The 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...

, (TIFF) was held in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 between September 9 and September 19, 2010. The opening night gala presented Score: A Hockey Musical

Score: A Hockey Musical

Score: A Hockey Musical is a 2010 Canadian musical film, written and directed by Michael McGowan.-Synopsis:Seventeen-year old Farley Gordon has led a sheltered life, home-schooled and isolated by his parents. His closest friend is Eve, their next door neighbour. When his skill at hockey is...

, a Canadian comedy-drama musical film. Last Night closed the festival on September 19.

2010 TIFF included 258 feature films, down from 264 in 2009. However, the number of short films at the 2010 festival increased to 81 (compared to 70 in 2009), making the total number of films 339, five more than in 2009.

Of the feature films, TIFF claims that 112 are world premieres, 24 are international premieres (i.e. the first screening outside the film's home country), and 98 are North American premieres. (In fact, some of the so-called premieres screened at the Telluride Film Festival

Telluride Film Festival

The Telluride Film Festival was started in 1974 by Bill and Stella Pence, Tom Luddy and Jim Card in the town of Telluride, Colorado, United States. It is operated by the National Film Preserve....

 before TIFF.)

Awards

Award	Film	Director
Best Canadian Short Film	Les Fleurs de l'âge	Vincent Biron
Best Canadian First Feature Film	High Cost of Living	Deborah Chow
City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian Feature Film	Incendies	Denis Villeneuve Denis Villeneuve Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian film director and writer. In his early career he won Radio-Canada's youth film competition "La Course Europe-Asie" in 1990-91. He is a three-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Director, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies in 2011...
FIPRESCI Prize for the Discovery	Beautiful Boy Beautiful Boy (film) -Plot:Bill and Kate are a married couple who are tightly wound and devoted to their work -- Bill is a businessman, Kate proofreads books...	Shawn Ku Shawn Ku Shawn Ku is a U.S. choreographer and motion picture director. He has also danced on Broadway, and acted in an independent feature-length film...
FIPRESCI for Special Presentations	L'Amour Fou L'Amour fou L'amour fou is a 1969 movie directed by Jacques Rivette.L'amour fou follows the dissolution of the marriage between Claire, an actress , and Sebastien, her director . It is black and white with two different film gauges employed at different times throughout the film...	Pierre Thoretton
People's Choice Award	The King's Speech The King's Speech (film) The King's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech therapist played by Geoffrey Rush...	Tom Hooper Tom Hooper (director) Thomas George "Tom" Hooper is a British film and television director of English and Australian background. Hooper began making short films at the age of 13, and had his first professional short, Painted Faces, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University Hooper directed plays and...
People's Choice Midnight Madness	Stake Land Stake Land Stake Land is a 2010 American post-apocalyptic film directed by Jim Mickle. The plot depicts an orphaned young man being taken under the wing of a vampire hunter known as "Mister".-Cast:*Connor Paolo as Martin*Nick Damici as Mister...	Jim Mickle
People's Choice Documentary	Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie	Sturla Gunnarsson Sturla Gunnarsson Sturla Gunnarsson is a Canadian film director.Gunnarsson was born in Iceland in 1951. He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, with his parents when he was seven years old. As he grew up he became interested in filmmaking and went to the University of British Columbia where he completed...

Special presentations

• Opening Night Gala:Score: A Hockey Musical
  Score: A Hockey Musical
  Score: A Hockey Musical is a 2010 Canadian musical film, written and directed by Michael McGowan.-Synopsis:Seventeen-year old Farley Gordon has led a sheltered life, home-schooled and isolated by his parents. His closest friend is Eve, their next door neighbour. When his skill at hockey is...
  
  directed by Michael McGowan
  Michael McGowan (director)
  Michael McGowan is a Canadian filmmaker who wrote directed the feature films One Week and Saint Ralph...
  
  
• Closing Night Gala:Last Night directed by Massy Tadjedin
  Massy Tadjedin
  Massy Tadjedin is an Iranian-American screenwriter.Tadjedin was born in Tehran and grew up in Orange County, California, and studied English Literature at Harvard....
  
  
• 127 Hours
  127 Hours
  127 Hours is a 2010 biographical adventure drama film co-written, produced and directed by Danny Boyle. The film stars James Franco as mountain climber Aron Ralston, who became trapped by a boulder in Robbers Roost, Utah in April 2003....
  
  directed by Danny Boyle
  Danny Boyle
  Daniel "Danny" Boyle is an English filmmaker and producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Trainspotting. For Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle won numerous awards in 2008, including the Academy Award for Best Director...
  
  
• AMIGO directed by John Sayles
  John Sayles
  John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter and author.-Early life:Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary , a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. He was raised Catholic and took to labeling himself "a Catholic atheist"...
  
  
• Deep in the Woods directed by Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
  
  
• Everything Must Go
  Everything Must Go (film)
  Everything Must Go is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Dan Rush and starring Will Ferrell. The film was based on Raymond Carver's short story Why Don't You Dance? and was released in theaters on May 13, 2011.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Dan Rush
• Gorbaciòf - The Cashier who Liked Gambling directed by Stefano Incerti
• Hereafter
  Hereafter (film)
  Hereafter is a 2010 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, from a screenplay by Peter Morgan and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film tells three parallel stories about three people affected by death in similar ways - all three have issues of communicating with the dead; Matt Damon plays...
  
  directed by Clint Eastwood
  Clint Eastwood
  Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
  
  
• I'm Still Here
  I'm Still Here (film)
  I'm Still Here is a 2010 mockumentary film directed by Casey Affleck, and written by Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix. The film purports to follow the life of Phoenix, from the announcement of his retirement from acting, through his transition into a career as a hip hop artist. Filming officially began...
  
  directed by Casey Affleck
  Casey Affleck
  Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt , better known as Casey Affleck, is an American actor and film director. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, he played supporting roles in mainstream hits like Good Will Hunting and Ocean's Eleven as well as in critically acclaimed independent films such as...
  
