2016 Toronto International Film Festival

The 41st annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 8 to 18 September 2016.^[1] The first announcement of films to be screened at the festival took place on 26 July.^[2] Almost 400 films were shown.^[3]^[4]

2016 Toronto International Film Festival
TIFF chronology
Festival poster
Opening film	The Magnificent Seven
Closing film	The Edge of Seventeen
Location	Toronto, Canada
Founded	1976
Awards	La La Land (People's Choice Award)
Festival date	8–18 September 2016
Website	tiff.net/festivals/thefestival
2017 2015

Awards

The festival's final awards were announced on 18 September.^[5]

Award	Film	Director
People's Choice Award	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
People's Choice Award First Runner Up	Lion	Garth Davis
People's Choice Award Second Runner Up	Queen of Katwe	Mira Nair
People's Choice Award: Documentaries	I Am Not Your Negro	Raoul Peck
People's Choice Award, Documentary First Runner Up	Abacus: Small Enough to Jail	Steve James
People's Choice Award, Documentary Second Runner Up	Before the Flood	Fisher Stevens
People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness	Free Fire	Ben Wheatley
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness First Runner Up	The Autopsy of Jane Doe	André Øvredal
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness Second Runner Up	Raw	Julia Ducournau
Platform Prize	Jackie	Pablo Larraín
Platform Prize, Honourable Mention	Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait	Khyentse Norbu
Best Canadian Feature Film	Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves	Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie
Best Canadian Short Film	Mutants	Alexandre Dostie
Best Canadian First Feature Film	Old Stone	Johnny Ma
Dropbox Discovery Program Filmmakers Award	Jeffrey	Yanillys Perez
FIPRESCI Discovery Prize	Kati Kati	Mbithi Masya
FIPRESCI Special Presentations	I Am Not Madame Bovary	Feng Xiaogang
Best International Short Film	Imago	Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere	In Between	Maysaloun Hamoud

Jury members

Platform Jury

The jury for the Platform section (in its second year) comprised Brian de Palma (American director), Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chadian director), and Zhang Ziyi (Chinese actress).^[6]^[7] The Platform section (named for Jia Zhangke's film Platform) consists of "12 films of high artistic merit that demonstrate a strong directorial vision".^[8] The jury awarded the $25,000 prize to Jackie.

Programmes

The following films were selected:^[9]^[10]^[11]

Documentaries

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail by Steve James
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I. F. Stone by Fred Peabody
Amanda Knox by Brian McGinn and Rod Blackhurst
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography by Errol Morris
Beauties of the Night by María José Cuevas
Before the Flood by Fisher Stevens
Bezness as Usual by Alex Pitstra
Black Code by Nicholas de Pencier
Breaking Occupation by Brett Smith
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary by John Scheinfeld
The Cinema Travellers by Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City by Matt Tyrnauer
Forever Pure by Maya Zinshtein
Gaza Surf Club by Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine
Giants of Africa by Hubert Davis
Gimme Danger by Jim Jarmusch
Girl Unbound by Erin Heidenreich
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee by Nanette Burstein
I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck
I Called Him Morgan by Kasper Collin
In Exile by Tin Win Naing
India in a Day by Richie Mehta
An Insignificant Man by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla
Into the Inferno by Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer
The Ivory Game by Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani
Karl Marx City by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker
Mali Blues by Lutz Gregor
Mostly Sunny by Dilip Mehta
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory by Mohanad Yaqubi
Politics, Instructions Manual by Fernando León de Aranoa
The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent by Brigitte Berman
Rodnye by Vitaly Mansky
The Sixth Beatle by Tony Guma and John Rose
The Skyjacker's Tale by Jamie Kastner
The Stairs by Hugh Gibson
The Terry Kath Experience by Michelle Sinclair
The War Show by Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life by Fariborz Kamkari

