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The Toronto Film Festival releases its final list of films tomorrow, and I've got at least four titles confirmed - all European. Sorry my lips are sealed. Look for our IONCINEMA.com TIFF checklist series starting tomorrow: a list of films 40 films I'll be covering at the festival this year.

I can see how Hirokazu Kore-eda's romantic fantasy might rub people off in the wrong way, we are used to an aesthetic and story-telling that borrows from the real and not from manga.

So the inflatable doll magically coming to life tale was perhaps too “out there” for a main comp acceptance, but Hirokazu Kore-eda's Air Doll came on over to Un Certain Regard section along with expect works from Romanian filmmakers Cristian Mungiu (Tales From The Golden Age) and Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective), France's Denis Dercourt (Demain Des L'aube), Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Nymph) and Cannes regular (The Host, Tokyo!) Bong Joon-Ho and his latest film, Mother.

Apart from the world premiere of Michael Cuesta's Tell-Tale and one more festival screening and chance to shine for Hirokazu Kore-eda's Still Walking, the selections are comprised of unknown projects, New York-based film productions that were completed in the last year, a bunch of films that receive a May theatrical release anyways and a batch of better than average films that were showcased at Sundance.

Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire may have walked away with TIFF's top prize of the People's Choice Award, but the critics are championing the latest effort from Hirokazu Kore-Eda instead and a pair of films among my tops of the festival in Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye,Solo and Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler are tied for second in a survey conducted by Eugene Hernandez over at indieWIRE.