The 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 6 to 16, 2018. In June 2018, the TIFF organizers announced a program to ensure that at least 20 percent of all film critics and journalists given press accreditation to the festival were members of underrepresented groups, such as women and people of color.[1] The People's Choice Award was won by Green Book, directed by Peter Farrelly.[2]
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Film |
Director |
| People's Choice Award |
Green Book |
Peter Farrelly |
| People's Choice Award, First Runner Up |
If Beale Street Could Talk |
Barry Jenkins |
| People's Choice Award, Second Runner Up |
Roma |
Alfonso Cuarón |
| People's Choice Award: Documentary |
Free Solo |
E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin |
| People's Choice Award: Documentary, First Runner Up |
This Changes Everything |
Tom Donahue |
| People's Choice Award: Documentary, Second Runner Up |
The Biggest Little Farm |
John Chester |
| People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness |
The Man Who Feels No Pain (Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota) |
Vasan Bala |
| People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness, First Runner Up |
Halloween |
David Gordon Green |
| People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness, Second Runner Up |
Assassination Nation |
Sam Levinson |
| Platform Prize |
Cities of Last Things |
Ho Wi Ding |
| Platform Prize, Honourable Mention |
The River |
Emir Baigazin |
| Best Canadian Feature Film |
The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) |
Sébastien Pilote |
| Best Canadian Short Film |
Brotherhood (Ikhwène) |
Meryam Joobeur |
| Best Canadian Short Film, Honourable Mention |
Fauve |
Jérémy Comte |
| Best Canadian First Feature Film |
Roads in February (Les routes en février) |
Katherine Jerkovic |
| FIPRESCI Discovery Prize |
Float Like a Butterfly |
Carmel Winters |
| FIPRESCI Discovery Prize, Honourable Mention |
Twin Flower |
Laura Luchetti |
| FIPRESCI Special Presentations |
Skin |
Guy Nattiv |
| FIPRESCI Special Presentations, Honourable Mention |
A Faithful Man |
Louis Garrel |
| Best International Short Film |
The Field |
Sandhya Suri |
| Best International Short Film, Honourable Mention |
Fuck You |
Anette Sidor |
| Best International Short Film, Honourable Mention |
This Magnificent Cake! (Ce magnifique gâteau !) |
Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels |
| Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere |
The Third Wife |
Ash Mayfair |
| Netpac Award, Honourable Mention |
The Crossing |
Bai Xue |
| Eurimages Audentia Award |
Fig Tree |
Alamork Davidian |
| Eurimages Audentia Award, Honourable Mention |
Phoenix |
Camilla Strøm Henriksen |
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The first slate of galas and special presentations was announced on July 24, 2018.[5] The festival's lineup of Canadian films was announced on August 1,[6] and the lineup for the Platform program was announced on August 8.[7] Two days later, the Documentaries lineup was announced, with additional films added to the Midnight Madness programme.[8] Additional films were added to respective lineups on August 14.[9]
Gala presentations
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| Beautiful Boy | Felix Van Groeningen | United States |
| Everybody Knows | Todos lo saben | Asghar Farhadi | Spain, France, Italy |
| First Man | Damien Chazelle | United States |
| Green Book | Peter Farrelly | United States |
| The Hate U Give | George Tillman Jr. | United States |
| Hidden Man | 邪不压正 | Jiang Wen | China |
| High Life | Claire Denis | France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, United States |
| Husband Material | Manmarziyaan | Anurag Kashyap | India |
| JT LeRoy | Justin Kelly | Canada, United Kingdom, United States |
| The Kindergarten Teacher | Sara Colangelo | United States |
| The Land of Steady Habits | Nicole Holofcener | United States |
| The Lie | Veena Sud | Canada, United States |
| Life Itself | Dan Fogelman | United States |
| Outlaw King | David Mackenzie | United Kingdom, United States |
| A Private War | Matthew Heineman | United States |
