The complete list of films playing at the Toronto International Film Festival can be clicked on here. While the Telluride Film Festival takes place this weekend, it is the Toronto festival that is usually considered the launching pad for the award worthy films released this Fall and Winter. Among the more famed films introduced in Toronto were American Beauty and Brokeback Mountain.

Just the first day alone features Persepolis, Neil Jordan’s The Brave One starring Jodie Foster, Carlos Saura’s Fados and Dario Argento’s Mother of Tears. French New Wave veterans Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette have new films almost fifty years after leaving film criticism for filmmaking. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men and David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises are also scheduled. Among the classic films to be screened are The Flower Drum Song and Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion. Many of the films will get regular theatrical releases soon, but other films may be harder to see, either to be seen at art and indie theaters, DVD, or only on the film festival circuit. We will keep Screenhead readers informed about the hits and misses coming out of Toronto. The festival begins September 6.

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