2024 TIFF Adds ‘Megalopolis’ Gala Plus ‘Babygirl,’ Queer,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ World Premiere of ‘On Swift Horses’ with Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Diego Calva
The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival lineup revealed its final Gala and Special Presentation additions today including the North American premieres of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, Halina Reijn’s Babygirl, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist.
The designation ensure the films will be skipping Telluride this year in favor of a Cannes to TIFF or Venice to TIFF jump across the pond.
The world premieres slate also grew and now includes Daniel Minahan’s queer love triangle On Swift Horses with Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Diego Calva, as well as Max Minghella’s Shell, which boasts a starry cast that includes Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson, and Kaia Gerber. Nick Hamm’s William Tell, starring Claes Bang, Connor Swindells, Jonathan Pryce, Ben Kingsley, and Jonah Hauer-King, The Paul Anka: His Way doc from John Maggio, Samir Oliveros’s The Luckiest Man in the World and Marianne Elliott’s The Salt Path also land world premiere status.
Also in the Special Presentations lineup includes Saturday Night, Jason Reitman’s telling of the 90 minutes leading up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live in October of 1975. The film’s designation as a ‘Canadian Premiere’ all but ensures the film will receive a Telluride bow. Saturday Night stars Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans) and SNL creator and producer Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Emily Fairn as Laraine Newman, Matt Wood, Lamorne Morris as Garrett Morris, Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, Finn Wolfhard as an NBC page, Nicholas Braun as Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman, Cooper Hoffman as Dick Ebersol, Andrew Barth Feldman, Kaia Gerber, Naomi McPherson as Janis Ian, Tommy Dewey, Willem Dafoe, Matthew Rhys as George Carlin, and Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons as Milton Berle.
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.
Special Screening events include Damien Chazelle’s Oscar-winning Whiplash and Mina Shum’s Double Happiness, which premiered at TIFF in 1994.
In total, there are 278 films on the slate for this year’s Festival. See the 20 new additions below.
Gala
Megalopolis Francis Ford Coppola | USA North American Premiere
William Tell Nick Hamm | Italy/United Kingdom World Premiere
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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
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Paul Anka: His Way John Maggio | USA World Premiere
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Queer Luca Guadagnino | Italy/USA North American Premiere
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Saturday Night Jason Reitman | USA Canadian Premiere
Shell Max Minghella | USA World Premiere
The Brutalist Brady Corbet | United Kingdom North American Premiere
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The Luckiest Man in America Samir Oliveros | USA World Premiere
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The Room Next Door Pedro Almodóvar | Spain North American Premiere
The Salt Path Marianne Elliott | United Kingdom World Premiere
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Vermiglio Maura Delpero | Italy/France/Belgium North American Premiere
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Discovery
Village Keeper Karen Chapman | Canada World Premiere
You Are Not Alone Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien | Canada World Premiere
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Bliss (Hemda) Shemi Zarhin | Israel International Premiere
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Special Events
Double Happiness Mina Shum | Canada
Whiplash Damien Chazelle | USA
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