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…
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