2011 Toronto International Film Festival

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.

2011 Toronto International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening filmFrom the Sky Down[1]
Closing filmPage Eight[2]
LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
AwardsWhere Do We Go Now? (People's Choice Award)
Hosted byToronto International Film Festival Group
No. of filmsOver 200 feature films[3]
Festival dateSeptember 8, 2011 (2011-09-08)–September 18, 2011 (2011-09-18)
LanguageEnglish
Websitetiff.net

Awards

Award[8]FilmDirector
People's Choice Award (Drama)Where Do We Go Now?Nadine Labaki
People's Choice Award (Drama), First Runner UpStarbuckKen Scott
People's Choice Award (Drama), Second Runner UpA SeparationAsghar Farhadi
People's Choice Award (Documentary)The Island President[9]Jon Shenk
People's Choice Award (Documentary), First Runner UpFirst PositionBess Kargman
People's Choice Award (Documentary), Second Runner UpPearl Jam 20Cameron Crowe
People's Choice Award (Midnight Madness)The RaidGareth Evans
People's Choice Award (Midnight Madness), First Runner UpYou're NextAdam Wingard
People's Choice Award (Midnight Madness), Second Runner UpGod Bless AmericaBobcat Goldthwait
Best Canadian Feature FilmMonsieur LazharPhilippe Falardeau
Best Canadian First Feature FilmCitizen GangsterNathan Morlando
Best Canadian First Feature Film, Honorable MentionNuit #1Anne Émond
Best Canadian Short FilmDoubles with Slight PepperIan Harnarine
Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable MentionNo Words Came DownRyan Flowers, Lisa Pham
Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable MentionOf Events (D'aléas)Mathieu Tremblay
FIPRESCI Special PresentationsThe First ManGianni Amelio
FIPRESCI DiscoveryAvalonAxel Petersén

Programmes

Gala Presentations

Masters

Special Presentations

Q&A session after the second screening of Pearl Jam Twenty at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival with the band's frontman Eddie Vedder (far right)

Discovery

Reel to Reel

Vanguard

TIFF Kids

Mavericks

City to City: Buenos Aires

Contemporary World Cinema

Canada First!

Short Cuts Canada

The TIFF Bell Lightbox had its formal opening on September 12, 2010, during the 2010 festival. This shot was taken the day before the opening.

Canada Open Vault

Visions

Wavelengths

  • 349 (for Sol LeWitt) by Chris Kennedy
  • 99 Clerkenwell Road by Sophie Michael
  • Aberration of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure 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

References

External links