TIFF24 Schedule

The Shrouds

Still grieving the loss of his wife, a technological entrepreneur (Vincent Cassel) finds what’s left of his world collapsing into a nightmare of sex, paranoia, and grief in David Cronenberg’s most personal film.

The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal

Director Mike Downie assembles The Tragically Hip for an emotional look at the origin, impact, and legacy of the band that defined Canada, to the world and to itself.

Dead Talents Society

A meek and newly dead teen (Gingle Wang) learns from an undead diva (Sandrine Pinna) how to haunt the living, in this bloody and hilarious supernatural comedy from writer-director John Hsu (Detention).

The Gesuidouz

From rising cult filmmaker Kenichi Ugana, a misfit horror-themed rock band moves to the Japanese countryside to write the greatest punk anthem in the world.

The Penguin Lessons

Starring Oscar nominee Steve Coogan, this poignant dramedy from director Peter Cattaneo (Military Wives, TIFF ’19) follows an Englishman’s personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a cataclysmic period in Argentine history.

Daniela Forever

In the latest from Nacho Vigalondo (Colossal, TIFF ’16), Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) soulfully portrays a bereaved man who enrolls in a clinical trial for a drug that allows him to reunite with his lost lover (Beatrice Grannò) through lucid dreams.

TIFF and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation are proud to select Daniela Forever for the third edition of the Sloan Science on Film Showcase.

Following the Saturday, September 7 screening, the Sloan Science on Film Showcase will feature a Q&A with director Nacho Vigalondo and a scientific expert in lucid dreaming. The Showcase promises to explore dream states and the neuroscience behind lucid dreaming.

Funding for the Science on Film Showcase is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Public Understanding of Science and Technology program, which supports books, radio, film, television, theatre, and new media to reach a wide, non-specialized audience and to bridge the two cultures of science and the humanities.

Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe

This documentary from Cosima Spender follows Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli beyond the stage and into his private life.

Industry Conference Happy Hour Presented by TikTok

Unwind and connect with your industry colleagues after a day of learning! Open to all accredited delegates, partners, and colleagues, TIFF Industry’s happy hour is the perfect way to mix, mingle, and build new relationships with fellow conference-goers.

Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story

Emerging from rural Ireland, Edna O’Brien broke multiple taboos with her sexually provocative literature and equally adventurous love life. Here, she opens up about her past with additional perspectives offered by Gabriel Byrne, Walter Mosely, and others.

Nightbitch

An overworked stay-at-home mom (Amy Adams) tries to catch a break, any break, while caring for her rambunctious toddler. Also, she might be turning into a dog.

Ick

In Joseph Kahn’s breakneck sci-fi/horror satire, a high school science teacher (Brandon Routh) does battle with a parasitic alien entity, as well as the apathy of the small town it has been gradually absorbing.

Dead Mail

Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy’s acclaimed synth-laden retro-thriller details the sordid sequence of events that lands a blood-stained scrap of mail on the desk of a county post-office’s “dead letter” investigator, and its murderous repercussions.

Measures for a Funeral

Measures for a Funeral brilliantly spotlights a young academic’s run towards one woman — acclaimed early 20th-century Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow — as she simultaneously flees from another, her failed musician mother.

Sloan Science on Screen Industry Conference Happy Hour

Unwind and connect with your industry colleagues after a day of learning! Open to all accredited delegates, partners, and colleagues, TIFF Industry’s happy hour is the perfect way to mix, mingle, and build new relationships with fellow conference-goers.

Aberdeen

A tour-de-force performance by Gail Maurice (Bones of Crows, TIFF ’22) sees her inhabit the role of Aberdeen, a woman who must rise above hardships to save her grandkids, and herself.

The Assessment

Set in a future world destroyed by climate change, a couple must pass an assessment before they are allowed to have a child in this sci-fi thriller starring Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen.

Rumours

Cate Blanchett (The New Boy, TIFF ’23) joins a strong ensemble cast and plays the German chancellor in Rumours, an absurd satire of a G7 world leaders meeting that spins wildly out of control — the latest from co-directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson.

Megalopolis

Pivoting between political drama, philosophical science fiction, and star-crossed romance, legendary writer-director Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project stars Adam Driver as a visionary architect whose utopian ambitions clash with the more earth-bound demands of a modern city.

SATURDAY NIGHT

Director Jason Reitman captures the frenzied lead-up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live as a motley bunch of then-unknown and untrained young comedians prepare to step into a revolutionary spotlight that will change history and make them all stars.

Matt and Mara

Struggling with a new baby and a distracted husband, an academic is more than happy to hang out with a college pal who crashes back into her life. But what sort of relationship are they resuming, precisely?

You Are Not Alone

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Your Tomorrow

Ali Weinstein’s documentary captures the final year of Toronto’s celebrated Ontario Place, as the beloved provincial park is sectioned off for redevelopment while visitors keep showing up to walk its trails, enjoy the lake, or just check on the tomatoes they’re cultivating by the shore.

Hold Your Breath

Sarah Paulson returns to her home in genre work in this supernatural and psychological film from Karrie Crouse and Will Joines.

The Shadow Strays

From action auteur Timo Tjahjanto (Headshot, TIFF ’16, The Night Comes For Us), a young assassin breaks rank from her clandestine organization to rescue a young boy from gangsters with ultra-violent repercussions.

It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This

Indie filmmakers Nick Toti and Rachel Kempf investigate an abandoned duplex with downright evil vibes in this eerie and ecstatic found-footage fright fest.