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.
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. (In fact, some of the so-called premieres screened at the Telluride Film Festival before TIFF.)
Awards Award Film Director 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
Programme
Gala Presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country 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
Special Presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country 127 Hours Danny Boyle United States AMIGO John Sayles United States L'Amour fou Pierre Thoretton France Another Year Mike Leigh United Kingdom Beginners Mike Mills United States The Big Picture L'Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie Éric Lartigau France Biutiful Alejandro González Iñárritu Mexico, Spain Blue Valentine Derek Cianfrance United States Bombay Diaries Dhobi Ghat Kiran Rao India Brighton Rock Rowan Joffé United Kingdom Buried Rodrigo Cortés Spain Conviction Tony Goldwyn United States Cirkus Columbia Danis Tanović Bosnia and Herzegovina Deep in the Woods Promenons-nous dans les bois Benoît Jacquot France Easy A Will Gluck United States Everything Must Go Dan Rush United States Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie Sturla Gunnarsson Canada Good Neighbours Jacob Tierney Canada Gorbaciof Stefano Incerti Italy Heartbeats Les Amours imaginaires Xavier Dolan Canada Henry's Crime Malcolm Venville United States Hereafter Clint Eastwood United States The House by the Medlar Tree Malavoglia Pasquale Scimeca Italy I'm Still Here Casey Affleck United States I Saw the Devil 악마를 보았다 Kim Jee-woon South Korea The Illusionist L'Illusioniste Sylvain Chomet France, United Kingdom In a Better World Hævnen Anders Thomas Jensen Denmark Incendies Denis Villeneuve Canada It's Kind of a Funny Story Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck United States Jack Goes Boating Philip Seymour Hoffman United States Julia's Eyes Los ojos de Julia Guillem Morales Spain The Last Circus Balada triste de trompeta Álex de la Iglesia Spain, France Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen Andrew Lau Hong Kong Let Me In Matt Reeves United Kingdom, United States Lope Andrucha Waddington Spain, Brazil Love Crime Crime d'amour Alain Corneau France Made in Dagenham Nigel Cole United Kingdom Miral Julian Schnabel France, India, Israel, Italy, Palestine, United States Mothers Majki Milcho Manchevski Macedonia, France, Bulgaria Never Let Me Go Mark Romanek United Kingdom Norwegian Wood Noruwei no Mori Tran Anh Hung Japan Outside the Law Hors-la-loi Rachid Bouchareb France, Algeria, Tunisia, Belgium Passione John Turturro Italy Passion Play Mitch Glazer United States The Poll Diaries Poll Chris Kraus Germany Rabbit Hole John Cameron Mitchell United States Repeaters Carl Bessai Canada Rio Sex Comedy Jonathan Nossiter France, Brazil A Screaming Man Un homme qui crie Mahamat-Saleh Haroun France, Belgium, Chad Special Treatment Sans queue ni tête Jeanne Labrune France, Luxembourg, Belgium Stone John Curran United States Submarine Richard Ayoade United Kingdom Tamara Drewe Stephen Frears United Kingdom That Girl in Yellow Boots Anurag Kashyap India Trigger Bruce McDonald Canada The Trip Michael Winterbottom United Kingdom Trust David Schwimmer United States What's Wrong With Virginia Dustin Lance Black United States The Whistleblower Larysa Kondracki Canada, Germany You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Woody Allen United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Masters English title Original title Director(s) Production country 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
Midnight Madness English title Original title Director(s) Production country 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
Canada First! English title Original title Director(s) Production country 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
Canadian Open Vault English title Original title Director(s) Production country A Married Couple Allan King Canada
City to City English title Original title Director(s) Production country 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
Contemporary World Cinema English title Original title Director(s) Production country 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 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
Vanguard English title Original title Director(s) Production country 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
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