Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a permane ...
ran from September 6 to September 15, 2001. There were 326 films (249 feature films, 77 short films) from 54 countries scheduled to be screened during the ten-day festival. During a hastily arranged press conference on September 11, Festival director Piers Handling and managing director Michelle Maheux announced that 30 public screenings and 20 press screenings would be cancelled during the sixth day of the festival due to the
September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...
in New York City and Washington, D.C. The festival resumed for the final four days though some films were cancelled because the film prints could not reach
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
due to flight restrictions.
Awards
Programmes
Viacom Galas
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Cet Amour-là
CET or cet may refer to:
Places
* Cet, Albania
* Cet, standard astronomical abbreviation for the constellation Cetus
* Colchester Town railway station (National Rail code CET), in Colchester, England
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Comcast En ...
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Josée Dayan
Josée Dayan (born 6 October 1943 in Toulouse, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.
Life
Dayan grew up in Algiers, Algeria, where her father Albert Dagnant, who came from a Jewish family, worked as a television directo ...
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Dark Blue World
''Dark Blue World'' ( cs, Tmavomodrý svět) is a 2001 film by Czech director Jan Svěrák, the Academy Award-winning director of ''Kolya'', about Czech pilots who fought for the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. The scre ...
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Jan Sverák
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to:
Acronyms
* Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN
* Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code
* Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group
* Japanese Article Numb ...
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Enigma
Enigma may refer to:
*Riddle, someone or something that is mysterious or puzzling
Biology
*ENIGMA, a class of gene in the LIM domain
Computing and technology
* Enigma (company), a New York-based data-technology startup
* Enigma machine, a family ...
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Michael Apted
Michael David Apted, (10 February 1941 – 7 January 2021) was a British television and film director and producer.
Apted began working in television and directed the '' Up'' documentary series (1964–2019). He later directed '' Coal Miner's ...
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From Hell
''From Hell'' is a graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell, originally published in serial form from 1989 to 1998. The full collection was published in 1999 by Top Shelf Productions.
Set during the Whitechapel murders of ...
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Albert Hughes
Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes (born April 1, 1972), known together professionally as the Hughes brothers, are American film directors and producers. The pair, who are twins, are known for co-directing visceral, and often violent, movies, inclu ...
Scott Hicks Scott Hicks may refer to:
* Scott Hicks (basketball) (born 1966), American former college basketball coach
* Scott Hicks (director)
Robert Scott Hicks (born 4 March 1953), known as Scott, is an Australian film director, producer and screenwrit ...
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Lantana
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Gabriele Muccino
Gabriele Muccino (; born 20 May 1967) is an Italian film director. He has worked his way from making short films only aired on Italian television to become a well-known and successful American filmmaker. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Mu ...
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Last Orders
''Last Orders'' is a 1996 novel by British writer Graham Swift. The book won the 1996 Booker Prize. In 2001, it was adapted for the film ''Last Orders (film), Last Orders'' by Australian writer and director Fred Schepisi.
Plot
The story makes ...
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Fred Schepisi
Frederic Alan Schepisi ( ; Kael, Pauline (1984). '' Taking It All In''. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. 55. born 26 December 1939) is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter. His credits include '' The Chant of Jimmie ...
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Last Wedding
''Last Wedding'' is a 2001 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Bruce Sweeney. It opened the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival. The film won several awards including the award for Best Canadian Film from the Toronto Film Crit ...
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Bruce Sweeney
Bruce Sweeney (born in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian film director. He has spent his career based primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Career
Sweeney's debut film, '' Live Bait'', won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 1995 Toro ...
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Life as a House
''Life as a House'' is a 2001 American drama film produced and directed by Irwin Winkler. The screenplay by Mark Andrus focuses on a man who is anxious to repair his relationship with his ex-wife and teenaged son after he is diagnosed with termin ...
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Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler (born May 28, 1931) is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of over 58 motion pictures, dating back to 1967's '' Double Trouble'', starring Elvis Presley. The fourth film he produced, '' They Shoot ...
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Monsoon Wedding
''Monsoon Wedding'' is a 2001 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan. The film stars Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah and Vasundhara Das. The story depicts romantic entanglements during a tradi ...
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Mira Nair
Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker based in New York City. Her production company, Mirabai Films, specializes in films for international audiences on Indian society, whether in the economic, social or cultural spher ...
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No Man's Land
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Danis Tanovic Danis may refer to:
* ''Danis'' (butterfly), a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae
* Danis Goulet (born 1977), Canadian Cree-Métis film director and screenwriter
* Yann Danis (born 1981), Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender
* Gy ...
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Novocaine
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David Atkins
David Atkins, OAM (born 12 December 1955) is an Australian dancer, choreographer, music-theatre director and producer.
Career
Stage and television
Atkins began his performance career aged 12 with a role in the musical ''Mame''. As an adult p ...
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Serendipity
Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. Serendipity is a common occurrence throughout the history of product invention and scientific discovery.
Etymology
The first noted use of "serendipity" was by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754. I ...
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Peter Chelsom
Peter Chelsom (born 20 April 1956) is a British film director, writer, and actor. He has directed such films as ''Hector and the Search for Happiness'', ''Serendipity'', and '' Shall We Dance?'' Peter Chelsom is a member of the British Academ ...
István Szabó
István Szabó (; born 18 February 1938) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.
Szabó is one of the most notable Hungarian filmmakers and one who has been best known outside the Hungarian-speaking world since the ...
