News is rolling out of Toronto for this year's festival, with the Galas and the Special Presentations sections announced. As always with TIFF, the sheer number of films can seem overwhelming, but with new films by David Cronenberg (A Dangerous Method, pictured above), Terence Davies (!), Francis Ford Coppola, Wang Xiaoshuai, Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, and William Friedkin added to big names that premiered already this year (including Almodóvar, Von Trier, Nanni Moretti, and Nicolas Winding Refn) it looks like the 2011 iteration will be as packed with must-see cinema as ever before. We'll be updating this listing as new lineups are announced. See TIFF's official website for details.
Galas
- Albert Nobbs (Rodrigo Garcia, Ireland)
- Butter (Jim Field Smith, USA)
- A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, France/Ireland/UK/Germany/Canada)
- From the Sky Down (Davis Guggenheim, USA)
- A Happy Event (Rémi Bezançon, France)
- The Ides of March (George Clooney, USA)
- The Lady (Luc Besson, France/UK)
- Moneyball (Bennett Miller, USA)
- Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding (Bruce Beresford, USA)
- Starbuck (Ken Scott, Canada)
- Take this Waltz (Sarah Polley, Canada)
- W.E. (Madonna, UK)
Special Presentations
- 11 Flowers (Wang Xiaoshuai, China/France)
- 50/50 (Jonathan Levine, USA)
- 360 (Fernando Meirelles, UK/Austria/France/Brazil)
- Afghan Luke (Mike Clattenberg, Canada)
- The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, France)
- Americano (Mathieu Demy, France)
- Anonymous (Roland Emmerich, Germany)
- A Better Life (Cédric Khan, France)
- Breakaway (Robert Lieberman, Canada)
- Burning Man (Jonathan Teplitzky, Australia)
- Café de Flore (Jean-Marc Vallée, Canada/France)
- Chicken with Plums (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France/Germany/Belgium)
- Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes, UK)
- Countdown (Huh Jong-ho, Korea)
- Dark Horse (Todd Solondz, USA)
- The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, UK)
- The Descendants (Alexander Payne, USA)
- Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, USA)
- Edwin Boyd (Nathan Morlando, Canada)
- Elles (Malgoska Szumowska, France/Poland/Germany)
- Eye of the Storm (Fred Schepisi, Australia)
- Friends with Kids (Jennifer Westfeldt, USA)
- Goon (Michael Dowse, Canada)
- Habemus Papam (Nanni Moretti, Italy/France)
- Headhunters (Morten Tyldum, Norway)
- Hick (Derick Martini, USA)
- The Hunter (Daniel Nettheim, Australia)
- Intruders (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Spain)
- Jeff, Who Lives at Home (Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass, USA)
- Keyhole (Guy Maddin, Canada)
- Killer Joe (William Friedkin, USA)
- Like Crazy (Drake Doremus, USA)
- Machine Gun Preacher (Marc Forster, USA)
- Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, USA)
- Melancholia (Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany)
- Monsieur Lazhar (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)
- The Moth Diaries (Mary Harron, Canada/Ireland)
- The Oranges (Julian Farino, USA)
- Pearl Jam Twenty (Cameron Crowe, USA)
- Rampart (Oren Moverman, USA)
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Lasse Hallstöm, UK)
- Shame (Steve McQueen, UK)
- A Simple Life (Ann Hui, HK/China)
- The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
- Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, USA)
- Ten Year (Jamie Linden, USA)
- Trishna (Michael Winterbottom, UK)
- Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
- Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine, UK)
- We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, UK)
- Where Do We Go Now? (Nadine Labaki, France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt)
- Woman in the Fifth (Pawel Pawlikowski, France/Poland/United Kingdom)
Vanguard
- Carré blanc (Jean-Baptiste Leonetti, France/Luxembourg/Belgium/Switzerland)
- Doppelgänger Paul (Dylan Akio Smith & Kris Elgstrand, Canada)
- Generation P (Victor Ginzburg, Russia/USA)
- Headshot (Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand/France)
- i am a good person/i am a bad person (Ingrid Veninger, Canada)
- Love and Bruises (Lou Ye, China/France)
- Oslo, August 31 (Joachim Trier, Norway)
- Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, Australia)
- The Year of the Tiger (Sebastián Lelio, Chile)
Real to Reel Documentaries
- Arirang (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea)
- The Boy Who Was King (Andrey Paounov, Bulgaria/Germany)
- Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fan's Hope (Morgan Spurlock, USA)
- Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman, USA/France)
- Dark Girls (Bill Duke & D. Channsin Berry, USA)
- Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (Rithy Panh, France/Cambodia)
- Gerhard Richter Painting (Corinna Belz, Germany)
