2007 Toronto International Film Festival

32nd annual film festival held in Toronto, Canada Toronto International Film Festival 2007 Toronto International Film Festival poster.jpg upright Festival poster Fugitive Pieces Emotional Arithmetic Toronto International Film Festival Group September 6, 2007 – September 15, 2007 349 Toronto, Ontario, Canada International http://www.torontointernationalfilmfestival.ca/ 2006 2008 The 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, the 32nd annual edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from September 6, 2007, to September 15, 2007."Toronto film fest lineup". The Province, July 6, 2007. The lineup consisted of 349 films from 55 countries, selected from 4,156 submissions. The selection included 275 mid- to feature-length films, of which 234 were premieres, with 71 by first-time directors. The festival opened with the world premiere of Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces, a film based on the international bestselling novel by Anne Michaels, and closed with Paolo Barzman's Emotional Arithmetic, marking the first time in the festival's history that the opening and closing slots were both held by Canadian films in the same year.Guy Dixon, "Closing gala to feature Canadian content". The Globe and Mail, July 19, 2007. Film reception Critical favourites included No Country for Old Men, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days which were equally well received at the Cannes Film Festival, plus the Joy Division biopic Control which, along with the eponymously titled documentary on the band, Joy Division, was picked up by The Weinstein Company. Peter Howell of the Toronto Star named Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead a major Oscar contender. https://www.thestar.com/article/257076 No hive mentality at this year's TIFF 2007-09-25 Howell Peter September 2007 Toronto Star https://web.archive.org/web/20071017125803/http://www.thestar.com/article/257076 17 October 2007 live The audience favourite, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, won the top prize at the festival. The New York Times pointed out that two previous winners had gone on to win Best Picture Oscars.Best Picture winners American Beauty and Chariots of Fire had both previously won the People's Choice Award. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/movies/17arts-HONORSINTORO_BRF.html Honors in Toronto for 'Eastern Promises' 2007-09-26 September 2007 The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20081211141147/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/movies/17arts-HONORSINTORO_BRF.html December 11, 2008 live Highly discussed but divisive films among the public and critics include comedies Juno and Margot at the Wedding, the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There and Brian De Palma's Iraq War documentary Redacted. Films expected to stir controversy for their transgressive sexual content, such as Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, Alan Ball's Nothing Is Private and Martin Gero's Young People Fucking, did divide audiences but without fanfare. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Across the Universe both won their share of supporters despite previous reports of shooting delays and director-studio clashes. Awards Award Film Director Ref People's Choice Award Eastern Promises David Cronenberg https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals/eastern-promises-wins-at-toronto ‘Eastern Promises’ wins at Toronto Roger Ebert RogerEbert.com August 2, 2025 People's Choice Award, First Runner Up Juno Jason Reitman People's Choice Award, Second Runner Up Body of War Ellen Spiro, Phil Donahue Best Canadian Feature Film My Winnipeg Guy Maddin Best Canadian First Feature Film Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil) Stéphane Lafleur Best Canadian Short Film Pool (Kolam) Chris Chong Chan Fui FIPRESCI Award La Zona Rodrigo Plá Discovery Award Cochochi Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán NETPAC Award Encarnación Anahí Berneri In addition, film director and historian Peter Bogdanovich was given a special award by the International Federation of Film Archives for his contribution towards film preservation. The award was presented at a screening of Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937) which Bogdanovich selected to illustrate the importance of film restoration.Peter