2016 TOfilmfest: Midnight Madness, Vanguard, and more!

Last week, the Toronto International Film Festival released announcements for several programs, including Vanguard, Cinematheque, Documentary, and Midnight Madness programs... plus the line-up for the jury-prize Platform program.  Here are some highlights:

Blind Sun, Joyce A. Nashawati 

Prevenge, Alice Lowe

Blair Witch, Adam Wingard 

The Girl with All the Gifts, Colm McCarthy

Jackie, Pablo Larraín 

Moonlight, Barry Jenkins

Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash 

Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro

Into the Inferno, Werner Herzog 

Mostly Sunny, Dilip Mehta

This week, we'll be adding reviews, video-clips, interviews, trailers and more links to articles for all the films announced so far — and next week will bring the final film announcement, and the release of the official schedule!

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2015 TOfilmfest: complete festival line-up released!

This week the Toronto International Film Festival released it's final film title announcements, including additions to Discovery, Vanguard, Cinematheque, Kids, In Conversation With... (formerly "Mavericks") and Special Events programs.
Here are some highlights:

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• Vertigo [1958], Alfred Hitchcock

  with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
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• Black, Adil El Arbi / Bilall Fallah
• Ixcanul, Jayro Bustamante
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• Heat [1995], Michael Mann
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• In Conversation With... Julianne Moore
• In Conversation With... Salma Hayek
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• My Skinny Sister, Sanna Lenken
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• Zoom, Pedro Morelli

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2015 TOfilmfest: Midnight Madness, Vanguard, and more!

It was a busy week for the Toronto International Film Festival! — two days of film announcements saw additions to the Vanguard, Cinematheque, Documentary, Midnight Madness, and Masters programs... plus line-ups for new Platform and Primetime programs.  Here are some highlights:

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• Der Nachtmahr, Akiz Ikon
• Love, Gaspar Noé
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• Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier
• Hardcore, Ilya Naishuller
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• Bang Gang, Eva Husson
• High-Rise, Ben Wheatley
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• The Assassin, Hou Hsiao-hsien
• Every Thing Will Be Fine [in 3-D], Wim Wenders
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• The Mask [1961], Julian Roffman
• Titicut Follies [1967], Frederick Wiseman
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• Amazing Grace [1972], Sydney Pollack
• Sherpa, Jennifer Peedom
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• Keith Richards: Under the Influence, Morgan Neville

Btw, next week will mark the final film announcements, and the release of the official schedule!



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2014 World Cinema

Last week, the Toronto International Film Festival announced the addition of film titles from around the world...


City to City (Seoul, South Korea)

• Alive, Jungbum Park
• Cart, Boo Ji-Young
• Confession, Lee Do-yun
• A Dream of Iron, Kelvin Kyung Kun Park
• A Girl at My Door, July Jung
• Gyeongju, Lu Zhang
• A Hard Day, Seong-hoon Kim
• Scarlet Innocence, Yim Pil-sung

Contemporary World Cinema

• Aire Libre, Anahí Berneri
• Amour Fou, Jessica Hausner
• Behavior, Ernesto Daranas
• Bird People, Pascale Ferran
• Black Souls, Francesco Munzi
• Breathe, Mélanie Laurent
• Cut Snake, Tony Ayres
• The Dark Horse, James Napier Robertson
• Don’t Breathe, Nino Kirtadze
• The Farewell Party, Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit
• Frailer, Mijke de Jong
• Girlhood, Céline Sciamma
• The Grump, Dome Karukoski
• High Society, Julie Lopes-Curval
• Impunity, Jyoti Mistry
• In the Crosswind, Martti Helde
• Itsi Bitsi, Ole Christian Madsen
• Justice, Joel Lamangan
• Kabukicho Love Hotel, Ryuichi Hiroki
• Kill Me Three Times, Kriv Stenders
• Labyrinth Of Lies, Giulio Ricciarelli
• Leopardi, Mario Martone
• The Lesson, Kristina Grozeva
• Li’l Quinquin, Bruno Dumont
• Lulu, Luis Ortega
• Margarita, with a Straw, Shonali Bose
• Meet Me in Montenegro, Alex Holdridge
• Men Who Save The World, Liew Seng Tat
• Mirage, Szabolcs Hajdu
• Modris, Juris Kursietis
• Not My Type, Lucas Belvaux
• Out of Nature, Ole Giæver
• The Owners, Adilkhan Yerzhanov
• Partners in Crime, Chang Jung-Chi
• The Reaper, Zvonimir Juric
• Sand Dollars, Laura Amelia Guzmán
• Still the Water, Naomi Kawase
• Today, Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi
• Tokyo Fiancée, Stefan Liberski
• Two Shots Fired, Martin Rejtman
• The Valley, Ghassan Salhab
• Venice, Kiki Álvarez
• Voice Over, Cristián Jiménez
• Where I Am King, Carlos Siguion-Reyna
• Who Am I – No System is Safe, Baran bo Odar
• Xenia, Panos H. Koutras

