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SCREENINGS FESTIVAL


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SCREENINGS 09:30


THE TORTOISE, AN INCARNATION (India) 125mins. Dir: Girish Kasaravalli. Cast: Jayanthi, Krishnamurthy Shikeripura. A humble civil servant finds uncanny echoes between his own life and that of Mahatma Gandhi. Contemporary World Cinema Jackman Hall (AGO)


11:00


BYZANTIUM (UK-Ireland) 118mins. Creative Artists Agency (CAA), William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (WME) (US). WestEnd Films (Int). Dir: Neil Jordan. Cast: Gemma Arterton, Jonny Lee Miller, Saoirse Ronan. A pair of female vampires wreak havoc on an English seaside community. Special Presentation Visa Screening Room (Elgin)


12:00


GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY (US) 99mins. Celluloid Dreams (Int). Dir: Dan Algrant. Cast: Imogen Poots, Penn Badgley. A young Jeff Buckley struggles to make peace with his father’s legacy. Special Presentation The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema


THE ICEMAN (US) 103mins. Millennium-Nu Image (Int). Dir: Ariel Vromen. Cast: Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta The true story of mafia hitman Richard ‘The Iceman’ Kuklinski. Special Presentation Ryerson Theatre


12:30


HYDE PARK ON HUDSON (UK) 95mins. Focus Features, Focus Features International (US/int). Dir: Roger Michell. Cast: Bill Murray, Laura Linney. The true story of Franklin


Delano Roosevelt’s love affair with his cousin. Gala Presentation Winter Garden Theatre


13:00


TAI CHI 0 (China) 100mins. Huayi Brothers (Int). Dir: Stephen Fung. Cast: Angelababy, Daniel Wu, Eddie Peng, Shu Qi, Tony Leung Kar-fai, William Feng, Yuan Xiaochao. A pop-art take on the life of the founder of the Yang school of tai chi. Special Presentation TIFF Bell Lightbox 1


WHEN I SAWYOU (Palestine-Jordan- Greece) 93mins. The Match Factory (Int). Dir: Annemarie Jacir. Cast: Mahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal, Saleh Bakri. The troubled lives of two Palestinian refugees after the 1967 war. Contemporary World Cinema Jackman Hall (AGO)


14:00


I DECLARE WAR (Canada) 94mins. The Film Sales Company, Andrew Herwitz (US). Moviehouse Entertainment (Int). Dir: Jason Lapeyre, Robert Wilson. Cast: Aidan Gouveia, Alex Cardillo, Alex Wall, Andy Reid. Kids’ summer war games turn deadly serious in this black comedy. Vanguard Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 10


THE PATIENCE STONE (France-Germany- Afghanistan) 98mins. Le Pacte (Int). Dir: Atiq Rahimi. Cast: Golshifteh Farahani. A woman in a war-torn Middle Eastern country delivers a monologue to her comatose husband. Contemporary World Cinema Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6


14:15


DETROIT UNLEADED (US) 93mins. International Creative Management (ICM) (US). Dir: Rola Nashef. Cast: Akram El-Ahmar, EJ Assi, Mary Assel, Nada


n 12 Screen International at Toronto September 11, 2012


Shouhayib, Steven Soro. An ambitious youth is forced to take over his family’s gas station. Discovery Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2


14:30


LA SIRGA (Colombia-France- Mexico) 88mins. MPM Film (Int). Dir: William Vega. Cast: David Fernando Guacas, Floralba Achicanoy , Heraldo Romero. A teenage girl takes refuge in a remote inn from the violence of the civil war in Colombia. Discovery Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 4


THE SESSIONS (US) 95mins. Fox Searchlight Pictures (Int). Dir: Ben Lewin. Cast: Helen Hunt, John Hawkes, William H Macy. Comedy-drama about a polio survivor trying to lose his virginity. Special Presentation Visa Screening Room (Elgin)


14:45


BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (UK) 92mins. The Match Factory (Int). Dir: Peter Strickland. Cast: Antonio Mancino, Chiara D’Anna, Cosimo Fusco, Fatma Mohamed, Salvatore Li Causi, Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou. A timid sound engineer begins to lose his grip on reality when he is hired to work on a horror film. Vanguard Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3


FIRST COMES LOVE (US) 108mins. Dir: Nina Davenport. Nina Davenport documents her quest to have a baby as a single mother over 40. TIFF Docs Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9


15:00


DANGEROUS LIAISONS (China) 110mins. Arclight Films (Int). Dir: Hur Jin- Ho. Cast: Cecilia Cheung, Dong-gun Jang, Lisa Lu, Shawn Dou, Ziyi Zhang.


