# 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

The 2007 Toronto International Film Festival was a 32nd annual film festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It ran from September 6, 2007 to September 15, 2007. The lineup consisted of 349 films from 55 countries, selected from 4156 submissions. The selection included 275 mid- to feature-length films, of which 234 were premieres, with 71 by first-time directors. The festival was attended by members of the industry, press and general public. It opened with the world premiere of Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces, a film based on the international bestselling novel by Anne Michaels, and closed with Paolo Barzman's Emotional Arithmetic.

## Film reception

Critical favourites included No Country for Old Men, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days which were equally well received at the Cannes Film Festival, plus the Joy Division biopic Control which, along with the eponymously titled documentary on the band, Joy Division, was picked up by The Weinstein Company. Peter Howell of the Toronto Star named Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead a major Oscar contender. The audience favourite, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, won the top prize at the festival. The New York Times pointed out that two previous winners had gone on to win Best Picture Oscars.
Highly discussed but divisive films among the public and critics include comedies Juno and Margot at the Wedding, the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There and Brian De Palma's Iraq War documentary Redacted. Films expected to stir controversy for their transgressive sexual content, such as Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, Alan Ball's Nothing Is Private and Martin Gero's Young People Fucking, did divide audiences but without fanfare. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Across the Universe both won their share of supporters despite previous reports of shooting delays and director-studio clashes.

## Awards

* Chris Chong Chan Fui's Pool (Kolam) won the Award for Best Canadian Short Film
* Stéphane Lafleur's Continental, a Film Without Guns won the Citytv Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film
* Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg won the Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film
* Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán's Cochochi won the DIESEL Discovery Award
* Anahí Berneri's Encarnación won the Artistic Innovation Award
* Rodrigo Plá's La Zona won the Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize)
* David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises won the Cadillac People's Choice Award
** Jason Reitman's Juno was first runner-up
** Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue's Body of War was second runner-up
In addition, film director and historian Peter Bogdanovich was awarded the International Federation of Film Archives Award for his contribution towards film preservation. The award was presented at a screening of Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937) which Bogdanovich selected to illustrate the importance of film restoration.

## Programmes
### Canada First!

The Canada First! programme features first or second time Canadian film directors and established Canadian filmmakers who have not previously appeared in the festival. Eight films were selected to appear in the festival. Stéphane Lafleur's directorial debut Continental, a Film Without Guns won the Citytv Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film and a CDN$15 000 bursary.
* Amal directed by Richie Mehta
* Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil) directed by Stéphane Lafleur
* Just Buried directed by Chaz Thorne
* Mona's Daughters (Le Cèdre penché) directed by Rafaël Ouellet
* They Wait directed by Ernie Barbarash
* This Beautiful City directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly
* Walk All Over Me directed by Robert Cuffley
* Young People Fucking directed by Martin Gero

### Canadian Open Vault

The Canadian Open Vault programme features a recently restored and iconic Canadian film. Quebec-based filmmaker Francis Mankiewicz's Good Riddance was selected. The film has previously won eight Genie Awards and appeared on every Canada's Ten Best film survey.
* Good Riddance (Les Bons Débarras, 1980) directed by Francis Mankiewicz

### Canadian Retrospective

The Canadian Retrospective programme features a section of films representing an aspect of the history of Canadian cinema. It was the seventh year the festival has held the retrospective. Influential Québécois filmmaker Michel Brault was spotlighted through nine films he directed or shot. He has been credited for his visual style and creating some of the most important films to come from Quebec. In conjunction, the Toronto International Film Festival Group published a book on Brault, Cinema as History: Michel Brault and Modern Quebec by Andre Loiselle.
* Acadia Acadia?!? (L'Acadie, l'Acadie?!?, 1971) directed by Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault
* Chronicle of a Summer (Chronique d'un été, 1961) directed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch
* Drifting Upstream (Entre la mer et l'eau douce, 1967) directed by Michel Brault
* Geneviève (1964) directed by Michel Brault
* Wrestling (La Lutte, 1961) directed by Claude Fournier, Marcel Carrière, Claude Jutra and Michel Brault
* The Paper Wedding (Les Noces de papier, 1989) directed by Michel Brault
* Orders (Les Ordres, 1974) directed by Michel Brault
* The Moon Trap (Pour la suite du monde, 1963) directed by Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault
* The Snowshoers (Les Raquetteurs, 1968) directed by Gilles Groulx and Michel Brault

