2017 Toronto International Film Festival

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2017 Toronto International Film Festival
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Festival poster
Opening film Borg McEnroe by Janus Metz Pedersen
Closing film C'est la vie! by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
Location Toronto, Canada
Founded1976
Awards Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (People's Choice Award)
Festival dateSeptember 7 – 17, 2017
Website www.tiff.net/tiff/
TIFF chronology

The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 7 to 17, 2017. There were fourteen programs, with the Vanguard and City to City programs 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]

Contents

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] 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. [6]

Awards

The festival's final awards were announced on September 17. [7]

AwardFilmDirector
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

Programs

The following films were selected: [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]

Gala presentations

Special presentations

Midnight Madness

Masters

Documentaries

Contemporary World Cinema

Contemporary World Speakers

Discovery

Platform

Short Cuts

Festival Street

Primetime

Public Programme

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. [20] 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. [21]

Features

Short films

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