Bar some extra additions in the coming days, the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) line-up is starting to look pretty sewn up. This week, the festival announced its Centrepiece and TIFF Docs sections – the former is a platform for international cinema old and new, from newcomers to masters; the latter is the festival’s dedicated strand for docs, as the name suggests, although they pop up in other, more prominent sections as well. The 49th edition of TIFF will take place from 5-15 September.

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Forty-three titles feature in Centrepiece, with nine of the 18 world premieres being full or part-European productions. Some standouts include Under the Volcano, Polish director Damian Kocur’s follow-up to the much-awarded Bread and Salt [+lire aussi :
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TIFF Docs is composed of 21 titles, with 13 world premieres, four of which have European involvement. We can’t deny the eye-catching title and premise of a US one, Eddie Huang’s Vice Is Broke, which uncovers the once-cutting-edge media company’s fall from grace. Elsewhere, Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc’s Tata [+lire aussi :
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The two line-ups are as follows:

Centrepiece

Front Row - Merck Allouache (Algeria/Saudi Arabia/France)
Pimpinero: Blood and Oil - Andrés Baiz (Colombia)
Measures for a Funeral - Sofia Bohdanowicz (Canada)
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara - Erin Lee Carr (USA)
Happy Holidays [+lire aussi :
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interview : Scandar Copti
fiche film] - Scandar Copti (Palestine/Italy)
Don’t Cry, Butterfly - Dương Diệu Linh (Vietnam/Singapore/Philippines/Indonesia)
Beloved Tropic - Ana Endara (Panama/Colombia)
To a Land Unknown [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mahdi Fleifel
fiche film] - Mahdi Fleifel (UK/France/Germany/Greece/Netherlands/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/Palestine)
Los Tortuga - Belén Funes (Spain/Chile)
The Village Next to Paradise [+lire aussi :
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By the Stream - Hong Sangsoo (South Korea)
The Mountain - Rachel House (New Zealand)
Sunshine - Antoinette Jadaone (Philippines)
Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End - Michael Jonathan (New Zealand)
The Swedish Torpedo - Frida Kempff (Sweden)
Under the Volcano - Damian Kocur (Poland)
April [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dea Kulumbegashvili
fiche film] - Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia/France/Italy)
Cloud - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
The Story of Souleymane [+lire aussi :
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interview : Boris Lojkine
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An Unfinished Film - Lou Ye (Singapore/Germany)
Addition - Marcelle Lunam (Australia)
The Mother and the Bear - Johnny Ma (Canada/Chile)
Sweet Angel Baby - Melanie Oates (Canada)
My Sunshine [+lire aussi :
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interview : Hiroshi Okuyama
fiche film] - Hiroshi Okuyama (Japan/France)
Kill the Jockey [+lire aussi :
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interview : Luis Ortega
fiche film] - Luis Ortega (Argentina/Mexico/Spain/Denmark/USA)
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life [+lire aussi :
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Matt and Mara - Kazik Radwanski (Canada)
Universal Language - Matthew Rankin (Canada)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mohammad Rasoulof
fiche film] - Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran/Germany/France)
When the Light Breaks [+lire aussi :
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interview : Rúnar Rúnarsson
fiche film] - Rúnar Rúnarsson (Iceland/Netherlands/Croatia/France)
Seven Days - Ali Samadi Ahadi (Germany)
A Missing Part [+lire aussi :
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interview : Guillaume Senez
fiche film] - Guillaume Senez (Belgium/France)
Presence - Steven Soderbergh (USA)
Happyend - Neo Sora (Japan/USA)
Edge of Night - Türker Süer (Germany/Turkey)
Santosh [+lire aussi :
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interview : Sandhya Suri
fiche film] - Sandhya Suri (UK/Germany/France/India)
Crocodile Tears [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Tumpal Tampubolon (Indonesia/France/Singapore/Germany)
Anywhere Anytime [+lire aussi :
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interview : Milad Tangshir
fiche film] - Milad Tangshir (Italy)
The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Agbajowo Collective (Nigeria/Germany/South Africa/USA)
Little Jaffna [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lawrence Valin
fiche film] - Lawrence Valin (France)
Julie Keeps Quiet [+lire aussi :
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interview : Leonardo van Dijl
fiche film] - Leonardo van Dijl (Belgium/Sweden)
Bound in Heaven - Xin Huo (China)
Flow [+lire aussi :
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interview : Gints Zilbalodis
fiche film] - Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia/France/Belgium)

TIFF Docs

No Other Land [+lire aussi :
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interview : Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham
fiche film] - Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor (Palestine/Norway)
A Sisters’ Tale [+lire aussi :
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Temporary Shelter - Anastasiia Bortuali (Iceland)
So Surreal: Behind the Mask - Neil Diamond, Joanne Robertson (Canada)
Living Together - Halima Elkhatabi (Canada)
The Freedom of Fierro - Santiago Esteinou (Mexico/Canada/Greece)
Men of War - Jen Gatien, Billy Corben (USA/Canada)
Vice Is Broke - Eddie Huang (USA)
Wishing on a Star [+lire aussi :
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interview : Peter Kerekes
fiche film] - Peter Kerekes (Italy/Slovakia/Czech Republic)
The Last of the Sea Women - Sue Kim (USA)
Mistress Dispeller - Elizabeth Lo (China/USA)
Sudan, Remember Us [+lire aussi :
interview : Hind Meddeb
fiche film] - Hind Meddeb (France/Tunisia/Qatar)
From Ground Zero - Wissam Moussa, Nidal Damo, Ahmed Hassouna, Alaa Ayoub, Karim Satoum, Bashar Al Babisi, Khamis Masharawi, Nida’A Abu Hasna, Tamer Nijim, Ahmed Al Danaf, Rima Mahmoud, Muhammad Al Sharif, Basil El Maqousi, Mustafa Al Nabih, Rabab Khamis, Mustafa Kulab, Alaa Damo, Hana Eleiwa, Mahdi Kreirah, Aws Al Banna, Islam Al Zeriei, Etimad Washah (Palestine/France/Qatar/Jordan)
Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story - Sinéad O’Shea (Ireland/UK)
Patrice: The Movie - Ted Passon (USA)
Ernest Cole, Lost and Found [+lire aussi :
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The Last Republican - Steve Pink (USA)
Space Cowboy - Marah Strauch, Bryce Leavitt (USA)
Russians at War - Anastasia Trofimova (Canada/France)
Tata [+lire aussi :
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Your Tomorrow - Ali Weinstein (Canada)