# TIFF Next Wave

TIFF Next Wave is an annual film festival in Toronto, Ontario. An offshoot of the Toronto International Film Festival, the Next Wave festival is held in spring each year, screening films of interest to teenagers and young adults selected by a committee of students from the city's high schools.
The festival was launched in 2012. It programs both a lineup of Canadian and international feature films, and a Young Creators Showcase program of short films by Canadian film students. Some, but not all, films are also made available on the TIFF Bell Lightbox for viewing across Canada. The festival has also included special programs such as Battle of the Scores, a battle of the bands competition in which emerging musicians compete to compose and perform the best live score for a short film, the Next Wave Film Challenge, a competition which gives emerging filmmakers three days to make and complete a short film, and the Young Creators Co-Lab, which gives young content creators a chance to meet and network with film industry professionals.
Prior to 2012, film programming for both children and young adults was screened as part of a single Sprockets film festival.
Admission to the festival screenings is free for people under age 25, and $14 for people older than 25.
In addition to the standalone TIFF Next Wave festival, films of youth interest in the primary TIFF program also bear a "TIFF Next Wave" designation, and the organizing committee served as the jury for the Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award from 2020 to 2023.

## Programs
### 2012

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 17 Girls | 17 filles | Delphine and Muriel Coulin | France |
| Fat Kid Rules the World | Fat Kid Rules the World | Matthew Lillard | United States |

### 2013

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 5-25-77 | 5-25-77 | Patrick Read Johnson | United States |
| Bushido Sixteen | Bushidō Shikkusutīn | Tomoyuki Furumaya | Japan |
| Dead Before Dawn | Dead Before Dawn | April Mullen | Canada |
| Earthbound | Earthbound | Alan Brennan | Ireland |
| Fame High | Fame High | Scott Hamilton Kennedy | United States |
| Family Weekend | Family Weekend | Benjamin Epps | United States |
| Ghost Graduation | Promoción fantasma | Javier Ruiz Caldera | Spain |
| Molly Maxwell | Molly Maxwell | Sara St. Onge | Canada |
| Otelo Burning | Otelo Burning | Sara Blecher | South Africa |
| Struck by Lightning | Struck by Lightning | Brian Dannelly | United States |

### 2014

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| A Birder's Guide to Everything | A Birder's Guide to Everything | Rob Meyer | United States |
| Camp Takota | Camp Takota | Chris Riedell, Nick Riedell | United States |
| Final Recipe | Final Recipe | Gina Kim | South Korea |
| Fly Colt Fly | Fly Colt Fly | Adam Gray, Andrew Gray | Canada |
| For No Eyes Only | For No Eyes Only | Tali Barde | Germany |
| G.B.F. | G.B.F. | Darren Stein | United States |
| Gone Too Far! | Gone Too Far! | Destiny Ekaragha | Nigeria, United Kingdom |
| I Learn America | I Learn America | Jean-Michel Dissard, Gitte Peng | United States |
| Leap 4 Your Life | Leap 4 Your Life | Gary Hawes | Canada |
| Palo Alto | Palo Alto | Gia Coppola | United States |

### 2015

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 52 Tuesdays | 52 Tuesdays | Sophie Hyde | Australia |
| Boy 7 | Boy 7 | Lourens Blok | Netherlands |
| Dessau Dancers | Dessau Dancers | Jan Martin Scharf | Germany |
| Girlhood | Bande de filles | Céline Sciamma | France |
| Leave to Remain | Leave to Remain | Bruce Goodison | United Kingdom |
| Lily & Kat | Lily & Kat | Micael Preysler | United States |
| McFarland, USA | McFarland, USA | Niki Caro | United States |
| No Cameras Allowed | No Cameras Allowed | James Marcus Haney | United States |
| Partners in Crime | Kong Feng | Chang Jung-chi | Taiwan |
| Wet Bum | Wet Bum | Lindsay MacKay | Canada |
| The Word | Obietnica | Anna Kazejak-Dawid | Poland |

### 2016

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Ayanda | Ayanda | Sara Blecher | South Africa |
| Flocking | Flocken | Beata Gårdeler | Sweden |
| I Am Thalente | I Am Thalente | Natalie Johns | South Africa, United States |
| The Idol | The Idol | Hany Abu-Assad | United Kingdom, Palestine, Qatar, Netherlands |
| Los Ángeles | Los Ángeles | Damian John Harper | Germany |
| Microbe & Gasoline | Microbe et Gasoil | Michel Gondry | France |
| Sing Street | Sing Street | John Carney | Ireland |
| Songs My Brothers Taught Me | Songs My Brothers Taught Me | Chloé Zhao | United States |
| Takin' Place | Takin' Place | Cyrus Dowlatshahi | United States |

