2011 Toronto International Film Festival

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2011 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster

Opening film| From the Sky Down[1]
Closing film| Page Eight[2]
Location| Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Awards| Where Do We Go Now? (People's Choice Award)
Hosted by| Toronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films| Over 200 feature films[3]
Festival date| September 8, 2011 (2011-09-08)–September 18, 2011 (2011-09-18)
Language| English
Website| tiff.net

The 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 8 and September 18, 2011.[4][5] Buenos Aires, Argentina was selected to be showcased for the 2011 City to City programme.[6] The opening film was From the Sky Down, a documentary film about the band U2, directed by Davis Guggenheim.[7] Considerable media attention at the time focused on Madonna's behaviour during the festival.

## Awards[edit]

Award[8] | Film  | Director

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People's Choice Award (Drama) | Where Do We Go Now? | Nadine Labaki
People's Choice Award (Drama), First Runner Up  | Starbuck | Ken Scott
People's Choice Award (Drama), Second Runner Up  | A Separation | Asghar Farhadi
People's Choice Award (Documentary) | The Island President[9] | Jon Shenk
People's Choice Award (Documentary), First Runner Up  | First Position | Bess Kargman
People's Choice Award (Documentary), Second Runner Up  | Pearl Jam 20 | Cameron Crowe
People's Choice Award (Midnight Madness) | The Raid | Gareth Evans
People's Choice Award (Midnight Madness), First Runner Up  | You're Next | Adam Wingard
People's Choice Award (Midnight Madness), Second Runner Up  | God Bless America | Bobcat Goldthwait
Best Canadian Feature Film | Monsieur Lazhar | Philippe Falardeau
Best Canadian First Feature Film | Citizen Gangster | Nathan Morlando
Best Canadian First Feature Film, Honorable Mention  | Nuit #1 | Anne Émond
Best Canadian Short Film | Doubles with Slight Pepper | Ian Harnarine
Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable Mention  | No Words Came Down | Ryan Flowers, Lisa Pham
Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable Mention  | Of Events (D'aléas) | Mathieu Tremblay
FIPRESCI Special Presentations | The First Man | Gianni Amelio
FIPRESCI Discovery | Avalon | Axel Petersén

## Programmes[edit]

### Gala Presentations[edit]

* Albert Nobbs by Rodrigo García
* The Awakening by Nick Murphy
* Beloved by Christophe Honoré
* Butter by Jim Field Smith
* A Dangerous Method by David Cronenberg
* From the Sky Down by Davis Guggenheim
* A Happy Event by Rémi Bezançon
* Hysteria by Tanya Wexler
* The Ides of March by George Clooney
* Killer Elite by Gary McKendry
* The Lady by Luc Besson
* Machine Gun Preacher by Marc Forster
* Moneyball by Bennett Miller
* Page Eight by David Hare
* Peace, Love and Misunderstanding by Bruce Beresford
* Starbuck by Ken Scott
* Take This Waltz by Sarah Polley
* Trespass by Joel Schumacher
* W.E. by Madonna
* Winnie by Darrell Roodt

### Masters[edit]

* Almayer's Folly by Chantal Akerman
* Faust by Alexander Sokurov
* Hard Core Logo 2 by Bruce McDonald
* Le Havre by Aki Kaurismäki
* I Wish by Hirokazu Koreeda
* The Kid with a Bike by Dardenne brothers
* Once Upon a Time in Anatolia by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* Outside Satan by Bruno Dumont
* Pina by Wim Wenders
* Restless by Gus Van Sant
* The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Robert Guédiguian
* This Is Not a Film by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi
* The Turin Horse by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky

### Special Presentations[edit]

Q&A session after the second screening of Pearl Jam Twenty at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival with the band's frontman Eddie Vedder (far right)

