September 30
4:00pm – An Evening Song (for three voices) (Graham Swon), Cineteca Nacional de las Artes 5
 

October 6
8:00pm – Peter Kubelka Shorts Program, Cineteca 8
               + Antiphon (2012) 35mm
               – Poetry and Truth (2003) 35mm
               – Pause! (1977) 16mm
               – Our Trip to Africa (1966) 16mm
               + Arnulf Rainer (1960) 35mm
               – Schwechater (1958) 35mm
               – Adebar (1957) 16mm
               – Mosaic in Confidence (1955) 35mm
 

October 2
10:00am – Masterclass: Jodie Mack, Universidad de la Comunicación
12:00pm – Panel: Auteur Production – From Collective Work to Personal Vision, Universidad de la Comunicación
 

October 3
10:00am – Masterclass: Heinz Emigholz, Universidad de la Comunicación
 

October 4
8:30pm – Cortos Miradas: Vistantes & Habitantes, Cineteca Nacional 7
               – The Rays of a Storm (Julio Hernández Cordón)
               – La Extinción de la especie (Matthew Porterfield & Nicolasa Ruiz)
               + Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams) 3D
 

October 6
1:00pm – Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (Neo Sora), Walter Reade Theater [P&I]
7:30pm – Songs 24-29 (Stan Brakhage), Anthology Film Archives 16mm
               – Songs 24-25 (1968)
               – Song 26 (1968)
               – My Mountain Song 27 (1968)
               – Song 27 (Part 2) Rivers (1969)
               – Song 28 (1969)
               – Song 29 (1969)
 

October 7
12:00pm – Currents 2: Stranger Than Paradise, Francesca Beale Theater
               – Live From the Clouds (Mackie Mallison)
               + Shrooms (Jorge Jácome)
               – The Far and Near (Justin Jinsoo Kim)
               + Slow Shift (Shambhavi Kaul)
               – The Moon Will Contain Us (Kim Torres)
3:00pm – Currents 3: Inside Out, Francesca Beale Theater
               – Larry (Takeshi Murata & Christopher Rutledge)
               – Bold Eagle (Whammy Alcazaren)
               – LOOPHOLE (Jordan Strafer)
               – False Wife (Jamie Crewe)
               + Sundown (Steve Reinke)
5:15pm + Last Things (Deborah Stratman, Francesca Beale Theater 35mm
               + preceded by Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams) 3D
 

October 8
1:15pm + Last Things (Deborah Stratman, Howard Gilman Theater 35mm
               + preceded by Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams) 3D
5:45pm – Janet Planet (Annie Baker), Alice Tully Hall
9:00pm – All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh), Francesca Beale Theater
 

October 9
12:00pm – The Dupes (1972, Tewfik Saleh), Francesca Beale Theater
3:00pm – Currents 4: Close Encounters, Howard Gilman Theater
               – Intersection (Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie) 16mm
               + Mast-Del (Maryam Tafakory)
               – Disappearances (James Edmonds)
               + If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move (Kevin Jerome Everson)
               – N’Importe Quoi (for Brunhild) (Luke Fowler) 16mm
               – Spark from a Falling Star (Ross Meckfessel)
5:30pm – All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson), Alice Tully Hall
7:45pm – Currents 5: Site Specific, Howard Gilman Theater
               – Dildotectonica (Tomás Paula Marques)
               – and so it came about (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy) (Charlotte Pryce)
               – Coral (Sonia Oleniak)
               – Nocturne for a Forest (Catarina Vasconcelos)
               – The Rays of a Storm (Julio Hernández Cordón)
 

October 10
2:15pm – Abraham’s Valley (1993, Manoel de Oliveira), Francesca Beale Theater
7:30pm – The Pittsburgh Trilogy (Stan Brakhage), Anthology Film Archives 16mm
               – Eyes (1970)
               – Deus Ex (1971)
               + The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (1971)
 

October 11
8:45pm – Currents 6: Burden of Dreams, Howard Gilman Theater
               – Projekt (Dane Komljen)
               – The Fist (Ayo Akingbade)
               – Ungentle (Huw Lemmey & Onyeka Igwe)
 

October 12
2:45pm – Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos), Walter Reade Theater
 

Ⓟ is for Public
 

September 7
9:00am – The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green), Lightbox 1
11:30am – Reptile (Grant Singer), Lightbox 3
4:30pm – The Beast (Bertrand Bonello), Scotiabank 12 [Cancelled due to technical difficulties]
5:30pm + Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams), Lightbox 3
6:15pm – Evil Does Not Exist (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi), Scotiabank 10
 

September 8
9:00am – The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki), Scotiabank 1
12:45pm – Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude), Scotiabank 9
4:00pm – Wavelengths 1: Quiet as It’s Kept, Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               – Standard Time (1967, Michael Snow)
               – Bouquets 31-40 (Rose Lowder)
               – Shrooms (Jorge Jácome)
               – Film Sculpture (4) (Philipp Fleischmann)
               – Film Sculpture (3) (Philipp Fleischmann)
               – Mast-del (Maryam Tafakory)
               – It follows It passes on (Erica Sheu)
               – Film Sculpture (2) (Philipp Fleischmann)
               – Film Sculpture (1) (Philipp Fleischmann)
               – Quiet as It’s Kept (Ja’Tovia Gary)
6:45pm + The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams), Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
 

September 9
9:15am – American Fiction (Cord Jefferson), Scotiabank 13
1:00pm – Wavelengths 2: Sundown, Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               – NYC RGB (Viktoria Schmid)
               – We Don’t Talk Like We Used To (Joshua Gen Solondz)
               – Sundown (Steve Reinke)
               – Slow Shift (Shambhavi Kaul)
               – Let’s Talk (Simon Liu)
               – Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke (Tomonari Nishikawa)
3:40pm – Arthur&Diana (Sara Summa), Scotiabank 5
6:20pm – Great Absence (Kei Chika-ura), Scotiabank 7 W/O
 

September 10
9:45am – Mambar Pierrette (Rosine Mbakam), Scotiabank 9
1:00pm – Memory (Michel Franco), Scotiabank 1
8:00pm – Wavelengths 3: Outlines – Akerman/Costa/Godard, Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               – Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera (Chantal Akerman)
               + The Daughters of Fire (Pedro Costa)
               + Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars (Jean-Luc Godard)
 

September 11
9:40am – Nowhere Near (Miko Revereza), Scotiabank 7
11:45am – Seven Veils (Atom Egoyan), Scotiabank 3
3:15pm – Shadow of Fire (Shinya Tsukamoto), Scotiabank 13 Ⓟ
5:30pm – He Thought He Died (Isiah Media), Lightbox 3 Ⓟ
               + preceded by Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams)
 

September 12
8:30am – Poolman (Chris Pine), Lightbox 3
11:50am – The Pigeon Tunnel (Errol Morris), Scotiabank 8
2:00pm – Hit Man (Richard Linklater), Royal Alexandra Theatre Ⓟ
6:05pm – Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman), Scotiabank 8 Ⓟ
 

September 13
8:55am – Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli), Scotiabank 12
11:00am – The Beast (Bertrand Bonello), Lightbox 2 Ⓟ
3:15pm – Aggro Dr1ft (Harmony Korine), Scotiabank 10 Ⓟ
10:00pm – He Thought He Died (Isiah Media), Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               + preceded by Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams)
 

September 14
8:45am – The Holdovers (Alexander Payne), Scotiabank 3
12:15pm – Sweet Dreams (Ena Sendijarević), Scotiabank 10 Ⓟ
3:15pm – The Settlers (Felipe Gálvez Haberle), Scotiabank 10 Ⓟ
8:00pm – Mademoiselle Kenopsia (Denis Côté), Scotiabank 12 Ⓟ
 

September 15
12:30pm – Green Border (Agnieszka Holland), Scotiabank 4 Ⓟ
3:05pm – Strange Way of Life (Pedro Almodóvar), Scotiabank 8
 

September 16
3:45pm + Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice), Scotiabank 9 Ⓟ
 

September 17
5:30pm – His Three Daughters (Azazel Jacobs), Scotiabank 12 Ⓟ

 

Films I have already seen:
About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
Banel & Adama (Ramata-Toulaye Sy)
Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice)
The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno)
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
Farewell My Concubine (1993, Chen Kaige)
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)
Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania)
Here (Bas Devos)
The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Thien An Pham)
Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio)
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
L’amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette)
Last Summer (Catherine Breillat)
Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Music (Angela Schanelec)
Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado)
Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)
Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Riddle of Fire (Weston Razooli)
Stop Making Sense (1984, Jonathan Demme)
Touki Bouki (1973, Djibril Diop Mambéty)
Xala (1975, Ousmane Sembène)
Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)

Key:
Features (40min. and up) are in bold
Shorts are in italics
● - I have seen this film
★ - I have seen this film and am fond of it (6.0 and higher)
✘ - I have seen this film and had a bad time watching it (4.4 and lower)
○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film
☀ - I made this film
16mm, 35mm, 70mm - This film with be screened from a film print
👓 - This film is stereoscopic
L - This was given TIFF's "Luminaries" label, i.e. it would be in "Masters" if the section still existed

Colour coding:
NYFF - Slate and Main
SUNDANCE - Who recalls Past Lives
BERLINALE - Music / makes the people / come together / yeah
CANNES - Cretonism
LOCARNO - Do not expect too much
VENICE - Here comes Larraín again
NOTABLE - New films by directors whose work I actively look forward to, or who IMO qualify as masters (RIP Masters)

(Colours trump whatever is below them; e.g. Anatomy of a Fall screened at both Cannes and Locarno so was gold until it was later announced as part of NYFF's Main Slate, at which point it changed to purple)

 

Special Presentations (52; 2022: 47; 2021: 30; 2019: 55)
American Fiction (Cord Jefferson) ○
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) ●
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello) ○
The Burial (Maggie Betts)
Close to You (Dominic Savage)
The Convert (Lee Tamahori)
The Critic (Anand Tucker)
Daddio (Christy Hall)
Days of Happiness (Chloé Robichaud)
The Dead Don’t Hurt (Viggo Mortensen)
A Difficult Year (Éric Toledano & Olivier Nakache)
El Rapto (Daniela Goggi)
El Sabor de la Navidad (Alejandro Lozano)
Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) ○
Ezra (Tony Goldwyn)
Fingernails (Christos Nikou)
Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania) ●
His Three Daughters (Azazel Jacobs) ○
Hit Man (Richard Linklater) ○
The Holdovers (Alexander Payne) ○
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (Alex Gibney)
Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio) ●
Knox Goes Away (Michael Keaton)
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) ★
Last Summer (Catherine Breillat) ★
Les Indésirables (Ladj Ly)
Memory (Michel Franco) ○
Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda) ✘
Mother Couch (Niclas Larsson)
The Movie Teller (Lone Scherfig)
Next Goal Wins (Taika Waititi) ○
North Star (Kristin Scott Thomas)
One Life (James Hawes)
Pain Hustlers (David Yates)
The Peasants (DK & Hugh Welchman)
Poolman (Chris Pine) 35mm
The Promised Land (Nikolaj Arcel)
Quiz Lady (Jessica Yu)
Reptile (Grant Singer) ○
Ru (Charles-Olivier Michaud)
Rustin (George C. Wolfe)
Seven Veils (Atom Egoyan) ○
Shoshana (Michael Winterbottom)
Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar)
Stop Making Sense (1984, Jonathan Demme) ●
Together 99 (Lukas Moodysson) ○
Unicorns (Sally El Hosaini & James Krishna Floyd)
Uproar (Paul Middleditch & Hamish Bennett)
Wicked Little Letters (Thea Sharrock)
Wildcat (Ethan Hawke)
Woman of the Hour (Anna Kendrick)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) ●

 

Centrepiece [formerly Contemporary World Cinema] (47; 2022: 50; 2021: 25; 2019: 55)
About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) L ●
Banel & Adama (Ramata-Toulaye Sy) ●
The Breaking Ice (Anthony Chen)
Chuck Chuck Baby (Janis Pugh)
City of Wind (Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir)
Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice) L ●
Death of a Whistleblower (Ian Gabriel)
The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno) ★
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki) L ●
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow) ★
Fitting In (Mally McGlynn)
Green Border (Agnieszka Holland) L ○
A Happy Day (Hisham Zaman)
Hey, Viktor! (Cody Lightning)
Holiday (Edoardo Gabbriellini)
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Ariane Louis-Seize) 
I Do Not Come to You By Chance (Ishaya Bako)
In Flames (Zarrar Kahn)
Inshallah a Boy (Amjad Al Rasheed)
Irena’s Vow (Louise Archambault)
Je’vida (Katja Gauriloff)
Kanaval (Henri Pardo)
Limbo (Ivan Sen)
Lost Ladies (Kiran Rao)
The Monk and the Gun (Pawo Choyning Dorji)
Mountains (Monica Sorelle)
National Anthem (Luke Gilford)
The Nature of Love (Monia Chokri)
100 Yards (Xu Haofeng & Xu Junfeng)
Perfect Days (Wim Wenders) ●
A Ravaging Wind (Paula Hernández)
The Reeds (Cemil Agacikoglu)
A Road to a Village (Nabin Subba)
Robot Dreams (Pablo Berger)
The Settlers (Felipe Gálvez) ○
Shadow of Fire (Shinya Tsukamoto) ○
Shayda (Noora Niasari)
Sira (Apolline Traoré)
Snow Leopard (Pema Tseden) ○
Sweet Dreams (Ena Sendijarević) ○
The Teachers’ Lounge (İlker Çatak) ○
They Shot the Piano Player (Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal)
Toll (Carolina Markowicz)
Upon Open Sky (Mariana & Santiago Arriaga)
We Grown Now (Minhal Baig)
Woodland (Elisabeth Scharang)
Your Mother’s Son (Jun Robles Lana)

 

Discovery (26; 2022: 23; 2021: 16; 2019: 37)
Achilles (Farhad Delaram)
After the fire (Mehdi Fikri)
Andragogy (Wregas Bhanuteja)
An Endless Sunday (Alain Parroni)
Arthur&Diana (Sara Summa)
Backspot (D.W. Waterson)
Frybread Face and Me (Billy Luther)
Gonzo Girl (Patricia Arquette)
Hajjan (Abu Bakr Shawky)
How to Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker)
I Don’t Know Who You Are (M. H. Murray)
La Suprema (Felipe Holguín Caro)
Mandoob (Ali Kalthami)
A Match (Jayant Digambar Somalkar)
Mimang (Kim Taeyang)
The Queen of My Dreams (Fawzia Mirza)
Seagrass (Meredith Hama-Brown)
Solitude (Ninna Pálmadóttir)
Tautuktavuk (What We See) (Carol Kunnuk & Lucy Tulugarjuk)
The Teacher (Farah Nabulsi)
The Tundra Within Me (Sara Margrethe Oskal)
Valentina or the Serenity (Ángeles Cruz)
Widow Clicquot (Thomas Napper)
Wild Woman (Alán González)
Without Air (Katalin Moldovai)
Yellow Bus (Wendy Bednarz)

