Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) brass on Thursday (8) unveiled selections in the Midnight Madness, Discovery, TIFF Docs, and Cinematheque programmes set to screen next month.
The 10-strong Midnight Madness programme includes world premieres of Rose Glass’s psychological thriller Saint Maud, Joko Anwar’s Indonesian superhero adaptation Gundala, and Richard Stanley’s H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out Of Space starring Nicolas Cage. Jeff Barnaby’s previously announced zombie outbreak thriller Blood Quantum from Canada and Isaac Nabwana’s Ugandan gonzo action film Crazy World bookend the section.
TIFF Docs features 25 non-fiction works, including 18 world premieres, and opens with The Cave from Oscar-nominated director Feras Fayyad, about an underground hospital led by a female doctor in war-torn Syria. Other world premieres include Alan Berliner’s personal reflection on photojournalism, Letter To The Editor; Barbara Kopple’s hostage rescue chronicle Desert One; Formula E electric cars competition film And We Go Green; Thomas Balmès’ Sing Me A Song, about a young monk in Bhutan who forms a long-distance relationship via his smartphone; and Bryce Dallas Howard’s Dads, which explores fatherhood with celebrities and non-celebrities alike.
TIFF Cinematheque will feature select screenings in 35mm, with two prints from the TIFF Film Reference Library Screening Collection. Narrative titles will be preceded by guest introductions from festival filmmakers. Palcy and Larraín will be on hand to discuss their films, A Dry White Season and No, respectively. Angela Schanelec will present Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket; Rian Johnson will introduce Herbert Ross’ The Last Of Sheila; and Robbie Robertson – the subject of the festival’s opening night film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band – will introduce Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. Tickets to all TIFF Cinematheque screenings are free.
TIFF Discovery presents 37 films from emerging filmmakers representing 35 countries, including 33 world premieres, with women directors accounting for 54% of the selection. The programme opens with Chiara Malta’s Simple Women, in which a director meets an actor she idolised in her youth.
TIFF runs from September 5-15.
Midnight Madness
* Midnight Madness Opening Film *
Blood Quantum (Can)
Dir: Jeff Barnaby
World premiere
Color Out Of Space (USA)
Dir: Richard Stanley
World premiere
* Midnight Madness Closing Film *
Crazy World (Uga)
Dir: Isaac Nabwana
World premiere
First Love (Hatsukoi, Jap-UK)
Dir: Takashi Miike
North American premiere
Gundala (Indo)
Dir: Joko Anwar
International premiere
The Platform (El Hoyo, Sp)
Dir: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
World premiere
Saint Maud (UK)
Dir: Rose Glass
World premiere
The Twentieth Century (Can)
Dir: Matthew Rankin
World premiere
The Vast Of Night (USA)
Dir: Andrew Patterson
Canadian premiere
The Vigil (USA)
Dir: Keith Thomas
World premiere
TIFF Docs
And We Go Green (USA)
Dirs: Fisher Stevens, Malcolm Venville
World premiere
The Australian Dream (Aust-UK)
Dir: Daniel Gordon
International premiere
Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator (USA)
Dir: Eva Orner
World premiere
The Capote Tapes (UK)
Dir: Ebs Burnough
World premiere
*TIFF Docs Opening Film*
The Cave (Syr-Den-Ger-USA-Qat)
Dir: Feras Fayyad
World premiere
Citizen K (USA-UK)
Dir: Alex Gibney
North American premiere
Collective (Colectiv, Rom-Lux)
Dir: Alexander Nanau
North American premiere
Coppers (Can)
Dir: Alan Zweig
World premiere
The Cordillera Of Dreams (La Cordillera de Los Sueños, Fr-Chile)
Dir:Patricio Guzmán
North American premiere
Cunningham (Ger-Fra-USA)
Dir: Alla Kovgan
World premiere
Dads (USA)
Dir: Bryce Dallas Howard
World premiere
Desert One (USA)
Dir: Barbara Kopple
World premiere
I Am Not Alone (Arm-USA)
Dir: Garin Hovannisian
World premiere
Ibrahim: A Fate To Define (Leb-Pal-Den-Qat-Slovenia)
Dir: Lina Al Abed
North American premiere
The Kingmaker (USA)
Dir: Lauren Greenfield
Canadian premiere
Letter To The Editor (USA)
Dir: Alan Berliner
World premiere
Love Child (Den)
Dir: Eva Mulvad
World premiere
My English Cousin (Switz-Qat)
Dir: Karim Sayad
World premiere
Paris Stalingrad (Fra)
Dir: Hind Meddeb
International premiere
Ready For War (USA)
Dir: Andrew Renzi
World premiere
Red Penguins (USA-Rus)
Dir: Gabe Polsky
World premiere
Sing Me A Song (Fra-Ger-Switz)
Dir: Thomas Balmès
World premiere
There’s Something In The Water (Can)
Dirs: Ellen Page, Ian Daniel
World premiere
This Is Not a Movie (Can-Ger)
Dir: Yung Chang
World premiere
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (UK)
Dir: Mark Cousins
World premiere
Previously announced TIFF Docs films include Alan Zweig’s Coppers, Ellen Page and Ian Daniel’s There’s Something In The Water, and Yung Chang’s This Is Not A Movie.