* 11 Flowers by Wang Xiaoshuai
* 360 by Fernando Meirelles
* 50/50 by Jonathan Levine
* Afghan Luke by Mike Clattenburg
* Americano by Mathieu Demy
* Anonymous by Roland Emmerich
* The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius
* Une vie meilleure by Cédric Kahn
* Breakaway by Robert Lieberman
* Burning Man by Jonathan Teplitzky
* Café de Flore by Jean-Marc Vallée
* The Cardboard Village by Ermanno Olmi
* Chicken with Plums by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
* Coriolanus by Ralph Fiennes
* Countdown by Huh Jong-ho
* Damsels in Distress by Whit Stillman
* Dark Horse by Todd Solondz
* Death of a Superhero by Ian Fitzgibbon
* The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Davies
* The Descendants by Alexander Payne
* Drive by Nicolas Winding Refn
* Citizen Gangster by Nathan Morlando
* Elles by Małgorzata Szumowska
* The Eye of the Storm by Fred Schepisi
* The First Man by Gianni Amelio
* Friends with Kids by Jennifer Westfeldt
* Goon by Michael Dowse
* We Have a Pope by Nanni Moretti
* Headhunters by Morten Tyldum
* Hick by Derick Martini
* The Hunter by Daniel Nettheim
* In Darkness by Agnieszka Holland
* Intruders by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
* Jeff Who Lives at Home by Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass
* Keyhole by Guy Maddin
* Killer Joe by William Friedkin
* Life Without Principle by Johnnie To
* Like Crazy by Drake Doremus
* Low Life by Nicolas Klotz
* Martha Marcy May Marlene by Sean Durkin
* Mausam by Pankaj Kapoor
* Melancholia by Lars von Trier
* Monsieur Lazhar by Philippe Falardeau
* The Moth Diaries by Mary Harron
* My Worst Nightmare by Anne Fontaine
* The Oranges by Julian Farino
* Pearl Jam Twenty by Cameron Crowe
* Rampart by Oren Moverman
* Rebellion by Mathieu Kassovitz
* Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Lasse Hallström
* Shame by Steve McQueen
* A Simple Life by Ann Hui
* The Skin I Live In by Pedro Almodóvar
* Sleeping Beauty by Julia Leigh
* Take Shelter by Jeff Nichols
* 10 Years by Jamie Linden
* Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese
* A Burning Hot Summer (That Summer) by Philippe Garrel
* Trishna by Michael Winterbottom
* Twixt by Francis Ford Coppola
* Tyrannosaur by Paddy Considine
* Violet & Daisy by Geoffrey S. Fletcher
* Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale by Wei Te-sheng
* We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lynne Ramsay
* Where Do We Go Now? by Nadine Labaki
* The Woman in the Fifth by Paweł Pawlikowski
* Wuthering Heights by Andrea Arnold

### Discovery[edit]

* Las acacias by Pablo Giorgelli
* Alois Nebel by Tomáš Luňák
* Among Us by Marco van Geffen
* Avalon by Axel Petersén
* Back to Stay by Milagros Mumenthaler
* Behold the Lamb by John McIlduff
* Breathing by Karl Markovics
* The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best by Ryan O'Nan
* Bunohan by Dain Said
* Cuchera by Joseph Israel Laban
* The Good Son by Zaida Bergroth
* Habibi by Susan Youssef
* Hanaan by Ruslan Pak
* Historias que so existem quando lembradas by Júlia Murat
* The Invader by Nicolas Provost
* J'aime regarder les filles by Fred Louf
* Lost in Paradise by Vũ Ngọc Đãng
* The Other Side of Sleep by Rebecca Daly
* Pariah by Dee Rees
* El circuito de Román by Sebastian Brahm
* Summer Games by Rolando Colla
* The Sword Identity by Xu Haofeng
* La brindille by Emmanuelle Millet
* Twilight Portrait by Angelina Nikonova
* Volcano by Rúnar Rúnarsson

### Reel to Reel[edit]

* Arirang by Kim Ki-duk
* The Boy Who Was a King by Andrey Paounov
* Comic-Con Episode Four: A Fan's Hope by Morgan Spurlock
* Crazy Horse by Frederick Wiseman
* Dark Girls by D. Channsin Berry and Bill Duke
* Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell by Rithy Panh
* The Education of Auma Obama by Branwen Okpako
* Gerhard Richter - Painting by Corinna Belz
* Girl Model by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin
* I'm Carolyn Parker by Jonathan Demme
* In My Mother's Arms by Atea Al-Daradji and Mohamed Al-Daradji
* Into the Abyss by Werner Herzog
* Last Call at the Oasis by Jessica Yu
* The Last Dogs of Winter by Costa Botes
* The Last Gladiators by Alex Gibney
* Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
* Paul Williams Still Alive by Stephen Kessler
* Pink Ribbons, Inc. by Léa Pool
* Samsara by Ron Fricke
* Sarah Palin: You Betcha! by Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill
* The Story of Film: An Odyssey by Mark Cousins
* Surviving Progress by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks
* The Tall Man by Tony Krawitz
* Undefeated by Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin
* Urbanized by Gary Hustwit
* Whores' Glory by Michael Glawogger

