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49th Toronto International Film Festival 5 - 15 SEPTEMBER 2024 in Toronto, Ontario
2 0 2 4 A W A R D S People's Choice: THE LIFE OF CHUCK Documentary: THE TRAGICALLY HIP: NO DRESS REHEARSAL Midnight Madness: THE SUBSTANCE Canadian Feature: SHEPHERDS Discovery: UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE Norman Jewison Award: David Cronenberg Director: Mike Leigh Performers: Amy Adams and Jharrel Jerome Impact Media: Angelina Jolie Groundbreaker: Cate Blanchett Artisan: Clement Ducol & Camille Emerging Talent: Durga Chew-Bose Special Tribute: Zhao Tao Fipresci Prize: MOTHER MOTHER Netpac Award: THE LAST OF THE SEA WOMEN Platform Award: THEY WILL BE DUST | 2 0 2 4 F I L M S | ||
40 ACRES (Thorne, Can) ABERDEEN (Cooper/Thomas, Can) ADDITION (Lunam, Aus) ADRIFT POTENTIALS (Pirondi, Br) ALL OF YOU (Bridges, US) ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Kapadia, Fr) AN UNFINISHED FILM (Lou, Sin) ANDREA BOCELLI: BECAUSE I BELIEVE (Spender, UK) ANORA (Baker, US) ANYWHERE ANYTIME (Tangshir, It) APRIL (Kulumbegashvili, It) ARCHIPELAGO OF EARTHEN BONES: TO BUNYA (Szlam, Can) THE ASSESSMENT (Fortune, UK) BABYGIRL (Reijn, US) THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CESAIRE (Hunt-Ehrlich, US) BEING JOHN SMITH (Smith, UK) BELOVED TROPIC (Endara, Panama, Col) BETTER MAN (Gracey, UK) BIRD (Arnold, UK) A BLACK SCREEN TOO (Vermette, Can) BLISS (Zarhin, Isr) BLUE ROAD: THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY (O'Shea, Ire) BONJOUR TRISTESSE (Chew-Bose, Can) BOONG (Devi, Ind) BOUND IN HEAVEN (Huo, Chn) BRING THEM DOWN (Andrews, Ire) THE BRUTALIST (Corbet, US) BY THE STREAM (Hong, Kor) CAN I GET A WITNESS (Fleming, Can) CARNIVAL IS OVER (Coimbra, Br) CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Jia, Chn) CLOUD (Kurosawa, Jpn) COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE (Rinland, Arg) CONCLAVE (Berger, UK) CROCODILE TEARS (Tampubolon, Ina) THE COURAGEOUS (Gordon, Swi) THE CUT (Ellis, UK) DAHOMEY (Diop, Fr) THE DAMNED (Minervini, Ita) DANIELA FOREVER (Vigalondo, Sp) DAUGHTER'S DAUGHTER (Xi, Tai) DEAD MAIL (DeBoer/McConaghy, US) DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY (Hsu, Tai) THE DEB (Wilson) THE DIARY OF A Sky (Hamdan, Leb) DICIANNOVE (Tortorici, It) * DISCLAIMER (Cuaron, UK) DO I KNOW YOU FROM SOMEWHERE (Martinez, Can) DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY (Linh, Vie) DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT (Davidtz, SA) DRAMA 1882 (Shawky, Egy) EDEN (Ron Howard, US) EDGE OF NIGHT (Suer, Ger) ELSE (Emin, France, Bel) ELTON JOHN: NEVER TOO LATE (Cutler/Furnish, US) EMILIA PEREZ (Audiard, Fr) * THE END (Oppenheimer, Den) ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND (Peck, Fr) ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY (Li, Chn) EXERGUE: ON DOCUMENTA 14 (Athiridis, Gr) THE EXILES (Funes, Sp) FAITHLESS (Alfredson/Johnsen, Swe) FAMILIES LIKE OURS (Vinterberg, Den) FANATICAL: THE CATFISHING OF TEGAN AND SARA (Carr, US) THE FIRE INSIDE (Morrison, US) FLOW (Zilbalodis, Lat) THE FREEDOM OF FIERRO (Esteinou, Mex) FREEDOM WAY (Olalekan, Nga) THE FRIEND (McGehee/Siegel, US) FRIENDSHIP (DeYoung, US) FROM GROUND ZERO (Moussa/Damo/etc, Pal) FRONT ROW (Allouache, Alg) THE GESUIDOUZ (Ugana, Jpn) GO BETWEEN (Kennedy, Can) THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE (Von Horn, Den) GRAND TOUR (Gomes, Por) GULIZAR (Bayrak, Tur) HAPPY HOLIDAYS (Copti, Pal) HAPPYEND (Sora, Jpn) HARBIN (Woo, Kor) HARD TRUTHS (Leigh, UK) HARVEST (Tsangari, UK) HERETIC (Beck/Woods, US) HOLD YOUR BREATH (Crouse/Joines) HORIZONTE (Acevedo, Col) I, THE EXECUTIONER (Ryoo, Kor) I'M STILL HERE (Salles, Br) ICK (Kahn, US) INK WASH (Tsorakidis, Rom) IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS (Kempf/Toti) JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE (Piani, Fr) JULIE KEEPS QUIET (van Dijl, Belgium, Swe) K-POPS! (Paak, US) KILL THE JOCKEY (Ortega, Arg) THE KNOWING (Montour/Talaga, Can) THE LAST OF THE SEA Women (Kim, US) THE LAST REPUBLICAN (Pink) THE LAST SHOWGIRL (Coppola, US) LAZARO AT NIGHT (Pereda, Can) THE LEGEND OF THE VAGABOND QUEEN OF LAGOS (Agbajowo, Nga) THE LIFE OF CHUCK (Flanagan) LINDA (Wainstein, Argentina, Sp) THE LISTENERS (Bravo/Tannahill, UK) LITTLE JAFFNA (Valin, Fr) LIVING TOGETHER (Elkhatabi, Can) LOVE IN THE BIG CITY (E.oni, Kor) THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA (Oliveros, US) M: SON OF THE CENTURY (Wright, It) MATT AND MARA (Radwanski, Can) MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL (Bohdanowicz) |
MEAT (Nakos, Gr) MEET THE BARBARIANS (Delpy, Fr) MEGALOPOLIS (Coppola, US) MEN OF WAR (Gatien/Corben, US) MILLERS IN MARRIAGE (Burns) MISERICORDIA (Guiraudie, Fr) A MISSING PART (Senez, Bel) MISTRESS DISPELLER (Lo, Chn) THE MOTHER AND THE BEAR (Ma, Can) MOTHER MOTHER (Warsame, Can) THE MOUNTAIN (House, NZ) MR K (Schwab, Ned) MY FATHERS' DAUGHTER (Unjarga/Pedersen, Nor) MY SUNSHINE (Okuyama, Jpn) NIGHTBITCH (Heller, US) NO OTHER LAND (Abraham/Adra/etc, Pal) NOTES OF A CROCODILE (Xu, Cam) NUTCRACKERS (Green) OCTOBER NOON (Teare, Chl) OH, CANADA (Schrader, Can) * ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL (Nyoni, Zam) ON FALLING (Carreira, UK) ON SWIFT HORSES (Minahan, US) THE ORDER(Kurzel, Can) THE PARADISE OF THORNS (Nam/Kuno, Tha) PATRICE: THE MOVIE (Passon, US) THE PARTY'S OVER (Manrique, Sp) PAUL ANKA: HIS WAY (Maggio, US) PAYING FOR IT (Lee, Can) PEDRO PARAMO (Prieto, Mex) PEPE (Arias, DR) THE PENGUIN LESSONS (Cattaneo, Sp) PERFUMED WITH MINT (Hamdy, Egy) THE PIANO LESSON (Washington, US) PIECE BY PIECE (Neville, US) PIMPINERO: Blood and Oil (Baiz, Col) * PRESENCE (Soderbergh, US) QUEER (Guadagnino, It) THE QUIET ONES (Lydlose/Hviid, Den) QUISLING: THE FINAL DAYS (Poppe, Nor) REALLY HAPPY SOMEDAY (Stevens, Can) RELAY (Mackenzie, US) THE RETURN (Pasolini, It) REVOLVING ROUNDS (Lurf/Jauernik, Aut) REZ BALL (Freeland, US) RIFF RAFF (Montiel) ROAD DIARY: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND (Zimny, US) THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Almodovar, Sp) RUMOURS (Maddin/Johnson/Johnson, Can) RUSSIANS AT WAR (Trofimova, Can) SABA (Hossain, Ban) SAD JOKES (Stumm, Ger) THE SALT PATH (Elliott, UK) SANTOSH (Suri, UK) SATURDAY NIGHT (Reitman, US) SCENARIOS (Godard, France, Jpn) THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Rasoulof, Irn) SEEDS (Horn, Can) SEVEN DAYS (Ahadi, Ger) THE SHADOW STRAYS (Tjahjanto, Ina) SHARP CORNER (Buxton, Canada, Ire) SHELL (Minghella, US) SHEPHERDS (Deraspe, Can) SHOOK (Wala) THE SHROUDS ( Cronenberg, Can) A SISTERS' TALE (Amini, Swi) SKETCH (Worley, US) SO SURREAL: BEHIND THE MASKS (Diamond/Robertson, Can) THE SOJOURN (Sia, US) SOMEPLACE IN YOUR MOUTH (Gibson/Gordon, It) SOULEYMANE'S STORY (Lojkine, Fr) SPACE COWBOY (Strauch/Leavitt, US) STRUGGLE WITHOUT END (Jonathan, NZ) THE SUBSTANCE (Fargeat, Fr) SUDAN, REMEMBER US (Meddeb, Fr) SUNSHINE (Jadaone, Ph) SUPERBOYS OF MALEGAON (Kagti, Ind) THE SWEDISH TORPEDO (Kempff, Swe) SWEET ANGEL BABY (Oates, Can) TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS (Measom, Can) TATA (Vdovu/Ciorniciuc, Romania, Ger) TEMPORARY SHELTER (Skjol/Bortuali, Ice) THEY WILL BE DUST (Marques-Marcet, Sp) THOU SHALT NOT STEAL (River, Aus) TO A LAND UNKNOWN (Fleifel, UK) THE TRAGICALLY HIP: NO DRESS REHEARSAL (Downie, Can) TRIUMPH (Valchanov/Grozeva, Bul) U ARE THE UNIVERSE (Ostrikov, Ukr) UNDER THE VOLCANO (Kocur, Pol) UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (Rankin, Can) UNSTOPPABLE (Goldenberg, US) VERMIGLIO (Delpero, It) VICE IS BROKE (Huang, US) VIET AND NAM (Truong, Ph) VIKTOR (Sarbil, Ukr) VILLAGE KEEPER (Chapman, Can) THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE (Harawe, Fr) WE LIVE IN TIME (Crowley, UK) WENT UP THE HILL (Van Grinsven, NZ) WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS (Runarsson, Ice) THE WILD ROBOT (Sanders, US) WILL & HARPER (Greenbaum) WILLIAM TELL (Hamm, It) WINTER IN SOKCHO (Kamura, Fr) WISHING ON A STAR (Kerekes, It) WITHOUT BLOOD (Jolie, US) THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT (Brady, Aus) YOU ARE NOT ALONE (Viens/Lupien) YOUNG WERTHER (Lourenco, Can) YOUR TOMORROW (Weinstein, Can) YOUTH (HARD TIMES) (Wang, Fr) YOUTH (HOMECOMING) (Wang, Fr) | ||
48th Toronto International Film Festival 7-17 SEP 2023 in Toronto, Ontario
2 0 2 3 A W A R D S People's Choice: AMERICAN FICTION Documentary: MR DRESSUP: THE MAGIC OF MAKE-BELIEVE Midnight Madness: DICKS: THE MUSICAL Canadian Feature: SOLO Norman Jewison Award: Shawn Levy Jeff Skoll Award: Pedro Almodovar Director: Spike Lee Performance: Colman Domingo and Vicky Krieps Special Tribute: Andy Lau Artisan: Lukasz Zal Emerging Talent: Carolina Markowicz | 2 0 2 3 F I L M S | ||
AMERICAN FICTION (Jefferson, US) ANATOMY OF A FALL (Triet, Fr) BACKSPOT (Waterson, Can) THE BEAST (Bonello, Fr) THE BOY AND THE HERON (Miyazaki, Jpn) THE BOY IN THE WOODS (Snow, Can) BOY KILLS WORLD (Mohr, SA) LA CHIMERA (Rohrwacher, It) CHUCK CHUCK BABY (Pugh, UK) CLOSE TO YOU (Savage, Can) CLOSE YOUR EYES (Erice, Sp) THE CRITIC (Tucker, UK) THE DEAD DON'T HURT (Mortensen, Mex) THE DELINQUENTS (Moreno, Arg) DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH OF THE END OF THE WORLD (Jude, Rom) DREAM SCENARIO (Borgli, US) DUMB MONEY (Gillespie) THE END WE START FROM (Belo, UK) EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi, Jpn) EXPATS (Wang, HK) EZRA (Goldwyn) FAIR PLAY (Domont, US) FALLEN LEAVES (Kaurismaki, Fin) FINGERNAILS (Nikou, US) FLORA AND SON (Carney, Ire) FOUR DAUGHTERS (Hania) GREEN BORDER (Holland, Pol) HERE (Devos, Bel) HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (Jacobs, US) HIT MAN (Linklater, US) THE HOLDOVERS (Payne, US) HOW TO HAVE SEX (Walker, UK) IN FLAMES (Kahn, Pak) IN RESTLESS DREAMS: THE MUSIC OF PAUL SIMON (Gibney, US) KIDNAPPED (Bellocchio, It) KILL (Bhat, Ind) LEE (Kuras, UK) |