 

TIFF Docs (23; 2022: 22; 2021: 14; 2019: 25)
Boil Alert (Stevie Salas & James Burns)
Bye Bye Tiberias (Lina Soualem)
The Contestant (Clair Titley) ○
Copa 71 (Rachel Ramsay & James Erskine)
Defiant (Karim Amer)
Flipside (Chris Wilcha)
God Is a Woman (Andrés Peyrot)
Homecoming (Suvi West & Anssi Kömi)
I Am Sirat (Deepa Mehta & Sirat Taneja)
In the Rearview (Maciek Hamela)
Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman) L ○
The Mother of All Lies (Asmae El Moudir)
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (Lucy Walker)
Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe (Robert McCallum)
The Pigeon Tunnel (Errol Morris) L
Silver Dollar Road (Raoul Peck) L
Songs of Earth (Margreth Olin)
Sorry/Not Sorry (Caroline Suh & Cara Mones)
Stamped From the Beginning (Roger Ross Williams)
Summer Qamp (Jen Markowitz)
Viva Varda! (Pierre-Henri Gibert)
Walls (Kasia Smutniak)
The World is Family (Anand Patwardhan) L

 

Gala Presentations (21; 2022: 19; 2021: 15; 2019: 20)
The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki) ○
Concrete Utopia (Um Tae-Hwa)
Dumb Money (Craig Gillespie)
The End We Start From (Mahalia Belo)
Fair Play (Chloe Domont) ○
Finestkind (Brian Helgeland)
Flora and Son (John Carney)
Hate to Love: Nickelback (Leigh Brooks)
Lee (Ellen Kuras)
Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero (Carlos López Estrada & Zac Manuel)
The Movie Emperor (Ning Hao)
The New Boy (Warwick Thornton)
A Normal Family (Hur Jin-ho)
NYAD (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin)
Origin (Ava DuVernay)
The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green) ○
Sly (Thom Zimny)
Smugglers (Ryoo Seung-wan)
Solo (Sophie Dupuis)
Swan Song (Chelsea McMullan)
Thank You for Coming (Karan Boolani)

 

Wavelengths (15 [incl. 3 shorts programmes]; 2022: 11 [2]; 2021: 7 [1]; 2019: 16 [4])
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude) ○
He Thought He Died (Isiah Medina) ○
               – preceded by Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams) 👓 ☀
Here (Bas Devos) ★
The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams) ●
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Thien An Pham) ★
Mademoiselle Kenopsia (Denis Côté) ○
Mambar Pierrette (Rosine Mbakam) ○
Music (Angela Schanelec) L ★
Nowhere Near (Miko Revereza) ○
Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado) ●
Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho) ●
Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing) L ●

Wavelengths 1: Quiet as It’s Kept ○
– Bouquets 31-40 (Rose Lowder) 16mm
– Film Sculpture (1-4) (Philipp Fleischmann) 16mm
– It follows It passes on (Erica Sheu)
– Mast-del (Maryam Tafakory)
– Shrooms (Jorge Jácome)
– Quiet as It’s Kept (Ja’Tovia Gary)

Wavelengths 2: Sundown ○
– Let’s Talk (Simon Liu)
– Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke (Tomonari Nishikawa) (Philipp Fleischmann) 16mm
– NYC RGB (Viktoria Schmid)
– Slow Shift (Shambhavi Kaul)
– Sundown (Steve Reinke)
– We Don’t Talk Like We Used To (Joshua Gen Solondz) 35mm

Wavelengths 3: Outlines – Akerman/Costa/Godard ○
– Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera (Chantal Akerman)
+ The Daughters of Fire (Pedro Costa)
+ Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars (Jean-Luc Godard)

 

Midnight Madness (10; 2022: 10; 2021: 6; 2019: 10)
Aggro Dr1ft (Harmony Korine) ○
Boy Kills World (Moritz Mohr)
Dicks: The Musical (Larry Charles)
Hell of a Summer (Finn Wolfhard & Billy Bryk)
KILL (Nikhil Nagesh Bhat)
NAGA (Meshal Aljaser)
Riddle of Fire (Weston Razooli) ★
Sleep (Jason Yu)
When Evil Lurks (Demián Rugna)
Working Class Goes to Hell (Mladen Đorđević)

 

Platform (10; 2022: 10; 2021: 8; 2019: 10)
Dear Jassi (Tarsem Singh Dhandwar)
Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli) ○
Great Absence (Kei Chika-ura)
I Told You So (Ginevra Elkann)
The King Tide (Christian Sparkes)
Not a Word (Hanna Slak)
The Rye Horn (Jaione Camborda)
Shame on Dry Land (Axel Petersén)
Sisterhood (Nora El Hourch)
Spirit of Ecstasy (Héléna Klotz) ○

 

Primetime (9; 2022: 7; 2021: 4; 2019: 6)
Alice & Jack (Juho Kuosmanen) ○
All the Light We Cannot See (Shawn Levy & Steven Knight)
Bad Boy (Hagar Ben-Asher)
Bargain (Jeon Woo-sung)
Black Life: Untold Stories (Duane Crichton & Will Prosper)
Bria Mack Gets a Life (Sasha Leigh Henry & Kelly Fyffe-Marshall)
Estonia (Måns Månsson & Juuso Syrjä)
Expats (Lulu Wang)
Telling Our Story [English Language Version] (Kim O’Bomsawin)

 

TIFF Classics [formerly TIFF Cinematheque] (5; 2022: 5; 2021: 7; 2019: 5)
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got (1985, Brigitte Berman) ○
Farewell My Concubine (1993, Chen Kaige) ●
L’amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette) ★
Touki Bouki (1973, Djibril Diop Mambéty) ★
Xala (1975, Ousmane Sembène) ●

 

May 16
9:00am – Kubi (Takeshi Kitano), Olympia 1
2:00pm – L’Amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette), Debussy
9:30pm – Jeanne du Barry (Maïwenn), Bazin
 

May 17
10:00am – Occupied City (Steve McQueen), Debussy
4:00pm – Anselm (Wim Wenders), Lumière
6:00pm – Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda), Bazin
10:30pm – Homecoming (Catherine Corsini), Debussy
 

May 18
8:30am – Deserts (Faouzi Bensaïdi), Théâtre Croisette
12:00pm – The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams), Théâtre Croisette
3:00pm – A Prince (Pierre Creton), Théâtre Croisette
5:30pm – Lost in the Night (Amat Escalante), Debussy
10:30pm – Black Flies (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire), Debussy
 

May 19
8:30am – Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing), Varda
6:15pm – The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer), Debussy
8:30pm – Eureka (Lisandro Alonso), Debussy
 

May 20
8:30am – About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan), Varda
12:00pm – Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania), Varda
4:30pm – Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese), Debussy
11:00pm – May December (Todd Haynes), Debussy
 

