2021 Toronto International Film Festival

46th edition of the festival

2021 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster

Opening film| Dear Evan Hansen by Stephen Chbosky
Closing film| One Second by Zhang Yimou
Location| Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded| 1976
Awards| Belfast (People's Choice Award)
Festival date| September 9–18, 2021
Website| tiff.net/tiff
Toronto International Film Festival

2022

2020

The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, the 46th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, was held from September 9 to 18, 2021.[1] Due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, the festival was staged as a "hybrid" of in-person and digital screenings.[2] Most films were screened both in-person and on the digital platform, although a few titles were withheld by their distributors from the digital platform and instead were screened exclusively in-person.

Artistic director Cameron Bailey indicated that while the 2021 festival would not fully return to the size of program that it offered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, it would be significantly bigger than the reduced lineup that was offered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.[1] Overall, the festival featured over 100 films, including a special retrospective program devoted to the work of Canadian documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin.[3]

## Venues

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In-person screenings were held at the festival's traditional venues, including the TIFF Bell Lightbox, the Princess of Wales Theatre and Roy Thomson Hall, the latter two of which hosted the world premiere of Stephen Chbosky's film adaptation of Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen, the festival's opening night gala presentation.[3] Denis Villeneuve's film Dune received an IMAX world premiere screening at the Cinesphere.[3]

As in 2020, digital screenings took place on the Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox platform.

In addition to Toronto, the festival also staged a number of satellite screenings in other Canadian cities for the first time.[3]

## Official Awards

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### TIFF Tribute Awards

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The festival presented the TIFF Tribute Awards, which were introduced in 2019 to honour actors and filmmakers for distinguished achievements over the course of their careers.[4] The ceremony took place on September 18; as in 2020, it was broadcast by CTV.[4]

The first two honorees announced were Alanis Obomsawin as the recipient of the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media and Denis Villeneuve as the winner of the Ebert Director Award.[4] Jessica Chastain and Benedict Cumberbatch were subsequently announced as the recipient of the Actor Awards.[5][6] Dionne Warwick received the special tribute award,[7] filmmaker Danis Goulet was named the recipient of the Emerging Talent Award,[7] and cinematographer Ari Wegner received the Variety Artisan Award.[8]

### Regular awards

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The festival's main awards were announced on September 18, some live during the Tribute Awards broadcast and others on social media following the ceremony's conclusion.[9] A few high-profile titles in the festival program, namely Dune, Last Night in Soho and Spencer, were not eligible for the People's Choice Award, as their distributors had not permitted them to be screened online on the digital platform.[10]

Award  | English Title  | Director(s)  | Production Country

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People's Choice Award | Belfast | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom
People's Choice Award, First Runner Up  | Scarborough | Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | Canada
People's Choice Award, Second Runner Up  | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia
People's Choice Award: Documentaries | The Rescue | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | United States, United Kingdom
Documentary, First Runner Up  | Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over | Dave Wooley, David Heilbroner | United States
Documentary, Second Runner Up  | Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden
People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness | Titane | Julia Ducournau | France, Belgium
Midnight Madness, First Runner Up  | You Are Not My Mother | Kate Dolan [de] | Ireland
Midnight Madness, Second Runner Up  | Dashcam | Rob Savage | United Kingdom, United States
Platform Prize | Yuni | Kamila Andini | Indonesia, Singapore, France, Australia
Platform Prize, Honorable Mention  | Good Madam | Jenna Cato Bass | South Africa
Best Canadian Feature Film | Ste. Anne | Rhayne Vermette | Canada
Best Canadian Feature Film, Honorable Mention  | Scarborough | Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson
Best Canadian Short Film | Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice | Zacharias Kunuk
Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable Mention  | Nuisance Bear | Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden
Best International Short Film | Displaced (Pa vend) | Samir Karahoda [de] | Kosovo
Best International Short Film, Honorable Mention  | Trumpets in the Sky | Rakan Mayasi  | Palestine, Lebanon, France, Belgium
FIPRESCI Award | Anatolian Leopard (Anadolu Leoparı) | Emre Kayiş | Turkey, Poland, Germany, Denmark
NETPAC Award | Costa Brava, Lebanon | Mounia Aki  | Lebanon, France, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States
Amplify Voices | The Gravedigger's Wife | Khadar Ayderus Ahmed | Somalia, France, Germany, Finland
A Night of Knowing Nothing | Payal Kapadia | India, France
Changemaker Award | Scarborough | Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | Canada
Share Her Journey | Astel | Ramata-Toulaye Sy | Senegal, France
Share Her Journey, Honorable Mention  | Love, Dad (Milý tati) | Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Czech Republic, Slovakia

