# 2023 Toronto International Film Festival

The 48th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 7 to 17, 2023.
The most noted change from past years was that the Contemporary World Cinema stream was renamed Centrepiece. The festival also announced some changes to its programming team for the 2023 festival, following the retirement of Steve Gravestock at the end of 2022 and the death of Ravi Srinivasan in early 2023. Noted changes included Norman Wilner taking over Gravestock's role as programmer of Canadian films, and June Kim succeeding Srinivasan as programmer for South Asian films.
The festival indicated that with the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival having returned to more normal attendance figures, the event would take place exclusively in-person, ending the online platform that had been offered since the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. An additional change from past years was that the film market screenings for industry professionals began on September 6, one day earlier than the festival's official opening to the public.
Festival organizers acknowledged that the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike was likely to impact the festival if not resolved in time, in particular because the strike prevented actors from taking part in promotional appearances to support their films, but indicated that the festival would still proceed even if fewer celebrities than usual were in attendance. The rule did not necessarily bar all American actors from attending the event, however; for instance, as Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils was a Canadian production shot under ACTRA rather than SAG-AFTRA contracts, lead actress Amanda Seyfried remained able to attend the premiere, though she ultimately chose not to attend. As well, several films in the 2023 program were directed by notable movie stars, who were able to attend the premieres in their capacity as directors. The festival indicated that overall, 70 per cent of its planned program for 2023 came from independent and/or international producers, and would not be affected by the strike.
In 2024, chief executive officer Anita Lee confirmed that despite the ongoing strike, attendance at the 2023 festival was up compared to 2022, although still short of the pre-pandemic highs of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.

## Key programming announcements

The first film in the festival's 2023 program, Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins, was announced on June 28. Ladj Ly's Les Indésirables and Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils were announced in July, prior to the announcement of the full Gala and Special Presentations programs on July 24. The TIFF Docs lineup followed on July 26.
The festival's opener was the Japanese animated film The Boy and the Heron by Hayao Miyazaki, which marked the first time in history that an animated film opened the festival. It concluded with Sly, Thom Zimny's documentary film about actor Sylvester Stallone; Stallone also participated in an In Conversation event in conjunction with the film.
In Conversation events were held with film director Pedro Almodóvar and actors Lee Byung-hun, Park Seo-jun and Andy Lau. Lee and Park costarred in the TIFF premiere Concrete Utopia, Lau starred in the TIFF premiere The Movie Emperor, and Almodóvar's talk was paired with the North American premiere of his short film Strange Way of Life (Extraña forma de vida).
Punjab '95, by Indian director Honey Trahan, was originally announced in the "Gala Presentations" section, but was pulled out from the festival. TIFF clarified that the film was pulled by its Indian distributor, with sources telling Variety that political pressure was being applied to the distributor due to the film's "potentially incendiary" content.
The festival also staged a special 40th anniversary screening of a new 4K restoration of the classic concert film Stop Making Sense.
The festival's annual "Rising Stars" program, a networking and development program for emerging actors in festival films, spotlighted Adwa Bader (NAGA), Almudena González (The Ravaging Wind), Amrit Kaur (The Queen of My Dreams), Aria Mia Loberti (All the Light We Cannot See), Cody Lightning (Hey, Viktor!), Kudakwashe Rutendo (Backspot), Léah Aubert (Sisterhood), Mark Clennon (I Don't Know Who You Are) and Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne (The Convert).

## Awards
### TIFF Tribute Awards

The TIFF Tribute Awards, the festival's program of honouring film personnel for their overall achievements in cinema, were presented early during the festival run.
Spike Lee was announced as the recipient of the Ebert Director Award, and Pedro Almodóvar was announced as the recipient of the Jeffrey Skoll Award in Impact Media. Shawn Levy was announced as the recipient of the inaugural Norman Jewison Award for career achievement. Performer awards were presented to Colman Domingo and Vicky Krieps; Patricia Arquette was the recipient of the Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award.
Polish cinematographer Łukasz Żal was the recipient of the Variety Artisan Award, Brazilian film director Carolina Markowicz was presented with the Emerging Talent Award, and Hong Kong actor and singer Andy Lau received a Special Tribute award.