May 21
9:00am – Banel & Adama (Ramata-Toulaye Sy), Varda
11:30am – Riddle of Fire (Weston Razooli), Arcades 1
2:00pm – Godard by Godard (Florence Platarets), Debussy
               – followed by Trailer for Phony Wars (take one) (Jean-Luc Godard)
4:15pm – Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet), Bazin
8:30pm – The Book of Solutions (Michel Gondry), Théâtre Croisette
 

May 22
5:45pm – Club Zero (Jessica Hausner), Debussy
8:15pm – Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice), Debussy
 

May 23
8:30am – Grace (Ilya Povolotsky), Théâtre Croisette
11:00am – Man in Black (Wang Bing), Buñuel
               – preceded by The Daughters of Fire (Pedro Costa)
5:00pm – Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki), Varda
6:45pm – Asteroid City (Wes Anderson), Bazin
10:45pm – The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow), Arcades 1
 

May 24
11:00am – Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio), Varda
4:45pm – Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Thien An Pham), Théâtre Croisette
10:15pm – A Brighter Tomorrow (Nanni Moretti), Debussy
 

May 25
11:00am – The Pot-au-Feu (Trần Anh Hùng), Varda
2:15pm – The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno), Olympia 6
8:30pm – In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo), Théâtre Croisette
 

May 26
8:30am – Last Summer (Catherine Breillat), Varda
11:00am – Perfect Days (Wim Wenders), Lumière
3:00pm – La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), Bazin
5:45pm – The Old Oak (Ken Loach), Bazin
 

May 27
12:30pm – Firebrand (Karim Aïnouz), Bazin
 

April 28
1:00PM – Master Gardener (Paul Schrader), CGV Jeonjugosa 1
8:30PM – Expanded Cinema for Shorts 2: The Cinema, JEONJU Digital Independent Cinema
               – The Hidden Gesture. War and Melodrama in Hollywood’s 30s and 40s (Dana Najlis)
               + Maria Schneider, 1983 (Elisabeth Subrin)
               – Camera Test (Siegfried A. Fruhauf)
               – Promise (Claudio Caldini)
               – So Long Michael (Elisabeth Perceval & Nicolas Klotz)
               – Staging Death (Jan Soldat)
               – NE Corridor (Joshua Gen Solondz)
               – This Is for Jonas Mekas (Friedl vom Gröller) 16mm
 

April 29
10:00AM + Koyaanisqatsi (1982, Godfrey Reggio) 35mm, JEONJU Digital Independent Cinema
               + preceded by The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981, Stan Brakhage) 35mm
4:30PM + A Woman Escapes (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams) 3D, MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 2
               + preceded by Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams) 3D
 

April 30
10:30AM – REVOLUTION+1 (Masao Adachi), MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 10
2:00PM – JEONJU Cinema Project Pitching Session, Jeonju Jungbu – Vision Center 2F
5:00PM – Expanded Cinema for Shorts 1: The Places, MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 7
               – Bloom (Helena Girón & Samuel M. Delgado)
               – Cave Painting (Siegfried A. Fruhauf)
               + EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
               + The Newest Olds (Pablo Mazzolo)
 

May 1
11:00AM + [Q&A] A Woman Escapes (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams) 3D, MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 2
               + preceded by Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams) 3D
2:30PM – Diaries (1982, Ed Pincus), MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 4
8:00PM – Expanded Cinema for Shorts 3: The World, MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 7
               – After the Dust (Colectivo Silencio)
               – Still Free (Vadim Kostrov)
 

May 2
11:00AM – Clorindo Testa (Mariano Llinás), MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 2
2:00PM – Notes for a Film (Ignacio Agüero), MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 10
5:00PM – That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Luis Buñuel), CGV Jeonjugosa 8
 

May 3
10:30AM – The Quiet Migration (Malene Choi), MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 10
5:30PM – Flowers of Mold (Shim Hye-jung), CGV Jeonjugosa 7
 

May 4
11:00AM – Obscure night – Wild leaves (The burning ones, the obstinate) (Sylvain George), MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 2
5:00PM – Fragments of Paradise (KD Davison), CGV Jeonjugosa 5
 

May 5
2:00PM – Branded to Kill (1967, Seijun Suzuki), MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 2
5:00PM – West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979, Med Hondo), CGV Jeonjugosa 2
8:00PM – Breath (Jéro Yun), CGV Jeonjugosa 3
 

May 6
11:00AM – There Is a Stone (Tatsunari Ota), CGV Jeonjugosa 2
1:00PM – Silent Witnesses (Luis Ospina & Jerónimo Atehortúa Arteaga), MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 5
4:00PM – The Wall of the Dead (Eugène Green), MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 5
               + preceded by The Potemkinists (Radu Jude)
 

February 15
7:00PM – Woche der Kritik: Cinema of Care – Opening Conference (Elke Marhöfer, Julia Bee, Claire Denis, Marek Hovorka, Abby Sun, Devika Girish, & Isabell Lorey), Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz
 

February 16
11:00AM – Our Body (Claire Simon), Kino Arsenal 1 [Press]
3:15PM – Forum Expanded: An Atypical Orbit, Silent Green Kulturquartier
               – Dreams (Tenzin Phuntsog)
               – Comrade leader, comrade leader, how nice to see you (Walid Raad)
               – Father Mother (Tenzin Phuntsog)
               – Achala (Tenzin Phuntsog)
               – Dancing Boy (Tenzin Phuntsog)
               – Summer Grass (Tenzin Phuntsog)
               – A Very Long Gif (Eduardo Williams)
10:00PM – BlackBerry (Matt Johnson), CinemaxX 3 [Press]
 

February 17
9:00AM – The Survival of Kindness (Rolf de Heer), Berlinale Palast [Press]
1:00PM – Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait (Luke Fowler), Kino Arsenal 1
2:45PM – Forum Expanded: An Atypical Orbit, Silent Green Kulturquartier
               – A Chair (1970, Takahiko Iimura)
               – Blinking (1970, Takahiko Iimura)
               – Self Identity #4: (I Am (Not) Takahiro Iimura, I Am (Not) Akiko Iimura) [1978 version] (1972, Takahiko Iimura)
               – Time Tunnel (1971, Takahiko Iimura)
4:15PM – White Plastic Sky (Tibor Bánóczki & Sarolta Szabó), Akademie der Künste
8:00PM – Regardless of Us (Yoo Heong-jun), Kino Arsenal 1
 

February 18
8:45AM – The Shadowless Tower (Zhang Lu), Berlinale Palast [Press]
12:30PM – Manodrome (John Trengove), Berlinale Palast [Press]
3:30PM – Forum Expanded: Tartupaluk (Prototype) (Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory), Botschaft von Kanada – Marshall McLuhan Salon
4:00PM – Melting Ink (Dominik Graf), Hackesche Höfe Kino
10:00PM – The Echo (Tatiana Huezo), Cubix 5
 

February 19
10:00AM – The Beast in the Jungle (Patric Chiha), Cubix 7
3:00PM – Forms of Forgetting (Burak Çevik), Cubix 1 [Press]
7:30PM – The Adults (Dustin Guy Defa), Zoo Palast 3,4,5
10:00PM – Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado), Cubix 5
 

February 20
10:00AM – Past Lives (Celine Song), Cubix 9
1:00PM – Here (Bas Devos), Cubix 7
4:00PM – Notes from Eremocene (Viera Čákanyová), Kino Arsenal 1
7:30PM – Order (1980, Sohrab Shahid Saless), Akademie der Künste 16mm
 

February 21
8:45AM – Music (Angela Schanelec), Berlinale Palast [Press]
1:00PM – Samsara (Lois Patiño), Cubix 5
3:30PM – Tótem (Lila Avilés), Zoo Palast 1
6:45PM – The Plough (Philippe Garrel), Berlinale Palast
10:30PM – Talk to Me (Danny & Michael Philippou), Kino International
 

February 22
9:00AM – Afire (Christian Petzold), Berlinale Palast
12:30PM – Disco Boy (Giacomo Abbruzzese), Zoo Palast 1
5:00PM – in water (Hong Sang-soo), Akademie der Künste
8:00PM – Home Invasion (Graeme Arnfield), Kino Arsenal 1
 

February 23
10:30AM – About Thirty (Martín Shanly), Zoo Palast 5
3:30PM – The Trial (Ulises de la Orden), Delphi Filmpalast
 

February 24
9:00AM – Till the End of the Night (Christoph Hochhäusler), Berlinale Palast
1:30PM – Living Bad (João Canijo), Zoo Palast 5
6:45PM – Bad Living (João Canijo), Verti Music Hall
 

February 25
11:00AM – Twilight (1990, György Fehér), Cubix 3
2:00PM – ALLENSWORTH (James Benning), Werkstattkino@silent green

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.

This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2022 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

1. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
2. The Plains (David Easteal)
3. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
4. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
5. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
6. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (Richard Linklater)
7. Coma (Bertrand Bonello)
8. We Had the Day Bonsoir (Narimane Mari)
9. The Natural History of Destruction (Sergei Loznitsa)
10. The Dream and the Radio (Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk)

 

Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles [will] appear here.)

1. EO (2022, Jerzy Skolimowski)
2. The Tsugua Diaries (2021, Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro)
3. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022, Richard Linklater)
4. Rock Bottom Riser (2021, Fern Silva)
5. The Last City (2020, Heinz Emigholz)
6. Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021, Maria Speth)
7. The Novelist’s Film (2022, Hong Sang-soo)
8. Vortex (2021, Gaspar Noé)
9. Saint Omer (2022, Alice Diop)
10. The Girl and the Spider (2021, Ramon Zürcher)

 

My Top 10 Discoveries During 2022 (for first-time viewings of films made before 2010)

1. Hospital (1970, Frederick Wiseman)
2. Vengeance Is Mine (1984, Michael Roemer)
3. Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma)
4. Blind (1987, Frederick Wiseman)
5. The French (1982, William Klein)
6. Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964, Howard Hawks)
7. Forever a Woman (1955, Kinuyo Tanaka)
8. Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (1988, Guy Maddin)
9. Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949, Busby Berkeley)
10. Soylent Green (1973, Richard Fleischer)

 

Other 2022 films I’ve seen

• Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie) – 6.9
• Fairytale (Aleksandr Sokurov) – 6.9
• The Lives of Infamous Men (Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone) – 6.9
• The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.8
• Saint Omer (Alice Diop) – 6.8
• Pacifiction (Albert Serra) – 6.7
• The Wall of the Dead (Eugène Green) – 6.7
• Afterwater (Dane Komljen) – 6.7
• Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis) – 6.7
• The Middle Ages (Alejo Moguillansky & Luciana Acuña) – 6.7
• Sparta (Ulrich Seidl) – 6.6
• TÁR (Todd Field) – 6.6
• Dry Ground Burning (Adirley Queirós & Joana Pimenta) – 6.6
• The African Desperate (Martine Syms) – 6.6
• Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg) – 6.5
• Safe Place (Juraj Lerotić) – 6.5
• The United States of America (James Benning) – 6.5
• Met Mes (Sam de Jong) – 6.5
• White Noise (Noah Baumbach) – 6.4
• The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg) – 6.4
• About the Clouds (María Aparicio) – 6.4
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras) – 6.4
• That Kind of Summer (Denis Côté) – 6.4
• Tales of the Purple House (Abbas Fahdel) – 6.4
• Negative Path (Alan Martín Segal) – 6.3
• Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.3
• Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron) – 6.3
• The Civil Dead (Clay Tatum) – 6.3
• Mother and Son (Léonor Serraille) – 6.3
• One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 6.2
• Blonde (Andrew Dominik) – 6.2
• The Unstable Object II (Daniel Eisenberg) – 6.2
• Third Grade (Jacques Doillon) – 6.1
• Dying in Ibiza: A Film in Three Summers (Mattéo Eustachon, Léo Couture, & Anton Balekdjian) – 6.1
• Glass Onion (Rian Johnson) – 6.1
• ALLENSWORTH (James Benning) – 6.1
• Funny Pages (Owen Kline) – 6.1
• I Didn’t See You There (Reid Davenport) – 6.1
• Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund) – 6.1
• Return to Seoul (Davy Chou) – 6.0
• Magdala (Damien Manivel) – 6.0
• Tori and Lokita (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.0
• Dos Estaciones (Juan Pablo González) – 6.0
• Striking Land (Raul Domingues) – 6.0
• Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie) – 5.9
• Being in a Place (Luke Fowler) – 5.9
• The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh) – 5.9
• Armageddon Time (James Gray) – 5.9
• The Adventures of Gigi the Law (Alessandro Comodin) – 5.9
• Christophe… Definitely (Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Ange Leccia) – 5.9
• Kimi (Steven Soderbergh) – 5.9
• Obscure night – Wild leaves (The burning ones, the obstinate) (Sylvain George) – 5.8
• Brother and Sister (Arnaud Desplechin) – 5.8
• A Little Love Package (Gastón Solnicki) – 5.7
• The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (Werner Herzog) – 5.7
• Sharp Stick (Lena Dunham) – 5.7
• Barail (Denis Cointe) – 5.7
• R.M.N. (Cristian Mungiu) – 5.7
• Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata) – 5.7
• See You Friday, Robinson (Mitra Farahani) – 5.6
• Riceboy Sleeps (Anthony Shim) – 5.6
• Scarlet (Pietro Marcello) – 5.6
• Poitiers (Jérôme Reybaud) – 5.6
• Horse Opera (Moyra Davey) – 5.6
• Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis) – 5.6
• Nope (Jordan Peele) – 5.6
• There There (Andrew Bujalski) – 5.6
• Answering the Sun (Rainer Kohlberger) – 5.6
• Fourth of July (Louis C.K.) – 5.6
• Aftersun (Charlotte Wells) – 5.5
• Footnote (Zhengfan Yang) – 5.5
• Happer’s Comet (Tyler Taormina) – 5.5
• Unrest (Cyril Schäublin) – 5.5
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber) – 5.5
• Camouflage (Jonathan Perel) – 5.5
• Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann) – 5.5
• Riotsville, USA (Sierra Pettengill) – 5.5
• Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff) – 5.5
• The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg) – 5.5
• So Much Tenderness (Lina Rodriguez) – 5.5
• A Very Long Gif (Eduardo Williams) – 5.5
• The Passengers of the Night (Mikhaël Hers) – 5.4
• Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann) – 5.4
• Enys Men (Mark Jenkin) – 5.4
• Resurrection (Andrew Semans) – 5.4
• Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Sophie Hyde) – 5.4
• Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller) – 5.4
• The Kingdom: Exodus (Lars von Trier) – 5.4
• Theater of Thought (Werner Herzog) – 5.4
• A Flower in the Mouth (Éric Baudelaire) – 5.3
• Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine) – 5.3
• Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski) – 5.3
• For 13 Days, I Believed Him (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 5.3
• Viking (Stéphane Lafleur) – 5.3
• It Is Night in America (Ana Vaz) – 5.3
• Forever Young (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) – 5.3
• The Dam (Ali Cherri) – 5.3
• Matter Out of Place (Nikolaus Geyrhalter) – 5.3
• Pamfir (Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk) – 5.3
• Clorindo Testa (Mariano Llinás) – 5.2
• Godland (Hlynur Pálmason) – 5.2
• Metronom (Alexandru Belc) – 5.2
• Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski) – 5.2
• Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford) – 5.2
• This House (Miryam Charles) – 5.2
• Darkness, Darkness, Burning Bright (Gaëlle Rouard) – 5.2
• Small, Slow but Steady (Shô Miyake) – 5.2
• 2nd Chance (Ramin Bahrani) – 5.2
• Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli) – 5.1
• A Couple (Frederick Wiseman) – 5.1
• Aftersun (Lluís Galter) – 5.1
• Fall (Vadim Kostrov) – 5.1
• Slaughterhouses of Modernity (Heinz Emigholz) – 5.1
• Master Gardener (Paul Schrader) – 5.1
• The Kegelstatt Trio (Rita Azevedo Gomes) – 5.1
• Descendant (Margaret Brown) – 5.1
• There Is a Stone (Tatsunari Ota) – 5.1
• Self-Portrait (Joële Walinga) – 5.1
• Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon) – 5.1
• Navalny (Daniel Roher) – 5.1
• Summering (James Ponsoldt) – 5.1
• Rodeo (Lola Quivoron) – 5.1
• Diary of a Fleeting Affair (Emmanuel Mouret) – 5.0
• blood (Bradley Rust Gray) – 5.0
• Geographies of Solitude (Jacqueline Mills) – 5.0
• Corsage (Marie Kreutzer) – 5.0
• Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues) – 4.9
• The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch & Felix van Groeningen) – 4.9
• Exterior Night (Marco Bellocchio) – 4.9
• Deep Water (Adrian Lyne) – 4.9
• No Bears (Jafar Panahi) – 4.9
• Nomotopowell (Brent Chesanek) – 4.9
• Way Out Ahead of Us (Rob Rice) – 4.8
• Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland) – 4.8
• Barbarian (Zach Cregger) – 4.8
• Call Jane (Phyllis Nagy) – 4.8
• Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook) – 4.8
• REVOLUTION+1 (Masao Adachi)– 4.8
• Fire of Love (Sara Dosa) – 4.8
• The Water (Elena López Riera) – 4.8
• The Worst Ones (Romane Gueret & Lise Akoka) – 4.8
• Women Talking (Sarah Polley) – 4.8
• Brother in Every Inch (Alexander Zolotukhin) – 4.7
• EAMI (Paz Encina) – 4.7
• You Have to Come and See It (Jonás Trueba) – 4.7
• The Maiden (Graham Foy) – 4.7
• Tchaïkovsky’s Wife (Kirill Serebrennikov) – 4.7
• You Have to Come and See It (Jonás Trueba) – 4.7
• Don Juan (Serge Bozon) – 4.6
• Life Lasts Two Days (Leonardo Mouramateus) – 4.6
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) – 4.6
• The Child (Marguerite de Hillerin & Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois) – 4.6
• Mangosteen (Tulapop Saenjaroen) – 4.6
• The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Peter Farrelly) – 4.6
• Stars at Noon (Claire Denis) – 4.5
• Joyland (Saim Sadiq) – 4.5
• Alcarràs (Carla Simón) – 4.5
• Babylon (Damien Chazelle) – 4.5
• Rimini (Ulrich Seidl) – 4.4
• Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino) – 4.4
• The Line (Ursula Meier) – 4.4
• Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) – 4.4
• Fragments of Paradise (KD Davison) – 4.4
• Garden Sandbox (Yukinori Kurokawa) – 4.4
• Nostalgia (Mario Martone) – 4.4
• Robe of Gems (Natalia López Gallardo) – 4.3
• Valeria Is Getting Married (Michal Vinik) – 4.3
• Final Cut (Michel Hazanavicius) – 4.2
• The Inspection (Elegance Bratton) – 4.2
• Quarries (Ellie Ga) – 4.2
• La Jauría (Andrés Ramírez Pulido) – 4.1
• Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi) – 4.1
• Talk to Me (Danny & Michael Philippou) – 4.0
• Boy from Heaven (Tarik Saleh) – 4.0
• Jet Lag (Zheng Lu Xinyuan) – 3.9
• Super Natural (Jorge Jácome) – 3.8
• Night Detour (Paul Chotel & Ariane Falardeau St-Amour) – 3.8
• My Two Voices (Lina Rodriguez) – 3.8
• Empire of Light (Sam Mendes) – 3.7
• God’s Creatures (Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer) – 3.7
• The Veteran (Jerónimo Rodríguez) – 3.6
• The Five Devils (Léa Mysius) – 3.6
• Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 3.6
• Dalíland (Mary Harron) – 3.4
• Close (Lukas Dhont) – 3.4
• Leila’s Brothers (Saeed Roustaee) – 3.3
• Can Someone Meet Me in Dark Alley? (Gaetano Liberti & Luciano Pérez Savoy) – 3.3
• The Name of Things (Diego Escobar) – 3.3
• The Survival of Kindness (Rolf de Heer) – 3.2
• Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (Gustavo Vinagre) – 2.8
• The Whale (Darren Aronofsky) – 2.2

Ⓟ is for Public
Ⓕ is for Free
Ⓜ is for Market
 

September 8
9:45am – Valeria Is Getting Married (Michal Vinik), Scotiabank 9
1pm – Joyland (Saim Sadiq), Scotiabank 1
4:30pm – Women Talking (Sarah Polley), Scotiabank 12
9pm – Return to Seoul (Davy Chou), Lightbox 2 Ⓟ
 

September 9
9am – The Inspection (Elegance Bratton), Scotiabank 1
12:50pm – So Much Tenderness (Lina Rodriguez), Scotiabank 7
3:30-5pm – Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS (Meriem Bennani), The Power Plant
9:15pm – Horse Opera (Moyra Davey), Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               – preceded by EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
 

September 10
12:10pm – No Bears (Jafar Panahi), Scotiabank 11
3pm – Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (Guy Maddin), Lightbox 4 Ⓕ
6:45pm – Wavelengths 1: Fata Morgana, Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               – Fata Morgana (Tacita Dean)
               + After Work (Céline Condorelli & Ben Rivers)
               – F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now (Fox Maxy)
               – Moonrise (Vincent Grenier)
               – The Time That Separates Us (Parastoo Anoushahpour)
 

September 11
8am – The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg), Lightbox 1 & 2
1pm – Dalíland (Mary Harron), Scotiabank 12
3:40pm – Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski), Scotiabank 7
6pm – Wavelengths 2: Crisis of Contact, Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               – What Rules the Invisible (Tiffany Sia)
               + Hors-titre (Wiame Haddad)
               – Puerta a Puerta (Luis Arnías & Jessica Sarah Rinland)
               – Bigger on the Inside (Angelo Madsen Minax)
               – I Thought the World of You (Kurt Walker)
               + The Newest Olds (Pablo Mazzolo)
 

