With this year’s Cannes Film Festival focusing on more foreign-language films, film fans have been expecting September’s Toronto International Film Festival to be chock-full of the highly-anticipated projects that didn’t make it to France. And with the official announcement revealed today, we can confirm that this year’s TIFF is going to be something special.
Films like “Beautiful Boy,” “First Man,” “A Star is Born,” and Steve McQueen’s “Widows” (a world premiere) are sure to be crowd-pleasers. However, the big news is probably the inclusion of Claire Denis‘ latest film “High Life,” starring Robert Pattinson which is a world premiere. This sci-fi film has been near the top of our most anticipated lists since we heard of its existence, and TIFF is the first festival that has announced the film as part of its lineup. And there’s also highlights like Jason Reitman’s latest “The Front Runner” (starring Hugh Jackman), as well as a new film by Olivier Assayas. TIFF touts some of their stats too: 13 movies by female directors are featured in the line-up including Mia Hansen-Løve, Amma Asante, Nicole Holofcener, Mélanie Laurent, the aforementioned Denis and more
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For those hoping to catch some of Cannes’ “greatest hits,” films like “Shoplifters” (which won the Palme d’Or), “Cold War,” and “Burning” are all going to be at this year’s TIFF. Honestly, there’s not a bad film among the bunch.
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival will run from September 6 to 16.
GALAS 2018
Beautiful Boy — Felix van Groeningen, USA – World Premiere
Everybody Knows — Asghar Farhadi, Spain/France/Italy – North American Premiere
First Man — Damien Chazelle, USA – Canadian Premiere
Galveston — Mélanie Laurent, USA – Canadian Premiere
The Hate U Give — George Tillman, Jr., USA – World Premiere
Hidden Man — Jiang Wen, China- International Premiere
High Life — Claire Denis, Germany/France/Poland/United Kingdom – World Premiere
Husband Material —Anurag Kashyap, India- World Premiere
The Kindergarten Teacher — Sara Colangelo, USA – Canadian Premiere
The Land of Steady Habits — Nicole Holofcener, USA – World Premiere
Life Itself — Dan Fogelman, USA – World Premiere
The Public—Emilio Estevez, USA – World Premiere
Red Joan — Sir Trevor Nunn, United Kingdom – World Premiere
Shadow — Zhang Yimou, China – North American Premiere
A Star is Born — Bradley Cooper, USA – North American Premiere
What They Had — Elizabeth Chomko, USA – International Premiere
Widows — Steve McQueen, United Kingdom/USA – World Premiere
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2018
Ben is Back — Peter Hedges, USA – World Premiere
Burning — Lee Chang-dong, South Korea – North American Premiere
Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller, USA – International Premiere
Capernaum — Nadine Labaki, Lebanon – North American Premiere
Cold War — Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland/United Kingdom/France – Canadian Premiere
Colette — Wash Westmoreland, United Kingdom – Canadian Premiere
Dogman — Matteo Garrone, Italy/France – Canadian Premiere
The Front Runner — Jason Reitman, USA – International Premiere
Giant Little Ones —Keith Behrman, Canada – World Premiere
Girls of the Sun (Les filles du soleil) — Eva Husson, France – International Premiere
Hotel Mumbai — Anthony Maras, Australia – World Premiere
The Hummingbird Project — Kim Nguyen, Canada – World Premiere
If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins, USA – World Premiere
Manto — Nandita Das, India – North American Premiere
Maya — Mia Hansen-Løve, France – World Premiere
Monsters and Men — Reinaldo Marcus Green, USA – Canadian Premiere
*Special Presentations Opening Film*
MOUTHPIECE — Patricia Rozema, Canada – World Premiere
Non-Fiction — Olivier Assayas, France – Canadian Premiere
The Old Man & The Gun — David Lowery, USA – International Premiere
Papi Chulo — John Butler, Ireland – World Premiere
Roma — Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico/USA – Canadian Premiere
*Special Presentations Closing Film*
Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan – Canadian Premiere
The Sisters Brothers — Jacques Audiard, USA/France/Romania/Spain – North American Premiere
Sunset— László Nemes, Hungary/France – North American Premiere
Through Black Spruce — Don McKellar, Canada – World Premiere
The Wedding Guest — Michael Winterbottom, United Kingdom – World Premiere
The Weekend — Stella Meghie, USA – World Premiere
Where Hands Touch —Amma Asante, United Kingdom – World Premiere
White Boy — Rick Yann Demange, USA – International Premiere
Wildlife — Paul Dano, USA – Canadian Premiere
Below, some thoughts about films that’ll likely play at Telluride or Venice before TIFF.
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