Howell, "This is just a fraction of the familiar faces you might bump into at next month's TIFF". Toronto Star, August 23, 2007. Programme Gala Presentations Gala Presentations spotlights prestige films of Canadian, American and foreign-language origins in equal measure. They are often world or North American premieres and are screened at the Roy Thomson Hall. Twenty films were selected. David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises received the Cadillac People's Choice Award. English title Original title Director(s) Production country Across the Universe Julie Taymor United States Battle for Terra Aristomenis Tsirbas United States Blood Brothers Tian Tang Kou Alexi Tan Taiwan, China, Hong Kong Caramel Nadine Labaki Lebanon, France Cassandra's Dream Woody Allen United Kingdom Cleaner Renny Harlin United States Closing the Ring Richard Attenborough United Kingdom Days of Darkness L'Âge des ténèbres Denys Arcand Canada Eastern Promises David Cronenberg Canada Elizabeth: The Golden Age Shekhar Kapur United Kingdom Emotional Arithmetic Paolo Barzman Canada Fugitive Pieces Jeremy Podeswa Canada The Jane Austen Book Club Robin Swicord United Kingdom The Last Lear Rituparno Ghosh India Michael Clayton Tony Gilroy United States Rendition Gavin Hood United States Reservation Road Terry George United States The Second Wind Le Deuxième souffle Alain Corneau France Sleuth Kenneth Branagh United States The Walker Paul Schrader United States, United Kingdom Special Presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 4 luni, 3 sǎptǎmâni şi 2 zile Cristian Mungiu Romania Angel François Ozon France, United Kingdom, Belgium The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Andrew Dominik United States Atonement Joe Wright United Kingdom Battle in Seattle Stuart Townsend United States Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Sidney Lumet United States Before the Rains Santosh Sivan United States Bill Melisa Wallack, Bernie Goldmann United States The Brave One Neil Jordan United States, Australia Captain Mike Across America Michael Moore United States Chaotic Ana Caótica Ana Julio Medem Spain Death Defying Acts Gillian Armstrong United Kingdom, Australia The Girl in the Park David Auburn United States Grand Illusion La Grand Illusion Jean Renoir France Here Is What Is Adam Vollick, Daniel Lanois, Adam Samuels Canada Honeydripper John Sayles United States I'm Not There Todd Haynes United States In Bloom Vadim Perelman United States In the Valley of Elah Paul Haggis United States Into the Wild Sean Penn United States Juno Jason Reitman United States Lars and the Real Girl Craig Gillespie United States Love Comes Lately Bis später, Max! Jan Schütte Germany, Austria, United States Lust, Caution Sè, Jiè Ang Lee United States Mad Detective Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai Hong Kong Man from Plains Jonathan Demme United States Margot at the Wedding Noah Baumbach United States Married Life Ira Sachs United States Mongol Sergei Bodrov Germany, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia My Winnipeg Guy Maddin Canada Nightwatching Peter Greenaway Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, United Kingdom No Country for Old Men Joel Coen, Ethan Coen United States Nothing Is Private Alan Ball United States Persepolis Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi France Poor Boy's Game Clement Virgo Canada Rails & Ties Alison Eastwood United States Reclaim Your Brain Free Rainer - Dein Fernseher Lügt Hans Weingartner Germany Redacted Brian De Palma United States Romulus, My Father Richard Roxburgh Australia The Savages Tamara Jenkins United States The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Le Scaphandre et le papillon Julian Schnabel France Shadows Milcho Manchevski Macedonia, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain Shake Hands with the Devil Roger Spottiswoode Canada Silk François Girard Canada The Sun Also Rises Tai Yang Zhao Chang Sheng Qi Jiang Wen China The Take Brad Furman United States Then She Found Me Helen Hunt United States To Each His Own Cinema Chacun son cinéma Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raúl Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming-liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou France The Visitor Tom McCarthy United States When Did You Last See Your Father? Anand Tucker United Kingdom, Australia Contemporary World Cinema The Contemporary World Cinema programme features films from around the world. It included premieres and prize-winning films from other festivals. Sixty-two films were selected, including eight from Canada. English title Original title Director(s) Production country All Hat Leonard Farlinger Canada American Venus Bruce Sweeney Canada And Along Come Tourists Am Ende kommen Touristen Robert Thalheim Germany The Band's Visit Bikur Hatizmoret Eran Kolirin Israel, France The Banishment Izgnanie Andrey Zvyagintsev Russia Barcelona (A Map) Barcelona (un mapa) Ventura Pons Spain Battle for Haditha Nick Broomfield United Kingdom Before I Forget Avant que j'oublie Jacques Nolot France Breakfast with Scot Laurie Lynd Canada Brick Lane Sarah Gavron United Kingdom California Dreamin' (Endless) California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit) Cristian Nemescu Romania Chop Shop Ramin Bahrani IUnited States The Counterfeiters Die Fälscher Stefan Ruzowitzky Austria, Germany Days and Clouds Giorni e nuvole Silvio Soldini Italy, Switzerland The Edge of Heaven Auf der Anderen Seite Fatih Akin Germany, Turkey Empties Vratné Lahve Jan Svěrák Czechia Erik Nietzsche The Early Years Erik Nietzsche de unge år Jacob Thuesen Denmark Faro, Goddess of the Waters Faro, la reine des eaux Salif Traoré France, Canada, Germany, Mali, Burkina Faso Forever Never Anywhere Immer Nie am Meer Antonin Svoboda Austria Garage Lenny Abrahamson Ireland A Gentle Breeze in the Village Tennen Kokekkō Nobuhiro Yamashita Japan Gone with the Woman Tatt av kvinnen Petter Næss Norway Happiness Haeng-bok Hur Jin-ho South Korea The Home Song Stories Tony Ayres Australia In Memory of Myself In memoria di me Saverio Costanzo Italy Intimate Enemies L'Ennemi intime Florent-Emilio Siri France Iska's Journey Iszka utazása Csaba Bollók Hungary Jar City Mýrin Baltasar Kormákur Iceland, Germany Jellyfish Meduzot Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret Israel, FRance Just Like Home Hjemve Lone Scherfig Denmark King of California Mike Cahill United States Kings Tom Collins United Kingdom The Last Mistress Une vieille maîtresse Catherine Breillat France The Mourning Forest Mogari No Mori Naomi Kawase France, Japan Munyurangabo Lee Isaac Chung United States Mutum Sandra Kogut Brazil My Brother Is an Only Child Mio fratello è figlio unico Daniele Luchetti Italy, France New York City Serenade Frank Whaley United States Normal Carl Bessai Canada On the Wings of Dreams Swopnodanay Golam Rabbany Biplob Bangladesh Our Private Lives Nos vies privées Denis Côté Canada Philippine Science Pisay Auraeus Solito Philippines The Pope's Toilet El Baño del Papa Enrique Fernández, César Charlone Uruguay, Brazil, France Run, Fat Boy, Run David Schwimmer United Kingdom Secret Sunshine Miryang Lee Chang-dong South Korea The Secrets Avi Nesher Israel, France The Shock Doctrine Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón, Naomi Klein Canada, United Kingdom Slingshot Tirador Brillante Mendoza Philippines Son of Rambow Garth Jennings France, United Kingdom, Germany Starting Out in the Evening Andrew Wagner United States The Stone Angel Kari Skogland Canada A Stray Girlfriend Una novia errante Ana Katz Argentina Summit Circle Contre toute espérance Bernard Émond Canada To Love Someone Den Man Älskar Åke Sandgren Sweden The Trap Klopka Srdan Golubović Serbia, Germany, Hungary The Trial Begins L'ora di punta Vincenzo Marra Italy Two Ladies Dans la vie Philippe Faucon France Under the Same Moon La Misma Luna Patricia Riggen Mexico, United States Unfinished Sky Peter Duncan Australia Unfinished Stories Ravayat haye na tamam Pourya Azarbayjani Iran Weirdsville Allan Moyle Canada Wolfsbergen Nanouk Leopold Netherlands Masters The Masters programme features films by world-renowned filmmakers. Twenty films were selected. English title Original title Director(s) Production country Alexandra Alexander Sokurov Russia Beyond the Years Chun-Nyun-Hack Im Kwon-taek South Korea Chaos, This Is Heya Fawda Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef Egypt, France Christopher Columbus – The Enigma Cristóvão Colombo – O Enigma Manoel de Oliveira Portugal Disengagement Amos Gitai Israel, France, Germany, Italy The Duchess of Langeais Ne touchez pas la hache Jacques Rivette France, Italy Fados Carlos Saura Spain Flight of the Red Balloon Le Voyage du ballon rouge Hou Hsiao-hsien France Four Women Naalu