# 2019 Toronto International Film Festival

The 44th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 September 2019. The opening gala was the documentary film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band, directed by Daniel Roher, and the festival closed with a screening of the biographical film Radioactive, directed by Marjane Satrapi.

## Awards

In addition to its regular film awards, whose winners were announced at the conclusion of the festival, the festival also announced the inaugural TIFF Tribute Awards, a special program to honour distinguished lifetime achievement in film. Tribute Awards were presented to Meryl Streep and Joaquin Phoenix for acting, Taika Waititi for directing, cinematographer Roger Deakins for artisan film craft, Mati Diop for emerging talent, Participant Media for impact media, and David Foster for special contributions to film.
The first award recipients were announced on 12 September, with the major awards announced at the close of the festival on 15 September. In light of the fact that international filmmakers are rarely still in Toronto to accept their awards in person by the end of the festival, the organizers opted to cancel the traditional awards ceremony, and instead announced the award winners through TIFF's social media.
Nicolas Cage was awarded with the Creative Coalition's Spotlight Initiative Award for his role in Color Out of Space.
| Award | Film | Director |
| People's Choice Award | Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi |
| People's Choice Award, First Runner Up | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
| People's Choice Award, Second Runner Up | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho |
| People's Choice Award: Documentary | The Cave | Feras Fayyad |
| People's Choice Award: Documentary, First Runner Up | I Am Not Alone | Garin Hovannisian |
| People's Choice Award: Documentary, Second Runner Up | Dads | Bryce Dallas Howard |
| People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness | The Platform | Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia |
| People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness, First Runner Up | The Vast of Night | Andrew Patterson |
| People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness, Second Runner Up | Blood Quantum | Jeff Barnaby |
| Platform Prize | Martin Eden | Pietro Marcello |
| Platform Prize, Honorable Mention | Anne at 13,000 Ft. | Kazik Radwanski |
| Platform Prize, Honorable Mention | Proxima | Alice Winocour |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | Antigone | Sophie Deraspe |
| Best Canadian Feature Film, Honourable Mention | The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn |
| Best Canadian Short Film | Delphine | Chloé Robichaud |
| Best Canadian Short Film, Honourable Mention | The Physics of Sorrow | Theodore Ushev |
| Best Canadian First Feature Film | The Twentieth Century | Matthew Rankin |
| FIPRESCI Discovery Prize | Murmur | Heather Young |
| FIPRESCI Special Presentations | How to Build a Girl | Coky Giedroyc |
| Best International Short Film | All Cats Are Grey in the Dark | Lasse Linder |
| Best International Short Film, Honourable Mention | The Nap | Federico Luis Tachella |
| NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere | 1982 | Oualid Mouaness |

## Programmes

The selection for the 2019 festival:

### Gala presentations

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Abominable | Abominable | Jill Culton | United States, China |
| The Aeronauts | The Aeronauts | Tom Harper | United Kingdom, United States |
| American Woman | American Woman | Semi Chellas | Canada, United States |
| A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Marielle Heller | United States |
| Blackbird | Blackbird | Roger Michell | United States |
| The Burnt Orange Heresy | The Burnt Orange Heresy | Giuseppe Capotondi | United States, Italy |
| Clemency | Clemency | Chinonye Chukwu | United States |
| Ford v Ferrari | Ford v Ferrari | James Mangold | United States |
| The Goldfinch | The Goldfinch | John Crowley | United States |
| Harriet | Harriet | Kasi Lemmons | United States |
| Honey Boy | Honey Boy | Alma Har'el | United States |
| Hustlers | Hustlers | Lorene Scafaria | United States |
| Joker | Joker | Todd Phillips | United States |
| Just Mercy | Just Mercy | Destin Daniel Cretton | United States |
| Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band | Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band | Daniel Roher | Canada |
| Radioactive | Radioactive | Marjane Satrapi | United Kingdom |
| The Sky Is Pink | The Sky Is Pink | Shonali Bose | India |
| The Song of Names | The Song of Names | François Girard | Canada, Germany, Hungary, United Kingdom |
| True History of the Kelly Gang | True History of the Kelly Gang | Justin Kurzel | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Western Stars | Western Stars | Thom Zimny, Bruce Springsteen | United States |

