2010 Toronto International Film Festival

The 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival, (TIFF) 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 (compared to 70 in 2009), 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 (i.e. the first screening outside the film's home country), and 98 are North American premieres. (In fact, some of the so-called premieres screened at the Telluride Film Festival before TIFF. )

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 (Les Amours imaginaires) — Xavier Dolan
 * The High Cost of Living — Deborah Chow
 * Incendies — Denis Villeneuve
 * Last Train Home — Lixin Fan
 * Modra — Ingrid Veninger
 * Mourning for Anna (Trois temps après la mort d'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 (Les Fleurs de l'âge) — 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