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Screen profiles all the world and key premieres at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in the Galas, Special Presentations, Platform and Midnight Madness strands.
Clockwise from top left: ‘Babies’, ‘Glaxo’, ‘Misty Green’, ‘Paradise Lost’, ‘Tenzing’, ‘On Behalf Of My Son’
Toronto (September 10-20) brings a pivotal edition, with the launch of TIFF: The Market backed by a festival selection high on star quality — and Brits.
Sian Heder’s follow-up to Oscar winner Coda, Being Heumann, will open TIFF, while the gala and special presentation sections contain a multitude of actor-directed features including Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut, Chris Rock’s Misty Green, Tim Blake Nelson’s The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd, Courteney Cox’s Evil Genius and Rebel Wilson’s Girl Group. Margaret Qualley, Naomi Watts, Cynthia Erivo, Helen Mirren, Riz Ahmed and Chase Infiniti are just a few of the names expected on red carpets.
As for the Brits, this year’s TIFF lineup is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to UK filmmakers, from Mike Leigh’s Tender Loving Care to The Long Winter, Andrew Haigh’s follow-up to All Of Us Strangers, Faith, Paul Andrew Williams’ follow-up to the well-received Dragonfly, and Simon Stone’s Elsinore starring Andrew Scott as Chariots Of Fire lead Ian Charleson in a film that chronicles the last year of his life before he died of Aids.
Screen has the lowdown on all the premieres playing across TIFF’s Galas, Special Presentations, Platform and Midnight Madness strands, and also previews the TIFF Docs, Discovery and Centrepiece sections. We have also marked which titles will world premiere in the Telluride lineup, which was confirmed on September 3.
Click on the links to each section for the profiles. Scroll down for the list of films playing in these sections that premiered at Venice and earlier.
Galas
Special Presentations
Platform
Midnight Madness
TIFF Docs preview
Discovery preview
Centrepiece preview
| TIFF strand | Launch festival | |
|---|---|---|
| All About Corinne (Marc Fitoussi) | Gala Presentations | Locarno (Piazza Grande) |
| All Of A Sudden (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| Arrested Memory (Sabu) | Midnight Madness | Venice (Open — Fiction) |
| Atonement (Reed Van Dyk) | Gala Presentations | Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) |
| The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodovar) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog) | Special Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| Bunker (Florian Zeller) | Gala Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| Clarissa (Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) |
| Club Kid (Jordan Firstman) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Un Certain Regard) |
| Coward (Lukas Dhont) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| Fjord (Cristian Mungiu) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| Gentle Monster (Marie Kreutzer) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| A Good Little Soldier (Stéphane Brizé) | Special Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| Hombre Al Agua (Gael Garcia Bernal) | Special Presentations | Venice (Spotlight) |
| Ink (Danny Boyle) | Special Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| It Will Happen Tonight (Nanni Moretti) | Special Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| Josephine (Beth de Araujo) | Special Presentations | Sundance (US Dramatic Competition) |
| La Bola Negra (Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| Look Back (Hirokazu Koreeda) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| The Man I Love (Ira Sachs) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
| Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? (Shinya Tsukamoto) | Special Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| The Only Living Pickpocket In New York (Noah Segan) | Gala Presentations | Sundance (Premieres) |
| Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong) | Special Presentations | Venice (Competition) |
| Rogue Trooper (Duncan Jones) | Midnight Madness | Annecy |
| The Spiral (Paolo Strippoli) | Midnight Madness | Venice (Competition) |
| The Unknown (Arthur Harari) | Special Presentations | Cannes (Competition) |
*Only includes titles in Gala, Special Presentation, Platform and Midnight Madness
Profiles by: Ellie Calnan, Ben Dalton, Elaine Guerini, John Hazelton, Jeremy Kay, Geoffrey Macnab, Lee Marshall, Thea Middleton, Cecilia Neri, David Opie, Michael Rosser, Matt Schley, Mona Tabbara, Sil
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