### Special events

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| David Foster: Off the Record | David Foster: Off the Record | Barry Avrich | Canada |
| One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk | One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada |

### Special presentations

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| American Son | American Son | Kenny Leon | United States |
| Bad Education | Bad Education | Cory Finley | United States |
| La Belle Époque | La Belle Époque | Nicolas Bedos | France |
| Disappearance at Clifton Hill | Disappearance at Clifton Hill | Albert Shin | Canada |
| Coming Home Again | Coming Home Again | Wayne Wang | United States, South Korea |
| Deerskin | Le Daim | Quentin Dupieux | France |
| Dirt Music | Dirt Music | Gregor Jordan | Australia, United Kingdom |
| Dolemite Is My Name | Dolemite Is My Name | Craig Brewer | United States |
| The Domain | A Herdade | Tiago Guedes | Portugal, France |
| The Elder One | Moothon | Geetu Mohandas | India |
| Ema | Ema | Pablo Larraín | Chile |
| Endings, Beginnings | Endings, Beginnings | Drake Doremus | South Korea, United States |
| Frankie | Frankie | Ira Sachs | United States, France |
| The Friend | The Friend | Gabriela Cowperthwaite | United States |
| Greed | Greed | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom, United States |
| Guest of Honour | Guest of Honour | Atom Egoyan | Canada |
| Guns Akimbo | Guns Akimbo | Jason Lei Howden | New Zealand, United Kingdom, Germany |
| Heroic Losers | La odisea de los giles | Sebastián Borensztein | Argentina |
| Hope Gap | Hope Gap | William Nicholson | United Kingdom |
| How to Build a Girl | How to Build a Girl | Coky Giedroyc | United Kingdom, United States |
| Human Capital | Human Capital | Marc Meyers | United States, Italy |
| I Am Woman | I Am Woman | Unjoo Moon | Australia |
| Jojo Rabbit | Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi | United States, New Zealand, Czech Republic |
| Judy | Judy | Rupert Goold | United Kingdom, United States, France |
| Jungleland | Jungleland | Max Winkler | United States |
| Knives Out | Knives Out | Rian Johnson | United States |
| The Last Vermeer | The Last Vermeer | Dan Friedkin | United States |
| The Laundromat | The Laundromat | Steven Soderbergh | United States |
| The Lighthouse | The Lighthouse | Robert Eggers | Canada, United States |
| Lucy in the Sky | Lucy in the Sky | Noah Hawley | United States |
| Marriage Story | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | United States, United Kingdom |
| Military Wives | Military Wives | Peter Cattaneo | United Kingdom |
| Mosul | Mosul | Matthew Michael Carnahan | United States |
| Motherless Brooklyn | Motherless Brooklyn | Edward Norton | United States |
| No.7 Cherry Lane | 繼園臺七號 | Yonfan | Hong Kong, China |
| Ordinary Love | Ordinary Love | Lisa Barros D'Sa | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| The Other Lamb | The Other Lamb | Małgorzata Szumowska | United States, Ireland, Belgium |
| Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| The Painted Bird | Nabarvené ptáče | Václav Marhoul | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine |
| Parasite | 기생충, Gisaengchung | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
| Pelican Blood | Pelikanblut | Katrin Gebbe | Germany, Bulgaria |
| The Personal History of David Copperfield | The Personal History of David Copperfield | Armando Iannucci | United Kingdom, United States |
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Céline Sciamma | France |
| The Report | The Report | Scott Z. Burns | United States |
| Saturday Fiction | 兰心大剧院 | Lou Ye | China |
| Seberg | Seberg | Benedict Andrews | United States, United Kingdom |
| Sibyl | Sibyl | Justine Triet | France, Belgium |
| Synchronic | Synchronic | Aaron Moorehead, Justin Benson | United States |
| The Truth | La Vérité | Hirokazu Kore-eda | France, Japan |
| The Two Popes | The Two Popes | Fernando Meirelles | United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Uncut Gems | Uncut Gems | Joshua and Benjamin Safdie | United States |
| Wasp Network | Wasp Network | Olivier Assayas | France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium |
| Waves | Waves | Trey Edward Shults | United States |
| Weathering with You | 天気の子, Tenki no Ko | Makoto Shinkai | Japan |
| While at War | Mientras dure la guerra | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain, Argentina |

