2024 TIFF Wavelength and Classics Lineups to Feature Miguel Gomes, Wang Bing, Atom Egoyan and More
TIFF has announced the 2024 selection for the Wavelengths program, and the TIFF Classics program, 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.
Highlighting visionary work from the worlds of international cinema and contemporary art, the Wavelengths program includes a dynamic selection of 11 features, 3 shorts program, 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.
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.
The 2024 Wavelengths program is curated by Senior Curator Andréa Picard and Associate Curator Jesse Cumming, with contributions by Giovanna Fulvi, Nataleah Hunter-Young, and June Kim.
TIFF Classics will feature 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 program 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
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exergue – on documenta 14 Dimitris Athiridis | Greece
North American Premiere
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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
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Pepe Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias | Dominican Republic/Germany/France/Namibia
North American Premiere
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Perfumed with Mint [Moattar binanaa] Muhammed Hamdy | Egypt/France/Tunisia/Qatar
North American Premiere
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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | USA
Canadian Premiere
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The Damned Roberto Minervini | Italy/USA/Belgium
North American Premiere
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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
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October Noon [Octubre al mediodía] Francisco Rodríguez Teare | Chile/France
World Premiere
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A Black Screen Too Rhayne Vermette | Canada
World Premiere
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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
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Notes of a Crocodile Daphne Xu | Cambodia/China/Canada
World Premiere
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Adrift Potentials [Potenciais à deriva] Leonardo Pirondi | Brazil/USA
North American Premiere
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Go Between Chris Kennedy | Canada/Australia
World Premiere
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The Sojourn [暫棲] Tiffany Sia | USA
Canadian Premiere
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WAVELENGTHS 3: EXPOSÉ(S) – JEAN-LUC GODARD/JOHN SMITH
Scénarios Jean-Luc Godard | France/Japan
North American Premiere
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Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” Jean-Luc Godard | France/Japan
North American Premiere
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Being John Smith John Smith | United Kingdom
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Classics Program 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
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