Contemporary World Cinema

A Decent Woman by Lukas Valenta Rinner
After Love by Joachim Lafosse
The Animal's Wife by Víctor Gaviria
Apprentice by Boo Junfeng
Aquarius by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Ayiti Mon Amour by Guetty Felin
Blindness by Ryszard Bugajski
Boundaries by Chloé Robichaud
Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces by Yousry Nasrallah
Death in Sarajevo by Danis Tanović
Ember by Zeki Demirkubuz
The Fixer by Adrian Sitaru
Handsome Devil by John Butler
Heaven Will Wait by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
In Between by Maysaloun Hamoud
Indivisible by Edoardo De Angelis
Mahana by Lee Tamahori
Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge by Marie Noëlle
Mister Universo by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Past Life by Avi Nesher
Pyromaniac by Erik Skjoldbjærg
The Rehearsal by Alison Maclean
The Road to Mandalay by Midi Z
Santa & Andres by Carlos Lechuga
Soul on a String by Zhang Yang
Tamara and the Ladybug by Lucía Carreras
Clair Obscur by Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Tramps by Adam Leon
Vaya by Akin Omotoso
We Are Never Alone by Petr Vaclav
The Wedding Ring by Rahmatou Keïta
White Sun by Deepak Rauniyar
The Women's Balcony by Emil Ben Shimon
X500 by Juan Andrés Arango
Zoology by Ivan I. Tverdovsky

Contemporary World Speakers

Vanguard

The Bad Batch by Ana Lily Amirpour
Blind Sun by Joyce A. Nashawati
Buster's Mal Heart by Sarah Adina Smith
Colossal by Nacho Vigalondo
Godspeed by Chung Mong-hong
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House by Oz Perkins
Interchange by Dain Iskandar Said
Message from the King by Fabrice Du Welz
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea by Dash Shaw
Nelly by Anne Émond
Prevenge by Alice Lowe
The Untamed by Amat Escalante
Without Name by Lorcan Finnegan

Discovery

ARQ by Tony Elliott
Blessed Benefit by Mahmoud al Massad
Boys in the Trees by Nicholas Verso
Divines by Houda Benyamina
The Empty Box by Claudia Sainte-Luce
Flemish Heaven by Peter Monsaert
The Fury of a Patient Man by Raúl Arévalo
Godless by Ralitza Petrova
The Giant by Johannes Nyholm
Guilty Men by Iván D. Gaona
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki by Juho Kuosmanen
Heartstone by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
Hello Destroyer by Kevan Funk
Hunting Flies by Izer Aliu
In the Blood by Rasmus Heisterberg
In the Radiant City by Rachel Lambert
Jean of the Joneses by Stella Meghie
Jeffrey by Yanillys Perez
Jesús by Fernando Guzzoni
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Sotiris Dounoukos
Kati Kati by Mbithi Masya
Katie Says Goodbye by Wayne Roberts
The Levelling by Hope Dickson Leach
Little Wing by Selma Vilhunen
Mad World by Wong Chun
Marija by Michael Koch
A Wedding by Stephan Streker
Old Stone by Johnny Ma
Park by Sofia Exarchou
Prank by Vincent Biron
The Red Turtle by Michaël Dudok de Wit
Sami Blood by Amanda Kernell
Sand Storm by Elite Zexer
Werewolf by Ashley McKenzie
Wùlu by Daouda Coulibaly

Platform

Daguerrotype by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Goldstone by Ivan Sen
Heal the Living by Katell Quillévéré
Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait by Khyentse Norbu
Home by Fien Troch
Jackie by Pablo Larraín
Lady Macbeth by William Oldroyd
Layla M. by Mijke de Jong
Searchers by Zacharias Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq
Moonlight by Barry Jenkins
Nocturama by Bertrand Bonello
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves by Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie

TIFF Kids

The Day My Father Became a Bush, by Nicole van Kilsdonk
The Eagle Huntress by Otto Bell
My Life as a Zucchini by Claude Barras
Miss Impossible by Emilie Deleuze

Short Cuts

3-Way (Not Calling) by Molly McGlynn^[12]
5 Films About Technology by Peter Huang^[12]
Andy Goes In by Josh Polon^[12]
Ape Sodom by Maxwell McCabe-Lokos^[12]
Because The World Never Stops by Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck^[12]
Black Head Cow by Elizabeth Nichols^[12]
Blind Vaysha by Theodore Ushev^[13]
Cleo by Sanja Zivkovic
Cul-de-Sac by Damon Russell
Gods Acre by Kelton Stepanowich
Half a Man by Kristina Kumric^[12]
Hand. Line. Cod. by Justin Simms^[12]
The Hedonists by Jian Zhang-ke^[12]
Imitations by Markus Henkel, Milos Mitrovic, Ian Bawa and Fabian Velasco^[14]
Import by Ena Sendijarevic^[12]
Inner Workings by Leo Matsuda^[12]
Late Night Drama by Patrice Laliberté^[12]
Mariner by Thyrone Tommy^[12]
Mutants by Alexandre Dostie^[12]
A New Home by Ziga Virc^[12]
Next by Elena Brodach^[12]
Nothing About Moccasins by Eden Mallina Awashish^[12]
Oh What a Wonderful Feeling by François Jaros^[12]
On the Origin of Fear by Bayu Prihantoro Filemon^[12]
Plain and Simple by Raphaël Ouellet^[12]
Red of the Yew Tree by Marie-Hélène Turcotte^[12]
The Road to Webequie by Ryan Noth and Tess Girard^[12]
Romantik by Mateusz Rakowicz^[12]
The Smoke by Rebecca Addelman^[12]
Snip by Terril Calder^[12]
Standby by Charlotte Regan^[12]
Summer Camp Island by Julia Pott^[12]
Transition by Milica Tomovic^[12]
Tshiuetin by Caroline Monnet^[12]
Wild Skin by Ariane Louis-Seize^[12]
Your Mother and I by Anna Maguire^[12]

