2010 Toronto International Film Festival

2010 Toronto International Film Festival
The TIFF Bell Lightbox had its formal opening on September 12, 2010, during the festival. This shot was taken the day before the opening.
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
Number of films	258 features, 81 shorts
Language	English
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The 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival, (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 19, 2010. The opening night gala presented Score: A Hockey Musical, a Canadian comedy-drama musical film. Last Night closed the festival on September 19.

2010 TIFF included 258 feature films, down from 264 in 2009. However, the number of short films at the 2010 festival increased to 81 (compared to 70 in 2009), making the total number of films 339, five more than in 2009.^[1]

Of the feature films, TIFF claims that 112 are world premieres, 24 are international premieres (i.e. the first screening outside the film's home country), and 98 are North American premieres.^[1] (In fact, some of the so-called premieres screened at the Telluride Film Festival before TIFF.^[2])

Awards

Award	Film	Director
Best Canadian Short Film	Les Fleurs de l'âge	Vincent Biron
Best Canadian First Feature Film	High Cost of Living	Deborah Chow
City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian Feature Film	Incendies	Denis Villeneuve
FIPRESCI Prize for the Discovery	Beautiful Boy	Shawn Ku
FIPRESCI for Special Presentations	L'Amour Fou	Pierre Thoretton
People's Choice Award	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper
People's Choice Midnight Madness	Stake Land	Jim Mickle
People's Choice Documentary	Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie	Sturla Gunnarsson

Programmes

Special presentations

• Opening Night Gala:Score: A Hockey Musical directed by Michael McGowan
  
• Closing Night Gala:Last Night directed by Massy Tadjedin
• 127 Hours directed by Danny Boyle
• AMIGO directed by John Sayles
• Deep in the Woods directed by Benoît Jacquot
• Everything Must Go directed by Dan Rush
• Gorbaciòf - The Cashier who Liked Gambling directed by Stefano Incerti
• Hereafter directed by Clint Eastwood
• I'm Still Here directed by Casey Affleck
• Julia’s Eyes directed by Guillem Morales
• The Last Circus directed by Álex de la Iglesia
• Let Me In directed by Matt Reeves
• The House by the Medlar Tree directed by Pasquale Scimeca
• Mothers directed by Milcho Manchevski
• Passione directed by John Turturro
• Passion Play directed by Mitch Glazer
• The Poll Diaries directed by Chris Kraus
• Rio Sex Comedy directed by Jonathan Nossiter
• Sarah’s Key directed by Gilles Paquet Brenner
• Special Treatment directed by Jeanne Labrune
• What's Wrong With Virginia directed by Dustin Lance Black

City to City

• 10 to 11 directed by Pelin Esmer
• 40 directed by Emre Sahin
• Block-C directed by Zeki Demirkubuz
• Dark Cloud directed by Theron Patterson
• Distant directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Hair directed by Tayfun Pirselimoğlu
• The Majority directed by Seren Yüce
• My Only Sunshine directed by Reha Erdem
• September 12 directed by Özlem Sulak
• Somersault in a Coffin directed by Dervis Zaim

Contemporary World Cinema

• 22nd of May directed by Koen Mortier
• Africa United directed by Debs Gardner-Paterson
• Aftershock directed by Feng Xiaogang
• All About Love directed by Ann Hui
• Anything You Want directed by Achero Mañas
• Bad Faith directed by Kristian Petri
• Behind Blue Skies directed by Hannes Holm
• Black Ocean directed by Marion Hänsel
• Blessed Events directed by Isabelle Stever
• Break Up Club directed by Barbara Wong
• Carancho directed by Pablo Trapero
• Chico & Rita directed by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, Tono Errando
• Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame directed by Tsui Hark
• The Edge directed by Alexey Uchitel
• Even the Rain directed by Icíar Bollaín
• The First Grader directed by Justin Chadwick
• The Fourth Portrait directed by Chung Mong-Hong
• Home for Christmas directed by Bent Hamer
• How I Ended This Summer directed by Alexei Popogrebsky
• The Human Resources Manager directed by Eran Riklis
• The Hunter directed by Rafi Pitts
• I Am Slave directed by Gabriel Range
• Jucy directed by Louise Alston
• Lapland Odyssey directed by Dome Karukoski
• Late Autumn directed by Kim Tae-Yong
• Leap Year directed by Michael Rowe
• Life, Above All directed by Oliver Schmitz
• The Light Thief directed by Aktan Arym Kubat
• Mamma Gógó directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
• Matariki directed by Michael Bennett
• The Matchmaker directed by Avi Nesher
• Meek's Cutoff directed by Kelly Reichardt
• My Joy directed by Sergei Loznitsa
• Neds directed by Peter Mullan
• Of Gods and Men directed by Xavier Beauvois
• Oki's Movie directed by Hong Sangsoo
• Outbound directed by Bogdan George Apetri
• Sensation directed by Tom Hall
• The Solitude Of Prime Numbers directed by Saverio Constanzo
• Tender Son – The Frankenstein Project directed by Kornél Mundruczó
• Tracker directed by Ian Sharp
• Three directed by Tom Tykwer
• Silent Souls directed by Aleksei Fedorchenko
• State of Violence directed by Khalo Matabane
• White Irish Drinkers directed by John Gray
• Womb directed by Benedek Fliegauf

