Toronto International Film Festival 2017
The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival took place September 7-17, 2017. For ten days, 340 films were shown at the film festival, including 147 world premieres. The director of the festival is Piers Handling. The films shown in the Gala Presentations and Special Presentations were announced at the end of July 2017. Most recently, the crime film Roman J. Israel, Esq. - The Truth and Nothing but the Truth has been included in the program by Dan Gilroy .
With the opening film Borg / McEnroe by Janus Metz and Battle of the Sexes - Against every rule by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris , two films were shown that portrayed former tennis players. Other featured biographies were I, Tonya by Craig Gillespie , Professor Marston & The Wonder Women by Angela Robinson , Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool by Paul McGuigan and Mary Shelley by Haifaa Al Mansour .
Other films that celebrated their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival were the science fiction thriller Thelma by Joachim Trier and Between Two Lives by Hany Abu-Assad . Furthermore, presented Brie Larson their comedy Unicorn Store before and Angelina Jolie film The long road of hope . In addition, a number of directorial debuts were presented, for example the actual screenwriter Aaron Sorkin visited the festival with his film Molly's Game - All on one card , Andy Serkis , known from his motion capture roles , presented the film As long as I breathe and the actor Simon Baker the film Breath .
Films with German participation included, among others, Grenzlos by Wim Wenders , What will people say by Iram Haq , ¾ by Ilian Metev , Sommerhäuser by Sonja Maria Kröner , Arrhythmia by Boris Khlebnikov and Good Luck by Ben Russell. Valeska Grisebach presents the Contemporary World Cinema Competition their movie Western front, which is already in Cannes premiered, as well as out of nothing by Fatih Akin . Films with Austrian participation were Happy End by Michael Haneke and Licht by Barbara Albert . The films produced by Switzerland included Of Sheep and Men by Karim Sayad , Les Gardiennes (also The Guardians ) by Xavier Beauvois and Ta peau si lisse (also A Skin so Soft ) by Denis Côté .
The film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri by Martin McDonagh was honored with the Audience Award, the main awards of the festival .
program
Opening night
Gala presentations
- 55 Steps - Bille August
- As long as I breathe - Andy Serkis
- C'est la vie! - Olivier Nakache
- Chappaquiddick - John Curran
- Darkest Hour - Joe Wright
- Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool - Paul McGuigan
- Hochelaga, Land of Souls - François Girard
- Kings - Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- The Glow of Memory (The Leisure Seeker) - Paolo Virzì
- Long Time Running - Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier
- Mary Shelley - Haifaa Al Mansour
- Mudbound - Dee Rees
- Mercy - Tali Shalom Ezer
- Stronger - David Gordon Green
- Three Christs - Jon Avnet
- My best and me (The Upside) - Neil Burger
- The wife of Nobel Prize winner (The Wife) - Björn Runge
- Woman Walks Ahead - Susanna White
- Between Two Lives (The Mountain Between Us) - Hany Abu-Assad
Special presentations
- 120 BPM - Robin Campillo
- Out of nowhere (festival title In the Fade ) - Fatih Akin
- Battle of the Sexes - Against All Rule - Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
- The Brawler - Anurag Kashyap
- The breadwinner ( The Bread Winner ) - Nora Twomey
- Call Me by Your Name - Luca Guadagnino
- Catch the Wind - Gaël Morel
- The Children Act - Richard Eyre
- The Conformist (冰 之下) - Cai Shangjun
- The Cured: Infected. Cured. Violated. ( The Cured ) - David Freyne
- Edison - A life full of light - Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
- Disobedience - Sebastián Lelio
- Downsizing - Alexander Payne
- Drei Zinnen (festival title Three Peaks ) - Jan Zabeil
- The Escape - Dominic Savage
- A Fantastic Woman (festival title A Fantastic Woman ) - Sebastián Lelio
- The Florida Project - Sean Baker
- Foxtrot - Samuel Maoz
- The Guardians - Xavier Beauvois
- Der Hauptmann (festival title The Captain ) - Robert Schwentke
- Enemies - Hostiles - Scott Cooper
- The Hungry - Bornila Chatterjee
- I Love You, Daddy - Louis CK
- I, Tonya - Craig Gillespie
- Journey's End - Saul Dibb
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer - Giorgos Lanthimos
- Kodachrome - Mark Raso
- Lady Bird - Greta Gerwig (Special Presentations Opening Film)
- Lean on Pete - Andrew Haigh
- Loving Pablo - Fernando León de Aranoa
- Manhunt - John Woo
- Mark Felt - The Man Who Brought Down the White House - Peter Landesman
- Marrowbone - Sergio G. Sánchez
- Michael Jackson's Thriller 3D - John Landis
- Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller - Jerry Kramer
- Molly's Game - All on one card - Aaron Sorkin
- mother! - Darren Aronofsky
- The Motive (El author) - Manuel Martín Cuenca
- Novitiate - Maggie Betts
- Number One (Numéro Une) - Tonie Marshall
- Omerta - Hansal Mehta
- On Chesil Beach - Dominic Cooke
- Outside In - Lynn Shelton
- Papillon - Michael Noer
- Plonger - Mélanie Laurent
- The Price of Success - Teddy Lussi-Modeste
- Professor Marston & The Wonder Women - Angela Robinson
- Racer and the Jailbird - Michaël R. Roskam
- Radiance (Hikari) - Naomi Kawase
- Le redoutable (festival title Redoubtable ) - Michel Hazanavicius
- The Rider - Chloé Zhao
- Roman J. Israel, Esq. - The truth and nothing but the truth - Dan Gilroy
- A Season in France - Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro
- Sheikh Jackson - Amr Salama (Special Presentations Closing Film)
- The Square - Ruben Östlund
- Limitless - Wim Wenders
- Suburbicon - George Clooney
- Thelma - Joachim Trier
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Martin McDonagh
- Unicorn Store - Brie Larson
- You Disappear (Du Forsvinder) - Peter Schønau Fog
- Youth (Fāng Huá) - Feng Xiaogang
- Victoria & Abdul - Stephen Frears
- The long journey of hope (First They Killed My Father) - Angelina Jolie
- Who We Are Now - Matthew Newton
TIFF Docs (selection)
Documentaries were presented as part of the TIFF Docs section .
- The Carter Effect - Sean Menard
- Cocaine Prison - Violeta Ayala
- Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars - Lili Fini Zanuck
- Bookplate - The New York Public Library - Frederick Wiseman
- The Final Year - Greg Barker
- Jane - Brett Tomorrow
- Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood - Matt Tyrnauer
- Silas - Hawa Essuman and Anjali Nayar
- Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! - Morgan Spurlock
- There Is a House Here - Alan Zweig
Contemporary World Cinema (selection)
- Alanis - Anahí Berneri
- Les Affamés - Robin Aubert
- Ana, mon amour - Călin Peter Netzer
- Arrhythmia - Boris Khlebnikov
- Beyond Words - Urszula Antoniak
- Black Kite - Tarique Qayumi
- Breath - Simon Baker
- Don't Talk to Irene - Pat Mills
- Félicité - Alain Gomis
- Ga'agua (festival title Longing ) - Savi Gavison
- Le grand méchant renard et autres contes (festival title The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales ) - Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert
- Inside Life (Insyriated) - Philippe Van Leeuw
- Jia Nian Hua (festival title Angels Wear White ) - Vivian Qu
- Body and soul (OT Teströl és lélekröl , festival title On Body and Soul ) - Ildikó Enyedi
- In Search of Oum Kulthum - Shirin Neshat
- Meditation Park - Mina Shum
- Porcupine Lake - Ingrid Veninger
- Public Schooled - Kyle Rideout
- Pyewacket - Adam MacDonald
- Samui Song - Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
- Tulipani: Liefde, Eer en een Fiets (Festival title Tulipani, Love, Honor and a Bicycle ) - Mike van Diem
- Verónica - Playing with the Devil (Verónica) - Paco Plaza
- Western - Valeska Grisebach
Discovery (selection)
Films with a future-oriented focus were shown in the Discovery section .
- 1% - Stephen McCallum
- ¾ (also Three Quarters ) - Ilian Metev
- All You Can Eat Buddha - Ian Lagarde
- AVA - Sadaf Foroughi
- Apostasy - Daniel Kokotajlo
- Black Cop - Cory Bowles
- The Butterfly Tree - Priscilla Cameron
- Cardinals - Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley
- Disappearance - Ali Asgari
- A Fish Out Of Water - Lai Kuo-An
- Five Fingers For Marseilles - Michael Matthews
- Gutland - Govinda Van Maele
- Luk'Luk'I - Wayne Wapeemukwa
- Mary Goes Round - Molly McGlynn
- Never Steady, Never Still - Kathleen Hepburn
- Summer houses (festival title: The Garden ) - Sonja Maria Kröner
- A Worthy Companion - Carlos Sanchez and Jason Sanchez
Next wave
The films in the Next Wave section are aimed at a younger audience.
- AVA - Sadaf Foroughi
- Call Me by Your Name - Luca Guadagnino
- Dark - Baran bo Odar
- High Fantasy - Jenna Cato Bass
- Killing Jesus - Laura Mora
- Lady Bird - Greta Gerwig
- Scaffolding - Matan Yair
- Sheikh Jackson - Amr Salama
- The Rider - Chloé Zhao
- Unicorn Store - Brie Larson
- What will people say (Hva vil folk si) - Iram Haq
- Youth - Feng Xiaogang
Wavelengths
Short films and documentaries were presented in the Wavelengths section .
- Heart of a Mountain - Parastoo Anoushahpour , Ryan Ferko and Faraz Anoushahpour
- Palmerston Blvd. - Dan Browne
- Prototype - Blake Williams
- Scaffold - Kazik Radwanski
- A Skin So Soft (Ta peau si lisse) - Denis Côté
- Some Cities - Francesco Gagliardi
- Turtles Are Always Home - Rawane Nassif
Midnight Madness
Action, horror and fantasy films were presented in the Midnight Madness section .
