Ⓟ is for Public
 

September 10
8:40am – Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh), Scotiabank 13
12:00pm – Woman Unknown (May el-Toukhy), Scotiabank 4
3:10pm – The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (Noah Segan), Scotiabank 4
7:30pm – Wild Horse Nine (Martin McDonagh), Scotiabank 12
 

September 11
9:30am – A Long Winter (Andrew Haigh), Lightbox 2
12:00pm – Stuffed (Theo Rhys), Scotiabank 2
2:30pm – Wavelengths 1: House and Home, Lightbox 3 Ⓟ
               – Two Pids (John Smith)
               – After Image (Rita Ferrando)
               – Moon Palace (Jiaqi Yu)
               – Microcosmic Orbit: Encased (Danaya Chulphuthiphong)
               – The Address Book (Mustafa Uzuner) 16mm
               + Chronicle of Tiredness (Natalia Marín)
4:00pm – Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog), Scotiabank 3
 

September 12
8:30am – Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (Bassam Tariq), John Bassett Theatre
12:00pm – Clarissa (Arie Esiri), Scotiabank 14 Ⓟ
4:15pm – Wavelengths 2: This Suffocating Now, Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               – Ghazal-e Sorkh (Maryam Tafakory)
               – TM (1974, Takehisa Kosugi)
               – Fire Flies (Zheng Lu Xinyuan)
               – Splits in Two (Simon Liu)
               + This Suffocating Now (Vika Kirchenbauer)
9:30pm – Glaxo (Benjamín Naishtat), Scotiabank 4 Ⓟ
 

September 13
8:40am – Misty Green (Chris Rock), Scotiabank 2
1:00pm – Wavelengths: Anoushapour/Aljafari, Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               – Peacocks Come with the Clouds (Parastoo Anoushahpour)
               – Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo (Kamal Aljafari)
4:45pm + The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach), Lightbox 3 Ⓟ
9:15pm – The Remotes (John Torres), Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
 

September 14
8:50am – Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Mariano Llinás), Scotiabank 6
4:10pm – Once Upon a Time in Harlem (William Greaves), Scotiabank 7
7:15pm – Pelechian Project, Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               + Land of the People (1966, Artavazd Pelechian)
               + The Beginning (1967, Artavazd Pelechian)
               + We (1969, Artavazd Pelechian)
               + The Seasons (1975, Artavazd Pelechian)
               + The End (1992, Artavazd Pelechian)
 

September 15
9:00am – The Black Box is Orange (Yuula Benivolski), Scotiabank 10
12:00pm – Wavelengths 3: Time and Tide, Lightbox 1 Ⓟ
               + Forever…Forever (Johann Lurf) 70mm
               – La Prospettiva (1653) (Ben Russell)
               – Electric Fragments No. 1 – Rom (Men) (2001, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi)
               – Fevers (James Richards)
2:45pm – Union Town (Barbara Kopple), Scotiabank 2
6:15pm – Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong), John Bassett Theatre
 

September 16
3:10pm – Eklipse (Manuel Wetscher), Scotiabank 3 Ⓟ
6:30pm – Ink (Danny Boyle), John Bassett Theatre
 

September 17
9:15am – Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney (Matthew Rankin), Scotiabank 3
11:45pm – The Fortunate Isles (Helena Girón & Samuel Delgado), Scotiabank 10 Ⓟ
2:00pm – The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg), Lightbox 1 Ⓟ
7:00pm + The Unknown (Arthur Harari), Scotiabank 7 Ⓟ
 

September 18
3:15pm – Anchors Aweigh (Matt Barats), Lightbox 3 Ⓟ
6:00pm – Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? (Shinya Tsukamoto), Scotiabank 10 Ⓟ
9:40pm – The Face of Horror (Anna Biller), Scotiabank 1 Ⓟ
 

September 19
2:15pm – Everest: The Other Side (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi), Scotiabank 12 Ⓟ
 

September 20
1:15pm + My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec), Lightbox 4 Ⓟ

 
 
 

Films I have already seen:
All of a Sudden (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
At Night (Beatrice Gibson)
The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodóvar)
Club Kid (Jordan Firstman)
Coward (Lukas Dhont)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude)
Double Freedom (Lisandro Alonso)
The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach)
Everything Else Is Noise (Nicolás Pereda)
Everytime (Sandra Wollner)
Fjord (Cristian Mungiu)
Flies (Fernando Eimbcke)
Gentle Monster (Marie Kreutzer)
In Waves (Phuong Mai Nguyen)
Josephine (Beth de Araújo)
La Bola Negra (Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi)
La Gradiva (Marine Atlan)
Light Pillar (Xu Zao)
London (Sebastian Brameshuber)
The Man I Love (Ira Sachs)
Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec)
Nobody’s Violence (Denis Côté)
The Unknown (Arthur Harari)

Ⓟ is for Press
 

August 7
4:30pm – The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer (Alessandra Sanguinetti), PalaCinema 3 Ⓟ
7:00pm + At Night (Beatrice Gibson), PalaCinema 3 Ⓟ
 

August 8
8:45am — Ketticè (Giovanni Tortorici), Teatro Kursaal Ⓟ
11:15am — Donkey Princess (Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña), L’altra Sala
1:30pm — You Don’t Belong Here (Florin Șerban), Teatro Kursaal Ⓟ
4:45pm — Nobody’s Violence (Denis Côté), Palexpo
7:30pm — Shakedown (1950, Joseph Pevney), GranRex 35mm
 

August 9
8:30am — Brave New Love (Maria Bäck), Teatro Kursaal Ⓟ
11:00am — Ego Reach We All (Amartei Armar), Digital Library
3:00pm — Sixteen Moments of My Life (Albert Serra), PalaCinema 1
5:00pm — Revolutionaries Never Die (Mohanad Yaqubi), Digital Library
7:00pm — September Afternoon (Nicolaas Schmidt), PalaCinema 3 Ⓟ
9:00pm — I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming (Isabelle Stever), La Sala
 

August 10
8:45am — Hearing (Lê Bảo), Teatro Kursaal Ⓟ
12:00pm — All Night Long (1962, Basil Dearden), GranRex 35mm
8:00pm – Intruder in the Dust (1949, Clarence Brown), GranRex 35mm
10:00pm — Native Son (1951, Pierre Chenal), GranRex 35mm
 

August 11
9:00am — Objet a (Ann Oren), Teatro Kursaal Ⓟ
11:30am — The Young One (1960, Luis Buñuel), GranRex 35mm
2:00pm — O Jacaré (Basil Da Cunha), Teatro Kursaal Ⓟ
4:45pm — The Hollywood Blacklist: The Survivors Tell Their Stories (Marie-Dominique Montel & Christopher Jones), GranRex
7:00pm — Fire Flower (Ana Vaz), PalaCinema 3 Ⓟ
11:00pm – Summer Meadow (Naël Khleifi), Digital Library
 

August 12
11:15am — The Riverbank (Matheus Farias & Enock Carvalho), Digital Library
2:30pm – Woman in Hiding (1950, Michael Gordon), GranRex 35mm
4:30pm + Magic Atlas (Sun Xin), PalaCinema 3 Ⓟ
7:30pm — Not Wanted (1949, Ida Lupino & Elmer Clifton) + The Hat (1964, Faith & John Hubley), GranRex
10:15pm — Caged (1950, John Cromwell), GranRex 35mm
 

August 13
9:30am — Nowhere to Lay My Eyes (Hong Sang-soo), Teatro Kursaal Ⓟ
1:45pm – He Who Must Die (1957, Jules Dassin), GranRex 35mm
4:30pm + Tomorrow a Long Time Ago (Luise Donschen), PalaCinema 3 Ⓟ
9:30pm — Crossfire (1947, Edward Dmytryk), GranRex 35mm
 

August 14
9:00am — The House on the Moon (Nelson Yeo), Teatro Kursaal Ⓟ

 
 

Pre-festival viewing
At Night (Beatrice Gibson)
The Days Off (Lucila Mariani)
Destroy All Girls (Erin Vassilopoulos)
D’ici là (Sarah Leonor)
Far From the Trees (Meritxell Colell Aparicio)
In All My Journeys I Am Returning (Manuel Ponce de León)
Magic Atlas (Sun Xin)
Manhunt (Wayne Wapeemukwa)
Rehmat (Gurvinder Singh)
Small Talk (Mateo Ybarra)
Tear Gas (Uta Beria)
Tomorrow a Long Time Ago (Luise Donschen)

Key:
Features (40min. and up) are in bold
Shorts are in italics
● - I have seen this film
★ - I have seen this film and am fond of it (6.0 and higher)
✘ - I have seen this film and had a bad time watching it (4.0 and lower)
○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film
16mm, 35mm, 70mm - This film will be screened from a celluloid print
L - Has TIFF's "Luminaries" label, i.e. it'd be in "Masters" if the section still existed

Colour coding:
NYFF - Slate and Main
SUNDANCE - Cinéma concret
BERLINALE - The opposite of politics
CANNES - Known unknowns
LOCARNO - Somewhere to lay my eyes
VENICE - Finally some cucking finema
NOTABLE - Films that I am actively look forward to, for whatever reason

(Colours trump whatever is below them; e.g. if a film premiered in Berlin it will be red,
unless it gets announced as part of NYFF's Main Slate, in which case it will become purple)

 

Centrepiece (55 | 2025: 55)
After Elena (Shawn Garry)
Ah Girl (Ang Geck Geck Priscilla)
Ashes (Diego Luna)
Back in Black (Ron Murphy)
Ben’Imana (Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo) ○
The Betrayers (David Bezmozgis)
The bovine with the curved horns (Omar E. Ospina Giraldo)
The City of the Living (Edoardo Gabbriellini)
Congo Boy (Rafiki Fariala)
Conversation with the Sea (Muayad Alayan)
The Difficult Bride (Rubaiyat Hossain)
Dorothy (Karthik Subbaraj) ○
The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach) ●
Eklipse (Manuel Wetscher)
Elephants in the Fog (Abinash Bikram Shah)
Everytime (Sandra Wollner) ●
Flies (Fernando Eimbcke) ●
Four Seasons in Java (Kamila Andini)
Furies (Rami Kodeih)
Future Tense (Jenna Cato Bass)
A Girl Unknown (Zou Jing)
God Bless You, Mr Kopu (Alex Liu)
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (Josef Kubota Wladyka)
How We Stand (Marie Clements)
Inherit (Banjong Pisanthanakun)
Intermission (Yonfan)
Iron Boy (Louis Clichy)
Julián (Louise Bagnall)
La Gradiva (Marine Atlan) ●
L’autre (Alexandre Franchi)
Lemonade (Kim Bartley)
Light Pillar (Xu Zao) ●
Long Long Night (Kyu Bock Youm)
The Lost Children Of Tuam (Frank Berry)
Love Is the Monster (Neto Villalobos Brenes)
Marie Madeleine (Géssica Généus)
Muyi (Julien Chheng)
Neverman (Rodrigo Barriuso)
Our Loves (Avi Nesher)
Rehearsals for a Revolution (Pegah Ahangarani)
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives (Daniel Oriahi)
Smudge the Blades (Cody Lightning)
Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
Sunburn (Serville Poblete)
The Surgeon (Roshan Sethi)
Tangles (Leah Nelson)
Thirteen in Gaza (Hosam Abu Dan) ○
Toy Gun Bandit (Rémi St-Michel)
Trash Mountain (Kris Rey)
Trees are Watching (Bahman Ghobadi)
The Violinist (Ervin Han & Raúl García)
Viva Carmen (Sébastien Laudenbach)
We Are All Strangers (Anthony Chen)
Where the River Begins (Juan Andrés Arango)
Woman Unknown (May el-Toukhy) ○

 

Special Presentations (52 | 2025: 58)
The Age of Goodbyes (Edmund Yeo)
All of a Sudden (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) ●
All That She Wants (Scarlett Bermingham & Andrew Rhymer)
Alpha Gang (David Zellner & Nathan Zellner)
Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo (Takashi Miike) ○
The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen) ●
Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodóvar) ●
Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog) ○
Clarissa (Arie & Chuko Esiri) ○
Closing Night (Cody Fern)
Club Kid (Jordan Firstman) ●
Coward (Lukas Dhont) ●
The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg)
Elsinore (Simon Stone)
Everest: The Other Side (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) ○
Everybody Wants To F*** Me (Jonathan Schey)
Faith (Paul Andrew Williams)
Fjord (Cristian Mungiu) ✘
Gentle Monster (Marie Kreutzer) ✘
Glaxo (Benjamín Naishtat) ○
A Good Little Soldier (Stéphane Brizé)
Growth of the Soil (Hans Petter Moland)
Happily Ever After (Feng-I Fiona Roan)
Hombre al agua (Gael García Bernal)
The Housewife (Ben Shirinian)
I Play Rocky (Peter Farrelly) ○
The Idiot(s) (Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert)
In Alaska (Jaap van Heusden & Vinnie Karetak)
Ink (Danny Boyle) ○
It Will Happen Tonight (Nanni Moretti)
Josephine (Beth de Araújo) ✘
The Julia Set (Niki Byrne)
La Bola Negra (Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi) ●
Le Faux Soir (Michaël R. Roskam)
The Liberation (Guy Nattiv)
A Long Winter (Andrew Haigh) ○
Look Back (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Love of Your Life (Rachel Morrison)
The Man I Love (Ira Sachs) ✘
Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev) ●
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? (Shinya Tsukamoto) ○
Neil Peart: No One’s Disciple (Scot McFadyen & Sam Dunn)
Paradise Lost (Yeon Sang-ho)
Phoolan (Richie Mehta)
Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong) ○
The Road Not Taken (Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
The Stunt Driver (Michael Dowse)
Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh) ○
The Unknown (Arthur Harari) ★
Whatcha Want (Mina Shum)
Wild Horse Nine (Martin McDonagh) ○
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (Bassam Tariq)

 

Discovery (24 | 2025: 23)
Ancestors (David Turpin)
Arne Goes to Space (Lars Vega)
Bedford Park (Stephanie Ahn)
A Common Story (Anna Foglietta)
The Daughters of Abraham (Hanaël El Yousfi)
Drifter (Sung Kang)
The Fortunate Isles (Helena Girón & Samuel Delgado) ○
Head to Head (Ghasideh Golmakani )
I Am Mario (Sharon Kleinberg)
In Waves (Phuong Mai Nguyen) ✘
Krux (Tony Vahl)
Magazine (Alexandra Pechman)
Memories of a Forest (Katharina Rabl)
Nosotros (Joaquín Ruano)
Purgatory (Lindsay Lanzillotta)
Salvation (Tom Nicoll)
Seventeen (Justin Ducharme)
Sisters (Ione Hernández)
Strong Son (Ian Bawa)
Stuffed (Theo Rhys) ○
Voices (Deantè Gray)
We Are Born Good (Leung Chuen Yeung)
What Lies Between Us (Amalie Næsby Fick)
Zjili: A Story of Sisterhood and The Burdens of Excess (Christine Boateng & Hajara Musah Chambas)

 

Gala Presentations (24 | 2025: 22)
All About Corinne (Marc Fitoussi)
Always Lalisa (Sue Kim)
The Assassin(s) (Hur Jin-ho)
Atonement (Reed Van Dyk)
Babies (Lauren Miller Rogen)
Being Heumann (Siân Heder)
Bunker (Florian Zeller)
Diary of a Mad Old Man (Wayne Wang)
Evil Genius (Courteney Cox)
Girl Group (Rebel Wilson)
It’s My Time (Bai Xue)
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd (Tim Blake Nelson)
Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story (Adrian Buitenhuis)
Misty Green (Chris Rock) ○
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (Noah Segan)
Onwards and Sideways (John Madden)
Pretenders (Joss Crowley)
Prima Facie (Susanna White)
Run Terry Run (Sean Menard)
Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor (Nguyen Phan Quang Binh)
A Talent for Murder (Anton Corbijn)
Tenzing (Jennifer Peedom)
Up Against It (Trudie Styler)
Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend (Yan Lanouette Turgeon)

 

TIFF Docs (21 | 2025: 24)
Ba’s Book (Ashley Duong)
Black Sunflowers (James Marcus Haney)
Bleeding Hearts (Andrew Morgan)
Cheyenne (Taimi Arvidson)
Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been (Barry Avrich)
Edward Said: Between Worlds (Maiken Baird)
The Final Act (Sophie Deraspe)
Gail (Michael Maxxis)
The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs (Èlia Gasull Balada & Matteo Norzi)
Like Magic (Melissa Saavedra Gil)
Low Lies The Land (Emanuele Gerosa)
Musk (Alex Gibney)
The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias (Sophie Fiennes) ○
Rapinoe (Rebeca Huntt)
Re/Pair (Lacey Schwartz Delgado)
Rescue (Sine Plambech)
Still Night, Burning House (Carol Nguyen)
Tehran, Under the Skin (Afsaneh Salari)
Turtle Island Rap (Alexandra Lazarowich)
The Ultra Runner (Mila Aung-Thwin)
Union Town (Barbara Kopple) ○

 

Wavelengths (15 [incl. 3 shorts programmes] | 2025: 11 [3])
At Night (Beatrice Gibson) ★
The Black Box is Orange (Yuula Benivolski) ○
The Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude) ★
Double Freedom (Lisandro Alonso) ★
Everything Else Is Noise (Nicolás Pereda) ★
Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Mariano Llinás) ○
London (Sebastian Brameshuber) ★
My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec) ★
Nobody’s Violence (Denis Côté) ●
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (William & David Greaves) ○
Peacocks Come with the Clouds (Parastoo Anoushahpour) ○
               – followed by Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo (Kamal Aljafari)
The Remotes (John Torres) ○

Wavelengths 1: House and Home ○
– Two Pids (John Smith)
– After Image (Rita Ferrando)
– Moon Palace (Jiaqi Yu)
– Microcosmic Orbit: Encased (Danaya Chulphuthiphong)
– The Address Book (Mustafa Uzuner) 16mm
+ Chronicle of Tiredness (Natalia Marín)

Wavelengths 2: This Suffocating Now ○
– Ghazal-e Sorkh (Maryam Tafakory)
– TM (1974, Takehisa Kosugi)
– Fire Flies (Zheng Lu Xinyuan)
– Splits in Two (Simon Liu)
+ This Suffocating Now (Vika Kirchenbauer)

Wavelengths 3: Time and Tide ○
+ Forever…Forever (Johann Lurf) 70mm
– La Prospettiva (1653) (Ben Russell)
– Electric Fragments No. 1 – Rom (Men) (2001, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi)
– Fevers (James Richards)

 

Platform (12 | 2025: 10)
Angh (Theja Rio)
Brace Your Heart (Amanda Kernell)
Children Untold (Miwa Nishikawa)
Djinn Wedding (Ferit Karahan)
Idda (Irene Dionisio)
In the Heart of the South (Nyla Innuksuk)
Masc (Bertil Nilsson)
On Behalf of My Son (Gabriel Martins)
Silenced Nights (Lawrence Fajardo)
The Smell of Apples (John Trengove)
Wild Wild East (Jan Holoubek)
The World Before (Yoon Dan-bi)

 

Midnight Madness (10 | 2025: 10)
Anchors Aweigh (Matt Barats)
Arrested Memory (Sabu)
The Face of Horror (Anna Biller) ○
Half (Samjad)
Kick On (Nick Kozakis)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney (Matthew Rankin) ○
River (Joshua Giuliano)
Rogue Trooper (Duncan Jones)
The Spiral (Paolo Strippoli)
Vintage Violence (Eugene Kotlyarenko)

 

Primetime (10 | 2025: 10)
Alice (Virginie Verrier & Guillaume Lonergan)
American Hostage (Shawn Ryan, Eileen Myers, & Adam Arkin)
Below (Jesse McKeown)
Blindspot Berlin (David Nawrath)
Carrie (Mike Flanagan)
Crystal Lake (Brad Caleb Kane & Michael Lennox)
Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically (Marcelo Gomes & Carol Minêm)
Slow Horses (Will Smith & Adam Randall)
2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback (Darren Dale)
YAGA (Kat Sandler, Rachel Talalay, & David Frazee)

 

TIFF Classics (6 | 2025: 6)
The Devils (1971, Ken Russell) ●
Kissed (1996, Lynne Stopkewich)
Pelechian Project ★
+ Land of the People (1966, Artavazd Pelechian)
+ The Beginning (1967, Artavazd Pelechian)
+ We (1969, Artavazd Pelechian)
+ The Seasons (1975, Artavazd Pelechian)
+ The End (1992, Artavazd Pelechian)
Report to Mother (1986, John Abraham)
Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu) ●
Ten Dark Women (1961, Kon Ichikawa)

 

 

May 12
8:00pm — The Electric Kiss (Pierre Salvadori), Bazin
 

May 13
10:00am — Butterfly Jam (Kantemir Balagov), Théâtre Croisette
3:00pm — Nagi Notes (Kôji Fukada), Lumière
5:15pm — A Woman’s Life (Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet), Debussy
8:30pm — In Waves (Phuong-Mai Nguyen), Miramar
 

