2017 Toronto International Film Festival

The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 7 to 17, 2017. There were fourteen programs, with the Vanguard and City to City programs both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down by 20% from the 2016 edition.[1][2] Borg/McEnroe directed by Janus Metz Pedersen opened the festival.[3]

2017 Toronto International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening filmBorg McEnroe by Janus Metz Pedersen
Closing filmC'est la vie! by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
LocationToronto, Canada
Founded1976
AwardsThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (People's Choice Award)
Festival dateSeptember 7 – 17, 2017
Websitewww.tiff.net/tiff/

According to a "fact sheet" released by the Festival before it began, this edition included 255 feature-length films[4] and 84 short films. Of the feature films, 147 are claimed to be world premieres. The number of Canadian films at the Festival (including co-productions) is listed as 28 features and 29 shorts.[5] Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk received a special IMAX 70mm screening at the Cinesphere as part of the main film slate and the 50th anniversary of IMAX, making it the first Nolan film to appear at the festival since Following, nineteen years earlier.[6]

Awards

The festival's final awards were announced on September 17.[7]

Award Film Director
People's Choice Award Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Martin McDonagh
People's Choice Award First Runner Up I, Tonya Craig Gillespie
People's Choice Award Second Runner Up Call Me by Your Name Luca Guadagnino
People's Choice Award: Documentary Faces Places Agnès Varda and JR
People's Choice Award, Documentary First Runner Up Long Time Running Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier
People's Choice Award, Documentary Second Runner Up Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! Morgan Spurlock
People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness Bodied Joseph Kahn
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness First Runner Up The Disaster Artist James Franco
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness Second Runner Up Brawl in Cell Block 99 S. Craig Zahler
Platform Prize Sweet Country Warwick Thornton
Platform Prize, Honourable Mention Dark River Clio Barnard
Best Canadian Feature Film Ravenous (Les Affamés) Robin Aubert
Best Canadian Feature Film, Honourable Mention The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) Simon Lavoie
Best Canadian Short Film Pre-Drink Marc-Antoine Lemire
Best Canadian Short Film, Honourable Mention The Tesla World Light Matthew Rankin
Best Canadian First Feature Film Luk'Luk'I Wayne Wapeemukwa
Best Canadian First Feature Film, Honourable Mention Ava Sadaf Foroughi
FIPRESCI Discovery Prize Ava Sadaf Foroughi
FIPRESCI Special Presentations The Motive Manuel Martín Cuenca
Best International Short Film The Burden Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Best International Short Film, Honourable Mention A Gentle Night Qiu Yang
Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere The Great Buddha+ Huang Hsin-Yao

Juries

Platform Jury

Canadian Feature Film Jury
  • Ella Cooper
  • Mark Adams
  • Min Sook Lee[8]

Short Cuts Film Jury

Programs

The following films were selected:[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]

Gala presentations

Special presentations

Midnight Madness

Masters

Documentaries

Contemporary World Cinema
  • Alanis by Anahí Berneri
  • Ana, mon amour by Călin Peter Netzer
  • Angels Wear White by Vivian Qu
  • April's Daughter by Michel Franco
  • Arrhythmia by Boris Khlebnikov
  • Beyond Words by Urszula Antoniak
  • The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales... by Benjamin Renner, Patrick Imbert
  • Birds Without Names by Kazuya Shiraishi
  • Black Kite by Tarique Qayumi
  • Breath by Simon Baker
  • A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano
  • Dark is the Night by Adolfo Alix Jr.
  • Directions by Stephan Komandarev
  • Disappearance by Boudewijn Koole
  • Don't Talk to Irene by Pat Mills
  • Euthanizer by Teemu Nikki
  • Félicité by Alain Gomis
  • Good Favour by Rebecca Daly
  • Hannah by Andrea Pallaoro
  • The Insult by Ziad Doueiri
  • Insyriated by Philippe Van Leeuw
  • The Journey by Mohamed Al-Daradji
  • Life and Nothing More by Antonio Méndez Esparza
  • The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Simon Lavoie
  • The Lodgers by Brian O'Malley
  • Longing by Savi Gabizon
  • Looking for Oum Kulthum by Shirin Neshat
  • Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts by Mouly Surya
  • Meditation Park by Mina Shum
  • Miami by Zaida Bergroth
  • Motorrad by Vicente Amorim
  • Nina by Juraj Lehotský
  • The Number by Khalo Matabane
  • On Body and Soul by Ildikó Enyedi
  • Porcupine Lake by Ingrid Veninger
  • Public Schooled by Kyle Rideout
  • Pyewacket by Adam MacDonald
  • Ravenous (Les Affamés) by Robin Aubert
  • The Royal Hibiscus Hotel by Ishaya Bako
  • Samui Song by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
  • Sergio & Sergei by Ernesto Daranas Serrano
  • A Sort of Family by Diego Lerman
  • The Summit by Santiago Mitre
  • Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle by Mike van Diem
  • Under the Tree by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
  • Verónica by Paco Plaza
  • Wajib by Annemarie Jacir
  • Western by Valeska Grisebach

Discovery
  • 1% by Stephen McCallum
  • 3/4 by Ilian Metev
  • Ava by Sadaf Foroughi
  • All You Can Eat Buddha by Ian Lagarde
  • Apostasy by Daniel Kokotajlo
  • Black Cop by Cory Bowles
  • The Butterfly Tree by Priscilla Cameron
  • Cardinals by Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley
  • Disappearance by Ali Asgari
  • A Fish Out of Water by Lai Kuo-An
  • Five Fingers for Marseilles by Michael Matthews
  • The Future Ahead by Constanza Novick
  • The Garden by Sonja Kröner
  • The Great Buddha+ by Huang Hsin-Yao
  • Gutland by Govinda Van Maele
  • High Fantasy by Jenna Bass
  • Human Traces by Nick Gorman
  • I Kill Giants by Anders Walter
  • I Am Not a Witch by Rungano Nyoni
  • Indian Horse by Stephen Campanelli
  • Killing Jesus by Laura Mora
  • Kissing Candice by Aoife McArdle
  • Luk'Luk'I by Wayne Wapeemukwa
  • Mary Goes Round by Molly McGlynn
  • Messi and Maud by Marleen Jonkman
  • Miracle by Egle Vertelyte
  • Montana by Limor Shmila
  • Never Steady, Never Still by Kathleen Hepburn
  • Oblivion Verses by Alireza Khatami
  • Oh Lucy! by Atsuko Hirayanagi
  • The Poet and the Boy by Kim Yang-hee
  • Princesita by Marialy Rivas
  • Ravens by Jens Assur
  • Scaffolding by Matan Yair
  • Shuttle Life by Tan Seng Kiat
  • Simulation by Abed Abest
  • Soldiers. Story from Ferentari by Ivana Mladenovic
  • Suleiman Mountain by Elizaveta Stishova
  • The Swan by Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir
  • Tigre by Silvina Schnicer and Ulises Porra Guardiola
  • Valley of Shadows by Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen
  • Village Rockstars by Rima Das
  • Waru by Briar Grace-Smith, Ainsley Gardiner, Renae Maihi, Casey Kaa, Awanui Simich-Pene, Chelsea Cohen, Katie Wolfe and Paula Jones
  • Winter Brothers by Hlynur Pálmason
  • A Worthy Companion by Carlos Sanchez and Jason Sanchez

Platform

Short Cuts
  • The Argument (with annotations) by Daniel Cockburn
  • Bickford Park by Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart
  • Bird by Molly Parker
  • Charles by Dominic Étienne Simard
  • Creatura Dada by Caroline Monnet
  • Crème de menthe by Philippe David Gagné and Jean-Marc E. Roy
  • The Crying Conch by Vincent Toi
  • The Drop In by Naledi Jackson
  • For Nonna Anna by Luis De Filippis
  • Grandmother by Trevor Mack
  • homer_b by Milos Mitrovic and Connor Sweeney[19]
  • An Imagined Conversation: Kanye West & Stephen Hawking by Sol Friedman
  • Latched by Justin Harding and Rob Brunner
  • Lira's Forest by Connor Jessup
  • Midnight Confession by Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
  • Milk by Heather Young
  • Möbius by Sam Kuhn
  • Nuuca by Michelle Latimer
  • Pre-Drink by Marc-Antoine Lemire
  • Rupture by Yassmina Karajah
  • Shadow Nettes by Phillip Barker
  • Signature by Kei Chikaura
  • Stay, I Don't Want to Be Alone by Gabriel Savignac
  • The Tesla World Light by Matthew Rankin
  • Threads by Torill Kove
  • We Forgot to Break Up by Chandler Levack

