If you’re reading this on Wednesday, I might be in the air.

For the third year running I’m heading to TIFF to cover the festival for this blog and my column on CBC Radio, The Knox Office — and once again it’s a smorgasbord of film. There’s no way I’ll be able to see everything I want to, but I can give you a rough sense of my ambitions — and this doesn’t even include all the films I’m looking at for possible Carbon Arc Cinema programming. I want those to be a surprise!

Please follow me on Instagram — as in previous years I’ll be sharing my post-screening reactions @Flaw_In_The_Iris, and will endeavour to post here on FITI daily.

All of You (Directed by William Bridges), a science fiction drama starring Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso)

Anora (Written and Directed  bySean Baker, The Florida Project, Red Rocket), the Cannes Palme D’or winner about a Brooklyn sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch

Babygirl (Directed by Halina Reijn) starring Nicole Kidman as a CEO who has an affair with an intern at her company played by Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness)

Bird (Directed by Andrea Arnold) a rural drama with Franz Rogowski and Barry Keoghan

Can I Get A Witness? (Directed by Anne Marie Fleming) starring Sandra Oh, an odd sci-fi about a society where people have to die at 50. (Logan’s Run sequel, anyone?)

Conclave (Directed by Edward Berger, All Quiet At The Western Front), set in the Vatican starring Ralph Fiennes

Daniela Forever (Directed by Nacho Vigalondo, Colossal) A man is able to reconnect with his dead girlfriend through lucid dreaming, starring Henry Golding

Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight (Directed by actor-turned-filmmaker, Embeth Davidtz) The story of a child living on a farm in Rhodesia

Eden (Directed by Ron Howard, written by Haligonian Noah Pink), starring Sydney Sweeney, Vanessa Kirby, Ana de Armas, and Jude Law

Emilia Pérez (Directed by Jacques Audiard) A sprawling musical set in Mexico starring Zoe Saldana

Harbin (Directed by Woo Min-Ho) An epic tale of Korean independence

Heretic (Directed by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods) A horror starring Hugh Grant(!)

Megalopolis (Directed by Francis Ford Coppola) Coppola’s big, big swing, starring Adam Driver

Oh, Canada (Directed by Paul Schrader) is Richard Gere’s first movie with Schrader since American Gigolo. 

Queer (Directed by Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name) An adaptation of a William Burroughs story, starring Daniel Craig

Nightbitch (Directed by Marielle Heller, Can You Ever Forgive Me?) Amy Adams as a frustrated mother who believes she’s turning into a dog

Presence (Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Kimi, written by frequent collaborator David Koepp) A horror starring Lucy Liu

Relay (Directed by David MacKenzie) A thriller with Riz Ahmed

Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band (Directed by Thom Zimmy) Springsteen’s frequent documentarian follows The Boss as he tours into his 70s

Rumours (Various directors including Guy Madden) Starring Cate Blanchett

SATURDAY NIGHT (Directed by Jason Reitman) A dramatization of the first episode of Saturday Night Live back in 1975

Sharp Corner (Directed by Jason Buxton) An adaptation of a Russell Wangersky short story, shot and set in Nova Scotia

Shell (Directed by actor-turned-filmmaker Max Minghella) a corporate thriller starring Elizabeth Moss and Kate Hudson

The Assessment (Directed by Fleur Fortuné) a sci-fi starring Elizabeth Oslen and Alicia Vikander

The End (Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing) The documentarian reemerges with an apocalyptic musical, starring Tilda Swinton

The Penguin Lessons (Directed by Peter Cattaneo) An odd-sounding dramedy starring Steve Coogan

The Return (Directed by Uberto Pasolini) An adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey starring Ralph Feinnes and Juliette Binoche

The Room Next Door (Directed by Pedro Almodovar) The Spanish auteur’s first English-language feature, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore

The Shrouds (Written and Directed by David Cronenberg) Not unlike Daniela Forever, the story of a man able to communicate with the dead, starring Vincent Cassell

The Substance (Written and Directed by Coralie Fargeat) A horror about age and vanity, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley

We Live In Time (Directed by John Crowley) A romantic drama with Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield