2024 Toronto International Film Festival

2024 Toronto International Film Festival

Opening film	Nutcrackers by David Gordon Green
Closing film	The Deb by Rebel Wilson
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded	1976
Festival date	September 5–15, 2024
Website	tiff.net/tiff
Toronto International Film Festival
2025 2023

The 49th annual Toronto International Film Festival will be held from September 5–15, 2024.^[1]

The festival is slated to open with David Gordon Green's film Nutcrackers, and close with Rebel Wilson's directorial debut film The Deb.^[2]

The first programming announcements were released on June 18, 2024.^[3].A second batch of films was announced on July 9,^[4] and the opening and closing galas were announced on July 16.^[2] Full program announcements began on July 22, with the gala and special presentations lineups announced that day and several other programs announced over the course of that week.^[5] The full festival schedule, including numerous late additions, was announced on August 13.^[6] In addition to new and current films, the schedule includes anniversary special event screenings of Damien Chazelle's Whiplash and Mina Shum's Double Happiness.^[7]

Nutcrackers marks the first time that an acquisitions title not already attached to a commercial distributor has opened the festival since Creation launched the 2009 edition.^[8] Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail linked this choice to the festival's announcement earlier in the year that it plans to launch a full film market in 2026, suggesting that it signals an effort by the festival to play an active role in helping the film to secure a distribution deal and thus demonstrate the business case for the market project.^[8]

The choice of The Deb as closing film was effectively leaked a few days earlier than the official announcement, when Wilson posted a video to her Instagram account to accuse the film's producers of having tried to block the film's premiere at TIFF.^[9]

The TIFF Tribute Awards recipients will include David Cronenberg as recipient of the Norman Jewison Award, and Amy Adams as a recipient of the performer award.^[10] Actor Jharrel Jerome will also be honoured in the performance category, and actress Zhao Tao will receive a special tribute award.^[11]

Cate Blanchett has been announced as the recipient of the Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award for women who have made a positive difference in the film industry.^[12]

Mike Leigh will receive the Director Award, Camille Dalmais and Clément Ducol will receive the Variety Artisan Award, and Durga Chew-Bose will receive the Emerging Talent Award.^[13]

Awards for films, including the People's Choice Award, will be announced at the conclusion of the festival. The awards program will include a return of the Best Canadian Discovery Award, previously presented by the festival as "Best Canadian First Feature" until being discontinued after the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.^[14]

• Platform: Atom Egoyan, Hur Jin-ho, Jane Schoenbrun
• Best Canadian Feature Film and Best Canadian Discovery: Estrella Araiza, Chelsea McMullan, Randall Okita
• Short Cuts: Luis De Filippis, Micah Kernan, Shane Smith
• NETPAC: Hannah Fisher, Vilsoni Hereniko, Kerri Sakamoto
• FIPRESCI: Li Cheuk-to, Pierre-Simon Gutman, Azadeh Jafari, Saffron Maeve, Wilfred Okiche

In Conversation with... events will be held featuring Cate Blanchett, Zoe Saldaña, Steven Soderbergh, and Hyun Bin and Lee Dong-wook.^[15]

The following films were selected to the Gala Presentations section:^[5]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe		Cosima Spender	United Kingdom
Better Man		Michael Gracey	Australia
The Deb		Rebel Wilson
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight		Embeth Davidtz	South Africa
Eden		Ron Howard	United States
Elton John: Never Too Late		R.J. Cutler, David Furnish	United States, United Kingdom
The Friend		Scott McGehee, David Siegel	United States
Harbin	하얼빈	Woo Min-ho	South Korea
Meet the Barbarians	Les barbares	Julie Delpy	France
Megalopolis		Francis Ford Coppola	United States
Nutcrackers		David Gordon Green
Oh, Canada		Paul Schrader
The Penguin Lessons		Peter Cattaneo	Spain, United Kingdom
The Return		Uberto Pasolini	Italy, United Kingdom
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band		Thom Zimny	United States
The Shrouds		David Cronenberg	Canada, France
Superboys of Malegaon		Reema Kagti	India
Takin' Care of Business		Tyler Measom	Canada, United States
Unstoppable		William Goldenberg	United States
Will & Harper		Josh Greenbaum
The Wild Robot		Chris Sanders
William Tell		Nick Hamm	Italy, United Kingdom

