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TIFF 2009: Fully loaded

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced the rest of this year’s slate. Let the frenzy begin.

The expected blanks from Cannes have been filled in: Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist and Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner The White Ribbon will both screen in the Masters program, in the company of newly announced films from Claire Denis, Margarethe von Trotta, François Ozon, Marco Bellocchio, Amos Gitai and others.

Xiaolu Guo’s She, A Chinese, which broke out at Locarno just a few weeks ago, gets the last Special Presentation slot.

Contemporary World Cinema gets Nightwatch director Ole Bornedal’s new thriller, Deliver Us From Evil it’s being described as “a Danish variation on Straw Dogs”, though Straw Dogs didn’t have a pneumatic nail gun in the mix. The CWC lineup also includes My Year Without Sex, the new film from Sarah Watt, director of the charming Look Both Ways, and the Cannes-heralded Romanian omnibus Tales From The Golden Age.

Obligatory stats graph: This year’s festival will present 271 features and 64 shorts from 64 countries, using 32 screens for a total of 25,791 minutes of motion-pictural entertainment. The longest feature runs 192 minutes the shortest short, just one.

Check out the TIFF website later this afternoon for even more information and the complete film list. The screening schedule will be released until next Tuesday … so, really, what else is there to do?[rssbreak]

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