Film Festivals

2017 TIFF: Platform Programme Lands World Preems From Clio Barnard, Lisa Langseth & Armando Iannucci

Published on August 3, 2017

Now in its third “edition” and already proving to be an attractive sidebar within the larger film fest’s festivities, TIFF announced their dozen film title offerings competing in the Platform programme. Just this week we were wondering why key films from (The Conversation: Venice 2017 – Those Who Were not Named) from Clio Barnard, Lisa Langseth and Armando Iannucci hadn’t yet been announced in the initial TIFF waves and why they were passed over by the Venice Film Festival comp, and perhaps we can now confirm that TIFF has found a new way to gives competing fests such as Telluride and Venice a run for their money. Time will tell if last year’s section filled with the likes of Lady Macbeth, Jackie and Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight will be an anomaly, but a film section with esteemed filmmaking peers comprised of Chen Kaige, Malgorzata Szumowska and Wim Wenders will have some highly touted items to judge. Here are the selected films:

Beast Michael Pearce, United Kingdom – World Premiere
Brad’s Status Mike White, USA – World Premiere
Custody Xavier Legrand, France – North American Premiere
Dark River Clio Barnard, United Kingdom – World Premiere (pic below)
The Death of Stalin Armando Iannucci, France/United Kingdom/Belgium – WP – Opening Film
Euphoria Lisa Langseth, Sweden/Germany – World Premiere (pic above)
If You Saw His Heart Joan Chemla, France – World Premiere
Mademoiselle Paradis Barbara Albert, Austria/Germany – World Premiere
Razzia Nabil Ayouch, France – World Premiere
The Seen and Unseen Kamila Andini, Indonesia – World Premiere
Sweet Country Warwick Thornton, Australia – North American Preem / Closing Film .
What Will People Say (Hva vil folk si) Iram Haq, Norway/Germany/Sweden – World Premiere

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).