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Tosca
''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...
Training Day
''Training Day'' is a 2001 American crime thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer. It stars Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris and Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, two LAPD narcotics officers over a 24-hour period in the gan ...
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Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua (born May 30, 1965) is an American filmmaker, known for his work in the action and thriller genres. He was originally known as a director of music videos, and made his film debut in 1998 with ''The Replacement Killers''. His critica ...
Clare Peploe
Clare Peploe (20 October 1941 – 23 June 2021) was a British-Italian screenwriter, producer, and film director.
Biography
Peploe was born in Tanzania but grew up in the United Kingdom and Italy. William Peploe, her father, worked as a Brit ...
Canadian Open Vault
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The Grey Fox
''The Grey Fox'' is a 1982 Canadian biographical Western film directed by Phillip Borsos and written by John Hunter. It is based on the true story of Bill Miner, an American stagecoach robber who staged his first Canadian train robbery on 10 Se ...
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Phillip Borsos
Phillip Borsos (May 5, 1953 – February 2, 1995) was an Australian-born Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter.À ma soeur!'' by
Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat (; born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School. In the film business for over 40 years, Catherine Breillat chooses to normalize previously taboo subjects in ...
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Abandoned
Abandon, abandoned, or abandonment may refer to:
Common uses
* Abandonment (emotional), a subjective emotional state in which people feel undesired, left behind, insecure, or discarded
* Abandonment (legal), a legal term regarding property
** Chi ...
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Árpád Sopsits
Árpád Sopsits (Szeged, born 2 May 1952) Béla Balázs Prize-winning (1994) theatre and film director, screenwriter.
Career
He started his studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Debrecen, Cours of Folk Culture and Libra ...
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Absolutely Fabulous
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(Absolument fabuleux)'' by
Gabriel Aghion
Gabriel Aghion is a French film director and screenwriter.
Aghion was born in Alexandria, in Egypt on 30 December 1955.
He is openly gay."Bonjour, sweetie darling". '' The Advocate'', 20 November 2001.
Selected filmography
* '' La Scarlatine' ...
Kim Ki-duk
Kim Ki-duk ( ; 20 December 196011 December 2020) was a South Korean film director and screenwriter, noted for his idiosyncratic art-house cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit, rendering him one of ...
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
All or ALL may refer to:
Language
* All, an indefinite pronoun in English
* All, one of the English determiners
* Allar language (ISO 639-3 code)
* Allative case (abbreviated ALL)
Music
* All (band), an American punk rock band
* ''All'' (All al ...
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Shunji Iwai
is a Japanese film director, video artist, writer and documentary maker.
Life and career
Iwai was born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. He attended Yokohama National University, graduating in 1987.
In 1988 he started out in the Japanese entertainment ...
Anne-Marie Miéville
Anne-Marie Miéville (; born 11 November 1945) is a Swiss video and filmmaker whom ''Sight & Sound'' has called a "hugely important multimedia artist."
Biography
Miéville was a practising photographer when she met Jean-Luc Godard, who would be ...
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Asoka
Ashoka (, ; also ''Asoka''; 304 – 232 BCE), popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third emperor of the Maurya Empire of Indian subcontinent during to 232 BCE. His empire covered a large part of the Indian subcontinent, s ...
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Santosh Sivan
Santosh Sivan (born 8 February 1964) is an Indian cinematographer, film director, producer and actor known for his works in Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi cinema. Santosh graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India and has to dat ...
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Ball in the House
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Majid Majidi
Majid Majidi ( fa, مجید مجیدی, ; born 17 April 1959) is an Iranian film director, producer, and screenwriter, who started his film career as an actor. In his films, Majidi has touched on many themes and genres and has won numerous inte ...
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Beijing Bicycle
''Beijing Bicycle'' () is a 2001 Chinese drama film by Sixth Generation Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai, with joint investment from the Taiwanese Arc Light Films and the French Pyramide Productions. The film stars first-time actors Cui Lin an ...
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Wang Xiaoshuai
Wang Xiaoshuai (; born May 22, 1966) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the "Sixth Generation" of the Cinema of China. Like others in this gener ...
Henry Bean
Henry Bean (born August 3, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, film producer, novelist, and actor.
Best known as a screenwriter, Bean wrote the screenplays for '' Internal Affairs'', ''Deep Cover'', '' Venus Rising'', '' The Belie ...
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Big Bad Love
''Big Bad Love'' is a 2001 film directed by Arliss Howard, who co-wrote the script with his brother, James Howard, based on a collection of short stories of the same name by Larry Brown.Arliss Howard
Leslie Richard "Arliss" Howard (born October 18, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for his roles in the films ''Full Metal Jacket'' (1987), '' Tequila Sunrise'' (1988), '' The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' (19 ...
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Birthday Girl
''Birthday Girl'' is a 2001 Erotic film, erotic comedy thriller film directed by Jez Butterworth. The plot focuses on English bank clerk John Buckingham, who orders a Russians, Russian mail-order bride, Nadia. It becomes clear upon her arrival ...
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Jez Butterworth
Jeremy "Jez" Butterworth (born March 1969) is an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He has written screenplays in collaboration with his brothers, John-Henry Butterworth, John-Henry and Tom.
Life and career
In March 1969, But ...
Laís Bodanzky
Laís Bodanzky (born 23 September 1969) is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known for '' Brainstorm'', a film about the situation in mental institutions in Brazil.
Over 15 years, she has coordinated the educational ...
