Toronto International Film Festival announced the 2022 selection for TIFF Docs program, Contemporary World Cinema program, and an additional title in the Discovery program. This lineup features titles from over 50 countries from around the world. Additionally, TIFF announced five documentary sessions as part of the 2022 Industry Conference.

TIFF DOCS

*Previously announced

*752 Is Not A Number
Babak Payami | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras | USA
North American Premiere

*Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Madison Thomas | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

Casa Susanna
Sébastien Lifshitz | France, USA
North American Premiere

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels
Mila Turajlic | Serbia, France, Croatia, Montenegro
World Premiere

*The Colour of Ink
Brian D. Johnson | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

Documentary Now!
Alex Buono, Rhys Thomas, Micah Gardner | USA
World Premiere

*Ever Deadly
Tanya Tagaq, Chelsea McMullan | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

Free Money
Sam Soko, Lauren DeFilippo | Kenya, USA
World Premiere

Mariupolis 2
Mantas Kvedaravičius | Lithuania, France, Germany
North American Premiere

The Grab
Gabriela Cowperthwaite | USA
World Premiere

In Her Hands
Tamana Ayazi, Marcel Mettelsiefen | USA, Afghanistan
World Premiere

TIFF Docs Opening Film
*Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues
Sacha Jenkins | USA
World Premiere

Maya and the Wave
Stephanie Johnes | USA
World Premiere

Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova
Daniel Zarvos, Liliane Mutti | Brazil, France
Canadian Premiere

My Imaginary Country (Mi País Imaginario)
Patricio Guzmán | Chile, France
North American Premiere

Patrick and the Whale
Mark Fletcher | Austria
World Premiere

Pray for our Sinners
Sinéad O’Shea | Ireland
World Premiere

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot
William Kentridge | South Africa, USA
World Premiere

Theatre of Thought
Werner Herzog | USA
International Premiere

*To Kill a Tiger
Nisha Pahuja | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

While We Watched
Vinay Shukla | UK
World Premiere

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA

Aftersun
Charlotte Wells | United Kingdom, USA
North American Premiere

Alam
Firas Khoury | France, Palestine, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
World Premiere

Amanda
Carolina Cavalli | Italy
International Premiere

Ashkal
Youssef Chebbi | France, Tunisia, Qatar
North American Premiere

Autobiography
Makbul Mubarak | Indonesia, France, Singapore, Poland, Philippines, Germany, Qatar
North American Premiere

Beyond the Wall (Shab, Dkheli, Divar)
Vahid Jalilvand | Iran
North American Premiere

*Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Pierre Földes | France, Luxembourg, Canada, Netherlands 🇨🇦
International Premiere

*Bones of Crows
Marie Clements | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

*Coyote (Le Coyote)
Katherine Jerkovic | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

Domingo and the Mist (Domingo y la Niebla)
Ariel Escalante Meza | Costa Rica, Qatar
North American Premiere

El agua
Elena López Riera | Switzerland, Spain, France
North American Premiere

*The End of Sex
Sean Garrity | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

EO
Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland, Italy
North American Premiere

*Falcon Lake
Charlotte Le Bon | Canada 🇨🇦
North American Premiere

*Fixation
Mercedes Bryce Morgan | Canada, USA, Germany 🇨🇦
World Premiere

Godland (Vanskabte Land/Volaða Land)
Hlynur Pálmason | Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden
Canadian Premiere

The Happiest Man in the World
Teona Strugar Mitevska | North Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, Denmark, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
North American Premiere

The Hotel
Wang Xiaoshuai | Hong Kong
World Premiere

La Jauría
Andrés Ramírez Pulido | Colombia, France
North American Premiere

Life (Жизнь)
Emir Baigazin | Kazakhstan
World Premiere

Living
Oliver Hermanus | United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere

Love and Mathematics (Amor y matemáticas)
Claudia Sainte-Luce | Mexico
World Premiere

Love Life
Koji Fukada | Japan, France
North American Premiere

Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Antonio Lukich | Ukraine
North American Premiere

