TIFF is pleased to announce its Short Cuts, supported by the Ontario Arts Council, and Primetime programmes for the 2024 season. Celebrating the very best of short and serialized content, audiences will be immersed in new worlds, experience lives unlike their own, and gain fresh perspectives through powerful storytelling and diverse narratives. The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, will take place September 5–15, 2024.
This year’s Primetime lineup features eight new series from around the world, and of those, five are World Premieres: Tomas Alfredson’s Faithless, Janicza Bravo’s The Listeners, Mike Downie’s The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, Courtney Montour and Tanya Talaga’s The Knowing, and Dylan River’s Thou Shalt Not Steal. The other three series are: Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer, Thomas Vinterberg’s Families Like Ours, and Joe Wright’s M. Son of the Century.
Watch Primetime Lead Programmer Geoff McNaughton’s video on this year’s selection:
This year’s Short Cuts includes 48 short films from 23 countries, selected from a record-breaking 5,300 submissions, and features a variety of live-action narrative, animated, and documentary films, presented across seven screenings. This year’s short films include directorial debuts from Dakota Johnson and Maika Monroe, plus World Premieres of new films by Pier-Philippe Chevigny, Connor Jessup, Joyce A. Nashawati, Amanda Strong, and more.
New this year for Short Cuts is Strange Cuts, a programme of six bold genre films in the spirit of Midnight Madness that range from satirical horror, to mind-bending animation, to innovative thrillers. The programme includes World Premiere shorts by Matty Crawford, ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby, and Joyce A. Nashawati.
Primetime (in alphabetical order)
Disclaimer Alfonso Cuarón | United Kingdom Canadian Premiere
Faithless Tomas Alfredson, Sara Johnsen | Sweden World Premiere
Families Like Ours Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark/France/Sweden/Czech Republic/Belgium/Norway/Germany North American Premiere
M. Son of the Century Joe Wright | Italy/France North American Premiere
The Knowing Courtney Montour, Tanya Talaga | Canada World Premiere
The Listeners Janicza Bravo, Jordan Tannahill | United KingdomnWorld Premiere
The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal Mike Downie | Canadan World Premiere
Thou Shalt Not Steal Dylan River | Australia World Premiere
Short Cuts Programme 1
Deck 5B Malin Ingrid Johansson | Sweden World Premiere
Silent Panorama Nicolas Piret | Belgium North American Premiere
Fantas Halima Elkhatabi | Canada World Premiere
Amarela André Hayato Saito | Brazil North American Premiere
Maybe Elephants Torill Kove | Norway/Canada North American Premiere
Sauna Day Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash | Estonia North American Premiere
welima’q shalan joudry | Canada World Premiere
Julian and the Wind Connor Jessup | Canada World Premiere
Short Cuts Programme 2
Percebes Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves | Portugal/France North American Premiere
Fuck Me Anette Sidor | Sweden/Norway World Premiere
One Day This Kid Alexander Farah | Canada World Premiere
Every Other Weekend Mick Robertson, Margaret Rose | Canada World Premiere
Mercenaire Pier-Philippe Chevigny | Canada World Premiere
perfectly a strangeness Alison McAlpine | Canada North American Premiere
The Yellow Maika Monroe, Simone Faoro | USA World Premiere
Short Cuts Programme 3
Serve the Country Fabián Velasco, Miloš Mitrović | Canada World Premiere
Who Loves the Sun Arshia Shakiba | Canada North American Premiere
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent Nebojša Slijepčević | Croatia/France/Bulgaria/SloveniabNorth American Premiere
Inkwo for When the Starving Return Amanda Strong | Canada World Premiere
Masterpiece Mommy Dorothy Sing Zhang | United Kingdom/China World Premiere
Loser Baby Dakota Johnson | USA World Premiere
Short Cuts Programme 4
A Son & a Father Andrés Ramírez Pulido | France/Colombia North American Premiere
On a Sunday at Eleven Alicia K. Harris | Canada World Premiere
Are You Scared To Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail?
Bec Pecaut | Canada World Premiere
On The Way Samir Karahoda | Kosovo North American Premiere
Out for Ice Cream Rachel Samson | Canada World Premiere
The Best Ian Bawa | Canada World Premiere
Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time James P. Gannon, Matt Ferrin | USA World Premiere
Short Cuts Programme 5
Solemates James Rathbone, Mike Feswick | Canada World Premiere
Quota Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke Blaauw | Netherlands World Premiere
Vox Humana Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan | Philippines/USA/Singapore World Premiere
The Wolf Theodore Ushev | Canada North American Premiere
Aïda Neither Elisa Gilmour | France World Premiere
Alazar Beza Hailu Lemma | Ethiopia/France/Canada North American Premiere
Short Cuts Programme 6
The Cost of Hugging Louis Bhose | United Kingdom North American Premiere
Marion Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine | France/United Kingdom North American Premiere
La Voix des Sirènes Gianluigi Toccafondo | France/Italy North American Premiere
After Sunday Omolola Ajao | Canada World Premiere
Anotc ota ickwaparin akosiin Catherine Boivin | Canada World Premiere
Before They Joined Us Arshile Khanjian Egoyan | Canada World Premiere
Tenderness Helen Lee | Canada/South Korea World Premiere
Strange Cuts Programme
Gender Reveal Mo Matton | Canada North American Premiere
The Sunset Special 2 Nicolas Gebbe | Germany North American Premiere
The Beguiling ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby | USA World Premiere
Don't F*ck With Ba Sally Tran | USA International Premiere
Stomach Bug Matty Crawford | United Kingdom World Premiere
Never Have I Ever Joyce A. Nashawati | France World Premiere
Screening prior to the Centrepiece selection When the Light Breaks:
O Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland/Sweden North American Premiere
This concludes the second TIFF Takeover of programming alerts. Tickets for TIFF ’24 go on sale to TIFF Members by level beginning on Friday, August 16. For more details, visit tiff.net/join. The full Festival schedule will be released on Tuesday, August 13, 2024.
(Poster/Photo/Video credit: TIFF 2024)
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