The 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 6 to 16, 2018. In June 2018, the TIFF organizers announced a program to ensure that at least 20 percent of all film critics and journalists given press accreditation to the festival were members of underrepresented groups, such as women and people of color."TIFF to spotlight underrepresented film critics, journalists". The Globe and Mail, June 14, 2018. The People's Choice Award was won by Green Book, directed by Peter Farrelly.
Awards
Award Film Director People's Choice Award Green Book Peter Farrelly People's Choice Award, First Runner Up If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins People's Choice Award, Second Runner Up Roma Alfonso Cuarón People's Choice Award: Documentary Free Solo E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin People's Choice Award: Documentary, First Runner Up This Changes Everything Tom Donahue People's Choice Award: Documentary, Second Runner Up The Biggest Little Farm John Chester People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness The Man Who Feels No Pain (Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota) Vasan Bala People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness, First Runner Up Halloween David Gordon Green People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness, Second Runner Up Assassination Nation Sam Levinson Platform Prize Cities of Last Things Ho Wi Ding Platform Prize, Honourable Mention The River Emir Baigazin Best Canadian Feature Film The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) Sébastien Pilote Best Canadian Short Film Brotherhood (Ikhwène) Meryam Joobeur Best Canadian Short Film, Honourable Mention Fauve Jérémy Comte Best Canadian First Feature Film Roads in February (Les routes en février) Katherine Jerkovic FIPRESCI Discovery Prize Float Like a Butterfly Carmel Winters FIPRESCI Discovery Prize, Honourable Mention Twin Flower Laura Luchetti FIPRESCI Special Presentations Skin Guy Nattiv FIPRESCI Special Presentations, Honourable Mention A Faithful Man Louis Garrel Best International Short Film The Field Sandhya Suri Best International Short Film, Honourable Mention Fuck You Anette Sidor Best International Short Film, Honourable Mention This Magnificent Cake! (Ce magnifique gâteau !) Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere The Third Wife Ash Mayfair Netpac Award, Honourable Mention The Crossing Bai Xue Eurimages Audentia Award Fig Tree Alamork Davidian Eurimages Audentia Award, Honourable Mention Phoenix Camilla Strøm Henriksen
Juries Platform Jury Lee Chang-dong"TIFF reveals Cannes-centric jury for 2018 Platform competition". The Globe and Mail, May 10, 2018. Béla Tarr Mira Nair
Canadian Feature Film Jury Mathieu Denis Ali Özgentürk Michelle Shephard
Short Cuts Film Jury Claire Diao Molly McGlynn Michael Pearce
Programme The first slate of galas and special presentations was announced on July 24, 2018. The festival's lineup of Canadian films was announced on August 1, and the lineup for the Platform program was announced on August 8."TIFF 2018: Nicole Kidman, Elisabeth Moss films to compete for Platform Prize". Now, August 8, 2018. Two days later, the Documentaries lineup was announced, with additional films added to the Midnight Madness programme. Additional films were added to respective lineups on August 14.TIFF Adds More High-Profile Titles, Including Jonah Hill's 'Mid90s,' 'Boy Erased,' 'Hold the Dark,' and Many More, Indiewire, August 14, 2018.
Gala presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country Beautiful Boy Felix Van Groeningen United States Everybody Knows Todos lo saben Asghar Farhadi Spain, France, Italy First Man Damien Chazelle United States Green Book Peter Farrelly United States The Hate U Give George Tillman Jr. United States Hidden Man 邪不压正 Jiang Wen China High Life Claire Denis France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, United States Husband Material Manmarziyaan Anurag Kashyap India JT LeRoy Justin Kelly Canada, United Kingdom, United States The Kindergarten Teacher Sara Colangelo United States The Land of Steady Habits Nicole Holofcener United States The Lie Veena Sud Canada, United States Life Itself Dan Fogelman United States Outlaw King David Mackenzie United Kingdom, United States A Private War Matthew Heineman United States The Public Emilio Estevez United States Shadow 影 Zhang Yimou China A Star Is Born Bradley Cooper United States What They Had Elizabeth Chomko United States Widows Steve McQueen United States
Special presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country 22 July Paul Greengrass United States American Woman Jake Scott United Kingdom, United States Anthropocene: The Human Epoch Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky Canada Baby Bao bai er Liu Jie China Ben Is Back Peter Hedges United States Boy Erased Joel Edgerton United States Burning Beoning Lee Chang-dong South Korea, Japan Can You Ever Forgive Me? Marielle Heller United States Capernaum Cafarnaüm Nadine Labaki Lebanon Cold War Zimna wojna Paweł Pawlikowski Poland Colette Wash Westmoreland United Kingdom, United States, Hungary The Death and Life of John F. Donovan Xavier Dolan Canada Dogman Matteo Garrone Italy Driven Nick Hamm United Kingdom, United States A Faithful Man L'Homme fidèle Louis Garrel France The Fall of the American Empire La Chute de l'empire américain Denys Arcand Canada The Front Runner Jason Reitman United States Giant Little Ones Keith Behrman Canada Girls of the Sun Les Filles du soleil Eva Husson France Gloria Bell Sebastián Lelio Chile, United States Greta Neil Jordan Ireland, United States The Grizzlies Miranda de Pencier Canada Hold the Dark Jeremy Saulnier United States Hotel Mumbai Anthony Maras India, Australia, United States The Hummingbird Project Kim Nguyen Canada If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins United States Kursk Thomas Vinterberg Belgium, France, Luxembourg Legend of the Demon Cat Yāo Māo Zhuàn Chen Kaige China Manto Nandita Das India Maya Mia Hansen-Løve France, Germany Mid90s Jonah Hill United States A Million Little Pieces Sam