TIFF 2011 gets a closer and 100 more films
We’ll likely see Toronto appearances by Robert De Niro, Catherine Deneuve, Shahid Kapoor, Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage, Clive Owen, Bill Nighy, Andy Serkis, Rachel Weisz, Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Isabelle Huppert, Saoirse Ronan and James Gandolfini, among many others. (The full list of some 500 celebrity TIFF visitors is scheduled for release Aug. 23.)
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Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF)
September 30 - October 7 2011
Founded in 2008, the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) showcases the richness of Palestinian culture through cinema, music, cuisine and other art forms. TPFF screens films of all genres to explore the extraordinary narratives of the Palestinians. Visit TPFF or e-mail for more information.
Goethe-Institut: 40 Years VideoArt.de – Highlights of German video art from the 1960s to the present
October 4, 5, 31 and November 1, 2011
The Goethe-Institut, the official German cultural centre, is proud to launch its film program at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. In thematic clusters throughout the year, we will bring you the best in contemporary German cinema, from features to docs, from shorts to animation, from the experimental to festival highlights; enhanced and contextualized by curator and artist talks.
Stay tuned for our fall announcements on Cultures of Economics and Shooting Stars – Europe's Best Young Actors.
The 12th Annual Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival
October 12-16, 2011
Canada’s largest environmental film festival taking place Oct 12-16, 2011 in Toronto features entertaining, compelling and provocative feature films, documentaries, shorts, animation and experimental cinema from Canada and around the world. Don’t miss five full days of films, including the Opening and Closing Night Galas as well as free films for kids and youth and our popular Industry Series with panels and workshops.
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
October 19 - 23, 2011
imagineNATIVE, the largest festival of its kind in the world, celebrates the latest film, video, radio and new media works by international Indigenous artists. The programmed works reflect the diversity of the world's Indigenous nations and illustrate the vitality and excellence of our art and culture in contemporary media.
Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival
November 4 – 12, 2011
Rendezvous with Madness (RWM) is the world’s first and longest running film festival showcasing films that address issues of mental health and/or addiction. To create dialogue about mental illness between artists and audiences, each program is followed by a panel discussion featuring a filmmaker, a mental health expert and a person with a lived mental health issue.
Since 2007, RWM has brought discussion of youth mental health issues into high schools through film screenings and panel discussions as part of its Rendezvous in the Classroom Program.
David Hare’s Page Eight, the British director’s first feature in 14 years, will bring down the TIFF curtain Sept. 18 with a thriller about a veteran MI5 officer (Nighy) forced to confront 21st-century security threats.
It’s one of eight new Galas, most of them world premieres, as TIFF locks in its most popular program. The other Gala additions are:Killer Elite (Gary McKendry): Tough guys Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham share the screen, and the explosions, in this globetrotting adventure of retired spies vs. bad guys.
Machine Gun Preacher (Marc Forster): Gerard Butler stars as a reformed drug dealer who becomes a saviour of kidnapped and orphaned children. (The film was previously announced as a Special Presentation.)
Trespass (Joel Schumacher): Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman team as husband and wife for this home-invasion drama.
Beloved (Christophe Honoré): Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni star in this “elegy to femininity and passion with musical outbursts” set in 1960s Paris and modern-day London.
Hysteria (Tanya Wexler): Laughs, and maybe a few blushes, are promised in this rom-com about the man who invented the first electro-mechanical vibrator. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce and Rupert Everett share the buzz.
The Awakening (Nick Murphy): A ghost thriller tantalizingly compared to The Others and The Orphanage, about a séance debunker (Rebecca Hall) called to investigate troubling matters at a boys’ boarding school. Dominic West and Imelda Staunton co-star.
Winnie (Darrell J. Roodt): Saint or sinner? A study of the puzzle of Winnie Mandela, whose struggle for democracy in South Africa often took different and more controversial paths than that of her ex-husband Nelson. Jennifer Hudson, Terrence Howard, Elias Koteas and Wendy Crewson star.
The festival also announced 18 more Special Presentations, completing the roster of another top section. The additions include Ian FitzGibbon’s Death of a Superhero, which will likely bring a visit from CGI star Andy Serkis (Rise of the Planet of the Apes); Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress, the first film in 13 years from this American cultural chronicler; and Julia Leigh’s arresting debut Sleeping Beauty, which rocked the Cannes competition with its disturbing sexual frankness.