| The Public | Emilio Estevez | United States |
| Shadow | 影 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| A Star Is Born | Bradley Cooper | United States |
| What They Had | Elizabeth Chomko | United States |
| Widows | Steve McQueen | United States |
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Special presentations
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| 22 July | Paul Greengrass | United States |
| American Woman | Jake Scott | United Kingdom, United States |
| Anthropocene: The Human Epoch | Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky | Canada |
| Baby | Bao bai er | Liu Jie | China |
| Ben Is Back | Peter Hedges | United States |
| Boy Erased | Joel Edgerton | United States |
| Burning | Beoning | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea, Japan |
| Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Marielle Heller | United States |
| Capernaum | Cafarnaüm | Nadine Labaki | Lebanon |
| Cold War | Zimna wojna | Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland |
| Colette | Wash Westmoreland | United Kingdom, United States, Hungary |
| The Death and Life of John F. Donovan | Xavier Dolan | Canada |
| Dogman | Matteo Garrone | Italy |
| Driven | Nick Hamm | United Kingdom, United States |
| A Faithful Man | L'Homme fidèle | Louis Garrel | France |
| The Fall of the American Empire | La Chute de l'empire américain | Denys Arcand | Canada |
| The Front Runner | Jason Reitman | United States |
| Giant Little Ones | Keith Behrman | Canada |
| Girls of the Sun | Les Filles du soleil | Eva Husson | France |
| Gloria Bell | Sebastián Lelio | Chile, United States |
| Greta | Neil Jordan | Ireland, United States |
| The Grizzlies | Miranda de Pencier | Canada |
| Hold the Dark | Jeremy Saulnier | United States |
| Hotel Mumbai | Anthony Maras | India, Australia, United States |
| The Hummingbird Project | Kim Nguyen | Canada |
| If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins | United States |
| Kursk | Thomas Vinterberg | Belgium, France, Luxembourg |
| Legend of the Demon Cat | Yāo Māo Zhuàn | Chen Kaige | China |
| Manto | Nandita Das | India |
| Maya | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, Germany |
| Mid90s | Jonah Hill | United States |
| A Million Little Pieces | Sam Taylor-Johnson | Canada, United States |
| Monsters and Men | Reinaldo Marcus Green | United States |
| Mothers' Instinct | Duelles | Olivier Masset-Depasse | Belgium |
| Mouthpiece | Patricia Rozema | Canada |
| Never Look Away | Werke ohne Autor | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany |
| Non-Fiction | Doubles vies | Olivier Assayas | France |
| The Old Man & the Gun | David Lowery | United States |
| Papi Chulo | John Butler | United States, Ireland |
| The Quietude | La Quietud | Pablo Trapero | Argentina |
| Red Joan | Trevor Nunn | United Kingdom |
| Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | Mexico, United States |
| Shoplifters | Manbiki Kazoku | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
| The Sisters Brothers | Jacques Audiard | France, Spain, United States |
| Skin | Guy Nattiv | United States |
| Sunset | Napszállta | László Nemes | Hungary |
| Teen Spirit | Max Minghella | United States, United Kingdom |
| Tell It to the Bees | Annabel Jankel | United Kingdom |
| Through Black Spruce | Don McKellar | Canada |
| Viper Club | Maryam Keshavarz | United States |
| Vision | Naomi Kawase | Japan, France |
| Vita & Virginia | Chanya Button | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Vox Lux | Brady Corbet | United States |
| The Wedding Guest | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Weekend | Stella Meghie | United States |
| Where Hands Touch | Amma Asante | United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, Ireland |
| White Boy Rick | Yann Demange | United States |
| Wildlife | Paul Dano | United States |
| Wild Rose | Tom Harper | United Kingdom |
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Special events
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Documentaries
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| American Dharma | Errol Morris | United Kingdom, United States |
| Angels Are Made of Light | James Longley | United States |
| The Biggest Little Farm | John Chester | United States |
| Carmine Street Guitars | Ron Mann | Canada |
| Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes | Alexis Bloom | United States |
| The Elephant Queen | Victoria Stone, Mark Deeble | Kenya, United States |
| Fahrenheit 11/9 | Michael Moore | United States |
| Free Solo | E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | United States |
| Freedom Fields | Naziha Arebi | Libya, United Kingdom |
| Ghost Fleet | Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron | United States |
| Graves Without a Name | Les tombeaux sans noms | Rithy Panh | France, Cambodia |
| Heartbound | Janus Metz Pedersen, Sine Plambech | Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand |
| Maiden | Alex Holmes | United Kingdom |
| Maria by Callas | Maria par Callas | Tom Volf | France |
| Meeting Gorbachev | Werner Herzog, André Singer | Germany, United Kingdom, United States |
| Monrovia, Indiana | Frederick Wiseman | United States |
| Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz | Barry Avrich | Canada |
| Putin's Witnesses | Svideteli Putina | Vitaly Mansky | Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Russia, Germany, France |
| Quincy | Rashida Jones, Alan Hicks | United States |
| Reason | Vivek | Anand Patwardhan | India |
| Screwball | Billy Corben | United States |
| Searching for Ingmar Bergman | Auf der Suche nach Ingmar Bergman | Margarethe von Trotta | Germany, France |
| The Truth About Killer Robots | Maxim Pozdorovkin | United States |
| This Changes Everything | Tom Donahue | United States |
| Walking on Water | Andrey Paounov | Italy, Germany, United States, United Arab Emirates |
| What Is Democracy? | Astra Taylor | Canada |
| When Arabs Danced | Jawad Rhalib | Belgium, Egypt |
| Women Make Film | Mark Cousins | United Kingdom, Ireland |
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Contemporary World Cinema
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| The Accused | Acusada | Gonzalo Tobal | Argentina |
| Angel | Un Ange | Koen Mortier | Belgium |
| El Angel | Luis Ortega | Argentina, Spain |
| Asako I & II | Netemo Sametemo | Ryūsuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
| Before the Frost | Før frosten | Michael Noer | Denmark |
| Belmonte | Federico Veiroj | Uruguay |
| Birds of Passage | Pájaros de verano | Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra | Colombia, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, France |
| Black '47 | Lance Daly | Ireland |
| The Black Book | O caderno negro | Valeria Sarmiento | Portugal |
| Border | Gräns | Ali Abbasi | Sweden |
| Bulbul Can Sing | Rima Das | India |
| The Dive | Hatzlila | Yona Rozenkier | Israel |
| Donbass | Sergei Loznitsa | Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Romania |
| The Factory | Zavod | Yuri Bykov | Russia |
| Falls Around Her | Darlene Naponse | Canada |
| The Fireflies Are Gone | La disparition des lucioles | Sébastien Pilote | Canada |
| Florianópolis Dream | Sueño Florianópolis | Ana Katz | Argentina |
| The Great Darkened Days | La Grande noirceur | Maxime Giroux | Canada |
| Heart of the World | Сердце мира | Natalia Meshchaninova | Russia |
| I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians | Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari | Radu Jude | Romania |
| Jinpa | Pema Tseden | China |
| Kingsway | Bruce Sweeney | Canada |
| Let Me Fall | Lof mér að falla | Baldvin Zophoníasson | Iceland |
| Look at Me | Regarde-moi | Nejib Belkadhi | Tunisia, France, Qatar |
| Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away | Minuscule 2: Les mandibules du bout du monde | Thomas Szabo, Hélène Giraud | France |
| The Most Beautiful Couple | Das schönste Paar | Sven Taddicken | Germany |
| Museum | Museo | Alonso Ruizpalacios | Mexico |
| Night/Ext | Ahmad Abdalla | Egypt |
| One Last Deal | Tuntematon mestari | Klaus Härö | Finland |
| The Other Story | Avi Nesher | Israel |
| Quién te cantará | Carlos Vermut | Spain, France |
