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Premieres dominate Toronto's 352-film lineup

TIFF lineup unveiled

Etan Vlessing
TORONTO -- The latest films from Paul Verhoeven, Ridley Scott, Anthony Minghella, Douglas McGrath and Patrice Leconte were tabbed for the red carpet treatment Tuesday as the Toronto International Film Festival released its full 352-film lineup.

Festival organizers said they have booked world premieres for Minghella's "Breaking and Entering," a Weinstein Co./Miramax drama about intersecting lives in London that stars Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn and Vera Farmiga; and Scott's "A Good Year," the Russell Crowe starrer about an investment banker who moves to southern France. 20th Century Fox will release the film Nov. 10.

Both will receive high-profile festival sendoffs at Roy Thomson Hall, as will Leconte's comedy "Mon meilleur ami" (My Best Friend), starring Daniel Auteuil and Dany Boon, and Verhoeven's "Zwartboek" (Black Book), a Dutch-language thriller about a feisty German Jewish girl surviving World War II.

Closing Toronto this year is the world premiere of Michael Apted's "Amazing Grace," which stars Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Michael Gambon and Albert Finney.

The festival already announced that Canadian Inuit-language film "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen" will kick things off Sept. 7 with a gala premiere.

Away from the screening rooms, festival co-director Noah Cowan is predicting a robust behind-the-scenes market in Toronto, especially for big-name U.S. films.

"Based on the films this year, I anticipate a lot of buying and selling to take place. There's just so many good movies that are significant in global film culture that I would be kind of shocked if there wasn't much business," Cowan said.

In all, Toronto will unspool 352 films from 61 countries over its Sept. 7-16 run. That compares with 335 films last year. This year's crop includes 261 features, most of which are world, international or North American premieres.

Festival programrs booked a North American premiere for the "other" Truman Capote biopic, McGrath's "Infamous," which will shift to Toronto after opening in Venice. Also making the Venice-to-Toronto jump is Xiaogang Feng's "The Banquet," an ancient Chinese battle picture starring Ziyi Zhang and Daniel Wu.

There also is a North American premiere scheduled for Danish director Susanne Bier's "After the Wedding," an IFC Films release from Zentropa Entertainment that stars Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen and Rolf Lassgard.

Toronto also promoted two previously announced films for gala presentations: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Babel," starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal, and the Reese Witherspoon starrer "Penelope."

Among the 20-strong field of high-profile movies unspooling at Roy Thomson Hall are eight U.S. movies and another eight European titles, including Pedro Almodovar's "Volver" and "The White Planet," from French directors Thierry Piantanida, Thierry Ragobert and Jean Lemire.

Cowan said he foresees strong interest in U.S. titles given such films as Mark Palansky's "Penelope," Leon Ichaso's "El Cantante," Christopher N. Rowley's "Bonneville" and Scott Caan's "The Dog Problem" -- all of which go into Toronto with North American rights up for grabs.

"Acquisition sales don't get much bigger than this," he said.

At the same time, Cowan noted a number of foreign-language titles with an accessible, U.S. independent sensibility that he anticipates major film buyers pursuing. These include such galas as "After the Wedding," which broke boxoffice records in Denmark; the big-budget Hong Kong movie "The Aunt's Postmodern Life," directed by Ann Hui and starring Chow Yun Fat and Zhao Wei; and Margarethe von Trotta's German erotic thriller "I Am the Other Woman."

"So interesting this year is how competitive and how high the quality are the non-English films that are chosen for world premieres. They stand shoulder to shoulder with the big Hollywood galas," Cowan said. "Our dream would be that mainstream North American distributors will embrace this, and they will find their way into at least large-scale or medium distribution."

A record 123 feature films and documentaries from EU member countries will unspool in Toronto.

Six French films will receive world premieres in Toronto, including Anne Fontaine's "Nouvelle Chance," which stars Danielle Darrieux as an old actress long forgotten in a rest home, and Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold's "One to Another."

British films bowing in Toronto include Shane Meadows' portrait of skinhead culture, "This is England," and Roger Michell's "Venus," the story of two old friends, played by Peter O'Toole and Leslie Phillips, whose lives change when a grand-niece arrives from the provinces.

Other European world premieres include Alex van Warmerdam's "Waiter" from the Netherlands, Nacho Cerda's "The Abandoned" from Spain and Finnish director Antti-Jussi Annila's "Jade Warrior," a co-production with China, Estonia and the Netherlands.

Other announcements Tuesday include plans for in-person conversations with U.S. filmmakers Michael Moore, John Waters and John Cameron Mitchell as part of the Mavericks sidebar. The Dialogues: Talking With Pictures sidebar has added five new directors to discuss films that inspired their careers: Bruce Weber, Albert Maysles, Perry Henzell, Costa Gavras and Christine Vachon.

Also, another 13 titles -- five world premieres and seven North American premieres -- were added to the Masters program, including Goran Paskaljevic's "The Optimists," German director Volker Schlondorff's "Strike," Alain Resnais' "Coeurs" and Benoit Jacquot's "L'Intouchable" from France, Italian director Gianni Amelio's "The Missing Star" and Robert Guediguian's "Le voyage en armenie."

Festival programrs also added 15 films to the Visions program, including Gabriel Range's "D.O.A.P.," a feature film debut from Britain that explores the fallout from a horrific attack on America in mock documentary fashion, Jem Cohen's "Building a Broken Mousetrap" and Jay Anania's "Day on Fire."

Films joining Toronto's expansive Special Presentations lineup include world premieres for Mira Nair's "The Namesake," Hong Sang-soo's "Woman on the Beach" and Emanuele Crialese's "The Golden Door," and North American premieres for Todd Field's "Little Children" and Johnnie To's "Exiled."

The Contemporary World Cinema showcase, featuring 60 titles from 40 countries, swelled Tuesday with the addition of U.S. director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde's directorial debut "Bella," Mel Chionglo's "Twilight Dancers," Dror Shaul's "Sweet Mud" and Cate Shortland's "The Silence."

The Vanguard sidebar added a North American premiere for "The Hottest State," which Ethan Hawke wrote and directed and which will bow in Venice.

Toronto also promises no end of star wattage this year. Already booked for the festival are Anthony Hopkins, Penelope Cruz, Tom Hanks, Danny Glover, Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Lopez, Kate Winslet, Joan Allen, Ed Harris and Sigourney Weaver.

A complete list follows.

GALA
"After the Wedding," Susanne Bier (Denmark)

"All The King's Men," Steven Zaillian (USA)

"Amazing Grace," Michael Aped (U.K.)

"Away From Her," Sarah Polley (Canada)

"Babel," Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (USA)

"The Banquet," Feng Xiaogang (China)

"Black Book," Paul Verhoeven (The Netherlands/Germany/U.K./Belgium)

"Bobby," Emilio Estevez (USA)

"Bonneville," Christopher N. Rowley (USA)

"Breaking and Entering," Anthony Minghella (U.K.)

"Dixie Chicks -- Shut up and Sing," Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck (USA)

"For Your Consideration," Christopher Guest (USA)

"A Good Year," Ridley Scott (USA)

"Infamous," Douglas McGrath (USA)

"The Journals of Knud Rasmussen," Zacharias KunU.K., Norman Cohn (Canada/Denmark)

"Mon Meilleur Ami," Patrice Leconte (France)

"Never Say Goodbye," Karan Johar (India)

"Penelope," Mark Palansky (U.K.)

"Volver," Pedro Almodovar (Spain)

"The White Planet," Thierry Piantanida, Thierry Ragobert, Jean Lemire (Canada/France)

MASTERS
"The Caiman," Nanni Moretti (Italy/France)

"Coeurs," Alain Resnais (France/Italy)

"Empz 4 Life," Allan King (Canada)

"I Am the Other Woman," Margarethe von Trotta (Germany)

"L'intouchable," Benoit Jacquot (France)

"Lights in the Dusk" Aki Kaurismaki (Finland/Germany/France)

"The Missing Star," Gianni Amelia (Italy)

"The Optimists," Goran Paskaljevic (Serbia)

"Rescue Dawn," Werner Herzog (USA)

"Strike," Volker Schlondorff (Germany/Poland)

"Le voyage en Armenie," Robert Guediguian (France)

"When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," Spike Lee (USA)

"The Wind that Shakes the Barley," Ken Loach (U.K./Ireland/Italy/Spain/Germany)


VISIONS
"August Days," Marc Recha (Spain)

"Bamako," Abderrahmane Sissako (France/Mali/USA)

"Belle Toujours," Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal/France)

"Big Bang Love, Juvenile A," Takashi Miike (Japan)

"Blessed are the Dreams of Men," Jem Cohen (USA)

"The Book of Revelation," Ana Kokkinos (Australia)

"Bugmaster," Katsuhiro Otomo (Japan)

"Building a Broken Mousetrap," Jem Cohen (USA)

"Cages," Olivier Masset-Depasse (Belgium)

"Climates," Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey/France)

"Colossal Youth," Pedro Costa (Portugal/France/Switzerland)

"D.O.A.P.," Gabriel Range (U.K.)

"Dans les Villes," Catherine Martin (Canada)

"Day Night Day Night," Julia Loktev (USA)

"Day on Fire," Jay Anania (USA)

"Fantasma," Lisandro Alonso (Argentina)

"Flandres," Bruno Dumont (France)

"Gathering the Scattered Cousins," Akin Omotoso (South Africa)

"In Between Days," So Yong Kim (USA/Canada/South Korea) "Invisible Waves," Pen-ek Ratanruang (The Netherlands/Thailand/Hong Kong, China/South Korea)

"The Island," Pavel Lounguine (Russia)

"Khadak," Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth (Belgium/Germany/The Netherlands)

"Kinasha Palace," Zeka Laplaine (Democratic Republic of the Congo/France)

"No Place Like Home," Perry Henzell (Jamaica/USA)

"NYC Weights and Measures," Jem Cohen (USA)

"Sistagod," Yao Ramesar (Trinidad and Tobago)

"Takva -- A Man's Fear of God," Ozer Kiziltan (Turkey/Germany)

"Taxidermia," Gyorgy Palfi (Hungary/Austria/France)

"Ten Canoes," Rolf de Heer (Australia)

"Time," Kim Ki-dU.K. (South Korea)

"Zidane: Un Portrait du XXieme Siecle," Douglas Gordon, Phillipe Parreno (France/Iceland)

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
"10 Items or Less," Brad Silberling (USA)

"Alatriste," Agustin Diaz Yanes (Spain)

"Begone Dull Care," Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart (Canada)

"Blinkity Blank," Norman McLaren (Canada)

"Brand upon the Brain," Guy Maddin (USA/Canada)

"The Bubble," Eytan Fox (Israel)

"El Cantante," Leon Ichaso (USA)

"Catch a Fire," Phillip Noyce (U.K./South Africa/USA)

"A Chairy Tale," Norman McLaren, Claude Jutra (Canada)

"Congorama," Philippe Falardeau (Canada)

"Un Crime," Manuel Pradal (France)

"The Dog Problem," Scott Caan (USA)

"Exiled," Johnnie To (Hong Kong, China)

"The Fall," Tarsem (India/U.K./USA)

"Fay Grim," Hal Hartley (USA/Germany)

"The Fountain," Darren Aronofsky (USA)

"Golden Door," Emanuele Crialese (Italy/France)

"Hana," Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)

"Hen Hop," Norman McLaren (Canada)

"L'homme de sa Vie," Zabou Breitman (France/Italy)

"Horizontal Lines," Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart (Canada)

"Jindabyne," Ray Lawrence (Australia)

"Kabul Express," Kabir Khan (India)

"The Last Kings of Scotland," Kevin Macdonald (U.K.)

"The Last Kiss," Tony Goldwyn (USA)

"Little Children," Todd Field (USA)

"The Lives of Others," Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Germany)

"Love and Other Disasters," Alek Keshishian (France/U.K.)

