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 (4.0 and lower) ○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film 16mm, 35mm, 70mm - This film will be screened from a film print 🕶️ - This is a 3D film L - Has TIFF's "Luminaries" label, i.e. it'd be in "Masters" if the section still existed Colour coding: NYFF - Slate and Main SUNDANCE - Like if Michael Snow had decided to remake The Shining in a small suburban house BERLINALE - Rollin' with Dahomey CANNES - The Most Precious of Festivals LOCARNO - Hard Times VENICE - They planted that seed and I will see Harvest NOTABLE - New films by directors whose work I actively look forward to (Colours trump whatever is below them; e.g. if a film screens at Cannes and is then later announced as part of NYFF's Main Slate, it will be purple)
Special Presentations (57 | 2023: 52)
All of You (William Bridges)
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia) ●
Anora (Sean Baker) ★
The Assessment (Fleur Fortune)
Babygirl (Halina Reijn) ○
Bird (Andrea Arnold) ✘
Bring Them Down (Chris Andrews)
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet) 70mm ○
Can I Get a Witness? (Ann Marie Fleming)
Carnival Is Over (Fernando Coimbra)
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-ke) ●
Conclave (Edward Berger)
The Cut (Sean Ellis)
Dahomey (Mati Diop) ●
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard) ●
The End (Joshua Oppenheimer) ○
The Fire Inside (Rachel Morrison)
40 Acres (R.T. Thorne)
The Girl with the Needle (Magnus von Horn) ●
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh) ○
Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari) ○
Heretic (Scott Beck & Bryan Woods)
Hold Your Breath (Karrie Crouse & Will Joines)
I’m Still Here (Walter Salles)
I, the Executioner (Ryoo Seung-wan)
K-Pops (Anderson .Paak)
The Last Showgirl (Gia Coppola) ○
The Life of Chuck (Mike Flanagan) ○
Love in the Big City (E.oni)
The Luckiest Man in America (Samir Oliveros)
Millers in Marriage (Edward Burns)
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie) ★
Nightbitch (Marielle Heller) ○
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni) ●
On Swift Horses (Daniel Minahan) ○
The Order (Justin Kurzel)
Paul Anka: His Way (John Maggio)
The Piano Lesson (Malcolm Washington)
Piece by Piece (Morgan Neville)
Queer (Luca Guadagnino) ○
Quisling – The Final Days (Erik Poppe)
Relay (David Mackenzie) ○
Rez Ball (Sydney Freeland)
Riff Raff (Dito Montiel)
The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar) ○
Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson) ●
The Salt Path (Marianne Elliott)
Saturday Night (Jason Reitman)
Sharp Corner (Jason Buxton)
Shell (Max Minghella) ○
Shepherds (Sophie Deraspe)
Sketch (Seth Worley)
Vermiglio (Maura Delpero)
We Live in Time (John Crowley)
Went Up the Hill (Samuel Van Grinsven)
Without Blood (Angelina Jolie)
Young Werther (José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço)
Centrepiece (44 | 2023: 47)
Addition (Marcelle Lunam)
Anywhere Anytime (Milad Tangshir)
April (Dea Kulumbegashvili) ○
Beloved Tropic (Ana Endara)
Bliss (Hemda) (Shemi Zarhin)
Bound in Heaven (Huo Xin)
By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo) L ★
Cloud (Kiyoshia Kurosawa) L ○
Crocodile Tears (Tumpal Tampubolon)
Don’t Cry, Butterfly (Dương Diệu Linh)
Edge of Night (Türker Süer)
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara (Erin Lee Carr)
Flow (Gints Zilbalodis) ●
Front Row (Merzak Allouache) L
Happyend (Neo Sora) ○
