2013 Toronto International Film Festival

2013 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	The Fifth Estate
Closing film	Life of Crime
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Awards	12 Years a Slave (People's Choice Award)
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films	366
Festival date	September 5, 2013 (2013-09-05)–September 15, 2013 (2013-09-15)
Language	English
Website	tiff.net

The 38th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 5 and 15, 2013. The Fifth Estate was selected as the opening film^[1] and Life of Crime was the closing film.^[2] 75 films were added to the festival line-up in August.^[3] A total of 366 films from 70 countries were screened, including 146 world premieres.^[4]

Awards[]

Award[5][6][7]	Film	Director
People's Choice Award	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
People's Choice Award First Runner Up	Philomena	Stephen Frears
People's Choice Award Second Runner Up	Prisoners	Denis Villeneuve
People's Choice Award, Documentary Winner	The Square (Al-Midan)	Jehane Noujaim
People's Choice Award, Documentary First Runner Up	Hi-Ho Mistahey!	Alanis Obomsawin
People's Choice Award, Documentary Second Runner Up	Beyond the Edge	Leanne Pooley
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness Winner	Why Don't You Play in Hell?	Sion Sono
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness First Runner Up	Oculus	Mike Flanagan
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness Second Runner Up	Witching and Bitching	Álex de la Iglesia
Best Canadian Feature Film	When Jews Were Funny	Alan Zweig
Best Canadian Short Film	Noah	Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg
Best Canadian First Feature Film	Asphalt Watches	Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver
FIPRESCI Discovery	The Amazing Catfish
Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award	All the Wrong Reasons	Gia Milani
FIPRESCI Special Presentations	Ida	Paweł Pawlikowski
Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere	Qissa	Anup Singh

Programmes[]

Gala Presentations[]

• American Dreams in China by Peter Chan
• The Art of the Steal by Jonathan Sobol
• August: Osage County by John Wells
• Blood Ties by Guillaume Canet
• Bright Days Ahead by Marion Vernoux
• Cold Eyes by Cho Ui-seok and
• The Fifth Estate by Bill Condon
• The Grand Seduction by Don McKellar
• Kill Your Darlings by John Krokidas
• Life of Crime by Daniel Schechter
• The Love Punch by Joel Hopkins
• The Lunchbox by Ritesh Batra
• Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom by Justin Chadwick
• Parkland by Peter Landesman
• The Railway Man by Jonathan Teplitzky
• The Right Kind of Wrong by Jeremiah S. Chechik
• Rush by Ron Howard
• Shuddh Desi Romance (English title: A Random Desi Romance) by Maneesh Sharma
• Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon by Mike Myers
• Words and Pictures by Fred Schepisi

Special Presentations[]

