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<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Affaire Farewell</h6><p>In 1981 Moscow, a KGB colonel, disgusted with what Soviet policy has become, decides to break with the system. With the help of a
French engineer he will play a part in one of the key events in world <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/affairefarewell '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Baaria</h6><p>From the acclaimed director of Cinema Paradiso comes an epic saga of life and death, love and hatred in a vibrant Sicilian town in the
first half of the twentieth century. Following the life of Peppi <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/baaria '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans</h6><p>Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage), a homicide detective with the New Orleans Police Department, is promoted to Lieutenant after he
saves a prisoner from drowning in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/badlieutenantportofc '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Boys Are Back</h6><p><P>Director Scott Hicks returns to the Festival with a poignant story of a struggling single father living in the heart of Australia. Clive Owen stars as Joe Warr, a habitually roguish sports writer w <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/boysareback '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Bright Star</h6><p>A drama based on the secret love affair between 23-year-old English poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and the girl next door, Fanny
Brawne (Abbie Cornish), an outspoken student of fashion. Intensely and <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/brightstar '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Broken Embraces</h6><p>Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches a point when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years ago, when he was still known by his real
name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie. As the past is rev <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/brokenembraces '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Cairo Time</h6><p>Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a magazine editor, arrives in Cairo to meet her husband Mark (Tom McCamus), a UN official in Gaza. When
he is unavoidably delayed, Mark sends his friend and former secur <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/cairotime '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Capitalism: A Love Story</h6><p>On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece Roger & Me, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to
the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous imp <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/capitalismalovestory '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>City of Life and Death</h6><p>From acclaimed director Lu Chuan comes a devastating and controversial epic film based on the most atrocious holocaust in Chinese
history, the Nanjing Massacre. The story unfolds as the Japanese take <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/cityoflifeanddeath '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Cracks</h6><p>In an austere and remote girls’ boarding school, the most elite clique of girls are the illustrious members of the school’s diving team. As
they compete for the attention of their glamorous teacher ( <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/cracks '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Defendor</h6><p>Reality intersects with delusion in the mind of Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson), a regular man who adopts a superhero persona
known as Defendor, and combs the city streets at night in search of h <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/defendor '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Derniers jours du monde</h6><p>A global apocalypse is about to destroy all mankind. In a final quest, Robinson (Mathieu Amalric) sets out on a journey from France to
Spain, searching for Laetitia, the woman he once loved, even if <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/derniersjoursdumonde '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Education</h6><p>A coming-of-age story about a teenaged girl in 1960s suburban London and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly
twice her age. Torn between her parents’ dream of going to Oxford Un <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/education '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Excited</h6><p>Writer-director Bruce Sweeney returns with a romantic comedy about a man who may have just met the woman of his dreams, but their
romance is complicated by his meddling, officious mother and his inab <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/excited '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Front Line</h6><p>Set during a turbulent period in 1970-80s Italy, the plot centres on passionate couple Sergio and Susanna, who have been living as
fugitives. Pursuing an uncompromising cause as members of the notori <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/frontline '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Glorious 39</h6><p>This tense conspiracy thriller set on the eve of World War II and based on disturbing real events, focuses on a young woman who
stumbles across evidence of a sinister Nazi appeasement plot. As her cl <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/glorious39 '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Good Hair</h6><p>Rendered speechless by his daughter’s question—“Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?”—comedian Chris Rock embarks on a
quest to understand African American hair culture.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Good Heart</h6><p></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Hadewijch</h6><p>Hadewijch is a religious novice whose ecstatic, blind faith leads to her expulsion from a convent. Returning to her former life, Hadewijch
reverts to being Céline, a Parisienne and daughter of a dipl <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/hadewijch '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Harry Brown</h6><p>Harry Brown is a provocative and thought-provoking modern urban western featuring a tour-de-force lead performance from two-time
Academy Award®-winner Michael Caine. Harry Brown has lived to see his <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/harrybrown '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Hole</h6><p>After moving into a new town, brothers Dane and Lucas and their neighbour Julie discover a bottomless hole in their basement that
