Yesterday Toronto International Film Festival programmers added a huge dose of Canadiana to the 2022 line-up sprinkling even more films. Among the new reveals we find the Contemporary World Cinema, TIFF Docs and Short Cuts programmes taking off with the Contemporary World Cinema added a whopping eleven maple leaf offerings which include Charlotte Le Bon‘s Quinzaine preemed Falcon Lake (read review), Graham Foy‘s The Maiden (a Giornate degli Autori selection) & the world premiere screening to Carly Stone‘s North of Normal. Another film title that we predicted in Darlene Naponse’s Stellar will also receive its world premiere. The festival also identified five docus and more than a dozen films in the Short Cuts section with new entries by the likes of Matthew Rankin, Carol Nguyen, Aziz Zoromba and Emilie Mannering. Look for next week’s wave of titles midweek.
Contemporary World Cinema: Blind Willows, Sleeping Women – Pierre Fӧldes Bones of Crows – Marie Clements Coyote – Katherine Jerkovic End of Sex – Sean Garrity Falcon Lake – Charlotte Le Bon The Maiden – Graham Foy Nighttalk – Donald Shebib North of Normal – Carly Stone So Much Tenderness – Lina Rodriguez Stellar – Darlene Naponse The Swearing Jar – Lindsay MacKay
TIFF Docs: 752 Is Not A Number– Babak Payami Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On – Madison Thomas The Colour of Ink – Brian Johnson Ever Deadly – Chelsea McMullan, Tanya Tagaq To Kill A Tiger – Nisha Pahuja
Primetime:
Lido TV – Lido Pimienta, Sean O’Neill
Short Cuts:
A La Vie A L’amor – Emilie Mannering
Canary – Pierre-Hugues Dallaire, Benoit Therriault
The Chase – Gurjeet Kaur Bassi
Diaspora – Tyler Mckenzie Evans
The Flying Sailor – Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis
Hills and Mountains – Salar Pashtoonyar
It’s What Each Person Needs – Sophy Romvari
Lay Me by the Shore – David Findlay
Municipal Relaxation Module – Matthew Rankin
Nanitic – Carol Nguyen
No Ghost in the Morgue – Marilyn Cooke
N’xaxaitkw – Asia Youngman
Pleasure Garden – Rita Ferrando
Quiet Minds Silent Streets – Karen Chapman
Same Old – Lloyd Lee Choi
Scaring Women At Night – Karimah Zakia Issa
Simo – Aziz Zoromba
Untold Hours – Daniel Warth
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include 1976 (Manuela Martelli), Godland (Hlynur Pálmason), Corsage (Marie Kreutzer), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen).