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51st Toronto International Film Festival 10 - 20 SEPTEMBER 2026 in Toronto, Ontario Opening Film: BEING HEUMANN Closing Film: VILLENEUVE: THE RISE OF A LEGEND 2 0 2 6   A W A R D S Director: Lee Chang-dong (POSSIBLE LOVE) Performers: Rosalind Eleazar (MISTY GREEN) and Isabelle Huppert (ALL ABOUT CORINNE) Impact Media: Sian Heder (BEING HEUMANN) Special Tribute: Penelope Cruz	2 0 2 6   F I L M S
	2.6 SECONDS: DEATH IN THE OUTBACK (Dale, Aus) AFTER ELENA (Garry, Chl) THE AGE OF GOODBYES (Yeo, Tai) AH GIRL (Priscilla, Sin) ALICE (Verrier/Lonergan, Fr) ALL ABOUT CORINNE (Fitoussi, Fr) ALL OF A SUDDEN (Hamaguchi, Jpn) ALL THAT SHE WANTS (Bermingham/Rhymer, US) ALPHA GANG (Zellner/Zellner, US) ALWAYS LALISA (Kim, US) AMERICAN HOSTAGE (Ryan/Myers/Arkin, US) ANCESTORS (Turpin, Ire) ANCHORS AWEIGH (Barats, US) ANGH (Rio, Ind) ARNE GOES TO SPACE (Vega, Swe) ARRESTED MEMORY (Sabu, Tai) ASHES (Luna, Mex) THE ASSASSIN(S) (Hur, Korea) AT NIGHT (Gibson, UK) ATONEMENT (Van Dyk, US) L'AUTRE (Franchi, Can) BA'S BOOK (Duong, Can) BABIES (Rogen, US) BACK IN BLACK (Murphy, Can) BAD LIEUTENANT: TOKYO (Miike, Jpn) BEDFORD PARK (Ahn, US) BEING HEUMANN (Heder, US) THE BELOVED (Sorogoyen,S p) BELOW (McKeown, Can) BEN'IMANA (Dusabejambo, Rw) THE BETRAYERS (ezmozgis, Ukr) BITTER CHRISTMAS (Almodovar, Sp) THE BLACK BOX IS ORANGE (Benivolski, Can) BLACK SUNFLOWERS (Haney, Ukr) BLEEDING HEARTS (Morgan, US) BLINDSPOT BERLIN (Nawrath, Ger) * LA BOLA NEGRA (Calvo/Ambrossi, Sp) THE BOVINE WITH THE CURVED HORNS (Giraldo, Col) BRACE YOUR HEART (Kernell, Swe) BUCKING FASTARD (Herzog, US) BUNKER (Zeller, Fr) CARRIE (Flanagan, Can) CHEYENNE (Arvidson, US) CHILDREN UNTOLD (Nishikawa, Jpn) THE CITY OF THE LIVING (Gabbriellini, It) CLARISSA (Esiri/ Esiri, Nga) CLOSING NIGHT (Fern,Aus ) CLUB KID (Firstman,US) A COMMON STORY (Foglietta, It) CONGO BOY (Fariala, CAR) CONVERSATION WITH THE SEA (Alayan, Pal) COWARD (Dhont, Bel) CRYSTAL LAKE (Kane/Lennox, US) DARLENE LOVE: I KNOW WHERE I'VE BEEN (Avrich, Can) THE DAUGHTERS OF ABRAHAM (El Yousfi, Fr) THE DEBUT (Eisenberg, US) THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (Jude, Rom) DIARY OF A MAD OLD MAN (Wang, US) THE DIFFICULT BRIDE (Hossain, Ban) DJINN WEDDING (Karahan, Tur) DOROTHY (Subbaraj, Ind) DOUBLE FREEDOM (Alonso, Chl) THE DREAMED ADVENTURE (Grisebach, Ger) DRIFTER (Kang, US) EDWARD SAID: BETWEEN WORLDS (Baird, US) EKLIPSE (Wetscher, Aut) ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG (Shah, Nep) ELSINORE (Stone, UK) EVEREST: THE OTHER SIDE (Chin/Vasarhelyi, US) EVERYBODY WANTS TO F*CK ME (Schey, UK) EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOISE (Pereda, Ger) EVERYTIME (Wollner, Aut) EVIL GENIUS (Cox, US) THE FACE OF HORROR (Biller, UK) FAITH (Williams, UK) LE FAUX SOIR (Roskam, Bel) THE FINAL ACT (Deraspe, Can) FJORD (Mungiu, Rom) FLIES (Eimbcke, Mex) THE FORTUNATE ISLES (Giron/Delgado, Sp) FOUR SEASONS IN JAVA (Andini, Ina) FURIES (Kodeih, Leb) FUTURE TENSE (Bass, SA) GAIL (Maxxis, Can) * GENTLE MONSTER (Kreutzer,Aut) GIRL GROUP (Wilson, UK) A GIRL UNKNOWN (Zou, Chn) GLAXO (Naishtat, Arg) GOD BLESS YOU, MR KOPU (Liu, NZ) GOOD LITTLE SOLDIER (Brize, Fr) LA GRADIVA (Atlan, Fr) GROWTH OF THE SOIL (Moland, Nor) HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! (Wladyka, US) HALF (Samjad, Ind) HAPPILY EVER AFTER (Roan, Tai) HEAD TO HEAD (Golmakani, Irn) HOMBRE AL AGUA (Bernal, Mex) HOPE (Na, Kor) THE HOUSEWIFE (Shirinian, US) HOW WE STAND (Clements, Can) THE HUMMINGBIRD PAINTS FRAGRANT SONGS (Balada/Norzi, Per) I AM MARIO (Kleinberg, Mex) I PLAY ROCKY (Farrelly, US) IDDA (Dionisio, It) THE IDIOT(S) (Szumowska/Englert, Pol) IN ALASKA (van Heusden/Karetak, Ned) IN THE HEART OF THE SOUTH (Innuksuk, Can) IN WAVES (Nguyen, Fr) INHERIT (Pisanthanakun, Tha) INK (Boyle, UK) INTERMISSION (Yonfan, Chn)	IRON BOY (Clichy, Fr) IT WILL HAPPEN TONIGHT (Moretti, It) IT'S MY TIME (Bai, Chn) JOSEPHINE (de Araujo, US) THE JULIA SET (Byrne, US) JULIAN (Bagnall, Lux) KICK ON (Kozakis, Aus) KRUX (Vahl, Ger) LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BRIAN MULRONEY (Rankin, Can) LEMONADE (Bartley, Ire) THE LIBERATION (Nattiv, UK) THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF WILSON SHEDD (Nelson, US) LIFE OF JORGE LUIS BORGES (Llinas, Arg) LIGHT PILLAR (Xu, Chn) LIKE MAGIC (Gil, Col) LONDON (Brameshuber, Aut) LONG LONG NIGHT (Kyu, Kor) A LONG WINTER (Haigh, US) LOOK BACK (Kore-eda, Jpn) THE LOST CHILDREN OF TUAM (Berry, Ire) LOVE IS THE MONSTER (Brenes, CR) LOVE OF YOUR LIFE (Morrison, US) LOW LIES THE LAND (Gerosa, Den) MAGAZINE (Pechman, US) THE MAN I LOVE (Sachs, US) MAN IN MOTION: THE RICK HANSEN STORY (Buitenhuis, Can) MARY MAGDALENE (Geneus, Fr)< br> MASC (Nilsson, UK) * MEMORIES OF A FOREST (Rabl, Ger) MINOTAUR (Zvyagintsev, Fr) MISTY GREEN (Rock, US) MR NELSON, DID YOU KILL PEOPLE? (Tsukamoto, Jpn) MUSK (Gibney, US) MUYI (Chheng, Fr) MY WIFE CRIES (Schanelec, Ger) NEIL PEART: NO ONE'S DISCIPLE (Dunn/McFadyen, Can) NEVERMAN (Barriuso, Can) NOBODY'S VIOLENCE (Cote, Can) NOSOTROS (Ruano, Gua) OBSESSION (Barker, US) ON BEHALF OF MY SON (Martins, Br) ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM (Greaves/Greaves, US) THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK (Segan, US) ONWARDS AND SIDEWAYS (Madden, UK) OUR LOVES (Nesher, Isr) OXYGEN MASKS WILL (NOT) DROP AUTOMATICALLY (Gomes/Minem, Br) PARADISE LOST (Yeon, Kor) THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO UTOPIAS (Fiennes, Ire) PHOOLAN (Mehta, Ind) POSSIBLE LOVE (Lee, Kor) PRETENDERS (Crowley, UK) PRIMA FACIE (White, UK) PURGATORY (Lanzillotta, Can) RAPINOE (Huntt, UK) RE/PAIR (Delgado, US) REHEARSALS FOR A REVOLUTION (Ahangarani, Cz) THE REMOTES (orres, Ph) RESCUE (Plambech, Den) RIVER (Giuliano, US) THE ROAD NOT TAKEN (Chan, Chn) ROGUE TROOPER (Jones, UK) RUN TERRY RUN (Menard, Can) SALVATION (Nicoll, UK) THE SECRET LIVES OF BABA SEGI'S WIVES (Oriahi, Nga) SEVENTEEN (Ducharme, Can) SILENCED NIGHTS (Fajardo, Ph) SISTERS (Hernandez, Sp) SLOW HORSES (Smith/Randall, UK) THE SMELL OF APPLES (Trengove, SA) SMUDGE THE BLADES (Lightning, Can) SOUMSOUM: THE NIGHT OF THE STARS (Haroun, Cha) THE SPIRAL (Strippoli, It) SPIRIT GUARDIANS: THE LAST SECRET OF THE FIRST EMPEROR (Binh, Vie) STILL NIGHT, BURNING HOUSE (Nguyen, Can) STRONG SON (Bawa, Can) STUFFED (Rhys, UK) THE STUNT DRIVER (Dowse, Can) SUNBURN (Poblete, Can) THE SURGEON (Sethi, Ire) A TALENT FOR MURDER (Corbijn, UK) TANGLES (Nelson, Can) TEHRAN: UNDER THE SKIN (Salari, Irn) TENDER LOVING CARE (Leigh, UK) TENZING (Peedom, US) THIRTEEN IN GAZA (Abu Dan, Pal) TOY GUN BANDIT (St-Michel, Can) TRASH MOUNTAIN (Rey, US) TREES ARE WATCHING (Ghobadi, Tur) TURTLE ISLAND RAP (Lazarowich,Can ) THE ULTRA RUNNER (Aung-Thwin, Can) UNION TOWN (Kopple, US) THE UNKNOWN (Harari, Fr) UP AGAINST IT (Styler, UK) VILLENEUVE: THE RISE OF A LEGEND (Turgeon, Can) VINTAGE VIOLENCE (Kotlyarenko, US) THE VIOLINIST (Han/Garcia, Sin) VIVA CARMEN (Laudenbach, Fr) VOICES (Gray, US) WE ARE ALL STRANGERS (Chen, Sin) WE ARE BORN GOOD (Leung, Chn) WHAT LIES BETWEEN US (Fick, Den) WHATCHA WANT (Shum, Can) WHERE THE RIVER BEGINS (Arango, Can) WILD HORSE NINE (McDonagh, UK) WILD, WILD EAST (Holoubek, Pol) WOMAN UNKNOWN (el-Toukhy, Den) THE WORLD BEFORE (Yoon, Korea) YAGA (Sandler/Talalay/Frazee, Can) YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER (Tariq, US) ZJILI: A STORY OF SISTERHOOD AND THE BURDENS OF EXCESS (Boateng/Chambas, Gha)
50th Toronto International Film Festival 4 - 14 SEP 2025 in Toronto, Ontario 2 0 2 5   A W A R D S People's Choice: HAMNET International: NO OTHER CHOICE Documentary: THE ROAD BETWEEN US: THE ULTIMATE RESCUE Midnight Madness: NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE Canadian Feature: WRONG HUSBAND Discovery: BLUE HERON Director: Guillermo del Toro (FRANKENSTEIN) Performers: Nina Hoss (HEDDA) and Channing Tatum (ROOFMAN) Emerging Talent: Hikari (RENTAL FAMILY) Groundbreaker: Jodie Foster (A PRIVATE LIFE) Norman Jewison Award: Catherine O'Hara Impact Media: Idris Elba Artisan Award: Kazu Hiro (THE SMASHING MACHINE) Special Tributes: Zacharias Kunuk, Lee Byung-hun and Jafar Panahi Fipresci Prize: FORASTERA Netpac Award: IN SEARCH OF THE SKY Platform Award: TO THE VICTORY	2 0 2 5   F I L M S
