# 2021 Toronto International Film Festival

The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, the 46th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, was held from September 9 to 18, 2021. Due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, the festival was staged as a "hybrid" of in-person and digital screenings. Most films were screened both in-person and on the digital platform, although a few titles were withheld by their distributors from the digital platform and instead were screened exclusively in-person.
Artistic director Cameron Bailey indicated that while the 2021 festival would not fully return to the size of program that it offered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, it would be significantly bigger than the reduced lineup that was offered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Overall, the festival featured over 100 films, including a special retrospective program devoted to the work of Canadian documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin.

## Venues

In-person screenings were held at the festival's traditional venues, including the TIFF Bell Lightbox, the Princess of Wales Theatre and Roy Thomson Hall, the latter two of which hosted the world premiere of Stephen Chbosky's film adaptation of Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen, the festival's opening night gala presentation. Denis Villeneuve's film Dune received an IMAX world premiere screening at the Cinesphere.
As in 2020, digital screenings took place on the Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox platform.
In addition to Toronto, the festival also staged a number of satellite screenings in other Canadian cities for the first time.

## Official Awards
### TIFF Tribute Awards

The festival presented the TIFF Tribute Awards, which were introduced in 2019 to honour actors and filmmakers for distinguished achievements over the course of their careers. The ceremony took place on September 18; as in 2020, it was broadcast by CTV.
The first two honorees announced were Alanis Obomsawin as the recipient of the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media and Denis Villeneuve as the winner of the Ebert Director Award. Jessica Chastain and Benedict Cumberbatch were subsequently announced as the recipient of the Actor Awards. Dionne Warwick received the special tribute award, filmmaker Danis Goulet was named the recipient of the Emerging Talent Award, and cinematographer Ari Wegner received the Variety Artisan Award.

### Regular awards

The festival's main awards were announced on September 18, some live during the Tribute Awards broadcast and others on social media following the ceremony's conclusion. A few high-profile titles in the festival program, namely Dune, Last Night in Soho and Spencer, were not eligible for the People's Choice Award, as their distributors had not permitted them to be screened online on the digital platform.
| Award | English Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| People's Choice Award | Belfast | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom |
| People's Choice Award, First Runner Up | Scarborough | Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | Canada |
| People's Choice Award, Second Runner Up | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia |
| People's Choice Award: Documentaries | The Rescue | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | United States, United Kingdom |
| Documentary, First Runner Up | Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over | Dave Wooley, David Heilbroner | United States |
| Documentary, Second Runner Up | Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden |
| People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness | Titane | Julia Ducournau | France, Belgium |
| Midnight Madness, First Runner Up | You Are Not My Mother | Kate Dolan [de] | Ireland |
| Midnight Madness, Second Runner Up | Dashcam | Rob Savage | United Kingdom, United States |
| Platform Prize | Yuni | Kamila Andini | Indonesia, Singapore, France, Australia |
| Platform Prize, Honorable Mention | Good Madam | Jenna Cato Bass | South Africa |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | Ste. Anne | Rhayne Vermette | Canada |
| Best Canadian Feature Film, Honorable Mention | Scarborough | Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | Canada |
| Best Canadian Short Film | Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada |
| Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable Mention | Nuisance Bear | Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden | Canada |
| Best International Short Film | Displaced (Pa vend) | Samir Karahoda [de] | Kosovo |
| Best International Short Film, Honorable Mention | Trumpets in the Sky | Rakan Mayasi | Palestine, Lebanon, France, Belgium |
| FIPRESCI Award | Anatolian Leopard (Anadolu Leoparı) | Emre Kayiş | Turkey, Poland, Germany, Denmark |
| NETPAC Award | Costa Brava, Lebanon | Mounia Aki | Lebanon, France, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States |
| Amplify Voices | The Gravedigger's Wife | Khadar Ayderus Ahmed | Somalia, France, Germany, Finland |
| Amplify Voices | A Night of Knowing Nothing | Payal Kapadia | India, France |
| Changemaker Award | Scarborough | Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | Canada |
| Share Her Journey | Astel | Ramata-Toulaye Sy | Senegal, France |
| Share Her Journey, Honorable Mention | Love, Dad (Milý tati) | Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Czech Republic, Slovakia |

