The festival will run from the 4th to the 14th September.
It has been announced that world premieres starring Angelina Jolie, Saoirse Ronan and Keanu Reeves will lead the 50th anniversary edition of the Toronto Film Festival later this year.
Angelina Jolie is set to star as a film-maker arriving in Paris for fashion week for Alice Winocour’s drama Couture. Wincour has previously premiered the Eva Green-led sci-fi film Proxima at the festival.
Meanwhile, Saoirse Ronan last seen in Steve McQueen’s Blitz and The Outrun, will next appear in comedy thriller Bad Apples. She plays a a teacher forced into drastic lengths while dealing with a particularly troubling 11-year-old.
Keanu Reeves is set to star in Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut Good Fortune as an angel who organises a body swap between a poor and a rich man. The film is also set to star Ansari and Seth Rogen.
The festival will also feature the directorial debuts of James McAvoy, Brian Cox and Euphoria’s Maude Apatow, daughter of Judd Apatow. McAvoy has directed California Schemin’ – a film based on the true story of Scottish rappers pretending to be American, while Cox has directed Glenrothan a drama that is billed as. love letter to Scotland and Apatow is behind Poetic License, a comedy starring her mother Leslie Mann.
Other films set to form part of the festival’s line up are: world premiere of Christy, a biopic of the groundbreaking female boxer Christy Martin starring Sydney Sweeney, Palestine 36, historical drama Nuremberg starring Rami Malek and Russell Crowe, Agnieszka Holland’s Franz Kafka biopic Franz, Swiped which stars Lily James as the founder of the dating app Bumble and Paul Greengrass’s The Lost Bus, which stars Matthew McConaughey as a schoolbus driver trying to save children from the deadly 2018 Camp fire in California.
The festival will also premiere include: Rian Johnson’s Knives Out sequel Wake Up Dead Man, the Brendan Fraser led drama Rental Famil , Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman with Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst, Nicholas Hytner’s period comedy The Choral starring Ralph Fiennes and based on an original Alan Bennett script and Steven Soderbergh’s dark comedy The Christophers with Michaela Coel, Ian McKellen and Baby Reindeer breakout Jessica Gunning.
In addition, Chris Evans will play a movie star abducted by a group of radicals in Sacrifice, an action comedy also starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Salma Hayek, John Malkovich and Charli xcx. Offbeat romantic comedy Eternity and mystery thriller The Ugly from Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho and Easy’s Waltz from True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto with Al Pacino and Vince Vaughn.
Documentaries set to be screened during the festival will include: Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert and films about subjects such as John Candy, teen series Degrassi and music festival Lilith Fair.
To find out more about the festival visit: https://tiff.net/about-the-festival