Farewell my Concubine

dir. Chen Kaige

Donkey Skin

dir. Jacques Demy

Mauvais sang

Bad Blood

dir. Leos Carax

The 400 Blows

Les quatre cents coups

dir. François Truffaut

Beginnings

Yolun basinda

dir. Somnur Vardar

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Remembrance of Things to Come: Works by Chris Marker

May 16 – 19

As a complement to our exhibition of Chris Marker's photographs as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, we present this mini-retrospective of some of the most famous and influential works by the legendary French filmmaker.
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Hollywood Classics

January 15 – April 9

This season's slate of vintage Hollywood favourites and rarities includes everything from pantheon classics to widescreen musical extravaganzas.
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Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years Nikkatsu

January 19 – April 6

Celebrate the centenary of the legendary Japanese studio with this wild selection of genre classics and hidden gems from the Nikkatsu vault.
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Japanese Divas: The Great Actresses of Japanese Cinema's Golden Age

January 24 – March 31

This dazzlingly deluxe, two-month series pays tribute to the legendary leading ladies of Japanese cinema, including Setsuko Hara, Kinuyo Tanaka, Machiko Kyo, Isuzu Yamada and Hideko Takamine.
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The Free Screen

This season of our long-running series devoted to avant-garde and experimental film and video works centres on a special six-screening retrospective celebrating the career of Barbara Hammer.
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The Catch: Japanese Cinema of the Eighties

March 5 – April 6

Organized by the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute in Tokyo, this 11-film spotlight on possibly the last great era of Japanese cinema features rarely screened classics in several new 35mm prints.
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Canadian Open Vault

March 14 and 18

Our showcase of Canadian classics returns with the much-loved big-screen adaptation of Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Larry Kent's The Bitter Ash, a landmark of Canadian independent cinema.
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A CENTURY OF CHINESE CINEMA

June 5 – August 11

From rarities of the silent era to cutting-edge modern masterpieces, from pioneering social dramas and lavish costume epics to classics of martial-arts cinema, this series showcases more than 80 films as it traces the shared cultural and historical connections between the cinemas of the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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MODERN LOVE: THE FILMS OF LEOS CARAX

August 9 – 15

To celebrate the return of French cinema's perpetual enfant terrible with last year's Holy Motors, we revisit the dazzlingly distinctive films of Leos Carax in this full TIFF Cinematheque retrospective.
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BITTER/SWEET: THE JOYOUS CINEMA OF JACQUES DEMY

June 27 – July 20

Discover the magical world of Jacques Demy in TIFF Cinematheque's full retrospective of the famed French auteur, whose effervescent odes to joy were laced with dark undertones of despair and loss.
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PARADISE REGAINED: DEMY'S FAVOURITES

July 2 – August 20

This sidebar series to our Jacques Demy retrospective presents some of the director's formative cinematic influences, including classic musicals as well as films by Bresson, Cocteau, Vigo and Visconti.
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THE FREE SCREEN: SUMMER 2013

June 5 - August 8

This season, our ongoing free series dedicated to experimental film and video works showcases Yang Fudong's An Estranged Paradise, and presents the works of leading experimental filmmakers Narcisa Hirsch and Phil Hoffman.
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CANADIAN OPEN VAULT: SUMMER 2013

July 10 & 19

Our showcase of classic Canadian cinema pays tribute to the late Winnipeg filmmaker Winston Washington Moxam.
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REBEL YELL: A NEW GENERATION OF TURKISH WOMEN FILMMAKERS

August 22 – 29

This programme of fiction and documentary shorts and features spotlights the vital new work being created by a rising generation of female Turkish filmmakers.