2022 Toronto International Film Festival | |
Opening: | The Swimmers by Sally El Hosaini |
Closing: | Dalíland by Mary Harron |
Location: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Founded: | 1976 |
Awards: | The Fabelmans (People's Choice Award) |
Date: | September 8–18, 2022 |
Chronology: | TIFF |
Main: | Toronto International Film Festival |
Previous: | 2021 |
Next: | 2023 |
The 47th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 8 to 18, 2022.[1]
The 2022 festival was staged primarily in-person; a small selection of films were offered on the Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox platform, but this represented a much smaller proportion of the overall lineup than in 2020 and 2021.[2] The festival also saw the return of its networking and gala events, which were also suspended or held virtually in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto.[3]
As of mid-July, the festival had diverged from its usual practice of releasing a list of ten or twenty films to start its programming announcements, and instead issued a number of single-film announcements,[4] before finally releasing its first extended list of the full gala and special presentations programs on July 28.[5] Additional films were announced throughout August, until the full schedule was released on August 23. Festival CEO Cameron Bailey indicated that the full lineup would comprise around 200 feature films and about 40 short films, the largest lineup the festival has booked since the pre-pandemic 2019 edition.[6]
Sally El Hosaini's The Swimmers was the opening film,[7] and the closing film was Mary Harron's Dalíland.[8] The Fabelmans, which screened as a special presentation and won the People's Choice Award, marked the first time in history that a Steven Spielberg film premiered at the festival.[6] Jordan Peele's Nope, although already released in theaters prior to the festival, was also screened in IMAX at the Cinesphere as a special presentation in the main festival slate.[9]
The festival also indicated that in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, state-backed Russian films and organizations would be banned from the festival, although participation by independent Russian filmmakers would still be permitted.[10]
In 2023, festival organizers announced that the 2022 festival had returned to levels of in-person attendance comparable to the festivals prior to 2020.[11]
The TIFF Tribute Awards, the festival's program of honouring film personnel for their overall achievements in cinema, were presented early during the festival run.
The cast of My Policeman—Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, and Rupert Everett—were named as the recipients of one of the two awards for actors, marking the first time the award has been presented to an ensemble cast rather than an individual,[12] while Sam Mendes has been named as the recipient of the Director Award.[13] Brendan Fraser received a Tribute Award for Performance in The Whale.[14]
Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir was named the recipient of the Variety Artisan Award,[15] Sally El Hosaini was named the winner of the Emerging Talent Award,[15] Buffy Sainte-Marie was the recipient of the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media,[16] and Michelle Yeoh was named the winner of the inaugural Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award.[17]
The festival's main awards for films in the festival program, including the People's Choice Award, were presented on September 18.[18]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
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Alice, Darling | Mary Nighy | United States, Canada | ||
Black Ice | Hubert Davis | Canada | ||
Butcher's Crossing | Gabe Polsky | United States | ||
Dalíland | Mary Harron | |||
The Greatest Beer Run Ever | Peter Farrelly | |||
The Hummingbird | Il colibrì | Francesca Archibugi | Italy, France | |
Hunt | 헌트 | Lee Jung-jae | South Korea | |
A Jazzman's Blues | Tyler Perry | United States | ||
Kacchey Limbu | Shubham Yogi | India | ||
Moving On | Paul Weitz | United States | ||
Paris Memories | Revoir Paris | Alice Winocour | France | |
Prisoner's Daughter | Catherine Hardwicke | United States | ||
Raymond and Ray | Rodrigo García | |||
Roost | Amy Redford | |||
Sidney | Reginald Hudlin | |||
The Son | Florian Zeller | United Kingdom | ||
The Swimmers | Sally El Hosaini | |||
What's Love Got to Do with It? | Shekhar Kapur | |||
The Woman King | Gina Prince-Bythewood | United States |
Ulrich Seidl's Sparta was withdrawn by the festival after allegations of child exploitation on set surfaced.[19]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
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Aftersun | Charlotte Wells | United Kingdom, United States | ||
Alam | France, Palestine, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar | |||
Amanda | Carolina Cavalli | Italy | ||
Ashkal | Youssef Chebbi | France, Tunisia, Qatar | ||
Autobiography | Makbul Mubarak | Indonesia, France, Singapore, Poland, Philippines, Germany, Qatar | ||
Beyond the Wall | شب، داخلی، دیوار | Iran | ||
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman | Saules aveugles, femme endormie | Pierre Fӧldes | Canada, France | |
Bones of Crows | Canada | |||
Coyote | Le Coyote | |||
Domingo and the Mist | Domingo y La Niebla | Ariel Escalante Meza | Costa Rica, Qatar | |
The End of Sex | Canada | |||
EO | Poland, Italy | |||
Falcon Lake | Canada, France | |||
Fixation | Canada, United States, Germany | |||
Godland | Vanskabte Land/Volaða Land | Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden | ||
The Happiest Man in the World | Najsreќniot Čovek na Svetot | Teona Strugar Mitevska | Netherlands, Macedoniam, Belgium, Slovenia, Denmark, Croatia, Bosnia | |
The Hotel | 旅馆 | Wang Xiaoshuai | Hong Kong | |
The Pack | La Jauría | Andrés Ramírez Pulido | Colombia, France | |
Life | Жизнь | Kazakhstan | ||
Living | United Kingdom | |||
Love & Mathematics | Amor y Matemáticas | Claudia Sainte-Luce | Mexico | |
Love Life | Japan, France | |||
Luxembourg, Luxembourg | ЛЮКСЕМБУРГ, ЛЮКСЕМБУРГ | Antonio Lukich | Ukraine | |
The Maiden | Canada | |||
Manticore | Mantícora | Spain | ||
Muru | New Zealand | |||
My Sailor, My Love | Finland, Ireland | |||
Nightalk | Canada | |||
North of Normal | ||||
The Origin of Evil | L'Origine du mal | Canada, France | ||
Plan 75 | Chie Hayakawa | Japan, France, Philippines, Qatar | ||
Return to Dust | 隐入尘烟 | China | ||
R.M.N. | Romania, France | |||
So Much Tenderness | Canada | |||
Stellar | ||||
Stonewalling | Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka | Japan | ||
The Swearing Jar | Lindsay MacKay | Canada | ||
The Umbrella Men | South Africa | |||
Under the Fig Trees | Taht El Shajara | Erige Sehiri | Tunisia, Switzerland, France, Qatar | |
Valeria Is Getting Married | Valeria Mithatenet | Israel | ||
Victim | OBEŤ | Michal Blaško | Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany | |
Vicenta B. | Carlos Lechuga | Cuba, France, United States, Colombia, Norway | ||
War Sailor | Krigsseileren | Norway, Germany | ||
The Water | El agua | Elena López Riera | Switzerland, Spain, France | |
We Are Still Here | Beck Cole, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae Maihi, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Richard Curtis, Chantelle Burgoyne | Australia, New Zealand | ||
Wildflower | Matt Smukler | United States | ||
Winter Boy | Le Lycéen | France | ||
The Worst Ones | ||||
Zwigato | India |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
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752 Is Not a Number | Canada | |||
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | United States | |||
Madison Thomas | Canada | |||
Casa Susanna | France, United States | |||
Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels | Mila Turajlic | Serbia, France, Croatia, Montenegro | ||
The Colour of Ink | Canada | |||
Documentary Now! (episodes: "My Monkey Grifter", "Trouver Frisson" [Finding Frisson], "Two Hairdressers In Bagglyport")[20] [21] | Alex Buono, Rhys Thomas, Micah Gardner | United States | ||
Ever Deadly | Canada | |||
Free Money | Sam Soko, Lauren DeFilippo | Kenya, United States | ||
The Grab | United States | |||
In Her Hands | Tamana Ayazi, Marcel Mettelsiefen | United States, Afghanistan | ||
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues | United States | |||
Mariupolis 2 | Mantas Kvedaravičius | Lithuania, France, Germany | ||
Maya and the Wave | United States | |||
Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova | Daniel Zarvos, Liliane Mutti | Brazil, France | ||
My Imaginary Country | Mi País Imaginario | Chile, France | ||
Patrick and the Whale | Mark Fletcher | Australia | ||
Pray for Our Sinners | Sinéad O’Shea | Ireland | ||
Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot | William Kentridge | South Africa, United States | ||
Theatre of Thought | United States | |||
To Kill a Tiger | Canada | |||
While We Watched | Vinay Shukla | United Kingdom |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Aitch Alberto | United States | ||
Baby Ruby | ||||
Bruiser | Miles Warren | |||
Carmen | Benjamin Millepied | Australia, France | ||
Daughter of Rage | La Hija de todas las Rabias | Laura Baumeister | Nicaragua, Mexico, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway | |
A Gaza Weekend | United Kingdom, Palestine | |||
I Like Movies | Canada | |||
The Inspection | United States | |||
A Long Break | დიდი შესვენება | Davit Pirtskhalava | Georgia | |
Return to Seoul | Retour à Seoul | South Korea, France, Germany, Belgium | ||
Rosie | Canada | |||
Runner | Marian Mathias | United States, France, Germany | ||
Shimoni | Angela Wanjiku Wamai | Kenya | ||
Snow and the Bear | Kar ve Ayı | Selcen Ergun | Turkey, Germany, Serbia | |
Soft | Canada | |||
Something You Said Last Night | Canada, Switzerland | |||
Susie Searches | Sophie Kargman | United States | ||
Sweet As | Australia | |||
The Taste of Apples Is Red | Ta'am al Tufah, Ahmar | Ehab Tarabieh | Israel, Germany | |
This Place | V.T. Nayani | Canada | ||
Unruly | Ustyrlig | Malou Reymann | Denmark | |
Until Branches Bend | Canada | |||
When Morning Comes | Canada, Jamaica | |||
The Young Arsonists | Sheila Pye | Canada |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
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Charcoal | Carvão | Carolina Markowicz | Brazil, Argentina | |
Emily | Frances O'Connor | United Kingdom, United States | ||
The Gravity | La Gravité | Cédric Ido | France | |
Hawa | Maïmouna Doucouré | |||
How to Blow Up a Pipeline | Daniel Goldhaber | United States | ||
Riceboy Sleeps | Anthony Shim | Canada | ||
Subtraction | تفریق | Mani Haghighi | Iran, France | |
Thunder | Foudre | Carmen Jaquier | Switzerland | |
Tora's Husband | Rima Das | India | ||
Viking | Stéphane Lafleur | Canada |
Following its premiere on September 14, TIFF was forced to cancel followup screenings of Vera Drew's film The People's Joker following a rights conflict with Warner Bros. over the film's unauthorized use of The Joker.[22]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The Blackening | United States | ||
Sisu | Finland | ||
Leonor Will Never Die | Martika Ramirez Escobar | Philippines | |
Pearl | United States | ||
The People's Joker | |||
Project Wolf Hunting | 늑대사냥 | Kim Hong-sun | South Korea |
Sick | United States | ||
Venus | Spain | ||
V/H/S/99 | Flying Lotus, Johannes Roberts, Maggie Levin, Tyler MacIntyre, Vanessa and Joseph Winter | United States | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
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1899 | Germany | |||
Dear Mama | United States | |||
The Handmaid's Tale (Season 5) | ||||
High School | Clea DuVall, Laura Kittrell | United States, Canada | ||
The Kingdom Exodus | Denmark | |||
Lido TV | Canada | |||
Mystery Road: Origin | Australia |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
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À la vie à l'amor | Canada | |||
Against Reality | Olivia Peace | United States | ||
Airhostess-737 | Thanasis Neofotistos | Greece | ||
All-Inclusive | Todo incluido | Duván Duque Vargas | Colombia, France | |
Anastasia | Анастасия | Sarah McCarthy | United Kingdom | |
Baba | Mbithi Masya | Kenya | ||
Backflip | Nikita Diakur | Germany, France | ||
Canary | Pierre-Hugues Dallaire, Benoit Therriault | Canada | ||
The Chase | Gurjeet Kaur Bassi | |||
Diaspora | Tyler Mckenzie Evans | |||
The Flying Sailor | Le Matelot volant | |||
The Garbage Man | O Homem do Lixo | Laura Gonçalves | Portugal | |
Gary Screams for You | Cody McGlashan, Nolan Sordyl | United States | ||
Hills and Mountains | Canada | |||
I'm on Fire | Michael Spiccia | United States, Australia | ||
It's What Each Person Needs | Canada | |||
Ice Merchants | João Gonzalez | Portugal, France, United Kingdom | ||
Lay Me by the Shore | David Findlay | Canada | ||
Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles | Літургія протитанкових перешкод | Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | Ukraine, United States | |
Municipal Relaxation Module | Canada | |||
The Melting Creatures | Las criaturas que se derriten bajo el sol | Diego Céspedes | Chile, France | |
Mirror, Mirror | Sanduela Asanda | South Africa | ||
Nanitic | Canada | |||
No Ghost in the Morgue | ||||
N’xaxaitkw | ||||
The Pass | Pepi Ginsberg | United States | ||
Pleasure Garden | Rita Ferrando | Canada | ||
Le pupille | Italy, United States | |||
Quiet Minds Silent Streets | Karen Chapman | Canada | ||
Rest Stop | Crystal Kayiza | United States | ||
Same Old | Canada | |||
Scaring Women at Night | Karimah Zakia Issa | |||
Shadow of the Butterflies | خيال الفراشات | Sofia El Khyari | France, Qatar, Portugal | |
She Always Wins | Hazel McKibbin | United States | ||
Simo | Canada | |||
Snow in September | 9-р Сарын Цас | Mongolia, France | ||
Tremor | Beben | Rudolf Fitzgerald Leonard | Germany | |
Untold Hours | Daniel Warth | Canada | ||
