TIFF 2016 PEOPLE'S CHOICE, FIPRESCI & PLATFORM PRIZES PLUS MORE!

The key to winning the coveted Grolsch People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival? Please everybody! Funnily enough, that's a pretty good key to winning that other big award at the end of February that we can't seem to stop obsessing over - it's no wonder that seven of the last eight TIFF People's Choice picks went on to claim Oscar nominations for Best Picture, three of them winning the actual award. This year's winner is the beloved musical La La Land from Whiplash director Damien Chazelle, though it's not the only award that has been bestowed upon one of the many titles screening at the festival this year. The official Platform jury declared Pablo Larrain's Jackie Kennedy biopic Jackie their top pick from their selection, while a handful of other juries also chimed in. Check out all of their choices below:

Grolsch People's Choice Awards

Grolsch People's Choice Award

La La Land (Damien Chazelle)

Grolsch People's Choice Award - First Runner-Up

Lion (Garth Davis)

Grolsch People's Choice Award - Second Runner-Up

Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair)

Grolsch People's Choice Documentary Award

I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)

Grolsch People's Choice Documentary Award - First Runner-Up

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James)

Grolsch People's Choice Documentary Award - Second Runner-Up

Before the Flood (Fisher Stevens)

Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award

Free Fire (Ben Wheatley)

Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award - First Runner-Up

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (Andre Ovredal)

Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award - Second Runner-Up

Raw (Julia Ducournau)

Platform Awards

Toronto Platform Prize

Jackie (Pablo Larrain)

Toronto Platform Prize - Special Mention

Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait (Khyentse Norbu)

Canadian Awards

Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film

Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie)

City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film

Old Stone (Johnny Ma)

FIPRESCI Awards

FIPRESCI Prize - Special Presentations

I Am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiao Gang)

FIPRESCI Prize - Discovery

Kati Kati (Mbithi Masya)

Other Awards

NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere

In Between (Maysaloun Hamoud)

Dropbox Discovery Programme Filmmakers Award

Jeffrey (Yanillys Perez)

TIFF DISCOVERY 2016 - FILMMAKERS OF THE FUTURE!

The TIFF Discovery slate is designed to highlight emerging directors; all of this year's filmmakers are showing either their first or their second film. It's a healthy-looking lineup too, with some acclaimed titles from earlier 2016 festivals alongside a good number of world premieres. Also included in this latest announcement (of many) from the Toronto International Film Festival are three additions to the TIFF Docs slate, the remainder of which you can view here. Check it out!

TIFF Discovery

ARQ (Tony Elliott)

Blessed Benefit (Mahmoud al Massad)

Boys in the Trees (Nicholas Verso)

Divines (Houda Benyamina)

The Empty Box (Claudia Sainte-Luce)

Flemish Heaven (Peter Monsaert)

The Fury of a Patient Man (Raul Arevalo)

The Giant (Johannes Nyholm)

Godless (Ralitza Petrova)

Guilty Men (Ivan D. Gaona)

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki (Juho Kuosmanen)

Hearthstone (Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson)

Hello Destroyer (Kevan Funk)

Hunting Flies (Izer Aliu)

In the Blood (Rasmus Heisterberg)

In the Radiant City (Rachel Lambert)

Jean of the Joneses (Stella Meghie)

Jeffrey (Yanillys Perez)

Jesus (Fernando Guzzoni)

Joe Cinque's Consolation (Sotiris Dounoukos)

Kati Kati (Mbithi Masya)

Katie Says Goodbye (Wayne Roberts)

The Levelling (Hope Dickson Leach)

Little Wing (Selma Vilhunen)

Mad World (Wong Chun)

Marija (Michael Koch)

Noces (Stephan Strecker)

Old Stone (Johnny Ma)

Park (Sofia Exarchou)

Prank (Vincent Biron)

The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit)

Sami Blood (Amanda Kernell)

Sand Storm (Elite Zexer)

Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie)

Wulu (Daouda Coulibaly)

TIFF Docs

Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (Nanette Burstein)

Off Frame aka Revolution Until Victory (Mohanad Yaqubi)

The Terry Kath Experience (Michelle Sinclair)

