2015 Toronto International Film Festival

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The 40th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 10 to 20 September 2015.[1] On 28 July 2015 the first wave of films to be screened at the Festival was announced. Jean-Marc Vallée's Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts was the opening night film;[2][3] Mr. Right by Paco Cabezas was the closing night film.[4]

This year's edition included two new sections called Platform and Primetime. At Platform, twelve films will be screened in front of a jury, with the Best Film winning C$25,000.[5][6] Film directors Claire Denis, Jia Zhangke, and Agnieszka Holland were selected as the jurors for this section.[7][8] At Primetime, six high-quality television programs will be presented at public screenings with Question and Answer sessions with show creators.[9][10] The lineups for the TIFF Docs, Vanguard, Midnight Madness, and Masters sections were announced on 11 August 2015.[11] More than 100 films were added to the festival's programme on 18 August.[12][13] The new program titled In Conversation replaced the Maverick section.[14]

Awards

The festival's final awards were announced on 20 September.

Award Film Director
People's Choice Award Room Lenny Abrahamson
People's Choice Award First Runner Up Angry Indian Goddesses Pan Nalin
People's Choice Award Second Runner Up Spotlight Tom McCarthy
People's Choice Award, Documentary Winner Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom Evgeny Afineevsky
People's Choice Award, Documentary First Runner Up This Changes Everything Avi Lewis
People's Choice Award, Documentary Second Runner Up Al Purdy Was Here Brian D. Johnson
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness Winner Hardcore Ilya Naishuller
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness First Runner Up The Final Girls Todd Strauss-Schulson
People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness Second Runner Up Green Room Jeremy Saulnier
Platform Prize Hurt Alan Zweig
Best Canadian Feature Film Closet Monster Stephen Dunn
Best Canadian Short Film Overpass Patrice Laliberté
Best Canadian First Feature Film Sleeping Giant Andrew Cividino
Special Citation, Canadian Feature Film My Internship in Canada Philippe Falardeau
Dropbox Discovery Program Filmmakers Award Black Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah
FIPRESCI Discovery Prize Eva Nová Marko Skop
FIPRESCI Special Presentations Desierto Jonás Cuarón
Best International Short Film Maman(s) Maïmouna Doucouré
Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere The Whispering Star Sion Sono

Programmes

Gala presentations

Special Presentations

Vanguard

TIFF Docs

Short Cuts Canada

Wavelengths

Discovery

Contemporary World Cinema

Midnight Madness

Masters

City to City: London

Cinematheque

TIFF Kids

Platform

Primetime

Canada's Top Ten

In December, TIFF programmers released their annual list of the films selected as the ten best Canadian films of 2015.[15] The selected films will receive a followup screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as a "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in January 2016, as well as in selected other cities including Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax.[15]

References

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