  
• Julia’s Eyes directed by Guillem Morales
• The Last Circus
  The Last Circus
  The Last Circus is a 2010 Spanish film by Director Álex de la Iglesia. It premiered at the 2010 Venice Film Festival.-Plot:In 1937, a "Happy" clown is forcibly recruited to serve in the Spanish Civil War, where he massacres an entire platoon with a machete still in costume.In 1973, near the end of...
  
  directed by Álex de la Iglesia
  Álex de la Iglesia
  Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, film producer and former comic book artist.Most of De La Iglesia's films reached cult status due to their weird sense of humour.- Biography :...
  
  
• Let Me In
  Let Me In (film)
  Let Me In is a 2010 American romantic horror film directed by Matt Reeves and starring Kodi Smit-McPhee and Chloë Grace Moretz. It is based on the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In , directed by Tomas Alfredson, and the novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist...
  
  directed by Matt Reeves
  Matt Reeves
  Matthew George "Matt" Reeves is an American film writer, director and producer.-Early life:Reeves was born in Rockville Centre, New York, and raised in Los Angeles, California. He began making movies at eight years old, directing friends with a wind-up camera. Reeves met and became friends with J.J...
  
  
• The House by the Medlar Tree directed by Pasquale Scimeca
  Pasquale Scimeca
  -Filmography:* Il giorno di San Sebastiano * Placido Rizzotto * Gli indesiderabili * Il cavaliere sole * Malavoglia -External links:...
  
  
• Mothers directed by Milcho Manchevski
• Passione directed by John Turturro
  John Turturro
  John Michael Turturro is an American actor, writer and director known for his roles in the films Do the Right Thing , Miller's Crossing , Barton Fink , Quiz Show , The Big Lebowski , O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the Transformers film series...
  
  
• Passion Play directed by Mitch Glazer
  Mitch Glazer
  Mitchell A. Glazer is an American movie producer, writer, and actor.-Biography:Glazer was born in Key Biscayne, Florida and was raised in Miami, the son of Leonard and Zelda Glazer, an English teacher. Glazer is a relative of Sidney Glazier and Tom Glazer. He attended Miami Beach High School. He...
  
  
• The Poll Diaries directed by Chris Kraus
  Chris Kraus (filmmaker)
  Chris Kraus , born 1963 in Göttingen, is a German author and film director.-Life and work:Chris Kraus was employed as a journalist and illustrator before attending the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin from 1991–98, where he studied film directing...
  
  
• Rio Sex Comedy
  Rio Sex Comedy
  Rio Sex Comedy is a 2010 comedy film, written and directed by Jonathan Nossiter. It premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival on 16 September.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Jonathan Nossiter
  Jonathan Nossiter
  Jonathan Nossiter is an American filmmaker. Son of Washington Post and New York Times foreign correspondent Bernard Nossiter, he was born in the United States in 1961. He was raised in France, England, Italy, Greece and India...
  
  
• Sarah’s Key directed by Gilles Paquet Brenner
• Special Treatment directed by Jeanne Labrune
  Jeanne Labrune
  Jeanne Labrune is a French screenwriter and film director. She has directed 13 films since 1978. Her film Blood and Sand was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• What's Wrong With Virginia
  What's Wrong with Virginia
  What's Wrong with Virginia is a 2010 film by director Dustin Lance Black, starring Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Emma Roberts, Carrie Preston and Toby Jones.- Plot :...
  
  directed by Dustin Lance Black
  Dustin Lance Black
  Dustin Lance Black is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist. He has won two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the television series Big Love and an Academy Award for the 2008 film Milk.-Early life:Black was born in Sacramento,...
  
  

City to City

• 10 to 11
  10 to 11
  10 to 11 is a 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Pelin Esmer.The film, loosely based on the story of Esmer’s uncle, Mithat Esmer, who also plays the leading role, follows an elderly collector in İstanbul who lives in a rundown apartment building that is under threat of demolion.- General release...
  
  directed by Pelin Esmer
• 40 directed by Emre Sahin
  Emre Sahin
  Emre Sahin is a Turkish film and television director in Los Angeles, California and Istanbul, Turkey. Sahin is an experienced director, cinematographer, and editor whose award-winning short film Canta won Best Cinematography at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, Audience Choice Award at the West...
  
  
• Block-C directed by Zeki Demirkubuz
  Zeki Demirkubuz
  Zeki Demirkubuz is a contemporary Turkish film director, screenwriter, producer and film editor.- Biography :...
  
  
• Dark Cloud directed by Theron Patterson
• Distant directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish photographer and film director. He is married to the filmmaker, photographer, and actress Ebru Ceylan, his co-star in İklimler .-Life:Ceylan learned photography at age 15, and developed an interest in film at 22....
  
  
• Hair directed by Tayfun Pirselimoğlu
• The Majority directed by Seren Yüce
• My Only Sunshine directed by Reha Erdem
  Reha Erdem
  Reha Erdem is an award-winning Turkish film director and screenwriter.-Biography:He attended Galatasaray High School and he studied history at Boğaziçi University before leaving to study film in 1983. He obtained a B.A. in Cinema Studies and an M.A...
  
  
• September 12 directed by Özlem Sulak
• Somersault in a Coffin
  Somersault in a Coffin
  Somersault in a Coffin is a 1996 Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about a homeless criminal and car thief. The film, which was released on , received awards at several international film festivals including the Golden Orange for best film at the Antalya International...
  
  directed by Dervis Zaim
  Dervis Zaim
  Derviş Zaim is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for Elephants and Grass and Dot ; Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Somersault in a Coffin ; and the Yunus Nadi literary prize for his debut novel Ares in Wonderland...
  
