2014 Toronto International Film Festival
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Festival poster | |
| Opening film | The Judge |
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| Closing film | A Little Chaos |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
| Number of films | 393 films |
| Festival date | 4–14 September 2014 |
| Website |
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The 39th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held in Canada from 4–14 September 2014.[1] David Dobkin's film The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall was the opening night film.[2] A Little Chaos, a British period drama directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet closed the festival.[3] More films for each section were announced on 12 August,[4] with the line-up completed on 19 August.[5] A total of 393 films were shown, including 143 world premieres.[6] The first Friday was dubbed "Bill Murray Day", as festival organisers dedicated a day to the actor by screening a select number of his films for free.[7]
Awards
| Award[8][9] | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| People's Choice Award | The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum |
| People's Choice Award First Runner Up | Learning to Drive | Isabel Coixet |
| People's Choice Award Second Runner Up | St. Vincent | Theodore Melfi |
| People's Choice Award, Documentary Winner | Beats of the Antonov | Hajooj Kuka |
| People's Choice Award, Documentary First Runner Up | Do I Sound Gay? | David Thorpe |
| People's Choice Award, Documentary Second Runner Up | Seymour: An Introduction | Ethan Hawke |
| People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness Winner | What We Do in the Shadows | Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement |
| People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness First Runner Up | Tusk | Kevin Smith |
| People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness Second Runner Up | Big Game | Jalmari Heleander |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | Felix and Meira | Maxime Giroux |
| Best Canadian Short Film | The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer | Randall Okita |
| Best Canadian First Feature Film | Bang Bang Baby | Jeffrey St. Jules |
| FIPRESCI Discovery | May Allah Bless France! | Abd al Malik |
| FIPRESCI Special Presentations | Time Out of Mind | Oren Moverman |
| Best International Short Film | A Single Body | Sotiris Dounoukos |
| Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere | Margarita, with a Straw | Shonali Bose |
Programmes
Gala Presentations
- Black and White by Mike Binder
- Boychoir by François Girard
- The Connection by Cedric Jimenez
- The Equalizer by Antoine Fuqua
- Escobar: Paradise Lost by Andrea Di Stefano
- The Forger by Philip Martin
- Foxcatcher by Bennett Miller
- Haemoo by Shim Sung-bo
- Infinitely Polar Bear by Maya Forbes
- The Judge by David Dobkin
- Laggies by Lynn Shelton
- A Little Chaos by Alan Rickman
- Maps to the Stars by David Cronenberg
- The New Girlfriend by François Ozon
- Pawn Sacrifice by Ed Zwick
- The Riot Club by Lone Scherfig
- Ruth & Alex by Richard Loncraine
- Samba by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano
- This is Where I Leave You by Shawn Levy
- Wild by Jean-Marc Vallée
Special Presentations
- 99 Homes by Ramin Bahrani
- American Heist by Sarik Andreasyan
- Before We Go by Chris Evans
- Beyond the Lights by Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Breakup Buddies by Ning Hao
- Cake by Daniel Barnz
- Clouds of Sils Maria by Olivier Assayas
- The Cobbler by Thomas McCarthy
- Coming Home by Zhang Yimou
- The Dead Lands by Toa Fraser
- Dearest by Peter Ho-Sun Chan
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 by Johnnie To
- The Drop by Michaël R. Roskam
- Eden by Mia Hansen-Løve
- Elephant Song by Charles Binamé
- An Eye for Beauty by Denys Arcand
- Far From Men by David Oelhoffen
- Force Majeure by Ruben Östlund
- The Gate by Régis Wargnier
- Gemma Bovery by Anne Fontaine
- Gentlemen by Mikael Marcimain
- Gomorrah by Stefano Sollima
- Good Kill by Andrew Niccol
- The Good Lie by Philippe Falardeau
- Hector and the Search for Happiness by Peter Chelsom
- Human Highway by Bernard Shakey and Dean Stockwell
- The Humbling by Barry Levinson
- Hungry Hearts by Saverio Costanzo
- The Imitation Game by Morten Tyldum
- Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet by Roger Allers, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Joan C. Gratz, Mohammed Saeed Harib, Tomm Moore, Nina Paley, Bill Plympton, Joann Sfar and Michal Socha
- The Keeping Room by Daniel Barber
- The Last 5 Years by Richard LaGravenese
- Learning to Drive by Isabel Coixet
- Love and Mercy by Bill Pohlad
- Madame Bovary by Sophie Bates
- Manglehorn by David Gordon Green
- Mary Kom by Omung Kumar
- Men, Women and Children by Jason Reitman
- Miss Julie by Liv Ullmann
