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Opening film | Score: A Hockey Musical [1] |
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Closing film | Last Night |
Location | Toronto, Canada |
Awards | The King's Speech (People's Choice Award) |
Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
No. of films | 258 features, 81 shorts |
Festival date | September 9, 2010 –September 19, 2010 |
Language | English |
Website | http://www.tiff.net/ |
The 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival , (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 19, 2010. [2] 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. [3] [4]
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. [3] (In fact, some of the so-called premieres screened at the Telluride Film Festival before TIFF. [5] )
Award [6] [7] | Film | Director |
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People's Choice Award | The King's Speech | Tom Hooper |
People's Choice Award Runner Up | The First Grader | Justin Chadwick |
People's Choice Midnight Madness | Stake Land | Jim Mickle |
People's Choice Midnight Madness Runner Up | Fubar 2 | Michael Dowse |
People's Choice Documentary | Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie | Sturla Gunnarsson |
People's Choice Documentary Runner Up | Nostalgia for the Light | Patricio Guzmán |
Best Canadian Short Film | Little Flowers (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 |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The Bang Bang Club | Steven Silver | Canada, South Africa | |
Barney's Version | Richard J. Lewis | Canada, Italy | |
A Beginner's Guide to Endings | Jonathan Sobol | Canada | |
Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky | United States | |
Casino Jack | George Hickenlooper | Canada | |
The Conspirator | Robert Redford | United States | |
The Debt | John Madden | United States | |
The Housemaid | Im Sang-soo | South Korea | |
Janie Jones | David M. Rosenthal | United States | |
The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | United Kingdom, Australia | |
Last Night | Massy Tadjedin | United States, France | |
Little White Lies | Les Petits Mouchoirs | Guillaume Canet | France |
Peep World | Barry Blaustein | United States | |
Potiche | François Ozon | France | |
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town | Thom Zimny | United States | |
Sarah's Key | Elle s'appelait Sarah | Gilles Paquet Brenner | France |
Score: A Hockey Musical | Michael McGowan | Canada | |
The Town | Ben Affleck | United States | |
The Way | Emilio Estevez | United States | |
West is West | Andy De Emmony | United Kingdom |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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13 Assassins | Jūsannin no Shikaku | Takashi Miike | Japan |
Erotic Man | Jørgen Leth | Denmark | |
Essential Killing | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland | |
Film Socialisme | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |
I Wish I Knew | 海上传奇 | Jia Zhang-ke | China |
Mysteries of Lisbon | Mistérios de Lisboa | Raúl Ruiz | Portugal, France |
Nostalgia for the Light | Nostalgia de la luz | Patricio Guzmán | France, Germany, Chile |
Poetry | Si | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea, France |
Roses à crédit | Amos Gitai | France | |
Route Irish | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, France, Belgium | |
The Sleeping Beauty | La belle endormie | Catherine Breillat | France |
The Strange Case of Angelica | O Estranho Caso de Angélica | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Lung Bunmi Raluek Chat | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Bunraku | Guy Moshe | United States | |
The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman | Dāo Jiàn Xiào | Wuershan | China, Hong Kong, United States |
Fire of Conscience | 火龍 | Dante Lam | Hong Kong, China |
Fubar II | Michael Dowse | Canada | |
Insidious | James Wan | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | |
Red Nights | Les Nuits rouges du Bourreau de Jade | Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud | France, Hong Kong |
Stake Land | Jim Mickle | United States | |
Super | James Gunn | United States | |
Vanishing on 7th Street | Brad Anderson | United States | |
The Ward | John Carpenter | United States |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Amazon Falls | Katrin Bowen | Canada | |
Daydream Nation | Mike Goldbach | ||
High Cost of Living | Deborah Chow | ||
Oliver Sherman | Ryan Redford | ||
Suspicions | Jaloux | Patrick Demers | |
You Are Here | Daniel Cockburn |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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A Married Couple | Allan King | Canada |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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10 to 11 | 11'e 10 kala | Pelin Esmer | Turkey, France, Germany |
40 | Emre Sahin | Turkey | |
Block-C | Zeki Demirkubuz | Turkey | |
Dark Cloud | Theron Patterson | Turkey | |
Distant | Uzak | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey |
Hair | Tayfun Pirselimoğlu | Turkey | |
The Majority | Seren Yüce | Turkey | |
My Only Sunshine | Reha Erdem | Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria | |
September 12 | Özlem Sulak | Turkey, Germany | |
Somersault in a Coffin | Tabutta Rövaşata | Dervis Zaim | Turkey |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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22nd of May | Tweeëntwintig mei | Koen Mortier | Belgium |
Africa United | Debs Gardner-Paterson | United Kingdom | |
Aftershock | Feng Xiaogang | China | |
All About Love | De xian chao fan | Ann Hui | Hong Kong |
Anything You Want | Todo lo que tú quieras | Achero Mañas | Spain |
Bad Faith | Ond tro | Kristian Petri | Sweden |
Behind Blue Skies | Himlen är oskyldigt blå | Hannes Holm | Sweden |
Black Ocean | Noir océan | Marion Hänsel | Belgium, France, Germany |
Blessed Events | Glückliche Fügung | Isabelle Stever | Germany |
Break Up Club | 分手說愛你 | Barbara Wong | Hong Kong |
Carancho | Pablo Trapero | Argentina, Chile, Spain, France, South Korea | |
Chico & Rita | Chico y Rita | Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, Tono Errando | Spain, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Hungary, Philippines |
Crying Out | À l'origine d'un cri | Robin Aubert | Canada |
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame | 狄仁傑之通天帝國 | Tsui Hark | China, Hong Kong |
The Edge | Kray | Alexei Uchitel | Russia |
Even the Rain | También la lluvia | Icíar Bollaín | Spain, Mexico, France |
The First Grader | Justin Chadwick | United Kingdom, United States, Kenya | |
The Fourth Portrait | 第四張畫 | Chung Mong-Hong | Taiwan |
Home for Christmas | Hjem til jul | Bent Hamer | Norway |
How I Ended This Summer | Kak ya provyol etim letom | Alexei Popogrebsky | Russia |
The Human Resources Manager | hliḥuto shel Ha'Memuneh al Mash'abey Enosh | Eran Riklis | Israel |
The Hunter | Shekarchi | Rafi Pitts | Iran |
I Am Slave | Gabriel Range | United Kingdom | |
Jucy | Louise Alston | Australia | |
Lapland Odyssey | Napapiirin sankarit | Dome Karukoski | Finland |
Late Autumn | Manchu | Kim Tae-yong | South Korea |
Leap Year | Año bisiesto | Michael Rowe | Mexico |
Life, Above All | Oliver Schmitz | South Africa | |
The Light Thief | Svet-Ake | Aktan Arym Kubat | Kyrgyzstan |
Mamma Gógó | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson | Iceland | |
Matariki | Michael Bennett | New Zealand | |
The Matchmaker | פעם הייתי | Avi Nesher | Israel |
Meek's Cutoff | Kelly Reichardt | United States | |
Modra | Ingrid Veninger | Canada | |
My Joy | Счастье моё | Sergei Loznitsa | Germany, Netherlands, Ukraine |
Neds | Peter Mullan | United Kingdom, France, Italy | |
A Night for Dying Tigers | Terry Miles | Canada | |
Of Gods and Men | Des hommes et des dieux | Xavier Beauvois | France |
Oki's Movie | Ok-hi-eui Yeonghwa | Hong Sangsoo | South Korea |
Outbound | Periferic | Bogdan George Apetri | Romania |
Route 132 | Louis Bélanger | Canada | |
Sensation | Tom Hall | Ireland | |
Silent Souls | Овся́нки | Aleksei Fedorchenko | Russia |
Small Town Murder Songs | Ed Gass-Donnelly | Canada | |
The Solitude of Prime Numbers | La solitudine dei numeri primi | Saverio Constanzo | Italy |
State of Violence | Khalo Matabane | South Africa, France | |
Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project | Szelíd teremtés: A Frankenstein-terv | Kornél Mundruczó | Hungary |
Tracker | Ian Sharp | United Kingdom, New Zealand | |
Three | Drei | Tom Tykwer | Germany |
White Irish Drinkers | John Gray | United States | |
Womb | Benedek Fliegauf | Germany, Hungary, France |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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At Ellen's Age | In Alter von Ellen | Pia Marais | Germany |
The Christening | Chrzest | Marcin Wrona | Poland |
Cold Fish | Tsumetai Nettaigyo | Sion Sono | Japan |
Confessions | Kokuhaku | Tetsuya Nakashima | Japan |
Easy Money | Snabba cash | Daniel Espinosa | Sweden |
A Horrible Way to Die | Adam Wingard | United States | |
Kaboom | Gregg Araki | United States, France | |
L.A. Zombie | Bruce LaBruce | Germany, United States | |
Microphone | ميكروفون | Ahmad Abdalla | Egypt |
Monsters | Gareth Edwards | United Kingdom | |
Our Day Will Come | Notre jour viendra | Romain Gavras | France |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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As If I Am Not There | Kao da me nema | Juanita Wilson | Ireland, Macedonia, Sweden |
Attenberg | Athina Rachel Tsangari | Greece | |
Autumn | Harud | Aamir Bashir | India |
Beautiful Boy | Shawn Ku | United States | |
Blame | Michael Henry | Australia | |
The Call | Il richiamo | Stefano Pasetto | Italy, Argentina |
Ceremony | Max Winkler | United States | |
Dirty Girl | Abe Sylvia | United States | |
Girlfriend | Justin Lerner | United States | |
Griff the Invisible | Leon Ford | Australia | |
Half of Oscar | La mitad de Oscar | Manuel Martin Cuenca | Spain, Cuba |
Inside America | Barbara Eder | Austria | |
Look, Stranger | Arielle Javitch | United States | |
Mandoo | Ebrahim Saeedi | Iraq | |
Marimbas from Hell | Marimbas del Infierno | Julio Hernández Cordón | Guatemala, France, Mexico |
Norberto's Deadline | Norberto apenas tarde | Daniel Hendler | Uruguay, Argentina |
October | Octubre | Diego Vega, Daniel Vega | Peru |
The Piano in a Factory | Gang de qin | Zhang Meng | China |
Pinoy Sunday | Táiběi Xīngqítiān | Wei-Ting Ho | Taiwan |
The Place in Between | Notre Étrangère | Sarah Bouyain | Burkina Faso |
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | Jalmari Helander | Finland | |
Sandcastle | Boo Junfeng | Singapore | |
Soul of Sand | Pairon Talle | Sidharth Srinivasan | India |
Viva Riva! | Djo Tunda Wa Munga | Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
Wasted on the Young | Ben C. Lucas | Australia | |
What I Most Want | Lo que más quiero | Delfina Castagnino | Argentina |
Zephyr | Zefir | Belma Bas | Turkey |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro | Douglas Gordon | United Kingdom | |
Angst Essen/Eat Fear | Ming Wong | Germany | |
HEAVENHELL | Chris Chong Chan Fui, Yasuhiro Morinaga | Malaysia | |
In Love for the Mood | Ming Wong | Singapore | |
Jeanne | Martin Arnold | Austria | |
Journey to the Moon | William Kentridge | South Africa | |
Klatsassin | Stan Douglas | Canada | |
Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake | Perry Bard | United States | |
Nyman with a Movie Camera | Michael Nyman | United Kingdom | |
Otolith III | The Otolith Group | United Kingdom | |
Slidelength | Michael Snow | Canada | |
Soft Rains#6: Suburban Horror (part 1) | Jennifer McCoy, Kevin McCoy | United States | |
Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades | Harun Farocki | Germany |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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ANPO: Art X War | Linda Hoaglund | United States | |
Armadillo | Janus Metz | Denmark | |
Boxing Gym | Frederick Wiseman | United States | |
Cave of Forgotten Dreams | Werner Herzog | United States | |
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer | Alex Gibney | United States | |
Cool It | Ondi Timoner | United States | |
The Game of Death | Le Jeu de la mort | Christophe Nick, Thomas Bornot | France, Switzerland |
Genpin | Naomi Kawase | Japan | |
Guest | Jose Luis Guerin | Spain | |
How to Start Your Own Country | Jody Shapiro | Canada | |
Inside Job | Charles Ferguson | United States | |
Machete Maidens Unleashed! | Mark Hartley | Australia | |
The Man of a Thousand Songs | William D. MacGillivray | Canada | |
Mother of Rock: Lillian Roxon | Paul Clarke | Australia | |
Pink Saris | Kim Longinotto | United Kingdom | |
The Pipe | An Piopa | Risteard Ó Domhnaill | Ireland |
Precious Life | Shlomi Eldar | Israel | |
The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical | Sarah McCarthy | United Kingdom | |
Tabloid | Errol Morris | United States | |
Tears of Gaza | Vibeke Løkkeberg | Norway | |
When My Child is Born | Guo Jing, Ke Dingding | China | |
Windfall | Laura Israel | United States | |
!Women Art Revolution: A Secret History | Lynn Hershman Leeson | United States |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Karla and Jonas | Charlotte Sachs Bostrup | Denmark | |
Little Sister | Richard Bowen | China, United States | |
Make Believe | J. Clay Tweel | United States | |
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures | Ben Stassen | Belgium |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu | Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceaușescu | Andrei Ujică | Romania |
Brownian Movement | Nanouk Leopold | Netherlands, Germany, Belgium | |
Curling | Denis Côté | Canada | |
The Ditch | Wang Bing | France, Belgium | |
The Four Times | Le quattro volte | Michelangelo Frammartino | Italy, Germany, Switzerland |
K.364 A Journey by Train | Douglas Gordon | United Kingdom, Germany, France | |
Moscow 11:19:31 | Michael Nyman | United Kingdom | |
Mourning for Anna | Trois temps après la mort d'Anna | Catherine Martin | Canada |
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow | Sophie Fiennes | France | |
Promises Written in Water | Vincent Gallo | United States | |
Summer of Goliath | Verano de Goliat | Nicolás Pereda | Canada, Mexico, Netherlands |
A Useful Life | La vida útil | Federico Veiroj | Uruguay |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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753 Macpherson Avenue | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | |
Anne Truitt Working | Jem Cohen | United States | |
Atlantiques | Mati Diop | Senegal, France | |
Aubade | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States | |
Bits and Pieces | EYE Film Institute Netherlands | Netherlands | |
Blow-Ups: Portrait, Tea Time, Red Curtain | Helga Fanderl | Germany | |
Blue Mantle | Rebecca Meyers | United States | |
Burning Bush | Vincent Grenier | Canada, United States | |
Cinematographie | Philipp Fleischmann | Austria | |
Color Films 1 & 2 | Madison Brookshire | United States | |
Coming Attractions | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | |
Compline | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States | |
The Day Was a Scorcher | Ken Jacobs | United States | |
Delphine de Oliveira | Friedl vom Gröller | Austria | |
Get Out of the Car | Thom Andersen | United States | |
Hell Roaring Creek | Lucien Castaing-Taylor | United States | |
Home Movie | John Price | Canada | |
Kodachrome Days | Jonas Mekas | United States | |
Landscape, Semi-Surround | Eriko Sonoda | Japan | |
Leona Alone | Oliver Husain | Canada | |
One | Eve Heller | Austria | |
Ouverture | Christopher Becks | Canada, France | |
Pastourelle | Nathaniel Dorsky | United States | |
Photo Finish Figures | Il finish delle figure | Paolo Gioli | Italy |
Ruhr | James Benning | Germany, United States | |
Slaveship | T. Marie | United States | |
The Soul of Things | Dominic Angerame | United States | |
Tokyo-Ebisu | Tomonari Nishikawa | Japan | |
Victoria, George, Edward & Thatcher | Callum Cooper | United Kingdom | |
Water Lilies | T. Marie | United States |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Above the Knee | Greg Atkins | Canada | |
The Adder's Bite | Firas Momani | ||
Animal Control | Kire Paputts | ||
The Camera and Christopher Merk | Brandon Cronenberg | ||
Champagne | Hans Olson | ||
The Closer You Get to Canada | John Bolton | ||
Eggcellent | Martin Sokol | ||
File Under Miscellaneous | Jeff Barnaby | ||
A Fine Young Man | Kevan Funk | ||
Green Crayons | Kazik Radwanski | ||
The High Level Bridge | Trevor Anderson | ||
Home: Life Advice | Aaron Phelan | ||
How to Rid Your Lover of a Negative Emotion Caused by You | Nadia Litz | ||
Interregnum | Nick Fox-Gieg | ||
The Legend of Beaver Dam | Jerome Sable | ||
Lipsett Diaries | Theodore Ushev | ||
Little Flowers | Les Fleurs de l'âge | Vincent Biron | |
Living History | Isaac Cravit | ||
Love. Marriage. Miscarriage. | Darragh McDonald | ||
Marius Borodine | Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais | ||
Manèges | Sophie Goyette | ||
La Métropolitaine | Dan Popa | ||
Mokhtar | Halima Ouardiri | ||
Negativipeg | Matthew Rankin | ||
The Old Ways | Michael Vass | ||
On the Way to the Sea | Tao Gu | ||
The Open Window | Cam Woykin | ||
Poudre | Ky Nam Le Duc | ||
Le Projet Sapporo | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre | ||
Sad Bear | Liz Van Allen Cairns, Joe LoBianco | ||
Les Softies | Emmanuel Shirinian, Russell Bennett | ||
Sophie Lavoie | Anne Émond | ||
The Trenches | La Tranchée | Claude Cloutier | |
Tsunami, Horses and Civilization | Carla Susanto | ||
Turkey | Sara St. Onge | ||
Vapor | Kaveh Nabatian | ||
Wapawekka | Danis Goulet | ||
Warchild | Caroline Monnet | ||
Woman Waiting | Antoine Bourges | ||
yesno | Brian D. Johnson |
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