toronto international film festival 2020 cancelled

“Despite all that’s happened and despite what’s still happening, there’s still possibility,” Byrne says. The TIFF Tribute Awards, which this year honours Kate Winslet and Anthony Hopkins, will air on CTV and Bell’s digital network. “She wanted to keep going.”. The TIFF Tribute Awards were broadcast across Canada on CTV and ctv.ca, and streamed internationally to the rest of the world by Variety. Glitzy red carpet premieres are cancelled, with autograph hounds and selfie seekers getting the year off. Now in its third year, TIFF’s Media Inclusion Initiative will continue to accredit eligible Black, Indigenous, people of colour, LGBTQ+, and women emerging film critics who are working towards amplifying their voices in the press corps. “And this year we’ve added new innovations and ways to give back to the community. With September fast-approaching, the TIFF organizers are holding fast, and refusing to postpone. But 2020 is not a normal year by any stretch of the imagination, and TIFF is now facing a big decision. This Article is related to: Film and tagged Nomadland, One Night in Miami, TIFF. [11], The Industry Selects program was a film market for films seeking commercial distribution. Cannes favourite Kornel Mundruczo directs.Showtimes: Saturday, TIFF Bell Lightbox; Sept. 16, online at Bell Digital Cinema; Sept. 16, Visa Skyline Drive-In at CityView; Sept. 18, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Falling Three-time Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen falls into a new stage of his career as he directs this story of a gay man who is forced to care for his elderly homophobic father (Lance Henriksen).Showtimes: Friday, TIFF Bell Lightbox; Sept. 13, TIFF Bell Lightbox; Sept. 14, Bell TV customer exclusive; Sept. 17, online at Bell Digital Cinema, The Father Sir Anthony Hopkins stars as Anthony, an elderly man who can’t admit to himself or his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) that he is losing his grip on reality as he slides into dementia.Showtimes: Sept. 14, RBC Lakeside Drive-In at Ontario Place; Sept. 15, online at Bell Digital Cinema, Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick’s celebrated war film gets a 4K makeover along with a pre-recorded conversation featuring stars Matthew Modine, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Arliss Howard, casting director and dialogue coach Leon Vitali and Stanley Kubrick’s daughter Katharina Kubrick.Showtime: Sept. 18, RBC Lakeside Drive-In at Ontario Place, I Am Greta Swedish director Nathan Grossman traces Greta Thunberg’s rise from a teenage activist to the inspiration behind a global movement dedicated to raising awareness around climate change.Showtime: Sept. 16, online at Bell Digital Cinema, The Truffle Hunters In the forests of Piedmont, Italy, an elderly generation of men and their beloved dogs hunt for one of the world’s most expensive ingredients — the rare white Alba truffle, coveted by Michelin-starred chefs around the world.Showtime: Sept. 18, online at Bell Digital Cinema, Shadow in the Cloud Set during the Second World War, Chloe Grace Moretz plays an airwoman struggling to warn her deaf-eared male comrades about an evil presence onboard their flight.Showtimes: Saturday, Visa Skyline Drive-In at CityView; Sept. 13, online at Bell Digital Cinema, 76 Days Shot earlier this year, the filmmakers behind 76 Days capture what life was like inside Wuhan, China — ground zero for the outbreak of COVID-19.Showtimes: Sept. 14, TIFF Bell Lightbox; Sept. 15, online at Bell Digital Cinema; Sept. 17, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds Werner Herzog joins his Into the Inferno collaborator Clive Oppenheimer to travel the world hunting for meteors that fell to Earth.Showtime: Thursday at Bell Digital Cinema, Beans Gemini Award winner Tracey Deer recounts the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 in Quebec from the point of view of a pre-teen girl and her little sister.Showtimes: Sept. 13, TIFF Bell Lightbox; Sept. 15, online at Bell Digital Cinema. SHAWN MENDES FOUNDATION CHANGEMAKER AWARD, Winner: Kelly Fyffe-Marshall’s Black Bodies. The Toronto International Film Festival ended on Sept. 20 after a special awards ceremony that combined socially distanced and streaming events. TIFF 2020: 18 must-see films at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. All feature films in Official Selection by BIPOC and Canadian filmmakers are eligible, and the three winners will receive $10,000 each. ‘Inconvenient Indian’ Review: An Illuminating Documentary About Cultures Often Ignored [TIFF], ‘Mangrove’ Review: Steve McQueen Stages a Riveting Courtroom Drama on the Front Lines of History [NYFF 2020], ‘Enemies of the State’ Review: A Conspiracy Theory Becomes a Family Affair [TIFF], ‘Get the Hell Out’ Review: A Wild and Bloody Slice of Mayhem That Desperately Needs a Live Audience [TIFF], ‘The Truffle Hunters’ Review: A Wonderful Story of Driven Men, Rich Ingredients, and Very Good Dogs [TIFF], ‘The Nest’ Director Sean Durkin on How You Make a Thriller Feel Haunted [Interview], Copyright © 2005-2019 /Film.