2013 Toronto International Film Festival
The 38th annual Toronto International Film Festival took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 5 and 15, 2013. The Fifth Estate was selected as the opening film and Life of Crime was the closing film. 75 films were added to the festival line-up in August. A total of 366 films from 70 different countries were screened, including 146 world premieres.
Awards
Programmes
Gala Presentations
- American Dreams in China by Peter Chan
- The Art of the Steal by Jonathan Sobol
- ' by John Wells
- Blood Ties by Guillaume Canet
- Bright Days Ahead by Marion Vernoux
- Cold Eyes by Cho Ui-seok and Kim Byeong-seo
- 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
- ' 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 by Maneesh Sharma
- by Mike Myers
- Words and Pictures by Fred Schepisi
Special Presentations
- 12 Years a Slave by Steve McQueen
- 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 Alberto Arvelo
- 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
- Singing Women by Reha Erdem
- Southcliffe by Sean Durkin
- Starred Up by David Mackenzie
- Sunshine on Leith by Dexter Fletcher
- Therese by Charlie Stratton
- 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
- by Thom Powers
- For No Good Reason by Charlie Paul
- I Am Somebody by Madeline Anderson
- In Conversation With...Irrfan Khan by Cameron Bailey
- In Conversation With...Spike Jonze by Cameron Bailey
- InRealLife by Beeban Kidron
- Made in America by Ron Howard
- Our Man in Tehran by Larry Weinstein and Drew Taylor
- What is Cinema? by Chuck Workman
Documentaries
- Un Voyageur by Marcel Ophüls
- At Berkeley by Frederick Wiseman
- Beyond the Edge by Leanne Pooley
- Burt's Buzz by Jody Shapiro
- The Dark Matter of Love by Sarah McCarthy
- The Dog by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren
- Faith Connections by Pan Nalin
- by Barry Avrich
- Finding Vivian Maier by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
- Hi-Ho Mistahey! by Alanis Obomsawin.
- Ignasi M. by Ventura Pons
- Jodorowsky's Dune by Frank Pavich
- Le Dernier des injustes by Claude Lanzmann
- El Alcalde by Emiliano Altuna Fistolera
- Midway by Chris Jordan
- Mission Congo by David Turner and Lara Zizic
- The Square by Jehane Noujaim
- A Story of Children and Film by Mark Cousins
- Tim's Vermeer by Teller
- The Unknown Known by Errol Morris
- Unstable Elements by Madeleine Sackler
- When Jews Were Funny by Alan Zweig
Midnight Madness
- Afflicted by Derek Lee and Clif Prowse
- All Cheerleaders Die by Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson
- Almost Human by Joe Begos
- 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
- People In Places by Juan Cavestany
- Proxy by Zack Parker
- The Sacrament by Ti West
- Sapi by Brillante Mendoza
- Sex, Drugs & Taxation 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
- We Gotta Get Out of This Place by Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins
Contemporary World Cinema
- The Animal Project by Ingrid Veninger
- Bad Hair by Mariana Rondón
- Bastardo by Nejib Belkadhi
- Berea by Vincent Moloi
- The Bit Player by Jeffrey Jeturian
- Blind Dates by Levan Koguashvili
- Brazilian Western by René Sampaio
- Break Loose by Alexei Uchitel
- Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer
- Cinemanovels by Terry Miles
- 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, Daniel Vega
- Empire of Dirt by Peter Stebbings
- An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanović
- Friends from France by Anne Weil, Philippe Kotlarski
- Giselle by Toa Fraser
- Le Grand Cahier by János Szász
- Heart of a Lion by Dome Karukoski
- Homecoming by Jim Chuchu
- Honeymoon by Jan Hřebejk
- Hotell by Lisa Langseth
- The Immoral by Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen
- Intruders by Noh Young-seok
- iNumber Number by Donovan Marsh
- The Kids from the Port by Alberto Morais
- 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 Josh C. Waller
- Metalhead by Ragnar Bragason
- Ningen by Guillaume Giovanetti, Cagla Zencirci
- Noye's Fludde by Mark Dornford-May
- October November by Götz Spielmann
- Old Moon by Raisa Bonnet
- Palestine Stereo by Rashid Masharawi
- by Ulrich Seidl
- A Place in Heaven by Yossi Madmoni
- Qissa by Anup Singh
- Rags and Tatters by Ahmad Abdalla
- The Sea by Stephen Brown
- 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
- To Repel Ghosts by Philippe Lacôte
- Unbeatable by Dante Lam
- Under the Starry Sky by Dyana Gaye
- A Journey 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
- 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 by Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires
City to City: Athens
- The Daughter by Thanos Anastopoulos
- The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas by
- J.A.C.E. - Just Another Confused Elephant by Menelaos Karamaghiolis
- Miss Violence by Alexandros Avranas
- September by Penny Panayotopoulou
- Standing Aside, Watching by Yorgos Servetas
- To the Wolf by Aran Hughes and Christina Koutsospyrou
- Unfair World by Filippos Tsitos
- Wasted Youth by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel
- Wild Duck by Yannis Sakaridis
Discovery
- 1982 by Tommy Oliver
- All About the Feathers by Neto Villalobos
- The Amazing Catfish by Claudia Sainte-Luce
- All the Wrong Reasons by Gia Milani
- Around the Block by Sarah Spillane
