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Toronto International Film Festival adds 26 more galas and special presentations to 2018 lineup

Toronto International Film Festival adds 26 more galas and special presentations to 2018 lineup

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 16 Aug 2018, 06:30 am

Toronto, Aug 16 (IBNS): The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its second batch of titles premiering in the Gala and Special Presentations programmes in September, an official release stated.

Four Gala Presentations and 22 Special Presentations have been added to the selection of titles already announced.

“We're rounding out the lineup of Galas and Special Presentations with some of the most exciting films of the year,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of TIFF. "Audiences won't want to miss these premieres from a mix of newcomers and global heavyweights.”

This second announcement brings the total for Galas and Special Presentations to 44 World Premieres, 9 International Premieres, 12 North American Premieres and 11 Canadian Premieres. The 43rd Toronto International Film Festival runs from Sept 6 to 16, 2018.

GALAS 2018

Green Book | Peter Farrelly, USA
World Premiere

Closing Night Film
Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy | Justin Kelly, Canada/USA/United Kingdom
World Premiere

The Lie | Veena Sud, Canada
World Premiere

Opening Night Film
Outlaw King | David Mackenzie, USA/United Kingdom
World Premiere


SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2018

22 July | Paul Greengrass, Norway/Iceland
North American Premiere

American Woman | Jake Scott, USA
World Premiere

Baby (Bao Bei Er) | Liu Jie, China
World Premiere

Boy Erased | Joel Edgerton, USA
International Premiere

Driven | Nick Hamm, Puerto Rico/United Kingdom/USA
North American Premiere

Duelles (Mothers' Instinct) | Olivier Masset-Depasse, Belgium/France
World Premiere

A Faithful Man (L'homme fidèle) | Louis Garrel, France
World Premiere

Gloria Bell | Sebastián Lelio, USA/Chile
World Premiere

Hold the Dark | Jeremy Saulnier, USA
World Premiere

Kursk | Thomas Vinterberg, Belgium/Luxembourg
World Premiere

Legend of the Demon Cat – Director’s Cut | Chen Kaige, China/Japan
World Premiere

Mid90s | Jonah Hill, USA
World Premiere

A Million Little Pieces | Sam Taylor-Johnson, USA
World Premiere

Never Look Away (Werk ohne Autor) | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany
North American Premiere

The Quietude (La Quietud) | Pablo Trapero, Argentina
North American Premiere

Skin | Guy Nattiv, USA
World Premiere

Teen Spirit | Max Minghella, USA
World Premiere

Tell It To The Bees | Annabel Jankel, United Kingdom
World Premiere

Viper Club | Maryam Keshavarz, USA
World Premiere

Vision | Naomi Kawase, Japan/France
International Premiere

Vita & Virginia | Chanya Button, United Kingdom/Ireland
World Premiere

Wild Rose | Tom Harper, United Kingdom
World Premiere


MASTERS 2018

3 Faces | Jafar Panahi, Iran
North American Premiere

Ash Is Purest White (Jiang Hu Er Nü) | Jia Zhang-ke, China/France
North American Premiere

Divine Wind (Rih rabani) | Merzak Allouache, Algeria/France/Qatar/Lebanon
World Premiere

Hotel by the River (Gangbyun Hotel) | Hong Sang-soo, South Korea
North American Premiere

Killing (Zan) | Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan
North American Premiere

Loro | Paolo Sorrentino, Italy/France
World Premiere

Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) | Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Germany/Denmark/Sweden
North American Premiere

Peterloo | Mike Leigh, United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere

The Image Book (Le livre d’image) | Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland/France
North American Premiere

The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat Ağacı) | Nuri Bilge Ceyla, Turkey/France/Germany/Bulgaria
North American Premiere

Transit | Christian Petzold, Germany
North American Premiere


WAVELENGTHS SHORT FILM PROGRAMMES 2018

Wavelengths 1: Earth, Wind & Fire

Polly One | Kevin Jerome Everson, USA
Canadian Premiere

Blue | Apichatpong Weerasethakul, France/Thailand
International Premiere

Fainting Spells | Sky Hopinka, Ho-Chunk Nation/USA
International Premiere

Prologue to the Tarot: Glenna | Brittany Gravely, Ken Linehan, USA
World Premiere

