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.[1][2] Borg/McEnroe directed by Janus Metz Pedersen opened the festival.[3]

2017 Toronto International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening filmBorg McEnroe by Janus Metz Pedersen
Closing filmC'est la vie! by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano
LocationToronto, Canada
Founded1976
AwardsThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (People's Choice Award)
Festival date7 – 17 September 2017
Websitewww.tiff.net/tiff/

According to a "fact sheet" released by the Festival before it began, this edition included 255 feature-length films[4] 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.[5]

Awards

The festival's final awards were announced on 17 September.[6]

Award Film Director
People's Choice Award Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Martin McDonagh
People's Choice Award First Runner Up I, Tonya Craig Gillespie
People's Choice Award Second Runner Up Call Me by Your Name Luca Guadagnino
People's Choice Award: Documentary Faces Places Agnès Varda and JR
People's Choice Award, Documentary First Runner Up Long Time Running Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier
People's Choice Award, Documentary Second Runner Up Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! Morgan Spurlock
People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness Bodied Joseph Kahn
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness First Runner Up The Disaster Artist James Franco
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness Second Runner Up Brawl in Cell Block 99 S. Craig Zahler
Platform Prize Sweet Country Warwick Thornton
Platform Prize, Honourable Mention Dark River Clio Barnard
Best Canadian Feature Film Ravenous (Les Affamés) Robin Aubert
Best Canadian Feature Film, Honourable Mention The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) Simon Lavoie
Best Canadian Short Film Pre-Drink Marc-Antoine Lemire
Best Canadian Short Film, Honourable Mention The Tesla World Light Matthew Rankin
Best Canadian First Feature Film Luk'Luk'I Wayne Wapeemukwa
Best Canadian First Feature Film, Honourable Mention Ava Sadaf Foroughi
FIPRESCI Discovery Prize Ava Sadaf Foroughi
FIPRESCI Special Presentations The Motive Manuel Martín Cuenca
Best International Short Film The Burden Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Best International Short Film, Honourable Mention A Gentle Night Qiu Yang
Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere The Great Buddha+ Huang Hsin-Yao

Juries

Platform Jury

Canadian Feature Film Jury

Short Cuts Film Jury

Programmes

The following films were selected:[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

Gala presentations

Special presentations

Midnight Madness

Masters

Documentaries

Contemporary World Cinema

Discovery

Platform

Short Cuts

Primetime

Cinematheque

Wavelengths

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.[19] 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.[20]

Features

Short films

References
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  2. "TIFF Unveils 2017 Programmes & Programmers" (PDF) (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival. 23 February 2017.
  3. "Toronto: Shia LaBeouf's 'Borg/McEnroe' to Open 2017 Festival". The Hollywood Reporter. 31 July 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  4. "Hollywood descends on Toronto for film festival". BBC News. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  5. "2017 Toronto International Film Festival Fact Sheet" (PDF) (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival Inc. 22 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  6. Jeremy Kay (17 September 2017). "'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' wins Toronto audience award". Screen Daily. In other key awards handed out on Sunday afternoon (17), Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country claimed the Toronto Platform Prize, while Joseph Kahn's Bodied won the Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award. Agnès Varda and JR's Faces Places took the Grolsch People's Choice Documentary Award.
  7. The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival [catalogue]. Toronto. 2017. p. 29.
  8. "Toronto Film Festival 2017 Unveils Strong Slate". Deadline. 25 July 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  9. ‘The Disaster Artist,’ ‘Super-Size Me 2’ Added to Toronto Film Festival Lineup
  10. "TIFF 2017's Midnight Madness, documentary slates are announced". Now. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  11. "Documentary Lineup Set For Toronto International Film Festival". Shoot Online. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  12. "'The Death Of Stalin' to open Toronto Film Festival Platform programme". ScreenDaily. 3 August 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  13. "Toronto Film Festival's Canadian Content to Include New Margaret Atwood Adaptation". The Wrap. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  14. Pond, Steve (15 August 2017). "Aaron Sorkin, Brie Larson, Louis CK Movies Added to Toronto Film Festival Lineup". TheWrap. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  15. "Toronto Adds Films From Aaron Sorkin, Louis C.K., Brie Larson". Variety. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  16. "Toronto Film Festival Adds International Films, Talks With Angelina Jolie and Javier Bardem". The Wrap. 22 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  17. "Roman J. Israel, Esq. Completes the Toronto International Film Festival Special Presentations Lineup" (PDF) (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival Inc. 31 August 2017.
  18. Jade Markus (9 August 2017). "The Simpsons meets Lake of the Woods: Winnipeg filmmakers headed to TIFF". Metro. Archived from the original on 13 March 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  19. "Top 10 best Canadian movies of 2017". Your Morning, 6 December 2017.
  20. "Unarmed Verses wins Canada’s Top Ten People’s Choice Award". Playback, 22 January 2018.
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