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in Toronto Stay tuned for the latest news  Hyatt hotel about French cinema! mezzanine uniFranceFilms @uniFrance www.unifrance.org TIFF FESTIVAL september 4 -14, 2014 contacts TOUCHWOOD PR for UniFrance films Andrea Grau in Toronto [email protected] +1 416 347 6749 Anne Pampin Aude Hesbert Adeline Monzier Johanna Von Hessen Sébastien Cauchon [email protected] Festivals and Talent US Representative Assistant Communications Manager Gérald Duchaussoy [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] +33 6 47 49 52 08 +1 646 422 93 48 +33 6 82 72 98 01 +33 6 20 75 13 77 Anne-Lise Kontz

Conception: www.athoms.fr [email protected] UNIFRANCE FILMS in brief: - 950 film industry members - 10 French film festivals organized "French cinema continues to be one of the dominant voices in the world throughout the world of international cinema as their filmmakers are unafraid to deal with a wide - 80 international film festivals { variety of subjects in a manner that is both provocative and entertaining. supported worldwide We are honoured to introduce such a strong lineup of French films to the audience, UniFrance films is a non-profit organization based in with - First French online film festival: media and industry that gathers in Toronto every September. The long love representatives in Beijing, Mumbai, New York and Tokyo, and myfrenchfilmfestival.com - 4 overseas representatives: affair between our festival and French cinema deepens every year." whose aim is to promote French cinema worldwide. This association Beijing, Mumbai, New York, Tokyo Piers Handling (TIFF CEO and director) & Cameron Bailey (TIFF artistic director) accompanies French films on the international marketplace, from their French cinema in brief: sale all the way through to their distribution, and on the international film - The third biggest film industry worldwide TIFF Highlights - The second world exporter cinema audiences said they appreciate French cinema out- Numerous French directors, actors, producers and sales festival circuit. UniFrance films follows three fundamental objectives: put, and this proportion is even higher in North America (81%). agents will be gathered for this key North American indus- - 3 Palme d’or winners and 5 Oscar winners Modernity, originality and diversity try event, and we are grateful for their endless energy in pro- in the last 5 years action with regard to buyers, media, and the public. French cinema will most certainly send a good vibe to the Rising talents moting their films. - 47 million tickets sold outside in 2013 world from Toronto this year, with a particularly rich and strong and acclaimed artists Organizing the world’s biggest dedicated French Organizing French film festivals in strategic coun- - 280 million in international slate of films including 36 features and 5 shorts. UniFrance films is also proud to introduce a major delega- UniFrance films stands as a stalwart supporter of this wide cinema market in Paris every year, the Rendez-vous tries (including USA, , , UK, , box-office receipts in 2013 This selection will provide a glimpse of the incredible diver- tion of renowned artists and a pool of new talent at TIFF this diversity and passion that makes French cinema so unique. with French Cinema; attending the most important , China) and on the internet worldwide sity of French cinema, ranging from audience-driven genre year. will be there to meet the Canadian au- international markets (Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Los (MyFrenchFilmFestival.com); providing active sup- - 500 French film releases each year worldwide films to high-profile independent works, powerful documen- dience during an exceptional masterclass and to present Jean-Paul Salomé (President UnIFrance films)& Angeles, ), and supporting international port for French films at 80 international festivals taries and quirky discoveries. Clouds of Sils Maria, together with director . Isabelle Giordano (Executive Director UniFrance films) This program stands out as proof that contemporary French ci- , and will intro- distributors for theatrical releases of French films. (including Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno, San Attending Adeline Monzier Sebastian, Busan, etc.). US Representative nema is, more than ever, a genuine modern melting pot that is duce the world premiere of Samba, the highly anticipated new Increasing awareness of French cinema with in- Toronto Jean-Christophe