Discovery

• As If I Am Not There directed by Juanita Wilson
• ATTENBERG directed by Athina Rachel Tsangiri
• Autumn directed by Aamir Bashir
• Beautiful Boy directed by Shawn Ku
• Blame directed by Michael Henry
• The Call directed by Stefano Pasetto
• Ceremony directed by Max Winkler
• Dirty Girl directed by Abe Sylvia
• Girlfriend directed by Justin Lerner
• Griff the Invisible directed by Leon Ford
• Half of Oscar directed by Manuel Martin Cuenca
• Inside America directed by Barbara Eder
• Look, Stranger directed by Arielle Javitch
• Mandoo directed by Ebrahim Saeedi
• Marimbas From Hell directed by Julio Hernández Cordón
• Norberto’s Deadline directed by Daniel Hendler
• October directed by Diego Vega and Daniel Vega
• The Piano in a Factory directed by Zhang Meng
• Pinoy Sunday directed by Wi Ding Ho
• The Place in Between directed by Sarah Bouyain
• Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale directed by Jalmari Helander
• Sandcastle directed by Boo Junfeng
• Soul of Sand directed by Sidharth Srinivasan
• Viva Riva! directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga
• Wasted On the Young directed by Ben C. Lucas
• What I Most Want directed by Delfina Castagnino
• The Whistleblower directed by Larysa Kondracki
• Zephyr directed by Belma Bas

Future Projections

• 24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro directed by Douglas Gordon
• Angst Essen/Eat Fear directed by Ming Wong
• HEAVENHELL directed by Chris Chong Chan Fui and Yasuhiro Morinaga
• In Love for the Mood directed by Ming Wong
• Jeanne directed by Martin Arnold
• Journey to the Moon directed by William Kentridge
• Klatsassin directed by Stan Douglas
• Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake directed by Perry Bard
• NYman With A Movie Camera directed by Michael Nyman
• Otolith III directed by The Otolith Group
• Slidelength directed by Michael Snow
• Soft Rains #6: Suburban Horror (part 1) directed by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
• Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades directed by Harun Farocki

Masters

• 13 Assassins directed by Takashi Miike
• Essential Killing directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
• Film Socialisme directed by Jean-Luc Godard
• I Wish I Knew directed by Jia Zhang-ke
• Poetry directed by Lee Chang-dong
• Roses à Crédit directed by Amos Gitai
• Route Irish directed by Ken Loach
• The Sleeping Beauty directed by Catherine Breillat
• The Strange Case of Angelica directed by Manoel de Oliveira
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Midnight Madness

• Bunraku directed by Guy Moshe
• The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman directed by Wuershan
• Fire of Conscience directed by Dante Lam
• Insidious directed by James Wan
• Red Nights directed by Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud
• Stake Land directed by Jim Mickle
• Super directed by James Gunn
• Vanishing on 7th Street directed by Brad Anderson
• The Ward directed by John Carpenter
• Midnight Madness Opening Night:Fubar II directed by Michael Dowse
• The Legend of Beaver Dam directed by Jerome Sable

Real to Reel

• The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town directed by Thom Zimny
• Erotic Man directed by Jørgen Leth
• Nostalgia for the Light directed by Patricio Guzmán
• ANPO directed by Linda Hoaglund
• Armadillo directed by Janus Metz
• Boxing Gym directed by Frederick Wiseman
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams directed by Werner Herzog
• Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer directed by Alex Gibney
• Cool It directed by Ondi Timoner
• The Game of Death directed by Christophe Nick & Thomas Bornot
• Genpin directed by Naomi Kawase
• Guest directed by Jose Luis Guerin
• Inside Job directed by Charles Ferguson
• Machete Maidens Unleashed! directed by Mark Hartley
• Mother of Rock: Lillian Roxon directed by Paul Clarke
• Pink Saris directed by Kim Longinotto
• The Pipe directed by Risteard Ó Domhnaill
• Precious Life directed by Shlomi Eldar
• The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical directed by Sarah McCarthy
• Tabloid directed by Errol Morris
• Tears of Gaza directed by Vibeke Løkkeberg
• When My Child is Born directed by Guo Jing & Ke Dingding
• Windfall directed by Laura Israel
• !Women Art Revolution – A Secret History directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson

Sprockets Family Zone

• Karla and Jonas directed by Charlotte Sachs Bostrup
• Little Sister directed by Richard Bowen
• Make Believe directed by J. Clay Tweel
• Sammy’s Adventures: The Secret Passage directed by Ben Stassen

Visions

• The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu directed by Andrei Ujica
• Brownian Movement directed by Nanouk Leopold
• Curling directed by Denis Côté
• The Ditch directed by Wang Bing
• The Four Times directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
• k.364 A Journey by Train directed by Douglas Gordon
• Moscow 11:19:31 directed by Michael Nyman
• Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow directed by Sophie Fiennes
• Promises Written in Water directed by Vincent Gallo
• Summer of Goliath directed by Nicolàs Pereda
• Trois Temps Apres La Mort D’Anna directed by Catherine Martin
• A Useful Life directed by Federico Veiroj

Vanguard

• At Ellen’s Age directed by Pia Marais
• The Christening directed by Marcin Wrona
• Cold Fish directed by Sion Sono
• Confessions directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
• Easy Money directed by Daniel Espinosa
• A Horrible Way to Die directed by Adam Wingard
• Kaboom directed by Gregg Araki
• L.A. Zombie directed by Bruce LaBruce
• Microphone directed by Ahmad Abdalla
• Monsters directed by Gareth Edwards
• Our Day Will Come directed by Romain Gavras

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Fact Sheet" (Press release). 2010-09-01. http://tiff.net/press/pressreleases/2010/2010factsheet. Retrieved 2010-09-07. 
2. ^ Peter Sciretta (2010-09-03). "TFF Blog: Welcome to the 37th Telluride Film Festival". /Film. http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/09/03/tff-blog-welcome-to-the-telluride-film-festival/. Retrieved 2010-09-08. "And even then, most of the bigger films are hidden in TBA “Sneak Preview Screening” slots. This allows Telluride to secretly premiere films that are already set to “officially premiere” at other festivals like Venice, Toronto, New York and Fantastic Fest." 

External links

• Official site