Film Festivals
TIFF 2013: Latest From Alain Guiraudie, Cristi Puiu, Claire Denis & Catherine Breillat Added to Line-Up

Thanks to the inquisitive nature of one of our most unabashedly hardcore cinephile writers on the site (Blake you’re a hawk!), we’ve uncovered a slew of title offerings for this year’s TIFF (a little ahead of what should be the final announcement wave) and we’ve got a grab-bag of mention-worthy items from beloved auteurs. Among the titles (see list below – here’s our source) we find carry-over items from Cannes in Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake, Rithy Panh’s The Missing Image, Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties and Claire Denis’ Bastards (among one of our top films for 2013 – see pic above), while from Venice, we have the just-inserted Patrice Leconte title, A Promise and what will easily be among the most sought after TIFF 2013 coverage items in Catherine Breillat’s Abus de faiblesse. Here is the rest of the spoiler set:
Special Presentations
A Promise by Patrice Leconte
Au diable les jeunes filles by Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu
The Finishers by Nils Tavernier
Rock the Casbah by Laila Marrakchi
Gala Presentations
Bright Days Ahead by Marion Vernoux
Blood Ties by Guillaume Canet
Masters Program
Abus de faiblesse by Catherine Breillat
Bastards by Claire Denis
TIFF Kids
Amazonia by Thierry Ragobert
Wavelengths
Un conte de Michel de Montaigne by Jean-Marie Straub
A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness by Ben Russell & Ben Rivers
Pays barbare by Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi
The Missing Image by Rithy Panh
Trois exercices d’interprétation by Cristi Puiu
Contemporary World Cinema Program
Stranger by the Lake by Alain Guiraudie
Friends from France by Anne Weil & Philippe Kotlarski
Eastern Boys by Robin Campillo
Under the Starry Sky by Diana Gaye
Discovery Program
L’Armée du salut by Abdellah Taïa
Giraffada by Rani Massalha
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 Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
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