Unofficial guide to the
33rd Toronto International Film Festival^® September 4-13, 2008

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#	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	**** 8/10		Nigel Cole		English	USA
	**** 7.3/10		Tatia Rosenthal		English	Israel Australia
	?		Candice Day		English	Canada
	***½ 6.6/10		Jia Zhang-Ke		Mandarin	China
	?		Malgosia Szumowska		Polish	Germany Poland
	?		Claire Denis		French	France
	?		Nikolaus Geyrhalter		German	Austria
A	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	***½ 6.5/10		Takeshi Kitano		Japanese	Japan
	***½ 7/10		Federico Veiroj		Spanish	Uruguay Argentina Spain Mexico
	***½ 6.5/10		Jon Hewitt		English	Australia
	** 4/10		Paul Schrader		English	Germany Israel USA
	***½ 7/10		Adolfo Alix Jr.		Filipino	Philippines
	**½ 5/10		Atom Egoyan		English	Canada
	?		Gilles Bourdos		English	France Canada Germany
	?		François Dupeyron		French	France
	**** 7.6/10		Ryosuke Hashiguchi		Japanese	Japan
	?		Kevin Papatie		French	Canada
	?		Matthew Kaufman		English	USA
	***½ 6.5/10		Ed Harris		English	USA
	*** 6/10		Sima Urale		English	New Zealand
	**** 7.8/10		Wong Kar-Wai		Mandarin	Hong Kong China
	?		Dan Stone		English	USA
B	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	?		Joe Balass		_	Canada
	?		Rithy Panh		French	France Cambodia Belgium
	?		Guy Édoin		French	Canada
	****½ 9/10		Lino Brocka # Lino Brocka		Tafilipino	Philippines
	?		Jordan Canning		English	Canada
	****½ 9/10		Marie-Hélène Cousineau Madeline Ivalu		French	Canada
	?		Elizabeth Lazebnik		English	Canada
	***½ 6.6/10		Duane Hopkins		English	United Kingdom Germany
	*** 6/10		Weijun Chen		Mandarin	China
	*** 5.8/10		Albert Serra		Catalan Hebrew	Spain
	****½ 8.2/10		Juraj Lehotský		Slovak	Slovakia
	?		José Luis Cuerda		Spanish	Spain
	**** 7.2/10		Fernando Meirelles		English	Canada Brazil Japan
	?		Richard Parry		English	United Kingdom
	**** 7.8/10		Lyne Charlebois		French	Canada
	*** 6/10		Rian Johnson		English	USA
	***½ 7/10		Ethan Coen Joel Coen		English	USA
	?		Guillermo Arriaga		English	USA
	*** 6/10		J.T. Petty		English	USA
	?		Philip Haas		English	USA
C	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	?		_		_	_
	?		Marco Brambilla		English	Italy Canada
	?		Tim Hamilton		English	Canada
	?		Mike Maryniuk Matthew Rankin		English	Canada
	?		Rob Epstein Jeffrey Friedman		English	USA
	****½ 8.5/10		Philippe Falardeau		French	Canada
	*** 6/10		Steven Soderbergh		Spanish	USA Spain
	**** 8/10		Steven Soderbergh		Spanish	USA Spain
	***½ 7/10		Steven Soderbergh		Spanish	USA Spain
	***½ 6.5/10		Prachya Pinkaew		Thai	Thailand
	?		Ing K Kraisak Choonhavan Manit Sriwanichpoom		Thai	Thailand
	****½ 8.5/10		Andreas Dresen		German	Germany
	***½ 6.5/10		Eva Sørhaug		Norwegian	Norway
	?		Kristopher Belman		English	USA
	?		Michael McGowan		English	Canada
	?		Dana Nachman Don Hardy		English	USA
	?		Jerry Zaks		English	USA
	?		Spike Lee		English	USA
	?		Chai Vasarhelyi		English	USA
	**** 7.5/10		Arnaud Desplechin		French	France
	* 2/10		Cameron Labine		English	Canada
	*** 6/10		Warren Sonoda		English	Canada
