2024 Toronto International Film Festival

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2024 Toronto International Film Festival
Opening film Nutcrackers by David Gordon Green
Closing film The Deb by Rebel Wilson
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded1976
Festival dateSeptember 5–15, 2024
Website tiff.net/tiff
Toronto International Film Festival
2025

The 49th annual Toronto International Film Festival will be held from September 5 to 15, 2024. [1]

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The festival is slated to open with David Gordon Green's film Nutcrackers , and close with Rebel Wilson's directorial debut film The Deb . [2]

Key programming announcements

The first programming announcements were released on June 18, 2024. [3] A second batch of films was announced on July 9, [4] and the opening and closing galas were announced on July 16. [2]

Nutcrackers marks the first time that an acquisitions title not already attached to a commercial distributor has opened the festival since Creation launched the 2009 edition. [5] Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail linked this choice to the festival's announcement earlier in the year that it plans to launch a full film market in 2026, suggesting that it signals an effort by the festival to play an active role in helping the film to secure a distribution deal and thus demonstrate the business case for the market project. [5]

Further announcements are expected in July, and the full festival schedule is set to be released on August 13, 2024. [3]

To date, only films that will be world premieres have been announced; films for which the TIFF screening would not be a world premiere will be included when complete lineup announcements are released later in the month, but are not normally highlighted in the first batch of preview announcements.

Awards

The TIFF Tribute Awards recipients will include David Cronenberg as recipient of the Norman Jewison Award, and Amy Adams as a recipient of the performer award. [6] Although Cronenberg's new film The Shrouds , which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, was not one of the first six films announced on June 18, his status as a Tribute Awards recipient is indicative of its inclusion in a followup announcement, as the Tribute Awards recipients are normally selected from among people connected to films screening in the program. [7]

Cate Blanchett has been announced as the recipient of the Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award for women who have made a positive difference in the film industry. [8] She will also be the guest at an In Conversation with... event; similarly to Cronenberg, her inclusion as a Tribute Awards recipient suggests the likely inclusion of Guy Maddin's film Rumours in a forthcoming program announcement.

Official selections

Galas

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
The Deb Rebel Wilson Australia
Eden Ron Howard United States
Elton John: Never Too Late R.J. Cutler, David Furnish United States
Harbin 하얼빈 Woo Min-ho South Korea
Nutcrackers David Gordon Green United States
Superboys of Malegaon Reema Kagti India
The Wild Robot Chris Sanders United States

Special Presentations

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
K-POPS! Anderson .Paak United States
The Life of Chuck Mike Flanagan United States
Nightbitch Marielle Heller United States
Rez Ball Sydney Freeland United States
Shepherds Berger Sophie Deraspe Canada
We Live in Time John Crowley France, United Kingdom

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