Pennunga Adoor Gopalakrishnan India A Girl Cut in Two La Fille coupée en deux Claude Chabrol France, Germany Glory to the Filmmaker! Kantoku Banzai! Takeshi Kitano Japan It's a Free World... Ken Loach United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain The Man from London A London Férfi Béla Tarr France, Germany, Hungary One Hundred Nails Centochiodi Ermanno Olmi Italy The Past El Pasado Héctor Babenco Argentina, Brazil The Princess of Nebraska Wayne Wang United States Romance of Astrea and Celadon Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon Eric Rohmer France, Italy, Spain A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Wayne Wang United States Ulzhan Volker Schlöndorff Germany, France, Kazakhstan The Voyeurs Ami, Yasin Ar Amar Madhubala Buddhadev Dasgupta India Visions English title Original title Director(s) Production country Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame Buda As Sharm Foru Rikht Hana Makhmalbaf Iran Death in the Land of Encantos Kagadanan sa Banwaan ning mga Engkanto Lav Diaz Philippines Dr Plonk Rolf de Heer Australia Eat, For This Is My Body Michelange Quay Haiti, France Encarnación Anahí Berneri Argentina Hidden Love L'Amour caché Alessandro Capone Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium Happy New Life Boldog új élet Árpád Bogdán Hungary Import/Export Ulrich Seidl Austria In the City of Sylvia En la ciudad de Sylvia José Luis Guerín Spain M Lee Myung-se South Korea Night Lawrence Johnston Australia Pink Roz Alexander Voulgaris Greece Ploy Pen-ek Ratanaruang Thailand Silent Light Stellet Licht Carlos Reygadas Mexico, France, Netherlands Silent Resident Weisse Lilien Christian Frosch Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Hungary Time to Die Pora Umierać Dorota Kędzierzawska Poland The Tracey Fragments Bruce McDonald Canada Under the Roofs of Paris Sous les toits de Paris Hiner Saleem France You, the Living Du levande Roy Andersson Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway Discovery The Discovery programme features the work of new film directors from around the world. Fourteen films were selected. Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán's feature debut Cochochi won the DIESEL Discovery Award and a CA$10 000 bursary. The International Federation of Film Critics returned to the festival for the 16th year and awarded Rodrigo Plá's La Zona the FIPRESCI Prize. English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Babysitters David Ross United States Blind Tamar van den Dop Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria Cochochi Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán Mexico Corroboree Ben Hackworth Australia Frozen Shivajee Chandrabhushan India I Am from Titov Veles Jas Sum od Titov Veles Teona Strugar Mitevska Macedonia King of the Hill El rey de la montaña Gonzalo López-Gallego Spain The Passage Mark Heller United States ROMing Jiří Vejdělek Czechia September Peter Carstairs Australia Those Three An Seh Naghi Nemati Iran With Your Permission Til Døden Os Skiller Paprika Steen Denmark, Sweden The World Unseen Shamim Sarif United Kingdom, South Africa La Zona Rodrigo Plá Spain, Mexico Real to Reel English title Original title Director(s) Production country Algeria, Unspoken Stories Algérie, histoires à ne pas dire Jean-Pierre Lledo Algeria, FRance Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who Paul Crowder, Murray Lerner United Kingdom Body of War Ellen Spiro, Phil Donahue United States Callas Assoluta Philippe Kohly France Children of the Sun Yaldey Hashemesh Ran Tal Israel Darfur Now Ted Braun United States The Dictator Hunter Klaartje Quirijns Netherlands Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey Sabiha Sumar, Sachithanandam Sathananthan Pakistan Encounters at the End of the World Werner Herzog United States Fengming, a Chinese Memoir He Fengming Wang Bing China, Hong Kong, Belgium Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Scott Hicks United States Heavy Metal in Baghdad Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi Canada, United States Hollywood Chinese Arthur Dong United States Iron Ladies of Liberia Daniel Junge, Siatta Scott Johnson Liberia A Jihad for Love Parvez Sharma United States Joy Division Grant Gee United Kingdom Lou Reed's Berlin Julian Schnabel United Kingdom, United States Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient Todd McCarthy United States