Key: Features (40min. and up) are in bold. Shorts are in italics. ★ - I have seen this film and recommend it (6.0 and higher) ✖ - I have seen this film and recommend you don't (3.9 and lower). ● - I have seen this film. It's aight. ○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film. 📺 - This is a TV show. ⌛️ - This film is over 150 minutes long. 🍁 - This film is predominantly Canadian AFAICT. ® - This film has a Canadian distributor. ® - This film has a US distributor. 16mm, 35mm, 70mm - It'll be screened from a film print.- Triple D. Colour coding: NYFF - Main Selection only, sans Opening, Closing, and Centerpiece films. SUNDANCE - Certain Movies. BERLINALE - Films to Come. CANNES - Ma' goodness. LOCARNO - Ma' tías. VENICE - Ma' lick. NOTABLES - Bonello. Also, films by other filmmakers whose new work I actively anticipate (perhaps ill-advisedly) or that got good notices from another major festival (e.g. Rotterdam, BAFICI, SxSW, Tribeca, etc.). (Colours trump whatever is below them, so e.g. a film that played both Cannes and Locarno will be gold, unless e.g. it ends up in the NYFF Main Slate in which case it will become purple.)
Special Presentations (69; last year: 56)
The Age of Shadows (Kim Jee woon)
All I See is You (Marc Forster)
American Honey (Andrea Arnold) ⌛️ ® ® ●
American Pastoral (Ewan McGregor) ® ®
Asura: The City of Madness (Kim Sung-soo)
Barakah Meets Barakah (Mahmoud Sabbagh)
Barry (Vikram Gandhi) ®
Below Her Mouth (April Mullen) 🍁 ®
The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker) ® ® ○
Birth of the Dragon (George Nolfi)
Bleed for This (Ben Younger) ®
The Bleeder (Philippe Falardeau) 🍁 ®
Blue Jay (Alex Lehmann)
Brain on Fire (Gerard Barrett) ® ®
Brimstone (Martin Koolhoven)
BrOTHERHOOD (Noel Clarke)
Burn Your Maps (Jordan Roberts) ®
Carrie Pilby (Susan Johnson)
Catfight (Onur Tukel) ○
Christine (Antonio Campos) ® ® ★
City of Tiny Lights (Pete Travis)
The Commune (Thomas Vinterberg)
A Death in the Gunj (Konkona Sensharma)
Denial (Mick Jackson) ® ®
The Duelist (Alexey Mizgirev) ®
Elle (Paul Verhoeven) ® ® ★
The Exception (David Leveaux)
Foreign Body (Raja Amari)
Frantz (François Ozon) ○
The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook) ® ® ●
Harmonium (Kôji Fukada) ® ® ●
I Am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang)
I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach) ® ® ●
In Dubious Battle (James Franco)
It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan) 🍁 ® ® 35mm ✖
The Journey (Nick Hamm)
King of the Dancehall (Nick Cannon)
La La Land (Damien Chazelle) ® ® ○
Leehom Wang’s Open Fire Concert Film (Homeboy Music, Inc.)
The Limehouse Golem (Juan Carlos Medina)
Lion (Garth Davis) ® ®
The Long Excuse (Miwa Nishikawa)
Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) ® ® ★
Mascots (Christopher Guest) ® ○
Maudie (Aisling Walsh) ®
Mean Dreams (Nathan Morlando) 🍁 ®
Neruda (Pablo Larraín) ® ® ○
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford) ® ®
The Oath (Baltasar Kormákur)
150 Milligrams (Emmanuelle Bercot) ®
Orphan (Arnaud des Pallières)
Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch) ® ® ★
Rage (Sang-il Lee)
(re)ASSIGNMENT (Walter Hill) ○
The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi) ® ★
Salt and Fire (Werner Herzog) ○
Sing (Garth Jennings) ® ®
Souvenir (Bavo Defurne)
Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve) ® ® ★
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade) ⌛️ ® ® ★
Trespass Against Us (Adam Smith) ® ®
Two Lovers and a Bear (Kim Nguyen) 🍁 ®
Una (Benedict Andrews)
Unless (Alan Gilsenan) ®
Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey (Terrence Malick) ○
Wakefield (Robin Swicord)
The Wasted Times (Cheng Er)
Weirdos (Bruce McDonald) 🍁 ®
Window Horses (The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming) (Ann Marie Fleming) 🍁 ®
TIFF Docs (37; last year: 30)
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James) ○