Montxo Armendáriz
Montxo Armendariz (born as Juan Ramón Armendariz Barrios; 27 January 1949 in Olleta, Navarra, Spain)Torres, '' ''Diccionario Espasa Cine Español'' p. 83 is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film ''Las cartas de Alou'' won at the San ...
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The Business of Strangers
''The Business of Strangers'' is a 2001 American drama film that tells the story of an eventful night shared between a middle-aged businesswoman and her young assistant. The independent film was written and directed by Patrick Stettner. It stars S ...
C'est la vie
C'est la vie may refer to:
* C'est la vie (phrase), ''C'est la vie'' (phrase), a French phrase, translated as "That's life"
Books
* C'est la Vie (comic strip), ''C'est la Vie'' (comic strip), an English-language comic strip by Jennifer Babcock
* ...
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Jean-Pierre Améris
Jean-Pierre Améris (born 26 July 1961) is a French film director and screenwriter. His film ''Lightweight'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival
The 57th Cannes Film Festival started on 12 and ran unt ...
Lucrecia Martel
Lucrecia Martel (born December 14, 1966) is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer whose feature films have frequented Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, and many other international film festivals. Film scholar Paul Julian Smith w ...
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La Commune (Paris, 1871)
''La Commune (Paris, 1871)'' is a 2000 historical drama film directed by Peter Watkins about the Paris Commune. A historical re-enactment in the style of a documentary, the film received much acclaim from critics for its political themes and W ...
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Peter Watkins
Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His films ...
Mehdi Charef
Mehdi Charef (born 21 October 1952) is a French film director and screenwriter of Algerian people, Algerian descent. He has worked on eleven films between 1985 and 2007. His film ''Tea in the Harem, Le thé au harem d'Archimède'' was screened ...
Joel Lamangan
Joel Lamangan (born September 21, 1952) is a Filipino film director, television director and actor. His award-winning films includes '' The Flor Contemplacion Story'', ''Sidhi'', '' Deathrow'', ''Hubog'', '' Aishte Imasu 1941'', '' Blue Moon'' an ...
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Abolfazl Jalili
Abolfazl Jalili ( fa, ابوالفضل جلیلی , born 1957 in Saveh, Iran) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He belongs to the Iranian '' new wave'' movement.
Jalili studied directing at the Iranian College of Dramatic Arts, the ...
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Distance
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Hirokazu Kore-Eda
is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He began his career in television and has since directed more than a dozen feature films, including '' Nobody Knows'' (2004), '' Still Walking'' (2008), and '' After the Storm'' ( ...
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A Dog's Day
''Pattiyude Divasam'' (( ml, പട്ടിയുടെ ദിവസം), (alternate title - A Dog's Day)) is a 2001 Indian political satire film directed by Murali Nair.
Plot
A local ruler bows down to the pressure from democratic forces and ...
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Murali Nair
Murali Nair (born 10 January 1966) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. He has directed eight films since 1993. His film '' Marana Simhasanam'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival where it won ...
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Drift
Drift or Drifts may refer to:
Geography
* Drift or ford (crossing) of a river
* Drift, Kentucky, unincorporated community in the United States
* In Cornwall, England:
** Drift, Cornwall, village
** Drift Reservoir, associated with the village
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Michiel van Jaarsveld
Michiel is a Dutch language, Dutch masculine given name equivalent to Michael (given name), Michael and a Republic of Venice, Venetian surname.
Given name
*Michiel Andrieszoon (died 1684), Dutch pirate
*Michiel Bartman (born 1967), Dutch rower
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Dust
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Amos Gitaï
Amos Gitai ( he, עמוס גיתאי; born 11 October 1950) is an Israelis, Israeli filmmaker, who was trained as an architect.
Gitai's work was presented in several major retrospectives in Pompidou Center in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (M ...
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L'Emploi du temps
''Time Out'' (french: link=no, L'Emploi du temps or 'Le Vendu') is a 2001 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet and starring Aurélien Recoing and Karin Viard. The film is loosely based on the life story of Jean-Claude Romand (though wi ...
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Laurent Cantet
Laurent Cantet (; born 11 April 1961) is a French director, cinematographer and screenwriter. His film ''Entre les murs'' ('' The Class'') won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.
Biography
Laurent Cantet was born in 1961 in the town ...
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The Fluffer
''The Fluffer'', a 2001 American independent film, is a triangular story of obsessive love set against the backdrop of the adult video industry. The film was written by Wash West and co-directed by West and his husband Richard Glatzer.Gary M. Kr ...
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Richard Glatzer
Richard Glatzer (January 28, 1952 – March 10, 2015) was an American writer and director.
Early life
Glatzer was born in Flushing, Queens. He grew up in Westbury, Long Island, and Livingston, New Jersey, then gained a bachelor's degree at the ...
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Wash West
Paul Westmoreland (born 4 March 1966), known professionally as Wash Westmoreland and previously known as Wash West, is a British director who has worked in television, documentaries, and independent films. He frequently collaborated with his hus ...
João Canijo
João Canijo (born 1957) is a Portuguese film director. His film '' Get a Life'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. His 2011 film '' Blood of My Blood'' was selected as the Portuguese entry for the B ...
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The Grey Zone
''The Grey Zone'' is a 2001 movie written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson and starring David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Daniel Benzali. It is based on the book ''Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account'' w ...
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Tim Blake Nelson
Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor and playwright.