### Contemporary World Cinema

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 37 Seconds | 37 Seconds | Hikari | Japan |
| Adam | Adam | Maryam Touzani | Morocco |
| And the Birds Rained Down | Il pleuvait des oiseaux | Louise Archambault | Canada |
| Antigone | Antigone | Sophie Deraspe | Canada |
| Arab Blues | Un divan à Tunis | Manele Labidi Labbé | France, Tunisia |
| Atlantics | Atlantique | Mati Diop | Belgium, France, Senegal |
| Atlantis | Атлантида | Valentyn Vasyanovych | Ukraine |
| Bacurau | Bacurau | Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles | Brazil, France |
| Balloon | 气球 | Pema Tseden | China |
| The Barefoot Emperor | The Barefoot Emperor | Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens | Belgium |
| Beanpole | Дылда | Kantemir Balagov | Russia |
| Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies | Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies | Edward Burns | United States |
| Blow the Man Down | Blow the Man Down | Danielle Krudy, Bridget Savage Cole | United States |
| The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn | Canada |
| Bombay Rose | Bombay Rose | Gitanjali Rao | India |
| Castle in the Ground | Castle in the Ground | Joey Klein | Canada |
| Chicuarotes | Chicuarotes | Gael García Bernal | Mexico |
| The Climb | The Climb | Michael Angelo Covino | United States |
| Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | Jan Komasa | Poland |
| The County | Héraðið | Grímur Hákonarson | Iceland |
| Dogs Don't Wear Pants | Koirat eivät käytä housuja | J-P Valkeapää | Finland |
| The Father | Бащата | Petar Valchanov, Kristina Grozeva | Bulgaria |
| Flatland | Flatland | Jenna Bass | South Africa |
| A Girl Missing | よこがお, Yokogao | Kōji Fukada | Japan |
| Hala | Hala | Minhal Baig | United States |
| Henry Glassie: Field Work | Henry Glassie: Field Work | Pat Collins | Ireland |
| Incitement | ימים נוראים | Yaron Zilberman | Israel |
| Instinct | Instinct | Halina Reijn | Netherlands |
| The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão | A Vida Invisível | Karim Aïnouz | Brazil, Germany |
| Jallikattu | Jallikattu | Lijo Jose Pellissery | India |
| Knuckle City | Knuckle City | Jahmil X.T. Qubeka | South Africa |
| La Llorona | La Llorona | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala |
| The Last Porno Show | The Last Porno Show | Kire Paputts | Canada |
| The Long Walk | ບໍ່ມີວັນຈາກ | Mattie Do | Laos |
| Made in Bangladesh | Shimu | Rubaiyat Hossain | Bangladesh |
| Mariam | Mariam | Sharipa Urazbayeva | Kazakhstan, Germany |
| Maria's Paradise | Marian paratiisi | Zaida Bergroth | Finland |
| Les Misérables | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France |
| Nobadi | Nobadi | Karl Markovics | Austria |
| Our Lady of the Nile | Notre-Dame du Nil | Atiq Rahimi | France, Senegal |
| The Perfect Candidate | al-muraššaḥa al-mithāliyya | Haifaa al-Mansour | Saudi Arabia |
| Red Fields | Red Fields | Keren Yedaya | Israel |
| Resin | Harpiks | Daniel Borgman | Denmark |
| So Long, My Son | 地久天长, Di Jiu Tian Chang | Wang Xiaoshuai | China |
| South Terminal | Terminal Sud | Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | France |
| Spider | Araña | Andrés Wood | Chile |
| A Sun | 陽光普照 | Chung Mong-hong | Taiwan |
| Synonyms | Synonymes | Nadav Lapid | France, Israel, Germany |
| Tammy's Always Dying | Tammy's Always Dying | Amy Jo Johnson | Canada |
| Three Summers | Três Verões | Sandra Kogut | Brazil |
| Verdict | Verdict | Raymund Ribay Gutierrez | Philippines |
| White Lie | White Lie | Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas | Canada |
| A White, White Day | Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur | Hlynur Pálmason | Iceland |
| The Wild Goose Lake | 南方车站的聚会 | Diao Yinan | China |
| You Will Die at Twenty | satamūt fīl-ʿishrīn | Amjad Abu Alala | Sudan |

