Key: Features (40min. and up) are in bold. Shorts are in italics. ★ - I have seen this film and recommend it (6.0 and higher) ✘ - I have seen this film and recommend you don't (3.9 and lower). ● - I have seen this film. It's okay. ○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film. ⌛ - This film is at least 150 minutes long. 👓 - This film is at least partially stereoscopic. 🍁 - This film is (perhaps secretly) Canadian. ® - This film has a Canadian distributor. ® - This film has a US distributor. (Will be ⑱ if it is currently scheduled to be commercially released in 2018.) *vod* - This film is with Netflix, Youtube, or other VOD-centric distributor, so may not receive a theatrical run. 16mm, 35mm, 70mm - It'll be screened from a film print. Colour coding: NYFF - Main Slate only, sans Opening, Closing, and Centerpiece films SUNDANCE - New Sara Colangelo, for instance BERLINALE - Isle of when elephants sit still CANNES - Personae gratae LOCARNO - The extra-humans VENICE - Where stars are born NOTABLE - Films that I'm actively looking forward to, for whatever reason (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)
Special Presentations (59; last year: 66)
American Woman (Jake Scott)
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, & Edward Burtynsky) 🍁 ®
Baby (Liu Jie)
Ben is Back (Peter Hedges) ® ⑱
Boy Erased (Joel Edgerton) ⑱
Burning (Lee Chang-dong) ⑱ ★
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller) ⑱ ○
Capernaum (Nadine Labaki) ® ⑱ ●
Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski) ® ⑱ ●
Colette (Wash Westmoreland) ® ⑱
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (Xavier Dolan) 🍁 ○
Dogman (Matteo Garrone) ® ® ●
Driven (Nick Hamm) ®
Duelles (Mothers’ Instinct) (Olivier Masset-Depasse)
A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel) ○
The Fall of the American Empire (Denys Arcand) 🍁
The Front Runner (Jason Reitman) ⑱
Giant Little Ones (Keith Behrman) 🍁 ®
Girls of the Sun (Eva Husson) ●
Gloria Bell (Sebastián Lelio) ®
Greta (Neil Jordan) ○
The Grizzlies (Miranda de Pencier) 🍁 ®
Hold the Dark (Jeremy Saulnier) ⑱ *vod*
Hotel Mumbai (Anthony Maras)
The Hummingbird Project (Kim Nguyen) 🍁 ®
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) ⑱ ○
Kursk (Thomas Vinterberg) ®
Legend of the Demon Cat – Director’s Cut (Chen Kaige)
Manto (Nandita Das)
Maya (Mia Hansen-Løve) ○
Mid90s (Jonah Hill) ⑱ ○
A Million Little Pieces (Sam Taylor-Johnson)
Monsters and Men (Reinaldo Marcus Green) ⑱
MOUTHPIECE (Patricia Rozema) 🍁
Never Look Away (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) ⌛ ®
Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas) ○
The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery) ® ⑱ ○
Papi Chulo (John Butler)
The Quietude (Pablo Trapero)
Red Joan (Sir Trevor Nunn)
ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón) ⑱ *vod* ○
Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda) ® ⑱ ●
The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard) ⑱
Skin (Guy Nattiv)
Sunset (László Nemes) ® ○
Teen Spirit (Max Minghella)
Tell It To The Bees (Annabel Jankel)
Through Black Spruce (Don McKellar) 🍁
22 July (Paul Greengrass) ⑱ *vod*
Viper Club (Maryam Keshavarz) ⑱ *vod*
Vision (Naomi Kawase)
Vita & Virginia (Chanya Button)
Vox Lux (Brady Corbet) ® ○
The Wedding Guest (Michael Winterbottom)
The Weekend (Stella Meghie)
Where Hands Touch (Amma Asante)
White Boy Rick (Yann Demange) ⑱