## Official Selection

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The first 13 films selected for the festival were announced in June 2021. The gala and special presentation programs were announced on July 20,[11][12] while Contemporary World Cinema and Discovery titles were announced on July 28,[13] TIFF Docs, Midnight Madness and Wavelengths were announced on August 4,[14] Shortcuts and Platform were announced on August 11,[15] and Primetime was announced on August 13.[16]

Walt Becker's Clifford the Big Red Dog was initially selected to be one of the Gala Presentations, but was withdrawn from the festival, after US distributor Paramount Pictures pulled it from its release schedule due to the rise of the Delta variant of COVID-19.[17]

The festival also announced a special event screening of an unspecified new film by Steven Soderbergh.[18] Details of the film were not announced in advance, except that it was not expected to be his known upcoming film KIMI.[18] Soderbergh ultimately premiered a reedited version of his 1991 film Kafka titled Mr. Kneff.[19]

### Gala presentations

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English Title  | Original Title  | Director(s)  | Production Country

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Belfast | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom, Ireland
Bergman Island | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, Mexico, Brazil, Germany
Dear Evan Hansen | Stephen Chbosky | United States
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Will Sharpe | United Kingdom, United States
The Forgiven | John Michael McDonagh
The Good House | Maya Forbes, Wally Wolodarsky | United States
Jagged | Alison Klayman
Lakewood | Phillip Noyce | United States, Canada
Last Night in Soho | Edgar Wright | United Kingdom
The Mad Women's Ball | Le Bal des folles | Mélanie Laurent | France
Night Raiders | Danis Goulet | Canada, New Zealand
One Second | 一秒钟 | Zhang Yimou | China
Silent Night | Camille Griffin | United Kingdom
The Survivor | Barry Levinson | United States
The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Joachim Trier | Norway

### Special Presentations

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English Title  | Original Title  | Director(s)  | Production Country

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Ahed's Knee | הַבֶּרֶךְ | Nadav Lapid | Israel, France, Germany
Ali & Ava | Clio Barnard | United Kingdom
All My Puny Sorrows | Michael McGowan | Canada
The Box | La Caja | Lorenzo Vigas | Mexico
Benediction | Terence Davies | United Kingdom, United States
Charlotte | Eric Warin, Tahir Rana | Canada, France, Belgium
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over | Dave Wooley, David Heilbroner | United States
Drive My Car | ドライブ・マイ・カー | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan
Encounter | Michael Pearce | United Kingdom, United States
The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Michael Showalter | United States
The Falls | 瀑布 | Chung Mong-hong | Taiwan
France | Bruno Dumont | France, Italy, Germany, Belgium
The Guilty | Antoine Fuqua | United States
The Humans | Stephen Karam
I'm Your Man | Ich bin dein Mensch | Maria Schrader | Germany
Inexorable | Fabrice Du Welz | Belgium, France
Inu-Oh | Masaaki Yuasa | Japan, China
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds | Lingui, les liens sacrés | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | France, Chad, Germany, Belgium
The Middle Man | Bent Hamer | Canada, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Mothering Sunday | Eva Husson | United Kingdom
Official Competition | Competencia oficial | Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn | Spain
Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma | France
The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Canada, New Zealand
The Starling | Theodore Melfi | United States
The Story of My Wife | A feleségem története | Ildikó Enyedi | Hungary, Germany, France, Italy
Sundown | Michel Franco | Mexico, France, Sweden
Three Floors | Tre piani | Nanni Moretti | Italy, France
Violet | Justine Bateman | United States
Where Is Anne Frank | Ari Folman | Belgium, Luxembourg, Israel, Netherlands, France
Wolf | Nathalie Biancheri | Ireland, Poland

