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September 24, 2024
TIFF kicks off the fall season with a stacked lineup
Featuring a retrospective on French New Wave virtuoso Jacques Rozier, screenings honouring filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, an In Conversation With… Matty Matheson, and a slate of New Releases
Special guests coming to TIFF this October include: Cassie Cao, Paul Chin, Saffron Maeve, Matty Matheson, Alice Oseman, Tom Power, Cléo Sallis-Parchet, Kazik Radwanski, Patrick Walters, and more!
Maine-Océan Express (1986)
TORONTO — Today, TIFF is unveiling its fall programming slate featuring retrospectives, special screenings, new restorations, commemorative events; the return of Wavelengths Presents, MDFF Selects, and Midnight Madness Presents; and many special guests all coming to TIFF Lightbox in October.
On October 20, TIFF is hosting an In Conversation With... Matty Matheson with programming partner Penguin Random House Canada, an exclusive onstage discussion for the first stop of his international book tour about his new cookbook Soups, Salads, Sandwiches moderated by Tom Power, host of CBC’s Q. Matheson (The Bear) is a world-leading culinary media personality and an Emmy Award–winning writer, producer, and actor.
Programmed by Senior Curator Andréa Picard, TIFF Cinematheque’s integral retrospective on French filmmaker and screenwriter Jacques Rozier, Endless Summer: The Films of Jacques Rozier, introduces audiences to the originality, spontaneity, and youthful exuberance of his concise, rarely-screened filmography — presented in new restorations, courtesy of Janus Films.
To celebrate the significance of the four seasons in Korean culture, TIFF Cinematheque’s Cyclical Rhythms: A Quartet of Seasons in Korean Cinema will showcase one film for each season. A special Opening Night reception for Hur Jin-ho’s One Fine Spring Day, which will be screening in 35mm, will take place on October 4. The series is programmed by Hanbin Kim, Manager of Festival Programming, and supported by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Toronto.
Presented in collaboration with TIFF, imagineNATIVE honours the life and legacy of late Mi’kmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby on October 22 with special tribute screenings of his work, including Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013), his award-winning film Blood Quantum (2019), as well as a selection of his celebrated short films. Introductions will be provided by his wife Sarah Del Seronde, producing partner John Christou, and collaborators Devery Jacobs, Kaniehtiio Horn, and Danis Goulet.
Midnight Madness presents Halloween screenings of Lewis Teague’s Cujo, screening in 35mm on October 31; The Void, a cosmic horror directed by Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie, screening for free as part of See the North presented by MUBI; and Nicolas Roeg’s gothic thriller Don’t Look Now screening in 35mm, plus his family-friendly spooky film The Witches starring Angelica Huston and adapted from the classic children’s book by Roald Dahl.
Heartstopper will have a special screening of the first two episodes of Season 3 at TIFF Lightbox on October 8. The screening will be followed by a post-show Q&A with author and series creator Alice Oseman and executive producer Patrick Walters.
TIFF Lightbox will be showing an exciting lineup of the most talked-about New Releases hot off their run at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, including All We Imagine as Light, Anora, Bird, Emilia Pérez, Flow, Matt and Mara, The Piano Lesson, and Rumours. Plus, Matt and Mara director Kazik Radwanski will be in attendance for a post-show Q&A on October 4. Recently announced titles playing soon include A Different Man, Ibelin, In the Summers, Look Back, Seeking Mavis Beacon, The Outrun, and Woman of the Hour.
Secret Movie Club returns on October 22 with pre-screening conversations with the series co-hosts and programmers in Varda. Tickets will go on sale to TIFF Members on Wednesday, September 25 at 10am, and to the public on Friday, September 27 at tiff.net
Celebrate International Mean Girls Day with a participatory screening of the quintessential teen comedy, hosted by comedian Cassie Cao.
