Today TIFF announced eight more titles for the Real to Reel section, including a strong representation of music docs and an international spectrum of views from Russia, China and Israel. Watch Doc Blog today for further announcements of special programming around documentaries. The final titles are:
 
AMAZING JOURNEY: THE STORY OF THE WHO, Paul Crowder/Murray Lerner, USA
Director/Editor Paul Crowder and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Murray  Lerner explore the ingenious bravado and continuing evolution of the legendary rock group The Who in this definitive, authorized documentary about  the band. The film moves from their origins as a 1960s schoolboy R&B cover band, through their meteoric rise and artistic breakthroughs. In addition to a wealth of recently discovered personal images and video released by the group  the film includes interviews with prominent witnesses and personal friends. Rare  and unreleased concert footage as well as behind-the-scenes moments are featured from throughout their career.
 
LOU REED'S BERLIN Julian Schnabel, USA  Real to Reel
Julian Schnabel's second film at TIFF this year (his other title LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON/THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY is a Special Presentation this year) captures Lou Reed's 2006 live concert performance of his legendary 1973 concept album Berlin.  Reed and his producer Bob Ezrin teamed up with music producer Hal Willner to stage Berlin in venues around the world.  Schnabel art directed the staging and filmed the production over five nights at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York.      
 
CHILDREN OF THE SUN Ran Tal, Israel/USA  Real to Reel
Director Ran Tal shows the world of the Israeli kibbutz movement from a largely unexplored perspective - that of the first generation of children who were born within the kibbutzim, or rural communities, and lived there for most of their lives. Meticulously researched and composed of more than 80 amateur films of rare footage that was shot at the kibbutzim between 1930 and 1970, Tal focuses on the complicated feelings and reflections of the people who grew up in the communes.   
  
CALLAS ASSOLUTA Philippe Kholy, France Real to Reel
Kholy's mesmerizing documentary surveys the life of Maria Callas, one of the greatest opera singers the world has ever known.  A lover of Aristotle Onassis and a fashion icon with a larger-than-life personality, Callas is still remembered fondly by legions of fans around the world.  The film spends equal time between the great music that Callas created and her private world, including some home movie footage shot by Grace Kelly.  Callas was a mass of contradictions, all of which are beautifully represented in the film, and a superstar whose luster has never faded.
 
FENGMING: A CHINESE MEMOIR Wang Bing, Hong Kong/China  Real to Reel
Fearlessly delving into buried chapters of China's communist history, and examining the boundaries we place around personal memory, director Wang Bing has created a remarkable cinematic hybrid.  At once a devastating portrait  of an era, a conceptual art piece, a precious document and a fateful love story, FENGMING: A CHINESE MEMOIR is the harrowing account of one woman's experience in Mao's labour camps.
 
JOY DIVISION Grant Gee, UK/USA  Real to Reel
In 1976, four young men from ruined, post-industrial Manchester, England went to see The Sex Pistols. They formed a band: Joy Division. Thirty years later their sophisticated and powerful sound is more influential than ever.  Featuring the participation of the surviving members, this film reveals the legacy that Joy Division left behind. JOY DIVISION joins another film at the Festival about the band, CONTROL, a feature film which tells the story of the life and death of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. CONTROL is screening in the Vanguard programme.
 
REBELLION: THE LITVINENKO CASE Olga Konskaya and Andreï Nekrasov, Russia  Real to Reel
The dark secrets of the Kremlin unravel in this story of the former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko poisoned last November in London.  Told in his own words and in interviews with his widow, his friends and his alleged killers, Litvinenko's narrative, interspersed with flashbacks into history, explains how the hopes for freedom and democracy, after the collapse of Soviet Communism, have been dashed by the war in Chechnya and the consolidation of power by President Vladimir Putin.
 
USELESS Jia Zhang-ke, China  Real to Reel
The internationally acclaimed, award-winning director Jia Zhang-ke (THE WORLD, STILL LIFE) offers a devastating but focused and compassionate documentary about the fashion world in China, the largest exporter of garment  on the planet.  USELESS depicts the labourers working vast factories with the efficiency and precision of machines, and also portrays the industry's innovative fashion designers.  With disarming simplicity, Jia both informs and seduces as he portrays the unknown faces of changing China.