2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Festival poster
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| Opening film | Fugitive Pieces |
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| Closing film | Emotional Arithmetic |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
| Number of films | 349 |
| Festival date | September 6, 2007 – September 15, 2007 |
| Language | International |
| Website | http://www.torontointernationalfilmfestival.ca/ |
| Number of films | Nine |
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| Language | English French Hindi |
| Directed by | Francis Mankiewicz |
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| Language | French |
| Directed by | Michel Brault |
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| Number of films | Nine |
| Language | English French |
| Number of films | 62 |
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| Language | International |
| Number of films | Eight |
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| Language | English French Swedish |
| Number of films | 14 |
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| Language | International |
| Language | English French |
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| Language | International |
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| Number of films | 20 |
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| Language |
Arabic English French Mandarin |
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.
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.
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