While the official selection of the 80th Venice International Film Festival has been announced, the Toronto Film Festival has also presented part of its program. It was already announced a few weeks ago that the opening film would be Next goal wins the latest film by Taika Waititi, who recently directed his last Thor, by name Thor: Love and Thunder. Just as happened at the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival also announced its selection in the shadow of a strike by actors and screenwriters who, under the rules of their unions, cannot take part in presentation events unless their films are made. manufacturing companies outside the broader scope of the AMPTP, which the unions have been fighting against for weeks. The Toronto Film Festival, however, turned out to be “smart” because its selection included films starring such stars as Chris Pine AND Viggo Mortensen They play the role of directors and therefore, in principle, they will still be able to walk along the red carpet.
Before leaving you with a list of films that have already been announced at the Toronto Film Festival, a necessary prerequisite. Unlike Venice, which is a Type A festival and only features world premieres, the Toronto festival is open to different types of premieres. Eat world premieresthose of North America (which usually means films go to Venice first or have already gone to the Cannes Film Festival), these Canadians (which implies a previous pass to the Telluride Film Festival) and international. This last “label” refers to those films that premiered only in their country of origin. So, to give an example: if an Italian film debuts at the Venice Film Festival, since Venice is Italian territory and therefore the film’s country of origin, the film may travel to Toronto and debut there. International premiere. In addition, the Toronto Film Festival is divided into sections, and each film announced is accompanied, where possible, by information about the sale of distribution rights. That being said, just for the sake of accuracy, here is the full list of announced films that you can find across all TIFF social and web channels.
Toronto Film Festival program
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*(Headlines preceded by an asterisk are those that have already been announced in the past few weeks, ed.)
• Concrete utopia Uhm Tae Hwa | South Korea
North American premiere
Sales Title: North American rights available.
• Dumb Money Craig Gillespie | USA
World premiere
• Fair Chloe Domont | USA
International premiere
• Flora and son John Carney | Ireland/USA
Canadian premiere
• Hate to Love: Nickelback Lee Brooks | Canada
World premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• Lee Ellen Kuras | Great Britain
World premiere
Sales Title: US Rights Available
• *Next Goal Wins Taika Waititi | USA
World premiere
• Nyad Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | USA
International premiere
• Punjab ’95 Honey Trahan | India
World premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• One Sophie Dupuis | Canada
World premiere
Sales Title: US Rights Available
• The end where we begin Mahalia Belo | Great Britain
World premiere
Sales Title: North American rights available.
• Emperor movie Ning Hao | China
World premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• New boy Warwick Thornton | Australia
North American premiere
Sales Title: North American rights available.
• Royal Hotel Kitty Green | Australia/UK
Canadian premiere
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• Difficult year Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | France
International premiere
Sales Title: – US Rights Available.
• Normal family Hur Jin Ho | South Korea
World premiere
Sales Title: North American rights available.
• American fiction Cord Jefferson | USA
World premiere
• Anatomy of a fall Justine Triet | France
Canadian premiere
• Close to you Dominic Savage | Canada/UK
World premiere
Sales Title: Worldwide rights available.
• Days of happiness Chloe Robichaud | Canada
World premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• El Rapto Daniela Goggi | Argentina
North American premiere
Sales Title: North American rights available.
• Ezra Tony Goldwyn | USA
World premiere
Sales Title: North American rights available.
• Nails Christ Niku | USA
International premiere
• Four daughters Kaouther Ben Hania | France/Tunisia/Germany/Saudi Arabia
North American premiere
Sale Title: Some rights reserved
• His three daughters Azazel Jacobs | USA
World premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• Hitman Richard Linklater | USA
North American premiere
Sales Title: US Rights Available
• In Troubled Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon Alex Gibney | USA
World premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• Kidnapped Marco Bellocchio | Italy/France/Germany
North American premiere
• Knox leaves Michael Keaton | USA
World premiere
Sales Title: US Rights Available
• Chimera Alice Rohrwacher | Italy/France/Switzerland
North American premiere
• Last summer Catherine Breillat | France
North American premiere
• *Unwanted Laj Lee | France
World premiere
Sales Title: North American rights available.
• Memory Michelle Franco | USA/Mexico
North American premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• Monster Koreeda Hirokazu | Japan
North American premiere
• Mother Sofa Niklas Larsson | USA
World premiere
• polar Star Kristin Scott Thomas | Great Britain
World premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• One life James Howes | Great Britain
World premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• Hijackers of pain David Yates | USA
World premiere
• Pullman Chris Pine | USA
World premiere
Sale Title: Some rights reserved
• Reptile Grant Singer | USA
World premiere
• Rustin George C. Wolfe | USA
International premiere
• *Seven Veils Atom Egoyan | Canada
World premiere
Sales Title: US Rights Available
• Shoshana Michael Winterbottom | UK/Italy
World premiere
Sales Title: North American rights available.
• sing sing Greg Kvedar | USA
World premiere
Sales Title: US Rights Available
• Smugglers Ryu Seung Wan | South Korea
North American premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• a swan song Chelsea McMullan | Canada
World premiere
Sale Title: Some rights reserved
• Beast Bertrand Bonello | France/Canada
North American premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• Funeral Maggie Betts | USA
World premiere
• Conversion Lee Tamahori | Australia/New Zealand
World premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• Critic Anand Tucker | Great Britain
World premiere
Sale Title: Some rights reserved
• The dead don’t hurt Viggo Mortensen | Mexico/Canada/Denmark
World premiere
Sales Title: Worldwide rights available.
• Leftovers Alexander Payne | USA
International premiere
• Peasants D.K. Welchman, Hugh Welchman | Poland/Serbia/Lithuania
World premiere
Sale Title: Some rights reserved
• Area of interest Jonathan Glaser | UK/Poland/USA
Canadian premiere
• Together 99 Lukas Moodysson | Sweden/Denmark
World premiere
• Unicorns Sally El Hosaini, James Krishna Floyd | UK/USA/Sweden
World premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• noise Paul Middleditch, Hamish Bennett | New Zealand
World premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• Evil little letters Thea Sharrock | Great Britain
World premiere
Sales title: International rights available.
• wild cat Ethan Hawke | USA
International premiere
Sales Title: Worldwide rights available.
• Woman of the hour Anna Kendrick | USA
World premiere
Sales Title: US Rights Available