Festival season is upon us, and the awards race has truly begun.
With Cannes said and done and the Venice Biennalle readying to open its waterways to excited film fans around the world at the end of the month, it truly feels like Festival season is upon us, and the awards race has truly begun. Elsewhere, the New York Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival have also released exciting lineups for their respective festivals, with London soon to follow after announcing Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn as their Opening Gala film.
For those who have the privilege of visiting the major European festivals, it can sometimes look from the outside that NYFF and TIFF are simply catching the leftovers—Justine Triet’s Palme winner Anatomy of A Fall and Hirokazu Koreeda’s Queer Palm winner Monster will both feature at Toronto this year, while NYFF is hosting the US premieres of The Zone of Interest, Priscilla, May December, and more—but for many others, this is their first glimpse into the movies that will shape the coming year’s awards landscape.
That’s not to say that the two regional festivals have nothing new to offer. After all, TIFF is being opened by none other than The Boy and The Heron, the über anticipated return to the screen by animation wizard Hayao Miyazaki. Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money (starring Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, and Shailene Woodley) will also hold its world premiere at the festival, as will Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins David Yates’ Pain Hustlers, Lukas Moodyson’s Together 99 and more.
NYFF will give audiences a chance to catch many of the films they weren’t able to se at Venice and Cannes, including Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist, Michael Mann’s Ferrari, and Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, among others. The Big Apple will also be host to Andrew Haigh’s exciting new feature All of Us Strangers and two new films from prolific South-Korean darling Hong Sangsoo In Our Day and In Water.
Scroll on for the full lineups from both festivals…
TIFF
Gala Presentations
The Boy and the Heron (dir. Hayao Miyazaki) — Opening night film
Concrete Utopia (dir. Um Tae-Hwa)
Dumb Money (dir. Craig Gillespie)
The End We Start From (dir. Mahalia Belo)
Fair Play (dir. Chloe Domont)
Flora and Son (dir. John Carney)
Hate to Love: Nickelback (dir. Leigh Brooks)
Lee (dir. Ellen Kuras)
The Movie Emperor (dir. Ning Hao)
The New Boy (dir. Warwick Thornton)
Next Goal Wins (dir. Taika Waititi)
NYAD (dir. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)
Punjab ’95 (dir. Honey Trehan)
The Royal Hotel (dir. Kitty Green)
Sly (dir. Thom Zimny) — Closing night film
Solo (dir. Sophie Dupuis)
Special Presentations
A Difficult Year (dir. Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache)
A Normal Family (dir. Hur Jin-ho)
American Fiction (dir. Cord Jefferson)
Anatomy of a Fall (dir. Justine Triet)
The Beast (dir. Bertrand Bonello)
The Burial (dir. Maggie Betts)
Close to You (dir. Dominic Savage)
The Convert (dir. Lee Tamahori)
The Critic (dir. Anand Tucker)
Days of Happiness (dir. Chloé Robichaud)
The Dead Don’t Hurt (dir. Viggo Mortensen)
El Rapto (dir. Daniela Goggi)
Ezra (dir. Tony Goldwyn)
Fingernails (dir. Christos Nikou)
Four Daughters (dir. Kaouther Ben Hania)
His Three Daughters (dir. Azazel Jacobs)
Hit Man (dir. Richard Linklater)
The Holdovers (dir. Alexander Payne)
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (dir. Alex Gibney)
Kidnapped (dir. Marco Bellocchio)
Knox Goes Away (dir. Michael Keaton)
La Chimeara (dir. Alice Rohrwacher)
Last Summer (dir. Catherine Breillat)
Les Indésirables (dir. Ladj Ly)
Memory (dir. Michael Franco)
Monster (dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu)
Mother Couch (dir. Niclas Larsson)
North Star (dir. Kristin Scott Thomas)
One Life (dir. James Hawes)
Pain Hustlers (dir. David Yates)
The Peasants (dir. DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman)
Poolman (dir. Chris Pine)
Reptile (dir. Grant Singer)
Rustin (dir. George C. Wolfe)
Seven Veils (dir. Atom Egoyan)
