Chloe Sevigny’s ‘Bonjour Tristesse,’ Kaniehtiio Horn’s ‘Seeds’ Join Toronto Film Fest Lineup

The Chloe Sevigny-starring adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s classic novel Bonjour Tristesse from director Durga Chew-Bose is set to open the 2024 Toronto Film Festival’s Discovery program with a world premiere, organizers said Wednesday.

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Claes Bang, Lily McInerny and French actress Nailia Harzoune also star in the English-language contemporary take by the Canadian writer-turned-director. TIFF’s Discovery program, which focuses on first-time and up-and-coming international directors, is also giving world premieres to Reservation Dogs and Letterkenny star Kaniehtiio Horn’s debut feature and comedy Seeds .

There’s also world premieres for Afolabi Olalekan’s Freedom Way , Egil Pedersen’s My Fathers’ Daughter , Laura Carreira’s On Falling, Pavlo Ostrikov’s U Are The Universe and K’Naan Warsame’s Mother, Mother, co-produced by Alex Kurtzman.

Toronto’s Discovery sidebar over the years has screened debut films for Oscar winners like Sólo Con Tu Pareja , the first feature by Alfonso Cuarón; Christopher Nolan’s debut feature Following ; Yorgos Lanthimos’ rookie feature Kinetta ; and Barry Jenkins first directorial effort, the 2008 romantic drama Medicine for Melancholy.

The 2024 Discovery program consists of 24 titles from 25 countries.

Toronto earlier announced this year’s festival will open with Ben Stiller’s comedy Nutcrackers , from director David Gordon Green. And Rebel Wilson’s The Deb , a musical comedy set in rural Australia, will close TIFF.

The 2024 Toronto Film Festival is set to run from Sept. 5-15.

A list of Discovery titles follows:

Aberdeen Ryan Cooper, Eva Thomas | Canada

Bonjour Tristesse Durga Chew-Bose | Canada/Germany

Boong Lakshmipriya Devi | India

Diciannove Giovanni Tortorici | Italy

Do I Know You From Somewhere? Arianna Martinez | Canada

Freedom Way Afolabi Olalekan | Nigeria

Gülizar Belkıs Bayrak | Turkey/Kosovo

Horizonte César Augusto Acevedo | Colombia/France/Luxembourg/Chile/Germany

Ink Wash Sarra Tsorakidis | Romania/Greece/Denmark

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Linda Mariana Wainstein | Argentina/Spain

Meat Dimitris Nakos | Greece

Mother Mother K’naan Warsame | Kenya/Somalia

My Fathers’ Daughter Egil Pedersen | Sápmi (Norway/Sweden/Finland)

On Falling Laura Carreira | United Kingdom/Portugal

Really Happy Someday J Stevens | Canada

Saba Maksud Hossain | Bangladesh

Sad Jokes Fabian Stumm | Germany

Seeds Kaniehtiio Horn | Canada

Shook Amar Wala | Canada

The Courageous Jasmin Gordon | Switzerland

The Paradise of Thorns Boss Kuno | Thailand

The Party’s Over Elena Manrique | Spain

The Quiet Ones Frederik Louis Hviid | Denmark

U Are the Universe Pavlo Ostrikov | Ukraine/Belgium

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