The world premieres of Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour’s crime mystery Unidentified, Erupcja starring Charli XCX, and Canadian DJ Kid Koala’s animation Space Cadet join picks from Cannes, Venice and Berlin in the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Centrepiece programme.
The selection of world cinema includes 19 world premieres, including Jan Komasa’s kidnap drama Good Boy starring Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough; Kirk Jones’s Tourette’s biopic I Swear about trailblazer John Davidson starring Robert Aramayo and Peter Mullan, which Studiocanal will distribute in the UK and Bankside Films handles for world sales; Jitank Singh Gurjar’s Indian family drama In Search Of The Sky; and Canadian Gail Maurice’s Indigenous drama Blood Lines.
A large Cannes contingent brings Sergei Loznitsa’s Francois Chalais Prize winner Two Prosecutors and Tarik Saleh’s Eagles Of The Republic, both from Competition; Genki Kawamura’s Cannes Midnight selection Exit 8; Christian Petzold’s Mirrors No.3 from Directors’ Fortnight; Diego Céspedes’ Un Certain Regard winner The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo; and Critics Week grand prix winner A Useful Ghost from Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke and Left-Handed Girl from Shih-Ching Tsou, among others.
From Venice, there is an international premiere for Duse by Pietro Marcello, as well as North American premieres for Lazlo Nemes’s Orphan; STILLZ’s Venice Horizons entry Barrio Triste; and Anders Thomas Jensen’s The Last Viking, which plays out of competition on the Lido.
Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon originally premiered in Berlin, as did Honey Bunch from Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli.
Centrepiece is programmed by Jason Anderson, Kelly Boutsalis, Diana Cadavid, Robyn Citizen, Claire Diao, Giovanna Fulvi, June Kim, Dorota Lech, Anita Lee, Peter Kuplowsky, Andréa Picard, and Jason Ryle.
The line-up appears in alphabetical order below.
A Useful Ghost (Thai-Fr-Sing-Ger)
Dir. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
North American premiere
Arco (Fr)
Dir. Ugo Bienvenu
North American premiere
Barrio Triste (Col-US)
Dir. STILLZ
North American premiere
Blood Lines (Can)
Dir. Gail Maurice
World premiere
Blue Heron (Can-Hun)
Dir. Sophy Romvari
North American premiere
Blue Moon (US-Ire)
Dir. Richard Linklater
North American premiere
Carolina Caroline (US)
Dir. Adam Carter Rehmeier
World premiere
Dandelion’s Odyssey (Fr-Bel)
Dir. Momoko Seto
North American premiere
Diya (Chad-Fr-Ger-Ivory Coast)
Dir. Achille Ronaimou
North American premiere
Duse (Fr-It)
Dir. Pietro Marcello
International premiere
Eagles Of The Republic (Swe-Fr-Den-Fin-Ger)
Dir. Tarik Sale
North American premiere
Erupcja (US-Pol, pictured)
Dir. Pete Ohs
World premiere
Exit 8 (Japan)
Dir. Genki Kawamura
North American premiere
Follies (Can)
Dir. Eric K. Boulianne
North American premiere
Girl (Tai)
Dir. Shu Qi
North American premiere
Good Boy (Pol-UK)
Dir. Jan Komasa
World premiere
Hamlet (UK)
Dir. Aneil Karia
Canadian premiere
Honey Bunch (Can)
Dirs. Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli
North American premiere
I Swear (UK)
Dir. Kirk Jones
World premiere
In Search Of The Sky (India)
Dir. Jitank Singh Gurjar
World Premiere
Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream (Iraq-UAE-Fr-UK-Qat-Saudi)
Dir. Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji
North American premiere
Left-Handed Girl (Tai-Fr-US-UK)
Dir. Shih-Ching Tsou
North American premiere
Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain (Fr)
Dirs. Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han
North American premiere
Lucky Lu (US)
Dir. Lloyd Lee Choi
North American premiere
Mama (Isr-Pol-It)
Dir. | Or Sinai
North American premiere
Memory Of Princess Mumbi (Ken-Switz-Saudi)
Dir. Damien Hauser
North American premiere
Milk Teeth (Rom-Fr-Den-Greece-Bul)
Dir. Mihai Mincan
North American premiere
Mirrors No. 3 (Ger)
Dir. Christian Petzold
North American premiere
Motor City (US)
Dir. Potsy Ponciroli
North American premiere
My Father’s Shadow (UK-Nigeria)
Dir. Akinola Davies Jr.
North American premiere
New Year’s Rev (US)
Dir. Lee Kirk
World premiere
Nomad Shadow (US-Sp-Fr)
Dir. Eimi Imanishi
World premiere
Olmo (US-Mex)
Dir. Fernando Eimbcke
North American premiere
Orphan (Hun-Fr-Ger-UK)
Dir. László Nemes
North American premiere
Palimpsest: The Story Of A Name (Fr-HK-Tai)
Dir. Mary Stephen
World premiere
Renoir (Japan-Fr-Sing-Phil-Indo-Qat)
Dir. Chie Hayakawa
North American premiere
Saipan (Ire-UK)
Dirs. Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn
World premiere
Space Cadet (Can)
Dir. Kid Koala
North American premiere
The Blue Trail (Bra-Mex-Chile-Neth)
Dir. Gabriel Mascaro
North American premiere
The Condor Daughter (Bol-Per-Uru)
Dir. Álvaro Olmos Torrico
World premiere
The Cost Of Heaven (Can)
Dir. Mathieu Denis
World premiere
The Fox King (Malay-Indo)
Dir. Woo Ming Jin
World premiere
The Last One For The Road (It-Ger)
Dir. Francesco Sossai
North American premiere
The Last Viking (Den-Swe)
Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
North American premiere
The Little Sister (Fr-Ger)
Dir. Hafsia Herzi
North American premiere
The Love That Remains (Ice-Den-Swe-Fr)
Dir. Hlynur Pálmason
North American premiere
The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo (Chile-Fr)
Dir. Diego Céspedes
North American premiere
The President’s Cake (Iraq-US-Qat)
Dir. Hasan Hadi
North American premiere
The Sun Rises On Us All (Can)
Cai Shangjun | China
North American Premiere
Two Prosecutors (Fr-Ger-Neth-Lat-Rom-Lith)
Dir. Sergei Loznitsa
North American premiere
Under The Same Sun (Dom Rep-Sp)
Dir. Ulises Porra
World premiere
Unidentified (Saudi)
Dir. Haifaa Al Mansour
World premiere
Wasteman (UK)
Dir. Cal McMau
World premiere
Whitetail (Neth-Bel-Ire)
Dir. Nanouk Leopold
World premiere
Youngblood (Can)
Dir. Hubert Davis
World premiere.
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