The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival will feature a selection of some of Italy’s best cinema.
September 5 to September 15, 2024
The Italian selections at the 2024 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival are presented with the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto.
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GALA PRESENTATIONS
The Return
Uberto Pasolini
World Premiere | Italy, United Kingdom | 2024 | 116 minutes | English
Odysseus washes up on the shores of his kingdom to find it much changed since he left to fight in the Trojan War, in this classical drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.
Saturday, September 7 | 9:30PM
GALA PRESENTATION
Roy Thomson Hall
Sunday, September 8 | 5:30PM
Scotiabank Theatre
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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Queer
Luca Guadagnino
North American Premiere | Italy, USA | 2024 | 135 minutes | English
Brilliant, audacious author, meet brilliant, audacious director: translating the work of William S. Burroughs for the screen, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s (Call Me by Your Name, TIFF ’17) spin on the Beat legend’s autobiographical novel matches its source material in vulnerability and taboo-smashing adventurousness. Starring Daniel Craig (Knives Out, TIFF ’19) and featuring supporting turns from Jason Schwartzman (Quiz Lady, TIFF ’23) and Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), Queer is a hallucinogenic odyssey bathed in aching desire.
Monday, September 9 | 9:45PM
Visa Screening Room
Princess of Wales Theatre
Tuesday, September 10 | 3:00PM
TIFF Lightbox
Friday, September 13 | 9:15AM
Scotiabank Theatre
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Vermiglio
Maura Delpero
North American Premiere | Italy, France, Belgium | 2024 | 118 minutes | Italian
Towards the end of the Second World War, in a high, remote mountain village in the Italian Alps, the arrival of a refugee soldier alters the dynamics of the place forever.
Tuesday, September 10 | 8:45PM
Royal Alexandra Theatre
Wednesday, September 11 | 1:45PM
Scotiabank Theatre
Friday, September 13 | 6:15PM
Scotiabank Theatre
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WAVELENGTHS PROGRAMME
The Damned
Roberto Minervini
North American Premiere | Italy, USA, Belgium | 2024 | 88 minutes | English
A daring period drama by celebrated Italian-born, American-based filmmaker Roberto Minervini, The Damned is an at-once philosophical and disarming portrayal of a group of volunteer Civil War soldiers on the western frontier.
Friday, September 6 | 8:30PM
TIFF Lightbox
Saturday, September 7 | 12:15PM
Scotiabank Theatre
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DISCOVERY PROGRAMME
Diciannove
Giovanni Tortorici
International Premiere | Italy, United Kingdom | 2024 | 108 minutes | Italian, English
In Diciannove (translating to Nineteen), Giovanni Tortorici’s elegant, heartfelt, and daring debut, a curious student learns that the road to self-discovery is worthwhile, if not necessary, no matter how unfamiliar or daunting the path.
Friday, September 6 | 2:30PM
TIFF Lightbox
Sunday, September 8 | 3:45PM
Scotiabank Theatre
Saturday, September 14 | 8:50AM
Scotiabank Theatre
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CENTREPIECE PROGRAMME
April
Dea Kulumbegashvili
North American Premiere | Italy, France, Georgia | 2024 | 134 minutes | Georgian
A powerful convergence of existence and womanhood, April is the timely second feature of writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili, who tells the story of an ob-gyn in eastern Georgia who performs illegal abortions.
Tuesday, September 10 | 9:30PM
Scotiabank Theatre
Wednesday, September 11 | 5:45PM
Scotiabank Theatre
Saturday, September 14 | 9:45PM
TIFF Lightbox
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Anywhere Anytime
Milad Tangshir
International Premiere | Italy | 2024 | 80 minutes | Italian, Wolof
Reminding us that for many, something as simple as a bike can guarantee or raze someone’s survival, Milad Tangshir’s fiction feature debut is a bold nod to Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 classic Bicycle Thieves and heralds a courageous and striking cinematic voice.
Tuesday, September 10 | 8:45PM
Scotiabank Theatre
Wednesday, September 11 | 12:45PM
Scotiabank Theatre
Sunday, September 15 | 6:00PM
Scotiabank Theatre
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TIFF DOCS
Wishing on a Star
Peter Kerekes
North American Premiere | Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia
2024 | 99 minutes | Italian
Whether or not you believe in astrology, odds are you’ve sneaked a peak at your horoscope at least once or twice. For his latest, full of star-crossed charm and earthly delights, veteran filmmaker and master of the hybrid form Peter Kerekes brilliantly combines the cinematic feel of a fiction film with cleverly captured real emotions from real people.
Sunday, September 8 | 12:45PM
Scotiabank Theatre
Tuesday, September 10 | 10:00PM
TIFF Lightbox
Sunday, September 15 | 3:00PM
Scotiabank Theatre