The following is a list of 48 documentaries to be screened at the Toronto Film Festival 2008.

The films represent 18 countries, and cover subjects ranging from the creation of a successful Broadway musical to finding the next incarnation of a Tibetan lama, and from fighting illegal whaling in Antarctica to watching a cattle auction in the U.S.A.

Keep track of these documentaries as they make the rounds of the film festivals circuit, open theatrically and are broadcast on television or released on DVD.

They promise to inform you about all things you need to know in order to understand the world and societies in which we live.

• 7915 KM, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria
• L'Amendment, Kevin Papatie, Canada
• American Swing, Mathew Kaufman & Jon Hart, USA
• At The Edge Of The World - Dan Stone, USA
• Baghdad Twist - Joe Balass, Canada
• Belonging - Elizabeth Lazebnik, CANADA
• The Biggest Chinese Restaurant In The World - Weijun Chen, United Kingdom/The Netherlands/Denmark
• Blind Loves - Juraj Lehotský, Slovakia
• Blood Trail - Richard Parry, United Kingdom
• Cattle Call - Matthew Rankin & Mike Maryniuk, Canada
• Citizen Juling - Kraisak Choonhavan & Manit Sriwanichpoom & Ing K, Thailand
• The Dungeon Masters - Keven McAlester, USA
• Every Little Step - James D. Stern & Adam Del Deo, USA
• Examined Life - Astra Taylor, Canada
• Food, Inc. - Robert Kenner, USA
• Forty Men For The Yukom - Tony Massil, Canada
• From Mother To Daughter - Andrea Zambelli, Italy
• Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 - Kevin Rafferty, USA
• The Heart Of Jenin - Leon Geller & Marcus Vetter, Germany

• Killing Kasztner - Gaylen Ross, USA
• The Meerkats - James Honeyborne, UK
• La Memoire Des Anges - Luc Bourdon, Canada
• More Than A Game - Kristopher Belman, USA
• Not Quite Hollywood - Mark Hartley, Australia
• Of Time And The City - Terence Davies, UK
• Paris, Not France - Adria Petty, USA
• Passages - Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, Canada
• Peace Mission - Dorothee Wenner, Germany
• Picasso & Braque Go To The Movies - Arne Glimcher, USA
• The Beaches of Agnes (Les Plages D'Agnes) - Agnès Varda, France
• The Real Shaolin - Alexander Sebastien Lee, USA/China
• Religulous - Larry Charles, USA
• Sea Point Days - François Verster, South Africa
• Shakespeare And Victor Hugo's Intimacies - Yulene Olaizola, Mexico
• Soul Power - Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, USA
• Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary - Jamie Jay Johnson, United Kingdom
• A Time To Stir - Paul Cronin, USA/United Kingdom
• Under Rich Earth - Malcolm Rogge, Canada
• Unmistaken Child - Nati Baratz, Israel
• Unwanted Witness - Juan José Lozano, Switzerland/France
• Upstream Battle - Ben Kempas, Germany
• Valentino: The Last Emperor - Matt Tyrnauer, USA
• Waltz With Bashir - Ari Folman, Israel/Germany/France
• What I've Lost - Duraid Munajim, Canada
• Whitmore Park - Brian Stockton, Canada
• Witch Hunt - Dana Nachman and Don Hardy, USA
• Yes Madam, Sir - Megan Doneman, Australia/India
• Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love - Chai Vasarhelyi, USA