### Regular awards

| Award | Film | Director |
| People's Choice Award | American Fiction | Cord Jefferson |
| People's Choice Award, First Runner Up | The Holdovers | Alexander Payne |
| People's Choice Award, Second Runner Up | The Boy and the Heron | Hayao Miyazaki |
| People's Choice Award: Documentaries | Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe | Robert McCallum |
| Documentary, First Runner Up | Summer Qamp | Jen Markowitz |
| Documentary, Second Runner Up | Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa | Lucy Walker |
| People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness | Dicks: The Musical | Larry Charles |
| Midnight Madness, First Runner Up | KILL | Nikhil Nagesh Bhat |
| Midnight Madness, Second Runner Up | Hell of a Summer | Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk |
| Platform Prize | Dear Jassi | Tarsem Singh |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | Solo | Sophie Dupuis |
| Best Canadian Feature Film, Honorable Mention | Kanaval | Henri Pardo |
| Best Canadian Short Film | Motherland | Jasmin Mozaffari |
| Best International Short Film | Electra | Daria Kashcheeva |
| FIPRESCI Award | Seagrass | Meredith Hama-Brown |
| NETPAC Award | A Match (Sthal) | Jayant Digambar Somalkar |
| NETPAC Award, Honorable Mention | Mimang | Kim Taeyang |
| Amplify Voices, Best Film | Kanaval | Henri Pardo |
| Amplify Voices, Best First Film | Tautuktavuk (What We See) | Carol Kunnuk, Lucy Tulugarjuk |
| Amplify Voices, Trailblazer | Damon D'Oliveira | Damon D'Oliveira |
| Changemaker Award | We Grown Now | Minhal Baig |
| Share Her Journey | Shé (Snake) | Renee Zhan |
| Share Her Journey, Honorable Mention | Gaby's Hills (Gaby les collines) | Zoé Pelchat |

## Official selections
### Gala Presentations

The following films were selected to the Gala Presentations section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Boy and the Heron (opening film) | 君たちはどう生きるか | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| Concrete Utopia | 콘크리트 유토피아 | Um Tae-hwa | South Korea |
| Dumb Money | Dumb Money | Craig Gillespie | United States |
| The End We Start From | The End We Start From | Mahalia Belo | United Kingdom |
| Fair Play | Fair Play | Chloe Domont | United States |
| Finestkind | Finestkind | Brian Helgeland | United States |
| Flora and Son | Flora and Son | John Carney | Ireland, United States |
| Hate to Love: Nickelback | Hate to Love: Nickelback | Leigh Brooks | Canada |
| Lee | Lee | Ellen Kuras | United Kingdom, United States |
| Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero | Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero | Carlos López Estrada, Zac Manuel | United States |
| The Movie Emperor | 红毯先生 | Ning Hao | China |
| The New Boy | The New Boy | Warwick Thornton | Australia |
| A Normal Family | 보통의 가족 | Hur Jin-ho | South Korea |
| Nyad | Nyad | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | United States |
| Origin | Origin | Ava DuVernay | United States |
| The Royal Hotel | The Royal Hotel | Kitty Green | Australia, United Kingdom |
| Sly | Sly | Thom Zimny | United States |
| Smugglers | 밀수 | Ryoo Seung-wan | South Korea |
| Solo | Solo | Sophie Dupuis | Canada |
| Swan Song | Swan Song | Chelsea McMullan | Canada |
| Thank You for Coming | Thank You for Coming | Karan Boolani | India |

