TIFF Co-Heads Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente today announced the line-up of titles selected for the 45th Toronto International Film Festival (scheduled to run from 10 to 19 September). There is a consistent presence of European productions in the 50-title (47 films and 3 series) list, particularly those films with production involvement from the United Kingdom.

The strong representation of women, Black people, Indigenous people and people of colour among TIFF’s selection reflect the organization’s continuing commitment to normalizing gender parity and racial equality for future generations.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, TIFF will only screen 50 presentations, with no individual sections announced. Bailey said, “This year’s line-up reflects that tumult. The names you already know are doing brand new things this year, and there’s a whole crop of exciting new names to discover. We’re thankful to every filmmaker and company that joined us on this adventure, and we can’t wait to share these brilliant films with our audiences.”

Anticipated European productions include Ammonite [+lire aussi :
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As expected, Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round [+lire aussi :
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German director Werner Herzog and Cambridge University professor Clive Oppenheimer bring new documentary Fireball: Visitors from Darker Word, which looks at how meteorites have impacted Earth.

Several titles will come to TIFF fresh from Venice, or at the same time, including Quo Vadis, Aïda? [+lire aussi :
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The list of films announced:

Gala Presentations

David Byrne’s American Utopia – ​Spike Lee (USA) (opening film)
Ammonite [+lire aussi :
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Bruised​ – Halle Berry (USA)
Concrete Cowboy – Ricky Staub (USA)
Good Joe Bell – Reinaldo Marcus Green (USA)
I Care A Lot [+lire aussi :
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Nomadland – C​hloé Zhao​ (USA)
One Night in Miami – R​egina King (USA)
Pieces of a Woman [+lire aussi :
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Special Presentations

Another Round [+lire aussi :
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Falling [+lire aussi :
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Penguin Bloom​ – Glendyn Ivin (Australia/USA)
Summer of 85 [+lire aussi :
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The Disciple – Chaitanya Tamhane (India)
The Father [+lire aussi :
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True Mothers – Naomi Kawase (Japan)

Contemporary World Cinema

Bandar Band [+lire aussi :
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New Order – Michel Franco​ (Mexico)
Night of the Kings [+lire aussi :
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Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time [+lire aussi :
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Quo Vadis, Aïda? [+lire aussi :
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Under the Open Sky – Miwa Nishikawa​ (Japan)

Discovery

180 Degree Rule – ​Farnoosh Samadi (Iran)
Beans​ – ​Tracey Deer (Canada)
Beginning [+lire aussi :
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Gaza mon amour [+lire aussi :
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Limbo [+lire aussi :
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Memory House [+lire aussi :
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Shiva Baby – Emma Seligman​ (USA/Canada)
Spring Blossom [+lire aussi :
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The Best is Yet to Come – ​Wang Jing (China)
Wildfire [+lire aussi :
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TIFF Docs

76 Days – H​ao Wu​, Anonymous, ​Weixi Chen​ (USA)
City Hall – Frederick Wiseman (USA)
Enemies of the State – ​S​onia Kennebeck​​ (USA)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds – Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer (UK/USA)
Inconvenient Indian – M​ichelle Latimer (Canada)
Lift Like a Girl [+lire aussi :
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MLK/FBI​ – Sam Pollard (USA)
No Ordinary Man – A​isling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt​ (Canada)
The New Corporation: An Unfortunately Necessary Sequel​ ​– Joel Bakan, Jennifer Abbott (Canada)

Masters

Notturno [+lire aussi :
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Midnight Madness

Get the Hell Out ​– I​-Fan Wang (Taiwan)
Shadow In The Cloud​ – R​oseanne Liang​ (USA/New Zealand)
Violation​ – M​adeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli (Canada)

Wavelengths

Fauna​ – N​icolás Pereda​ (Mexico/Canada)
The Inheritance – Ephraim Asili (USA)

Primetime

A Suitable Boy – Mira Nair (UK/India) (closing film) (series)
The Third Day – Felix Barrett, Dennis Kelly (UK) (series)
Trickster – Michelle Latimer (Canada) (series)