With only one more Wednesday announcement left in the bank (competition Platform section and the shorts get announced next week) today we saw the unveiling of the Midnight Madness, Wavelengths and TIFF Docs programmes. There were some addition tidying up of some of the other section with lots of carrying over from Cannes with the likes of Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s The Gravedigger’s Wife, Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6, and Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee, the big news today is the inclusion of the Palme d’Or winner – Titane.
After receiving it’s world premiere in Cannes (where it won the Palme) and it’s international premiere at the New Horizons fest in Poland, TIFF nabbed the North American premiere to Julia Ducournau’s sophomore feature as the Midnight Madness opener. The filmmaker had showcased Raw after it was featured in the Critics’ Week.
Thom Powers wasn’t able to nab the newly announced Led Zeppelin docu, but we find several world premieres from established Docu auteurs in Stanley Nelson (Attica), Penny Lane (Listening to Kenny G) and nabbed the intl. preem to E. Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin ‘s The Rescue. This year’s Wavelengths section could be called the Directors’ Fortnight repeat with Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi & Alice Rohrwacher’s Futura, Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s Neptune Frost and Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes’ The Tsugua Diaries and Payal Kapadia’s A Night of Knowing Nothing shoring up. Here are all the latest additions (including some calibrating of the Special Presentations and Contemporary World Cinema sections) with Venice items Lorenzo Vigas’ The Box(already announced but receiving a better spotlight slot) and True Things by Harry Wootliff.
TIFF DOCS Attica Stanley Nelson | USA – World Premiere (TIFF Docs Opening Film) Beba Rebeca Huntt | USA/Mexico – World Premiere Becoming Cousteau Liz Garbus | USA – International Premiere Burning Eva Orner | Australia – World Premiere Comala Gian Cassini | Mexico – World Premiere The Devil’s Drivers Mohammed Abugeth, Daniel Carsenty | Qatar/France/Lebanon/Germany – World Premiere Flee Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark/France/Sweden/Norway – Canadian Premiere Hold Your Fire Stefan Forbes | USA – World Premiere Listening to Kenny G Penny Lane | USA – World Premiere Oscar Peterson: Black + White Barry Avrich | Canada – World Premiere The Rescue E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | USA/United Kingdom – International Premiere Three Minutes – A Lengthening Bianca Stigter | Netherlands/United Kingdom – Canadian Premiere Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace Heather Hatch | Canada – World Premiere
WAVELENGTHS FEATURES Futura Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher | Italy – North American Premiere The Girl and the Spider Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher | Switzerland – North American Premiere Neptune Frost Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman | Rwanda/USA – NA Premiere – Wavelengths Opening Film A Night of Knowing Nothing Payal Kapadia | India/France – International Premiere Ste. Anne Rhayne Vermette | Canada – North American Premiere The Tsugua Diaries Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes | Portugal – North American Premiere
WAVELENGTHS SHORTS The Capacity for Adequate Anger Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany – World Premiere Dear Chantal Nicolás Pereda | Mexico/Spain – International Premiere earthearthearth Daïchi Saïto | Canada – North American Premiere Inner Outer Space Laida Lertxundi | Spain – North American Premiere Polycephaly in D Michael Robinson | USA – World Premiere “The red filter is withdrawn.” Minjung Kim | South Korea – North American Premiere Train Again Peter Tscherkassky | Austria – North American Premiere
MIDNIGHT MADNESS After Blue (Dirty Paradise) Bertrand Mandico | France – North American Premiere DASHCAM Rob Savage | United Kingdom/USA – World Premiere Saloum Jean Luc Herbulot | Senegal – World Premiere Titane Julia Ducournau | France – North American Premiere – Midnight Madness Opening Film – You Are Not My MotherKate Dolan | Ireland – World Premiere Zalava Arsalan Amiri | Iran – North American Premiere
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS Ahed’s Knee (Ha’berech) Nadav Lapid | Israel/France/Germany – North American Premiere The Box Lorenzo Vigas | USA/Mexico – NA Premiere (previously announced in Contemporary World Cinema) France Bruno Dumont | France/Germany/Italy/Belgium – North American Premiere Where Is Anne Frank? Ari Folman – North American Premiere
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA 7 Prisoners(7 Prisioneiros) Alexandre Moratto | Brazil – North American Premiere Compartment No. 6 Juho Kuosmanen | Finland/Germany/Estonia/Russia – North American Premiere The Gravedigger’s Wife Khadar Ayderus Ahmed | France/Somalia/Germany/Finland – North American Premiere Jockey Clint Bentley | USA – International Premiere Small BodyLaura Samani | Italy/France/Slovenia – North American Premiere True Things Harry Wootliff | United Kingdom – North American Premiere
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).
