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(Int). Dir: Michael Winterbottom. Cast: John Simm, Katrina Kirk, Robert Kirk, Shaun Kirk, Shirley Henderson, Stephanie Kirk. Shot over five years, this documentary-style feature from Michael Winterbottom offers a meditation on the daily travails of a family living apart from their imprisoned patriarch. Masters TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
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LES NUITS AVEC THEODORE (France) 67mins. Dir: Sebastien Betbeder. Cast: Agathe Bonitzer, Pio Marmai. Sebastien Betbeder offers a dreamlike nocturnal portrait of Paris’s stunning Buttes-Chaumont park, in which a pair of star- crossed lovers suddenly find they are not alone as they had believed. Discovery Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3
THE END (Spain) 90mins. Film Factory Entertainment (Int). Dir: Jorge Torregrossa. Cast: Andres Velencoso, Antonio Garrido, Blanca Romero, Carmen Ruiz, Clara Lago, Daniel Grao, Maribel Verdu, Miquel Fernandez. The first feature from Spanish director Jorge Torregrossa is an apocalyptic thriller set against the peaks of the Pyrenees, where a group of friends find themselves at the mercy of nature — and
their own psychic demons — after a mysterious, all- encompassing blackout. Contemporary World Cinema Scotiabank 3
THE GIRL FROM THE SOUTH (Argentina) 93mins. Taskovski Films (Int). Dir: Jose Luis Garcia. Cast: Alejandro Kim, Jose Luis Garcia, Lim Su-kyung. Twenty years after peace activist Lim Su-kyung swore she would cross the border between North and South Korea on foot, film- maker Jose Luis Garcia goes in search of the young woman who was once known as ‘The Flower of Reunification’. TIFF Docs Jackman Hall (AGO)
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THE LAST SUPPER See box, right.
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90 MINUTES (Norway) 92mins. LevelK ApS (Int). Dir: Eva Sorhaug. Cast: Aksel Hennie, Annmari Kastrup, Bjorn Floberg, Kaia Varjord, Mads Ousdal, Pia Tjelta. Eva Sorhaug (Cold Lunch) reveals the rage and violence lurking beneath seemingly tranquil domesticity in her uncompromising sophomore feature. Vanguard Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2
LONDON — THE MODERN BABYLON (UK) 128mins. Ealing
Metro International (Int). Dir: Julien Temple. Julien Temple (The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, The Filth and the Fury) surveys the past century of London’s tumultuous history in this documentary. TIFF Docs The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
ROMAN POLANSKI: ODD MAN OUT (US) 88mins. Films Distribution (US). Films Distribution (Int). Dir: Marina Zenovich. Marina Zenovich dives into the mysterious details of Roman Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland in 2009, which came soon after the release of her 2008 documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and
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THE LAST SUPPER (China) 120mins. Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (US). Wild Bunch (Int). Dir: Lu Chuan. Cast: Bojie Hao, Chen Chang, Cuckoo He, Daniel Wu, Dao Qi,
Desired. In this follow- up, Zenovich raises fresh questions about legal manipulation, media distortion and power politics. TIFF Docs Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 10
SOMETHING IN THE AIR (France) 122mins. MK2 (Int). Dir: Olivier Assayas. Cast: Carole Combes, Clement
Lan Qin, Lv Yulai. The director of City Of Life and Death, Lu Chuan, returns with this historical epic about the fall of the Qin Dynasty in the second century BC. Special Presentation Winter Garden Theatre
Metayer, Felix Armand, India Menuez, Lola Creton. Olivier Assayas returns with this loosely autobiographical tale about a young aspiring artist caught up in a whirlwind of politics, art and sex in the fervid French youth scene of the early 1970s. Masters Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
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The UK FILM CENTRE at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival brings together the UK’s film commissions, national agencies, producers and sales companies to provide the latest information about the UK's locations and services, films and talent. Visit
www.ukfilmcentre.org.uk and
www.filmexportuk.comfor the very latest updates.
Supporting film-making at the UK Film Centre:
British Council British Film Commission British Film Institute Creative England Creative Scotland Film London Northern Ireland Screen
Sales companies at the UK Film Centre:
Bankside Films Content Media Corporation Genesis Film Sales Kaleidoscope Film Distribution Moviehouse Entertainment Stealth Media Group
Other sales companies with UK offices attending TIFF include:
Altitude Film Sales AV Pictures Celsius Entertainment Ealing Metro International Embankment Films Exclusive Media Fandango Portobello Focus Features
Fortissimo Films Goalpost Film Hanway Films Independent Intandem Films K5 International Mister Smith Entertainment Pathe International Protagonist Pictures
Salt SC Films International Studiocanal UK The Works International Timeless Films Westend Films
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