Over the past 11 days, TIFF presented 294 films from 72 countries, welcoming over 800 talent across 98 red carpets. A 12 awards were handed out, including jury-awarded prizes and the renowned People’s Choice Awards.
In a historic first this year, winning TIFF’s Platform Prize grants a non-English-language film direct eligibility for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards, alongside top winners from five other qualifying festivals.
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It is the night before TIFF and not all is quiet…
My schedule is almost set. My spreadsheet has been colour-coded. The films have been added, removed, reconsidered, and added again. If you’ve been around TIFF long enough, you know that the festival doesn’t really begin when the first film screens. It starts much earlier, with the planning, the anticipation, the group chats, the “Have you seen this one?” messages.
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TIFF can be exciting, overwhelming, exhausting and frankly, a little chaotic… Sometimes all in the same day!
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