili (S’dumo Mtshali) and his partner (Presley Chweneyagae) are cheated out of a reward by their corrupt superior, Chili decides to jump ship and infiltrate a cash-in-transit heist gang, but he cannot do it without protection from his partner and friend. When his carefully staged plan goes awry and his friend is taken hostage, so begins the mad chase to rescue him.

Ladder to Damascus (SoullamiIa Dimashq) Mohamad Malas, Syria/Lebanon/Qatar World Premiere
Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house where other young Syrians from different regions also live. She meets Fouad, an aspiring filmmaker fascinated by her ambiguity. Within the confines of the house, as their love story blossoms, the streets are embattled with the revolution.

Le Grand Cahier (A Nagy Füzet) János Szász, Germany/Hungary/Austria/France North American Premiere
In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during wartime with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults. Starring Ulrich Thomsen and Ulrich Matthes.

Life's a Breeze Lance Daly, Ireland/Sweden International Premiere
Life's a Breeze is a feel-good recession comedy about a family struggling to stay afloat and together through hard times in Ireland. Starring Fionnula Flanagan, Pat Shortt, Kelly Thornton and Eva Birthistle.

Little Feet Alexandre Rockwell, United States of America World Premiere
Determined to see “the river,” two young children living in Los Angeles leave home to embark on a magical urban odyssey, in the marvelous new film by American indie icon Alexandre Rockwell (In the Soup). Starring Lana Rockwell, Nico Rockwell and Rene Cuante-Bautista.

The Major Yuri Bykov, Russia North American Premiere
Sergey Sobolev, a major at the local police office, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth. High from happiness, he’s driving fast and runs down a boy. Now the major has only two options: go to prison or conceal the crime. Starring Yury Bykov, Denis Shvedov, Irina Nizina and Ilya Isaev.

Manuscripts Don't Burn (Dast-neveshtehaa nemisoozand) Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran Canadian Premiere
Kasra is an Iranian author who secretly writes his memoirs. His stories are related to his time in jail as a political prisoner, as well as events connected to his life as an intellectual in Iran. He has prepared everything in order to publish these writings and is getting ready to leave the country. When the security service uncovers Kasra’s plans, they will do anything to destroy his manuscripts. Inspired by true events.

McCanick Josh C. Waller, USA World Premiere
Over the course of one feverish day, a harried narcotics detective (David Morse) and his reluctant partner (Mike Vogel) frantically track down a recently released convict (Cory Monteith) who knows a secret from the past.

Metalhead (Málmhaus) Ragnar Bragason, Iceland World Premiere
On a rural cow farm in Iceland, Hera's brother is killed in an accident and she blames herself for his death. In her grief, Hera finds solace in the dark music of heavy metal and dreams of becoming a rock star. Starring Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson and Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir

Ningen Guillaume Giovanetti and Çagla Zencirci, Japan/Turkey World Premiere
Filmmaking partners Guillaume Giovanetti and Cagla Zencirci immersed themselves in the magical world of Japanese folklore to create this intricate and delightfully amusing modern-day parable. Starring Masahiro Yoshino, Masako Wajima, Xiao Mu Lee and Megumi Ayukawa.

October November (Oktober November) Götz Spielmann, Austria World Premiere
Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion bares old wounds and reveals long-held secrets. Starring Nora von Waldstätten, Ursula Strauss, Peter Simonischek, Sebastian Koch, Johannes Zeiler and Andreas Ressl.

Old Moon (Luna Vieja) Raisa Bonnet, Puerto Rico World Premiere
Elsa lives in the mountains of the Caribbean Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. A visit fromher teenage granddaughter, Mina, and her son-in-law, Alei, brings a sweet and bitter taste into her life. In order to protect her granddaughter, Elsa makes a decision that will change Mina’s life forever. Starring María Velázquez, Laura Cristina Cardona and Julio Ramos.

Palestine Stereo (Falastine Stereo) Rashid Masharawi Palestine/Tunisia/France/Norway/United Arab Emirates/Italy/Switzerland World Premiere
Palestinian director Rashid Mashawari follows his widely acclaimed dark comedy Laila’s Birthday with this compelling and ironic drama about two brothers on the West Bank who, rendered homeless by an Israeli air strike, hustle odd jobs to raise enough money to emigrate to Canada.

Paradise: Hope (Paradies: Hoffnung) Ulrich Seidl, Austria/France/Germany North American Premiere
While her mother travels to Kenya, Melanie spends her holiday in the Austrian countryside at a strict diet camp for overweight teens. The teenagers attempt to do sports during the day and secretly get drunk in the evening. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the doctor who is 40 years her senior. Starring Melanie Lenz, Vivian Bartsch and Michael Thomas.

Qissa Anup Singh, Germany/India/The Netherlands/France World Premiere
Set in post-colonial India, Qissa tells the story of Umber Singh, a Sikh who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947. Umber decides to fight fate and builds a new home for his family. When Umber marries his youngest child Kanwar to Neeli, a girl of lower caste, the family is faced with the truth of their identities; as individual ambitions and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity. Starring Irrfan Khan, Tillotama Shome, Rasika Dugal and Tisca Chopra.
*Janice Gross Stein, Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, is an internationally renowned expert on global affairs and conflict management. She will speak about Qissa in an extended Q&A session following one of the screenings.

Rags and Tatters (Farsh wa ghata) Ahmad Abdalla, Egypt World Premiere
In one of the most extraordinary nights in the history of Egypt, the prisons were suddenly opened, leaving thousands of prisoners wandering in the desert road between Cairo and Alexandria. Among them was one man trying to find his way in a city that is rapidly changing for good.

The Sea Stephen Brown, Ireland North American Premiere
After the death of his wife, Max retreats to The Cedars, a house by the sea where he spent his childhood summers. Re-acquainting himself with places past provokes a cathartic reflection as the present draws out powerful memories from one fateful summer many years ago — memories of innocent joy and uplifting warmth, but also of profound tragedy. Based on the 2005 Booker Prize-winning novel by John Banville. Starring Ciarán Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Swell, Bonnie Wright, and Sinead Cusack.

The Selfish Giant Clio Barnard, United Kingdom North American Premiere
The Selfish Giant is a contemporary fable about 13-year-old Arbor and his best friend Swifty. Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighbourhood, the two boys meet Kitten, a local scrap dealer. They begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and cart. Kitten favours Swifty, driving a wedge between the boys. As Arbor becomes increasingly greedy and exploitative, tensions start to build, leading to a tragic event that transforms them all.

Something Necessary Judy Kibinge, Kenya/Germany North American Premiere
Anne, is struggling to rebuild her life after the civil unrest that swept Kenya following the 2007 elections, during which her husband was killed, her son injured and farm burnt. Joseph, an unemployed young man, who was dragged into the gang violence, is tormented with regret and wants to make another life for himself. Something Necessary is a compelling original take on atonement, forgiveness and coming to terms with trauma.

Stop the Pounding Heart Roberto Minervini, Belgium/Italy/USA North American Premiere
Sara is a young girl raised in a family of goat farmers. Her parents home-school their 12 children, rigorously following the precepts of the Bible. When Sara meets Colby, an amateur bull rider, she is thrown into crisis, questioning the only way of life she has ever known. In a stunning portrayal of contemporary America and the insular communities that dot its landscape, Stop the Pounding Heart is an exploration of adolescence, family and social values, gender roles, and religion in the rural American South.

Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie, France North American Premiere
Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Starring Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou and Patrick d'Assumçao.

This is Sanlitun Róbert I. Douglas, China/Iceland/Ireland World Premiere
Gary is in Beijing to make it big. After failing to impress his Chinese investors he soon takes up teaching English. Gary's real reasons for staying become apparent when his son and Chinese ex-wife enter the picture.

Unbeatable Dante Lam, China/Hong Kong North American Premiere
Fleeing to Macau to escape from threatening loan sharks, a former mixed-martial arts champion becomes embroiled in the lives of a psychologically troubled single mother and a young wannabe fighter, in Hong Kong auteur Dante Lam’s stylish and compelling action drama.

Under the Starry Sky (Des Etoiles) Dyana Gaye, France/Senegal World Premiere
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a place for oneself in the world.

When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Cand se lasa seara peste Bucuresti sau Metabolism) Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania North American Premiere
It’s the middle of a film shoot and Paul, the director, is having an affair with Alina, an actress playing a supporting role. With Alina’s last day on set imminent, Paul decides to rewrite the script in order to shoot a nude scene with her.

White Lies (Tuakiri Huna) Dana Rotberg, New Zealand International Premiere
In a small New Zealand town in the early 20th century, three very different women — a Maori medicine woman, a wealthy, sharp-tongued white housewife, and a controlling housekeeper — are brought together by a scandalous secret, in this complex and mesmerizing tale of culture clash and social mores based on a novella by the author of Whale Rider.

The Wonders (Plaot) Avi Nesher, Israel International Premiere
A mysterious prisoner — part con man, part prophet — is held in a dark and musty Jerusalem slum apartment. His neighbour is a cool cat graffiti artist who is reluctantly drawn into this real life film noir plot. Based on a true story. Starring Adir Miller, Ori Hizkiah, Yehuda Levi, Yuval Scharf and Efrat Gosh.
*Ron Levi, Director of the Master of Global Affairs at the Munk School, is an expert on global justice, and human rights regimes. He will speak about The Wonders in an extended Q&A session following one of the screenings.

To Repel Ghosts: Urban Tales from the African Continent
Beginning with an ambiguous science fiction in Nairobi and ending with a re-enactment of the myth of Noah’s ark in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township, To Repel Ghosts: Urban Tales from the African Continent showcases remarkably uncanny and fiercely contemporary stories, including:
Homecoming (African Metropolis) Jim Chuchu, Kenya International Premiere
Nothing is what it seems as Max — a nerdy voyeur — turns fiction into truth and the mundane into the unexpected in his quest to get the attention of Alina — the girl next door. The city of Nairobi is threatened with imminent extinction, and now is his chance to save her and verbalize his unspoken desire. A quirky, light-hearted look at obsession and the desire to be seen.
Berea (African Metropolis) Vincent Moloi, South Africa International Premiere
Long after his friends and family have moved on, Jewish pensioner Aaron Zukerman remains in his inner-city apartment, his world getting ever smaller and smaller, as the city closes in on his memories and happiness. His focus is on a weekly assignation with a kindly prostitute. When her replacement arrives unexpected one Friday, an initially angry response sparks a chain of events that changes the way the old man sees his world. Starring Wilson Dunster and Abena Ayivor.
To Repel Ghosts (African Metropolis) Philippe Lacôte, Ivory Coast International Premiere
Inspired from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s trip to the Ivory Coast shortly before his passing, To Repel Ghosts casts a young New Yorker of Haitian origin who travels to visit his friend in Abidjan and free himself from hauntings.
Kwaku Ananse Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ghana/Mexico/USA North American Premiere
Kwaku Ananse is an intensely personal project that combines contemporary semi-autobiographical elements with the traditional West African folk tale of Kwaku Ananse, a sage who appears as both spider and man.
Noah’s Flood (Unogumbe, Noye’s Fludde) Mark Dornford-May, South Africa World Premiere
Noye's Fludde is Isango Ensemble’s film adaptation of the one act opera by Benjamin Britten. Sung in Xhosa, it follows the traditional story of Noah’s ark but is set in a South African township, with Noah recast as a woman. Starring Pauline Malefane, Mhlekazi Mosiea and Zamile Gantana.

Previously announced Contemporary World Cinema titles include Catherine Martin’s A Journey (Une Jeune Fille), Ingrid Veninger’s The Animal Project, Terry Miles’ Cinemanovels, Bruce Sweeney’s The Dick Knost Show, Peter Stebbings’ Empire of Dirt, Sébastien Pilote’s Le Démantèlement, Richie Mehta’s Siddharth and Wiebke von Carolsfeld’s Stay.

The Festival offers the Contemporary World Speakers Pack including all 5 screenings with extended Q&As for $107, or $90 for students and seniors). Purchase Festival ticket packages online 24 hours a day at tiff.net/festival, by phone from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET daily at 416.599.TIFF or 1.888.599.8433, or visit the box office in person from10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET daily at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West, until August 19.

About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation andRBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.

COURS ÉCRIRE TON COURT 2013 - LITERARY ADAPTATION SPECIAL
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 15TH EDITION OF COURS ÉCRIRE TON COURT

Montréal, June 16, 2013 — The Société de dévéloppement des enterprises culturelles (SODEC) invites up-and-coming screenwriters to participate in the COURS ÉCRIRE TON COURT LITERARY ADAPTATION SPECIAL. The contest offers a unique opportunity to emerging screenwriters to benefit from advice from experienced screenwriters during collective workshops and individual meetings in the course of which they work on the final version of their screenplay. Participants are invited to submit their applications no later than September 10, 2013. Applications should include the first draft of a screenplay with dialogues of short feature or animated film of 12 minutes or less based on a literary piece of a Quebec author, in French or in English.

This edition of the competition has been made possible by the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC), in collaboration with the Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma (SARTEC), the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), Jimmy Lee, Sid Lee, the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC), the Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC), the 36th Salon du livre de Montréal, the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois (UNEQ), the Association nationale des éditeurs de livres (ANEL) and the law firm of Lussier & Khouzam.

A pre-selection committee, to include a SARTEC representative, a WGC representative, as well as a filmmaker, will select seven finalists. The choice will be based on the quality of the project’s storyline, the look on the proposed adaptation, and the cinematographic potential. The launch of the COURS ÉCRIRE TON COURT LITERARY ADAPTATION SPECIAL is planned for October 2013, as part of the Festival du nouveau cinéma.

