Screen profiles all the world and key premieres at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in the Galas, Special Presentations, Platform and Midnight Madness strands.
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
- Always Lalisa (Sue Kim)
- The Assassin(s) (Hur Jin-ho)
- Babies (Lauren Miller Rogen)
- Being Heumann (Sian Heder)
- Diary Of A Mad Old Man (Wayne Wang)
- Evil Genius (Courteney Cox)
- Girl Group (Rebel Wilson)
- It’s My Time (Bai Xue)
- The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd (Tim Blake Nelson)
- Man In Motion: The Rick Hansen Story (Adrian Buitenhuis)
- Misty Green (Chris Rock)
- Onwards And Sideways (John Madden)
- Pretenders (Joss Crowley)
- Prima Facie (Susanna White)
- Run Terry Run (Sean Menard)
- Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret Of The First (Nguyen Phan Quang Binh)
- A Talent For Murder (Anton Corbijn)
- Tenzing (Jennifer Peedom)*
- Up Against It (Trudie Styler)
- Villeneuve: The Rise Of A Legend (Yan Lanouette Turgeon)
Special Presentations
- The Age Of Goodbyes (Edmund Yeo)
- All That She Wants (Scarlett Bermingham, Andrew Rhymer)
- Alpha Gang (David Zellner, Nathan Zellner)*
- Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo (Takashi Miike)
- Closing Night (Cody Fern)
- The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg)*
- Elsinore (Simon Stone)*
- Everest: The Other Side (Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)
- Everybody Wants To F*** Me (Jonathan Schey)
- Faith (Paul Andrew Williams)
- Glaxo (Benjamin Naishtat)
- Growth Of The Soil (Hans Petter Moland)
- Happily Ever After (Feng-I Fiona Roan)
- The Housewife (Ben Shirinian)
- I Play Rocky (Peter Farrelly)
- The Idiot(s) (Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert)*
- In Alaska (Jaap van Heusden, Vinnie Karetak)
- The Julia Set (Niki Byrne)
- Le Faux Soir (Michaël R Roskam)
- The Liberation (Guy Nattiv)*
- A Long Winter (Andrew Haigh)*
- Love Of Your Life (Rachel Morrison)
- Neil Peart: No One’s Disciple (Scot McFadyen, Sam Dunn)
- Paradise Lost (Yeon Sang-ho)
- Phoolan (Richie Mehta)
- The Road Not Taken (Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
- The Stunt Driver (Michael Dowse)
- Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh)*
- Whatcha Want (Mina Shum)
- Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (Bassam Tariq)
Platform
- Angh (Theja Rio)
- Brace Your Heart (Amanda Kernell)
- Children Untold (Miwa Nishikawa)
- Djinn Wedding (Ferit Karahan)
- Idda (Irene Dionisio)
- In The Heart Of The South (Nyla Innuksuk)
- Masc (Bertil Nilsson)
- On Behalf Of My Son (Gabriel Martins)
- Silenced Nights (Lawrence Fajardo)
- The Smell Of Apples (John Trengove)
- Wild Wild East (Jan Holoubek)
- The World Before (Yoon Dan-bi)
Midnight Madness
- Anchors Aweigh (Matt Barats)
- The Face Of Horror (Anna Biller)
- Half (Samjad)
- Kick On (Nick Kozakis)
- Ladies And Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney (Matthew Rankin)
- River (Joshua Giuliano)
- Vintage Violence (Eugene Kotlyarenko)
TIFF Docs preview
Discovery preview
Centrepiece preview
*Telluride world premieres
| 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, Silvia Wong
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