  

Contemporary World Cinema

• 22nd of May directed by Koen Mortier
• Africa United
  Africa United (2010 film)
  Africa United is a 2010 film directed by first-time UK film director Deborah 'Debs' Gardner-Paterson and starring Emmanuel Jal, Eriya Ndayambaje, Roger Nsengiyumva, Sanyu Joanita Kintu, Sherrie Silver and Yves Dusenge.-Synopsis:...
  
  directed by Debs Gardner-Paterson
• Aftershock
  Aftershock (film)
  Aftershock or Aftershocks, named in Chinese as the "Tangshan Great Earthquake" is a 2010 Chinese drama film depicting the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake directed by Feng Xiaogang. The film stars Xu Fan and Zhang Jingchu, with a supporting cast including Li Chen...
  
  directed by Feng Xiaogang
  Feng Xiaogang
  Feng Xiaogang , in is a Chinese film director. He is famous in China as being perhaps the most successful "commercialized" filmmaker whose comedy films do consistently well in the box office, although Feng has attempted to break out from that mold by making drama or period drama films...
  
  
• All About Love
  All About Love (2010 film)
  All About Love is a 2010 Hong Kong film directed by Ann Hui.The plot concerns two lesbian women who had been lovers in the past and re-meet through a service for single pregnant women.-Cast:* Sandra Ng as Macy* Vivian Chow as Anita...
  
  directed by Ann Hui
  Ann Hui
  Ann Hui On-Wah is a Hong Kong film director, film producer and occasional screenwriter, one of the most critically acclaimed amongst the Hong Kong New Wave.-Early life:...
  
  
• Anything You Want directed by Achero Mañas
  Achero Mañas
  Achero Mañas is a Spanish film director. He is a former actor that had filmed several successful short films before receiving awards and recognition with his feature film debut El Bola.- Biography :...
  
  
• Bad Faith directed by Kristian Petri
• Behind Blue Skies directed by Hannes Holm
  Hannes Holm
  Hannes Martin Holm, born on 26 November 1962 in Lidingö, is a Swedish director and screenwriter. He makes almost all of his films with Måns Herngren.- Selected filmography :*1983 - Interrail*1983 - Vidöppet...
  
  
• Black Ocean
  Black Ocean
  Black Ocean is the second studio album by metalcore band Century, the first since the band signed with Prosthetic Records. The album was produced, recorded and mixed by frontman Carson Slovak at his own studio and mastered by Kim Rosen of West Westside Studios. Black Ocean features a cipher code...
  
  directed by Marion Hänsel
  Marion Hänsel
  Marion Hänsel is a Belgian film director, producer, actress and screenwriter. Her film Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Palaver...
  
  
• Blessed Events directed by Isabelle Stever
• Break Up Club
  Break Up Club
  Break Up Club is a 2010 Hong Kong romance film starring Jaycee Chan and Fiona Sit. This film revolves around a website that allows users to win back lost loves, so long as they agree to break up another happy couple.-Reception:...
  
  directed by Barbara Wong
• Carancho
  Carancho (film)
  Carancho is a 2010 Argentine crime film directed by Pablo Trapero. It was entered into the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  directed by Pablo Trapero
  Pablo Trapero
  Pablo Trapero is an Argentine film producer, editor and director.His films are known for portraying the lives of ordinary people, and usually involving some form of social criticism to modern society, such as his movie Mundo Grúa , or the highly-acclaimed El...
  
  
• Chico & Rita directed by Fernando Trueba
  Fernando Trueba
  Fernando Trueba is a Spanish book editor, screenwriter, film director and producer.Between 1974 and 1979 worked as a film critic for Spain's leading daily newspaper EL PAIS. In 1980, founded the monthly film magazine CASABLANCA, which he edited and directed during its first two years...
  
  , Javier Mariscal
  Javier Mariscal
  Javier Mariscal is a Valencian Spanish artist and designer whose work has spanned a wide range of mediums, ranging from painting and sculpture to interior design and landscaping. He was born in February 1950 in the city of Valencia, Spain, into a family of eleven brothers and sisters...
  
  , Tono Errando
• Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame directed by Tsui Hark
  Tsui Hark
  Tsui Hark , born Tsui Man-kong, is a Hong Kong New Wave film director and producer. He is viewed as a major figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema .-Early life:...
  
  
• The Edge
  The Edge (2010 film)
  The Edge is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Uchitel. The film was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it didn't make the final...
  
  directed by Alexey Uchitel
• Even the Rain
  Even the Rain
  Even the Rain is a 2010 Spanish drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín about Spanish director Sebastián and executive producer Costa who travel to Bolivia to shoot a film depicting Christopher Columbus’s conquest...
  
  directed by Icíar Bollaín
  Icíar Bollaín
  Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez is a Spanish actress, director and writer.Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía.She began her work in cinema at the age of...
  
  
• The First Grader directed by Justin Chadwick
  Justin Chadwick
  Justin Chadwick is an English actor and television and film director.Chadwick began acting at the age of eleven. He graduated from the University of Leicester and in 1991 made his screen debut in London Kills Me...
  
  
• The Fourth Portrait directed by Chung Mong-Hong
• Home for Christmas directed by Bent Hamer
  Bent Hamer
  Bent Hamer is a film director, writer and producer, born in Sandefjord, Norway in 1956.-Biography:Hamer studied film theory and literature at the University of Stockholm and the Stockholm Film School. In addition to his feature films, he has written and directed a number of short films and...
  
  
• How I Ended This Summer
  How I Ended This Summer
  How I Ended This Summer is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Popogrebski. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Alexei Popogrebsky
• The Human Resources Manager
  The Human Resources Manager
  The Human Resources Manager is a 2010 Israeli drama film directed by Eran Riklis. The film was selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final shortlist.-Cast:...
  
  directed by Eran Riklis
  Eran Riklis
  Eran Riklis is an Israeli filmmaker. His films include Cup Final , The Syrian Bride , and Lemon Tree . He was born in 1954 and he studied at the National Film and Television School in England. He is married to Dina Riklis and they have two children, a daughter, Tammy, and a son, Jonathan...
  
  
• The Hunter
  The Hunter (2010 film)
  The Hunter is a 2010 drama film directed by and starring Rafi Pitts. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Rafi Pitts as Ali Alavi* Mitra Hajjar as Sara Alavi* Ali Nicksaulat as Officer Nazem...
  
  directed by Rafi Pitts
  Rafi Pitts
  Rafi Pitts is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director.Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. He describes himself as having been a 'very bad' child actor, starting in films at the age of eight. He came to England in...
  
  
• I Am Slave directed by Gabriel Range
  Gabriel Range
  Gabriel Range is a British filmmaker, who is probably best known for his fictional political-documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush in Death of a President...
  
  
• Jucy
  Jucy
  Jucy is an Australian comedy feature film produced in 2010 about the womance between two best female friends. The film was written by Stephen Vagg, directed by Louise Alston and produced by Kelly Chapman...
  
  directed by Louise Alston
• Lapland Odyssey directed by Dome Karukoski
  Dome Karukoski
  Thomas "Dome" Karukoski is a Finnish film director, His feature Beauty and the Bastard showed at the Berlin International Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival in 2006. The film, which stars Pamela Tola, concerns young people in Finland who are caught between conventional careers and more...
  
  
• Late Autumn directed by Kim Tae-Yong
  Kim Tae-Yong
  Kim Tae-Yong is a South Korean film director, actor and scriptwriter. He is best known for co-directing the critically acclaimed horror film, Memento Mori and directing the award winning film Family Ties .- Personal life :...
  
  
• Leap Year directed by Michael Rowe
  Michael Rowe
  Michael "Mike" Rowe is a television writer, producer and comedian. He has written for Becker, The Nanny, Futurama and Family Guy, as well as writing the episode of The PJs, "A Race to His Credit".-Becker episodes:...
  
  
• Life, Above All
  Life, Above All
  Life, Above All is a 2010 South African drama film directed by Oliver Schmitz. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and made the final...
  
  directed by Oliver Schmitz
  Oliver Schmitz
  Oliver Schmitz is a South African film director and screenwriter.His film Mapantsula was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film Life, Above All was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards...
  
  
• The Light Thief
  The Light Thief
  The Light Thief is a 2010 drama film from Kyrgyzstan, directed by Aktan Arym Kubat. The film was Kyrgyzstan's submission for Best Foreign Language Film for the 83rd Academy Awards, but did not make the final shortlist.-About the Director:...
  
  directed by Aktan Arym Kubat
  Aktan Arym Kubat
  Aktan Arym Kubat is a Kyrgyz film director.-Filmography:Feature films:1992 «Where is your home, snail?» *JURY PRIZE AT THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN Ashkhabad, Turkmenia...
  
  
• Mamma Gógó
  Mamma Gógó
  Mamma Gógó is a 2010 Icelandic drama film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final shortlist.-Cast:...
  
  directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
• Matariki
  Matariki (film)
  Matariki was composed by Don McGlashan. 'What Love Can Do' was written for Matariki by McGlashan and sung by Bella Kalolo...
  
  directed by Michael Bennett
  Michael Bennett
  Michael Bennett was an American musical theater director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. He won seven Tony Awards for his choreography and direction of Broadway shows and was nominated for an additional eleven....
  
  
• The Matchmaker directed by Avi Nesher
  Avi Nesher
  Avi Nesher is an Israeli film producer, film director, screenwriter and actor.- Biography :Avi Nesher was born and raised in Ramat Gan, Israel. The child of a Romanian-born diplomat, and a mother who came from Russia. In 1965, he moved with his family to the United States...
  
  
• Meek's Cutoff
  Meek's Cutoff
  Meek's Cutoff is a 2010 western film directed by Kelly Reichardt. The film was shown in competition at the 67th Venice International Film Festival...
  
  directed by Kelly Reichardt
  Kelly Reichardt
  Kelly Reichardt is a screenwriter and film director working within American indie cinema. Her debut film River of Grass was released in 1994. It was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, as well as the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. In 1999, she completed her sophomore...
  
  
• My Joy
  My Joy
  My Joy is a 2010 Ukrainian road movie directed by Sergei Loznitsa. It is set in the western regions of Russia, somewhere near to Smolensk. My Joy was the first Ukrainian film ever to compete for the Palme d'Or.-Cast:* Viktor Nemets as Georgy...
  
  directed by Sergei Loznitsa
  Sergei Loznitsa
  Sergei Loznitsa is a Ukrainian director mostly known for his documentary films.-Biography:In 1987 he graduated from Kiev Polytechnic Institute as a mathematician. Between 1987 and 1991 he worked in the Institute of Cybernetics. He developed expert systems, systems of design-making and work on...
  
  
• Neds directed by Peter Mullan
  Peter Mullan
  Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor and film-maker who has been appearing in films since 1990.-Early life:Mullan, the sixth of eight children, was born in Peterhead in the northeast of Scotland, the son of Patricia, a nurse, and Charles Mullan, a lab technician who worked at Glasgow University. He...
  
  
• Of Gods and Men
  Of Gods and Men (film)
  Of Gods and Men is a 2010 French drama film directed by Xavier Beauvois, starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale. Its original French title is Des hommes et des dieux, which means "Of Men and of Gods" and refers to a verse from the Bible shown at the beginning of the film...
  
  directed by Xavier Beauvois
  Xavier Beauvois
  Xavier Beauvois is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His film Don't Forget You're Going to Die was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize....
  
  
• Oki's Movie directed by Hong Sangsoo
• Outbound directed by Bogdan George Apetri
• Sensation directed by Tom Hall
  Tom Hall
  Tom A. Hall is a game designer born in Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he received a B.S. in Computer Science. In 1987, he worked at Softdisk Inc., where he was both a programmer and the editor of Softdisk, a software bundle delivered monthly...
  
  
• The Solitude Of Prime Numbers directed by Saverio Constanzo
• Tender Son – The Frankenstein Project
  Tender Son – The Frankenstein Project
  Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project is a 2010 Hungarian film written and directed by Kornél Mundruczó, developed from his own theatrical play and loosely based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein...
  
  directed by Kornél Mundruczó
  Kornél Mundruczó
  Kornél Mundruczó is a Hungarian actor, film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 short and feature films since 1998. His film Johanna was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  
• Tracker
  Tracker (film)
  Tracker is a 2011 British-New Zealand action-thriller film set in 1903 New Zealand, directed by Ian Sharp and starring Ray Winstone and Temuera Morrison.-Story:...
  
  directed by Ian Sharp
  Ian Sharp
  Ian Sharp is a British film and television director.Sharp was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn and Hatfield College, Durham University where he gained an honours degree in Psychology and Modern Philosophy...
  
  
• Three
  Three (2010 film)
  Three is a 2010 German comedy film directed by Tom Tykwer. The film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Tom Tykwer
  Tom Tykwer
  Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....
  
  
• Silent Souls directed by Aleksei Fedorchenko
• State of Violence directed by Khalo Matabane
• White Irish Drinkers directed by John Gray
  John Gray
  -Born 18th century:*John Gray , member of the North Carolina General Assembly*John Gray , president of the Bank of Montreal...
  
  
• Womb directed by Benedek Fliegauf
  Benedek Fliegauf
  Benedek Fliegauf , is a Hungarian film director. As founder of the 'Raptors collective', he is also involved in sound design and set design. Living in Budapest he is a leading figure of the new generation of Hungarian filmmakers...
  
  

Discovery

• As If I Am Not There directed by Juanita Wilson
  Juanita Wilson
  Juanita Wilson is an Irish director and writer from Dublin. Her short film The Door received an Irish Film and Television Award in 2009 and an Academy Award nomination in 2010...
  
  
• ATTENBERG directed by Athina Rachel Tsangiri
• Autumn directed by Aamir Bashir
  Aamir Bashir
  -Background:Bashir was born and raised in Kashmir, the son of the retired Chief Justice of Jammu High Court. He is a graduate of St. Stephen's College University of Delhi.- Career :...
  
  
• Beautiful Boy directed by Shawn Ku
  Shawn Ku
  Shawn Ku is a U.S. choreographer and motion picture director. He has also danced on Broadway, and acted in an independent feature-length film...
  
  
• Blame directed by Michael Henry
• The Call directed by Stefano Pasetto
• Ceremony directed by Max Winkler
  Max Winkler
  Max Winkler was Mayor of Graudenz , Reich Trustee and Reich Commissioner for German Cinema....
  
  
• Dirty Girl
  Dirty Girl (2010 film)
  Dirty Girl is a 2010 coming of age comedy, written and directed by Abe Sylvia. It stars Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich and William H. Macy. It premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival on 12 September 2010...
  
  directed by Abe Sylvia
• Girlfriend
  Girlfriend (2010 film)
  Girlfriend is a 2010 American drama film written and directed by Justin Lerner and starring Evan Sneider, Jackson Rathbone, Shannon Woodward and Amanda Plummer.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Justin Lerner
• Griff the Invisible directed by Leon Ford
  Leon Ford
  Leon Ford is an Australian actor who has appeared in many television and theatre productions. He is best known for his roles in the television series The Cooks, Changi and the telemovie Stepfather of the Bride.Ford portrayed 1st Lt...
  
  
• Half of Oscar directed by Manuel Martin Cuenca
• Inside America directed by Barbara Eder
• Look, Stranger directed by Arielle Javitch
• Mandoo directed by Ebrahim Saeedi
• Marimbas From Hell directed by Julio Hernández Cordón
• Norberto’s Deadline directed by Daniel Hendler
  Daniel Hendler
  Daniel Hendler is an Uruguayan film, television, and theatre actor who works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, where he lives. He is known for his starring roles in films such as Bottom of the Sea, Family Law, The Paranoids, Phase 7, and award winning Lost Embrace by director Daniel Burman, with...
  
  
• October directed by Diego Vega and Daniel Vega
  Daniel Vega
  Daniel Alejandro Vega is an Argentine footballer who plays as a Striker for Almirante Brown in the Argentine Primera B Nacional.-Career:...
  
  
• The Piano in a Factory directed by Zhang Meng
• Pinoy Sunday directed by Wi Ding Ho
• The Place in Between directed by Sarah Bouyain
  Sarah Bouyain
  Sarah Bouyain is a French-Burkinabé writer and film director.-Biography:Bouyain's mother, who was French, and her father, who was half Burkinabé and half French, met in France while he was studying there....
  
  
• Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
  Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
  Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is a 2010 Finnish fantasy film directed by Jalmari Helander about people living near the Korvatunturi mountain who discover the secret behind Santa Claus...
  
  directed by Jalmari Helander
• Sandcastle directed by Boo Junfeng
• Soul of Sand
  Soul of Sand
  Soul of Sand is a 2010 Indian drama film directed by Sidarth Srinivasan, about a lower caste watchman, Bhanu Kumar who stands guard at his master Lakhmichand Ahlawat's abandoned silica mine on the outskirts of Delhi. It film deals with issues of caste system and land politics, feudalism and the...
  
  directed by Sidharth Srinivasan
• Viva Riva!
  Viva Riva!
  Viva Riva! is a Congolese crime thriller film written & directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga and starring Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Hoji Fortuna, Marlene Longage, Alex Herabo & Diplôme Amekindra...
  
  directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga
• Wasted On the Young
  Wasted on the Young
  Wasted on the Young is an Australian thriller, directed by first-time feature filmmaker Ben C. Lucas, and shot by cinematographer Dan Freene, which tells the story of a traumatic high school incident that sets off a fatal chain of events for two brothers...
  
  directed by Ben C. Lucas
• What I Most Want directed by Delfina Castagnino
• The Whistleblower
  The Whistleblower
  The Whistleblower is a 2010 thriller film directed by Larysa Kondracki, written by Kondracki and Eilis Kirwan, starring Rachel Weisz. Inspired by actual events, the film tells the story of Kathryn Bolkovac, and premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival...
  
  directed by Larysa Kondracki
• Zephyr directed by Belma Bas

Future Projections

• 24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro directed by Douglas Gordon
  Douglas Gordon
  Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist; he won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale...
  
  
• Angst Essen/Eat Fear directed by Ming Wong
• HEAVENHELL directed by Chris Chong Chan Fui and Yasuhiro Morinaga
• In Love for the Mood directed by Ming Wong
• Jeanne directed by Martin Arnold
  Martin Arnold
  Martin Arnold is an experimental filmmaker known for his obsessive reworkings of found footage. He is also a founding member of the Austrian film distributor Sixpack Film. Arnold studied psychology and art history at the University of Vienna...
  
  
• Journey to the Moon directed by William Kentridge
  William Kentridge
  William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two...
  
  
• Klatsassin directed by Stan Douglas
  Stan Douglas
  Stan Douglas is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has exhibited internationally, including Documenta IX, 1992, Documenta X, 1997, Documenta XI, 2002 and the Venice Biennale in 1990, 2001 and 2005...
  
  
• Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake directed by Perry Bard
• NYman With A Movie Camera directed by Michael Nyman
  Michael Nyman
  Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
  
  
• Otolith III directed by The Otolith Group
• Slidelength directed by Michael Snow
  Michael Snow
  Michael Snow, CC is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music.-Life:...
  
  
• Soft Rains #6: Suburban Horror (part 1) directed by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
• Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades directed by Harun Farocki
  Harun Farocki
  Harun Farocki is a German filmmaker.He has made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries...
  
  

Masters

• 13 Assassins directed by Takashi Miike
  Takashi Miike
  is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions...
  
  
• Essential Killing
  Essential Killing
  Essential Killing is a 2010 Polish political thriller film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Vincent Gallo and Emmanuelle Seigner.- Plot :...
  
  directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
  Jerzy Skolimowski
  Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol...
  
  
• Film Socialisme directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....
  
  
• I Wish I Knew directed by Jia Zhang-ke
• Poetry
  Poetry (film)
  Poetry is a 2010 South Korean drama film written and directed by Lee Chang-dong. It tells the story of a suburban woman in her 60s who begins to grow an interest for poetry while struggling with Alzheimer's disease and her irresponsible grandson. Yoon Jeong-hee stars in the leading role, which was...
  
  directed by Lee Chang-dong
  Lee Chang-dong
  Lee Chang-dong is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and novelist. He won the 2008 Special Director's Prize at the Asian Film Awards and has been nominated for the Golden Lion and Palme d'Or. Lee served as South Korea's Minister of Culture and Tourism from 2003 to 2004.-Life and career:Lee...
  
  
• Roses à Crédit directed by Amos Gitai
  Amos Gitai
  Amos Gitai , born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli filmmaker and director. He is mainly known for making documentaries and experimental / minimalist feature films...
  
  
• Route Irish
  Route Irish (film)
  Route Irish is a 2010 drama-thriller film directed by Ken Loach and written by Paul Laverty. It is set in Liverpool and focuses on the consequences suffered by private security contractors after fighting in the Iraq War. The title comes from the Baghdad Airport Road, known as "Route Irish". The...
  
  directed by Ken Loach
  Ken Loach
  Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
  
  
• The Sleeping Beauty directed by Catherine Breillat
  Catherine Breillat
  Catherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist and Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School.-Life and career:Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort...
  
  
• The Strange Case of Angelica
  The Strange Case of Angelica
  The Strange Case of Angelica is a 2010 Portuguese drama film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It was entered into the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Pilar López de Ayala as Angélica* Filipe Vargas as Marido...
  
  directed by Manoel de Oliveira
  Manoel de Oliveira
  Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and...
  
  
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a 2010 Thai film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It won the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:The film centers on the last days in the life of its title character...
  
  directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004...
  
  

Midnight Madness

• Bunraku directed by Guy Moshe
• The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman directed by Wuershan
• Fire of Conscience
  Fire of Conscience
  Fire of Conscience is a 2010 Chinese and Hong Kong action film directed by Dante Lam and starring Leon Lai and Richie Ren.-Cast:*Leon Lai as Detective Manfred*Richie Ren as Inspector Kee*Wang Baoqiang as Xiao Yong*Vivian Hsu as Ellen...
  
  directed by Dante Lam
  Dante Lam
  Dante Lam Chiu-Yin is a Hong Kong film director, an assistant director, actor, producer, writer, and action choreographer. In 2008 he won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director for his work on Beast Stalker.-Director:* Option Zero...
  
  
• Insidious
  Insidious (film)
  Insidious is a 2011 American independent supernatural horror film written by Leigh Whannell, directed by James Wan, and starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, and Barbara Hershey. The story centers on a couple whose son inexplicably enters a comatose state and becomes a vessel for ghosts...
  
  directed by James Wan
  James Wan
  James Wan is a Malaysian-born Australian producer, screenwriter, and film director of Chinese heritage. He is widely known for directing the horror film Saw and creating Billy the puppet. He also directed Dead Silence, Death Sentence and Insidious.-Life and career:Wan was born in Kuching, Sarawak,...
  