Described as a "modern character actor", his roles include Delmar O'Donnell in ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' (2000), Gideon in ''Minority Report'' (2002), Dr. Pendan ...
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Harmful Insect
is a 2002 Japanese drama film directed by Akihiko Shiota and starring Aoi Miyazaki.
Cast
* Aoi Miyazaki as Sachiko Kita
* Seiichi Tanabe as Ogata
* Tetsu Sawaki as Takao
* Ryo Amamiya as Tokugawa
* Koji Ishikawa as Kyuzo
* Yū Aoi as Natsuko
* Ry ...
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Akihiko Shiota
(born 11 September 1961, Maizuru, Kyoto) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Career
Shiota attended Rikkyo University, where he was in a film club with other students such as Makoto Shinozaki and Shinji Aoyama and began making 8mm fil ...
The Hired Hand
''The Hired Hand'' is a 1971 American western film directed by Peter Fonda, with a screenplay by Alan Sharp. The film stars Fonda, Warren Oates, and Verna Bloom. The cinematography was by Vilmos Zsigmond. Bruce Langhorne provided the moody f ...
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Peter Fonda
Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019) was an American actor. He was the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget Fonda. He was a prominent figure in the counterculture of the 1960s. Fond ...
Humberto Solás
Humberto Solás (4 December 1941 – 18 September 2008) was a Cuban film director, credited with directing the film ''Lucía'' (1968), which explored the lives of Cuban women during different periods in Cuban history.
His cinematic style bor ...
Goran Paskaljević
Goran Paskaljević ( sr-cyr, Горан Паскаљевић; ; 22 April 1947 – 25 September 2020) was a Serbian and former Yugoslav film director.
Biography
Born in Belgrade, he was raised by his grandparents in Niš in southern Serbia, foll ...
Ferzan Özpetek
Ferzan Özpetek (born 3 February 1959) is a Turkish-Italian film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.
Biography
Ferzan Özpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. In 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza Unive ...
Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr ( th, นนทรีย์ นิมิบุตร, ; born in 1962 in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand) is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. Best known for his ghost thriller, '' Nang Nak'', he is generally c ...
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The Jimmy Show
''The Jimmy Show'' is a 2001 drama written and directed by Frank Whaley, based on the Off-Broadway play ''Veins and Thumbtacks'' by Jonathan Marc Sherman. The film stars Whaley, Carla Gugino, and Ethan Hawke. The film premiered at the 2001 Toront ...
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Frank Whaley
Frank Joseph Whaley (born July 20, 1963) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, and comedian. His roles include Brett in ''Pulp Fiction'', Robby Krieger in ''The Doors'', young Archie "Moonlight" Graham in ''Field of Dreams'', and Guy ...
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Kissing Jessica Stein
''Kissing Jessica Stein'' is a 2001 American independent romantic comedy film, written and co-produced by the film's stars, Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen. The film also stars Tovah Feldshuh and is directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld. I ...
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Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Charles Herman-Wurmfeld (born July 5, 1966) is an American film and television director
A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program or section of a program. They are generally responsible for ...
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Lagaan
''Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India'' () is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language sports drama film written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. The film was produced by Aamir Khan, who stars alongside debutant Gracy Singh and British actors Rachel Sh ...
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Ashutosh Gowariker
Ashutosh Gowariker (born 15 February 1964) is an Indian film director, actor, screenwriter and producer who works in Bollywood, Hindi cinema. He is known for directing films "set on a huge canvas while boasting of an opulent treatment".
His is ...
Dominique Cabrera
Dominique Cabrera (born 21 December 1957) is a French film director. She has taught filmmaking at La Fémis and at Harvard University. Her film '' Nadia et les hippopotames'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film ...
Stanley Kwan
Stanley Kwan (traditional Chinese: 關錦鵬; simplified Chinese: 关锦鹏); born 9 October 1957) is a Hong Kong film director and producer.
Kwan landed a job at TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College. ...
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Late Marriage
''Late Marriage'' ( he, חתונה מאוחרת, ''Hatuna Meuheret'') is a 2001 Israeli film directed by Dover Kosashvili. The film centers on Zaza (Lior Ashkenazi, in his breakthrough role), the 31-year-old child of tradition-minded Georgian Je ...
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Dover Kosashvili
Dover Kosashvili ( he, דובר קוסאשווילי, ka, დოვერ ქოსაშვილი; born 8 December 1966) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter of Georgian Jews, Georgian-Jewish descent. He has directed five films sinc ...
Light of My Eyes
''Luce dei miei occhi'' (internationally released as ''Light of My Eyes'') is a 2001 Italian romance-drama film directed by Giuseppe Piccioni.
The film entered the 58th Venice International Film Festival, where Luigi Lo Cascio and Sandra Cecca ...
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Giuseppe Piccioni
Giuseppe Piccioni (born 2 July 1953) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1987. His 2004 film ''The Life That I Want'' was entered into the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.
Selected filmography
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Andrés Wood
Andrés Wood Montt (born 14 September 1965) is a Chilean film director, producer and writer. Some of his most popular films include ''Machuca'', '' Violeta se fue a los cielos'', and ''Historias de Futbol''. He created his own production company ...
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Loin
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André Téchiné
André Téchiné (; born 13 March 1943) is a French screenwriter and film director. He has a long and distinguished career that places him among the most accomplished post- New Wave French film directors.
Téchiné belongs to a second generation ...
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Lovely & Amazing
''Lovely and Amazing'' is a 2001 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener.
