TIFF: 2011 award winners are…

TIFF announced its 2011 award winners earlier today and the coveted People’s Choice Award was a bit of a surprise, going to a film nobody seemed to care for: Nadine Labaki’s Where do We Go Now, a film TIFF says tells the “heartwarming tale of a group of women’s determination to protect their isolated, mine-encircled community from the pervasive and divisive outside forces that threaten to destroy it from within”. However the Cadillac People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award went to the programme’s opening night film, The Raid, a film everyone was raving about all week long.

Here is the complete list of of the award winners:

Cadillac People’s Choice Award Runner-Ups: A Separation and Starbuck

Cadillac People’s Choice Award Documentary: The Island President

Cadillac People’s Choice Award Documentary Runner-Ups: First Position and Pearl Jam Twenty

Cadillac People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award: The Raid

Cadillac People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award Runner-Ups: You’re Next and God Bless America

Skyy Vodka Award for Best Canadian Feature Film: Edwin Boyd

City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian Feature Film: Monsieur Lazhar

Best Canadian Short Film: Doubles With Slight Pepper

FIPRESCI Prize for Discovery: Avalon

FIPRESCI Prize for Special Presentations: The First Man

The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8^th to the 18^th. Tickets, schedules, and other information can be found on the festival’s website.