A new version of the novel set in 1930s Shanghai. Gala Presentation Ryerson Theatre


DUST (Guatemala-Spain- Chile-Germany) 80mins. M-appeal (Int). Dir: Julio Hernandez Cordon. Cast: Agustin Ortiz Perez, Alejandra Estrada, Eduardo Spiegeler. Drama about the repercussions of the Guatemalan civil war. Contemporary World Cinema Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 8


KRIVINA (Canada-Bosnia- Herzegovina) 70mins. Dir: Igor Drljaca. Cast: Edis Livnjak, Goran Slavkovic, Jasmin Geljo. A Bosnian immigrant in Canada returns to his homeland in search of a missing friend. Discovery TIFF Bell Lightbox 4


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(Chile-US) 117mins. Funny Balloons (Int). Dir: Pablo Larrain. Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal. A young ad exec in Chile in 1988 is drafted to help campaign for the end of Augusto Pinochet’s rule. Special Presentation The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema


TO THE WONDER (US) 112mins. Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (US). FilmNation Entertainment (Int). Dir: Terrence Malick. Cast: Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams. A man reconnects with a woman from his hometown after his marriage falls apart. Special Presentation Princess of Wales


15:15


BOY EATING THE BIRD’S FOOD (Greece) 80mins. Dir: Ektoras Lygizos. Cast: Yiannis Papadopoulos. A retelling of Knut Hamsun’s 1890 novel Hunger, in modern Greece. Discovery Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 5


15:30


FOXFIRE: CONFESSIONS OF A GIRL GANG (France-Canada) 143mins. Memento Films International (Int). Dir: Laurent Cantet. Cast: Alexandria Ferguson, Ali Liebert, Brandon McGibbon, Briony Glassco. An adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novel about a girl gang in the 1950s. Special Presentation Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 7


15:45


THE SAPPHIRES (Australia) 99mins. Goalpost Film (Int). Dir: Wayne Blair. Cast: Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Miranda Tapsell, Shari Sebbens. Four Aboriginal girls are formed into a singing group and sent to Vietnam to entertain the troops. Special Presentation TIFF Bell Lightbox 1


16:00


EAGLES (Israel) 99mins. Dir: Dror Sabo. Cast: Noa Barkai, Yehoram Gaon, Yossi Polak. Two elderly ex-soldiers undertake a vigilante campaign against injustice and disrespect in Tel Aviv. Contemporary World Cinema Jackman Hall (AGO)


STORM SURFERS 3D (Australia) 95mins. 6ixty Foot Films (Int). Dir: Christopher Nelius, Justin McMillan. Cast: Ben Matson, Ross Clarke- Jones, Tom Carroll. Documentary following two Australian surf legends in their hunt for giant waves. TIFF Docs TIFF Bell Lightbox 2


16:15


ILLMANORS (UK) 102mins. Bankside Films (Int). Dir: Ben Drew. Cast: Anouska Mond, Ed Skrein, Natalie Press, Riz Ahmed. Life on the mean streets of London. Vanguard Scotiabank 4


16:30


THE TIME BEING (US) 88mins. FilmColony (US/int). Dir: Nenad Cicin-Sain. Cast: Ahna O’Reilly, Corey Stoll, Frank Langella, Wes Bentley. A struggling young artist accepts a series of bizarre commissions from an eccentric millionaire. Special Presentation Winter Garden Theatre


17:00


A FEWHOURS OF SPRING (France) 109mins. Rezo (Int). Dir: Stephane Brizé. Cast: Emmanuelle Seigner, Helene Vincent, Vincent Lindon. Drama about a man faced with a painful decision when his ill mother determines she wants to die with dignity. Special Presentation Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 6


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(Germany) 104mins. Global Screen (Int). Dir: Marc Wiese. Cast: Hyuk Kwon, Oh Yangnam, Shin Dong-Huyk. A portrait of a man who escaped a North Korean labour camp after two decades inside. TIFF Docs Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 10


NO PLACE ON EARTH (US-UK-Germany) 81mins. Submarine Entertainment (US). Global Screen (Int). Dir: Janet Tobias. Cast: Chris Nicola, Sam Stermer, Saul Stermer, Sima Dodyk, Sonia Dodyk. The true story of 38 Ukrainian Jews who survived the second world war by living in caves. TIFF Docs Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2


VIOLA (preceded by the short film Birds, 17 mins) (Argentina) 65mins. Dir: Matias Pineiro. Cast: Agustina Munoz, Elisa Carricajo, Romina Paula. A modern take on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Wavelengths TIFF Bell Lightbox 3


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