### Vanguard[edit]

* Carré blanc by Jean-Baptiste Léonetti
* Doppelgänger Paul by Kris Elgstrand and Dylan Akio Smith
* Generation P by Victor Ginzburg
* Headshot by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
* Hidden Driveway by Sarah Goodman
* i am a good person/i am a bad person by Ingrid Veninger
* Love and Bruises by Lou Ye
* Oslo, August 31st by Joachim Trier
* Snowtown by Justin Kurzel
* The Year of the Tiger by Sebastián Lelio

### TIFF Kids[edit]

* First Position by Bess Kargman
* The Flying Machine, by Martin Clapp, Geoff Lindsey and Dorota Kobiela
* A Letter to Momo by Hiroyuki Okiura
* A Monster in Paris by Bibo Bergeron

### Mavericks[edit]

* Barrymore by Érik Canuel
* Deepa Mehta and Salman Rushdie
* In Conversation With...Francis Ford Coppola
* The Island President by Jon Shenk
* The Love We Make by Bradley Kaplan Albert Maysles
* Neil Young Journeys by Jonathan Demme
* Sony Pictures Classics 20th Anniversary: Michael Barker and Tom Bernard
* Tahrir 2011: The Good, the Bad, and the Politician by Tamer Ezzat, Ahmad Abdalla, Ayten Amin and Amr Salama
* Tilda Swinton

### City to City: Buenos Aires[edit]

* Caprichosos de San Telmo by Alison Murray
* The Cat Vanishes by Carlos Sorín
* City to City Panel: Buenos Aires
* Crane World by Pablo Trapero
* Fatherland by Nicolás Prividera
* Invasión by Hugo Santiago
* A Mysterious World by Rodrigo Moreno
* Pompeya by Tamae Garateguy
* Las piedras by Román Cárdenas
* The Student by Santiago Mitre
* Vaquero by Juan Minujín

### Contemporary World Cinema[edit]

* 388 Arletta Avenue by Randall Cole
* Always Brando by Ridha Behi
* Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai by Suseenthiran
* Beauty by Oliver Hermanus
* Billy Bishop Goes to War by Barbara Willis Sweete
* Blood of My Blood by João Canijo
* Bonsai by Cristián Jiménez
* Color of the Ocean by Maggie Peren
* Death for Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi
* Elena by Andrey Zvyagintsev
* Extraterrestrial by Nacho Vigalondo
* Footnote by Joseph Cedar
* The Forgiveness of Blood by Joshua Marston
* Free Men by Ismaël Ferroukhi
* From up on Poppy Hill by Gorō Miyazaki
* A Funny Man by Martin Zandvliet
* Future Lasts Forever by Özcan Alper
* Bé omid é didar by Mohammad Rasoulof
* Goodbye First Love by Mia Hansen-Løve
* Guilty by Vincent Garenq
* Gypsy by Martin Šulík
* Heleno by José Henrique Fonseca
* Himizu by Sion Sono
* Hotel Swooni by Kaat Beels
* I'm Yours by Leonard Farlinger
* Islands by Stefano Chiantini
* Juan of the Dead by Alejandro Brugués
* Land of Oblivion by Michale Boganim
* Last Days in Jerusalem by Tawfik Abu Wael
* Last Winter by John Shank
* Lena by Christophe Van Rompaey
* Lipstikka by Jonathan Sagall
* Lucky by Avie Luthra
* Man on Ground by Akin Omotoso
* Michael by Markus Schleinzer
* Michael by Ribhu Dasgupta
* Miss Bala by Gerardo Naranjo
* Mr. Tree by Han Jie
* Omar Killed Me by Roschdy Zem
* Restoration by Yossi Madmoni
* Rose by Wojciech Smarzowski
* Rough Hands by Mohamed Asli
* A Separation by Asghar Farhadi
* The Silver Cliff by Karim Aïnouz
* Sisters & Brothers by Carl Bessai
* Sons of Norway by Jens Lien
* SuperClásico by Ole Christian Madsen
* Think of Me by Bryan Wizemann
* UFO in Her Eyes [it] by Xiaolu Guo
* Union Square by Nancy Savoca
* Your Sister's Sister by Lynn Shelton

