2019 Toronto International Film Festival
The 44th annual Toronto International Film Festival, the 44th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, was held from 5 to 15 September 2019.[1] The opening gala was the documentary film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band, directed by Daniel Roher,[2] and the festival closed with a screening of the biographical film Radioactive, directed by Marjane Satrapi.[3]
Opening film | Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band by Daniel Roher |
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Closing film | Radioactive by Marjane Satrapi |
Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Founded | 1976 |
Festival date | 5–15 September 2019 |
Website | tiff |
Awards
In addition to its regular film awards, whose winners were announced at the conclusion of the festival, the festival announced in advance that Meryl Streep would be the inaugural recipient of the TIFF Tribute Actor Award, a new lifetime achievement award to honour distinguished work in film acting.[4]
The first award recipients were announced on September 12,[5] with the major awards announced at the close of the festival on September 15.[6] In light of the fact that international filmmakers are rarely still in Toronto to accept their awards in person by the end of the festival, the organizers opted to cancel the traditional awards ceremony, and instead announced the award winners through TIFF's social media.[7]
Nicolas Cage was awarded with the Creative Coalition's Spotlight Initiative Award for his role in Color Out of Space.[8]
Award | Film | Director |
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People's Choice Award | Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi |
People's Choice Award, First Runner Up | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
People's Choice Award, Second Runner Up | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho |
People's Choice Award: Documentary | The Cave | Feras Fayyad |
People's Choice Award: Documentary, First Runner Up | I Am Not Alone | Garin Hovannisian |
People's Choice Award: Documentary, Second Runner Up | Dads | Bryce Dallas Howard |
People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness | The Platform | Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia |
People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness, First Runner Up | The Vast of Night | Andrew Patterson |
People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness, Second Runner Up | Blood Quantum | Jeff Barnaby |
Platform Prize | Martin Eden | Pietro Marcello |
Platform Prize, Honorable Mention | Anne at 13,000 Ft. | Kazik Radwanski |
Platform Prize, Honorable Mention | Proxima | Alice Winocour |
Best Canadian Feature Film | Antigone | Sophie Deraspe |
Best Canadian Feature Film, Honourable Mention | The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn |
Best Canadian Short Film | Delphine | Chloé Robichaud |
Best Canadian Short Film, Honourable Mention | The Physics of Sorrow | Theodore Ushev |
Best Canadian First Feature Film | The Twentieth Century | Matthew Rankin |
FIPRESCI Discovery Prize | Murmur | Heather Young |
FIPRESCI Special Presentations | How to Build a Girl | Coky Giedroyc |
Best International Short Film | All Cats Are Grey in the Dark | Lasse Linder |
Best International Short Film, Honourable Mention | The Nap | Federico Luis Tachella |
NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere | 1982 | Oualid Mouaness |
Programmes
The selection for the 2019 festival:[9][10][11]
Gala Presentations
- Abominable by Jill Culton
- The Aeronauts by Tom Harper
- American Woman by Semi Chellas
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood by Marielle Heller
- Blackbird by Roger Michell
- The Burnt Orange Heresy by Giuseppe Capotondi