### Masters

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| About Endlessness | Om det oändliga | Roy Andersson | Sweden |
| Devil Between the Legs | El Diablo entre las Piernas | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico |
| A Hidden Life | A Hidden Life | Terrence Malick | United States, Germany |
| I Was at Home, But | Ich war zuhause, aber | Angela Schanelec | Germany |
| It Must Be Heaven | It Must Be Heaven | Elia Suleiman | France, Canada, Palestine, Turkey |
| Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger | Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada |
| Sorry We Missed You | Sorry We Missed You | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, France, Belgium |
| The Traitor | Il traditore | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, France, Brazil, Germany |
| To the Ends of the Earth | 旅のおわり世界のはじまり, Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
| The Whistlers | La Gomera | Corneliu Porumboiu | Romania, France, Germany |
| Zombi Child | Zombi Child | Bertrand Bonello | France |

### Documentaries

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| And We Go Green | And We Go Green | Fisher Stevens, Malcolm Venville | United States |
| The Australian Dream | The Australian Dream | Daniel Gordon | Australia, United Kingdom |
| Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator | Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator | Eva Orner | United States |
| The Capote Tapes | The Capote Tapes | Ebs Burnough | United States, United Kingdom |
| The Cave | The Cave | Feras Fayyad | Syria, Denmark |
| Citizen K | Citizen K | Alex Gibney | United States |
| Collective | Collective | Alexander Nanau | Romania |
| Coppers | Coppers | Alan Zweig | Canada |
| The Cordillera of Dreams | La cordillère des songes | Patricio Guzmán | Chile, France |
| Cunningham | Cunningham | Alla Kovgan | Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Dads | Dads | Bryce Dallas Howard | United States |
| Desert One | Desert One | Barbara Kopple | United States |
| I Am Not Alone | I Am Not Alone | Garin Hovannisian | Armenia, United States |
| Ibrahim: A Fate to Define | Ibrahim: A Fate to Define | Lina Al Abed | Lebanon, Palestine, Denmark, Qatar |
| The Kingmaker | The Kingmaker | Lauren Greenfield | United States |
| Letter to the Editor | Letter to the Editor | Alan Berliner | United States |
| Love Child | Love Child | Eva Mulvad | Denmark |
| My English Cousin | My English Cousin | Karim Sayad | Switzerland, Qatar, Algeria |
| Paris Stalingrad | Paris Stalingrad | Hind Meddeb | France |
| Ready for War | Ready for War | Andrew Renzi | United States |
| Red Penguins | Red Penguins | Gabe Polsky | United States, Russia |
| Sing Me a Song | Sing Me a Song | Thomas Balmès | France, Germany, Switzerland |
| There's Something in the Water | There's Something in the Water | Elliot Page, Ian Daniel | Canada |
| This Is Not a Movie | This Is Not a Movie | Yung Chang | Canada |
| Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema | Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema | Mark Cousins | United Kingdom |

