Fall 2024 Programming at TIFF

Join TIFF to commemorate Viola Desmond Day, experience an Almodóvar-inspired Flamenco performance, and more free programming! Connect with fellow film lovers this season to explore film as a medium for creative self-expression and celebration through public programming at TIFF.

Viola Desmond Day: Dionne Brand on To Sleep with Anger

November 8, 2024 | 7 pm
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To commemorate the 78th anniversary of Viola Desmond’s historic stand against racial segregation on November 8, 1946, TIFF proudly presents a screening of Charles Burnett’s evocative third feature, To Sleep with Anger, curated by acclaimed poet, novelist, and essayist Dionne Brand. Following the screening, Dionne Brand joins TIFF for an onstage conversation with writer and professor Christina Sharpe about the art of writing; the film’s aesthetic; and the counter-narrative to the colonial, imperialist, and racist tropes explored in her new book Salvage: Readings from the Wreck.

TIFF works to make its programming accessible and have set aside a number of free tickets for this event. If you represent a community group that would like to access some of these tickets, please get in touch by emailing outreach@tiff.net.

TIFF Next Wave Presents: Kuessipan

November 20, 2024 | 6:30 pm
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For Indigenous Education Month, TIFF Next Wave and TIFF Community Impact, in collaboration with the TDSB Arts Co-op and the Urban Indigenous Education Centre (UIEC), are honoured to show Myriam Verreault’s Kuessipan in which a Quebec Innu community two friends struggle to maintain their friendship when they clash over their diverging ambitions. Join afterwards for a conversation with Arts co-op mentors, educators and students on creative collaboration, self-representation, and intercultural relationships.

This event is co-presented with the Toronto Biennial of Art.

Viral Interventions

November 30, 2024 | 8:30 pm
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On this eve of Day Without Art, six new shorts from around the world tell extraordinary stories about living with HIV today. The techniques are as diverse as their makers and their voices are equally unforgettable, brimming with laughter, tears, fury and joyful activism. This screening will also include a post-screening conversation with the filmmakers. The six were produced by Viral Interventions, a York University project that since 2020 has commissioned artists, activists and scholars to collaborate on new films about living with HIV.

High Heels with Alicia Fletcher

December 12, 2024 | 7:00 pm
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High Heels revels in Almodóvar’s signature bold colour palette, exaggerated characters, and melodramatic plotlines. Set against the backdrop of a glamorous fashion world, the titular high heels serve as a recurring motif, symbolizing women’s paradoxical empowerment and oppression, while Flamenco music and dance reinforces the film with a cultural richness and underscores the central themes of identity, love and loss. Prior to the screening, enjoy a flamenco performance by Lula Lounge in TIFF’s atrium open to the public. Introduction by film curator Alicia Fletcher. Before the screening, audiences are invited to gather in the TIFF Lightbox atrium at 6pm for a free Flamenco performance by Lula Music and Arts Centre, with Fab Collab, as inspired by High Heels.

Silver Screenings: Pain and Glory

November 23, 2024 | 1:00 pm
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A deeply personal work, Pain and Glory is pure Almodóvar: inventive and irreverent, poignant and exhilarating. Chronicling the existential odyssey of a filmmaker confronting the autumn of his life, the Spanish auteur’s 21st feature immerses us in the thrall of memory while celebrating art as a balm for the burdens of mortality. This screening is co-presented by TIFF Silver Screenings, a free monthly series that brings seniors together to connect with fellow film lovers, and Ageless International Film Festival. TIFF Silver Screenings is presented by SHINGRIX and supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the New Horizons for Seniors Program.

See the North: Winter Kept Us Warm

November 12, 2024 | 6:30 pm
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Long forgotten in Canadian film history, David Secter’s independent feature Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) was one of the first LGBTQ+ films to screen at the Cannes Film Festival and one of the first Canadian features to garner international acclaim. Shot on the University of Toronto campus, the film lovingly portrays a queer romance that grows between two undergraduate students. Join TIFF for the film’s new 4K restoration with an introduction by TIFF Senior International Programmer for Canada, Norm Wilner.

**TIFF Wavelengths Presents: Brain Worm with Alex Da Corte**

November 13, 2024 | 6:30 pm
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Venezuelan-American artist Alex Da Corte joins TIFF for this month’s edition of TIFF Wavelengths with a special screening of Brain Worm. Featuring iconic animators and filmmakers, Da Corte’s curated shorts programme focuses on hand-crafted animation and DIY special effects that build tactile worlds on a 2D plane. Co-presented with Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto as a complement to Da Corte’s solo exhibition Ear Worm, which is on view until January 26.

A Feminist Lens: The 1973 Women & Film International Festival

Now until March 1, 2025
Free at the TIFF Film Reference Library
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The exhibition A Feminist Lens presents archival material from the collection, never before seen in Toronto of the 1973 Women & Film International Festival, a groundbreaking 10-day event at the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto that showcased films by women in cinema from the 20th century.

This exhibition draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Curated by: Cléo Sallis-Parchet

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Accessibility:
Accessible seating locations are available in all cinemas at TIFF Lightbox, with access by elevator and escalator. To book accessible seating, please call our Call Centre, open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 5pm, at 416-599-2033 or 1-888-258-8433. Seating is limited and cannot be guaranteed; it is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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