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SAT.19.SEP at 9:00am [2009]


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Robert Connolly
This is the true story of a war correspondent who goes in search of missing colleagues amid the chaos of Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor in 1… 
CastAnthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac, Damon Gameau,…
LanguageEnglish, Tetum   CountryAustralia
CWC$18

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Jan Kounen
Igor Stravinsky premieres The Rite of Spring at the Theatre Des Champs-Elysées, in Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is in attendance and is mesmerized. B… 
CastMads Mikkelsen, Anna Mouglalis, Yelena Moroz…
LanguageEnglish | French |…   CountryFrance
GALA$$PG

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Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold's assured follow-up to Red Road is a taboo-breaking love story about a violent teenaged girl transformed by desire for her mother'… 
CastMichael Fassbender, Harry Treadaway, Kiersto…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
VAN$PG

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Felix Van Groeningen
From Belgium comes this rambunctious, vulgar story of a 13-year-old boy growing up in a small village with his father and three uncles, all drun… 
CastJohan Heldenbergh, Wouter Hendrickx, Johan H…
LanguageDutch   CountryBelgium/Holland
VAN$18

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Corneliu Porumboiu
A witty portrait of life in the small town of Vaslui, the sophisticated Police, Adjective builds on the promise of Porumboiu's debut 12:08, East… 
CastDragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Saulescu
LanguageRomanian   CountryRomania
CWC$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 9:15am [2009]


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Giuseppe Tornatore
From the acclaimed director of Cinema Paradiso comes an epic saga of life and death, love and hatred in a vibrant Sicilian town in the first hal… 
CastFrancesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Monica Be…
LanguageItalian | Sicilian…   CountryItaly
SP$PG

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Carter Gunn and Ross McDonne…
Several beekeepers around the U.S. cope with colony collapse disorder – the phenomenon that has caused millions of bees to mysteriously disappea… 
CastUnknown
LanguageEnglish   CountryIreland
RTR$18

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Suzana Amaral
Enigmatic and perturbing, Suzana Amaral’s Hotel Atlântico takes us on a mysterious journey through Brazil’s southern landscapes. The film follow… 
CastMariana Ximenes, Gero Camilo, João Miguel, J…
LanguagePortuguese   CountryBrazil
MAST$PG

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Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari
Shirin Neshat’s first feature-length film is based on a magic-realist novel written by Iranian author Sharnush Parsipur. The narrative interweav… 
CastNavíd Akhavan, Bijan Daneshmand, Shabnam Tol…
LanguagePersian   CountryGermany/France/Austr…
SP$14A

SAT.19.SEP at 9:30am [2009]


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Jeff Stilson
Rendered speechless by his daughter’s question—“Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?”—comedian Chris Rock embarks on a quest to understand Af… 
CastChris Rock
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

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Mika Kaurismäki
Family therapist Juhani and business trainer Taula decide to divorce in a civilized manner. Despite these good intentions, things turn ugly and … 
CastHannu-Pekka Björkman, Elina Knihtilä, Antti …
LanguageFinnish   CountryFinland
CWC$18

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Lou Ye
A lyrical and audacious portrait of a doomed gay love triangle that spins out of control, Spring Fever is inspired by prohibited Chinese novels … 
CastChen Si Cheng, Hao Qin, Zhuo Tan, Wu Wei
LanguageMandarin, Cantonese…   CountryChina
VAN$18

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Samantha Morton
Morton shifts from actor to director in this stark portrait of a young British girl plucked from an abusive family and thrown into the hands of … 
CastMolly Windsor, Lauren Socha, Robert Carlyle,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
DISC$18

SAT.19.SEP at 9:45am [2009]


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Yorgos Lanthimos
Shut off from the outside world by their over-protective parents, three siblings are raised in a manner that their mother and father deem approp… 
CastChristos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeli…
LanguageGreek   CountryGreece
CWC$18

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Yoichi Sai
A crowd pleasing, sweeping epic brilliantly directed by one of Japan's finest auteurs, Kamui is the adventurous story of a fugitive ninja played… 
CastKen'ichi Matsuyama, Koyuki, Kaoru Kobayashi
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
SP$14A