May 14
8:45am — Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun), Debussy
3:00pm — Thanks for Coming (Alain Cavalier), Théâtre Croisette
5:00pm — Fatherland (Paweł Pawlikowski), Bazin
6:45pm — Parallel Tales (Asghar Farhadi), Debussy
 

May 15
12:00pm — The Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude), Théâtre Croisette
2:30pm — All of a Sudden (Ryusuke Hamaguchi), Bazin
10:30pm — Gentle Monster (Marie Kreutzer), Bazin
 

May 16
8:30am — Club Kid (Jordan Firstman), Debussy
11:00am — La Gradiva (Marine Atlan), Miramar
3:00pm — Double Freedom (Lisandro Alonso), Théâtre Croisette
5:30pm — The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen), Bazin
10:00pm — Paper Tiger (James Gray), Debussy
 

May 17
8:30am — Full Phil (Quentin Dupieux), Varda
3:00pm — Moulin (László Nemes), Lumière
10:00pm — Hope (Na Hong-jin), Debussy
 

May 18
11:30am — Everytime (Sandra Wollner), Debussy
3:30pm — The Unknown (Arthur Harari), Lumière
8:30pm — La Perra (Dominga Sotomayor), Théâtre Croisette
 

May 19
8:30am — Her Private Hell (Nicolas Winding Refn), Varda
11:00am — Fjord (Cristian Mungiu), Bazin
2:30pm — Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev), Bazin
5:30pm — Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodóvar), Debussy
8:00pm — The Samurai and the Prisoner (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Debussy
 

May 20
3:00pm — Red Rocks (Bruno Dumont), Théâtre Croisette
10:15pm — The Man I Love (Ira Sachs), Debussy
 

May 21
8:45am — Vertiginous (Quentin Dupieux), Théâtre Croisette
4:15pm — La Bola Negra (Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi), Debussy
10:15pm — Coward (Lukas Dhont), Debussy
 

May 22
11:00am — A Man of His Time (Emmanuel Marre), Cineum Aurore
3:00pm — The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach), Lumière
6:30pm — The Birthday Party (Léa Mysius), Bazin
 

May 23
2:15pm + The Unknown (Arthur Harari), Varda

 
 

Pre-screened
9 Temples to Heaven (Sompot Chidgasornpongse)

Ⓟ is for P&I
 

February 11
7:30pm – No Good Men (Shahrbanoo Sadat), CinemaxX 4 Ⓟ
 

February 12
2:15pm – Trial of Hein (Kai Stänicke), Bluemax Theater Ⓟ
5:00pm – Liminals (Pierre Huyghe), Halle am Berghain
9:45pm – Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (Gore Verbinski), CinemaxX 7 Ⓟ
 

February 13
10:00am – Light Pillar (Xu Zao), Bluemax Theater Ⓟ
12:15pm – Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Grant Gee), Berlinale Palast Ⓟ
6:15pm – Mouse (Kelly O’Sullivan & Alex Thompson), Zoo Palast 1
9:15pm – Dao (Alain Gomis), CinemaxX 4 Ⓟ
 

February 14
11:00am – Crystal Palace (1934, Hryhorii Hrycher), Akademie der Künste
1:30pm – Doggerland (Kim Ekberg), Akademie der Künste 35mm
7:00pm – WAX & GOLD (Ruth Beckermann), CinemaxX 6 Ⓟ
 

February 15
10:00am – Atlas of the Universe (Paul Negoescu), Zoo Palast 2
12:15pm – Rose (Markus Schleinzer), Berlinale Palast Ⓟ
3:15pm – If I Were Alive (André Novais Oliveira), Zoo Palast 1
5:30pm – Forum Expanded Programme 4, Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
               – This Suffocating Now (Vika Kirchenbauer)
               – El León (Diana Bustamante)
               – Filme Pin (María Rojas Arias & Andrés Jurado [La Vulcanizadora])
               – Fruits of Despair (Nima Nassaj)
9:30pm – I Built A Rocket Imagining Your Arrival (Janaína Marques), Delphi Filmpalast
 

February 16
8:45am – At the Sea (Kornél Mundruczó), Berlinale Palast Ⓟ
12:00pm – Nina Roza (Geneviève Dulude-de Celles), Berlinale Palast Ⓟ
7:30pm – My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec), CinemaxX 4 Ⓟ
 

February 17
10:00am – Isabel (Gabe Klinger), Cubix 9
12:15pm – Queen at Sea (Lance Hammer), Berlinale Palast Ⓟ
4:00pm – London (Sebastian Brameshuber), Cubix 6
7:30pm – The Moths & the Flame (Kevin Contento), Cubix 8
 

February 18
9:00am – Flies (Fernando Eimbcke), Berlinale Palast Ⓟ
12:00pm – Home Stories (Eva Trobisch), Berlinale Palast Ⓟ
6:00pm – Forum Expanded Programme 10, Delphi Filmpalast
               – Warnings to the Distant Future (Juliane Jaschnow & Stefanie Schroeder)
               – The Weary Hours of Two Lab Assistants (Burak Çevik)
               – Forever…Forever (Johann Lurf) 70mm
9:00pm – EIGHT BRIDGES (James Benning), Delphi Filmpalast
 

February 19
9:00am – The Loneliest Man in Town (Rainer Frimmel & Tizza Covi), Berlinale Palast Ⓟ
5:30pm – Cesarean Weekend (Mohammad Schirvani), Delphi Filmpalast
9:45pm + Bamboozled (2000, Spike Lee), Akademie der Künste 35mm
 

February 20
9:00am – Yo (Anna Fitch & Banker White), Berlinale Palast Ⓟ
11:45am – Josephine (Beth de Araújo), Berlinale Palast Ⓟ
10:00pm – The Day She Returns (Hong Sang-soo), Cubix 7
 

February 21
9:30pm – Foreign Travel (Ted Fendt), Delphi Filmpalast
 

February 22
11:30am – Everything Else Is Noise (Nicolás Pereda), Cinema Paris
 

January 30
7:30pm – Tetsuya Maruyama: Cinema Situations, Kino 4
               – Shashin no Ma (Tetsuya Maruyama)
               – Dead See (2021, Tetsuya Maruyama)
               – Third Mountain (Tetsuya Maruyama) 16mm
               – Situation-Cinema (2023, Tetsuya Maruyama)
               – Untitled (three moons) (2024, Tetsuya Maruyama) 16mm
9:30pm – sound//vision: 水托邦 (Hydrotopia) (Chiemi Shimada & Jamie Man), WORM UBIK
 