### Special Events

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English Title  | Original Title  | Director(s)  | Production Country

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Dune | Denis Villeneuve | United States
A Hero | قهرمان | Asghar Farhadi | Iran
Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, China
Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11 | Bjørn Johnson, David Belton | United Kingdom, United States
Mr. Kneff | Steven Soderbergh | United States
NBA Films for Fans
("Shorty", "Inheritance", "Born Identities", "Draft Day", "The Shot") | Romeo Candido, Shawn Gerrard, Kathleen Jayme, Thyrone Tommy, S.M. Turrell | Canada
Spencer | Pablo Larraín | United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Chile
Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine | Sam Dunn, Marc Ricciardelli | Canada

### Contemporary World Cinema

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English Title  | Original Title  | Director(s)  | Production Country

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7 Prisoners | 7 Prisioneiros | Alexandre Moratto | Brazil
Are You Lonesome Tonight? | 熱帶往事 | Wen Shipei | China
Compartment No. 6 | Hytti nro 6 | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia
Costa Brava, Lebanon | Mounia Aki | Lebanon, France, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States
The Daughter | La hija | Manuel Martín Cuenca | Spain
The Gravedigger's Wife | Khadar Ayderus Ahmed | France, Somalia, Germany
The Hill Where Lionesses Roar | La colline où rugissent les lionnes | Luàna Bajrami | France, Kosovo
Întregalde | Radu Muntean | Romania
Jockey | Clint Bentley | United States
Kicking Blood | Blaine Thurier | Canada
La Soga 2 | Manny Pérez | United States
Maria Chapdelaine | Sébastien Pilote | Canada
Medusa | Anita Rocha da Silveira | Brazil
Murina | Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović | United States, Brazil, Croatia, Slovenia
Nobody Has to Know | Bouli Lanners | France, Belgium, United Kingdom
The Odd-Job Men | Sis dies corrents | Neus Ballús | Spain
The Other Tom | El otro Tom | Rodrigo Plá, Laura Santullo | Mexico, United States
Out of Sync | Tres | Juanjo Giménez | Spain, Lithuania, France
Small Body | Piccolo Corpo | Laura Samani | Italy, France, Slovenia
Terrorizers | 青春弒戀 | Ho Wi Ding | Taiwan
True Things | Harry Wootliff | United Kingdom
Unclenching the Fists | Разжимая кулаки | Kira Kovalenko | Russia
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash | Seperti Dendam, Rindu Harus Dibayar Tuntas | Edwin | Indonesia
The Wheel | Steve Pink | United States
Whether the Weather Is Fine | Kun Maupay Man it Panahon | Carlo Francisco Manatad | Philippines

### Celebrating Alanis

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Program  | Title  | Year  | Director(s)  | Production Country

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Lighting the Fire 1 | The Canoe | 1972 | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance | 1993
Lighting the Fire 2 | Amisk | 1977
Incident at Restigouche | 1984
Moose Call | 1972
Portraits 1 | Mother of Many Children | 1977
Puberty, Part 1 | 1975
Puberty, Part 2 | 1975
Portraits 2 | No Address | 1988
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child | 1986
The Dignity of Children 1 | Our People Will Be Healed | 2017
Snowshoes | 1972
Walking Is Medicine | 2017
The Dignity of Children 2 | Children | 1972
Christmas at Moose Factory | 1971
Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair | 2021
Mount Currie Summer Camp | 1975
Sigwan | 2005
When All the Leaves Are Gone | 2010

### TIFF Docs

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English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country

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Attica | Stanley Nelson Jr. | United States
Burning | Eva Orner | Australia
Beba | Rebecca Huntt | United States, Mexico
Becoming Cousteau | Liz Garbus | United States
Comala | Gian Cassini | Mexico
The Devil's Drivers | Mohammed Abugeth, Daniel Carsenty | Qatar, France, Lebanon, Germany
Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Hold Your Fire | Stefan Forbes | United States
Julia | Julie Cohen and Betsy West
Listening to Kenny G | Penny Lane
Oscar Peterson: Black and White | Barry Avrich | Canada
The Rescue | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | United States, United Kingdom
Three Minutes: A Lengthening | Bianca Stigter | Netherlands, United Kingdom
Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace | Heather Hatch | Canada

