2017 Toronto International Film Festival

The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 7 to 17 September 2017. There were fourteen programmes, with the Vanguard and City to City programmes both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down by 20% from the 2016 edition. ''Borg/McEnroe'' directed by Janus Metz Pedersen opened the festival.

According to a "fact sheet" released by the Festival before it began, this edition included 255 feature-length films and 84 short films. Of the feature films, 147 are claimed to be world premieres. The number of Canadian films at the Festival (including co-productions) is listed as 28 features and 29 shorts. Christopher Nolan's ''Dunkirk'' received a special IMAX 70mm screening at the Cinesphere as part of the main film slate and the 50th anniversary of IMAX, making it the first Nolan film to appear at the festival since '' Following'', nineteen years earlier.

Awards

The festival's final awards were announced on 17 September.

Juries

Platform Jury

*Chen Kaige
* Małgorzata Szumowska
*Wim Wenders

Canadian Feature Film Jury

* Ella Cooper
* Mark Adams
* Min Sook Lee

Short Cuts Film Jury

*Chloé Zhao
* Johnny Ma
* Marit van den Elshout

Programmes

The following films were selected:

Gala presentations

*''55 Steps'' by Bille August
*'' Borg McEnroe'' by Janus Metz Pedersen
*'' Breathe'' by Andy Serkis
*'' C'est la vie!'' by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano
*'' Chappaquiddick'' by John Curran
*'' Darkest Hour'' by Joe Wright
*''Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool'' by Paul McGuigan
*'' Hochelaga, Land of Souls'' by François Girard
*''Kings'' by Deniz Gamze Ergüven
*'' The Leisure Seeker'' by Paolo Virzì
*''Long Time Running and Nicholas de Pencier
*''Mary Shelley'' by Haifaa al-Mansour
*'' The Mountain Between Us'' by Hany Abu-Assad
*'' Mudbound'' by Dee Rees
*'' My Days of Mercy'' by Tali Shalom Ezer
*'' Stronger'' by David Gordon Green
*'' Three Christs'' by Jon Avnet
*'' The Upside'' by Neil Burger
*'' The Wife'' by Björn Runge
*''Woman Walks Ahead'' by Susanna White

Special presentations

*''BPM (Beats per Minute)'' by Robin Campillo
*''A Fantastic Woman'' by Sebastián Lelio
*'' A Season in France'' by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
*''Battle of the Sexes'' by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
*''The Brawler'' by Anurag Kashyap
*'' The Breadwinner'' by Nora Twomey
*'' Call Me by Your Name'' by Luca Guadagnino
*''The Captain'' by Robert Schwentke
*'' Catch the Wind'' by Gaël Morel
*'' The Children Act'' by Richard Eyre
*'' The Conformist'' by Cai Shangjun
*''The Cured'' by David Freyne
*'' The Current War'' by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
*'' Disobedience'' by Sebastián Lelio
*'' Downsizing'' by Alexander Payne
*''Dunkirk'' by Christopher Nolan
*'' The Escape'' by Dominic Savage
*''Eye on Juliet'' by Kim Nguyen'' by Angelina Jolie
*'' The Florida Project'' by Sean Baker
*''Foxtrot'' by Samuel Maoz
*'' The Guardians'' by Xavier Beauvois
*'' Hostiles'' by Scott Cooper
*''The Hungry'' by Bornila Chatterjee
*'' I Love You, Daddy'' by Louis C.K.
*''In the Fade'' by Fatih Akin
*'' I, Tonya'' by Craig Gillespie
*'' Journey's End'' by Saul Dibb
*''The Killing of a Sacred Deer'' by Yorgos Lanthimos
*''Kodachrome'' by Mark Raso
*'' Lady Bird'' by Greta Gerwig
*''Lean on Pete'' by Andrew Haigh
*'' Loving Pablo'' by Fernando León de Aranoa
*''Manhunt'' by John Woo
*'' Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House'' by Peter Landesman
*'' Marrowbone'' by Sergio G. Sánchez
*'' Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller'' by Jerry Kramer
*'' Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno'' by Abdellatif Kechiche
*'' Michael Jackson's Thriller 3D'' by John Landis
*''Molly's Game'' by Aaron Sorkin
*''Mother!'' by Darren Aronofsky
*'' The Motive'' by Manuel Martín Cuenca
*''Novitiate'' by Maggie Betts
*'' Number One'' by Tonie Marshall
*'' Omerta'' by Hansal Mehta
*''On Chesil Beach'' by Dominic Cooke
*'' Outside In'' by Lynn Shelton
*'' Papillon'' by Michael Noer
*'' Plonger'' by Mélanie Laurent
*'' The Price of Success'' by Teddy Lussi-Modeste
*'' Professor Marston and the Wonder Women'' by Angela Robinson
*'' Racer and the Jailbird'' by Michaël R. Roskam
*''Radiance'' by Naomi Kawase
*'' Redoubtable'' by Michel Hazanavicius
*'' The Rider'' by Chloé Zhao
*'' Roman J. Israel, Esq.'' by Dan Gilroy
*'' The Shape of Water'' by Guillermo del Toro
*''Sheikh Jackson'' by Amr Salama
*'' The Square'' by Ruben Östlund
*'' Submergence'' by Wim Wenders
*'' Suburbicon'' by George Clooney
*''Thelma'' by Joachim Trier
*''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' by Martin McDonagh
*'' Three Peaks'' by Jan Zabeil
*''Unicorn Store'' by Brie Larson
*''Victoria & Abdul'' by Stephen Frears
*''Who We Are Now'' by Matthew Newton
*'' You Disappear'' by Peter Schønau Fog
*''Youth'' by Feng Xiaogang

