It's Day 3, and the first weekend is upon us.  These two days are the most intense of the festival for everyone, from staff to the filmmakers and the audience.  Tonight, there are a couple of very different, but equally intriguing Canadian movies having their World Premieres.

Bruce Sweeney (The Last Wedding) returns to TIFF with his latest dark satire, American Venus

Rebecca De Mornay (pictured) stars as the ulitmate obsessive mother, hounding her figure skating daughter and risking everything. It's classic caustic Sweeney.

Also bowing tonight is the insightful documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad.

Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti, from Vice magazine and Vice Tv travel to Iraq to find the country's only heavy metal rock band, Acrassicauda.

That's lead singer Faisal pictured at a club show in 2004.

The doc provides a much needed glimpse into a side of Iraq seldom seen here.

All this, and it's only Day 3! What could possibly happen on Day 4?!