Baubiat open to the world with an amazing capacity to combine cultural movie by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache (the directors of ternational media (organizing international press Organizing master classes with French talent in film Jean-Paul Salomé Studies & Market Manager, and multi-ethnic influences. Its ability to bring together inter- ). and Anaïs Demoustier will junkets with French talent); international exhibitors schools and international universities in ten countries. President French-speaking countries national talents and reach out to global locations reminds us attend a gala screening of The New Girlfriend, the latest love (conventions in 12 countries); and film buyers for Isabelle Giordano Sébastien Cauchon that France is still a vibrant creative hub for both independent intrigue by François Ozon. And , online and VOD. Promoting and subtitling French short films for film Executive Director Communications Manager and mainstream cinema on the world stage. According to a and Cédric Jimenez will present an ambitious historical thril- festivals, markets and festivals online. Xavier Lardoux Erell Tanguy survey carried out in May of this year, 74% of worldwide ler set in Marseille in the 1970’s, La French. Deputy Executive Director Production Manager Aude Hesbert Johanna von Hessen 2 Festivals and Talent Assistant 3 PS Public screening P&I Press & Industry screening

Attendees Olivier Assayas(1), Bérénice Béjo(2), Juliette Binoche(3), Laurent Cantet(4), Anaïs Demoustier(5), Jean Dujardin(6), Romain Duris(7), (8), (9), Charlotte Gainsbourg(10), in Toronto Mia Hansen-Løve(11), (12), (13), Gilles Lellouche(14), PUBLIC VENUES Tahar Rahim(15), Omar Sy(16), Éric Toledano & Olivier Nakache(17)... V1 Scotiabank Theatre 259 Richmond Street West V2 TIFF Bell Lightbox Reitman Square,350 King Street West V3 Visa Screening Room, Elgin Theatre Special Presentations Contemporary World Cinema 189 Yonge Street 2 3 4 3 Hearts (3 Cœurs) Bird People 8 9 V4 The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema 1 506 Bloor Street West Director: Benoit Jacquot Director: Pascale Ferran Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cast: Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier, … V5 Ryerson Theatre Chiara Mastroianni, … Length: 128 min Length: 106 min International Sales: Films Distribution 43 Gerrard Street East International Sales: Elle Driver US distributor: IFC 5 US distributor: Cohen Media Group Canadian distributor: FunFilm Distribution 10 V6 Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario Canadian distributor: Mongrel Media/Métropole 317 Dundas Street West In the Paris airport zone, two strangers are trying Films Distribution to make sense out of their lives: an American One night in a French provincial city, Marc meets engineer under great professional and emotional 7 V7 Isabel Bader Theatre 93 Charles Street West Sylvie. They wander the streets until morning and pressure who decides to radically change the set a date to meet in Paris a few days later. When course of his existence, and a young hotel 6 V8 Roy Thomson Hall Marc doesn’t show up on time a twist of fate chambermaid who goes through a life-altering 14 leaves him romantically torn between two sisters. 15 60 Simcoe Street supernatural experience. 09/07 2:00PM (V1/P&I), 09/09 1:15PM (V1/P&I), 09/04 9:45AM (V1/P&I), 09/05 5:45PM (V1/PS), V9 The Winter Garden Theatre 09/09 9:00PM (V7/PS), 09/13 3:00PM (V7/PS) 09/07 8:30PM (V1/PS), 09/13 8:30PM (V1/PS) 189 Yonge Street V10 Princess of Wales 11 12 13 16 17 300 King Street West In the presence of Pascale Ferran 4 and Anaïs Demoustier 5 PS Public screening P&I Press & Industry screening

Contemporary World Cinema Special Presentations Contemporary World Cinema Special Presentations Gala Special Presentations Breathe (Respire) Clouds of Sils Maria Don’t Breathe Eden Escobar: Paradise Lost Far From Men Director: Mélanie Laurent (Sils Maria) (La Faille) Director: Mia Hansen-Løve Director: Andrea di Stefano (Loin des hommes) Cast: Joséphine Japy, Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Carré… Cast: Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne… Cast: , Josh Hutcherson, Carlos Bardem… Director: Olivier Assayas Director: Nino Kirtadze Director: David Oelhoffen Length: 91 min Length: 131 min Length: 120 min Cast: Juliette Binoche, , Chloë Grace Moretz… Cast: Levan Murtazashvili, Irma Inaridze… Cast: , Reda Kateb… International Sales: Gaumont International Sales: Kinology International Sales: Pathé International Length: 123 min Length: 86 min Length: 101 min Canadian distributor: Axia Films Canadian distributor: FunFilm Distribution International Sales: MK2 International Sales: Deckert Young surfer Nick thinks all his dreams have come International Sales: Pathé International Charlie is a young 17 year-old girl, tortured by doubt, US distributor: IFC Films This dark comedy set in Tbilisi, Georgia follows In the 90’s, French electronic music is developing at a true when he goes to visit his brother in Columbia. In this gritty tale of survival adapted from a short disillusionment and solitude. Then Sarah arrives, Canadian distributor: Mongrel Media/Métropole the tribulations of middle-aged Levan when he’s fast pace. In the exciting Paris nightlife, Paul is taking Against an idyllic backdrop he falls madly in love story by Albert Camus, a reclusive teacher (Viggo beautiful and self-confident. Sarah chooses Charlie. Films Distribution suddenly led to question his existence because his first steps as a DJ. With his best friend he creates a with a beautiful Colombian girl. It all seems perfect Mortensen) helps a villager accused of murder Charlie is thrilled, she feels fulfilled and passionate. She At the peak of her international career, Maria of a routine medical exam, sending him into duo called “Cheers”, and they rapidly find until he meets her uncle, one Pablo Escobar. (Reda Kateb, ) escape into the finally feels alive, intense and resolute… and there is Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play their audience. They are quickly caught up in a euphoric a downward spiral of paranoia and doubt as 09/06 11:00AM (V1/P&I), 09/08 4:15PM (V1/P&I), mountains during the Algerian War. no going back. Sarah tires of her once she has had her. that made her famous twenty years ago. But this and short-lived rise to fame and Paul, blinded by he fumbles his way through this theater of 09/11 9:30PM (V8/PS), 09/12 11:30AM (V3/PS), She soon looks elsewhere, for another friend, for other time a young Hollywood starlet is to take on the his passion, overlooks his own life. 09/05 8:45AM (V1/P&I), 09/09 5:00PM (V9/PS), the absurd that we call life. 09/13 4:00PM (V1/PS) prey. She leaves Charlie feeling lost, wounded, and role of Sigrid, and Maria finds herself facing an 09/10 9:00AM (V2/PS), 09/10 9:15AM (V1/P&I), 09/05 3:15PM (V1/P&I), 09/05 5:45PM (V5/PS), devastated. For her, losing Sarah is unthinkable. unsettling reflection of herself. 09/05 8:30AM (V1/P&I), 09/06 7:15PM (V2/PS), 09/13 3:00PM (V5/PS) 09/08 11:45AM (V6/PS), 09/10 12:00PM (V1/P&I), 09/06 12:15PM (V4/PS), 09/08 6:30PM (V1/P&I), 09/04 12:30PM (V1/P&I), 09/09 6:30PM (V1/PS), 09/04 5:15PM (V1/P&I), 09/04 9:45PM (V10/PS), 09/13 12:15PM (V1/PS) 09/12 7:15PM (V1/P&I), 09/14 9:30PM (V2/PS) 09/11 11:45AM (V2/PS), 09/13 9:15AM (V1/PS) 09/05 9:30AM (V2/PS)

In the presence of Olivier Assayas In the presence of Mia Hansen-Løve In the presence of David Oelhoffen, 6 and Juliette Binoche In the presence of Nino Kirtadze and Félix de Givry Viggo Mortensen and Reda Kateb 7 PS Public screening P&I Press & Industry screening

Special Presentations Contemporary World Cinema Contemporary World Cinema Masters Contemporary World Cinema Wavelengths Gemma Bovery Gett, the Trial Girlhood (Bande de filles) Goodbye to Language 3D High Society (Le Beau Monde) Journey to the West Director: Anne Fontaine of Viviane Amsalem Director: Céline Sciamma (Adieu au langage) Director: Julie Lopes Curval (Voyage en occident) Cast: Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason Flemyng… Cast: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, Cast: Ana Girardot, Bastien Bouillon, Baptiste Lecaplain... (Gett, le procès de Viviane Amsalem) Director: Jean-Luc Godard Director: Tsai Ming Liang Length: 99 min Marietou Touré… Length: 95 min Cast: Héloïse Godet, Zoé Bruneau, Kamel Abdelli… Cast: Lee Kang Sheng, Denis Lavant… International Sales: Gaumont Directors: Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz Length: 112 min International Sales: Pyramide International Length: 70 min Length: 56 min Canadian distributor: Mongrel Media/Métropole Cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Menashe Noy… International Sales: Films Distribution International Sales: Alice, 20, lives in Normandy. She works wool, she International Sales: UDI Films Distribution Length: 115 min US distributor: Strand Releasing International Sales: Films Distribution US distributor: Kino Lorber invents, designs handmade clothes. She wonders what In a new edition of the ancien Buddhist ritual Martin is an ex-Parisian, more or less willingly Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school US distributor : Music Box The idea is simple: A married woman and a single to do with her innate talent, until she meets Agnes, a journeys, Xuanzang, the 7th century monk transformed into the baker in a Norman village. All that prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, The trial story of Viviane's five year fight to obtain man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog rich Parisian lady who helps her reach a prestigious celebrated for his rigor and his 17 year quest for remains of his youthful ambitions is a lively imagination Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of her divorce in front of the only legal authority strays between town and country. school of Applied Arts. vacuity on the roads of Asia, wanders through the and just as lively a passion for great literature, Gustave 3 free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her competent for divorce cases in , the Rabbinical The seasons pass. The man and woman meet Alice leaves everything behind to start a new life alone streets of Marseille. Flaubert in particular. We can sense his excitement when dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the Court. Viviane faces the uncompromising attitude again. The dog finds itself between them. The in Paris. There, she meets Antoine, the son of Agnes, an English couple with bizarrely familiar names moves gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom. 09/12 7:15PM (V2/PS) of her husband, who refuses the divorce (Gett) even other is in one, the one is in the other and they are and they soon fall passionately in love. Antoine finds in into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of though they’ve been separated for years. 09/04 6:00PM (V1/P&I), 09/09 8:45PM (V1/PS), three. The former husband shatters everything. A Alice a sincerity and a simplicity that free him from the the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their 09/11 9:00AM (V2/PS), 09/14 9:30PM (V1/PS) second film begins: the same as the first, and yet “bourgeois” environment he rejects, while Alice enters behaviour also seems to be inspired by Flaubert’s heroes. 09/04 12:00PM (V1/P&I), 09/08 9:00PM (V1/PS), not. From the human race we pass to metaphor. a fascinating world: "the high society". 09/09 3:45PM (V2/PS), 09/13 9:00PM (V1/PS) 09/05 10:00AM (V1/P&I), 09/06 1:45PM (V9/PS), This ends in barking and a baby's cries. 09/05 4:30PM (V1/P&I), 09/06 9:45PM (V1/PS), 09/07 4:15PM (V1/PS), 09/09 7:15PM (V1/P&I) 09/05 3:15PM (V1/P&I), 09/10 6:00PM (V5/PS), 09/08 6:30PM (V1/PS), 09/14 3:30PM (V7/PS) In the presence of Anne Fontaine In the presence of Ronit Elkabetz 09/12 9:00AM (V2/PS), 09/14 9:15PM (V2/PS) 8 and Gemma Arterton and Shlomi Elkabetz In the presence of Karidja Touré In the presence of Julie Lopes Curval 9 PS Public screening P&I Press & Industry screening

Gala Wavelengths Wavelengths Contemporary World Cinema Discovery Masters La French (US title: The Connection) La Sapienza (La Sapience) Letters to Max Li’l Quinquin (P’tit Quinquin) May Allah Bless France! Murder in Pacot Director: Cédric Jimenez Director: Eugène Green Director: Éric Baudelaire Director: Bruno Dumont (Qu’Allah bénisse la France !) (Meurtre à Pacot) Cast: Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Benoît Magimel… Cast: Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Prot Landmann... Cast: Maxim Gvinjia Cast: Alane Delhaye, Lucy Caron, Bernard Pruvost… Director: Abd Al Malik Director: Length: 135 min Length: 107 min Length: 103 min Length: 200 min Cast: Marc Zinga, Sabrina Ouazani, Larouci Didi… Cast: , Ayo, Thibault Vinçon… International Sales: Gaumont International Sales: MACT Productions International Sales: Poulet-Malassis Cinema version Scope Length: 96 min Length: 130 min Canadian distributor: Les Films Séville International Sales: NDM Despite a brilliant international career, Alexandre A record of the epistolary encounter between International Sales: Films Distribution International Sales: Doc & Film International US distributor: Drafthouse Films Schmid, an architect of Swiss origin, is beginning US distributor: Kino Lorber French artist and filmmaker Éric Baudelaire and Adapted from Abd Al Malik’s autobiographical book, After the terrible January 2010 earthquake in Marseille. 