Toronto film festival 2017

[Chris Knipp]

Toronto 2017 begins. 7 - 17 September 2017.

Here is a partial list of the TFF 2017 slate. The films list has been reduced by 20% from 2016 in response to complaints by attendees that it had become too hard to negotiate because of its size. A Wikipedia article says that "according to a "fact sheet" released by the Festival before it began, this edition includes 255 feature-length films and 84 short films" and " Of the feature films, 147 are claimed to be world premieres. The number of Canadian films at the Festival (including co-productions) is listed as 28 features and 29 shorts."

For Toronto we can follow Mike D'Angelo's coverage via Tweets. He was not at Cannes even merely as an observer this year and is giving all his attention to Toronto, where he notes it's his 18th time. He's not covering Toronto for any publication either, but he is attending press screenings and I'll transcribe his Twitter review/ratings as before. We'll also survey some other reviews such as Variety's and those of The Guardian, for whom Peter Bradshaw is on hand.

Opening film:
Borg/McEnroe by Janus Metz Pedersen
Closing film:
C'est la vie! by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano

Gala presentations
55 Steps by Bille August
Borg/McEnroe by Janus Metz Pedersen
Breathe by Andy Serkis
C'est la vie! by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano
Chappaquiddick by John Curran
Darkest Hour by Joe Wright
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool by Paul McGuigan
Hochelaga, Land of Souls by François Girard
Kings by Deniz Gamze Ergüven
The Leisure Seeker by Paolo Virzì
Long Time Running by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier
Mary Shelley by Haifaa al-Mansour
The Mountain Between Us by Hany Abu-Assad
Mudbound by Dee Rees
My Days of Mercy by Tali Shalom Ezer
Stronger by David Gordon Green
Three Christs by Jon Avnet
The Upside by Neil Burger
The Wife by Björn Runge
Woman Walks Ahead by Susanna White

Special presentations
120 Beats per Minute by Robin Campillo
A Fantastic Woman by Sebastián Lelio
A Season in France by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Battle of the Sexes by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
The Brawler by Anurag Kashyap
The Breadwinner by Nora Twomey
Call Me by Your Name by Luca Guadagnino
The Captain by Robert Schwentke
Catch the Wind by Gaël Morel
The Children Act by Richard Eyre
The Conformist by Cai Shangjun
The Cured by David Freyne
The Current War by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Disobedience by Sebastián Lelio
Downsizing by Alexander Payne
The Escape by Dominic Savage
Eye on Juliet by Kim Nguyen
First They Killed My Father by Angelina Jolie
The Florida Project by Sean Baker
Foxtrot by Samuel Maoz
The Guardians by Xavier Beauvois
Hostiles by Scott Cooper
The Hungry by Bornila Chatterjee
I Love You, Daddy by Louis C.K.
In the Fade by Fatih Akin
I, Tonya by Craig Gillespie
Journey's End by Saul Dibb
The Killing of a Sacred Deer by Yorgos Lanthimos
Kodachrome by Mark Raso
Lady Bird by Greta Gerwig
Lean on Pete by Andrew Haigh
Loving Pablo by Fernando León de Aranoa
Manhunt by John Woo
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House by Peter Landesman
Marrowbone by Sergio G. Sánchez
Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller by Jerry Kramer
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno by Abdellatif Kechiche
Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D by John Landis
Molly's Game by Aaron Sorkin
Mother! by Darren Aronofsky
The Motive by Manuel Martín Cuenca
Novitiate by Margaret Betts
Number One by Tonie Marshall
Omerta by Hansal Mehta
On Chesil Beach by Dominic Cooke
Outside In by Lynn Shelton
Papillon by Michael Noer
Plonger by Mélanie Laurent
The Price of Success by Teddy Lussi-Modeste
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women by Angela Robinson
Racer and the Jailbird by Michaël R. Roskam
Radiance by Naomi Kawase
Redoubtable by Michel Hazanavicius
The Rider by Chloé Zhao
Roman J. Israel, Esq. by Dan Gilroy
The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro
Sheikh Jackson by Amr Salama
The Square by Ruben Östlund
Submergence by Wim Wenders
Suburbicon by George Clooney
Thelma by Joachim Trier
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri by Martin McDonagh
Three Peaks by Jan Zabeil
Unicorn Store by Brie Larson
Victoria & Abdul by Stephen Frears
Who We Are Now by Matthew Newton
You Disappear by Peter Schønau Fog
Youth by Feng Xiaogang

