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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 |
Awards | Jojo Rabbit (People's Choice Award) |
Festival date | 5–15 September 2019 |
Website | tiff |
The 44th annual Toronto International Film Festival 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]
In addition to its regular film awards, whose winners were announced at the conclusion of the festival, the festival also announced the inaugural TIFF Tribute Awards, a special program to honour distinguished lifetime achievement in film. [4] Tribute Awards were presented to Meryl Streep and Joaquin Phoenix for acting, Taika Waititi for directing, cinematographer Roger Deakins for artisan film craft, Mati Diop for emerging talent, Participant Media for impact media, and David Foster for special contributions to film. [5]
The first award recipients were announced on 12 September, [6] with the major awards announced at the close of the festival on 15 September. [7] 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. [8]
Nicolas Cage was awarded with the Creative Coalition's Spotlight Initiative Award for his role in Color Out of Space . [9]
The selection for the 2019 festival: [10] [11] [12]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Abominable | Jill Culton | United States, China | |
The Aeronauts | Tom Harper | United Kingdom, United States | |
American Woman | Semi Chellas | Canada, United States | |
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Marielle Heller | United States | |
Blackbird | Roger Michell | ||
The Burnt Orange Heresy | Giuseppe Capotondi | United States, Italy | |
Clemency | Chinonye Chukwu | United States | |
Ford v Ferrari | James Mangold | ||
The Goldfinch | John Crowley | ||
Harriet | Kasi Lemmons | ||
Honey Boy | Alma Har'el | ||
Hustlers | Lorene Scafaria | ||
Joker | Todd Phillips | ||
Just Mercy | Destin Daniel Cretton | ||
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band | Daniel Roher | Canada | |
Radioactive | Marjane Satrapi | United Kingdom | |
The Sky Is Pink | Shonali Bose | India | |
The Song of Names | François Girard | Canada, Germany, Hungary, United Kingdom | |
True History of the Kelly Gang | Justin Kurzel | United Kingdom, Australia | |
Western Stars | Thom Zimny and Bruce Springsteen | United States |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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David Foster: Off the Record | Barry Avrich | Canada | |
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk | Zacharias Kunuk |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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37 Seconds | Hikari | Japan | |
Adam | Maryam Touzani | Morocco | |
And the Birds Rained Down | Il pleuvait des oiseaux | Louise Archambault | Canada |
Antigone | Sophie Deraspe | Canada | |
Arab Blues | Un divan à Tunis | Manele Labidi Labbé | France, Tunisia |
Atlantics | Atlantique | Mati Diop | Belgium, France, Senegal |
Atlantis | Атлантида | Valentyn Vasyanovych | Ukraine |
Bacurau | Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles | Brazil, France | |
Balloon | 气球 | Pema Tseden | China |
The Barefoot Emperor | Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens | Belgium | |
Beanpole | Дылда | Kantemir Balagov | Russia |
Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies | Edward Burns | United States | |
Blow the Man Down | Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole | ||
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | Malkʼwalaʼmida uḵwineʼ leʼołeʼ yax̱idixa̱nʼs ʼnalax̱ | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn | Canada |
Bombay Rose | Gitanjali Rao | India | |
Castle in the Ground | Joey Klein | Canada | |
Chicuarotes | Gael García Bernal | Mexico | |
The Climb | Michael Angelo Covino | United States | |
Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | Jan Komasa | Poland, France |
The County | Héraðið | Grímur Hákonarson | Iceland |
Dogs Don't Wear Pants | Koirat eivät käytä housuja | J-P Valkeapää | Finland |
The Father | Бащата | Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva | Bulgaria, Greece |
Flatland | Jenna Bass | South Africa, Luxembourg, Germany | |
A Girl Missing | よこがお | Koji Fukada | Japan, France |
Hala | Minhal Baig | United States | |
Henry Glassie: Field Work | Pat Collins | Ireland | |
Incitement | ימים נוראים | Yaron Zilberman | Israel |
Instinct | Halina Reijn | Netherlands | |
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão | A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão | Karim Aïnouz | Brazil, Germany |