Other notable films and directors added to this critic’s choice section include The Cardboard Village (Ermanno Olmi), In Darkness (Agnieszka Holland), Life Without Principle (Johnnie To), Mausam (Seasons of Love) (Pankaj Kapoor), Rebellion (Mathieu Kassovitz) and Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold).
The festival also announced 51 additions to its Contemporary World Cinema program. Highlights include the Cannes competition entry Footnote (Joseph Cedar), the recent Locarno hit Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve) and the Cuban-set zombie Juan of the Dead (Alejandro Brugués),
TIFF also announced the lineup for its mainstream-provoking Visions section, which includes ALPS by Greece’s Yorgos Lanthimos, director of the critically acclaimed Dogtooth.
And the festival unveiled selections for its adventurous Wavelengths and Future Projections sections. The latter includes two installations that will likely attract many mainstream viewers: Memories of Idaho, by James Franco and Gus Van Sant, in which actor Franco and director Van Sant roam creatively over memories of My Own Private Idaho; and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto, a spray-can statement by the central figure of the hit Banksy doc Exit Through the Gift Shop.
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Weekly Schedule
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Monday August 15, 2011
- 6:00PM
- 6:15PM
- 6:30PM
- 6:45PM
- 8:45PM
- 8:45PM
- 9:20PM
- 9:30PM
Tuesday August 16, 2011
- 1:15PM
- 3:00PM
- 3:30PM
- 3:45PM
- 6:00PM
- 6:15PM
- 6:30PM
- 7:00PM
- 8:45PM
- 9:15PM
- 9:20PM
- 9:30PM
Wednesday August 17, 2011
- 1:15PM
- 2:00PM
- 3:00PM
- 3:30PM
- 3:45PM
- 6:00PM
- 6:15PM
- 6:30PM
- 6:45PM
- 8:45PM
- 8:45PM
- 9:20PM
- 9:30PM
Thursday August 18, 2011
- 1:15PM
- 3:00PM
- 3:30PM
- 3:45PM
- 6:00PM
- 6:15PM
- 6:30PM
- 6:30PM
- 7:00PM
- 8:45PM
- 8:45PM
- 9:20PM
- 9:30PM
Friday August 19, 2011
- 12:00PM
- 1:30PM
- 3:00PM
- 6:30PM
- 7:30PM
- 9:00PM
- 9:45PM
Saturday August 20, 2011
- 1:30PM
- 2:00PM
- 4:30PM
- 7:30PM
- 9:45PM
- 11:00PM
Sunday August 21, 2011
- 1:00PM
- 1:30PM
- 4:30PM
- 7:30PM
- 8:00PM
- 9:45PM
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September 30 - October 7 2011
Founded in 2008, the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) showcases the richness of Palestinian culture through cinema, music, cuisine and other art forms. TPFF screens films of all genres to explore the extraordinary narratives of the Palestinians. Visit TPFF or e-mail for more information.
October 4, 5, 31 and November 1, 2011
The Goethe-Institut, the official German cultural centre, is proud to launch its film program at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. In thematic clusters throughout the year, we will bring you the best in contemporary German cinema, from features to docs, from shorts to animation, from the experimental to festival highlights; enhanced and contextualized by curator and artist talks.
Stay tuned for our fall announcements on Cultures of Economics and Shooting Stars – Europe's Best Young Actors.
October 12-16, 2011
Canada’s largest environmental film festival taking place Oct 12-16, 2011 in Toronto features entertaining, compelling and provocative feature films, documentaries, shorts, animation and experimental cinema from Canada and around the world. Don’t miss five full days of films, including the Opening and Closing Night Galas as well as free films for kids and youth and our popular Industry Series with panels and workshops.
October 19 - 23, 2011
imagineNATIVE, the largest festival of its kind in the world, celebrates the latest film, video, radio and new media works by international Indigenous artists. The programmed works reflect the diversity of the world's Indigenous nations and illustrate the vitality and excellence of our art and culture in contemporary media.
November 4 – 12, 2011
Rendezvous with Madness (RWM) is the world’s first and longest running film festival showcasing films that address issues of mental health and/or addiction. To create dialogue about mental illness between artists and audiences, each program is followed by a panel discussion featuring a filmmaker, a mental health expert and a person with a lived mental health issue.
Since 2007, RWM has brought discussion of youth mental health issues into high schools through film screenings and panel discussions as part of its Rendezvous in the Classroom Program.
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