Peter Farrelly’s biodrama I Play Rocky, with Anthony Ippolito as Sylvester Stallone, Chris Rock’s film industry tale Misty Green, with the director also starring alongside Rosalind Eliazar, and Yeon Sang-ho’s Korean sci-fi mystery Paradise Lost, with Kim Hyun-joo and Bae Hyeon-Seong, are among 58 newly announced galas and special presentations that will screen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
TIFF’s closing night gala, on September 19, will be the world premiere of Yan Lanouette Turgeon’s Villeneuve: The Rise Of A Legend, a biographical sports drama about the early years of Canadian racing legend Gilles Villeneuve.
The festival, which this year runs September 10-20, unveiled a slate of gala and special presentation features coming from nearly 30 countries.
In addition to the Farrelly, Rock and Yeon films, the slate’s 28 world premieres include John Madden’s British drama Onwards And Sideways, with Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney, Wayne Wang’s Tokyo-set US film Diary Of A Mad Old Man, with Fan Bingbing, and US true crime story Evil Genius, with Courteney Cox directing Patricia Arquette and David Harbour.
Other films making their global debuts include Anton Corbijn’s A Talent For Murder, Rebel Wilson’s Girl Group, Joss Crowley’s Pretenders, Trudie Styler’s Up Against It, Jonathan Schey’s Everybody Wants To F*** Me, Richie Mehta’s Phoolan and Niki Byrne’s The Julia Set.
International premieres include Nguyen Phan Quang Binh’s Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret Of The First Emperor and Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut.
Among the slate’s North American premieres are Reed Van Dyk’s Atonement, Florian Zeller’s Bunker, Gael García Bernal’s Hombre Al Agua, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Look Back and several films that debuted in Cannes including Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All Of A Sudden, Pedro Almodovar’s Bitter Christmas, Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri’s Clarissa, Lukas Dhont’s Coward and Ira Sachs’ The Man I Love.
High-profile films that are due to receive their Canadian premieres (implying that they are likely to bow first at Telluride) include Andrew Haigh’s A Long Winter, Simon Stone’s Elsinore and Mike Leigh’s Tender Loving Care.
Previously announced as TIFF galas have been Sian Heder’s opening night film Being Heumann, Susanna White’s Prima Facie and Hur Jin-ho’s The Assassin.
Previously announced special presentations have included Alpha Gang from David and Nathan Zellner, Glaxo from Benjamín Naishtat, The Housewife from Ben Shirinian, Love Of Your Life from Rachel Morrison and Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother from Bassam Tariq.
Galas
A Talent For Murder (UK-Italy)
Dir. Anton Corbijn
World premiere
All About Corinne (France)
Dir. Marc Fitoussi
North American premiere
Always Lalisa (US)
Dir. Sue Kim
World premiere
Atonement (US)
Dir. Reed Van Dyk
North American premiere
Babies (US)
Dir. Lauren Miller Rogen
World premiere
Bunker (France-Spain)
Florian Zeller
North American premiere
Diary Of A Mad Old Man (US)
Wayne Wang
World premiere
Evil Genius (US)
Courteney Cox
World premiere
Girl Group (UK)
Rebel Wilson
World premiere
Man In Motion: The Rick Hansen Story (Canada)
Adrian Buitenhuis
World premiere
Misty Green (US)
Chris Rock
World premiere
Onwards And Sideways (UK)
John Madden
World premiere
Pretenders (UK)
Dir. Joss Crowley
World premiere
Run Terry Run (Canada)
Dir. Sean Menard
Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret Of The First Emperor (Vietnam)
Dir. Nguyen Phan Quang Binh
International premiere
Tenzing
Dir. Jennifer Peedom (US-Australia)
Canadian premiere
The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd (US)
Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
World premiere
The Only Living Pickpocket In New York (US)
Dir. Noah Segan
Canadian premiere
Up Against It (UK)
Dir. Trudie Styler
World premiere
Villeneuve: The Rise Of A Legend (Canada)
Dir. Yan Lanouette Turgeon
World premiere; closing night film
Special Presentations
A Long Winter (Canada/UK)
Dir. Andrew Haigh
Canadian premiere
All Of A Sudden (France-Japan-Germany-Belgium)
Dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
North American premiere
All That She Wants (US-Canada)
Dirs. Scarlett Bermingham, Andrew Rhymer
World premiere
Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo (US-UK-Japan)
Dir. Takashi Miike
World premiere
Bitter Christmas (Spain)
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
North American premiere
Clarissa (Nigeria-US)
Dir. Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri
North American premiere
Club Kid (US)
Dir. Jordan Firstman
Canadian premiere
Coward (Belgium)
Dir. Lukas Dhont
North American premiere
Elsinore (UK)
Dir. Simon Stone
Canadian premiere
Everest: The Other Side (US)
Dirs. Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Canadian premiere
Everybody Wants To F*** Me (UK-France-US)
Dir. Jonathan Schey
World premiere
Faith (UK)
Dir. Paul Andrew Williams | United Kingdom
World premiere
Fjord (Romania-France-Norway-Sweden-Denmark)
Dir. Cristian Mungiu
Canadian premiere
Gentle Monster (Austria)
Dir. Marie Kreutzer
Canadian premiere
Growth Of The Soil (Norway)
Dir. Hans Petter Moland
World premiere
Happily Ever After (Taiwan)
Dir. Feng-I Fiona Roan
World premiere
Hombre Al Agua (Mexico)
Dir. Gael García Bernal
North American premiere
I Play Rocky (US)
Dir. Peter Farrelly
World Premiere
In Alaska (Netherlands-Canada)
Dirs. Jaap van Heusden, Vinnie Karetak
World premiere
Ink (UK-France-US)
Dir. Danny Boyle
Canadian premiere
Josephine (US)
Dir. Beth de Araújo
Canadian premiere
La Bola Negra (Spain-France)
Dirs. Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi
Canadian premiere
Le Faux Soir (Belgium-France)
Dir. Michaël R. Roskam
World premiere
Look Back (Japan)
Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
North American premiere
Minotaur (France-Germany-Latvia)
Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
Canadian premiere
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? (Japan)
Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
North American premiere
Paradise Lost (South Korea)
Dir. Yeon Sang-ho
World premiere
Phoolan (India)
Dir. Richie Mehta
World premiere
Possible Love (South Korea)
Dir. Lee Chang-dong
North American premiere
Tender Loving Care (UK)
Dir. Mike Leigh
Canadian premiere
The Age Of Goodbyes (Taiwan-Malaysia)
Dir. Edmund Yeo
World premiere
The Beloved (Spain)
Dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen
North American premiere
The Debut (US)
Dir. Jesse Eisenberg
International premiere
The Julia Set (US)
Dir. Niki Byrne
World premiere
The Man I Love (US)
Dir. Ira Sachs
North American premiere
The Stunt Driver (Canada)
Dir. Michael Dowse
World premiere
The Unknown (France)
Dir. Arthur Harari
North American premiere
Whatcha Want (Canada)
Dir. Mina Shum
World premiere
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