Hoarders Without Borders | Jodie Mack, USA
World Premiere

ante mis ojos | Lina Rodriguez, Colombia/Canada
World Premiere

ALTIPLANO | Malena Szlam, Chile/Argentina/Canada
World Premiere

Wavelengths 2: Another Brick in the Wall

Ada Kaleh | Helena Wittmann, Germany
World Premiere

The Glass Note | Mary Helena Clark, USA
North American Premiere

mumok kino | Philipp Fleischmann, Austria
International Premiere

TREES DOWN HERE | Ben Rivers, United Kingdom
International Premiere

1986 Summer (1986夏) | Toshio Matsumoto, Japan
International Premiere

Words, Planets | Laida Lertxundi, Spain/USA
Canadian Premiere

The Invisible Cinema 3 | Philipp Fleischmann, Austria
International Premiere

Walled Unwalled | Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Germany
North American Premiere


Wavelengths 3: Centerfold

Girl Pack | Lisa Baumgardner, USA
International Premiere

Please step out of the frame. | Karissa Hahn, USA
Toronto Premiere

The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs | Ross Meckfessel, USA/Japan
World Premiere

Sira | Rolla Tahir, Canada
World Premiere

Slip | Celia Perrin Sidarous, Canada
Toronto Premiere

Alice | Maria Lassnig, USA
Canadian Premiere

Fallen Arches | Simon Liu, United Kingdom/USA/Hong Kong
World Premiere

I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead | Beatrice Gibson, USA/Italy/United Kingdom
World Premiere

Wavelengths 4: We've Only Just Begun

Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) | Nathaniel Dorsky, USA
World Premiere

A Return | James Edmonds, Germany
North American Premiere

The Labyrinth (El Laberinto) | Laura Huertas Millán, Colombia/France
North American Premiere

Île d'Ouessant | David Dudouit, France
North American Premiere

Julio Iglesias's House (La casa de Julio Iglesias) | Natalia Marín, Spain
North American Premiere

Man in the Well (Jing li de ren) | Hu Bo, China
North American Premiere


PAIRINGS

L. COHEN | James Benning, USA
Canadian Premiere
preceded by
Arena | Björn Kämmerer, Austria
International Premiere

The Grand Bizarre | Jodie Mack, USA
North American Premiere
preceded by
Those Who Desire (Los que desean) | Elena López Riera, Switzerland/Spain
International Premiere


FEATURES

Dead Souls (Si Ling Hun) | Wang Bing, France/Switzerland
North American Premiere

Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible (Tirss, Rihlat Alsoo'oud ila Almar'i) | Ghassan Halwani, Lebanon
North American Premiere

Fausto | Andrea Bussmann, Canada/Mexico
North American Premiere

In My Room | Ulrich Köhler, Germany/Italy
North American Premiere

The Flower (La Flor) | Mariano Llinás, Argentina
North American Premiere

Long Day's Journey Into Night (Di qiu zui hou de ye wan) | Bi Gan, China/France
North American Premiere

RAY & LIZ | Richard Billingham, United Kingdom
North American Premiere

The Stone Speakers (Kameni Govornici) | Igor Drljača, Canada/Bosnia/Herzegovina
World Premiere

The Trial | Sergei Loznitsa, Netherlands
North American Premiere

What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? | Roberto Minervini, Italy/USA/France
North American Premiere

Previously announced Canadian titles in the Wavelengths Programme include Lina Rodriguez‘s ante mis ojos, Andrea Bussmann’s Fausto, Rolla Tahir’s Sira, Celia Perrin Sidarous’ Slip, and Igor Drljača’s The Stone Speakers.

