From 09.08 to 09.18.2011
Toronto International Film Festival
 

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Special presentation  
 
11 Flowers
A film by Xiaoshuai Wang.
Starring Liu Wenqing, Wang Jinchun, Yen ni.
Wang Han, 11 year old boy in the province of Ghizhou is confronted with a runaway murderer. Hiding in the woods, the wounded man takes Wang Han drying shirt and persuades him to help him out. Frightened and fascinated at once, Wang Han and his friends accept to keep it secret from the police. Strange things are happening at school and the police is everywhere...

SCREENING
09.11 - 6:15PM / Tiff Bell Lightbox 2
09.12 - 3:30PM P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 11
09.13 - 2:30PM / AMC 3
09.14 - 11:15AM P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 10
09.17 - 12:00 PM / Scotiabank Theatre 1
 
 
Café de Flore
A film by Jean-Marc Vallée.
Starring Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent, Evelyne Brochu, Emile Vallée, Chanel Fontaine.
Café de Flore is first and foremost an epic love story between a man and woman. And between a mother and her son. Two people from two different eras who live two extraordinary moments of passion that shake their lives. A mystical and supernatural odyssey on love.

SCREENING
08.11 - 11:15AN P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 1
09.12 - 10:00PM / Princess of Wales
09.14 - 11:45AM / Tiff Bell Lightbox 2
 
 
Monsieur Lazhar
A film by Philippe Falardeau.
Starring  Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx, Brigitte Poupart.
After he learns the death of a sixth grade teacher, Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian refugee, propose himself as a substitute at the school's headmistress.

SCREENING
09.11 - 9:45PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
09.12 - 6:30PM P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 11
09.14 - 3:30PM / AMC
 
 
Discovery  
 
Breathing
A film by Karl Markovics.
Starring Thomas Schubert, Karin  Lischka, Gerhard Liebmann, Georg Friedrich.
Roman Kogler, 18, is serving time in a juvenile detention center. He has already served half of his sentence, and could be released on probation, but his chances are poor: he doesn't have family, and seems incapable of coping with society. After many failed attempts, Roman finds a probation job at the municipal morgue in Vienna. One day, Roman is faced with a dead woman who bears his family name. Even though it soon turns out that she is not his mother, Roman wonders about his past for the first time and starts looking for his mother.

SCREENING
09.08 - 4:00PM P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 3
09.10 - 5:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
09.12 - 6:00PM / AMC 5
09.15 - 2:45PM / AMC 3
 
 
Twiggy
A film by Emmanuelle Millet.
Starring Christa Théret, Johan Libéreau, Anne Le Ny.
Sarah 20, lives in a hostel and does one odd job after the other. When she actively starts to live an adult life, she discovers she is seven-month pregnant, a denial of pregnancy. Shocked she is torn apart between the fact she needs to assimilate her sudden condition as a future mother and her strong will to become a working woman...

SCREENING
09.09 - 8:45PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
09.09 - 1:30PM P&I / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
09.11 - 9:30 AM / AMC 4
09.14 - 12:00PM P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 6
09.17 - 9:30 AM / AMC 5
 
 
Real to Reel  
 
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
A film by Rithy Panh.
Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime caused the death of some 1.8 million people, representing one-quarter of the population of Cambodia. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was in charge at M13, a Khmer Rouge-controlled prison, for four years before being appointed by the Angkar ("the Organisation", a faceless and omnipresent entity which reigned unopposed over the destiny of an entire people) to the S21 centre in Phnom Penh. As party secretary at S21, he commanded from 1975 to 1979 the Khmer Rouge killing machine in which at least 12,380 people perished, according to the remaining archives. But how many others disappeared, "crushed and reduced to dust", with no trace of them ever being found? In 2009, Kaing Guek Eav aka Duch became the first leader of the Khmer Rouge organisation to be brought before an international criminal justice court. Duch reveals here how he considers that he fully carried out his mission, and the reasons which led him to command M13 and then S21. Rithy Panh records his unadorned words, without any trimmings, in the isolation of a face-to-face encounter. At the same time, he sets it into perspective with archive pictures and eye-witness accounts of survivors. As the narrative unfolds, the infernal machine of a system of destruction of humanity implacably emerges, through a manic description of the minutiae of its mechanisms.