- Mommy by Xavier Dolan
- Mr. Turner by Mike Leigh
- My Old Lady by Israel Horovitz
- Ned Rifle by Hal Hartley
- Nightcrawler by Dan Gilroy
- October Gale by Ruba Nadda
- Pasolini by Abel Ferrara
- Phoenix by Christian Petzold
- Preggoland by Jacob Tierney
- Pride by Matthew Warchus
- The Reach by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
- Red Amnesia by Wang Xiaoshuai
- Return to Ithaca by Laurent Cantet
- Revenge of the Green Dragons by Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo
- Roger Waters the Wall by Sean Evans and Roger Waters
- Rosewater by Jon Stewart
- The Search by Michel Hazanavicius
- A Second Chance by Susanne Bier
- Shelter by Paul Bettany
- The Sound and the Fury by James Franco
- St. Vincent by Theodore Melfi
- Still Alice by Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
- The Theory of Everything by James Marsh
- Three Hearts by Benoit Jacquot
- Time Out of Mind by Oren Moverman
- Top Five by Chris Rock
- Two Days, One Night by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Welcome to Me by Shira Piven
- While We're Young by Noah Baumbach
- Whiplash by Damien Chazelle
- Wild Tales by Damián Szifrón
TIFF Docs
- Beats of the Antonov by Hajooj Kuka
- I Am Here by Lixin Fan
- Iraqi Odyssey by Samir
- Merchants of Doubt by Robert Kenner
- National Diploma by Dieudo Hamadi
- National Gallery by Frederick Wiseman
- Natural Resistance by Jonathan Nossiter
- The Price We Pay by Harold Crooks
- Red Army by Gabe Polsky
- Seymour: An Introduction by Ethan Hawke
- Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait by Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan
- Sunshine Superman by Marah Strauch
- Tales of the Grim Sleeper by Nick Broomfield
- The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer
- This Is My Land by Tamara Erde
- The Yes Men Are Revolting by Laura Nix and The Yes Men
- Roger & Me by Michael Moore
- The Wanted 18 by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan[10]
Masters
- 1001 Grams by Bent Hamer
- A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence by Roy Andersson
- The Face of an Angel by Michael Winterbottom
- Foreign Body by Krzysztof Zanussi
- The Golden Era by Ann Hui
- Goodbye to Language by Jean-Luc Godard
- Hill of Freedom by Hong Sang-soo
- Leviathan by Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Murder in Pacot by Raoul Peck
- Revivre by Im Kwon-taek
- The Tale of Princess Kaguya by Isao Takahata
- Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako
- Trick or Treaty? by Alanis Obomsawin[11]
- Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Midnight Madness
- [REC]4 Apocalypse by Jaume Balagueró
- Big Game by Jalmari Heleander
- Cub by Jonas Govaerts
- The Editor by Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films by Mark Hartley
- It Follows by David Robert Mitchell
- The Guest by Adam Wingard
- Tokyo Tribe by Sion Sono (Opening Night film)
- Tusk by Kevin Smith
- What We Do in the Shadows by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement
Vanguard
- Alleluia by Fabrice Du Welz
- The Duke of Burgundy by Peter Strickland
- Goodnight Mommy by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala
- Hyena by Gerard Johnson
- Luna by Dave McKean
- Over Your Dead Body by Takashi Miike
- Shrew’s Nest by Juanfer Andrés and Esteban Roel
- Spring by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
- They Have Escaped by JP Valkeapää
- Waste Land by Pieter Van Hees
- The World of Kanako by Tetsuya Nakashima
- The Voices by Marjane Satrapi
Contemporary World Cinema
- Aire libre by Anahí Berneri
- Amour Fou by Jessica Hausner
- Behavior by Ernesto Daranas
- Bird People by Pascale Ferran
- Black Souls by Francesco Munzi
- Breathe by Mélanie Laurent
- Charlie's Country by Rolf de Heer
- Cut Bank by Matt Shakman
- Cut Snake by Tony Ayres
- The Dark Horse by James Napier Robertson
- Don't Breathe by Nino Kirtadze
- The Farewell Party by Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit
- Felix and Meira by Maxime Giroux
- Frailer by Mijke de Jong
- Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem by Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
- Girlhood by Céline Sciamma
- The Grump by Dome Karukoski
- Heartbeat by Andrea Dorfman
- High Society by Julie Lopes Curval
- Impunity by Jyoti Mistry
- In the Crosswind by Martti Helde
- Itsi Bitsi by Ole Christian Madsen
- Justice by Joel Lamangan
- Kabukicho Love Hotel by Ryūichi Hiroki
- Kill Me Three Times by Kriv Stenders
- Labyrinth of Lies by Giulio Ricciarelli
- Leopardi by Mario Martone
- The Lesson by Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
- Li'l Quinquin by Bruno Dumont
- Love in the Time of Civil War by Rodrigue Jean
- Lulu by Luis Ortega
- Margarita, with a Straw by Shonali Bose
- Meet Me in Montenegro by Alex Holdridge, Linnea Saasen
- Men Who Save the World by Liew Seng Tat
- Mirage by Szabolcs Hajdu
- Modris by Juris Kursietis
