From Monday 12 to Sunday 18 October 2015 The 7th edition of the Lumière festival will be held from Monday 12 to Sunday October 18 in Lyon. Last year, 135,000 festivalgoers attended 320 screenings in 65 venues in the Lyon Metropolis. This year, there will be new features to discover and experience, to take full advantage of the films, the city of Lyon and the festival week. The spirit of the festival: Created in 2...

by Leopoldo Soto Michael Moore presents in 40 TIFF, comes back  alter six years with documentary: ”Where to invade next”. In his previous visit to TIFF, Michael Moore, Turing “Maverick´s tales” expressed his spirit of social compromise; denouncing through his movies, from  atrocities of war to misinformation about abuse of people and countries. Moore expressed in recent interview in Pariscope, he’s concerning about …Why does de United State...

  Leopoldo Soto Including new films by Miguel Gomes, Tsai Ming-liang, Chantal Akerman, Peter Tscherkassky, Sergei Loznitsa, Ben Rivers, Yto Barrada, Francis Alÿs, Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin, Pietro Marcello, Pablo Agüero, Beatrice Gibson, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Nicolás Pereda, and a major installation by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Wavelengths programme is pleased to present 54 films, videos and installations by some of the world’s most influential auteurs and artists wh...

Financing day at TIFF Industry Conference, With TIFF Moguls, influencal, movers and shakers...Nicolas Chartier ...

Meeting with Madonna, Godard, Snoop Dog...and more goosebumps ...

TIFF Artistic Director, Cameron Bailey recalls some of his most memorable festival moments.   ...

By Leopoldo Soto In memore of Dusty Cohl The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was conceived by Dusty Cohl when invited to Cannes by Bill Marshall; both idealistic young moviegoers; met at terrace of the Carlton hotel in Cannes and decided to make a festival. Soon after, in 1976, compared to Lake Ontario, projected as the opening film "Cousin, Cousine" of Tacchella; It was conceived as a festival of festivals, and paid tribute to Taormina, Cannes, Berlin, Moscow and Edinbur...

French director Diastème comments on the censorship of his new film "French Blood". Marco is a skinhead, tried and true. With his buddies, Braguette, Grand-Guy, and Marvin, he beats up Arabs and sticks up posters of far right political parties. Until the moment that he suddenly feels, in spite of himself, all this hatred desert him. But how do you get rid of the violence, anger, and stupidity inside of you? It's the story of a son of a bitch who attempts to become some...

THE FORBIDDEN ROOM     Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson's Wild Phantasmagoria to Play at Toronto   NEW TRAILER HERE! http://bit.ly/1OCnaUX   TIFF PRESS DAY: Sept. 17 (w/ Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson) Opens Theatrically on October 7       Official Selection - Sundance Film Festival 2015 Opening Night - Berlin Film Festival / Forum Section 2015 Official Selection - Toronto Int'l Film Festival 2015 Offici...

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Special Presentation The Wave Director: Roar Uthaug The experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes in the underground. Kristian gets worried and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm goes off and the disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to ...

      The film follows a group of amateur investigators who, despite investigating for months, have never found any proof of the paranormal. During the group's most recent investigation, like many times before, they come up empty. At this point, team member Matt is losing faith in the existence of the paranormal and performs risky attempts to provoke the spirits.   At first, Matt's taunts appear to go unanswered but while on his way home the investigatio...

The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) 2015 Chilean documentary film directed by Patricio Guzmán will be screened at TIFF. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for Best Script. Patricio Guzman will be in Toronto and available for interviews. « It is the director’s extraordinary intuition about the synchronicity of history, geography and the physical universe – a mysterious...

                         Annual Spotlight Initiative Dinner Hosted by Nikki Beach September 8, 2015—Toronto, Ontario—The Creative Coalition will be holding its Festival dinner with influential players celebrating the spirit of independent film of Friday evening, September 11, 2015 at 8:00 pm. The event is sponsored by Nikki Beach and takes place at Nikki Beach Toronto a...

Si le message ne s'affiche pas correctement, cliquez ici   AMBI Group organise un gala de bienfaisance au profit de la Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco dans le cadre du Festival du film de Toronto A l’occasion du Festival International du film de Toronto (TIFF), Monika Bacardi Monika Bacardi et Andrea Lervolino, fondateurs de la société AMBI Pictures, organisent un gala de bienfaisance, AMBI Gala, au profit de la Fon...

    WORLD PREMIERING AT RAINDANCE 2015!   THE CARRIER    Outbreak Thriller    C...

Turkish Film Amongst FSS s PANTOM BOY by Alain Gagnol & Jean-Loup Félicioli The Toronto International Film Festival­ (TIFF) remains one of EFP's flagship festivals for which Film Sales (FSS) for the promotion of European films is available. In total, an amount of €160,540 has been reserved by EFP for 28 sales companies which are unrolling their marketing campaigns for 41 new European films scre...

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DER NACHTMAHR (Acquisition Title/K5 International) Section: Vanguard Written and Directed by AKIZ Cast: Carolyn Genzkow, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Kim Gordon, Lynn Femme, Sina Tkotsch   **SCREENING LINKS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST**         Synopsis: Jarring, disturbing, and thoroughly disorienting, Der Nachtmahr is a psy­cho­phan­tas­magoric coming-of-age story about a teenage girl thrust into an unnaturally symbiotic relationship. Secret rav...

primetime Cromo Lucía Puenzo, Nicolás Puenzo, Pablo Fendrik “CROMO” created by Lucía Puenzo and Nicolás Puenzo, Argentina Directors Lucía Puenzo (XXY, Wakolda), Pablo Fendrik (Blood Appears, El Ardor) and Nicolás Puenzo team up for this timely eco-thriller, based on the real stories of a team of scientists that set out to expose environmental crimes in the dangerous and exotic wetlands of northern Argentina. ...

    In the tradition of THE WALKING DEAD and WORLD WAR Z...   The Apocalypse has happened. “Aftermath” is the story of those who have survived. But their nightmare has only begun. In a world where the infected kill and eat the living, how much time does anyone really have? A World where the living may still prove to be more dangerous than the dead? Witness what happens when the World you know ends, and the next chapter, begins.   Watch the...

We are excited to present the international premiere of the insightful and entertaining docu -  WOMEN HE'S UNDRESSED, by acclaimed Australian director, Gillian Armstrong.   This colorful, cinematic documentary pays tribute to legendary Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly, who won multiple Academy Awards® for his work on such classics as An American in Paris, Les Girls and Some Like It Hot.  Today the name Orry-Kelly typically draws blank looks. But in Hollywood...

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