# 2016 Toronto International Film Festival

The 41st annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 8 to 18 September 2016. The first announcement of films to be screened at the festival took place on 26 July. Almost 400 films were shown.

## Awards

The festival's final awards were announced on 18 September.
| 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). The Platform section (named for Jia Zhangke's film Platform) consists of "12 films of high artistic merit that demonstrate a strong directorial vision". The jury awarded the $25,000 prize to Jackie.

## Programmes

The following films were selected:

### Gala presentations

* A Monster Calls by J. A. Bayona
* Arrival by Denis Villeneuve
* Deepwater Horizon by Peter Berg
* The Edge of Seventeen by Kelly Fremon Craig
* The Headhunter's Calling by Mark Williams
* The Journey Is the Destination by Bronwen Hughes
* Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids by Jonathan Demme
* LBJ by Rob Reiner
* Loving by Jeff Nichols
* The Magnificent Seven by Antoine Fuqua
* Norman by Joseph Cedar
* Planetarium by Rebecca Zlotowski
* The Promise by Terry George
* Queen of Katwe by Mira Nair
* The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America by Paul Dugdale
* The Secret Scripture by Jim Sheridan
* Snowden by Oliver Stone
* Strange Weather by Katherine Dieckmann
* Their Finest by Lone Scherfig
* A United Kingdom by Amma Asante

### Special presentations

* 150 Milligrams by Emmanuelle Bercot
* The Age of Shadows by Kim Jee-woon
* All I See Is You by Marc Forster
* American Honey by Andrea Arnold
* American Pastoral by Ewan McGregor
* Asura: The City of Madness by Kim Sung-soo
* Barakah Meets Barakah by Mahmoud Sabbagh
* Barry by Vikram Gandhi
* Below Her Mouth by April Mullen
* The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker
* Birth of the Dragon by George Nolfi
* Bleed for This by Ben Younger
* The Bleeder by Philippe Falardeau
* Blue Jay by Alex Lehmann
* Brain on Fire by Gerard Barrett
* Brimstone by Martin Koolhoven
* Brotherhood by Noel Clarke
* Burn Your Maps by Jordan Roberts
* Carrie Pilby by Susan Johnson
* Catfight by Onur Tukel
* Christine by Antonio Campos
* City of Tiny Lights by Pete Travis
* The Commune by Thomas Vinterberg
* A Death in the Gunj by Konkona Sen Sharma
* Denial by Mick Jackson
* The Duelist by Aleksey Mizgirev
* Elle by Paul Verhoeven
* The Exception by David Leveaux
* Foreign Body by Raja Amari
* Frantz by François Ozon
* The Handmaiden by Park Chan-wook
* Harmonium by Kōji Fukada
* I Am Not Madame Bovary by Feng Xiaogang
* I, Daniel Blake by Ken Loach
* In Dubious Battle by James Franco
* It's Only the End of the World by Xavier Dolan
* The Journey by Nick Hamm
* King of the Dancehall by Nick Cannon
* La La Land by Damien Chazelle
* Leehom Wang's Open Fire Concert Film by Homeboy Music and Inc.
* The Limehouse Golem by Juan Carlos Medina
* Lion by Garth Davis
* The Long Excuse by Miwa Nishikawa
* Manchester by the Sea by Kenneth Lonergan
* Mascots by Christopher Guest
* Maudie by Aisling Walsh
* Mean Dreams by Nathan Morlando
* Neruda by Pablo Larraín
* Nocturnal Animals by Tom Ford
* The Oath by Baltasar Kormákur
* Orphan by Arnaud des Pallières
* Paris Can Wait by Eleanor Coppola
* Paterson by Jim Jarmusch
* Rage by Lee Sang-il
* (Re) Assignment by Walter Hill
* The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi
* Salt and Fire by Werner Herzog
* Sing by Garth Jennings
* Souvenir by Bavo Defurne
* Things to Come by Mia Hansen-Løve
* Toni Erdmann by Maren Ade
* Trespass Against Us by Adam Smith
* Two Lovers and a Bear by Kim Nguyen
* Una by Benedict Andrews
* Unless by Alan Gilsenan
* Voyage of Time by Terrence Malick
* Wakefield by Robin Swicord
* Weirdos by Bruce McDonald
* Window Horses by Ann Marie Fleming

### Midnight Madness

* The Autopsy of Jane Doe by André Øvredal
* The Belko Experiment by Greg McLean
* Blair Witch by Adam Wingard
* Dog Eat Dog by Paul Schrader
* Free Fire by Ben Wheatley
* The Girl with All the Gifts by Colm McCarthy
* Headshot by Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto
* Rats by Morgan Spurlock
* Raw by Julia Ducournau
* Sadako vs. Kayako by Kōji Shiraishi