"The Magic Flute," Kenneth Branagh (U.K./France)

"Manufactured Landscapes," Jennifer Baichwal (Canada)

"La Merle," Norman McLaren (Canada)

"Mon Colonel," Laurent Herbiet (France/Belgium)

"The Namesake," Mira Nair (USA)

"Neighbors," Norman McLaren (Canada)

"Nue Propriete," Joachim Lafosse (Belgium/France)

"Opening Speech," Norman McLaren (Canada)

"Pan's Labyrinth," Guillermo del Toro (Spain)

"Paris, Je T'aime," Bruno Podalydes, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel and Ethan Coen, Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, Christopher Doyle, Isabel Coixet, Nobuhiro Suwa, Sylvain Chomet, Alfonso Cuaron, Olivier Assayas, Oliver Schmitz, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali (France)

"Pas de Deux," Norman McLaren (Canada)

"The Pleasure of Your Company," Michael Ian Black (USA)

"The Postmodern Life of My Aunt," Ann Hui (China)

"Quelques Jours en Septembre," Santiago Amigorena (France/Italy)

"Seraphim Falls," David Von Ancken (USA)

"Snow Cake," Marc Evans (Canada/U.K.)

"Stars and Stripes," Norman McLaren (Canada)

"Stranger than Fiction," Marc Forster (USA)

"Synchomy," Norman McLaren (Canada)

"This is England," Shane Meadows (U.K.)

"Venus," Roger Michell (U.K.)

"Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the HEA," Ari Sandel (USA)

"Woman on the Beach," Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)

CANADIAN OPEN VAULT
"Paperback Hero," Peter Pearson (Canada)

CANADA FIRST!
"Acts of Imagination," Carolyn Combs (Canada)

"Cheech," Patrice Sauve (Canada)

"La Coupure," Jean Chateauvert (Canada)

"End of the Line," Maurice Devereaux (Canada)

"Everything's Gone Green," Paul Fox (Canada)

"Fido," Andrew Currie (Canada)

"Mercy," Mazdak Taebi (Canada/Iran)

"A Stone's Throw," Camelia Frieberg (Canada)

"Sur la Trace D'Igor Rizzi," Noel Mitrani (Canada)

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
"12:08 East of Bucharest," Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania)

"Abeni," Tunde Kelani (Nigeria/Benin)

"Antonia," Tata Amaral (Brazil)

"Beauty in Trouble," Jan Hrebejk (Czech Republic)

"Bella," Alejandro Monteverde (USA)

"The Bet Collector," Jeffrey Jeturian (The Philippines)

"Born and Bred," Pablo Trapero (Argentina/Italy/U.K.)

"The Bothersome Man," Jens Lien (Norway)

"Candy," Neil Armfield (Australia)

"Chronicle of an Escape," Israel Adrian Caetano (Argentina)

"Citizen Duane," Michael Mabbott (Canada)

"Confetti," Debbie Isitt (U.K.)

"Copying Beethoven," Agnieszka Holland (U.K./Hungary)

"Diggers," Katherine Dieckmann (USA)

"Un Dimanche a Kigali," Robert Favreau (Canada)

"The Dog Pound," Manuel Nieto Zas (Uruguay/Argentina/Canada/Spain)

"Falling," Barbara Albert (Austria)

"A Few Days Later ...," Niki Karimi (Iran)

"Fiction," Cesc Gay (Spain)

"Four Minutes," Chris Kraus (Germany)

"Grbavica," Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

"The Half Life of Timofey Berezin," Scott Z. Burns (USA)

"Hula Girls," Sang-il Lee (Japan)

"Indigenes," Rachid Bouchareb (France/Morocco/Algeria/Belgium)

"The Italian," Andrei KravchU.K. (Russia)

"The Last Winter," Larry Fessenden (USA/Iceland)

" Manline," Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab (Iran)

"Monkey Warfare," Reg Harkema (Canada)

"Nouvelle Chance," Anne Fontaine (France)

"Offside," Jafar Panahi (Iran)

" Outsourced," John Jeffcoat (USA)

"Palimpsest," Konrad Niewolski (Poland)

"Prague," Ole Christian Madsen (Denmark)

"Rain Dogs," Ho Yuhang (Malaysia)

"Red Road," Andrea Arnold (U.K./Denmark)

"Requiem," Hans-Christian Schmid (Germany)

"Retrieval," Slawomir Fabicki (Poland)

"The Silence," Cate Shortland (Australia)

"Sleeping Dogs," Terrance Odette (Canada)

"Slumming," Michael Glawogger (Austria/Switzerland)

"Starter for Ten," Tom Vaughan (U.K.)

