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TIFF announces Canada’s Top 10 films of 2016
Friday December 09th 2016Movies about personal and social revolution and stories set on snow and ice make up the chosen 2016 features of Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival.
The desire to “show Canadians who we are” as a nation, in the words of TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey, finds root in a coast-to-coast-to coast selection of honorees both well-known and relatively unknown that will screen Jan. 13 to 26 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World, which won the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, is among them. Starring Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye and Léa Seydoux, it’s the story of a terminally ill gay man and the family reckoning he’s long dreaded . . . and avoided.
Another Cannes 2016 premiere in Canada’s Top Ten is Nathan Morlando’s Mean Dreams, a love-on-the-run drama featuring TIFF Rising Star Sophie Nélisse, plus Josh Wiggins, Bill Paxton and Colm Feore.
Nunavut-based filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk is back in the Top Ten with Maliglutit (Searchers), a northern family-quest inspired by John Ford’s classic western The Searchers. It stars Benjamin Kunuk, Karen Ivalu and Jonah Qunaq and it’s co-directed by Natar Ungalaaq, the star of Kunuk’s acclaimed debut film, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.
Angry Inuk, by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, lives up to its title with a documentary study of how a new generation of Inuit activists, using such modern tools as social media, are standing up to anti-sealing groups and other threats to their traditional way of life.
Most of the films have theatrical release dates for early 2017, following their Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival screenings.
True to TIFF’s audience-friendly mandate, Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival doesn’t name a top Canadian movie of the year. Instead, Toronto filmgoers will choose a People’s Choice Award winner in a vote conducted throughout the 14-day event.
Here’s the complete Top Ten features list:
Angry Inuk (Alethea Arnaquq-Baril)
Hello Destroyer (Kevan Funk)
It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan)
Maliglutit (Searchers) (Zacharias Kunuk)
Mean Dreams (Nathan Morlando)
Nelly (Anne Émond)
Old Stone (Johnny Ma)
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie)
Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie)
Window Horses (The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming) (Ann Marie Fleming)
The films were chosen by a TIFF-selected jury of filmmakers, programmers and other industry professionals.
Now in its 16th year, Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival also honours short films and student shorts and features interviews and Q&A sessions with industry professionals. Tickets and other information are available through tiff.net/seethenorth.
Source: Toronto Star
Front Page, Headline, Industry News
TIFF announces Canada’s Top 10 films of 2016
Friday December 09th 2016Movies about personal and social revolution and stories set on snow and ice make up the chosen 2016 features of Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival.
The desire to “show Canadians who we are” as a nation, in the words of TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey, finds root in a coast-to-coast-to coast selection of honorees both well-known and relatively unknown that will screen Jan. 13 to 26 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World, which won the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, is among them. Starring Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye and Léa Seydoux, it’s the story of a terminally ill gay man and the family reckoning he’s long dreaded . . . and avoided.
Another Cannes 2016 premiere in Canada’s Top Ten is Nathan Morlando’s Mean Dreams, a love-on-the-run drama featuring TIFF Rising Star Sophie Nélisse, plus Josh Wiggins, Bill Paxton and Colm Feore.
Nunavut-based filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk is back in the Top Ten with Maliglutit (Searchers), a northern family-quest inspired by John Ford’s classic western The Searchers. It stars Benjamin Kunuk, Karen Ivalu and Jonah Qunaq and it’s co-directed by Natar Ungalaaq, the star of Kunuk’s acclaimed debut film, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.
Angry Inuk, by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, lives up to its title with a documentary study of how a new generation of Inuit activists, using such modern tools as social media, are standing up to anti-sealing groups and other threats to their traditional way of life.
Most of the films have theatrical release dates for early 2017, following their Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival screenings.
True to TIFF’s audience-friendly mandate, Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival doesn’t name a top Canadian movie of the year. Instead, Toronto filmgoers will choose a People’s Choice Award winner in a vote conducted throughout the 14-day event.
Here’s the complete Top Ten features list:
Angry Inuk (Alethea Arnaquq-Baril)
Hello Destroyer (Kevan Funk)
It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan)
Maliglutit (Searchers) (Zacharias Kunuk)
Mean Dreams (Nathan Morlando)
Nelly (Anne Émond)
Old Stone (Johnny Ma)
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie)
Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie)
Window Horses (The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming) (Ann Marie Fleming)
The films were chosen by a TIFF-selected jury of filmmakers, programmers and other industry professionals.
Now in its 16th year, Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival also honours short films and student shorts and features interviews and Q&A sessions with industry professionals. Tickets and other information are available through tiff.net/seethenorth.
Source: Toronto Star
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Front Page, Headline, Industry News
TIFF announces Canada’s Top 10 films of 2016
Friday December 09th 2016Movies about personal and social revolution and stories set on snow and ice make up the chosen 2016 features of Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival.
The desire to “show Canadians who we are” as a nation, in the words of TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey, finds root in a coast-to-coast-to coast selection of honorees both well-known and relatively unknown that will screen Jan. 13 to 26 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World, which won the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, is among them. Starring Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye and Léa Seydoux, it’s the story of a terminally ill gay man and the family reckoning he’s long dreaded . . . and avoided.
Another Cannes 2016 premiere in Canada’s Top Ten is Nathan Morlando’s Mean Dreams, a love-on-the-run drama featuring TIFF Rising Star Sophie Nélisse, plus Josh Wiggins, Bill Paxton and Colm Feore.
Nunavut-based filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk is back in the Top Ten with Maliglutit (Searchers), a northern family-quest inspired by John Ford’s classic western The Searchers. It stars Benjamin Kunuk, Karen Ivalu and Jonah Qunaq and it’s co-directed by Natar Ungalaaq, the star of Kunuk’s acclaimed debut film, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.
Angry Inuk, by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, lives up to its title with a documentary study of how a new generation of Inuit activists, using such modern tools as social media, are standing up to anti-sealing groups and other threats to their traditional way of life.
Most of the films have theatrical release dates for early 2017, following their Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival screenings.
True to TIFF’s audience-friendly mandate, Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival doesn’t name a top Canadian movie of the year. Instead, Toronto filmgoers will choose a People’s Choice Award winner in a vote conducted throughout the 14-day event.
Here’s the complete Top Ten features list:
Angry Inuk (Alethea Arnaquq-Baril)
Hello Destroyer (Kevan Funk)
It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan)
Maliglutit (Searchers) (Zacharias Kunuk)
Mean Dreams (Nathan Morlando)
Nelly (Anne Émond)
Old Stone (Johnny Ma)
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie)
Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie)
Window Horses (The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming) (Ann Marie Fleming)
The films were chosen by a TIFF-selected jury of filmmakers, programmers and other industry professionals.
Now in its 16th year, Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival also honours short films and student shorts and features interviews and Q&A sessions with industry professionals. Tickets and other information are available through tiff.net/seethenorth.
Source: Toronto Star
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