- Not My Type by Lucas Belvaux
- Out of Nature by Ole Giæver
- The Owners by Adilkhan Yerzhanov
- Partners in Crime by Chang Jung-Chi
- The Reaper by Zvonimir Jurić
- Red Rose by Sepideh Farsi
- Sand Dollars by Laura Amelia Guzmán, Israel Cárdenas
- Still the Water by Naomi Kawase
- Tales by Rakhshan Bani-E'temad
- Teen Lust by Blaine Thurier
- Tigers by Danis Tanovic
- Today by Reza Mirkarimi
- Tokyo Fiancée by Stefan Liberski
- Tour de Force by Christian Zübert
- Two Shots Fired by Martín Rejtman
- The Valley by Ghassan Salhab
- Venice by Kiki Álvarez
- Voice Over by Cristián Jiménez
- Where I Am King by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
- Who Am I – No System Is Safe by Baran bo Odar
- Xenia by Panos H. Koutras
- You're Sleeping, Nicole by Stéphane Lafleur
Short Cuts Canada
42 short films will be presented as part of Short Cuts Canada in 2014,[12] including:
- Me and My Moulton by Torill Kove
- CODA by Denis Poulin and Martine Époque
- The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer by Randall Okita
- Around Is Around and O Canada by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart[10]
- What Doesn't Kill You by Rob Grant
Discovery
- '71 by Yann Demange
- Adult Beginners by Ross Katz
- Atlantic by Jan-Willem van Ewijk
- Backcountry by Adam MacDonald
- Bang Bang Baby by Jeffrey St. Jules
- Big Muddy by Jefferson Moneo
- Corbo by Mathieu Denis
- The Crow's Egg by M. Manikandan
- Dukhtar by Afia Nathaniel
- Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere by Nguyen Hoang Diep
- The Great Man by Sarah Leonor
- Guidance by Pat Mills
- I Am Not Lorena by Isidora Marras
- In Her Place by Albert Shin
- The Intruder by Shariff Korver
- La Salada by Juan Martin Hsu
- Life in a Fishbowl by Baldvin Zophoniasson
- The Little Death by Josh Lawson
- Los Hongos by Oscar Ruiz Navia
- Magical Girl by Carlos Vermut
- Mardan by Batin Ghobadi
- May Allah Bless France! by Abd al Malik
- The Narrow Frame of Midnight by Tala Hadid
- Obra by Gregorio Graziosi
- Red Alert by Barry Avrich
- Run by Philippe Lacote
- Second Coming by Debbie Tucker Green
- Without Pity by Michele Alhaique
- Songs She Wrote About People She Knows by Kris Elgstrand
- Stories of Our Lives by Jim Chuchu
- Sway by Rooth Tang
- Theeb by Naji Abu Nowar
- The Tribe by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
- Unlucky Plaza by Ken Kwek
- The Valley Below by Kyle Thomas
- The Vanished Elephant by Javier Fuentes-León
- Villa Touma by Suha Arraf
- We Were Wolves by Jordan Canning
- Wet Bum by Lindsay MacKay
- X+Y by Morgan Matthews
Canada's Top Ten
In December, TIFF programmers released their annual list of the films selected as the ten best Canadian films of 2014.[13] The selected films received a followup screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as a "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in January 2015.[13]
- Corbo by Mathieu Denis
- Felix and Meira by Maxime Giroux
- In Her Place by Albert Shin
- Maps to the Stars by David Cronenberg
- Mommy by Xavier Dolan
- Monsoon by Sturla Gunnarsson
- The Price We Pay by Harold Crooks
- Sol by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Susan Avingaq
- Tu dors Nicole by Stéphane Lafleur
- Violent by Andrew Huculiak
References
- ↑ "Toronto International Film Festival". TIFF. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- ↑ "Toronto Sets Robert Downey Jr’s ‘The Judge’ As Opening-Night Film". Deadline. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ↑ "Toronto Film Festival Lineup Includes Denzel Washington’s ‘Equalizer,’ Kate Winslet’s ‘A Little Chaos’". Variety. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ↑ "TIFF Adds 'Clouds of Sils Maria' and 'Two Days, One Night,' Reveals 5 More Lineups". Indiewire. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
- ↑ "Toronto Film Festival Completes Lineup". Variety. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ↑ "Bill Murray mints fresh Toronto film festival 2014 lineup with St Vincent". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ↑ "Toronto Film Festival 2014 holds Bill Murray Day". BBC News. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- ↑ "‘The Imitation Game’ Wins Toronto Audience Award". The Wrap, 14 September 2014.
- ↑ "Imitation Game wins Toronto top prize". BBC News, 14 September 2014.
- 1 2 Wolfe, Jennifer (7 August 2014). "Seven NFB Films to Screen at TIFF 2014". Animation World Network. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
- ↑ Walker, Connie (6 August 2014). "Alanis Obomsawin's Trick or Treaty? to screen at TIFF 2014". CBC News (Toronto). Retrieved 6 August 2014.
- ↑ Cipriani, Casey (6 August 2014). "Toronto International Film Festival Reveals Slate of Canadian Features and Short Films". Indiewire. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
- 1 2 "TIFF announces its top 10 Canadian films of 2014". CBC News, December 2, 2014.
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