### 2017

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 1:54 | 1:54 | Yan England | Canada |
| 2 Fists Up | 2 Fists Up | Spike Lee | United States |
| As You Are | As You Are | Miles Joris-Peyrafitte | United States |
| Barakah Meets Barakah | Barakah yoqabil Barakah | Mahmoud Sabbagh | Saudi Arabia |
| Before I Fall | Before I Fall | Ry Russo-Young | United States |
| Before the Streets | Avant les rues | Chloé Leriche | Canada |
| Divines | Divines | Houda Benyamina | France |
| Japanese Girls Never Die | Azumi Haruko wa yukue fumei | Daigo Matsui | Japan |
| The Young Offenders | The Young Offenders | Peter Foott | Ireland |

### 2018

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Axolotl Overkill | Axolotl Overkill | Helene Hegemann | Germany |
| Bad Genius | Chalard Games Goeng | Nattawut Poonpiriya | Thailand |
| Bad Lucky Goat | El dia de la cabra | Samir Oliveros | Colombia |
| Barley Fields on the Other Side of the Mountain | Barley Fields on the Other Side of the Mountain | Tian Tsering | United Kingdom |
| Beyond Dreams | Dröm vidare | Rojda Sekersöz | Sweden |
| Dayveon | Dayveon | Amman Abassi | United States |
| Fake Tattoos | Les faux tatouages | Pascal Plante | Canada |
| High Fantasy | High Fantasy | Jenna Bass | South Africa |
| A Kid from Somewhere | A Kid from Somewhere | Adam Beck, Paul Johnston | Canada |
| Love, Simon | Love, Simon | Greg Berlanti | United States |
| Person to Person | Person to Person | Dustin Guy Defa | United States |
| Thoroughbreds | Thoroughbreds | Cory Finley | United States |

### 2019

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Blue My Mind | Blue My Mind | Lisa Brühlmann | Switzerland |
| Carmen & Lola | Carmen y Lola | Arantxa Echevarría | Spain |
| Jinn | Jinn | Nijla Mu'min | United States |
| Ladyworld | Ladyworld | Amanda Kramer | United States |
| Meteorites | Les Météorites | Romain Laguna | France |
| Minding the Gap | Minding the Gap | Bing Liu | United States |
| Respeto | Respeto | Treb Monteras II | Philippines |
| Slut in a Good Way | Charlotte a du fun | Sophie Lorain | Canada |
| Socrates | Socrates | Alexandre Moratto | Brazil |
| Virus Tropical | Virus Tropical | Santiago Caicedo | Colombia |

### 2020

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| And Then We Danced | Da chven vitsek'vet | Levan Akin | Georgia, Sweden |
| Angelfish | Angelfish | Peter Lee | United States |
| Children of the Sea | Kaijū no Kodomo | Ayumu Watanabe | Japan |
| CRSHD | CRSHD | Emily Cohn | United States |
| House of Hummingbird | 벌새 | Kim Bora | South Korea |
| Kuessipan | Kuessipan | Myriam Verreault | Canada |
| Papicha | Papicha | Mounia Meddour | Algeria |
| Premature | Premature | Rashaad Ernesto Green | United States |
| Selah and the Spades | Selah and the Spades | Tayarisha Poe | United States |
| Sequin in a Blue Room | Sequin in a Blue Room | Samuel Van Grinsven | Australia |
| Take Me Somewhere Nice | Take Me Somewhere Nice | Ena Sendijarević | Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Your Turn | Espero tua (re)volta | Eliza Capai | Brazil |

### 2021

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Beans | Beans | Tracey Deer | Canada |
| Cocoon | Kokon | Leonie Krippendorff | Germany |
| Death of Nintendo | Death of Nintendo | Raya Martin | Philippines |
| La Leyenda Negra | La Leyenda Negra | Patricia Vidal Delgado | United States |
| My Name Is Baghdad | Meu nome é Bagdá | Caru Alves de Souza | Brazil |
| The Night of the Beast | La noche de la bestia | Mauricio Leiva Cock | Colombia, Mexico |
| Scales | Sayidat Al Bahr | Shahad Ameen | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq |
| Summertime | Summertime | Carlos López Estrada | United States |
| Tahara | Tahara | Olivia Peace | United States |
| Unapologetic | Unapologetic | Ashley O'Shay | United States |