Happy Holidays (Scandar Copti)
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Laura Piani)
Julie Keeps Quiet (Leonardo van Dijl)
Ka Whawhai Tonu – Struggle Without End (Michael Jonathan)
Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega)
The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos (Agbajowo Collective)
Little Jaffna (Lawrence Valin)
Los Tortuga (Belén Funes)
Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski) ●
Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz) ○
A Missing Part (Guillaume Senez)
The Mother and the Bear (Johnny Ma)
The Mountain (Rachel House)
My Sunshine (Hiroshi Okuyama)
Pimpinero: Blood and Oil (Andrés Baiz)
Presence (Steven Soderbergh) ○
Santosh (Sandhya Suri)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof) ●
Seven Days (Ali Samadi Ahadi)
Souleymane’s Story (Boris Lojkine)
Sunshine (Antoinette Jadaone)
The Swedish Torpedo (Frida Kempff)
Sweet Angel Baby (Melanie Oates)
To a Land Unknown (Mahdi Fleifel)
Under the Volcano (Damian Kocur)
An Unfinished Film (Lou Ye) ✘
Universal Language (Matthew Rankin) ●
The Village Next to Paradise (Mo Harawe)
When the Light Breaks (Rúnar Rúnarsson)
Discovery (26 | 2023: 26)
Aberdeen (Ryan Cooper & Eva Thomas)
Bonjour Tristesse (Durga Chew-Bose)
Boong (Lakshmipriya Devi)
The Courageous (Jasmin Gordon)
Diciannove (Giovanni Tortorici)
Do I Know You From Somewhere? (Arianna Martinez)
Freedom Way (Afolabi Olalekan)
Gülizar (Belkıs Bayrak)
Horizonte (César Augusto Acevedo)
Ink Wash (Sarra Tsorakidis)
Linda (Mariana Wainstein)
Meat (Dimitris Nakos)
Mother Mother (K’naan Warsame)
My Fathers’ Daughter (Egil Pedersen)
On Falling (Laura Carreira)
The Paradise of Thorns (Boss Kuno)
The Party’s Over (Elena Manrique)
The Quiet Ones (Frederik Louis Hviid)
Really Happy Someday (J Stevens)
Saba (Maksud Hossain)
Sad Jokes (Fabian Stumm)
Seeds (Kaniehtiio Horn)
Shook (Amar Wala)
U Are the Universe (Pavlo Ostrikov)
Village Keeper (Karen Chapman)
You Are Not Alone (Marie-Hélène Viens & Philippe Lupien)
Gala Presentations (22 | 2023: 21)
Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe (Cosima Spender)
Better Man (Michael Gracey)
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight (Embeth Davidtz)
The Deb (Rebel Wilson)
Eden (Ron Howard)
Elton John: Never Too Late (R.J. Cutler & David Furnish)
The Friend (Scott McGehee & David Siegel)
Harbin (Woo Min-ho)
Meet the Barbarians (Julie Delpy)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola) ★
Nutcrackers (David Gordon Green)
Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader) ●
The Penguin Lessons (Peter Cattaneo)
The Return (Uberto Pasolini)
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band (Thom Zimny)
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg) ★
Superboys of Malegaon (Reema Kagti)
Takin’ Care of Business (Tyler Measom)
Unstoppable (William Goldenberg)
The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders)
Will & Harper (Josh Greenbaum)
William Tell (Nick Hamm)
TIFF Docs (21 | 2023: 23)
Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story (Sinéad O’Shea)
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (Raoul Peck) ○
The Freedom of Fierro (Santiago Esteinou)
From Ground Zero (Various) ○
The Last of the Sea Women (Sue Kim)
The Last Republican (Steve Pink)
Living Together (Halima Elkhatabi)
Men of War (Billy Corben & Jen Gatien)
Mistress Dispeller (Elizabeth Lo)
No Other Land (Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, & Rachel Szor) ○