The Cord of Life: Music Activation by Paul Chin | October 19, 12pm | Free screening
The Cord of Life is director Sixue Qiao’s debut feature about a young electronic musician caring for his mother in rural Mongolia. Join us for a pre-screening drop-in collective art project between 12pm and 12:45pm, and a live improvisational performance by local electronic musician Paul Chin from 3pm to 3:45pm. This event is co-presented by TIFF Next Wave and TIFF Silver Screenings presented by SHINGRIX for an intergenerational audience.
Daughters of the Dust with Kickback | October 27, 4pm | Free screening
TIFF Community Impact and Kickback are presenting a free screening of Julie Dash’s landmark film Daughters of the Dust (2K digital restoration) to celebrate the culmination of the inaugural year of Kickback Reframe. Preceded by the short film Colour Study and introduction by Professor Lauren Cramer, followed by a Q&A with youth participants from Kickback Reframe.
Endless Summer: The Films of Jacques Rozier
Summer lasts forever in the charming, mischievous, and often underrated films by the French New Wave virtuoso:
Adieu Philippine | October 5, 6:30pm & October 19, 4pm
Near Orouët | October 6 & 12, 6:30pm
The Castaways of Turtle Island | October 11, 6:30pm
Maine-Océan Express | October 20, 6:30pm
Jacques Rozier Shorts Programme | October 23, 6:30pm | October 29, 6:30pm
Fifi Martingale | October 29, 6:30pm
Cyclical Rhythms: A Quartet of Seasons in Korean Cinema
Walk through life’s cyclical rhythms with this series of Korean films that explore the transformations that come when one season ends and another begins:
One Fine Spring Day (d. Hur Jin-ho) | Opening Night Reception, October 4 at 7pm, followed by 8pm screening of 35mm print
The House of Us (d. Yoon Ga-eun) | October 10, 6:30pm
Art Museum by the Zoo (d. Lee Jeong-hyang) | October 18, 6:30pm | 35mm print!
Merry Christmas Mr. Mo (d. Lim Dae-hyung) | October 27, 6:30pm
Tripgore Retrospective: A Tribute to Jeff Barnaby | Commemorative Screenings
Rhymes for Young Ghouls preceded by The Colony | October 22, 6pm
Blood Quantum preceded by File Under Miscellaneous and From Cherry English | October 22, 9pm
From the Collection
Memories of Underdevelopment, with Cameron Bailey (d. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) | October 1, 6:30pm | 35mm print!
TIFF Wavelengths Presents
Idees Fixes / Dies Irae (d. Antoinetta Angelidi) preceded by 121280 Ritual (d. Antoinetta Angelidi) October 9, 6:30pm
Pre-recorded Q&A with Rea Wallden and Antoinetta Angelidi, moderated by guest curator Saffron Maeve.
MDFF Selects
My First Film (d. Zia Anger) | October 17, 6:30pm
Introduction by MDFF Selects co-founder and curator Kazik Radwanski.
Midnight Madness Presents
Cujo (d. Lewis Teague) | October 31, 6:30pm | 35mm print!
See the North presented by MUBI
All See the North screenings are FREE to the public
The Void (d. Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie) | October 15, 6:30pm
TIFF Cinematheque New and Restored | Screening in 4K!
Seven Samurai (d. Akira Kurosawa) | October 5, 2pm and October 16, 7pm | 70th anniversary
Moving (d. Shinji Sōmai) | October 6 and 20, 3:30pm | Toronto Premiere of new 4K restoration!
Paris, Texas (d. Wim Wenders ) | October 12, 3:30pm and October 24 6:30pm| 40th anniversary screening of new 4K restoration!
Army of Shadowsd (d. Jean-Pierre Melville) | October 13, 6:30pm & October 19, 6:45pm
TIFF Cinematheque Special Screenings
Don’t Look Now (d. Nicolas Roeg) | October 23, 9pm | 35mm print!
