2014 Toronto International Film Festival

The 39th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 4â€"14, 2014. David Dobkin's film The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall was the opening night film. A Little Chaos, a British period drama directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet closed the festival. More films for each section were announced on 12 August, with the line-up completed on 19 August. A total of 393 films were shown, including 143 world premieres. The first Friday was dubbed "Bill Murray Day", as festival organisers dedicated a day to the actor by screening a select number of his films for free.

Awards

Programmes

Gala Presentations

• Black and White by Mike Binder
• Boychoir by François Girard
• The Connection by Cedric Jimenez
• The Equalizer by Antoine Fuqua
• Escobar: Paradise Lost by Andrea Di Stefano
• The Forger by Philip Martin
• Foxcatcher by Bennett Miller
• Haemoo by Shim Sung-bo
• Infinitely Polar Bear by Maya Forbes
• The Judge by David Dobkin
• Laggies by Lynn Shelton
• A Little Chaos by Alan Rickman
• Maps to the Stars by David Cronenberg
• The New Girlfriend by François Ozon
• Pawn Sacrifice by Ed Zwick
• The Riot Club by Lone Scherfig
• Ruth & Alex by Richard Loncraine
• Samba by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano
• This is Where I Leave You by Shawn Levy
• Wild by Jean-Marc Vallée

Special Presentations

• 99 Homes by Ramin Bahrani
• American Heist by Sarik Andreasyan
• Before We Go by Chris Evans
• Beyond the Lights by Gina Prince-Bythewood
• Breakup Buddies by Ning Hao
• Cake by Daniel Barnz
• Clouds of Sils Maria by Olivier Assayas
• The Cobbler by Thomas McCarthy
• Coming Home by Zhang Yimou
• The Dead Lands by Toa Fraser
• Dearest by Peter Ho-Sun Chan
• Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 by Johnnie To
• The Drop by Michaël R. Roskam
• Eden by Mia Hansen-Løve
• Elephant Song by Charles Binamé
• An Eye for Beauty by Denys Arcand
• Far From Men by David Oelhoffen
• Force Majeure by Ruben Östlund
• The Gate by Régis Wargnier
• Gemma Bovery by Anne Fontaine
• Gentlemen by Mikael Marcimain
• Gomorrah by Stefano Sollima
• Good Kill by Andrew Niccol
• The Good Lie by Philippe Falardeau
• Hector and the Search for Happiness by Peter Chelsom
• Human Highway by Bernard Shakey and Dean Stockwell
• The Humbling by Barry Levinson
• Hungry Hearts by Saverio Costanzo
• The Imitation Game by Morten Tyldum
• Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet by Roger Allers, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Joan C. Gratz, Mohammed Saeed Harib, Tomm Moore, Nina Paley, Bill Plympton, Joann Sfar and Michal Socha
• The Keeping Room by Daniel Barber
• The Last 5 Years by Richard LaGravenese
• Learning to Drive by Isabel Coixet
• Love and Mercy by Bill Pohlad
• Madame Bovary by Sophie Bates
• Manglehorn by David Gordon Green
• Mary Kom by Omung Kumar
• Men, Women and Children by Jason Reitman
• Miss Julie by Liv Ullmann
• Mommy by Xavier Dolan
• Mr. Turner by Mike Leigh
• My Old Lady by Israel Horovitz
• Ned Rifle by Hal Hartley
• Nightcrawler by Dan Gilroy
• October Gale by Ruba Nadda
• Pasolini by Abel Ferrara
• Phoenix by Christian Petzold
• Preggoland by Jacob Tierney
• Pride by Matthew Warchus
• The Reach by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
• Red Amnesia by Wang Xiaoshuai
• Return to Ithaca by Laurent Cantet
• Revenge of the Green Dragons by Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo
• Roger Waters: The Wall by Sean Evans and Roger Waters
• Rosewater by Jon Stewart
• The Search by Michel Hazanavicius
• A Second Chance by Susanne Bier
• Shelter by Paul Bettany
• The Sound and the Fury by James Franco
• St. Vincent by Theodore Melfi
• Still Alice by Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
• The Theory of Everything by James Marsh
• Three Hearts by Benoit Jacquot
• Time Out of Mind by Oren Moverman
• Top Five by Chris Rock
• Two Days, One Night by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• Welcome to Me by Shira Piven
• While We're Young (film) by Noah Baumbach
• Whiplash by Damien Chazelle
• Wild Tales by Damián Szifrón

TIFF Docs

• Beats of the Antonov by Hajooj Kuka
• I Am Here by Lixin Fan
• Iraqi Odyssey by Samir
• Merchants of Doubt by Robert Kenner
• National Diploma by Dieudo Hamadi
• National Gallery by Frederick Wiseman
• Natural Resistance by Jonathan Nossiter
• Red Army by Gabe Polsky
• Seymour: An Introduction by Ethan Hawke
• Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait by Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan
• Sunshine Superman by Marah Strauch
• Tales of the Grim Sleeper by Nick Broomfield
• The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer
• This Is My Land by Tamara Erde
• The Yes Men Are Revolting by Laura Nix and The Yes Men
• Roger & Me by Michael Moore
• The Wanted 18 by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan

Masters

• 1001 Grams by Bent Hamer
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence by Roy Andersson
• The Face of an Angel by Michael Winterbottom
• Foreign Body by Krzysztof Zanussi
• The Golden Era by Ann Hui
• Goodbye to Language by Jean-Luc Godard
• Hill of Freedom by Hong Sang-soo
• Leviathan by Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Murder in Pacot by Raoul Peck
• Revivre by Im Kwon-taek
• The Tale of Princess Kaguya by Isao Takahata
• Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako
• Trick or Treaty? by Alanis Obomsawin
• Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Midnight Madness