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and The Spirit of I.F. Stone (Fred Peabody) 🍁 ®
Amanda Knox (Brian McGinn & Rod Blackhurst) ® ®
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (Errol Morris) ○
Beauties of the Night (María José Cuevas)
Bezness as Usual (Alex Pitstra)
Black Code (Nicholas de Pencier) 🍁 ®
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary (John Scheinfeld)
The Cinema Travellers (Shirley Abraham & Amit Madheshiya)
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (Matt Tyrnauer)
Forever Pure (Maya Zinshtein)
Gaza Surf Club (Philip Gnadt & Mickey Yamine)
Giants of Africa (Hubert Davis) 🍁
Gimme Danger (Jim Jarmusch) ® ®
Girl Unbound (Erin Heidenreich)
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (Nanette Burstein)
I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)
I Called Him Morgan (Kasper Collin) ®
In Exile (Tin Win Naing)
India in a Day (Richie Mehta)
An Insignificant Man (Khushboo Ranka & Vinay Shukla)
Into the Inferno (Werner Herzog & Clive Oppenheimer) ® ® ○
The Ivory Game (Kief Davidson & Richard Ladkani) ®
Karl Marx City (Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker)
Mali Blues (Lutz Gregor)
Mostly Sunny (Dilip Mehta) 🍁 ®
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (Mohanad Yaqubi)
Politics, Instructions Manual (Fernando León de Aranoa)
The River of My Dreams (Brigitte Berman) 🍁
Rodnye (Close Relations) (Vitaly Mansky)
The 6th Beatle (Tony Guma & John Rose)
The Skyjacker’s Tale (Jamie Kastner) 🍁 ®
The Stairs (Hugh Gibson) 🍁
The Terry Kath Experience (Michelle Sinclair)
The Turning Point (Fisher Stevens)
The War Show (Andreas Dalsgaard & Obaidah Zytoon)
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life (Fariborz Kamkari)
Contemporary World Cinema (35; last year: 60)
After Love (Joachim Lafosse) ®
The Animal’s Wife (Víctor Gaviria)
Apprentice (Boo Junfeng) ® ®
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho) ® ® ★
Ayiti Mon Amour (Guetty Felin)
Boundaries (Chloé Robichaud) 🍁 ®
Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces (Yousry Nasrallah)
Clair Obscur (Yeşim Ustaoğlu)
Death in Sarajevo (Danis Tanović)
A Decent Woman (Lukas Valenta Rinner)
Ember (Zeki Demirkubuz) ○
The Fixer (Adrian Sitaru)
Handsome Devil (John Butler)
Heaven Will Wait (Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar)
In Between (Maysaloun Hamoud)
Indivisible (Edoardo de Angelis)
Marie Curie, The Courage of Knowledge (Marie Noëlle)
Mister Universo (Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel) ○
Past Life (Avi Nesher)
The Patriarch (Lee Tamahori)
Pyromaniac (Erik Skjoldbjærg)
The Rehearsal (Alison Maclean) ® ○
The Road to Mandalay (Midi Z)
Santa & Andres (Carlos Lechuga)
Soul on a String (Zhang Yang)
Tamara and the Ladybug (Lucía Carreras)
Tramps (Adam Leon) ○
Vaya Akin (Omotoso)
We Are Never Alone (Petr Vaclav)
The Wedding Ring (Rahmatou Keïta)
White Sun (Deepak Rauniyar)
The Women’s Balcony (Emil Ben Shimon)
X Quinientos (Juan Andrés Arango) 🍁 ®
Zaćma: Blindness (Ryszard Bugajski) ®
Zoology (Ivan I. Tverdovsky)
Discovery (35; last year: 30)
ARQ (Tony Elliott) 🍁 ® ®
Blessed Benefit (Mahmoud al Massad)
Boys in the Trees (Nicholas Verso)
Divines (Houda Benyamina) ○
The Empty Box (Claudia Sainte-Luce)
The Fury of a Patient Man (Raúl Arévalo)
The Giant (Johannes Nyholm)
Godless (Ralitza Petrova) ○
Guilty Men (Iván D. Gaona)
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen) ★
Heartstone (Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson)
Hello Destroyer (Kevan Funk) 🍁
Hunting Flies (Izer Aliu)
In the Blood (Rasmus Heisterberg)
In the Radiant City (Rachel Lambert)
Jean of the Joneses (Stella Meghie) 🍁 ®
Jeffrey (Yanillys Perez)
Jesús (Fernando Guzzoni)
Joe Cinque’s Consolation (Sotiris Dounoukos)
Kati Kati (Mbithi Masya)
Katie Says Goodbye (Wayne Roberts) ○
Flemish Heaven (Peter Monsaert)
The Levelling (Hope Dickson Leach)
Little Wing (Selma Vilhunen)
Mad World (Wong Chun)
Marija (Michael Koch)
Noces (Stephan Streker)
