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I've come up with a magical number of 30 films that I'll be covering for the fest (you might have noticed the TIFF Picks countdown over the past couple of weeks), when in fact that, the number of films I hope to catch a whopping 44!

Fish Tank, Everyone Else, Dogtooth, Police Adjective, A Prophet and White Ribbon are just a half a dozen titles among the 48 films that have a shot at being nominated among several categories for 22nd The European Film Awards.

North of the Oscar land, Canada should be represented by Denis Villeneuve's gripping drama Polytechnique, while Latin America has some pretty solid contenders in Chile Sebastian Silva's The Maid (a multiple film festival award). Chile's neighbour to the North (Peru) has got a Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner in Claudia Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow (her first film Madeinusa got a nom couple of years back) and its neighbour to the East (Argentina) has a triple Berlin winner in Adrián Biniez's debut drama Gigante which won for Best Debut Film, Alfred Bauer Award and 2nd place - Silver Berlin Bear.

When you cover a film festival of the size of Cannes, it is the standalone celluloid moments within a film that make the draining process of spending half the day in the dark actually worthwhile.

Today I won't be touching the main comp offerings: I've programmed Looking for Eric for this coming Sunday (day where they replay all the films in comp). Today, I'll venture into the sidebars and catch two Spanish language films and one Quebecois offering from Xavier Dolan (we had a quick interview before coming down to Cannes).