### Discovery

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English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country

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Aloners | Hon-ja-sa-neun Sa-ram-deul | Hong Sung-eun | South Korea
Anatolian Leopard | Anadolu Leoparı | Emre Kayiş | Turkey, Germany, Poland, Denmark
As in Heaven | Du som er i himlen | Tea Lindeburg | Denmark
A Banquet | Ruth Paxton | United Kingdom
Dug Dug | Ritwik Pareek | India
Farha | Darin J. Sallam | Jordan, Sweden, Saudi Arabia
The Game | Ana Lazarevic | Serbia, United States
Learn to Swim | Thyrone Tommy | Canada
Lo Invisible | Javier Andrade | Ecuador, France
Quickening | Haya Waseem | Canada
PAKA (River of Blood) | Paka | Nithin Lukose | India
Scarborough | Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | Canada
Snakehead | Evan Jackson Leong | United States
To Kill the Beast | Matar a la Bestia | Agustina San Martín | Argentina, Brazil, Chile
Tug of War | Vuta N'Kuvute | Amil Shivji | Tanzania, South Africa, Germany, Qatar
Wildhood | Bretten Hannam | Canada

### Midnight Madness

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English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country

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After Blue (Dirty Paradise) | After Blue (Paradis Sale) | Bertrand Mandico | France
Dashcam | Rob Savage | United Kingdom, United States
Saloum | Jean Luc Herbulot | Senegal
Titane | Julia Ducournau | France
You Are Not My Mother | Kate Dolan [de] | Ireland
Zalava | Arsalan Amiri | Iran

### Wavelengths

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English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country

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The Capacity for Adequate Anger | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany
Dear Chantal | Querida Chantal | Nicolás Pereda | Mexico, Spain
earthearthearth | Daïchi Saïto | Canada
Futura | Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher | Italy
The Girl and the Spider | Das Mädchen und die Spinne | Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher | Switzerland
Inner Outer Space | Laida Lertxundi | Spain
Neptune Frost | Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman | United States, Rwanda
A Night of Knowing Nothing | Payal Kapadia | India, France
Polycephaly in D | Michael Robinson | United States
the red filter is withdrawn | Le-deu-pil-teo-ga Cheol-hoe-doeb-ni-da | Minjung Kim | South Korea
Ste. Anne | Rhayne Vermette | Canada
Train Again | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria
The Tsugua Diaries | Diários de Otsoga | Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes | Portugal

### Platform

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English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country

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Arthur Rambo | Laurent Cantet | France
Drunken Birds | Les oiseaux ivres | Ivan Grbovic | Canada
Earwig | Lucile Hadžihalilović | United Kingdom, France, Belgium
Good Madam | Mlungu Wam | Jenna Cato Bass | South Africa
Huda's Salon | Hany Abu-Assad | Palestine, Egypt, Netherlands, Qatar
Montana Story | Scott McGehee, David Siegel | United States
Silent Land | Cicha Ziemia | Aga Woszczyńska | Poland, Italy, Czech Republic
Yuni | Kamila Andini | Indonesia, Singapore, France, Australia

### Primetime

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English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country

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Colin in Black & White | Ava DuVernay, Colin Kaepernick | United States
Hellbound | Yeon Sang-ho | South Korea
The Panthers | Tom Hern, Halaifonua Finau | New Zealand
Sort Of | Bilal Baig, Fab Filippo | Canada

### Short Cuts

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English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country