- Bends by Flora Lau
- Beneath the Harvest Sky by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly
- Bethlehem by Yuval Adler
- Bobô by Inês Oliveira
- Border by Alessio Cremonini
- Canopy by Aaron Wilson
- Fat by Mark Phinney
- Giraffada by Rani Massalha
- I Am Yours by Iram Haq
- Ilo Ilo by Anthony Chen
- The Militant by Manolo Nieto
- Miracle by Juraj Lehotský
- My Love Awaits Me by the Sea by Mais Darwazah
- Of Good Report by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
- Rhymes for Young Ghouls by Jeff Barnaby
- Palo Alto by Gia Coppola
- Paraíso by Mariana Chenillo
- Sarah Prefers to Run by Chloé Robichaud
- Salvation Army by Abdellah Taïa
- South is Nothing by Fabio Mollo
- The Stag by John Butler
- The Summer of Flying Fish by Marcela Said
- Trap Street by Vivian Qu
Short Cuts Canada
- Anatomy of Assistance by Cory Bowles
- Beasts in the Real World by Sol Friedman
- Candy by Cassandra Cronenberg
- The Chaperone 3D by Fraser Munden and Neil Rathbone
- Cochemare by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
- by Alix Lambert and Sam Chou
- Éclat du jour by Ian Lagarde
- Der Untermensch by Kays Mejri
- Drop by Chris Goldade
- The End of Pinky by Claire Blanchet
- An Extraordinary Person by Monia Chokri
- Firecrackers by Jasmin Mozaffari
- Foreclosure by Wayne Robinson
- Gloria Victoria by Theodore Ushev
- A Grand Canal by Johnny Ma
- Impromptu by Bruce Alcock
- In Guns We Trust by Nicolas Lévesque
- Jimbo by Ryan Flowers
- Lay Over by Jordan Hayes
- Method by Gregory Smith
- Noah by Patrick Cederberg and Walter Woodman
- Numbers & Friends by Alexander Carson
- Out by Jeremy Lalonde
- Paradise Falls by Fantavious Fritz
- Paradiso by Devan Scott
- Pilgrims by Marie Clements
- Portrait as a Random Act of Violence by Randall Okita
- Relax, I'm From The Future by Luke Higginson
- Remember Me by Jean-Francois Asselin
- Roland by Trevor Cornish
- Sam's Formalwear by Yael Staav
- Seasick by Eva Cvijanovic
- The Sparkling River by Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël
- Subconscious Password by Chris Landreth
- A Time is a Terrible Thing to Waste by Leslie Supnet
- Time Flies by Stéphane Moukarzel
- We Wanted More by Stephen Dunn
- Yellowhead by Kevan Funk
- Young Wonder by James Wilkes
Wavelengths
- A Thousand Suns and Letter to a Refusing Pilot by Mati Diop and Akram Zaatari
- Airships by Kenneth Anger
- Bann by Nina Könnemann
- A Batalha de Tabatô by Joao Viana
- Brimstone Line by Chris Kennedy
- Konstellationen by Helga Fanderl
- Un Conte de Michel Montaigne by Jean-Marie Straub
- The Disquiet by Ali Cherri
- Dry Standpipe by Wojciech Bakowski
- El Adios Largos by Andrew Lampert
- Farther Than the Eye Can See by Basma Alsharif
- A Field in England by Ben Wheatley
- Flower by Naoko Tasaka
- Gowanus Canal by Sarah J. Christman
- I'm the same I'm an other by Caroline Strubbe
- Instants by Hannes Schüpbach
- La última película by Raya Martin and Mark Peranson
- Le Conte de Michel de Montaigne and The King's Body and Redemption by Jean-Marie Straub, João Pedro Rodrigues and Miguel Gomes
- Letter to a Refusing Pilot by Akram Zaatari
- Listening to the Space in my Room by Robert Beavers
- Main Hall by Philipp Fleischmann
- Homme en Mouvement, 2012 by Christophe M. Saber, Ruben Glauser and Max Idje
- Manakamana by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
- L'image manquante by Rithy Panh
- Mount Song by Shambhavi Kaul
- Natpwe, le festin des esprits by Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
- Nefandus by Carlos Motta
- Pays Barbare by Angela Ricci Lucchi and Yervant Gianikian
- Pepper's Ghost by Stephen Broomer
- The Police Officer's Wife by Philip Gröning
- Pop Takes by Luther Price
- The Realist by Scott Stark
- Redemption by Miguel Gomes
- RP31 by Lucy Raven
- La última película by Raya Martin and Mark Peranson
- Song by Nathaniel Dorsky
- A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness by Ben Russell
- Spring by Nathaniel Dorsky
- Historia de la meva mort by Albert Serra
- Das merkwürdige Kätzchen by Ramon Zürcher
- Stray Dogs by Tsai Ming Liang
- O Corpo de Afonso by João Pedro Rodrigues
- Mille Soleils by Mati Diop
- Trois exercises d'interpretation by Cristi Puiu
- Three Landscapes by Peter Hutton
- Trissákia 3 by Nick Collins
- Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper by David Rimmer
TIFF Kids
- Amazonia by Thierry Ragobert
- Antboy by Ask Hasselbalch
- Khumba by Anthony Silverston
- The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha by Shilpa Ranade
- Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang by Óskar Santos
- Miffy the Movie by Hans Perk
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
- Grosse Fatigue by Camille Henrot
- Introduction to the Memory Personality by Jeremy Shaw
- Ralph Steadman For No Good Reason by Ralph Steadman
- Rough Cut by Jamie Shovlin
- Swarm by James Coupe
- Sweat by Radical Friend
- Treatment by Candice Breitz
- A Jester's Dance by Marcel Dzama
- walkthrough 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
- Giraffada by Rani Massalha
- How I Live Now by Kevin Macdonald
- Palo Alto by Gia Coppola
- The Square 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
- by Mike Myers
- Words and Pictures by Fred Schepisi
TIFF Special Event
- The Big Chill by Lawrence Kasdan
- Jason Reitman's Live Read by Jason Reitman
- by Nimród Antal
- The Wizard of Oz by Victor Fleming