## Official Selection

The first 13 films selected for the festival were announced in June 2021. The gala and special presentation programs were announced on July 20, while Contemporary World Cinema and Discovery titles were announced on July 28, TIFF Docs, Midnight Madness and Wavelengths were announced on August 4, Shortcuts and Platform were announced on August 11, and Primetime was announced on August 13.
Walt Becker's Clifford the Big Red Dog was initially selected to be one of the Gala Presentations, but was withdrawn from the festival, after US distributor Paramount Pictures pulled it from its release schedule due to the rise of the Delta variant of COVID-19.
The festival also announced a special event screening of an unspecified new film by Steven Soderbergh. Details of the film were not announced in advance, except that it was not expected to be his known upcoming film KIMI. Soderbergh ultimately premiered a reedited version of his 1991 film Kafka titled Mr. Kneff.

### Gala presentations

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Belfast | Belfast | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Bergman Island | Bergman Island | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, Mexico, Brazil, Germany |
| Dear Evan Hansen | Dear Evan Hansen | Stephen Chbosky | United States |
| The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Will Sharpe | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Forgiven | The Forgiven | John Michael McDonagh | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Good House | The Good House | Maya Forbes, Wally Wolodarsky | United States |
| Jagged | Jagged | Alison Klayman | United States |
| Lakewood | Lakewood | Phillip Noyce | United States, Canada |
| Last Night in Soho | Last Night in Soho | Edgar Wright | United Kingdom |
| The Mad Women's Ball | Le Bal des folles | Mélanie Laurent | France |
| Night Raiders | Night Raiders | Danis Goulet | Canada, New Zealand |
| One Second | 一秒钟 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| Silent Night | Silent Night | Camille Griffin | United Kingdom |
| The Survivor | The Survivor | Barry Levinson | United States |
| The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Joachim Trier | Norway |

### Special Presentations

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Ahed's Knee | הַבֶּרֶךְ | Nadav Lapid | Israel, France, Germany |
| Ali & Ava | Ali & Ava | Clio Barnard | United Kingdom |
| All My Puny Sorrows | All My Puny Sorrows | Michael McGowan | Canada |
| The Box | La Caja | Lorenzo Vigas | Mexico |
| Benediction | Benediction | Terence Davies | United Kingdom, United States |
| Charlotte | Charlotte | Eric Warin, Tahir Rana | Canada, France, Belgium |
| Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over | Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over | Dave Wooley, David Heilbroner | United States |
| Drive My Car | ドライブ・マイ・カー | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
| Encounter | Encounter | Michael Pearce | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Eyes of Tammy Faye | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Michael Showalter | United States |
| The Falls | 瀑布 | Chung Mong-hong | Taiwan |
| France | France | Bruno Dumont | France, Italy, Germany, Belgium |
| The Guilty | The Guilty | Antoine Fuqua | United States |
| The Humans | The Humans | Stephen Karam | United States |
| I'm Your Man | Ich bin dein Mensch | Maria Schrader | Germany |
| Inexorable | Inexorable | Fabrice Du Welz | Belgium, France |
| Inu-Oh | Inu-Oh | Masaaki Yuasa | Japan, China |
| Lingui, The Sacred Bonds | Lingui, les liens sacrés | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | France, Chad, Germany, Belgium |
| The Middle Man | The Middle Man | Bent Hamer | Canada, Denmark, Germany, Norway |
| Mothering Sunday | Mothering Sunday | Eva Husson | United Kingdom |
| Official Competition | Competencia oficial | Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn | Spain |
| Petite Maman | Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma | France |
| The Power of the Dog | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Canada, New Zealand |
| The Starling | The Starling | Theodore Melfi | United States |
| The Story of My Wife | A feleségem története | Ildikó Enyedi | Hungary, Germany, France, Italy |
| Sundown | Sundown | Michel Franco | Mexico, France, Sweden |
| Three Floors | Tre piani | Nanni Moretti | Italy, France |
| Violet | Violet | Justine Bateman | United States |
| Where Is Anne Frank | Where Is Anne Frank | Ari Folman | Belgium, Luxembourg, Israel, Netherlands, France |
| Wolf | Wolf | Nathalie Biancheri | Ireland, Poland |