### Contemporary World Cinema

The Contemporary World Cinema programme features films from around the world. It included premieres and prize-winning films from other festivals. Sixty-two films were selected, including eight from Canada.
* All Hat — Leonard Farlinger
* American Venus — Bruce Sweeney
* And Along Come Tourists (Am Ende kommen Touristen) — Robert Thalheim
* Before I Forget (Avant que j'oublie) — Jacques Nolot
* The Band's Visit (Bikur Hatizmoret) — Eran Kolirin
* The Banishment (Izgnanie) — Andrey Zvyagintsev
* Barcelona (A Map) (Barcelona (un mapa)) — Ventura Pons
* Battle for Haditha — Nick Broomfield
* Breakfast with Scot — Laurie Lynd
* Brick Lane — Sarah Gavron
* California Dreamin' (Endless) (California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)) — Cristian Nemescu
* Chop Shop — Ramin Bahrani
* Summit Circle (Contre toute espérance) — Bernard Émond
* The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) — Stefan Ruzowitzky
* Two Ladies (Dans la vie) — Philippe Faucon
* Days and Clouds (Giorni e nuvole) — Silvio Soldini
* The Edge of Heaven (Auf der Anderen Seite) — Fatih Akin
* Empties (Vratné Lahve) — Jan Svěrák
* Intimate Enemies (L'Ennemi intime) — Florent-Emilio Siri
* Erik Nietzsche The Early Years (Erik Nietzsche de unge år) — Jacob Thuesen
* Faro, Goddess of the Waters (Faro, la reine des eaux) — Salif Traoré
* Forever Never Anywhere (Immer Nie am Meer) — Antonin Svoboda
* Garage — Lenny Abrahamson
* A Gentle Breeze in the Village (Tennen Kokekkō) — Nobuhiro Yamashita
* Gone with the Woman (Tatt av kvinnen) — Petter Næss
* Happiness (Haeng-bok) — Hur Jin-ho
* The Home Song Stories — Tony Ayres
* In Memory of Myself (In memoria di me) — Saverio Costanzo
* Iska's Journey (Iszka utazása) — Csaba Bollók
* Jar City (Mýrin) — Baltasar Kormákur
* Jellyfish (Meduzot) — Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret
* Just Like Home (Hjemve) — Lone Scherfig
* King of California directed by Mike Cahill
* Kings directed by Tom Collins
* L'ora di punta — Vincenzo Marra
* The Mourning Forest (Mogari No Mori) — Naomi Kawase
* Munyurangabo — Lee Isaac Chung
* Mutum — Sandra Kogut
* My Brother Is an Only Child (Mio fratello è figlio unico) — Daniele Luchetti
* New York City Serenade — Frank Whaley
* Normal — Carl Bessai
* Our Private Lives (Nos vies privées) — Denis Côté
* On the Wings of Dreams (Swopnodanay) — Golam Rabbany Biplob
* Philippine Science (Pisay) — Auraeus Solito
* The Pope's Toilet (El Baño del Papa) — Enrique Fernández and César Charlone
* Run, Fat Boy, Run — David Schwimmer
* Secret Sunshine (Miryang) — Lee Chang-dong
* The Secrets — Avi Nesher
* The Shock Doctrine — Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón and Naomi Klein
* Slingshot (Tirador) — Brillante Mendoza
* Son of Rambow — Garth Jennings
* Starting Out in the Evening — Andrew Wagner
* The Stone Angel — Kari Skogland
* A Stray Girlfriend (Una novia errante) — Ana Katz
* To Love Someone (Den Man Älskar) — Åke Sandgren
* The Trap (Klopka) — Srdan Golubović
* Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna) — Patricia Riggen
* Unfinished Sky — Peter Duncan
* Unfinished Stories (Ravayat haye na tamam) — Pourya Azarbayjani
* The Last Mistress (Une vieille maîtresse) — Catherine Breillat
* Weirdsville — Allan Moyle
* Wolfsbergen — Nanouk Leopold

### Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

The Dialogues: Talking With Pictures series features a selection of classic films which are chosen and introduced by well-known directors or artists who have found a given film influential or pivotal throughout the course of their own career. Eight films were selected between nine filmmakers and artists.
* Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) directed by Martin Scorsese; introduced by actress Ellen Burstyn
* The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) directed by William Wyler; introduced by director Sidney Lumet
* Bucking Broadway (1917) directed by John Ford; introduced by director Peter Bogdanovich
* Closely Watched Trains (Ostře Sledované Vlaky, 1966) directed by Jiří Menzel; introduced by director Ken Loach
* La jetée (1962) directed by Chris Marker; introduced by architect Bruce Kuwabara
* Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) directed by Richard Attenborough; introduced by Lord Richard Attenborough
* Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (1961) directed by Henry Koster; introduced by actress Nancy Kwan and director Arthur Dong
* The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan, 1960) directed by Ingmar Bergman; introduced by actor Max von Sydow

### Discovery

The Discovery programme features the work of new film directors from around the world. Fourteen films were selected. Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán's feature debut Cochochi won the DIESEL Discovery Award and a CDN$10 000 bursary. The International Federation of Film Critics returned to the festival for the 16th year and awarded Rodrigo Plá's La Zona the FIPRESCI Prize.
* The Babysitters directed by David Ross
* Blind directed by Tamar van den Dop
* Cochochi directed by Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán
* Corroboree directed by Ben Hackworth
* Frozen directed by Shivajee Chandrabhushan
* I Am from Titov Veles (Jas Sum od Titov Veles) directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska
* King of the Hill (El rey de la montaña) directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego
* The Passage directed by Mark Heller
* Roming directed by Jiří Vejdělek
* September directed by Peter Carstairs
* Those Three (An Seh) directed by Naghi Nemati
* With Your Permission (Til Døden Os Skiller) directed by Paprika Steen
* The World Unseen directed by Shamim Sarif
* La Zona directed by Rodrigo Plá

### Doc Talks

The Doc Talk series features discussions with various documentary filmmakers on topics such as the future of the medium and their work and its subject matter. Clips from their new and upcoming documentaries are screened. The series was opened to the public for the first time. Topics included biography films, Michel Brault, war and democracy.
* Biography: Complicated Lives with Scott Hicks (GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts), Peter Raymont (A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman) and Peter Askin (Trumbo)
* Canadian Retrospective: Michel Brault with Denys Arcand (Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres)) and Michel Brault (Chronicle of a Summer); moderated by André Loiselle (Cinema as History: Michel Brault and Modern Quebec)
* Covering War with Michael Tucker (The Bullet-Proof Salesman), Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro (Body of War)
* Why Democracy? with Nick Fraser (Storyville)

### Future Projections

The Future Projections programme features non-theatrical installations in various mediums. This marked the programme's inaugural run. Nine installations were curated by the Toronto International Film Festival Group and other Torontonian cultural institutions. Admission was free for all exhibitions, with the exception of the exhibit at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery which was free only to Festival passholders.
* Best Minds Part One created by Jeremy Shaw; curated by Wayne Baerwaldt
* Darfur/Darfur created by various artists; curated by Leslie Thomas
* Death in the Land of Encantos (Kagadanan sa Banwaan ning mga Engkanto) created by Lav Diaz; curated by Cameron Bailey
* Francesco Vezzoli: A True Hollywood Story! created by Francesco Vezzoli; curated by Gregory Burke
* Into the Pixel created by various artists; organized by Nick Pagee
* Late Fragment directed by Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron and Mateo Guez; produced by Anita Lee and Ana Serrano
* The Soft Revolution directed by Brian Johnson and Anthony Roberts
* Tyranny created by Ryan Sluggett; organized by Wayne Baerwaldt
* Wildflowers of Manitoba created by Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob; curated by Wayne Baerwaldt