### Discovery

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 1982 | 1982 | Oualid Mouaness | United States, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar |
| Africa | Africa | Oren Gerner | Israel |
| The Antenna | Bina | Orçun Behram | Turkey |
| The Audition | Das Vorspiel | Ina Weisse | Germany, France |
| August | Agosto | Armando Capó | Cuba, Costa Rica, France |
| Black Conflux | Black Conflux | Nicole Dorsey | Canada |
| Bring Me Home | Na-reul cha-ja-jwo | Kim Seung-woo | South Korea |
| A Bump Along the Way | A Bump Along the Way | Shelly Love | United Kingdom |
| Calm with Horses | Calm with Horses | Nick Rowland | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Certified Mail | Bi Elm El Wossul | Hisham Saqr | Egypt |
| Comets | Comets | Tamar Shavgulidze | Georgia |
| Disco | Disco | Jorunn Myklebust Syversen | Norway |
| Easy Land | Easy Land | Sanja Živković | Canada |
| Entwined | Entwined | Minos Nikolakakis | Greece |
| The Giant | The Giant | David Raboy | United States |
| The Good Intentions | Las Buenas Intenciones | Ana García Blaya | Argentina |
| Hearts and Bones | Hearts and Bones | Ben Lawrence | Australia |
| Hope | Håp | Maria Sødahl | Norway, Sweden |
| Kuessipan | Kuessipan | Myriam Verreault | Canada |
| Lina from Lima | Lina de Lima | María Paz González | Chile, Argentina, Peru |
| The Lost Okoroshi | The Lost Okoroshi | Abba Makama | Nigeria |
| Love Me Tender | Love Me Tender | Klaudia Reynicke | Switzerland |
| Murmur | Murmur | Heather Young | Canada |
| My Life as a Comedian | En komikers uppväxt | Rojda Sekersöz | Sweden, Belgium |
| Noura's Dream | Noura's Dream | Hinde Boujemaa | Tunisia, Belgium, France, Qatar |
| The Obituary of Tunde Johnson | The Obituary of Tunde Johnson | Ali LeRoi | United States |
| Pompei | Pompei | Anna Falguères, John Shank | Belgium, Canada, France |
| Raf | Raf | Harry Cepka | Canada |
| The Rest of Us | The Rest of Us | Aisling Chin-Yee | Canada |
| Sea Fever | Sea Fever | Neasa Hardiman | Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, United Kingdom |
| Simple Women | Simple Women | Chiara Malta | Italy, Romania |
| Sole | Sole | Carlo Sironi | Italy, Poland |
| Son-Mother | Pesar-Madar | Mahnaz Mohammadi | Iran, Czech Republic |
| Stories from the Chestnut Woods | Zgodbe iz kostanjevih gozdov | Gregor Božič | Slovenia, Italy |
| Sweetness in the Belly | Sweetness in the Belly | Zeresenay Berhane Mehari | Canada, Ireland |
| Two of Us | Deux | Filippo Meneghetti | France, Luxembourg, Belgium |
| Zana | Zana | Antoneta Kastrati | Kosovo, Albania |

### Short Cuts

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| All Cats Are Grey in the Dark | Nachts sind alle Katzen grau | Lasse Linder | Switzerland |
| All Inclusive | All Inclusive | Teemu Nikki | Finland |
| And Then the Bear | L'Heure de l'ours | Agnès Patron | France |
| Ani | Ani | Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu | New Zealand |
| Anna | Anna | Dekel Berenson | Ukraine, Israel, United Kingdom |
| Are You Hungry? | Onko sulla nälkä? | Teemu Niukkanen | Finland |
| Austral Fever | Fiebre Austral | Thomas Woodroffe | Chile |
| BARAKAT | BARAKAT | Manon Nammour | Lebanon |
| Bare Trees in the Mist | Bare Trees in the Mist | Rajan Kathet | Nepal |
| Butterflies | Parparim | Yona Rozenkier | Israel, France |
| Daddio | Daddio | Casey Wilson | United States |
| Darling | Darling | Saim Sadiq | Pakistan |
| Daughter | Dcera | Daria Kashcheeva | Czech Republic |
| Delphine | Delphine | Chloé Robichaud | Canada |
| The Depths | Les Profondeurs | Ariane Louis-Seize | Canada |
| Exam | Emtehan | Sonia K. Hadad | Iran |
| Flesh | Carne | Camila Kater | Brazil, Spain |
| Flood | Flood | Joseph Amenta | Canada |
| A Fool God | A Fool God | Hiwot Admasu Getaneh | France |
| God's Nightmares | God's Nightmares | Daniel Cockburn | Canada |
| Hello Ahma | gui | Siyou Tan | Singapore |
| Highway to Heaven | Highway to Heaven | Sandra Ignagni | Canada |
| Hot Flash | Hot Flash | Thea Hollatz | Canada |
| Human Nature | Human Nature | Sverre Fredriksen | Netherlands |
| I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain | I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain | Sofia Banzhaf | Canada |
| I'll End Up in Jail | Je finirai en prison | Alexandre Dostie | Canada |
| It's Nothing | It's Nothing | Anna Maguire | Canada, United Kingdom |
| Jarvik | Jarvik | Émilie Mannering | Canada |
| Life Support | Life Support | Renuka Jeyapalan | Canada |
| Locals Only | Locals Only | Brent Harris | South Africa |
| Lucia en el limbo | Lucia en el limbo | Valentina Maurel | Belgium, France, Costa Rica |
| Measure | Measure | Karen Chapman | Canada |
| The Nap | La Siesta | Federico Luis Tachella | Argentina |
| Nimic | Nimic | Yorgos Lanthimos | Germany, United Kingdom, United States |
| No Crying at the Dinner Table | No Crying at the Dinner Table | Carol Nguyen | Canada |
| Now Is the Time | Now Is the Time | Christopher Auchter | Canada |
| Oracle | Oracle | Aaron Poole | Canada |
| The Physics of Sorrow | Physique de la tristesse | Theodore Ushev | Canada |
| Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You | Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You | Brandon Cronenberg | Canada |
| The Raft | The Raft | Sylvain Cruiziat | Germany |
| Rebel | Rebel | Pier-Philippe Chevigny | Canada |
| Reminiscences of the Green Revolution | Reminiscences of the Green Revolution | Dean Colin Marcial | Philippines |
| Route-3 | Route-3 | Thanasis Neofotistos | Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Sadla | Sadla | Zamo Mkhwanazi | South Africa |
| She Runs | Nan Fang Shao Nv | Qiu Yang | China, France |
| Something to Remember | Något att minnas | Niki Lindroth von Bahr | Sweden |
| Thirsty | Thirsty | Nicole Delaney | United States |
| This Ink Runs Deep | This Ink Runs Deep | Asia Youngman | Canada |
| Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves | Toomas teispool metsikute huntide orgu | Chintis Lundgren | Croatia, Estonia, France |
| The Trap | Fakh | Nada Riyadh | Egypt, Germany |
| Volcano | Volcano | Karen Moore | Canada |
| Watermelon Juice | Suc de síndria | Irene Moray | Spain |
| Who Talks | Ingen Lyssnar | Elin Övergaard | Sweden |
| Why Slugs Have No Legs | Why Slugs Have No Legs | Aline Höchli | Switzerland |
| Yandere | Yandere | William Laboury | France |