"Suely in the Sky," Karim Ainouz (Brazil/Germany/France)

"Summer '04," Stefan Krohmer (Germany)' "Summer Palace," Lou Ye (China/France)

"Sweet Mud," Dror Shaul (Israel/Germany/Japan)

"Times and Winds," Reha Erdem (Turkey)

"To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die," Djamshed Usmonov (France/Germany/Russia/Switzerland)

"La Tourneuse de Pages," Denis Dercourt (France)

"Transe," Teresa Villaverde (Portugal/France/Russia/Italy)

"Transylvania," Tony Gatlif (France)

"Twilight Dancers," Mel Chionglo (The Philippines)

" Unnatural and Accidental," Carl Bessai (Canada)

"The Violin," Francisco Vargas Quevedo (Mexico)

"Waiter," Alex van Warmerdam (The Netherlands/Belgium)

"The Wake," Nikos Grammatikos (Greece)

"The Way I Spent the End of the World," Catalin Mitulescu (Romania/France)

"White Palms," Szabolcs Hajdu (Hungary)

"Winter Journey," Hans Steinbichler (Germany);

DISCOVERY
"7 Ans," Jean-Pascal Hattu (France)

"The Art of Crying," Peter Schønau Fog (Denmark)

"As the Shadow," Marina Spada (Italy)

"Bliss," Sheng Zhimin (China)

"Cashback," Sean Ellis (U.K.)

"Darkbluealmostblack," Daniel Sanchez Arevalo (Spain)

"Falkenberg Farewell," Jesper Ganslandt (Sweden)

"Family Ties," Tae-Yong Kim (South Korea)

"Glue," Alexis dos Santos (Argentina/U.K.)

"A Grave-Keeper's Tale," Chitra Palekar (India)

"Griffin & Phoenix," Ed Stone (USA)

"King and the Clown," Jun-ik Lee (South Korea)

"London to Brighton," Paul Andrew Williams (U.K.)

"Out of the Blue," Robert Sarkies (New Zealand)

"Reprise," Joachim Trier (Norway)

"The Silly Age," Pavel Giroud (Cuba)

"Thicker than Water," Arni Olafur Asgeirsson (Iceland/Denmark/Germany)

"True North," Steve Hudson (Germany/U.K./Ireland)

"Vanaja," Rajnesh Domalpalli (India/USA)

REAL TO REEL
"... So Goes the Nation," James Stern, Adam Del Deo (USA)

"American Hardcore," Paul Rachman (USA)

"Blindsight," Lucy Walker (U.K.)

"A Cry in the Dark," Haobam Paban Kumar (India)

" Deliver Us From Evil," Amy Berg (USA)

" Dong," Jia Zhangke (China)

"L'Esprit des Lieux," Catherine Martin (Canada)

"Ghosts of Cite Soleil," Asger Leth (Denmark/USA)

"Iran: Une Revolution Cinematographique," Nader Takmil Homayoun (France)

"The Killer Within," Macky Alston (USA)

"Kurt Cobain About a Son," AJ Schnack (USA)

"Lake of Fire," Tony Kaye (USA)

"Made in Jamaica," Jerome Laperrousaz (France/USA)

"My Life as a Terrorist: The Story of Hans-Joachim Klein," Alexander Oey (The Netherlands)

"Office Tigers," Liz Mermin (U.K./Denmark)

"The Pervert's Guide to Cinema," Sophie Fiennes (U.K./Austria/The Netherlands)

"Primo Levi's Journey," Davide Ferrario (Italy)

"The Prisoner of How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair," Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein (Germany)

"Radiant City," Gary Burns, Jim Brown (Canada)

"Remembering Arthur," Martin Lavut (Canada)

"Sari's Mother," James Longley (USA)

"The Session is Open," Vincenzo Marra (Italy)

"Shame," Mohammed Naqvi (Pakistan/USA)

"Sharkwater," Rob Stewart (Canada)

"Shot in the Dark," Adrian Grenier (USA)

"The Sugar Curtain," Camila Guzman Urzua (France/Spain)

"Summercamp!," Sarah Price, Bradley Beesley (USA)

"Tales of the Rat Fink," Ron Mann (Canada)

"Tanju Miah," Sadik Ahmed (U.K.)