The Water Murmurs | 海边升起一座悬崖 | Jianying Chen | China |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
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After Work | Céline Condorelli, Ben Rivers | United Kingdom | ||
Bigger on the Inside | Angelo Madsen Minax | United States | ||
Concrete Valley | Canada | |||
De Humani Corporis Fabrica | France, Switzerland | |||
Dry Ground Burning | Mato seco em chamas | Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós | Portugal, Brazil | |
Eventide | Sharon Lockhart | United States | ||
F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now | Fox Maxy | |||
Fata Morgana | United Kingdom, United States | |||
Hors-titre | Wiame Haddad | France | ||
Horse Opera | United States | |||
I Thought the World of You | Kurt Walker | Canada | ||
Life on the CAPS | Meriem Bennani | United States | ||
Moonrise | Vincent Grenier | Canada, United States | ||
The Newest Olds | Pablo Mazzolo | Argentina, Canada | ||
Pacifiction | Tourment sur les îles | France, Spain, Germany, Portugal | ||
Puerta a Puerta | Jessica Sarah Rinland, Luis Arnías | Mexico, United States | ||
Queens of the Qing Dynasty | Canada | |||
The Time That Separates Us | Parastoo Anoushahpour | Canada, Jordan, Palestine | ||
Unrest | Unrueh | Cyril Schäublin | Switzerland | |
What Rules the Invisible | Tiffany Sia | United States | ||
Will-o'-the-Wisp | Fogo-Fátuo | Portugal, France |
A selection of films from the above programs that was available for home viewing through the Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox platform.
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Aitch Alberto | United States | ||
Casa Susanna | France, United States | |||
The Colour of Ink | Canada | |||
Concrete Valley | ||||
Coyote | ||||
The End of Sex | ||||
Ever Deadly | ||||
The Grab | Gabriela Cowperthwaite | United States | ||
Joyland | Pakistan | |||
Luxembourg, Luxembourg | ЛЮКСЕМБУРГ, ЛЮКСЕМБУРГ | Antonio Lukich | Ukraine | |
Pray for Our Sinners | Sinéad O’Shea | Ireland | ||
Shimoni | Angela Wanjiku Wamai | Kenya | ||
Sick | United States | |||
Soft | Joseph Amenta | Canada | ||
Susie Searches | Sophie Kargman | United States | ||
Theatre of Thought | ||||
This Place | V.T. Nayani | Canada | ||
Tora’s Husband | India | |||
The Umbrella Men | John Barker | South Africa | ||
Under the Fig Trees | Taht El Shajara | Erige Sehiri | Tunisia, Switzerland, France, Qatar | |
Unruly | Ustyrlig | Malou Reymann | Denmark | |
Vicenta B. | Carlos Lechuga | Cuba, France, United States, Colombia, Norway | ||
We Are Still Here | Beck Cole, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae Maihi, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Richard Curtis, Chantelle Burgoyne | Australia, New Zealand | ||
When Morning Comes | Canada, Jamaica |
Films that were available for screening by film buyers and industry professionals, but not open to the general public.[23]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
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Blue Jean | Georgia Oakley | United Kingdom | ||
Driving Mum | Á ferð með mömmu | Hilmar Oddsson | Iceland | |
Dreamin' Wild | United States | |||
Door Mouse | Canada | |||
Harka | Lotfy Nathan | United States, France, Tunisia, Luxembourg, Belgium | ||
The Listener | United States | |||
The Kings of the World | Los Reyes del mundo | Laura Mora | Colombia, Luxembourg, France, Mexico, Norway | |
Klokkenluider | United Kingdom | |||
Salt Lake | Kasia Rosłaniec | Poland, Sweden | ||
Without Her | بی رویا | Arian Vazirdaftari | Iran |
Older movies that were shown at the OLG Cinema Park, an open-air cinema run by TIFF at David Pecaut Square. Many featured actors and/or directors involved with TIFF 2022 selections.[24]
English title | Director(s) | Year | Production country |
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10 Things I Hate About You | 1999 | United States | |
The Greatest Showman | 2017 | ||
A League of Their Own | 1992 | ||
Love & Basketball | 2000 | ||
The Mummy | 1999 | ||
The NeverEnding Story | 1984 | ||
School of Rock | 2003 | ||
Sister Act | 1992 | ||
UHF | Jay Levey | 1989 | |
West Side Story | 2021 |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Year | Production country | |
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I Shot Andy Warhol | 1996 | United Kingdom, United States | |||
The Stranger | Agantuk | 1991 | India, France | ||
Strictly Ballroom | 1992 | Australia, United Kingdom | |||
Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux | 1991 | Canada | |||
Werckmeister Harmonies | Werckmeister harmóniák | 2000 | Hungary, Italy, Germany, France |
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 8, 2022.