• 12 Years a Slave by Steve McQueen
• All Is by My Side by John Ridley
• The Armstrong Lie by Alex Gibney
• Attila Marcel by Sylvain Chomet
• Bad Words by Jason Bateman
• Belle by Amma Asante
• Blind Detective by Johnnie To
• Blue Is the Warmest Colour by Abdellatif Kechiche
• Burning Bush by Agnieszka Holland
• Can a Song Save Your Life? by John Carney
• Caníbal by Manuel Martín Cuenca
• Child of God by James Franco
• Dallas Buyers Club by Jean-Marc Vallée
• Devil's Knot by Atom Egoyan
• The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby by Ned Benson
• Dom Hemingway by Richard Shepard
• Don Jon by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• The Double by Richard Ayoade
• Enemy by Denis Villeneuve
• Enough Said by Nicole Holofcener
• Exit Marrakech by Caroline Link
• The F Word by Michael Dowse
• The Face of Love by Arie Posin
• Fading Gigolo by John Turturro
• Felony by Matthew Saville
• The Finishers by Nils Tavernier
• For Those Who Can Tell No Tales by Jasmila Žbanić
• Gabrielle by Louise Archambault
• Gloria by Sebastián Lelio
• Going Away by Nicole Garcia
• Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón
• The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Biyi Bandele
• Hateship, Loveship by Liza Johnson
• How I Live Now by Kevin Macdonald
• The Husband by Bruce McDonald
• Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski
• L'intrepido by Gianni Amelio
• The Invisible Woman by Ralph Fiennes
• Joe by David Gordon Green
• Labor Day by Jason Reitman
• The Last of Robin Hood by Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
• The Liberator by
• Like Father, Like Son by Hirokazu Koreeda
• Love Is the Perfect Crime by Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
• Lucky Them by Megan Griffiths
• Man of Tai Chi by Keanu Reeves
• Mary Queen of Scots by Thomas Imbach
• Mystery Road by Ivan Sen
• Night Moves by Kelly Reichardt
• Omar by Hany Abu-Assad
• One Chance by David Frankel
• Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch
• The Past by Asghar Farhadi
• Philomena by Stephen Frears
• Pioneer by Erik Skjoldbjærg
• Prisoners by Denis Villeneuve
• A Promise by Patrice Leconte
• Quai d'Orsay by Bertrand Tavernier
• Real by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Rock the Casbah by Laïla Marrakchi
• by Reha Erdem
• Southcliffe by Sean Durkin
• Starred Up by David Mackenzie
• Sunshine on Leith by Dexter Fletcher
• Therese by
• Third Person by Paul Haggis
• Those Happy Years by Daniele Luchetti
• Tom at the Farm by Xavier Dolan
• Tracks by John Curran
• Under the Skin by Jonathan Glazer
• Unforgiven by Lee Sang-il
• Violette by Martin Provost
• Visitors by Godfrey Reggio
• Walesa. Man of Hope by Andrzej Wajda
• Watermark by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky
• We Are the Best! by Lukas Moodysson
• Le Week-End by Roger Michell
• The Wind Rises by Hayao Miyazaki
• You Are Here by Matthew Weiner
• Young & Beautiful by François Ozon

Mavericks[]

• 12.12.12. by
• For No Good Reason by
• by Madeline Anderson
• by Cameron Bailey
• by Cameron Bailey
• by Beeban Kidron
• Made in America by Ron Howard
• Our Man in Tehran by Larry Weinstein and
• by Chuck Workman

Documentaries[]

• by Marcel Ophüls
• At Berkeley by Frederick Wiseman
• Beyond the Edge by Leanne Pooley^[8]
• by
• The Dark Matter of Love by
• The Dog by and
• by Pan Nalin
• by Barry Avrich^[8]
• Finding Vivian Maier by and
• Hi-Ho Mistahey! by Alanis Obomsawin.^[8]
• by Ventura Pons
• Jodorowsky's Dune by Frank Pavich
• by Claude Lanzmann
• by
• by Chris Jordan
• Mission Congo by and
• The Square (Al-Midan) by Jehane Noujaim
• A Story of Children and Film by Mark Cousins
• Tim's Vermeer by Teller^[8]
• The Unknown Known by Errol Morris^[8]
• by Madeleine Sackler
• When Jews Were Funny by Alan Zweig

Midnight Madness[]

• Afflicted by and
• All Cheerleaders Die by Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson
• Almost Human by
• The Green Inferno by Eli Roth
• Oculus by Mike Flanagan
• R100 by Hitoshi Matsumoto
• Rigor Mortis by Juno Mak
• Blutgletscher by Marvin Kren
• Why Don't You Play in Hell? by Sion Sono
• Witching and Bitching by Álex de la Iglesia

Vanguard[]

• Asphalt Watches by Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver
• Blue Ruin by Jeremy Saulnier
• Borgman by Alex van Warmerdam
• Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari by Aleksei Fedorchenko
• The Fake by Yeon Sang-ho
• Gerontophilia by Bruce LaBruce
• Horns by Alexandre Aja
• by
• Proxy by Zack Parker
• The Sacrament by Ti West
• by Brillante Mendoza
• by Christoffer Boe
• Soul by Chung Mong-Hong
• The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
• Thou Gild'st the Even by Onur Ünlü
• by and

Contemporary World Cinema[]