LIL NAS X: LONG LIVE MONTERO (Estrada/Manuel, US) LIMBO (Sen, Aus) MANDOOB: NIGHT COURIER (Kalthami, Sau) MEMORY (Franco, US) MONSTER (Kore-eda, Jpn) MOTHER, COUCH(Larsson, US) THE NATURE OF LOVE (Chokri, Can) THE NEW BOY (Thornton, Aus) NEXT GOAL WINS (Waititi, US) NYAD (Vasarhelyi/Chin, US) ONE LIFE (Hawes) ORIGIN (DuVernay, US) ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (Preciado, Fr) THE PEASANTS (Welchman/Welchman, Pol) PERFECT DAYS (Wenders, Jpn) THE PIGEON TUNNEL (Morris) POOLMAN (Pine) THE PROMISED LAND (Arcel) THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS (Mirza, Can) QUIZ LADY (Yu) REPTILE (Singer, US) RIDDLE OF FIRE (Razooli, US) ROBOT DREAMS (Berger, Sp) THE ROYAL HOTEL (Green, Aus) RUSTIN (Wolfe, US) THE SETTLERS (Galvez, Chl) SHAYDA (Niasari, Aus) SHOSHANA (Winterbottom, UK) SING SING (Kwedar, US) SLEEP (Yu, Kor) SOLO (Dupuis, Can) SUMMER QAMP (Markowitz, Can) THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE (Catak, Ger) TOLL (Markowicz, Br) UNICORNS (Hosaini/Floyd, UK) WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (Sharrock, UK) WIDOW CLIQUOT (Napper, UK) THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Glazer, Pol) | ||
47th Toronto International Film Festival 8-19 SEP 2022 in Toronto, Ontario
2 0 2 2 A W A R D S People's Choice: THE FABELMANS Tribute Director: Sam Mendes (EMPIRE OF LIGHT) Tribute Performance: Brendan Fraser (THE WHALE) Tribute Ensemble: MY POLICEMAN Documentary: BLACK ICE Midnight Madness: WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY Canadian Feature: TO KILL A TIGER | 2 0 2 2 F I L M S | ||
AFTERSUN (Wells, UK) ALICE, DARLING (Nighy, Can) ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Berger, Ger) ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Poitras, US) ALLELUJAH (Eyre, UK) AMANDA (Cavalli, It) THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (McDonagh, Ire) THE BLUE CAFTAN (Touzani, Mor) BROKER (Kore-eda, Kor) BROS (Stoller, US) BROTHER (Virgo, Can) CARMEN (Millepied, Aus) CASA SUSANNA (Lifshitz, Fr) CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY (Dunham, UK) CAUSEWAY (Neugebauer, US) CHEVALIER (Williams, US) CORSAGE (Kreutzer, Aut) DALILAND (Harron, US) DECISION TO LEAVE (Park, Kor) DEVOTION (Dillard, US) EO (Skolimowski, Pol) EMILY (O'Connor, UK) EMPIRE OF LIGHT (Mendes, UK) THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER (Hogg, UK) THE FABELMANS (Spielberg, US) GLASS ONION (Johnson, US) GODLAND (Palmason, Ice) THE GOOD NURSE (Lindholm, US) HUNT (Lee, Kor) HOLY SPIDER (Abbasi, Den) |
HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE (Goldhaber, US) THE INSPECTION (Bratton, US) JOYLAND (Sadiq, Pak) KLOKKENLUIDER (Maskell, UK) THE LISTENER (Buscemi, US) LIVING (Hermanus, UK) THE LOST KING (Frears, UK) LOVE LIFE (Fukada, Jpn) MAYA AND THE WAVE (Johnes, US) THE MENU (Mylod, US) MOONAGE DAYDREAM (Morgen, Ger) MORE THAN EVER (Atef, Fr) MY POLICEMAN (Grandage, UK) NANNY (Jusu, US) NO BEARS (Panahi, Irn) OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN (Zlotowski, Fr) PEARL (West, US) PLAN 75 (Hayakawa, Jpn) RETURN TO SEOUL (Chou, Fr) R.M.N. (Mungiu, Rom) SAINT OMER (Diop, Fr) SISU (Helander, Fin) THE SON (Zeller, UK) THE SUBSTITUTE (Lerman, Arg) TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (Ostlund, Swe) WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY (Appel, US) WENDELL & WILD (Selick, US) THE WHALE (Aronofsky, US) WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT (Kapur, UK) WINTER BOY (Honore, Fr) THE WOMAN KING (Prince-Bythewood, US) WOMEN TALKING (Polley, US) THE WONDER (Lelio, Ire) | ||
