The Circuit

Toronto has picked 27 international festival selections to screen at their September fest.  Many preemed at Cannes, Berlin, SXSW, etc.

GALA PRESENTATION
"The Good, The Bad, The Weird" 
Kim Jee-woon, South Korea
North American Premiere

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
"Adoration"
Atom Egoyan, Canada
North American Premiere

"Un conte de Noël"
Arnaud Desplechin, France
North American Premiere

"Entre les murs"
Laurent Cantet, France
North American Premiere

"Gomorrah"
Matteo Garrone, Italy
North American Premiere
Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

MASTERS
"24 City"
Jia Zhang-ke, China
North American Premiere

"Four Nights with Anna"
Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland/France
North American Premiere

"Of Time and the City"
Terence Davies, United Kingdom
North American Premiere

"Le Silence de Lorna"
Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France/Italy
North American Premiere

"Three Monkeys"
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey/France/Italy
North American Premiere
Winner of Best Director at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

REAL TO REEL
"Blind Loves"
Juraj Lehotský, Slovakia
North American Premiere

VISIONS
"Liverpool"
Lisandro Alonso, Argentina/France/Netherlands/Spain/Germany
North American Premiere

VANGUARD
"Waltz with Bashir"
Ari Folman, Israel/France/Germany
North American Premiere

DISCOVERY
"Hunger"
Steve McQueen, United Kingdom
North American Premiere
Winner of this year’s Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

"Medicine for Melancholy"
Barry Jenkins, USA
Canadian Premiere

"The Paranoids"
Gabriel Medina, Argentina
International Premiere

"Three Blind Mice"
Matthew Newton, Australia
International Premiere

"Tony Manero"
Pablo Larraín, Chile/Brazil
North American Premiere

"Tulpan"
Sergey Dvortsevoy, Germany/Switzerland/Kazakstan/Russia/Poland
North American Premiere
Winner of this year’s Un Certain Regard Prize at the Cannes Film Festival

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
"Acne"
Federico Veiroj, Uruguay/Argentina/Spain/Mexico
North American Premiere

"Linha de Passe"
Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, Brazil
North American Premiere
Linha de Passe garnered Best Actress at Cannes 2008

"O’Horten"
Bent Hamer, Norway/Germany/France
North American Premiere

"Lion’s Den"
Pablo Trapero, Argentina/South Korea/Brazil North
American Premiere

"Restless"
Amos Kollek, Israel/Germany/Canada/France/Belgium
North American Premiere

"Revanche"
Götz Spielmann, Austria
North American Premiere