Toronto Film Festival Announces 2024 Short Cuts and Primetime Lineups – Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer and More

Disclaimer by Alfonso Cuarón
Disclaimer by Alfonso Cuarón (Apple TV+)

Toronto International Film Festival announced the Short Cuts and Primetime programs for the 49th edition of the festival taking place September 5–15, 2024.

This year’s Primetime lineup features eight new series from around the world, and of those, five are World Premieres: Tomas Alfredson’s Faithless, Janicza Bravo’s The Listeners, Mike Downie’s The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, Courtney Montour and Tanya Talaga’s The Knowing, and Dylan River’s Thou Shalt Not Steal. The other three series are: Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer, Thomas Vinterberg’s Families Like Ours, and Joe Wright’s M. Son of the Century.

This year’s Short Cuts includes 48 short films from 23 countries, selected from a record-breaking 5,300 submissions, and features a variety of live-action narrative, animated, and documentary films, presented across seven screenings. This year’s short films include directorial debuts from Dakota Johnson and Maika Monroe, plus World Premieres of new films by Pier-Philippe Chevigny, Connor Jessup, Joyce A. Nashawati, Amanda Strong, and more.

New this year for Short Cuts is Strange Cuts, a programme of six bold genre films in the spirit of Midnight Madness that range from satirical horror, to mind-bending animation, to innovative thrillers. The programme includes World Premiere shorts by Matty Crawford, ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby, and Joyce A. Nashawati.

The 2024 Jurors for the Short Cuts Awards for Best International Film and Best Canadian Film are Luis De Filippis, Micah Kernan, and Shane Smith. TIFF is an Academy Award–qualifying Festival, and films that win a TIFF Short Cuts Award are eligible to submit for 97th Academy Awards consideration.

Primetime

(in alphabetical order)

Disclaimer
Alfonso Cuarón | United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere

Faithless
Tomas Alfredson, Sara Johnsen | Sweden
World Premiere

Families Like Ours
Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark/France/Sweden/Czech Republic/Belgium/Norway/Germany
North American Premiere

M. Son of the Century
Joe Wright | Italy/France
North American Premiere

The Knowing
Courtney Montour, Tanya Talaga | Canada
World Premiere

The Listeners
Janicza Bravo, Jordan Tannahill | United Kingdom
World Premiere

The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal
Mike Downie | Canada
World Premiere

Thou Shalt Not Steal
Dylan River | Australia
World Premiere

Short Cuts Program 1

Deck 5B
Malin Ingrid Johansson | Sweden
World Premiere

Silent Panorama
Nicolas Piret | Belgium
North American Premiere

Fantas
Halima Elkhatabi | Canada
World Premiere

Amarela
André Hayato Saito | Brazil
North American Premiere

Maybe Elephants
Torill Kove | Norway/Canada
North American Premiere

Sauna Day
Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash | Estonia
North American Premiere

welima’q
shalan joudry | Canada
World Premiere

Julian and the Wind
Connor Jessup | Canada
World Premiere

Short Cuts Program 2

Percebes
Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves | Portugal/France
North American Premiere

Fuck Me
Anette Sidor | Sweden/Norway
World Premiere

One Day This Kid
Alexander Farah | Canada
World Premiere

Every Other Weekend
Mick Robertson, Margaret Rose | Canada
World Premiere

Mercenaire
Pier-Philippe Chevigny | Canada
World Premiere

perfectly a strangeness
Alison McAlpine | Canada
North American Premiere

The Yellow
Maika Monroe, Simone Faoro | USA
World Premiere

Short Cuts Program 3

Serve the Country
Fabián Velasco, Miloš Mitrović | Canada
World Premiere

Who Loves the Sun
Arshia Shakiba | Canada
North American Premiere

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Nebojša Slijepčević | Croatia/France/Bulgaria/Slovenia
North American Premiere

Inkwo for When the Starving Return
Amanda Strong | Canada
World Premiere

Masterpiece Mommy
Dorothy Sing Zhang | United Kingdom/China
World Premiere

Loser Baby
Dakota Johnson | USA
World Premiere

Short Cuts Program 4

A Son & a Father
Andrés Ramírez Pulido | France/Colombia
North American Premiere

On a Sunday at Eleven
Alicia K. Harris | Canada
World Premiere

Are You Scared To Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail?
Bec Pecaut | Canada
World Premiere

On The Way
Samir Karahoda | Kosovo
North American Premiere

Out for Ice Cream
Rachel Samson | Canada
World Premiere

The Best
Ian Bawa | Canada
World Premiere

Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time
James P. Gannon, Matt Ferrin | USA
World Premiere

Short Cuts Program 5

Solemates
James Rathbone, Mike Feswick | Canada
World Premiere

Quota
Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke Blaauw | Netherlands
World Premiere

Vox Humana
Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan | Philippines/USA/Singapore
World Premiere

The Wolf
Theodore Ushev | Canada
North American Premiere

Aïda Neither
Elisa Gilmour | France
World Premiere

Alazar Beza
Hailu Lemma | Ethiopia/France/Canada
North American Premiere

Short Cuts Program 6

The Cost of Hugging
Louis Bhose | United Kingdom
North American Premiere

Marion
Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine | France/United Kingdom
North American Premiere

La Voix des Sirènes
Gianluigi Toccafondo | France/Italy
North American Premiere

After Sunday
Omolola Ajao | Canada
World Premiere

Anotc ota ickwaparin akosiin
Catherine Boivin | Canada
World Premiere

Before They Joined Us
Arshile Khanjian Egoyan | Canada
World Premiere

Tenderness
Helen Lee | Canada/South Korea
World Premiere

Strange Cuts Program

Gender Reveal
Mo Matton | Canada
North American Premiere

The Sunset Special 2
Nicolas Gebbe | Germany
North American Premiere

The Beguiling
ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby | USA
World Premiere

Don’t F*ck With Ba
Sally Tran | USA
International Premiere

Stomach Bug
Matty Crawford | United Kingdom
World Premiere

Never Have I Ever
Joyce A. Nashawati | France
World Premiere

Screening prior to the Centrepiece selection
When the Light Breaks:
O Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland/Sweden
North American Premiere

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