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Tony Jaa
Martial-arts superstar Tony Jaa stars in and directs this epic tale of revenge set hundreds of years in the past. Featuring a huge cast and hord… 
CastTony Jaa, Primrata Dej-Udom, Sorapong Chatre…
LanguageThai   CountryThailand
MM$14A

SAT.19.SEP at 10:00am [2009]


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Laxmikant Shetgaonkar
A lonely man finds a companion in a mad woman in a dense forest in the Western Ghats of India. When she becomes pregnant, a conflict arises betw… 
CastChitranjan Giri, Veena Jomkar, Prasanthi Tal…
LanguageKonkani   CountryIndia
DISC$18

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Werner Herzog
Inspired by true events, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, is a story of ancient myth and modern madness. Brad Macallam, an aspiring actor perf… 
CastWillem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Peña, M…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA, Germany
SP$PG

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Brian Koppelman, David Levie…
Ben Kalmen (Michael Douglas) is feeling his age, but you wouldn’t know it from the company he keeps. A former mogul with a chain of car dealersh… 
CastMichael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVit…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

SAT.19.SEP at 10:15am [2009]


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Bui Thac Chuyen
This is a sensual drama about a newlywed couple, exploring sexual awakening, forbidden lesbian desire and marital infidelity within modern Vietn… 
CastDo Thi Hai Yen, Pham Linh Dan, Jonny Tri Ngu…
LanguageVietnamese   CountryVietnam
CWC$18

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Ole Bornedal
A Danish variation on Straw Dogs, Deliver Us from Evil is an almost unbearably intense thriller about a young couple who moves to the countrysid… 
CastLasse Rimmer, Lene Nystrom, Jens Andersen, P…
LanguageDanish   CountryDenmark/Sweden/Norwa…
CWC$18

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Goran Paskaljevic
Two young married couples take off and travel abroad to the promised lands of better opportunities, but hope collapses when their expectations d… 
CastLazar Ristovski, Petar Bozovic, Mira Banjac
LanguageItalian | Albanian …   CountrySerbia/Albania/Italy…
MAST$18

SAT.19.SEP at 10:30am [2009]


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Peter Raymont and Michele Ho…
An enigmatic musical poet and world-renowned pianist, Glenn Gould continues to captivate international audiences twenty-six years after his earl… 
CastGlenn Gould
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
RTR$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 10:45am [2009]


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Don Hahn
This isn’t a fairy tale, but rather the true story of how the Disney animation team went from stagnation in the mid-1980s to a startling rebirth… 
CastTim Burton
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
RTR$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 11:00am [2009]


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Mike Sandejas
An affecting, sensitive and convincingly drawn teen romance between a rebellious rock girl and a deaf boy who loves to dance. 
CastZoe Sandejas, Romalito Mallari, Robert Sena,…
LanguageTagalog   CountryPhilippines
CWC$18

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William Beaudine
Pickford plays Molly, the oldest girl in an “orphan farm” in the Louisiana bayou. The owners of the farm, the vile and opprobrious Grimes family… 
CastMary Pickford, Roy Stewart, Gustav von Seyff…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
COV$G

SAT.19.SEP at 12:00pm [2009]


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Brigitte Berman
An intimate look at the outspoken, flamboyant founder of the Playboy empire. With humour and insight, the film captures Hefner’s fierce battles … 
CastHugh Hefner
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
SP$14A

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Alek Keshishian, Mark Aldo M…
Documentary following singer Madonna on her controversial Blond Ambition tour in 1990. Preceded by shorts: Meet Gisele, Care Failure at 102.1 T… 
CastMadonna
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
YDSFree14A

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Rodrigo Garcia
This moving drama follows the story of three women (Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington) and the power of the unbreakable bond betw… 
CastSamuel L. Jackson, Jimmy Smits, Shareeka Epp…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

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Yousry Nasrallah
Hebba is the host of a successful political talk show in present-day Cairo. Karim, her husband, is deputy editor-in-chief of a governmentowned n… 
CastMona Zaki, Hassan Saeed, Sawsan Badr, Mahmou…
LanguageArabic   CountryEgypt
SP$PG

