Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) unveiled the films in the 2024 Wavelengths program, and the 2024 TIFF Classics program.

The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival will take place September 5 – 15, 2024.

The Wavelengths program includes 11 features, 3 shorts programs, and a special in-cinema looped presentation. Feature films include the North American Premieres of Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes, The Damned by Roberto Minervini, and Pepe by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias.

Jessica Sarah Rinland also returns to the program with Collective Monologue, alongside the North American Premiere of the queer, controversial Viêt and Nam, by first-time Wavelengths filmmaker Trương Minh Quý; and the 14-hour exergue – on documenta 14 from Greek filmmaker Dimitris Athiridi will be presented over three screenings.

Short films include the World Premieres of Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya by Malena Szlam, and A Black Screen Too by Sobey Prize–nominated Rhayne Vermette, as well as the North American Premiere of Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s The Diary of a Sky. A pairing of work by legendary filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and John Smith includes the former’s final film Scénarios, completed just before Godard’s death, and the World Premiere of Smith’s wry, moving Being John Smith.

Presented as a rare and unmissable special presentation, the program is rounded out by celebrated Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s Drama 1882. A mesmerizing highlight of this year’s Venice Biennale, the film (re)stages an anti-colonial uprising as a libretto across eight chapters and 45 hypnotic minutes. Drama 1882 will be presented looped in-cinema on Saturday, September 7, and admission will be free.

TIFF Classics reunites audiences with iconic films from visionary filmmakers such as Srinivas Krishna, Raj Kapoor, and Atom Egoyan. Two newly restored international discoveries include Shahid Sohrab Saless’ Time of Maturity, and Lino Brocka’s Bona. In celebration of the centenary of auteur Raj Kapoor, known as The Greatest Showman of Indian Cinema, TIFF Classics presents the World Premiere 4K restoration of one of his most acclaimed films, Awāra, which he directs and stars in.

Continuing TIFF’s year-long spotlight on Toronto New Wave filmmakers, Classics is screening the 4K restoration of Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter; and Srinivas Krishna’s Masala, and the World Premiere of the new 4K restoration of legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s documentary Essene.

Wavelengths Features 2024

(in alphabetical order):

Collective Monologue [Monólogo colectivo]
Jessica Sarah Rinland | Argentina/United Kingdom
North American Premiere
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exergue – on documenta 14
Dimitris Athiridis | Greece
North American Premiere
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Grand Tour
Miguel Gomes | Portugal/Italy/France/Germany/Japan/China
North American Premiere

Lázaro at Night [Lázaro de noche]
Nicolás Pereda | Canada/Mexico
North American Premiere
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Pepe
Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias | Dominican Republic/Germany/France/Namibia
North American Premiere
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Perfumed with Mint [Moattar binanaa]
Muhammed Hamdy | Egypt/France/Tunisia/Qatar
North American Premiere
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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | USA
Canadian Premiere
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The Damned
Roberto Minervini | Italy/USA/Belgium
North American Premiere
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Viêt and Nam
Trương Minh Quý | Philippines/Singapore/France/Netherlands/Italy/Germany/Vietnam
North American Premiere

Youth (Hard Times) [Qing Chun (Ku)]
Wang Bing | France/Luxembourg/Netherlands
North American Premiere
Luminaries

Youth (Homecoming) [Qing Chun (Gui)]
Wang Bing | France/Luxembourg/Netherlands
North American Premiere
Luminaries

Wavelengths Special Presentation 2024:

Drama 1882
Wael Shawky | Egypt
Festival Premiere

Wavelengths Shorts 2024:

WAVELENGTHS 1: EYE & EAR CONTROL

Revolving Rounds
Johann Lurf, Christina Jauernik | Austria
North American Premiere

The Diary of a Sky
Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Lebanon
North American Premiere
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October Noon [Octubre al mediodía]
Francisco Rodríguez Teare | Chile/France
World Premiere
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A Black Screen Too
Rhayne Vermette | Canada
World Premiere
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Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya
Malena Szlam | Canada/Australia/Chile
World Premiere

WAVELENGTHS 2: RIDE THE WAVE

Someplace in Your Mouth
Beatrice Gibson, Nick Gordon | Italy
International Premiere
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Notes of a Crocodile
Daphne Xu | Cambodia/China/Canada
World Premiere
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Adrift Potentials [Potenciais à deriva]
Leonardo Pirondi | Brazil/USA
North American Premiere
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Go Between
Chris Kennedy | Canada/Australia
World Premiere
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The Sojourn [暫棲]
Tiffany Sia | USA
Canadian Premiere
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WAVELENGTHS 3: EXPOSÉ(S) – JEAN-LUC GODARD/JOHN SMITH

Scénarios
Jean-Luc Godard | France/Japan
North American Premiere
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Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario”
Jean-Luc Godard | France/Japan
North American Premiere
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Being John Smith
John Smith | United Kingdom
World Premiere
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Classics Program 2024

(in alphabetical order):

Awāra
Raj Kapoor | India

Bona
Lino Brocka | Philippines

Essene
Frederick Wiseman | USA

Masala
Srinivas Krishna | Canada

The Sweet Hereafter
Atom Egoyan | Canada

Time of Maturity [Reifezeit]
Sohrab Shahid Saless | Germany