brings their nightmares to life. With shadows lurking around every co <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/hole '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel</h6><p>An intimate look at the outspoken, flamboyant founder of the Playboy empire. With humour and insight, the film captures Hefner’s fierce
battles with the government, the religious right and militant f <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/hughhefnerplayboyact '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Informant!</h6><p>Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), a rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), suddenly turns whistleblower. Exposing
his company’s multinational price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, W <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/informant '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Invention of Lying</h6><p>From Ricky Gervais, the award-winning creator and star of the original BBC series The Office and HBO’s Extras, comes the new
romantic comedy The Invention of Lying, which takes place in an alternate <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/inventionoflying '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>J'ai tué ma mère</h6><p>Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each
day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/jaituemamere '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Joneses</h6><p>In the comedic drama The Joneses, Kate Jones (Demi Moore) and Steve Jones (David Duchovny) are a picture-perfect couple who, at
first glance, are the embodiment of the American dream. When they move <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/joneses '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Kamui</h6><p>A crowd pleasing, sweeping epic brilliantly directed by one of Japan’s finest auteurs, Kamui is the adventurous story of a fugitive ninja
played by superstar Kenichi Matsuyama.</p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Leaves of Grass</h6><p>Bill Kincaid, an Ivy League classics professor, returns to rural Oklahoma to bury his dangerously brilliant identical twin brother who had
remained in their native state to grow hydroponic pot. Leave <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/leavesofgrass '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Life During Wartime</h6><p></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>London River</h6><p>This intimate drama tells the story of two people, a Muslim man and a Christian woman, who are immediately affected by the July 2005
London bombings. Both of them are drawn to the British capital whe <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/londonriver '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Mao's Last Dancer</h6><p>Adapted from his internationally best-selling memoir, the film tells the true story of Li Cunxin, a Chinese-trained ballet dancer. Plucked
from his childhood village, subjected to years of vigorous t <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/maoslastdancer '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Moloch Tropical</h6><p>A democratically elected “President” and his closest collaborators are getting ready for a state celebration. But in the morning of the
event, he wakes up to find the country inflamed and the streets <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/molochtropical '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Mother</h6><p>A unique noir thriller that digs into the secrecy surrounding a terrible murder and the mystery of a mother’s primal love for her son. The
films of director Bong Joon-ho regularly, and brilliantly, b <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/mother '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Mr. Nobody</h6><p>Mr. Nobody tells the story of Nemo (Jared Leto), the world’s oldest man. In 2092, Mars has become a trendy vacation destination and
humans have achieved immortality, thanks to advances in genetics. A <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/mrnobody '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done</h6><p>Inspired by true events, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, is a story of ancient myth and modern madness. Brad Macallam, an
aspiring actor performing in a Greek tragedy, commits the crime he is to e <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/mysonmysonwhathaveye '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Ondine</h6><p>A lyrical, modern fairy tale that tells the story of Syracuse (Colin Farrell), an Irish fisherman whose life is transformed when he catches a
beautiful and mysterious woman (Alicja Bachleda) in his n <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/ondine '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Partir</h6><p>Suzanne (Kristin Scott Thomas) is a well-to-do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her
down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/leaving '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Perrier's Bounty</h6><p>When Michael’s (Cillian Murphy) debt to Dublin kingpin Darren Perrier (Brendan Gleeson) is called in and one of Perrier’s goons
accidentally ends up dead, Michael escapes to the mountains with his fa <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/perriersbounty '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Prophet</h6><p>A young Arab man, Malik, is sent to a French prison where he is cornered by the leader of the ruling Corsican gang. He is given a
number of “missions” to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/prophetunprophete '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Road</h6><p>In this epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival, a father (Academy Award® nominee Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-
McPhee) journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mys <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/road '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Road, Movie</h6><p>Vishnu, a restless young man, rejects his father’s faltering hair oil business and hits the road with a travelling cinema. Colourful and full
of unforgettable characters, Road, Movie celebrates India <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/roadmovie '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story</h6><p>Hebba is the host of a successful political talk show in present-day Cairo. Karim, her husband, is deputy editor-in-chief of a governmentowned
newspaper. When Party big shots imply his wife is meddli <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/scheherezadetellmeas '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Secret in Their Eyes</h6><p>Benjamín Espósito, a secretary of a court in Buenos Aires, is about to retire and decides to write a novel based on a case that deeply