### 2022

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 4 Feet High | 4 Feet High | Maria Belen Poncio, Rosario Perazolo Masjoan | Argentina/France |
| The Braves | Entre les vagues | Anaïs Volpé | France |
| Casablanca Beats | Haut et fort | Nabil Ayouch | Morocco, France |
| The Fam | La Mif | Fred Baillif | France |
| Freda | Freda | Gessica Généus | Haiti |
| Girl Picture | Tytöt tytöt tytöt | Alli Haapasalo | Finland |
| I Don't Wanna Dance | I Don't Wanna Dance | Flynn von Kleist | Netherlands |
| It's a Summer Film! | Summer Film Ni Notte | Soushi Matsumoto | Japan |
| Slash/Back | Slash/Back | Nyla Innuksuk | Canada |
| Stop-Zemlia | Стоп-Земля | Kateryna Gornostai | Ukraine |

### 2023
#### Official selections

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Adolfo | Adolfo | Sofía Auza | Mexico, United States |
| Egghead & Twinkie | Egghead & Twinkie | Sarah Kambe Holland | United States |
| Liquor Store Dreams | Liquor Store Dreams | So Yun Um | United States |
| The Lost Boys | Le Paradis | Zeno Graton | Belgium |
| Motherhood | La Maternal | Pilar Palomero | Spain |
| The Ordinaries | The Ordinaries | Sophie Linnenbaum | Germany |
| Scrapper | Scrapper | Charlotte Regan | United Kingdom |
| Summer Scars | Nos cérémonies | Simon Rieth | France |
| Summer with Hope | Tabestan Ba Omid | Sadaf Foroughi | Canada, Iran |

#### Young Creators Showcase

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Castaway | Castaway | Shamiso Chigwende | Canada |
| Execution Triptych | Execution Triptych | Giran Findlay | Canada |
| Hoa | Hoa | Tram Anh Nguyen | Canada, Vietnam |
| In the Whiteness | In the Whiteness | Niya Ahmed Abdullahi | Canada |
| Inside Groove | Inside Groove | Elizabeth Wei Yun Albrecht | Canada |
| Late Bloomer | Late Bloomer | Emma Cheuk | Canada |
| The Mess We're In | The Mess We're In | Jamie Lam | Canada |
| Ms. Butterworth's Cherry Pie | Ms. Butterworth's Cherry Pie | Cameron Lightly | Canada |
| On the Cosmic Shore | On the Cosmic Shore | Luvleen Hunjan | Canada, India |
| Ozigwan (Tail of Serpent) | Ozigwan (Tail of Serpent) | Cole Forrest | Canada |
| Shallots and Garlic | Bawang Merah Bawang Putih | Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto | Canada, Indonesia |
| What Will You Do When I'm Gone? | majboor-e-mamool | Haaris Qadri | Canada |
| The Year Long Boulder | The Year Long Boulder | Brielle LeBlanc | Canada |

### 2024

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Big Boys | Big Boys | Corey Sherman | United States |
| Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story | Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story | Luck Razanajaona | France, Madagascar, Germany, Mauritius, South Africa |
| Gamma Rays | Les Rayons gamma | Henry Bernadet | Canada |
| Girls Will Be Girls | Girls Will Be Girls | Shuchi Talati | India |
| Hoard | Hoard | Luna Carmoon | United Kingdom |
| Paradise Is Burning | Paradiset Brinner | Mika Gustafson | Denmark, Finland, Italy, Sweden |
| Power Alley | Levante | Lillah Halla | Brazil, France, Uruguay |
| She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones | Kai Shi De Qiang | Youjia Qu | China |
| A Song Sung Blue | Xiao Bai Chuan | Zihan Geng | China |

### 2025

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Brides | Brides | Nadia Fall | United Kingdom |
| The Dog Thief | El ladrón de perros | Vinko Tomičić Salinas | Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, France, Ecuador |
| Manas | Manas | Marianna Brennand | Brazil, Portugal |
| Pools | Pools | Sam Hayes | United States |
| Queens of Drama | Les reines du drame | Alexis Langlois | France, Belgium |
| Rape Play | Rape Play | Gabriella Mykal | United States |
| Seaside Serendipity | 海辺へ行く道 | Satoko Yokohama | Japan |
| The Virgin of the Quarry Lake | La Virgen de la Tosquera | Laura Casabé | Argentina, Spain, Mexico |
| We Were Dangerous | We Were Dangerous | Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu | New Zealand |
| Where the Wind Comes From | Where the Wind Comes From | Amel Guellaty | Tunisia, France, Qatar |