- Bodied - Joseph Kahn
- Brawl in Cell Block 99 - S. Craig Zahler
- The Crescent - Seth A. Smith
- The Disaster Artist - James Franco
- Downrange - Ryūhei Kitamura
- Great Choice - Robin Comisar
- Let the Corpses Tan - Hélène Cetzt and Bruno Forzani
- Mom and Dad - Brian Taylor
- Revenge - Coralie Fargeat
- The ritual - David Bruckner
- Vampire Clay - Sôichi Umezawa
Masters
- The other side of hope (The Other Side of Hope) - Aki Kaurismäki
- Moments: Faces of a Journey ( Visages Villages , festival title Faces Places) - JR and Agnès Varda
- The Day After - Hong Sang-soo
- First Reformed - Paul Schrader
- Happy ending - Michael Haneke
- The House by the Sea - Robert Guédiguian
- Loveless - Andrei Svyagintsev
- Our People Will Be Healed - Alanis Obomsawin
- Rainbow - A Private Affair - Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
- The Third Murder - Hirokazu Koreeda
- Zama - Lucrecia Martel
Platform
The Platform section focuses on the work of the directors.
- Beast - Michael Pearce
- Happy when in doubt - Mike White
- Dark River - Clio Barnard
- The Death of Stalin - Armando Iannucci (Platform Opening Film)
- Euphoria - Lisa Langseth
- After the judgment (festival title Custody ) - Xavier Legrand
- Light (also Mademoiselle Paradis ) - Barbara Albert
- Raid - Nabil Ayouch
- The Seen and Unseen - Kamila Andini
- Si tu voyais son coeur (Festival title If You Saw His Heart ) - Joan Chemla
- Sweet Country - Warwick Thornton (Platform Closing Film)
- What will people say (Hva vil folk si) - Iram Haq
TIFF kids
Ramen of TIFF Kids were children's films shown.
- Le grand méchant renard et autres contes (festival title The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales ) - Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert
- I Kill Giants - Anders Walter
- The breadwinner ( The Bread Winner ) - Nora Twomey
TV: prime time
In the TV: Primetime section , new TV series or new episodes were presented.
Awards
- Grolsch People's Choice Award: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri by Martin McDonagh
- Grolsch People's Choice Award first runner-up: I, Tonya by Craig Gillespie
- Grolsch People's Choice Award second runner-up: Call Me by Your Name by Luca Guadagnino
- Audience award in the Midnight Madness section: Bodied by Joseph Kahn
- Audience award in the Documentary section: Moments: Faces of a Journey (festival title Faces Places ) by Agnès Varda and JR
- International Platform Award: Sweet Country by Warwick Thornton
- Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) in the Discovery: AVA section by Sadaf Foroughi
- NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere: The Great Buddha + by Huang Hsin-Yao
- Best Canadian Short film: Pre-Drink by Marc-Antoine Lemire
- Best Short Film: The Burden by Niki Lindroth von Bahr
- Best Short Film, Honorable Mentions: The Tesla World Light by Matthew Rankin ; Xiao Cheng Er Yue. by Qiu Yang
- Best Canadian First Feature: Luk 'Luk'l by Wayne Wapeemukwa
- Best Canadian Feature: Les Affamés by Robin Aubert
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DPA-Starline: Film: Strong German presence at the Toronto Film Festival. In: Focus Online . September 6, 2017, accessed October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tiff-2017-opens-1.4277581
- ↑ Brent Lang: Toronto Film Festival Lineup Includes Movies From Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Alexander Payne In: Variety, July 25, 2017.
- ↑ https://www.screendaily.com/news/denzel-washingtons-roman-j-israel-esq-is-final-tiff-addition/5121867.article
- ↑ Shia LaBeouf tennis drama 'Borg / McEnroe' to open Toronto Film Festival In: Entertainment Weekly, July 31, 2017.
- ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/blog/tiff-announces-one-of-its-most-diverse-canadian-lineups-ever-1.4240249
- ↑ http://www.tiff.net/tiff/films.html?series=Next-Wave
- ↑ Nancy Tartaglione: Toronto Sets Midnight Madness & Docs Lineup With Franco's 'The Disaster Artist', Spurlock's 'Super Size Me 2', More In: deadline.com, August 1, 2017.
- ↑ Kate Erbland: TIFF Announces Platform Lineup, Including 'The Death of Stalin', 'Euphoria' and 'Brad's Status' In: indiewire.com, August 3, 2017.
- ↑ http://www.tiff.net/tiff/films.html?series=TIFF-Kids
- ↑ Liz Shannon Miller: TIFF 2017 Does TV: Primetime Line-Up to Premiere 'The Deuce' and 'The Girlfriend Experience': Netflix's first German series, 'Dark', will also make its world premiere in Toronto In: indiewire.com, 15th August 2017.
- ↑ Seth Kelley: 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' Wins Toronto Film Festival Audience Award In: Variety, September 17, 2017.