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA 2018

The Accused (Acusada) | Gonzalo Tobal, Argentina
North American Premiere

Angel (Un Ange) | Koen Mortier, Belgium/Netherlands/Senegal
International Premiere

Asako I & II (Netemo Sametemo) | Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan/France
North American Premiere

Before the Frost (Før Frosten) | Michael Noer, Denmark
World Premiere

Belmonte | Federico Veiroj, Uruguay/Spain/Mexico
World Premiere

Birds of Passage (Pájaros de verano) | Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerrae, Colombia/Denmark/Mexico/France
Canadian Premiere

Black 47 | Lance Daly, Ireland/Luxembourg
North American Premiere

The Black Book | Valeria Sarmiento, Portugal/France
World Premiere

Border (Gräns) | Ali Abbasi, Sweden/Denmark
North American Premiere

Bulbul Can Sing | Rima Das, India
World Premiere

Core of the World | Natalia Meshchaninova, Russia/Lithuania
International Premiere

The Dive (Hatzlila) | Yona Rozenkier, Israel
North American Premiere

Donbass | Sergei Loznitsa, Germany/Ukraine/France/Netherlands/Romania
North American Premiere

The Angel (El Ángel) | Luis Ortega, Argentina/Spain
North American Premiere

EXT. Night (Leil Khargi) | Ahmad Abdalla, Egypt/United Arab Emirates
World Premiere

The Factory Завод (Zavod) | Yury Bykov, France/Russia/Armenia
World Premiere

Florianópolis Dream (Sueño Florianópolis) | Ana Katz, Argentina/Brazil/France
North American Premiere

“I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians” (Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari) | Radu Jude, Romania/Czech Republic/France/Bulgaria/Germany
North American Premiere

Jinpa (Zhuang Si Le Yi Zhi Yang) | Pema Tseden, China
North American Premiere

Let Me Fall (Lof mer ad falla) | Baldvin Z, Iceland/Finland/Germany
International Premiere

Look at Me | Nejib Belkadhi, Qatar/France/Tunisia
World Premiere

Minuscule – Mandibles From Far Away (Minuscule – Les Mandibules du Bout du Monde) | Thomas Szabo, Hélène Giraud, France
World Premiere

The Most Beautiful Couple (Das schönste Paar) | Sven Taddicken, Germany/France
World Premiere

Museum (Museo) | Alonso Ruizpalacios, Mexico
North American Premiere

One Last Deal (Tuntematon mestari) | Klaus Härö, Finland
World Premiere

The Other Story (Sipur Acher) | Avi Nesher, Israel
World Premiere

Quién te Cantará | Carlos Vermut, Spain/France
World Premiere

The Realm (El Reino) | Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Spain/France
World Premiere

Redemption (Geula) | Boaz Yehonatan Yacov, Joseph Madmony, Israel
North American Premiere

Retrospekt | Esther Rots, Netherlands/Belgium
World Premiere

Roads in February (Les routes en février) | Katherine Jerkovic, Canada/Uruguay
World Premiere

Rosie | Paddy Breathnach, Ireland
World Premiere

Sew the Winter to my Skin | Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, South Africa/Germany
World Premiere

Stupid Young Heart (Hölmö nuori sydän) | Selma Vilhunen, Finland/Netherlands/Sweden
World Premiere

Styx | Wolfgang Fischer, Germany/Austria
North American Premiere

The Sweet Requiem (Kyoyang Ngarmo) | Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam, India/USA
World Premiere

That Time of Year (Den Tid På Året) | Paprika Steen, Denmark
World Premiere

Ulysses & Mona | Sébastien Betbeder, France
World Premiere

The Vice of Hope (Il Vizio Della Speranza) | Edoardo de Angelis, Italy
World Premiere

Winter Flies (Všechno bude) | Olmo Omerzu, Czech Republic/Slovenia/Poland/Slovakia
International Premiere

Working Woman (Isha Ovedet) | Michal Aviad, Israel
International Premiere

Previously announced Canadian titles in the Contemporary World Cinema Programme include Darlene Naponse’s Falls Around Her, Bruce Sweeney’s Kingsway, Renée Beaulieu’s Les Salopes or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin (Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau), Thom Fitzgerald’s Splinters, Sébastien Pilote’s The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles), Maxime Giroux’s The Great Darkened Days.


Image: TIFF

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