Midnight Madness

*'' Bodied'' by Joseph Kahn
*'' Brawl in Cell Block 99'' by S. Craig Zahler
*'' The Crescent'' by Seth A. Smith
*'' The Disaster Artist'' by James Franco
*'' Downrange'' by Ryuhei Kitamura
*'' Great Choice'' by Robin Comisar
*'' Let the Corpses Tan'' by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
*'' Mom and Dad'' by Brian Taylor
*''Revenge'' by Coralie Fargeat
*'' The Ritual'' by David Bruckner
*'' Vampire Clay'' by Sôichi Umezawa

Masters

*'' The Day After'' by Hong Sang-soo
*'' Faces Places'' by Agnès Varda and JR
*''First Reformed'' by Paul Schrader
*'' Happy End'' by Michael Haneke
*'' The House by the Sea'' by Robert Guédiguian
*'' Loveless'' by Andrey Zvyagintsev
*''The Other Side of Hope'' by Aki Kaurismäki
*''Our People Will Be Healed'' by Alanis Obomsawin
*'' Rainbow: A Private Affair'' by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
*''The Third Murder'' by Hirokazu Kore-eda
*'' Zama'' by Lucrecia Martel

Documentaries

*'' Azmaish: A Journey through the Subcontinent'' by Sabiha Sumar
*'' Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat'' by Sara Driver
*''The Carter Effect'' by Sean Menard
*''The China Hustle'' by Jed Rothstein
*'' Cocaine Prison'' by Violeta Ayala
*'' Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars'' by Lili Fini Zanuck
*'' Ex Libris: The New York Public Library'' by Frederick Wiseman
*'' The Final Year'' by Greg Barker
*'' The Gospel According to André'' by Kate Novack
*'' Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami'' by Sophie Fiennes
*'' Jim & Andy: the Great Beyond – the story of Jim Carrey & Andy Kaufman featuring a very special, contractually obligated mention of Tony Clifton'' by Chris Smith
*''Jane'' by Brett Morgen
*'' The Judge'' by Erika Cohn
*'' The Legend of the Ugly King'' by Hüseyin Tabak
*'' Living Proof'' by Matt Embry
*'' Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle'' by Gustavo Salmerón
*''Love Means Zero'' by Jason Kohn
*'' The Other Side of Everything'' by Mila Turajlić
*'' Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me'' by Sam Pollard
*''Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood'' by Matt Tyrnauer
*''Silas'' by Hawa Essuman and Anjali Nayar
*'' Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!'' by Morgan Spurlock
*'' There Is a House Here'' by Alan Zweig