The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories Problemat s komarite i drugi istorii Andrey Paounov Bulgaria My Enemy's Enemy Kevin Macdonald United Kingdom My Kid Could Paint That Amir Bar-Lev United States, United Kingdom Obscene Neil Ortenberg, Daniel O'Connor United States Operation Filmmaker Nina Davenport United States Please Vote for Me Weijun Chen South Africa A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman Peter Raymont Canada Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case Bunt. Delo Litvinenko Andrei Nekrasov Russia Surfwise Doug Pray United States Terror's Advocate L'Avocat de la terreur Barbet Schroeder France Trumbo Peter Askin United States Useless Wu Yong Jia Zhangke China Very Young Girls David Schisgall United States The Wild Horse Redemption John Zaritsky Canada Midnight Madness English title Original title Director(s) Production country Big Man Japan Dai Nipponjin Hitoshi Matsumoto Japan The Devil's Chair Adam Mason United Kingdom Diary of the Dead George A. Romero Canada, United States Flash Point Dao Huo Xian Wilson Yip Hong Kong Frontier(s) Frontière(s) Xavier Gens France, Switzerland Inside À l'intérieur Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury France Mother of Tears La Terza madre Dario Argento Italy, United States Stuck Stuart Gordon Canada, United Kingdom, United States Sukiyaki Western Django Sukiyaki Uesutan Jango Takashi Miike Japan Vexille Bekushiru 2077 Nihon sakoku Fumihiko Sori Japan Vanguard English title Original title Director(s) Production country Boy A John Crowley United Kingdom Chrysalis Julien Leclercq France Control Anton Corbijn United Kingdom, United States Déficit Gael García Bernal Mexico Ex Drummer Koen Mortier Belgium The Exodus Pang Ho-Cheung Hong Kong Help Me Eros Bang Bang Wo Ai Shen Lee Kang-sheng Taiwan Love Songs Les Chansons d'amour Christophe Honoré France me yo Rafa Cortés Spain Mister Lonely Harmony Korine United Kingdom, France, Ireland, United States The Orphanage El Orfanato Juan Antonio Bayona Spain, Mexico Paranoid Park Gus Van Sant France, United States Ping Pong Playa Jessica Yu United States Sad Vacation Saddo Vakeishon Shinji Aoyama Japan Smiley Face Gregg Araki United States, Germany Water Lilies Naissance des pieuvres Céline Sciamma France White Lies, Black Sheep James Spooner United StatesXXY Lucía Puenzo Argentina Canada First! The Canada First! programme features first or second time Canadian film directors and established Canadian filmmakers who have not previously appeared in the festival. Eight films were selected to appear in the festival. Stéphane Lafleur's directorial debut Continental, a Film Without Guns won the Citytv Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film and a CA$15 000 bursary. English title Original title Director(s) Production country Amal Richie Mehta Canada Continental, a Film Without Guns Continental, un film sans fusil Stéphane Lafleur Just Buried Chaz Thorne Mona's Daughters Le Cèdre penché Rafaël Ouellet They Wait Ernie Barbarash This Beautiful City Ed Gass-Donnelly Walk All Over Me Robert Cuffley Young People Fucking Martin Gero Short Cuts Canada English title Original title Director(s) Production country Automoto Neil McInnes, Cathy McInnes Canada Blood Will Tell Andrew McPhillips Boar Attack Jay White Bumblebee Jonathan van Tulleken Burgeon and Fade Audrey Cummings Can You Wave Bye-Bye? Sarah Galea-Davis The Canadian Shield Simon Ennis Code 13 Mathieu Denis The Colony Jeff Barnaby Congratulations Daisy Graham Cassandra Nicolaou A Cure for Terminal Loneliness Samir Rehem Cursing Hanley Kelly Harms Dada Dum Britt Randle Diamonds in a Bucket Sherry White Dust Bowl Ha! Ha! Sébastien Pilote Farmer's Requiem Ramses Madina found oBjects David Birnbaum Four Walls Raha Shirazi francas Eduardo Menz Gene Boy Came Home Alanis Obomsawin God Provides Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky Hastings Street Larry Kent Hirsute A.J. Bond Hymn to Pan François Miron I Have Seen the Future Cam Christiansen I've Never Had Sex... Robert Kennedy Knights of Atomikaron Adam Brodie, Dave Derewlany The Last Moment Deco Dawson Latchkey's Lament Troy Nixey Loudly, Death Unties Sheila Pye, Nicholas Pye Madame Tutli-Putli Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski No Bikini Claudia Morgado Escanilla Paradise Jesse Rosensweet ReOrder Sean Garrity The Schoolyard Les Grands Chloé Leriche Shooting Geronimo Kent Monkman