MORE TIFF 2016 ENTRIES: HILL, HONG, WAJDA WORLD PREMIERES

Yet more additions to the lineup for the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival! This year's City to City slate focuses on Lagos, with eight new titles from the capital of Nigeria, one of the world's most active national film industries. And two Lagos-based actors, Somkele Iyamah-Ighalam and O. C. Ukeje, receive the TIFF Rising Star awards, while director Kunle Afolayan and actor Genevieve Nnaji will feature in an In Conversation With... session. More high-profile titles appear in the Special Presentations and Masters sections, including world premieres from directors like Walter Hill, Hong Sang Soo and Andrzej Wajda, while two more Galas have been announced. Check out announcements one, two and three from TIFF so far, and the latest choices below.

Galas
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar)
The Promise (Terry George)

Special Presentation
(Re)Assignment (Walter Hill)
150 Milligrams (Emmanuelle Bercot)
The Bleeder (Philippe Falardeau)
Brain on Fire (Gerard Barrett)
Burn Your Maps (Jordan Roberts)
Christine (Antonio Campos)
The Duellist (Alexey Mizgirev)
The Exception (David Leveaux)
I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
In Dubious Battle (James Franco)
The Long Excuse (Nishikawa Miwa)
Rage (Lee Sang Il)
Voyage of Time (Terrence Malick)
Wakefield (Robin Swicord)

After the cut, a whole bunch more sections, including the City to City focus on Lagos.

JACKIE, MOONLIGHT, NOCTURAMA TO SCREEN IN TIFF PLATFORM SECTION

Added to the TIFF lineup last year, the Platform slate is the Toronto festival's sole competitive strand. With a diverse selection last year that was largely low on big names, there's been a considerable uptick in that regard for the 2016 selection. Pablo Larrain's Jackie Kennedy biopic Jackie will screen alongside new works from Bertrand Bonello, Zacharias Kunuk and Kurosawa Kiyoshi. Take a look at the first and second announcements of TIFF 2016 screeners, and then check out the recent additions below. The fest runs from the 8th to the 18th of September.

Platform Slate
Daguerrotype (Le Secret de la Chambre Noire) (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Goldstone (Ivan Sen)
Heal the Living (Katell Quillevere)
Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait (Khyentse Norbu)
Home (Fien Troch)
Jackie (Pablo Larrain)
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd)
Layla M. (Mijke de Jong)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
Searchers (Zacharias Kunuk)
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie)

TIFF 2016 ROUNDS OUT ITS SELECTION WITH DOCS, MIDNIGHT MADNESS & VANGUARD

The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled another massive slate of new titles for its 2016 edition, due to take place between the 8th and the 18th of September. Joining some already-announced films in all three sections, Documentaries, Midnight Madness and Vanguard have all filled out their full lineups. Steve James, Errol Morris and Werner Herzog bring new works to the Docs strand, Paul Schrader and Adam Wingard, with his hotly-anticipated Blair Witch film, will show in Midnight Madness, and Vanguard boasts Ana Lily Amirpour - also showing in competition at Venice - and Nacho Vigalondo's Colossal with Anne Hathaway. And the TIFF Cinematheque lineup has also been finished off with a terrific batch of classic films. Take a look at TIFF's first announcement of films for the year right here, and their latest additions below:

Documentaries
The 6th Beatle (Tony Guma and John Rose)
ABACUS: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James)
Amanda Knox (Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn)
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (Errol Morris)
Beauties of the Night (Maria Jose Cuevas)
Bezness as Usual (Alex Pitstra)
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary (John Scheinfeld)
The Cinema Travellers (Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya)
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (Matt Tyrnauer)
Close Relations (Vitaly Mansky)
Forever Pure (Maya Zinshtein)
Gaza Surf Club (Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine)
Gimme Danger (Jim Jarmusch)
Girl Unbound (Erin Heidenreich)
I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)
I Called Him Morgan (Kasper Collin)
In Exile (Naing Tin Win)
India in a Day (Richie Mehta)
An Insignificant Man (Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla)
Into the Inferno (Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer)
The Ivory Game (Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani)
Karl Marx City (Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker)
Mali Blues (Lutz Gregor)
Politics, Instructions Manual (Fernando Leon de Aranoa)
The Turning Point
The War Show (Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon)
Water and Sugar: Carlo di Palma, The Colours of Life (Fariborz Kamkari)