affected him thirty years ago. Chaparro’s tale crosses Argentina <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/secretintheireyes '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Serious Man</h6><p><P>Joel and Ethan Coen are at the top of their game, equally at home in serious drama and madcap comedy, working with the biggest stars in the world or unfamiliar talent. Hot on the heels of <i>No Cou <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/seriousman '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Single Man</h6><p>Set in Los Angeles in 1962, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, a British college professor (Colin Firth) who is struggling to
find meaning in his life after the death of his long-time part <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/singleman '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Solitary Man</h6><p>Ben Kalmen (Michael Douglas) is feeling his age, but you wouldn’t know it from the company he keeps. A former mogul with a chain of
car dealerships, until legal troubles knocked him out of business, <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/solitaryman '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Soul Kitchen</h6><p></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Triage</h6><p>Mark (Colin Farrell), a war photographer, returns home from Kurdistan without his friend and colleague David (Jamie Sives). As time
goes on, it becomes clear that Mark holds the key to the truth of D <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/triage '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Trotsky</h6><p>Leon Bronstein (Jay Baruchel) is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be
the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/trotsky '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Up in the Air</h6><p></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Valhalla Rising</h6><p>It is 1000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by
Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he an <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/valhallarising '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Vengeance</h6><p>A father comes to Hong Kong to avenge his daughter, whose family was murdered. Officially, he’s a French chef. Twenty years ago, he
was a killer. Vengeance is a moody, noir-ish tour-de-force, starrin <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/vengeance '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Vintner's Luck</h6><p>Set in early 19th century France The Vintner's Luck tells the compelling tale of Sobran Jodeau, an ambitious young peasant winemaker
and the three loves of his life—his beautiful and passionate wife <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/vintnersluck '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Waiting City</h6><p>An outwardly happy Australian couple (Radha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton) journey to Kolkata, India to collect their adopted baby, but on
arrival finds that the arrangements at the agency have yet to be f <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/waitingcity '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Warrior and the Wolf</h6><p><P>A father figure in contemporary Chinese cinema, controversial avant-garde auteur Tian Zhuang Zhuang is back with a rewarding work of fearless art. A departure from his free-spirited early works and <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/warriorandthewolf '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Wheat</h6><p>In the Kingdom of Zhao, all the men have left for war and Lady Li (Fan Bingbing), wife of the absent lord, says victory will soon bring
their men back home. When two enemy deserters invade the kingdo <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/wheat '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Whip It</h6><p>Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut stars Ellen Page (Juno) as Bliss, a rebellious Texas teen who throws in her small-town beauty
pageant crown for the rowdy world of roller-derby. Marcia Gay Harden ( <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/whipit '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Women Without Men</h6><p>Shirin Neshat’s first feature-length film is based on a magic-realist novel written by Iranian author Sharnush Parsipur. The narrative interweaves the lives of four Iranian women during the summer of <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/womenwithoutmen '>more ...</A></p></div>

<div style='padding:10px'><h6>Youth in Revolt</h6><p>Youth in Revolt is an outrageous and heartwarming tale of Nick Twisp (Michael Cera), and his quest to win the heart of Sheeni (Portia
Doubleday) and hopefully lose his virginity along the way. The fi <a href = '/filmsandschedules/films/youthinrevolt '>more ...</A></p></div>

Special Presentations

L' Affaire Farewell - Christian Carion
Baaria - Giuseppe Tornatore
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - Werner Herzog
The Boys Are Back - Scott Hicks
Bright Star - Jane Campion
Broken Embraces - Pedro Almodóvar
Cairo Time - Ruba Nadda
Capitalism: A Love Story - Michael Moore
City of Life and Death - Lu Chuan
Cracks - Jordan Scott
Defendor - Peter Stebbings
Les Derniers jours du monde - Arnaud Larrieu | Jean-Marie Larrieu
An Education - Lone Scherfig
Excited - Bruce Sweeney
The Front Line - Renato De Maria |
Glorious 39 - Stephen Poliakoff
Good Hair - Jeff Stilson
The Good Heart - Dagur Kári
Hadewijch - Bruno Dumont
Harry Brown - Daniel Barber
The Hole - Joe Dante
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel - Brigitte Berman
The Informant! - Steven Soderbergh
The Invention of Lying - Ricky Gervais | Matthew Robinson
J'ai tué ma mère - Xavier Dolan
The Joneses - Derrick Borte
Kamui - Yoichi Sai
Leaves of Grass - Tim Blake Nelson
Life During Wartime - Todd Solondz
London River - Rachid Bouchareb
Mao's Last Dancer - Bruce Beresford |
Moloch Tropical - Raoul Peck
Mother - Bong Joon-ho
Mr. Nobody - Jaco Van Dormael
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done - Werner Herzog
Ondine - Neil Jordan
Partir - Catherine Corsini
Perrier's Bounty - Ian FitzGibbon
A Prophet - Jacques Audiard
The Road - John Hillcoat
Road, Movie - Dev Benegal
Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story - Yousry Nasrallah
The Secret in Their Eyes - Juan José Campanella
A Serious Man - Joel Coen | Ethan Coen
A Single Man - Tom Ford
Solitary Man - Brian Koppelman | David Levien
Soul Kitchen - Fatih Akin
Triage - Danis Tanovic
The Trotsky - Jacob Tierney
Up in the Air - Jason Reitman
Valhalla Rising - Nicolas Winding Refn
Vengeance - Johnnie To
The Vintner's Luck - Niki Caro
The Waiting City - Claire McCarthy
The Warrior and the Wolf - Tian Zhuang Zhuang
Wheat - He Ping
Whip It - Drew Barrymore
Women Without Men - Shirin Neshat | In collaboration with Shoja Azari
Youth in Revolt - Miguel Arteta

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