- Girl Model (Ashley Sabin & David Redmon, USA)
- I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful (Jonathan Demme, USA)
- In My Mother's Arms (Atia Al-Daradji & Mohamed Al Daradji, Iraq/Netherlands/UK)
- Into the Abyss (Werner Herzog, USA)
- Last Call at the Oasis (Jessica Yu, USA)
- The Last Dogs of Winter (Costa Botes, New Zealand)
- The Last Gladiators (Alex Gibney, USA)
- Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, USA)
- Paul Williams Still Live (Stephen Kessler, USA)
- Pink Ribbons, Inc. (Léa Pool, Canada)
- Samsara (Ron Fricke, USA)
- Sarah Palin - You Betcha! (Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill, UK)
- The Story of Film: An Odyssey (Mark Cousins, UK)
- Surviving Progress (Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks, Canada)
- The Tall Man (Tony Krawitz, Australia)
- Undefeated (Dan Lindsay & TJ Martin, USA)
- Urbanized (Gary Hustwit, USA/UK)
- Whores' Glory (Michael Glawogger, Austria/Germany)
Midnight Madness
- The Day (Douglas Aarniokoski, USA)
- God Bless America (Bobcat Goldthwait, USA)
- The Incident (Alexandre Courtes, France)
- Kill List (Ben Wheatley, UK)
- Livid (Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo, France)
- Lovely Molly (Eduardo Sánchez, USA)
- The Raid (Gareth Evans, Indonesia)
- Sleepless Night (Frédéric Jardin, France/Belgium/Luxembourg)
- Smuggler (Katsuhito Ishii, Japan)
- You're Next (Adam Wingard, USA)
City to City
- Caprichosos de San Telmo (Alison Murray, Argentina/Canada)
- The Cat Vanishes (Carlos Sorin, Argentina)
- Crane World (Pablo Trapero, Argentina)
- Fatherland (Nicolás Prividera, Argentina)
- Invasión (Hugo Santiago, Argentina)
- A Mysterious World (Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina/Germany)
- Pompeya (Tamae Garateguy, Argentina)
- The Stones (Román Cárdenas, Argentina)
- The Student (Santiago Mitre, Argentina)
- Vaquero (Juan Minujín, Argentina)
TIFF Kids
- First Position (Bess Kargman, USA)
- The Flying Machine (Martin Clapp, Geoff Lindsey & Dorota Kobiela, Poland/China)
- A Letter to Momo (Hiroyuki Okiura, Japan)
- A Monster in Paris (Bibo Bergeron, France)
Canada First!
- Amy George (Yonah Lewis, Canada)
- Leave It On the Floor (Sheldon Larry, Canada)
- Nuit #1 (Anne Émond, Canada)
- The Odds (Simon Davidson, Canada)
- The Patron Saints (Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky, Canada)
- Romeo Eleven (Ivan Grbovic, Canada)
- Wetlands (Guy Édoin, Canada)
Contemporary World Cinema
- 388 Arletta Avenue (Randall Cole, Canada)
- Billy Bishop Goes to War (Barbara Willis Sweete, Canada)
- I'm Yours (Leonard Farlinger, Canada)
- Sisters & Brothers (Carl Bessai, Canada)
Masters
- Hard Core Logo II (Bruce McDonald, Canada)
- Pina (Wim Wenders, Germany/France)
- This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran)
Short Cuts Canada
- 4am (Janine Fung, Canada)
- Acqua (Raha Shirazi, Canada/Italy)
- Afternoon Tea (DJ Parmar, Canada)
- Combustion (Renaud Hallée, Canada)
- Derailments (Chelsea McMullan, Canada/Italy)
- The Devil's Due (Alexander Gorelick & Adam Shaheen, Canada)
- Doubles with Slight Pepper (Canada/Trinidad & Tobago/USA)
- The Encounter (Nicholas Pye, Canada)
- A Film Portrait on Reconstructing 12 Possibilities That Preceded the Disappearance of Zoe Dean Drum (Eduardo Menz, Canada)
- The Fuse: Or How I Burned Simon Bolivar (Igor Drljaca, Canada/Bosnia)
- Good Boy (Isaac Cravit, Canada)
- Heart of Rhyme (Cory Bowles, Canada)
- Hidden Driveway (Sarah Goodman, Canada)
- Hope (Pedro Pires, Canada)
- If I Can Fly (Yoakim Bélanger, Canada)
- Issues (Hugh Dillon & Enrico Colantoni, Canada)
- Lie Down and Die (Kyle Sanderson, Canada)
- Little Theatres: Homage to the Mineral of Cabbage (Stephanie Dudley, Canada)
- Mandeep (Darrin Klimek, Canada)
- No Words Came Down (Ryan Flowers & Lisa Pham, Canada)
- Of Events (Mathieu Tremblay, Canada)
- One Night with You (Jeanne Leblanc, Canada)
- ORA (Philippe Baylaucq, Canada)
- The Paris Quintet in Practice Makes Perfect (Benjamin Schuetze, Canada)
- Patch Town (Craig Goodwill, Canada)
- Pathways (Dusty Mancinelli, Canada)
- The Pedestrian Jar (Evan Morgan, Canada)
- The Red Virgin (Sheila Pye, Canada)
- A River in the Woods (Christian Sparkes, Canada)
- La ronde (Sophie Goyette, Canada)
- Solar Wind (Ian Lagarde, Canada)
- Sorry, Rabbi (Mark Slutsky, Canada)
- Spirit of the Bluebird (Xstine Cook & Jesse Gouchey)
- Sundays (Jean-Guillaume Bastien, Canada)
- Surveillant (Yan Giroux, Canada)
- Tabula Rasa (Matthew Rankin, Canada)
- Throat Song (Miranda de Pencier, Canada)
- Trotteur (Arnaud Brisebois & Francis Leclerc, Canada)
- Up in Cottage Country (Simon Ennis, Canada)
- Waning (Gina Haraszti, Canada)
- We Ate the Children Last (Andrew Cividino, Canada)
- The Weight of Emptiness (Alain Fournier, Canada)
- The Yodeling Farmer (Mike Maryniuk & John Scoles, Canada)
Canada Open Vault
- Hard Core Logo (Bruce McDonald, Canada)