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2019 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band by Daniel Roher
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.net/tiff
TIFF chronology
2020 2018

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. 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.

The first award recipients were announced on 12 September, 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.

Programmes

The selection for the 2019 festival:

Gala presentations

Special events

Special presentations

Contemporary World Cinema

Masters

Documentaries

Discovery

Short Cuts

Midnight Madness

Platform

Primetime

Cinemathèque

Wavelengths

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.

Feature films

• And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux) – Louise Archambault
• Anne at 13,000 Ft. – Kazik Radwanski
• Antigone – Sophie Deraspe
• Black Conflux – Nicole Dorsey
• The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open – Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn
• Matthias & Maxime – Xavier Dolan
• Murmur – Heather Young
• One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk – Zacharias Kunuk
• The Twentieth Century – Matthew Rankin
• White Lie – Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis

Short films

• Acadiana – Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau and Yannick Nolin
• Cityscape – Michael Snow
• Delphine – Chloé Robichaud
• Docking – Trevor Anderson
• I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain – Sofia Banzhaf
• Jarvik – Émilie Mannering
• No Crying at the Dinner Table – Carol Nguyen
• The Physics of Sorrow – Theodore Ushev
• Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You – Brandon Cronenberg
• Throat Singing in Kangirsuk (Katatjatuuk Kangirsumi) – Eva Kaukai and Manon Chamberland

References

1. Ahearn, Victoria (20 August 2019). "TIFF 2019: Festival shifts to a paperless schedule". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved 11 September 2019 – via The Canadian Press.
2. The Canadian Press (18 July 2019). "TIFF 2019 to open with documentary about Canadian rock legend Robbie Robertson". Toronto Star. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
3. "World premiere of 'Radioactive' is the TIFF closing night gala film" (PDF). Toronto International Film Festival press release. 23 July 2019.
4. "Meryl Streep to get new acting award at Toronto gala". Associated Press via the Toronto Star, 26 July 2019.
5. "Joaquin Phoenix, Meryl Streep among recipients of inaugural TIFF Tribute awards". CityNews, 9 September 2019.
6. "The film Martin Eden wins TIFF’s Platform Prize". Toronto Star, 13 September 2019.
7. Hipes, Patrick (12 September 2019). "Toronto Film Festival Jury Winners: 'Martin Eden', 'Murmur', 'How To Build A Girl'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
8. Vlessing, Etan (12 September 2019). "Toronto Film Festival Cancels Awards Ceremony". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
9. Tsirbas, Christos (8 September 2019). "Toronto: Nicolas Cage Tells Spotlight Initiative Awards Art Is "Healthiest Medicine"". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
10. 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.
11. TIFF Adds World Premiere Of Docu ‘David Foster: Off The Record’. Deadline Hollywood, 30 July 2019.
12. "Toronto Adds The Aeronauts, Mosul, Seberg, & More To Festival Slate". Deadline. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
13. Norman Wilner, "TIFF announces Canada's top 10 films of 2019". Now, 11 December 2019.

External links

• Official site
• 2019 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb

• Toronto International Film Festival
• 2019 film festivals
• 2019 in Toronto
• 2019 in Canadian cinema
• September 2019 events in Canada