Three Screen Ireland-supported films selected for the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
Posted: 22nd July 2024
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to congratulate the filmmakers and creative teams behind Bring Them Down, The End and Sharp Corner: three Screen Ireland-supported projects that have been selected to screen at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in the festival's Special Presentations strand.
Other films announced for the TIFF line-up include the Element Pictures-produced On Becoming A Guinea Fowl, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, and the World Premiere of Irish director John Crowley’s We Live In Time, a UK/France co-production starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. More films across the TIFF line-up are to be announced over the coming weeks.
Bring Them Down is an Irish-set thriller written and directed by Christopher Andrews, and starring Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Colm Meaney, Nora-Jane Noone, Paul Ready and Susan Lynch.
Michael, the last son of a shepherding family, lives with his ailing father, Ray. Burdened by guilt over the death of his mother, Michael has isolated himself from the world. When a conflict with rival farmer Gary and his son Jack escalates, Michael is drawn into a devastating chain of events, forcing him to confront the horrors of his past and leaving both families permanently altered.
Bring Them Down was produced by Irish production company Tailored Films, Wild Swim and MUBI, and co-produced by Frakas Productions, VOO et Be tv and Shelter Prod in association with Screen Ireland, Coimisiún na Meán, RTÉ and the UK Global Screen Fund. Charades are handling international sales for the title.
The End is the highly anticipated upcoming feature film from director Joshua Oppenheimer, starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Michael Shannon, Moses Ingram and Bronagh Gallagher.
After the sudden arrival of a stranger, GIRL (Moses Ingram), threatens the family’s luxurious compound deep underground, SON (George MacKay) begins to question their seemingly perfect existence.
The End is produced by Final Cut for Real with Irish production company Wild Atlantic Pictures, The Match Factory, Dorje Film, Moonspun Films and Anagram co-producing. The film is supported by Screen Ireland, along with the Danish Film Institute, Vestdanske Filmpulje and FilmFyn, in Denmark, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and MDM Fund in Germany, the Italian Ministry of Culture (MIC) and Sicily Film Commission in Italy, the UK Global Screen Fund and SFI and Film i Skåne in Sweden. The pan-Nordic Fund Nordisk Film & Tv Fond and the European fund Eurimage are also on board. The international co-production is co-financed by NEON.
Sharp Corner is written and directed by Jason Buxton, and stars Ben Foster, Cobie Smulders, Gavin Drea, William Kosovic.
Hapless family man Josh MacAulay becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car crash victims at the sharp corner in front of his house, losing his grip on reality and placing his wife and young son in jeopardy.
Sharp Corner is an Irish-Canadian co-production, produced by Alcina Pictures, Shut Up & Colour Pictures, Kobalt Films and Workhorse Pictures.
Bring Them Down, The End and Sharp Corner join an acclaimed roster of critically and commercially successful Irish films that have debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in recent years and gone on to make an impact on audiences internationally and at home, including the Academy Award-nominated Wolfwalkers and the BAFTA-nominated Calm With Horses.
The 49th Toronto International Film Festival will take place from the 5th – 15th September, 2024.