### Special Presentations

The following films were selected to the Special Presentations section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| American Fiction | American Fiction | Cord Jefferson | United States |
| Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet | France |
| The Beast | La Bête | Bertrand Bonello | France, Canada |
| The Burial | The Burial | Maggie Betts | United States |
| La chimera | La chimera | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, France, Switzerland |
| Close to You | Close to You | Dominic Savage | Canada, United Kingdom |
| The Convert | The Convert | Lee Tamahori | Australia, New Zealand |
| The Critic | The Critic | Anand Tucker | United Kingdom |
| Daddio | Daddio | Christy Hall | United States |
| Days of Happiness | Les Jours heureux | Chloé Robichaud | Canada |
| The Dead Don't Hurt | The Dead Don't Hurt | Viggo Mortensen | Canada, Mexico, Denmark |
| A Difficult Year | Une année difficile | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | France |
| Evil Does Not Exist | 悪は存在しない | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
| Ezra | Ezra | Tony Goldwyn | United States |
| Fingernails | Fingernails | Christos Nikou | United States |
| Four Daughters | بنات ألفة | Kaouther Ben Hania | France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia |
| His Three Daughters | His Three Daughters | Azazel Jacobs | United States |
| Hit Man | Hit Man | Richard Linklater | United States |
| The Holdovers | The Holdovers | Alexander Payne | United States |
| In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon | In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon | Alex Gibney | United States |
| Les Indésirables | Les Indésirables | Ladj Ly | France |
| Kidnapped | Rapito | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, France, Germany |
| Knox Goes Away | Knox Goes Away | Michael Keaton | United States |
| Last Summer | L'Été dernier | Catherine Breillat | France |
| Memory | Memory | Michel Franco | United States, Mexico |
| Monster | 怪物 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
| Mother, Couch | Mother, Couch | Niclas Larsson | United States |
| The Movie Teller | La contadora de películas | Lone Scherfig | Spain, France, Chile |
| Next Goal Wins | Next Goal Wins | Taika Waititi | United Kingdom, United States |
| North Star | North Star | Kristin Scott Thomas | United Kingdom |
| One Life | One Life | James Hawes | United Kingdom |
| Pain Hustlers | Pain Hustlers | David Yates | United States |
| The Peasants | The Peasants | DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman | Poland, Serbia, Lithuania |
| Poolman | Poolman | Chris Pine | United States |
| The Promised Land | Bastarden | Nikolaj Arcel | Denmark, Germany, Sweden |
| Quiz Lady | Quiz Lady | Jessica Yu | United States |
| Reptile | Reptile | Grant Singer | United States |
| The Rescue: The Weight of the World | El Rapto | Daniela Goggi | Argentina |
| Ru | Ru | Charles-Olivier Michaud | Canada |
| Rustin | Rustin | George C. Wolfe | United States |
| Seven Veils | Seven Veils | Atom Egoyan | Canada |
| Shoshana | Shoshana | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom, Italy |
| Sing Sing | Sing Sing | Greg Kwedar | United States |
| Stop Making Sense | Stop Making Sense | Jonathan Demme | United States |
| The Taste of Christmas | El Sabor de la Navidad | Alejandro Lozano | Mexico |
| Together 99 | Tillsammans 99 | Lukas Moodysson | Sweden, Denmark |
| Unicorns | Unicorns | Sally El Hosaini, James Krishna Floyd | United Kingdom, United States, Sweden |
| Uproar | Uproar | Paul Middleditch, Hamish Bennett | New Zealand |
| Wicked Little Letters | Wicked Little Letters | Thea Sharrock | United Kingdom |
| Wildcat | Wildcat | Ethan Hawke | United States |
| Woman of the Hour | Woman of the Hour | Anna Kendrick | United States |
| The Zone of Interest | The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom, Poland, United States |

