The Discovery sidebar, featuring films by new and emerging filmmakers, will feature Chinese director Sheng Zhimin's "Bliss," after its bow at the Locarno festival, as well as Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier's debut feature, "Reprise," a comedy about two young aspiring male writers that premiered at the Karlovy Vary festival in the Czech Republic.

The first bookings for the Visions section, a showcase for innovative filmmaking, include French director Bruno Dumont's Festival de Cannes Grand Prix winner, "Flandres"; Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike's "Big Bang Love: Juvenile A," which bowed in Helsinki; and Rolf de Heer's "Ten Canoes," an Australian film based on Aboriginal myths that premiered in Cannes.

Also in the Discovery program is "Taxidermia," the sophomore feature from Hungarian director Gyorgy Palfi; Abderrahmane Sissako's "Bamako," a French/Mali/USA co-production that unspooled in Cannes; and Korean director Kim Ki-duk's "Time," a study of cosmetic surgery from the perspective of a young woman ready to go under the knife for the man she loves.

In the Contemporary World Cinema sidebar, Toronto programmers booked 11 North American premieres, including Festival de Cannes Jury Prize winner "Red Road," British Andrea Arnold's debut feature about a woman who stalks the man who destroyed her family.

Also unspooling in the CWC section is Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu's Camera d'Or-winning "12:08 East of Bucharest," Australian director Ray Lawrence's "Jindabyne," Thai helmer Pen-ek Ratanaruang's noir thriller "Invisible Waves," Russian director Djamshed Usmonov's "To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die" and Hungarian director Szabolcs Hajdu's "White Palms."

CWC programmers also booked the Chinese/French co-production "Summer Palace," from Chinese director Lou Ye; "Summer '04," from German helmer Stefan Krohmer; and Norwegian filmmaker Jens Lien's "The Bothersome Man," which unspooled previously in Cannes and Karlovy Vary.

Other Cannes films booked for Toronto include Polish director Slawomir Fabicki's first feature, "Retrieval"; Argentine director Israel Adrian Caetano's "Cronica De Una Fuga"; and U.S. director John Cameron Mitchell's sexually explicit "Shortbus," a drama starring Justin Bond, Lindsay Beamish, Paul Dawson and PJ Deboy.

Toronto also booked a Canadian premiere for "Slumming," Austrian director Michael Glawogger's drama about a wealthy slacker and the characters he meets while pulling pranks and manipulating women.

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