Le Bonheur (d. Agnès Varda) with Cléo Sallis-Parche | October 27, 3:30pm
This screening will also include re-discovered footage from the 1973 Women in Film International Film Festival in Toronto featuring French director Agnès Varda speaking about her work.
TIFF Family Films
The Witches (d. Nicolas Roeg) October 13, 4pm
On October 20, TIFF is hosting an In Conversation With... Matty Matheson with programming partner Penguin Random House Canada, an exclusive onstage discussion for the first stop of his international book tour about his new cookbook Soups, Salads, Sandwiches moderated by Tom Power, host of CBC’s Q. Matheson (The Bear) is a world-leading culinary media personality and an Emmy Award–winning writer, producer, and actor.
Programmed by Senior Curator Andréa Picard, TIFF Cinematheque’s integral retrospective on French filmmaker and screenwriter Jacques Rozier, Endless Summer: The Films of Jacques Rozier, introduces audiences to the originality, spontaneity, and youthful exuberance of his concise, rarely-screened filmography — presented in new restorations, courtesy of Janus Films.
To celebrate the significance of the four seasons in Korean culture, TIFF Cinematheque’s Cyclical Rhythms: A Quartet of Seasons in Korean Cinema will showcase one film for each season. A special Opening Night reception for Hur Jin-ho’s One Fine Spring Day, which will be screening in 35mm, will take place on October 4. The series is programmed by Hanbin Kim, Manager of Festival Programming, and supported by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Toronto.
Presented in collaboration with TIFF, imagineNATIVE honours the life and legacy of late Mi’kmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby on October 22 with special tribute screenings of his work, including Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013), his award-winning film Blood Quantum (2019), as well as a selection of his celebrated short films. Introductions will be provided by his wife Sarah Del Seronde, producing partner John Christou, and collaborators Devery Jacobs, Kaniehtiio Horn, and Danis Goulet.
Midnight Madness presents Halloween screenings of Lewis Teague’s Cujo, screening in 35mm on October 31; The Void, a cosmic horror directed by Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie, screening for free as part of See the North presented by MUBI; and Nicolas Roeg’s gothic thriller Don’t Look Now screening in 35mm, plus his family-friendly spooky film The Witches starring Angelica Huston and adapted from the classic children’s book by Roald Dahl.
Heartstopper will have a special screening of the first two episodes of Season 3 at TIFF Lightbox on October 8. The screening will be followed by a post-show Q&A with author and series creator Alice Oseman and executive producer Patrick Walters.
TIFF Lightbox will be showing an exciting lineup of the most talked-about New Releases hot off their run at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, including All We Imagine as Light, Anora, Bird, Emilia Pérez, Flow, Matt and Mara, The Piano Lesson, and Rumours. Plus, Matt and Mara director Kazik Radwanski will be in attendance for a post-show Q&A on October 4. Recently announced titles playing soon include A Different Man, Ibelin, In the Summers, Look Back, Seeking Mavis Beacon, The Outrun, and Woman of the Hour.
Secret Movie Club returns on October 22 with pre-screening conversations with the series co-hosts and programmers in Varda. Tickets will go on sale to TIFF Members on Wednesday, September 25 at 10am, and to the public on Friday, September 27 at tiff.net
SPECIAL EVENTS - PUBLIC PROGRAMMING LISTINGS
Quote Along: Mean Girls | October 3, 6:30pmCelebrate International Mean Girls Day with a participatory screening of the quintessential teen comedy, hosted by comedian Cassie Cao.
The Cord of Life: Music Activation by Paul Chin | October 19, 12pm | Free screening
The Cord of Life is director Sixue Qiao’s debut feature about a young electronic musician caring for his mother in rural Mongolia. Join us for a pre-screening drop-in collective art project between 12pm and 12:45pm, and a live improvisational performance by local electronic musician Paul Chin from 3pm to 3:45pm. This event is co-presented by TIFF Next Wave and TIFF Silver Screenings presented by SHINGRIX for an intergenerational audience.