### Centrepiece

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 100 Yards | 100 Yards | Xu Haofeng, Xu Junfeng | China |
| About Dry Grasses | Kuru Otlar Üstüne | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden |
| Banel & Adama | Banel et Adama | Ramata-Toulaye Sy | France, Senegal, Mali |
| The Breaking Ice | The Breaking Ice | Anthony Chen | China |
| Chuck Chuck Baby | Chuck Chuck Baby | Janis Pugh | United Kingdom |
| City of Wind | сэр сэр салхи | Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir | France, Mongolia, Portugal, Netherlands, Qatar, Germany |
| Close Your Eyes | Cerrar los ojos | Víctor Erice | Spain, Argentina |
| Death of a Whistleblower | Death of a Whistleblower | Ian Gabriel | South Africa |
| The Delinquents | Los delincuentes | Rodrigo Moreno | Argentina, Brazil, Luxembourg, Chile |
| Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany |
| The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed | The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed | Joanna Arnow | United States |
| Fitting In | Fitting In | Molly McGlynn | Canada |
| Green Border | Zielona granica | Agnieszka Holland | Poland, Czech Republic, France, Belgium |
| A Happy Day | A Happy Day | Hisham Zaman | Norway, Denmark |
| Hey, Viktor! | Hey, Viktor! | Cody Lightning | Canada |
| Holiday | Holiday | Edoardo Gabbriellini | Italy |
| Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant | Ariane Louis-Seize | Canada |
| I Do Not Come To You By Chance | I Do Not Come To You By Chance | Ishaya Bako | Nigeria |
| In Flames | In Flames | Zarrar Kahn | Canada, Pakistan |
| Inshallah a Boy | Inshallah Walad | Amjad Al Rasheed | Jordan, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt |
| Irena's Vow | Irena's Vow | Louise Archambault | Canada, Poland |
| Je’vida | Je’vida | Katja Gauriloff | Finland |
| Kanaval | Kanaval | Henri Pardo | Canada, Luxembourg |
| Limbo | Limbo | Ivan Sen | Australia |
| Lost Ladies | Laapata Ladies | Kiran Rao | India |
| The Monk and the Gun | The Monk and the Gun | Pawo Choyning Dorji | Bhutan, France, United States, Taiwan |
| Mountains | Mountains | Monica Sorelle | United States |
| National Anthem | National Anthem | Luke Gilford | United States |
| The Nature of Love | Simple comme Sylvain | Monia Chokri | Canada, France |
| Perfect Days | Perfect Days | Wim Wenders | Japan |
| A Ravaging Wind | El Viento Que Arrasa | Paula Hernández | Argentina, Uruguay |
| The Reeds | Son Hasat | Cemil Ağacıkoğlu | Turkey, Bulgaria |
| A Road to a Village | गाउ आएको बाटो | Nabin Subba | Nepal |
| Robot Dreams | Robot Dreams | Pablo Berger | Spain, France |
| The Settlers | Los Colonos | Felipe Gálvez Haberle | Chile, Argentina, France, Denmark, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Sweden, Germany |
| Shadow of Fire | Hokage | Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan |
| Shayda | Shayda | Noora Niasari | Australia |
| Sira | Sira | Apolline Traoré | Burkina Faso, Senegal, France, Germany |
| Snow Leopard | Xue Bao | Pema Tseden | China |
| Sweet Dreams | Sweet Dreams | Ena Sendijarević | Netherlands, Sweden, Indonesia, France |
| The Teachers' Lounge | Das Lehrerzimmer | Ilker Çatak | Germany |
| They Shot the Piano Player | Dispararon al pianista | Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal | Spain, France, Netherlands |
| Toll | Pedágio | Carolina Markowicz | Brazil, Portugal |
| Upon Open Sky | A Cielo Abierto | Mariana Arriaga, Santiago Arriaga | Mexico, Spain |
| We Grown Now | We Grown Now | Minhal Baig | United States |
| Woodland | Wald | Elisabeth Scharang | Austria |
| Your Mother's Son | Anak Ka Ng Ina Mo | Jun Lana | Philippines |

