2011 Toronto International Film Festival
The 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 8 and September 18, 2011.
Buenos Aires, Argentina was selected to be showcased for the 2011 City to City programme. The opening film was From the Sky Down, a documentary film about the band U2, directed by Davis Guggenheim. Considerable media attention at the time focused on Madonna's behaviour during the festival.
Awards
Programmes
Gala Presentations
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Arirang by Kim Ki-duk
- The Boy Who Was a King by Andrey Paounov
- ' 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
- ' by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
- Paul Williams Still Alive by Stephen Kessler
- Pink Ribbons, Inc. by Léa Pool
- Samsara by Ron Fricke
- ' by Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill
- ' 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
- 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
- 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
- Barrymore by Eric 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
- '
- ' by Tamer Ezzat, Ahmad Abdalla, Ayten Amin and Amr Salama
- Tilda Swinton
City to City: Buenos Aires
- Caprichosos de San Telmo by Alison Murray
- The Cat Vanishes by Carlos Sorín
- 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
- 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 by Xiaolu Guo
- Union Square by Nancy Savoca
- Your Sister's Sister by Lynn Shelton
Canada First!
- 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 by Ivan Grbovic
- Wetlands by Guy Édoin
Short Cuts Canada
- 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
- ' 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
- ' 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
- Hard Core Logo by Bruce McDonald
Visions
- 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
- 349 by Chris Kennedy
- 99 Clerkenwell Road by Sophie Michael
- 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
- 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 by David Lamelas
- by Eve Sussman Rufus Corporation
Midnight Madness
- 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