A crime thriller starring Toronto-Matt Johnson’s time-warning bromatic missing and Bob Odenkirk is leading for the Midnight Madness Program at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
This year the 10-style-dusty comedy, action flixes and the lineup of slashors will open with the Canadian premiere of Johnson’s Toronto-Set “Niravana The Band The Show The Show The Movie,” a mockumentry-style copper based on his Wikland range.
Lead programmer Peter Cuplovesky says the comedy is “immersed in Toronto Lor, which is in early Ougates” and after earning a standing ovation at his SXSW premiere in March, expects to “carry the entire theater” to the TIFF.
Set to get pulse racing is the world premiere of “normal”, which sees that Odenkirk plays a temporary lionife that exposes criminal underbels of a sleeping city. It is directed by Ben Wheatley, who won the 2016 Midnight Madness People’s Choice Award for the Crime Drama “Free Fire”.
In addition, promising heart-pounding thrills is the world premiere of “Dust Bani”, which is the feature debut of “Hanibal” manufacturer Brian Fuller. Slacher showed Sophie Slone as a young girl, who asks her neighbor, played by Mads Mikelsen, to help when she ate a demon under her bed to her family.
Set to shut down the program is the Canadian premiere of “Dead Lovers”, about a horror comedy by Toronto’s Grace Glockey about a gravadigar that has been determined to bring his submerged lover back into life. Tiff runs from 4 to 14 September.
Kuplowsky says he wanted to book the Midnight Madness Program with “Niravana the Band The Show the Movie” and “Dead Love” as he has a sufficient impact on the “festival circuit.”
“I am really proud and feel very patriotic that these Canadian filmmakers have made midnight films that actually resonate with international audiences,” says Kuplovsky.
“The possibility of fulfilling our festival tour with us in Toronto is really exciting.”
“Niravana The Band The Show The Show The Movie” watches Johnson and long -time colleague Jaccarrol resumed his roles as the two Bambling musicians are still trying to get their dreams of booking a show in the local bar The Revoli. This time, their discovery sends them back in time.
Kuplovski says that keeping in mind the success of “Friendship”, he turned to several comedy for this year’s lineup, in which the Dark Comedy, starring Paul Rood and Tim Robinson, premiered in last year’s event.
He says, “I really felt that this is the desire among contemporary audiences to laugh again in theaters.”
This year’s lineup includes “The Napa Boys” in other intestinal-borches, an all-comedy of Nick Korirocy, who looks at a group of friends to see adventure related to alcohol led by a mysterious Smater.
Meanwhile, Serbia’s Alexander radivogenesis serves a rapid -edged comedy “Karmadona” about a pregnant woman, who makes a call from God who asks her to kill the target or lose her child in her hit list.
Other international offerings are “Junk World”, a sequel of Japanese filmmaker Takahyde Hori’s “Junk Head”, after a stop-motion science-fi film, an Siborg found a way to save an underground dystopia to save an underground dystopia from extinction.
This report of Canadian Press was first published on 24 July 2025.
Alex Nino Gikiu, Canadian Press