SCREENWRITING WORKSHOPS: AN INCREDIBLE CREATIVE OPPORTUNITY!

A key component of the contest, these workshops will offer finalists the unique opportunity to benefit from advice from experienced screenwriters. As well, mentors will accompany participants throughout the contest to help with screenplay or treatment edits and rewrites. Intended to be interactive, these workshops will take the form of group discussions as well as individual consultations, and they will take place on October 20 and 21, as well as on November 3 and 4, 2013 at the Maison de la culture Maisonneuve in Montréal.

Finalists will also have the opportunity to present their work to experienced producers in front of an audience of industry professionals. This presentation will be followed by a networking activity and an awards ceremony as part of the 36th Salon du livre de Montréal, which will take place between November 20 and 25, 2013.

After the final versions of the screenplays have been submitted, a five-member jury will select the winners of the following prizes:

• The Grand Prix, worth a total of $8,000 for the best screenplay in French or in English, which includes: A participation to attend the Clermont-Ferrand, France, International Short Film Festival, all expenses paid by the SODEC, worth $3,000, where the winner will enjoy unlimited access to transportation and living expenses to be paid by the SODEC, worth $3,000, where the winner will enjoy unlimited access to screenings and to various professional activities.

• As well, the Prix à l’écriture cinématographique, worth $5,000, awarded by the CALQ (Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec).

• The Prix SODEC/SARTEC, worth a total of $4,000 for an outstanding French screenplay. The winner will attend the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, with transportation and living expenses to be paid by the SODEC, worth $3,000, where the winner will enjoy unlimited access to screenings and to various professional activities. As well, the SARTEC will award the Prix spécial du jury worth $1,000.

• The WGC/JIMMY LEE Prize for the Best English Language Script, worth $1,000.

ELIGIBILITY

The eligibility criteria are available on the SODEC homepage at www.sodec.gouv.qc.ca

From October 2 to 4, the SODEC will contact only those candidates whose projects have been selected. Decisions are final, and no comments concerning project evaluations will be communicated to unsuccessful participants.

The selected candidates must be available for several workshops and meetings in October and November 2013.

The Programme d'aide aux jeunes créateurs de la SODEC

COURS ÉCRIRE TON COURT is an initiative of the SODEC’s Programme d'aide aux jeunes créateurs, which aims at providing young screenwriters, directors, and producers the tools necessary to create innovative cinema.

For more details and to access the application form, please click here: www.sodec.gouv.qc.ca

Isabelle Melançon, Director of Communications and Institutional Affairs
SODEC
Tel: (514) 841-2281   toll free: 1 800 363-0401
Email: info@sodec.gouv.qc.ca
Lucie Čermáková, COURS ÉCRIRE TON COURT Coordinator
SODEC
Email: Lucie.Cermakova@sodec.gouv.qc.ca
Marie Potvin, chargée de projets
SODEC
Tel: (514) 841-2234
Email: marie.potvin@sodec.gouv.qc.ca

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COURS ÉCRIRE TON COURT – APPEL DE CANDIDATURES POUR LA 15E ÉDITION
SPÉCIAL ADAPTATION LITTÉRAIRE

La Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) convie les scénaristes émergents à participer à COURS ÉCRIRE TON COURT 2013 – SPÉCIAL ADAPTATION LITTÉRAIRE. Destiné aux scénaristes et aux coscénaristes qui sont dans une démarche d’apprentissage professionnel, le concours propose un programme de mentorat sous forme d’ateliers d’écriture, de réflexion et de discussions soutenues, individuelles et collectives, entre consultants expérimentés et jeunes créateurs, en vue de la scénarisation des versions finales de projets de courts métrages de fiction. Pour la 15e édition du concours, les participants sont invités à déposer leur dossier au plus tard le 10 septembre 2013. Celui-ci devra inclure une première version dialoguée d’un scénario de format court métrage de fiction ou d’animation d’une durée maximale de 12 minutes.

Cette édition consacrée exclusivement à l’adaptation littéraire est rendue possible grâce à la Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC), en collaboration avec la Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma (SARTEC), le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), Jimmy Lee, Sid Lee, Writers Guild of Canada (WGC), le Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal (FNC), la 36e édition du Salon du livre de Montréal, l’Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois (UNEQ), l’Association nationale des éditeurs de livres (ANEL) et le cabinet d’avocats Lussier & Khouzam.

Un comité de présélection, formé d’un représentant de la SARTEC responsable du parrainage, d’un représentant de WGC, ainsi que d’un cinéaste, choisira sept projets parmi tous ceux reçus. Les choix seront guidés par la qualité narrative des scénarios, le regard sur l’adaptation proposée et leur potentiel cinématographique. Le lancement de COURS ÉCRIRE TON COURT SPÉCIAL ADAPTATION LITTÉRAIRE aura lieu en octobre prochain, dans le cadre du Festival du nouveau cinéma.

LES ATELIERS DE SCÉNARISATION : UN VÉRITABLE LABORATOIRE DE CRÉATION!

Élément central de ce concours, les ateliers offrent aux finalistes la chance unique de bénéficier des précieux conseils de scénaristes chevronnés. De plus, chaque participant est accompagné tout au long du concours d’un mentor qui le soutient dans la création de son scénario. Vivantes et productives, ces sessions se déroulent sous forme de séances de travail et de discussion, individuelles et collectives. Les ateliers auront lieu les 20 et 21 octobre, ainsi que les 3 et 4 novembre 2013 à la Maison de la culture Maisonneuve à Montréal.

Par ailleurs, en fin de parcours, les finalistes auront l’occasion de présenter leurs textes à des producteurs expérimentés devant un public de professionnels. Cette présentation sera suivie d’une activité de réseautage et de la remise des prix dans le cadre de la 36e édition du Salon du livre de Montréal qui se déroulera du 20 au 25 novembre 2013.

À la remise de la version finale des scénarios, un jury constitué de cinq membres choisira les lauréats qui se verront attribuer les prix suivants :

• Le «Grand Prix» d’une valeur de 8 000 $ remis au meilleur scénario, comprend : une participation au Festival International du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand toutes dépenses payées par la SODEC d’une valeur de 3 000 $, incluant l’accès illimité aux projections et la participation à diverses activités professionnelles;

• le « Prix à l’écriture cinématographique », assorti d’un montant de 5 000 $, du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ).

• Le «Prix SODEC/SARTEC» d’une valeur de 4 000 $ récompense un deuxième scénario. Le gagnant participera au Festival International du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand. Les frais de transport et de séjour d’une valeur de 3 000 $ sont assumés par la SODEC. De plus, la SARTEC remettra le « Prix spécial du jury » d’un montant de 1 000 $. Le gagnant aura un accès illimité aux projections et participera à diverses activités professionnelles.

• Le « WGC/JIMMY LEE Prize » pour le Best English Language Script est accompagné d’un montant de 1 000 $.

ADMISSIBILITÉ

Les conditions d’admissibilité sont disponibles sur la page d’accueil de la SODEC au www.sodec.gouv.qc.ca

La SODEC communiquera uniquement avec les candidats dont le projet aura été retenu, et ce entre les 2 et 4 octobre 2013. Les décisions sont sans appel et aucun commentaire portant sur l’évaluation des projets ne sera communiqué aux participants non retenus.

Les candidats sélectionnés devront être disponibles pour plusieurs sessions de travail et de rencontres en octobre et en novembre prochains.

Le Programme d’aide aux jeunes créateurs de la SODEC

Le concours COURS ÉCRIRE TON COURT est une initiative de Programme d’aide aux jeunes créateurs qui vise à donner les outils nécessaires aux jeunes scénaristes, réalisateurs et producteurs pour créer des œuvres à la fine pointe de l’évolution du médium cinéma.

Pour plus de détails ainsi qu’accès au formulaire d’inscription : www.sodec.gouv.qc.ca.

The list is made public to allow individuals and companies with similar devices or claims of prior art the opportunity to submit achievements for review.

The deadline to submit additional entries is Tuesday, August 27, at 11:59 p.m. PT.

The committee has selected the following technologies for further consideration:
After thorough investigations are conducted in each of the technology categories, the committee will meet in early December to vote on recommendations to the Academy’s Board of Governors, which will make the final awards decisions.

The 2013 Scientific and Technical Awards will be presented on Saturday, February 15, 2014.

Starting August 16 at 8 a.m. PT, claims of prior art or similar technology must be submitted on the Academy’s website at www.oscars.org/awards/scitech/apply.html. For further information, contact the Awards Administration Office at (310) 247-3000, ext. 1131, or via e-mail at scitech@oscars.org.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2013 will be presented on Oscar® Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

FESTIVAL MASTERS PROGRAMME FEATURES NEW WORK FROM INTERNATIONAL AUTEURS INCLUDING ETTORE SCOLA, JIA ZHANGKE, CLAIRE DENIS, KIM KI-DUK AND MORE

TORONTO – The 38th Toronto International Film Festival® today announced the films in the Masters programme, which highlights the work of the world’s most compelling cinematic creators. The programme features a diverse collection of new films including world premieres from Quebecois directors Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires and Finnish filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo; and North American premieres by Jia Zhangke, Jafar Panahi, Kim Ki-duk, Edgar Rietz and Claire Denis.

One additional title has also been announced in the Midnight Madness programme: the world premiere of Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching (Las brujas de Zugarramurdi).

A Touch of Sin (Tian zhu ding) Jia Zhangke, China/Japan North American Premiere
An angry miner, enraged by the corruption of his village leaders, takes action. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities that owning a firearm can offer. A pretty receptionist working in a sauna is pushed to the limit when a wealthy client assaults her. A young factory worker goes from one discouraging job to the next, only to face increasingly degrading circumstances. Four people, four different provinces.

Abuse of Weakness (Abus de Faiblesse) Catherine Breillat, France/Belgium/Germany World Premiere
An extraordinary collaboration between two legends of French cinema, Catherine Breillat’s brutally candid autobiographical drama stars Isabelle Huppert as a stroke-afflicted filmmaker manipulated by a notorious con man.

Bastards (Les Salauds) Claire Denis, France North American Premiere
Supertanker captain Marco Silvestri is called back urgently to Paris. His sister Sandra is desperate; her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, and her daughter is spiraling downwards. Sandra holds powerful businessman Edouard Laporte responsible. Marco moves into the building where Laporte has installed his mistress and her son, but he isn’t prepared for Sandra’s secrets, which muddy the waters. Starring Vincent Lindon and Chiara Mastroianni.

Closed Curtain (Parde) Kambozia Partovi and Jafar Panahi, Iran North American Premiere
A house by the sea; the curtains are pulled shut, the windows covered with black. Inside, a man is hiding with his dog. He is writing a screenplay, when suddenly a mysterious young woman appears and refuses to leave, much to the writer’s annoyance. But at daybreak, another arrival will flip everyone’s perspective.

Concrete Night Pirjo Honkasalo, Finland/Sweden/ Denmark World Premiere
A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother, in Finnish master Pirjo Honkasalo’s gorgeously stylized and emotionally devastating work about what we pass on to younger generations, and the ways we do it.

Home From Home – Chronicle of a Vision (Die Andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht) Edgar Reitz, Germany/France North American Premiere
Edgar Reitz tells this dramatic story of love and family against the backdrop of rural Germany in the mid-19th century, a time when entire poverty-stricken villages emigrated to faraway South America. The story centres on two brothers who have to decide whether they will stay or go.

How Strange to be Named Federico: Scola Narrates Fellini (Che strano chiamarsi Federico: Scola racconta Fellini) Ettore Scola, Italy International Premiere
On the 20th anniversary of Federico Fellini’s death, Ettore Scola, a devoted admirer of the incomparable maestro, commemorates the lesser-known aspects of Fellini’s personality, employing interviews, photographs, behind-the-scenes footage as well as Fellini’s drawings and film clips.

Moebius Kim Ki-duk, South Korea North American Premiere
South Korea’s celebrated perennial provocateur Kim Ki-duk (Pieta) returns with this twisted family chronicle perched somewhere between psychological thriller, grotesque comedy and perverse ode to the pleasures of sadomasochism.

Norte, The End of History (Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan) Lav Diaz, Philippines North American Premiere
In Philippine cinematic luminary Lav Diaz’s latest work, partially influenced by Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, a man is accused of murder while the real killer roams free.

Our Sunhi (Uri Sunhi) Hong Sangsoo, South Korea North American Premiere
Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s latest follows an aspiring young filmmaker who becomes the object of desire for three very different men, in this smart, resonant dramedy. Quebecois filmmakers Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires’s Triptych (Triptyque) was previously announced as part of the Canadian features lineup.

MIDNIGHT MADNESS

Witching & Bitching (Las brujas de Zugarramurdi) Alex de la Iglesia, Spain/France World Premiere
Desperate dad José and his friends run from a coven of witches hell-bent on their souls and on the 25,000 wedding rings the guys stole from a Cash-for-Gold shop in a desperate attempt to escape their lives of wife troubles. Witching & Bitching marks the seventh film by cult-favourite Spanish genre specialist Alex de la Iglesia (The Last Circus) to be screened at TIFF.

The Festival’s Official Film Schedule was released today, and is available at the Festival Box Office or by visiting tiff.net/festival. Copies will also be distributed in The Grid on Thursday, August 22. A 20-page section about the Festival will appear in the Toronto Star on Thursday, August 29, and will include the full film schedule.

Single tickets go on sale September 1. Purchase Festival tickets online at tiff.net/festival, by phone from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET daily at 416.599.TIFF or 1.888.599.8433, and in person at the Festival Box Office located at 225 King St. West. The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5 to 15, 2013.

About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.

DISCOVERY PROGRAMME SHOWCASES 28 BOLD VISIONARY WORKS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE

TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival® highlights 28 first and second feature films made by outstanding filmmakers from Canada and around the world in the Discovery programme. The inspiring lineup includes daring works and represents diverse perspectives from Hong Kong, France, Israel, Australia, Uruguay, Italy, Singapore, Costa Rica and South Africa.

"The Discovery programme exposes North American audiences to unique gems from today’s important global voices that will shape the films of tomorrow," said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. "The Festival is proud to recognize remarkable debut films with two prizes dedicated to Discovery filmmakers, and is committed to providing a nurturing environment for creative exchange."

Awards presented to films in the Discovery programme include the Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award supporting an exceptional filmmaker’s next project with a $10,000 cash prize, and the International Federation of Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI Prize) determined by a jury of esteemed international film critics.

1982 Tommy Oliver, USA World Premiere
1982, a film inspired by true events at the onset of the crack epidemic in Philadelphia, tells the story of a father and his efforts to protect his gifted daughter from the insidious epidemic which has literally come home via her drug-addicted mother. As his wife becomes more distant and unreliable, he struggles to raise his daughter on his own, while still striving to help his wife become clean. In the process, he learns some hard truths about his marriage and his life, which will ultimately test him as a parent, a husband, and a man. Starring Hill Harper, Sharon Leal, Wayne Brady and young dynamo Troi Zee.

All About the Feathers (Por las Plumas) Neto Villalobos, Costa Rica World Premiere
Chalo is a lone security guard who struggles to get his first gamecock. His job in an abandoned factory is boring and monotonous but it doesn’t seem to bother him that his life is like that as well. Once he finds his prize rooster, which he names Rocky, his life changes. Not having a proper place to raise and train Rocky triggers a series of comical events that will put Chalo’s passion and love for his new (and only) friend to the test.

The Amazing Catfish (Los insólitos peces gato) Claudia Sainte-Luce, Mexico North American Premiere
22-year-old Claudia lives alone in Guadalajara. One night, she ends up in the emergency room with signs of appendicitis. There she meets Martha, lying on the bed next to her. 46-year-old Martha has four children and endless lust for life, in spite of her illness. Moved by the lonely young woman, Martha invites Claudia to come and live with her when she leaves the hospital. At first, Claudia is bewildered by the somewhat chaotic organization of the household, but soon she finds her place in the tribe. And while Martha is getting weaker, Claudia's bond with each member of the family gets stronger day by day.

Around the Block Sarah Spillane, Australia World Premiere
Set in Sydney's multicultural inner-city neighbourhood of Redfern, this is a story of revenge and triumph that follows an Aboriginal teenage boy torn between his unexpected love of theatre and his rapidly disintegrating family. With encouragement from an unconventional American drama teacher (Christina Ricci), he confronts his past and eventually takes control of his future.

Bends Flora Lau, Hong Kong North American Premiere
Shot by iconic cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Bends tells the story of Anna (Carina Lau), an affluent housewife and Fai (Chen Kun), her chauffeur, and their unexpected friendship as they negotiate the pressure of Hong Kong life and the city’s increasingly complex relationship to mainland China.

Beneath the Harvest Sky Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, USA World Premiere
Beneath the Harvest Sky tells the story of Casper (Emory Cohen) and Dominic (Callan McAuliffe), two best friends who are fiercely loyal to one another, as they come of age in a small farming town in Maine. During their senior year of high school, Casper is drawn into smuggling drugs across the Canadian border with his outlaw father, Clayton (Aidan Gillen). Meanwhile, Dominic works his final potato harvest, hoping to earn the money he needs to buy a car and take them out of town. Their friendship and loyalty are put to the test as they are forced to mature and make adult decisions that will forever change the course of their lives.

Bethlehem Yuval Adler, Israel North American Premiere
Bethlehem tells the story of the unlikely bond between Razi, an Israeli secret service officer, and his Palestinian informant Sanfur, the younger brother of a senior Palestinian militant. Razi recruited Sanfur when he was just 15, and developed a very close, almost fatherly relationship to him. Now 17, Sanfur tries to navigate between Razi’s demands and his loyalty to his brother, living a double life and lying to both men. Co-written by director Yuval Adler and Ali Waked—an Arab journalist who spent years in the West Bank—Bethlehem gives an unparalleled, moving and authentic portrait of the complex reality behind the news.

Bobô Inês Oliveira, Portugal International Premiere
Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by Sofia’s mother to help take care of the house and her son. The appearance of Bobô, Mariama’s younger sister, awakens in Sofia the desire to take a stand. The forced cohabitation between Sofia and Mariama forces them to confront their own private ghosts.

Border Alessio Cremonini, Italy World Premiere
Two sisters, Aya and Fatima, live in Syria, at the epicenter of the fighting between police and Shabiha. Shady, Fatima’s husband, deserted the family and joined the rebels of the Syrian Free Army. The only chance the sisters have to survive is to cross the Turkish border.

Canopy Aaron Wilson, Australia World Premiere
It is wartime in Singapore, 1942. An Australian fighter pilot shot down in combat awakens suspended in the treetops. As night devours day, he must navigate through dangerous jungle in search of sanctuary. With minimal dialogue and showcasing a remarkable soundscape, Canopy is an immersive, beautifully shot cinematic experience about the collisions of war and nature and its subsequent toll on humanity.

Fat Mark Phinney, USA World Premiere
Addicted to food, and in bad health, Ken (Mel Rodriguez) is headed to an early grave. Despite advice from his friends, he is stubbornly set in his ways—but a chance encounter might just give him the motivation he needs. Based on Mark Phinney's own experiences and writings on the subject, Fat deals with food addiction in a gritty, authentic way, revealing the deep emotional roots of Ken’s struggles. Shot in Boston (and financed through crowdfunding), Fat peers into the darkness of depression and obesity, with no apologies.

Giraffada Rani Massalha, France/Germany/Italy/Palestine World Premiere
Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad, who has a special bond with the two giraffes in the zoo. After an Israeli air raid, the male giraffe dies and his mate, Rita, won’t survive unless the veterinarian finds her a new companion. The only zoo that might provide this animal is located in Tel Aviv. Giraffada is the uncanny story of a heist… of a giraffe.

I Am Yours (Jeg Er Din) Iram Haq, Norway International Premiere
I Am Yours is a portrait of Mina, a young Norwegian-Pakistani single mother. Mina is constantly looking for love however none of her relationships bear any hope of lasting very long. Then Mina meets Jesper, and her fortunes seem to change…

Ilo Ilo Anthony Chen, Singapore North American Premiere
Teresa, a Filipino immigrant, is hired as a live-in-maid by a family in Singapore. After some initial trouble, she forms a unique bond with grade-schooler Jiale, which in turn alters the relationship between her and the other members of the family, as between Jiale and his overstressed parents.

The Militant (El Lugar Del Hijo) Manolo Nieto, Uruguay World Premiere
A university student involved in militant leftist activism is faced with some difficult decisions when his father suddenly dies, leaving him in charge of their troubled ranch and forcing him to take on the role of a middle class landowner.

Miracle (Zázrak) Juraj Lehotsky, Slovakia/Czech Republic International Premiere
Miracles is the story of 15-year-old Ela who is sent to a re-education centre. She yearns for love, but is not allowed to love. Despite all the restrictions, she decides to live her life to the fullest.

My Love Awaits Me by the Sea (Habibi Bistanani And il Bahar) Mais Darwazah, Germany/Jordan/Palestine/Qatar World Premiere
My Love Awaits Me by the Sea is filmmaker Mais Darwazah’s personal journey of self-discovery to “a place that only exists in your mind”. Retracing the last steps of late artist Hasan Hourani — a lover whom she has never met — she meets characters and visits their intimate worlds in search of ‘the dream', and sees how it is still alive within modern day Palestine, even amidst a very different reality of the outside world of occupation.

Of Good Report Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, South Africa International Premiere
Schoolteacher Parker Sithole (Mothusi Magano) has arrived in a rural South African township with no local connections, but his unassuming disposition inspires trust and sympathy, and he is deemed “of good report” with a glowing recommendation from his previous employer. But when he falls in love with a young woman only to discover that she is one of his new pupils, their love story goes awry, and secrets and obsession tear them apart. Controversial and uncompromising, Of Good Report is not your typical crime of passion.

Palo Alto Gia Coppola, USA North American Premiere
Teddy, April, Fred and Emily are teens left largely to their own devices due to parental foolishness and neglect. They seek diversion and connectedness in each other's company, wandering through the homes, parks and playgrounds of their tree-lined suburb. But communication is so very difficult. They struggle to articulate their feelings. Their parties may be wild and raucous... but they are alone. Starring James Franco, Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff and Zoe Levin.

Paradise (Paraiso) Mariana Chenillo, Mexico World Premiere
Overweight childhood sweethearts Carmen and Alfredo have re-located from the suburbs to the city. Feeling out of her element and subconscious about her body, Carmen joins a weight loss program and asks her husband to join. Ironically, he sheds the pounds and the distance between them grows, putting their relationship to the test.

Salvation Army (L'Armée du salut) Abdellah Taïa, France North American Premiere
The story of Abdellah’s coming of age in two parts — first as a teenager in Morocco, the second as a university student in Geneva. Inspired by the filmmaker’s own autobiographical novel that carries the same title, Salvation Army is as much a film about inhibition, hypocrisy, brutality, and shame as it is about desire, love, dignity and survival.

South is Nothing (Il Sud è Niente) Fabio Mollo, France/Italy World Premiere
Grazia lives in a small town on the Strait of Messina (Southern Italy) with her father, Cristiano, who sells dried fish. She was 12 when her older brother Pietro emigrated to Germany and never came back. One day, Cristiano says that Pietro is dead and he never wants to talk about it again.

The Stag John Butler, Ireland World Premiere
At his fiancée’s urging, a very modern Irish groom-to-be reluctantly agrees to a stag weekend with his friends, camping in the western wilderness of Ireland. Much to their chagrin, these modern men are joined by the brother of the bride, a crazy, unpredictable alpha male known as “The Machine”, and an explosive Id to their collective Ego. The Machine is a force of nature, and under his leadership, the men—stripped of modern comfort, convenience and, finally, clothing—must begin their journey into the wild.

The Summer of Flying Fish (El verano de los peces voladores) Marcela Said, Chile/France North American Premiere
Manena is a very determined teenager, and the darling daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacations to a single obsession: the extermination of carp fish that invade his artificial lagoon. As he resorts to more and more extreme methods, Manena experiences her first love, deception, and discovers a world that silently co-exists alongside her own: that of the Mapuche Indian workers who claim access to these lands… and who stand up to her father.

Trap Street (Shuyin Jie) Vivian Qu, China North American Premiere
Li Qiuming is a young trainee at a digital mapping company. One day while out surveying, Qiuming has a brief encounter with an attractive woman who disappears into a quiet alley. He soon learns that the data he collected of this alley cannot register in his company’s mapping system. He goes back to the area for a second survey…

Canadian films previously announced in the Discovery programme include: Gia Milani’s All the Wrong Reasons, Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls and Chloé Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers to Run.

The Festival’s Official Film Schedule was released today, and is available at the Festival Box Office or by visiting tiff.net/festival. Copies will also be distributed in The Grid on Thursday, August 22. A 20-page section about the Festival will appear in the Toronto Star on Thursday, August 29, and will include the full film schedule.

Single tickets go on sale September 1. Purchase Festival tickets online at tiff.net/festival, by phone from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET daily at 416.599.TIFF or 1.888.599.8433, and in person at the Festival Box Office located at 225 King St. West. The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5 to 15, 2013.

About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.

MAVERICKS SET TO ENGAGE LEADERS FROM THE WORLD OF FILM AND CULTURE
Five world premiere screenings plus on-stage appearances by Spike Jonze, Harvey Weinstein, Beeban Kidron, Irrfan Khan, Ron Howard and Ken Taylor

TORONTO – The Toronto International Film Festival® has announced a prestigious lineup in this year’s Mavericks programme, set to offer audiences in-depth conversations with leaders in the film industry and beyond. Providing recollections, opinions and reactions, participating guests include filmmakers Spike Jonze, Ron Howard, Beeban Kidron, Chuck Workman, Madeline Anderson and Charlie Paul; actor Irrfan Khan; producer Harvey Weinstein; artist Ralph Steadman; Ken Taylor, former Canadian Ambassador to Iran; and Toronto Women & Film Festival founder, scholar and former TIFF programmer Kay Armatage.

“In Mavericks, we look for lively topics and great conversationalists,” said Mavericks lead programmer Thom Powers. “This year’s lineup includes great cinematic innovators and showcases film intersecting with music, art, technology, and politics. They are one-of-a kind events.”

This year, the Mavericks programme showcases the world premieres of 12.12.12., InRealLife, Made in America, Our Man In Tehran and What is Cinema?, the international premiere of I Am Somebody, the North American premiere of For No Good Reason, and a special preview of clips from Her.

The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5 to 15, 2013.

12.12.12.
Featuring one of the greatest lineups ever assembled — including Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Paul McCartney, The Who, Kanye West, and Alicia Keys — this extraordinary concert film, produced by Amir Bar-Lev, documents the event that would raise over 30 million dollars to aid the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Following this world premiere screening, the Festival welcomes concert co-organizer Harvey Weinstein for a live discussion.

For No Good Reason
For No Good Reason explores the connection between life and art, seen through the eyes of seminal British artist Ralph Steadman. We take a trip through the wild and dark days of Steadman as he recalls adventures such as travelling with Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas author Hunter S Thompson to see the Rumble in the Jungle; or engaging in gun fights with literary giant William S Burroughs. The framework of the documentary is a visit to Steadman’s studio by Johnny Depp. Director Charlie Paul spent 15 years meticulously amassing the footage and creating the remarkable animations for the film to match the same anarchic energy, anger and free spirit of Steadman's pictures. The audience is able to reach to the heart of what makes this artist tick, discover his friendships and fallings out, his love for art and his passion for civil liberties. As part of the Future Projections programme, the Festival also proudly presents the world premiere of the Ralph Steadman For No Good Reason installation at the CIBC Canadian Film Gallery at TIFF Bell Lightbox, which runs daily from September 5 to 15.

In Conversation With… Irrfan Khan
The Festival is delighted to welcome Bollywood screen legend Irrfan Kahn (appearing at the Festival in The Lunchbox and Qissa) for an in-depth onstage discussion of his storied filmography, which includes the Academy Award–winning features Slumdog Millionaire and Life of Pi.

In Conversation With… Spike Jonze
Since bursting onto the scene with groundbreaking music videos for the likes of Daft Punk, Björk and the Beastie Boys, actor, photographer, and filmmaker Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) has become one of cinema’s most inventive, irreverent, and visionary talents. This unique interactive session will survey Jonze’s singular career and offer the audience an exclusive preview of his highly-anticipated new project, Her— an original love story, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, that explores the evolving nature, and the risks, of intimacy in the modern world.

InRealLife
In a short span of time, our lives have been transformed by mobile phones and internet technologies — what does this mean, particularly for a generation who’s never known anything else? Beeban Kidron’s (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason) timely and insightful documentary encourages us to think critically about our adoption of technology.

Made in America
Director Ron Howard takes audiences behind the scenes of Jay Z's maiden voyage as curator of an ambitious and wildly diverse music festival in Philadelphia. Made in America examines the roots of Jay Z's vision and unique leadership abilities, the challenges of staging such an event and the individual journeys artists and everyday people had taken to arrive at this point in popular culture. Exciting and inspirational, the film showcases performers from all genres of music including Pearl Jam, Janelle Monáe, Skrillex, Run–D.M.C. and Jay Z himself. Following this world premiere screening, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Ron Howard will be on-stage for a live conversation.

Our Man In Tehran
Our Man In Tehran— which chronicles the true story behind Argo’s Hollywood embellishments — reveals new information about the true story of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor and the CIA, the secret dealings between the US and Canadian governments to rescue six fugitive American diplomats, and the covert planning of the military rescue “Operation Eagle Claw” during the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979. In conjunction with the world premiere of Drew Taylor and Larry Weinstein’s in-depth documentary, the Festival is proud to present a conversation with the venerable Ken Taylor, Canada’s former ambassador to Iran, who personally sheltered the six Americans in the operation that became known as "the Canadian Caper."

What is Cinema? (Qu'est ce que le cinéma?)
Significant cinema is far more than story-telling. It contains moments of truth that can’t be expressed any other way except through cinematic style. Just what cinema is and could be is explored with over 100 clips, many of them surprising, and through interviews with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Robert Bresson and David Lynch, in What is Cinema?, documentarian Chuck
Workman’s engrossing visual essay about mastery of cinematic form. The world premiere will be followed by an on-stage conversation with the filmmaker.

Women & Film 40th Anniversary
preceded by I Am Somebody
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Toronto Women & Film Festival, founder, scholar and former programmer Kay Armatage joins us for an onstage discussion with director Madeline Anderson, preceded by a special screening of Anderson’s short film, I Am Somebody, which screened at the original event. The film documents 400 hospital workers who went on strike to fight for union rights, equal pay for equal work, dignity and respect. All but 12 of the workers were women, and all of them were black. This struggle took place in Charleston, South Carolina and it was one of the last of the coalitions between civil rights and labour.

The Festival’s Official Film Schedule was released today, and is available at the Festival Box Office or by visiting tiff.net/festival. Copies will also be distributed in The Grid on Thursday, August 22. A 20-page section about the Festival will appear in the Toronto Star on Thursday, August 29, and will include the full film schedule.Single tickets go on sale September 1. Purchase Festival tickets online at tiff.net/festival, by phone from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET daily at 416.599.TIFF or 1.888.599.8433, and in person at the Festival Box Office located at 225 King St. West. The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5 to 15, 2013.

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About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.

FESTIVAL’S 2013 FUTURE PROJECTIONS PROGRAMME SHOWCASES MAJOR NEW VISUAL ART COMMISSIONS
Featuring six original installations prepared especially for David Cronenberg: Transformation and the North American premiere of Venice Biennale Silver Lion winner Camille Henrot

TORONTO — Future Projections celebrates the meeting point of cinema and the visual arts with a 2013 programme featuring installations from significant international and Canadian artists. This year, the popular and provocative city-wide programme is largely devoted to a single exhibition: David Cronenberg: Transformation — the visual art component of TIFF’s multi-faceted 2013 endeavour, The Cronenberg Project.Housed at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), the exhibition, curated by Noah Cowan and David Liss, sees six significant artists responding to a specific theme in filmmaker David Cronenberg’s work: the yearning to witness the next stage of human evolution. Artists include: Candice Breitz, James Coupe, Marcel Dzama, Jeremy Shaw, Jamie Shovlin and Laurel Woodcock. The exhibition runs from September 5 to December 29, 2013.

Future Projections will also feature Camille Henrot’s celebrated Grosse Fatigue, winner of the Venice Biennale Silver Lion, an exhibition of drawings by gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman and a new installation by Radical Friend at the Drake Hotel. These works will be on display for the duration of the Festival, September 5 to 15, 2013.

All Future Projections presentations are free and open to the public during the Festival.

Grosse Fatigue, 2013 North American Premiere
Multidisciplinary artist Camille Henrot won the Silver Lion for best young promising artist at this year’s Venice Biennale for her heady “encyclopedic” video, which mixes slam poetry-style narration with a percussive soundtrack as it describes an increasingly breathless excursion through the history of the universe. Presented in collaboration with MOCCA, 952 Queen Street West. Runs daily, September 5 to 15.

Ralph Steadman For No Good Reason, 1970 to 2013 World Premiere
As a complement to the documentary of the same title screening in the Festival’sMavericks section, this exhibition highlights the work of the legendary illustrator, Ralph Steadman, whose distinctively grotesque drawings — most famously for the books of Hunter S. Thompson — have placed him in the exalted company of artists Saul Steinberg and Robert Crumb. Presented at CIBC Canadian Film Gallery, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West. Runs daily, September 5 to 15.

Sweat, 2012 World Premiere
Projected every night of the Festival onto the facade of the Drake Hotel, the new work from Radical Friend (Los Angeles-based directing duo Kirby McClure and Julia Grigorian) randomly collages images from contemporary mass culture’s darker expressions — murder, bikers, deserts — into a hypnotic, dystopic, multi-layered projection wall. Presented in collaboration with The Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen Street West. Video installation runs from dusk till dawn. September 5 to 15.

The following installations make up David Cronenberg: Transformation.

Treatment, 2013 World Premiere
In this fascinating, unnervingly ingenious new work, artist Candice Breitz deploys her therapist, her parents and herself to redub a trio of key scenes from David Cronenberg’s eerily personal 1979 horror film The Brood, flushing out the film’s universal themes of relationship disintegration and parental anxiety. Presented and organized in partnership withMOCCA, 952 Queen Street West. Runs daily, September 5 to 15. Exhibition continues until December 29, 2013.

Une Danse des Bouffons (or A Jester's Dance), 2013 World Premiere
The new film by Canadian-born multidisciplinary artist Marcel Dzama (featuring music by Arcade Fire and an appearance by former Sonic Youth frontwoman Kim Gordon) pays oblique tribute to the cinema of David Cronenberg while dropping playful art-historical quotations from Duchamp to Picasso, Beuys to Orsler. Presented and organized in partnership with MOCCA, 952 Queen Street West. Runs daily, September 5 to 15. Exhibition continues until December 29, 2013.

Swarm, 2013 World Premiere
United Kingdom-born, Seattle-based artist James Coupe fuses surveillance technology and social media in his new, JG Ballard-inspired installation. Presented and organized in partnership with MOCCA, 952 Queen Street West. Runs daily, September 5 to 15. Exhibition continues until December 29, 2013.

Introduction to the Memory Personality, 2012/2013 North American Premiere
For this startling new variation on his acclaimed installation Introduction to the Memory Personality, Jeremy Shaw places the spectator alone in a kind of cabin, where strategies around hypnotism and mind manipulation generate a profound sense of dread, a feeling that a buried taboo — in the form of a foreign body — has been shot directly into the brain. Presented and organized in partnership with MOCCA, 952 Queen Street West. Runs daily, September 5 to 15. Exhibition continues until December 29, 2013.

Rough Cut (Hiker Meat), 2012-2013 World Premiere
The new project from British conceptual artist Jamie Shovlin is a fabricated documentary about the imaginary exploitation film Hiker Meat, which Shovlin created by splicing together 1,500 separate sequences from myriad low-budget slasher films from the last 30 years. Presented and organized in partnership with MOCCA, 952 Queen Street West. Runs daily, September 5 to 15. Exhibition continues until December 29, 2013.

walkthrough, 2013 World Premiere
The newest installment of Laurel Woodcock’s site-specific series continues her exploration of the relationship between cinema and the written word by culling slug lines from the screenplays of David Cronenberg’s films and scattering them throughout the galleries of MOCCA. Presented and organized in partnership with MOCCA, 952 Queen Street West. Runs daily, September 5 to 15. Exhibition continues until December 29, 2013.

The Festival’s Official Film Schedule was released today, and is available at the Festival Box Office or by visiting tiff.net/festival. Copies will also be distributed in The Grid on Thursday, August 22. A 20-page section about the Festival will appear in the Toronto Star on Thursday, August 29, and will include the full film schedule.

Single tickets go on sale September 1. Purchase Festival tickets online at tiff.net/festival, by phone from10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET daily at 416.599.TIFF or 1.888.599.8433, and in person at the Festival Box Office located at 225 King St. West. The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5 to 15, 2013.

About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PARTNERS WITH CBC TO BRING IN GLENN GOULD STUDIO AS NEW VENUE FOR 2013

TORONTO — Toronto International Film Festival® , in partnership with the CBC, is pleased to announce the Glenn Gould Studio as a venue host for various public and industry programming during this year’s Festival. The new venue will function as a main location for the newly expanded TIFF Industry Conference, which runs from September 6 to 12. Programming taking place at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre’s Glenn Gould Studio includes Industry Conference Keynote Session, Master Class, Moguls, Mavericks, Telefilm Canada PITCH THIS! on September 9 and Doc Conference (September 10 and 11).

“As the jewel of the Canadian Broadcast Centre, Glenn Gould Studio is just steps away from TIFF Bell Lightbox — the central hub for Festival activity,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. “We welcome the CBC’s addition to Festival Village, and consider the venue an ideal spot for the special events and industry programming we have planned.”

Glenn Gould Studio is located at 250 Front Street West, on the main floor of the Canadian Broadcasting Centre. Named after the famous Canadian pianist, the venue houses excellent acoustics and uniquely acts as both a premiere public concert hall, corporate venue space and superb recording studio.

The Festival’s Official Film Schedule was released today, and is available at the Festival Box Office or by visiting tiff.net/festival. Copies will also be distributed in The Grid on Thursday, August 22. A 20-page section about the Festival will appear in the Toronto Star on Thursday, August 29, and will include the full film schedule.

Single tickets go on sale September 1. Purchase Festival tickets online at tiff.net/festival, by phone from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET daily at 416.599.TIFF or 1.888.599.8433, and in person at the Festival Box Office located at 225 King St. West. The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5 to 15, 2013.

About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.

FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FURTHER WAYS TO EXPERIENCE AND NAVIGATE 11 DAYS OF FILM
Enhanced experience with IMAX screenings
A look at the creative process with the return of Jason Reitman’s Live Read
Special selections through Next Wave and Manifesto initiatives

TORONTO – The 38th Toronto International Film Festival® today announced details of initiatives and special programming introduced to enhance the filmgoers’ Festival experience.

For the first time, the Festival proudly presents official selections and special screenings in stunning IMAX. Jason Reitman’s Live Read returns for an all-star read-through featuring a surprise cast. The Next Wave initiative sees a committee of young film enthusiasts highlight Festival films that appeal to their peers while, for the first time, the Manifesto initiative tasks the community organization with selecting films for audiences interested in the urban arts.

JASON REITMAN’S LIVE READ
The Festival proudly welcomes back Jason Reitman’s Live Read— a unique event in which classic movie scripts are read by contemporary actors. With no rehearsal, the actors come together for a one-take read-through with Reitman narrating stage direction.

In 2012, the Festival welcomed Reitman and an all-star cast — including Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Adam Driver, Sarah Gadon and George Stroumboulopoulos — for a live table read of Alan Ball’s screenplay for American Beauty. This year, Reitman is back with a surprise script from a modern classic and a new cast at the Ryerson Theatre on Friday, September 6. Details, including cast and script, for the 2013 Live Read event will be announced in early September.

Jason Reitman created Live Read in October 2011, in collaboration with Elvis Mitchell, for the film society of Los Angeles County Museum of Arts (LACMA). The six month hit series featured Breakfast Club (Jennifer Garner and Aaron Paul), The Apartment (Steve Carell and Natalie Portman), The Princess Bride (Paul Rudd), Shampoo (Bradley Cooper and Kate Hudson), The Big Lebowski (Seth Rogen), and Reservoir Dogs, featuring an all-African American cast including actors Laurence Fishburne and Terrence Howard.

