SCREENINGS 16:45
LUCKY (South Africa) 100mins. Dir: Avie Luthra. Key cast: Jayashree Basavra, Sihle Dlamini, James Ngcobo Despite their racial and cultural differences, an AIDS orphan and an elderly Indian neighbour go on a journey to find him a new life and family Contemporary World Cinema Scotiabank Theatre 4
18:15
TAKE SHELTER (US) 120mins. Dir: Jeff Nichols. Key cast: Jessica Chastain, Michael Shannon A young man starts to have terrifying dreams of an impending apocalypse. But is it merely madness? Special Presentation Scotiabank Theatre 11
19:00
PRESS & INDUSTRY 14:00
MISS BALA (Mexico) 108mins. Dir: Gerardo Naranjo A young Mexican beauty queen inadvertently gets
and reaches out to a young man. Discovery TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
TWILIGHT PORTRAIT (Russia) 105mins. Dir: Angelina Nikonova. Key cast: Olga Diho Vichnaya, Sergei Borisov, Vsevolod Voronov Marina, an upper-class social worker with a normal life and a doting husband, is transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself after she is raped. Discovery Scotiabank Theatre 7
13:45
VAQUERO (Argentina) 87mins. Dir: Juan Minujin. Key cast: Alberto Suarez, Esmeralda Mitre, Guillermo Arengo Julian Lamaz wants to give his faltering acting career a boost by landing a role in a western a Hollywood director
involved with a group of drug traffickers after witnessing a massacre. Contemporary World Cinema Scotiabank Theatre 4
is going to shoot in Argentina. City to City TIFF Bell Lightbox 5
14:00
MISS BALA See box, above.
THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD (US/Albania/Denmark/ Italy) 108mins. Dir: Joshua Marston. Key cast: Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, Refet Abazi The lives of a teenage boy and his sister are thrown into turmoil after a killing draws their Albanian family into a blood feud. Contemporary World Cinema TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
14:15
MICHAEL (Austria) 96mins. Dir: Markus Schleinzer. Key cast: Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger A mousy insurance
n 36 Screen International at the Toronto Film Festival September 9, 2011
salesman keeps an under- aged boy locked in his basement, while doing his best to appear ordinary to the outside world. Contemporary World Cinema Scotiabank Theatre 6
THE RAID (Indonesia) 100mins. Dir: Gareth Evans A SWAT team is trapped in a rundown apartment block filled with heavily armed drug dealers and killers. Midnight Madness Scotiabank Theatre 8
14:30
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Turkey/Bosnia and Herzegovina) 157mins. Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan As a confessed killer tries to lead the authorities to the place where he buried a body, a series of clues are laid as to what actually happened. Masters Scotiabank Theatre 9
15:00
SARAH PALIN — YOU BETCHA! (UK) 90mins. Dirs: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill Nick Broomfield’s quest to
find the truth behind the real Sarah Palin. Real to Reel Scotiabank Theatre 1
15:15
THE KID WITH A BIKE (Belgium/France/Italy) 87mins. Dirs: Jean- Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. Key cast: Cécile De France A young boy runs away from a children’s home and returns to the apartment where he lived with his father, only to find there is no answer. Masters TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Spain) 117mins. Dir: Pedro Almodovar. Key cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes Antonio Banderas plays an accomplished plastic surgeon who creates a new kind of synthetic skin and uses his worst enemy as a guinea pig. Special Presentation Scotiabank Theatre 2
15:30
ELENA (Russia) 109mins. Dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev. Key cast: Andrey Smirnov, Nadezhda Markina,
Elena Lyadova A man drives his second wife to desperation after he patches things up with his estranged daughter and decides to leave her all his money in the event of his death. Contemporary World Cinema Scotiabank Theatre 11
15:45
BUNOHAN (Malaysia) 97mins. Dir: Dain Said. Key cast: Faizal Husseini, Zahiril Adzim, Pekin Ibrahim A kickboxer, a businessman and an assassin have to fight for their lives in the mangroves of Malaysia. Discovery TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
16:30
FABLE OF THE FISH (The Philippines) 85mins. Dir: Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr. Key cast: Cherry Pie Picache, Bembol Roco, Anita Linda
Examines the curious conflation of folk tales, urban myths and Christianity unique to the Philippines. Visions TIFF Bell Lightbox 5
LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM (France/Israel/Palestine/ Germany) 80mins. Dir: Tawfik Abu Wael. Key cast: Ali Badarni, Kais Nashif, Lana Haj Yahia A Palestinian couple in East Jerusalem prepare to move to Paris. Contemporary World Cinema TIFF Bell Lightbox 5
21:00
ALWAYS BRANDO (Tunisia) 84mins. Dir: Ridha Behi. Key cast: Anis Raach A study of the lure and cruelty of the art of acting and the industry behind it as it follows a young Tunisian with an uncanny resemblance to Marlon Brando. Contemporary World Cinema TIFF Bell Lightbox 5
21:15
LOWLIFE (France) 129mins. Dirs: Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval. Key cast: Arash Naimian, Camille Rutherford, Michail Evans The adventures of a young woman torn between two poets — one French, the other an Afghan illegal immigrant. Special Presentation Scotiabank Theatre 11 n
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