The 30th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 8–17 and screened 335 films from 52 countries - 109 of these films were world premieres, and 78 were North American premieres.
Opening film | Water |
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Closing film | Edison |
Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
No. of films | 335 films |
Festival date | September 8, 2005 | –September 17, 2005
Language | English |
Website | tiff |
At the Festival's closing event, the following prizes were awarded:
Because the vote for the People's Choice Award was so close, at the awards ceremony Piers Handling (festival co-director) announced four runners-up. However, in the subsequent reporting there was confusion about the order of the runners-up. As reported by ScreenDaily, the results of the People's Choice Award voting was as follows:
Certain other publications indicated (probably erroneously) that the order of the runners-up was reversed, with Mother of Mine finishing second to Tsotsi.
Featuring Don Owen
In December, TIFF released its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the films programmers had selected as the ten best Canadian films of the year. These were screened as a followup "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in early 2006, with public screenings in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver.
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