The 2024 edition of the Atlantic International Film Festival, the 44th edition in the event's history, is taking place from September 11 to 18, 2024 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.[1] The first films in the program were announced on July 25,[2] with the full program announced on August 14.[1]
The event was scaled back to an extent from previous years, with a program of 96 features and shorts compared to almost 200 in the years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] Festival chief Martha Cooley attributed this decision both to residents of the Halifax area still having a greater reticence in returning to large scale public events after the pandemic than people in other parts of Canada, and to the perception that as Halifax has a smaller population than cities like Toronto or Vancouver, audiences were being "pulled too thin" by past programs that were approaching the size of TIFF or VIFF.[3]
The festival opened with Jason Buxton's film Sharp Corner, and close with Sean Baker's Anora. The Atlantic Gala slot will feature Melanie Oates's film Sweet Angel Baby.
Official selections
[edit]Reel East Coast Shorts
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English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Province
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Back to Camp 41 |
Greg Hemmings |
Canada
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Bedlamer |
Alexa Jane Jerrett
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Hairy Legs |
Andrea Dorfman
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An Impression of Everything |
Millefiore Clarkes
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The Kitchen Sink |
Olivia King
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Paper |
Charles Wahl
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Permit Garden |
Jenny Yujia Shi
|
welima'q |
shalan joudry
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English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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Bird |
Andrea Arnold |
United Kingdom
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Can I Get a Witness? |
Ann Marie Fleming |
Canada
|
Caught by the Tides |
风流一代 |
Jia Zhangke |
China
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The Count of Monte Cristo |
Le Comte de Monte Cristo |
Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de La Patellière |
France
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Darkest Miriam |
Naomi Jaye |
Canada
|
Flow |
Straume |
Gints Zilbalodis |
Latvia, France, Belgium
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Grand Tour |
Miguel Gomes |
Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, China
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Lakeview |
Tara Thorne |
Canada
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Matt and Mara |
Kazik Radwanski |
Canada
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The Outrun |
Nora Fingscheidt |
United Kingdom, Germany
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Paying for It |
Sook-Yin Lee |
Canada
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Presence |
Steven Soderbergh |
United States
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Reinas |
Klaudia Reynicke |
Switzerland, Peru, Spain
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Rumours |
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson |
Canada, Germany
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig |
Mohammad Rasoulof |
Iran, France, Germany
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Skeet |
Nik Sexton |
Canada
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To the Moon |
Kevin Hartford |
Canada
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Universal Language |
Une langue universelle |
Matthew Rankin |
Canada
|
When the Light Breaks |
Ljósbrot |
Rúnar Rúnarsson |
Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France
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Narrative New Waves
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English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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40 Acres |
R. T. Thorne |
Canada
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All We Imagine as Light |
Payal Kapadia |
France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg
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Boxcutter |
Reza Dahya |
Canada
|
Do I Know You from Somewhere? |
Arianna Martinez |
Canada
|
Girls Will Be Girls |
Shuchi Talati |
India
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Monica's News |
Pamela Gallant |
Canada
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Pierce |
Nelicia Low |
Taiwan
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Seeds |
Kaniehtiio Horn |
Canada
|
To a Land Unknown |
Mahdi Fleifel |
United Kingdom, Greece, Netherlands, France, Germany, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
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Young Werther |
José Lourenço |
Canada
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English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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8 Times |
Adam Mbowe |
Canada
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73 Seconds |
Stacy Gardner |
Canada
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Bloody Mess |
Megan Wennberg |
Canada
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Bust |
Angalis Field |
United States
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Cart Girls |
Katelyn McCulloch |
Canada
|
Carved from Stone |
Tyler Burr |
Canada
|
Circle |
Yumi Joung |
South Korea
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Cold Soup |
Sopa Fria |
Marta Monteiro |
Portugal, France
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The Distance Between Us |
Qu'importe le distance |
Léo Fontaine |
France
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Every Other Weekend |
Mick Robertson, Margaret Rose |
Canada
|
Eye Piece |
Kate Solar |
Canada
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Freedom |
Scott Jones |
Canada
|
Gaslit |
Anna MacLean |
Canada
|
Gigi |
Cynthia Calvi |
France
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Good Grief |
Megan Chumbley |
United States
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Hello Stranger |
Amélie Hardy |
Canada
|
Himalia |
Clara Milo, Juliette Lossky |
Canada
|
Holiday House |
Alex Heller |
United States
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Inkwo for When the Starving Return |
Inkwo à la défense des vivants |
Amanda Strong |
Canada
|
Julian and the Wind |
Connor Jessup |
Canada
|
Maybe Elephants |
Kanskje det var elefanter |
Torill Kove |
Norway, Canada
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Mother Tongue |
Lea Tupu'anga |
Vea Mafile'o |
New Zealand
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Motorcycle Mary |
Haley Watson |
United States
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Moving Water |
Kaia Singh |
Canada
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Nola |
Aisha Evelyna, Natalie Novak Remplakowski |
Canada
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On a Sunday at Eleven |
Alicia K. Harris |
Canada
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Panadrilo |
Marcela Heilbron |
Panama
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Pearls |
Mike Simms |
Canada
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Percebes |
Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves |
France, Portugal
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perfectly a strangeness |
Alison McAlpine |
Canada
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Santa Maria Kyoko |
Guil Sela, Felix Loizillon |
France
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Terminally Ill |
Chris Cole |
United States
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Things Behind the Sun |
Giran Findlay |
Canada
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What Good Canadians Do |
Stephanie Joline |
Canada
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Where My Branches Stem |
Teresa Kuo |
Canada
|
The Wolf |
Le Loup |
Theodore Ushev |
Canada
|
Wouldn't Make It Any Other Way |
Hao Zhou |
United States
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