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We find Japanese helmer Sion Sono embarking on a new project that, according to the film's sales agent, promises to include "hard sex scenes". The AFM sold Guilty of Romance will star a little-known unnamed actress, and will obviously become one more example of how the filmmaker behind recent TIFF preemed Cold Fish and Strange Circus continually works with a poetic curriculum that provokes.

From the maker behind 2001's Suicide Club and the four-hour opus 2009's Love Exposure comes this messed up piece that is based on a true story. Showing in Venice and TIFF, the public screenings for this will be considered film events at the festival itself with many Sono fans packing the seats.

Deemed as re-branding of the section, a more eclectic melange of titles mixing short, medium length pics, documentaries film and feature length items, of the items that will generate the most interest are the opening and closing titles which were revealed the week before, but we should see media coverage mentions on Paul Morrissey's News From Nowhere, Jose Luis Guerin's docu Guest (I've yet to see 2007/2008's In the City of Sylvia) and Sion Sono's Cold Fish and short film offerings from Guillermo Arriaga, Isaac Julien and Clara Law.

Not your run-of-the-mill future film festival selection, filmmakers Gael García Bernal (Déficit), Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur), Sebastián Silva (Nasty Baby), Shion Sono (Suicide Club), Natasha Khan...

Announcing nine out of ten titles from its 2013 lineup, TIFF’s Midnight Madness blazes in with a fever pitch, promising to be one of...