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 ☀ - I made this film 16mm, 35mm, 70mm - This film will be screened from a celluloid print 👓 - This film is stereoscopic 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 - If they had taste they'd pan you BERLINALE - What the Nature Said CANNES - Blow it up! LOCARNO - Ericssonian therapy VENICE - Nala Sinephro Smash 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 (58 | 2024: 57)
& Sons (Pablo Trapero)
Bad Apples (Jonatan Etzler)
Ballad of a Small Player (Edward Berger)
California Schemin’ (James McAvoy)
Calle Malaga (Maryam Touzani)
The Captive (Alejandro Amenábar)
Charlie Harper (Tom Dean & Mac Eldridge)
The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh) ○
Christy (David Michôd)
Couture (Alice Winocour) ○
Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant) ○
Degrassi: Whatever It Takes (Lisa Rideout)
Dog 51 (Cédric Jimenez)
Easy’s Waltz (Nic Pizzolatto)
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (Baz Luhrmann)
Eternal Return (Yaniv Raz)
The Fence (Claire Denis) L ○
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro) ○
Franz (Agnieszka Holland) L
Good News (Sung-hyun Byun)
Hedda (Nia DaCosta)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein) ✘
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi) ●
It Would Be Night in Caracas (Mariana Rondón & Marité Ugás)
Kokuho (Lee Sang-il)
Ky Nam Inn (Leon Le)
The Lost Bus (Paul Greengrass)
Lovely Day (Philippe Falardeau)
Meadowlarks (Tasha Hubbard)
Mile End Kicks (Chandler Levack)
Monkey in a Cage (Anurag Kashyap)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater) ●
A Pale View of Hills (Kei Ishikawa)
A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto) ○
Poetic License (Maude Apatow)
Primavera (Damiano Michieletto)
Project Y (Lee Hwan)
Rental Family (Hikari)
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin) ○
Sacrifice (Romain Gavras)
Scarlet (Mamoru Hosoda)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho) ●
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier) ✘
Silent Friend (Ildikó Enyedi) ○
Sirāt (Óliver Laxe) ★
The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie) ○
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski) ●
Steal Away (Clement Virgo)
The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold) 70mm ○
The Ugly (Yeon Sang-ho)
Three Goodbyes (Isabel Coixet)
Train Dreams (Clint Bentley) ○
Tuner (Daniel Roher)
Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) (Zacharias Kunuk) L
The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania) ○
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson) ○
The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas) ○
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution… (Nick Davis)
Centrepiece (55 | 2024: 44)
Arco (Ugo Bienvenu)
Barrio Triste (STILLZ) ○
Blood Lines (Gail Maurice)
Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari) ○
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater) ●
The Blue Trail (Gabriel Mascaro) ●
Carolina Caroline (Adam Carter Rehmeier)
The Condor Daughter (Álvaro Olmos Torrico)
The Cost of Heaven (Mathieu Denis) ○
Dandelion’s Odyssey (Momoko Seto)
Diya (Achille Ronaimou)
Duse (Pietro Marcello) ○
Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh)
Erupcja (Pete Ohs) ○
Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura) ○
Follies (Eric K. Boulianne) ○
The Fox King (Woo Ming Jin)
Girl (Shu Qi) ○
Good Boy (Jan Komasa)
Hamlet (Aneil Karia)
Honey Bunch (Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli)
I Swear (Kirk Jones)
In Search of the Sky (Jitank Singh Gurjar)
Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream (Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji)
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai) ●
The Last Viking (Anders Thomas Jensen)
Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou) ●
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han)
The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi) ●
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason) ★
Lucky Lu (Lloyd Lee Choi) ●
Mama (Or Sinai)
Memory of Princess Mumbi (Damien Hauser)
Milk Teeth (Mihai Mincan)
Mirrors No. 3 (Christian Petzold) ●
Motor City (Potsy Ponciroli)
My Father’s Shadow (Akinola Davies Jr.)
