Toronto Reveals New Line-Ups

The organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival have revealed the complete Gala, Special, World Cinema and TIFF Kids line-ups that will be part of the official program of the prestigious event. Included in these line-ups are a number of highly anticipated films from Johnnie To, James Franco, Guillaume Canet, Hayao Miyazaki, Kevin Macdonald, and Patrice Leconte. Below are the complete selections:

GALAS

Blood Ties (dir. Guillaume Canet) - France/USA
Bright Days Ahead (Les Beaux jours) (dir. Marion Vernoux) - France
Words and Pictures (dir. Fred Schepisi) - USA

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

A Promise (Une Promesse) (dir. Patrice Leconte) - Belgium/France
The Armstrong Lie (dir. Alex Gibney) - USA
Blind Detective (dir. Johnnie To) - Hong Kong
Child of God (dir. James Franco) - USA
The Face of Love (dir. Arie Posin) - USA
Fading Gigolo (dir. John Turturro) - USA
The Finishers (dir. Nils Tavernier) - Belgium/France
How I Live Now (dir. Kevin Macdonald) - United Kingdom
The Last of Robin Hood (dir. Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland) - USA
The Liberator (Libertador) (dir. Alberto Arvelo) - Venezuela/Spain
Love is the Perfect Crime (Amour Crime Parfait) (dir. Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu) - France/Switzerland
Lucky Them (dir. Megan Griffiths) - USA
Rock the Casbah (dir. Laïla Marrakchi) - France/Morocco
Singing Women (Sarki Söyleyen Kadinlar) (dir. Reha Erdem) - France/Germany/Turkey
Southcliffe (dir. Sean Durkin) - United Kingdom
Sunshine on Leith (dir. Dexter Fletcher) - United Kingdom
Therese (dir. Charlie Stratton) - USA
Unforgiven (Yurusarezarumono) (dir. Lee Sang-il) - Japan
The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) (dir. Hayao Miyazaki) - Japan

