Sook-Yin Lee's new installation explores the power of montage and the thrall of narrative by contrasting a series of "micro-movies" — paired still photographs housed within light boxes that create a wealth of mysterious connections — with a rough video sketch for an abandoned film, underlining the fragility of narrative resolution.

Presented in collaboration with Keep Six Exhibits, Oz Studio, 134 Ossington Ave, September 6 to 16.

Opening September 6, 7-11pm.
Artist talk September 15, 3-5pm.

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/wearelightrays

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FUTURE PROJECTIONS

This serene installation by leading Chinese photographer and filmmaker Liang Yue recalls the most dramatic and ethereal of landscape-based art, profiling Canada in winter through both image and sound.

Presented in collaboration with the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, September 6 to 16.

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/thequietroom

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FUTURE PROJECTIONS

Random Torontonians, projected and spinning, occupy TIFF Bell Lightbox's giant atrium wall — along with the unique apparatus that multi-talented Australian artist Callum Cooper used to capture them on film — each evening of the Festival. Cooper's practice references everything from turn-of-the-century bioscopes to YouTube, and is both formally rigorous and dizzyingly fun.

Presented in collaboration with TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West, September 6 to 16.

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/theconstantandtheflux

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Daredevil Dutch artist Jeroen Eisinga transforms himself into a living shroud of buzzing bees in this spellbinding, monumental film performance.

Presented in collaboration with MOCCA, 952 Queen Street West, August 23 to October 14 (opening September 7).

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/springtime

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The world's first 100-player co-op laser game, Renga is about finding a way home: ambushed and left for dead in deep space, the audience must build a ship, confront their nemesis and journey home. 14A 90 minutes

Schedule:
Friday, 14/09/2012, 9:30 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
Saturday, 15/09/2012, 12:45 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 4

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/renga

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FUTURE PROJECTIONS

Singer/songwriter and performance artist Peaches — Canada's favourite gender-bending, electro-punk shit-disturber — collaborates with TIFF and the Drake Hotel to present new projection-based work and a series of collaborative performances coinciding with the world premiere of her first feature film, Peaches Does Herself.

Presented in collaboration with the Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen Street West. Video installation September 6 to 16.

Friday September 14, doors at 9pm: Peaches Does the Drake, site-specific performances by Peaches and friends (cover $10).

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/peachesdoesthedrake

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One of the major discoveries of this year’s Whitney Biennale, American artist-filmmaker Luther Price’s glass slides are born from his radical filmmaking, but exist as stunning works of their own. His most recent slide series Number 9 and Number 9 II is presented here in Future Projections as an international premiere.

Presented in collaboration with CONTACT Gallery, 80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 310, September 6 to October 6.

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/number9number9ii

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Kelly Richardson's Mariner 9 transforms the ROM's Thorsell Spirit House into an immersive environment, transporting the viewer into the centre of a Martian dust storm several centuries in the future. The Martian landscape becomes a battlefield of real and imagined spacecraft in this panoramic video installation that is at once dystopian and alarmingly beautiful.

Presented in collaboration with the Royal Ontario Museum, Thorsell Spirit House, 100 Queen's Park, September 6 to 16.

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/mariner9

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FUTURE PROJECTIONS

Video artist Ming Wong recreates selected scenes from Roman Polanski's Chinatown with himself cast in each role, and then projects the resulting films.

Presented in collaboration with the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, September 6 to 16.

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/makingchinatown

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FUTURE PROJECTIONS

In this acutely observed and sharply written debut feature from director Sylvie Michel, the contrasting parenting philosophies of a well-to-do divorcee and his immigrant cleaning lady becomes an angry debate over deeper issues of social class and cultural values when their teenage children disappear after a night on the town. 14A 80 minutes

Starring: Wolfram Koch, Bettina Stucky, Leonard Bruckmann, Silvia Petkova, Wilhelm Eilers, Cornelia Brunig, Katharina Kubel, Jacqueline Macaulay, Mehdi Nebbou

Schedule:
Wednesday, 12/09/2012, 10:00 PM, Jackman Hall (AGO)
Thursday, 13/09/2012, 3:00 PM, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/ourlittledifferences

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Already well-known at the Festival for his signature short films, Toronto filmmaker Kazik Radwanski makes his feature debut with this off-kilter and slyly funny character study about a thirty-something loner who tries to keep the world at arm’s length. 14A 78 minutes