### TIFF Docs

The following films were selected to the TIFF Docs section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Boil Alert | Boil Alert | Stevie Salas, James Burns | Canada |
| Bye Bye Tiberias | Bye Bye Tibériade | Lina Soualem | France, Belgium, Qatar, Palestine |
| The Contestant | The Contestant | Clair Titley | United Kingdom |
| Copa 71 | Copa 71 | Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine | United Kingdom |
| Defiant | Defiant | Karim Amer | Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States |
| Flipside | Flipside | Chris Wilcha | United States |
| God Is a Woman | Dieu est une femme | Andrés Peyrot | France, Switzerland, Panama |
| Homecoming | Máhccan | Suvi West, Anssi Kömi | Finland, Norway |
| I Am Sirat | I Am Sirat | Deepa Mehta, Sirat Taneja | Canada |
| In the Rearview | Skąd dokąd | Maciek Hamela | Poland, France, Ukraine |
| Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros | Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros | Frederick Wiseman | France, United States |
| The Mother of All Lies | Kadib Abyad | Asmae El Moudir | Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar |
| Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa | Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa | Lucy Walker | United States |
| Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe | Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe | Robert McCallum | Canada |
| The Pigeon Tunnel | The Pigeon Tunnel | Errol Morris | United Kingdom, United States, Hungary |
| Silver Dollar Road | Silver Dollar Road | Raoul Peck | United States |
| Songs of Earth | Fedrelandet | Margreth Olin | Norway |
| Sorry/Not Sorry | Sorry/Not Sorry | Caroline Suh, Cara Mones | United States |
| Stamped from the Beginning | Stamped from the Beginning | Roger Ross Williams | United States |
| Summer Qamp | Summer Qamp | Jen Markowitz | Canada |
| Viva Varda! | Viva Varda! | Pierre-Henri Gibert | France |
| The World Is Family | वसुधैव कूटुम्बकम | Anand Patwardhan | India |
| Walls | Mur | Kasia Smutniak | Italy |

### Discovery

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Achilles | آشیل | Farhad Delaram | Iran, Germany, France |
| After the Fire | Avant que les flammes ne s'éteignent | Mehdi Fikri | France |
| Andragogy | Budi Pekerti | Wregas Bhanuteja | Indonesia, Singapore |
| Arthur & Diana | Arthur & Diana | Sara Summa | Germany |
| Backspot | Backspot | D. W. Waterson | Canada |
| An Endless Sunday | Una Sterminata Domenica | Alain Parroni | Italy, Germany, Ireland |
| Frybread Face and Me | Frybread Face and Me | Billy Luther | United States |
| Gonzo Girl | Gonzo Girl | Patricia Arquette | United States |
| Hajjan | هجان | Abu Bakr Shawky | Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan |
| How to Have Sex | How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom |
| I Don't Know Who You Are | I Don't Know Who You Are | M. H. Murray | Canada |
| La Suprema | La Suprema | Felipe Holguín Caro | Colombia |
| Mandoob | مندوب الليل | Ali Kalthami | Saudi Arabia |
| A Match | Sthal | Jayant Digambar Somalkar | India |
| Mimang | 미망 | Kim Taeyang | South Korea |
| The Queen of My Dreams | The Queen of My Dreams | Fawzia Mirza | Canada |
| Seagrass | Seagrass | Meredith Hama-Brown | Canada |
| Solitude | Einvera | Ninna Pálmadóttir | Iceland, Slovakia, France |
| Tautuktavuk (What We See) | Tautuktavuk (What We See) | Carol Kunnuk, Lucy Tulugarjuk | Canada |
| The Teacher | The Teacher | Farah Nabulsi | United Kingdom, Palestine, Qatar |
| The Tundra Within Me | Eallogierdu | Sara Margrethe Oskal | Norway |
| Valentina or the Serenity | Valentina o la serenidad | Ángeles Cruz | Mexico |
| Widow Clicquot | Widow Clicquot | Thomas Napper | France, United Kingdom |
| Wild Woman | La Mujer Salvaje | Alán González | Cuba |
| Without Air | Elfogy a levegő | Katalin Moldovai | Hungary |
| Yellow Bus | Yellow Bus | Wendy Bednarz | United Arab Emirates |