  
• Red Nights directed by Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud
• Stake Land directed by Jim Mickle
• Super directed by James Gunn
• Vanishing on 7th Street
  Vanishing on 7th Street
  Vanishing on 7th Street is a 2011 American post-apocalyptic horror-thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and starring Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Brad Anderson
• The Ward
  The Ward (film)
  The Ward is a 2010 American horror film directed by John Carpenter. The screenplay is written by Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen. It stars Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, Mika Boorem, and Jared Harris...
  
  directed by John Carpenter
  John Carpenter
  John Howard Carpenter is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres in his four-decade career, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction.- Early life :Carpenter was born...
  
  
• Midnight Madness Opening Night:Fubar II
  FUBAR 2
  FUBAR 2 is a 2010 comedy film and the sequel to the 2002 cult film FUBAR. It was released on October 1, 2010 in Canada...
  
  directed by Michael Dowse
  Michael Dowse
  Michael Dowse is a Canadian film director.Born and raised in London, Ontario, he was trained as a film editor. His first full-length movie, FUBAR was shot on a digital camera with a tiny budget, but was selected by the Sundance Film Festival and screened on the prestigious midnight slot, which had...
  
  
• The Legend of Beaver Dam directed by Jerome Sable

Real to Reel

• The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town directed by Thom Zimny
• Erotic Man directed by Jørgen Leth
  Jørgen Leth
  Jørgen Leth is a Danish poet and film director who is considered a leading figure in experimental documentary film making. Most notable are his epic documentary A Sunday in Hell and his surrealistic short film The Perfect Human...
  
  
• Nostalgia for the Light directed by Patricio Guzmán
  Patricio Guzmán
  Patricio Guzmán Lozanes is a Chilean documentary film director. He is internationally renowned for films such as The Battle of Chile and Salvador Allende....
  
  
• ANPO directed by Linda Hoaglund
• Armadillo directed by Janus Metz
• Boxing Gym directed by Frederick Wiseman
  Frederick Wiseman
  Frederick Wiseman is an American documentary filmmaker. He came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer...
  
  
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a 2010 3-D documentary film by Werner Herzog, about the Chauvet Cave in southern France. The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and consists of footage filmed inside the cave as well as interviews with various scientists and historians...
  
  directed by Werner Herzog
  Werner Herzog
  Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
  
  
• Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
  Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
  Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer is a documentary directed by Alex Gibney about former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and the sex scandal that derailed his political career...
  
  directed by Alex Gibney
  Alex Gibney
  Alex Gibney is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time."...
  
  
• Cool It directed by Ondi Timoner
  Ondi Timoner
  Ondi Timoner is an American film director, producer and editor.-History:Ondi Timoner is the only director to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival twice. Born in Miami, Florida, Timoner graduated cum laude from Yale University, with a double major in American Studies and Theater...
  
  
• The Game of Death directed by Christophe Nick & Thomas Bornot
• Genpin directed by Naomi Kawase
• Guest directed by Jose Luis Guerin
  José Luis Guerín
  José Luis Guerín is a Spanish filmmaker and educator, known for his meditative and intellectually curious work in both documentary and narrative filmmaking....
  
  
• Inside Job
  Inside Job (film)
  Inside Job is a 2010 documentary film about the late-2000s financial crisis directed by Charles H. Ferguson. The film is described by Ferguson as being about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption." In five...
  
  directed by Charles Ferguson
  Charles H. Ferguson
  Charles Henry Ferguson is the founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc., director and producer of No End In Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq and Inside Job , which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary...
  
  
• Machete Maidens Unleashed! directed by Mark Hartley
• Mother of Rock: Lillian Roxon directed by Paul Clarke
• Pink Saris directed by Kim Longinotto
  Kim Longinotto
  Kim Longinotto is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films which highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination...
  
  
• The Pipe directed by Risteard Ó Domhnaill
• Precious Life directed by Shlomi Eldar
• The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical directed by Sarah McCarthy
• Tabloid directed by Errol Morris
  Errol Morris
  Errol Mark Morris is an American director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. Also in 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-Early life and...
  
  
• Tears of Gaza directed by Vibeke Løkkeberg
  Vibeke Løkkeberg
  Vibeke Løkkeberg is a Norwegian film actress and director. She appeared in 12 films between 1967 and 1991. Her film Hud was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• When My Child is Born directed by Guo Jing
  Guo Jing
  Guo Jing is the fictional protagonist of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, a wuxia novel by Jin Yong. He plays a supporting role in the sequel novel The Return of the Condor Heroes as well...
  
   & Ke Dingding
• Windfall directed by Laura Israel
• !Women Art Revolution – A Secret History directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson
  Lynn Hershman Leeson
  Lynn Hershman Leeson is an award-winning American artist and filmmaker. She was Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University...
  
  

Sprockets Family Zone

• Karla and Jonas directed by Charlotte Sachs Bostrup
• Little Sister
  Little Sister (2010 film)
  Little Sister is a 2010 American family-drama written and directed by Richard Bowen. The film is distributed by the independent film company, Goalpost Productions and the film's title was presented at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Brenda Song and mainly features a Chinese cast...
  
  directed by Richard Bowen
  Richard Bowen
  Richard Bowen was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars...
  
  
• Make Believe directed by J. Clay Tweel
• Sammy’s Adventures: The Secret Passage directed by Ben Stassen
  Ben Stassen
  Ben Stassen is a Belgian film producer and director. He founded nWave Pictures in 1994, producing highly successful CGI ride films including the groundbreaking Devils Mine...
  
  

Visions

• The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu directed by Andrei Ujica
  Andrei Ujica
  Andrei Ujica is a Romanian screenwriter and director.- Life and works :Ujica studied literature in Timişoara, Bucharest and Heidelberg. He moved to Germany in 1981. In 1990 he began making films...
  
  
• Brownian Movement directed by Nanouk Leopold
  Nanouk Leopold
  Nanouk Leopold is a Dutch film maker. She graduated from Dutch film school in 1997, starting off by making films for Dutch television...
  