Taylor-Johnson Canada, United States Monsters and Men Reinaldo Marcus Green United States Mothers' Instinct Duelles Olivier Masset-Depasse Belgium Mouthpiece Patricia Rozema Canada Never Look Away Werke ohne Autor Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Germany Non-Fiction Doubles vies Olivier Assayas France The Old Man & the Gun David Lowery United States Papi Chulo John Butler United States, Ireland The Quietude La Quietud Pablo Trapero Argentina Red Joan Trevor Nunn United Kingdom Roma Alfonso Cuarón Mexico, United States Shoplifters Manbiki Kazoku Hirokazu Kore-eda Japan The Sisters Brothers Jacques Audiard France, Spain, United States Skin Guy Nattiv United States Sunset Napszállta László Nemes Hungary Teen Spirit Max Minghella United States, United Kingdom Tell It to the Bees Annabel Jankel United Kingdom Through Black Spruce Don McKellar Canada Viper Club Maryam Keshavarz United States Vision Naomi Kawase Japan, France Vita & Virginia Chanya Button United Kingdom, Ireland Vox Lux Brady Corbet United States The Wedding Guest Michael Winterbottom United Kingdom, United States The Weekend Stella Meghie United States Where Hands Touch Amma Asante United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, Ireland White Boy Rick Yann Demange United States Wildlife Paul Dano United States Wild Rose Tom Harper United Kingdom
Special events English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Joy Luck Club Wayne Wang United States Sharkwater Extinction Rob Stewart Canada
Documentaries English title Original title Director(s) Production country American Dharma Errol Morris United Kingdom, United States Angels Are Made of Light James Longley United States The Biggest Little Farm John Chester United States Carmine Street Guitars Ron Mann Canada Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes Alexis Bloom United States The Elephant Queen Victoria Stone, Mark Deeble Kenya, United States Fahrenheit 11/9 Michael Moore United States Free Solo E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin United States Freedom Fields Naziha Arebi Libya, United Kingdom Ghost Fleet Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron United States Graves Without a Name Les tombeaux sans noms Rithy Panh France, Cambodia Heartbound Janus Metz Pedersen, Sine Plambech Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand Maiden Alex Holmes United Kingdom Maria by Callas Maria par Callas Tom Volf France Meeting Gorbachev Werner Herzog, André Singer Germany, United Kingdom, United States Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman United States Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz Barry Avrich Canada Putin's Witnesses Svideteli Putina Vitaly Mansky Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Russia, Germany, France Quincy Rashida Jones, Alan Hicks United States Reason Vivek Anand Patwardhan India Screwball Billy Corben United States Searching for Ingmar Bergman Auf der Suche nach Ingmar Bergman Margarethe von Trotta Germany, France The Truth About Killer Robots Maxim Pozdorovkin United States This Changes Everything Tom Donahue United States Walking on Water Andrey Paounov Italy, Germany, United States, United Arab Emirates What Is Democracy? Astra Taylor Canada When Arabs Danced Jawad Rhalib Belgium, Egypt Women Make Film Mark Cousins United Kingdom, Ireland
Contemporary World Cinema English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Accused Acusada Gonzalo Tobal Argentina Angel Un Ange Koen Mortier Belgium El Angel Luis Ortega Argentina, Spain Asako I & II Netemo Sametemo Ryūsuke Hamaguchi Japan Before the Frost Før frosten Michael Noer Denmark Belmonte Federico Veiroj Uruguay Birds of Passage Pájaros de verano Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra Colombia, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, France Black '47 Lance Daly Ireland The Black Book O caderno negro Valeria Sarmiento Portugal Border Gräns Ali Abbasi Sweden Bulbul Can Sing Rima Das India The Dive Hatzlila Yona Rozenkier Israel Donbass Sergei Loznitsa Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Romania The Factory Zavod Yuri Bykov Russia Falls Around Her Darlene Naponse Canada The Fireflies Are Gone La disparition des lucioles Sébastien Pilote Canada Florianópolis Dream Sueño Florianópolis Ana Katz Argentina The Great Darkened Days La Grande noirceur Maxime Giroux Canada Heart of the World Сердце мира Natalia Meshchaninova Russia I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari Radu Jude Romania Jinpa Pema Tseden China Kingsway Bruce Sweeney Canada Let Me Fall Lof mér að falla Baldvin Zophoníasson Iceland Look at Me Regarde-moi Nejib Belkadhi Tunisia, France, Qatar Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away Minuscule 2: Les mandibules du bout du monde Thomas Szabo, Hélène Giraud France The Most Beautiful Couple Das schönste Paar Sven Taddicken Germany Museum Museo Alonso Ruizpalacios Mexico Night/Ext Ahmad Abdalla Egypt One Last Deal Tuntematon mestari Klaus Härö Finland The Other Story Avi Nesher Israel Quién te cantará Carlos Vermut Spain, France The Realm El reino Rodrigo Sorogoyen Spain, France Redemption Geula Boaz Yehonatan Yacov, Joseph Madmony Israel Retrospekt Esther Rots Netherlands Roads in February Les routes en février Katherine Jerkovic Canada Rosie Paddy Breathnach Ireland Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau Renée Beaulieu Canada Sew the Winter to My Skin Jahmil X.T. Qubeka South Africa Sibel Çagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti Turkey Splinters Thom Fitzgerald Canada Stupid Young Heart Hölmö nuori sydän Selma Vilhunen Finland Styx Wolfgang Fischer Germany, Austria The Sweet Requiem Kyoyang Ngarmo Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam India, United States That Time of Year Den tid på året Paprika Steen Denmark Ulysses & Mona Ulysse & Mona Sébastien Betbeder France The Vice of Hope Il vizio della speranza Edoardo De Angelis Italy Winter Flies Všechno bude Olmo Omerzu Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia Working Woman Michal Aviad Israel
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