1975. Pierre Michel, a young magistrate, to have doubts about the validity of his work and Quebec distributor: FunFilm Distribution Maxim Gvinjia, former Foreign Minister of the MAY ALLAH BLESS FRANCE! describes the personal Port-au-Prince, an intellectual bourgeois couple has just been transferred to help in the crack-down the couple which he forms with his wife. Having An improbable, screwball and slapstick police breakaway Caucasian state of Abkhazia, Letters to journey taken by Régis, a particularly gifted 1st struggles to reinvent a life amid the rubbles of their on organized crime. He decides to take on French always intended to write a text about Borromini, investigation focusing on bizarre crimes on the Max is both a chronicle of a developing friendship generation black child who was raised by his single luxurious home. Needing money to survive, the Connection, a Mafia-run operation that exports heroin for whom he professes a profound admiration, outskirts of a small town in the north of France and an ingenious, unusual essay film about the Catholic mother with his two brothers in a low- couple decides to rent the remaining habitable part the world over. Paying heed to no one’s warnings, Alexandre decides to make a journey to Bissone, that has fallen prey to evil, and to a band of inherently speculative nature of nationhood. income housing complex in Strasbourg, France. of the villa to “Alex”, a high-level foreign he leads a one-man campaign against Mafia kingpin the great baroque architect’s native village in the young scoundrels led by Li’l Quinquin and his 09/06 4:45PM (V1/P&I), 09/12 9:00PM (V2/PS), From delinquency to rap and Islam, Régis will relief worker. Gaëtan Zampa, the most untouchable godfather of canton of Ticino, , and then to Rome, beloved Eve. 09/13 9:00AM (V6/PS) discover love and find his true life calling. them all. But Pierre Michel will soon understand that where all his work is to be found. 09/05 11:45AM (V1/P&I), 09/05 6:00PM (V7/PS), 09/04 11:00AM (V1/P&I), 09/10 2:00PM (V2/PS), to get results, he will have to change his methods. 09/05 7:30PM (V1/P&I), 09/06 10:15PM (V2/PS), 09/07 10:45AM (V2/PS), 09/10 1:30PM (V1/P&I) 09/08 12:00PM (V1/P&I), 09/11 9:45PM (V2/PS), 09/11 11:30AM (V2/PS), 09/14 9:00AM (V2/PS) 09/08 4:15PM (V4/PS), 09/09 7:00PM (V1/P&I), 09/10 12:00PM (V1/P&I), 09/12 6:30PM (V8/PS), 09/14 9:30AM (V2/PS) 09/12 3:30PM (V6/PS), 09/14 2:15PM (V1/PS) 09/12 9:15PM (V1/P&I), 09/13 9:15PM (V2/PS) 09/13 9:00AM (V4/PS)

In the presence of Cédric Jimenez, In the presence of Eugène Green In the presence of Éric Baudelaire In the presence of Abd Al Malik In the presence of Raoul Peck, Ayo 10 Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche and Alex Descas 11 PS Public screening P&I Press & Industry screening

TIFF Docs TIFF Docs TIFF Docs Contemporary World Cinema Special Presentations Contemporary World Cinema National Diploma National Gallery Natural Resistance Not My Type (Pas son genre) Pasolini Red Rose (Examen d’État) Director: Frederick Wiseman (Résistance naturelle) Director: Lucas Belvaux Director: Abel Ferrara Director: Sepideh Farsi Cast: Emilie Dequenne, Loïc Corbery… Cast: , Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scamarcio… Cast: Mina Kavani, Vassilis Koukalani, Shabnam Tolouei… Director: Dieudo Hamadi Length: 174 min Director: Jonathan Nossiter Length: 111 min Length: 87 min Length: 87 min Length: 92 min International Sales: Doc & Film International Length: 85 min International Sales: Films Distribution International Sales: Funny Balloons International Sales: UDI International Sales: Agat Films & Cie National Gallery takes the audience behind the Four Italian winegrowers live a life we all Canadian distributor: Axia Films scenes of a institution, on a journey to One day, one life. Rome, the night of November Tehran. June 2009. The uproar of a city that National Diploma follows a group of young Congolese dream of: from a Tuscan couple’s 11th century the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces Clément, a young Parisian philosophy professor 2nd 1975, the great Italian poet and filmmaker Pier is swinging with the « Green wave » of contest high school students who are about to sit the exam monastery-winery to a radical piemontese of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th is transferred to Arras for a year. Far from Paris Paolo Pasolini is murdered. Pasolini is the symbol to the rigged presidential election. for their National Diploma, in