Jallikattu | Lijo Jose Pellissery | India | |
Knuckle City | Jahmil X. T. Qubeka | South Africa | |
La Llorona | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala | |
The Last Porno Show | Kire Paputts | Canada | |
The Long Walk | ບໍ່ມີວັນຈາກ | Mattie Do | Laos |
Made in Bangladesh | শিমু | Rubaiyat Hossain | Bangladesh, France, Denmark, Portugal |
Mariam | Sharipa Urazbayeva | Kazakhstan, Germany | |
Maria's Paradise | Marian paratiisi | Zaida Bergroth | Finland |
Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France | |
Nobadi | Karl Markovics | Austria | |
Our Lady of the Nile | Notre-Dame du Nil | Atiq Rahimi | France, Belgium, Rwanda, Monaco |
The Perfect Candidate | المرشحة المثالية | Haifaa al-Mansour | Saudi Arabia |
Red Fields | Keren Yedaya | Israel | |
Resin | Harpiks | Daniel Borgman | Denmark |
So Long, My Son | 地久天长 | Wang Xiaoshuai | China |
South Terminal | Terminal Sud | Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | France |
Spider | Araña | Andrés Wood | Chile |
A Sun | 陽光普照 | Chung Mong-hong | Taiwan |
Synonyms | Synonymes | Nadav Lapid | France, Israel, Germany |
Tammy's Always Dying | Amy Jo Johnson | Canada | |
Three Summers | Três Verões | Sandra Kogut | Brazil |
Verdict | Raymund Ribay Gutierrez | Philippines | |
White Lie | Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas | Canada | |
A White, White Day | Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur | Hlynur Pálmason | Iceland |
The Wild Goose Lake | 南方车站的聚会 | Diao Yinan | China |
You Will Die at Twenty | ستموت في العشرين | Amjad Abu Alala | Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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About Endlessness | Om det oändliga | Roy Andersson | Sweden |
Devil Between the Legs | El Diablo entre las Piernas | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico |
A Hidden Life | Terrence Malick | United States, Germany | |
I Was at Home, But | Ich war zuhause, aber | Angela Schanelec | Germany |
It Must Be Heaven | إن شئت كما في السماء | Elia Suleiman | France, Canada, Palestine, Turkey |
Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada | |
Sorry We Missed You | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, France, Belgium | |
The Traitor | Il traditore | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, France, Brazil, Germany |
To the Ends of the Earth | 旅のおわり世界のはじまり | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan, Uzbekistan, Qatar |
The Whistlers | La Gomera | Corneliu Porumboiu | Romania, France, Germany |
Zombi Child | Bertrand Bonello | France |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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And We Go Green | Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville | United States | |
The Australian Dream | Daniel Gordon | Australia, United Kingdom | |
Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator | Eva Orner | United States | |
The Capote Tapes | Ebs Burnough | United States, United Kingdom | |
The Cave | Feras Fayyad | Syria, Denmark | |
Citizen K | Alex Gibney | United States | |
Collective | Colectiv | Alexander Nanau | Romania |
Coppers | Alan Zweig | Canada | |
The Cordillera of Dreams | La cordillère des songes | Patricio Guzmán | Chile, France |
Cunningham | Alla Kovgan | Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States | |
Dads | Bryce Dallas Howard | United States | |
Desert One | Barbara Kopple | ||
I Am Not Alone | Garin Hovannisian | Armenia, United States | |
Ibrahim: A Fate to Define | Lina Al Abed | Lebanon, Palestine, Denmark, Qatar | |
The Kingmaker | Lauren Greenfield | United States | |
Letter to the Editor | Alan Berliner | ||
Love Child | Eva Mulvad | Denmark | |
My English Cousin | Karim Sayad | Switzerland, Qatar, Algeria | |
Paris Stalingrad | Hind Meddeb | France | |
Ready for War | Andrew Renzi | United States | |
Red Penguins | Gabe Polsky | United States, Russia | |
Sing Me a Song | Thomas Balmès | France, Germany, Switzerland | |
There's Something in the Water | Elliot Page and Ian Daniel | Canada | |
This Is Not a Movie | Yung Chang | ||
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema | Mark Cousins | United Kingdom |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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1982 | Oualid Mouaness | United States, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar | |
Africa | Oren Gerner | Israel | |
The Antenna | Bina | Orçun Behram | Turkey |
The Audition | Das Vorspiel | Ina Weisse | Germany, France |
August | Agosto | Armando Capó | Cuba, Costa Rica, France |
Black Conflux | Nicole Dorsey | Canada | |
Bring Me Home | 나를 찾아줘 | Kim Seung-woo | South Korea |
A Bump Along the Way | Shelly Love | United Kingdom | |
Calm with Horses | Nick Rowland | United Kingdom, Ireland | |
Certified Mail | Bi Elm El Wossul | Hisham Saqr | Egypt |
Comets | Tamar Shavgulidze | Georgia | |
Disco | Jorunn Myklebust Syversen | Norway | |
Easy Land | Sanja Živković | Canada | |
Entwined | Minos Nikolakakis | Greece | |
The Giant | David Raboy | United States | |
The Good Intentions | Las Buenas Intenciones | Ana García Blaya | Argentina |
Hearts and Bones | Ben Lawrence | Australia | |
Hope | Håp | Maria Sødahl | Norway, Sweden |
Kuessipan | Myriam Verreault | Canada | |
Lina from Lima | Lina de Lima | María Paz González | Chile, Argentina, Peru |
The Lost Okoroshi | Abba Makama | Nigeria | |
Love Me Tender | Klaudia Reynicke | Switzerland | |
Murmur | Heather Young | Canada | |
My Life as a Comedian | En komikers uppväxt | Rojda Sekersöz | Sweden, Belgium |
Noura's Dream | Hinde Boujemaa | Tunisia, Belgium, France, Qatar | |
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson | Ali LeRoi | United States | |
Pompei | Anna Falguères and John Shank | Belgium, Canada, France | |
Raf | Harry Cepka | Canada | |
The Rest of Us | Aisling Chin-Yee | ||
Sea Fever | Neasa Hardiman | Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, United Kingdom | |
Simple Women | Chiara Malta | Italy, Romania | |
Sole | Carlo Sironi | Italy, Poland | |
Son-Mother | Pesar-Madar | Mahnaz Mohammadi | Iran, Czech Republic |
Stories from the Chestnut Woods | Zgodbe iz kostanjevih gozdov | Gregor Božič | Slovenia, Italy |
Sweetness in the Belly | Zeresenay Berhane Mehari | Canada, Ireland | |
Two of Us | Deux | Filippo Meneghetti | France, Luxembourg, Belgium |
Zana | Antoneta Kastrati | Kosovo, Albania |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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All Cats Are Grey in the Dark | Nachts sind alle Katzen grau | Lasse Linder | Switzerland |
All Inclusive | Teemu Nikki | Finland | |
And Then the Bear | L'Heure de l'ours | Agnès Patron | France |
Ani | Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu | New Zealand | |
Anna | Dekel Berenson | Ukraine, Israel, United Kingdom | |
Are You Hungry? | Onko sulla nälkä? | Teemu Niukkanen | Finland |
Austral Fever | Fiebre Austral | Thomas Woodroffe | Chile |
BARAKAT | Manon Nammour | Lebanon | |
Bare Trees in the Mist | Rajan Kathet | Nepal | |
Butterflies | Parparim | Yona Rozenkier | Israel, France |
Daddio | Casey Wilson | United States | |
Darling | Saim Sadiq | Pakistan | |
Daughter | Dcera | Daria Kashcheeva | Czech Republic |
Delphine | Chloé Robichaud | Canada | |
The Depths | Les Profondeurs | Ariane Louis-Seize | Canada |
Exam | Emtehan | Sonia K. Hadad | Iran |
Flesh | Carne | Camila Kater | Brazil, Spain |
Flood | Joseph Amenta | Canada | |
A Fool God | Hiwot Admasu Getaneh | France | |
God's Nightmares | Daniel Cockburn | Canada | |
Hello Ahma | gui | Siyou Tan | Singapore |
Highway to Heaven | Sandra Ignagni | Canada | |
Hot Flash | Thea Hollatz | ||
Human Nature | Sverre Fredriksen | Netherlands | |
I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain | Sofia Banzhaf | Canada | |
I'll End Up in Jail | Je finirai en prison | Alexandre Dostie | |
It's Nothing | Anna Maguire | Canada, United Kingdom | |
Jarvik | Émilie Mannering | Canada | |
Life Support | Renuka Jeyapalan | ||
Locals Only | Brent Harris | South Africa | |
Lucia en el limbo | Valentina Maurel | Belgium, France, Costa Rica | |
Measure | Karen Chapman | Canada | |
The Nap | La Siesta | Federico Luis Tachella | Argentina |
Nimic | Yorgos Lanthimos | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | |
No Crying at the Dinner Table | Carol Nguyen | Canada | |
Now Is the Time | Christopher Auchter | ||
Oracle | Aaron Poole | ||
The Physics of Sorrow | Physique de la tristesse | Theodore Ushev | |
Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You | Brandon Cronenberg | ||
The Raft | Sylvain Cruiziat | Germany | |
Rebel | Pier-Philippe Chevigny | Canada | |
Reminiscences of the Green Revolution | Dean Colin Marcial | Philippines | |
Route-3 | Thanasis Neofotistos | Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
Sadla | Zamo Mkhwanazi | South Africa | |
She Runs | Nan Fang Shao Nv | Qiu Yang | China, France |
Something to Remember | Något att minnas | Niki Lindroth von Bahr | Sweden |
Thirsty | Nicole Delaney | United States | |
This Ink Runs Deep | Asia Youngman | Canada | |
Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves | Toomas teispool metsikute huntide orgu | Chintis Lundgren | Croatia, Estonia, France |
The Trap | Fakh | Nada Riyadh | Egypt, Germany |
Volcano | Karen Moore | Canada | |
Watermelon Juice | Suc de síndria | Irene Moray | Spain |
Who Talks | Ingen Lyssnar | Elin Övergaard | Sweden |
Why Slugs Have No Legs | Aline Höchli | Switzerland | |
Yandere | William Laboury | France |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Blood Quantum | Jeff Barnaby | Canada | |
Color Out of Space | Richard Stanley | United States | |
Crazy World | Ani Mulalu | Isaac Nabwana | Uganda |
First Love | 初恋 | Takashi Miike | Japan |
Gundala | Joko Anwar | Indonesia | |
The Platform | El Hoyo | Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia | Spain |
Saint Maud | Rose Glass | United Kingdom | |
The Twentieth Century | Matthew Rankin | Canada | |
The Vast of Night | Andrew Patterson | United States | |
The Vigil | Keith Thomas |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Anne at 13,000 Ft. | Kazik Radwanski | Canada | |
Martin Eden | Pietro Marcello | Italy, France | |
The Moneychanger | Así habló el cambista | Federico Veiroj | Uruguay |
My Zoe | Julie Delpy | United Kingdom, France, Germany | |
Proxima | Alice Winocour | France | |
Rocks | Sarah Gavron | United Kingdom | |
The Sleepwalkers | Los sonámbulos | Paula Hernández | Argentina |
Sound of Metal | Darius Marder | United States | |
Wet Season | 热带雨 | Anthony Chen | Singapore |
Workforce | Mano de obra | David Zonana | Mexico |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Black Bitch | Rachel Perkins | Australia | |
Briarpatch | Andy Greenwald | United States | |
Limetown | Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie | ||
Mrs. Fletcher | Tom Perrotta | ||
Savages | Les Sauvages | Rebecca Zlotowski | France |
The Sleepers | Bez vedomí | Ivan Zachariáš and Ondřej Gabriel | Czech Republic |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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A Dry White Season | Euzhan Palcy | United States, France | |
The Last of Sheila | Herbert Ross | United States | |
The Last Waltz | Martin Scorsese | ||
Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | France | |
No | Pablo Larraín | Chile, France, United States |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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143 Sahara Street | Hassen Ferhani | Algeria | |
2minutes40seconds | Han Ok-hee | ||
2008 | Blake Williams | Canada | |
Amusement Ride | Tomonari Nishikawa | ||
Austrian Pavilion | Philipp Fleischmann | ||
Billy | Zachary Epcar | ||
The Bite | Pedro Nemes Marques | ||
Black Sun | Maureen Fazendeiro | ||
Book of Hours | Annie MacDonell | Canada | |
Circumplector | Gaston Solnicki | ||
Cézanne | Luke Fowler | ||
Endless Night | Longa noite | Eloy Enciso | Spain |
The Fever | A Febre | Maya Da-Rin | Brazil, France, Germany |
Un Film Dramatique | Éric Baudelaire | France | |
Fire Will Come | Oliver Laxe | Spain, France, Luxembourg | |
Heavy Metal Detox | Josef Dabernig | ||
Heimat is a Space in Time | Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit | Thomas Heise | Germany, Austria |
Hrvoji, Look at You from the Tower | Ryan Ferko | Canada | |
Krabi, 2562 | Anocha Suwichakornpong and Ben Rivers | Thailand, United Kingdom | |
Liberté | Albert Serra | France, Germany, Portugal, Spain | |
My Skin, Luminous | Gabino Rodríguez and Nicolás Pereda | Canada, Mexico | |
Remembrance: A Portrait Study | Edward Owens | ||
SaF05 | Charlotte Prodger | ||
Second Generation | Miryam Charles | Canada | |
Seven Years in May | Affonso Uchôa | Brazil | |
Slow Volumes | Mike Gibisser | ||
State Funeral | Государственные похороны | Sergei Loznitsa | Netherlands, Lithuania |
Sun Rave | Roy Samaha | ||
This Action Lies | James N. Kienitz Wilkins | ||
Those That, At a Distance, Resemble Another | Jessica Sarah Rinland | ||
A Topography of Memory | Burak Çevik | Turkey, Canada | |
Transcript | Erica Sheu | ||
(tourism studies) | Joshua Gen Solondz | ||
Vever (for Barbara) | Deborah Stratman | ||
Vitalina Varela | Pedro Costa | Portugal | |
We Still Have to Close Our Eyes | John Torres | ||
Who's Afraid of Ideology? Part 2 | Marwa Arsanios |
TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list, its national critics and festival programmers poll of the ten best feature and short films of the year, was released on 11 December 2019. [13]