- Clemency by Chinonye Chukwu
- Ford v Ferrari by James Mangold
- The Goldfinch by John Crowley
- Harriet by Kasi Lemmons
- Honey Boy by Alma Har'el
- Hustlers by Lorene Scafaria
- Joker by Todd Phillips
- Just Mercy by Destin Daniel Cretton
- Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band by Daniel Roher
- Radioactive by Marjane Satrapi
- The Sky Is Pink by Shonali Bose
- The Song of Names by François Girard
- True History of the Kelly Gang by Justin Kurzel
- Western Stars by Thom Zimny and Bruce Springsteen
Special Events
Special Presentations
- American Son by Kenny Leon
- Bad Education by Cory Finley
- La Belle Époque by Nicolas Bedos
- Disappearance at Clifton Hill by Albert Shin
- Coming Home Again by Wayne Wang
- Deerskin by Quentin Dupieux
- Dirt Music by Gregor Jordan
- Dolemite Is My Name by Craig Brewer
- The Elder One by Geetu Mohandas
- Ema by Pablo Larraín
- Endings, Beginnings by Drake Doremus
- Frankie by Ira Sachs
- The Friend by Gabriela Cowperthwaite
- Greed by Michael Winterbottom
- Guest of Honour by Atom Egoyan
- Guns Akimbo by Jason Lei Howden
- A Herdade by Tiago Guedes
- Heroic Losers by Sebastián Borensztein
- Hope Gap by William Nicholson
- How to Build a Girl by Coky Giedroyc
- Human Capital by Marc Meyers
- I Am Woman by Unjoo Moon
- Jojo Rabbit by Taika Waititi
- Judy by Rupert Goold
- Jungleland by Max Winkler
- Knives Out by Rian Johnson
- The Laundromat by Steven Soderbergh
- The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers
- Lucy in the Sky by Noah Hawley
- Lyrebird by Dan Friedkin
- Marriage Story by Noah Baumbach
- Military Wives by Peter Cattaneo
- Mosul by Matthew Michael Carnahan
- Motherless Brooklyn by Edward Norton
- No.7 Cherry Lane by Yonfan
- Ordinary Love by Lisa Barros D'Sa
- The Other Lamb by Małgorzata Szumowska
- Pain and Glory by Pedro Almodóvar
- The Painted Bird by Václav Marhoul
- Parasite by Bong Joon-ho
- Pelican Blood by Katrin Gebbe
- The Personal History of David Copperfield by Armando Iannucci
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma
- The Report by Scott Z. Burns
- Saturday Fiction by Lou Ye
- Seberg by Benedict Andrews
- Sibyl by Justine Triet
- Synchronic by Aaron Moorehead and Justin Benson
- The Truth by Hirokazu Kore-eda
- The Two Popes by Fernando Meirelles
- Uncut Gems by Joshua and Benjamin Safdie
- Wasp Network by Olivier Assayas
- Waves by Trey Edward Shults
- Weathering with You by Makoto Shinkai
- While at War by Alejandro Amenábar
Contemporary World Cinema
- 37 Seconds by Hikari
- Adam by Maryam Touzani
- And the Birds Rained Down by Louise Archambault
- Antigone by Sophie Deraspe
- Arab Blues by Manele Labidi Labbé
- Atlantics by Mati Diop
- Atlantis by Valentyn Vasyanovych
- Bacurau by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
- Balloon by Pema Tseden
- The Barefoot Emperor by Jessica Woodworth
- Beanpole by Kantemir Balagov
- Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies by Edward Burns
- Blow the Man Down by Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole
- The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn
- Bombay Rose by Gitanjali Rao
- Castle in the Ground by Joey Klein
- Chicuarotes by Gael García Bernal
- The Climb by Michael Angelo Covino
- Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa
- The County by Grímur Hákonarson
- Dogs Don't Wear Pants by J-P Valkeapää
- The Father by Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva
- Flatland by Jenna Bass
- A Girl Missing by Kōji Fukada
- Hala by Minhal Baig
- Henry Glassie: Field Work by Pat Collins
- Incitement by Yaron Zilberman
- Instinct by Halina Reijn
- The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão by Karim Aïnouz
- Jallikattu by Lijo Jose Pellissery
- Knuckle City by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