### Canada First![edit]

* Amy George by Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas
* Leave It on the Floor by Sheldon Larry
* Nuit 1 by Anne Émond
* The Odds by Simon Davidson
* The Patron Saints by Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky
* Romeo Eleven (Roméo Onze) by Ivan Grbovic
* Wetlands (Marécages) by Guy Édoin

### Short Cuts Canada[edit]

The TIFF Bell Lightbox had its formal opening on September 12, 2010, during the 2010 festival. This shot was taken the day before the opening.

* 4am by Janine Fung
* Acqua by Raha Shirazi
* Afternoon Tea by DJ Parmar
* Combustion by Renaud Hallée
* Derailments by Chelsea McMullan
* The Devil's Due by Alexander Gorelick
* Doubles with Slight Pepper by Ian Harnarine
* The Encounter by Nicholas Pye
* A Film Portrait on Reconstructing 12 Possibilities that Preceded the Disappearance of Zoe Dean Drum by Eduardo Menz
* The Fuse: Or How I Burned Simon Bolivar by Igor Drljača
* Heart of Rhyme by Cory Bowles
* Hope by Pedro Pires
* If I Can Fly by Yoakim Bélanger
* Issues by Enrico Colantoni and Hugh Dillon
* Lie Down and Die by Kyle Sanderson
* Little Theatres: Homage to the Mineral of Cabbage by Stephanie Dudley
* Mandeep by Darrin Klimek
* No Words Came Down by Ryan Flowers
* Of Events by Mathieu Tremblay
* One Night with You by Jeanne Leblanc
* Ora by Philippe Baylaucq
* The Paris Quintet in Practice Makes Perfect by Benjamin Schuetze
* Patch Town by Craig Goodwill
* Pathways by Dusty Mancinelli
* The Pedestrian Jar by Evan Morgan
* The Red Virgin by Sheila Pye
* A River in the Woods by Christian Sparkes
* La Ronde by Sophie Goyette
* Vent solaire by Ian Lagarde
* Sorry, Rabbi by Mark Slutsky
* Spirit of the Bluebird by Xstine Cook and Jesse Gouchey
* Les dimanches by Jean-Guillaume Bastien
* Surveillant by Yan Giroux
* Tabula Rasa by Matthew Rankin
* Throat Song by Miranda de Pencier
* Trotteur by Arnaud Brisebois and Francis Leclerc
* Up in Cottage Country by Simon Ennis
* Waning by Gina Haraszti
* We Ate the Children Last by Andrew Cividino
* Le poids du vide by Alain Fournier
* The Yodeling Farmer by Mike Maryniuk and John Scoles

### Canada Open Vault[edit]

* Hard Core Logo by Bruce McDonald

### Visions[edit]

* Alps by Yorgos Lanthimos
* Century of Birthing by Lav Diaz
* Cut by Amir Naderi
* Dreileben - Etwas Besseres als den Tod by Christian Petzold
* Dreileben - Komm mir nicht nach by Dominik Graf
* Dreileben - Eine Minute Dunkel by Christoph Hochhäusler
* Fable of the Fish by Adolfo Alix, Jr.
* House of Tolerance by Bertrand Bonello
* Kotoko by Shinya Tsukamoto
* The Last Christeros by Matias Meyer
* The Loneliest Planet by Julia Loktev
* Monsters Club by Toshiaki Toyoda
* The Mountain by Ghassan Salhab
* Mushrooms by Vimukthi Jayasundara
* Play by Ruben Östlund
* Porfirio by Alejandro Landes
* Random by Debbie Tucker Green
* The River Used to Be a Man by Jan Zabeil
* Swirl by Helvécio Marins Jr.
* This Side of Resurrection by Joaquim Sapinho

