Opening film | Demolition |
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Closing film | Mr. Right |
Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Founded | 1976 |
Awards | Room ( People's Choice Award) |
Festival date | 10–20 September 2015 |
Website |
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The 40th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 10 to 20 September 2015. [1] On 28 July 2015 the first wave of films to be screened at the Festival was announced. Jean-Marc Vallée's Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts was the opening night film; [2] [3] Mr. Right by Paco Cabezas was the closing night film. [4]
The year's edition included two new sections called Platform and Primetime. At Platform, twelve films will be screened in front of a jury, with the best film of the program winning the C$25,000 Platform Prize. [5] [6] Film directors Claire Denis, Jia Zhangke, and Agnieszka Holland were selected as the jurors for this section. [7] [8] At Primetime, six high-quality television programs will be presented at public screenings with Question and Answer sessions with show creators. [9] [10] The lineups for the TIFF Docs, Vanguard, Midnight Madness, and Masters sections were announced on 11 August 2015. [11] More than 100 films were added to the festival's programme on 18 August. [12] [13] The new program titled In Conversation replaced the Maverick section. [14]
The Festival reported that TIFF 2015 had a record high industry attendance, with 5,450 delegates from 80 countries, a 7% increase over 2014. [15]
The festival's final awards were announced on 20 September. [16]
Short film awards jury: [16]
Canadian awards jury: [16]
FIPRESCI jury: [16]
NETPAC jury: [16]
Platform Prize jury (inaugural year): [16]
In December, TIFF programmers released their annual Canada's Top Ten list of the films selected as the ten best Canadian films of 2015. [17] The selected films received a follow-up screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as a "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in January 2016, as well as in selected other cities including Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax. [17]