• The Animal Project by Ingrid Veninger
• Bad Hair by Mariana Rondón
• Bastardo by Nejib Belkadhi
• by
• The Bit Player by Jeffrey Jeturian
• Blind Dates by Levan Koguashvili
• Brazilian Western by
• Break Loose by Alexei Uchitel
• Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer
• Cinemanovels by
• Club Sandwich by Fernando Eimbcke
• Cristo Rey by Leticia Tonos
• The Dick Knost Show by Bruce Sweeney
• The Dinner by Menno Meyjes
• Eastern Boys by Robin Campillo
• El Mudo by Diego Vega,
• Empire of Dirt by Peter Stebbings
• An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanović
• Friends from France by ,
• Giselle by Toa Fraser
• Le Grand Cahier by János Szász
• Heart of a Lion by Dome Karukoski
• by Jim Chuchu
• Honeymoon by Jan Hřebejk
• Hotell by Lisa Langseth
• The Immoral by
• Intruders by
• iNumber Number by
• The Kids from the Port by
• Kwaku Ananse by Akosua Adoma Owusu
• Ladder to Damascus by Mohammad Malas
• Le Démantèlement by Sébastien Pilote
• Life's a Breeze by Lance Daly
• Little Feet by Alexandre Rockwell
• The Major by Yuri Bykov
• Manuscripts Don't Burn by Mohammad Rasoulof
• McCanick by
• Metalhead by Ragnar Bragason
• Ningen by ,
• by Mark Dornford-May
• October November by Götz Spielmann
• by
• Palestine Stereo by Rashid Masharawi
• Paradise: Hope by Ulrich Seidl
• A Place in Heaven by
• Qissa by Anup Singh
• Rags and Tatters by Ahmad Abdalla
• The Sea by
• The Selfish Giant by Clio Barnard
• Siddharth by Richie Mehta
• Something Necessary by Judy Kibinge
• Stay by Wiebke von Carolsfeld
• Stop the Pounding Heart by Roberto Minervini
• Stranger by the Lake by Alain Guiraudie
• This Is Sanlitun by Róbert Ingi Douglas
• by Philippe Lacôte
• Unbeatable by Dante Lam
• by Dyana Gaye
• by Catherine Martin
• When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism by Corneliu Porumboiu
• White Lies by Dana Rotberg
• A Wolf at the Door by Fernando Coimbra
• The Wonders by Avi Nesher

Contemporary World Speakers[]

• Cristo Rey by Leticia Tonos
• Qissa by Anup Singh
• The Wonders by Avi Nesher

Masters[]

• Abuse of Weakness by Catherine Breillat
• Bastards by Claire Denis
• Closed Curtain by Jafar Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi
• Concrete Night by Pirjo Honkasalo
• Home From Home - Chronicle of a Vision by Edgar Reitz
• How Strange to be Named Federico: Scola narrates Fellini by Ettore Scola
• Moebius by Kim Ki-duk
• Norte, the End of History by Lav Diaz
• Our Sunhi by Hong Sang-soo
• A Touch of Sin by Jia Zhangke
• Triptych (Triptyque) by Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires

City to City: Athens[]

• The Daughter by
• The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas by  [el]
• J.A.C.E. - Just Another Confused Elephant by
• Miss Violence by Alexandros Avranas
• September by
• by
• by and
• Unfair World by Filippos Tsitos
• Wasted Youth by and
• by

Discovery[]

• 1982 by
• by
• The Amazing Catfish by
• All the Wrong Reasons by Gia Milani
• Around the Block by Sarah Spillane
• Bends by
• Beneath the Harvest Sky by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly
• Bethlehem by Yuval Adler
• by
• by
• Canopy by
• by
• by
• I Am Yours by Iram Haq
• Ilo Ilo by Anthony Chen
• by
• by
• by
• Of Good Report by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
• Rhymes for Young Ghouls by Jeff Barnaby
• Palo Alto by Gia Coppola
• by Mariana Chenillo
• Sarah Prefers to Run by Chloé Robichaud
• by Abdellah Taïa
• by
• The Stag by John Butler
• The Summer of Flying Fish by Marcela Said
• Trap Street by Vivian Qu

