Doing the film fest for free

That's right, for free. Doing the film fest this year doesn't have to cost you a dime.

A single ticket during the film festival will cost

• $24.75 — regular, single ticket order ($19.69 + HST + bldg fee + order fee)
• $45.75 — premium, single ticket order ($38.27 + HST + bldg fee + order fee)
• $17.00 — child, single ticket order ($12.83 + HST + bldg fee + order fee)
  [12 years and under, "Sprockets Family Zone" only]

— but that's not the only way to enjoy the festival...

You can watch films from past festivals, see some cinematic art, tour the new Lightbox centre, or find out how films are leading a new dialog in Turkish culture — you can even see the winner of the people's choice award for free!

Here's a list of what's free:

TIFF for Free

• American Beauty (1999) – Sam Mendes
• Away from Her (2006) – Sarah Polley
• The Big Chill (1983) – Lawrence Kasdan
• Crash (2004) – Paul Haggis
• Outrageous! (1977) – Richard Benner
• The Princess Bride (1987) – Rob Reiner
• Roadkill (1989) – Bruce McDonald
• Water (2005) – Deepa Mehta

2010 Future Projections

• 24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth... – Douglas Gordon
• Angst Essen/Eat Fear – Ming Wong
• Heavenhell – Chris Chong Chan Fui, Yasuhi
• In Love for the Mood – Ming Wong
• Jeanne – Martin Arnold
• Journey to the Moon – William Kentridge
• Klatsassin – Stan Douglas, Steffen Mennek
• Man With a Movie Camera... Global Remake – Perry Bard
• NYman With A Movie Camera – Michael Nyman
• Otolith III – Otolith Group
• Slidelength – Michael Snow
• Soft Rains #6: Suburban Horror – Jennifer McCoy, Kevin McCoy
• Workers Leaving the Factory... – Harun Farocki

Also free, and open to the public at Lightbox, beginning September at 12pm, for the duration of the festival:

• Essential Cinema – a journey through the Essential 100, a list of the most influential films of all time; costumes, film stills, posters, music samples and film clips, the exhibition charts these works – all 100 of them – that have played such a key role in defining film culture for more than a century
  
  
• Special Commissions
  8½ Screens, Atom Egoyan – a key scene from Fellini’s masterpiece 8½, and a reversal of the customary relationship between the projector, the audience, and the screen
  E-100, James Andean & François Xavier Saint-Pierre – a sound installation in which key samples of film dialogue culled from the films in the Essential 100 list are heard in random variations, interweaving dialogue, environmental sounds and instrumental accompaniment
  Hauntings I, Guy Maddin – involves eleven projections in the main gallery space showing recreated fragments of lost or unrealized film masterpieces
  Hauntings II, Guy Maddin – illuminating the Lightbox fifth floor windows every night of the Festival, forming a ghostly curtain that will reveal a siren beckoning visitors to enter
  Essential Titles, Barr Gilmore – 5-minute looped motion graphic projection that isolates and recreates only the title and director's credit from the opening sequences of all of the films on the Essential 100 list — a visually stunning piece that will act as an environmental graphic at the entrance of the exhibition

Events

• TIFF Bell Lightbox 101 — guided tour
• Istanbul: A Conversation — panel discussion
  
• People’s Choice Award — free screening

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