2024 Toronto International Film Festival

The 49th annual Toronto International Film Festival will be held from September 5 to 15, 2024.

The festival is slated to open with David Gordon Green's film Nutcrackers, and close with Rebel Wilson's directorial debut film The Deb.

Key programming announcements
The first programming announcements were released on June 18, 2024. A second batch of films was announced on July 9, and the opening and closing galas were announced on July 16.

Nutcrackers marks the first time that an acquisitions title not already attached to a commercial distributor has opened the festival since Creation launched the 2009 edition. Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail linked this choice to the festival's announcement earlier in the year that it plans to launch a full film market in 2026, suggesting that it signals an effort by the festival to play an active role in helping the film to secure a distribution deal and thus demonstrate the business case for the market project.

Further announcements are expected in July, and the full festival schedule is set to be released on August 13, 2024.

To date, only films that will be world premieres have been announced; films for which the TIFF screening would not be a world premiere will be included when complete lineup announcements are released later in the month, but are not normally highlighted in the first batch of preview announcements.

Awards
The TIFF Tribute Awards recipients will include David Cronenberg as recipient of the Norman Jewison Award, and Amy Adams as a recipient of the performer award. Although Cronenberg's new film The Shrouds, which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, was not one of the first six films announced on June 18, his status as a Tribute Awards recipient is indicative of its inclusion in a followup announcement, as the Tribute Awards recipients are normally selected from among people connected to films screening in the program.

Cate Blanchett has been announced as the recipient of the Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award for women who have made a positive difference in the film industry. She will also be the guest at an In Conversation with... event; similarly to Cronenberg, her inclusion as a Tribute Awards recipient suggests the likely inclusion of Guy Maddin's film Rumours in a forthcoming program announcement.

TIFF Docs
The following films were selected to the TIFF Docs section:

Industry Selects
Films that were screened for film buyers and all industry professionals at the festival, but not open to the general public:

Festival Street
Older films, usually with some sort of connection to a film screening as part of the main program, shown at David Pecaut Square as part of TIFF's Festival Street event.