	?		Bohdan Sláma		Czech	Czech Republic Germany France
	**** 8/10		Valdís Óskarsdóttir		Icelandic	Iceland
D	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	***½ 7/10		Young-Seok Noh		Korean	South Korea
	**½ 5/10		Marcel Sarmiento Gadi Harel		English	USA
	?		Toa Fraser		English	United Kingdom New Zealand
	?		Glenn Ligon		English	USA
	*** 5.7/10		Kornél Mundruczó		Hungarian	Hungary Germany
	?		Alexander Sebastien Lee		English Mandarin	China USA
	***½ 6.5/10		Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche		French	France Algeria
	***** 10/10		Rafaël Ouellet		French	Canada
	**** 7.6/10		Toshio Lee		Japanese	Japan
	**** 8/10		Josué Méndez		Spanish	Peru
	****½ 9/10		Steve Jacobs Anna-Maria Monticelli		English	Australia South Africa
	**** 8/10		Paolo Sorrentino		Italian	Italy France
	?		Justin Simms		English	Canada
	**** 8/10		Saul Dibb		English	United Kingdom
	*** 6/10		Keven McAlester		English	USA
E	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	?		Nicholas Pye Sheila Pye		English	Canada
	?		Kenneth Bowser		English	USA
	?		Stephan Elliott		English	United Kingdom USA
	*** 5.8/10		Franck Vestiel		French	France
	?		Alex Shuper		English	Canada
	?		Neil Burns		English	Canada
	***½ 7/10		Safy Nebbou		French	France
	***½ 6.5/10		Daniel Burman		Spanish	Argentina Spain France Italy
	**** 7.1/10		Laurent Cantet		French	France
	***½ 7/10		Francis Leclerc		French	Canada
	?		Jan Troell		Swedish	Denmark Sweden
	**** 7.5/10		James Stern Adam Del Deo		English	USA
	***½ 7/10		Astra Taylor		English	Canada
	?		Mahamat-Saleh Haroun		_	South Korea France
F	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	***½ 6.5/10		Christophe Barratier		French	France
	***½ 7/10		Kristian Levring		Danish	Denmark
	** 3.5/10		Kari Skogland		English	Canada United Kingdom
	*** 6/10		Anne Fontaine		French	France
	***½ 6.8/10		Ian Fitzgibbon		English	Ireland
	?		Nandita Das		English Hindi Urdu	India
	**** 7.2/10		Ole Christian Madsen		Danish German	Denmark German
	***½ 6.7/10		Marc Abraham		English	USA
	****½ 9/10		Robert Kenner		English	USA
	?		Tony Massil		English	Canada
	***½ 6.2/10		Jerzy Skolimowski		Polish	Poland France
	?		Andrea Zambelli		Italian	Italy
G	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	***½ 6.5/10		Michael Winterbottom		English	United Kingdom
	**½ 5/10		David Koepp		English	USA
	?		Karen Oganesyan		Russian	Russia
	?		Matt Aselton		English	USA
	?		Constant Mentzas		French	Canada
	***½ 6.7/10		Matteo Garrone		Italian	Italy
	*** 6/10		Vicente Amorim		English	United Kingdom Germany
	**** 7.5/10		Kim Jee-Woon		Korean	South Korea
	**½ 5/10		Ramin Bahrani		English	USA
	*** 5.8/10		Iannis Smaragdis		English Spanish Greek	Greece Spain Hungary
	?		Semi Chellas		English	Canada
H	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	***½ 6.9/10		Mike Leigh		English	United Kingdom
	?		Kevin Rafferty		English	USA
	?		Leon Geller Marcus Vetter		Arabic Hebrew English	Germany
	?		Fax Bahr George Hickenlooper		English	USA
	*** 6/10		Deepa Mehta		English	Canada
	?		Helen Lee		_	Canada
	***½ 6.6/10		Olivier Assayas		French	France
