The Toronto International Film Festival made their final press release announcement for this pre-festival season this morning, not just revealing the lineup, but adding twenty additional titles. Included in that are Megalopolis, Queer, The Room Next Door, and Saturday Night. Joey will be there covering and seeing likely all of these, so stay tuned for those reviews. For now, you can see more on the announcement below.
Here is the press release:
| Today, TIFF is sharing its full programming lineup and schedule for the upcoming Festival on tiff.net/films, and announcing 20 additional titles in Official Selection. In total, there are 278 films on the slate for this year’s Festival. The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, will take place September 5–15, 2024. |
| Films (in alphabetical order) GALAS Megalopolis Francis Ford Coppola | USA North American Premiere William Tell Nick Hamm | Italy/United Kingdom World Premiere Sales Title |
| SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS Babygirl Halina Reijn | USA North American Premiere Dahomey Mati Diop | Benin/France/Senegal North American Premiere Hold Your Breath Karrie Crouse, Will Joines | USA World Premiere On Swift Horses Daniel Minahan | USA World Premiere Sales Title Paul Anka: His Way John Maggio | USA World Premiere Sales Title Queer Luca Guadagnino | Italy/USA North American Premiere Sales Title SATURDAY NIGHT Jason Reitman | USA Canadian Premiere Shell Max Minghella | USA World Premiere The Brutalist Brady Corbet | United Kingdom North American Premiere Sales Title The Luckiest Man in America Samir Oliveros | USA World Premiere Sales Title The Room Next Door Pedro Almodóvar | Spain North American Premiere The Salt Path Marianne Elliott | United Kingdom World Premiere Sales Title Vermiglio Maura Delpero | Italy/France/Belgium North American Premiere Sales Title |
| CENTREPIECE Bliss (Hemda) Shemi Zarhin | Israel International Premiere Sales Title |
| DISCOVERY Village Keeper Karen Chapman | Canada World Premiere You Are Not Alone Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien | Canada World Premiere |
| Special Anniversary Screenings Double Happiness Mina Shum | Canada Whiplash Damien Chazelle | USA Among the newly announced Special Presentations titles is Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door. Audiences can also look forward to a Marquee celebration of Almodóvar’s artistic vision and career impact when TIFF presents a major retrospective of the Spanish auteur’s work at TIFF Lightbox this November. In addition to the Official Selection titles, TIFF presents the 30th anniversary screening of Mina Shum’s Double Happiness and 10th anniversary screening of Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash. Tickets for TIFF ’24 go on sale to TIFF Members by level beginning Friday, August 16. For more details, visit tiff.net/join. This marks the last official programme announcement leading up to TIFF 2024. Festival single tickets will go on sale to the public on August 26. Visit tiff.net/films?schedule to view the full schedule and tiff.net/films to see the full list of films. |



Comments
Loading…