### Special Events

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Dune | Dune | Denis Villeneuve | United States |
| A Hero | قهرمان | Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| Memoria | Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, China |
| Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11 | Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11 | Bjørn Johnson, David Belton | United Kingdom, United States |
| Mr. Kneff | Mr. Kneff | Steven Soderbergh | United States |
| NBA Films for Fans ("Shorty", "Inheritance", "Born Identities", "Draft Day", "The Shot") | NBA Films for Fans ("Shorty", "Inheritance", "Born Identities", "Draft Day", "The Shot") | Romeo Candido, Shawn Gerrard, Kathleen Jayme, Thyrone Tommy, S.M. Turrell | Canada |
| Spencer | Spencer | Pablo Larraín | United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Chile |
| Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine | Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine | Sam Dunn, Marc Ricciardelli | Canada |

### Contemporary World Cinema

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 7 Prisoners | 7 Prisioneiros | Alexandre Moratto | Brazil |
| Are You Lonesome Tonight? | 熱帶往事 | Wen Shipei | China |
| Compartment No. 6 | Hytti nro 6 | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia |
| Costa Brava, Lebanon | Costa Brava, Lebanon | Mounia Aki | Lebanon, France, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States |
| The Daughter | La hija | Manuel Martín Cuenca | Spain |
| The Gravedigger's Wife | The Gravedigger's Wife | Khadar Ayderus Ahmed | France, Somalia, Germany |
| The Hill Where Lionesses Roar | La colline où rugissent les lionnes | Luàna Bajrami | France, Kosovo |
| Întregalde | Întregalde | Radu Muntean | Romania |
| Jockey | Jockey | Clint Bentley | United States |
| Kicking Blood | Kicking Blood | Blaine Thurier | Canada |
| La Soga 2 | La Soga 2 | Manny Pérez | United States |
| Maria Chapdelaine | Maria Chapdelaine | Sébastien Pilote | Canada |
| Medusa | Medusa | Anita Rocha da Silveira | Brazil |
| Murina | Murina | Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović | United States, Brazil, Croatia, Slovenia |
| Nobody Has to Know | Nobody Has to Know | Bouli Lanners | France, Belgium, United Kingdom |
| The Odd-Job Men | Sis dies corrents | Neus Ballús | Spain |
| The Other Tom | El otro Tom | Rodrigo Plá, Laura Santullo | Mexico, United States |
| Out of Sync | Tres | Juanjo Giménez | Spain, Lithuania, France |
| Small Body | Piccolo Corpo | Laura Samani | Italy, France, Slovenia |
| Terrorizers | 青春弒戀 | Ho Wi Ding | Taiwan |
| True Things | True Things | Harry Wootliff | United Kingdom |
| Unclenching the Fists | Разжимая кулаки | Kira Kovalenko | Russia |
| Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash | Seperti Dendam, Rindu Harus Dibayar Tuntas | Edwin | Indonesia |
| The Wheel | The Wheel | Steve Pink | United States |
| Whether the Weather Is Fine | Kun Maupay Man it Panahon | Carlo Francisco Manatad | Philippines |

### Celebrating Alanis

| Program | Title | Year | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Lighting the Fire 1 | The Canoe | 1972 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| Lighting the Fire 1 | Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance | 1993 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| Lighting the Fire 2 | Amisk | 1977 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| Lighting the Fire 2 | Incident at Restigouche | 1984 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| Lighting the Fire 2 | Moose Call | 1972 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| Portraits 1 | Mother of Many Children | 1977 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| Portraits 1 | Puberty, Part 1 | 1975 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| Portraits 1 | Puberty, Part 2 | 1975 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| Portraits 2 | No Address | 1988 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| Portraits 2 | Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child | 1986 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| The Dignity of Children 1 | Our People Will Be Healed | 2017 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| The Dignity of Children 1 | Snowshoes | 1972 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| The Dignity of Children 1 | Walking Is Medicine | 2017 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| The Dignity of Children 2 | Children | 1972 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| The Dignity of Children 2 | Christmas at Moose Factory | 1971 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| The Dignity of Children 2 | Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair | 2021 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| The Dignity of Children 2 | Mount Currie Summer Camp | 1975 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| The Dignity of Children 2 | Sigwan | 2005 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| The Dignity of Children 2 | When All the Leaves Are Gone | 2010 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |

### TIFF Docs

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Attica | Attica | Stanley Nelson Jr. | United States |
| Burning | Burning | Eva Orner | Australia |
| Beba | Beba | Rebecca Huntt | United States, Mexico |
| Becoming Cousteau | Becoming Cousteau | Liz Garbus | United States |
| Comala | Comala | Gian Cassini | Mexico |
| The Devil's Drivers | The Devil's Drivers | Mohammed Abugeth, Daniel Carsenty | Qatar, France, Lebanon, Germany |
| Flee | Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark |
| Hold Your Fire | Hold Your Fire | Stefan Forbes | United States |
| Julia | Julia | Julie Cohen and Betsy West | United States |
| Listening to Kenny G | Listening to Kenny G | Penny Lane | United States |
| Oscar Peterson: Black and White | Oscar Peterson: Black and White | Barry Avrich | Canada |
| The Rescue | The Rescue | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | United States, United Kingdom |
| Three Minutes: A Lengthening | Three Minutes: A Lengthening | Bianca Stigter | Netherlands, United Kingdom |
| Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace | Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace | Heather Hatch | Canada |

### Discovery

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Aloners | Hon-ja-sa-neun Sa-ram-deul | Hong Sung-eun | South Korea |
| Anatolian Leopard | Anadolu Leoparı | Emre Kayiş | Turkey, Germany, Poland, Denmark |
| As in Heaven | Du som er i himlen | Tea Lindeburg | Denmark |
| A Banquet | A Banquet | Ruth Paxton | United Kingdom |
| Dug Dug | Dug Dug | Ritwik Pareek | India |
| Farha | Farha | Darin J. Sallam | Jordan, Sweden, Saudi Arabia |
| The Game | The Game | Ana Lazarevic | Serbia, United States |
| Learn to Swim | Learn to Swim | Thyrone Tommy | Canada |
| Lo Invisible | Lo Invisible | Javier Andrade | Ecuador, France |
| Quickening | Quickening | Haya Waseem | Canada |
| PAKA (River of Blood) | Paka | Nithin Lukose | India |
| Scarborough | Scarborough | Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | Canada |
| Snakehead | Snakehead | Evan Jackson Leong | United States |
| To Kill the Beast | Matar a la Bestia | Agustina San Martín | Argentina, Brazil, Chile |
| Tug of War | Vuta N'Kuvute | Amil Shivji | Tanzania, South Africa, Germany, Qatar |
| Wildhood | Wildhood | Bretten Hannam | Canada |

### Midnight Madness

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| After Blue (Dirty Paradise) | After Blue (Paradis Sale) | Bertrand Mandico | France |
| Dashcam | Dashcam | Rob Savage | United Kingdom, United States |
| Saloum | Saloum | Jean Luc Herbulot | Senegal |
| Titane | Titane | Julia Ducournau | France |
| You Are Not My Mother | You Are Not My Mother | Kate Dolan [de] | Ireland |
| Zalava | Zalava | Arsalan Amiri | Iran |

### Wavelengths

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Capacity for Adequate Anger | The Capacity for Adequate Anger | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany |
| Dear Chantal | Querida Chantal | Nicolás Pereda | Mexico, Spain |
| earthearthearth | earthearthearth | Daïchi Saïto | Canada |
| Futura | Futura | Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher | Italy |
| The Girl and the Spider | Das Mädchen und die Spinne | Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher | Switzerland |
| Inner Outer Space | Inner Outer Space | Laida Lertxundi | Spain |
| Neptune Frost | Neptune Frost | Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman | United States, Rwanda |
| A Night of Knowing Nothing | A Night of Knowing Nothing | Payal Kapadia | India, France |
| Polycephaly in D | Polycephaly in D | Michael Robinson | United States |
| the red filter is withdrawn | Le-deu-pil-teo-ga Cheol-hoe-doeb-ni-da | Minjung Kim | South Korea |
| Ste. Anne | Ste. Anne | Rhayne Vermette | Canada |
| Train Again | Train Again | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria |
| The Tsugua Diaries | Diários de Otsoga | Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes | Portugal |