IMAX
New this year, audiences are invited to be part of the action with two official Festival selections and two special screenings presented in spectacular IMAX.

Gravity Alfonso Cuarón, USA/United Kingdom (Special Presentations) North American Premiere
Gravity is a heart-pounding thriller that pulls its audience into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. Sandra Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer accompanied on her first shuttle mission by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney). On a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone — tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.

Man of Tai Chi Keanu Reeves, USA/China (Special Presentations) North American Premiere
Keanu Reeves makes his directorial debut with this spectacular martial-arts epic starring former Matrix stuntman Tiger Chen as a young martial artist whose unparalleled Tai Chi skills land him in a highly lucrative underworld fight club. Featuring fight choreography by the legendary Yuen Woo-ping.

Metallica Through the Never Nimród Antal, Canada/USA World Premiere
Dane DeHaan (The Place Beyond the Pines) stars as a Metallica roadie dispatched to hell and back in this mind-blowing mash-up of concert film and post-apocalyptic adventure, presented in IMAX 3D.

The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming, USA World Premiere
Experience Judy Garland’s over-the-rainbow adventure in vivid new detail with this IMAX 3D presentation of Victor Fleming’s family classic.

TIFF NEXT WAVE COMMITTEE

The youth-driven TIFF Next Wave Committee is a group of 12 film enthusiasts aged 15 to 18. The Committee has identified Festival films that will appeal specifically to the next generation of movie lovers. 2013 selections include:

Around the Block Sarah Spillane, Australia (Discovery) World Premiere

Beneath the Harvest Sky Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, USA (Discovery) World Premiere

Exit Marrakech Caroline Link, Germany (Special Presentations) International Premiere

The Finishers Nils Tavernier, Belgium/France (Special Presentations) World Premiere

The F Word Michael Dowse Canada/Ireland (Special Presentations) World Premiere

Giraffada Rani Massalha, France/Germany/Italy/Palestine (Discovery) World Premiere

How I Live Now Kevin Macdonald, United Kingdom (Special Presentations) World Premiere

Palo Alto Gia Coppola, USA (Discovery) North American Premiere

The Square Jehane Noujaim, Egypt/USA (TIFF Docs) World Premiere

Tracks John Curran, United Kingdom/Australia (Special Presentations) North American Premiere

MANIFESTO

Manifesto Community Projects is a non-profit organization working to unite, inspire and empower diverse communities of young people through arts and culture. New to the Festival this year, Manifesto identifies selections programmed for a diverse audience interested in the urban arts.

All Is By My Side John Ridley, United Kingdom/Ireland (Special Presentations) World Premiere

Belle Amma Asante, United Kingdom (Special Presentations) World Premiere

Cristo Rey Leticia Tonos Paniagua, Dominican Republic/France/Haiti (Contemporary World Cinema) World Premiere

Empire of Dirt Peter Stebbings, Canada (Contemporary World Cinema) World Premiere

Half of a Yellow Sun Biyi Bandele, Nigeria/United Kingdom (Special Presentations) North American Premiere

Made in America Ron Howard, USA (Mavericks) World Premiere

Omar Hany Abu-Assad, Palestine (Special Presentations) North American Premiere

Starred Up David Mackenzie, United Kingdom (Special Presentations) World Premiere

Supermensch The Legend of Shep Gordon Mike Meyers, USA (Gala) World Premiere

Words and Pictures Fred Schepisi, USA (Gala) World Premiere

The Festival’s Official Film Schedule was released today, and is available at the Festival Box Office or by visiting tiff.net/festival. Copies will also be distributed in The Grid on Thursday, August 22. A 20-page section about the Festival will appear in the Toronto Star on Thursday, August 29, and will include the full film schedule.

Single tickets go on sale September 1. Purchase Festival tickets online at tiff.net/festival, by phone from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET daily at 416.599.TIFF or 1.888.599.8433, and in person at the Festival Box Office located at 225 King St. West. The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5 to 15, 2013.

About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.

THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROLLS OUT ITS RED-HOT CARPET FOR AN INTERNATIONAL ROSTER OF FILMMAKERS AND ACTORS

TORONTO — The 38th Toronto International Film Festival® welcomes an incredible guest list of celebrated talent from around the globe. Filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto include: Catherine Breillat, Nicole Garcia, Pawel Pawlikowski, Bertrand Tavernier, Steve McQueen, Godfrey Reggio, Denis Villeneuve, Bill Condon, Jean-Marc Vallée, John Wells, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Ayoade, Atom Egoyan, Matthew Weiner, John Carney, Jason Reitman, Jason Bateman, Yorgos Servetas, Liza Johnson, Megan Griffiths, Fernando Eimbcke, Alexey Uchitel, Johnny Ma, Biyi Bandele, Rashid Masharawi, Paul Haggis, Ron Howard, Eli Roth, Álex de la Iglesia, Bruce McDonald, Jennifer Baichwal, John Ridley, and Justin Chadwick.

The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.

The following filmmakers and artists are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:

Ahmad Abdalla, Hany Abu-Assad, Yuval Adler, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Alexandre Aja, Bruce Alcock, Gianni Amelio, Thanos Anastopoulos, Madeline Anderson, Nimród Antal, Louise Archambault, Alberto Arvelo, Amma Asante, Jean-Francois Asselin, Alexandros Avranas, Barry Avrich, Richard Ayoade, Jennifer Baichwal, Biyi Bandele, Jeff Barnaby, Jason Bateman, Ritesh Batra, Robert Beavers, Joe Begos, Nejib Belkadhi, Ned Benson, Allison Berg, Wang Bing, Claire Blanchet, Christoffer Boe, Cory Bowles, Ragnar Bragason, Catherine Breillat, Candice Breitz, Stephen Broomer, Stephen Brown, Edward Burtynsky, John Butler, Yury Bykov, Kim Byung-seo, Josh C. Waller, Robin Campillo, Guillaume Canet, John Carney, Alexander Carson, Juan Cavestany, Patrick Cederberg, Justin Chadwick, Jeremiah Chechik, Anthony Chen, Mariana Chenillo, Monia Chokri, Sam Chou, Marie Clements, Fernando Coimbra, Bill Condon, Gia Coppola, Trevor Cornish, James Coupe, Mark Cousins, Cassandra Cronenberg, Alfonso Cuarón, John Curran, Eva Cvijanovic, Lance Daly, Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen, Mais Darwazah, Álex de la Iglesia, Claire Denis, Yi Ding, Tiane Doan na Champassak, Xavier Dolan, Mark Dornford-May, Nathaniel Dorsky, Michael Dowse, Jean Dubrel, Stephen Dunn, Sean Durkin, Marcel Dzama, Atom Egoyan, Shayne Ehman, Fernando Eimbcke, Reha Erdem, Helga Fanderl, Asghar Farhadi, Alexey Fedorchenko, Ralph Fiennes, Mike Flanagan, Philipp Fleischmann, Dexter Fletcher, Ryan Flowers, Bruno Forzani, James Franco, David Frankel, Toa Fraser, Stephen Frears, Sol Friedman, Fantavious Fritz, Kevan Funk, Nicole Garcia, Aron Gaudet, Dyana Gaye, Alex Gibney, Guillaume Giovanetti, Richard Glatzer, Jonathan Glazer, Chris Goldade, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Gordon Green, Megan Griffiths, Paul Haggis, Iram Haq, Ask Hasselbalch, Simon Hawkins, Zeke Hawkins, Jordan Hayes, Luke Higginson, Agnieszka Holland, Nicole Holofcener, Pirjo Honkasalo, Joel Hopkins, Peter Ho-sun Chan, Ron Howard, Aran Hughes, Peter Hutton, Róbert I. Douglas, Max Idje, Thomas Imbach, Sarah J. Christman, Jim Jarmusch, Jeffrey Jeturian, Liza Johnson, Spike Jonze, Chris Jordan, Menelaos Karamaghiolis, Dome Karukoski, Lawrence Kasdan, Shambhavi Kaul, Abdellatif Kechiche, Chris Kennedy, Frank Keraudren, Judy Kibinge, Beeban Kidron, Hirokazu Kore-Eda, Philippe Kotlarski, Christina Koutsospyrou, Marvin Kren, John Krokidas, Bruce LaBruce, Ian Lagarde, Felix Lajeunesse, Jeremy Lalonde, Dante Lam, Alix Lambert, Peter Landesman, Chris Landreth, Lisa Langseth, Flora Lau, Chris Lavis, Patrice Leconte, Derek Lee, Juraj Lehotský, Sebastián Lelio, Robert Lepage, Nicolas Lévesque, Caroline Link, Daniele Luchetti, Johnny Ma, Kevin Macdonald, David Mackenzie, Yossi Madmony, Juno Mak, Mohamad Malas, John Maloof, Laila Marrakchi, Donovan Marsh, Raya Martin, Catherine Martin, Manuel Martín Cuenca, Rashid Masharawi, Rani Massalha, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Sarah McCarthy, Bruce McDonald, Lucky McKee, Don McKellar, Steve McQueen, Richie Mehta, Kays Mejri, Brillante Mendoza, Roger Michell, Gia Milani, Terry Miles, Roberto Minervini, Fabio Mollo, Vincent Moloi, Chung Mong-Hong, Lukas Moodysson, Alberto Morais, Errol Morris, Carlos Motta, Stéphane Moukarzel, Jasmin Mozaffari, Fraser Munden, Mike Myers, Pan Nalin, Avi Nesher, Calin Peter Netzer, Manolo Nieto, Tomonari Nishikawa, Jehane Noujaim, Alanis Obomsawin, Randall Okita, Inês Oliveira, Thomas Oliver, Marcel Ophüls, François Ozon, Penny Panayotopoulou, Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Zack Parker, Charlie Paul, Frank Pavich, Pawel Pawlikowski, Mark Peranson, Mark Phinney, Sébastien Pilote, Pedro Pires, Ventura Pons, Leanne Pooley, Corneliu Porumboiu, Arie Posin, Luther Price, Martin Provost, Elina Psykou, Cristi Puiu, Gita Pullapilly, Vivian Qu, Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, Thierry Ragobert, Shilpa Ranade, Paul Raphaël, Mohammad Rasoulof, Keanu Reeves, Godfrey Reggio, Kelly Reichardt, Jason Reitman, Edgar Reitz, John Ridley, Ben Rivers, Chloé Robichaud, Wayne Robinson, Alexandre Rockwell, João Pedro Rodrigues, Mariana Rondón, Carlos Federico Rossini, Dana Rotberg, Eli Roth, Ben Russell, Madeleine Sackler, Marcela Said, Claudia Sainte-Luce, Yannis Sakaridis, René Sampaio, Óskar Santos, Jeremy Saulnier, Matthew Saville, Daniel Schechter, Fred Schepisi, Hannes Schüpbach, Devan Scott, Seth Scriver, Ivan Sen, Albert Serra, Yorgos Servetas, Jody Shapiro, Maneesh Sharma, Jeremy Shaw, Richard Shepard, Jamie Shovlin, Anthony Silverston, Anup Singh, Charlie Siskel, Chris Sivertson, Erik Skjoldbjærg, Gregory Smith, Jonathan Sobol, Paolo Sorrentino, Götz Spielmann, Sarah Spillane, Stephanie Spray, Yael Staav, Scott Stark, Ralph Steadman, Peter Stebbings, Charlie Stratton, Caroline Strubbe, Leslie Supnet, Bruce Sweeney, Jànos Szàsz, Maciek Szczerbowski, Abdellah Taïa, Danis Tanović, Bertrand Tavernier, Nils Tavernier, Drew Taylor, Teller, Jonathan Teplitzky, Johnnie To, Leticia Tonos Paniagua, David Turner, John Turturro, Alexey Uchitel, Cho Ui-seok, Onur Ünlü, Jean-Marc Vallée, Diego Vega, Pacho Velez, Ingrid Veninger, Marion Vernoux, Joao Viana, Neto Villalobos, Denis Villeneuve, Jan Vogel, Wiebke von Carolsfeld, Anne Weil, Matthew Weiner, Larry Weinstein, John Wells, Ti West, Wash Westmoreland, Ben Wheatley, James Wilkes, Aaron Wilson, Frederick Wiseman, Walter Woodman, Chuck Workman, Noh Young-seok, Jasmila Zbanic, Cagla Zencirci, Jia Zhangke, Lara Zizic, Ramon Zürcher, and Alan Zweig.