- La Llorona by Jayro Bustamante
- The Last Porno Show by Kire Paputts
- The Long Walk by Mattie Do
- Made in Bangladesh by Rubaiyat Hossain
- Mariam by Sharipa Urazbayeva
- Maria's Paradise by Zaida Bergroth
- Les Misérables by Ladj Ly
- Nobadi by Karl Markovics
- Our Lady of the Nile by Atiq Rahimi
- The Perfect Candidate by Haifaa al-Mansour
- Red Fields by Keren Yedaya
- Resin by Daniel Borgman
- So Long, My Son by Wang Xiaoshuai
- South Terminal by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
- Spider by Andrés Wood
- A Sun by Chung Mong-hong
- Synonyms by Nadav Lapid
- Tammy's Always Dying by Amy Jo Johnson
- Three Summers by Sandra Kogut
- Verdict by Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
- White Lie by Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas
- A White, White Day by Hlynur Pálmason
- The Wild Goose Lake by Diao Yinan
- You Will Die at Twenty by Amjad Abu Alala
Masters
- About Endlessness by Roy Andersson
- Devil Between the Legs by Arturo Ripstein
- A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick
- I Was at Home, But by Angela Schanelec
- It Must Be Heaven by Elia Suleiman
- Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger by Alanis Obomsawin
- Sorry We Missed You by Ken Loach
- The Traitor by Marco Bellocchio
- To the Ends of the Earth by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- The Whistlers by Corneliu Porumboiu
- Zombi Child by Bertrand Bonello
Documentaries
- And We Go Green by Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville
- The Australian Dream, written by Stan Grant and directed by Daniel Gordon
- Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator by Eva Orner
- The Capote Tapes by Ebs Burnough
- The Cave by Feras Fayyad
- Citizen K by Alex Gibney
- Collective by Alexander Nanau
- Coppers by Alan Zweig
- The Cordillera of Dreams by Patricio Guzmán
- Cunningham by Alla Kovgan
- Dads by Bryce Dallas Howard
- Desert One by Barbara Kopple
- I Am Not Alone by Garin Hovannisian
- Ibrahim: A Fate to Define by Lina Al Abed
- The Kingmaker by Lauren Greenfield
- Letter to the Editor by Alan Berliner
- Love Child by Eva Mulvad
- My English Cousin by Karim Sayad
- Paris Stalingrad by Hind Meddeb
- Ready for War by Andrew Renzi
- Red Penguins by Gabe Polsky
- Sing Me a Song by Thomas Balmès
- There's Something in the Water by Ellen Page and Ian Daniel
- This Is Not a Movie by Yung Chang
- Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema by Mark Cousins
Discovery
- 1982 by Oualid Mouaness
- Africa by Oren Gerner
- The Antenna by Orçun Behram
- The Audition by Ina Weisse
- August by Armando Capó
- Black Conflux by Nicole Dorsey
- Bring Me Home by Kim Seung-woo
- A Bump Along the Way by Shelly Love
- Calm with Horses by Nick Rowland
- Certified Mail by Hisham Saqr
- Comets by Tamar Shavgulidze
- Disco by Jorunn Myklebust Syversen
- Easy Land by Sanja Zivkovic
- Entwined by Minos Nikolakakis
- The Giant by David Rabo
- The Good Intentions by Ana García Blaya
- Hearts and Bones by Ben Lawrence
- Hope by Maria Sødahl
- Kuessipan by Myriam Verreault
- Lina from Lima by María Paz González
- The Lost Okoroshi by Abba Makama
- Love Me Tender by Klaudia Reynicke
- Murmur by Heather Young
- My Life as a Comedian by Rojda Sekersöz
- Noura's Dream by Hinde Boujemaa
- The Obituary of Tunde Johnson by Ali LeRoi
- Pompei by Anna Falguères and John Shank
- Raf by Harry Cepka
- The Rest of Us by Aisling Chin-Lee
- Sea Fever by Neasa Hardiman
- Simple Women by Chiara Malta
- Sole by Carlo Sironi
- Son-Mother by Mahnaz Mohammadi
- Stories from the Chestnut Woods by Gregor Božič
- Sweetness in the Belly by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
- Two of Us by Filippo Meneghetti
- Zana by Antoneta Kastrati
Short Cuts
- Delphine by Chloé Robichaud