Plot
The story focuses on Jane Marks, her adult daughters Michelle and Elizabeth, and her pre-teen adopted African American daughter Annie, eac ...
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Nicole Holofcener
Nicole Holofcener (; born March 22, 1960) is an American film and television director and screenwriter. She has directed six feature films, including ''Walking and Talking'', '' Friends with Money'' and ''Enough Said'', as well as various televis ...
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Lovely Rita
"Lovely Rita" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. It was written and sung by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It is about a meter maid and the narrat ...
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Jessica Hausner
Jessica Hausner (born 6 October 1972) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She received international attention in 2001 when her film ''Lovely Rita'', a portrait of a young girl who feels confined by family constraints, was screened in ...
George Hickenlooper
George Loening Hickenlooper III (May 25, 1963 – October 29, 2010) was an American narrative and documentary filmmaker.
Early life
Hickenlooper was born in St. Louis, the son of Barbara Jo Wenger, a social worker and stage actress, and George L ...
Ilya Chaiken
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Gil M. Portes
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Early life and education
Gil Portes took up his Journalism at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines and received a ...
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Maya
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* Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America
** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples
** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples
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Mirror Image
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Don Boyd
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Nine Queens
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Fabián Bielinsky
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Career
Fabián Bielinsky was born in Buenos Aires on February 3, 1959. Bielinsky started to make films early in life, while still a high school stu ...
Joaquín Oristrell
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Biography
Born in Barcelona on 15 September 1953, he is the cousin of actress Yolanda Ventura and nephew of trumpeter .
He has written scripts ...
The Orphan of Anyang
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Dana Rotberg
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Her film '' Angel of Fire'' (''Angel de fuego'') questions whether a feminist quest in Mexico is even possible. The film was screened for the Directors' Fortnight at the ...
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Passport
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Péter Gothár
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Selected filmog ...
Piñero
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Leon Ichaso
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Leon Ichaso was born in Havana, Cuba, on August 3, 1948. Ichaso migrate ...
Bertrand Bonello
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Sergei Bodrov
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Quitting
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Rain
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Marion Vernoux
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Life and career
Born in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, Vernoux was the only daughter of a casting director and of a set decorator. After several experiences as a producti ...
The Road
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Darezhan Omirbaev
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Work
Omirbaev has directed nine films since 1982; six features, one medium length digital film, and th ...
Pan Nalin
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Secret Ballot
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Babak Payami
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Biography
Born in Tehran, Iran, Payami grew up in Afghanistan and Iran before leaving for Europe and subsequently Canada, where he ...
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Sex and Lucia
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Silent Partner
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Silent partner or Silent Partners may also refer to:
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Alkinos Tsilimidos
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Sisters
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Gjergj Xhuvani
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His 2001 film ''Slogans'' was Albania's submission to the 74th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, b ...
Danny Boyle
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To End All Wars
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Tuesday
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Geoff Dunbar
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Under the Skin of the City
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Maziar Miri
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Maziar Miri graduated in editing, and started his career with making documentaries about Iran. He made his first short film in 1996, and worked for several years in the editing departme ...
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Danny Boyle
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Shinobu Yaguchi
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What Time Is It There?
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Plot
Hsiao-kang is a street vendor in Taipei who sells watches out of a briefcase. His father dies. Soo ...
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Tsai Ming-liang
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Alfonso Cuarón
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Zus & Zo
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Plot
The film deals with three sisters stopping their gay brother's new bride from inheriting the family hot ...
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Paula van der Oest
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With her final exam at the Dutch Film and Television Academy, ''Zinderend' ...
Luis Buñuel
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Stanley Kubrick
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Norman Jewison
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He has directed numerous feature films and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best D ...
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Two-Lane Blacktop
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Plot
Two street racers, the Dri ...
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Monte Hellman
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Ingmar Bergman
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Ulrich Seidl
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His 2012 film '' Paradise: Love'' competed for the Palme ...
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Dog Days
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Ulrich Seidl
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His 2012 film '' Paradise: Love'' competed for the Palme ...
Ulrich Seidl
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His 2012 film '' Paradise: Love'' competed for the Palme ...
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Models
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Models c ...
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Ulrich Seidl
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His 2012 film '' Paradise: Love'' competed for the Palme ...
Robert Connolly
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Valeska Grisebach
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Biography
Valeska Grisebach studied German literature and philosophy in Berlin, Munich, and ...
Jan Cvitkovič
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Benoît Graffin
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Filmography
As a writer:
*'' The Trouble With You ...
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Chicken Rice War
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Everybody Says I'm Fine!
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Rahul Bose
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Ineke Smits Ineke is Dutch language, Dutch feminine given name. It originated as a diminutive of Ina, which can be a short form of a number names, like Catharina, Gesina, Hendrina (given name), Hendrina, Klazina, etc. It is also a rare possibly matronymic surna ...
Sandra Nettelbeck
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Early life
Sandra Nettelbeck was born 4 April 1966 in Hamburg, West Germany to Uwe Nettelbeck, a German record ...
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Mr In-Between
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Paul Sarossy
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Damien Odoul
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La Spagnola
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States.
La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
* La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
* "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figur ...
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Steve Jacobs
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Jean Pierre Lefebvre
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Biography
Jean Pierre Lefebvre studied literature a ...
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Jean Pierre Lefebvre (; born 17 August 1941) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is widely admired as "the godfather of independent Canadian cinema," particularly among young, independent filmmakers.
Biography
Jean Pierre Lefebvre studied literature a ...
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Jean Pierre Lefebvre (; born 17 August 1941) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is widely admired as "the godfather of independent Canadian cinema," particularly among young, independent filmmakers.
Biography
Jean Pierre Lefebvre studied literature a ...
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Jean Pierre Lefebvre (; born 17 August 1941) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is widely admired as "the godfather of independent Canadian cinema," particularly among young, independent filmmakers.
Biography
Jean Pierre Lefebvre studied literature a ...
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Jean Pierre Lefebvre (; born 17 August 1941) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is widely admired as "the godfather of independent Canadian cinema," particularly among young, independent filmmakers.
Biography
Jean Pierre Lefebvre studied literature a ...
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Jean Pierre Lefebvre (; born 17 August 1941) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is widely admired as "the godfather of independent Canadian cinema," particularly among young, independent filmmakers.
Biography
Jean Pierre Lefebvre studied literature a ...
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Jean Pierre Lefebvre (; born 17 August 1941) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is widely admired as "the godfather of independent Canadian cinema," particularly among young, independent filmmakers.
Biography
Jean Pierre Lefebvre studied literature a ...
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Jean Pierre Lefebvre (; born 17 August 1941) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is widely admired as "the godfather of independent Canadian cinema," particularly among young, independent filmmakers.
Biography
Jean Pierre Lefebvre studied literature a ...
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The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
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Jean Pierre Lefebvre
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Biography
Jean Pierre Lefebvre studied literature a ...
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Éloge de l'amour
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Éric Rohmer
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Rohmer was the last of the post-World ...
Carlos Saura
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The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
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Cox had the idea of making a film about Nijinsky for over 30 ye ...
Millennium Mambo
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Plot
The main character, Vicky, portrayed by actress Shu Qi, narrates from 2011 about her life 10 years earlier. She describes her youth and story of h ...
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Hou Hsiao-hsien
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Mulholland Drive
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David Lynch
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Ken Loach
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La Pianiste
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Michael Haneke
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Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi (24 July 1931 – 7 May 2018)Lane, John Francis (May 7, 2018).Ermanno Olmi obituary. ''The Guardian''. theguardian.com. Retrieved 11 May 2018. was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Olmi was born to a Catholic ...
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Pulse
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he has worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre, his honorific ...
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The Son's Room
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Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (; born 19 August 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
His films have won accolades including a Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for ''The Son's Room'', a Silver Bear at the ...
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Claire Denis
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
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* A somewhat high temperature
* Kindness
Music
* ''Warm'' (The Lettermen album), 1967, and the title song
* ''Warm'' (Johnny Mathis album), 1958, and the title song
* ''Warm'' (Herb Alpert album), 1969
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Shōhei Imamura
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Midnight Madness
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The American Astronaut
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Cory McAbee
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Biography
Cory McAbee was born in Northern California as the youngest of three children. His father was an auto mechanic and ...
Thanit Jitnukul
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Spike Jonze
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Jonze began his ca ...
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Michel Gondry
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Dogtown and Z-Boys
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Bill Plympton
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Johnnie To
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and
Wai Ka-Fai
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Wai is best known for his frequent collaborations with Johnnie To, another former TV turned film director and pr ...
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Ichi the Killer Ichi the Killer may refer to:
* ''Ichi the Killer'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film based on the manga series of the same name
* ''Ichi the Killer'' (manga), a manga series written and illustrated by Hideo Yamamoto
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Takashi Miike
is a Japanese film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has directed over one hundred theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. His films run through a variety of different genres, and range from violent an ...
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Le Pacte des loups
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Ryuhei Kitamura
(born May 30, 1969) is a Japanese film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Biography
Early life
Kitamura was born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He dropped out of high school at age 17 and relocated to Sydney, Australia, where he attended a sch ...
Jan Troell
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Cabin Fever
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Cool and Crazy
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Earth
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Veikko Aaltonen
Veikko Aaltonen (born 1 December 1955 in Sääksmäki, Finland) is a Finnish director, editor, sound editor, production manager and film and television writer and actor.
Aaltonen began his career in the mid-1970s working as a sound editor on v ...
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Elling
''Elling'' is a Norwegian Black comedy film directed by Petter Næss. Shot mostly in and around the Norwegian capital Oslo, the film, which was released in 2001, is primarily based on Ingvar Ambjørnsen's novel ''Brødre i blodet'' ("Blood bro ...
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Petter Næss
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Fiasco
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* a failure or humiliating situation
* Fiasco (bottle), a traditional Italian straw-covered wine bottle often associated with Chianti wine
Media
* ''Fiasco'' (novel), a 1987 science-fiction novel by Stanisław Lem
* ''F ...
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Ragnar Bragason
Ragnar Bragason (born 15 September 1971) is an Icelandic film director, screenwriter and producer.
Life and career
Droplaug was born in Súðavík, Iceland. He is best known for his films '' Börn'' (''Children'') and '' Foreldrar'' (''Paren ...
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Gossip
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Colin Nutley
Colin James Nutley (born 28 February 1944) is an English director successful in the Swedish film industry.
Career
Nutley went to Portsmouth Art College and began his career in British television as a graphic designer. He then turned to drama an ...
* '' The Icelandic Dream'' by Róbert I. Douglas
* ''Italian for Beginners'' by Lone Scherfig
* ''Jalla! Jalla!'' by Josef Fares
* ''Kira's Reason - A Love Story'' by Ole Christian Madsen
* ''Ode to a Hunter'' by Per Fronth
* ''The River (2001 film), The River'' by Jarmo Lampela
* ''En sang for Martin, A Song for Martin'' by Bille August
* ''You Really Got Me'' by Pål Sletaune
Perspective Canada
* ''Black Soul'' by Martine Chartrand
* ''1:1 (film), 1:1'' by Richard Reeves (animator), Richard Reeves
* ''After (2001 film), After'' by Byron Lamarque
* ''Un Arbre avec un chapeau'' by Pascal Sanchez
* ''The Art of Woo'' by Helen Lee (Director), Helen Lee
* ''Century Hotel'' by David Weaver
* ''Charlie Noir'' by Keith Davidson
* ''Cyberman (film), Cyberman'' by Peter Lynch (director), Peter Lynch
* ''FILM(dzama)'' by Deco Dawson
* ''The Frank Truth'' by Rick Caine
* ''A Fresh Start'' by Jason Buxton
* ''The Green (2001 film), The Green'' by Paul Carrière
* ''I Shout Love'' by Sarah Polley
* ''In Memoriam (2001 film), In Memoriam'' by Aubrey Nealon
* ''Inertia (2001 film), Inertia'' by Sean Garrity (director), Sean Garrity
* ''Inséparables'' by Normand Bergeron
* ''Instant Soup'' by Bridget Hill (filmmaker), Bridget Hill
* ''Jean Laliberté: A Man, His Vision and a Whole Lot of Concrete'' by Philippe Falardeau
* ''The Judgment'' by Serge Marcotte
* ''Khaled (film), Khaled'' by Asghar Massombagi
* ''Lilith on Top'' by Lynne Stopkewich
* ''Lip Service: A Mystery'' by Ann Marie Fleming
* ''Lola (2001 film), Lola'' by Carl Bessai
* ''Lollipops'' by Graham Tallman
* ''Mariages'' by Catherine Martin (director), Catherine Martin
* ''On Their Knees'' by Anais Granofsky
* ''Rare Birds'' by Sturla Gunnarsson
* ''Remembrance (2001 film), Remembrance'' by Stephanie Morgenstern
* ''Romain et Juliette'' by Frédéric Lapierre
* ''Scènes d'enfants'' by Lara Fitzgerald
* ''Self: (Portrait/Fulfillment) A Film By the Blob Thing'' by Brian Stockton
* ''Sight Under Construction'' by John Kneller
* ''Silent Song'' by Elida Schogt
* ''Soft Shell Man'' by André Turpin
* ''Soowitch'' by Jean-François Rivard
* ''Strange Invaders'' by Cordell Barker
* ''Suddenly Naked'' by Anne Wheeler
* ''Tar Angel'' by Denis Chouinard
* ''Three Sisters on Moon Lake'' by Julia Kwan
* ''The Topic of Cancer'' by Ramiro Puerta
* ''Touch (2001 film), Touch'' by Jeremy Podeswa
* ''Treed Murray'' by William Phillips (director), William Phillips
* ''Walk Backwards'' by Laurie Maria Baranyay
* ''Westray Mine#Related works, Westray'' by Paul Cowan (filmmaker), Paul Cowan
* ''The Woman Who Drinks'' by Bernard Émond
Planet Africa
* ''É Minha Cara'' by Thomas Allen Harris
* ''100 Days (2001 film), 100 Days'' by Nick Hughes
* ''L'Afrance'' by Alain Gomis
* ''Bintou'' by Fanta Regina Nacro
* ''The Father (2001 film), The Father'' by Ermias Woldeamlak
* ''Inch'Allah Dimanche'' by Yamina Benguigui
* ''Karmen (film), Karmen'' by Joseph Gaï Ramaka
* ''The Killing Yard'' by Euzhan Palcy
* ''Malunde'' by Stefanie Sycholt
* ''Mouka'' by Adama Roamba
* ''Paris: XY'' by Zeka Laplaine
* ''Snipes (film), Snipes'' by Richard Murray (director), Richard Murray
* ''Surrender (2001 film), Surrender'' by Celine Gilbert
Real to Reel
* ''Carving Out Our Name'' by Tony Zierra
* ''El Caso Pinochet'' by Patricio Guzmán
* ''Chop Suey'' by Bruce Weber (photographer), Bruce Weber
* ''Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers: In Public ''by'' ''Jia Zhangke'', Digitopia ''by'' ''John Akomfrah'' ''and'' A Conversation With God ''by'' ''
Tsai Ming-liang
Tsai Ming-liang (; born 27 October 1957) is a Malaysian-Taiwanese filmmaker. Tsai has written and directed 11 feature films, many short films, and television films. He is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese ...
