Il Toronto Film Festival continua a svelare la selezione della sua 51a edizione, in programma dal 10 al 20 settembre.

Per l’apertura c’è Being Heumann, film che segna il ritorno di Siân Heder, regista vincitrice dell’Oscar per Coda, con Ruth Madeley che interpreta Judith Heumann, pioniera del Movimento per i diritti dei disabili (nel cast anche Mark Ruffalo e Dylan O’Brien).

Tra i 64 titoli annunciato, 30 sono anteprime mondiali dirette da registi come Peter Farrelly con Rocky sono io (I Play Rocky), biopic su Sylvester Stallone con Anthony Ippolito, Anton Corbijn (A Talent for Murder, con Helen Mirren nel ruolo di Patricia Highsmith), John Madden (Onwards and Sideways, con Laura Linney e Rhys Ifans), Chris Rock (Misty Green di Chris Rock, satira su Hollywood con Rosalind Eleazar, Daniel Kaluuya, Adam Driver e Anna Kendrick), Rachel Morrison (Love of Your Life con Margaret Qualley e Patrick Schwarzenegger).

Tra le première mondiali anche Babies di Lauren Miller Rogen, con Anna Kendrick, Seth Rogen, Issa Rae, Dan Stevens, Ed Helms e Sharon Stone; Diary of A Mad Old Man di Wayne Wang; Evil Genius di Courteney Cox, con Patricia Arquette e David Harbour; Girl Group scritto, diretto, interpretato e prodotto da Rebel Wilson, nel cast anche Jennifer Coolidge e Nicole Scherzinger; The Housewife di Ben Shirinian, con Naomi Watts, Tye Sheridan e Luke Evans; The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd di Tim Blake Nelson, con Amanda Seyfried e Scoot McNairy; Everybody Wants to Fuck Me di Jonathan Schey, con Taron Egerton e Jessica Henwick; The Julia Set di Niki Byrne, con Chase Infiniti, Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs, Nina Hoss; Prima Facie di Susanna White, con Cynthia Erivo.

Tutti i film annunciati:

Gala Presentations

  • A Talent for Murder | Anton Corbijn | United Kingdom, Italy | World Premiere
  • All About Corinne | Marc Fitoussi | France | North American Premiere
  • Always Lalisa | Sue Kim | USA | World Premiere
  • Atonement | Reed Van Dyk | USA | North American Premiere
  • Babies | Lauren Miller Rogen | USA | World Premiere
  • Being Heumann | Siân Heder | USA | World Premiere | Opening Night Film
  • Bunker | Florian Zeller | France, Spain | North American Premiere
  • Diary of a Mad Old Man | Wayne Wang | USA | World Premiere
  • Evil Genius | Courteney Cox | USA | World Premiere
  • Girl Group | Rebel Wilson | United Kingdom | World Premiere
  • Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story | Adrian Buitenhuis | Canada | World Premiere
  • Misty Green | Chris Rock | USA | World Premiere
  • Onwards and Sideways | John Madden | United Kingdom | World Premiere
  • Pretenders | Joss Crowley | United Kingdom | World Premiere
  • *Prima Facie | Susanna White | Australia, United Kingdom | World Premiere
  • Run Terry Run | Sean Menard | Canada
  • Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor | Nguyen Phan Quang Binh | Vietnam | International Premiere
  • Tenzing | Jennifer Peedom | USA, Australia | Canadian Premiere
  • The Assassin(s) | Hur Jin-ho | South Korea | World Premiere
  • The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd | Tim Blake Nelson | USA | World Premiere
  • The Only Living Pickpocket in New York | Noah Segan | USA | Canadian Premiere
  • Up Against It | Trudie Styler | United Kingdom | World Premiere
  • Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend | Yan Lanouette Turgeon | Canada | World Premiere | Closing Night Film

Special Presentations

  • A Long Winter | Andrew Haigh | Canada, United Kingdom | Canadian Premiere
  • All of a Sudden | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | France, Japan, Germany, Belgium | North American Premiere
  • All That She Wants | Scarlett Bermingham, Andrew Rhymer | USA, Canada | World Premiere
  • Alpha Gang | David Zellner, Nathan Zellner | USA | International Premiere
  • Amarga Navidad | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | North American Premiere
  • Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo | Takashi Miike | USA, United Kingdom, Japan | World Premiere
  • Clarissa | Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri | Nigeria, USA | North American Premiere
  • Club Kid | Jordan Firstman | USA | Canadian Premiere
  • Coward | Lukas Dhont | Belgium | North American Premiere
  • Elsinore | Simon Stone | United Kingdom | Canadian Premiere
  • Everest: The Other Side | Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | USA | Canadian Premiere
  • Everybody Wants To F*** Me | Jonathan Schey | United Kingdom, France, USA | World Premiere
  • Faith | Paul Andrew Williams | United Kingdom | World Premiere
  • Fjord | Cristian Mungiu | Romania, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark | Canadian Premiere
  • Gentle Monster | Marie Kreutzer | Austria | Canadian Premiere
  • Glaxo | Benjamín Naishtat | Argentina, Brazil | World Premiere
  • Growth of the Soil | Hans Petter Moland | Norway | World Premiere
  • Happily Ever After | Feng-I Fiona Roan | Taiwan | World Premiere
  • Hombre al agua | Gael García Bernal | Mexico | North American Premiere
  • I Play Rocky | Peter Farrelly | USA | World Premiere
  • In Alaska | Jaap van Heusden, Vinnie Karetak | Netherlands, Canada | World Premiere
  • Ink | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, France, USA | Canadian Premiere
  • Josephine | Beth de Araújo | USA | Canadian Premiere
  • La Bola Negra | Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi | Spain, France | Canadian Premiere
  • Le Faux Soir | Michaël R. Roskam | Belgium, France | World Premiere
  • Look Back | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan | North American Premiere
  • Love of Your Life | Rachel Morrison | USA | World Premiere
  • Minotaur | Andrey Zvyagintsev | France, Germany, Latvia | Canadian Premiere
  • Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? | Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan | North American Premiere
  • Paradise Lost | Yeon Sang-ho | South Korea | World Premiere
  • Phoolan | Richie Mehta | India | World Premiere
  • Possible Love | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea | North American Premiere
  • Tender Loving Care | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom | Canadian Premiere
  • The Age of Goodbyes | Edmund Yeo | Taiwan, Malaysia | World Premiere
  • The Beloved | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Spain | North American Premiere
  • The Debut | Jesse Eisenberg | USA | International Premiere
  • The Housewife | Ben Shirinian | USA | World Premiere
  • The Julia Set | Niki Byrne | USA | World Premiere
  • The Man I Love | Ira Sachs | USA | North American Premiere
  • The Stunt Driver | Michael Dowse | Canada | World Premiere
  • The Unknown | Arthur Harari | France | North American Premiere
  • Whatcha Want | Mina Shum | Canada | World Premiere
  • Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother | Bassam Tariq | USA | World Premiere