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The week of announcements for the Toronto International Film Festival rolls on, with today marking the Wavelengths and Classics Program reveals. TIFF has announced almost all of the titles in their lineup for this year, so be sure to keep an eye out for any others still to come. You can see more on these films below.
Here is the press release:
| TIFF is delighted to announce the 2024 selection for the Wavelengths programme, and the TIFF Classics programme, presented by MUBI, and supported by Ontario Creates and the Canada Council for the Arts. The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, will take place September 5–15, 2024. |
| WAVELENGTHS |
| Highlighting visionary work from the worlds of international cinema and contemporary art, the Wavelengths programme includes a dynamic selection of 11 features, 3 shorts programmes, and a special in-cinema looped presentation. Intergenerational and regionally diverse, with emerging talents screening alongside legendary peers, the films in this year’s selection range from a two-minute animation to a gripping 14-hour documentary, offering a mix of dazzling formal work, subversive narratives, and boldly political perspectives. The 2024 Wavelengths programme is curated by Senior Curator Andréa Picard and Associate Curator Jesse Cumming, with contributions by Giovanna Fulvi, Nataleah Hunter-Young, and June Kim. |
| Feature film highlights include a number by esteemed Wavelengths alumni, among them the North American Premieres of Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes, The Damned by Roberto Minervini, and Pepe by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias. Jessica Sarah Rinland also returns to the programme with Collective Monologue, alongside the North American Premiere of the queer, controversial Viêt and Nam, by first-time Wavelengths filmmaker Trương Minh Quý. The 14-hour, compulsively watchable exergue – on documenta 14 from Greek filmmaker Dimitris Athiridi will be presented over three screenings. Short film highlights include the World Premieres of Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya by Malena Szlam, and A Black Screen Too by Sobey Prize–nominated Rhayne Vermette, as well as the North American Premiere of Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s The Diary of a Sky. A pairing of work by legendary filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and John Smith includes the former’s final film Scénarios, completed just before Godard’s death, and the World Premiere of Smith’s wry, moving Being John Smith. Presented as a rare and unmissable special presentation, the programme is rounded out by celebrated Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s Drama 1882. A mesmerizing highlight of this year’s Venice Biennale, the film (re)stages an anti-colonial uprising as a libretto across eight chapters and 45 hypnotic minutes. Drama 1882 will be presented looped in-cinema on Saturday, September 7, and admission will be free. |
| CLASSICS |
| TIFF Classics reunites audiences with iconic films from visionary filmmakers such as Srinivas Krishna, Raj Kapoor, and Atom Egoyan. Two newly restored international discoveries include Shahid Sohrab Saless’ Time of Maturity, and Lino Brocka’s Bona. In celebration of the centenary of auteur Raj Kapoor, known as The Greatest Showman of Indian Cinema, TIFF Classics presents the World Premiere 4K restoration of one of his most acclaimed films, Awāra, which he directs and stars in. Continuing TIFF’s year-long spotlight on Toronto New Wave filmmakers, Classics is screening the 4K restoration of Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter; and Srinivas Krishna’s Masala, a restoration that was made possible through Canadian Cinema – Reignited, a Telefilm Canada initiative, in partnership with TIFF. Lastly, Classics is honoured to present the World Premiere of the new 4K restoration of legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s documentary Essene. The 2024 Classics programme is programmed by Robyn Citizen, TIFF’s Director of Programming, and Andréa Picard. |
| Wavelengths Features 2024 (in alphabetical order): |
| Collective Monologue [Monólogo colectivo] Jessica Sarah Rinland | Argentina/United Kingdom North American Premiere Sales Title exergue – on documenta 14 Dimitris Athiridis | Greece North American Premiere Sales Title Grand Tour Miguel Gomes | Portugal/Italy/France/Germany/Japan/China North American Premiere Lázaro at Night [Lázaro de noche] Nicolás Pereda | Canada/Mexico North American Premiere Sales Title Pepe Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias | Dominican Republic/Germany/France/Namibia North American Premiere Sales Title Perfumed with Mint [Moattar binanaa] Muhammed Hamdy | Egypt/France/Tunisia/Qatar North American Premiere Sales Title The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | USA Canadian Premiere Sales Title The Damned Roberto Minervini | Italy/USA/Belgium North American Premiere Sales Title Viêt and Nam Trương Minh Quý | Philippines/Singapore/France/Netherlands/Italy/Germany/Vietnam North American Premiere Youth (Hard Times) [Qing Chun (Ku)] Wang Bing | France/Luxembourg/Netherlands North American Premiere Luminaries Youth (Homecoming) [Qing Chun (Gui)] Wang Bing | France/Luxembourg/Netherlands North American Premiere Luminaries |
| Wavelengths Special Presentation 2024: |
| Drama 1882 Wael Shawky | Egypt Festival Premiere |
| Wavelengths Shorts 2024: |
| WAVELENGTHS 1: EYE & EAR CONTROL Revolving Rounds Johann Lurf, Christina Jauernik | Austria North American Premiere The Diary of a Sky Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Lebanon North American Premiere Sales Title October Noon [Octubre al mediodía] Francisco Rodríguez Teare | Chile/France World Premiere Sales Title A Black Screen Too Rhayne Vermette | Canada World Premiere Sales Title Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya Malena Szlam | Canada/Australia/Chile World Premiere WAVELENGTHS 2: RIDE THE WAVE Someplace in Your Mouth Beatrice Gibson, Nick Gordon | Italy International Premiere Sales Title Notes of a Crocodile Daphne Xu | Cambodia/China/Canada World Premiere Sales Title Adrift Potentials [Potenciais à deriva] Leonardo Pirondi | Brazil/USA North American Premiere Sales Title Go Between Chris Kennedy | Canada/Australia World Premiere Sales Title The Sojourn [暫棲] Tiffany Sia | USA Canadian Premiere Sales Title WAVELENGTHS 3: EXPOSÉ(S) – JEAN-LUC GODARD/JOHN SMITH Scénarios Jean-Luc Godard | France/Japan North American Premiere Sales Title Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” Jean-Luc Godard | France/Japan North American Premiere Sales Title Being John Smith John Smith | United Kingdom World Premiere Sales Title |
| Classics Programme 2024 (in alphabetical order): |
| Awāra Raj Kapoor | India Bona Lino Brocka | Philippines Essene Frederick Wiseman | USA Masala Srinivas Krishna | Canada The Sweet Hereafter Atom Egoyan | Canada Time of Maturity [Reifezeit] Sohrab Shahid Saless | Germany Tomorrow’s final TIFF Takeover is the Short Cuts and Primetime programmes. More Festival details will be announced in the coming weeks. 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. |
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