January 31
9:45am – Dialectics, Pathé 2
               – An Impossible Address (2025, Suneil Sanzgiri)
               – Statues Also Die? (Thais Fernandes)
               – Last Night I Dreamed It Was Raining Fish (2025, Shraddha Khanna)
               – Au hasard (Darren Dominique Heroux) 3D
12:15pm – Transformed Topography, Pathé 2
               – SightNotSeeing (Sheungman Yim)
               – Greetings from Rhodes (Viera Čákanyová)
               – Venezia Diorama (Nicolas Piret)
               + FELT (2025, Blake Williams) 3D
               – Tamashi (Ashima Shiraishi & Jess X. Snow)
5:00pm – Tetsuya Maruyama: Camera Work, Kino 4
               – ANTFILM (2021, Tetsuya Maruyama) 8mm
               – FOTOGRAFAR (Tetsuya Maruyama) 8mm
               – L.O.V.E.S.O.N.G. (2019, Tetsuya Maruyama) 8mm
               – GIRA 2 (2024, Tetsuya Maruyama) 8mm
               – One more performance that unfolds a space (Tetsuya Maruyama) 16mm
               – Q&A (Tetsuya Maruyama)
               – Corredor (2023, Tetsuya Maruyama) 16mm
6:30pm – Fine Grain, Kino 3
               – Veronique (Friedl vom Gröller) 16mm
               – DETRITUS (Deborah S. Phillips & Zuzanna Marczak) 16mm
               – XTENDED RELEASE (Joshua Gen Solondz) 16mm
               – See Through the Hollowed Blue Hellebore (Jiayi Chen) 16mm
               – Super, Natural (2025, Kyath Battie) 16mm
               – Wounded Edges (2025, Yannick Mosimann) 16mm
11:00pm – sound//vision: Pedra e Montanha (2025, Tetsuya Maruyama), WORM Central Station 35mm
 

February 1
3:00pm – Chronovisor (Kevin Walker & Jack Auen), Pathé 2
 

February 2
11:45am – The Misconceived (James N. Kienitz Wilkins), LantarenVenster 3
2:45pm – DINAMO: Exposure, Kino 3
               – The System (2014, Marco Godoy)
               – Omen (2000, Peter Rose)
               – 44 Houses (2025, Kari Fisher & Isaac Forsland)
               – RE:EXPOSURE (2021, Vicky Smith)
               – Verdigris (2025, Chloe Brenan)
               – gestures toward Plant Vision (2021, Sarah Abbott)
               – A Letter from Elli (2019, Elina Saloranta)
               – 20/68 Schatzi (1968, Kurt Kren) 16mm
               – Roseblood (1974, Sharon Couzin)
5:45pm – The Devil and the Beauty (1969, Lee Yong-min), Pathé 3 3D
8:45pm – Tycoon (Charlotte Zhang), Kino 4
 

February 3
6:30pm – Nox (Matti Harju), LantarenVenster 5
8:30pm – Nightmare’s Advice (Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk), Pathé 6
 

February 4
11:45am – ADGIN PRRX (Norbert Pfaffenbichler), LantarenVenster 3
 

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.

This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2025 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

1. Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)
2. Pedra e Montanha (Tetsuya Maruyama)
3. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson)
4. Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)
5. The Perfect Neighbor (Geeta Gandbhir)
6. Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
7. Yes (Nadav Lapid)
8. What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sang-soo)
9. Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
10. Final Destination Bloodlines (Zach Lipovsky & Adam B. Stein)

 

Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles appear here.)

1. Baby Invasion (2024, Harmony Korine)
2. Misericordia (2024, Alain Guiraudie)
3. Afternoons of Solitude (2024, Albert Serra)
4. DIRECT ACTION (2024, Ben Russell & Guillaume Cailleau)
5. Bugonia (2025, Yorgos Lanthimos)
6. The Perfect Neighbor (2025, Geeta Gandbhir)
7. Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
8. About Thirty (2023, Martín Shanly)
9. The Shrouds (2024, David Cronenberg)
10. Father Mother Sister Brother (2025, Jim Jarmusch)

 

Top 10 “Oldies” (first-time viewings of films made before 2010)

1. The Store (1983, Frederick Wiseman)
2. Le boucher (1970, Claude Chabrol)
3. They Live (1988, John Carpenter)
4. Model (1980, Frederick Wiseman)
5. Zoo (1993, Frederick Wiseman)
6. The Brood (1979, David Cronenberg)
7. Scattered Clouds (1967, Mikio Naruse)
8. Deep End (1970, Jerzy Skolimowski)
9. Angst (1983, Gerald Kargl)
10. High School (1968, Frederick Wiseman)

 

