2016 Toronto International Film Festival

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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]

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]

Gala presentations

Special presentations

Midnight Madness

Masters

Next Wave

Documentaries

Contemporary World Cinema

Contemporary World Speakers

Vanguard

Discovery

Platform

TIFF Kids

Short Cuts

Festival Street

Primetime

Public Programme

Cinematheque

City to City: Lagos

Wavelengths

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

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Short films

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