Midnight Madness
Bodied by Joseph Kahn
Brawl in Cell Block 99 by S. Craig Zahler
The Crescent by Seth A. Smith
The Disaster Artist by James Franco
Downrange by Ryuhei Kitamura
Great Choice by Robin Comisar
Let the Corpses Tan by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
Mom and Dad by Brian Taylor
Revenge by Coralie Fargeat
The Ritual by David Bruckner
Vampire Clay by Sôichi Umezawa

Masters
The Day After by Hong Sang-soo
Faces Places by Agnès Varda and JR
First Reformed by Paul Schrader
Happy End by Michael Haneke
The House by the Sea by Robert Guédiguian
Loveless by Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Other Side of Hope by Aki Kaurismäki
Our People Will Be Healed by Alanis Obomsawin
Rainbow - A Private Affair by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
The Third Murder by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Zama by Lucrecia Martel

Documentaries
Azmaish: A Journey through the Subcontinent by Sabiha Sumar
BOOM FOR REAL The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat by Sara Driver
The Carter Effect by Sean Menard
The China Hustle by Jed Rothstein
Cocaine Prison by Violeta Ayala
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars by Lili Fini Zanuck
Ex Libris – The New York Public Library by Frederick Wiseman
The Final Year by Greg Barker
The Gospel According to André by Kate Novack
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami by Sophie Fiennes
JIM & ANDY: the Great Beyond – the story of Jim Carrey & Andy Kaufman featuring a very special, contractually obligated mention of Tony Clifton by Chris Smith
Jane by Brett Morgen
The Judge by Erika Cohn
The Legend of the Ugly King by Hüseyin Tabak
Living Proof by Matt Embry
Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle by Gustavo Salmerón
Love Means Zero by Jason Kohn
The Other Side of Everything by Mila Turajlić
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me by Sam Pollard
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood by Matt Tyrnauer
Silas by Hawa Essuman and Anjali Nayar
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! by Morgan Spurlock
There Is a House Here by Alan Zweig
Contemporary World Cinema[edit]
Les Affamés by Robin Aubert (fr)
Alanis by Anahí Berneri
Ana, mon amour by Călin Peter Netzer
Angels Wear White by Vivian Qu
April's Daughter by Michel Franco
Arrhythmia by Boris Khlebnikov
Beyond Words by Urszula Antoniak
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales... by Benjamin Renner, Patrick Imbert
Birds Without Names by Kazuya Shiraishi
Black Kite by Tarique Qayumi
Breath by Simon Baker
A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano
Dark is the Night by Adolfo Alix Jr.
Directions by Stephan Komandarev
Disappearance by Boudewijn Koole
Don't Talk to Irene by Pat Mills
Euthanizer by Teemu Nikki
Félicité by Alain Gomis
Good Favour by Rebecca Daly
Hannah by Andrea Pallaoro
The Insult by Ziad Doueiri
Insyriated by Philippe Van Leeuw
The Journey by Mohamed Al-Daradji
Life and Nothing More by Antonio Méndez Esparza
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Simon Lavoie
The Lodgers by Brian O'Malley
Longing by Savi Gabizon
Looking for Oum Kulthum by Shirin Neshat
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts by Mouly Surya
Meditation Park by Mina Shum
Miami by Zaida Bergroth
Motorrad by Vicente Amorim
Nina by Juraj Lehotský
The Number by Khalo Matabane
On Body and Soul by Ildikó Enyedi
Porcupine Lake by Ingrid Veninger
Public Schooled by Kyle Rideout
Pyewacket by Adam MacDonald
The Royal Hibiscus Hotel by Ishaya Bako
Samui Song by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Sergio & Sergei by Ernesto Daranas Serrano
A Sort of Family by Diego Lerman
The Summit by Santiago Mitre
Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle by Mike van Diem
Under the Tree by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Veronica by Paco Plaza
Wajib by Annemarie Jacir
Western by Valeska Grisebach