Wild Rose (Tom Harper)
Wildlife (Paul Dano) ⑱ ○
Contemporary World Cinema (48; last year: 48)
The Accused (Gonzalo Tobal)
Angel (Koen Mortier)
Asako I & II (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) ® ★
Before the Frost (Michael Noer)
Belmonte (Federico Veiroj) ○
Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra) ® ●
The Black Book (Valeria Sarmiento) ○
Black 47 (Lance Daly)
Border (Ali Abbasi) ® ●
Bulbul Can Sing (Rima Das)
Core of the World (Natalia Meshchaninova)
The Dive (Yona Rozenkier)
Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa) ★
El Angel (Luis Ortega) ⑱
EXT. Night (Ahmad Abdalla)
The Factory (Yury Bykov)
Falls Around Her (Darlene Naponse) 🍁
The Fireflies Are Gone (Sébastien Pilote) 🍁
Florianópolis Dream (Ana Katz)
The Great Darkened Days (Maxime Giroux) 🍁
“I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians” (Radu Jude) ○
Jinpa (Pema Tseden) ○
Kingsway (Bruce Sweeney) 🍁
Les Salopes or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin (Renée Beaulieu) 🍁
Let Me Fall (Baldvin Z)
Look at Me (Nejib Belkadhi)
Minuscule – Mandibles From Far Away (Thomas Szabo & Hélène Giraud)
The Most Beautiful Couple (Sven Taddicken)
Museum (Alonso Ruizpalacios) ○
One Last Deal (Klaus Härö)
The Other Story (Avi Nesher)
Quién te Cantará (Carlos Vermut)
The Realm (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
Redemption (Joseph Madmony & Boaz Yehonatan Yaakov)
Retrospekt (Esther Rots)
Roads in February (Katherine Jerkovic)
Rosie (Paddy Breathnach)
Sew the Winter to my Skin (Jahmil X.T. Qubeka)
Sibel (Çagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti)
Splinters (Thom Fitzgerald) 🍁
Stupid Young Heart (Selma Vilhunen)
Styx (Wolfgang Fischer)
The Sweet Requiem (Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam)
That Time of Year (Paprika Steen)
Ulysses & Mona (Sébastien Betbeder)
The Vice of Hope (Edoardo de Angelis)
Winter Flies (Olmo Omerzu)
Working Woman (Michal Aviad)
Discovery (46; last year: 45)
aKasha (hajooj kuka)
ANIARA (Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja) ○
Blind Spot (Tuva Novotny)
The Chambermaid (Lila Avilés)
Clara (Akash Sherman) 🍁
Complicity (Kei Chikaura)
Consequences (Darko Štante)
The Crossing (Bai Xue) ○
The Day I Lost My Shadow (Soudade Kaadan)
The Dig (Andy & Ryan Tohill)
Edge of the Knife (Gwaai Edenshaw & Helen Haig-Brown) 🍁
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo) ⌛ ★
Emu Runner (Imogen Thomas)
ENDZEIT – EVER AFTER (Carolina Hellsgård)
The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste García (Arturo Infante)
Farming (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje)
Fig Tree (Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian)
Firecrackers (Jasmin Mozaffari) 🍁 ®
Float Like a Butterfly (Carmel Winters)
Freaks (Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein) 🍁
Girl (Lukas Dhont) ® *vod* ●
Gwen (William McGregor)
Helmet Heads (Neto Villalobos)
Her Job (Nikos Labôt)
Icebox (Daniel Sawka)
Jirga (Benjamin Gilmour)
Light as Feathers (Rosanne Pel)
Lionheart (Genevieve Nnaji)
The Load (Ognjen Glavonic) ® ●
Manta Ray (Phuttiphong Aroonpheng)
The Mercy of the Jungle (Joël Karekezi)
Orange Days (Arash Lahooti)
Our Body (Han Ka-ram)
Parade (Nino Zhvania)
Phoenix (Camilla Strøm Henriksen)
Rafiki (Wanuri Kahiu) ®
Saf (Ali Vatansever)
Screwdriver (Bassam Jarbawi)
Summer Survivors (Marija Kavtaradze)
Tel Aviv on Fire (Sameh Zoabi)
