The shortened September roster also features previously announced movies from Spike Lee, Halle Berry, Francis Lee and more.
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced its 2020 line of 50 new features, a selection dramatically smaller than last year, where the typically crowded festival hosted more than 300 titles. However, the festival program, which is expected to take place as a combination of virtual screenings and physical releases, but without press and industry, features many recognizable names.
As previously announced, Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s “American Utopia” will open the festival, which today announced it will close with a special performance of Mira Nair’s latest miniseries, “A Right Kid,” based on the novel of the same name. by Vikram Seth.
“Nomadland”, starring Chloe Zhao’s Frances McDormand, already slated for a star-studded festival run, will be screened at the festival, joining previously announced titles such as Francis Lee’s “Ammonite”, “The Mads Mikkelsen Vinterberg Drama” Another Round “Ricky Staub’s Idris Elba vehicle” Concrete Cowboy “,” Fauna “by Mexican-Canadian director Nicolas Pereda, Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Mark Wahlberg drama” Good Joe Bell “, Suzanne Lindon’s” Spring Blossom “and the selection Cannes 2020 “True Mothers” by Naomi Kawase.
Several of this year’s offerings come from actors who have brought their talents behind the camera, including Halle Berry (“Bruised”), Regina King (“One Night in Miami”) and Viggo Mortensen (“Falling”, which premiered. at Sundance in January), all of whom are debuting as directors at the festival. And while this year will be very different from past iterations, TIFF’s generally robust documentary lineup will be even more prominent, with new films by Sam Pollard, Werner Herzog, and Frederick Wiseman, among others. Forty-six percent of this year’s titles come from female filmmakers.
The festival, which will take place from September 10 to 19, will exist as a limited physical event and as an online experience, through a combination of physicals and drive-ins, digital screenings, virtual red carpets, press conferences and talks from the industry. The festival will not host press and industry screenings or media events on the ground; instead, as previously announced, it will launch a digital platform to host digital screenings, in addition to numerous talks and special events.
“American Utopia”
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“We started this year by planning a 45th Festival much like our previous editions, but along the way we had to rethink almost everything,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Director of TIFF, in an official statement. “This year’s lineup reflects that tumult. The names you already know are doing new things this year, and there are a whole host of new and exciting names to discover. ”
“TIFF 2020 is a special edition and symbolizes what is possible when collaboration, ingenuity and passion take center stage,” added Joana Vicente, executive director and co-director of TIFF, in a separate statement. “It is also a time to celebrate and affirm some of TIFF’s founding values, including the power film that has to propel us as a society and present a diversity of voices.”
See the full list of titles announced today below.
“180 degree rule”, Farnoosh Samadi, Iran
“76 days”, Hao Wu, anonymous, Weixi Chen, USA
“Ammonite”, Francis Lee, UK
“Another round (Druk)”, Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark
“Bandar Band”, M anijeh Hekmat, Iran / Germany
“Beans”, Tracey Deer, Canada
“Beginning (Dasatskisi)”, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia / France
“The best is yet to come (Bu zhi bu xiu)”, Wang Jing, China
“Bruised”, Halle Berry, USA
“City Hall”, Frederick Wiseman, USA
“Concrete Cowboy”, Ricky Staub, USA
“David Byrne’s American Utopia”, Spike Lee, USA Opening Night Movie
“The Disciple”, Chaitanya Tamhane, India
“Enemies of the State”, S onia Kennebeck, USA.
“Falling”, Viggo Mortensen, Canada / UK
“The Father”, Florian Zeller, United Kingdom / France
“The father”
Sony Pictures Classics
“Fauna”, N icolás Pereda, Mexico / Canada
“Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds”, W erner Herzog, Live C Oppenheimer, UK / USA “Gazamonamour”, Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser, France / Germany / Portugal / Palestine / Qatar
“Come out of Hell (Taochulifayuan)”, I -Fan Wang, Taiwan
“Good Joe Bell”, Reinaldo Marcus Green, USA
“I care a lot”, J Blakeson, UK
“Inconvenient Indian”, M ichelle Latimer, Canada
“Inheritance”, Ephraim Asili, USA
“Lift Like a Girl (Ashya Captain)”, Mayye Zayed, E gypt / Germany / Denmark
“Limbo”, Ben Sharrock, UK
“House of the Ancient”, “João Paulo, Miranda Maria, Brazil / France”
“MLK / FBI”, Sam Pollard, USA
“Ammonite”
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“The New Corporation: An Unfortunate Necessary Sequel”, Joel Bakan, Jennifer Abbott, Canada
“New order (New order)”, Michel Franco, Mexico
“The night of the kings (L a Nuit des rois)”, P. Lacote, Ivory Coast / France / Canada / Senegal
“Nomadland”, C hloé Zhao, USA
“No Ordinary Man”, A isling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt, Canada
“Notturno”, Gianfranco Rosi, Italy / France / Germany
“One Night in Miami”, R egina King, USA
“Penguin Bloom”, Glendyn Ivin, Australia / USA
“Pieces of a Woman”, K ornél Mundruczó, United States / Canada / Hungary
“Preparations for being together for an unknown period of time (F elkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre)”, Lili Horvát, Hungary
“Quo Vadis, Aïda?” J asmila Žbanic, B osnia and Herzegovina / N orway / Netherlands / Austria / Romania / France / Germany / Poland / Turkey
“Shadow In The Cloud”, R oseanne Liang, United States / New Zealand
“Shiva Baby”
“Shiva Baby”, Emma Seligman, United States / Canada
“Spring Blossom”, Suzanne Lindon, France
“A suitable child”, Mira Nair, UK / India Closing night presentation
“Summer of 85 (Été 85)”, François Ozon, France
“The Third Day”, Felix Barrett, Dennis Kelly, UK
“Trickster”, Michelle Latimer, Canada
“The True Mothers (Asagakuru)”, Naomi Kawase, Japan
“Under the Open Sky (S ubarashikisekai)”, Miwa Nishikawa, Japan
“Rape”, M adeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli, Canada
“Wildfire”, Cathy Brady, UK / Ireland
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