Daughters of the Dust with Kickback | October 27, 4pm | Free screening
TIFF Community Impact and Kickback are presenting a free screening of Julie Dash’s landmark film Daughters of the Dust (2K digital restoration) to celebrate the culmination of the inaugural year of Kickback Reframe. Preceded by the short film Colour Study and introduction by Professor Lauren Cramer, followed by a Q&A with youth participants from Kickback Reframe.
TIFF CINEMATHEQUE PROGRAMMING LISTINGS
Tickets to Cinematheque series are free to TIFF Members. To learn more, visit tiff.net/join.Endless Summer: The Films of Jacques Rozier
Summer lasts forever in the charming, mischievous, and often underrated films by the French New Wave virtuoso:
Adieu Philippine | October 5, 6:30pm & October 19, 4pm
Near Orouët | October 6 & 12, 6:30pm
The Castaways of Turtle Island | October 11, 6:30pm
Maine-Océan Express | October 20, 6:30pm
Jacques Rozier Shorts Programme | October 23, 6:30pm | October 29, 6:30pm
Fifi Martingale | October 29, 6:30pm
Cyclical Rhythms: A Quartet of Seasons in Korean Cinema
Walk through life’s cyclical rhythms with this series of Korean films that explore the transformations that come when one season ends and another begins:
One Fine Spring Day (d. Hur Jin-ho) | Opening Night Reception, October 4 at 7pm, followed by 8pm screening of 35mm print
The House of Us (d. Yoon Ga-eun) | October 10, 6:30pm
Art Museum by the Zoo (d. Lee Jeong-hyang) | October 18, 6:30pm | 35mm print!
Merry Christmas Mr. Mo (d. Lim Dae-hyung) | October 27, 6:30pm
Tripgore Retrospective: A Tribute to Jeff Barnaby | Commemorative Screenings
Rhymes for Young Ghouls preceded by The Colony | October 22, 6pm
Blood Quantum preceded by File Under Miscellaneous and From Cherry English | October 22, 9pm
From the Collection
Memories of Underdevelopment, with Cameron Bailey (d. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) | October 1, 6:30pm | 35mm print!
TIFF Wavelengths Presents
Idees Fixes / Dies Irae (d. Antoinetta Angelidi) preceded by 121280 Ritual (d. Antoinetta Angelidi) October 9, 6:30pm
Pre-recorded Q&A with Rea Wallden and Antoinetta Angelidi, moderated by guest curator Saffron Maeve.
MDFF Selects
My First Film (d. Zia Anger) | October 17, 6:30pm
Introduction by MDFF Selects co-founder and curator Kazik Radwanski.
Midnight Madness Presents
Cujo (d. Lewis Teague) | October 31, 6:30pm | 35mm print!
See the North presented by MUBI
All See the North screenings are FREE to the public
The Void (d. Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie) | October 15, 6:30pm
TIFF Cinematheque New and Restored | Screening in 4K!
Seven Samurai (d. Akira Kurosawa) | October 5, 2pm and October 16, 7pm | 70th anniversary
Moving (d. Shinji Sōmai) | October 6 and 20, 3:30pm | Toronto Premiere of new 4K restoration!
Paris, Texas (d. Wim Wenders ) | October 12, 3:30pm and October 24 6:30pm| 40th anniversary screening of new 4K restoration!
Army of Shadowsd (d. Jean-Pierre Melville) | October 13, 6:30pm & October 19, 6:45pm
TIFF Cinematheque Special Screenings
Don’t Look Now (d. Nicolas Roeg) | October 23, 9pm | 35mm print!
Le Bonheur (d. Agnès Varda) with Cléo Sallis-Parche | October 27, 3:30pm
This screening will also include re-discovered footage from the 1973 Women in Film International Film Festival in Toronto featuring French director Agnès Varda speaking about her work.
TIFF Family Films
The Witches (d. Nicolas Roeg) October 13, 4pm