### Gala Presentations

Gala Presentations spotlights prestige films of Canadian, American and foreign-language origins in equal measure. They are often world or North American premieres and are screened at the Roy Thomson Hall. Twenty films were selected. David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises received the Cadillac People's Choice Award.
* Fugitive Pieces directed by Jeremy Podeswa
* Rendition directed by Gavin Hood
* Michael Clayton directed by Tony Gilroy
* Battle for Terra directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas
* Eastern Promises directed by David Cronenberg
* Second Wind (Le Deuxième Souffle) directed by Alain Corneau
* The Last Lear directed by Rituparno Ghosh
* Elizabeth: The Golden Age directed by Shekhar Kapur
* The Jane Austen Book Club directed by Robin Swicord
* Sleuth directed by Kenneth Branagh
* Across the Universe directed by Julie Taymor
* Cassandra's Dream directed by Woody Allen
* Cleaner directed by Renny Harlin
* Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres) directed by Denys Arcand
* Blood Brothers (Tian Tang Kou) directed by Alexi Tan
* Reservation Road directed by Terry George
* The Walker directed by Paul Schrader
* Closing the Ring directed by Richard Attenborough
* Caramel directed by Nadine Labaki
* Emotional Arithmetic directed by Paolo Barzman

### Masters

The Masters programme features films by world-renowned filmmakers. Twenty films were selected.
* Alexandra directed by Alexander Sokurov
* Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon) directed by Eric Rohmer
* Beyond the Years (Chun-Nyun-Hack) directed by Im Kwon-taek
* Chaos (Heya Fawda) directed by Youssef Chahine and Youssef Khaled
* Christopher Columbus – The Enigma (Cristóvão Colombo – O Enigma) directed by Manoel de Oliveira
* Disengagement directed by Amos Gitai
* The Past (El Pasado) directed by Héctor Babenco
* Fados directed by Carlos Saura
* A Girl Cut in Two (La Fille coupée en deux) directed by Claude Chabrol
* Four Women (Naalu Pennunga) directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
* Glory to the Filmmaker! (Kantoku Banzai!) directed by Takeshi Kitano
* It's a Free World... directed by Ken Loach
* The Man from London (A London Férfi) directed by Béla Tarr
* The Duchess of Langeais (Ne touchez pas la hache) directed by Jacques Rivette
* One Hundred Nails (Centochiodi) directed by Ermanno Olmi
* The Princess of Nebraska directed by Wayne Wang
* A Thousand Years of Good Prayers directed by Wayne Wang
* Ulzhan directed by Volker Schlöndorff
* Flight of the Red Balloon (Le Voyage du ballon rouge) directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
* The Voyeurs (Ami, Yasin Ar Amar Madhubala) directed by Buddhadev Dasgupta

### Mavericks

Mavericks features discussions with film industry and other professionals. Four events were held on a variety of socio-political topics. Former President of the United States Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter discussed their activist work after his presidential term. Comedians Bill Maher and Larry Charles tackled religion. Mira Nair brought together three other Indian filmmakers who covered HIV/AIDS and screened four new short films on the subject. Finally, the conflict in Sudan was discussed by the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, and a panel of filmmakers.
* Everything to Gain: A Conversation with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter (Jonathan Demme's Man from Plains); moderated by Allan Gregg
* Mira Nair Presents: Four Views on AIDS in India with Mira Nair (Migration), Santosh Sivan (Prarambha), Vishal Bhardwaj (Blood Brothers) and Farhan Akhtar (Positive); moderated by Mira Nair and Ashok Alexander (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Indian HIV/AIDS initiative)
* Religulous: A Conversation with Bill Maher and Larry Charles with Bill Maher and Larry Charles (Religulous)
* The Time Is Now: A Conversation About Darfur with Luis Moreno-Ocampo (Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court), Don Cheadle (actor, activist), Adam Sterling (co-founder, Sudan Divestment Task Force), Ted Braun (director, Darfur Now), Mark Jonathan Harris (producer, Darfur Now) and Cathy Schulman (producer, Darfur Now)

### Midnight Madness

* Dainipponjin directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto
* The Devil's Chair directed by Adam Mason
* Flash Point (Dao Huo Xian) directed by Wilson Yip
* Frontier(s) (Frontière(s)) directed by Xavier Gens
* George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead directed by George A. Romero
* Inside (À l'intérieur) directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury
* The Mother of Tears directed by Dario Argento
* Stuck directed by Stuart Gordon
* Sukiyaki Western Django directed by Takashi Miike
* Vexille directed by Fumihiko Sori

### Real to Reel

* Algeria, Unspoken Stories (Algérie, histoires à ne pas dire) directed by Jean-Pierre Lledo
* Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who directed by Paul Crowder and Murray Lerner
* Terror's Advocate (L'Avocat de la terreur) directed by Barbet Schroeder
* Body of War directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue
* Callas Assoluta directed by Philippe Kohly
* Children of the Sun (Yaldey Hashemesh) directed by Ran Tal
* Darfur Now directed by Ted Braun
* The Dictator Hunter directed by Klaartje Quirijns
* Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey directed by Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan
* Encounters at the End of the World directed by Werner Herzog
* Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (He Fengming) directed by Wang Bing
* GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts directed by Scott Hicks
* Heavy Metal in Baghdad directed by Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi
* Hollywood Chinese directed by Arthur Dong
* Iron Ladies of Liberia directed by Daniel Junge and Siatta Scott Johnson
* A Jihad for Love directed by Parvez Sharma
* Joy Division directed by Grant Gee
* Lou Reed's Berlin directed by Julian Schnabel
* Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient directed by Todd McCarthy
* The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories (Problemat s komarite i drugi istorii) directed by Andrey Paounov
* My Enemy's Enemy directed by Kevin Macdonald
* My Kid Could Paint That directed by Amir Bar-Lev
* Obscene directed by Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O'Connor
* Operation Filmmaker directed by Nina Davenport
* Please Vote for Me directed by Weijun Chen
* A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman directed by Peter Raymont
* Rebellion: the Litvinenko Case (Bunt. Delo Litvinenko) directed by Andrei Nekrasov
* Surfwise directed by Doug Pray
* Trumbo directed by Peter Askin
* Useless (Wu Yong) directed by Jia Zhangke
* Very Young Girls directed by David Schisgall
* The Wild Horse Redemption directed by John Zaritsky

### Short Cuts Canada

* Automoto directed by Neil McInnes and Cathy McInnes
* Blood Will Tell directed by Andrew McPhillips
* Boar Attack directed by Jay White
* Bumblebee directed by Jonathan van Tulleken
* Burgeon and Fade directed by Audrey Cummings
* Can You Wave Bye-Bye? directed by Sarah Galea-Davis
* The Canadian Shield directed by Simon Ennis
* Code 13 directed by Mathieu Denis
* The Colony directed by Jeff Barnaby
* Congratulations Daisy Graham directed by Cassandra Nicolaou
* A Cure for Terminal Loneliness directed by Samir Rehem
* Cursing Hanley directed by Kelly Harms
* Dada Dum directed by Britt Randle
* Diamonds in a Bucket directed by Sherry White
* Dust Bowl Ha! Ha! directed by Sébastien Pilote
* Farmer's Requiem directed by Ramses Madina
* found oBjects directed by David Birnbaum
* Four Walls directed by Raha Shirazi
* francas directed by Eduardo Menz
* Gene Boy Came Home directed by Alanis Obomsawin
* God Provides directed by Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky
* Hastings Street directed by Larry Kent
* Hirsute directed by A.J. Bond
* Hymn to Pan directed by François Miron
* I Have Seen the Future directed by Cam Christiansen
* I've Never Had Sex... directed by Robert Kennedy
* Knights of Atomikaron directed by Adam Brodie and Dave Derewlany
* The Last Moment directed by Deco Dawson
* Latchkey's Lament directed by Troy Nixey
* Loudly, Death Unties directed by Sheila Pye and Nicholas Pye
* Madame Tutli-Putli directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
* No Bikini directed by Claudia Morgado Escanilla
* Paradise directed by Jesse Rosensweet
* ReOrder directed by Sean Garrity
* The Schoolyard (Les Grands) directed by Chloé Leriche
* Shooting Geronimo directed by Kent Monkman
* A Short Film About Falling directed by Peter Lynch and Max Dean
* Smile directed by Julia Kwan
* Teenage Girl directed by Greg Atkins
* Terminus directed by Trevor Cawood
* Terry Southern's Plums and Prunes directed by Dev Khanna
* Three Beans for George directed by Sean Anicic
* Tic Tac Toe directed by Matthew Swanson
* The Whole Day Through directed by Adam Budd