### Platform

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Arthur Rambo | Arthur Rambo | Laurent Cantet | France |
| Drunken Birds | Les oiseaux ivres | Ivan Grbovic | Canada |
| Earwig | Earwig | Lucile Hadžihalilović | United Kingdom, France, Belgium |
| Good Madam | Mlungu Wam | Jenna Cato Bass | South Africa |
| Huda's Salon | Huda's Salon | Hany Abu-Assad | Palestine, Egypt, Netherlands, Qatar |
| Montana Story | Montana Story | Scott McGehee, David Siegel | United States |
| Silent Land | Cicha Ziemia | Aga Woszczyńska | Poland, Italy, Czech Republic |
| Yuni | Yuni | Kamila Andini | Indonesia, Singapore, France, Australia |

### Primetime

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Colin in Black & White | Colin in Black & White | Ava DuVernay, Colin Kaepernick | United States |
| Hellbound | Hellbound | Yeon Sang-ho | South Korea |
| The Panthers | The Panthers | Tom Hern, Halaifonua Finau | New Zealand |
| Sort Of | Sort Of | Bilal Baig, Fab Filippo | Canada |

### Short Cuts

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice | Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada |
| Anxious Body | Anxious Body | Yoriko Mizushiri | France, Japan |
| Astel | Astel | Ramata-Toulaye Sy | France, Senegal |
| Beity | Beity | Isabelle Mecattaf | Lebanon, United States |
| Boobs | Lolos | Marie Valade | Canada |
| Brothers | Bhai | Hamza Bangash | Canada, Pakistan |
| Charlotte | Charlotte | Zach Dorn | United States |
| Defund | Defund | Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Araya Mengesha | Canada |
| Displaced | Pa Vend | Samir Karahoda [de] | Kosovo |
| Dust Bath | Dust Bath | Seth A. Smith | Canada |
| Fanmi | Fanmi | Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers, Carmine Pierre-Dufour | Canada |
| A Few Miles South | A Few Miles South | Ben Pearce | United Kingdom |
| The Future Isn't What It Used to Be | The Future Isn't What It Used to Be | Adeyemi Michael | United Kingdom |
| Hanging On | Hanging On | Alfie Barker | United Kingdom |
| I Gotta Look Good for the Apocalypse | I Gotta Look Good for the Apocalypse | Ayçe Kartal [tr] | France |
| I Would Never | I Would Never | Kiran Deol | United States |
| The Infantas | Las Infantas | Andrea Herrera Catalá | Spain |
| Little Bird | Little Bird | Tim Myles | Canada |
| Love, Dad | Milý tati | Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Masquerade | Egúngún | Olive Nwosu | United Kingdom, Nigeria |
| Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics | Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics | Terril Calder | Canada |
| Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won’t Fit Into His Suit | Al motociclista no le cabe la felicidad en el traje | Gabriel Herrera | Mexico |
| Nuisance Bear | Nuisance Bear | Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden | Canada |
| Ousmane | Ousmane | Jorge Camarotti | Canada |
| Saturday Night | Saturday Night | Rosana Matecki | Canada |
| Shark | Shark | Nash Edgerton | Australia |
| Soft Animals | Soft Animals | Renee Zhan | United Kingdom |
| Some Still Search | Algunos Siguen Buscando | Nesaru Tchaas | United States |
| Srikandi | Srikandi | Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto | Canada, Indonesia |
| Successful Thawing of Mr. Moro | Lyckad upptining av herr Moro | Jerry Carlsson | Sweden |
| Sycorax | Sycorax | Lois Patiño [ca; gl], Matías Piñeiro [es; fr; zh] | Portugal, Spain |
| The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night | The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night | Fawzia Mirza | Canada |
| Together | Together | Albert Shin | Canada, South Korea |
| Trumpets in the Sky | Trumpets in the Sky | Rakan Mayasi | Palestine, Lebanon, France, Belgium |
| Twelve Hours | Twelve Hours | Paul Shkordoff | Canada |
| White Devil | White Devil | Benjamin Dickinson, Mariama Diallo [nl] | United States |
| You and Me, Before and After | You and Me, Before and After | Madeleine Gottlieb | Australia |
| Zero | Nula | Lee Filipovski | Canada, Serbia |

