TIFF 2024: UK films and co-productions

Cosima Spender, Peter Cattaneo and Uberto Pasolini bring their latest works as Gala presentations with Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe, The Penguin Lessons (starring Steve Coogan) and The Return (featuring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche) respectively. Filmmaking royalty Mike Leigh will be honoured with the TIFF Ebert Director’s Award. Leigh’s Hard Truths (featuring Marianne Jean-Baptiste) will enjoy a Special presentation. 

Also screening in Special presentations are Bird, the fifth feature from Andrea Arnold (starring Barry Koeghan) and Rungano Nyoni’s sophomore feature On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (starring Susan Chardy). Filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel's first feature To A Land Unkown and Sandhya Suri's first fiction feature Santosh will screen in TIFF’s Centrepiece programme.

ANDREA BOCELLI: BECAUSE I BELIEVE | Wri-dir. Cosima Spender
World Premiere | UK

THE PENGUIN LESSONS | Dir. Peter Cattaneo | Wris. Jeff Pope, Tom Michell
World Premiere | Spain-UK

THE RETURN | Dir. Uberto Pasolini | Wris. Edward Bond, John Collee, Uberto Pasolini
World Premiere | Italy-Greece-UK-France
Supported by the UK Global Screen Fund

WILLIAM TELL | Wri-dir. Nick Hamm
World Premiere | UK

THE ASSESSMENT | Wri-dir. Fleur Fortuné | Wris. John Donnelly, Nell Garfath Cox, Dave Thomas
World Premiere | UK-Germany-USA

BIRD | Wri-dir. Andrea Arnold
North American Premiere | UK
Supported by BBC Film and the BFI

BRING THEM DOWN | Wri-dir. Christopher Andrews
World Premiere | UK-Ireland-Belgium
Supported by Screen Ireland and the UK Global Screen Fund

THE BRUTALIST | Dir. Brady Corbet | Wris. Mona Fastvold, Brady Corbet
North American Premiere | UK

CONCLAVE | Dir. Edward Berger | Wris. Peter Straughn, Robert Harris
International Premiere | USA-UK

THE CUT | Dir. Sean Ellis | Wris. Justin Bull, Mark Lane
World Premiere | UK

THE END | Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer | Wris. Rasmus Heisterberg
Canadian Premiere | Denmark-UK-Italy
Supported by the UK Global Screen Fund

HARD TRUTHS | Wri-dir. Mike Leigh
World Premiere | UK-Spain
Supported by Film4

HARVEST | Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari | Wris. Joslyn Barnes, Jim Crace, Athina Rachel Tsangari
North American Premiere | UK-Germany-Greece-France-USA
Supported by BBC Film and Screen Scotland

ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL | Wri-dir. Rungano Nyoni
North American Premiere | Zambia-UK
Supported by BBC Film

THE SALT PATH | Dir. Marianne Elliot | Wri. Rebecca Lenkiewicz
World Premiere | UK
Supported by BBC Film

WE LIVE IN TIME | Dir. John Crowley | Wri. Nick Payne
World Premiere | UK
Supported by Film4

ALL OF YOU | Dir. William Bridges | Wris. Brett Goldstein, William Bridges
World Premiere | UK

ON FALLING | Wri-dir. Laura Carreira
World Premiere | UK-Portugal
Supported by BBC Film, the BFI and Screen Scotland

DICIANNOVE | Wri-dir. Giovanni Tortorici
Canadian Premiere | Italy-UK

SANTOSH | Wri-dir. Sandhya Suri
Canadian Premiere | UK-India-France-Germany
Supported by the BFI and BBC Film

TO A LAND UNKNOWN | Dir. Mahdi Fleifel | Wris. Fyzal Boulifa, Jason McColgan
North American Premiere | UK-France-Germany-Netherlands-Greece-Qatar-Saudi Arabia-Palestine 

BLUE ROAD-THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY | Dir. Sinéad O’Shea
World Premiere | Ireland-UK
Supported by the UK Global Screen Fund

COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE | Wri-dir. Jessica Sarah Rinland
North American Premiere | Argentina-UK

BEING JOHN SMITH | Dir. John Smith
World Premiere | UK
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DISCLAIMER | Wri-dir. Alfonso Cuarón | Wri. Renee Knight
Canadian Premiere | UK

THE LISTENERS | Dir. Janicza Bravo | Wri. Jordan Tannahill
World Premiere | UK

THE COST OF HUGGING | Wri-dir. Louis Bhose
World Premiere | UK

MARION | Dirs. Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine
World Premiere | France-UK

MASTERPIECE MOMMY | Dir. Dorothy Sing Zhang
World Premiere | UK-China

STOMACH BUG | Wri-dir. Matty Crawford
World Premiere | UK
Supported by BBC Film