### Midnight Madness

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Blood Quantum | Blood Quantum | Jeff Barnaby | Canada |
| Color Out of Space | Color Out of Space | Richard Stanley | United States |
| Disappearance at Clifton Hill | Disappearance at Clifton Hill | Albert Shin | Canada |
| Crazy World | Ani Mulalu | Isaac Nabwana | Uganda |
| First Love | 初恋, Hatsukoi | Takashi Miike | Japan |
| Gundala | Gundala | Joko Anwar | Indonesia |
| The Platform | El Hoyo | Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia | Spain |
| Saint Maud | Saint Maud | Rose Glass | United Kingdom |
| The Twentieth Century | The Twentieth Century | Matthew Rankin | Canada |
| The Vast of Night | The Vast of Night | Andrew Patterson | United States |
| The Vigil | The Vigil | Keith Thomas | United States |

### Platform

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Anne at 13,000 Ft. | Anne at 13,000 Ft. | Kazik Radwanski | Canada |
| Martin Eden | Martin Eden | Pietro Marcello | Italy, France |
| The Moneychanger | Así habló el cambista | Federico Veiroj | Uruguay |
| My Zoe | My Zoe | Julie Delpy | United Kingdom, France, Germany |
| Proxima | Proxima | Alice Winocour | France |
| Rocks | Rocks | Sarah Gavron | United Kingdom |
| The Sleepwalkers | Los sonámbulos | Paula Hernández | Argentina |
| Sound of Metal | Sound of Metal | Darius Marder | United States |
| Wet Season | 热带雨 | Anthony Chen | Singapore |
| Workforce | Mano de Obra | David Zonana | Mexico |

### Primetime

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Black Bitch | Black Bitch | Rachel Perkins | Australia |
| Briarpatch | Briarpatch | Andy Greenwald | United States |
| Limetown | Limetown | Zack Akers, Skip Bronkie | United States |
| Mrs. Fletcher | Mrs. Fletcher | Tom Perrotta | United States |
| Savages | Les Sauvages | Rebecca Zlotowski | France |
| The Sleepers | Bez vedomí | Ivan Zachariáš, Ondřej Gabriel | Czech Republic |

### Cinemathèque

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| A Dry White Season | A Dry White Season | Euzhan Palcy | United States, France |
| The Last of Sheila | The Last of Sheila | Herbert Ross | United States |
| The Last Waltz | The Last Waltz | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Pickpocket | Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | France |
| No | No | Pablo Larraín | Chile, France, United States |