SCREENING
09.08 - 07:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
09.09 - TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 / 01:00PM
09.10 - 9:15AM P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 11
 
 
Contemporary World Cinema  
 
Goodbye First Love
A film by Mia Hansen-Love.
Starring Lola Creton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne Havard Brekke.
Spring 1999. Camille 15, Sullivan 19, love each other passionately, but Sullivan wants to go to South America for a year and this project drives Camille to despair. In fall he leaves and slowly stops writing to her. After a suicide attempt, Camille ends up in hospital. 2003, four years have passed. Camille works, studies architecture and lives on her own.She meets a famous architect, Lorenz, who restores her self-confidence. 2007, Camille and Lorenz have a strong relationship. Camille is his assistant but she feels capable of founding her own agency soon. After 7 years she sees Sullivan again, all seems to go well after their first encounter, but few months later their feelings are back and Camille's heart is torn apart.

SCREENING
09.09 - 05:45PM / Scotiabank Theatre 3
09.09 - 11:30AM P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 9
09.10 - 3:45PM / AMC 3
09.18 - 6:00PM / Scotiabank Theatre 1
 
 
Guilty
A film by Vincent Garenq.
Starring Philippe Torreton, Wladimir Yordanoff, Noémie Lvovsky, Raphael  Ferret, Michèle  Goddet.
The true story of Alain Marécaux and his wife, heartlessly crushed by one of the most important miscarriages of justice of our time, the Outreau case. Alain Marécaux and his wife were arrested in 2001 along with 12 other people for horrible acts of paedophilia they never committed. He will face the descent into hell with an incredibly unjust and inhuman judicial system.

SCREENING
09.10 - 01:30PM P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 4
09.11 - 9:45PM / AMC 3
09.13 - 9:00PM / AMC 5
09.15 - 9:30AM P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 3
09.18 - 4:15PM / Isabel Bader Theatre
 
 
Sons of Norway
A film by Jens Lien.
Starring Åsmund  Høeg , Sven Nordin, Sonja Richter, Camilla  Friisk, Trond Nilsen, Tony Veisle Skarpsmo.
Nikolaj moves to Rykkin, where his father has helped design the new satellite town. His father is playful, a self-declared free spirit. He firmly believes that a new community spirit will flourish in Rykkin. Nikolaj tries to make sense of life under the thumb of his optimistic and energetic father. They're a happy little alternative family - until his mother is suddenly killed in a traffic accident.His father spirals into self-centred grief, and Nikolaj is left to deal with his sorrow over the loss of his mother and the disintegration of his family. As things fall apart at home, Nikolaj is drawn to the darker side of Rykkin.His father claws his way back from the brink, eyeing new opportunities in his son's interest in punk rock. He applauds Nikolaj's rebellion. But how can Nikolaj grow when his father is more of a child than he is ?

SCREENING
09.08 - 01:30PM P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 2
09.09 - 9:45PM / Scotiabank Theatre 3
09.10 - 12:45PM / AMC 3
09.13 - 01:45PM P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 7
09.17 - 7:00PM / Scotiabank Theatre 11
 
 
Visions  
 
House of Tolerance
A film by Bertrand Bonello.
Starring Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Jasmine Trinca, Céline Sallette, Adèle Haenel, Alice Barnole, Iliana Zabeth, Xavier Beauvois, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Jacques Nolot.
The dawn of the XXth century: L'Apollonide, a house of tolerance, is living its last days. Between men who fall in love and the ones who become viciously harmful, the girls share their daily secrets and pains under the scrutiny of Madame Marie-France.

SCREENING
09.09 - 9:00AM P&I / TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
09.10 - 3:15PM / Isabel Bader Theatre
09.13 - 2:00PM / Jackman Hall - Ago
09.17 - 6:45PM / AMC 3
 
 
Masters  
 
Snows of Kilimanjaro
A film by Robert Guédiguian.
Starring Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Anais Demoustier, Julie Marie  Parmentier, Marilyne Canto.
Despite losing his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire his wife and their loving children and grandchildren, surrounded by their friends. In love for more than thirty years, they are proud of their union and political struggles, for their conscience is as clear as their view of life. This happiness will be shattered when two young armed and masked men beat them up, tie them up, and snatch their wedding rings and their lifetime savings. The shock will be even more violent when they discover that this brutal attack was organized by one of the young workers laid off at the same time as Michel, by one of their own people.

SCREENING
09.08 - 12:45PM P&I / Scotiabank Theatre 8
09.09 - 11:45AM / Ryerson
09.17 - 6:00PM / TIFF Bell Lightbox 4