JANUARY 20-22 + 27-29

Established in 2001 by the Toronto International Film Festival, Canada’s Top Ten is an annual poll celebrating excellence in Canadian filmmaking. The year’s ten best Canadian feature-length films and ten best Canadian short films are chosen by two separate independent panels of filmmakers, festival programmers, journalists, academics, and industry professionals drawn from across the country. Pacific Cinémathèque is pleased to present the panels’ distinguished selections for 2011.

Members of this year’s feature panel were Meaghan Brander, Film Circuit Manager, Toronto International Film Festival; Jacqueline Brodie, journalist and film publicist; Helen Faradji, Montreal film critic and editor-in-chief of revue24images.com; Marc Glassman, Toronto editor, journalist, broadcaster, film programmer, and literary series artistic director; Peter Howell, movie critic for the Toronto Star; Brenda Lieberman, programmer for the Calgary Underground and Calgary International Film Festivals; Andrew Murphy, Programming Manager, Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax; Patricia Rozema, Toronto director of I've Heard the Mermaids Singing and Mansfield Park; José Teodoro, playwright, author, and film critic; and Blaine Thurier, Vancouver writer-director and member of the rock band The New Pornographers.

Panellists for this year’s selection of Canada’s Top Ten Shorts were Manon Dumais, Montreal journalist and film editor of the weekly Voir; Peter Knegt, Toronto film journalist, film festival programmer, and indieWIRE associate editor; Yves-Etienne Massicotte, host and producer for TFO (Télé-Française d'Ontario) and documentary filmmaker; Karina Rotenstein, Programming Manager at Toronto’s Hot Docs documentary festival; and Barbara Shrier, Montreal film producer.

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FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS
Café de Flore (Jean-Marc Vallée)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
Edwin Boyd (Nathan Morlando)
Hobo with a Shotgun (Jason Eisener)
Keyhole (Guy Maddin)
Monsieur Lazhar (Philippe Falardeau)
The Salesman / Le vendeur (Sébastien Pilote)
Starbuck (Ken Scott)
Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley)
Wetlands / Marécages (Guy Édoin)

SHORT FILMS
Choke (Michelle Latimer)
Doubles with Slight Pepper (Ian Harnarine)
The Fuse: or How I Burned Simon Bolivar (Igor Drljaca)
Hope (Pedro Pires)
No Words Came Down (Ryan Flowers, Lisa Pham)
ORA (Philippe Baylaucq)
Rhonda's Party (Ashley McKenzie)
La Ronde (Sophie Goyette)
Trotteur (Arnaud Brisebois, Francis Leclerc)
We Ate the Children Last (Andrew Cividino)

Please Note: Due to a conflict with its theatrical release, David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method was not available for our presentation.

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Acknowledgments: For their very kind assistance in making the Vancouver presentation of Canada’s Top Ten possible, Pacific Cinémathèque is grateful to Steve Gravestock, Associate Director of Canadian Programming, Meaghan Brander, Manager, Film Circuit, Magali Simard, Short Cuts Canada Programmer and Senior Coordinator, Film Programmes, Laura Good, Programming Coordinator, Film Circuit, and Lisa Goldberg, Assistant, Festival Programming, of the Toronto International Film Festival.