As always, many of the year's top awards contenders will premiere or screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, which kicks off Sept. 10. Among those titles are "Freeheld," the gay-rights drama starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page; "The Martian," Ridley Scott's sci-fi survival adaptation featuring Matt Damon; the Dalton Trumbo biopic headlined by Bryan Cranston; Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl," in which Eddie Redmayne portrays the first person to undergo gender-confirmation surgery; the adaptation of Emma Donoghue's gripping novel Room; "True Detective" director Cary Fukunaga's "Beasts of No Nation"; a new Michael Moore movie; and the opening-night selection, "Demolition," Jean-Marc Vallée's "Wild" follow-up starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an investment banker struggling with the death of his wife.
Huffington Post entertainment editors Matthew Jacobs and Erin Whitney will be covering the festival in September, so stay tuned for more. In the meantime, here's the first round of the lineup, which was announced during a press conference on Tuesday morning. You can also find it in PDF form, with the films' synopses and casts, here.
OPENING NIGHT FILM
“Demolition” dir. Jean-Marc Vallée, USA (World Premiere)
GALAS
“Beeba Boys” dir. Deepa Mehta, Canada (World Premiere)
“Eye in the Sky” dir. Gavin Hood, United Kingdom (World Premiere)
“Forsaken” dir. Jon Cassar, Canada (World Premiere)
“Freeheld” dir. Peter Sollett, USA (World Premiere)
“Hyena Road” (“Hyena Road: Le Chemin du Combat”) dir. Paul Gross, Canada (World Premiere)
“Lolo” dir. Julie Delpy, France (World Premiere)
“Legend” dir. Brian Helgeland, United Kingdom ((International Premiere))
“The Man Who Knew Infinity” dir. Matt Brown, United Kingdom (World Premiere)
“The Martian” dir. Ridley Scott, USA (World Premiere)
“The Program” dir. Stephen Frears, United Kingdom (World Premiere)
“Remember” dir. Atom Egoyan, Canada (North American Premiere)
“Septembers of Shiraz” dir. Wayne Blair, USA (World Premiere)
“Stonewall” dir. Roland Emmerich, USA (World Premiere)
“The Dressmaker” dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australia (World Premiere)
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
“Anomalisa” dir. Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, USA (Canadian Premiere)
“Beasts of No Nation” dir. Cary Fukunaga, Ghana (Canadian Premiere)
“Black Mass” dir. Scott Cooper, USA (Canadian Premiere)
“Brooklyn” dir. John Crowley, United Kingdom/Ireland/Canada (Canadian Premiere)
“The Club” dir. Pablo Larrain
“Colonia” dir. Florian Gallenberger, Germany/Luxembourg/France (World Premiere)
“The Danish Girl” dir. Tom Hooper, United Kingdom/Sweden (North American Premiere)
“The Daughter” dir. Simon Stone, Australia (North American Premiere)
“Desierto” dir. Jonás Cuarón, Mexico (World Premiere)
“Dheepan” dir. Jacques Audiard, France (North American Premiere)
“Families” (“Belles Familles”) dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau, France (World Premiere)
“The Family Fang” dir. Jason Bateman
“Guilty” (“Talvar”) dir. Meghna Gulzar, India (World Premiere)
“I Smile Back” dir. Adam Salky, USA (Canadian Premiere)
“The Idol” (“Ya Tayr El Tayer”) dir. Hany Abu-Assad, United Kingdom/Palestine (World Premiere)
“The Lady in the Van” dir. Nicolas Hytner, USA (World Premiere)
“Len and Company” dir. Tim Godsall, USA (North American Premiere)
“The Lobster” dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/United Kingdom/Greece/France/Netherlands (North American Premiere)
“Louder than Bombs” dir. Joachim Trier, Norway/France/Denmark (North American Premiere)
“Maggie’s Plan” dir. Rebecca Miller, USA (World Premiere)
“Mountains May Depart” (“Shan He Gu Ren”) dir. Jia Zhang-ke, China/France/Japan (North American Premiere)
“Office” dir. Johnnie To
“Parched” dir. Leena Yadav, India/USA (World Premiere)
“Room” dir. Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland/Canada (Canadian Premiere)
“Sicario” dir. Denis Villeneuve, USA (North American Premiere)
“Son of Saul” (“Saul Fia”) dir. László Nemes, Hungary (Canadian Premiere)
“Spotlight” dir. Tom McCarthy, USA (Canadian Premiere)
“Summertime” dir. Catherine Corsini
“Sunset Song” dir. Terence Davies, United Kingdom/Luxembourg (World Premiere)
“Trumbo” dir. Jay Roach, USA (World Premiere)
“Un plus une” dir. Claude Lelouch, France (World Premiere)
“Victoria” dir. Sebastian Schipper, Germany (Canadian Premiere)
“Where To Invade Next” dir. Michael Moore, USA (World Premiere)
“Youth” dir. Paolo Sorrentino, Italy/France/United Kingdom/Switzerland (North American Premiere)
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