Contemporary World Cinema

*'' Alanis'' by Anahí Berneri
*'' Ana, mon amour'' by Călin Peter Netzer
*'' Angels Wear White'' by Vivian Qu
*''April's Daughter'' by Michel Franco
*''Arrhythmia'' by Boris Khlebnikov
*'' Beyond Words'' by Urszula Antoniak
*'' The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales...'' by Benjamin Renner, Patrick Imbert
*''Birds Without Names'' by Kazuya Shiraishi
*''Black Kite'' by Tarique Qayumi
*''Breath'' by Simon Baker
*''A Ciambra'' by Jonas Carpignano
*'' Dark is the Night'' by Adolfo Alix Jr.
*'' Directions'' by Stephan Komandarev
*'' Disappearance'' by Boudewijn Koole
*''Don't Talk to Irene'' by Pat Mills
*''Euthanizer'' by Teemu Nikki
*'' Félicité'' by Alain Gomis
*'' Good Favour'' by Rebecca Daly
*'' Hannah'' by Andrea Pallaoro
*'' The Insult'' by Ziad Doueiri
*'' Insyriated'' by Philippe Van Leeuw
*'' The Journey'' by Mohamed Al-Daradji
*'' Life and Nothing More'' by Antonio Méndez Esparza
*''The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches'' by Simon Lavoie
*'' The Lodgers'' by Brian O'Malley
*''Longing'' by Savi Gabizon
*''Looking for Oum Kulthum'' by Shirin Neshat
*'' Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts'' by Mouly Surya
*'' Meditation Park'' by Mina Shum
*''Miami'' by Zaida Bergroth
*'' Motorrad'' by Vicente Amorim
*''Nina'' by Juraj Lehotský
*'' The Number'' by Khalo Matabane
*'' On Body and Soul'' by Ildikó Enyedi
*''Porcupine Lake'' by Ingrid Veninger
*'' Public Schooled'' by Kyle Rideout
*'' Pyewacket'' by Adam MacDonald
*'' Ravenous (Les Affamés)'' by Robin Aubert
*''The Royal Hibiscus Hotel'' by Ishaya Bako
*'' Samui Song'' by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
*'' Sergio & Sergei'' by Ernesto Daranas Serrano
*'' A Sort of Family'' by Diego Lerman
*'' The Summit'' by Santiago Mitre
*''Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle'' by Mike van Diem
*'' Under the Tree'' by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
*'' Verónica'' by Paco Plaza
*'' Wajib'' by Annemarie Jacir
*'' Western'' by Valeska Grisebach

Contemporary World Speakers

Discovery

*'' 1%'' by Stephen McCallum
*'' 3/4'' by Ilian Metev
*'' Ava'' by Sadaf Foroughi
*'' All You Can Eat Buddha'' by Ian Lagarde
*''Apostasy'' by Daniel Kokotajlo
*''Black Cop
*'' The Butterfly Tree'' by Priscilla Cameron
*'' Cardinals'' by Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley
*'' Disappearance'' by Ali Asgari
*'' A Fish Out of Water'' by Lai Kuo-An
*'' Five Fingers for Marseilles'' by Michael Matthews
*'' The Future Ahead'' by Constanza Novick
*'' The Garden'' by Sonja Kröner
*'' The Great Buddha+'' by Huang Hsin-Yao
*'' Gutland'' by Govinda Van Maele
*''High Fantasy'' by Jenna Bass
*'' Human Traces'' by Nick Gorman
*''I Kill Giants'' by Anders Walter
*''I Am Not a Witch'' by Rungano Nyoni
*''Indian Horse'' by Stephen Campanelli
*''Killing Jesus'' by Laura Mora
*'' Kissing Candice'' by Aoife McArdle
*'' Luk'Luk'I'' by Wayne Wapeemukwa
*'' Mary Goes Round'' by Molly McGlynn
*'' Messi and Maud'' by Marleen Jonkman
*''Miracle'' by Egle Vertelyte
*''Montana'' by Limor Shmila
*''Never Steady, Never Still'' by Kathleen Hepburn
*'' Oblivion Verses'' by Alireza Khatami
*'' Oh Lucy!'' by Atsuko Hirayanagi
*'' The Poet and the Boy'' by Kim Yang-hee
*'' Princesita'' by Marialy Rivas
*'' Ravens'' by Jens Assur
*''Scaffolding'' by Matan Yair
*'' Shuttle Life'' by Tan Seng Kiat
*''Simulation'' by Abed Abest
*'' Soldiers. Story from Ferentari'' by Ivana Mladenovic
*'' Suleiman Mountain'' by Elizaveta Stishova
*'' The Swan'' by Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir
*'' Tigre'' by Silvina Schnicer and Ulises Porra Guardiola
*'' Valley of Shadows'' by Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen
*'' Village Rockstars'' by Rima Das
*'' Waru'' by Briar Grace-Smith, Ainsley Gardiner, Renae Maihi, Casey Kaa, Awanui Simich-Pene, Chelsea Cohen, Katie Wolfe and Paula Jones
*'' Winter Brothers'' by Hlynur Pálmason
*'' A Worthy Companion'' by Carlos Sanchez and Jason Sanchez