• [REC]4 Apocalypse by Jaume Balagueró
• Big Game by Jalmari Heleander
• Cub by Jonas Govaerts
• Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films by Mark Hartley
• It Follows by David Robert Mitchell
• The Guest by Adam Wingard
• Tokyo Tribe by Sion Sono (Opening Night film)
• Tusk by Kevin Smith
• What We Do in the Shadows by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement

Vanguard

• Alleluia by Fabrice Du Welz
• The Duke of Burgundy by Peter Strickland
• Goodnight Mommy by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala
• Hyena by Gerard Johnson
• Luna by Dave McKean
• Over Your Dead Body by Takashi Miike
• Shrew’s Nest by Juanfer Andrés and Esteban Roel
• Spring by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
• They Have Escaped by JP Valkeapää
• Waste Land by Pieter Van Hees
• The World of Kanako by Tetsuya Nakashima
• The Voices by Marjane Satrapi

Contemporary World Cinema

• Aire libre by Anahí Berneri
• Amour Fou by Jessica Hausner
• Behavior by Ernesto Daranas
• Bird People by Pascale Ferran
• Black Souls by Francesco Munzi
• Breathe by Mélanie Laurent
• Charlie's Country by Rolf de Heer
• Cut Bank by Matt Shakman
• Cut Snake by Tony Ayres
• The Dark Horse by James Napier Robertson
• Don't Breathe by Nino Kirtadze
• The Farewell Party by Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit
• Felix and Meira by Maxime Giroux
• Frailer by Mijke de Jong
• Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem by Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
• Girlhood by Céline Sciamma
• The Grump by Dome Karukoski
• Heartbeat by Andrea Dorfman
• High Society by Julie Lopes Curval
• Impunity by Jyoti Mistry
• In the Crosswind by Martti Helde
• Itsi Bitsi by Ole Christian Madsen
• Justice by Joel Lamangan
• Kabukicho Love Hotel by RyÅ«ichi Hiroki
• Kill Me Three Times by Kriv Stenders
• Labyrinth of Lies by Giulio Ricciarelli
• Leopardi by Mario Martone
• The Lesson by Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
• Li'l Quinquin by Bruno Dumont
• Love in the Time of Civil War by Rodrigue Jean
• Lulu by Luis Ortega
• Margarita, with a Straw by Shonali Bose
• Meet Me in Montenegro by Alex Holdridge, Linnea Saasen
• Men Who Save the World by Liew Seng Tat
• Mirage by Szabolcs Hajdu
• Modris by Juris Kursietis
• Not My Type by Lucas Belvaux
• Out of Nature by Ole Giæver
• The Owners by Adilkhan Yerzhanov
• Partners in Crime by Chang Jung-Chi
• The Reaper by Zvonimir Jurić
• Red Rose by Sepideh Farsi
• Sand Dollars by Laura Amelia Guzmán, Israel Cárdenas
• Still the Water by Naomi Kawase
• Tales by Rakhshan Bani-E'temad
• Teen Lust by Blaine Thurier
• Tigers by Danis Tanovic
• Today by Reza Mirkarimi
• Tokyo Fiancée by Stefan Liberski
• Tour de Force by Christian Zübert
• Two Shots Fired by Martín Rejtman
• The Valley by Ghassan Salhab
• Venice by Kiki Álvarez
• Voice Over by Cristián Jiménez
• Where I Am King by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
• Who Am I â€" No System Is Safe by Baran bo Odar
• Xenia by Panos H. Koutras
• You're Sleeping, Nicole by Stéphane Lafleur

Short Cuts Canada

42 short films will be presented as part of Short Cuts Canada in 2014, including:

• Me and My Moulton by Torill Kove
• CODA by Denis Poulin and Martine Époque
• The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer by Randall Okita
• Around Is Around and O Canada by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart
• What Doesn't Kill You by Rob Grant

Discovery

• '71 by Yann Demange
• Adult Beginners by Ross Katz
• Atlantic by Jan-Willem van Ewijk
• Blackcountry by Adam MacDonald
• Bang Bang Baby by Jeffrey St. Jules
• Big Muddy by Jefferson Moneo
• Corbo by Mathieu Denis
• The Crow's Egg by M. Manikandan
• Dukhtar by Afia Nathaniel
• Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere by Nguyen Hoang Diep
• The Great Man by Sarah Leonor
• Guidance by Pat Mills
• I Am Not Lorena by Isidora Marras
• In Her Place by Albert Shin
• The Intruder by Shariff Korver
• La Salada by Juan Martin Hsu
• Life in a Fishbowl by Baldvin Zophoniasson
• The Little Death by Josh Lawson
• Los Hongos by Oscar Ruiz Navia
• Magical Girl by Carlos Vermut
• Mardan by Batin Ghobadi
• May Allah Bless France! by Abd al Malik
• The Narrow Frame of Midnight by Tala Hadid
• Obra by Gregorio Graziosi
• Red Alert by Barry Avrich
• Run by Philippe Lacote
• Second Coming by Debbie Tucker Green
• Without Pity by Michele Alhaique
• Songs She Wrote About People She Knows by Kris Elgstrand
• Stories of Our Lives by Jim Chuchu and Wangechi Ngugi
• Sway by Rooth Tang
• Theeb by Naji Abu Nowar
• The Tribe by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
• Unlucky Plaza by Ken Kwek
• The Valley Below by Kyle Thomas
• The Vanished Elephant by Javier Fuentes-Leon
• Villa Touma by Suha Arraf
• We Were Wolves by Jordan Canning
• Wet Bum by Lindsay MacKay
• X+Y by Morgan Matthews

References

External links

• Official site
• 2014 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDB