Screen profiles all the world and key premieres at Toronto International Film Festival in the Galas, Special Presentations, Platform and Midnight Madness strands.
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This year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, September 4-14) lineup offers an anticipated array of titles including Paul Greengrass’s The Lost Bus, Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg, Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36, Nicholas Hytner’s The Choral, Alice Winocour’s Couture and Rian Johnson’s latest Knives Out mystery, Wake Up Dead Man.
Also screening are the directing debuts of actors Brian Cox, James McAvoy, Aziz Ansari and Maude Apatow, and awards hopefuls including Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet and Edward Berger’s Ballad Of A Small Player, that both made their world premieres at the US’ Telluride Film Festival.
Screen has the lowdown on all the premieres playing across TIFF’s Galas, Special Presentations, Platform and Midnight Madness strands, and also previews the TIFF Docs, Discovery and Centrepiece sections. We hope our comprehensive coverage will help readers — whether attending or not — navigate what may seem rather sprawling lineups of new films - and the odd series.
Click on the links to each section for the profiles. Scroll down for the list of films playing in these sections that premiered at Venice and earlier.
Galas
- Adulthood (Alex Winter)
- The Choral (Nicholas Hytner)
- Driver’s Ed (Bobby Farrelly)
- Eternity (David Freyne)
- Fuze (David Mackenzie)
- Glenrothan (Brian Cox)
- Good Fortune (Aziz Ansari)
- Hamnet (Chloé Zhao)*
- John Candy: I Like Me (Colin Hanks)
- Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery (Ally Pankiw)
- Nuremberg (James Vanderbilt)
- Palestine 36 (Annemarie Jacir)
- Roofman (Derek Cianfrance)
- Swiped (Rachel Lee Goldenberg)
- Two Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin)
Special Presentations
- & Sons (Pablo Trapero)
- Bad Apples (Jonatan Etzler)
- Ballad Of A Small Player (Edward Berger)*
- California Schemin’ (James McAvoy)
- The Captive (Alejandro Amenabar)
- Charlie Harper (Tom Dean, Mac Eldridge)
- The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh)
- Christy (David Michod)
- Couture (Alice Winocour)
- Degrassi: Whatever It Takes (Lisa Rideout)
- Easy’s Waltz (Nic Pizzolatto)
- EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert (Baz Luhrmann)
- Eternal Return (Yaniv Raz)
- The Fence (Claire Denis)
- Franz (Agnieszka Holland)
- Good News (Byun Sung-hyun)
- Hedda (Nia DaCosta)
- 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)
- Poetic License (Maude Apatow)
- Primavera (Damiano Michieletto)
- Project Y (Lee Hwan)
- Rental Family (Hikari)
- Sacrifice (Romain Gavras)
- Steal Away (Clement Virgo)
- Three Goodbyes (Isabel Coixet)
- Tuner (Daniel Roher)*
- The Ugly (Yeon Sang-ho)
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)
- You Had To Be There… (Nick Davis)
Platform
- At The Place Of Ghosts (Bretten Hannam)
- Between Dreams And Hope (Farnoosh Samadi)
- Bouchra (Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani)
- The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)
- Hen (György Palfi)
- Steve (Tim Mielants)
- To The Victory! (Valentyn Vasyanovych)
- Winter Of The Crow (Kasia Adamik)
- The World Of Love (Yoon Ga-eun)
Midnight Madness
- Dead Lover (Grace Glowicki)
- Dust Bunny (Bryan Fuller)
- Fuck My Son! (Todd Rohal)
- The Furious (Kenji Tanigaki)
- Junk World (Takahide Hori)
- Karmadonna (Aleksandar Radivojevic)
- The Napa Boys (Nick Corirossi)
- Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie (Matt Johnson)
- Normal (Ben Wheatley)
- Obsession (Curry Barker)
TIFF Docs preview
Discovery preview
Centrepiece preview
*Telluride world premieres
TIFF profiles by Charles Gant, Tim Grierson, Nadiya Jackson, Rebecca Leffler, Lee Marshall, Tara Nimmoneser, Jonathan Romney, Michael Rosser, Mona Tabbara,
| Title | TIFF strand | Launch festival |
|---|---|---|
| Calle Malaga (dir Maryam Touzani) | Special Presentations | Venice (Spotlight) |
| Dead Man’s Wire (dir Gus Van Sant) | Special Presentations | Venice (out of competition) |
| Dog 51 (dir Cédric Jimenez) | Special Presentations | Venice (out of competition) |
| Eleanor The Great (dir Scarlett Johansson) | Galas | Cannes (Un Certain Regard) |
| Frankenstein (dir Guillermo del Toro) | Special Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| Homebound (dir Neeraj Ghaywan) | Galas | Cannes (Un Certain Regard) |
| If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (dir Mary Bronstein) | Special Presentations | Sundance (Premieres) |
| It Was Just An Accident (dir Jafar Panahi) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| It Would Be Night In Caracas (dirs Mariana Rondon, Marité Ugas) | Special Presentations | Venice (Spotlight |
| Kokuhô (dir Lee Sang-il) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) |
| Nino (dir Pauline Loquès) | Platform | Cannes (Critics’ Week) |
| No Other Choice (dir Park Chan-wook) | Galas | Venice (Competition) |
| Nouvelle Vague (dir Richard Linklater) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| A Pale View Of Hills (dir Kei Ishikawa) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Un Certain Regard) |
| Peak Everything (dir Anne Émond) | Galas | Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) |
| A Poet (dir Simon Mesa Soto) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Un Certain Regard) |
| A Private Life (dir Rebecca Zlotowski) | Galas | Cannes (out of competition) |
| Rose Of Nevada (dir Mark Jenkin) | Special Presentations | Venice (Horizons) |
| Scarlet (dir Mamoru Hosoda) | Special Presentations | Venice (out of competition) |
| The Secret Agent (dir Kleber Mendonca Filho) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| Sentimental Value (dir Joachim Trier) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| She Has No Name (dir Peter Chan) | Galas | Cannes (out of competition 2024) |
| Silent Friend (dir Ildiko Enyedi) | Special Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| Sirāt (dir Oliver Laxe) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| The Smashing Machine (dir Benny Safdie) | Special Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| Sound Of Falling (dir Mascha Schilinski) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| The Testament Of Ann Lee (dir Mona Fastvold) | Special Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| Train Dreams (dir Clint Bentley) | Special Presentations | Sundance (Premieres) |
| The Voice Of Hind Rajab (dir Kaouther Ben Hania) | Special Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| The Wizard Of The Kremlin (dir Olivier Assayas) | Special Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| Wrong Husband (dir Zacharias Kunuk) | Special Presentations | Berlinale (Generation) |
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