### Masters

* After the Storm by Hirokazu Kore-eda
* Afterimage by Andrzej Wajda
* Anatomy of Violence by Deepa Mehta
* The Bait by Buddhadeb Dasgupta
* The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez by Wim Wenders
* Certain Women by Kelly Reichardt
* Fire at Sea by Gianfranco Rosi
* Graduation by Cristian Mungiu
* Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
* J: Beyond Flamenco by Carlos Saura
* Julieta by Pedro Almodóvar
* Land of the Gods by Goran Paskaljević
* Ma' Rosa by Brillante Mendoza
* The Net by Kim Ki-duk
* Never Ever by Benoît Jacquot
* Personal Shopper by Olivier Assayas
* Pinneyum by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
* A Quiet Passion by Terence Davies
* Safari by Ulrich Seidl
* Sieranevada by Cristi Puiu
* Sweet Dreams by Marco Bellocchio
* The Unknown Girl by Dardenne brothers
* We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice by Alanis Obomsawin
* Yourself and Yours by Hong Sang-soo

### Next Wave

* Divines by Houda Benyamina
* The Edge of Seventeen by Kelly Fremon Craig
* Handsome Devil by John Butler
* India in a Day by Richie Mehta
* Layla M. by Mijke de Jong
* Moonlight by Barry Jenkins
* A Wedding by Stephan Streker
* The Wedding Ring by Rahmatou Keïta
* Window Horses by Ann Marie Fleming

### Documentaries

* Abacus: Small Enough to Jail by Steve James
* All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I. F. Stone by Fred Peabody
* Amanda Knox by Brian McGinn and Rod Blackhurst
* The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography by Errol Morris
* Beauties of the Night by María José Cuevas
* Before the Flood by Fisher Stevens
* Bezness as Usual by Alex Pitstra
* Black Code by Nicholas de Pencier
* Breaking Occupation by Brett Smith
* Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary by John Scheinfeld
* The Cinema Travellers by Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya
* Citizen Jane: Battle for the City by Matt Tyrnauer
* Forever Pure by Maya Zinshtein
* Gaza Surf Club by Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine
* Giants of Africa by Hubert Davis
* Gimme Danger by Jim Jarmusch
* Girl Unbound by Erin Heidenreich
* Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee by Nanette Burstein
* I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck
* I Called Him Morgan by Kasper Collin
* In Exile by Tin Win Naing
* India in a Day by Richie Mehta
* An Insignificant Man by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla
* Into the Inferno by Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer
* The Ivory Game by Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani
* Karl Marx City by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker
* Mali Blues by Lutz Gregor
* Mostly Sunny by Dilip Mehta
* Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory by Mohanad Yaqubi
* Politics, Instructions Manual by Fernando León de Aranoa
* The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent by Brigitte Berman
* Rodnye by Vitaly Mansky
* The Sixth Beatle by Tony Guma and John Rose
* The Skyjacker's Tale by Jamie Kastner
* The Stairs by Hugh Gibson
* The Terry Kath Experience by Michelle Sinclair
* The War Show by Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon
* Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life by Fariborz Kamkari

### Contemporary World Cinema

* A Decent Woman by Lukas Valenta Rinner
* After Love by Joachim Lafosse
* The Animal's Wife by Víctor Gaviria
* Apprentice by Boo Junfeng
* Aquarius by Kleber Mendonça Filho
* Ayiti Mon Amour by Guetty Felin
* Blindness by Ryszard Bugajski
* Boundaries by Chloé Robichaud
* Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces by Yousry Nasrallah
* Death in Sarajevo by Danis Tanović
* Ember by Zeki Demirkubuz
* The Fixer by Adrian Sitaru
* Handsome Devil by John Butler
* Heaven Will Wait by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
* In Between by Maysaloun Hamoud
* Indivisible by Edoardo De Angelis
* Mahana by Lee Tamahori
* Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge by Marie Noëlle
* Mister Universo by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
* Past Life by Avi Nesher
* Pyromaniac by Erik Skjoldbjærg
* The Rehearsal by Alison Maclean
* The Road to Mandalay by Midi Z
* Santa & Andres by Carlos Lechuga
* Soul on a String by Zhang Yang
* Tamara and the Ladybug by Lucía Carreras
* Clair Obscur by Yeşim Ustaoğlu
* Tramps by Adam Leon
* Vaya by Akin Omotoso
* We Are Never Alone by Petr Vaclav
* The Wedding Ring by Rahmatou Keïta
* White Sun by Deepak Rauniyar
* The Women's Balcony by Emil Ben Shimon
* X500 by Juan Andrés Arango
* Zoology by Ivan I. Tverdovsky

### Contemporary World Speakers

* The Animal's Wife by Víctor Gaviria
* Blindness by Ryszard Bugajski
* In Between by Maysaloun Hamoud
* Mahana by Lee Tamahori
* Past Life by Avi Nesher

### Vanguard

* The Bad Batch by Ana Lily Amirpour
* Blind Sun by Joyce A. Nashawati
* Buster's Mal Heart by Sarah Adina Smith
* Colossal by Nacho Vigalondo
* Godspeed by Chung Mong-hong
* I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House by Oz Perkins
* Interchange by Dain Iskandar Said
* Message from the King by Fabrice Du Welz
* My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea by Dash Shaw
* Nelly by Anne Émond
* Prevenge by Alice Lowe
* The Untamed by Amat Escalante
* Without Name by Lorcan Finnegan

### Discovery

* ARQ by Tony Elliott
* Blessed Benefit by Mahmoud al Massad
* Boys in the Trees by Nicholas Verso
* Divines by Houda Benyamina
* The Empty Box by Claudia Sainte-Luce
* Flemish Heaven by Peter Monsaert
* The Fury of a Patient Man by Raúl Arévalo
* Godless by Ralitza Petrova
* The Giant by Johannes Nyholm
* Guilty Men by Iván D. Gaona
* The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki by Juho Kuosmanen
* Heartstone by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
* Hello Destroyer by Kevan Funk
* Hunting Flies by Izer Aliu
* In the Blood by Rasmus Heisterberg
* In the Radiant City by Rachel Lambert
* Jean of the Joneses by Stella Meghie
* Jeffrey by Yanillys Perez
* Jesús by Fernando Guzzoni
* Joe Cinque's Consolation by Sotiris Dounoukos
* Kati Kati by Mbithi Masya
* Katie Says Goodbye by Wayne Roberts
* The Levelling by Hope Dickson Leach
* Little Wing by Selma Vilhunen
* Mad World by Wong Chun
* Marija by Michael Koch
* A Wedding by Stephan Streker
* Old Stone by Johnny Ma
* Park by Sofia Exarchou
* Prank by Vincent Biron
* The Red Turtle by Michaël Dudok de Wit
* Sami Blood by Amanda Kernell
* Sand Storm by Elite Zexer
* Werewolf by Ashley McKenzie
* Wùlu by Daouda Coulibaly

### Platform

* Daguerrotype by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* Goldstone by Ivan Sen
* Heal the Living by Katell Quillévéré
* Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait by Khyentse Norbu
* Home by Fien Troch
* Jackie by Pablo Larraín
* Lady Macbeth by William Oldroyd
* Layla M. by Mijke de Jong
* Searchers by Zacharias Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq
* Moonlight by Barry Jenkins
* Nocturama by Bertrand Bonello
* Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves by Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie

### TIFF Kids

* The Day My Father Became a Bush, by Nicole van Kilsdonk
* The Eagle Huntress by Otto Bell
* My Life as a Zucchini by Claude Barras
* Miss Impossible by Emilie Deleuze

### Short Cuts

* 3-Way (Not Calling) by Molly McGlynn
* 5 Films About Technology by Peter Huang
* Andy Goes In by Josh Polon
* Ape Sodom by Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
* Because The World Never Stops by Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck
* Black Head Cow by Elizabeth Nichols
* Blind Vaysha by Theodore Ushev
* Cleo by Sanja Živković
* Cul-de-Sac by Damon Russell
* CYCLES by Joe Cobden
* DataMine by Timothy Barron Tracey
* Emma by Martin Edralin
* Four Faces of the Moon by Amanda Strong
* A Funeral for Lightning by Emily Kai Bock
* Gods Acre by Kelton Stepanowich
* Half a Man by Kristina Kumric
* Hand. Line. Cod. by Justin Simms
* The Hedonists by Jian Zhang-ke
* Imitations by Markus Henkel, Milos Mitrovic, Ian Bawa and Fabian Velasco
* Import by Ena Sendijarević
* Inner Workings by Leo Matsuda
* Late Night Drama by Patrice Laliberté
* Mariner by Thyrone Tommy
* Mutants by Alexandre Dostie
* A New Home by Ziga Virc
* Next by Elena Brodach
* Nothing About Moccasins by Eden Mallina Awashish
* Nutag–Homeland by Alisi Telengut
* Oh What a Wonderful Feeling by François Jaros
* On the Origin of Fear by Bayu Prihantoro Filemon
* Plain and Simple by Raphaël Ouellet
* Red of the Yew Tree by Marie-Hélène Turcotte
* The Road to Webequie by Ryan Noth and Tess Girard
* Romantik by Mateusz Rakowicz
* Shahzad by Haya Waseem
* Small Fry by Eva Michon
* The Smoke by Rebecca Addelman
* Snip by Terril Calder
* Standby by Charlotte Regan
* Summer Camp Island by Julia Pott
* The Taste of Vietnam by Pier-Luc Latulippe
* TMG_103 (rough cut) by Walter Woodman
* Transition by Milica Tomovic
* Tshiuetin by Caroline Monnet
* Twisted by Jay Cheel
* Whispering Breeze by Jonathan Tremblay
* Wild Skin by Ariane Louis-Seize
* Your Mother and I by Anna Maguire

### Festival Street

* Ferris Bueller's Day Off by John Hughes
* Labyrinth by Jim Henson
* The Man Trap by Marc Daniels

### Primetime

* Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker
* Nirvanna the Band the Show by Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol
* Transparent by Jill Soloway
* Tuko Macho by The Nest Collective and Jim Chuchu
* Wasteland by Štěpán Hulík

### Public Programme

* Ferris Bueller's Day Off by John Hughes

### Cinematheque

* The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo
* A Cool Sound from Hell by Sidney J. Furie
* Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash
* General Report on Certain Matters of Interest For a Public Screening by Pere Portabella
* The Horse Thief by Tian Zhuangzhuang
* Lumière! by Auguste and Louis Lumière and Thierry Frémaux
* One Sings, the Other Doesn't by Agnès Varda
* One-Eyed Jacks by Marlon Brando
* Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
* Something Wild by Jonathan Demme

### City to City: Lagos

* '76 by Izu Ojukwu
* 93 Days by Steve Gukas
* The Arbitration by Niyi Akinmolayan
* Green White Green by Abba Makama
* Just Not Married by Uduak-Obong Patrick
* Okafor's Law by Omoni Oboli
* Taxi Driver by Daniel Emeke Oriahi
* The Wedding Party by Kemi Adetiba

### Wavelengths

* 025 Sunset Red by Laida Lertxundi
* 350 MYA by Terra Long
* As Without So Within by Manuela de Laborde
* Austerlitz by Sergei Loznitsa
* An Aviation Field by Joana Pimenta
* Ayhan and Me by Belit Sag
* Burning Mountains that Spew Flame by Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado
* By the Time It Gets Dark by Anocha Suwichakornpong
* Children of Lir by Katherin McInnis
* Cilaos by Camilo Restrepo
* Dark Adaptation by Chris Gehman
* The Death of Louis XIV by Albert Serra
* The Dreamed Ones by Ruth Beckermann
* The Dreamed Path by Angela Schanelec
* Ears, Nose and Throat by Kevin Jerome Everson
* Flowers of the Sky by Janie Geiser
* Foyer by Ismaïl Bahri
* General Report II: The New Abduction of Europe by Pere Portabella
* Hermia & Helena by Matías Piñeiro
* The Human Surge by Eduardo Williams
* Há Terra! by Ana Vaz
* I Had to Nowhere to Go by Douglas Gordon
* I'll Remember You As You Were, Not As What You'll Become by Sky Hopinka
* Incantati by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
* Indefinite Pitch by James N. Kienitz Wilkins
* Kékszakállú by Gastón Solnicki
* Luna e Santur by Joshua Gen Solondz
* Mimosas by Oliver Laxe
* Nightlife by Cyprien Gaillard
* The Ornithologist by João Pedro Rodrigues
* Rudzienko by Sharon Lockhart
* Singularity by Albert Serra
* Strange Vision of Seeing Things by Ryan Ferko
* Ta'ang by Wang Bing
* Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon by Tomonari Nishikawa
* Untitled by Björn Kämmerer
* Untitled, 1925 by Madi Piller
* Venus Delta by Antoinette Zwirchmayr
* The Watershow Extravaganza by Sophie Michael
* What's New by Nina Könnemann
* The Woman Who Left by Lav Diaz

## 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. 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.

### Features

* Angry Inuk by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
* Hello Destroyer by Kevan Funk
* It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) by Xavier Dolan
* Mean Dreams by Nathan Morlando
* Nelly by Anne Émond
* Old Stone by Johnny Ma
* Searchers (Maliglutit) by Zacharias Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq
* Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau) by Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie
* Werewolf by Ashley McKenzie
* Window Horses by Ann Marie Fleming

### Short films

* Blind Vaysha by Theodore Ushev
* Emma by Martin Edralin
* Fish by Heather Young
* Fluffy by Lee Filipovski
* Frame 394 by Rich Williamson
* A Funeral for Lightning by Emily Kai Bock
* Her Friend Adam by Ben Petrie
* Mariner by Thyrone Tommy
* Mutants by Alexandre Dostie
* Snip by Terril Calder