Kisangani, Democratic farmer-poet. But these protagonists of an century. National Gallery is the portrait of a place, and its nightlife, he doesn’t quite know what to do of an art that's fighting against the power. His An apartment as a shelter. Republic of Congo. Dieudo Hamadi’s camera films them international natural wine revolution have its way of working and relations with the world, its with his free time. Then he meets Jennifer, a pretty writings are scandalous, his films are persecuted who belong to two different generations. A mobile as they prepare for the exam, from the benches of the to struggle fiercely for their ecologically and staff and public, and its . In a perpetual hairdresser who becomes his lover. by the censors, many people love him and many phone and a computer to communicate with the school that they are regularly ejected from because culturally progressive dream. With the help of and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches While Clément’s life revolves around Kant and hate him. The day of his death, Pasolini spends free world. A love story, that will change two lives. they haven’t paid the "teachers’ fees" to the “maquis” a magical film curator, they use the power of watches film. Proust, Jennifer’s is punctuated with chick lit, his last hours with his beloved mother and later on (a communal house) where they gather to revise and 09/07 6:15PM (V1/P&I), 09/07 9:30PM (V1/PS), fiction films to fight “the system” and stir the tabloids and karaoke evenings with her girlfriends. with his dearest friends, and finally goes out into the chaotic streets of the city where they 09/08 12:00PM (V2/PS), 09/10 5:15PM (V1/P&I), 09/04 12:30PM (V1/P&I), 09/06 12:15PM (V2/PS), hidden rebel inside all of us. Free love and free hearts, they could live a beautiful the night in search of adventure in the eternal city. spend their time “looking for a living”. 09/07 12:15PM (V6/PS), 09/12 11:30AM (V6/PS) 09/12 12:00PM (V1/P&I), 09/13 8:45PM (V1/PS) 09/06 11:15AM (V1/P&I), 09/08 7:00PM (V2/PS), romance together, but is it enough to bridge the 09/07 1:15PM (V1/P&I), 09/08 9:00PM (V2/PS), 09/05 2:30PM (V1/P&I), 09/11 8:30PM (V2/PS), 09/09 7:00PM (V6/PS), 09/11 5:45PM (V4/PS) gaping social and cultural divide between them? 09/10 9:00PM (V1/PS), 09/11 4:30PM (V1/P&I), 09/12 9:00AM (V6/PS), 09/14 3:15PM (V4/PS) 09/04 11:45AM (V1/P&I), 09/10 8:15PM (V1/PS), 09/12 4:45PM (V2/PS) 09/12 9:15PM (V2/PS), 09/13 9:30AM (V1/PS) 12 In the presence of Dieudo Hamidi In the presence of Frederick Wiseman In the presence of Sepideh Farsi 13 PS Public screening P&I Press & Industry screening

Special Presentations Discovery gala TIFF Docs Selection Special Presentations Discovery Return to Ithaca Run Samba Silvered Water, Syria The Gate (Le Temps des aveux) The Great Man (Retour à Ithaque) Director: Philippe Lacôte Directors: Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache Self-portrait Director: Régis Wargnier (Le Grand Homme) Cast: Isaach de Bankolé, Abdoul Karim Konaté, Cast: Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim… Cast: Raphaël Personnaz, Kompheak Phoeung, Director: Laurent Cantet (Eau argentée, Syrie autoportrait) Director: Sarah Léonor Rasmane Ouedraogo… Length: 115 min … Cast: Jorge Perugorria, Pedro Julio Diaz Ferran, Cast: Jérémie Renier, Surho Sugaipov, Ramzan Idiev… Length: 102 min International Sales: Gaumont Directors: Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Simav Bedirxan Length: 95 min Isabel Santos, Fernando Hechavarria, Nestor Jimenez… Length: 107 min International Sales: Bac Films Canadian distributor: EOne Length: 92 min International Sales: Gaumont Length: 96 min International Sales: Bac Films International Sales: Doc & Film International Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance International Sales: Funny Balloons RUN is running away… After having just killed his Samba came to France 10 years ago from Senegal. He Hamilton and Markov are about to finish their service In Syria, everyday, YouTubers film then die; others in Pol Pot’s Cambodia, a French ethnologist country’s Prime Minister his life returns to him in plugs away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive in the Foreign Legion and a posting in Afghanistan. A terrace overlooking Havana, the sunset. Five kill then film. In Paris, driven by my inexhaustible and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again flashes: his childhood with master Tourou, when who has recently undergone a burnout. He