Short Cuts Canada[]

• by Cory Bowles
• by Sol Friedman
• by
• The Chaperone 3D by and
• by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
• by Alix Lambert and
• by Ian Lagarde
• by
• by
• The End of Pinky by
• An Extraordinary Person (Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire) by Monia Chokri
• Firecrackers by Jasmin Mozaffari
• by
• Gloria Victoria by Theodore Ushev
• A Grand Canal by Johnny Ma
• by Bruce Alcock
• by
• by
• by Jordan Hayes
• by
• Noah by Patrick Cederberg and Walter Woodman
• by
• by Jeremy Lalonde
• by Fantavious Fritz
• Paradiso by
• by Marie Clements
• by Randall Okita
• by
• Remember Me (Mémorable moi) by
• by
• by
• by
• by and
• Subconscious Password by Chris Landreth
• by
• Time Flies (Nous avions) by
• by Stephen Dunn
• by Kevan Funk
• Young Wonder by

Wavelengths[]

• by Mati Diop and Akram Zaatari
• by Kenneth Anger
• by
• by
• by Chris Kennedy
• by
• by Jean-Marie Straub
• by Ali Cherri
• by
• by
• by
• A Field in England by Ben Wheatley
• by
• by
• by
• by Hannes Schüpbach
• by Raya Martin and Mark Peranson
• by Jean-Marie Straub, João Pedro Rodrigues and Miguel Gomes
• by Akram Zaatari
• by Robert Beavers
• by
• by , and
• Manakamana by and
• L'image manquante by Rithy Panh
• by
• by and
• by
• by and
• by
• The Police Officer's Wife by Philip Gröning
• by Luther Price
• by
• Redemption by Miguel Gomes
• by Lucy Raven
• by Raya Martin and Mark Peranson
• Song by Nathaniel Dorsky
• A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness by Ben Russell
• by Nathaniel Dorsky
• Historia de la meva mort by Albert Serra
• by
• Stray Dogs by Tsai Ming Liang
• by João Pedro Rodrigues
• by Mati Diop
• by Cristi Puiu
• by Peter Hutton
• by
• by David Rimmer

TIFF Kids[]

• Amazonia by
• by
• Khumba by
• The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha by Shilpa Ranade
• Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang by
• Miffy the Movie by Hans Perk^[9]

TIFF Cinematheque[]

• An Autumn Afternoon by Yasujirō Ozu
• Gun Crazy by Joseph H. Lewis
• Hiroshima mon amour by Alain Resnais
• Le Joli Mai by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme
• Manila in the Claws of Light by Lino Brocka
• Rome, Open City by Roberto Rossellini
• Shivers by David Cronenberg

Future Projections[]

• David Cronenberg Transformation
• by Camille Henrot
• by Jeremy Shaw
• by Ralph Steadman
• by Jamie Shovlin
• by
• Sweat by
• by Candice Breitz
• by Marcel Dzama
• by Laurel Woodcock

Next Wave[]

• Around the Block by Sarah Spillane
• Beneath the Harvest Sky by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly
• The Finishers by Nils Tavernier
• by
• How I Live Now by Kevin Macdonald
• Palo Alto by Gia Coppola
• The Square (Al-Midan) by Jehane Noujaim
• Tracks by John Curran

Manifesto[]

• All Is by My Side by John Ridley
• Belle by Amma Asante
• Cristo Rey by Leticia Tonos
• Empire of Dirt by Peter Stebbings
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Biyi Bandele
• Made in America by Ron Howard
• Omar by Hany Abu-Assad
• Starred Up by David Mackenzie
• Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon by Mike Myers
• Words and Pictures by Fred Schepisi

TIFF Special Event[]

• The Big Chill by Lawrence Kasdan
• by Jason Reitman
• Metallica: Through the Never by Nimród Antal
• The Wizard of Oz by Victor Fleming

References[]

External links[]

Media related to 2013 Toronto International Film Festival at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• 2013 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb