The 44th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 September 2019. The opening gala was the documentary film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band, directed by Daniel Roher, and the festival closed with a screening of the biographical film Radioactive, directed by Marjane Satrapi.
Awards 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."Meryl Streep to get new acting award at Toronto gala". Associated Press via the Toronto Star, 26 July 2019. 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."Joaquin Phoenix, Meryl Streep among recipients of inaugural TIFF Tribute awards". CityNews, 9 September 2019.
The first award recipients were announced on 12 September,"The film Martin Eden wins TIFF’s Platform Prize". Toronto Star, 13 September 2019. with the major awards announced at the close of the festival on 15 September. 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.
Nicolas Cage was awarded with the Creative Coalition's Spotlight Initiative Award for his role in Color Out of Space.
Award Film Director People's Choice Award Jojo Rabbit Taika Waititi People's Choice Award, First Runner Up Marriage Story Noah Baumbach People's Choice Award, Second Runner Up Parasite Bong Joon-ho People's Choice Award: Documentary The Cave Feras Fayyad People's Choice Award: Documentary, First Runner Up I Am Not Alone Garin Hovannisian People's Choice Award: Documentary, Second Runner Up Dads Bryce Dallas Howard People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness The Platform Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness, First Runner Up The Vast of Night Andrew Patterson People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness, Second Runner Up Blood Quantum Jeff Barnaby Platform Prize Martin Eden Pietro Marcello Platform Prize, Honorable Mention Anne at 13,000 Ft. Kazik Radwanski Platform Prize, Honorable Mention Proxima Alice Winocour Best Canadian Feature Film Antigone Sophie Deraspe Best Canadian Feature Film, Honourable Mention The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn Best Canadian Short Film Delphine Chloé Robichaud Best Canadian Short Film, Honourable Mention The Physics of Sorrow Theodore Ushev Best Canadian First Feature Film The Twentieth Century Matthew Rankin FIPRESCI Discovery Prize Murmur Heather Young FIPRESCI Special Presentations How to Build a Girl Coky Giedroyc Best International Short Film All Cats Are Grey in the Dark Lasse Linder Best International Short Film, Honourable Mention The Nap Federico Luis Tachella NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere 1982 Oualid Mouaness
Programme The selection for the 2019 festival:TIFF Adds World Premiere Of Docu ‘David Foster: Off The Record’. Deadline Hollywood, 30 July 2019.
Gala presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country 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
Special events English title Original title Director(s) Production country David Foster: Off the Record Barry Avrich Canada One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk Zacharias Kunuk
Special presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country American Son Kenny Leon United States Bad Education Cory Finley La Belle Époque Nicolas Bedos France Coming Home Again Wayne Wang United States, South Korea Deerskin Le Daim Quentin Dupieux France Dirt Music Gregor Jordan Australia, United Kingdom Disappearance at Clifton Hill Albert Shin Canada Dolemite Is My Name Craig Brewer United States The Domain A Herdade Tiago Guedes Portugal, France The Elder One Moothon Geetu Mohandas India Ema Pablo Larraín Chile Endings, Beginnings Drake Doremus South Korea, United States Frankie Ira Sachs United States, France The Friend Gabriela Cowperthwaite United States Greed Michael Winterbottom United Kingdom, United States Guest of Honour Atom Egoyan Canada Guns Akimbo Jason Lei Howden New Zealand, United Kingdom, Germany Heroic Losers La odisea de los giles Sebastián Borensztein Argentina Hope Gap William Nicholson United Kingdom How to Build a Girl Coky Giedroyc United Kingdom, United States Human Capital Marc Meyers United States, Italy I Am Woman Unjoo Moon Australia Jojo Rabbit Taika Waititi United States, New Zealand, Czech Republic Judy Rupert Goold United Kingdom, United States, France Jungleland Max Winkler United States Knives Out Rian Johnson The Last Vermeer Dan Friedkin The Laundromat Steven Soderbergh The Lighthouse Robert Eggers Canada, United States Lucy in the Sky Noah Hawley United States Marriage Story Noah Baumbach United States, United Kingdom Military Wives Peter Cattaneo United Kingdom Mosul Matthew Michael Carnahan United States Motherless Brooklyn Edward Norton United States No.7 Cherry Lane 繼園臺七號 Yonfan Hong Kong, China Ordinary Love Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn United Kingdom, Ireland The Other Lamb Małgorzata Szumowska United States, Ireland, Belgium Pain and Glory Dolor y gloria Pedro Almodóvar Spain The Painted Bird Nabarvené ptáče Václav Marhoul Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine Parasite 기생충 Bong Joon-ho South Korea Pelican Blood Pelikanblut Katrin Gebbe Germany, Bulgaria The Personal History of David Copperfield Armando Iannucci United Kingdom, United States Portrait of a Lady on Fire Portrait de la jeune fille en feu Céline Sciamma France The Report Scott Z. Burns United States Saturday Fiction 兰心大剧院 Lou Ye China Seberg Benedict Andrews United States, United Kingdom Sibyl Justine Triet France, Belgium Synchronic Aaron Moorehead and Justin Benson United States The Truth La Vérité Hirokazu Kore-eda France, Japan The Two Popes Fernando Meirelles United Kingdom, United States, Italy Uncut Gems Joshua and Benjamin Safdie United States Wasp Network Olivier Assayas France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium Waves Trey Edward Shults United States Weathering with You 天気の子 Makoto Shinkai Japan While at War Mientras dure la guerra Alejandro Amenábar Spain, Argentina
Contemporary World Cinema English title Original title Director(s) Production country 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
Masters English title Original title Director(s) Production country 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
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