TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival 2022’s selection for Discovery, Midnight Madness, and Wavelengths programs features 54 titles from filmmakers representing 26 countries.
“For TIFF audiences in the know, the Discovery, Midnight Madness, and Wavelengths programs are where you’re rewarded for taking risks and being adventurous,” offered Anita Lee, Chief Programming Officer, TIFF. “Whether it’s the discovery of an audacious new auteur, a brilliant visionary work that reimagines storytelling, or the most wicked cinematic experience you will ever have, this is where you will find it,” said a news release.
DISCOVERY
“TIFF’s Discovery programme is a showcase of cinema and talent from around the world — a place to unearth work that is bold, distinctive, and, above all, passionate…a rich history of championing the first and second features of visionary filmmakers such as Chantal Akerman, Julie Dash, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ildikó Enyedi, Jafar Panahi, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Steve McQueen, Michael Haneke, Christopher Nolan, Lav Diaz, Barry Jenkins, Alfonso Cuarón, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Warwick Thornton, Maren Ade, Joachim Trier, David Gordon Green, Pablo Larraín, Valeska Grisebach, and Jean-Marc Vallée, to name just a handful…offers 24 films that shook us to the core, filled us with joy, broke our hearts, and, most importantly, reminded us that the future is bright,” said Dorota Lech, Discovery Lead and International Programmer, TIFF.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Aitch Alberto | USA
World Premiere
Baby Ruby
Bess Wohl | USA
World Premiere
Carmen
Benjamin Millepied | Australia, France
World Premiere
Daughter of Rage (La Hija de todas las Rabias)
Laura Baumeister | Nicaragua
World Premiere
A Gaza Weekend
Basil Khalil | United Kingdom, Palestine
World Premiere
I Like Movies
Chandler Levack | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere
DISCOVERY OPENING NIGHT FILM
The Inspection
Elegance Bratton | USA
World Premiere
A Long Break
Davit Pirtskhalava | Georgia
World Premiere
Pussy
Joseph Amenta | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere
Return to Seoul
Davy Chou | South Korea, France, Germany, Belgium
International Premiere
ROSIE
Gail Maurice | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere
Runner
Marian Mathias | USA, France, Germany
World Premiere
SHIMONI
Angela Wanjiku Wamai | Kenya
World Premiere
Snow and the Bear
Selcen Ergun | Turkey, Germany, Serbia
World Premiere
Something You Said Last Night
Luis De Filippis | Canada, Switzerland 🇨🇦
World Premiere
Susie Searches
Sophie Kargman | USA
World Premiere
Sweet As
Jub Clerc | Australia
International Premiere
The Taste of Apples is Red
Ehab Tarabieh | Israel, Germany
World Premiere
This Place
V.T. Nayani | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere
Unruly (Ustyrlig)
Malou Reymann | Denmark
World Premiere
Until Branches Bend
Sophie Jarvis | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere
When Morning Comes
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere
The Young Arsonists
Sheila Pye | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere
*** An additional title to be confirmed at a later date
MIDNIGHT MADNESS
“I am thrilled to announce that Midnight Madness has returned…I also couldn’t have hoped for a more appropriate Opening Night film than Weird: The Al Yankovic Story — a beautifully deranged “biopic” made in the great Midnight movie tradition…challenging conventions and forging one’s own path, no matter how weird…This year, fans of the weird and the wicked will be spending most their TIFF living in a Midnight Madness paradise. said section curator Peter Kuplowsky.
The Blackening
Tim Story | USA
World Premiere
MIDNIGHT MADNESS CLOSING NIGHT FILM
Leonor Will Never Die
Martika Ramirez Escobar | Philippines
Canadian Premiere
Pearl
Ti West | USA
North American Premiere
The People’s Joker
Vera Drew | USA
World Premiere
Project Wolf Hunting
Kim Hongsun | South Korea
World Premiere
Sick
John Hyams | USA
World Premiere
Sisu
Jalmari Helander | Finland
World Premiere
Venus
Jaume Balagueró | Spain
World Premiere
V/H/S 99
Flying Lotus, Johannes Roberts, Maggie Levin, Tyler MacIntyre, Vanessa & Joseph Winter | USA
World Premiere
MIDNIGHT MADNESS OPENING NIGHT FILM
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Eric Appel | USA
World Premiere
WAVELENGTHS
“The selections in this year’s Wavelengths lineup reimagine the possibilities of cinema in ways both inspiring and rejuvenating…The filmmakers and artists in this year’s edition expand the language of film and video, employing narrative, documentary, hybrid, and formalist approaches to assert film’s status as an autonomous art form and the cinema itself as an essential, communal experience,” said Senior Curator Andréa Picard.
Showcasing a mix of established auteurs, celebrated visual artists, and emerging filmmakers, this year’s Wavelengths presents eight features, two shorts programmes, and an exhibition, placing timeless, durational works alongside projects of the utmost contemporary urgency — each political by nature of its very existence and, by extension, resistance…Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS will be exhibited free to the public at The Power Plant from September 9 through 18.
FEATURES
Concrete Valley
Antoine Bourges | Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor | France, Switzerland
North American Premiere
Dry Ground Burning (Mato Seco em Chamas)
Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós | Portugal, Brazil
North American Premiere
Horse Opera
Moyra Davey | USA
Festival Premiere
Pacifiction
Albert Serra | France, Spain, Germany, Portugal
North American Premiere
Queens of the Qing Dynasty
Ashley McKenzie | Canada 🇨🇦
North American Premiere
Unrest (Unrueh)
Cyril Schäublin | Switzerland
North American Premiere
Will-o’-the-Wisp (Fogo-Fátuo)
João Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal, France
North American Premiere
SHORTS
After Work
Céline Condorelli, Ben Rivers | United Kingdom
North American Premiere
Bigger on the Inside
Angelo Madsen Minax | USA
World Premiere
EVENTIDE
Sharon Lockhart | USA
World Premiere
F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now
Fox Maxy | Mesa Grande Reservation/USA
Festival Premiere
Fata Morgana
Tacita Dean | United Kingdom, USA
Festival Premiere
Hors-titre
Wiame Haddad | France
North American Premiere
I Thought the World of You
Kurt Walker | Canada 🇨🇦
North American Premiere
Moonrise
Vincent Grenier | USA, Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere
The Newest Olds
Pablo Mazzolo | Argentina, Canada 🇨🇦
World Premiere
Puerta a Puerta
Jessica Sarah Rinland, Luis Arnías | Mexico, USA, Venezuela
International Premiere
The Time That Separates Us
Parastoo Anoushahpour | Canada, Jordan, Palestine 🇨🇦
World Premiere
What Rules the Invisible
Tiffany Sia | USA
North American Premiere
EXHIBITIONS
Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS (2022) and 2 Lizards (2020)
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, September 9–18
Free Admission
Presented in partnership with The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and The Vega Foundation.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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