Shoshana (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Sing Sing (dir. Greg Kwedar)
Smugglers (dir. Ryoo Seung-wan)
Swan Song (dir. Chelsea McMullan)
The Zone of Interest (dir. Jonathan Glazer)
Together 99 (dir. Lukas Moodysson)
Unicorns (dir. Sally El Hosaini, James Krishna Floyd)
Uproar (dir. Paul Middleditch, Hamish Bennett)
Wicked Little Letters (dir. Thea Sharrock)
Wildcat (dir. Ethan Hawke)
Woman of the Hour (dir. Anna Kendrick)
Discovery
Achilles (dir. Farhad Delaram)
After the Fire (dir. Mehdi Fikri)
A Match (Sthal) (dir. Jayant Digambar Somalkar)
Andragogy (dir. Wregas Bhanuteja)
An Endless Sunday (dir. Alain Parroni)
Arthur&Diana (dir. Sara Summa)
Backspot (dir. D.W. Waterson)
Frybread Face and Me (dir. Billy Luther)
Gonzo Girl (dir. Patricia Arquette)
Hajjan (dir. Abu Bakr Shawky)
How to Have Sex (dir. Molly Manning Walker)
I Don’t Know Who You Are (dir. M.H. Murray)
La Suprema (dir. Felipe Holguín Caro)
Mandoob (dir. Ali Kalthami)
Mimang (dir. Kim Taeyang)
Seagrass (dir. Meredith Hama-Brown)
Solitude (dir. Ninna Pálmadóttir)
Tautuktavuk (What We See) (dir. Carol Kunnuk, Lucy Tulugarjuk)
The Teacher (dir. Farah Nabulsi)
The Tundra Within Me (Eallugierdi) (dir. Sara Margrethe Oskal)
The Queen of My Dreams (dir. Fawzia Mirza)
Valentina or the Serenity (Valentina o la serenidad) (dir. Ángeles Cruz)
Widow Clicquot (dir. Thomas Napper)
Wild Woman (dir. Alán González)
Without Air (dir. Katalin Moldovai)
Yellow Bus (dir. Wendy Bednarz)
Tiff Docs
oil Alert (dir. Stevie Salas, James Burns)
Bye Bye Tiberias (dir. Lina Soualem)
The Contestant (dir. Clair Titley)
Copa 71 (dir. Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine)
Defiant (dir. Karim Amer)
Flipside (dir. Chris Wilcha)
God Is a Woman (dir. Andrés Peyrot)
Homecoming (dir. Suvi West, Anssi Kömi)
In the Rearview (dir. Maciek Hamela)
Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (dir. Frederick Wiseman)
The Mother of All Lies (dir. Asmae El Moudir)
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (dir. Lucy Walker)
Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe (dir. Robert McCallum)
The Pigeon Tunnel (dir. Errol Morris)
Silver Dollar Road (dir. Raoul Peck)
Songs of Earth (dir. Margreth Olin)
Sorry/Not Sorry (dir. Caroline Suh)
Stamped From the Beginning (dir. Roger Ross Williams)
Summer Qamp (dir. Jen Markowitz)
Viva Varda! (dir. Pierre-Henri Gibert)
Walls (dir. Kasia Smutniak)
The World Is Family (dir. Anand Patwardhan)
Midnight Madness
AGGRO DR1FT (dir. Harmony Korine)
Boy Kills World (dir. Moritz Mohr)
Dicks: The Musical (dir. Larry Charles)
Hell of a Summer (dir. Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk)
KILL (dir. Nikhil Nagesh Bhat)
NAGA (dir. Meshal Aljaser)
Riddle of Fire (dir. Weston Razooli)
Sleep (dir. Jason Yu)
When Evil Lurks (dir. Demián Rugna)
Working Class Goes to Hell (dir. Mladen Dordević)
NYFF
Opening Night
May December (dir. Todd Haynes)
Centerpiece
Priscilla (dir. Sofia Coppola)
Closing Night
Ferrari (dir. Michael Mann)
About Dry Grasses (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (dir. Raven Jackson)
All of Us Strangers(dir. Andrew Haigh)
Anatomy of a Fall(dir. Justine Triet)
The Beast(dir. Bertrand Bonello)
La Chimera(dir. Alice Rohrwacher)
Close Your Eyes(dir. Víctor Erice)
The Delinquents(dir. Rodrigo Moreno)
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World(dir. Radu Jude)
Eureka(dir. Lisandro Alonso)
Evil Does Not Exist(dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
Fallen Leaves(dir. Aki Kaurismäki)
Green Border(dir. Agnieszka Holland)
Here(dir. Bas Devos)
In Our Day(dir. Hong Sangsoo)
In Water(dir. Hong Sangsoo)
Janet Planet(dir. Annie Baker)
Kidnapped(dir. Marco Bellocchio)
Last Summer(dir. Catherine Breillat)
Music(dir. Angela Schanelec)
Orlando, My Political Biography(dir. Paul B. Preciado)
Perfect Days(dir. Wim Wenders)
Pictures of Ghosts(dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Poor Things(dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
La Práctica(dir. Martín Rejtman)
The Settlers(dir. Felipe Gálvez)
The Shadowless Tower(dir. Zhang Lu)
Youth (Spring)(dir. Wang Bing)
The Zone of Interest (dir. Jonathan Glazer)
