The Toronto International Film Festival® is thrilled to announce the 2023 selections for the Discovery and Midnight Madness programmes. The infamous Midnight Madness lineup features 10 titles, 7 of which are World Premieres. The Discovery lineup, which primarily boasts World and International Premieres, includes 26 titles. Notably, 13 female filmmakers representing 50% of the total programme are featured in this year’s Discovery programme. Midnight Madness and Discovery provide a cornucopia of original and unexpected work. Midnight Madness is a fan favourite, iconoclastic programme highlighting the weird and the wicked, while the Discovery programme offers a window to contemporary international cinema and introduces the public to first and second feature films from gifted new filmmakers. “We’re excited to be showcasing new voices, audacious vision, and genre-bending cinema,” said Anita Lee, TIFF Chief Programming Officer. “TIFF’s Discovery and Midnight Madness programmes for 2023 will once again prove to be the ultimate destination for tastemakers and experience seekers.” MIDNIGHT MADNESS PROGRAMME 2023 “Sides will be split — both figuratively and literally (on screen) — as Midnight Madness returns to the Royal Alexandra Theatre with another stimulating concoction of unpredictable shock and ‘y’arr!’ cinema,” said Peter Kuplowsky, TIFF International Programmer, Midnight Madness. “Featuring two timely satiric provocations from Saudi Arabia (NAGA) and Serbia (Working Class Goes to Hell) — nations that are making their section debut — this year’s madness infectiously ignites with 11 o’clock numbers that go all the way to midnight courtesy of Larry Charles’ bonkers and bawdy Dicks: The Musical. A menagerie of tastes will be sated, so bottoms up!” AGGRO DR1FT Harmony Korine | USA Boy Kills World Moritz Mohr | Germany/South Africa/USA OPENING FILM Hell of a Summer Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk | USA/Canada KILL Nikhil Nagesh Bhat | India NAGA Meshal Aljaser | Saudi Arabia CLOSING FILM Sleep Jason Yu | South Korea When Evil Lurks Demián Rugna | Argentina Working Class Goes to Hell Mladen Đorđević | Serbia DISCOVERY PROGRAMME 2023 “The Discovery section, which is curated by a brilliant team of international programmers, is an integral part of TIFF,” stated Dorota Lech, TIFF Lead Programmer, Discovery, & International Programmer for Central, Eastern, & Southern Europe, the Caucasus, Iran, & Turkey. “It is a bold and exciting showcase of cinema and emerging talent from around the world, and we are honoured to highlight new and distinctive voices from artists creating their first or second feature on our global stage. This year’s programme of 26 titles includes films from 25 countries, accounting for international co-productions and local talent.” Achilles Farhad Delaram | Iran/Germany/France After the fire Mehdi Fikri | France A Match (Sthal) Jayant Digambar Somalkar | India Andragogy Wregas Bhanuteja | Indonesia/Singapore An Endless Sunday Alain Parroni | Italy/Germany/Ireland Arthur&Diana Sara Summa | Germany Backspot D.W. Waterson | Canada Frybread Face and Me Billy Luther | USA OPENING FILM Hajjan Abu Bakr Shawky | Saudi Arabia/Egypt/Jordan How to Have Sex Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom I Don’t Know Who You Are M. H. Murray | Canada La Suprema Felipe Holguín Caro | Colombia Mandoob Ali Kalthami | Saudi Arabia Mimang Kim Taeyang | South Korea Seagrass Meredith Hama-Brown | Canada Solitude Ninna Pálmadóttir | Iceland/Slovakia/France Tautuktavuk (What We See) Carol Kunnuk, Lucy Tulugarjuk | Canada The Teacher Farah Nabulsi | United Kingdom/Palestine/Qatar The Tundra Within Me (Eallugierdi) Sara Margrethe Oskal | Norway The Queen of My Dreams Fawzia Mirza | Canada Valentina or the Serenity (Valentina o la serenidad) Ángeles Cruz | Mexico Widow Clicquot Thomas Napper | France Wild Woman Alán González | Cuba Without Air Katalin Moldovai | Hungary Yellow Bus Wendy Bednarz | United Arab Emirates |
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About TIFF:
TIFF is a not-for-profit cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $200 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel, and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation, and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net.
and Major Supporters, the Government of Ontario, Telefilm Canada, and the City of Toronto.An Endless Sunday is generously supported by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Toronto.
The TIFF Discovery programme is generously supported by Air France.
Artscape Sandbox is the Official home of the 2023 Press Office & The Media Inclusion Initiative.
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