15/08/2024 - Wrapping up the line-up, the festival has also confirmed titles for its experimental Wavelengths section and TV showcase Primetime

Looking at the Special Presentations section of the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) final confirmations, we see a particular overlap with the Venice line-up (see the news). Some of the most highly anticipated titles from the latter’s competition slate are included in the Canadian festival’s new additions, including Brady Corbet’s quite mouthwatering-sounding The Brutalist [+see also:
film review
film profile], clocking in at 215 minutes with an intermission; Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio, The Mountain Bride [+see also:
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interview: Maura Delpero
film profile], an eagerly awaited World War II-set Italian title; and Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn’s apparently very steamy Babygirl, with Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. TIFF runs from 5-15 September, and you can see our previous articles on the Galas and Special Presentations line-ups here, the Platform section here, Discovery and Midnight Madness here, and Centrepiece and TIFF Docs here.

The highest-profile world premiere overall is Nick Hamm’s William Tell, an Italian-UK co-production adapting Friedrich Schiller’s play on the Swiss folk hero; Claes Bang stars, in perfect Middle Ages garb. Another is British theatre director Marianne Elliott’s The Salt Path, featuring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs as a couple on an epic trek across the longest coastal path in England. The majority of the newly announced world premieres across the sections are fully US and Canadian titles.

Wavelengths is one of Toronto’s most beloved attractions for a certain set, feeling like a “festival within a festival” for its non-commercial focus and array of fascinating experimental shorts. Directors who’ve previously thrived in the section dominate, such as Miguel Gomes and Wang Bing, whilst Dimitris Athiridis’s 14-hour exergue - on documenta 14 is given another spotlight following its Berlinale debut.

Primetime is chock-full of recognisable festival names, such as Alfonso Cuarón with his potboiler-sounding Apple TV+ miniseries Disclaimer, starring Cate Blanchett and Sacha Baron Cohen; Joe Wright with M. Son of the Century, his study of Mussolini’s early political career; and Thomas Vinterberg, hopefully thriving in long form with the apocalyptic tale Families Like Ours [+see also:
series review
interview: Thomas Vinterberg
series profile].

The full list of new films, section by section, is below:

Galas

Megalopolis - Francis Ford Coppola (USA)
William Tell - Nick Hamm (Italy/UK)

Special Presentations

The Room Next Door [+see also:
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The Brutalist [+see also:
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film profile] - Brady Corbet (USA/UK/Hungary)
Hold Your Breath - Karrie Crouse, Will Jones (USA)
Vermiglio, The Mountain Bride [+see also:
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interview: Maura Delpero
film profile] - Maura Delpero (Italy/France/Belgium)
Dahomey [+see also:
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film profile] - Mati Diop (Benin/France/Senegal)
The Salt Path - Marianne Elliott (UK)
Queer [+see also:
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film profile] - Luca Guadagnino (Italy/USA)
Paul Anka: His Way - John Maggio (USA)
On Swift Horses - Daniel Minahan (USA)
The Luckiest Man in America - Samir Oliveros (USA)
Shell - Max Minghella (USA)
Babygirl - Halina Reijn (USA)
Saturday Night - Jason Reitman (USA)

Discovery

Village Keeper - Karen Chapman (Canada)
You Are Not Alone - Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien (Canada)

Centrepiece

Bliss - Shemi Zarhin (Israel)

Wavelengths

exergue - on documenta 14 - Dimitris Athiridis (Greece)
Pepe [+see also:
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interview: Nelson Carlo De Los Santos …
film profile] - Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias (Dominican Republic/Germany/France/Namibia)
Grand Tour [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Pa…
interview: Miguel Gomes
film profile] - Miguel Gomes (Portugal/Italy/France/Germany/Japan/China)
Perfumed with Mint - Muhammed Hamdy (Egypt/France/Tunisia/Qatar)
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire - Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich (USA)
The Damned [+see also:
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Lázaro at Night - Nicolás Pereda (Canada/Mexico)
Collective Monologue [+see also:
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interview: Jessica Sarah Rinland
film profile] - Jessica Sarah Rinland (Argentina/UK)
Viet and Nam [+see also:
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film profile] - Trương Minh Quý (Philippines/Singapore/France/Netherlands/Italy/Germany/Vietnam)
Youth (Hard Times) [+see also:
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film profile] - Wang Bing (France/Luxembourg/Netherlands/China)
Youth (Homecoming) [+see also:
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film profile] - Wang Bing (France/Luxembourg/Netherlands/China)

Primetime

Faithless - Tomas Alfredson, Sara Johnsen (Sweden)
The Listeners - Janicza Bravo, Jordan Tannahill (UK)
Disclaimer - Alfonso Cuarón (UK/USA)
The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal - Mike Downie (Canada)
The Knowing - Courtney Montour, Tanya Talaga (Canada)
Thou Shalt Not Steal - Dylan River (Australia)
Families Like Ours [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Vinterberg
series profile] - Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark/France/Sweden/Czech Republic/Belgium/Norway/Germany)
M. Son of the Century - Joe Wright (Italy/France)