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Hitoshi Matsumoto
Japanese comedy superstar Hitoshi Matsumoto (DAINIPPONJIN) stars in and directs this absurd and outlandish comedy about a man trying to escape a… 
CastHitoshi Matsumoto
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
MM$PG

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Nick Stringer
Canadian Premiere Join a logger heard turtle on an extraordinary journey through the fascinating underwater world and witness how changes in the… 
CastHannelore Elsner, Miranda Richardson
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom/Austr…
KIDYouthG

SAT.19.SEP at 12:15pm [2009]


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Rachid Bouchareb
This intimate drama tells the story of two people, a Muslim man and a Christian woman, who are immediately affected by the July 2005 London bomb… 
CastBrenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyate, Roschdy Zem…
LanguageEnglish, French, Ara…   CountryUnited Kingdom/Franc…
SP$PG

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Granaz Moussavi
Shot underground on location in Tehran, the film tells the story of modern-day Iranian youth struggling for cultural freedom. 
CastMarzieh Vafamehr, Amir Chegini, Asha Mehrabi
LanguageFarsi/Persian, Engli…   CountryAustralia/Iran
DISC$18

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Alla Kovgan and David Hinton
Zimbabwean dancer Nora Chipaumire stars in this beautiful and rigorously choreographed fable based on her own life and shot on location in South… 
CastNora Chipaumire, Souleymane Badolo
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA/United Kingdom/M…
DISC$G

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Dyana Gaye
In this sparkling and surprising Senegalese musical, Dyana Gaye turns a shared taxi ride from Dakar to Saint Louis into a confection that could … 
CastAnne Jeanine Barboza, Adja Fall, Umban Gomez…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance/Senegal
DISC$18

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Fatih Akin
From the director of Head-on comes the story of a young restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai,… 
CastMoritz Bleibtreu, Birol Ünel, Wotan Wilke Mö…
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany
SP$PG

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Nicolas Winding Refn
It is 1000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a… 
CastMads Mikkelsen, Jamie Sives, Gary Lewis, Ale…
LanguageEnglish   CountryDenmark/United Kingd…
SP$18

SAT.19.SEP at 12:30pm [2009]


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Hirokazu Kore-eda
This compelling tale of a blow-up doll that becomes a real person and abandons her status of mere sex object comes to life with the superb perfo… 
CastBae Doo-na, Arata, Itsuji Itao, Joe Odagiri,…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
MAST$18

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Oscar Ruiz Navia
Treading a fine line between documentary and fiction, Crab Trap is a meditative look at daily life in a remote village on the Pacific coast of C… 
CastRodrigo Vélez, Arnobio Salazar Rivas, Jaime …
LanguageSpanish   CountryColombia/France
DISC$18

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Claire Denis
A family of French expatriates living in an African country where they own a coffee plantation find that their livelihood is threatened by the o… 
CastIsabelle Huppert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Isaac…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
MAST$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 12:45pm [2009]


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Patxi Amezcua
From director Patxi Amezcua comes a fresh action film that delves into the world of thieves, go-getters, swindlers, thugs, mafia members and cor… 
CastIgnasi Abadal, Héctor Colomé, Aida Folch, Fr…
LanguageSpanish | Catalan   CountrySpain
CWC$18

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Valery Todorovsky
In a fantastical 1950s Moscow, straight-laced Mels swaps his drab Communist uniform for a saxophone, pompadour and zoot suit in this vibrant mus… 
CastAnton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Evgeniya Khi…
LanguageRussian   CountryRussia
VAN$PG

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Todd Solondz
Happiness director Todd Solondz returns with another unsettling dark comedy about sexual obsession between friends, family and lovers struggling… 
CastShirley Henderson, Ciarán Hinds, Allison Jan…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Bruce Beresford
Adapted from his internationally best-selling memoir, the film tells the true story of Li Cunxin, a Chinese-trained ballet dancer. Plucked from … 
CastBruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia/USA/China…
SP$PG

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Leanne Pooley
Fun, disarming and musically provocative, the Topp Twins are New Zealand’s finest lesbian country-and-western singers and the country’s greatest… 
CastJools Topp, Linda Topp
LanguageEnglish   CountryNew Zealand
RTR$18

