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2023 TIFF: Larry Charles, Harmony Korine, Finn Wolfhard + Billy Bryk Lock Up Midnight Madness Slots

Published on August 3, 2023

A bit of Cannes (Weston Razooli‘s Riddle of Fire and Jason Yu‘s Sleep), one significant title heading over to Venice in Harmony Korine‘s AGGRO DR1FT plus the world premieres to the long-awaited A24 Larry Charles‘ film in the newly titled Dicks: The Musical and a title we though was heading to next year’s Sundance in Hell of a Summer – the debut by actor Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk are among the ten titles selected for the Midnight Madness programme. Here is the 10-film line-up:

AGGRO DR1FT Harmony Korine | USA (North American Premiere)
Boy Kills World Moritz Mohr | Germany/South Africa/USA
Dicks: The Musical Larry Charles | USA – OPENING FILM
Hell of a Summer Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk | USA/Canada
KILL Nikhil Nagesh Bhat | India
NAGA Meshal Aljaser | Saudi Arabia – World Premiere
Riddle of Fire Weston Razooli | USA (North American Premiere) – CLOSING FILM
Sleep Jason Yu | South Korea (North American Premiere)
When Evil Lurks Demián Rugna | Argentina
Working Class Goes to Hell Mladen Đorđević | Serbia

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).