The following guests are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:

Quinton Aaron, Amrita Acharia, Adrien Brody, Ignacia Allamand, Sarah Allen, Andres Almeida, Charlene Amoia, Jennifer Aniston, Magdalena Apanowicz, Fanny Ardant, Kay Armatage, Pilou Asbæk, Moran Atias, Adam Bakri, Liane Balaban, Jay Baruchel, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Beals, Maria Bello, Annette Bening, Tom Berenger, Demian Bichir, Valeria Bilello, Juliette Binoche, Macon Blair, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Fabricio Boliveira, Mark Boone Junior, John Boyega, Wayne Brady, Evelyne Brochu, Josh Brolin, Pierce Brosnan, W. Earl Brown, Daniel Brühl, Sandra Bullock, Aaron Burns, Yury Bykov, Nicolas Cage, Sara Canning, Samantha Castillo, Rohan Chand, Jessica Chastain, Hannah Cheesman, Tiger Chen, Parineeti Chopra, Thomas Haden Church, Emilia Clarke, Glenn Close, Joe Cobden, Rory Cochrane, Emory Cohen, Toni Collette, Kerry Condon, Alice Cooper, James Cordon, Milhem Cortaz, Marion Cotillard, Ben Cotton, Jai Courtney, Nicolás Cristóbal Martínez Andrade, Mark Critch, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Laure de Clermont, Dane DeHaan, Alan Dershowitz, Kimke Desart, Sophie Desmarais, Emmanuelle Devos, Xavier Dolan, Jason Dugre, Rene Durian, Joel Edgerton, Zac Efron, Ryan Eggold, Jesse Eisenberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba, Akari Endo, Josh Ethier, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Tracey Fairaway, Dakota Fanning, Michael Fassbender, Tom Felton, Sky Ferreira, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Will Forte, Ben Foster, James Franco, Rupert Friend, Alejandro Furth, Sarah Gadon, Zach Galifianakis, Carla Gallo, Paulina García, Jennifer Garner, Julie Gayet, Sami Gayle, Cara Gee, Melissa George, Tavi Gevinson, Madalina Ghenea, Paul Giamatti, Karen Gillan, Aidan Gillen, Philip Glass, Brendan Gleeson, Shep Gordon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Richard E. Grant, Jessica Greco, Gattlin Griffith, Bob Guccione Jr, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, Kirk Hammett, Emily Hampshire, Hill Harper, Naomie Harris, Ed Harris, Alexa Havins, John Hawkes, Scott Haze, Chris Hemsworth, James Hetfield, Eve Hewson, Tom Hiddleston, Jane Homlish, Terrence Howard, Isabelle Huppert, Jack Huston, Han Hyo-joo, Jeremy Irvine, Lorenza Izzo, Hugh Jackman, Kawennahere Devery Jacobs, Penn Jillette, Scarlett Johansson, Victoria Johnson, Cathy Jones, Felicity Jones, Lee Joon-ho, Emmanuel Kabongo, Jon Kane, Nimrat Kaur, Mary Kay Place, Zoe Kazan, Irrfan Khan, Nicole Kidman, Taylor Kitsch, Kristina Klebe, Joey Klein, Kevin Kline, Keira Knightley, Brigitte Kren, Ryan Kwanten, Seol Kyung-gu, Pier-Gabriel Lajoie, Jessica Lange, Alexandra Maria Lara, Jude Law, Anne Le Ny, Sharon Leal, Leandra Leal, Xiao Mu Lee, Melissa Leo, Jared Leto, Zoe Levin, Adam Levine, Ariel Levy, Hunter Lochard Page, Alexandros Logothetis, Patti Lomax, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, George MacKay, Richard Madden, Pauline Malefane, Joseph Mawle, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Callan McAuliffe, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Matthew McConaughey, Michael McGrady, Yasser Michelén, Mila Kunis, Gillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Thandie Newton, Genevieve Nnaji, Anika Noni Rose, Lupita Nyong'o, Jack O'Connell, Catherine O'Hara, Elizabeth Olsen, Nao Omori, Onyeka Onwenu, Clive Owen, Kallia Papadaki, Megan Park , Sarena Parmar, Sarah Paulson, Gordon Pinsent, Amy Poehler, Aaron Poole, Paul Potts, Carrie Preston, Clif Prowse, Daniel Radcliffe, Edgar Ramirez, Laura Ramsey, Alexia Rasmussen, Keanu Reeves, Sam Reid, Miranda Richardson, Alan Rickman, Daniela Rincón, Alexandra Roach, Tim Robbins, Julia Roberts, Sarah Roberts, Mel Rodriguez, Saoirse Ronan, Isabella Rosselini, Mark Ruffalo, Ruby Ruiz, Daryl Sabara, Katee Sackhoff, Jaideep Sahni, James Saintil, Hiroyuki Sanada, Susan Sarandon, Taylor Schilling, Léa Seydoux, Timm Sharp, Burt Shavitz, Tye Sheridan, Sushant Singh Rajput, Lauren Lee Smith, Steven Soderbergh, Johnathan Sousa, Hailee Steinfeld, Meryl Streep, Sarah Sutherland, Joe Swanberg, Jacob Switzer, Marina Symeou, Ken Taylor, Emma Thompson, Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir, Brenton Thwaites, Meg Tilly, Robert Trujillo, Kett Turton, John Turturro, Lars Ulrich, Marine Vacth, Karinne Vanasse , Joanne Verbos, Kym Vercoe, Alicia Vikander, Masako Wajima, Mary Walsh, Mia Wasikowska, Emily Watson, Jacki Weaver, Robert Wieckiewicz, Kristen Wiig, Olivia Wilde, Tom Wilkinson, JoBeth Williams, Owen Wilson, Penelope Wilton, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon, Alfre Woodard, Jung Woo-sung, Anton Yelchin, Masahiro Yoshino, Kevin Zegers, and Waleed F. Zuaiter.


TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FACT SHEET
Festival boasts 146 World Premieres and films from 70 countries

FACT SHEET

(Numbers in parentheses are last year's statistics)

366 Total Features — 288; Shorts — 78 (372 Total: Features — 289; Shorts — 83)

268 Features that are World, International, or North American Premieres: 146, 19, and 103 respectively

(270 Total: 146 World; 31 International; 93 North American)

93% Feature-length films that are World, International, or North American Premieres (93%)

4,892 Total Submissions: International — 3,850, Canadian — 1,042 (4,143: International — 3,191, Canadian — 952)

70 Countries (72)

28 Screens Used (34)

15 Programmes (15)

31,362 Minutes of Film (30,918)

250’ Longest Film: Norte: The End of History (Penance— 270')

2’ Shortest Film: CRIME: Joe Loya – The Beirut Bandit (Pacific Sun— 1’40”)

31 Canadian features, including co-productions (32)

24 Canadian features making their World Premiere, including co-productions (20)

42 Canadian shorts, including co-productions (47)

9 Installations mounted in venues across the city as part of Future Projections (8)

The Festival’s Official Film Schedule was released today, and is available at the Festival Box Office or by visiting tiff.net/festival. Copies will also be distributed in The Grid on Thursday, August 22. A 20-page section about the Festival will appear in the Toronto Star on Thursday, August 29, and will include the full film schedule.

Single tickets go on sale September 1. Purchase Festival tickets online at tiff.net/festival, by phone from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET daily at 416.599.TIFF or 1.888.599.8433, and in person at the Festival Box Office located at 225 King St. West. The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5 to 15, 2013.

About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.

TIFF ANNOUNCES A LANDMARK FALL LINE-UP
Season highlights include: The Cronenberg Project, Guillermo del Toro Master Classes, major retrospectives on Claire Denis and Coen Brothers, new releases from Jennifer Baichwal, Alanis Obomsawin and more.

Toronto – Starting October 3, TIFF Bell Lightbox audiences will be treated to an inspiring celebration of the best Canadian and international cinema, both past and present. This season includes a world premiere exhibition, major filmmaker retrospectives, free screenings, film-related workshops and new releases highlighting the best of contemporary world cinema.

TIFF proudly presents The Cronenberg Project, a multifaceted celebration of all things Cronenberg, including the world premiere of David Cronenberg: Evolution the most ambitious large-scale exhibition curated by TIFF. Visitors will experience an up-close and personal look at costumes, props, photographs, audio-visual elements, art work and set-design drawings from Cronenberg’s extensive filmography, including the typewriters from Naked Lunch, the instruments from Dead Ringers and the fly pod from The Fly. This exhibition will be accompanied by two film programmes, From Within: The Films of David Cronenberg, a full retrospective of Cronenberg’s films and Psychoplasmic Panic: Cronenberg and the Rise of Body Horror, a 10-film sidebar programme showcasing works by filmmakers influenced by Cronenberg’s vision.

TIFF Cinematheque presents comprehensive retrospectives on two major innovators in modern cinema: renowned French filmmaker Claire Denis and her latest release, the acclaimed Bastards (2013), as well as a retrospective of Hollywood leftfielders Joel and Ethan Coen, leading up the release of their latest film, Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), opening at TIFF Bell Lightbox on December 25th. As well, Hollywood Classics celebrates one of the most iconic stars of the silver screen with The Hard Way: The Films of Bette Davis.

New releases kick off this season with insightful documentaries, including Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer (2013); a look at the true story behind Academy-Award winner Argo, with Drew Taylor and Larry Weinstein’s Our Man In Tehran (2013); Jennifer Baichwal’s latest collaboration with artist Edward Burtynsky with Watermark (2013); David Roach and Warwick Ross’s look deeper into the red wine boom in China with Red Obsession (2013); music royalty pay tribute to Rick Halls in Muscle Shoals (2013); Nick Ryan takes us up the treacherous mountain K2 in The Summit (2012); Alanis Obomsawin chronicles Canada’s neglect of its Aboriginal youth in Hi-Ho Mistahey! (2013). Other offerings include Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin (2013), Denis Coté’s Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2013), Felix van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012), Destin Cretton’s Short Term 12 (2013) and a never-before seen digital presentation director’s cut of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973).

TIFF Bell Lightbox also hosts special guests and events this season including – as part of The Cronenberg Project– Cronenberg collaborators such as production designer Carol Spier, and make-up and special effects artist Stephan Dupuis, as well as scholars Elijah Siegler and Christine Ramsay. Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro returns to present two special Master Class sessions: one on David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises (2007) and another on Studio Ghibli’s Castle in the Sky (1986). Filmmakers Claire Denis and Nicholas Winding Refn will both be in attendance at their screenings, while celebrated directing duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel (What Maisie Knew) lead two sessions on another famous directing duo in our Powell and Pressburger Master Classes.

Other film highlights include With Blood On His Hands: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn, a look at the stylized ultra-violence of this Danish filmmaker; The Free Screen, bringing the best of independent and avant-garde works to Toronto; Packaged Goods spotlights Music Videos with Director X and takes a look at this year’s best in short-form filmmaking; TIFF Family Fridays offers up special family programming that’s both educational and entertaining; Canadian Open Vault celebrates Halloween with a spooky double-bill; TIFF Next Wave join forces with Buffer Film Festival to examine the best of YouTube; and free events including TIFF’s unique Scotiabank Nuit Blanche and Culture Days offerings.

As the weather continues to cool down, our Holiday season includes the return of TIFF’s popular retrospective Spirited Away: The Films of Studio Ghibli; film fun for families with Holiday Workshops; heartwarming seasonal offerings with Holiday Classics; and new releases Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) from the Coen Brothers and The Crash Reel (2013) Lucy Walker’s intimate portrait of snow boarder Kevin Pierce.

Tickets for the fall season go on sale September 17 at 10 a.m. for TIFF Members and on September 25 at 10 a.m. for non-members. Tickets for the holiday season go on sale December 4 at 10 a.m. for TIFF Members and on December 11 at 10 a.m. Visit www.tiff.net for ticketing information.

THE CRONENBERG PROJECT

An all-encompassing exploration of David Cronenberg’s filmography, TIFF’s The Cronenberg Project features numerous components, with the world premiere of the TIFF-curated exhibition David Cronenberg: Evolution (November 1 – January 19) at its centre, curated by Piers Handling, Director and CEO, TIFF and Noah Cowan, Artistic Director, TIFF Bell Lightbox. The exhibition is complemented by two film programmes, From Within: The Films of David Cronenberg, a full retrospective of Cronenberg’s films with multiple newly struck 35mm prints and new digital restorations; and Psychoplasmic Panic: Cronenberg and the Rise of Body Horror curated by Colin Geddes, International Programmer, TIFF, showcasing both Cronenberg’s body-horror contemporaries and those later filmmakers he influenced.

Initial guests, with more special guests to be announced in the coming weeks, include longtime Cronenberg collaborators Carol Spier and Stephan Dupuis will introduce eXistenz (1999) and The Fly (1986) respectively, while TIFF’s own Noah Cowan will introduce Crash (1996), Cronenberg’s take on the JG Ballard science fiction classic, while Piers Handling will introduce a central film in the Cronenberg canon, Videodrome (1983). Film scholar Christine Ramsay explores the cultural significance of Dead Ringers (1988) and religious studies scholar Elijah Siegler, considers religion in regards to The Brood (1979).

A contemporary art exhibition, David Cronenberg: Transformation, presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), features six new, TIFF-commissioned artworks by leading Canadian and international artists inspired by Cronenberg. It is presented at MOCCA from September 5 to December 29. David Cronenberg: Virtual Exhibition launching online and in the 4th floor gallery in Fall, explores Cronenberg’s films through new scholarship and artistic endeavors, including essays, academic writing, an interactive map and timeline, and a selection of rare behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Cronenberg's past and present collaborators. Body/Mind/Change, a Lance Weiler project and co-production with TIFF and CFC Media Lab, a digital extension of David Cronenberg: Evolution, immerses users/audiences in a “Cronenbergian” world across three platforms—online, mobile, and real life—through an “artificial intelligence recommendation engine” called POD (Personal-On-Demand). Exhibition catalogs for David Cronenberg: Evolution and David Cronenberg: Transformation, designed by Italian art publishers Volumina, will be available separately and as a deluxe boxed set beginning November 1. Evolution, the opening celebration for the exhibition David Cronenberg: Evolution, will take over TIFF Bell Lightbox on the evening of Wednesday, October 30, featuring live entertainment, thematic interactive art installations, cocktails and hors d'oeuvres in a blockbuster opening fundraising event.

Other programming highlights including film descriptions, roundtable discussions and ticketing information can be found at http://tiff.net/cronenberg.