46th Toronto International Film Festival 9-18 SEP 2021 in Toronto, Ontario
2 0 2 1 A W A R D S People's Choice: BELFAST Tribute Actors: Jessica Chastain and Benedict Cumberbatch Special Tribute: Dionne Warwick (DON'T MAKE ME OVER) Documentary: THE RESCUE Midnight Madness: TITANE Canadian Feature: STE ANNE | 2 0 2 1 F I L M S | ||
ALI & AVA (Barnard, UK) BELFAST (Branagh, UK) BENEDICTION (Davies, UK) BERGMAN ISLAND (Hansen-Love, Swe) COMPARTMENT NO 6 (Kuosmanen, Fin) COSTA BRAVA, LEBANON (Akl, Leb) DASHCAM (Savage, UK) DEAR EVAN HANSEN (Chbosky, US) THE DESPERATE HOUR (Noyce, US) DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi, Jpn) DUNE (Villeneuve, US) THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN (Sharpe, UK) ENCOUNTER (Pearce, US) THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE (Showalter, US) FLEE (Rasmussen, Den) THE FORGIVEN (McDonagh, UK) FRANCE (Dumont, Fr) A HERO (Farhadi, Irn) HUDA'S SALON (Abu-Assad, Pal) THE HUMANS (Karam, US) |
I'M YOUR MAN (Schrader, Ger) INEXORABLE (du Welz, Bel) INU-OH (Yuasa, Jpn) LAST NIGHT IN SOHO (Wright, UK) MEDUSA (Rocha, Br) MEMORIA (Weerasethakul, Col) THE MIDDLE MAN (Hamer, Can) MOTHERING SUNDAY (Husson, UK) NEPTUNE FROST (Williams/Uzeyman, Rw) OFFICIAL COMPETITION(Cohn/Duprat, Sp) PETITE MAMAN (Sciamma, Fr) THE POWER OF THE DOG (Campion, NZ) THE RESCUE (Vasarhelyi/Chin, UK) SILENT NIGHT (Griffin, UK) SMALL BODY (Samani, It) SPENCER (Larrain, Ger) TITANE (Ducournau, Fr) TRUE THINGS (Wootliff, UK) WILDHOOD (Hannam, Can) THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Trier, Nor) YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER (Dolan, Ire) | ||
45th Toronto International Film Festival 10-20 SEP 2020 in Toronto, Ontario
2 0 2 0 A W A R D S People's Choice: NOMADLAND Documentary: INCONVENIENT INDIAN Midnight Madness: SHADOW IN THE CLOUD Canadian Feature: INCONVENIENT INDIAN Fipresci Prize: BEGINNING | 2 0 2 0 F I L M S | ||
180° RULE (Samadi, Irn) AFTER LOVE (Khan, UK) AMMONITE (Lee, UK) ANOTHER ROUND (Vinterberg, Den) APPLES (Nikou, Gr) BEANS (Deer, Can) BRUISED (Berry, US) DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA (Lee, US) FALLING (Mortensen, Can) THE FATHER (Zeller, UK) I AM GRETA (Grossman, Swe) I CARE A LOT (Blakeson, US) JOE BELL (Green, US) LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE (Klein, Can) LIMBO (Sharrock, UK) MLK/FBI (Pollard, US) MONDAY (Papadimitropoulos, Gr) MY HEART GOES BOOM (Alvarez, Sp) |
NEW ORDER (Franco, Mex) NIGHT OF THE KINGS (Lacote, CdI) NO ORDINARY MAN (Chin-Yee/Joynt, Can) NOMADLAND (Zhao, US) NOTTURNO (Rosi, It) ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI... (King, US) PIECES OF A WOMAN (Mundruczo, Can) QUO VADIS, AIDA? (Zbanic, BiH) SAINT-NARCISSE (La Bruce, Can) SHORTA (Hviid/Olholm, Den) A SUITABLE BOY (Nair, UK) SUMMER OF 85 (Ozon, Fr) THE THIRD DAY (Barrett/Kelly) TRUE MOTHERS (Kawase, Jpn) THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS (Dweck/Kershaw, It) WILDFIRE (Brady, UK) WOLFWALKERS (Moore/Stewart, Ire) * reviews coming | ||
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