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I was wondering why Peter Mullan's Neds wasn't included in Venice. I was wondering why the Midnight Madness section didn't name Koen Mortier's latest. I was wondering why Cannes regular Bent Hamer wasn't in Cannes. TIFF's CWC section has all three high profile items, plus Venice Film Festival's Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichard) and Three (Tom Tykwer). Reichard will participate in Kelly Reichardt in a Mavericks discussion about the behind the scenes of her process.

Among the five named below, Guo Xiaolu will come to Toronto with a current look on the fascinating country in transition (Once Upon a Time Proletarian: 12 Tales of a Country) and with the buzz of having just won the Golden Leopard Grand Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival for She, A Chinese.

Mr. Bjarnfredarson, the darkly comic culmination of Iceland's most popular TV series, The Night Shift, The Day Shift and The Prison Shift opened on December 26th and became the biggest opening ever for a local film. It has so far sold over 60.000 tickets. After holding behemoth Avatar at bay for two weeks (probably the only film in the world to do so), it's still going strong and has the potential to pass the current box office champion, Baltasar Kormakur's Jar City (84.000+).