Other 2025 films I’ve seen

• The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason) – 6.4
• Dracula (Radu Jude) – 6.4
• The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh) – 6.4
• Le Lac (Fabrice Aragno) – 6.3
• Sirât (Oliver Laxe) – 6.2
• Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari) – 6.2
• Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay) – 6.2
• After Dreaming (Christine Haroutounian) – 6.1
• The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie) – 6.1
• Case 137 (Dominik Moll) – 6.1
• Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin) – 6.0
• Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (Julian Castronovo) – 6.0
• Kontinental ‘25 (Radu Jude) – 5.9
• Bouchra (Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani) – 5.9
• The Shipwrecked Triptych (Deniz Eroglu) – 5.9
• Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (Joel Alfonso Vargas) – 5.9
• Pillion (Harry Lighton) – 5.9
• Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes (Gabriel Azorín) – 5.8
• Gavagai (Ulrich Köhler) – 5.8
• With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari) – 5.8
• Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.7
• Paul (Denis Côté) – 5.7
• Levers (Rhayne Vermette) – 5.6
• Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater) – 5.6
• Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due (Abdellatif Kechiche) – 5.6
• Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (Gore Verbinski) – 5.6
• One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson) – 5.6
• Maddie’s Secret (John Early) – 5.6
• Balearic (Ion de Sosa) – 5.6
• The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt) – 5.6
• Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk (Sepideh Farsi) – 5.6
• Powwow People (Sky Hopinka) – 5.6
• John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens) – 5.6
• Ella McCay (James L. Brooks) – 5.5
• Copper (Nicolás Pereda) – 5.5
• The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler) – 5.5
• The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai) – 5.5
• Blue Moon (Richard Linklater) – 5.5
• Magellan (Lav Diaz) – 5.4
• Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel) – 5.4
• A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow) – 5.4
• BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph) – 5.4
• Two Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin) – 5.4
• Lucky Lu (Lloyd Lee Choi) – 5.4
• Sinners (Ryan Coogler) – 5.4
• 80+ (Želimir Žilnik) – 5.4
• Eddington (Ari Aster) – 5.3
• Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura) – 5.3
• After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino) – 5.3
• Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski) – 5.3
• I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho) – 5.3
• Romeria (Carla Simón) – 5.3
• The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadžihalilović) – 5.3
• Drunken Noodles (Lucio Castro) – 5.3
• Predators (David Osit) – 5.3
• Canone effimero (Gianluca De Serio) – 5.3
• Enzo (Robin Campillo) – 5.2
• The Fence (Claire Denis) – 5.2
• The Incredible Snow Woman (Sébastien Betbeder) – 5.2
• Escape (Masao Adachi) – 5.2
• Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie) – 5.2
• Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee) – 5.1
• A Balcony in Limoges (Jérôme Reybaud) – 5.1
• Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant) – 5.1
• Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou) – 5.1
• Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi) – 5.1
• Little Trouble Girls (Urska Dukic) – 5.1
• Phantoms of July (Julian Radlmaier) – 5.1
• The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho) – 5.0
• Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson) – 5.0
• The Plant from the Canaries (Ruan Lan-Xi) – 5.0
• little boy (James Benning) – 5.0
• Hair, Paper, Water… (Nicolas Graux & Trương Minh Quý) – 5.0
• Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho) – 4.9
• Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie) – 4.9
• Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs) – 4.9
• Hen (György Pálfi) – 4.9
• Resurrection (Bi Gan) – 4.9
• No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook) – 4.9
• Timestamp (Kateryna Gornostai) – 4.9
• The Blue Trail (Gabriel Mascaro) – 4.9
• Punku (Juan Daniel Fernández Molero) – 4.9
• Weapons (Zach Cregger) – 4.8
• Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold) – 4.8
• Ari (Léonor Serraille) – 4.8
• Videoheaven (Alex Ross Perry) – 4.8
• Tales of the Wounded Land (Abbas Fahdel) – 4.7
• Wolf Man (Leigh Whannell) – 4.7
• The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus) – 4.7
• Urchin (Harris Dickinson) – 4.7
• Dreams (Michel Franco) – 4.6
• Woman and Child (Saeed Roustaee) – 4.6
• Leave One Day (Amelie Bonnin) – 4.6
• Ariel (Lois Patiño) – 4.5
• The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson) – 4.5
• Twinless (James Sweeney) – 4.5
• Olmo (Fernando Eimbcke) – 4.5
• The Seasons (Maureen Fazendeiro) – 4.5
• Cover-Up (Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus) – 4.4
• Late Fame (Kent Jones) – 4.4
• Desire Lines (Dane Komljen) – 4.4
• It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi) – 4.3
• Orphan (László Nemes) – 4.3
• Mosquitoes (Valentina Bertani & Nicole Bertani) – 4.3
• Eel (Chu Chun-Teng) – 4.3
• Young Mothers (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 4.2
• Duse (Pietro Marcello) – 4.2
• White Snail (Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter) – 4.2
• Train Dreams (Clint Bentley) – 4.2
• No! YOU’RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance (Crispin Hellion Glover) – 4.1
• The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas) – 4.1
• A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski) – 4.1
• The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi) – 4.0
• Roofman (Derek Cianfrance) – 4.0
• The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania) – 4.0
• Plainclothes (Carmen Emmi) – 4.0
• Bono: Stories of Surrender (Immersive) (Andrew Dominik) – 3.9
• To the Victory! (Valentyn Vasyanovych) – 3.8
• Girls on Wire (Vivian Qu) – 3.8
• Silent Friend (Ildikó Enyedi) – 3.7
• The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold) – 3.6
• The Plague (Charlie Polinger) – 3.6
• Evidence (Lee Anne Schmitt) – 3.6
• Alpha (Julia Ducournau) – 3.4
• Back Home (Tsai Ming-liang) – 3.4
• Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach) – 3.4
• TRON: Ares (Joachim Rønning) – 3.3
• Mare’s Nest (Ben Rivers) – 3.3
• The Light (Tom Tykwer) – 3.3
• Where the Night Stands Still (Liryc Dela Cruz) – 3.1
• Barrio Triste (STILLZ) – 3.0
• Her Will Be Done (Julia Kowalski) – 2.9
• Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier) – 2.8
• Hot Milk (Rebecca Lenkiewicz) – 2.7
• If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein) – 2.4
• Benita (Alan Berliner) – 1.8

Ⓟ is for Public
Ⓕ is for Free Oh nvm!
 

September 4
8:30am + Magellan (Lav Diaz), Scotiabank 8
11:30am – Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel), Lightbox 3
3:55pm – The Fence (Claire Denis), Scotiabank 14
9:15pm – Bouchra (Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani), Scotiabank 10
 

September 5
8:30am – The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas), Lightbox 1
12:45pm – Levers (Rhayne Vermette), Scotiabank 9
3:15pm – Wavelengths 1: Map of Traces, Lightbox 3 Ⓟ
               + Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016, Tomonari Nishikawa)
               – Rojo Žalia Blau (Viktoria Schmid)
               – Disappeared (Sohrab Hura)
               – 09/05/1982 (Jorge Caballero & Camilo Restrepo)
               – Map of Traces (Chan Hau Chun)
               – In Transit (Vadim Kostrov)
7:15pm + Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze), Scotiabank 6
 

September 6
9:00am – The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold), Lightbox 1 70mm
1:15pm – Wavelengths 2: Into the Blue, Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
               – I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash (Mark Jenkin)
               – From My Cloud (Minjung Kim)
               – Cairo Streets (Abdellah Taïa)
               – Daria’s Night Flowers (Maryam Tafakory)
               – Aftertide (Kaiwen Ren)
3:30pm – To the Victory! (Valentyn Vasyanovych), Scotiabank 11
 

September 7
8:30am – Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant), Scotiabank 14
3:30pm – Wavelengths 3: Slightest Pretense, Lightbox 3 Ⓟ
               – Land of Barbar (Fredj Moussa)
               – Conditio Humana (Friedl vom Gröller)
               – Slightest Pretense (Eri Saito)
               – CONFERENCE (Björn Kämmerer)
               – Morgenkreis (Basma al-Sharif)
               + FELT (Blake Williams) 3D
 

September 8
11:45am – Orphan (László Nemes), Scotiabank 5
4:00pm – The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania), Scotiabank 14 Ⓟ
9:00pm – Duse (Pietro Marcello), Scotiabank 4 Ⓟ
 

September 9
8:45am – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson), Lightbox 2
11:30am – Powwow People (Sky Hopinka), Scotiabank 5
2:15pm – Cover-Up (Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus), Scotiabank 6
7:30pm – The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie), Scotiabank 12 Ⓟ
 

September 10
8:55am – The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler), Scotiabank 8
10:00pm + The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason), Scotiabank 11 Ⓟ
 

September 11
9:15am – Two Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin), Lightbox 2
11:30am – No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook), Lightbox 1 Ⓟ
3:07pm – Houston Astros vs. Toronto Blue Jays, Rogers Centre
10:00pm – Barrio Triste (STILLZ), Scotiabank 11 Ⓟ
 

September 12
12:45pm – Train Dreams (Clint Bentley), Lightbox 4 Ⓟ
5:00pm – Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari), Lightbox 3 Ⓟ
9:45pm – Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura), Scotiabank 3 Ⓟ
 

September 13
10:30am – Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson), Scotiabank 2 Ⓟ
1:15pm – Hen (György Pálfi), Scotiabank 8 Ⓟ
9:00pm – The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh), Lightbox 1 Ⓟ
 

September 14
8:55am – Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi), Scotiabank 8 Ⓟ
12:15pm – Silent Friend (Ildikó Enyedi), Scotiabank 3 Ⓟ
3:45pm – Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin), Scotiabank 10 Ⓟ
6:30pm – Maddie’s Secret (John Early), Scotiabank 11 Ⓟ

 
 
 

