Celebrating Ontario at #TIFF24!
September 4, 2024
The Toronto International Film Festival returns for its 49th edition from September 5-15, 2024, and we’re thrilled to see Ontario showing up on screen throughout the festival.
This impressive lineup of 13 features screening at TIFF showcases the strength of Ontario’s film industry, both on the screen and behind the scenes.
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Keep reading for our full preview of Ontario films at #TIFF24!
40 ACRES
In a post-apocalyptic future where food is scarce, the last descendants of a Black family of farmers who settled in Canada after the American Civil War must protect their homestead from an organized militia hell-bent on taking their land. Premieres September 6th at 9pm. Produced by: 4T Productions; filmed in Ontario.
MATT AND MARA
Struggling with a new baby and a distracted husband, an academic is more than happy to hang out with a college pal who crashes back into her life. But what sort of relationship are they resuming, precisely? Premieres September 11th at 6pm. Produced by: MDFF, Arbitrage Pictures, Zapruder Films; filmed in Ontario.
MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL
This film brilliantly spotlights a young academic’s run towards one woman — acclaimed early 20th-century Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow — as she simultaneously flees from another, her failed musician mother. Premieres September 7th at 8:15pm. Produced by: Greenground Productions, Maison du Bonheur Films Inc.; filmed in Ontario.
PAYING FOR IT
A cultural snapshot of turn-of-the-millennium Toronto with subtle comic energy and a great cast, Sook-Yin Lee’s adaptation of Chester Brown’s autobiographical 2011 graphic novel is a movie only Lee could make… because it’s her story, too. Premieres September 6th at 9:30pm. Produced by: Wildling Pictures, Hawkeye Pictures; filmed in Ontario.
REALLY HAPPY SOMEDAY
A rising musical-theatre star before his transition, Z (Breton Lalama) has to figure out how to sing in his new register in order to return to the thing he loves most — and, in the process, integrate his past and present selves. Premieres September 8th at 9:45pm. Produced by: Really Happy Someday; filmed in Ontario.
THE FIRE INSIDE
Renowned cinematographer Rachel Morrison makes her feature directorial debut with this film about boxer Claressa Shields’ true-life ascent to the Olympics. It’s a unique sports story that goes beyond the triumph of the underdog to ask what comes after. Premieres September 7th at 2:30pm. Filmed in Ontario.
THE SHROUDS
Still grieving the loss of his wife, a technological entrepreneur (Vincent Cassel) finds what’s left of his world collapsing into a nightmare of sex, paranoia, and grief in David Cronenberg’s most personal film. Premieres September 11th at 9:30pm. Produced by Prospero Pictures; filmed in Ontario.
Photos and capsule descriptions courtesy of TIFF.