	& SONS (Trapero, UK) 09/05/1982 (Caballero/Restrepo, Sp) 100 SUNSET (Kyirong, Can) ADULTHOOD (Winter, US) AFTERTIDE (Ren, US) AKI (Naponse, Can) AMOEBA (Tan, Sin) ARCO (Bienvenu, Fr) AS WE BREATHE (Altun, Tur) AT THE PLACE OF GHOSTS (Hannam, Can) * BABYSTAR (Bongard, Ger) BAD APPLES (Etzler, UK) BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER (Berger, UK) THE BALLOONISTS (Dower, US) BARRIO TRISTE (Stillz, Col) BAYAAN (Mishra, Ind) BELOW THE CLOUDS (Rosi, It) BETWEEN DREAMS AND HOPE (Samadi, Irn) BLACK RABBIT (Baylin/Susman, US) BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS (Joseph, US) BLOOD LINES (Maurice, Can) BLUE HERON (Romvari, Can) BLUE MOON (Linklater, US) THE BLUE TRAIL (Mascaro, Br) BOUCHRA (Barki/Bennani, US) CAIRO STREETS (Taia, Fr) CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN' (McAvoy, UK) CALLE MALAGA (Touzani, Mor) CANCELED: THE PAULA DEEN STORY (Corben, US) THE CAPTIVE (Amenabar, Sp) CAROLINA CAROLINE (Rehmeier, US) CHARLIE HARPER (Dean, Mac Eldridge, US) THE CHORAL (Hytner, UK) THE CHRISTOPHERS (Soderbergh, US) CHRISTY (Michod, US) CONDITIO HUMANA (vom Groller, Aut) * THE CONDOR DAUGHTER (Torrico, Bol) CONFERENCE (Kammerer, Aut) COPPER (Pereda, Mex) THE COST OF HEAVEN (Denis, Can) COUTURE (Winocour, US) COVER-UP (Poitras/Obenhaus, US) THE CURRENTS (Mumenthaler, Swi) DANDELION'S ODYSSEY (Seto, Fr) DARIA'S NIGHT FLOWERS (Tafakory, Fr) DEAD LOVER (Glowicki, Can) DEAD MAN'S WIRE (Van Sant, US) DEGRASSI: WHATEVER IT TAKES (Rideout, Can) DINNER WITH FRIENDS (Henry, Can) DISAPPEARED (Hura, Ind) DIYA (Ronaimou, Chd) DOG 51 (Jimenez, Fr) DRIVER'S ED (Farrelly, US) DRY LEAF (Koberidze, Geo) DUSE (Marcello, Fr) DUST BUNNY (Fuller, US) EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC (Saleh, Swe) EASY'S WALTZ (Pizzolatto, US) EGGHEAD REPUBLIC (Kagerman/Lilja, Swe) ELEANOR THE GREAT (Johansson, US) EPIC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT (Luhrmann, Aus) ERUPCJA (Ohs, Pol) ETERNAL RETURN (Raz, UK) ETERNITY (Freyne, US) EXIT 8 (Kawamura, Jpn) THE EYES OF GHANA (Proudfoot, US) FELT (Williams, Can) THE FENCE (Denis, Fr) FLANA (Ghandour, Irq) FOLLIES (Boulianne, Can) FORASTERA (Iglesias, Sp) THE FOX KING (Woo, Mys) FRANKENSTEIN (del Toro, UK) FRANZ (Holland, Cz) FROM MY CLOUD (Kim, Kor) F*CK MY SON (Rohal, US) THE FURIOUS (Tanigaki, Chn) FUZE (Mackenzie, UK) GANDHI (Nair/Mehta, Ind) GHOST SCHOOL (Gul, Pak) GIRL (Shu Qi, Tai) GLENROTHAN (Cox, UK) THE GOOD BOY (Komasa, UK) GOOD FORTUNE (Ansari, US) GOOD