	**** 8/10		Adrian Sitaru		Romanian	Romania France
	?		Juan Carlos Tabío		Spanish	Spain Cuba
	?		Martha Burns Susan Coyne		English	Canada
	****½ 8.5/10		Steve McQueen		English	United Kingdom
	?		Nicolas Brault		French	Canada
	**** 7.7/10		Kathryn Bigelo		English	USA
I	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	?		Samuel Chow		English	Canada
	?		Kathryn Bigelow		English	USA
	?		Nasorn Panungkasiri Phawat Panangkasiri		Thai	Thailand
	** 4/10		Barbet Schroeder		French	France
	?		John Crowley		English	United Kingdom
	****½ 8.2/10		David Guggenheim		English	USA
	**** 7.7/10		Philippe Claudel		French	France
J	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	****½ 8.6/10		Mabrouk El Mechri		French English	France Luxembourg Belgium
	**** 7.3/10		Joana Hadjithomas Khalil Joreige		French	Lebanon
	*** 6/10		Christian Petzold		German	Germany
	?		Akin Omotoso		English	Nigeria South Africa
K	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	?		Barmak Akram		Persian	France Afghanistan
	****½ 9/10		Priyadarshan		Tamil	India
	** 4/10		Mijke De Jong		Dutch Russian	Netherlands
	***½ 7/10		Karim Dridi		French	France
	?		Gaylen Ross		English	USA
	**** 7.8/10		Lance Daly		English	Ireland Sweden
	**½ 5/10		Yin Lichuan		Mandarin	China
	**½ 5/10		Marco Kreuzpaintner		German	Germany
L	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	?		Rashid Masharawi		Arabic	Palestine Tunisia Netherlands
	?		Bruno Barreto		Portuguese	Brazil
	***½ 6.7/10		Walter Salles Daniela Thomas		Portuguese	Brazil
	***½ 6.3/10		Pablo Trapero		Spanish	Argentina South Korea Brazil
	***½ 6.3/10		Lisandro Alonso		Spanish	Argentina France Netherlands Spain Germany
	?		Sara St. Onge		English	Canada
	?		Jodie Markell		English	USA
	****½ 9/10		Rodrigue Jean		French	Canada
	*** 6/10		Nik Fackler		English	USA
	****½ 9/10		Neil Burger		English	USA
	**** 8/10		Derick Martini		English	USA
M	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	?		Uberto Pasolini		Sinhala English	United Kingdom Italy Germany Sri Lanka
	?		Randall Okita		_	Canada
	**** 8/10		Léa Pool		French	Canada
	?		Stephen Belber		English	USA
	**** 8/10		Pascal Laugier		French	France Canada
	*** 5.5/10		Richard Linklater		English	United Kingdom
	**** 7.3/10		Barry Jenkins		English	USA
	?		Luc Bourdon		English French	Canada
	* 2/10		Jacques-Rémy Girerd		French	France Italy
	?		John Stockwell		English	USA
	?		Dan Popa		French	Canada
	?		Spike Lee		English	USA
	**** 8/10		Kristopher Belman		English	USA
	?		Carl Bessai		English	Canada
	?		Hans Steinbichler		German	Germany Romania
N	Star-rating	Title of film	Director	Program	Language	Country
	?		François A. Velle		English	USA
	?		Guka Omarova		Russian Kazakh	Kazakhstan Russia France Germany
	*** 5.3/10		Fatih Akin Yvan Attal Randy Balsmeyer Allen Huges Shunji Iwai Scarlett Johannson Shekhar Kapur Joshua Martson Mira Nair Natalie Portman Brett Ratner Jiang Wen Andrey Zvyagintsev		English	USA
	**** 8/10		Denis Villeneuve		French	Canada
	***½ 7/10		Peter Sollett		English	USA
	?		Philip Barker		English	Canada
	***½ 7/10		Mark Hartley		English	USA