The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 7 to 17, 2017. There were fourteen programs, with the Vanguard and City to City programs both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down by 20% from the 2016 edition.[1][2]Borg/McEnroe directed by Janus Metz Pedersen opened the festival.[3]
According to a "fact sheet" released by the Festival before it began, this edition included 255 feature-length films[4] and 84 short films. Of the feature films, 147 are claimed to be world premieres.
The number of Canadian films at the festival (including co-productions) was listed as 28 features and 29 shorts.[5]Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk received a special IMAX70mm screening at the Cinesphere as part of the main film slate and the 50th anniversary of IMAX, making it the first Nolan film to appear at the festival since Following, nineteen years earlier.[6]
Awards
The festival's final awards were announced on September 17.[7]
In December, TIFF programmers released their annual Canada's Top Ten list of the films selected as the ten best Canadian films of 2017.[20] The selected films received a follow-up screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as a "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in January 2018, where Unarmed Verses won the People's Choice Award.[21]
^Jeremy Kay (September 17, 2017). "'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' wins Toronto audience award". Screen Daily. In other key awards handed out on Sunday afternoon (17), Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country claimed the Toronto Platform Prize, while Joseph Kahn's Bodied won the Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award. Agnès Varda and JR's Faces Places took the Grolsch People's Choice Documentary Award.
^ abcThe 42nd Toronto International Film Festival [catalogue]. Toronto. 2017. p. 29.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