NEWS (Byun, Kor) HAMLET (Karia, UK) HAMNET (Zhao, UK) HEDDA (DaCosta, UK) HEN (Palfi, Ger) HOLY DAYS (Boltt, NZ) HOMEBOUND (Ghaywan, Ind) HONEY BUNCH (Sims-Fewer/Mancinelli, Can) I SAW THE FACE OF GOD IN THE JET WASH (Jenkin, UK) I SWEAR (Jones, UK) IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU (Bronstein, US) IN SEARCH OF THE SKY (Gurjar, Ind) IN TRANSIT (Kostrov, Fr) IRKALLA: GILGAMESH'S DREAM (Al-Daradji, Irq) IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (Panahi, Irn) IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACAS (Rondon/Ugas, Mex) IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL HERE (al-Sharif, Pal) JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME (Hanks, US) JULIAN (Kusters, Bel) JUNK WORLD (Hori, Jpn) KARMADONNA (Radivojevic, Ser) KOKUHO (Lee, Jpn) KY NAM INN (Le, Vie) LAND OF BARBAR (Moussa, Tun) LANDMARKS (Martel, Arg) THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD (Sossai, It) THE LAST VIKING (Jensen, Den) LAUNDRY (Mkhwanazi, Swi) LEFT-HANDED GIRL (Tsou, Tai) LEVERS (Vermette, Can) A LIFE ILLUMINATED (Van Zandt, US) LILITH FAIR: BUILDING A MYSTERY (Pankiw, Can) LITTLE AMELIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN (Vallade/Han, Fr) LITTLE LORRAINE (Hines, Can) THE LITTLE SISTER (Herzi, Fr)	THE LOST BUS (Greengrass, US) LOVE+WAR (Vasarhelyi/Chin, US) THE LOVE THAT REMAINS (Palmason, Ice) LOVELY DAY (Falardeau, Can) THE LOWDOWN (Harjo, US) LUCKY LU (Choi, Can) MADDIE'S SECRET (Early, US) MAGELLAN (Diaz, Ph) MAMA (Sinai, Isr) THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT (Latif, UK) MAP OF TRACES (Chan, Chn) MARAMA (Stappard, NZ) MARE'S NEST (Rivers, Fr) MEADOWLARKS (Hubbard, Can) MEMORY OF PRINCESS MUMBI (Hauser, Ken) MILE END KICKS (Levack, Can) MILK TEETH (Mincan, Rom) MIRRORS NO 3 (Petzold, Ger) MODERN WHORE (Bazuin, Can) MONKEY IN A CAGE (Kashyap, Ind) MORGENKREIS (al-Sharif, Can) MOTOR CITY (Ponciroli, US) MY FATHER'S SHADOW (Davies, Ngr) THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO (Cespedes, Chl) THE NAPA BOYS (Corirossi, US) NI-NAADAMAADIZ: RED POWER RISING (Belcourt, Can) NIKA AND MADISON (Thomas, Can) NIMRODS (Kirk, US) NINO (Loques, Fr) NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE (Johnson, Can) NO OTHER CHOICE (Park, Kor) NOMAD SHADOW (Imanishi, US) NORMAL (Wheatley, US) NOUVELLE VAGUE (Linklater, Fr) NOVEMBER (Corredor, Col) NUNS VS THE VATICAN (Luciano, US) NUREMBERG (Vanderbilt, UK) OBSESSION (Barker, US) OCA (Badillo, Mex) OLMO (Eimbcke, US) ORIGIN: THE STORY OF THE BASKETBALL AFRICA LEAGUE (Brown/Malope, Rw) ORPHAN (Nemes, Hun) ORWELL: 2+2=5 (Peck, Fr) OUR FATHER (Stankovic, Ser) OUT STANDING (Charbonneau, Can) A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (Ishikawa, UK) PALESTINE 36 (Jacir, Pal) PALIMPSEST: THE STORY OF A NAME (Stephen, Fr) PEAK EVERYTHING (Emond, Can) POETIC LICENSE (Apatow, US) PORTOBELLO (Bellocchio, It) POWWOW PEOPLE (Hopinka, US) THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE (Hadi, Irq) PRIMAVERA (Michieletto, It) A POET (Soto, Col) A PRIVATE LIFE (Zlotowski, Fr) PROJECT Y (Lee, Kor) PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK (Farsi, Fr) RENOIR (Hayakawa, Jpn) RENTAL FAMILY (Hikari, Jpn) RETREAT (Evans, UK) REUNION (Mager/Snellin, UK) RISE OF THE RAVEN (Lengyel/Dornhelm, Hun) THE ROAD BETWEEN US: THE ULTIMATE RESCUE (Avrich, Can) ROJO ZALIA BLAU (Schmid, Aut) ROOFMAN (Cianfrance, US) ROSE OF NEVADA (Jenkin, UK) SACRIFICE (Gavras, UK) SAIPAN (D'Sa/Leyburn, Ire) A SAMI WEDDING (Vuolab/Jackman, Nor) THE SAVAGE (Seyyedi, Irn) SCARLET (Hosoda, Jpn) THE SEASONS (Fazendeiro, Po) THE SECRET AGENT (Mendonca, Br) SENTIMENTAL VALUE (Trier, Nor) SHE'S GOT NO NAME (Chan, Chn) SILENT FRIEND (Enyedi, Hun) A SIMPLE SOLDIER (Cruz/Ryzhykov, Ukr) SINK (Jordan, Sau) SIRAT (Laxe, Fr) SLIGHTEST PRETENSE (Saito, Jpn) THE SMASHING MACHINE (Safdie, US) THE SON AND THE SEA (Cairns, UK) SOUND OF FALLING (Schilinski, Ger) SPACE CADET (Koala, Can) STEAL AWAY (Virgo, Canada, Bel) STEVE (Mielants, Ire) STILL SINGLE (Burger/Tateisi, Can) THE SUN RISES ON US ALL (Cai, Chn) SWIPED (Goldenberg, US) THE TALE OF SILYAN (Kotevska, Mac) TEN MORNINGS, TEN EVENINGS AND ONE HORIZON (Nishikawa, Jpn) THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (Fastvold, UK) THERE ARE NO WORDS (Lee, Can) THREE GOODBYES (Coixet, It) TO THE VICTORY (Vasyanovych, Ukr) TRAIN DREAMS (Bentley, US) TRUE NORTH (Stephenson, Can) TUNER (Roher, US) TWO PIANOS (Desplechin, Fr) TWO PROSECUTORS (Loznitsa, Fr) THE UGLY (Yeon, Kor) UNDER THE SAME SUN (Porra, DR) UNIDENTIFIED (al-Mansour, Sau) A USEFUL GHOST (Boonbunchachoke, Tha) THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB (Hania, Tun) WAKE UP DEAD MAN (Johnson, US) WASTEMAN (McMau, UK) WAYWARD (Martin/Scott, Can) WHILE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS (Mettler, Can) WHISTLE (Nelius, Aus) WHITETAIL (Leopold, Ned) WINTER OF THE CROW (Adamik, Pol) WITH HASAN IN GAZA (Aljafari, Pal) THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN (Assayas, Fr) THE WORLD OF LOVE (Yoon, Kor) WRONG HUSBAND (Kunuk, Can) YOU HAD TO BE THERE (Davis, US) YOUNGBLOOD (Davis, Can)