Patrice: The Movie (Ted Passon)
Russians at War (Anastasia Trofimova)
A Sisters’ Tale (Leila Amini)
So Surreal: Behind the Masks (Neil Diamond & Joanne Robertson)
Space Cowboy (Marah Strauch & Bryce Leavitt)
Sudan, Remember Us (Hind Meddeb)
Tata (Lina Vdovîi & Radu Ciorniciuc)
Temporary Shelter (Anastasiia Bortuali)
Vice Is Broke (Eddie Huang)
Wishing on a Star (Péter Kerekes)
Your Tomorrow (Ali Weinstein)
Wavelengths (15 [incl. 3 shorts programmes] | 2023: 15 [3])
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich) ○
Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland) ○
The Damned (Roberto Minervini) ●
Drama 1882 (Wael Shawky) ○
exergue — on documenta 14 (Dimitris Athiridis) ○
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) ●
Lazaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda) ○
Pepe (Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias) ●
Perfumed with Mint (Muhammed Hamdy) ○
Viêt and Nam (Minh Quý Trương) ●
Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing) L ●
Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing) L ○
Wavelengths 1: Eye & Ear Control ○
– Revolving Rounds (Johann Lurf & Christina Jauernik) 🕶️
– The Diary of a Sky (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)
– October Noon (Francisco Rodríguez Teare)
– A Black Screen Too (Rhayne Vermette)
– Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya (Malena Szlam)
Wavelengths 2: Ride the Wave ○
– Someplace in Your Mouth (Beatrice Gibson & Nick Gordon)
– Notes of a Crocodile (Daphne Xu)
– Adrift Potentials (Leonardo Pirondi)
– Go Between (Chris Kennedy)
– The Sojourn (Tiffany Sia)
Wavelengths 3: Exposé(s) – Jean-Luc Godard/John Smith ○
– Scénarios (Jean-Luc Godard) ★
– Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” (Jean-Luc Godard) ★
– Being John Smith (John Smith)
Midnight Madness (10 | 2023: 10)
Dead Mail (Joe DeBoer & Kyle McConaghy)
Dead Talent Society (John Hsu)
Else (Thibault Emin)
Escape from the 21st Century (Li Yang)
Friendship (Andrew DeYoung)
The Gesuidouz (Kenichi Ugana)
Ick (Joseph Kahn)
It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This (Nick Toti & Rachel Kempf)
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) ●
The Shadow Strays (Timo Tjahjanto)
Platform (10 | 2023: 10)
Daniela Forever (Nacho Vigalondo)
Daughter’s Daughter (Huang Xi)
Mr. K (Tallulah H. Schwab)
Paying for It (Sook-Yin Lee)
Pedro Páramo (Rodrigo Prieto) ○
They Will Be Dust (Carlos Marques-Marcet)
Triumph (Petar Valchanov & Kristina Grozeva)
Viktor (Olivier Sarbil)
Winter in Sokcho (Koya Kamura)
The Wolves Always Come at Night (Gabrielle Brady)
Primetime (8 | 2023: 9)
Disclaimer [Chapters 1-3] (Alfonso Cuarón)
Faithless [Episodes 1 & 2] (Tomas Alfredson & Sara Johnsen)
Families Like Ours [Entirety] (Thomas Vinterberg)
M. Son of the Century [Episodes 1 & 2] (Joe Wright)
The Knowing [Select Episodes] (Courtney Montour & Tanya Talaga)
The Listeners [Select Episodes] (Janicza Bravo & Jordan Tannahill)
The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal [Entirety] (Mike Downie)
Thou Shalt Not Steal [Episodes 1-3] (Dylan River)
TIFF Classics (6 | 2023: 5)
Awāra (1951, Raj Kapoor) ○
Bona (1980, Lino Brocka) ○
Essene (1972, Frederick Wiseman) ○
Masala (1991, Srinivas Krishna) ○
The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Atom Egoyan) ★
Time of Maturity (1976, Sohrab Shahid Saless) ★
Special Events (2)
Double Happiness (1994, Mina Shum)
Whiplash (2014, Damien Chazelle) ★