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