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Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada
Anxious Body | Yoriko Mizushiri | France, Japan
Astel | Ramata-Toulaye Sy | France, Senegal
Beity | Isabelle Mecattaf | Lebanon, United States
Boobs | Lolos | Marie Valade | Canada
Brothers | Bhai | Hamza Bangash | Canada, Pakistan
Charlotte | Zach Dorn | United States
Defund | Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Araya Mengesha | Canada
Displaced | Pa Vend | Samir Karahoda [de] | Kosovo
Dust Bath | Seth A. Smith | Canada
Fanmi | Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers, Carmine Pierre-Dufour | Canada
A Few Miles South | Ben Pearce | United Kingdom
The Future Isn't What It Used to Be | Adeyemi Michael | United Kingdom
Hanging On | Alfie Barker | United Kingdom
I Gotta Look Good for the Apocalypse | Ayçe Kartal [tr] | France
I Would Never | Kiran Deol | United States
The Infantas | Las Infantas | Andrea Herrera Catalá | Spain
Little Bird | Tim Myles | Canada
Love, Dad | Milý tati | Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Czech Republic, Slovakia
Masquerade | Egúngún | Olive Nwosu | United Kingdom, Nigeria
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics | Terril Calder | Canada
Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won’t Fit Into His Suit | Al motociclista no le cabe la felicidad en el traje | Gabriel Herrera | Mexico
Nuisance Bear | Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden | Canada
Ousmane | Jorge Camarotti | Canada
Saturday Night | Rosana Matecki | Canada
Shark | Nash Edgerton | Australia
Soft Animals | Renee Zhan | United Kingdom
Some Still Search | Algunos Siguen Buscando | Nesaru Tchaas | United States
Srikandi | Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto | Canada, Indonesia
Successful Thawing of Mr. Moro | Lyckad upptining av herr Moro | Jerry Carlsson | Sweden
Sycorax | Lois Patiño [ca; gl], Matías Piñeiro [es; fr; zh] | Portugal, Spain
The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night | Fawzia Mirza | Canada
Together | Albert Shin | Canada, South Korea
Trumpets in the Sky | Rakan Mayasi | Palestine, Lebanon, France, Belgium
Twelve Hours | Paul Shkordoff | Canada
White Devil | Benjamin Dickinson, Mariama Diallo [nl] | United States
You and Me, Before and After | Madeleine Gottlieb | Australia
Zero | Nula | Lee Filipovski | Canada, Serbia

### TIFF Rewind

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A new program which saw classic films that screened at TIFF in past years made available for streaming on Crave, paired with talks by actors or filmmakers involved in the production.[20]

Film  | Speaker(s)

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Best in Show | Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara
Eastern Promises | Viggo Mortensen
Precious | Lee Daniels, Gabourey Sidibe
Real Women Have Curves | Patricia Cardoso, America Ferrera
Training Day | Antoine Fuqua

### TIFF Cinemathèque

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English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country

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Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada

### Coast-to-Coast Screenings

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Special screenings of selected Gala or Special Presentations films in other communities across Canada.[21]

Film  | Location  | Date

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Charlotte | Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan  | September 13
Dune | Montreal, Quebec  | September 12
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Summerside, Prince Edward Island  | September 13
I'm Your Man | Markham, Ontario
Night Raiders | Collingwood, Ontario
Night Raiders | Saint John, New Brunswick
Official Competition | Prince Rupert, British Columbia

### Industry Selects

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As in 2020 the Industry Selects program screened films for industry professionals, acting as a film market due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic having impacted the ability of filmmakers and critics to travel to international film festivals, but was not made available for the general public.[22]

English title  | Original title  | Director(s)  | Production country

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107 Mothers | Cenzorka | Peter Kerekes [cs; fr; no; sk] | Slovakia
America Latina | Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo | Italy, France
Cadejo Blanco | Justin Lerner | Guatemala, United States, Mexico
Carmen | Valerie Buhagiar | Malta, Canada
La Civil | Teodora Ana Mihai | Belgium, Romania, Mexico
Cool Abdoul | Jonas Backeland | Belgium
Domingo | Raúl López Echeverría | Mexico, Austria, France
The Hole in the Fence | El hoyo en la cerca | Joaquín del Paso | Mexico, Poland
The King of All the World | El Rey de Todo el Mundo | Carlos Saura | Mexico, Spain
The Last Mark | Reem Morsi | Canada
My Night | Ma nuit | Antoinette Boulat | France
Night Blooms | Stephanie Joline | Canada
Nightride | Stephen Fingleton | United Kingdom
Nr. 10 | Alex van Warmerdam | Netherlands, Belgium
Old Henry | Potsy Ponciroli | United States
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle | Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle | Arthur Harari | France, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Italy
The Pink Cloud | A Nuvem Rosa | Iuli Gerbase | Brazil
Quake | Tinna Hrafnsdóttir | Iceland
Reflection | Відблиск | Valentyn Vasyanovych | Ukraine
The Score | Malachi Smyth | United Kingdom
Shankar's Fairies | Irfana Majumdar | India
A Tale of Love and Desire | Une histoire d'amour et de désir | Leyla Bouzid | France

