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Toronto Fest site 50th Toronto International
Film Festival
4 - 14 SEPTEMBER 2025
in Toronto, Ontario

Opening Film:
JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME
Closing Film:
PEAK EVERYTHING

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
Performers:
Nina Hoss and Channing Tatum
Emerging Talent: Hikari
Groundbreaker: Jodie Foster
Norman Jewison Award:
Catherine O'Hara
Impact Media: Idris Elba
Artisan Award: Kazu Hiro
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


RICH'S WANT-TO-SEE LIST:
BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER. BELOW THE CLOUDS. BLUE MOON. THE CHRISTOPHERS. THE COST OF HEAVEN. COUTURE. COVER-UP. DEAD MAN'S WIRE. ELEANOR THE GREAT. THE FENCE. FRANKENSTEIN. FUZE. HAMNET. A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. LANDMARKS. THE LAST VIKING. THE LOVE THAT REMAINS. MAGELLAN. NO OTHER CHOICE. NORMAL. NOUVELLE VAGUE. ORPHAN. ORWELL: 2+2=5. RENTAL FAMILY. ROOFMAN. SAIPAN. THE SECRET AGENT. SENTIMENTAL VALUE. THE SMASHING MACHINE. THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE. WAKE UP DEAD MAN. THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN. 		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, It)
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, Can)
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, US)
ETERNAL RETURN (Raz, UK)
ETERNITY (Freyne, US)
EXIT 8 (Deguchi/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, US)
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)
GOOD BOY (Komasa, Pol)
GOOD FORTUNE (Ansari, US)
GOOD NEWS (Byun, Kor)
HAMLET (Karia, UK)
HAMNET (Zhao, UK)
HEDDA (DaCosta, US)
HEN (Palfi, Ger)
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, Belgium, Ned)
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, Por)
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)
MIROIRS 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, UK)
THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO (Cespedes, Chl)
THE NAPA BOYS (Corirossi, US)
NEW YEARS REV (Kirk, US)
NI-NAADAMAADIZ: RED POWER RISING (Belcourt, Can)
NIKA AND MADISON (Thomas, Can)
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, US)
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, US)
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, US)
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, France, Sp)
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)
TUNE (Roher, US)
TWO PIANOS (Desplechin, Fr)
TWO PROSECUTORS (Loznitsa, Lit)
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)

Toronto Fest site 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)
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, Geo)
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 (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, Bel)
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, US)
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, Ind)
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, Gr)
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, Vie)
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, UK)
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)
Toronto Fest site 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)

Toronto Fest site 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)

Toronto Fest site 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)

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