Thursday, July 23, 2009

Noé, Solondz, Almodóvar, Audiard, Others at Toronto '09

Another round of titles were announced for the Toronto International Film Festival, including Todd Solondz's sequel to Happiness, Life During Wartime, and a bunch of Cannes leftovers like Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void, Ye Lou's Spring Fever, Almodóvar's Broken Embraces, Jacques Audiard's A Prophet, as well as Samantha Morton's directorial debut The Unloved. Previously announced titles can be found here and here.

Vanguard

- Accident - d. Cheang Pou-Soi (Dog Bite Dog) - Hong Kong/China
- The Ape [Apan] - d. Jesper Ganslandt (Farväl Falkenberg) - Sweden
- Bunny and the Bull - d. Paul King - UK
- The Dirty Saints [Los santos sucios] - d. Luis Ortega - Argentina
- Enter the Void [Soudain le vide] - d. Gaspar Noé - France/Germany/Italy
- Hipsters - d. Valery Todorovsky - Russia
- The Misfortunates [De helaasheid der dingen] - d. Felix Van Groeningen (Steve + Sky) - Belgium
- My Queen Karo - d. Dorothée Van Den Berghe - w. Deborah Franoçois - Belgium/Netherlands
- Spring Fever - d. Ye Lou - China/Hong Kong/France


Discovery

- The Angel [Enkeli] - d. Margreth Olin - w. Maria Bonnevie, Lena Endre, Börje Ahlstedt - Norway/Sweden/Finland
- Applause - d. Pieter Zandvliet - w. Paprika Steen - Denmark
- Bare Essence of Life - d. Satoko Yokohama - Japan
- Beautiful Kate - d. Rachel Ward - w. Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown, Ben Mendelsohn - Australia
- A Brand New Life - d. Ounie Lecomte - South Korea/France
- The Disappearance of Alice Creed - d. J Blakeson - w. Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston - UK
- Eamon - d. Margaret Corkery - Ireland
- Every Day Is a Holiday [Chaque jour est une fête] - d. Dima El-Horr - w. Hiam Abbass - Lebanon/France/Germany
- Five Hours from Paris - d. Leon Prudovsky - Israel
- Heliopolis - d. Ahmad Abdalla - w. Khaled Abol Naga - Egypt
- The Day Will Come [Es kommt der Tag] - d. Susanne Schneider - Germany/France
- Le jour où Dieu est parti en voyage - d. Philippe van Leeuw - Belgium
- Last Ride - d. Glendyn Ivin - Australia
- My Dog Tulip - d. Paul Fierlinger, Sandra Fierlinger - w. Christopher Plummer, Isabella Rossellini, Lynn Redgrave (voices) - USA
- My Tehran for Sale - d. Granaz Moussavi - Australia/Iran
- Northless [Norteado] - d. Rigoberto Pérezcano - Mexico/Spain
- Shirley Adams - d. Oliver Hermanus - South Africa/USA/UK
- La soga - d. Josh Crook - Dominican Republic/USA
- Toad's Oil - d. Kôji Yakusho - w. Yakusho - Japan
- Together [Sammen] - d. Matias Armand Jordal - Norway
- The Unloved - d. Samantha Morton - w. Robert Carlyle, Susan Lynch - UK

Special Presentations

- Broken Embraces [Los abrazos rotos] - d. Pedro Almodóvar - Spain
- An Education - d. Lone Scherfig - UK
- The Front Line [La prima linea] - d. Renato De Maria - w. Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Riccardo Scamarcio - Italy
- Glorious 39 - d. Stephen Poliakoff (Close My Eyes, The Tribe) - w. Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, Christopher Lee, Hugh Bonneville, David Tennant, Eddie Redmayne, Charlie Cox, Jenny Agutter, Jeremy Northam - UK
- Kamui - d. Yoichi Sai (Blood and Bones, Soo) - Japan
- Life During Wartime - d. Todd Solondz - d. Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Shirley Henderson, Ciarán Hinds, Michael K. Williams, Charlotte Rampling, Paul Reubens, Renée Taylor - USA
- A Prophet [Un prophète] - d. Jacques Audiard - France
- The Secret of Their Eyes [El secreto de sus ojos] - d. Juan José Campanella - Argentina/Spain