September 12
9am – The Whale (Darren Aronofsky), Scotiabank 1
12:30pm – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson), Royal Alexandra Theatre
3:40pm – Riceboy Sleeps (Anthony Shim), Scotiabank 5
6pm – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras), Lightbox 1 Ⓟ
 

September 13
8:45am – The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh), Scotiabank 3
12:15pm – Saint Omer (Alice Diop), Scotiabank 13
3pm – Empire of Light (Sam Mendes), Princess of Wales Ⓟ
6:30pm – Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon), Scotiabank 4 Ⓟ
 

September 14
9:05am – The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Peter Farrelly), Lightbox 1
11:35am – Viking (Stéphane Lafleur), Scotiabank 11
2:45pm – Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji), Scotiabank 9 Ⓟ
8:30pm + EO (Jerzy Skolimowski), Scotiabank 12 Ⓟ
 

September 15
9:30am – Subtraction (Mani Haghighi), Scotiabank 13 W/O
12:10pm – Life (Emir Baigazin), Scotiabank 5 W/O
 

September 16
8:30am – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber), Scotiabank 2
12:45pm – Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo), Scotiabank 9
3:30pm – I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron), Lightbox 3 Ⓕ
8pm – Theater of Thought (Werner Herzog), Scotiabank 12 Ⓟ
 

September 17
9:15am – The Worst Ones (Romane Gueret & Lise Akoka), Scotiabank 10 Ⓟ
9:30pm – The Maiden (Graham Foy), Lightbox 3 Ⓟ
 

September 18
1pm – The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg), Scotiabank 1 Ⓟ

 

Films I have already seen:
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Concrete Valley (Antoine Bourges)
Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Godland (Hlynur Pálmason)
Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi)
La Jauría (Andrés Ramírez Pulido)
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
R.M.N. (Cristian Mungiu)
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues)

Key:
Features (40min. and up) are in bold
Shorts are in italics
★ - I have seen this film and feel that it is worth seeing (5.5 and higher)
✘ - I have seen this film and wish I hadn't (3.9 and lower)
● - I have seen this film and am more or less okay with that
○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film during the festival
16mm, 35mm, 70mm - It'll be screened from a film print

Colour coding:
NYFF - Slate and Main (galas included, this year)
SUNDANCE - Good luck to you, Nikyatu Jusu
BERLINALE - Brief encounters
CANNES - The worst ones
LOCARNO - 🧐
VENICE - Other people's movies
NOTABLE - New features by filmmakers whose work I actively look forward to

(Colours trump whatever is below them, so e.g. a film that played both Cannes and Locarno will be gold, unless e.g. it ends up in the NYFF Main Slate in which case it will become purple)

 

Contemporary World Cinema (50; Last year: 25)
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells) ★
Alam (Firas Khoury)
Amanda (Carolina Cavalli)
Ashkal (Youssef Chebbi)
Autobiography (Makbul Mubarak) ○
Beyond the Wall (Vahid Jalilvand)
Blind Willows, Sleeping Women (Pierre Földes)
Bones of Crows (Marie Clements)
Coyote (Katherine Jerkovic)
Domingo and the Mist (Ariel Escalante Meza)
The End of Sex (Sean Garrity)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski) ★
Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon) ○
Fixation (Mercedes Bryce Morgan)
Godland (Hlynur Pálmason) ●
The Happiest Man in the World (Teona Strugar Mitevska)
The Hotel (Wang Xiaoshuai)
La Jauría (Andrés Ramírez Pulido) ●
Life (Emir Baigazin) ○
Living (Oliver Hermanus) ○
Love and Mathematics (Claudia Sainte-Luce)
Love Life (Kôji Fukada) ○
Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Antonio Lukich)
The Maiden (Graham Foy) ○
Manticore (Carlos Vermut) ○
Muru (Tearepa Kahi)
My Sailor, My Love (Klaus Härö)
Nighttalk (Donald Shebib)
North of Normal (Carly Stone)
The Origin of Evil (Sébastien Marnier)
Plan 75 (Chie Hayakawa)
Return to Dust (Li Ruijun)
R.M.N. (Cristian Mungiu) ★
So Much Tenderness (Lina Rodriguez) ○
Sparta (Ulrich Seidl) ○
Stellar (Darlene Naponse)
Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji) ○
The Swearing Jar (Lindsay MacKay)
The Umbrella Men (John Barker)
Under the Fig Trees (Erige Sehiri)
Valeria Is Getting Married (Michal Vinik) ○
Vicenta B. (Carlos Lechuga)
Victim (Michal Blasko)
War Sailor (Gunnar Vikene)
The Water (Elena López Riera) ○
We Are Still Here (Beck Cole, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae Maihi, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Richard Curtis, & Chantelle Burgoyne)
Wildflower (Matt Smukler)
Winter Boy (Christophe Honoré) ○
The Worst Ones (Romane Gueret & Lise Akoka) ○
Zwigato (Nandita Das)

 

Special Presentations (47; Last year: 30)
Allelujah (Sir Richard Eyre)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
Biosphere (Mel Eslyn)
Blueback (Robert Connolly)
The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani)
Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda) ✘
Bros (Nicholas Stoller)
Brother (Clement Virgo)
Catherine Called Birdy (Lena Dunham) ○
Causeway (Lila Neugebauer)
Chevalier (Stephen Williams)
Corsage (Marie Kreutzer) ●
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook) ●
Devotion (JD Dillard)
Driving Madeleine (Christian Carion)
El Suplente (Diego Lerman)
Empire of Light (Sam Mendes) ○
The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg) ○
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg) ○
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson) ○
Good Night Oppy (Ryan White) ○
The Good Nurse (Tobias Lindholm)
Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi) ●
Joyland (Saim Sadiq) ○
The King’s Horseman (Biyi Bandele)
The Lost King (Stephen Frears)
A Man of Reason (Jung Woo-sung)
The Menu (Mark Mylod)
Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgan) ○
My Policeman (Michael Grandage)
Nanny (Nikyatu Jusu) ○
No Bears (Jafar Panahi) ○
Nope (Jordan Peele) ●
On the Come Up (Sanaa Lathan)
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve) ★
Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski) ○
The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile (Kathlyn Horan)
Saint Omer (Alice Diop) ○
Sanctuary (Zachary Wigon)
Stories Not to Be Told (Cesc Gay)
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund) ★
Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo) ○
Wendell & Wild (Henry Selick)
Women Talking (Sarah Polley) ○
The Whale (Darren Aronofsky) ○
The Wonder (Sebastián Lelio)

 

Discovery (23; Last year: 16)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aitch Alberto) ○
Baby Ruby (Bess Wohl)
Carmen (Benjamin Millepied)
Daughter of Rage (Laura Baumeister)
A Gaza Weekend (Basil Khalil)
I Like Movies (Chandler Levack) ○
The Inspection (Elegance Bratton) ○
A Long Break (Davit Pirtskhalava)
Rosie (Gail Maurice)
Return to Seoul (Davy Chou) ○
Runner (Marian Mathias)
Shimoni (Angela Wanjiku Wamai)
Snow and the Bear (Selcen Ergun)
Soft (Joseph Amenta)
Something You Said Last Night (Luis De Filippis)
Susie Searches (Sophie Kargman)
Sweet As (Jub Clerc)
The Taste of Apples Is Red (Ehab Tarabieh)
This Place (V. T. Nayani)
Unruly (Malou Reymann)
Until Branches Bend (Sophie Jarvis) ○
When Morning Comes (Kelly Fyffe-Marshall)
The Young Arsonists (Sheila Pye)