The Third Wife (Ash Mayfair)
Tito and the Birds (Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar, & André Catoto)
Too Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor) ●
Touch Me Not (Adina Pintilie) ○
Twin Flower (Laura Luchetti)
Woman at War (Benedikt Erlingsson) ® ®
TIFF Docs (28; last year: 26)
American Dharma (Errol Morris) ○
Angels Are Made Of Light (James Longley)
The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester)
Carmine Street Guitars (Ron Mann) 🍁 ®
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes (Alexis Bloom)
The Elephant Queen (Victoria Stone & Mark Deeble)
Fahrenheit 11/9 (Michael Moore) ⑱ ○
Free Solo (E. Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin) ®
Freedom Fields (Naziha Arebi)
Ghost Fleet (Shannon Service & Jeffrey Waldron)
Graves Without a Name (Rithy Pahn)
Heartbound (Janus Metz & Sine Gammelgaard Plambech)
Maiden (Alex Holmes)
Maria by Callas (Tom Volf) ⑱
Meeting Gorbachev (Werner Herzog & André Singer) ○
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman) ® ○
Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz (Barry Avrich) 🍁 ® ®
Putin’s Witnesses (Vitaly Mansky)
Quincy (Rashida Jones & Alan Hicks) ® *vod*
Reason (Anand Patwardhan) ⌛
Screwball (Billy Corben)
Searching for Ingmar Bergman (Margarethe von Trotta) ®
This Changes Everything (Tom Donahue)
The Truth About Killer Robots (Maxim Pozdorovkin)
Walking on Water (Andrey Paounov)
What is Democracy? (Astra Taylor) 🍁
When Arabs Danced (Jawad Rhalib)
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (Mark Cousins) ⌛
Gala Presentations (20; last year: 20)
Beautiful Boy (Felix van Groeningen) ® ⑱
Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi) ® ●
First Man (Damien Chazelle) ⑱ ○
Green Book (Peter Farrelly) ® ○
The Hate U Give (George Tillman, Jr.) ⑱
Hidden Man (Jiang Wen)
High Life (Claire Denis) ○
Husband Material (Anurag Kashyap) ⌛
Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy (Justin Kelly) ○
The Kindergarten Teacher (Sara Colangelo) ® ®
The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener) ® *vod* ○
The Lie (Veena Sud) 🍁
Life Itself (Dan Fogelman) ® ⑱
Outlaw King (David Mackenzie) ® *vod*
A Private War (Matthew Heineman)
The Public (Emilio Estevez)
Shadow (Zhang Yimou)
A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper) ⑱
What They Had (Elizabeth Chomko) ⑱
Widows (Steve McQueen) ⑱ ○
Wavelengths (16; last year: 16, including shorts programs)
Dead Souls (Wang Bing) ⌛ ® ○
Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible (Ghassan Halwani) ○
The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack) 16mm ★
– preceded by Those Who Desire (Elena López Riera) ○
Fausto (Andrea Bussmann) 🍁
In My Room (Ulrich Köhler) ® ★
L. COHEN (James Benning) ○
– preceded by Arena (Björn Kämmerer) 70mm ○
La Flor (Mariano Llinás) ⌛ ○
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan) 👓 ® ★
RAY & LIZ (Richard Billingham) ○
The Stone Speakers (Igor Drljača) 🍁 ○
The Trial (Sergei Loznitsa) ○
What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire? (Roberto Minervini) ○
Wavelengths 1: Earth, Wind & Fire ○
– Polly One (Kevin Jerome Everson)
– Blue (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
– Fainting Spells (Sky Hopinka)
– Prologue to the Tarot: Glenna (Brittany Gravely & Ken Linehan) 16mm
– Hoarders Without Boarders (Jodie Mack) 16mm
– ante mis ojos (Lina Rodriguez)
– ALTIPLANO (Malena Szlam) 35mm