Primetime

Cinematheque

Wavelengths
  • Beyond the One by Anna Marziano
  • Caniba by Veréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
  • Cocote by Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
  • Dragonfly Eyes by Xu Bing
  • Le fort des fous by Narimane Nari
  • Good Luck by Ben Russell
  • Heart of a Mountain by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko and Faraz Anoushahpour
  • Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc by Bruno Dumont
  • Mrs. Fang by Wang Bing
  • The Nothing Factory by Pedro Pinho
  • Occidental by Neil Beloufa
  • Palmerston Blvd. by Dan Browne
  • Prototype by Blake Williams
  • Scaffold by Kazik Radwanski
  • A Skin So Soft (Ta peau si lisse) by Denis Côté
  • Some Cities by Francesco Gagliardi
  • Turtles Are Always Home by Rawane Nassif
  • (100ft) by Minjung Kim

Canada's Top Ten

In December, TIFF programmers released their annual Canada's Top Ten list of the films selected as the ten best Canadian films of 2017.[20] The selected films received a follow-up screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as a "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in January 2018, where Unarmed Verses won the People's Choice Award.[21]

Features
  • Adventures in Public School by Kyle Rideout
  • Allure by Carlos Sanchez and Jason Sanchez
  • Ava by Sadaf Foroughi
  • The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) by Simon Lavoie
  • Luk'Luk'I by Wayne Wapeemukwa
  • Never Steady, Never Still by Kathleen Hepburn
  • Our People Will Be Healed by Alanis Obomsawin
  • Ravenous (Les Affamés) by Robin Aubert
  • Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World by Alfonso Maiorana and Catherine Bainbridge
  • Unarmed Verses by Charles Officer

Short films
  • The Argument (with annotations) by Daniel Cockburn
  • The Botanist by Maude Plante-Husaruk and Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis
  • The Crying Conch by Vincent Toi
  • The Drop In by Naledi Jackson
  • Flood by Amanda Strong
  • Milk by Heather Young
  • Pre-Drink by Marc-Antoine Lemire
  • Rupture by Yassmina Karajah
  • The Tesla World Light by Matthew Rankin
  • Threads by Torill Kove

References
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  3. "Toronto: Shia LaBeouf's 'Borg/McEnroe' to Open 2017 Festival". The Hollywood Reporter. July 31, 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  4. "Hollywood descends on Toronto for film festival". BBC News. September 7, 2017. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
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  6. "'Dunkirk' Receives a Special IMAX Screening at TIFF". August 29, 2017.
  7. Jeremy Kay (September 17, 2017). "'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' wins Toronto audience award". Screen Daily. In other key awards handed out on Sunday afternoon (17), Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country claimed the Toronto Platform Prize, while Joseph Kahn's Bodied won the Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award. Agnès Varda and JR's Faces Places took the Grolsch People's Choice Documentary Award.
  8. The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival [catalogue]. Toronto. 2017. p. 29.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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  10. ‘The Disaster Artist,’ ‘Super-Size Me 2’ Added to Toronto Film Festival Lineup
  11. "TIFF 2017's Midnight Madness, documentary slates are announced". Now. August 1, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  12. "Documentary Lineup Set For Toronto International Film Festival". Shoot Online. August 2, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
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  15. Pond, Steve (August 15, 2017). "Aaron Sorkin, Brie Larson, Louis CK Movies Added to Toronto Film Festival Lineup". TheWrap. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
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  17. "Toronto Film Festival Adds International Films, Talks With Angelina Jolie and Javier Bardem". The Wrap. August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  18. "Roman J. Israel, Esq. Completes the Toronto International Film Festival Special Presentations Lineup" (PDF) (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival Inc. August 31, 2017.
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