## Canada's Top Ten

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The festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list, collecting the films named as the top Canadian films of the year by critics and film festival programmers from across Canada, was released on December 6, 2021.[23]

### Feature films

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* All My Puny Sorrows — Michael McGowan
* Charlotte — Eric Warin, Tahir Rana
* Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres) — Ivan Grbovic
* Learn to Swim — Thyrone Tommy
* Night Raiders — Danis Goulet
* Maria Chapdelaine — Sébastien Pilote
* Scarborough — Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson
* Ste. Anne — Rhayne Vermette
* Subjects of Desire — Jennifer Holness
* The White Fortress — Igor Drljača

### Short films

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* Ain't No Time for Women — Sarra El Abed
* Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice — Zacharias Kunuk
* Boobs (Lolos) — Marie Valade
* Defund — Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Araya Mengesha
* Fanmi — Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers, Carmine Pierre-Dufour
* Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair — Alanis Obomsawin
* Like the Ones I Used to Know (Les grandes claques) — Annie St-Pierre
* Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics — Terril Calder
* The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night — Fawzia Mirza
* Together — Albert Shin

## References

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2. ^ "Toronto film festival plans return to in-person, digital hybrid model for 2021". Toronto Star, May 6, 2021.
3. ^ a b c d Peter Howell, "TIFF cautiously rebounds from pandemic with 100-plus features planned, but no popcorn". Toronto Star, June 23, 2021.
4. ^ a b c Victoria Ahearn, "Alanis Obomsawin, Denis Villeneuve to get TIFF Tribute Awards at Toronto film fest". Toronto Star, July 22, 2021.
5. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Jessica Chastain to Receive TIFF Tribute Actor Award". The Hollywood Reporter, August 5, 2021.
6. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Benedict Cumberbatch to Receive TIFF Tribute Actor Award". The Hollywood Reporter, August 12, 2021.
7. ^ a b Selome Hailu, "Dionne Warwick and Danis Goulet to Receive TIFF Tribute Awards". Variety, August 26, 2021.
8. ^ Pat Saperstein, "‘Power of the Dog’ Cinematographer Ari Wegner to Be Honored With TIFF Variety Artisan Award". Variety, September 2, 2021.
9. ^ Steve Pond, "‘Belfast’ Wins Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award". TheWrap, September 18, 2021.
10. ^ Anthony D'Alessandro, "‘Dune’, ‘Last Night In Soho’ & ‘Spencer’ Among Those Movies Not Eligible To Compete For TIFF’s Top Prize, The People’s Choice Award". Deadline Hollywood, September 14, 2021.
11. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (July 20, 2021). "2021 Toronto Festival Unveils 'Dear Evan Hansen' As Opening Night Premiere; Check Out First Slated Films". Deadline. Archived from the original on July 20, 2021. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
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23. ^ Norman Wilner, "TIFF announces Canada’s Top Ten films of 2021". Now, December 6, 2021.

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* People's Choice
* People's Choice: Documentaries
* People's Choice: Midnight Madness
* Best Canadian Film
* Best Canadian Discovery
* Best Canadian Short Film
* Amplify Voices
* Changemaker
* International Critics' (FIPRESCI) Prizes
* Best International Short Film
* NETPAC Prize
* Platform Prize
* Share Her Journey
* TIFF Tribute Awards

Related|

* Canada's Top Ten
* Canada On Screen
* Film Reference Library
* Preludes
* TIFF Lightbox
* TIFF Cinematheque
* TIFF Next Wave
* Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time

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