2017 Toronto International Film Festival


The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 7 to 17 September 2017. There were fourteen programmes, with the Vanguard and City to City programmes both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down by 20% from the 2016 edition. Borg/McEnroe directed by Janus Metz Pedersen opened the festival.
According to a "fact sheet" released by the Festival before it began, this edition included 255 feature-length films and 84 short films. Of the feature films, 147 are claimed to be world premieres. The number of Canadian films at the Festival is listed as 28 features and 29 shorts.

Awards

The festival's final awards were announced on 17 September.
AwardFilmDirector
People's Choice AwardThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriMartin McDonagh
People's Choice Award First Runner UpI, TonyaCraig Gillespie
People's Choice Award Second Runner UpCall Me by Your NameLuca Guadagnino
Faces PlacesAgnès Varda and JR
People's Choice Award, Documentary First Runner UpLong Time RunningJennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier
People's Choice Award, Documentary Second Runner UpMorgan Spurlock
BodiedJoseph Kahn
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness First Runner UpThe Disaster ArtistJames Franco
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness Second Runner UpBrawl in Cell Block 99S. Craig Zahler
Platform PrizeSweet CountryWarwick Thornton
Platform Prize, Honourable MentionDark RiverClio Barnard
Best Canadian Feature FilmRavenous Robin Aubert
Best Canadian Feature Film, Honourable MentionThe Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches Simon Lavoie
Best Canadian Short FilmPre-DrinkMarc-Antoine Lemire
Best Canadian Short Film, Honourable MentionThe Tesla World LightMatthew Rankin
Best Canadian First Feature FilmLuk'Luk'IWayne Wapeemukwa
Best Canadian First Feature Film, Honourable MentionAvaSadaf Foroughi
FIPRESCI Discovery PrizeAvaSadaf Foroughi
FIPRESCI Special PresentationsThe MotiveManuel Martín Cuenca
Best International Short FilmThe BurdenNiki Lindroth von Bahr
Best International Short Film, Honourable MentionA Gentle NightQiu Yang
Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film PremiereThe Great Buddha+Huang Hsin-Yao

Juries

Platform Jury

The following films were selected:

Gala presentations

Discovery

Primetime

Cinematheque

In December, TIFF programmers released their annual Canada's Top Ten list of the films selected as the ten best Canadian films of 2017. The selected films received a follow-up screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as a "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in January 2018, where Unarmed Verses won the People's Choice Award.

Features

Short films