SCREENINGS
FIRST COMES LOVE (US) 108mins. Dir: Nina Davenport. New York City film- maker Nina Davenport documents her quest to have a baby as a single mother over 40. TIFF Docs Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 10
FESTIVAL 15:00
SATELLITE BOY (Australia) 90mins. Celluloid Dreams (Int). Dir: Catriona McKenzie. Cast: Cameron Wallaby, David Gulpilil, Dean Daley-Jones, Joseph Pedley. When his grandfather’s
12:45
IGOR & THE CRANES’ JOURNEY (Israel-Poland-Germany) 90mins. Sola Media (Int). Dir: Evgeny Ruman. Cast: Itai Shcherback, Ola Schur Selektar, Tomasz Sobczak. An estranged father and son are brought together by a crane named Karl as they trace a family of birds on their migratory journey from Russia to Africa. TIFF Kids TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
THREE KIDS (preceded by Peripeteia, 18 mins) (Belgium) 81mins. Smoking Dogs Films (Int). Dir: Jonas D’Adesky. Cast: Jules Vitaleme, Sima Mickenson, Pierre Jean Marie. Three young friends struggle to survive on the streets of Port-au-Prince in the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Contemporary World Cinema Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3
WHAT MAISIE KNEW (US) 93mins. William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (WME)
drive-in cinema and home in the outback are threatened with demolition, a 12-year- old Aboriginal boy must journey through Australia’s bush to stop the city developers. Discovery TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
(US). Fortissimo Films (Int). Dirs: David Siegel, Scott McGehee. Cast: Alexander Skarsgard, Joanna Vanderham, Julianne Moore, Onata Aprile, Steve Coogan. A modern-day version of the classic Henry James novel about a wildly dysfunctional family. Gala Presentation TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
13:00
TABU (Portugal-Germany- Brazil-France) 118mins. The Match Factory (Int). Dir: Miguel Gomes. Cast: Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta, Henrique Espirito Santo, Isabel Cardoso, Ivo Müller, Laura Soveral, Manuel Mesquita. Miguel Gomes mixes a chronicle of illicit love with a sly overview of Portugal’s colonial history. Wavelengths Jackman Hall (AGO)
13:30
THERMAE ROMAE (Japan) 109mins. Pony Canyon (US/int). Dir: Hideki Takeuchi. Cast: Aya Ueto, Hiroshi Abe.
n 22 Screen International at Toronto September 8, 2012
An architect from ancient Rome is propelled into a modern-day Tokyo bath house in this kooky time- travelling comedy. Gala Presentation Roy Thomson Hall
14:30
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (US) 91mins. Sony Pictures Releasing (Int). Dir: Genndy Tartakovsky. Cast: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, CeeLo Green, David Spade, Selena Gomez, Steve Buscemi. A star-studded cast lend their voices to this animated tale about Count Dracula’s efforts to keep his rebellious 118-year-old daughter from leaving home. TIFF Kids Princess of Wales
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (US) 107mins. Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (US). Dir: Joss Whedon. Cast: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Clark Gregg, Fran Kranz, Jillian Morgese, Nathan Fillion, Reed Diamond, Sean Maher. Shakespeare’s comedy gets a contemporary makeover in Joss Whedon’s stylised adaptation. Special Presentation Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
WEST OF MEMPHIS (US) 150mins. Sony Pictures Classics. Dir: Amy Berg. Cast: Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr, Lorri
Davis, Pam Hicks. A documentary about the infamous case of the West Memphis Three — three teenagers who were imprisoned for savage murders, despite overwhelming evidence of their innocence — and the ordinary people and celebrities who fought to see them released. Mavericks Ryerson Theatre
15:00
IMOGENE (US) 103mins. United Talent Agency (UTA) (US). Voltage Pictures (Int). Dir: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman. Cast: Annette Bening, Darren Criss, Kristen Wiig, Matt Dillon. A playwright fakes her own suicide to get her ex-boyfriend’s attention, and winds up remanded to the custody of her wackily dysfunctional family. Special Presentation The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
SATELLITE BOY See box, above.
15:15
BLANCANIEVES (Spain-France) 104mins. Dreamcatchers (US/int). Dir: Pablo Berger. Cast: Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Maribel Verdu. A black-and-white homage to Europe’s silent cinema, in which the story of Snow White is relocated to Spain in the 1920s. Discovery TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
JACKIE (Netherlands) 100mins. Dir: Antoinette Beumer. Cast: Carice Van Houten, Holly Hunter, Jelka Van Houten. Twin sisters from the Netherlands travel to America to help out the mother they have never met, in a cross-cultural take on the classic American road movie. Contemporary World Cinema Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7
THE COLOUR OF THE CHAMELEON (Bulgaria) 114mins. Dir: Emil Christov. Cast: Deyan Donkov, Irena Milyankova, Rousy Chanev, Ruscen Vidinliev, Samuel Finzi. A charismatic schemer in an authoritarian police state, fired from his job as an informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network and builds an archive that he turns against his former masters. Discovery Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2
THE MASTER (US) 138mins. The Weinstein Company (Int). Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson. Cast: Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, Laura Dern, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Paul Thomas Anderson’s tale of an aimless second world war veteran who befriends the charismatic founder of a new religion, is a provocative study of male camaraderie, deception and hubris. Special Presentation TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
15:30
MEN AT LUNCH (Ireland) 80mins. Andrew Herwitz, The Film Sales Company (US). Dir: Sean O Cualain. Cast: Fionnula Flanagan. A documentary exploring the story behind the
iconic 1932 photograph of workmen taking their lunch perched on a girder high above New York. TIFF Docs Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9
PICTURE DAY (Canada) 93mins. Dir: Kate Melville. Cast: Catherine Fitch, Fiona Highet, Mark DeBonis, Spencer Van Wyck, Steven McCarthy, Susan Coyne, Tatiana Maslany. A teenager is caught between adolescence and adulthood — and between two very different male admirers. Discovery Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (US-UK) 109mins. HanWay Films (Int). Dir: Martin McDonagh. Cast: Abbie Cornish, Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Gabourey Sidibe, Olga Kurylenko, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson. A screenwriter struggling to write a serial-killer script gets more real- life inspiration than he can handle when a dognapping scheme gone awry brings a galaxy of crazies to his doorstep. Midnight Madness Scotiabank 1
THE BRASS TEAPOT (US) 100mins. The Gersh Agency (US). TFI International (Int). Dir: Ramaa Mosley. Cast: Alexis Bledel, Alia Shawkat, Debra Monk, Juno Temple, Michael Angarano, Stephen Park. An impoverished young couple stumble upon an antique teapot that magically dispenses cash whenever either of them feels pain, inspiring them to ever-greater extremes. Discovery Isabel Bader Theatre
15:45
THE BITTER ASH (Canada) 80mins. Dir: Larry Kent. Cast: Alan Scarfe, Lynn Stewart. Larry Kent’s reissued chronicle of the sexual shenanigans of a young printer. Combined P&I and public TIFF Cinematheque TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
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