Canadian Titles Announced For The Toronto International Film Festival!

FESTIVAL SHINES THE SPOTLIGHT ON CANADIAN CINEMA
Toronto – Canadian programming at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival celebrates the best of our national cinema, bringing the
country’s finest films and filmmakers to the attention of local, national and international audiences. Ticket Packages now on sale. Purchase
online at tiff08.ca, by phone at 416-968-FILM or 1-877-968-FILM or in person at the Festival Box Office at Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor
Street West (main floor, north entrance). Box Office hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The 33rd Toronto
International Film Festival runs September 4 through 13, 2008.

The Festival announces Michael McGowan’s One Week, starring Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban and Campbell Scott, and Kari Skogland’s
Fifty Dead Men Walking, starring Jim Sturgess, Sir Ben Kingsley, Rose McGowan and Kevin Zegers. These titles join the previously
announced Opening Night film, Passchendaele by Paul Gross, as Canadian Gala Presentations to date.

Special Presentations include Deepa Mehta’s Heaven on Earth, Fernando Meirelles’s Blindness and Philippe Falardeau’s C’est pas
moi, je le jure! (It’s Not Me, I Swear !). These titles join Atom Egoyan’s previously announced Adoration.

This year’s Canadian Open Vault selection is François Girard’s breakthrough feature film 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993).
Sumptuously photographed and designed as 32 separate portraits in image and sound, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould is a
compelling and striking exploration of the idiosyncratic world of Gould’s ideas and music.

Canada First! opens with Neil Burns’s Edison and Leo, Canada’s first stop-motion animated feature. Additional Canada First! titles
include Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu’s Before Tomorrow, Warren Sonada’s Cooper’s Camera, Justin Simms’s Down to
the Dirt, Charles Officer’s Nurse. Fighter. Boy, Ingrid Veninger and Simon Reynolds’s Only, Randall Cole’s Real Time, Terry Miles’s
When Life Was Good and Cameron Labine’s Control Alt Delete.

Contemporary World Cinema titles include Rodrigue Jean’s Lost Song, Léa Pool’s Maman est chez le coiffeur, Carl Bessai’s
Mothers&Daughters, Francis Leclerc’s Un Été sans point ni coup sûr and Toronto Stories from filmmakers Sook-Yin Lee, Sudz
Sutherland, David Weaver and Aaron Woodley.

Real to Reel includes Malcolm Rogge’s Under Rich Earth, Astra Taylor’s Examined Life and Luc Bourdon’s La Mémoire des anges.
Vanguard includes Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool and Rafaël Ouellet’s Derrière moi.

Exhibiting the originality and creativity of Canadian short filmmakers, Short Cuts Canada presents 38 engaging shorts this year. The
programme focuses local and international audience, media and industry attention on some of Canada’s most innovative filmmakers. Titles
include Denis Villeneuve’s Next Floor, Guy Édoin’s La Battue and Helen Lee’s Hers at Last.

Now in its fifth year, Canadian Initiatives’ Talent Lab offers invaluable artistic development opportunities to 22 emerging filmmakers in a
four-day intensive programme. This year’s governors include celebrated French director Olivier Assayas (Chacun Son Cinema, Paris, je
t’aime, Clean) and internationally acclaimed British producer Stephen Woolley (Breakfast on Pluto, The Crying Game).