OPENING FILM
The Boy and the Heron – Hayao Miyazaki
Of the almost 150 films that are showing at the festival, a total of 57 are World Premieres. Many of these films are concentrated in the festival’s CENTERPIECE PROGRAM, which focuses on World Cinema.
A total of eleven films showing at TIFF will get their premiere at the Venice International Film Festival the week before. These include the latest and debut offerings from Richard Linklater (“Hit Man”), Michel Franco (“Memory”), Bertrand Bonello (“The Beast”), Daniela Goggi (“The Rescue”), Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir (“City of Wind”), Ryuichi Hamaguchi (“Evil Does Not Exist” ), Agnieszka Holland (“Green Border”), Shinya Tsukamoto (“Shadow of Fire”), Mariana and Santiago Arriaga (“Upon Open Sky”), Nikolaj Arcel (“The Promised Land”) and Pema Tseden’s “The Snow Leopard.”
A huge batch of Cannes Premieres are also making their North American/Canadian debuts, including the Palm d’Or winner Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” the Grand Prix winner Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” The Best Actress winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses,” The Best Actor winner Wim Wender’s “Perfect Days,” the Jury Prize winner Aki Kaurismaki’s “Fallen Leaves,” the GAN Foundation Award winner Amjad Al Rasheed’s “Inshallah a Boy,” the Best Screenplay and Queer Palm winner Kore-eda Hirokazu’s “Monster” and other Cannes favorites such as “A Difficult Year” by the notorious duo of Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, “The Feeling That the Time for Something Has Passed” by Joanna Arnow, “Robot Dreams” by Pablo Berger” and veteran Spanish director Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes.”
From Sundance, we have Chloe Domont’s “Fair Play,” John Carney’s “Flora and Son,” and Noora Niasari’s “Shayda”, from Tribeca, Katja Gauriloff’s “Je’vida,” from SXSW, we have Molly McGlynn’s “Fitting In,” from the Berlinale, we have Ilker Catak’s “The Teacher’s Lounge” and Ivan Sen’s “Limbo” and, from Locarno, we have Ena Sendjarevic’s “Sweet Dreams”
The opener is Hayao Miyazaki’s Japanese anime “The Boy and the Heron” while the closer is the Sylvester Stallone documentary, Thom Zimmy’s “Sly”
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
A Difficult Year (CANNES PREMIERE)
Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | France
International Premiere
A Normal Family
Hur Jin-ho | South Korea
World Premiere
American Fiction
Cord Jefferson | USA
World Premiere
Anatomy of a Fall (CANNES PALM D’OR)
Justine Triet | France
Canadian Premiere
Close to You
Dominic Savage | Canada/United Kingdom
World Premiere
Days of Happiness
Chloé Robichaud | Canada
World Premie
El Rapto (VENICE PREMIERE)
Daniela Goggi | Argentina
North American Premiere
Ezra
Tony Goldwyn | USA
World Premiere
Fingernails
Christos Nikou | USA
International Premiere
Four Daughters (CANNES PREMIERE)
Kaouther Ben Hania | France/Tunisia/Germany/Saudi Arabia
North American Premiere
His Three Daughters
Azazel Jacobs | USA
World Premiere
Hit Man (VENICE PREMIERE)
Richard Linklater | USA
North American Premiere
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
Alex Gibney | USA
World Premiere
Kidnapped (CANNES PREMIERE)
Marco Bellocchio | Italy/France/Germany
North American Premiere
Knox Goes Away
Michael Keaton | USA
World Premiere
La Chimera (CANNES PREMIERE)
Alice Rohrwacher | Italy/France/Switzerland
North American Premiere
Last Summer (CANNES PREMIERE)
Catherine Breillat | France
North American Premiere
Les Indésirables
Ladj Ly | France
World Premiere
Memory (VENICE PREMIERE)
Michel Franco | USA/Mexico
North American Premiere
Monster (CANNES BEST SCREENPLAY AND QUEER PALM)
Kore-eda Hirokazu | Japan
North American Premiere
Mother Couch
Niclas Larsson | USA
World Premiere
North Star
Kristin Scott Thomas | United Kingdom
World Premiere
One Life
James Hawes | United Kingdom
World Premiere
Pain Hustlers
David Yates | USA
World Premiere
Poolman
Chris Pine | USA
World Premiere
Reptile
Grant Singer | USA
World Premiere
Rustin
George C. Wolfe | USA
International Premiere
Seven Veils
Atom Egoyan | Canada
World Premiere
Shoshana
Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom/Italy
World Premiere
Sing Sing
Greg Kwedar | USA
World Premiere
Smugglers
Ryoo Seung-wan | South Korea
North American Premiere
Swan Song
Chelsea McMullan | Canada
World Premiere
The Beast (VENICE PREMIERE)
Bertrand Bonello | France/Canada
North American Premiere
The Burial
Maggie Betts | USA
World Premiere
The Convert
Lee Tamahori | Australia/New Zealand
World Premiere
The Critic
Anand Tucker | United Kingdom