- The Depths by Ariane Louis-Seize
- Flood by Joseph Amenta
- God's Nightmares by Daniel Cockburn
- Highway to Heaven by Sandra Ignagni
- Hot Flash by Thea Hollatz
- I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain by Sofia Banzhaf
- I'll End Up in Jail (Je finirai en prison) by Alexandre Dostie
- It's Nothing by Anna Maguire
- Jarvik by Emilie Mannering
- Life Support by Renuka Jeyapalan
- Measure by Karen Chapman
- No Crying at the Dinner Table by Carol Nguyen
- Now Is the Time by Christopher Auchter
- Oracle by Aaron Poole
- The Physics of Sorrow by Theodore Ushev
- Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You by Brandon Cronenberg
- Rebel by Pier-Philippe Chevigny
- Reminiscences of the Green Revolution by Dean Colin Marcial
- This Ink Runs Deep by Asia Youngman
- Volcano by Karen Moore
Midnight Madness
- Blood Quantum by Jeff Barnaby
- Color Out of Space by Richard Stanley
- Crazy World by Isaac Nabwana
- First Love by Takashi Miike
- Gundala by Joko Anwar
- The Platform by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
- Saint Maud by Rose Glass
- The Twentieth Century by Matthew Rankin
- The Vast of Night by Andrew Patterson
- The Vigil by Keith Thomas
Platform
- Anne at 13,000 Ft. by Kazik Radwanski
- Martin Eden by Pietro Marcello
- The Moneychanger by Federico Veiroj
- My Zoe by Julie Delpy
- Proxima by Alice Winocour
- Rocks by Sarah Gavron
- The Sleepwalkers by Paula Hernández
- Sound of Metal by Darius Marder
- Wet Season by Anthony Chen
- Workforce by David Zonana
Primetime
- Black Bitch
- Briarpatch
- Limetown
- Mrs. Fletcher
- Savages (Les Sauvages)
- The Sleepers (Bez vedomí)
Cinemathèque
Wavelengths
- 143 Sahara Street by Hassen Ferhani
- 2008 by Blake Williams
- Book of Hours by Annie MacDonell
- Endless Night by Eloy Enciso
- The Fever by Maya Da-Rin
- Un Film Dramatique by Éric Baudelaire
- Fire Will Come by Oliver Laxe
- Heimat is a Space in Time by Thomas Heise
- Hrvoji, Look at You from the Tower by Ryan Ferko
- Krabi, 2562 Anocha Suwichakornpong by Ben Rivers
- Liberté by Albert Serra
- My Skin, Luminous by Gabino Rodríguez and Nicolás Pereda
- Second Generation by Miryam Charles
- State Funeral by Sergei Loznitsa
- Vitalina Varela by Pedro Costa
References
- Ahearn, Victoria (20 August 2019). "TIFF 2019: Festival shifts to a paperless schedule". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved 11 September 2019 – via The Canadian Press.
- The Canadian Press (18 July 2019). "TIFF 2019 to open with documentary about Canadian rock legend Robbie Robertson". Toronto Star. Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- "World premiere of 'Radioactive' is the TIFF closing night gala film" (PDF). Toronto International Film Festival press release. 23 July 2019.
- "Meryl Streep to get new acting award at Toronto gala". Associated Press via the Toronto Star, 26 July 2019.
- "The film Martin Eden wins TIFF’s Platform Prize". Toronto Star, September 13, 2019.
- Hipes, Patrick (12 September 2019). "Toronto Film Festival Jury Winners: 'Martin Eden', 'Murmur', 'How To Build A Girl'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
- Etan Vlessing, "Toronto Film Festival Cancels Awards Ceremony". The Hollywood Reporter, 12 September 2019.
- Tsirbas, Christos (8 September 2019). "Toronto: Nicolas Cage Tells Spotlight Initiative Awards Art Is "Healthiest Medicine"". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- Fleming Jr, Mike (23 July 2019). "Toronto Fest 2019 Starpower: Hanks' Mr Rogers, Bale-Damon's Ford V Ferrari, Phoenix' Joker, Streep's Laundromat, Eddie Murphy's Dolemite, Daniel Craig's Knives Out, Kidman's Goldfinch Among Premieres". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media, LLC. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
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