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Look for IFC's Arianna Bocco and SPC's Michael Barker and Tom Bernard to be battling it out for Samuel Maoz's Lebanon. It just received its world premiere in Venice yesterday. The verdict so far: Three reviews. Three thumbs up.

Among the most anticipated titles we have is the Micmacs film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, a comedy that I thought was pegged for a Venice world preem but instead is showing in Toronto first. We have a friends of the festival in Dagur Kari who returns to TIFF with the Paul Dano and Brian Cox pairing and Fatih Akin will jump from Venice to TIFF with his first ever comedy in Soul Kitchen.

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.

Ballast might have lead the total number of nominations, but it is Frozen River who picked up a pair, including Gotham Awards’ top prize. Really?

"...character designs for this series are often way too angular, but the animation is crisper than I had anticipated, much nicer than most episodes of the Bruce Timm-produced series of yonder, yet still not the best it could be."