49th Toronto International Film Festival 5 - 15 SEP 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) ALL OF YOU (Bridges, UK) ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Kapadia, Fr) ANORA (Baker, US) APRIL (Kulumbegashvili, Geo) BABYGIRL (Reijn, US) BETTER MAN (Gracey, UK) BIRD (Arnold, UK) BLUE ROAD: THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY (O'Shea, Ire) THE BRUTALIST (Corbet, US) CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Jia, Chn) CONCLAVE (Berger, UK) THE CUT (Ellis, UK) DAHOMEY (Diop, Fr) DANIELA FOREVER (Vigalondo, Sp) DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY (Hsu, Tai) DISCLAIMER (Cuaron, UK) DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY (Linh, Vie) DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT (Davidtz, SA) EDEN (Howard, Aus) ELTON JOHN: NEVER TOO LATE (Cutler/Furnish, US) EMILIA PEREZ (Audiard, Fr) THE END (Oppenheimer, Den) ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND (Peck, Fr) FAITHLESS (Alfredson/Johnsen, Swe) FAMILIES LIKE OURS (Vinterberg, Den) THE FIRE INSIDE (Morrison, US) FLOW (Zilbalodis, Lat) FRIENDSHIP (DeYoung, US) THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE (Von Horn, Den) GRAND TOUR (Gomes, Por) HAPPYEND (Sora, Jpn) HARD TRUTHS (Leigh, UK) HARVEST (Tsangari, UK) HERETIC (Beck/Woods, US) I'M STILL HERE (Salles, Br) JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE (Piani, Fr) JULIE KEEPS QUIET (van Dijl, Bel) KILL THE JOCKEY (Ortega, Arg) THE LAST SHOWGIRL (Coppola, US) THE LIFE OF CHUCK (Flanagan, US) MEGALOPOLIS (Coppola, US)	MISERICORDIA (Guiraudie, Fr) MY FATHERS' DAUGHTER (Unjarga/Pedersen, Nor) NIGHTBITCH (Heller, US) NO OTHER LAND (Abraham/Adra/etc, Pal) 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 PARTY'S OVER (Manrique, Sp) THE PENGUIN LESSONS (Cattaneo, Sp) THE PIANO LESSON (Washington, US) PIECE BY PIECE (Neville, US) PRESENCE (Soderbergh, US) QUEER (Guadagnino, It) REALLY HAPPY SOMEDAY (Stevens, Can) RELAY (Mackenzie, US) THE RETURN (Pasolini, It) REZ BALL (Freeland, US) THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Almodovar, Sp) RUMOURS (Maddin/Johnson/Johnson, Can) SAD JOKES (Stumm, Ger) THE SALT PATH (Elliott, UK) SANTOSH (Suri, Ind) SATURDAY NIGHT (Reitman, US) THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Rasoulof, Irn) SEEDS (Horn, Can) THE SHROUDS (Cronenberg, Can) SKETCH (Worley, US) SOULEYMANE'S STORY (Lojkine, Fr) THE SUBSTANCE (Fargeat, Fr) SUDAN, REMEMBER US (Meddeb, Fr) SUPERBOYS OF MALEGAON (Kagti, Ind) TO A LAND UNKNOWN (Fleifel, Gr) UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (Rankin, Can) UNSTOPPABLE (Goldenberg, US) VERMIGLIO (Delpero, It) VIET AND NAM (Truong, Vie) WE LIVE IN TIME (Crowley, UK) THE WILD ROBOT (Sanders, US) WILL & HARPER (Greenbaum) WILLIAM TELL (Hamm, UK)
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) * reviews coming
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