Opening film | Sharp Corner by Jason Buxton |
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Closing film | Anora by Sean Baker |
Location | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Founded | 1980 |
Festival date | September 11–18, 2024 |
Website | atlanticfilmfestival |
The 2024 edition of the Atlantic International Film Festival , the 44th edition in the event's history, will be held from September 11 to 18, 2024 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. [1] The first films in the program were announced on July 25, [2] with the full program announced on August 14. [1]
The event was scaled back to an extent from previous years, with a program of 96 features and shorts compared to almost 200 in the years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] Festival chief Martha Cooley attributed this decision both to residents of the Halifax area still having a greater reticence in returning to large scale public events after the pandemic than people in other parts of Canada, and to the perception that as Halifax has a smaller population than cities like Toronto or Vancouver, audiences were being "pulled too thin" by past programs that were approaching the size of TIFF or VIFF. [3]
The festival will open with Jason Buxton's film Sharp Corner , and close with Sean Baker's Anora . The Atlantic Gala slot will feature Melanie Oates's film Sweet Angel Baby .
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Anora | Sean Baker | United States | |
Sharp Corner | Jason Buxton | Canada | |
Sweet Angel Baby | Melanie Oates | Canada |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Province |
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Back to Camp 41 | Greg Hemmings | Canada | |
Bedlamer | Alexa Jane Jerrett | ||
Hairy Legs | Andrea Dorfman | ||
An Impression of Everything | Millefiore Clarkes | ||
The Kitchen Sink | Olivia King | ||
Paper | Charles Wahl | ||
Permit Garden | Jenny Yujia Shi | ||
welima'q | shalan joudry |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Bird | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | |
Can I Get a Witness? | Ann Marie Fleming | Canada | |
Caught by the Tides | 风流一代 | Jia Zhangke | China |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Le Comte de Monte Cristo | Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de La Patellière | France |
Darkest Miriam | Naomi Jaye | Canada | |
Flow | Straume | Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia, France, Belgium |
Grand Tour | Miguel Gomes | Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, China | |
Lakeview | Tara Thorne | Canada | |
Matt and Mara | Kazik Radwanski | Canada | |
The Outrun | Nora Fingscheidt | United Kingdom, Germany | |
Paying for It | Sook-Yin Lee | Canada | |
Presence | Steven Soderbergh | United States | |
Reinas | Klaudia Reynicke | Switzerland, Peru, Spain | |
Rumours | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Canada, Germany | |
The Seed of the Sacred Fig | Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran, France, Germany | |
Skeet | Nik Sexton | Canada | |
To the Moon | Kevin Hartford | Canada | |
Universal Language | Une langue universelle | Matthew Rankin | Canada |
When the Light Breaks | Ljósbrot | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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40 Acres | R. T. Thorne | Canada | |
All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia | France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg | |
Boxcutter | Reza Dahya | Canada | |
Do I Know You From Somewhere? | Arianna Martinez | Canada | |
Girls Will Be Girls | Shuchi Talati | India | |
Monica's News | Pamela Gallant | Canada | |
Pierce | Nelicia Low | Taiwan | |
Seeds | Kaniehtiio Horn | Canada | |
To a Land Unknown | Mahdi Fleifel | United Kingdom, Greece, Netherlands, France, Germany, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia | |
Young Werther | José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço | Canada |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The Girl with the Needle | Pigen med nålen | Magnus von Horn | Denmark, Poland, Sweden |
My Mother's Eyes | Maimazāzuaizu | Takeshi Kushida | Japan |
The Substance | Coralie Fargeat | United Kingdom, United States, France |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Heartbeat | Andrea Dorfman | Canada | |
How to Be Alone | Andrea Dorfman | Canada |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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7 Beats Per Minute | Yuqi Kang | Canada | |
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story | Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee | Canada | |
Black Box Diaries | Shiori Itō | Japan, United Kingdom, United States | |
Curl Power | Josephine Anderson | Canada | |
Dahomey | Mati Diop | France, Senegal, Benin | |
Disco's Revenge | Omar Majeed, Peter Mishara | Canada | |
Grand Theft Hamlet | Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane | United Kingdom | |
Luther: Never Too Much | Dawn Porter | United States | |
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | David Hinton | United Kingdom | |
Never Look Away | Lucy Lawless | New Zealand | |
A Photographic Memory | Rachel Elizabeth Seed | United States | |
Seguridad | Tamara Segura | Canada | |
Standing Above the Clouds | Jalena Keane-Lee | United States | |
The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal | Mike Downie | Canada |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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8 Times | Adam Mbowe | Canada | |
73 Seconds | Stacy Gardner | Canada | |
Bloody Mess | Megan Wennberg | Canada | |
Bust | Angalis Field | United States | |
Cart Girls | Katelyn McCulloch | Canada | |
Carved from Stone | Tyler Burr | Canada | |
Circle | Yumi Joung | South Korea | |
Cold Soup | Sopa Fria | Marta Monteiro | Portugal, France |
The Distance Between Us | Qu'importe le distance | Léo Fontaine | France |
Every Other Weekend | Mick Robertson, Margaret Rose | Canada | |
Eye Piece | Kate Solar | Canada | |
Freedom | Scott Jones | Canada | |
Gaslit | Anna MacLean | Canada | |
Gigi | Cynthia Calvi | France | |
Good Grief | Megan Chumbley | United States | |
Hello Stranger | Amélie Hardy | Canada | |
Himalia | Clara Milo, Juliette Lossky | Canada | |
Holiday House | Alex Heller | United States | |
Inkwo for When the Starving Return | Amanda Strong | Canada | |
Julian and the Wind | Connor Jessup | Canada | |
Maybe Elephants | Kanskje det var elefanter | Torill Kove | Norway, Canada |
Mother Tongue | Lea Tupu'anga | Vea Mafile'o | New Zealand |
Motorcycle Mary | Haley Watson | United States | |
Moving Water | Kaia Singh | Canada | |
Nola | Aisha Evelyna, Natalie Novak Remplakowski | Canada | |
On a Sunday at Eleven | Alicia K. Harris | Canada | |
Panadrilo | Marcela Heilbron | Panama | |
Pearls | Mike Simms | Canada | |
Percebes | Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves | France, Portugal | |
perfectly a strangeness | Alison McAlpine | Canada | |
Santa Maria Kyoko | Guil Sela, Felix Loizillon | France | |
Terminally Ill | Chris Cole | United States | |
Things Behind the Sun | Giran Findlay | Canada | |
What Good Canadians Do | Stephanie Joline | Canada | |
Where My Branches Stem | Teresa Kuo | Canada | |
The Wolf | Le Loup | Theodore Ushev | Canada |
Wouldn't Make It Any Other Way | Hao Zhou | United States |
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