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 TIFF 2022: September 8–18
The 476th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8–18, 2021. in Canada's most vibrant and exciting metropolis, it has become one of the most important film events on the festival calendar.
Showcasing more than 300 films and hosting industryites from around the world, Toronto can "make or break" films looking for international distribution and a chance at Oscar gold. From glitzy red carpet premieres to challenging art films to cutting edge new media, the Festival offers something for every taste.
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Daniel Roher’s deeply personal story of the Canadian music legend’s life, a Crave Original Documentary, will open the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 5
Photo credit: Courtesy of TIFF, Photo by Elliott Landy ...
Photo credit: George Pimentel Photography
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head of TIFF, today announced the appointment of Geoff Macnaughton to Director of Industry. Macnaughton will oversee the organization’s industry programming and talent development initiatives, as well as industry-related sales and services. He will continue to act as Lead Programmer of Primetime, the Toronto International Film Festival’s prog...
Laura Ryan and Jennifer Frees promoted to Vice President roles
Diana Sanchez, Photo Credit: George Pimentel WireImage Getty for TIFF
TORONTO — Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head, and Joana Vicente, Executive Director and Co-Head, today announced several appointments to the Senior Management team at TIFF.
Diana Sanchez has been appointed to the newly created role of Senior Director, Film, effecti...
Cameron Bailey, Dorota Lech, Kiva Reardon, Andréa Picard
Brad Deane, Jason Anderson, Diana Sanchez, Thom Powers
Giovanna Fulvi, Michèle Maheux, Steve Gravestock, Ravi Srinivasan, Geoff Macnaughton
Jennifer Barkin, Michael Lerman, Lydia Ogwang, Ming-Jenn Lim
Peter Kuplowsky, Robyn Citizen, Christoph Straub, Karina Rotenstein
Today, TIFF announced a new generation of film experts and curators who have been appointed as Le...
Piers Handling introduced the World Premier of Sharkwater Extinction at TIFF; his final film and his third movie to have been selected at TIFF.
Late Canadian Filmmaker Rob Stewart was first honoured With 'Child Of The Water' Music created by Chantal Kreviazuk for Rob which played live to the audience before the presentations. Piers Handling and Rob's family followed, Brian Sandy and Alexandra,and the whole team on stage.
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Dear Film Lover,
After 36 years with TIFF, my friend Piers Handling is retiring.
I’ve known and worked alongside Piers for so long now, it’s hard to know what to say. There are so many memories, and there is so much to be proud of.
Under Piers's leadership, TIFF grew into a globally recognized film festival and one of the strongest cultural institutions in Canada. But it also grew into a community of film lovers that feel like an extended family to me and so many...
Film Lover –
I grew up in Thedford, Ontario, and when I moved to Toronto to pursue my love of film, I never imagined I’d get so lucky.
In the first few weeks, I stumbled upon TIFF Cinematheque — a world-class cinema that’s become my second home. I was finally able to see the films I loved, and films I’d never heard of, on the big screen. I was enthralled.
But even more than the films, what changed ...
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Zheng Kai (aka Ryan Zheng)
Zheng Kai aka Ryan Zheng is a fast-emerging Chinese actor, filmmaker and entrepreneur. A frequent collaborator of Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA Award-winning Chinese director Zhang Yimou, Zheng appeared in The Great Wall opposite Matt Damon and will next appear in the highly anticipated Shadow, which is set to premiere at the upcoming 2018 Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.
A box-office powerhouse in his native China,...
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Presents
SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN
Directed by MARGARETHE VON TROTTA
Co-directors: FELIX MOELLER and BETTINA BÖHLER
Oscilloscope Laboratories will release Searching for Ingmar Bergman, Margarethe von Trotta’s unabashed valentine to the director who inspired her to become a filmmaker. The film, which had its World Premiere in Cannes, is set to open in NYC (before opening in LA & other cities) on November 2nd, 2018, a...
World Premiere of Netflix’s HOLD THE DARK at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival
The film stars Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Julian Black Antelope, Director Jeremy Saulnier, Writer Macon Blair, and Producers Russell Ackerman, John Schoenfelder, Eva Maria Daniels, Neil Kopp, and Anish Savjani.
SYNOPSIS
Retired naturalist and wolf expert Russell Core (JEFFREY WRIGHT) journeys to the edge of civilization in northern Alaska at t...
WILD BUNCH HANDLES WORLDWIDE SALES ON DIRECTOR HO WI DING’S ‘CITIES OF LAST THINGS’ AT TORONTO
TIFF title world premiered on Saturday, September 8th in the Platform section; Wild Bunch to handle international territories excluding Taiwan, France and most of Asia
International sales company Wild Bunch is handling worldwide sales for Ho Wi Ding’s CITIES OF LAST THINGS, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Platform section on ...