TIFF CINEMATHEQUE

The Free Screen – October 3 to December 5

The Free Screen is a monthly series committed to bringing experimental film and video art, hybrid documentaries, essay films and other personal expressions to a curious and engaged audience. Admission is free.

All Down the Line: Films by Kevin Everson– October 3 and 4

Over the past 15 years, Kevin Everson has created a singular body of work devoted to a personal and distinctive look at African-American life. Everson’s films build a formal relationship to his subjects that move beyond documentary into portraits of people’s physical relationship to their work, their geographic community, and the material weight of history. A two-part spotlight, the first part comprised of six carefully selected shorts from between 2007-2012, and the second of Everson’s latest feature, The Island of St Matthews (2013), which takes us to the Mississippi community that his parents left behind when they migrated to Ohio in the 1950s, preceded by Juneteenth Columbus Mississippi (2013). Kevin Everson will be in attendance.

Backbone: Early Vancouver Experimental Cinema 1967-1981– November 7

Vancouver’s film scene of the late sixties and seventies was a well of exploratory talent. Nurtured by genre-bending organizations like the Inter-Media Arts Society, a new generation of filmmakers explored a range of possibilities of what film could be, from psychedelic head-trips to experimental dramas to feminist critiques. Curator Richard Martin brings together a mix of films from this fertile period in Canadian cinema, some accepted in the canon, others previously lost from view. With the benefit of recent digital restoration these films are back in all their visual glory, reasserting the visceral impact of this period in Canadian image-making.

twohundredfiftysixcolors - December 5

Created by Chicago artists Eric Fleischauer and Jason Lazarus from over 3,000 GIFs collected from the internet, this encyclopedic film liberates the humble GIF images from the computer screen and compels us to consider them as part of our cinematic heritage. twohundredfiftysixcolors (2013) combines old-school revivalism and found-object filmmaking together with animated pizzas and Obama cartoons. Fleischauer and Jason Lazarus will be in attendance.

Objects of Desire: The Cinema of Claire Denis – October 10 to November 10

In the 25 years since Claire Denis’ critically acclaimed debut feature film, Chocolat (1988), premiered at the Festival de Cannes, she has directed more than 20 short and feature films, creating one of the most singular bodies of work in contemporary world cinema. Anchored by the theatrical release of her new film Bastards (2013) opening at TIFF Bell Lightbox on October 11, TIFFs first retrospective of her work in more than a decade, offers insight into a career devoted to exploring desire, racial representation, outsiders and family, while forcing audiences to question their own position and responsibility within contemporary society. Denis has almost created her own family of collaborators, including, the actor Vincent Gallo in films U.S. Go Home (1994), Nénette et Boni (1996) and Trouble Every Day (2009) as well as the legendary UK band Tindersticks, who soundtracked the two latter films as well as 35 Rhums (2008). The retrospective also features Denis’ most famous and celebrated work, Beau Travail (1999), which combines literature, music, dance to break new ground in contemporary cinematic storytelling. Claire Denis will be in attendance.

The Hard Way: The Films of Bette Davis– November 15 to December 8

The Fall season of Hollywood Classics is dedicated to the only actress to vie with Barbara Stanwyck as the greatest to emerge from the studio system. Bette Davis made her reputation by playing unpleasant (or even detestable) characters and mixing glamour with grotesquerie. As the epitaph on her tombstone reads, she did it the hard way.

Featuring a new print of the cult classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), as well as a host of other Davis favourites including the film that shot her to stardom Of Human Bondage (1934), Dangerous (1935) which garnered Davis her first Best Actress Oscar win for her turn as a self-destructive, tempestuous Broadway actress, and the endlessly quotable All About Eve (1950), an Academy darling, that received a total of six Oscars that year. Also included in the retrospective are Davis’ trilogy of films from her frequent collaborator, and favourite director, William Wyler, referred to as ‘the male Bette Davis,’ by Davis herself including The Letter (1940), Jezebel (1938) and The Little Foxes (1941).

Joel & Ethan Coen: Tall Tales– November 28 to December 20

In the process of crafting among the most fascinating and singular filmographies of modern American auteurs, the Coen Brothers have rarely wavered in their support and interest in folk heroes. Finding new guises for this distinctly “American” kind of hero in their menagerie of crooks, wiseacres, nihilists and idealists, the Coens offer contemporary protagonists, who are as likely to smoke pot and bowl, as in the The Big Lebowski (1998), as they are to track down two killers in the harsh Minnesota winter, as they do in Fargo (1996). In their most recent movie, Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), also coming to TIFF Bell Lightbox as a new release, the sibling storytellers folk sensibility is more overtly realized within this tale of a young musician struggling to balance artistic integrity and financial success in the rapidly developing folk music scene of the early sixties. Always filmmakers with a specific ear for music, the film recalls their previous roots music homage, O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000), although the odyssey Llewyn Davis embarks on is less Homeric and more Dylanesque than the one faced by the Soggy Bottom Boys. This 10 film series traces the history of the Coens and their cinematic folk heroes and presents some of their most indelible characters, from everyone’s favourite “The Dude” to Larry Gopnick in A Serious Man (2009).

FILM SERIES

TIFF Family Fridays – October 10 to November 15

Offering up special family programming that’s both educational and entertaining on scheduled Toronto District School Board PA Days, Family Fridays presents Canada's first 3D animated feature The Legend of Sarila 3D (2013); National Geographic favourite Meerkats 3D (2011) and Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure 3D (2007); an up close and personal look at insect life with Bugs! 3D (2003), an animated musical trip to France with A Monster in Paris (2011); and David Attenborough’s BAFTA winning Flying Monsters 3D (2011).

With Blood On His Hands: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn– October 23 to November 5

Nicolas Winding Refn was 26 when his debut feature Pusher (1996) hit the screens. It would go on to serve as the template for almost all of Winding Refn’s subsequent work in its balance of rawness and technical polish, unapologetic stylization and shocking violence, combining the brash energy of American popular film to the often staid realms of European art cinema. With nine films under his belt this retrospective offers a completist view of Winding Refn’s oeuvre including: Pusher, Bleeder (1999), Fear X (2003), Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands (2004), Pusher III: I’m the Angel of Death (2005), Bronson (2009), Valhalla Rising (2009), Drive (2011) and Only God Forgives (2013). Nicholas Winding Refn will be in attendance.

Packaged Goods

TIFF’s popular bi-monthly trek into the world of short-form content returns with two new programmes: on October 23, Spotlight on Director X, co-presented by The JUNO Awards, highlights the career of award-winning music video and commercial director, Director X, whose breakout video “Northern Touch” from The Rascalz celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. Director X will take to the stage for a conversation after the programme, including guests from The Rascalz. Then on December 11, in what has become Packaged Goods tradition, our year-end edition showcases the best commercials, music videos and short films from 2013 with The Year’s Best 2013.

CANADIAN OPEN VAULT

TIFF’s Canadian Open Vault programme is part of TIFF’s efforts to make our country’s rich cinematic heritage more accessible to our audiences. This fall, TIFF celebrates Halloween with a double-bill of Canuck chillers.

Ginger Snaps – October 31
John Fawcett, Canada, 2000
Following two Goth influenced sisters whose regular suburban lives are disrupted when the eldest sister is bitten at the onset of puberty by a werewolf; her sister does her best to help her, but is scared for her own safety as well as the safety of others. Sardonically equating the onset of menstruation with the arrival of an implacable id in Ginger Snaps, created a film that both celebrates sisterhood and female power, while also critiquing the negative connotations of said power. A true Canadian cult classic and crossover hit, Ginger Snaps spawned numerous sequels and recently new scholarship. This screening will feature an introduction from scholar Ernst Mathjis, whose new monograph on Ginger Snaps was recently co-published by TIFF and University of Toronto Press.

The Changeling– October 31
Peter Medak, Canada, 1980
George C. Scott plays John Russell, a composer struck by tragedy who rents an ominous mansion, in which he is regularly awoken by incessant pounding. Aided by a woman from the local historical society, Russell begins to unearth disturbing clues to the mystery hidden behind the walls of his new home. With nods to Robert Wise’s The Haunting, John Hough’s The Legend of Hell House and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Winning nine Genies, including Best Picture, director Peter Medak’s The Changeling, combined smart script and solid acting, and inventive use of sound, and remains a Canadian horror classic.

Love That Boy– November 11
Andrea Dorfman, Canada, 2003
Veteran screenwriter Elan Mastai (who wrote Mike Dowse’s upcoming romantic comedy The F Word) presents Andrea Dorfman’s second feature (following the award winning Parsley Days), the touching Love That Boy. Nadia Litz plays university student Phoebe, a serious, overachiever whose life is disrupted when her best friend and roommate finds love and promptly moves out. Phoebe adds “Get a Boyfriend” to her voluminous to-do list, but her initial forays in the dating world are disastrous, until she finally acknowledges the intense attentions of her next door neighbour, Fraser (Adrien Dixon). The only problem is he’s 14. Actress Nadia Litz and screenwriter Elan Mastai will also attend the screening.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Culture Days – Sept 27-29

TIFF celebrates Culture Days with fun, free, family activities for kids of all ages, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Drawing on Film allows participants the chance to create colourful, camera-less animations with nothing but markers and a clear 16mm film leader. Home Display gives visitors the opportunity to learn about the history of King and John Streets. Buttonography gives visitors the chance to become their own buttonographers by capturing a film scene of their choice and having a button made on site. Treasures From the Collections showcases rare items from the Film Reference Library collection, including lantern slides, a zoetrope and a vintage film projector and more.

Jo Baker on Pride and Prejudice – October 21

Author Jo Baker joins Books on Film host Eleanor Wachtel to discuss Joe Wright’s film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and the writing of her new novel Longbourn, a brilliantly imagined downstairs answer to Austen's classic which centres on the romance, intrigue, and drama among the servants of the Bennet household. Presented in partnership with Penguin Random House.

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013 – October 5

TIFF Bell Lightbox will celebrate the 8th annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche from sunset to sunrise with an action-packed night of free programming.
 Xiluodo Dam at Night – This film instillation from artists Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky is an excerpt from their feature documentary film Watermark. The film brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water. Xiludo Dam is a massive double-curvature dam on Jinsha River in the Yunnan Province, China. It has been under construction 24-hours a day since December 2005, and will be completed in 2014.
 CRINGEWORTHY! The Best of the Worst Videos Online – This combination of film and live performance explores some of the best worst video content and hidden gems found in online communities, YouTube and Reddit. Hosted by Andrew Gunadie (Gunarolla) and Andrew Bravener
 In Sequence – The audience is the composer and their theatre seat the musical note in this live performance featuring award-winning musicians Mike Haliechuk, Jonah Falco, Moshe Rosenberg, Mike Claxton, Brandon Valdivia and Marcel Ramagnano.
 VHS Fever Dreams – A hypnotic visual and aural collage of memories from the age of magnetic tape from Colin Geddes, Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanki.
 12 Hour Dolly – An uninterrupted 12-hour film shot at Nuit Blanche 2011 showcasing impromptu public participation, from director Dylan Reibling.
 Strange Science / City Symphonies– Two programmes of silent films, with live musical accompaniment, focusing on exploration – both of the possibilities of cinema and the subjects captured by the cameras’ gaze. Strange Science showcases early silent films that simultaneously explore the science of filmmaking and the anatomy of animals to surrealist ends, while City Symphonies offers a journey into unsung cityscapes, featuring films by Sergei Eisenstein and Jean Vigo.

Forty Years On: The Women and Film International Film Festival – October 6 and 8

This two-night screening and panel series celebrates the 40th anniversary of the pioneering Toronto Women & Film International Film Festival, whose landmark 1973 debut is often regarded as the beginning of the city’s rich film-festival scene. This programme of screenings and talks—featuring three films screened at the 1973 event, A New Leaf (1971), La vie rêvée (1972), and Sambizanga (1972)—both pays tribute to a groundbreaking event and attests to the continued and growing vitality of the women's film movement worldwide.

Powell and Pressburger Master Classes – October 15 and 16

Directing duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel (What Maisie Knew, Uncertainty) join us for two nights to present an in-depth look at two masterpieces by classic British filmmaking team, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger: the elaborate fantasy A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and the dreamy romance I Know Where I’m Going! (1945).

TIFF Next Wave and Buffer Festival – November 9

TIFF Next Wave joins forces with Buffer Festival to showcase some of the most exciting emerging talents in the world of YouTube, on the big screen.

Guillermo del Toro Master Classes – November 21 and December 12

Following his spectacularly popular series of Hitchcock Master Classes at TIFF Bell Lightbox in 2012, the avid cinephile and celebrated director of Cronos, Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, and this year’s Pacific Rim returns to present two special Master Class sessions the first on Cronenberg’s underworld thriller Eastern Promises and will return later in the Fall to discuss all the history and aesthetics of the legendary Studio Ghibli Castle in the Sky.

Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music – December 27 to December 30

Follow the bouncing ball in this sing-a-long version of the beloved, Academy Award®-winning musical The Sound of Music. The irrepressible Julie Andrews stars as novice nun Maria, who leaves her abbey to take a position as governess to the seven children of stern yet dashing widower Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) at his palatial Austrian estate in the 1930s. Defying their father’s military discipline, Maria wins the children over with the magic of song and turns them into a family band, melting the captain’s heart in the process. Featuring innumerable hit Rodgers & Hammerstein songs — the title tune, “Do-Re-Mi,” “Sixteen Going On Seventeen,” “My Favorite Things,” “So Long, Farewell” and more — The Sound of Music“has almost everything: music, romance, kids, spectacular scenery, religion, sentiment, comedy high and low, and, at the end, intrigue and adventure” (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune).