### Platform

The Platform Prize jury consisted of Barry Jenkins, Nadine Labaki and Anthony Shim.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Dear Jassi | Dear Jassi | Tarsem Singh | India |
| Dream Scenario | Dream Scenario | Kristoffer Borgli | United States |
| Great Absence | Great Absence | Kei Chika-ura | Japan |
| I Told You So | Te l’avevo detto | Ginevra Elkann | Italy |
| The King Tide | The King Tide | Christian Sparkes | Canada |
| Not a Word | Kein Wort | Hanna Slak | Germany, Slovenia, France |
| The Rye Horn | O Corno | Jaione Camborda | Spain, Belgium, Portugal |
| Sisterhood | HLM Pussy | Nora El Hourch | France |
| Shame on Dry Land | Syndabocken | Axel Petersén | Sweden, Malta |
| Spirit of Ecstasy | La Vénus d’argent | Héléna Klotz | France |

### Midnight Madness

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Aggro Dr1ft | Aggro Dr1ft | Harmony Korine | United States |
| Boy Kills World | Boy Kills World | Moritz Mohr | Germany, South Africa, United States |
| Dicks: The Musical (opening film) | Dicks: The Musical (opening film) | Larry Charles | United States |
| Hell of a Summer | Hell of a Summer | Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk | United States, Canada |
| KILL | KILL | Nikhil Nagesh Bhat | India |
| NAGA | ناقة | Meshal Aljaser | Saudi Arabia |
| Riddle of Fire (closing film) | Riddle of Fire (closing film) | Weston Razooli | United States |
| Sleep | 잠 | Jason Yu | South Korea |
| When Evil Lurks | Cuando Acecha la Maldad | Demián Rugna | Argentina |
| Working Class Goes to Hell | Radnička klasa ide u pakao | Mladen Đorđević | Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croatia, Romania |

### Primetime

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Alice & Jack | Alice & Jack | Victor Levin, Juho Kuosmanen, Hong Khaou | United Kingdom |
| All the Light We Cannot See | All the Light We Cannot See | Shawn Levy, Steven Knight | United States |
| Bad Boy | Bad Boy | Hagar Ben-Asher, Ron Leshem, Daniel Chen, Roee Florentin, Moshe Malka, Amit Cohen, Daniel Amsel | Israel |
| Bargain | Bargain | Byun Seung-min, Jeon Woo-sung | South Korea |
| Black Life: Untold Stories | Black Life: Untold Stories | Leslie Norville | Canada |
| Bria Mack Gets a Life | Bria Mack Gets a Life | Sasha Leigh Henry | Canada |
| Estonia | Estonia | Miikko Oikkonen | Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Estonia |
| Expats | Expats | Lulu Wang | United States |
| Telling Our Story | Telling Our Story | Kim O'Bomsawin | Canada |