COLETTE IN THEATERS SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Directed by | Wash Westmoreland
Written by | Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Starring | Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as “Willy” (Dominic West), Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to gh...
MOUTHPIECE
Written and Directed by Patricia Rozema
Co-Written by Norah Sadava and Amy Nostbakken
Starring Norah Sadava, Amy Nostbakken and Maev Beaty
2018 TIFF | SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS | WORLD PREMIERE
MOUTHPIECE is a powerful, amusing and highly original look into the conflicted psyche of Cassandra Haywood a fiercely independent millennial woman. Cass is a single writer who lives by her own rules. She’s also a bit of a disaster. Following the sudden death of he...
TELL IT TO THE BEES
***World Premiere in Special Presentations Category at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival***
Starring: Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger
Emun Elliott, Steven Robertson, Lauren Lyle, Gregor Selkirk, Kate Dickie
Directed by: Annabel Jankel
Written by: Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth
Based on the novel by: Fiona Shaw
Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father’s medical practice. When a school-...
Written and Directed by A.V. Rockwell
Synopsis:
Elizier, a new enrollee at The Edward R. Mill School For Boys, must overcome the memories of a tragic past in order to tackle larger issues dominating his young life: How must it feel to grow up in the world, under the constant implication that your life does not matter? To know that the whole world could watch you die, yet nothing would be done about it? In this poetic and lush drama, A.V. Rockwell creates an allegorical lov...
Photo credit: George Pimentel WireImage Getty for TIFF
The ultimate movie star, Julia Roberts arrived at TIFF for the world premiere of her television series Homecoming at Ryerson theatre. The Homecoming P&I screening is on September 10 at 9am at Scotiabank theatre.
Executive Producer and Star Julia Roberts,Executive Producer and Director Sam Esmail,Executive Producers and Co-Creators Eli Horowitzand Micah Bloomberg, and stars Stephan James, Jer...
Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian’s FIG TREE awarded the TIFF Eurimages’ Audentia Award.
Official announcement below.
Please scroll down for film details.
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Toronto International Film Festival Announces 2018 Award Winners
The Toronto International Film Festival® announced its award winners at the closing ceremony at TIFF Bell Lightbox today, hosted by Piers Handling, CEO and Director of TIFF, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of TIFF. The 43rd Festival wrapped up this evening.
IWC SHORT CUTS AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM
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The Toronto International Film Festival® announced its award winners at the closing ceremony at TIFF Bell Lightbox today, hosted by Piers Handling, CEO and Director of TIFF, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of TIFF. The 43rd Festival wraps up this evening.
IWC SHORT CUTS AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM
The IWC Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film goes to ...
Directed by Nick Hamm
Starring Lee Pace, Jason Sudeikis, Judy Greer, Corey Stoll, Isabel Arraiza, Michael Cudlitz, Erin Moriarty
DRIVEN
WRITER | Colin Bateman
PRODUCERS | Piers Tempest, Brad Feinstein, Rene Besson, Luillo Ruiz
Brad Feinstein of Romulus Entertainment was a producer and key financier.
SYNOPSIS | Lee Pace, Jason Sudeikis, Judy Greer, and Corey Stoll star in this story — inspired by true events — of the ri...
presents
A PRIVATE WAR
Directed by Matthew Heineman
Starring Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, and Stanley Tucci
The narrative debut from the Academy Award nominated
direc...
Sienna Miller turns out a breathtaking lead performance in the upcoming American Woman (TIFF 2018), of which TIFF programmer Jane Schoettle remarked: "Miller has never given a performance quite this lived-in and emotionally layered. Her character's pain is soul-piercing, but so are her resilience and survival skills." TIFF is thrilled to offer film lovers a unique opportunity to toast the illustrious career of Sienna Miller in this intimate, fireside-style chat.
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Directed by Bi Gan
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE - Wavelengths
**Official Selection - Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival 2018**
As proven by his knockout debut, KAILI BLUES, Bi Gan is preoccupied with film's potential to both materialize mental space and convey physical sensation. His cinematic ambitions are further crystallized, to say the least, in LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, a noir-tinged film abo...
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
Directed by John Chester
"UPLIFTING. The sleeper-hit film of this year's festival."
-RogerEbert.com
"FRESH AIR FOR THE SOUL."
-Variety
"GORGEOUS. REMARKABLE...an emotionally resonant narrative."
-IndieWire
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