2017 Toronto International Film Festival
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. Borg/McEnroe directed by Janus Metz Pedersen opened the festival.
According to a "fact sheet" released by the Festival before it began, this edition included 255 feature-length films and 84 short films. Of the feature films, 147 are claimed to be world premieres.
The number of Canadian films at the festival was listed as 28 features and 29 shorts. Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk received a special IMAX 70mm 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.
Awards
The festival's final awards were announced on September 17.| Award | Film | Director |
| People's Choice Award | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh |
| People's Choice Award First Runner Up | I, Tonya | Craig Gillespie |
| People's Choice Award Second Runner Up | Call Me by Your Name | Luca Guadagnino |
| People's Choice Award: Documentary | Faces Places | Agnès Varda and JR |
| People's Choice Award, Documentary First Runner Up | Long Time Running | Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier |
| People's Choice Award, Documentary Second Runner Up | Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! | Morgan Spurlock |
| People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness | Bodied | Joseph Kahn |
| People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness First Runner Up | The Disaster Artist | James Franco |
| People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness Second Runner Up | Brawl in Cell Block 99 | S. Craig Zahler |
| Platform Prize | Sweet Country | Warwick Thornton |
| Platform Prize, Honourable Mention | Dark River | Clio Barnard |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | Ravenous | Robin Aubert |
| Best Canadian Feature Film, Honourable Mention | The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches | Simon Lavoie |
| Best Canadian Short Film | Pre-Drink | Marc-Antoine Lemire |
| Best Canadian Short Film, Honourable Mention | The Tesla World Light | Matthew Rankin |
| Best Canadian First Feature Film | Luk'Luk'I | Wayne Wapeemukwa |
| Best Canadian First Feature Film, Honourable Mention | Ava | Sadaf Foroughi |
| FIPRESCI Discovery Prize | Ava | Sadaf Foroughi |
| FIPRESCI Special Presentations | The Motive | Manuel Martín Cuenca |
| Best International Short Film | The Burden | Niki Lindroth von Bahr |
| Best International Short Film, Honourable Mention | A Gentle Night | Qiu Yang |
| Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere | The Great Buddha+ | Huang Hsin-Yao |
Juries
Platform Jury
- Chen Kaige
- Małgorzata Szumowska
- Wim Wenders
Canadian Feature Film Jury
- Ella Cooper
- Mark Adams
- Min Sook Lee
Short Cuts Film Jury
- Chloé Zhao
- Johnny Ma
- Marit van den Elshout
Programme
Gala presentations
- 55 Steps by Bille August
- Borg McEnroe by Janus Metz Pedersen
- Breathe by Andy Serkis
- C'est la vie! by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
- 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
- BPM 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
- Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan
- 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 Maggie 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 and 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