### Wavelengths[edit]

* 349 (for Sol LeWitt) by Chris Kennedy
* 99 Clerkenwell Road by Sophie Michael
* Aberration of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure by Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder and Olivia Block
* American Colour by Joshua Bonnetta
* Ars colonia by Raya Martin
* Black Mirror at the National Gallery by Mark Lewis
* Bouquets 11-20 by Rose Lowder
* Chevelle by Kevin Jerome Everson
* Coorow-Latham Road by Blake Williams
* Edwin Parker by Tacita Dean
* Empire by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
* Found Cuban Mounts by Adriana Salazar Arroyo
* I Will Forget This Day by Alina Rudnitskaya
* Loutra/Baths by Nick Collins
* Optra Field VII-IX by T. Marie
* A Preface to Red by Jonathan Schwartz
* Resonance by Karen Johannesen
* The Return by Nathaniel Dorsky
* Sack Barrow by Ben Rivers
* Sailboat by Joyce Wieland
* Sea Series#10 by John Price
* Space is the Place by Eriko Sonoda
* Twenty Cigarettes by James Benning
* Untitled by Neïl Beloufa
* Young Pines by Ute Aurand

### Future Projections[edit]

* Buffalo Days by Peter Lynch
* Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board by Nicholas Pye and Sheila Pye
* Memories of Idaho by James Franco and Gus Van Sant
* Mr. Brainwash in Toronto by Mr. Brainwash
* Plot against Time by David Rokeby
* Road Movie by Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky
* Sanctuary by Gregory Crewdson
* Slow Action by Ben Rivers
* Sunday by Duane Hopkins
* Time as Activity (Buenos Aires) by David Lamelas
* whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir by Eve Sussman Rufus Corporation

### Midnight Madness[edit]

* The Day by Doug Aarniokoski
* God Bless America by Bobcat Goldthwait
* The Incident by Alexandre Courtes
* Kill List by Ben Wheatley
* Livid by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo
* Lovely Molly by Eduardo Sánchez
* The Raid by Gareth Evans
* Sleepless Night by Frédéric Jardin
* Smuggler by Katsuhito Ishii
* You're Next by Adam Wingard

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## Canada's Top Ten[edit]

TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list, its national critics and festival programmers poll of the ten best feature and short films of the year, was released on December 7, 2011.[11]

### Feature films[edit]

* Café de Flore — Jean-Marc Vallée
* Citizen Gangster — Nathan Morlando
* A Dangerous Method — David Cronenberg
* Hobo With a Shotgun — Jason Eisener
* Keyhole — Guy Maddin
* Monsieur Lazhar — Philippe Falardeau
* The Salesman (Le Vendeur) — Sébastien Pilote
* Starbuck — Ken Scott
* Take This Waltz — Sarah Polley
* Wetlands (Marécages) — Guy Édoin

### Short films[edit]

* Choke — Michelle Latimer
* Doubles with Slight Pepper — Ian Harnarine
* The Fuse: Or How I Burned Simon Bolivar — Igor Drljaca
* Hope — Pedro Pires
* No Words Came Down — Ryan Flowers, Lisa Pham
* Ora — Philippe Baylaucq
* Rhonda's Party — Ashley McKenzie
* La Ronde — Sophie Goyette
* Trotteur — Arnaud Brisebois, Francis Leclerc
* We Ate the Children Last — Andrew Cividino

## References[edit]

1. ^ "TIFF: A history of opening nights". CBC News. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
2. ^ "TIFF 2011 announces closing night film and final lineup of Galas and Special Presentations". Archived from the original on March 29, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
3. ^ "TIFF List 2011: A Complete Guide To The Toronto International Film Festival". Retrieved October 19, 2013.
4. ^ "2011 Toronto International Film Festival Annual report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 17, 2012. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
5. ^ "The Festival" (Press release). 2011-03-01. Archived from the original on 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
6. ^ "Toronto International Film Festival Selects Buenos Aires As 2011 City To City Selection" (Press release). 2011-02-08. Archived from the original on 2011-03-12. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
7. ^ "U2 documentary to open Toronto Film Festival". BBC News. 2011-07-27. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
8. ^ "TIFF: Awards 2011". tiff.net. Archived from the original on 2011-09-23. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
9. ^ "'The Island President' predominates international festival | International | Maldives Traveller | Travel News | Resort, Honeymoon, Diving & Spa". Archived from the original on 2011-09-23. Retrieved 2011-09-21.
10. ^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
11. ^ "The Festival group releases Canada's annual top ten". Postmedia News, December 7, 2011.

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