2017 Toronto International Film Festival - Film Lineup
Is there a "Moonlight" among this year's TIFF Galas and Special Presentations?
2017 TIFF includes 14 Galas and 33 Special Presentations
President and Toronto International Film Festival CEO Piers Handling and film critic and TIFF programmer Cameron Bailey unveiled the first slate of programmes, including 25 World Premieres, eight International Premieres, six North American Premieres, and eight Canadian Premieres, including works from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, India, Egypt, and Cambodia.
2016's International Festival featured the debut of Barry Jenkins second feature and Academy Awarding winning Best Picture Moonlight. Previous festivals also featured the debuts of Sam Mendes' American Beauty, Taylor Hackford's Ray, Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love, and Tom Hooper's The King's Speech. According to TIFF, 2017 offers “a refreshed, more tightly curated Festival, with a renewed commitment to bold, director-driven programming, continued support of female filmmakers, and enough star power to fuel 400,000 festival-goers.”
Among the programming highlights for 2017’s programmes, works from talented female artists include Haifaa Al Mansour’s Mary Shelley – the first female Saudi director; Dee Rees’ Mudbound, Susanna White’s Woman Walks Ahead starring Jessica Chastain, and Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut Lady Bird.
Other Galas and Special Presentation programmes include a mix of genre pics featuring – Steve Carell and Emma Stone’s Billie Jean King vs. Bobbie Riggs tennis biopic Battle of the Sexes; Margot Robbie’s Tonya Harding biopic I Tonya; David Gordon Green’s Stronger featuring Jake Gyllenhaal and the aftermath of Boston Marathon bombing; Bryan Cranston and Kevin Harts Untouchables –a remake of 2011 French film The Intouchables, about a wealthy paraplegic and an unemployed man with a criminal record who's hired to help him; The Current War featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon portrayals of rivals Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse in a race to sell electricity to the masses.
TIFF 2017 will also feature new films by directors like Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water), George Clooney (Suburbicon), Terrence Malick (Radegund), Angelina Jolie (First They Killed My Father), Darren Aronofsky (Mother!), and Alexander Payne (Downsizing).
The Closing Night Gala will feature the World Premiere of C’est la vie!, the Olivier Nakache/Eric Toledano scripted and directed film starring Gilles Lellouche, Suzanne Clément, Eye Haïdara, and Jean-Pierre Bacri.
Check out the complete list of 2017 Galas and Special Presentations and tell us which films you're anticipating?
GALAS 2017
Breathe | Andy Serkis, United Kingdom World Premiere
The Catcher Was A Spy | Ben Lewin, USA World Premiere
Closing Night Film - C'est la vie! | Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, France World Premiere
Darkest Hour | Joe Wright, United Kingdom Canadian Premiere
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool | Paul McGuigan, United Kingdom Canadian Premiere
Kings | Deniz Gamze Ergüven, France/Belgium World Premiere
Long Time Running | Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Canada World Premiere
Mary Shelley | Haifaa Al Mansour, Ireland/United Kingdom/Luxembourg/USA World Premiere
The Mountain Between Us | Hany Abu-Assad, USA World Premiere
Mudbound | Dee Rees, USA International Premiere
Stronger | David Gordon Green, USA World Premiere
Untitled Bryan Cranston/Kevin Hart Film | Neil Burger, USA World Premiere
The Wife | Björn Runge, United Kingdom/Sweden World Premiere
Woman Walks Ahead | Susanna White, USA World Premiere
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2017
Battle of the Sexes | Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, USA International Premiere
BPM (Beats Per Minute) | Robin Campillo, France North American Premiere
The Brawler | Anurag Kashyap, India World Premiere
The Breadwinner | Nora Twomey, Canada/Ireland/Luxembourg World Premiere
Call Me By Your Name | Luca Guadagnino, Italy/France Canadian Premiere
Catch the Wind | Gaël Morel, France International Premiere
The Children Act | Richard Eyre, United Kingdom World Premiere
The Current War | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, USA World Premiere
Disobedience | Sebastián Lelio, United Kingdom World Premiere
Downsizing | Alexander Payne, USA Canadian Premiere
A Fantastic Woman | Sebastián Lelio, Chile Canadian Premiere
First They Killed My Father | Angelina Jolie, Cambodia Canadian Premiere
The Guardians | Xavier Beauvois, France World Premiere
Hostiles | Scott Cooper, USA International Premiere
The Hungry | Bornila Chatterjee, India World Premiere
I, Tonya | Craig Gillespie, USA World Premiere Special Presentations
Opening Film- Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig, USA International Premiere
mother! | Darren Aronofsky, USA North American Premiere
Novitiate | Maggie Betts, USA International Premiere
Omerta | Hansal Mehta, India World Premiere
Plonger | Mélanie Laurent, France World Premiere
The Price of Success | Teddy Lussi-Modeste, France International Premiere
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women | Angela Robinson, USA World Premiere
The Rider | Chloé Zhao, USA Canadian Premiere
