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