  
• Curling directed by Denis Côté
• The Ditch directed by Wang Bing
  Wang Bing (director)
  Wang Bing is a Chinese director, often referred to as one of the foremost figures in documentary film-making. Wang is the founder of his own production company, Wang Bing Studios, which produces most of his films...
  
  
• The Four Times directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
• k.364 A Journey by Train directed by Douglas Gordon
  Douglas Gordon
  Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist; he won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale...
  
  
• Moscow 11:19:31 directed by Michael Nyman
  Michael Nyman
  Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
  
  
• Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow directed by Sophie Fiennes
  Sophie Fiennes
  Sophia Victoria Twisleton Wykeham-Fiennes , known as Sophie Fiennes, is an English film director and producer.-Career:Following a foundation course in painting at Chelsea School of Art, Fiennes worked with director Peter Greenaway from 1987–1992. She managed the UK based dance company, The Michael...
  
  
• Promises Written in Water
  Promises Written in Water
  Promises Written in Water is a 2010 drama film written, directed, edited, and produced by Vincent Gallo. The cast includes Vincent Gallo, Delfine Bafort, Sage Stallone, Lisa Love and Hope Tomaselli....
  
  directed by Vincent Gallo
  Vincent Gallo
  Vincent Gallo is an Italian-American film director and actor. Though he has had minor roles in mainstream films such as Goodfellas, he is most associated with independent movies, including Buffalo '66, which he wrote, directed, did the music for and starred in; The Brown Bunny, which he also...
  
  
• Summer of Goliath directed by Nicolàs Pereda
• Trois Temps Apres La Mort D’Anna directed by Catherine Martin
  Catherine Martin
  Catherine Martin is an Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and film producer.-Biography:Catherine Martin went to school at North Sydney Girls High School...
  
  
• A Useful Life
  A Useful Life
  A Useful Life is a 2010 Uruguayan drama film directed by Federico Veiroj and shot in black-and-white. The film was selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it didn't make the final shortlist.-Cast:...
  
  directed by Federico Veiroj

Vanguard

• At Ellen’s Age directed by Pia Marais
• The Christening directed by Marcin Wrona
• Cold Fish directed by Sion Sono
  Sion Sono
  is a controversial Japanese filmmaker and poet. He was born in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan, and is best known for his films as well as avant-garde poetry performances.-Early career:...
  
  
• Confessions
  Confessions (film)
  is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima.-Plot:Yuko Moriguchi , a junior high teacher, announces she will resign. She reveals that her daughter, Manami, was killed by two pupils in her class, whom she dubs "Student A" and "Student B"...
  
  directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
  Tetsuya Nakashima
  Tetsuya Nakashima is a Japanese film director. He was born in Fukuoka, attending high school in Chikushino. Nakashima was given the Best Director award at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Kamikaze Girls....
  
  
• Easy Money directed by Daniel Espinosa
  Daniel Espinosa
  Jorge Daniel Espinosa is a Swedish film director from Trångsund, Stockholm. He attended the National Film School of Denmark and graduated in 2001. His third feature film, Easy Money, was the Swedish film with most admissions in Sweden in 2010.-Filmography: I Country of the majority production...
  
  
• A Horrible Way to Die directed by Adam Wingard
  Adam Wingard
  Adam Wingard is an American film director, editor, cinematographer, and writer whose films are known for their emphasis on horror, extreme violence, and psychedelic imagery. His dark and sometimes abrasive directing/editing style has been compared to directors such as David Lynch, Darren...
  
  
• Kaboom
  Kaboom (film)
  Kaboom is a 2010 film, written and directed by Gregg Araki. The film stars Roxane Mesquida, Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, Haley Bennett, and James Duval...
  
  directed by Gregg Araki
  Gregg Araki
  Gregg Araki is an American independent filmmaker. He is involved in New Queer Cinema.-Early life:Araki was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Santa Barbara, California...
  
  
• L.A. Zombie
  L.A. Zombie
  L.A. Zombie is a 2010 queer cinema zombie film. The film is written and directed by Bruce LaBruce and stars gay pornographic actor François Sagat. The film premiered in competition at Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland in 2010.-Synopsis:...
  
  directed by Bruce LaBruce
  Bruce LaBruce
  Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground gay porn director based in Toronto, Ontario.-Biography:...
  
  
• Microphone
  Microphone (film)
  Microphone is a 2010 Egyptian independent film by Ahmad Abdalla about the underground art scene of the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The film received Best Arabic-language film Award from Cairo International Film Festival and Tanit d'Or from Journées cinématographiques de Carthage...
  
  directed by Ahmad Abdalla
  Ahmad Abdalla
  Ahmad Abdalla El Sayed Abdelkader is an Egyptian film director, editor and screen writer.His debut feature film is Heliopolis - 2009, his second film is Microphone - 2010- Microphone - 2010 :...
  
  
• Monsters
  Monsters (2010 film)
  Monsters is a 2010 British science fiction film, written, shot and directed by Gareth Edwards. Whitney Able and Scoot McNairy star in the lead roles.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Gareth Edwards
  Gareth Edwards (director)
  Gareth Edwards is a British film director. He is best known for directing the 2010 independent film Monsters, his first feature film. He also wrote, filmed, and did the visual effects for the film. He is currently attached to direct the upcoming Godzilla reboot from Legendary Pictures.- Biography...
  
  
• Our Day Will Come
  Our Day Will Come
  "Our Day Will Come" is a popular song composed by Bob Hilliard and Mort Garson which was a #1 hit in 1963 for Ruby & The Romantics.-Ruby & the Romantics:...
  
  directed by Romain Gavras
  Romain Gavras
  Romain Gavras is a French director, best known overseas for directing M.I.A.'s controversial video for "Born Free". His films and music videos are often portrayed in a gritty and realistic manner as well as using flashing images.-Biography:...
  
  

External links

• Official site