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA

A Place in Heaven (Makom be-gan eden) (dir. Yossi Madmony) - Israel
A Wolf at the Door (O Lobo atrás da Porta) (dir. Fernando Coimbra) - Brazil
An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (Epizoda u životu beraca željeza) (dir. Danis Tanović) - Bosnia-Herzegovina/France/Slovenia
Bad Hair (Pelo Malo) (dir. Mariana Rondón) - Venezuela
Bastardo (dir. Nejib Belkadhi) - Tunisia/France/Qatar
The Bit Player (Ekstra) (dir. Jeffrey Jeturian) - Philippines
Blind Dates (Brma Paemnebi) (dir. Levan Koguashvili) - Georgia
Brazilian Western (Faroeste Caboclo) (dir. René Sampaio) - Brazil
Break Loose (Vosmerka) (dir. Alexey Uchitel) - Russia
Child's Pose (Pozitia Copilului) (dir. Calin Peter Netzer) - Romania
Club Sandwich (Club Sándwich) (dir. Fernando Eimbcke) - Mexico
Cristo Rey (dir. Leticia Tonos Paniagua) - Dominican Republic/France/Haiti
The Dinner (Het Diner) (dir. Menno Meyjes) - The Netherlands
Eastern Boys (dir. Robin Campillo) - France
El Mudo (dir. Diego Vega and Daniel Vega) - Peru/France/Mexico
Friends from France (Les Interdits) (dir. Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski) - France/Germany/Canada/Russia
Giselle (dir. Toa Fraser) - New Zealand
Heart of a Lion (Leijonasydän) (dir. Dome Karukoski) - Finland/Sweden
Honeymoon (Líbanky) (dir. Jan Hrebejk) - Czech Republic/Slovakia
Hotell (dir. Lisa Langseth) - Sweden/Denmark
The Immoral (De Umoralske) (dir. Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen) - Norway
Intruders (Jo Nan-ja-deul) (dir. Noh Young-Seok) - South Korea
The Kids from the Port (Los Chicos del Puerto) (dir. Alberto Morais) - Spain
iNumber Number (dir. Donovan Marsh) - South Africa
Ladder to Damascus (Soullam iIa Dimashq) (dir. Mohamad Malas) - Syria/Lebanon/Qatar
Le Grand Cahier (A Nagy Füzet) (dir. János Szász) - Germany/Hungary/Austria/France
Life's a Breeze (dir. Lance Daly) - Ireland/Sweden
Little Feet (dir. Alexandre Rockwell) - United States of America
The Major (dir. Yuri Bykov) - Russia
Manuscripts Don't Burn (Dast-neveshtehaa nemisoozand) (dir. Mohammad Rasoulof) - Iran
McCanick (dir. Josh C. Waller) - USA
Metalhead (Málmhaus) (dir. Ragnar Bragason) - Iceland
October November (Oktober November) (dir. Götz Spielmann) - Austria
Old Moon (Luna Vieja) (dir. Raisa Bonnet) - Puerto Rico
Palestine Stereo (Falastine Stereo) (dir. Rashid Masharawi)
Paradise: Hope (Paradies: Hoffnung) (dir. Ulrich Seidl) - Austria/France/Germany
Qissa (dir. Anup Singh) - Germany/India/The Netherlands/France
Rags and Tatters (Farsh wa ghata) (dir. Ahmad Abdalla) - Egypt
The Sea (dir. Stephen Brown) - Ireland
The Selfish Giant (dir. Clio Barnard) - United Kingdom
Something Necessary (dir. Judy Kibinge) - Kenya/Germany
Stop the Pounding Heart (dir. Roberto Minervini) - Belgium/Italy/USA
Stranger by the Lake (dir. Alain Guiraudie) - France
Unbeatable (dir. Dante Lam) - China/Hong Kong
Under the Starry Sky (Des Etoiles) (dir. Dyana Gaye) - France/Senegal
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Cand se lasa seara peste Bucuresti sau Metabolism) (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu) - Romania
White Lies (Tuakiri Huna) (dir. Dana Rotberg) New Zealand
The Wonders (Plaot) (dir. Avi Nesher) - Israel
Homecoming (African Metropolis) (dir. Jim Chuchu) - Kenya
Berea (African Metropolis) (dir. Vincent Moloi) - South Africa
To Repel Ghosts (African Metropolis) (dir. Philippe Lacôte) - Ivory Coast
Kwaku Ananse Akosua (dir. Adoma Owusu) - Ghana/Mexico/USA
Noah's Flood (Unogumbe, Noye's Fludde) (dir. Mark Dornford-May) - South Africa

WAVELENGTHS

A Field in England (dir.Ben Wheatley) - United Kingdom
I'm the same, I'm an other (dir. Caroline Strubbe) - Belgium
La ultíma película (dir. Raya Martin and Mark Peranson) - Canada/Denmark/Mexico/Philippines RP31 (dir. Lucy Raven) - USA
MANAKAMANA (dir. Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez) - USA/Nepal
Pays Barbare (dir. Yvervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi) - France
Story of My Death (dir. Albert Serra) - Spain/France
Stray Dogs (Jiao You) (dir. Tsai Ming-Liang) - Taiwan/France
The Battle of Tabatô (dir. Joao Viana) - Portugal/Guinea-Bissau
The Disquiet (dir. Ali Cherri)
The Missing Picture (L'image manquante) (dir. Rithy Panh) - Cambodia/France
The Police Officer's Wife (dir. Philip Gröning) - Germany
The Strange Little Cat (dir. Ramon Zürcher) - Germany
'Til Madness Do Us Apart (dir. Wang Bing) - France/Hong Kong/Japan
Three Interpretation Exercises (Trois Exercises d'Interprétation) (dir. Cristi Puiu) - Romania/France

TIFF KIDS

Amazonia Thierry Ragobert - France-Brazil
Antboy Ask Hasselbalch - Denmark
Khumba Anthony Silverston - South Africa
The World Of Goopi And Bagha Shilpa Ranade - India
Zip And Zap And The Marble Gang Oskar Santos - Spain