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.

Awards

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.

Screenings

Canada First

Canadian Open Vault

Canadian Retrospective

Featuring Don Owen

Contemporary World Cinema

Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

Discovery

Masters

Mavericks

Midnight Madness

Real To Reel

Short Cuts Canada

Special Presentations

Viacom Galas

Visions

Wavelengths

Canada's Top Ten

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.