Old Stone (Johnny Ma) 🍁 ® ®
Park (Sofia Exarchou)
Prank (Vincent Biron) 🍁 ® ®
The Red Turtle (Michäel Dudok de Wit) ●
Sámi Blood (Amanda Kernell)
Sand Storm (Elite Zexer)
Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie) 🍁 ® ●
Wùlu (Daouda Coulibaly)
Masters (24; last year: 13)
After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda) ® ○
Afterimage (Andrzej Wajda)
Anatomy of Violence (Deepa Mehta) 🍁
The Bait (Buddhadeb Dasgupta)
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (Wim Wenders)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt) ® ® ★
Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi) ® ® ●
Graduation (Christian Mungiu) ® ® ●
Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) ® ®
J: Beyond Flamenco (Carlos Saura)
Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar) ® ® ●
Land of the Gods (Goran Paskaljević)
Ma’ Rosa (Brillante Mendoza) ✖
The Net (Kim Ki-duk) ○
Never Ever (Benoît Jacquot) ○
Once Again (Adoor Gopalakrishnan)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas) ® ® ★
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) ® ★
Safari (Ulrich Seidl) ○
Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu) ⌛️ ® ●
Sweet Dreams (Marco Bellocchio) ●
The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) ® ® ●
We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice (Alanis Obomsawin) 🍁 ⌛️ ® ®
Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo) ○
Wavelengths (22; last year: 26, including shorts programs and installations)
Austerlitz (Sergei Loznitsa) ●
By the Time it Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong) ●
The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra) ® ® ★
The Dreamed Ones (Ruth Beckermann) ●
The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec) ★
General Report II. The New Abduction of Europe (Pere Portabella) ○
Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro) ★
The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams) ★
I Had Nowhere to Go (Douglas Gordon) ○
Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki) ○
Mimosas (Oliver Laxe) ® ® ●
The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues) ○
Ta’ang (Wang Bing) ●
The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz) ⌛️ ●
Wavelengths 1: The Fire Within ○
– Silueta Sangrienta (Ana Mendieta)
– Há Terra! (Ana Vaz) ●
– Venus Delta (Antoinette Zwirchmayr) 16mm
– 025 Sunset Red (Laida Lertxundi) 16mm
– Untitled, 1925 (Madi Piller) 🍁
– Children of Lir (Katherin McInnis)
– Burning mountains that spew flame (Helena Girón & Samuel M. Delgado)
– Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece) (Ana Mendieta)
Wavelengths 2: Incantati ○
– Incantati (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
– Cilaos (Camilo Restrepo)
– An Aviation Field (Joana Pimenta)
– Strange Vision of Seeing Things (Ryan Ferko) 🍁
– Ears, Nose and Throat (Kevin Jerome Everson)
– Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (Tomonari Nishikawa) 16mm
– Luna e Santur (Joshua Gen Solondz) 35mm
Wavelengths 3: Post-performance ○
– Untitled (Björn Kämmerer) 35mm
– What’s New (Nina Könnemann)
– Foyer (Ismaïl Bahri)
– 350 MYA (Terra Long) 🍁 16mm
– I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become (Sky Hopinka)
– Dark Adaptation (Chris Gehman) 🍁
– The Watershow Extravaganza (Sophie Michael) 16mm
Wavelengths 4: Indefinite ○
– Flowers of the Sky (Janie Geiser)
– Ayhan and me (belit sağ)
– AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN (Manuela De Laborde) 16mm
– Indefinite Pitch (James N. Kienitz Wilkins) ●
Wavelengths Installations
– Ana Mendieta: Siluetas (Ana Mendieta) – CONTACT Gallery ○
– Nightlife (Cyprien Gaillard) – Lightbox Cinema 2 ○
– Rudzienko (Sharon Lockhart) – Gallery TPW ○
– Singularity (Albert Serra) – 99 Sudbury ○
Gala Presentations (20; last year: 20)
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve) 🍁 ® ® ○
Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg) ® ®