### TIFF Rewind

A new program which saw classic films that screened at TIFF in past years made available for streaming on Crave, paired with talks by actors or filmmakers involved in the production.
| Film | Speaker(s) |
| Best in Show | Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara |
| Eastern Promises | Viggo Mortensen |
| Precious | Lee Daniels, Gabourey Sidibe |
| Real Women Have Curves | Patricia Cardoso, America Ferrera |
| Training Day | Antoine Fuqua |

### TIFF Cinemathèque

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada |

### Coast-to-Coast Screenings

Special screenings of selected Gala or Special Presentations films in other communities across Canada.
| Film | Location | Date |
| Charlotte | Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan | September 13 |
| Dune | Montreal, Quebec | September 12 |
| The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Summerside, Prince Edward Island | September 13 |
| I'm Your Man | Markham, Ontario | September 13 |
| Night Raiders | Collingwood, Ontario | September 13 |
| Night Raiders | Saint John, New Brunswick | September 13 |
| Official Competition | Prince Rupert, British Columbia | September 13 |

### Industry Selects

As in 2020 the Industry Selects program screened films for industry professionals, acting as a film market due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic having impacted the ability of filmmakers and critics to travel to international film festivals, but was not made available for the general public.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 107 Mothers | Cenzorka | Peter Kerekes [cs; fr; no; sk] | Slovakia |
| America Latina | America Latina | Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo | Italy, France |
| Cadejo Blanco | Cadejo Blanco | Justin Lerner | Guatemala, United States, Mexico |
| Carmen | Carmen | Valerie Buhagiar | Malta, Canada |
| La Civil | La Civil | Teodora Ana Mihai | Belgium, Romania, Mexico |
| Cool Abdoul | Cool Abdoul | Jonas Backeland | Belgium |
| Domingo | Domingo | Raúl López Echeverría | Mexico, Austria, France |
| The Hole in the Fence | El hoyo en la cerca | Joaquín del Paso | Mexico, Poland |
| The King of All the World | El Rey de Todo el Mundo | Carlos Saura | Mexico, Spain |
| The Last Mark | The Last Mark | Reem Morsi | Canada |
| My Night | Ma nuit | Antoinette Boulat | France |
| Night Blooms | Night Blooms | Stephanie Joline | Canada |
| Nightride | Nightride | Stephen Fingleton | United Kingdom |
| Nr. 10 | Nr. 10 | Alex van Warmerdam | Netherlands, Belgium |
| Old Henry | Old Henry | Potsy Ponciroli | United States |
| Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle | Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle | Arthur Harari | France, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Italy |
| The Pink Cloud | A Nuvem Rosa | Iuli Gerbase | Brazil |
| Quake | Quake | Tinna Hrafnsdóttir | Iceland |
| Reflection | Відблиск | Valentyn Vasyanovych | Ukraine |
| The Score | The Score | Malachi Smyth | United Kingdom |
| Shankar's Fairies | Shankar's Fairies | Irfana Majumdar | India |
| A Tale of Love and Desire | Une histoire d'amour et de désir | Leyla Bouzid | France |

## Canada's Top Ten

The festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list, collecting the films named as the top Canadian films of the year by critics and film festival programmers from across Canada, was released on December 6, 2021.

### Feature films

* All My Puny Sorrows — Michael McGowan
* Charlotte — Eric Warin, Tahir Rana
* Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres) — Ivan Grbovic
* Learn to Swim — Thyrone Tommy
* Night Raiders — Danis Goulet
* Maria Chapdelaine — Sébastien Pilote
* Scarborough — Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson
* Ste. Anne — Rhayne Vermette
* Subjects of Desire — Jennifer Holness
* The White Fortress — Igor Drljača

### Short films

* Ain't No Time for Women — Sarra El Abed
* Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice — Zacharias Kunuk
* Boobs (Lolos) — Marie Valade
* Defund — Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Araya Mengesha
* Fanmi — Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers, Carmine Pierre-Dufour
* Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair — Alanis Obomsawin
* Like the Ones I Used to Know (Les grandes claques) — Annie St-Pierre
* Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics — Terril Calder
* The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night — Fawzia Mirza
* Together — Albert Shin