2011 Toronto International Film Festival Explained
The 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 8 and September 18, 2011.[4] [5] Buenos Aires, Argentina was selected to be showcased for the 2011 City to City programme.[6] The opening film was From the Sky Down, a documentary film about the band U2, directed by Davis Guggenheim.[7] Considerable media attention at the time focused on Madonna's behaviour during the festival.
Awards
| Award[8] | Film | Director |
|---|
| People's Choice Award (Drama) | Where Do We Go Now? | Nadine Labaki |
| People's Choice Award (Drama), First Runner Up | Starbuck | Ken Scott |
| People's Choice Award (Drama), Second Runner Up | A Separation | Asghar Farhadi |
| People's Choice Award (Documentary) | The Island President[9] | Jon Shenk |
| People's Choice Award (Documentary), First Runner Up | First Position | Bess Kargman |
| People's Choice Award (Documentary), Second Runner Up | Pearl Jam 20 | Cameron Crowe |
| People's Choice Award (Midnight Madness) | The Raid | Gareth Evans |
| People's Choice Award (Midnight Madness), First Runner Up | You're Next | Adam Wingard |
| People's Choice Award (Midnight Madness), Second Runner Up | God Bless America | Bobcat Goldthwait |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | Monsieur Lazhar | Philippe Falardeau |
| Best Canadian First Feature Film | Citizen Gangster | Nathan Morlando |
| Best Canadian First Feature Film, Honorable Mention | Nuit #1 | Anne Émond |
| Best Canadian Short Film | Doubles with Slight Pepper | Ian Harnarine |
| Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable Mention | No Words Came Down | Ryan Flowers, Lisa Pham |
| Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable Mention | Of Events (D'aléas) | Mathieu Tremblay |
| FIPRESCI Special Presentations | The First Man | Gianni Amelio |
| FIPRESCI Discovery | Avalon | | |
Programmes
Gala Presentations
Masters
Special Presentations
Discovery
Reel to Reel
Vanguard
TIFF Kids
Mavericks
City to City: Buenos Aires
Contemporary World Cinema
Canada First!
Short Cuts Canada
Canada Open Vault
Visions
Wavelengths
- 349 (for Sol LeWitt) by Chris Kennedy
- 99 Clerkenwell Road by Sophie Michael
- by Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder and Olivia Block
- American Colour by Joshua Bonnetta
- Ars colonia by Raya Martin
- Black Mirror at the National Gallery by Mark Lewis
- Bouquets 11-20 by Rose Lowder
- Chevelle by Kevin Jerome Everson
- Coorow-Latham Road by Blake Williams
- Edwin Parker by Tacita Dean
- Empire by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Found Cuban Mounts by Adriana Salazar Arroyo
- I Will Forget This Day by Alina Rudnitskaya
- Loutra/Baths by Nick Collins
- Optra Field VII-IX by T. Marie
- A Preface to Red by Jonathan Schwartz
- Resonance by Karen Johannesen
- The Return by Nathaniel Dorsky
- Sack Barrow by Ben Rivers
- Sailboat by Joyce Wieland
- Sea Series#10 by John Price
- Space is the Place by Eriko Sonoda
- Twenty Cigarettes by James Benning
- Untitled by Neïl Beloufa
- Young Pines by Ute Aurand
Future Projections
Midnight Madness
[10]
Canada's Top Ten
TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list, its national critics and festival programmers poll of the ten best feature and short films of the year, was released on December 7, 2011.[11]
Feature films
Short films
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: TIFF List 2011: A Complete Guide To The Toronto International Film Festival. October 19, 2013.
- News: TIFF: A history of opening nights. October 19, 2013 . CBC News.
- Web site: TIFF 2011 announces closing night film and final lineup of Galas and Special Presentations . October 19, 2013 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130329173835/http://www.criticizethis.ca/2011/08/tiff-2011-announces-closing-night-film-and-final-lineup-of-galas-and-special-presentations.html . March 29, 2013 .
- Web site: 2011 Toronto International Film Festival Annual report . October 11, 2013 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120617012923/http://tiff.net/pdfs/TIFF%20Annual%20Report%202011.pdf . June 17, 2012 .
- The Festival . 2011-03-01 . 2011-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110901233915/http://tiff.net/thefestival . 2011-09-01 . dead .
- Toronto International Film Festival Selects Buenos Aires As 2011 City To City Selection . 2011-02-08 . 2011-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110312073012/http://tiff.net/press/pressreleases/2011/ctc11 . 2011-03-12 . dead.
- News: U2 documentary to open Toronto Film Festival . 2011-07-28 . BBC News . 2011-07-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20110728001915/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14308535. 28 July 2011 . live.
- Web site: TIFF: Awards 2011 . 2011-09-28 . tiff.net . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110923174431/http://tiff.net/thefestival/about/awards/awards2011 . 2011-09-23 .
- Web site: ‘The Island President’ predominates international festival International Maldives Traveller Travel News Resort, Honeymoon, Diving & Spa . 2011-09-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110923213008/http://www.maldivestraveller.mv/news/international/the-island-president-predominates-international-festival/2674/ . 2011-09-23 . dead.
- Web site: History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme. October 19, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131019173241/http://www.ultra8.ca/content2/mmhistory.html. 2013-10-19. dead.
- "The Festival group releases Canada's annual top ten". Postmedia News, December 7, 2011.
