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TIFF has announced the competitive Platform lineup today with a jury that includes Oscar nominated filmmaker Atom Egoyan as its Head, South Korean filmmaker Hur Jin-ho and award-winning American filmmaker and essayist Jane Schoenbrun. Jin-ho directed last year’s A Normal Family which made its world premiere at TIFF.
Named after Jia Zhang-Ke’s groundbreaking second feature, Platform, the nine-year old program showcases bold and distinct directorial voices and emerging international talent. This year there’s ten in the sidebar from 17 countries. Of those Platform films that continued on to bigger success are Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal, which received multiple Oscar nominations, winning Best Sound and Best Film Editing. The 10 films in the section are eligible for the Platform Prize, an award of $20,000 CAD given to the best film in the program.
Previous jury members include: Claire Denis, Béla Tarr, Brian De Palma, Mira Nair, Riz Ahmed, Jia Zhang-Ke, Patricia Rozema, and Barry Jenkins.
Platform titles are nominated by TIFF’s programming team, led by Robyn Citizen, Director of
Programming, Festival and Cinematheque.
2024 Platform Program:
Opening Film
Daniela Forever Nacho Vigalondo | Spain/Belgium
World Premiere
Sales Title
Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) soulfully portrays a bereaved man who enrolls in a clinical
trial for a drug that allows him to reunite with his lost lover, played by Beatrice Grannò (The
White Lotus) through lucid dreams.
Daughter’s Daughter Huang Xi | Taiwan
World Premiere
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Taiwanese filmmaker Huang Xi, known for her debut feature, Missing Johnny, and HBO series
Twisted Strings, brings her latest work, Daughter’s Daughter, to TIFF 2024. After a terrible
accident takes the life of her youngest, a mother must confront her eldest daughter who she
gave up after a teenage pregnancy.
Mr. K Tallulah H. Schwab | Netherlands/Belgium/Norway
World Premiere
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This is a second feature by Amsterdam-based director Tallulah H. Schwab (Confetti Harvest).
Mr. K star Crispin Glover brings his best to Schwab’s delightfully Kafkaesque tale of a travelling
magician who finds himself in a hotel full of unusual guests — with no way out.
Paying For It Sook-Yin Lee | Canada
World Premiere
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Canadian filmmaker, musician, and actor Sook-Yin Lee connects the past with the present,
bringing together Canadian underground artists and innovative cross-generational musicians in
a cultural snapshot of turn-of-the-millennium Toronto in Paying For It. With subtle comic energy
and a great cast, this adaptation of Chester Brown’s autobiographical 2011 graphic novel is a
movie only Lee could make… because it’s her story, too.
Pedro Páramo Rodrigo Prieto | Mexico
World Premiere
Unfolding in a seemingly abandoned Mexican town where past and present beguilingly coexist,
the feature directorial debut of legendary cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (Killers of the Flower
Moon) is a mesmerizing story of desire, corruption, and inheritance.
The Wolves Always Come at Night Gabrielle Brady | Australia/Mongolia/Germany
World Premiere
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Australian director and screenwriter Gabrielle Brady (Hungry Ghosts) lays bare the emotional ruptures of climate change and urban migration on Mongolian herders, told through the experiences of one family. After a devastating storm wrought by climate change forces them from their home in the Mongolian countryside to the city, a young couple are forced to adapt to a new way of life in this breathtaking and heartbreaking hybrid film.
They Will Be Dust (Polvo serán) Carlos Marqués-Marcet | Spain/Italy/Switzerland
World Premiere
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Spanish film director, screenwriter, and film editor Carlos Marqués-Marcet, whose 2014 film
10.000 KM won the Goya for best new director, treats the audience to a unique, daring, and
rewarding look at our unavoidable death. Unequal parts contemporary dance-musical and
ensemble drama, They Will Be Dust reaches for the raw emotional core of humanity in all its
inherent messiness.
Triumph Petar Valchanov, Kristina Grozeva | Bulgaria/Greece
World Premiere
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This latest work from co-directors Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva, combined with their
previous films The Lesson (TIFF ’14) and Glory (2016), forms a trilogy inspired by sensationalist
news stories from their homeland that prove once and for all that truth is stranger than fiction.
Viktor Olivier Sarbil | Ukraine/USA
World Premiere
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This bold documentary from filmmaker and veteran war photographer Olivier Sarbil offers a
deeply personal perspective on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Crafting an audiovisual
experience carefully designed to match that of its subject, Viktor is an intimate portrait of a Deaf
person navigating chaos and violence.
Winter in Sokcho Koya Kamura | France
World Premiere
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In this debut from filmmaker Koya Kamura, a young woman struggling to claim her identity and
independence has her routine disrupted when a French artist checks into the small guesthouse
in snowy Sokcho where she works.
