The Toronto International Film Festival will be putting a spotlight on Canadian cinema in 2019.
On Wednesday, the festival announced its full slate of Canadian films across every program.
Along with previously announced films like “American Woman” by Semi Chellas and “David Foster: Off the Record” by Barry Avrich, the 2019 lineup includes Ellen Page and Ian Daniel’s new documentary “There’s Something in the Water”, Nicole Dorsey’s “Black Conflux”, and Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis’s “White Lie”.
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“We are deeply impressed by the high quality of the work done by Canadian directors this year — particularly from filmmakers who were making their first and second features,” TIFF senior programmer Steve Gravestock said. “Within that group, there was an extremely strong contingent of female filmmakers working everywhere from Newfoundland to British Columbia and addressing a genuinely diverse spectrum of subjects, from mother–daughter relationships to the refugee experience, female friendships to youth in crisis.”
TIFF revealed two Canadian films included in this year’s popular Midnight Madness program: Jeff Barnaby’s “Blood Quantum” and Matthew Rankin’s “The Twentieth Century”.
Also announced are the Canadians included in TIFF’s Rising Stars program, including Kacey Rohl, Mikhaïl Ahooja, Nahéma Ricci and Shamier Anderson.
TIFF 2019 runs September 5 to 15.
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See the full list of Canadian feature film selections below.
Galas
“American Woman,” Semi Chellas, Canadian Premiere
“Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band,” Daniel Roher, World Premiere
“The Song of Names,” François Girard, World Premiere
Special Presentations
“Clifton Hill,” Albert Shin, World Premiere
“Guest of Honour,” Atom Egoyan, North American Premiere
Special Events
“David Foster: Off the Record,” Barry Avrich, World Premiere
“One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk,” Zacharias Kunuk, North American Premiere
Masters
“Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger,” Alanis Obomsawin, World Premiere
TIFF Docs
“Coppers,” Alan Zweig, World Premiere
“This Is Not a Movie,” Yung Chang, World Premiere
“There’s Something in the Water,” Ellen Page and Ian Daniel, World Premiere
Discovery
“Black Conflux,” Nicole Dorsey, World Premiere
“Easy Land,” Sanja Zivkovic, World Premiere
“Kuessipan,” Myriam Verreault, World Premiere
“Murmur,” Heather Young, World Premiere
“Raf,” Harry Cepka, World Premiere
“The Rest of Us,” Aisling Chin-Yee, World Premiere
Contemporary World Cinema
“And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux),” Louise Archambault, World Premiere
“Antigone,” Sophie Deraspe, World Premiere
“The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open,” Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn, North American Premiere
“Castle in the Ground,” Joey Klein, World Premiere
“The Last Porno Show,” Kire Paputts, World Premiere
“Tammy’s Always Dying,” Amy Jo Johnson, World Premiere
“White Lie,” Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis, World Premiere
Midnight Madness
“Blood Quantum,” Jeff Barnaby, World Premiere
“The Twentieth Century,” Matthew Rankin, World Premiere
