Toronto – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) selection at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), taking place September 5 to 15, will feature captivating explorations of identity and powerful storytelling, with a new NFB feature documentary and two NFB co-produced animated shorts.
TIFF Docs
- WORLD PREMIERE: Young people looking for the ideal roommate open up about themselves in Halima Elkhatabi’s debut feature doc Living Together. In scenes filmed in 15 Montreal apartments, Elkhatabi paints a complex and engaging picture of a generation accustomed to playing all their identity cards to find their place in the world. Living Together is one of two films by the Montreal director selected for TIFF 2024.
Short Cuts
- WORLD PREMIERE: In Michif/Métis creator Amanda Strong’s Spotted Fawn Productions/NFB co-pro Inkwo for When the Starving Return, Dove, a warrior and land defender, uses Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from a swarm of terrifying creatures. An animated adaptation of a story by Richard Van Camp, the film features the voice talents of Paulina Alexis, Tantoo Cardinal and Art Napoleon.
- NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE: Maybe Elephants is a playful and loving autobiographical film by Montreal-based animator Torill Kove, co-produced by Mikrofilm (Norway) and the NFB. Winner of the Academy Award for The Danish Poet, Torill narrates the story of her formative teenage years when her parents and sisters swap a safe and predictable life in Norway with the fresh unknowns of vibrant 1970s Nairobi, Kenya.