Wavelengths 2: Another Brick in the Wall ○
– Ada Kaleh (Helena Wittmann)
– The Glass Note (Mary Helena Clark)
– mumok kino (2017, Philipp Fleischmann) 35mm
– TREES DOWN HERE (Ben Rivers) 35mm
– 1986 Summer (1986, Toshio Matsumoto)
– Words, Planets (Laida Lertxundi)
– The Invisible Cinema 3 (2017, Philipp Fleischmann) 16mm
– Walled, Unwalled (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)
Wavelengths 3: Centerfold ○
– Girl Pack (1981, Lisa Baumgardner)
– Please step out of the frame. (Karissa Hahn)
– The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs (Ross Meckfessel) 16mm
– Sira (Rolla Tahir)
– Slip (Celia Perrin Sidarous) 16mm
– Alice (1974, Maria Lassnig)
– Fallen Arches (Simon Liu) 35mm
– I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead (Beatrice Gibson)
Wavelengths 4: We’ve Only Just Begun ○
– Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) (Nathaniel Dorsky) 16mm
– A Return (James Edmonds) 16mm
– The Labyrinth (Laura Huertas Millán)
– Île d’Ouessant (David Dudouit) 16mm
– Julio Iglesias’s House (Natalia Marín)
– Man in the Well (Hu Bo)
Platform (12; last year: 12)
Angelo (Markus Schleinzer)
Cities of Last Things (Ho Wi Ding)
Destroyer (Karyn Kusama) ⑱ ○
Donnybrook (Tim Sutton)
The Good Girls (Alejandra Márquez Abella)
Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry) ○
The Innocent (Simon Jaquemet)
Jessica Forever (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel)
Mademoiselle de Joncquières (Emmanuel Mouret)
Out of Blue (Carol Morley)
The River (Emir Baigazin) ○
Rojo (Benjamín Naishtat) ○
Masters (11; last year: 11)
Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhang-ke) ★
Divine Wind (Merzak Allouache)
Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo) ○
The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard) ★
Killing (Shinya Tsukamoto)
Loro (Paolo Sorrentino) ⌛
Our Time (Carlos Reygadas) ⌛ ○
Peterloo (Mike Leigh) ⌛ ○
3 Faces (Jafar Panahi) ●
Transit (Christian Petzold) ★
The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) ⌛ ●
Midnight Madness (10; last year: 10)
Assassination Nation (Sam Levinson) ® ⑱
Climax (Gaspar Noé) ® ★
Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt) ●
Halloween (David Gordon Green) ® ⑱
In Fabric (Peter Strickland) ○
The Man Who Feels No Pain (Vasan Bala)
Nekrotronic (Kiah Roache-Turner)
The Predator (Shane Black) ⑱
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (Henry Dunham)
The Wind (Emma Tammi)
Primetime (5; last year: 5)
Ad Vitam [2 episodes] (Thomas Cailley)
Folklore: A Mother’s Love & Pob [2 episodes] (Joko Anwar & Pen-ek Ratanaruang]
Homecoming [4 episodes] (Sam Esmail)
Sorry For Your Loss [4 episodes] (James Ponsoldt, Jessica Yu, & Allison Anders)
Stockholm [4 episodes] (Daniel Syrkin)
TIFF Cinematheque (4; last year: 4)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001, Zacharias Kunuk) ●
Chocolat (1988, Claire Denis) 35mm ★
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer) 35mm ★
Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman) 35mm ★
Special Events (4; last year: 5)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: A Behind-the-Scenes Look with director Dean DeBlois and producer Brad Lewis
Jason Reitman Live Read [The Breakfast Club (1985, John Hughes)]
The Joy Luck Club (1993, Wayne Wang)
Sharkwater Extinction (Rob Stewart) 🍁
Short Cuts [Both “Canada” and “International”]
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