SAT.19.SEP at 1:00pm [2009]


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Rachel Perkins
The renowned Australian stage musical about young love and Aboriginal identity makes its exuberant and fun-filled way to the big screen. 
CastGeoffrey Rush, Rocky McKenzie, Jessica Maubo…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
CWC$18

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Jason Lehel
A group of Native Americans discover a young woman, left for dead, in the Arizona desert and take her to their reservation. Through her relation… 
CastCynthia Adkisson, Deswood Etsitty, Emily Lap…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
VIS$18

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Kira Muratova
Two young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reu… 
CastNatalya Buzko, Georgi Deliyev, Lena Kostyuk,…
LanguageUnknown   CountryUkraine
MAST$18

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Rigoberto Perezcano
Andrés reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United States. As he waits between crossing attempts, he discovers the complicated border wo… 
CastHarold Torres, Alicia Laguna, Sonia Couoh, L…
LanguageSpanish   CountryMexico/Spain
DISC$18

SAT.19.SEP at 1:15pm [2009]


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Vimukthi Jayasundara
Rajith, a young man, flees the city in which he lives and where violent confrontations are common. He goes to a village in a valley where the in… 
CastThusitha Laknath, Kaushalya Fernando, Lu Hua…
LanguageSinhala, Tamil   CountrySri Lanka
VIS$18

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Katarzyna Roslaniec
When a 14-year-old girl arrives at a new high school, she is typecast as an outsider from the sticks. Survival means working things out with a c… 
CastMagdalena Ciurzynska, Marta Lacka, Daria Dzi…
LanguagePolish   CountryPoland
DISC$18

SAT.19.SEP at 1:30pm [2009]


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Dima El-Horr
From Lebanon, this is a striking debut about three women on the road to visit their imprisoned men. Mixing real politics and stark absurdity, El… 
CastHiam Abbass, Manal Khader, Raia Haidar
LanguageArabic, French   CountryFrance/Germany/Leban…
DISC$18

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Ashutosh Gowariker
What’s Your Raashee? is a romantic comedy about a young man who has always wanted to marry for love. When he suddenly is told that he must find … 
CastHarman Baweja, Priyanka Chopra, Suzy Brack, …
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
GALA$$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 1:45pm [2009]


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Vikram Jayanti
Rachael Scdoris, a blind 23-year-old, doesn’t let her disability stop her from competing in one of the most gruelling endurance contests in the … 
CastRachael Scdoris, Tim Osmar, Joe Runyan, Jerr…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA/United Kingdom
RTR$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 2:00pm [2009]


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Don Argott
This art-world whodunit investigates what happened to the Barnes collection of Post-Impressionist paintings—valued in the billions—that fell pre… 
CastAlbert Barnes
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
RTR$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 2:30pm [2009]


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Terry Gilliam
North American Premiere This fantastical morality tale tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his travelling show, the extraordinary ‘Imaginarium’… 
CastJohnny Depp, Heath Ledger, Jude Law, Colin F…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom/Canad…
GALA$$PG

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Erik Gandini
This penetrating look at the media empire of Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlosconi reveals how his reality TV shows full of bikini-clad women… 
CastSilvio Berlosconi, Flavio Briatore, Fabio Ca…
LanguageEnglish/Italian   CountrySweden
RTR$18

SAT.19.SEP at 2:45pm [2009]


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Tsai Ming-liang
A tableau vivant adorned with Tsai Ming-Liang's signature aesthetic portrays a special homage to the Nouvelle Vague and the Louvre, which co-pro… 
CastFanny Ardant, Laetitia Casta, Jean-Pierre Lé…
LanguageFrench, Mandarin   CountryFrance/Taiwan/Nether…
VIS$18

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Xiaolu Guo
A subjective anatomy of contemporary China in the post-Marxist era, this is a dark, poetic depiction of people from different backgrounds, livin… 
CastUnknown
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
RTR$18

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He Ping
In the Kingdom of Zhao, all the men have left for war and Lady Li (Fan Bingbing), wife of the absent lord, says victory will soon bring their me… 
CastFan Bingbing
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina | Hong Kong
SP$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 3:00pm [2009]