Films I have already seen:
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph)
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
The Blue Trail (Gabriel Mascaro)
Copper (Nicolás Pereda)
Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai)
Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou)
The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi)
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
Lucky Lu (Lloyd Lee Choi)
Magellan (Lav Diaz)
Mare’s Nest (Ben Rivers)
Mirrors No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
Olmo (Fernando Eimbcke)
A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski)
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (Sepideh Farsi)
The Seasons (Maureen Fazendeiro)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Sirāt (Óliver Laxe)
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)
With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari)

Key:
Features (40min. and up) are in bold
Shorts are in italics
● - I have seen this film
★ - I have seen this film and am fond of it (6.0 and higher)
✘ - I have seen this film and had a bad time watching it (4.0 and lower)
○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film
☀ - I made this film
16mm, 35mm, 70mm - This film will be screened from a celluloid print
👓 - This film is stereoscopic
L - Has TIFF's "Luminaries" label, i.e. it'd be in "Masters" if the section still existed

Colour coding:
NYFF - Slate and Main
SUNDANCE - If they had taste they'd pan you
BERLINALE - What the Nature Said
CANNES - Blow it up!
LOCARNO - Ericssonian therapy
VENICE - Nala Sinephro Smash
NOTABLE - New films by directors whose work I actively look forward to

(Colours trump whatever is below them; e.g. if a film screens at Cannes and is then later
announced as part of NYFF's Main Slate, it will be purple)

 

Special Presentations (58 | 2024: 57)
& Sons (Pablo Trapero)
Bad Apples (Jonatan Etzler)
Ballad of a Small Player (Edward Berger)
California Schemin’ (James McAvoy)
Calle Malaga (Maryam Touzani)
The Captive (Alejandro Amenábar)
Charlie Harper (Tom Dean & Mac Eldridge)
The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh) ○
Christy (David Michôd)
Couture (Alice Winocour) ○
Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant) ○
Degrassi: Whatever It Takes (Lisa Rideout)
Dog 51 (Cédric Jimenez)
Easy’s Waltz (Nic Pizzolatto)
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (Baz Luhrmann)
Eternal Return (Yaniv Raz)
The Fence (Claire Denis) L ○
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro) ○
Franz (Agnieszka Holland) L
Good News (Sung-hyun Byun)
Hedda (Nia DaCosta)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein) ✘
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi) ●
It Would Be Night in Caracas (Mariana Rondón & Marité Ugás)
Kokuho (Lee Sang-il)
Ky Nam Inn (Leon Le)
The Lost Bus (Paul Greengrass)
Lovely Day (Philippe Falardeau)
Meadowlarks (Tasha Hubbard)
Mile End Kicks (Chandler Levack)
Monkey in a Cage (Anurag Kashyap)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater) ●
A Pale View of Hills (Kei Ishikawa)
A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto) ○
Poetic License (Maude Apatow)
Primavera (Damiano Michieletto)
Project Y (Lee Hwan)
Rental Family (Hikari)
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin) ○
Sacrifice (Romain Gavras)
Scarlet (Mamoru Hosoda)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho) ●
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier) ✘
Silent Friend (Ildikó Enyedi) ○
Sirāt (Óliver Laxe) ★
The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie) ○
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski) ●
Steal Away (Clement Virgo)
The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold) 70mm ○
The Ugly (Yeon Sang-ho)
Three Goodbyes (Isabel Coixet)
Train Dreams (Clint Bentley) ○
Tuner (Daniel Roher)
Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) (Zacharias Kunuk) L
The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania) ○
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson) ○
The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas) ○
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution… (Nick Davis)

 

Centrepiece (55 | 2024: 44)
Arco (Ugo Bienvenu)
Barrio Triste (STILLZ) ○
Blood Lines (Gail Maurice)
Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari) ○
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater) ●
The Blue Trail (Gabriel Mascaro) ●
Carolina Caroline (Adam Carter Rehmeier)
The Condor Daughter (Álvaro Olmos Torrico)
The Cost of Heaven (Mathieu Denis) ○
Dandelion’s Odyssey (Momoko Seto)
Diya (Achille Ronaimou)
Duse (Pietro Marcello) ○
Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh)
Erupcja (Pete Ohs) ○
Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura) ○
Follies (Eric K. Boulianne) ○
The Fox King (Woo Ming Jin)
Girl (Shu Qi) ○
Good Boy (Jan Komasa)
Hamlet (Aneil Karia)
Honey Bunch (Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli)
I Swear (Kirk Jones)
In Search of the Sky (Jitank Singh Gurjar)
Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream (Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji)
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai) ●
The Last Viking (Anders Thomas Jensen)
Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou) ●
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han)
The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi) ●
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason) ★
Lucky Lu (Lloyd Lee Choi) ●
Mama (Or Sinai)
Memory of Princess Mumbi (Damien Hauser)
Milk Teeth (Mihai Mincan)
Mirrors No. 3 (Christian Petzold) ●
Motor City (Potsy Ponciroli)
My Father’s Shadow (Akinola Davies Jr.)
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Diego Céspedes)
New Years Rev (Lee Kirk)
Nomad Shadow (Eimi Imanishi)
Olmo (Fernando Eimbcke) ●
Orphan (László Nemes) ○
Palimpsest: the Story of a Name (Mary Stephen)
The President’s Cake (Hasan Hadi) ○
Renoir (Chie Hayakawa)
Saipan (Lisa Barros D’Sa & Glenn Leyburn)
Space Cadet (Kid Koala)
The Sun Rises On Us All (Cai Shangjun Cai) ○
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa) ●
Under the Same Sun (Ulises Porra)
Unidentified (Haifaa Al Mansour)
A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
Wasteman (Cal McMau)
Whitetail (Nanouk Leopold)
Youngblood (Hubert Davis)

 

TIFF Docs (24 | 2024: 21)
Aki (Darlene Naponse)
The Balloonists (John Dower)
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi) L ○
Canceled: The Paula Deen Story (Billy Corben)
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus) ○
The Eyes of Ghana (Ben Proudfoot)
Flana (Zahraa Ghandour)
Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel) ○
A Life Illuminated (Tasha Van Zandt)
LOVE+WAR (Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin)
Modern Whore (Nicole Bazuin)
Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising (Shane Belcourt)
Nuns vs. The Vatican (Lorena Luciano)
Orwell: 2+2=5 (Raoul Peck)
Powwow People (Sky Hopinka) ○
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (Sepideh Farsi) ●
The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue (Barry Avrich)
A Simple Soldier (Juan Camilo Cruz & Artem Ryzhykov)
Still Single (Jamal Burger & Jukan Tateisi)
The Tale of Silyan (Tamara Kotevska)
There Are No Words (Min Sook Lee)
True North (Michèle Stephenson)
While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts (Peter Mettler)
Whistle (Christopher Nelius)

 