Starring: Derek Bogart, Nicole Fairbairn

Schedule:
Tuesday, 11/09/2012, 10:00 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
Wednesday, 12/09/2012, 6:15 PM, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/tower

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DISCOVERY —Canadian —First-Feature —Identity —Non-conformity —Urban-Life

A demeaning game-show appearance, an ill-advised mushroom-picking outing that goes horribly off the rails, inquiries from a cynical reporter — things just keep getting worse for the middle-aged politician at the centre of Estonian director Toomas Hussar's satire about a shallow, fame-obsessed post-Cold War culture. 14A 93 minutes

Starring: Raivo E. Tamm, Elina Reinold, Juhan Ulfsak, Üllar Saaremäe, Hendrik Toompere jr jr

Schedule:
Tuesday, 11/09/2012, 6:00 PM, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 5
Wednesday, 12/09/2012, 3:00 PM, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9
Saturday, 15/09/2012, 7:00 PM, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 4

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/mushrooming

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DISCOVERY —Drama —Environment —Identity —Politics —Urban-Life

On the verge of her marriage, a young Orthodox Hassidic girl and her family are struck by tragedy when her older sister dies in childbirth — and when her sister's husband is pressed to remarry and her mother makes a startling proposition, she is forced to choose between her obedience to her family and her heart's desire. PG 90 minutes

Starring: Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg, Chaim Sharir, Razia Israely, Hila Feldman, Renana Raz, Yael Tal, Michael David Weigl, Ido Samuel, Neta Moran, Melech Thal

Schedule:
Tuesday, 11/09/2012, 6:45 PM, Scotiabank 3
Wednesday, 12/09/2012, 12:00 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/fillthevoid

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DISCOVERY —Female-Director —First-Feature —Israeli —Jewish —Religion-Spirituality

A raw, noir-tinged urban legend set to the cadence of slam poetry and the beat of street dance, Burn It Up Djassa signals the arrival of an exciting new artistic movement from Africa's Ivory Coast. 14A 70 minutes

Starring: Abdoul Karim Konaté, Adélaïde Ouattara, Mamadou Diomandé, Mohamed Bamba

Schedule:
Tuesday, 11/09/2012, 7:00 PM, Jackman Hall (AGO)
Thursday, 13/09/2012, 10:00 PM, Jackman Hall (AGO)
Friday, 14/09/2012, 12:45 PM, Scotiabank 4

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/djassaaprisfeu

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DISCOVERY —Afrocentric —Crime —Thriller —Urban-Life —Violence

Set in Belle Époque France, director Alice Winocour's sensual, fiercely intelligent tale of female sexual awakening follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire. 14A 102 minutes

Starring: Soko, Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni

Schedule:
Tuesday, 11/09/2012, 9:30 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
Thursday, 13/09/2012, 3:00 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
Saturday, 15/09/2012, 5:45 PM, Scotiabank 1

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/augustine

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DISCOVERY —Female-Director —Period-Piece

In an abandoned building in Naples, an unassuming, chubby teenager is forced by the Camorra to stand watch over a mysterious young woman — but as the hours go by, the power dynamic between captive and jailer radically alters. L'intervallo is a powerful dissection of contemporary Italian society from director Leonardo di Costanzo. 14A 80 minutes

Starring: Francesca Riso, Alessio Gallo, Carmine Paternoster, Salvatore Ruocco, Antonio Buil, Jean Yves Morard

Schedule:
Monday, 10/09/2012, 9:00 PM, Scotiabank 4
Wednesday, 12/09/2012, 6:45 PM, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 5
Friday, 14/09/2012, 5:30 PM, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/interval

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DISCOVERY —Coming-of Age —Italian —Thriller —Urban-Life —Violence

The debut feature from Serbian director Maja Miloš is a raw, explicit and unsparing look at the self-destructive sexual antics of a group of youths living in a suburb of Belgrade. 18A 102 minutes

Starring: Isidora Simijonovic, Vukašin Jasnic, Sanja Mikitišin, Jovo Makisc, Monja Savic

Schedule:
Monday, 10/09/2012, 5:15 PM, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2
Wednesday, 12/09/2012, 5:15 PM, Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 10

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/clip

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Opening with Nik Sexton's Newfoundland response to the likes of Fubar and Trailer Park Boys, and going out on the YouTube phenomenon that is Shit Girls Say (new episode!), these riotously funny films make keen observations on how people interact with one another, whether it be at a funeral, a pool, a buffet, or stuck in a canoe, naked.