"These Girls," Tahani Rached (Egypt)

"The Filthy World," Jeff Garlin (USA)

"Toi, Waguih," Namir Abdel Messeeh (France)

"The U.S. vs. John Lennon," David Leaf, John Scheinfeld (USA)

"Very Nice, Very Nice," Arthur Lipsett (Canada)

"Yokohama Mary," TakayU.K.i Nakamura (Japan)

SHORT CUTS CANADA
"A L'Ombre," Simon Lavoie (Canada)

"L'Air De Rien," Frederick Pelletier (Canada)

"Aruba," Hubert Davis (Canada)

"The Broken Hearted," Antoinette Karuna (Canada)

"By The Hour," Bill Marchant (Canada)

"Christ in Wood," Alexander Winfield (Canada)

"Cloudbreaker," Adam Garnet Jones (Canada)

"Couldn't Be Happier," Jackie May (Canada)

"The Double Woman," Carla B. Guttmann (Canada)

"Down Payment on a Dead Horse," Jason Britski (Canada)

"Les Eaux Mortes," Guy Edion (Canada)

"The Ecstasy Note," Geoffrey Uloth (Canada)

"Elizabeth Short," Deco Dawson (Canada)

"The Eyes Of Edward James," Rodrigo Gudino (Canada)

"If I See Randy Again Do You Want Me To Hit Him With The Axe?," Vivieno Caldinelli (Canada)

"Intolerable," Alison Maclean (Canada/USA)

"Les Jours," Maxime Giroux (Canada)

"The Last Bang," Emmanuel Shirinian (Canada)

"A Life of Errors," Sheila Pye, Nicholas Pye (Canada)

"Love Seat," Kris Elgstrand (Canada)

"The Man Who Waited," Theodore Ushev (Canada)

"Ninth Street Chronicles," Megan Martin (Canada)

"Nude Caboose," Guy Maddin (Canada)

"Ou est Maurice?" Alek Rzeszowski, Matthew Rankin (Canada)

"Patterns 2," Jamie Travis (Canada)

"Patterns 3," Jamie Travis, (Canada)

"Plume," Chelsea McMullan (Canada)

"Pretty Broken," Cline Mayo (Canada)

"The Runner," Robert Deleskie (Canada)

"The Saddest Boy In The World," Jamie Travis (Canada)

"Saskatchewan Part 3," Brian Stockton (Canada)

"Screening," Anthony Green (Canada)

"Starlight Tour," Evan Crowe (Canada)

"Supposed To," Aleesa Cohene, (Canada)

"Suspect," Patricia Rozema, (Canada)

"Tell Me Everything," Brian D. Johnson (Canada)

"La Tete Haute," Ivan Grbovic (Canada)

"The Tragic Story of Nling," Jeffrey St. Jules (Canada)

"True Love," Adam Brodie, Dave Derewlany (Canada)

"The Wait," Ann Verrall (Canada);

WAVE LENGTHS
"18 Videos: #8," Kyle Canterbury (USA)

"3 Minuten," Christoph Brunner, (Austria)

"Afraid So," Jay Rosenblatt (USA)

"Bouquets 28-30," Rose Lowder (France)

"Circa 1960," Chris Curreri (Canada)

"Ema-Emaki 2," Takashi Ishida (Japan/Canada)

"In This House," Akram Zaatari (Lebanon)

"Kristall," Christoph Girardet, Matthias Muller (Germany)

"Lancia Thema," Josef Dabernig (Austria)

"Lions and Tigers and Bears," Rebecca Meyers (USA)

"Memo To Pic Desk," Chris Kennedy, Anna van der Meulen (Canada)

"Nachstuck," Peter Tscherkassky (Austria)

"Poet's Dream," Larry Jordan (USA)

"Un Pont Sur La Drina," Xavier LU.K.omski (France)

"PSA. 09 Body Count," Cynthia Madansky (USA)

"PSA. 10 Occupation," Cynthia Madansky (USA)

"PSA. 14 Target," Cynthia Madansky (USA)

"Roads of Kiarostami," Abbas Kiarostami (Iran/South Korea

"Schuss!" Nicolas Rey (France)

"Seascape #1 Night, China Shenzhen 05," Olivo Barbieri (Italy)

"Silk Ties," Jim Jennings (USA)

"Song and Solitude," Nathaniel Dorsky (USA)

"Swivel," Oliver Husain (Germany)

"Tsuioku," Yuiko Matsuyama (Japan/Canada)

"V-R," Kyle Canterbury (USA)

"the Zone of Total Eclipse," Mika Taanila (Finland)

CANADIAN RETROSPECTIVE
"Balifilm," Peter Mettler (Canada)

"Eastern Avenue," Peter Mettler (Canada)

"Gambling, Gods And LSD," Peter Mettler (Canada / Switzerland)

"Lancalot Freely," Peter Mettler (Canada)

"Picture Of Light," Peter Mettler (Canada)

"Scissere," Peter Mettler (Canada)

"Tectonic Plates," Peter Mettler (Canada)

"The Top Of His Head," Peter Mettler (Canada)

DIALOGUES
"The Beales of Grey Gardens," Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ian Markiewicz (USA)

"La Haine," Mathieu Kassovitz (France)

"The Harder They Come," Perry Henzell (Jamaica)

"Let's Get Lost," Bruce Weber," (USA)

"Psychiatry in Russia," Albert Maysles (USA)

"Velvet Goldmine," Todd Haynes (U.K./USA)

MIDNIGHT MADNESS
"The Abandoned," Nacho Cerda (Spain)

"All the Boys Love Mandy Lane," Jonathan Levine (USA)

"Black Sheep," Jonathan King (New Zealand)

"Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan," Larry Charles (USA)

"The Host," Bong Joon-Ho (South Korea)

"Princess," Anders Morgenthaler (Denmark)

"S&Man," JT Petty (USA)

"Severance," Christopher Smith (U.K.)

"Sheitan," Kim Chapiron (France)

"Trapped Ashes," Joe Dante, Ken Russell, Sean Cunningham, Monte Hellman, John Gaeta (USA/Japan/Canada)

MAVERICKS
An Evening With Michael Moore

The Making Of A Bollywood Blockbuster: Karan Johar, Shah RU.K.h Khan, Rani MU.K.herji

Vanguard Cinema: John Waters In Conversation With John Cameron Mitchell

SPROCKETS FAMILY ZONE
"Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker," Geoffrey Sax (U.K.)

"The Hairy Tooth Fairy," Juan Pablo Buscarini (Argentina/Spain)

"U," Gregoire Solotareff, Serge Elissalde (France)

"The Ugly Duckling and Me," Michael Hegner, Karsten Kiilerich (Ireland/Denmark/France/Germany)

MOZART'S VISIONARY CINEMA: NEW CROWNED HOPE
"Daratt," Mahamat-saleh Haroun (France/Belgium/Chad/Austria)

"Half Moon," Bahman Ghobadi (Iran/Iraq/Austria/France)

"Hamaca Paraguaya," "Paz Encina (Paraguay/Argentina/The Netherlands/France/Austria/Germany)

"I Don't Want To Sleep Alone," Tsai Ming-Liang (Taiwan/France/Austria)

"Meokgo and the Stickfighter," Teboho Mahlatsi (South Africa/Austria)

"Opera Jawa," Garin Nugroho (Indonesia/Austria)

Syndromes and a Century," Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand/France/Austria)

VANGUARD
"2:37," Murali K. Thalluri (Australia), "Bunny Chow," John Barker (South Africa)

"Chacun Sa Nuit," Jean-Marc Barr, Pascal Arnold (France)

"Drama/Mex," Gerardo Naranjo (Mexico)

"Election," Johnnie To (Hong Kong/China)
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