2010 Toronto International Film Festival

2010 film festival edition

The 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival, (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 19, 2010.^[2] The opening night gala presented Score: A Hockey Musical, a Canadian comedy-drama musical film. Last Night closed the festival on September 19.

The TIFF Bell Lightbox had its formal opening on September 12, 2010, during the festival. This shot was taken the day before the opening.

2010 TIFF included 258 feature films, down from 264 in 2009. However, the number of short films at the 2010 festival increased to 81 (compared to 70 in 2009), making the total number of films 339, five more than in 2009.^[3][4]

Of the feature films, TIFF claims that 112 are world premieres, 24 are international premieres (i.e. the first screening outside the film's home country), and 98 are North American premieres.^[3] (In fact, some of the so-called premieres screened at the Telluride Film Festival before TIFF.^[5])

Awards

Programmes

Gala Presentations

Special Presentations

Masters

Midnight Madness

Canada First!

Canadian Open Vault

City to City

Contemporary World Cinema

Vanguard

Discovery

Future Projections

Real to Reel

Sprockets Family Zone

Visions

Wavelengths

Short Cuts

Canada's Top Ten

TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list, its national critics and festival programmers poll of the ten best feature and short films of the year, was released on December 15, 2010.^[8]

Feature films

• Barney's Version — Richard J. Lewis
• Curling — Denis Côté
• Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires) — Xavier Dolan
• The High Cost of Living — Deborah Chow
• Incendies — Denis Villeneuve
• Last Train Home — Lixin Fan
• Modra — Ingrid Veninger
• Mourning for Anna (Trois temps après la mort d'Anna) — Catherine Martin
• Splice — Vincenzo Natali
• Trigger — Bruce McDonald

Short films

• Above the Knee — Greg Atkins
• I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors — Ann Marie Fleming
• The Legend of Beaver Dam — Jerome Sable
• Lipsett Diaries — Theodore Ushev
• Little Flowers (Les Fleurs de l'âge) — Vincent Biron
• The Little White Cloud That Cried — Guy Maddin
• Marius Borodine — Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais
• Mokhtar — Halima Ouardiri
• On the Way to the Sea — Tao Gu
• Vapor — Kaveh Nabatian

References

1. "TIFF: A history of opening nights". CBC News. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
2. "2010 Toronto International Film Festival Annual report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 21, 2012. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
3. "Fact Sheet" (Press release). 1 September 2010. Archived from the original on 4 September 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
4. "TIFF List 2010: The Complete Toronto Film Festival Lineup". Retrieved 2013-10-10.
5. Peter Sciretta (2010-09-03). "TFF Blog: Welcome to the 37th Telluride Film Festival". /Film. Archived from the original on 7 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-08. And even then, most of the bigger films are hidden in TBA "Sneak Preview Screening" slots. This allows Telluride to secretly premiere films that are already set to "officially premiere" at other festivals like Venice, Toronto, New York and Fantastic Fest.
6. "2010 Toronto International Film Festival Winners". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
7. "TIFF Wrap-Up: The Winners, Losers, And Weirdos Of Toronto 2010". Retrieved 2013-10-10.
8. "Canada's Top Ten for 2010". Now, December 15, 2010.

External links

• Official site
• 2010 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb