2011 Toronto International Film Festival


The 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, between September 8 and September 18, 2011.
Buenos Aires, Argentina was selected to be showcased for the 2011 City to City programme. The opening film was From the Sky Down, a documentary film about the band U2, directed by Davis Guggenheim. Considerable media attention at the time focused on Madonna's behaviour during the festival.

Programme

Gala Presentations

Masters

Special Presentations

Discovery

Reel to Reel

Vanguard

TIFF Kids

Mavericks

City to City: Buenos Aires

Contemporary World Cinema

Canada First!

Short Cuts Canada

Canada Open Vault

Visions

Wavelengths

349 (for Sol LeWitt) by Chris Kennedy99 Clerkenwell Road by Sophie MichaelAberration of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure by Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder and Olivia BlockAmerican Colour by Joshua BonnettaArs colonia by Raya MartinBlack Mirror at the National Gallery by Mark LewisBouquets 11-20 by Rose LowderChevelle by Kevin Jerome EversonCoorow-Latham Road by Blake WilliamsEdwin Parker by Tacita DeanEmpire by Apichatpong WeerasethakulFound Cuban Mounts by Adriana Salazar ArroyoI Will Forget This Day by Alina RudnitskayaLoutra/Baths by Nick CollinsOptra Field VII-IX by T. MarieA Preface to Red by Jonathan SchwartzResonance by Karen JohannesenThe Return by Nathaniel DorskySack Barrow by Ben RiversSailboat by Joyce WielandSea Series#10 by John PriceSpace is the Place by Eriko SonodaTwenty Cigarettes by James BenningUntitled by Neïl BeloufaYoung Pines by Ute Aurand

Future Projections

Buffalo Days by Peter LynchLight as a Feather, Stiff as a Board by Nicholas Pye and Sheila PyeMemories of Idaho by James Franco and Gus Van SantMr. Brainwash in Toronto by Mr. BrainwashPlot against Time by David RokebyRoad Movie by Elle Flanders and Tamira SawatzkySanctuary by Gregory CrewdsonSlow Action by Ben RiversSunday by Duane HopkinsTime as Activity (Buenos Aires) by David Lamelaswhiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir by Eve Sussman Rufus Corporation

Midnight Madness

The Day by Doug AarniokoskiGod Bless America by Bobcat GoldthwaitThe Incident by Alexandre CourtesKill List by Ben WheatleyLivid by Julien Maury and Alexandre BustilloLovely Molly by Eduardo SánchezThe Raid by Gareth EvansSleepless Night by Frédéric JardinSmuggler by Katsuhito IshiiYou're Next by Adam Wingard

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 7, 2011.

Feature films

Short films