The following films were selected to the Special Presentations section:^[5]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
40 Acres		R. T. Thorne	Canada
All of You		William Bridges	United States
All We Imagine as Light		Payal Kapadia	France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Anora		Sean Baker	United States
The Assessment		Fleur Fortuné	United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Babygirl		Halina Reijn	United States
Bird		Andrea Arnold	United Kingdom
Bring Them Down		Christopher Andrews	Ireland, Belgium
The Brutalist		Brady Corbet	United States, United Kingdom, Hungary
Can I Get a Witness?		Ann Marie Fleming	Canada
Carnival Is Over	Os Enforcados	Fernando Coimbra	Brazil, Portugal
Caught by the Tides	风流一代	Jia Zhangke	China
Conclave		Edward Berger	United States, United Kingdom
The Cut		Sean Ellis	United Kingdom
Dahomey		Mati Diop	France, Senegal, Benin
Emilia Pérez		Jacques Audiard	France
The End		Joshua Oppenheimer	Denmark, United Kingdom
The Fire Inside		Rachel Morrison	United States
The Girl with the Needle	Pigen med nålen	Magnus von Horn	Denmark, Poland, Sweden
Hard Truths		Mike Leigh	United Kingdom, Spain
Harvest		Athina Rachel Tsangari	United Kingdom
Heretic		Scott Beck and Bryan Woods	United States
Hold Your Breath		Karrie Crouse, Will Joines
I'm Still Here	Ainda Estou Aqui	Walter Salles	Brazil, France
I, the Executioner	베테랑2	Ryoo Seung-wan	South Korea
K-Pops!		Anderson .Paak	United States
The Last Showgirl		Gia Coppola
The Life of Chuck		Mike Flanagan
Love in the Big City	대도시의 사랑법	E.oni	South Korea
The Luckiest Man in America		Samir Oliveros	United States
Millers in Marriage		Edward Burns
Misericordia	Miséricorde	Alain Guiraudie	France, Spain, Portugal
Nightbitch		Marielle Heller	United States
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl		Rungano Nyoni	Zambia, United Kingdom, Ireland
On Swift Horses		Daniel Minahan	United States
The Order		Justin Kurzel	Canada, United States
Paul Anka: His Way		John Maggio	United States
The Piano Lesson		Malcolm Washington	United States
Piece by Piece		Morgan Neville
Queer		Luca Guadagnino	Italy, United States
Quisling: The Final Days	Quislings siste dager	Erik Poppe	Norway
Relay		David Mackenzie	United States
Rez Ball		Sydney Freeland
Riff Raff		Dito Montiel
The Room Next Door		Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
Rumours		Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson	Canada, Germany
The Salt Path		Marianne Elliott	United Kingdom
Saturday Night		Jason Reitman	United States
Sharp Corner		Jason Buxton	Canada, Ireland
Shell		Max Minghella	United States
Shepherds	Berger	Sophie Deraspe	Canada
Sketch		Seth Worley	United States
Vermiglio		Maura Delpero	Italy, France, Belgium
We Live in Time		John Crowley	France, United Kingdom
Went Up the Hill		Samuel Van Grinsven	New Zealand, Australia
Without Blood		Angelina Jolie	United States, Italy
Young Werther		José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço	Canada

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Double Happiness		Mina Shum	Canada
Whiplash		Damien Chazelle	United States

The Centrepiece program was announced on August 6.^[16]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Addition		Marcelle Lunam	Australia
Anywhere Anytime		Milad Tangshir	Italy
April		Dea Kulumbegashvili	Italy, France, Georgia
Beloved Tropic		Ana Endara	Panama, Colombia
Bliss	Hemda	Shemi Zarhin	Israel
Bound in Heaven	捆绑上天堂	Huo Xin	China
By the Stream	Suyucheon	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
Cloud	クラウド	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan
Crocodile Tears		Tumpal Tampubolon	Indonesia, France, Singapore, Germany
Don't Cry, Butterfly		Dương Diệu Linh	Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia
Edge of Night		Türker Süer	Germany
The Exiles	Los Tortuga	Belén Funes	Spain, Chile
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara		Erin Lee Carr	United States
Flow	Straume	Gints Zilbalodis	Latvia, France, Belgium
Front Row		Merzak Allouache	Algeria, Saudi Arabia, France
Happyend		Neo Sora	Japan, United States
Happy Holidays		Scandar Copti	Palestine, Germany, France, Italy, Qatar
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life	Jane Austen a gâché ma vie	Laura Piani	France
Julie Keeps Quiet		Leonardo van Dijl	Belgium, Sweden
Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End		Michael Jonathan	New Zealand
Kill the Jockey	El jockey	Luis Ortega	Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Denmark, United States
The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos		Agbajowo Collective: James Tayler, Ogungbamila Temitope, Okechukwu Samuel, Mathew Cerf, Tina Edukpo, Bisola Akinmuyiwa, A.S. Elijah	Nigeria, Germany, South Africa, United States
Little Jaffna		Lawrence Valin	France
Matt and Mara		Kazik Radwanski	Canada
Measures for a Funeral		Sofia Bohdanowicz
A Missing Part	Une part manquante	Guillaume Senez	Belgium, France
The Mother and the Bear		Johnny Ma	Canada, Chile
The Mountain		Rachel House	New Zealand
My Sunshine	Boku No Osihama	Hiroshi Okuyama	Japan, France
Pimpinero: Blood and Oil		Andrés Baiz	Colombia
Presence		Steven Soderbergh	United States
Santosh		Sandhya Suri	United Kingdom
The Seed of the Sacred Fig		Mohammad Rasoulof	Iran, France, Germany
Seven Days		Ali Samadi Ahadi	Germany
The Story of Souleymane	L'histoire de Souleymane	Boris Lojkine	France
Sunshine		Antoinette Jadaone	Philippines
The Swedish Torpedo	Den svenska torpeden	Frida Kempff	Sweden
Sweet Angel Baby		Melanie Oates	Canada
To a Land Unknown		Mahdi Fleifel	United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine
Under the Volcano	Pod wulkanem	Damian Kocur	Poland
An Unfinished Film	一部未完成的电影	Lou Ye	Singapore, Germany
Universal Language	Une langue universelle	Matthew Rankin	Canada
The Village Next to Paradise		Mo Harawe	France, Austria, Germany, Somalia
When the Light Breaks	Ljósbrot	Rúnar Rúnarsson	Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France

Documentaries were announced on August 7.^[17]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story		Sinéad O’Shea	Ireland, United Kingdom
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found		Raoul Peck	France
The Freedom of Fierro	La Libertad de Fierro	Santiago Esteinou	Mexico, Canada, Greece
From Ground Zero		Wissam Moussa, Nidal Damo, Ahmed Hassouna, Alaa Ayoub, Karim Satoum, Bashar Al Babisi, Khamis Masharawi, Nida’A Abu Hasna, Tamer Nijim, Ahmed Al Danaf, Rima Mahmoud, Muhammad Al Sharif, Basil El Maqousi, Mustafa Al Nabih, Rabab Khamis, Mustafa Kulab, Alaa Damo, Hana Eleiwa, Mahdi Kreirah, Aws Al Banna, Islam Al Zeriei, Etimad Washah	Palestine, France, Qatar, Jordan
The Last of the Sea Women		Sue Kim	United States
The Last Republican		Steve Pink
Living Together	Cohabiter	Halima Elkhatabi	Canada
Men of War		Jen Gatien, Billy Corben	United States, Canada
Mistress Dispeller		Elizabeth Lo	China, United States
No Other Land		Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor	Palestine, Norway
Patrice: The Movie		Ted Passon	United States
Russians at War		Anastasia Trofimova	Canada, France
A Sisters' Tale		Leila Amini	Switzerland, France, Iran
So Surreal: Behind the Masks		Neil Diamond, Joanne Robertson	Canada
Space Cowboy		Marah Strauch, Bryce Leavitt	United States
Sudan, Remember Us	Soudan, souviens-toi	Hind Meddeb	France, Tunisia, Qatar
Tata		Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc	Romania, Germany, Netherlands
Temporary Shelter	Tímabundið Skjól	Anastasiia Bortuali	Iceland
Vice Is Broke		Eddie Huang	United States
Wishing on a Star		Peter Kerekes	Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia
Your Tomorrow		Ali Weinstein	Canada

The Discovery program lineup was announced on July 24.^[18]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Aberdeen		Ryan Cooper, Eva Thomas	Canada
Bonjour Tristesse		Durga Chew-Bose	Canada, Germany
Boong		Lakshmipriya Devi	India
The Courageous	Les Courageux	Jasmin Gordon	Switzerland
Do I Know You From Somewhere?		Arianna Martinez	Canada
Freedom Way		Afolabi Olalekan	Nigeria
Gülizar		Belkıs Bayrak	Turkey, Kosovo
Horizonte		César Augusto Acevedo	Colombia, France, Luxembourg, Chile, Germany
Ink Wash		Sarra Tsorakidis	Romania, Greece, Denmark
Linda		Mariana Wainstein	Argentina, Spain
Meat		Dimitris Nakos	Greece
Mother Mother		K'naan Warsame	Canada, Kenya, Somalia
My Fathers' Daughter	Biru Unjárga	Egil Pedersen	Norway, Sweden, Finland
Nineteen	Diciannove	Giovanni Tortorici	Italy
On Falling		Laura Carreira	United Kingdom, Portugal
The Paradise of Thorns	Wiman Nam	Boss Kuno	Thailand
The Party's Over		Elena Manrique	Spain
The Quiet Ones	De Lydløse	Frederik Louis Hviid	Denmark
Really Happy Someday		J Stevens	Canada
Saba		Maksud Hossain	Bangladesh
Sad Jokes		Fabian Stumm	Germany
Seeds		Kaniehtiio Horn	Canada
Shook		Amar Wala
U Are the Universe		Pavlo Ostrikov	Ukraine, Belgium
Village Keeper		Karen Chapman	Canada
You Are Not Alone	Vous n'êtes pas seuls	Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien

The Platform Prize program lineup was announced on July 23.^[19] The jury will comprise filmmakers Atom Egoyan, Hur Jin-ho and Jane Schoenbrun.^[19]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Daniela Forever		Nacho Vigalondo	Spain, Belgium
Daughter's Daughter	女兒的女兒	Huang Xi	Taiwan
Mr. K		Tallulah H. Schwab	Netherlands, Belgium, Norway
Paying for It		Sook-Yin Lee	Canada
Pedro Páramo		Rodrigo Prieto	Mexico
They Will Be Dust	Polvo serán	Carlos Marqués-Marcet	Spain, Italy, Switzerland
Triumph		Petar Valchanov, Kristina Grozeva	Bulgaria, Greece
Viktor		Olivier Sarbil	Ukraine, United States
Winter in Sokcho		Koya Kamura	France
The Wolves Always Come at Night		Gabrielle Brady	Australia, Mongolia, Germany

The Midnight Madness program lineup was announced on July 25.^[20]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Dead Mail		Joe DeBoer, Kyle McConaghy	United States
Dead Talents Society	鬼才之道	John Hsu	Taiwan
Else		Thibault Emin	France, Belgium
Escape from the 21st Century	从21世纪安全撤离	Yang Li	China
Friendship		Andrew DeYoung	United States
The Gesuidouz	ザ·ゲスイドウズ	Kenichi Ugana	Japan
Ick		Joseph Kahn	United States
It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This		Rachel Kempf, Nick Toti
The Shadow Strays		Timo Tjahjanto	Indonesia
The Substance		Coralie Fargeat	United Kingdom, United States, France

Primetime selections were announced on August 9.^[21]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Disclaimer		Alfonso Cuarón	United Kingdom
Faithless		Tomas Alfredson, Sara Johnsen	Sweden
Families Like Ours	Familier som vores	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark, France, Sweden, Czech Republic, Belgium, Norway, Germany
The Knowing		Courtney Montour, Tanya Talaga	Canada
The Listeners		Janicza Bravo, Jordan Tannahill	United Kingdom
M. Son of the Century	M. Il figlio del secolo	Joe Wright	Italy, France
Thou Shalt Not Steal		Dylan River	Australia
The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal		Mike Downie	Canada