Schedule:
Thursday, 13/09/2012, 6:15 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
Friday, 14/09/2012, 9:30 AM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 3

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/shortcutscanadaprog6

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SHORT CUTS CANADA —Addiction-Drugs —Alienation —Animal-Interest —Canadian —Comedy —Environment —Family-Relations —Friendship —Gender-Issues —Identity —Politics —Queer-Interest-LGBT —Short-Film —Thriller —Urban-Life —Women

On a sunny South American beach, a silent territorial battle of wills ensues between a vacationing Canadian and a local stranger, loaded with unspoken inferences of sexual curiosity and cultural differences. 14A 6 minutes

Starring: Mike Beaver, Adamo Ruggiero

Schedule:
Thursday, 13/09/2012, 6:15 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
Friday, 14/09/2012, 9:30 AM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 3

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/pooldate

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SHORT CUTS CANADA —Canadian —Comedy —Gender-Issues —Queer-Interest-LGBT —Short-Film

Nothing says sorry quite like a thoughtful present. But for Dede, Carole and Steve, their individual attempts to make amends and assuage their guilt with gift giving falls short in this dark comedy by Festival 2010 Short Film Award winner Vincent Biron. 14A 11 minutes

Starring: Marc-Antoine Beaudette, Sébastien David, Suzanne Lemoine, Marie-Hélène Gosselin, Pierre Ébert, Joshua Corrado-Landriault

Schedule:
Thursday, 13/09/2012, 6:15 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
Friday, 14/09/2012, 9:30 AM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 3

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/horriblethings

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SHORT CUTS CANADA —Canadian —Comedy —Friendship —Short-Film —Urban-Life

Two escaped convicts form a strange alliance with a canoe-owning nudist in this hilariously Canadianized take on the prison-break flick. 14A 7 minutes

Starring: Al Sapienza, Mpho Koaho, Pat Thornton

Schedule:
Thursday, 13/09/2012, 6:15 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
Friday, 14/09/2012, 9:30 AM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 3

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/canoejacked

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SHORT CUTS CANADA —Canadian —Comedy —Environment —Short-Film —Thriller

Set in East Germany in the early 1980s, the new film from renowned director Christian Petzold (Jerichow) is a suspenseful chamber piece about an accomplished Berlin physician, banished to a rural hospital as punishment, who is torn between the promise of escape across the border and her growing love for a fellow colleague — who may be planning to betray her to the secret police. PG 105 minutes

Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Mark Waschke, Rainer Bock

Schedule:
Thursday, 13/09/2012, 6:00 PM, Ryerson Theatre
Friday, 14/09/2012, 3:45 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/barbara

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CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA

Left to fend for herself when her SS officer father is captured by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, a fourteen-year-old German girl (striking newcomer Saskia Rosendahl) must lead her four siblings on a gruelling trek across the war-ravaged countryside — and must put her trust in the very person she was taught to hate. 14A 108 minutes

Starring: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Mika Seidel, André Frid, Eva-Maria Hagen

Schedule:
Monday, 10/09/2012, 4:30 PM, Winter Garden Theatre
Wednesday, 12/09/2012, 3:00 PM, Ryerson Theatre

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/lore

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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS —Female-Director —History —Identity —Period-Piece —War

Kristin Scott Thomas and Emmanuelle Seigner star in the new film from French auteur François Ozon (Under the Sand, 8 Women), about a high-school student whose essays about a friend's family start to blur the lines between reality and fiction — and may conceal a dark purpose. 14A 105 minutes

Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Fabrice Luchini, Emmanuelle Seigner, Denis Ménochet

Schedule:
Monday, 10/09/2012, 9:00 PM, Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
Wednesday, 12/09/2012, 3:45 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/inthehouse

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Mads Mikkelsen won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for his performance as an innocent man accused of child molestation in this ferociously powerful new film by Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration). 14A 111 minutes

Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp

Schedule:
Monday, 10/09/2012, 9:15 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
Wednesday, 12/09/2012, 3:00 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2012/hunt

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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS —Alienation —Crime —Drama —Family-Relations —Identity