COMRADE KIM GOES FLYING (Belgium-North Korea- UK) 83mins. Dir: Anja Daelemans, Kim Gwang Hun, Nicholas Bonner. Cast: Chang Sun An, Chung Guk Pak, Ik Sung Ri, Jong Sim Han. A young female coal miner struggles to realise her dream of becoming a circus acrobat in this fable, the first Western-financed fiction feature ever made in North Korea. Contemporary World Cinema Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3
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DIFFERENTLY,MOLUSSIA (France) 81mins. Dir: Nicolas Rey. Cast: Peter Hoffmann. A fable that draws on Günthers Anders’ prescient anti-fascist novel The Molussian Catacomb and is presented on nine reels of 16mm film shown in random order. Combined P&I and public Wavelengths Jackman Hall (AGO)
16:30
EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN (Argentina-Spain- Germany) 118mins. Fox International Productions (Int). Dir: Ana Piterbarg. Cast: Daniel Fanego, Javier Godino, Sofia Gala Castaglione, Viggo Mortensen. A thriller in which Viggo Mortensen plays twin brothers whose deadly pact plunges them into the sordid depths of the Argentinian underworld. Special Presentation Winter Garden Theatre
REINCARNATED (US) 98mins. Paradigm (US). Dir: Andy Capper. Cast: Snoop Dogg . A documentary portrait following rapper Snoop Dogg as he undergoes a spiritual odyssey/career reinvention in Jamaica. TIFF Docs Scotiabank 10
18:00
AMOUR (Austria-France- Germany) 127mins. Les Films du Losange (Int). Dir: Michael Haneke. Cast: Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Jean- Louis Trintignant. An elderly couple face their own mortality in the Palme d’Or-winning new work by Michael Haneke. Masters Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
CLOUD ATLAS (Germany) 163mins. Warner Bros. Pictures (US). Focus Features International (Int). Dirs: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer. Cast: Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Zhou Xun. A stellar international cast lead this visionary, time- tripping science-fiction epic from directors Tom Tykwer, and Lana and Andy Wachowski. Special Presentation Princess of Wales
ICEBERG SLIM: PORTRAIT OF A PIMP (US) 90mins. United
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Talent Agency (UTA) (US). Dir: Jorge Hinojosa. Cast: Chris Rock, Henry Rollins, Ice- T, Katt Williams, Quincy Jones, Snoop Dogg. The story of pimp/author Iceberg Slim, including interviews with Chris Rock, Ice-T, Snoop Dogg and Quincy Jones. TIFF Docs Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7
INCH’ALLAH (Canada) 101mins. Entertainment One Films International (Int). Dir: Anais Barbeau-Lavalette. Cast: Evelyne Brochu, Sabrina Ouazani, Sivan Levy, Yousef Sweid. A Quebec doctor discovers the heartbreaking absurdity of life in Israel’s divided West Bank, in this politically charged drama. Special Presentation TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
PAINLESS (Spain-France-Portugal) 100mins. Elle Driver (Int). Dir: Juan Carlos Medina. Cast: Alex Brendemühl, Derek De Lint, Juan Diego, Silvia Bel, Tomas Lemarquis. A brilliant neurosurgeon emerges unharmed from a devastating car crash — only to discover a dark secret about his origins that stretches back to the Spanish civil war. Vanguard The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
ROAD NORTH (Finland) 110mins. The Yellow Affair (Int). Dir: Mika Kaurismaki. Cast: Elina Knihtila, Irina
Bjorklund, Peter Franzen, Samuli Edelmann, Vesa- Matti Loiri. A joyless workaholic concert pianist ends up on a wild ride with his long- lost rapscallion father in a comic study of machismo and abandonment. Contemporary World Cinema Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9
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KON-TIKI (Norway-Denmark- UK) 119mins. HanWay Films (Int). Dirs: Espen Sandberg, Joachim Roenning. Cast: Agnes Kittelsen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgard, Odd Magnus Williamson. An account of explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 voyage across the Pacific on a fragile wooden raft. Special Presentation Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6
THE LAND OF EB (US) 87mins. Dir: Andrew Williamson. Cast: Hilary Monson, Jeff Nashion, Jonithen Jackson, Rojel Jonithen. When a man is diagnosed with cancer, he keeps his illness a secret and resolves to pay off his family’s debts before his death. Discovery Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (US) 103mins. Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate company (Int). Dir: Stephen Chbosky. Cast: Dylan McDermott, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Joan Cusack,
Logan Lerman, Paul Rudd, Reece Thompson. A coming-of-age story (adapted by writer- director Stephen Chbosky from his own novel), in which a shy teenager with a dark family secret is coaxed out of his shell by a sympathetic teacher and two wild new friends. Special Presentation Ryerson Theatre
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CAPITAL (France) 114mins. Elle Driver (Int). Dir: Costa- Gavras. Cast: Bernard Le Coq, Céline Sallette, Daniel Mesguich, Gabriel Byrne, Gad Elmaleh, Hyppolite Girardot. Costa-Gavras tackles the world of international high finance in this jet- setting, globetrotting drama about the closed- doors intrigue and high- stakes power plays at a French financial giant. Special Presentation Scotiabank 1
LUNARCY! (Canada) 80mins. Global Screen (US/int). Dir: Simon Ennis. Cast: Alan Bean, Christopher Carson, Dennis Hope. Documentary focusing on a group of characters whose obsession with the moon and lunar colonisation has given birth to utopian dreams of truly galactic proportions. TIFF Docs Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 10
NIGHTACROSS THE STREET (France-Chile) 110mins.
Margo Cinema (Int). Dir: Raul Ruiz. Cast: Chamila Rodriguez, Christian Vadim, Sergio Hernandez. Raul Ruiz looks back to his childhood memories — while anticipating his own imminent death — in this cinematic memoir. Masters Isabel Bader Theatre
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (US) 120mins. The Weinstein Company (Int). Dir: David O. Russell. Cast: Anupam Kher, Bradley Cooper, Chris Tucker, John Ortiz, Julia Stiles, Paul Herman, Robert De Niro. An acerbic comedy-drama about a former high school teacher who returns to his family home after four years in a mental institution. Gala Presentation Roy Thomson Hall
THE LEBANESE ROCKET SOCIETY (France-Lebanon- UAE-Qatar) 93mins. Urban Distribution International (Int). Dirs: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige. Lebanon’s brief flirtation with space travel in the 1960s becomes a poignant metaphor for the Arab world’s utopian dreams in this documentary. Combined P&I and public Wavelengths TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
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EVERYDAY (UK) 94mins. Revolution Films, Bankside Films
The UK Film Centre is organised by FilmExportUK and supported by
Supporting UK companies at the Toronto International Film Festival
n 26 Screen International at Toronto September 8, 2012
Hyatt Regency 9th floor,
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