Short Cuts selections were announced on August 9.^[22]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
After Sunday		Omolola Ajao	Canada
Aïda Neither	Aïda non plus	Elisa Gilmour	France
Alazar		Beza Hailu Lemma	Ethiopia, France, Canada
Amarela		André Hayato Saito	Brazil
Anotc ota ickwaparin akosiin		Catherine Boivin	Canada
Are You Scared to Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail?		Bec Pecaut	Canada
Before They Joined Us		Arshile Khanjian Egoyan	Canada
The Beguiling ishkwaazhe		Shane McSauby	United States
The Best		Ian Bawa	Canada
The Cost of Hugging		Louis Bhose	United Kingdom
Deck 5B	Däck 5B	Malin Ingrid Johansson	Sweden
Don't F*ck With Ba		Sally Tran	United States
Every Other Weekend		Mick Robertson, Margaret Rose	Canada
Fantas		Halima Elkhatabi	Canada
Fuck Me		Anette Sidor	Sweden, Norway
Gender Reveal		Mo Matton	Canada
Inkwo for When the Starving Return		Amanda Strong	Canada
Julian and the Wind		Connor Jessup	Canada
Loser Baby		Dakota Johnson	United States
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent	Čovjek koji nije mogao šutjeti	Nebojša Slijepčević	Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia
Marion		Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine	France, United Kingdom
Masterpiece Mommy		Dorothy Sing Zhang	United Kingdom, China
Maybe Elephants	Kanskje det var elefanter	Torill Kove	Norway, Canada
Mercenaire		Pier-Philippe Chevigny	Canada
Never Have I Ever		Joyce A. Nashawati	France
O		Rúnar Rúnarsson	Iceland, Sweden
On a Sunday at Eleven		Alicia K. Harris	Canada
On the Way	Rrugës	Samir Karahoda	Kosovo
One Day This Kid		Alexander Farah	Canada
Out for Ice Cream	Crème à glace	Rachel Samson	Canada
Percebes		Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves	Portugal, France
perfectly a strangeness		Alison McAlpine	Canada
Quota	Quotum	Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke Blaauw	Netherlands
Sauna Day	Sannapäiv	Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash	Estonia
Serve the Country		Fabián Velasco, Miloš Mitrović	Canada
Silent Panorama		Nicolas Piret	Belgium
Solemates		James Rathbone, Mike Feswick	Canada
A Son & a Father	1 Hijo & 1 Padre	Andrés Ramírez Pulido	France, Colombia
Stomach Bug		Matty Crawford	United Kingdom
The Sunset Special 2		Nicolas Gebbe	Germany
Tenderness		Helen Lee	Canada, South Korea
La Voix des Sirènes		Gianluigi Toccafondo	France, Italy
Vox Humana		Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan	Philippines, United States, Singapore
welima’q		shalan joudry	Canada
Who Loves the Sun		Arshia Shakiba	Canada
The Wolf	Le Loup	Theodore Ushev	Canada
Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time		James P. Gannon, Matt Ferrin	United States
The Yellow		Maika Monroe, Simone Faoro	United States

Wavelengths selections were announced on August 8.^[23]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Adrift Potentials	Potenciais à deriva	Leonardo Pirondi	Brazil, United States
Archipelago of Earthen Bones: To Bunya		Malena Szlam	Canada, Australia, Chile
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire		Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich	United States
Being John Smith		John Smith	United Kingdom
A Black Screen Too		Rhayne Vermette	Canada
Collective Monologue	Monólogo colectivo	Jessica Sarah Rinland	Argentina, United Kingdom
The Damned		Roberto Minervini	Italy, United States, Belgium
The Diary of a Sky		Lawrence Abu Hamdan	Lebanon
Drama 1882		Wael Shawky	Egypt
exergue - on documenta 14		Dimitris Athiridis	Greece
Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario”		Jean-Luc Godard	France, Japan
Go Between		Chris Kennedy	Canada, Australia
Grand Tour		Miguel Gomes	Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, China
Lázaro at Night	Lázaro de noche	Nicolás Pereda	Canada, Mexico
Notes of a Crocodile		Daphne Xu	Cambodia, China, Canada
October Noon	Octubre al mediodía	Francisco Rodríguez Teare	Chile, France
Pepe		Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias	Dominican Republic, Germany, France, Namibia
Perfumed with Mint	Moattar binanaa	Muhammed Hamdy	Egypt, France, Tunisia, Qatar
Revolving Rounds		Johann Lurf, Christina Jauernik	Austria
Scénarios		Jean-Luc Godard	France, Japan
The Sojourn	暫棲	Tiffany Sia	United States
Someplace in Your Mouth		Beatrice Gibson, Nick Gordon	Italy
Viet and Nam	Trong lòng đất	Minh Quý Trương	Philippines, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Vietnam
Youth (Hard Times)	Qing Chun (Ku)	Wang Bing	France, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Youth (Homecoming)	Qing Chun (Gui)	Wang Bing	France, Luxembourg, Netherlands

Classics selections were announced on August 8.^[23]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Awaara		Raj Kapoor	India
Bona		Lino Brocka	Philippines
Essene		Frederick Wiseman	United States
Masala		Srinivas Krishna	Canada
The Sweet Hereafter		Atom Egoyan	Canada
Time of Maturity	Reifezeit	Sohrab Shahid Saless	Germany

Films that will be screened for film buyers and all industry professionals at the festival, but not open to the general public:^[24]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
100 Litres of Gold		Teemu Nikki	Finland
Code 3		Christopher Leone	United States
Locked		David Yarovesky	United States
London Calling		Allan Ungar	United States
Monsieur Aznavour		Mehdi Idir	France
Noise		Kim Soo-jin	South Korea
Rich Flu		Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia	Spain
Skeet		Nik Sexton	Canada
Transamazonia		Pia Marais	France, Switzerland, Germany, Taiwan, Brazil
Yuppie		Sergio Navarretta	Canada

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