Midnight Madness
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (Andre Ovredal)
The Belko Experiment (Greg McLean)
Blair Witch (Adam Wingard)
Dog Eat Dog (Paul Schrader)
Free Fire (Ben Wheatley)
The Girl with All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy)
Headshot (Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto)
Rats (Morgan Spurlock)
Raw (Julia Ducournau)
Sadako vs. Kayako (Shiraishi Koji)

Vanguard
The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour)
Blind Sun (Joyce A. Nashawati)
Buster's Mal Heart (Sarah Adina Smith)
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo)
GODSPEED (Chung Mong Hong)
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (Osgood Perkins)
Interchange (Dain Iskandar Said)
Message from the King (Fabrice du Welz)
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw)
Prevenge (Alice Lowe)
The Untamed (Amat Escalante)
WITHOUT NAME (Lorcan Finnegan)

TIFF Cinematheque
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash)
General Report on Certain Matters of Interest for a Public Screening (Pere Portabella)
The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuang Zhuang)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
Lumiere
One Sings, the Other Doesn't (Agnes Varda)
One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FIRST BATCH OF 2016 FILMS

Here's your first gander at the films most intent upon scoring with the awards ceremony set to arrive later this year, and a few others, simply content with the raise in profile that an appearance at a major international festival provides. The Toronto International Film Festival takes place between the 8th and the 18th of September this year, and will serve as a launching pad for many of the year's most popular films, no doubt, not least given the sheer number of world premieres in the below lists. It's a big fest, so this big list - comprising Galas and Special Presentations (and likely not even all of them) - will only get bigger over the coming days and/or weeks, with further strands being announced. Take a look at the lot below:

Galas

Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)

Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg)

The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig) - closing night film

The Headhunter's Calling (Mark Williams)

The Journey Is the Destination (Bronwen Hughes)

JT + the Tennessee Kids (Jonathan Demme)

LBJ (Rob Reiner)

Lion (Garth Davis)

Loving (Jeff Nichols)

The Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua) - opening night film

A Monster Calls (J. A. Bayona)

Planetarium (Rebecca Zlotowski)

Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair)

The Rolling Stones Ole Ole Ole!: A Trip Across Latin America (Paul Dugdale)

The Secret Scripture (Jim Sheridan)

Snowden (Oliver Stone)

Strange Weather (Katherine Dieckmann)

Their Finest (Lone Scherfig)

A United Kingdom (Amma Asante)

Special Presentations

The Age of Shadows (Kim Jee Woon)

All I See Is You (Marc Forster)

American Honey (Andrea Arnold)

American Pastoral (Ewan McGregor)

Asura: The City of Madness (Kim Sung Soo)

Barakah Meets Barakah (Mahmoud Sabbagh)

Barry (Vikram Gandhi)

Birth of the Dragon (George Nolfi)

The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker)

Bleed for This (Ben Younger)

Blue Jay (Alex Lehmann)

Brimstone (Martin Koolhoven)

BrOTHERHOOD (Noel Clarke)

Carrie Pilby (Susan Johnson)

Catfight (Oner Tukel)

City of Tiny Lights (Pete Travis)

The Commune (Thomas Vinterberg)

Daguerrotype (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)

A Death in the Gunj (Konkona Sensharma)

Denial (Mick Jackson)

Elle (Paul Verhoeven)

Foreign Body (Raja Amari)

Frantz (Francois Ozon)

The Handmaiden (Park Chan Wook)

Harmonium (Fukada Koji)

I Am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiao Gang)

The Journey (Nick Hamm)

King of the Dancehall (Nick Cannon)

La La Land (Damien Chazelle)

The Limehouse Golem (Juan Carlos Medina)

Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)

Mascots (Christopher Guest)

Maudie (Aisling Walsh)

Neruda (Pablo Larrain)

Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)

The Oath (Baltasar Kormakur)

Orphan (Arnaud des Pallieres)

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola)

Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)

The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi)

Salt and Fire (Werner Herzog)

Sing (Garth Jennings)

Souvenir (Bavo Defurne)

Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Love)

Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)

Trespass Against Us (Adam Smith)

Una (Benedict Andrews)

Unless (Alan Gilsenan)

The Wasted Times (Chang Er)