### Short Cuts

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 6 Minutes per Kilometre | 6 minutes/km | Catherine Boivin | Canada |
| 27 | 27 | Flóra Anna Buda | France, Hungary |
| 1001 Nights | 1001 noć | Rea Rajčić | Croatia |
| Aftercare | Aftercare | Anubha Momin | Canada |
| Alberto and the Beast | Alberto and the Beast | John Paul Lopez-Ali | United States |
| All the Days of May | Tous les jours de mai | Miryam Charles | Canada |
| Aphasia | Aphasie | Marielle Dalpé | Canada |
| Been There | Been There | Corina Schwingruber Ilić | Switzerland |
| Bird | Ave | Ana Cristina Barragán | Ecuador, Spain |
| A Bird Called Memory | Pássaro Memória | Leonardo Martinelli | Brazil, United Kingdom |
| Bloom | Bloom | Kasey Lum | Canada |
| DAMMI | DAMMI | Yann Mounir Demange | France |
| Electra | Electra | Daria Kashcheeva | Czech Republic, France, Slovakia |
| Ever Since, I Have Been Flying | O Gündür Bu Gündür, Uçuyorum | Aylin Gökmen | Switzerland |
| Express | Express | Ivan D. Ossa | Canada |
| Fár | Fár | Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter | Iceland |
| Gaby's Hills | Gaby les collines | Zoé Pelchat | Canada |
| The Heart | The Heart | Malia Ann | United States |
| Human Resources | Ressources humaines | Trinidad Plass Caussade, Titouan Tillier, Isaac Wenzek | France |
| I Used to Live There | I Used to Live There | Ryan McKenna | Canada |
| Lake Baikal | Baigal Nuur | Alisi Telengut | Canada |
| Making Babies | Faire un enfant | Éric K. Boulianne | Canada |
| Mboa Matanda | Mboa Matanda | Jules Kalla Eyango | Cameroon |
| Meteor | Meteor | Atefeh Khademolreza | Canada |
| Modern Goose | Modern Goose | Karsten Wall | Canada |
| Motherland | سرزمین مادری | Jasmin Mozaffari | Canada |
| Mothers and Monsters | Mothers and Monsters | Édith Jorisch | Canada |
| Nada de todo esto | Nada de todo esto | Francisco Cantón, Patricio Martínez | Argentina, Spain, United States |
| Nun or Never! | Nun or Never! | Heta Jäälinoja | Finland |
| The Passing | The Passing | Ivete Lucas, Patrick Xavier Bresnan | United States |
| La Perra | La Perra | Carla Melo Gampert | Colombia, France |
| Primetime Mother | Primetime Mother | Sonny Calvento | Philippines, Singapore |
| Redlights | Redlights | Eva Thomas | Canada |
| Sawo Matang | Sawo Matang | Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto | Canada, Indonesia, United States |
| Shé (Snake) | Shé (Snake) | Renee Zhan | United Kingdom |
| Sheephead | Sheephead | Spencer Creigh | United States |
| The Skates | Les Patins | Halima Ouardiri | Canada |
| This Is Not About Swimming | This Is Not About Swimming | Marni Van Dyk | Canada |
| This Is TMI | This Is TMI | Subarna Dash, Vidushi Gupta | India |
| Titanic, Suitable Version for Iranian Families | Titanic, noskhe monaseb baraye khanevadehaye irani | Farnoosh Samadi | Iran, France |
| WOACA | WOACA | Mackenzie Davis | United Kingdom |
| Xie Xie, Ollie | Xie Xie, Ollie | James Michael Chiang | Canada |

### Wavelengths

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Bouquets 31-40 | Bouquets 31-40 | Rose Lowder | France |
| Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera | Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera | Chantal Akerman | Belgium |
| The Daughters of Fire | As Filhas do Fogo | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
| Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World | Nu astepta prea mult de la sfârsitul lumii | Radu Jude | Romania |
| Film Sculpture (1-4) | Film Sculpture (1-4) | Philipp Fleischmann | Austria |
| He Thought He Died | He Thought He Died | Isiah Medina | Canada |
| Here | Here | Bas Devos | Belgium |
| The Human Surge 3 | El Auge del Humano 3 | Eduardo Williams | Argentina, Portugal, Brazil, Netherlands, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Peru |
| Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell | Bên trong vỏ kén vàng | Phạm Thiên Ân | Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain |
| It follows It passes on | It follows It passes on | Erica Sheu | Taiwan, United States |
| Laberint Sequences | Laberint Sequences | Blake Williams | Canada |
| Let's Talk | Let's Talk | Simon Liu | Hong Kong |
| Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke | Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke | Tomonari Nishikawa | Japan |
| Mademoiselle Kenopsia | Mademoiselle Kenopsia | Denis Côté | Canada |
| Mambar Pierrette | Mambar Pierrette | Rosine Mbakam | Belgium, Cameroon |
| Mast-del | Mast-del | Maryam Tafakory | United Kingdom, Iran |
| Music | Music | Angela Schanelec | Germany, France, Serbia |
| Nowhere Near | Nowhere Near | Miko Revereza | Philippines |
| NYC RGB | NYC RGB | Viktoria Schmid | Austria, United States |
| Orlando, My Political Biography | Orlando, ma biographie politique | Paul B. Preciado | France |
| Pictures of Ghosts | Retratos Fantasmas | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil |
| Quiet As It's Kept | Quiet As It's Kept | Ja'Tovia Gary | United States |
| Shrooms | Shrooms | Jorge Jácome | Portugal |
| Slow Shift | Slow Shift | Shambhavi Kaul | India, United States |
| Sundown | Sundown | Steve Reinke | United States, Canada, Austria |
| Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: "Phony Wars" | Film annonce du film qui n’existera jamais: Drôles de guerres | Jean-Luc Godard | France, Switzerland |
| We Don't Talk Like We Used To | We Don't Talk Like We Used To | Joshua Gen Solondz | United States, Japan, Hong Kong |
| Youth (Spring) | 青春 | Wang Bing | China, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands |

### TIFF Classics

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| L'Amour fou (1969) | L'Amour fou (1969) | Jacques Rivette | France |
| Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985) | Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985) | Brigitte Berman | Canada |
| Farewell My Concubine (1993) | 霸王別姬 | Chen Kaige | China, Hong Kong |
| Touki Bouki (1973) | Touki Bouki (1973) | Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal |
| Xala (1975) | Xala (1975) | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal |

### Industry Selects

Films that were screened for film buyers and all industry professionals at the festival, but not open to the general public:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Amelia’s Children | Amelia’s Children | Gabriel Abrantes | Portugal |
| Bonus Track | Bonus Track | Julia Jackman | United Kingdom |
| Borderline | Borderline | Jimmy Warden | United States |
| The Boy in the Woods | The Boy in the Woods | Rebecca Snow | Canada |
| Dance First | Dance First | James Marsh | United Kingdom |
| The Home | The Home | James DeMonaco | United States |
| Inheritance | Inheritance | Neil Burger | United States, United Kingdom, Egypt, India |
| My Mother's Men | Les Hommes de ma mère | Anik Jean | Canada |
| Orah | Orah | Lonzo Nzekwe | Canada |
| Queen of Bones | Queen of Bones | Robert Budreau | Canada, United States |
| Umbrella Men II: Escape from Robben Island | Umbrella Men II: Escape from Robben Island | John Barker | South Africa |
| Vera and the Pleasure of Others | Vera y el placer de los otros | Romina Tamburello, Federic Actis | Argentina |

### 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.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Addams Family Values (1993) | Addams Family Values (1993) | Barry Sonnenfeld | United States |
| Batman (1989) | Batman (1989) | Tim Burton | United States |
| Clueless (1995) | Clueless (1995) | Amy Heckerling | United States |
| Contact (1997) | Contact (1997) | Robert Zemeckis | United States |
| Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | Taika Waititi | New Zealand |
| Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) | Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) | Tim Burton | United States |
| Rocky (1975) | Rocky (1975) | John G. Avildsen | United States |
| Superman III (1983) | Superman III (1983) | Richard Lester | United States |
| The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) | The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) | Mark Waters | United States |
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | Spike Jonze | United States |

## Canada's Top Ten

TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list of the ten best Canadian feature and short films of the year was released on December 6, 2023.

### Feature films

* BlackBerry — Matt Johnson
* Hey, Viktor! — Cody Lightning
* Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant) — Ariane Louis-Seize
* Kanaval — Henri Pardo
* The Queen of My Dreams — Fawzia Mirza
* Seagrass — Meredith Hama-Brown
* Seven Veils — Atom Egoyan
* Solo — Sophie Dupuis
* Someone Lives Here — Zack Russell
* Tautuktavuk (What We See) — Carol Kunnuk, Lucy Tulugarjuk

### Short films

* Gaby's Hills (Gaby les collines) — Zoé Pelchat
* I Used to Live There — Ryan McKenna
* Katshinau — Julien G. Marcotte, Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush
* Lake Baikal (Baigal Nuur) — Alisi Telengut
* Madeleine — Raquel Sancinetti
* Making Babies (Faire un enfant) — Éric K. Boulianne
* Motherland — Jasmin Mozaffari
* Mothers and Monsters — Édith Jorisch
* Sawo Matang — Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto
* Thriving: A Dissociated Reverie — Nicole Bazuin