World Premiere
The Dead Don’t Hurt
Viggo Mortensen | Mexico/Canada/Denmark
World Premiere
The Holdovers
Alexander Payne | USA
International Premiere
The Peasants
DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman | Poland/Serbia/Lithuania
World Premiere
The Zone of Interest (CANNES GRAND PRIX)
Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom/Poland/USA
Canadian Premiere
Together 99
Lukas Moodysson | Sweden/Denmark
World Premiere
Unicorns
Sally El Hosaini, James Krishna Floyd | United Kingdom/USA/Sweden
World Premiere
Uproar
Paul Middleditch, Hamish Bennett | New Zealand
World Premiere
Wicked Little Letters
Thea Sharrock | United Kingdom
World Premiere
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke | USA
International Premiere
Woman of the Hour
Anna Kendrick | USA
World Premiere
GALA PRESENTATIONS
Concrete Utopia
Um Tae-Hwa | South Korea
North American Premiere
Dumb Money
Craig Gillespie | USA
World Premiere
Fair Play (SUNDANCE PREMIERE)
Chloe Domont | USA
International Premiere
Flora and Son (SUNDANCE PREMIERE)
John Carney | Ireland/USA
Canadian Premiere
Hate to Love: Nickelback
Leigh Brooks | Canada
World Premiere
Lee
Ellen Kuras | United Kingdom
World Premiere
Next Goal Wins
Taika Waititi | USA
World Premiere
NYAD
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | USA
International Premiere
Punjab ’95
Honey Trehan | India
World Premiere
Solo
Sophie Dupuis | Canada
World Premiere
The End We Start From
Mahalia Belo | United Kingdom
World Premiere
The Movie Emperor
Ning Hao | China
World Premiere
The New Boy (CANNES PREMIERE)
Warwick Thornton | Australia
North American Premiere
The Royal Hotel
Kitty Green | Australia/United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere
CENTERPIECE PROGRAM
This includes 23 North American Premieres, 22 World Premieres, 9 Canadian Premieres, and 5 International Premieres.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE (23)
“About Dry Grasses” – Nuri Bilge Ceylan (CANNES: BEST ACTRESS)
“Banel & Adama” – Ramata-Toulaye Sy (CANNES PREMIERE)
“The Breaking Ice” – Anthony Chen (CANNES PREMIERE)
“City of Wind” – Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir (VENICE PREMIERE)
“Close Your Eyes” – Víctor Erice (CANNES PREMIERE)
“Evil Does Not Exist” – Ryûsuke Hamaguchi ( VENICE PREMIERE)
“The Feeling That the Time for Something Has Passed” – Joanna Arnow ( CANNES PREMIERE)
“Green Border” – Agnieszka Holland (VENICE PREMIERE)
“Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person” – Ariane Louis-Seize
“In Flames” – Zarrar Kahn (CANNES PREMIERE)
“Inshallah a Boy” – Amjad Al Rasheed (CANNES: GAN FOUNDATION AWARD)
Limbo” – Ivan Sen (BERLINALE PREMIERE)
“The Nature of Love” – Monia Chokri (CANNES PREMIERE)
“Robot Dreams” – Pablo Berger (CANNES PREMIERE)
The Settlers – Felipe Gálvez Haberle (CANNES PREMIERE)
“Shadow of Fire” – Shinya Tsukamoto (VENICE PREMIERE)
“Sira” – Apolline Traorée (BERLINALE PREMIER)
“Snow Leopard” – Pema Tseden (VENICE PREMIERE)
“Sweet Dreams” – Ena Sendijarević (LOCARNO PREMIERE)
“The Teachers’ Lounge” – Ilker Çatak (BERLINALE PREMIERE)
“Upon Open Sky” – Mariana Arriaga, Santiago Arriaga (VENICE PREMIERE)
WORLD PREMIERE (22)
“Death of a Whistleblower” – Ian Gabriel
“Finestkind” – Brian Helgeland
“A Happy Day” – Hisham Zaman
“Holiday” – Edoardo Gabbriellini
“I am Sirat” – Deepa Mehta & Sirat Taneja
“I Do Not Come To You By Chance” – Ishaya Bako
“Irena’s Vow” – Louise Archambault
“Kanaval” – Henri Pardo
Lost Ladies – Kuran Rao
“The Movie Teller” – Lone Scherfig
“Quiz Lady” – Jessica Yu
“A Ravaging Wind” – Paula Hernández
“The Reeds” – Cemil Ağacıkoğlu
“A Road to A Village” – Nabin Subba
“Ru” – Charles-Olivier Michaud
“El Sabor de la Navidad” – Alejandro Lozano
“Thank You For Coming” – Karan Boolani
“Toll” – Carolina Markowicz
“We Grown Now” – Minhal Baig
“Woodland” – Elisabeth Scharang
“Your Mother’s Son – Jun Robles Lana
CANADIAN PREMIERE (9)
“Daddio” – Christy Hall
“Fallen Leaves” – Aki Kaurismäki (CANNES JURY PRIZE)
“Fitting In” – Molly McGlynn (SXSW PREMIERE)
“Hey, Viktor!” – Cody Lightning
“Je’vida” – Katja Gauriloff (TRIBECA PREMIERE)
“Perfect Days” – Wim Wenders (CANNES: BEST ACTOR)
“The Promised Land” – Nikolaj Arcel (VENICE PREMIERE)
“Shayda” – Noora Niasari” (SUNDANCE PREMIERE)
“They Shot the Piano Player” – FernandoTrueba (CANNES PREMIERE)
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE (5)
“100 Yards” Xu Haofeng – Xu Junfeng
“Chuck Chuck Baby” – Janis Pugh (EDINBURGH PREMIERE)
The Monk and the Gun” – Pawo Choyning Dorji
“Mountains” – Monica Sorelle (TRIBECA PREMIERE)
“National Anthem” – Luke Gilford (SXSW PREMIERE)
CLOSING FILM