 

TIFF Docs (22; Last year: 14)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras) ○
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On (Madison Thomas)
Casa Susanna (Sébastien Lifshitz)
Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels (Mila Turajlic)
The Colour of Ink (Brian Johnson)
Documentary Now! (Alex Buono, Rhys Thomas, & Micah Gardner)
Ever Deadly (Chelsea McMullan & Tanya Tagaq)
Free Money (Sam Soko & Lauren DeFilippo)
The Grab (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
In Her Hands (Tamana Ayazi & Marcel Mettelsiefen)
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues (Sacha Jenkins)
Mariupolis 2 (Mantas Kvedaravičius) ○
Maya and the Wave (Stephanie Johnes)
Miúcha, the Voice of Bossa Nova (Daniel Zarvos & Liliane Mutti)
My Imaginary Country (Patricio Guzmán)
Patrick and the Whale (Mark Fletcher)
Pray for Our Sinners (Sinéad O’Shea)
Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (William Kentridge) ○
752 Is Not a Number (Babak Payami)
Theatre of Thought (Werner Herzog) ○
To Kill a Tiger (Nisha Pahuja)
While We Watched (Vinay Shukla)

 

Gala Presentations (19; Last year: 15)
Alice, Darling (Mary Nighy)
Black Ice (Hubert Davis)
The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Peter Farrelly) ○
Butcher’s Crossing (Gabe Polsky)
Dalíland (Mary Harron) ○
The Hummingbird (Francesca Archibugi)
Hunt (Lee Jung-jae)
A Jazzman’s Blues (Tyler Perry)
Kacchey Limbu (Shubham Yogi)
Moving On (Paul Weitz)
Paris Memories (Alice Winocour) ○
Prisoner’s Daughter (Catherine Hardwicke)
Raymond & Ray (Rodrigo García)
Roost (Amy Redford)
Sidney (Reginald Hudlin)
The Son (Florian Zeller)
The Swimmers (Sally El Hosaini)
What’s Love Got to Do With It? (Shekhar Kapur)
The Woman King (Gina Prince-Bythewood)

 

Wavelengths (11; Last year: 7, including shorts programmes & exhibitions)
Concrete Valley (Antoine Bourges) ●
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel) ★
Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós) ★
Horse Opera (Moyra Davey) ○
               – preceded by EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
Pacifiction (Albert Serra) ★
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie) ★
Unrest (Cyril Schäublin) ★
Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues) ●

Wavelengths 1: Fata Morgana ○
– Fata Morgana (Tacita Dean) 16mm
+ After Work (Céline Condorelli & Ben Rivers)
– F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now (Fox Maxy)
– Moonrise (Vincent Grenier)
– The Time That Separates Us (Parastoo Anoushahpour)

Wavelengths 2: Crisis of Contact ○
– What Rules the Invisible (Tiffany Sia)
+ Hors-titre (Wiame Haddad)
– Puerta a Puerta (Luis Arnías & Jessica Sarah Rinland)
– Bigger on the Inside (Angelo Madsen Minax)
– I Thought the World of You (Kurt Walker)
+ The Newest Olds (Pablo Mazzolo) 35mm

Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS (Meriem Bennani @ The Power Plant) ○
– Life on the CAPS (2018-22, Meriem Bennani)
– 2 Lizards (2020, Meriem Bennani & Orian Barki)

 

Platform (10; Last year: 8)
Charcoal (Carolina Markowicz)
Emily (Frances O’Connor)
The Gravity (Cédric Ido)
Hawa (Maïmouna Doucouré)
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber) ○
Riceboy Sleeps (Anthony Shim) ○
Subtraction (Mani Haghighi) ○
Thunder (Carmen Jaquier)
Tora’s Husband (Rima Das)
Viking (Stéphane Lafleur) ○

 

Midnight Madness (10; Last year: 6)
The Blackening (Tim Story)
Leonor Will Never Die (Martika Ramirez Escobar)
Pearl (Ti West)
The People’s Joker (Vera Drew) ○
Project Wolf Hunting (Kim Hongsun)
Sick (John Hyams) ○
Sisu (Jalmari Helander)
Venus (Jaume Balagueró)
V/H/S/ 99 (Maggie Levin, Johannes Roberts, Tyler MacIntyre, Flying Lotus, Joseph Winter, & Vanessa Winter)
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Eric Appel)

 

Primetime (7; Last year: 4)
Dear Mama [Pilot Episode (?)] (Allen Hughes)
1899 [Three (?) Episodes] (Baran bo Odar & Jantje Friese)
The Handmaid’s Tale [Two Episodes] (Bruce Miller)
High School [Three (?) Episodes] (Clea DuVall)
The Kingdom Exodus [Two (?) Episodes] (Lars von Trier) ○
LIDO TV [Pilot Episode (?)] (Maya Annik Bedward & Alicia K. Harris)
Mystery Road: Origin [Two (?) Episodes] (Dylan River)

 

TIFF Cinematheque (5; Last year: 7)
Agantuk (1991, Satyajit Ray) ○
I Shot Andy Warhol (1996, Mary Harron) 35mm ○
Strictly Ballroom (1992, Baz Luhrmann)
Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (1988, Guy Maddin) ○
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky) ★

 

Special Events (Last year: 8)
R.I.P.

 

Short Cuts / In Conversation With…
Check the festival website for info about films & events in these sections.

 

July 6
2:00pm – Way Out Ahead of Us (Rob Rice), Variétés 1
6:30pm – Garden Sandbox (Yukinori Kurokawa), Variétés 2
9:00pm – The Lives of Infamous Men (Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone), Variétés 1
 

July 7
2:00pm – Flash Competition Shorts, Variétés 1
               – Welcome (Jean-Claude Rousseau)
               – Against Time (Ben Russell)
               – Ptitsa (Alina Maksimenko)
               – After Work (Ben Rivers & Celine Condorelli)
9:00pm – +A Woman Escapes (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams), Cinéma Artplexe
 

July 8
10:00am – We Had the Day Bonsoir (Narimane Mari), Variétés 1
12:00pm – Fall (Vadim Kostrov), Videodrome 2
2:00pm – Life Lasts Two Days (Leonardo Mouramateus), La Baleine
 

July 9
12:30pm – Nomotopowell (Brent Chesanek), Cinéma Artplexe
4:30pm – +A Woman Escapes (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, & Blake Williams), Cinéma Artplexe
9:00pm – Night Detour (Ariane Falardeau St-Amour & Paul Chotel), Cinéma Artplexe

 

July 10
2:30pm – +Unrest (Cyril Schäublin), Cinéma Artplexe
6:30pm – International Competition Mid-lengths, Variétés 5
               – Quarries (Ellie Ga)
               – Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part IV – Reverse Shot (Marwa Arsanios)
9:00pm – Aftersun (Lluís Galter), Variétés 5
 

July 11
9:30am – The Unstable Object II (Daniel Eisenberg), Vidéodrome 2
2:30pm – About the Clouds (María Aparicio), Cinéma Artplexe