### Special Presentations

* 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 sǎptǎmâni şi 2 zile) directed by Cristian Mungiu
* Angel directed by François Ozon
* The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford directed by Andrew Dominik
* Atonement directed by Joe Wright
* Battle in Seattle directed by Stuart Townsend
* Before the Devil Knows You're Dead directed by Sidney Lumet
* Before the Rains directed by Santosh Sivan
* Bill directed by Melisa Wallack and Bernie Goldmann
* The Brave One directed by Neil Jordan
* Captain Mike Across America directed by Michael Moore
* To Each His Own Cinema (Chacun son cinéma) directed by Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raúl Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming-liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou
* Chaotic Ana (Caótica Ana) directed by Julio Medem
* Death Defying Acts directed by Gillian Armstrong
* The Girl in the Park directed by David Auburn
* Grand Illusion (La Grand Illusion, 1937) directed by Jean Renoir; introduced by director Peter Bogdanovich
* Here Is What Is directed by Adam Vollick, Daniel Lanois and Adam Samuels
* Honeydripper directed by John Sayles
* I'm Not There directed by Todd Haynes
* In Bloom directed by Vadim Perelman
* In the Valley of Elah directed by Paul Haggis
* Into the Wild directed by Sean Penn
* Juno directed by Jason Reitman
* Lars and the Real Girl directed by Craig Gillespie
* Love Comes Lately directed by Jan Schütte
* Lust, Caution (pinyin: Sè, Jiè) directed by Ang Lee
* Mad Detective directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai
* Man from Plains directed by Jonathan Demme
* Margot at the Wedding directed by Noah Baumbach
* Married Life directed by Ira Sachs
* Mongol directed by Sergei Bodrov
* My Winnipeg directed by Guy Maddin
* Nightwatching directed by Peter Greenaway
* No Country for Old Men directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
* Nothing Is Private directed by Alan Ball
* Persepolis directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
* Poor Boy's Game directed by Clement Virgo
* Rails & Ties directed by Alison Eastwood
* Reclaim your brain (Free Rainer - Dein Fernseher Lügt) directed by Hans Weingartner
* Redacted directed by Brian De Palma
* Romulus, My Father directed by Richard Roxburgh
* The Savages directed by Tamara Jenkins
* The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) directed by Julian Schnabel
* Shadows directed by Milcho Manchevski
* Shake Hands with the Devil directed by Roger Spottiswoode
* Silk directed by François Girard
* The Sun Also Rises (Tai Yang Zhao Chang Sheng Qi) directed by Jiang Wen
* The Take directed by Brad Furman
* Then She Found Me directed by Helen Hunt
* The Visitor directed by Tom McCarthy
* When Did You Last See Your Father? directed by Anand Tucker

### Sprockets Family Zone

* The Besieged Fortress (La Citadelle assiégée) directed by Philippe Calderon
* Max & Co directed by Frédéric Guillaume and Samuel Guillaume
* Mid Road Gang (Ma-Mha-See-Kha-Krub) directed by Pantham Thongsang and Somkiat Vithuranich
* Nocturna directed by Victor Maldonado and Adriàn García
* The Substitute (Vikaren) directed by Ole Bornedal