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Golam Rabbany Biplob
In this political fable from Bangladesh’s leading filmmaker, a simple village musician gets swept up in the market economy of big city Dhaka. 
CastJayanto Chattopadhyay, Firoj Khan Dollar, F…
LanguageBengali   CountryBangladesh
CWC$18

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Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandb…
The film is based on the true story of Norway’s most colourful resistance fighter Max Manus, and follows him from the outbreak of World War II u… 
CastJulia Bache-Wiig, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ron D…
LanguageNorwegian, English, …   CountryNorway/Denmark/Germa…
GALA$$14A

SAT.19.SEP at 3:15pm [2009]


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Jaco Van Dormael
Jared Leto stars as Nemo, the world's oldest man. In 2092, humans have achieved immortality, thanks to advances in genetics and at the age of 12… 
CastJared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh…
LanguageEnglish | French   CountryFrance/Germany/Canad…
SP$18

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Dev Benegal
Vishnu, a restless young man, rejects his father’s faltering hair oil business and hits the road with a travelling cinema. Colourful and full of… 
CastAbhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Ka…
LanguageHindi | English   CountryIndia/USA
SP$PG

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Wisit Sasanatieng, Aditya As…
Directed by four distinctly talented Thai directors, this collection of tales about Bangkok is less a love letter than a funny, touching and sur… 
CastWandia Temthanaporn, Tantai Prasertkul and B…
LanguageThai   CountryThailand
CWC$18

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Cesc Gay
A smart and intriguing film-within-a-film comedy about love and friendship, where the characters travel playfully in and out of one another’s li… 
CastÀgata Roca, Vicenta N'Dongo, Andrés Herrera,…
LanguageCatalan | Spanish …   CountrySpain
CWC$18

SAT.19.SEP at 3:30pm [2009]


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Susanne Schneider
Thirty years after giving her daughter up for adoption to join the terrorist underground in Germany, Judith is tracked down by her now adult dau… 
CastKatharina Schüttler, Iris Berben, Jacques Fr…
LanguageGerman | French   CountryGermany/France
DISC$14A

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Renato De Maria
Set during a turbulent period in 1970-80s Italy, the plot centres on passionate couple Sergio and Susanna, who have been living as fugitives. Pu… 
CastGiovanna Mezzogiorno, Riccardo Scamarcio, Lu…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
SP$14A

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Raoul Peck
A democratically elected “President” and his closest collaborators are getting ready for a state celebration. But in the morning of the event, h… 
CastJimmy Jean-Louis, Mireille Metellus, Sonia R…
LanguageCreole, French, Engl…   CountryHaiti/France
SP$14A

SAT.19.SEP at 3:45pm [2009]


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Giuseppe Capotondi
When an attractive young Slovenian girl moves to Italy and meets an eligible young man, both of their lives are set to change. They become the v… 
CastKsenia Rappoport, Filippo Timi, Antonia Trup…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
CWC$14A

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Gary Yates
Two drug-addled brothers go for one last major score in writer-director Gary Yates’s energetic and funny crime comedy. 
CastTimothy Olyphant, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Ros…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
CWC$14A

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Joe Dante
After moving into a new town, brothers Dane and Lucas and their neighbour Julie discover a bottomless hole in their basement that brings their n… 
CastChris Massoglia, Nathan Gamble, Haley Bennet…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Vic Sarin
An extraordinary woman helps an orphan boy find self-acceptance and love through her unique gifts of colour and magic. Set in a small village on… 
CastConnie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn, John Bell, Jack…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada/Ireland
KIDYouthPG

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Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Pat…
An outlandish animation style captures the absurd wit and surreal adventures of plastic toys Cowboy, Indian and Horse. 
CastStéphane Aubier, Jeanne Baliber, Bruce Ellis…
LanguageFrench   CountryBelgium/France/Luxem…
MM$G

SAT.19.SEP at 4:00pm [2009]


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Bruno Dumont
Hadewijch is a religious novice whose ecstatic, blind faith leads to her expulsion from a convent. Returning to her former life, Hadewijch rever… 
CastJulie Sokolowski, Yassine Salihine, David De…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$14A

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Alain Cavalier
Filmmaker Alain Cavalier turns his personal grief of becoming a widower into a first-person subjective documentary that focuses on his diary ent… 
CastAlain Cavalier
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
VIS$18

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Roberto Hernández and Geoffr…
Two young Mexican attorneys attempt to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the process, they expose the contradictions… 
CastJosé Antonio Zúñiga Rodriguez, Eva Gutiérrez…
LanguageSpanish   CountryMexico
RTR$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 4:15pm [2009]


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Haim Tabakman
A gay love story set in the heart of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, where the belief that love conquers all results in societa… 
CastZohar Strauss, Ran Danker,Tzahi Grad, Ravit …
LanguageHebrew, Yiddish   CountryIsrael, Germany, Fra…
CWC$18

SAT.19.SEP at 4:30pm [2009]


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Matthias Emcke
Marc (Til Schweiger) is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc’s life changes from one moment to the ne… 
CastTil Schweiger
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany
GALA$$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 5:00pm [2009]


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Michael Tucker and Petra Epp…
The makers of Gunner Palace follow U.S. soldiers as they create new lives post-Iraq—from a Congressional candidate in Buffalo to a cage fighter … 
CastUnknown
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
RTR$14A

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Josh Crook
This gritty and gripping drama explores political intrigue, love, death and the power of memory, set in the Dominican Republic. 
CastManny Perez, Paul Calderon, Juan Fernández
LanguageSpanish   CountryDominican Republic/U…
DISC$18

SAT.19.SEP at 5:15pm [2009]


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Alejandro Fernandez Almendra…
A warm family saga which follows 24 hours in the life of a poverty-stricken provincial family in central Chile. 
CastClemira Aguayo, Alejandra Yanez, Cornelio Vi…
LanguageSpanish   CountryChile
CWC$18

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Francesca Gregorini and Tati…
Tanner Hall is a vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy, but run down New England town, the knot of adoles… 
CastRooney Mara, Georgia King, Brie Larson, Amy …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
CWC$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 5:30pm [2009]


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Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimme…
A small abandoned girl is sheltered by a circus woman in this tale of courage, loss and togetherness. 
CastAsia Crippa, Patrizia Gerardi
LanguageItalian   CountryAustria/Italy
DISC$18

SAT.19.SEP at 5:45pm [2009]


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Satoko Yokohama
In this original fusion of black comedy, surreal fantasy and feel-good drama about a mentally challenged hero, Japanese heartthrob Kenichi Matsu… 
CastKen'ichi Matsuyama, Kumiko Aso, Seiji Nozoe
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
DISC$18

SAT.19.SEP at 6:00pm [2009]


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Peter Mettler
Filmmaker and visual artist Peter Mettler takes audiences on an eye-opening aerial tour of Alberta’s tar sands in this beautiful, haunting and v… 
CastUnknown
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
RTR$G

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Emmett Malloy
An intimate look inside The White Stripes' cross-Canada tour, as Jack and Meg White touch down in remote northern communities and surprising cit… 
CastJack White, Meg White
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
VAN$PG

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Jean-Marc Vallée
From a script by Academy Award®-winning Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park). The film chronicles Queen Victoria’s ascension to the throne, focusing o… 
CastEmily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Mi…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom, USA…
GALA$$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 6:15pm [2009]


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Lu Chuan
From acclaimed director Lu Chuan comes a devastating and controversial epic film based on the most atrocious holocaust in Chinese history, the N… 
CastLiu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina/Hong Kong
SP$14A

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Bong Joon-ho
A unique noir thriller that digs into the secrecy surrounding a terrible murder and the mystery of a mother’s primal love for her son. The films… 
CastBin Won, Ku Jin, Hye-ja Kim
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
SP$14A

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Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
In the follow-up to the acclaimed [REC], a SWAT team enters the old apartment to control an epidemic with terrifying results. 
CastManuela Velasco, Jonathan Mellor, Ariel Casa…
LanguageSpanish   CountrySpain
MM$14A

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Claire McCarthy
An outwardly happy Australian couple (Radha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton) journey to Kolkata, India to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival fin… 
CastRadha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton, Isabel Lucas,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
SP$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 6:30pm [2009]


