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: 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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2015 TOfilmfest: Canadian film highlights

Last week, the Toronto International Film Festival held it's Canadian film press conference for 2015. Canadian feature films will appear as Special Presentations, as well as in the Documentary, Discovery, Contemporary World Cinema, Vanguard, and Wavelengths programs.



Here are some highlights:

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• Born to be Blue, Robert Budreau
• Into the Forest, Patricia Rozema
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• Closet Monster, Stephen Dunn
• Sleeping Giant, Andrew Cividino
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• Endorphine, André Turpin
• No Men Beyond This Point, Mark Sawers
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• Ninth Floor, Mina Shum
• This Changes Everything, Avi Lewis
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• My Internship in Canada, Philippe Falardeau
• Les êtres chers, Anne Émond

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2014 Full Festival Line-up Complete!

The final film titles have been announced for the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival:

Discovery

• ’71, Yann Demange
• Adult Beginners, Ross Katz
• Atlantic, Jan-Willem van Ewijk
• The Crow’s Egg, M. Manikandan
• Dukhtar, Afia Nathaniel
• Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere, Nguyen Hoang Diep
• The Great Man, Sarah Leonor
• I am not Lorena, Isidora Marras
• The Intruder, Shariff Korver
• Life in a Fishbowl, Baldvin Zophoníasson
• The Little Death, Josh Lawson
• Los Hongos, Oscar Ruiz Navia
• Magical Girl, Carlos Vermut
• Mardan, Batin Ghobadi
• May Allah Bless France! Abd Al Malik
• The Narrow Frame of Midnight, Tala Hadid
• OBRA, Gregorio Graziosi
• Run, Philippe Lacôte
• La Salada, Juán Martín Hsu
• Second Coming, Debbie Tucker Green
• Senza nessuna pietà, Michele Alhaique
• Stories of Our Lives
• Sway, Rooth Tang
• Theeb, Naji Abu Nowar
• The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
• Unlucky Plaza, Ken Kwek
• The Vanished Elephant, Javier Fuentes-León
• Villa Touma, Suha Arraf
• X+Y, Morgan Matthews

Mavericks in Conversation

• David Thorpe, Do I Sound Gay?
• Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua
• Jon Stewart
• Juliette Binoche
• Reese Witherspoon
• Richard Gere
• Robert Duvall
• Julie Taymor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Special Events

• Ghostbusters [1984], Ivan Reitman
• Groundhog Day [1993], Harold Ramis
• Stripes [1981], Ivan Reitman
• People's Choice Award Winner

Kids

• Labyrinthus, Douglas Boswell
• Paper Planes, Robert Connolly
• Secrets of War, Dennis Bots
• Song of the Sea, Tomm Moore

There were also additions to some previously announced programs:

Special Presentations

• Roger Waters The Wall, Sean Evans and Roger Waters
• St. Vincent, Theodore Melfi

Contemporary World Cinema

• Cut Bank, Matt Shakman
• Tigers, Danis Tanovic

Masters

• Foreign Body, Krzysztof Zanussi
• Murder in Pacot, Raoul Peck
• The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, Isao Takahata
• Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Documentary

• The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, Mami Sunada
• The Years of Fierro, Santiago Esteinou

Vanguard

• The Voices, Marjane Satrapi

Including short-films and free screenings, the festival is bringing over 400 films to Toronto this September!

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btw, here's the 2014 complete film schedule in PDF format.
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