2019 Toronto International Film Festival 44th edition of the festival
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]
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.[ 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]
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
Programmes
The selection for the 2019 festival:[ 10] [ 11] [ 12]
Gala presentations
Special events
Special presentations
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
American Son
Kenny Leon
United States
Bad Education
Cory Finley
United States
La Belle Époque
Nicolas Bedos
France
Disappearance at Clifton Hill
Albert Shin
Canada
Coming Home Again
Wayne Wang
United States, South Korea
Deerskin
Le Daim
Quentin Dupieux
France
Dirt Music
Gregor Jordan
Australia, United Kingdom
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
United States
The Last Vermeer
Dan Friedkin
United States
The Laundromat
Steven Soderbergh
United States
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
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, Gisaengchung
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 , 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, Tenki no Ko
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 , Juliano Dornelles
Brazil, France
Balloon
气球
Pema Tseden
China
The Barefoot Emperor
Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens
Belgium
Beanpole
Дылда
Kantemir Balagov
Russia
Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies
Edward Burns
United States
Blow the Man Down
Danielle Krudy, Bridget Savage Cole
United States
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers , 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
The County
Héraðið
Grímur Hákonarson
Iceland
Dogs Don't Wear Pants
Koirat eivät käytä housuja
J-P Valkeapää
Finland
The Father
Бащата
Petar Valchanov , Kristina Grozeva
Bulgaria
Flatland
Jenna Bass
South Africa
A Girl Missing
よこがお, Yokogao
Kōji Fukada
Japan
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
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
Shimu
Rubaiyat Hossain
Bangladesh
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, Senegal
The Perfect Candidate
al-muraššaḥa al-mithāliyya
Haifaa al-Mansour
Saudi Arabia
Red Fields
Keren Yedaya
Israel
Resin
Harpiks
Daniel Borgman
Denmark
So Long, My Son
地久天长, Di Jiu Tian Chang
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 , 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
satamūt fīl-ʿishrīn
Amjad Abu Alala
Sudan
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
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, Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japan
The Whistlers
La Gomera
Corneliu Porumboiu
Romania, France, Germany
Zombi Child
Bertrand Bonello
France
Documentaries
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
And We Go Green
Fisher Stevens , 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
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
United States
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
United States
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 , Ian Daniel
Canada
This Is Not a Movie
Yung Chang
Canada
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
Mark Cousins
United Kingdom
Discovery
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
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
Na-reul cha-ja-jwo
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, John Shank
Belgium, Canada, France
Raf
Harry Cepka
Canada
The Rest of Us
Aisling Chin-Yee
Canada
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
Short Cuts
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
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
Canada
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
Canada
It's Nothing
Anna Maguire
Canada, United Kingdom
Jarvik
Émilie Mannering
Canada
Life Support
Renuka Jeyapalan
Canada
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
Canada
Oracle
Aaron Poole
Canada
The Physics of Sorrow
Physique de la tristesse
Theodore Ushev
Canada
Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You
Brandon Cronenberg
Canada
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
Midnight Madness
Primetime
Cinemathèque
Wavelengths
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
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, Ben Rivers
Thailand, United Kingdom
Liberté
Albert Serra
France, Germany, Portugal, Spain
My Skin, Luminous
Gabino Rodríguez, 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
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
Canada's Top Ten
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]
Feature films
Short films
References
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^ The Canadian Press (18 July 2019). "TIFF 2019 to open with documentary about Canadian rock legend Robbie Robertson" . Toronto Star . Retrieved 23 July 2019 .
^ "World premiere of 'Radioactive' is the TIFF closing night gala film" (PDF) . Toronto International Film Festival press release. 23 July 2019.
^ "Meryl Streep to get new acting award at Toronto gala" . Associated Press via the Toronto Star , 26 July 2019.
^ "Joaquin Phoenix, Meryl Streep among recipients of inaugural TIFF Tribute awards" . CityNews , 9 September 2019.
^ "The film Martin Eden wins TIFF’s Platform Prize" . Toronto Star , 13 September 2019.
^ Hipes, Patrick (12 September 2019). "Toronto Film Festival Jury Winners: 'Martin Eden', 'Murmur', 'How To Build A Girl' " . Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 12 September 2019 .
^ Vlessing, Etan (12 September 2019). "Toronto Film Festival Cancels Awards Ceremony" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 8 August 2022 .
^ Tsirbas, Christos (8 September 2019). "Toronto: Nicolas Cage Tells Spotlight Initiative Awards Art Is "Healthiest Medicine" " . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 22 November 2019 .
^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (23 July 2019). "Toronto Fest 2019 Starpower: Hanks' Mr Rogers, Bale-Damon's Ford V Ferrari, Phoenix' Joker, Streep's Laundromat, Eddie Murphy's Dolemite, Daniel Craig's Knives Out, Kidman's Goldfinch Among Premieres" . Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 23 July 2019 .
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^ "Toronto Adds The Aeronauts, Mosul, Seberg, & More To Festival Slate" . Deadline . Retrieved 16 August 2019 .
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