The Visa Screening Room is at the Princess of Wales Theatre. Visa Infinite cardholders will have access to the Visa Infinite priority line.
NEW! Tiered pricing for venues with assigned seating (Roy Thomson Hall, Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales, Elgin, Winter Garden)
For venues without assigned seating (Ryerson, Scotiabank, Jackman Hall and TIFF Bell Lightbox), pricing remains the same.
Rush tickets are $20 (Regular) and $40 (Premium), when available.
Evening screenings start after 5pm. Daytime screenings start at 5pm or earlier.
Please note you may be asked to show ID at the box office or screening venue to verify age.
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May 23 | Packages on sale to Contributors Circle Members and up (10am) |
May 30 | Packages on sale to Members 365 (10am) |
June 13 | Packages on sale to Visa cardholders (10am) |
June 20 | Packages on sale to the public (10am) |
Aug 1 | Deadline to become a member to access early ticket selection start time |
August 13 | Packages off-sale |
August 20 | Flex pack buyers receive email with package ticket selection start time |
August 21 | Schedule goes live on tiff.net |
August 23 | Patrons Circle individual tickets on sale |
August 26 | Member package ticket selection starts(determined by level) |
August 28 | Public package ticket selection starts begins (after members) |
August 30 | All package redemption windows close at 10pm |
September 1 | Member individual tickets pre-sale (10am—4pm) — tickets available on tiff.net and the Member’s Box Offices between 10am-4pm |
September 2 | Insider individual tickets pre-sale. Make sure you subscribe to The Weekly to get your code (10am—4pm) — only on ticketmaster.ca |
September 3 | Public individual tickets on sale (10am) — on ticketmaster.ca and the Festival and Member’s Box Offices between 10am-4pm |
September 4 | Individual ticket sales resume at ticketmaster.ca |
September 5 - 16 | Festival and Member Box Offices open from 8am - 7pm
Exchanges begin at 12pm (8am for TIFF Members) |
Seating is only guaranteed until 15 minutes before the scheduled start of the screening. If late seating is disruptive, latecomers will not be admitted. Late seating is at the discretion of the venue staff.
Our staff and volunteers are here to ensure the best possible Festival experience for all; TIFF Inc. will not tolerate mistreatment of any kind towards its staff or volunteers and will take measures accordingly. TIFF Inc. reserves the right to refuse admission and/or expel from the premises, without refund, any person whose presence or conduct is deemed objectionable.
Rush tickets are subject to availability and are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis at the discretion of venue staff. Customers are limited to holding space in Rush lines for themselves and one other person. Please inform the Festival staff managing the Rush line if you are holding a place for another individual.
All electronic devices must be silenced and stowed away during public screenings. Bags are subject to inspection.
Please do not leave empty seats in the middle of the row at general admission houses; Rush seating is less disruptive to the audience if empty seats are available on the aisles. Seats cannot be saved. Due to venue fire codes, sitting in the aisles or standing at the back of the venue is not permitted.
All cinema and lobby areas will be cleared following each screening.
All films have been rated by the Ontario Film Review Board. Ticket-holders will be admitted to screenings in accordance with each film's classification. Please consult our film listing for ratings.
Film runtimes, as listed in the Official Film Schedule and the Festival Programme Book, represent the best available information at press time. Runtimes are approximate and don't include time for intros or Q&As. Screenings and schedules are subject to change without notice. Check the Official Film Schedule for the most up-to-date information.
All Festival venues are wheelchair accessible. If you require accessible or companion seating, or other accessibility services, please contact the Festival Box Office in advance by calling 416-599-8433 or 1-888-599-8433 (toll free) so that we can ensure your needs are met.
Cameras and recording devices are strictly prohibited during screenings. Screenings will be monitored for unauthorized recording. It is illegal to make a copy of a film or part of a film without permission of the copyright owner. Toronto International Film Festival Inc. (TIFF Inc.) reserves the right to undertake anti-piracy measures and eject any person who is recording or photographing without authorization from TIFF Inc., to confiscate pirated material, and to report any unauthorized recording to law enforcement, which may subject that person to criminal and civil liability.
TIFF Inc. reserves the right to film or record its events and activities for its own purposes. All media requests to shoot onstage activity must be pre-approved by the TIFF Communications Department.
Tickets may not be resold. Tickets may not be used as prizes or contest giveaways, or for fundraising, promotional or advertising purposes, without express written consent from TIFF Inc. Such use or resale will invalidate tickets.
By using a ticket to enter a Festival venue, the ticket-holder agrees to being photographed, filmed or recorded in the event venue, and to the publication, reproduction, sales use, distribution and broadcast of all photographs, video or other recordings of the ticket-holder's voice or likeness without further notice or compensation in any publicity, advertisement or other publication carried out by, or on behalf of, TIFF Inc. in perpetuity in any manner and media whatsoever, including print, broadcast or digital.
By using a ticket to attend Festival screenings and events, the user waives and releases TIFF Inc. from all claims he/she may have against TIFF Inc. for any loss, damage, injury, liability or expense he/she may suffer, arising from his/her presence at the event venue due to any reason whatsoever, including those arising from personal injury, property loss/damage or death.
Cameras and recording devices are strictly prohibited during screenings. Screenings will be monitored for unauthorized recording. It is illegal to make a copy of a film or part of a film without permission of the copyright owner. Toronto International Film Festival Inc. ("TIFF Inc.") reserves the right to undertake anti-piracy measures and eject any person who is recording or photographing without authorization from TIFF Inc., to confiscate pirated material, and to report any unauthorized recording to law enforcement, which may subject that person to criminal and civil liability.
TIFF Inc. reserves the right to film or record its events and activities for its own purposes.
All electronic devices must be silenced and stowed away during public screenings. Bags are subject to inspection.
Our staff and volunteers are here to ensure the best possible experience for all; TIFF Inc. will not tolerate mistreatment of any kind towards its staff or volunteers and will take measures accordingly. TIFF Inc. reserves the right to refuse admission and/or expel from the premises, without refund, any person whose presence or conduct is deemed objectionable.
Standards for ratings of all of films and trailers screened at TIFF Bell Lightbox are set by the Ontario Film Authority (OFA). For film ratings, please consult the film listings on tiff.net. All questions and concerns regarding permanently rated titles can be directed to the OFA. A searchable list of titles can be found here. For titles whose certificates are not available through the OFA website, and for all TIFF Festival, TIFF Next Wave, TIFF Kids and Canada’s Top Ten ratings, please consult with the Steve & Rashmi Gupta Box Office, located at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
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Green Book
Winner: Peter Farrelly's Green Book
First runner-up: Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk
Second runner-up: Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA
The award offers a $15,000 cash prize and custom award, sponsored by Grolsch.
The Festival presents free screenings of Green Book at TIFF Bell Lightbox tonight. Tickets are now on sale and are available online, by phone, and in person. These screenings are Rush eligible.
The Man Who Feels No Pain
Winner: Vasan Bala's The Man Who Feels No Pain (Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota)
First runner-up: David Gordon Green’s Halloween
Second runner-up: Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
Free Solo
Winner: E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's Free Solo
First runner-up: Tom Donahue’s This Changes Everything
Second runner-up: John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm
Cities of Last Things
Winner: Wi Ding Ho’s Cities of Last Things
Honourable Mention: Emir Baigazin’s The River
The Toronto Platform Prize offers a custom award and a $25,000 cash prize, made possible by Air France.
The Festival welcomed an international jury comprised of award-winning filmmakers Mira Nair, Béla Tarr, and Lee Chang-dong.
TIFF presents a free screening of Toronto Platform Prize winner Cities of Last Things at TIFF Bell Lightbox, 9:15pm, on September 16. Tickets to this free screening are now on sale and are available online, by phone, and in person. This screening is Rush eligible.
Float Like a Butterfly
Winner – Discovery Programme: Carmel Winters’ Float Like a Butterfly
Honourable Mention: Laura Luchetti’s Twin Flower
Skin
Winner – Special Presentations: Guy Nattiv’s Skin
Honourable Mention: Louis Garrel’s A Faithful Man
The jury was comprised of Jury President Lesley Chow (Australia), Andrés Nazarala (Chile), Astrid Jansen (Belgium), Pierre Pageau (Canada), James Slotek (Canada), and Viswanath Subrahmanyan (India).
The Third Wife
Winner: Ash Mayfair’s The Third Wife
Honourable Mention: Bai Xue’s The Crossing
The jury, selected from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Pacific Cinema, comprised of Vilsoni Hereniko (Fiji), Meng Xie (China), and Gülin Üstün (Turkey).
Fig Tree
Winner: Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian's Fig Tree
Honourable Mention: Camilla Strøm Henriksen’s Phoenix
The Audentia Award for Best Female Director, presented by The Festival and the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund, carries a €30,000 cash prize.
The jury was comprised of Anne Frank, Reinaldo Marcus Green, and Kerri Craddock.
Brotherhood
IWC SHORT CUTS AWARD FOR BEST CANADIAN SHORT FILM
Winner: Meryam Joobeur’s Brotherhood
The award offers a $10,000 cash prize, made possible by IWC Schaffhausen.
Honourable Mention: The jury awarded a special mention to Jérémy Comte’s Fauve for its confident visual storytelling and moving performances from the child actors.
The Field
Winner: Sandhya Suri’s The Field
The award offers a $10,000 cash prize, made possible by IWC Schaffhausen.
Honourable Mentions: Anette Sidor’s Fuck You, for its acutely observed study of teenage sexuality, and to Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels’s This Magnificent Cake!, for the spectacular level of animation and the surreal humour it uses to explore its complex colonial subject matter.
The jury was comprised of Claire Diao, Molly McGlynn, and Michael Pearce.
Roads in February (Les routes en février)
Winner: Katherine Jerkovic’s Roads in February (Les routes en février)
This award carries a cash prize of $15,000, made possible by the City of Toronto.
The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles)
Winner: Sébastien Pilote’s The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles)
This award carries a cash prize of $30,000 and a custom award, sponsored by Canada Goose®.
The jury was comprised of Mathieu Denis, Ali Özgentürk, and Michelle Shephard.
From September 6 to 16, TIFF will broadcast live on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, giving you inside access to Festival. Whether you're down the street or across an ocean, join us live from the red carpet, the TIFF stage, and inside hot ticket events by checking out the schedule and links below.
PLEASE NOTE: The times listed below are as close to accurate as we can make them, but for some live events, the actual start time may vary. Thanks for watching!
Outlaw King
The Hate U Give
Beautiful Boy
Life Itself
Widows
High Life
Colette
Meeting Gorbachev
First Man
Green Book
Hold the Dark
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Starting out in 1976 as a collection of films from other festivals — a "festival of festivals" — the Toronto International Film Festival has become one of the most beloved cinematic events in the world, universally regarded as an ideal platform for filmmakers to launch their careers and to premiere their new work. The Festival has been described as "the most important film festival in the world — the largest, the most influential, the most inclusive." *
* Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail, September 3, 2005.