| The Realm | El reino | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Spain, France |
| Redemption | Geula | Boaz Yehonatan Yacov, Joseph Madmony | Israel |
| Retrospekt | Esther Rots | Netherlands |
| Roads in February | Les routes en février | Katherine Jerkovic | Canada |
| Rosie | Paddy Breathnach | Ireland |
| Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin | Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau | Renée Beaulieu | Canada |
| Sew the Winter to My Skin | Jahmil X.T. Qubeka | South Africa |
| Sibel | Çagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti | Turkey |
| Splinters | Thom Fitzgerald | Canada |
| Stupid Young Heart | Hölmö nuori sydän | Selma Vilhunen | Finland |
| Styx | Wolfgang Fischer | Germany, Austria |
| The Sweet Requiem | Kyoyang Ngarmo | Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam | India, United States |
| That Time of Year | Den tid på året | Paprika Steen | Denmark |
| Ulysses & Mona | Ulysse & Mona | Sébastien Betbeder | France |
| The Vice of Hope | Il vizio della speranza | Edoardo De Angelis | Italy |
| Winter Flies | Všechno bude | Olmo Omerzu | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia |
| Working Woman | Michal Aviad | Israel |
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| Akasha | Hajooj Kuka | Sudan |
| Aniara | Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja | Sweden, Denmark |
| Blind Spot | Blindsone | Tuva Novotny | Norway |
| The Chambermaid | La Camarista | Lila Avilés | Mexico |
| Clara | Akash Sherman | Canada, United Kingdom |
| Complicity | Kei Chikaura | Japan, China, France |
| Consequences | Posledice | Darko Štante | Slovenia, Austria |
| The Crossing | Guo chun tian | Bai Xue | China |
| The Day I Lost My Shadow | Yom Adaatou Zouli | Soudade Kaadan | Syria, France, Lebanon, Qatar |
| The Dig | Andy Tohill, Ryan Tohill | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Edge of the Knife | SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna | Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown | Canada |
| An Elephant Sitting Still | Dà Xiàng Xídì Érzuò | Hu Bo | China |
| Emu Runner | Imogen Thomas | Australia |
| Ever After | Endzeit | Carolina Hellsgård | Germany |
| The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Garcia | El viaje extraordinario de Celeste García | Arturo Infante | Cuba, Germany |
| Farming | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | United Kingdom |
| Fig Tree | Alamork Davidian | Ethiopia, France, Germany, Israel |
| Firecrackers | Jasmin Mozaffari | Canada |
| Float Like a Butterfly | Carmel Winters | Ireland |
| Freaks | Zach Lipovsky, Adam Stein | Canada |
| Girl | Lukas Dhont | Belgium |
| Gwen | William McGregor | United Kingdom |
| Helmet Heads | Cascos indomables | Neto Villalobos | Costa Rica, Chile |
| Her Job | I douleia tis | Nikos Labôt | Greece, France, Serbia |
| Icebox | Daniel Sawka | United States |
| Jirga | جرګه | Benjamin Gilmour | Australia |
| Light as Feathers | Rosanne Pel | Netherlands |
| Lionheart | Genevieve Nnaji | Nigeria |
| The Load | Teret | Ognjen Glavonić | Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar |
| Manta Ray | Kraben Rahu | Phuttiphong Aroonpheng | Thailand |
| The Mercy of the Jungle | La Miséricorde de la Jungle | Joël Karekezi | Belgium, France, Rwanda, Germany |
| Orange Days | Rooz-haye Narenji | Arash Lahooti | Iran |
| Our Body | 아워 바디 | Han Ka-ram | South Korea |
| Parade | Nino Zhvania | Georgia |
| Phoenix | Føniks | Camilla Strøm Henriksen | Norway |
| Rafiki | Wanuri Kahiu | Kenya |
| Saf | Ali Vatansever | Turkey, Germany, Romania |
| Screwdriver | Mafak | Bassam Jarbawi | Palestine, United States, Qatar |
| Summer Survivors | Išgyventi vasarą | Marija Kavtaradzė | Lithuania |
| Tel Aviv on Fire | Tel Aviv Al Ha'Esh | Sameh Zoabi | Israel, Luxembourg, Belgium, France |
| The Third Wife | Vợ ba | Ash Mayfair | Vietnam |
| Tito and the Birds | Tito e os Pássaros | Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, Gustavo Steinberg | Brazil |
| Too Late to Die Young | Tarde para morir joven | Dominga Sotomayor Castillo | Chile |
| Touch Me Not | Nu mă atinge | Adina Pintilie | Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Bulgaria |
