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.

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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Damian Kocur
scheda film]. This film takes place on the Canary Islands, where a Ukrainian family of four become refugees overnight once Russia fully invades their home country. Seven Days from German-based Iranian filmmaker Ali Samadi Ahadi (who previously specialised in family films and comedies) boasts a co-screenwriting credit from Mohammad Rasoulof, whose own awards-tipped The Seed of the Sacred Fig [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Scandar Copti
scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mahdi Fleifel
scheda film] - Mahdi Fleifel (UK/France/Germany/Greece/Netherlands/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/Palestine)
Los Tortuga - Belén Funes (Spain/Chile)
The Village Next to Paradise [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Mo Harawe (Austria/France/Germany/Somalia)
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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Dea Kulumbegashvili
scheda film] - Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia/France/Italy)
Cloud - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
The Story of Souleymane [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Boris Lojkine
scheda film] - Boris Lojkine (France)
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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Hiroshi Okuyama
scheda film] - Hiroshi Okuyama (Japan/France)
Kill the Jockey [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Luis Ortega
scheda film] - Luis Ortega (Argentina/Mexico/Spain/Denmark/USA)
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Laura Piani (France)
Matt and Mara - Kazik Radwanski (Canada)
Universal Language - Matthew Rankin (Canada)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mohammad Rasoulof
scheda film] - Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran/Germany/France)
When the Light Breaks [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Rúnar Rúnarsson
scheda film] - Rúnar Rúnarsson (Iceland/Netherlands/Croatia/France)
Seven Days - Ali Samadi Ahadi (Germany)
A Missing Part [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Guillaume Senez
scheda film] - Guillaume Senez (Belgium/France)
Presence - Steven Soderbergh (USA)
Happyend - Neo Sora (Japan/USA)
Edge of Night - Türker Süer (Germany/Turkey)
Santosh [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sandhya Suri
scheda film] - Sandhya Suri (UK/Germany/France/India)
Crocodile Tears [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Tumpal Tampubolon (Indonesia/France/Singapore/Germany)
Anywhere Anytime [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Milad Tangshir
scheda film] - Milad Tangshir (Italy)
The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Agbajowo Collective (Nigeria/Germany/South Africa/USA)
Little Jaffna [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lawrence Valin
scheda film] - Lawrence Valin (France)
Julie Keeps Quiet [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Leonardo van Dijl
scheda film] - Leonardo van Dijl (Belgium/Sweden)
Bound in Heaven - Xin Huo (China)
Flow [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Gints Zilbalodis
scheda film] - Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia/France/Belgium)

TIFF Docs

No Other Land [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham
scheda film] - Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor (Palestine/Norway)
A Sisters’ Tale [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Leila Amini (Switzerland/France/Iran)
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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Peter Kerekes
scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
intervista: Hind Meddeb
scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Raoul Peck (France/USA)
The Last Republican - Steve Pink (USA)
Space Cowboy - Marah Strauch, Bryce Leavitt (USA)
Russians at War - Anastasia Trofimova (Canada/France)
Tata [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc (Romania/Germany/Netherlands)
Your Tomorrow - Ali Weinstein (Canada)