Platform

*'' Beast'' by Michael Pearce
*'' Brad's Status'' by Mike White
*'' Custody'' by Xavier Legrand
*'' Dark River'' by Clio Barnard
*''The Death of Stalin'' by Armando Iannucci
*''Euphoria'' by Lisa Langseth
*'' If You Saw His Heart'' by Joan Chemla
*' by Barbara Albert
*'' Razzia'' by Nabil Ayouch
*' by Kamila Andini
*'' Sweet Country'' by Warwick Thornton
*''What Will People Say'' by Iram Haq

Short Cuts

*'' The Argument (with annotations)'' by Daniel Cockburn
*'' Bickford Park'' by Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart
*''Bird'' by Molly Parker
*''Charles'' by Dominic Étienne Simard
*'' Creatura Dada'' by Caroline Monnet
*'' Crème de menthe'' by Philippe David Gagné and Jean-Marc E. Roy
*'' The Crying Conch'' by Vincent Toi
*'' The Drop In'' by Naledi Jackson
*'' For Nonna Anna'' by Luis De Filippis
*''Grandmother'' by Trevor Mack
*''homer_b'' by Milos Mitrovic and Connor Sweeney
*'' An Imagined Conversation: Kanye West & Stephen Hawking'' by Sol Friedman
*'' Latched'' by Justin Harding and Rob Brunner
*'' Lira's Forest'' by Connor Jessup
*'' Midnight Confession'' by Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
*''Milk'' by Heather Young
*'' Möbius'' by Sam Kuhn
*'' Nuuca'' by Michelle Latimer
*'' Pre-Drink'' by Marc-Antoine Lemire
*'' Rupture'' by Yassmina Karajah
*'' Shadow Nettes'' by Phillip Barker
*''Signature'' by Kei Chikaura
*'' Stay, I Don't Want to Be Alone'' by Gabriel Savignac
*''The Tesla World Light'' by Matthew Rankin
*'' Threads'' by Torill Kove
*'' We Forgot to Break Up'' by Chandler Levack

Festival Street

Primetime

*'' Alias Grace'' by Mary Harron
*'' Dark'' by Baran bo Odar
*'' The Deuce'' by Michelle MacLaren and Ernest Dickerson
*''The Girlfriend Experience'' by Amy Seimetz and Lodge Kerrigan
*'' Under Pressure'' by Andrucha Waddington and Mini Kerti

Public Programme

Cinematheque

*''I've Heard the Mermaids Singing'' by Patricia Rozema
*'' North of Superior'' by Graeme Ferguson
*'' Picture of Light'' by Peter Mettler
*'' Rude'' by Clement Virgo

Wavelengths

*'' Beyond the One'' by Anna Marziano
*'' Caniba'' by Veréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
*'' Cocote'' by Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
*'' Dragonfly Eyes'' by Xu Bing
*'' Le fort des fous'' by Narimane Nari
*'' Good Luck'' by Ben Russell
*'' Heart of a Mountain'' by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko and Faraz Anoushahpour
*'' Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc'' by Bruno Dumont
*'' Mrs. Fang'' by Wang Bing
*'' The Nothing Factory'' by Pedro Pinho
*''Occidental'' by Neil Beloufa
*'' Palmerston Blvd.'' by Dan Browne
*''Prototype'' by Blake Williams
*''Scaffold'' by Kazik Radwanski
*'' A Skin So Soft (Ta peau si lisse)'' by Denis Côté
*'' Some Cities'' by Francesco Gagliardi
*'' Turtles Are Always Home'' by Rawane Nassif
*'' (100ft)'' by Minjung Kim

Canada's Top Ten

In December, TIFF programmers released their annual Canada's Top Ten list of the films selected as the ten best Canadian films of 2017."Top 10 best Canadian movies of 2017"
''Your Morning'', 6 December 2017. The selected films received a follow-up screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as a "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in January 2018, where '' Unarmed Verses'' won the People's Choice Award."Unarmed Verses wins Canada’s Top Ten People’s Choice Award"
'' Playback'', 22 January 2018.

Features

Short films

References

External links

Official site

2017 Toronto International Film Festival
at IMDb

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