### Vanguard

* Boy A directed by John Crowley
* Les Chansons d'amour directed by Christophe Honoré
* Chrysalis directed by Julien Leclercq
* Control directed by Anton Corbijn
* Déficit directed by Gael García Bernal
* Ex Drummer directed by Koen Mortier
* The Exodus directed by Pang Ho-Cheung
* Help Me Eros (Bang Bang Wo Ai Shen) directed by Lee Kang-sheng
* me (yo) directed by Rafa Cortés
* Mister Lonely directed by Harmony Korine
* Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres) directed by Céline Sciamma
* The Orphanage (El Orfanato) directed by Juan Antonio Bayona
* Paranoid Park directed by Gus Van Sant
* Ping Pong Playa directed by Jessica Yu
* Sad Vacation directed by Shinji Aoyama
* Smiley Face directed by Gregg Araki
* White Lies, Black Sheep directed by James Spooner
* XXY directed by Lucía Puenzo

### Visions

* Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (Buda As Sharm Foru Rikht) directed by Hana Makhmalbaf
* Dans la Ville de Sylvie (En la ciudad de Sylvia) directed by José Luis Guerín
* Death in the Land of Encantos (Kagadanan sa Banwaan ning mga Engkanto) directed by Lav Diaz
* Dr. Plonk directed by Rolf de Heer
* Eat, For This is My Body directed by Michelange Quay
* Encarnación directed by Anahí Berneri
* Happy New Life (Boldog új élet) directed by Árpád Bogdán
* Import Export directed by Ulrich Seidl
* L'Amour caché directed by Alessandro Capone
* M directed by Lee Myung-se
* Night directed by Lawrence Johnston
* Pink (Roz) directed by Alexander Voulgaris
* Ploy directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
* Silent Light (Stellet Licht) directed by Carlos Reygadas
* Silent Resident (Weisse Lilien) directed by Christian Frosch
* Beneath the Rooftops of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris) directed by Hiner Saleem
* Time to Die (Pora Umierać) directed by Dorota Kędzierzawska
* The Tracey Fragments directed by Bruce McDonald
* You, the Living (Du levande) directed by Roy Andersson

### Wavelengths

* The Acrobat directed by Chris Kennedy
* All That Rises directed by Daïchi Saïto
* The Anthem directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
* At Sea directed by Peter Hutton
* The Butterfly in Winter directed by Ute Aurand and Maria Lang
* Capitalism: Slavery directed by Ken Jacobs
* Cross Worlds directed by Cécile Fontaine
* Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3 directed by Charlotte Pryce
* Echo directed by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
* ecp 2D: sun directed by John Price
* Erzählung directed by Hannes Schüpbach
* Europa 2005, 27 Octobre directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
* Evertwo Circumflicksrent...Page 298 directed by Bruce McClure
* Wrong Moves (Faux Mouvements) directed by Pip Chodorov
* gone directed by Karoe Goldt
* Monica directed by Enrico Mandirola
* Papillon directed by Olivier Fouchard
* Pool (Kolam) directed by Chris Chong Chan Fui
* Pour Vos Beaux Yeux directed by Henri Storck
* Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind directed by John Gianvito
* Quartet directed by Nicky Hamlyn
* Schindler's Houses (Photography and Beyond Part 12) directed by Heinz Emigholz
* Tape Film directed by Chris Kennedy
* What the Water Said, nos. 4-6 directed by David Gatten

## Canada's Top Ten

TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list, its national critics and festival programmers poll of the ten best feature and short films of the year, was released in December 2007. For the first time, separate lists of feature and short films were announced.

### Feature films

* Amal — Richie Mehta
* Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil) — Stéphane Lafleur
* Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres) — Denys Arcand
* Eastern Promises — David Cronenberg
* Fugitive Pieces — Jeremy Podeswa
* My Winnipeg — Guy Maddin
* A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman — Peter Raymont
* The Tracey Fragments — Bruce McDonald
* Up the Yangtze — Yung Chang
* Young People Fucking — Martin Gero

### Short films

* Code 13 — Mathieu Denis
* The Colony — Jeff Barnaby
* Dust Bowl Ha! Ha! — Sébastien Pilote
* Farmer's Requiem — Ramses Madina
* I Have Seen the Future — Cam Christiansen
* I Met the Walrus — Josh Raskin
* Madame Tutli-Putli — Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
* Pool — Chris Chong Chan Fui
* The Schoolyard (Les Grands) — Chloé Leriche
* Terminus — Trevor Cawood