2019 TIFF

TIFF stands for the Toronto International Film Festival. The 2019 TIFF was the 44th annual festival and took place from September 5 to September 15, 2019, in Toronto, Canada.

The festival featured a wide selection of Canadian and international films, including major Gala Presentations and Special Presentations. Some of the notable films shown at the festival included Joker, Parasite, Jojo Rabbit, Marriage Story, Knives Out, and Ford v Ferrari.

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Awards

The 2019 TIFF awards were announced after the festival. Meryl Streep was the inaugural recipient of the TIFF Tribute Actor Award, recognizing her distinguished career and work in film acting.

The People’s Choice Award was presented to Jojo Rabbit, directed by Taika Waititi. The film was selected by festival audiences as the top title of the 2019 festival.

The selection for the 2019 TIFF festival are:

The 2019 TIFF program included films across several sections, including Gala Presentations, Special Presentations, and other festival selections.

Gala Presentations at the 2019 TIFF

  • Abominable by Jill Culton, as well as
  • A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, as well as
  • Blackbird by Roger Michell, as well as
  • The Burnt Orange Heresy by Giuseppe Capotondi, as well as
  •  Clemency by Chinonye Chukwu, as well as
  • Ford v Ferrari by James Mangold, as well as
  • The Aeronauts by Tom Harper, as well as
  • The Goldfinch by John Crowley, as well as
  •  Harriet by Kasi Lemmons, as well as
  • Honey Boy by Alma Har’el, as well as
  •  Hustlers by Lorene Scafaria, as well as
  • Also, American Woman by Semi Chellas, as well as
  • Joker by Todd Phillips, as well as
  • Just Mercy by Destin Daniel Cretton, as well as
  •  Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band by Daniel Roher, as well as

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  • Radioactive by Marjane Satrapi, as well as
  • The Sky Is Pink by Shonali Bose, as well as
  • The Song of Names by François Girard, as well as
  • True History of the Kelly Gang, as well as
  • Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen and Thom Zimny

Special Events

  • David Foster: Off the Record, as well as
  • One Day in the Life: Noah Piugattuk

Special Presentations at TIFF

  • American Son by Kenny Leon, as well as
  • Bad Education by Cory Finley, as well as
  • La Belle Époque by Nicolas Bedos, as well as
  • Clifton Hill by Albert Shin, as well as
  • Coming Home Again by Wayne Wang, as well as
  • Deerskin by Quentin Dupieux, as well as
  • Dirt Music by Gregor Jordan, as well as
  • Dolemite Is My Name by Craig Brewer, as well as
  • The Elder One by Geetu Mohandas, as well as
  • Ema by Pablo Larraín, as well as
  • Endings, Beginnings by Drake Doremus, as well as
  • Frankie by Ira Sachs, as well as
  • The Friend by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, as well as
  • Greed by Michael Winterbottom, as well as
  • Guest of Honour by Atom Egoyan, as well as
  • Guns Akimbo by Jason Lei Howden, as well as
  • A Herdade by Tiago Guedes, as well as
  • Heroic Losers by Sebastián Borensztein, as well as
  • Hope Gap by William Nicholson, as well as
  • How to Build a Girl, as well as
  • Human Capital by Marc Meyers, as well as
  • I Am Woman by Unjoo Moon, as well as
  • Jojo Rabbit by Taika Waititi, as well as
  • Judy by Rupert Goold, as well as
  • Jungleland by Max Winkler

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Also,

  • Knives Out by Rian Johnson
  • The Laundromat by Steven Soderbergh
  • The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers
  • Lucy in the Sky by Noah Hawley
  • Lyrebird by Dan Friedkin
  • Marriage Story by Noah Baumbach
  • Military Wives by Peter Cattaneo
  • Mosul by Matthew Michael Carnahan
  • Motherless Brooklyn by Edward Norton
  • No.7 Cherry Lane by Yonfan
  • Ordinary Love by Lisa Barros D’Sa
  • The Other Lamb by Małgorzata Szumowska
  • Pain and Glory by Pedro Almodóvar
  • The Painted Bird by Václav Marhoul
  • Parasite by Bong Joon-ho
  • Pelican Blood by Katrin Gebbe
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Saturday Fiction by Lou Ye
  • The Report by Scott Z. Burns
  • Seberg by Benedict Andrews
  • Sibyl by Justine Triet
  • Synchronic by Aaron Moorehead and Justin Benson

2019 TIFF in 2026

The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival remains a completed historical edition of TIFF. It was the festival’s 44th edition and took place from September 5 to September 15, 2019.

The festival featured several films that later became widely recognized, including Parasite, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, Marriage Story, Knives Out, and Ford v Ferrari. TIFF continues to operate as a major international film organization, with its annual festival held in Toronto each September.

As of 2026, TIFF is preparing for its 50th edition, making the 2019 festival an important part of the festival’s recent history.