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* ''Facing the Music (2001 film), Facing the Music'' by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson
* ''Fidel (2001 documentary), Fidel'' by Estela Bravo
* ''Grateful Dawg'' by Gillian Grisman
* ''Hell House (film), Hell House'' by George Ratliff
* ''How's Your News?'' by Arthur Bradford
* ''It's About Time (2001 film), It's About Time'' by Ayelet Menahemi and Elona Ariel
* ''James Ellroy's Feast of Death'' by Vikram Jayanti
* ''Japanese Devils'' by Minoru Matsui
* ''Missing Young Woman'' by Lourdes Portillo
* ''Much Ado About Something'' by Michael Rubbo
* ''Nazareth 2000'' by Hany Abu-Assad
* ''Okie Noodling'' by Bradley Beesley
* ''Privé'' by Heddy Honigmann
* ''Promises (2001 film), Promises'' by Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg and Carlos Bolado
* ''Struma disaster, The Struma'' by Simcha Jacobovici
* ''The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins'' by Geoff Bowie
* ''Warrior of Light'' by Monika Treut
Special Presentations
* ''Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner'' by Zacharias Kunuk
* ''Buffalo Soldiers (2001 film), Buffalo Soldiers'' by Gregor Jordan
* ''The Officers' Ward (film), La Chambre des officiers'' by François Dupeyron
* ''Christmas Carol: The Movie'' by Jimmy T. Murakami
* ''Comment j'ai tué mon père'' by Anne Fontaine (filmmaker), Anne Fontaine
* ''The Devil's Backbone'' by Guillermo del Toro
* ''Emil and the Detectives'' by Franziska Buch
* ''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain'' by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
* ''Focus (2001 film), Focus'' by Neal Slavin
* ''Heist (2001 film), Heist'' by David Mamet
* ''Hotel (2001 film), Hotel'' by Mike Figgis
* ''In the Bedroom'' by Todd Field
* ''Joy Ride (2001 film), Joy Ride'' by John Dahl
* ''My Wife is an Actress, Ma femme est une actrice'' by Yvan Attal
* ''Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror'' by F. W. Murnau
* ''Picture Claire'' by Bruce McDonald (director), Bruce McDonald
* ''Prozac Nation (film), Prozac Nation'' by Erik Skjoldbjærg
* ''The Safety of Objects'' by Rose Troche
* ''Sidewalks of New York (2001 film), Sidewalks of New York'' by Edward Burns
* ''Sur mes lèvres'' by Jacques Audiard
* ''Tape (film), Tape'' by Richard Linklater
* ''Thirteen Conversations About One Thing'' by Jill Sprecher
* ''Waking Life'' by Richard Linklater
* ''Who is Cletis Tout?'' by Chris Ver Wiel
* ''World Traveler'' by Bart Freundlich
Wavelengths
* ''ATOZ'' by Robert Breer
* ''Automatic Writing'' by Fred Worden
* ''Baby Dream II'' by Miles McKane
* ''The Back Steps'' by Leighton Pierce
* ''Color Study'' by Vincent Grenier
* ''Les Coquelicots'' by Rose Lowder
* ''The Dark Room (2001 short film), The Dark Room'' by Minyong Jang
* ''The Deformation of the Setting Sun'' by Joseph Leclerc
* ''Didam'' by Olivier Fouchard and Mahine Rouhi
* ''Emanance'' by Craig A. Lindley
* ''Engram Sepals (Melodramas 1994–2000)'' by Lewis Klahr
* ''Exposed (2001 short film), Exposed'' by Siegfried A. Fruhauf
* ''Interior: New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street'' by G.W. (Billy) Bitzer
* ''Intrude Sanctuary'' by Hsiao Shuo-wen
* ''L'Iris fantastique'' by Segundo de Chomón
* ''The Last Lost Shot'' by Cécile Fontaine
* ''Love's Refrain'' by Nathaniel Dorsky
* ''Lovesong (2001 American film), Lovesong'' by Stan Brakhage
* ''Marisa (film), Marisa'' by Jacopo Quadri
* ''Fog (2000 film), Mist'' by Matthias Müller (experimental filmmaker), Matthias Müller
* ''Nipkow TV'' by Christian Hossner
* ''Outermost'' by Stephanie Maxwell and Allan Schindler
* ''Post Mortem (2001 film), Post Mortem'' by Catherine Tanitte
* ''Premières images II'' by Étienne-Jules Marey
* ''Le Roi des dollars'' by Segundo de Chomón
* ''Schichtwechsel'' by Christian Hossner
* ''Serpentine Dance by Annabelle'' by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise
* ''Shudder (Top and Bottom)'' by Michael Gitlin
* ''Sliding Off the Edge of the World'' by Mark Street
* ''Slit Scan Movie'' by Christian Hossner
* ''Soundings (film), Soundings'' by Sandra Gibson
* ''Tree-line'' by Gunvor Nelson
* ''Trees in Autumn'' by Kurt Kren
* ''Wot the Ancient Sod'' by Diane Kitchen
Canada's Top Ten
In December 2001, TIFF introduced the Canada's Top Ten project to identify the year's ten best Canadian films as selected by festival programmers and film critics from across Canada."Lists, lists and lists: Tops in video". ''Peterborough Examiner'', December 20, 2001.
*''Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner'' by Zacharias Kunuk
*''Ginger Snaps (film), Ginger Snaps'' by John Fawcett (director), John Fawcett
*''The Heart of the World'' by Guy Maddin
*''Khaled (film), Khaled'' by Asghar Massombagi
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Last Wedding
''Last Wedding'' is a 2001 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Bruce Sweeney. It opened the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival. The film won several awards including the award for Best Canadian Film from the Toronto Film Crit ...
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Bruce Sweeney
Bruce Sweeney (born in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian film director. He has spent his career based primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Career
Sweeney's debut film, '' Live Bait'', won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 1995 Toro ...
*''Marriages (2001 film), Marriages'' by Catherine Martin (director), Catherine Martin
*''Parsley Days'' by Andrea Dorfman
*''Soft Shell Man'' by André Turpin
*''The Woman Who Drinks'' by Bernard Émond
*''The Uncles'' by James Allodi
2001 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb
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