*The Maiden
Graham Foy | Canada 🇨🇦
North American Premiere

Manticore (Mantícora)
Carlos Vermut | Spain
North American Premiere

Muru
Tearepa Kahi | New Zealand
International Premiere

My Sailor, My Love
Klaus Hӓrӧ | Finland, Ireland
World Premiere

Nightalk
Donald Shebib | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

*North of Normal
Carly Stone | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

The Origin of Evil
Sébastien Marnier | France, Canada
North American Premiere

Plan 75
Chie Hayakawa | Japan, France, Philippines, Qatar
North American Premiere

Return to Dust
Li Ruijun | China
North American Premiere

R.M.N.
Cristian Mungiu | Romania, France
North American Premiere

*So Much Tenderness
Lina Rodriguez | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

Sparta
Ulrich Seidl | Austria, France, Germany
World Premiere

*Stellar
Darlene Naponse | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

Stonewalling
Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka | Japan
North American Premiere

*The Swearing Jar
Lindsay MacKay | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere

The Umbrella Men
John Barker | South Africa
International Premiere

Under the Fig Trees
Erige Sehiri | Tunisia, Switzerland, France, Qatar
North American Premiere

Valeria Is Getting Married
Michal Vinik | Israel
North American Premiere

Victim (OBEŤ)
Michal Blaško | Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Germany
North American Premiere

Vicenta B.
Carlos Lechuga | Cuba, France, USA, Colombia, Norway
World Premiere

War Sailor (Krigsseileren)
Gunnar Vikene | Norway, Germany, Malta
International Premiere

We Are Still Here
Beck Cole, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae Maihi, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Richard Curtis, Chantelle Burgoyne | Australia, New Zealand
International Premiere

Wildflower
Matt Smukler | USA
World Premiere

Winter Boy (Le Lycéen)
Christophe Honoré | France
World Premiere

The Worst Ones
Romane Gueret, Lise Akoka | France
North American Premiere

Zwigato
Nandita Das | India
World Premiere

DISCOVERY

Bruiser
Miles Warren | USA
World Premiere

DOC CONVERSATIONS @ TIFF INDUSTRY CONFERENCE

On September 13, the Industry Conference will focus on conversations covering both the craft and business of documentary filmmaking.

VISIONARIES: Inside the Brain of Werner Herzog

In his new film Theatre of Thought, Werner Herzog (celebrating his 80th birthday in September) explores the cutting edge of research on the brain. He’s joined by two figures who appear in the film, brain scientist Rafael Yuste and entrepreneur Jamie Davies, to discuss hopes and fears for the future of brain exploration.

VISIONARIES: What Laura Poitras Learned from Nan Goldin

Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) discusses what she learned over three years in the making of her new film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. The film profiles the artist Nan Goldin, who has campaigned for museums to disassociate from the patronage of the Sackler family, owners of the opioid company Purdue Pharma.

DIALOGUES: Covering Afghanistan for In Her Hands

The new documentary In Her Hands focuses on Afghanistan’s youngest woman mayor, Zarifa Ghafari, during the tumultuous period of the Taliban’s return to power. Filmmakers Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen share clips while reflecting on the challenges of filming under wartime conditions.

PERSPECTIVES Truth, Lies, and a Million Dollar Board Game

Filmmaker Vinay Shukla joins to discuss his new film While We Watched, which profiles the journalist Ravish Kumar of NDTV India as he struggles to maintain journalistic independence under death threats. For Shukla’s previous documentary An Insignificant Man, his team created a board game that gained massive support on Kickstarter. He’ll discuss plans to follow that model by pairing a board game with his new film.

PERSPECTIVES DocuMentality: The Growth of a Movement

DocuMentality is an expanding initiative that seeks to normalize conversations about mental health in the documentary industry and provide best-practice guidance for filmmakers. The project started with efforts in the UK and US. Now, the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) is spearheading a new wave of focus groups with support from the Canada Media Fund. On this panel, audiences will hear from DocuMentality team member Malikkah Rollins and DOC’s Sarah Spring about the past, present, and future of the movement. We’ll also hear from filmmaker Rebeca Huntt describing what she learned about maintaining mental balance in the making of her intensely personal film Beba that premiered at TIFF last year. Moderator: Inney Prakash (Maysles Documentary Center).