Discovery (23 | 2024: 26)
Amoeba (Siyou Tan)
As We Breathe (Şeyhmus Altun)
Babystar (Joscha Bongard)
Bayaan (Bikas Ranjan Mishra)
Dinner with Friends (Sasha Leigh Henry)
Egghead Republic (Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja)
Forastera (Lucía Aleñar Iglesias)
Ghost School (Seemab Gul)
Julian (Cato Kusters)
Laundry (Zamo Mkhwanazi)
Little Lorraine (Andy Hines)
Maddie’s Secret (John Early)
The Man in My Basement (Nadia Latif)
Mārama (Taratoa Stappard)
Nika & Madison (Eva Thomas)
Noviembre (Tomás Corredor)
Oca (Karla Badillo)
100 Sunset (Kunsang Kyirong)
Our Father (Goran Stankovic)
Out Standing (Mélanie Charbonneau)
Retreat (Ted Evans)
Sink (Zain Duraie)
The Son and the Sea (Stroma Cairns)

 

Gala Presentations (22 | 2024: 22)
Adulthood (Alex Winter)
The Choral (Nicholas Hytner)
Driver’s Ed (Bobby Farrelly)
Eleanor the Great (Scarlett Johansson)
Eternity (David Freyne)
Fuze (David Mackenzie) ○
Glenrothan (Brian Cox)
Good Fortune (Aziz Ansari)
Hamnet (Chloé Zhao) ○
Homebound (Neeraj Ghaywan)
John Candy: I Like Me (Colin Hanks)
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (Ally Pankiw)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook) ○
Nuremberg (James Vanderbilt)
Palestine 36 (Annemarie Jacir)
Peak Everything (Anne Émond)
A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski) ●
Roofman (Derek Cianfrance)
She Has No Name (2024, Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
Sholay (1975, Ramesh Sippy)
Swiped (Rachel Lee Goldenberg)
Two Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin) ○

 

Wavelengths (11 [incl. 3 shorts programmes] | 2024: 15 [3])
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph) ●
Copper (Nicolás Pereda) ●
Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze) ★
Levers (Rhayne Vermette) ○
Magellan (Lav Diaz) L ●
Mare’s Nest (Ben Rivers) ✘
The Seasons (Maureen Fazendeiro) ●
With Hasan in Gaza (Kamal Aljafari) ●
               – preceded by It’s So Beautiful Here (Basma al-Sharif)
 

Wavelengths 1: Map of Traces ○
+ Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016, Tomonari Nishikawa) 16mm
– Rojo Žalia Blau (Viktoria Schmid)
– Disappeared (Sohrab Hura)
– 09/05/1982 (Jorge Caballero & Camilo Restrepo)
– Map of Traces (Chan Hau Chun)
– In Transit (Vadim Kostrov)

Wavelengths 2: Into the Blue ○
– I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash (Mark Jenkin)
– From My Cloud (Minjung Kim)
– Cairo Streets (Abdellah Taïa)
– Daria’s Night Flowers (Maryam Tafakory)
– Aftertide (Kaiwen Ren)

Wavelengths 3: Slightest Pretense ○
– Land of Barbar (Fredj Moussa)
– Conditio Humana (Friedl vom Gröller) 16mm
– Slightest Pretense (Eri Saito)
– CONFERENCE (Björn Kämmerer) 35mm
– Morgenkreis (Basma al-Sharif)
+ FELT (Blake Williams) 👓 ☀

 

Platform (10 | 2024: 10)
Between Dreams and Hope (Farnoosh Samadi)
Bouchra (Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani) ○
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler) ○
Hen (György Pálfi) ○
Nino (Pauline Loquès)
Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts) (Bretten Hannam)
Steve (Tim Mielants)
To The Victory! (Valentyn Vasyanovych) ○
Winter of the Crow (Kasia Adamik)
The World of Love (Yoon Ga-eun)

 

Midnight Madness (10 | 2024: 10)
Dead Lover (Grace Glowicki)
Dust Bunny (Bryan Fuller)
Fuck My Son! (Todd Rohal) ○
The Furious (Kenji Tanigaki)
Junk World (Takahide Hori)
Karmadonna (Aleksandar Radivojević)
The Napa Boys (Nick Corirossi)
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson) ○
Normal (Ben Wheatley)
Obsession (Curry Barker)

 

Primetime (10 | 2024: 8)
Black Rabbit (Zach Baylin & Kate Susman)
Gandhi (Sameer Nair & Hansal Mehta)
The Lowdown (Sterlin Harjo)
Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League (Richard Brown & Tebogo Malope)
Portobello – The Fall of Enzo Tortora (Marco Bellocchio) L ○
Reunion (William Mager & Luke Snellin)
Rise of the Raven (Balázs Lengyel & Robert Dornhelm)
A Sámi Wedding (Åse Kathrin Vuolab & Pål Jackman)
The Savage (Houman Seyyedi)
Wayward (Mae Martin, Ryan Scott)

 

TIFF Classics (6 | 2024: 6)
Aniki-Bóbó (1942, Manoel de Oliveira) ○
The Arch (1968, T’ang Shushuen) ○
Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986, Bahram Beyzaie)
Days and Nights in the Forest (1970, Satyajit Ray) ●
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg) 35mm ★
Nadja (1994, Michael Almereyda) ★

 

May 13
8:00pm – Leave One Day (Amelie Bonnin), Bazin
 

May 14
8:45am — Enzo (Robin Campillo), Théâtre Croisette
3:30pm — Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski), Bazin
10:15pm — Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa), Debussy
 

May 15
8:30am — Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie), Lumière
2:00pm — The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Diego Céspedes), Debussy W/O
5:00pm — Case 137 (Dominik Moll), Debussy
9:45pm — Sirât (Oliver Laxe), Debussy
 

May 16
11:45am — Her Will Be Done (Julia Kowalski), Théâtre Croisette
4:55pm — Eddington (Ari Aster), Debussy
 

May 17
8:30am — The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi), Varda
11:45am — Mirrors No. 3 (Christian Petzold), Théâtre Croisette
5:30pm — New Wave (Richard Linklater), Debussy
10:15pm — Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay), Debussy
 

May 18
8:30am — Urchin (Harris Dickinson), Debussy
3:00pm — The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho), Lumière
6:00pm — The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson), Debussy
8:15pm — The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason), Debussy
 

May 19
8:45am — Lucky Lu (Lloyd Lee Choi), Théâtre Croisette
2:30pm — I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho), Cineum Screen X
9:30pm — Magellan (Lav Diaz), Varda
 

May 20
8:30am — Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee), Buñuel
11:15am — Alpha (Julia Ducournau), Varda
4:00pm — It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi), Lumière
 

May 21
8:30am — A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski), Buñuel
2:00pm — A Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai), Debussy
4:15pm — Romeria (Carla Simón), Bazin
10:30pm — Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier), Debussy
 

May 22
11:45am — Yes (Nadav Lapid), Théâtre Croisette
3:30pm — Woman and Child (Saeed Roustaee), Lumière
10:00pm — Resurrection (Bi Gan), Debussy
 

May 23
4:00pm — Young Mothers (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne), Lumière
6:00pm — The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt), Debussy
9:00pm — Heads or Tails? (Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis), Bazin W/O
 
 
 

Already Seen
Drunken Noodles (Lucio Castro)
Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou)
Pillion (Harry Lighton)
The Plague (Charlie Polinger)
Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk (Sepideh Farsi)