2017 Toronto International Film Festival information
Film festival
2017 Toronto International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening film
Borg McEnroe by Janus Metz Pedersen
Closing film
C'est la vie! by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
Location
Toronto, Canada
Founded
1976
Awards
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (People's Choice Award)
Festival date
September 7 – 17, 2017
Website
www.tiff.net/tiff/
TIFF chronology
2018
2016
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) is listed as 28 features and 29 shorts.[5] 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.[6]
^"Toronto International Film Festival's 2017 Lineup Will Be 'More Tightly Curated,' Programmers Say". IndieWire. February 23, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
^"TIFF Unveils 2017 Programmes & Programmers" (PDF) (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival. February 23, 2017.
^"Toronto: Shia LaBeouf's 'Borg/McEnroe' to Open 2017 Festival". The Hollywood Reporter. July 31, 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
^"Hollywood descends on Toronto for film festival". BBC News. September 7, 2017. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
^"2017 Toronto International Film Festival Fact Sheet" (PDF) (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival Inc. August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
^"'Dunkirk' Receives a Special IMAX Screening at TIFF". August 29, 2017.
and 14 Related for: 2017 Toronto International Film Festival information
The TorontoInternationalFilmFestival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended filmfestivals in the...
The 48th annual TorontoInternationalFilmFestival was held from September 7 to 17, 2023. The most noted change from past years was that the Contemporary...
The 44th annual TorontoInternationalFilmFestival was held from 5 to 15 September 2019. The opening gala was the documentary film Once Were Brothers:...
The 47th annual TorontoInternationalFilmFestival was held from September 8 to 18, 2022. The 2022 festival was staged primarily in-person; a small selection...
annual TorontoInternationalFilmFestival was held from 10 to 20 September 2015. On 28 July 2015 the first wave of films to be screened at the Festival was...
annual TorontoInternationalFilmFestival was held from 8 to 18 September 2016. The first announcement of films to be screened at the festival took place...
The 2008 TorontoInternationalFilmFestival (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This 33rd annual festival was from September 4 to September 13...
The 43rd annual TorontoInternationalFilmFestival was held from September 6 to 16, 2018. In June 2018, the TIFF organizers announced a program to ensure...
Global Information