2010 Toronto International Film Festival
The 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival, was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 19, 2010. The opening night gala presented Score: A Hockey Musical, a Canadian comedy-drama musical film. Last Night closed the festival on September 19.
2010 TIFF included 258 feature films, down from 264 in 2009. However, the number of short films at the 2010 festival increased to 81, making the total number of films 339, five more than in 2009.
Of the feature films, TIFF claims that 112 are world premieres, 24 are international premieres, and 98 are North American premieres.
Programme
Contemporary World Cinema
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 on December 15, 2010.Feature films
- Barney's Version — Richard J. Lewis
- Curling — Denis Côté
- Heartbeats — Xavier Dolan
- The High Cost of Living — Deborah Chow
- Incendies — Denis Villeneuve
- Last Train Home — Lixin Fan
- Modra — Ingrid Veninger
- Mourning for Anna — Catherine Martin
- Splice — Vincenzo Natali
- Trigger — Bruce McDonald
Short films
- Above the Knee — Greg Atkins
- I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors — Ann Marie Fleming
- The Legend of Beaver Dam — Jerome Sable
- Lipsett Diaries — Theodore Ushev
- Little Flowers — Vincent Biron
- The Little White Cloud That Cried — Guy Maddin
- Marius Borodine — Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais
- Mokhtar — Halima Ouardiri
- On the Way to the Sea — Tao Gu
- Vapor — Kaveh Nabatian