NEW RELEASES

Release date: Friday, September 20

Cutie and the Boxer
Zachary Heinzerling, 2013, USA, Mongrel Media
Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival 2013
First-time filmmaker Zachary Heinzerling won the documentary directing prize at this year’s Sundance for his debut feature, a portrait of 80-year-old “boxing painter” Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife Noriko as they prepare for their first joint show—the reception of which will critically change the dynamic of their 40-year-relationship.

Our Man In Tehran
Drew Taylor and Larry Weinstein, 2013, Canada, Entertainment One
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2013
Former Canadian ambassador to Iran Ken Taylor, who facilitated the 1980 escape of six US Embassy workers during the Iran hostage crisis, takes us inside the true story behind the Academy Award®--winning Argo in this fascinating, in-depth documentary portrait.

Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2013
Barry Avrich, 2013, Canada, Melbar Entertainment Group
Barry Avrich’s account of the life of this most unlikely revolutionary of the 1960s counterculture is energetic, iconoclastic and well researched, examining Guccione’s long and audacious career, most notably as publisher of the hugely influential pornographic magazine Penthouse and producer of the porn epicCaligula.

Release date: Friday, September 27

Watermark
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2013
Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, 2013, Canada, Mongrel Media
Following their acclaimed collaboration Manufactured Landscapes, photographer Edward Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal reunite to explore the ways in which humanity has shaped, manipulated and depleted one of its most vital and compromised resources: water.

Red Obsession
David Roach, Warwick Ross, 2013, Australia, FilmBuff USA
Russell Crowe narrates this intoxicating documentary about the world-famous winemakers of Bordeaux, and how the rapidly expanding Chinese market for the legendary vintage is irreparably changing the nature of the French wine industry.

Release date: Friday, October 4

The Dirties
Matt Johnson, 2012, Canada/USA, Phase4
In the provocative feature debut by Toronto filmmaker Matt Johnson, two high-school friends decide to make a DIY comedy about getting vengeance on bullies—but as intended mockumentary starts to bleed over into increasingly unsettling documentary, one of the pair has to decide if his partner is looking to make their revenge fantasy a reality.

Muscle Shoals
Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier, 2013, USA, Filmswelike
A host of music-world royalty—including Aretha Franklin Mick Jagger, Etta James, Jimmy Cliff, and Alicia Keys—appear in this documentary tribute to the Alabama-based FAME Studios and its founder Rick Hall, who not only changed the course of modern music by developing the “Muscle Shoals sound” but brought black and white musicians together at the very centre of sixties America’s racial crisis.

Release date: Friday, October 11

Bastards (Les Salauds)
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2013
Claire Denis, 2013, France, Mongrel Media
Bastards is a mesmerizing, labyrinthine story of sex, murder, and revenge, unsavory sexual desires mixed with drugs, abuse and mutilation. This is a revenge story with many twists and turns from French filmmaker Claire Denis.

Release date: Friday, October 18

A Touch of Sin
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2013
Jia Zhangke, China/Japan, 2013, Filmswelike
Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2012
Chinese master Jia Zhangke won the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes for this modern wuxia (martial hero) tale of four outcasts on the margins of a rapidly changing China, who channel their underclass rage into a bloody and murderous rampage.

Release date: Friday, October 25

The Summit
Nick Ryan, 2012, USA, Mongrel Media
Director Nick Ryan combines eyewitness accounts, gripping recreations and spectacular on-location footage to piece together the mystery behind the tragic 2008 deaths of 11 climbers as they attempted to scale K2, the world’s most treacherous mountain.

The Exorcist (Director’s Cut)
William Friedkin, 1973, USA, Warner Brothers
William Friedkin’s 1973 supernatural horror classic about a devil possessing a teenage girl, returns to the big screen with a new digital presentation.

Release date: Friday, November 1

Hi-Ho Mistahey
Alanis Obomsawin, 2013, Canada, National Film Board of Canada
Legendary documentary filmmaker and activist Alanis Obomsawin chronicles the Attawapiskat First Nations campaign to draw global attention to the Canadian government’s shocking neglect of Aboriginal youth education.

Release date: Friday, November 8

The Broken Circle Breakdown
Felix van Groeningen, 2012, Belgium/Netherlands, Filmswelike
The long-lasting love between a free-spirited tattoo artist and a gentle bluegrass musician is put to the test by tragedy in this passionate, multiple-award-winning romantic melodrama.

Release date: Friday, November 15

Short Term 12
Destin Cretton, 2013, USA, Filmswelike
The indie-American film that took SXSW and Locarno by storm, Short Term 12 follows Grace (Brie Larson), a 20-something supervising staff member in a foster care facility, as she works to council the teenagers, all the while trying to keep her life in check.

Release date: Friday, November 22

Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Denis Côté, 2013, Canada, Filmswelike
A recently released ex-con and her lesbian lover become targets of suspicion, prejudice and gruesome revenge when they settle in the deceptively serene Quebec countryside, in the anticipated new fiction feature by acclaimed Canadian auteur Denis Côté (Bestiaire).

HOLIDAY SEASON

TIFF CINEMATHEQUE

Spirited Away: The Films of Studio Ghibli– December 12 to January 3

Spirited Away: The Films of Studio Ghibli returns to TIFF Bell Lightbox to delight holiday audiences with a near-exhaustive retrospective of films produced by Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, both subtitled and dubbed. This series includes additions from the 2012 series such as the most recent Studio Ghibli film From Up On Poppy Hill (2011), a father-son collaboration between Ghibli cofounder Hayao Miyazaki and his son Goro, as well as the rarely-screened gem Grave of the Fireflies (1988) regarded by many to be the greatest animated movie ever. Often referred to as the Disney of Japan, Studio Ghibli has evolved over its 25-year history into one of the most influential film studios in the world. With its trademark animation style, powerful storytelling and deeply felt humanism, the studio creates works of elegant simplicity and universal appeal. Studio Ghibli has created heart-warming classic films such as the beloved My Neighbor Totoro (1988) (whose friendly forest spirit adorns the company’s logo and Tokyo headquarters), Castle in the Sky (1986) and Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989). Children, often protagonists in Ghibli’s films, are presented as determined, intelligent young people who pursue their goals with bravery and resourcefulness—whether recovering their parents from an uncanny magical realm as in Spirited Away (2001), defending a kingdom in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) or protecting a ravaged landscape in the ecological destruction in Princess Mononoke (1997).

Holiday Classics – December 14 to December 22

Ring in the festive season at TIFF Bell Lightbox with four beloved holiday classics, including Michael Curtiz’s romantic musical White Christmas (1954), starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye as army buddies/song-and-dance duo who team up with a sister act to save their former commander's failing inn; George Seaton’s tale of a young lawyer who defends the “real” Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street (1947); Brian Desmond Hurst’s adaptation of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol (1951); and the unequivocal favourite, Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).

LEARNING

Holiday Workshops – Dec 27 – Jan 5 TIFF announces its various Holiday workshops for children and youth will run from December 28 until January 5. Workshops include: Stop-Motion Animation - Creating sets, props and characters, participants will work collaboratively to learn the art of stop-motion animation; How to Make a Film in a Day - In this fun and fast-paced workshop, participants will collaborate to write, pitch and shoot a short film – all in one day; Prosthetics and Special Effects Make-Up - Learn how special effects make-up is used in film, and try out the techniques for yourself in this very hands-on workshop; Anime/GIF Workshop - Exploring the unique characteristics of Japanese animation, participants will hand draw anime style characters, which will transform into a fun GIF to share with family and friends; Intro to Video Game Design - Participants learn the basics of the popular game design software, Scratch, and end with the creation of a playable prototype; Make ‘Em Laugh: Physical Comedy - In the style of such masters as Charlie Chaplin, Lucille Ball and Mr. Bean, participants will safely learn a few slapstick tricks, and explore and play a variety of characters with an emphasis on exaggeration.

NEW RELEASES

Release date: Friday, December 13

The Crash Reel
Lucy Walker, 2013, USA, Phase4
Documentarian Lucy Walker (Waste Land) directs this intimate portrait of former pro snowboarder Kevin Pearce as he struggles to recover from his debilitating 2009 training accident and return to the slopes.

Opening date: Friday, December 25

Inside Llewyn Davis
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2013, USA, Mongrel Media
The Coen brothers’ Cannes award-winning film continues their exploration of modern mythology-this time following a struggling young musician’s odyssey through the legendary New York folk-music scene of the 1960s.

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AWARDS OF THE FESTIVAL DES FILMS DU MONDE (WORLD FILM FESTIVAL) – Montréal 2013

Jury
President : JIRI MENZEL, director (Czech Republic)
CAROLINE DHAVERNAS, actress (Canada)
MICHAEL KUTZA, festival director (USA)
PEDRO OLEA, director, scriptwriter, producer (Spain)
DAI SIJIE, director and writer (China - France)

FEATURE FILMS

Grand prix des Americas
LIFE FEELS GOOD (CHCE SIEZ ZYC) by Maciej Pieprzyca (Poland)

Special Grand Prix of the jury
A THOUSAND TIMES GOODNIGHT by Erik Poppe (Norway)

Best Director
HET VONNIS (THE VERDICT) by Jan Verheyen (Belgium)

Best Actress 
JÖRDIS TRIEBEL for the film WESTEN (WEST) by Christian Schwochow (Germany)

Best Actors
MARCEL SABOURIN for the film ANOTHER HOUSE by Mathieu Roy (Canada)
PETER PLAUGBORG for the film THE MIRACLE (MIRAKLET) by Simon Staho (Danemark)

Best Screenplay
IVAN SON OF AMIR by Maksim Panfilov, screeplay by Maksim Panfilov & Andrei Osipov (Russie)

Best Artistic Contribution
ASK THIS OF RIKYU by Mitsutoshi Tanaka (Japan)
LANDES by François-Xavier Vives (France)

Innovation Award
FEED ME by Yazhou Yang & Bo Yang (China)


SHORT FILMS 

1st prize
HELP! by Jean Marboeuf (France)

Jury Award
WOLSMELK (WOLF’S MILK) by Hans Vercauter (Belgique)


ZENITHS FOR THE BEST FIRST FICTION FEATURE FILMS 2012

Members of the jury of the First Fiction Films
Pierre-Henri Deleau (France)
Wieland Speck (Germany)
Raymond Zhou (China)

Golden Zenith for the Best First Fiction Feature film
THE LONG WAY HOME (EVE DÖNÜS SARKAMIS 1915) by Alphan Eseli (Turkey)

Silver Zenith for the First Fiction Feature Film
PUERTO PADRE by Gustavo Fallas (Costa Rica / Mexico)

Bronze Zenith for the First Fiction Feature Film
FINSTERWORLD by Frauke Finsterwalder (Germany)


PUBLIC AWARDS

The public was invited to vote for the most popular films in different categories:

Public Awards for the most popular film of the Festival
LIFE FEELS GOOD (CHCE SIEZ ZYC) by Maciej Pieprzyca (Poland)

Public Award for the most popular Canadian Feature Film
L’AUTRE MAISON (ANOTHER HOUSE) by Mathieu Roy (Canada)

Glauber Rocha Award for the Best Latin American Film
LA DISTANCIA MAS LARGA (THE LONGEST DISTANCE) by Claudia Pinto Emperador (Venezuela / Spain)

Award for Best documentary
WAGNERWAHN (THE WAGNER FILES) by Ralf Pleger (Germany)

Award for Best Canadian Short Film
30-LOVE de Richard Stark (Canada)


FIPRESCI PRIZE (FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the World Competition)
WESTEN (WEST) by Christian Schwochow (Germany)

FIPRESCI PRIZE (FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the First Films Competition)
THE LONG WAY HOME (EVE DÖNÜS SARKAMIS 1915) by Alphan Eseli (Turkey)

ECUMENICAL PRIZES
LIFE FEELS GOOD (CHCE SIEZ ZYC) by Maciej Pieprzyca (Pologne)

Special mention of the Ecumenical jury
A THOUSAND TIMES GOODNIGHT by Erik Poppe (Norway)
THE FERRY by Shi Wei (China)

The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off its 38th annual edition tonight. The official opening night film is by Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, the very timely portrayal of the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange. The dramatic thriller stars Daniel Brühl and Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange.

Also screening tonight are Unbeatable by Dante Lam, To Repel Ghosts: Urban Tales from the African Continent (African short films), A Story of Children and Film by Mark Cousins, Ilo Ilo by Anthony Chen, Tim's Vermeer by Teller, The Summer of Flying Fish by Marcela Said, the Palme d'Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color by Abdellatif Kechiche, Salinger by Shane Salerno, Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch, Exit Marrakech by Caroline Link, Standing Aside, Watching by Yorgos Servetas, Closed Curtain by Jafar Panahi and Kambozia Partovi, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanovic, The Past by Asghar Farhadi, Something Necessary by Judy Kibinge, Story of My Death by Albert Serra, and the Midnight Madness opening film All Cheerleaders Die by Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson.

There is a free screening of Shivers by David Cronenberg. There is also a special reunion screening of Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the film's premiere at TIFF. The cast and crew will be in attendance.

Jason Reitman will be hosting his second annual live read. This year, he will be presenting a reading of Boogie Nights, and will feature a cast of Josh Brolin, Dakota Fanning, Scott Thompson, Olivia Wilde, Jordan Hayes, Jarod Einsohn, Jason Sudeikis, Dane Cook and Marc-André Grondin.

The Festival continues until Sunday, September 15 in downtown Toronto.

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