### Wavelengths

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 143 Sahara Street | 143 Sahara Street | Hassen Ferhani | Algeria |
| 2minutes40seconds | 2minutes40seconds | Han Ok-hee | |
| 2008 | 2008 | Blake Williams | Canada |
| Amusement Ride | Amusement Ride | Tomonari Nishikawa | |
| Austrian Pavilion | Austrian Pavilion | Philipp Fleischmann | |
| Billy | Billy | Zachary Epcar | |
| The Bite | The Bite | Pedro Nemes Marques | |
| Black Sun | Black Sun | Maureen Fazendeiro | |
| Book of Hours | Book of Hours | Annie MacDonell | Canada |
| Circumplector | Circumplector | Gaston Solnicki | |
| Cézanne | Cézanne | Luke Fowler | |
| Endless Night | Longa noite | Eloy Enciso | Spain |
| The Fever | A Febre | Maya Da-Rin | Brazil, France, Germany |
| Un Film Dramatique | Un Film Dramatique | Éric Baudelaire | France |
| Fire Will Come | Fire Will Come | Oliver Laxe | Spain, France, Luxembourg |
| Heavy Metal Detox | Heavy Metal Detox | Josef Dabernig | |
| Heimat is a Space in Time | Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit | Thomas Heise | Germany, Austria |
| Hrvoji, Look at You from the Tower | Hrvoji, Look at You from the Tower | Ryan Ferko | Canada |
| Krabi, 2562 | Krabi, 2562 | Anocha Suwichakornpong, Ben Rivers | Thailand, United Kingdom |
| Liberté | Liberté | Albert Serra | France, Germany, Portugal, Spain |
| My Skin, Luminous | My Skin, Luminous | Gabino Rodríguez, Nicolás Pereda | Canada, Mexico |
| Remembrance: A Portrait Study | Remembrance: A Portrait Study | Edward Owens | |
| SaF05 | SaF05 | Charlotte Prodger | |
| Second Generation | Second Generation | Miryam Charles | Canada |
| Seven Years in May | Seven Years in May | Affonso Uchôa | Brazil |
| Slow Volumes | Slow Volumes | Mike Gibisser | |
| State Funeral | State Funeral | Sergei Loznitsa | Netherlands, Lithuania |
| Sun Rave | Sun Rave | Roy Samaha | |
| This Action Lies | This Action Lies | James N. Kienitz Wilkins | |
| Those That, At a Distance, Resemble Another | Those That, At a Distance, Resemble Another | Jessica Sarah Rinland |
| A Topography of Memory | A Topography of Memory | Burak Çevik | Turkey, Canada |
| Transcript | Transcript | Erica Sheu |
| (tourism studies) | (tourism studies) | Joshua Gen Solondz | |
| Vever (for Barbara) | Vever (for Barbara) | Deborah Stratman | |
| Vitalina Varela | Vitalina Varela | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
| We Still Have to Close Our Eyes | We Still Have to Close Our Eyes | John Torres | |
| Who's Afraid of Ideology? Part 2 | Who's Afraid of Ideology? Part 2 | Marwa Arsanios | |

## Canada's Top Ten

TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list, its national critics and festival programmers poll of the ten best feature and short films of the year, was released on 11 December 2019.

### Feature films

* And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux) – Louise Archambault
* Anne at 13,000 Ft. – Kazik Radwanski
* Antigone – Sophie Deraspe
* Black Conflux – Nicole Dorsey
* The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open – Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn
* Matthias & Maxime – Xavier Dolan
* Murmur – Heather Young
* One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk – Zacharias Kunuk
* The Twentieth Century – Matthew Rankin
* White Lie – Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis

### Short films

* Acadiana – Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau and Yannick Nolin
* Cityscape – Michael Snow
* Delphine – Chloé Robichaud
* Docking – Trevor Anderson
* I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain – Sofia Banzhaf
* Jarvik – Émilie Mannering
* No Crying at the Dinner Table – Carol Nguyen
* The Physics of Sorrow – Theodore Ushev
* Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You – Brandon Cronenberg
* Throat Singing in Kangirsuk (Katatjatuuk Kangirsumi) – Eva Kaukai and Manon Chamberland