Contemporary World Speakers

• Charlie’s Country, Rolf de Heer
• Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Ronit Elkabetz
• Red Rose, Sepideh Farsi
• Tales, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
• Tour de Force, Christian Zübert

Wavelengths

• Le beau danger, René Frölke
• Episode of the Sea, Lonnie van Brummelen
• Fires on the Plain, Shinya Tsukamoto
• From What is Before, Lav Diaz
• Heaven Knows What, Benny Safdie, Joshua Safdie
• Horse Money, Pedro Costa
• Jauja, Lisandro Alonso
• Letters to Max, Eric Baudelaire
• Maidan, Sergei Loznitsa
• The Princess of France, Matías Piñeiro
• La Sapienza, Eugène Green
• A Single Word, Mariama Sylla, Khady Sylla
• Songs From the North, Soon-Mi Yoo
• Wavelengths 1: Open Forms
• Wavelengths 2: Something in the Atmosphere
• Wavelengths 3: Tales Told
• Wavelengths 4: Night Noon

There were also additions to some previously announced programs:

Galas

• Boychoir, François Girard
• The Connection, Cédric Jimenez
• Escobar: Paradise Lost, Andrea Di Stefano
• The Forger, Philip Martin
• Infinitely Polar Bear, Maya Forbes
• Laggies, Lynn Shelton
• Ruth & Alex, Richard Loncraine

Special Presentations

• Beyond the Lights, Gina Prince-Bythewood
• Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas
• The Cobbler, Thomas McCarthy
• Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2, Johnnie To
• Gemma Bovery, Anne Fontaine
• Gentlemen, Mikael Marcimain
• Gomorrah, Stefano Sollima
• Human Highway [1982], Neil Young
• Madame Bovary, Sophie Barthes
• Maggie, Henry Hobson
• Pride, Matthew Warchus
• Revenge of the Green Dragons, Andrew Lau, Andrew Loo
• The Search, Michel Hazanavicius
• Shelter, Paul Bettany
• Three Hearts, Benoît Jacquot
• Two Days, One Night, Luc Dardenne
• Welcome to Me, Shira Piven

Cinematheque

• The Color of Pomegranates [1968], Sergei Parajanov
• Cruel Story of Youth [1960], Nagisa Ôshima
• Dragon Inn [1967], King Hu
• The Goddess [1934], Wu Yonggang
• In Comparison [2009], Harun Farocki
• My Darling Clementine [1946], John Ford

Future Projections

• BMX Channel and Midnight Traceur [2013], Shaun Gladwell
• Nature of the Self, Laurent Montaron
• Provenance [2013], Amie Siegel
• Seven One-Minute Feature-Like Films About Seoul, Young-hae Chang, Marc Voge

Short Cuts International

• Short Cuts International Programme 1
• Short Cuts International Programme 2
• Short Cuts International Programme 3
• Short Cuts International Programme 4
• Short Cuts International Programme 5

Tomorrow, we expect the festival to release their final finishing touches:

• Mavericks conversations
• Kids program
• Discovery (director's first feature films)
• a complete film schedule for Sep.4-14
• a guest list will be a list of everyone who is expected to attend

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