Festival Street

Ferris Bueller's Day Off by John Hughes
Labyrinth by Jim Henson
The Man Trap by Marc Daniels

Primetime

Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker
Nirvanna the Band the Show by Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol
Transparent by Jill Soloway
Tuko Macho by The Nest Collective and Jim Chuchu
Wasteland by Štěpán Hulík

Public Programme

Ferris Bueller's Day Off by John Hughes

Cinematheque

The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo
A Cool Sound from Hell by Sidney J. Furie
Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash
General Report on Certain Matters of Interest For a Public Screening by Pere Portabella
The Horse Thief by Tian Zhuangzhuang
Lumière! by Auguste and Louis Lumière and Thierry Frémaux
One Sings, the Other Doesn't by Agnès Varda
One-Eyed Jacks by Marlon Brando
Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
Something Wild by Jonathan Demme

City to City: Lagos

'76 by Izu Ojukwu
93 Days by Steve Gukas
The Arbitration by Niyi Akinmolayan
Green White Green by Abba Makama
Just Not Married by Uduak-Obong Patrick
Okafor's Law by Omoni Oboli
Taxi Driver by Daniel Emeke Oriahi
The Wedding Party by Kemi Adetiba

Wavelengths

025 Sunset Red by Laida Lertxundi
350 MYA by Terra Long
As Without So Within by Manuela de Laborde
Austerlitz by Sergei Loznitsa
An Aviation Field by Joana Pimenta
Ayhan and Me by Belit Sag
Burning Mountains that Spew Flame by Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado
By the Time It Gets Dark by Anocha Suwichakornpong
Children of Lir by Katherin McInnis
Cilaos by Camilo Restrepo
Dark Adaptation by Chris Gehman
The Death of Louis XIV by Albert Serra
The Dreamed Ones by Ruth Beckermann
The Dreamed Path by Angela Schanelec
Ears, Nose and Throat by Kevin Jerome Everson
Flowers of the Sky by Janie Geiser
Foyer by Ismaïl Bahri
General Report II: The New Abduction of Europe by Pere Portabella
Hermia & Helena by Matías Piñeiro
The Human Surge by Eduardo Williams
Há Terra! by Ana Vaz
I Had to Nowhere to Go by Douglas Gordon
I'll Remember You As You Were, Not As What You'll Become by Sky Hopinka
Incantati by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
Indefinite Pitch by James N. Kienitz Wilkins
Kékszakállú by Gastón Solnicki
Luna e Santur by Joshua Gen Solondz
Mimosas by Oliver Laxe
Nightlife by Cyprien Gaillard
The Ornithologist by João Pedro Rodrigues
Rudzienko by Sharon Lockhart
Singularity by Albert Serra
Strange Vision of Seeing Things by Ryan Ferko
Ta'ang by Wang Bing
Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon by Tomonari Nishikawa
Untitled by Björn Kämmerer
Untitled, 1925 by Madi Piller
Venus Delta by Antoinette Zwirchmayr
The Watershow Extravaganza by Sophie Michael
What's New by Nina Könnemann
The Woman Who Left by Lav Diaz

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 2016.^[15] The selected films received a follow-up screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as a "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in January 2017, as well as in selected other cities including Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax.^[15]

Features

Angry Inuk by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Hello Destroyer by Kevan Funk
It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) by Xavier Dolan
Mean Dreams by Nathan Morlando
Nelly by Anne Émond
Old Stone by Johnny Ma
Searchers (Maliglutit) by Zacharias Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau) by Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie
Werewolf by Ashley McKenzie
Window Horses by Ann Marie Fleming

Short films

Blind Vaysha by Theodore Ushev
Emma by Martin Edralin
Fish by Heather Young
Fluffy by Lee Filipovski
Frame 394 by Rich Williamson
A Funeral for Lightning by Emily Kai Bock
Her Friend Adam by Ben Petrie
Mariner by Thyrone Tommy
Mutants by Alexandre Dostie
Snip by Terril Calder

References

^ . Toronto. Archived from the original on 14 February 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
^ . The Globe and Mail. 21 July 2016. Archived from the original on 24 July 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
^ "Toronto film festival spotlights diversity". BBC News. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
^ "Birth of a Nation gets standing ovation in Toronto". BBC News. 10 September 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
^ "TIFF People's Choice Award cements La La Land's place in Oscar race". Entertainment Weekly. 18 September 2016.
^ Etan Vlessing (25 August 2016). "Toronto: Brian De Palma, Zhang Ziyi, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Join Competition Jury". The Hollywood Reporter.
^ "Toronto International Film Festival Announces 2016 Award Winners" (PDF) (Press release). TIFF. 18 September 2016. This is the sophomore year for Platform, the Festival's juried programme that champion's director's cinema from around the world.
^ "The Toronto International Film Festival names its esteemed Platform Jury" (PDF) (Press release). TIFF. 25 August 2016.
^ "Toronto To Open With 'The Magnificent Seven'; 'La La Land', 'Deepwater Horizon' Among Galas & Presentations". Deadline. 26 July 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
^ Toronto Fest Rounds Dance Card: Terry George’s ‘The Promise,’ Liev Schreiber In ‘The Bleeder,’ Terrence Malick Docu Among Pics. Deadline, 16 August 2016.
^ "Toronto unveils City To City, World Cinema, Masters line-ups". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae Wilner, Norman (9 September 2016). "TIFF shorts 2016: what to check out at this year's fest". Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ Milligan, Mercedes (4 August 2016). "NFB Animations Head to TIFF". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
^ King, Randall (9 September 2016). "A big short: Ten-minute TIFF debut a calling card for four local filmmakers". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
^ ^a ^b "TIFF announces lineup for Canada's Top 10 Film Festival". CBC News, 7 December 2016.

External links

Official site
2016 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb

[TIFF2016-1] . Toronto. Archived from the original on 14 February 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2016.

[first-2] . The Globe and Mail. 21 July 2016. Archived from the original on 24 July 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.

[BBC400-3] "Toronto film festival spotlights diversity". BBC News. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.

[BBC-4] "Birth of a Nation gets standing ovation in Toronto". BBC News. 10 September 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.

[TIFF_awards-5] "TIFF People's Choice Award cements La La Land's place in Oscar race". Entertainment Weekly. 18 September 2016.

[6] Etan Vlessing (25 August 2016). "Toronto: Brian De Palma, Zhang Ziyi, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Join Competition Jury". The Hollywood Reporter.

[7] "Toronto International Film Festival Announces 2016 Award Winners" (PDF) (Press release). TIFF. 18 September 2016. This is the sophomore year for Platform, the Festival's juried programme that champion's director's cinema from around the world.

[8] "The Toronto International Film Festival names its esteemed Platform Jury" (PDF) (Press release). TIFF. 25 August 2016.

[deadline-9] "Toronto To Open With 'The Magnificent Seven'; 'La La Land', 'Deepwater Horizon' Among Galas & Presentations". Deadline. 26 July 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.

[10] Toronto Fest Rounds Dance Card: Terry George’s ‘The Promise,’ Liev Schreiber In ‘The Bleeder,’ Terrence Malick Docu Among Pics. Deadline, 16 August 2016.

[SD-11] "Toronto unveils City To City, World Cinema, Masters line-ups". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 22 August 2016.

[Wilner-12] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae Wilner, Norman (9 September 2016). "TIFF shorts 2016: what to check out at this year's fest". Retrieved 23 September 2016.

[Milligan-13] Milligan, Mercedes (4 August 2016). "NFB Animations Head to TIFF". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 24 September 2016.

[King-14] King, Randall (9 September 2016). "A big short: Ten-minute TIFF debut a calling card for four local filmmakers". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 28 September 2016.

[topten-15] "TIFF announces lineup for Canada's Top 10 Film Festival". CBC News, 7 December 2016.

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