TIFF Cinematheque: The Best of the Decade: An Alternative View, a poll of film curators, archivists and historians from Canada and abroad
- Zama — Lucrecia Martel
- Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
- Goodbye to Language 3D — Jean-Luc Godard
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- Sieranevada — Cristi Puiu
- The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Transit — Christian Petzold
- Film Socialisme — Jean-Luc Godard
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Ida — Pawel Pawlikowski
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- Neighboring Sounds — Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
- Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
- The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
- Burning — Lee Chang-dong
- The Strange Case of Angelica — Manoel de Oliveira