TIFF Cinematheque
A Dry White Season (USA, 1989)
Dir: Euzhan Palcy
Pickpocket (France, 1959)
Dir: Robert Bresson
No (Chile-USA, 2012)
Dir: Pablo Larraín
The Last Of Sheila (USA, 1973)
Dir: Herbert Ross
The Last Waltz (USA, 1978)
Dir: Martin Scorsese
Discovery
1982 (USA-Leb-Nor-Qat)
Dir: Oualid Mouaness
World premiere
Africa (Isr)
Dir: Oren Gerner
World premiere
The Antenna (Bina, Tur)
Dir: Orçun Behram
World premiere
The Audition (Das Vorspiel, Ger-Fra)
Dir: Ina Weisse
World premiere
August (Agosto, Cub-C Rica-Fra)
Dir: Armando Capó
World premiere
Black Conflux (Can)
Dir: Nicole Dorsey
World premiere
Bring Me Home (Na-Reul Cha-Ja-Jwo, Sth Kor)
Dir: Kim Seung-woo
World premiere
A Bump Along The Way (UK)
Dir: Shelly Love
International premiere
Calm With Horses (UK-Ireland)
Dir: Nick Rowland
World premiere
Certified Mail (Bi Elm El Wossul, Egypt)
Dir: Hisham Saqr
World premiere
Comets (Georgia)
Dir: Tamar Shavgulidze
World premiere
Disco Jorunn (Nor)
Dir: Myklebust Syversen
World premiere
Easy Land (Can)
Dir: Sanja Zivkovic
World premiere
Entwined (Gr)
Dir: Minos Nikolakakis
World premiere
The Giant (USA, pictured)
Dir: David Raboy
The Good Intentions (Las Buenas Intenciones, Arg)
Dir: Ana García Blaya
World premiere
Hearts And Bones (Australia)
Dir: Ben Lawrence
International premiere
Hope (Håp, Nor-Swe)
Dir: Maria Sødahl
World premiere
Kuessipan (Can)
Dir: Myriam Verreault
World premiere
Lina from Lima (Chil-Arg-Peru)
Dir: María Paz González
World premiere
The Lost Okoroshi (Nigeria)
Dir: Abba Makama
World premiere
Love Me Tender (Switz)
Dir: Klaudia Reynicke
World premiere
Murmur (Can)
Dir: Heather Younng
World premiere
My Life As A Comedian (En Komikers Uppväxt, Swe-Belg)
Dir: Rojda Sekersöz
World premiere
Noura’s Dream (Tun-Belg-Fra)
Dir: Hinde Boujemaa
World premiere
The Obituary Of Tunde Johnson (USA)
Dir: Ali LeRoi
World premiere
Pompei (Belg-Can-Fra)
Dirs: Anna Falguères, John Shank
World premiere
Raf (Can-USA)
Dir: Harry Cepka
World premiere
The Rest Of Us (Can)
Dir: Aisling Chin-Yee
World premiere
Sea Fever (Ire-Swe-Belg-UK)
Dir: Neasa Hardiman
World premiere
* Discovery Opening Film *
Simple Women (Ita-Rom
Dir: Chiara Malta
World premiere
Sole (Ita-Pol)
Dir: Carlo Sironi
International premiere
Son-Mother (Pesar-Madar, Iran-Czech Rep)
Dir: Mahnaz Mohammadi
World premiere
Stories From The Chestnut Woods (Zgodbe Iz Kostanjevih Gozdov, Slovenia-Ita)
Dir: Gregor Božič
World premiere
Sweetness In The Belly (Ire-Can)
Dir: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
World premiere
Two Of Us (Deux, Fra-Lux-Belg)
Dir: Filippo Meneghetti
World premiere
Zana (Alb-Kos)
Dir: Antoneta Kastrati
World premiere.
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