TIFF 2023 WAVELENGTH & CLASSICS LINEUPS: New Films From Radu Jude, Angela Schanelec, & The Late Jean-Luc Godard To Be Showcased

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced the lineup for both its Wavelength and Classics sections. The former section is known for its politically charged, geographically diverse fare with a wide range of work drawn from the worlds of documentary, contemporary art, and international art-house cinema.

Among Wavelength’s eclectic lineup is Jean-Luc Godard’s posthumous short Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars, Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Phạm Thiên’s Cannes Camera d’Or winner Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Angela Schanelec’s Music, Pedro Costa’s short Daughters of Fire, and many more.

“Wavelengths is a testament to the range of cinema celebrated at TIFF,” stated Anita Lee, Chief Programming Officer, TIFF. “It is also evidence that artist-driven experimental films are thriving and growing a new generation of cinephiles.”

“The increasing necessity to support artists willing to take risks, break rules, and challenge the status quo — especially in our over-saturated media landscape — bears repeating,” said Andréa Picard, Senior Curator, TIFF. “Wavelengths continues to be a celebration of subversion, personal expression, and the vast, inexhaustible capabilities of cinema to enlighten, inspire, awe, resist, disrupt, and propose new ways of seeing and being in the world. With this lineup, we hope to demonstrate how Michael Snow’s legacy of mischief-making and formal acumen clearly lives on.”

The Classics lineup includes Chen Kaige’s uncut 4K restoration of his 1993 Palme d’Or winner Farewell My Concubine, which Film Movement Classics will release in NYC on September 22. It also features restorations of Jacques Rivette’s L’amour fou and Ousmane Sembène’s Xala.

See the lineups below.

WAVELENGTHS FEATURES

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Radu Jude | Romania/Luxembourg/France/Croatia
North American Premiere

Here Bas Devos | Belgium
North American Premiere

The Human Surge 3 Eduardo Williams | Argentina/Portugal/Brazil/Netherlands/Taiwan/Hong Kong/Sri
Lanka/Peru
North American Premiere

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell Phạm Thiên Ân | Vietnam/Singapore/France/Spain
North American Premiere

Mademoiselle Kenopsia Denis Côté | Canada
North American Premiere

Mambar Pierrette Rosine Mbakam | Belgium/Cameroon
North American Premiere

Music Angela Schanelec | Germany/France/Serbia
North American Premiere
Luminaries

Nowhere Near Miko Revereza | Philippines
North American Premiere

Orlando, My Political Biography Paul B. Preciado | France
Canadian Premiere

Pictures of Ghosts Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil
North American Premiere

Youth (Spring) Wang Bing | France/Luxembourg/Netherlands
North American Premiere

Luminaries

WAVELENGTHS PAIRINGS
He Thought He Died Isiah Medina | Canada
World Premiere
preceded by Laberint Sequences Blake Williams | Canada
North American Premiere

WAVELENGTHS SHORTS
Wavelengths 1: Quiet as It’s Kept Borrowing its title from Ja’Tovia Gary’s latest film, this programme invites and encourages alternate modes of seeing ― through queer abstraction, repurposed fragments, and imagined memories ― as well as new forms of listening: to others, to ourselves, and to the natural world.

Bouquets 31-40 Rose Lowder | France
Canadian Premiere

Film Sculpture (1) Philipp Fleischmann | Austria
World Premiere

Film Sculpture (2) Philipp Fleischmann | Austria
World Premiere

Film Sculpture (4) Philipp Fleischmann | Austria
World Premiere

Film Sculpture (3) Philipp Fleischmann | Austria
World Premiere

It follows It passes on Erica Sheu | Taiwan/USA
World Premiere

Mast-del Maryam Tafakory | United Kingdom/Iran
North American Premiere

Shrooms Jorge Jácome | Portugal
World Premiere

Quiet as It’s Kept Ja’Tovia Gary | USA
International Premiere

Wavelengths 2: Sundown
With sensory delights, overloads, and mysteries, this programme probes the hallucinatory underpinnings of the world around us and its layered, incongruous temporalities.

Let’s Talk Simon Liu | Hong Kong
World Premiere

Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke Tomonari Nishikawa | Japan
World Premiere

NYC RGB Viktoria Schmid | Austria/USA
Canadian Premiere

Slow Shift Shambhavi Kaul | India/USA
World Premiere

Sundown Steve Reinke | USA/Canada/Austria
World Premiere

We Don’t Talk Like We Used To Joshua Gen Solondz | USA/Japan/Hong Kong
World Premiere

Wavelengths 3: Outlines –

Akerman/Costa/Godard
Bookended by a recently discovered and restored suite of Chantal Akerman’s first cinema forays and the legendary Jean-Luc Godard’s final testament, alongside the latest mesmerizing film by Pedro Costa, this special programme pays tribute to a trio of iconic artists and their intoxicating, enticing approach to sketches and outlines as a means of expression.

Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera Chantal Akerman | Belgium
North American Premiere

The Daughters of Fire Pedro Costa | Portugal
North American Premiere

Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars Jean-Luc Godard | France/Switzerland
North American Premiere

2023 Classics Programme:
TIFF Classics is cinematic legacy celebrating luminary auteurs, filmmakers, and cinematographers for the
novice filmgoer and cinephiles alike.

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got Brigitte Berman | Canada

Farewell My Concubine Chen Kaige | China/Hong Kong

L’amour fou Jacques Rivette | France

Touki Bouki Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal

Xala Ousmane Sembène | Senegal