The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon) ® ®
The Headhunter’s Calling (Mark Williams) 🍁
The Journey is the Destination (Bronwen Hughes)
JT + The Tennessee Kids (Jonathan Demme)
LBJ (Rob Reiner)
Loving (Jeff Nichols) ® ® ✖
The Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua) ® ®
A Monster Calls (J.A. Bayona) ® ®
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) ® ®
Planetarium (Rebecca Zlotowski) ○
The Promise (Terry George)
Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair) ® ®
The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America (Paul Dugdale)
The Secret Scripture (Jim Sheridan)
Snowden (Oliver Stone) ® ®
Strange Weather (Katherine Dieckmann)
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig)
A United Kingdom (Amma Asante)
Vanguard (13; last year: 15)
The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour) ® ○
Blind Sun (Joyce A. Nashawati)
Buster’s Mal Heart (Sarah Adina Smith)
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) ○
Godspeed (Chung Mong-Hong)
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (Osgood Perkins) ® ®
Interchange (Dain Iskandar Said)
Message from the King (Fabrice Du Welz) ® ○
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw) ○
Nelly (Anne Émond) 🍁 ® ○
Prevenge (Alice Lowe)
The Untamed (Amat Escalante) ○
WITHOUT NAME (Lorcan Finnegan)
Platform (12; last year: 12)
Daguerrotype (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) ○
Goldstone (Ivan Sen)
Heal the Living (Katell Quillévéré) ○
Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait (Khyentse Norbu)
Home (Fien Troch)
Jackie (Pablo Larraín) ○
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd)
Layla M. (Mijke de Jong)
Maliglutit (Searchers) (Zacharias Kunuk) 🍁 ®
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) ® ●
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello) ★
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Mathieu Denis & Simon Lavoie) 🍁 ⌛️ ® ○
TIFF Cinematheque (11; last year: 9)
The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo) ★
A Cool Sound from Hell (1959, Sidney J. Furie) 🍁 ○
Daughters of the Dust (1991, Julie Dash) ○
General Report on Certain Matters of Interest for a Public Screening (1977, Pere Portabella) ⌛️ ○
The Horse Thief (1986, Tian Zhuangzhuang) 35mm ○
Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas) ★
Lumière! (Auguste & Louis Lumière) ○
One-Eyed Jacks (1961, Marlon Brando) ○
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977, Agnès Varda) ○
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo del Toro) ●
Something Wild (1986, Jonathan Demme) 35mm ★
Midnight Madness (10; last year: 10)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (André Øvredal) ®
The Belko Experiment (Greg McLean)
Blair Witch (Adam Wingard) ® ®
Dog Eat Dog (Paul Schrader) ® ® ●
Free Fire (Ben Wheatley) ® ® ○
The Girl with All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy) ® ®
Headshot (Kimo Stamboel & Timo Tjahjanto)
Rats (Morgan Spurlock) ®
Raw (Julia Ducournau) ® ○
Sadako vs. Kayako (Kôji Shiraishi) ® ®
City to City: Lagos (last year: 8)
The Arbitration (Niyi Akinmolayan)
Green White Green (Abba Makama)
Just Not Married (Uduak-Obong Patrick)
93 Days (Steve Gukas)
Okafor’s Law (Omoni Oboli)
76 (Izu Ojukwu)
Taxi Driver (Daniel Emeke Oriahi)
The Wedding Party (Kemi Adetiba)
Primetime (5; last year: 6)
Black Mirror [episodes: San Junipero and Nosedive] (Owen Harris & Joe Wright) 📺
nirvanna the band the show [three episodes] (Matt Johnson) 🍁 📺 ® ®
Transparent [episodes: 1, 2 and 3] (Jill Soloway & Silas Howard) 📺
Tuko Macho [two episodes] (Jim Chuchu) 📺
Wasteland [complete miniseries] (Ivan Zachariáš & Alice Nellis) 📺
TIFF Kids (4; last year: 4)
The Day My Father Became a Bush (Nicole van Kilsdonk)
The Eagle Huntress (Otto Bell)
Miss Impossible (Emilie Deleuze)
My Life as a Courgette (Claude Barras) ○
Short Cuts [Both “Canada” and “International”]
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