Toronto EU Film Fest

Toronto – Eh! U Meet The Europeans - European Film Festival announced today their impressive 2009
line-up of international award winners and national hits. The largest European Film Festival in Toronto
celebrates its fifth edition and runs November 19 to December 3, 2009, in three major theatres of the city :
Bloor Cinema, The Royal and Odeon Varsity Complex.

The festival will feature 26 movies from 23 European countries: a beautiful celebration of the diversity of
Europe in the heart of the most multicultural city of the world. Cannes 2009 Golden Palm (The White
Ribbon) and Grand Prix (A Prophet) to name but a few reflect wonderfully the 2009 programming’s richness.
Lars Henriksson, Honorary Consul of Sweden, who is coordinating the Eh!U European Film Festival, as the
cultural highlight of the Swedish Presidency of the European Union, is delighted that “this edition will
showcase so many award-winning and Academy Award Nomination films.” He also admitted that “the fifth
anniversary is a huge milestone as the festival is now making it in the long run and found its place in the
busy schedule of the Torontonian festivals.”

All screenings will be free of charge!

Austria For a Moment Freedom directed by Arash T. Riahi
Austria The White Ribbon directed by Michael Haneke
Belgium The Alzheimer Case directed by Erik Van Looy
Bulgaria The World is Gig and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner by Stephan Komandarev
Cyprus The Last Homecoming directed by Corinna Avraamidou
Czech Republic The Karamazovs directed by Petr Zelenka
Denmark White Night directed by Jannik Johansen
Estonia Georg directed by Peeter Simm
Finland Black Ice directed by Petri Kotwica
France A Prophet directed by Jacques Audiard
Germany The Baader Meinhof Complex directed by Uli Edel
Greece El Greco directed by Iannis Smaragdis
Ireland Film to be announced soon (check our website)
Italy A Whole Life Ahead directed by Paolo Virzi
Italy Night Bus directed by Davide Marengo
Latvia Little Robbers directed by Armands Zvirbulis
Lithuania 5 Day Scam directed by Gerri Pavloff
Netherlands Winter in Wartime directed by Martin Koolhoven
Poland Time to Die directed by Dorota Kedzierzawska
Portugal The Lovebirds directed by Bruno de Almeida
Romania Police, Adjective directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
Romania Weekend with my mother directed by Stere Gulea
Slovakia Half-Life directed by Vlado Fischer
Slovenia Rooster’s Breakfast directed by Marko Naberšnik
Spain Under the Stars directed by Félix Viscarret
Sweden The King of Ping Pong directed by Jens Jonsson