is willing to do During an unauthorised expedition Hamilton is seriously friends gather to celebrate the return of Amadeo love for Syria, I find that I can only film the sky and after the latter is arrested for crimes against he dreamt of becoming a rainmaker, his incredible whatever it takes to get working papers, while she is trying wounded. Markov is dishonourably discharged, despite after 16 years of exile. From dusk to dawn, they edit the footage posted on YouTube. humanity, in this searing drama from top French adventures with Greedy Gladys and his militia past as to get her life back together by doing volunteer work. Both having saved Hamilton’s life. Later in Paris, whilst reminisce about their youth, the group they used From within the tension between my estrangement director Régis Wargnier (Indochine, East/West). to form, the faith they had in the future... but also a Young Patriot in Ivory Coast's political and military struggle to get out of the dead-ends of their lives... until Hamilton remains in the Foreign Legion, Markov tries conflict. RUN has not chosen all of these lives. fate draws them together. Juggling humor and emotion, in France and the revolution, an encounter their disillusionment. happened. A young Kurdish from Homs began 09/06 9:30AM (V1/P&I), 09/10 8:00PM (V9/PS), to provide for his young son Khadji. When Markov is He stumbled into them, escaping from one life their story leads them on a new path to happiness. 09/11 10:00AM (V2/PS), 09/11 11:30AM (V1/P&I), killed in an accident, Hamilton feels almost dead but 09/05 4:15PM (V1/P&I), 09/06 7:00PM (V7/PS), to chat with me, asking: ‘If your camera were here, to another. This is why he is called RUN. What if life had more imagination than either of them? 09/13 6:15PM (V7/PS) there is Khadji who is very much alive… 09/08 4:30PM (V1/PS), 09/11 6:45PM (V1/P&I), in Homs, what would you be filming?”. 09/14 6:00PM (V7/PS) 09/04 5:15PM (V1/P&I), 09/08 9:30PM (V1/PS), 09/05 12:00PM (V10/P&I), 09/07 3:15PM (V8/PS), Silvered Water is the story of that encounter. 09/05 2:30PM (V1/P&I), 09/05 6:00PM (V1/PS), 09/10 9:00AM (V2/PS), 09/13 6:15PM (V1/PS) 09/08 4:00PM (V1/PS), 09/09 8:30AM (V1/P&I) 09/08 9:00AM (V2/PS), 09/09 1:45PM (V1/P&I), 09/04 4:15PM (V1/P&I), 09/09 9:30PM (V1/PS), 09/14 9:45AM (V7/PS) In the presence of Olivier Nakache, 09/10 9:00AM (V6/PS), 09/13 6:00PM (V1/PS) Eric Toledano, Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg 14 In the presence of Laurent Cantet In the presence of Philippe Lacôte and Tahar Rahim In the presence of Régis Wargnier In the presence of Sarah Léonor 15 PS Public screening P&I Press & Industry screening

Gala Special Presentations Docs Selection masters Wavelengths Shorts competition The New Girlfriend The Search This Is My Land Timbuktu Under A Changing Sky 8 Bullets (8 Balles) (Une nouvelle amie) Director: Michel Hazanavicius Director: Tamara Erde Director: Abderrahmane Sissako (Sous un ciel changeant) Director: Frank Ternier Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening, Length: 93 min Cast: Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino, Toulou Kiki, Length: 12 min Director: François Ozon Director: Jean-Claude Rousseau Maxim Emelianov… International Sales: Films Transit International, Inc Abel Jafri… International Sales: L'Agence du court métrage Cast: Anaïs Demoustier, Romain Duris, Length: 12 min Length: 135 min Length: 97 min Raphaël Personnaz… How do the Palestinian and Israeli (Arab and International Sales: Jean-Claude Rousseau A red-haired man came to me; he smelt of fried International Sales: Wild Bunch International Sales: Le Pacte Length: 107 min Jewish) education systems teach the history fish; he had a gun and he shot my family. Since I US Sales: CAA Canadian distributor: Axia Films I would ask you something, if you don’t mind. International Sales: Films Distribution feel empty as if I had a hole in the head... Canadian distributor: Remstar Films of their nations? The film follows several Israeli US distributor: Cohen Media Group Just I need someone in my picture... Could you After the death of her best friend, Claire falls into a and Palestinian teachers over one academic year. stand over there and look wherever you want ? 