| Twin Flower | Fiore gemello | Laura Luchetti | Italy |
| Woman at War | Kona fer í stríð | Benedikt Erlingsson | Iceland, France, Ukraine |
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Masters
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Midnight Madness
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Short Cuts
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| 7A | Zack Russell | Canada |
| Accidence | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Canada |
| All Inclusive | Corina Schwingruber Ilic | Switzerland |
| All These Creatures | Charles Williams | Australia |
| The Ambassador's Wife | Theresa Traore Dahlberg | Burkina Faso, Sweden |
| Animal Behaviour | Alison Snowden, David Fine | Canada |
| Ballad of Blood and Two White Buckets | Yosep Anggi Noen | Indonesia |
| Bavure | Donato Sansone | France |
| Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) | Amanda Strong | Canada |
| Birdie | Shelly Lauman | Australia |
| Brotherhood | Ikhwène | Meryam Joobeur | Canada |
| The Call | Telefonul | Anca Damian | Romania |
| Caroni | Ian Harnarine | Canada |
| Circle | Jayisha Patel | United Kingdom, Canada, India |
| Dodgy Dave | Charlotte Regan | United Kingdom |
| Dulce | Guille Isa, Angello Faccini | Colombia, United States |
| Dziadzio | Aaron Ries | Canada |
| Emptying the Tank | Caroline Monnet | Canada |
| Everything Calms Down | Todo se calma | Virginia Scaro | Argentina |
| EXIT | Claire Edmondson | Canada |
| Facing North | Bukiikakkono | Tukei Muhumuza | United States, Uganda |
| The Fall | La Chute | Boris Labbé | France |
| Fauve | Jérémy Comte | Canada |
| Feathers | A.V. Rockwell | United States |
| The Field | Sandhya Suri | France, India, United Kingdom |
| The Foreign Body | El Destetado | Héctor Silva Núñez | Venezuela, France |
| Fuck You | Anette Sidor | Sweden |
| Girlfriends | Amies | Marie Davignon | Canada |
| Glitter's Wild Women | Roney | Canada |
| Good Boy | Fantavious Fritz | Canada |
| Guaxuma | Nara Normande | France, Brazil |
| Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year | Ektoras Malo: I Teleftea Mera Tis Chronias | Jacqueline Lentzou | Greece |
| If This Isn't Love | Si ce n'est pas de l'amour | Luiza Cocora | Canada |
| The Imminent Immanent | Baga't Diri Tuhay Ta't Pamahungpahung | Carlo Francisco Manatad | Philippines, Singapore |
| Interior | Reed Van Dyk | Norway, United States |
| Judgement | Raymund Ribay Gutierrez | Philippines |
| Little Waves | Les petites vagues | Ariane Louis-Seize | Canada |
| Lou | Clara Balzary | United States |
| My Boy | Mon Boy | Sarah Pellerin | Canada |
| A New Year | Akhali Tseli | George Sikharulidze | Georgia |
| Norman Norman | Sophy Romvari | Canada |
| Old Thing | Ha'Alte-Zachen | Roni Bahat | Israel |
| The Orphan | O Órfão | Carolina Markowicz | Brazil |
| Paseo | Matthew Hannam | Canada |
| Reneepoptosis | Renee Zhan | Japan, United States |
| Shadow Cut | Lucy Suess | New Zealand |
| Shinaab: Part II | Lyle Corbine Jr. | United States |
| The Subject | Le sujet | Patrick Bouchard | Canada |
| The Summer and All the Rest | L'été et tout le reste | Sven Bresser | Netherlands |
| This Magnificent Cake! | Ce magnifique gâteau ! | Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels | Belgium, France, Netherlands |
| To Plant a Flag | Bobbie Peers | Norway, Iceland |
| Umbra | Tariki | Saeed Jafarian | Iran |
| Veslemøy's Song | Sofia Bohdanowicz | Canada |
| Viktoría | Brúsi Ólason | Iceland |
| A Wedding Day | Un jour de mariage | Élias Belkeddar | Algeria, France |
| Winners Bitch | Sam Gurry | United States |
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Primetime
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TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list, of the films selected by festival programmers as the year's ten best Canadian feature and short films, was released on December 5.[10]
Unlike in prior years, the films selected for the Top Ten list were not screened at a dedicated festival in January 2019, but instead each received its own standalone theatrical run at the TIFF Bell Lightbox throughout the year.[11]