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Martin Pieter Zandvliet
Paprika Steen delivers a tour-de-force performance in this devastating drama about an alcoholic actress trying to put her life back together. 
CastPaprika Steen, Michael Falch, Sarah-Marie Ma…
LanguageDanish   CountryDenmark
DISC$18

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Chris Chong Chan Fui
Poetic, observant and allegorical, Karaoke juxtaposes a young man's idealism with the reality of a changing Malaysia through karaoke videos. 
CastZahiril Adzim, Amerul Affendi, Hariry Jalil,…
LanguageMalay   CountryMalaysia
VIS$PG

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Matias Armand Jordal
The tragic death of a mother causes her family to shatter when they struggle to cope with the loss. 
CastJonathan Espolin, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Fridtj…
LanguageNorwegian   CountryNorway
DISC$18

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Jason Reitman
From Jason Reitman, the Oscar®-nominated director of Juno, comes a comedy starring George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizing expert… 
CastGeorge Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Jason Bateman,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

SAT.19.SEP at 7:00pm [2009]


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Benjamin Franzen
Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over… 
CastChuck D, George Clinton
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
YDSFreePG

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Gaspar Noé
Controversial filmmaker Gaspar Noé (Irreversible) is back with a mind-bending journey that transcends life and death as he follows the exploits … 
CastNathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy
LanguageEnglish, Japanese   CountryFrance/Germany/Italy…
VAN$18

SAT.19.SEP at 7:15pm [2009]


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Valery Todorovsky
In a fantastical 1950s Moscow, straight-laced Mels swaps his drab Communist uniform for a saxophone, pompadour and zoot suit in this vibrant mus… 
CastAnton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Evgeniya Khi…
LanguageRussian   CountryRussia
VAN$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 7:30pm [2009]


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Werner Herzog
Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage), a homicide detective with the New Orleans Police Department, is promoted to Lieutenant after he saves a prisone… 
CastNicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes, Xzibit
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

SAT.19.SEP at 8:00pm [2009]


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Derrick Borte
In the comedic drama The Joneses, Kate Jones (Demi Moore) and Steve Jones (David Duchovny) are a picture-perfect couple who, at first glance, ar… 
CastDemi Moore, David Duchovny, Amber Heard
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Jean-Marc Vallée
From a script by Academy Award®-winning Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park). The film chronicles Queen Victoria’s ascension to the throne, focusing o… 
CastEmily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Mi…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom, USA…
GALA$$PG

SAT.19.SEP at 9:00pm [2009]


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Unknown
The Toronto International Film Festival will present a free screening of the 2009 Cadillac People’s Choice Award winning film on the closing nig… 
CastUnknown
LanguageUnknown   CountryUnknown
PEOPLFree18

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Eclectic Method
The Essential 100 is a list of cinema's greatest as chosen by our own mashup of TIFF expert opinion and a survey filled out by you, our stakehol… 
CastIan Edgar, Geoff Gamlen, Jonny Wilson
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
FUTFree14A

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Eclectic Method
The infectious live, improvised audio visual mash-ups of Eclectic Method, London natives Jonny Wilson, Ian Edgar and Geoff Gamlen, feature telev… 
CastJonny Wilson, Ian Edgar, Geoff Gamlen, Clyde…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
YDSFree14A

SAT.19.SEP at 9:30pm [2009]


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Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Mari…
A global apocalypse is about to destroy all mankind. In a final quest, Robinson (Mathieu Amalric) sets out on a journey from France to Spain, se… 
CastMathieu Amalric, Catherine Frot, Karin Viard…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance/Spain/Taiwan…
SP$14A

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J. Blakeson
Two ex-cons kidnap a woman, but the tables turn and turn again in this tight, smart tale. This film is a terrific little thriller starring Eddie… 
CastGemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan, Martin Compsto…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
DISC$14A

SAT.19.SEP at 11:59pm [2009]


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Tony Jaa
Martial-arts superstar Tony Jaa stars in and directs this epic tale of revenge set hundreds of years in the past. Featuring a huge cast and hord… 
CastTony Jaa, Primrata Dej-Udom, Sorapong Chatre…
LanguageThai   CountryThailand
MM$14A

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