09/08 9:45PM (V1/PS), 09/09 9:30AM (V1/P&I), The Second Chechen War. 1999. The Search Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious deep depression, but a surprising discovery about Observing their exchanges and confrontations 09/13 2:30PM (V1/PS) recounts, on a human scale, a powerful story of conflict fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the 09/05 6:30PM (V6/PS) her friend's husband gives her a new taste for life. with students, debates with the ministries told through four lives that will be brought together curriculum and its restrictions, the viewers obtain dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and 09/06 11:30AM (V1/P&I), 09/06 6:30PM (V8/PS), by a shocking twist of fate. an intimate glimpse into the profound and long Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. Kidane and 09/07 8:45AM (V1/P&I), 09/07 1:00PM (V2/PS), his family are being spared the chaos that prevails 09/07 4:00PM (V1/PRIVATE SCREENING OPEN TO BUYERS lasting effect that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict 09/09 9:00AM (V1/P&I), 09/12 4:45PM(V1/P&I), in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when AND PUBLIC – invitation only), 09/12 9:00PM (V3/PS), transmits onto the next generation. 09/13 9:00PM (V3/PS) Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman 09/13 2:45PM (V4/PS), 09/07 7:00PM (V1/PS), 09/08 1:45PM (V1/P&I), who slaughtered his beloved cow. 09/09 10:00PM (V1/PS), 09/11 9:45PM (V1/P&I), 09/13 9:15AM (V1/PS) 09/04 2:30PM (V1/P&I), 09/09 6:15PM (V2/PS), 09/12 2:00PM (V2/PS)

In the presence of François Ozon, In the presence of Michel Hazanavicius 16 Romain Duris and Anaïs Demoustier and Bérénice Béjo In the presence of Tamara Erde In the presence of Abderrahmane Sissako 17 PS Public screening P&I Press & Industry screening

September 3-6 Special events TIFF Talent Lab guided Mavericks – On stage { by French director { conversation with TIFF Talent Lab is a 4-day Juliette Binoche professional and artistic development September 6th, 2:00pm at the Glenn Gould Studio Shorts competition Shorts competition Shorts competition programme for Canadian and 250 Front St W, Toronto ON M5V 3G5 international filmmakers. Talent A Single Body (Un seul corps) Aïssa Voilà l’enchaînement Lab leads participants in group discussions on a range of topics focused Director: Sotiris Dounoukos Director: Clément Tréhin-Lalanne Director: Claire Denis on the artistic side of filmmaking, Cast: Mexianu Medenou, Doudou Masta, Cast: Manda Touré, Bernard Campan, Simon Giesbert… Cast: Norah Krief, Alex Descas sharpening the skills and confidence © Olivier Vigerie Garba Tounkara… Length: 8,15 min Length: 30 min Length: 19 min International Sales: L'Agence du court métrage International Sales: LE FRESNOY Studio national of a new generation of filmmakers. International Sales: Kidam, Magnetic Films des arts contemporains This year, Talent Lab participants Aïssa is congolese and is presently residing will be guided by Governors Jim Stark, © Denis Rouvre - Corbis Outline Best friends and skilled abattoir workers David and illegally on French territory. She claims to be a To film the words of Christine Angot, words which Wani are saving to open their own butchery, but minor however the authorities believe she is over describe what we obliterate. I use that word, an award-winning American producer, before they can realise their dream, the arrival of a 18. In order to establish whether or not she can obliterate, perhaps there's a better word to express and renowned French director new worker will test the bonds of their shared life. remain in the country, a doctor must give her a that unavoidable bond that a black man doubtless Claire Denis. Tribute to Pascale Ferran feels instinctively. That trap. 09/05 7:30PM (V2/PS), 09/06 11:45AM (V1/P&I), physical examination. 09/12 5:30PM (V1/PS) 09/08 9:45PM (V1/PS), 09/09 9:30AM (V1/P&I), 09/07 7:00PM (V1/PS), 09/08 9:00AM (V1/P&I), Joan Chemla at the Alliance Française 09/13 2:30PM (V1/PS) 09/13 11:45AM (V1/PS) 2014 Talent Lab Participant { 24 Spadina Road, Toronto ON M5R 2S7 After studying law, Joan decided to start working as a journalist in Paris for two years before nd th devoting herself to cinema. She wrote, produced and directed her first short film Wrong Road September 2 and 4 , 7:00pm in 2008, followed by an adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s Dr. Nazi in 2010, which received Retrospective in collaboration with Consulat Général de France, the prize of CANAL+ in Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2011. In March Alliance Française and Institut français in Toronto 2012, she started filming The Man with the Golden Brain, her third short. 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