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Diego Céspedes)
New Years Rev (Lee Kirk)
Nomad Shadow (Eimi Imanishi)
Olmo (Fernando Eimbcke) ●
Orphan (László Nemes) ○
Palimpsest: the Story of a Name (Mary Stephen)
The President’s Cake (Hasan Hadi) ○
Renoir (Chie Hayakawa)
Saipan (Lisa Barros D’Sa & Glenn Leyburn)
Space Cadet (Kid Koala)
The Sun Rises On Us All (Cai Shangjun Cai) ○
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa) ●
Under the Same Sun (Ulises Porra)
Unidentified (Haifaa Al Mansour)
A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
Wasteman (Cal McMau)
Whitetail (Nanouk Leopold)
Youngblood (Hubert Davis)
TIFF Docs (24 | 2024: 21)
Aki (Darlene Naponse)
The Balloonists (John Dower)
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi) L ○
Canceled: The Paula Deen Story (Billy Corben)
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus) ○
The Eyes of Ghana (Ben Proudfoot)
Flana (Zahraa Ghandour)
Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel) ○
A Life Illuminated (Tasha Van Zandt)
LOVE+WAR (Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin)
Modern Whore (Nicole Bazuin)
Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising (Shane Belcourt)
Nuns vs. The Vatican (Lorena Luciano)
Orwell: 2+2=5 (Raoul Peck)
Powwow People (Sky Hopinka) ○
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (Sepideh Farsi) ●
The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue (Barry Avrich)
A Simple Soldier (Juan Camilo Cruz & Artem Ryzhykov)
Still Single (Jamal Burger & Jukan Tateisi)
The Tale of Silyan (Tamara Kotevska)
There Are No Words (Min Sook Lee)
True North (Michèle Stephenson)
While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts (Peter Mettler)
Whistle (Christopher Nelius)
Discovery (23 | 2024: 26)
Amoeba (Siyou Tan)
As We Breathe (Şeyhmus Altun)
Babystar (Joscha Bongard)
Bayaan (Bikas Ranjan Mishra)
Dinner with Friends (Sasha Leigh Henry)
Egghead Republic (Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja)
Forastera (Lucía Aleñar Iglesias)
Ghost School (Seemab Gul)
Julian (Cato Kusters)
Laundry (Zamo Mkhwanazi)
Little Lorraine (Andy Hines)
Maddie’s Secret (John Early)
The Man in My Basement (Nadia Latif)
Mārama (Taratoa Stappard)
Nika & Madison (Eva Thomas)
Noviembre (Tomás Corredor)
Oca (Karla Badillo)
100 Sunset (Kunsang Kyirong)
Our Father (Goran Stankovic)
Out Standing (Mélanie Charbonneau)
Retreat (Ted Evans)
Sink (Zain Duraie)
The Son and the Sea (Stroma Cairns)
Gala Presentations (22 | 2024: 22)
Adulthood (Alex Winter)
The Choral (Nicholas Hytner)
Driver’s Ed (Bobby Farrelly)
Eleanor the Great (Scarlett Johansson)
Eternity (David Freyne)
Fuze (David Mackenzie) ○
Glenrothan (Brian Cox)
Good Fortune (Aziz Ansari)
Hamnet (Chloé Zhao) ○
Homebound (Neeraj Ghaywan)
John Candy: I Like Me (Colin Hanks)
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (Ally Pankiw)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook) ○
Nuremberg (James Vanderbilt)
Palestine 36 (Annemarie Jacir)
Peak Everything (Anne Émond)
A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski) ●
Roofman (Derek Cianfrance)
She Has No Name (2024, Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
Sholay (1975, Ramesh Sippy)
Swiped (Rachel Lee Goldenberg)
Two Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin) ○
Wavelengths (11 [incl. 3 shorts programmes] | 2024: 15 [3])
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph) ●
Copper (Nicolás Pereda) ●
Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze) ★
Levers (Rhayne Vermette) ○
Magellan (Lav Diaz) L ●
Mare’s Nest (Ben Rivers) ✘
The Seasons (Maureen Fazendeiro) ●
With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari) ●
– preceded by It’s So Beautiful Here (Basma al-Sharif)
Wavelengths 1: Map of Traces ○
+ Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016, Tomonari Nishikawa) 16mm
– Rojo Žalia Blau (Viktoria Schmid)
– Disappeared (Sohrab Hura)
– 09/05/1982 (Jorge Caballero & Camilo Restrepo)
– Map of Traces (Chan Hau Chun)
– In Transit (Vadim Kostrov)
Wavelengths 2: Into the Blue ○
– I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash (Mark Jenkin)
– From My Cloud (Minjung Kim)
– Cairo Streets (Abdellah Taïa)
– Daria’s Night Flowers (Maryam Tafakory)
– Aftertide (Kaiwen Ren)
Wavelengths 3: Slightest Pretense ○
– Land of Barbar (Fredj Moussa)
– Conditio Humana (Friedl vom Gröller) 16mm
– Slightest Pretense (Eri Saito)
– CONFERENCE (Björn Kämmerer) 35mm
– Morgenkreis (Basma al-Sharif)
+ FELT (Blake Williams) 👓 ☀
Platform (10 | 2024: 10)
Between Dreams and Hope (Farnoosh Samadi)
Bouchra (Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani) ○
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler) ○
Hen (György Pálfi) ○
Nino (Pauline Loquès)
Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts) (Bretten Hannam)
Steve (Tim Mielants)
To The Victory! (Valentyn Vasyanovych) ○
Winter of the Crow (Kasia Adamik)
The World of Love (Yoon Ga-eun)
Midnight Madness (10 | 2024: 10)
Dead Lover (Grace Glowicki)
Dust Bunny (Bryan Fuller)
Fuck My Son! (Todd Rohal) ○
The Furious (Kenji Tanigaki)
Junk World (Takahide Hori)
Karmadonna (Aleksandar Radivojević)
The Napa Boys (Nick Corirossi)
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson) ○
Normal (Ben Wheatley)
Obsession (Curry Barker)
Primetime (10 | 2024: 8)
Black Rabbit (Zach Baylin & Kate Susman)
Gandhi (Sameer Nair & Hansal Mehta)
The Lowdown (Sterlin Harjo)
Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League (Richard Brown & Tebogo Malope)
Portobello – The Fall of Enzo Tortora (Marco Bellocchio) L ○
Reunion (William Mager & Luke Snellin)
Rise of the Raven (Balázs Lengyel & Robert Dornhelm)
A Sámi Wedding (Åse Kathrin Vuolab & Pål Jackman)
The Savage (Houman Seyyedi)
Wayward (Mae Martin, Ryan Scott)
TIFF Classics (6 | 2024: 6)
Aniki-Bóbó (1942, Manoel de Oliveira) ○
The Arch (1968, T’ang Shushuen) ○
Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986, Bahram Beyzaie)
Days and Nights in the Forest (1970, Satyajit Ray) ●
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg) 35mm ★
Nadja (1994, Michael Almereyda) ★