A Short Film About Falling Peter Lynch, Max Dean Smile Julia Kwan Teenage Girl Greg Atkins Terminus Trevor Cawood Terry Southern's Plums and Prunes Dev Khanna Three Beans for George Sean Anicic Tic Tac Toe Matthew Swanson The Whole Day Through Adam Budd Wavelengths English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Acrobat Chris Kennedy Canada, United States All That Rises Daïchi Saïto Canada The Anthem Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand At Sea Peter Hutton United States The Butterfly in Winter Ute Aurand, Maria Lang Germany Capitalism: Slavery Ken Jacobs United STates Cross Worlds Cécile Fontaine France Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3 Charlotte Pryce United States Echo Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof Canada ecp 2D: sun John Price Canada Erzählung Hannes Schüpbach Switzerland, Italy Europa 2005, 27 Octobre Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet Italy Evertwo Circumflicksrent...Page 298 Bruce McClure United States gone Karoe Goldt Germany, Austria Monica Enrico Mandirola France Papillon Olivier Fouchard France Pool Kolam Chris Chong Chan Fui Canada, Malaysia Pour vos beaux yeux Henri Storck Belgium Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind John Gianvito United States Quartet Nicky Hamlyn United States Schindler's Houses (Photography and Beyond Part 12) Heinz Emigholz Austria Tape Film Chris Kennedy Canada, United States What the Water Said, nos. 4-6 David Gatten United States Wrong Moves Faux mouvements Pip Chodorov France Canadian Retrospective The Canadian Retrospective programme features a section of films representing an aspect of the history of Canadian cinema. It was the seventh year the festival has held the retrospective. English title Original title Director(s) Production country Acadia, Acadia L'Acadie, l'Acadie?!? Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault Canada Chronicle of a Summer Chronique d'un été Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch Drifting Upstream Entre la mer et l'eau douce Michel Brault Geneviève Michel Brault The Moon Trap Pour la suite du monde Pierre Perrault, Michel Brault Orders Les Ordres Michel Brault The Paper Wedding Les Noces de papier Michel Brault The Snowshoers Les Raquetteurs Gilles Groulx, Michel Brault Wrestling La Lutte Claude Fournier, Marcel Carrière, Claude Jutra, Michel Brault Canadian Open Vault The Canadian Open Vault programme features a recently restored and iconic Canadian film. English title Original title Director(s) Production country Good Riddance Les Bons débarras Francis Mankiewicz Canada Sprockets Family Zone English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Besieged Fortress La Citadelle assiégée Philippe Calderon France, Canada Max & Co Frédéric Guillaume, Samuel Guillaume Belgium, France, Switzerland Mid Road Gang Ma-Mha-See-Kha-Krub Pantham Thongsang, Somkiat Vithuranich Thailand Nocturna Victor Maldonado, Adriàn García Spain The Substitute Vikaren Ole Bornedal Denmark Events Mavericks Mavericks features discussions with film industry and other professionals. Four events were held on a variety of socio-political topics. Former President of the United States Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter discussed their activist work after his presidential term. Comedians Bill Maher and Larry Charles tackled religion. Mira Nair brought together three other Indian filmmakers who covered HIV/AIDS and screened four new short films on the subject. Finally, the conflict in Sudan was discussed by the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, and a panel of filmmakers. Everything to Gain: A Conversation with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter; moderated by Allan Gregg Mira Nair Presents: Four Views on AIDS in India with Mira Nair, Santosh Sivan, Vishal Bhardwaj and Farhan Akhtar; moderated by Mira Nair and Ashok Alexander Religulous: A Conversation with Bill Maher and Larry Charles with Bill Maher and Larry Charles The Time Is Now: A Conversation About Darfur with Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Don Cheadle, Adam Sterling, Ted Braun, Mark Jonathan Harris and Cathy Schulman Dialogues: Talking With Pictures The Dialogues: Talking With Pictures series features a selection of classic films which are chosen and introduced by well-known directors or artists who have found a given film influential or pivotal throughout the course of their own career. Eight films were selected between nine filmmakers and artists. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) directed by Martin Scorsese; introduced by actress Ellen Burstyn The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) directed by William Wyler; introduced by director Sidney Lumet Bucking Broadway (1917) directed by John Ford; introduced by director Peter Bogdanovich Closely Watched Trains (Ostře Sledované Vlaky, 1966) directed by Jiří Menzel; introduced by director Ken Loach La jetée (1962) directed by Chris Marker; introduced by architect Bruce Kuwabara Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) directed by Richard Attenborough; introduced by Lord Richard Attenborough Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (1961) directed by Henry Koster; introduced by actress Nancy Kwan and director Arthur Dong The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan, 1960) directed by Ingmar Bergman; introduced by actor Max von Sydow Doc Talks The Doc Talk series features discussions with various documentary filmmakers on topics such as the future of the medium and their work and its subject matter. Clips from their new and upcoming documentaries are screened. The series was opened to the public for the first time. Topics included biography films, Michel Brault, war and democracy. Biography: Complicated Lives with Scott Hicks, Peter Raymont and Peter Askin Canadian Retrospective: Michel Brault with Denys Arcand and Michel Brault; moderated by André Loiselle Covering War with Michael Tucker, Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro Why Democracy? with Nick Fraser Future Projections The Future Projections programme features non-theatrical installations in various mediums. This marked the programme's inaugural run. Nine installations were curated by the Toronto International Film Festival Group and other Torontonian cultural institutions. Admission was free for all exhibitions, with the exception of the exhibit at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery which was free only to festival passholders. Best Minds Part One – created by Jeremy Shaw; curated by Wayne Baerwaldt Darfur/Darfur – created by various artists; curated by Leslie Thomas Death in the Land of Encantos (Kagadanan sa Banwaan ning mga Engkanto) – created by Lav Diaz; curated by Cameron Bailey Francesco Vezzoli: A True Hollywood Story! – created by Francesco Vezzoli; curated by Gregory Burke Into the Pixel – created by various artists; organized by Nick Pagee Late Fragment – directed by Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron and Mateo Guez; produced by Anita Lee and Ana Serrano The Soft Revolution – directed by Brian Johnson and Anthony Roberts Tyranny – created by Ryan Sluggett; organized by Wayne Baerwaldt Wildflowers of Manitoba – created by Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob; curated by Wayne Baerwaldt Images Canada's Top Ten 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 in December 2007."Cronenberg, Arcand make Hogtown film festival's top Canadian movies list". Daily Gleaner, December 12, 2007. For the first time, separate lists of feature and short films were announced. Feature films Amal – Richie Mehta Continental, a Film Without Guns (fr Continental, un film sans fusil) – Stéphane Lafleur Days of Darkness (fr L'Âge des ténèbres) – Denys Arcand Eastern Promises – David Cronenberg Fugitive Pieces – Jeremy Podeswa My Winnipeg – Guy Maddin A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman – Peter Raymont The Tracey Fragments – Bruce McDonald Up the Yangtze – Yung Chang Young People Fucking – Martin Gero Short films Code 13 – Mathieu Denis The Colony – Jeff Barnaby Dust Bowl Ha! Ha! – Sébastien Pilote Farmer's Requiem – Ramses Madina I Have Seen the Future – Cam Christiansen I Met the Walrus – Josh Raskin Madame Tutli-Putli – Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski Pool – Chris Chong Chan Fui The Schoolyard (fr Les Grands) – Chloé Leriche Terminus – Trevor Cawood References 2 External links Stars "schmooze" at Toronto International Film Festival party 2007 Toronto International Film Festival Official website 2007 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb 2007 Category:2007 film festivals Category:2007 in Toronto Category:2007 in Canadian cinema Category:2007 festivals in North America Category:September 2007 in Canada