The 2020 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is still going ahead though this year sports a reduced program along with its coalition with other festivals like Telluride, Venice and NYFF.
The first five days of the event will host physical screenings starting from September 10th and today a list of the first wave of films to screen have arrived.
Notable inclusions this year are “God’s Own Country” helmer Francis Lee’s “Ammonite,” Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round,” Spike Lee’s concert film “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” Werner Herzog’s doco “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds,” Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” Mira Nair’s “A Suitable Boy” and films directed by actors Regina King, Viggo Mortensen and Halle Berry.
The 45th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 10th-19th.
“180 Degree Rule” – Farnoosh Samadi (Iran)
“76 Days Hao Wu” – Anonymous, Weixi Chen (USA)
“Ammonite” – Francis Lee (United Kingdom)
“Another Round” – Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
“Bandar Band” – Manijeh Hekmat (Iran/Germany)
“Beans” – Tracey Deer (Canada)
“Beginning” – Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia/France)
“The Best is Yet to Come” – Wang Jing (China)
“Bruised” – Halle Berry (USA)
“City Hall” – Frederick Wiseman (USA)
“Concrete Cowboy” – Ricky Staub (USA)
“David Byrne’s American Utopia” – Spike Lee (USA (Opening Night Film))
“The Disciple” – Chaitanya Tamhane (India)
“Enemies of the State” – Sonia Kennebeck (USA)
“Falling” – Viggo Mortensen (Canada/United Kingdom)
“The Father” – Florian Zeller (United Kingdom/France)
“Fauna” – Nicolas Pereda (Mexico/Canada)
“Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds” – Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer (United Kingdom/USA)
“Gaza mon amour” – Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser (Palestine/France/Germany/Portugal/Qatar)
“Get the Hell Out” – I-Fan Wang (Taiwan)
“Good Joe Bell” – Reinaldo Marcus Green (USA)
“I Care A Lot” – J Blakeson (United Kingdom)
“Inconvenient Indian” – Michelle Latimer (Canada)
“The Inheritance” – Ephraim Asili (USA)
“Lift Like a Girl” – Mayye Zayed (Egypt/Germany/Denmark)
“Limbo” – Ben Sharrock (United Kingdom)
“Memory House” – Joao Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil/France)
“MLK/FBI” – Sam Pollard (USA)
“The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel” – Joel Bakan, Jennifer Abbott (Canada)
“New Order” – Michel Franco (Mexico)
“Night of the Kings” – Philippe Lacôte (Cote d’Ivoire/France/Canada/Senegal)
“Nomadland” – Chloé Zhao (USA)
“No Ordinary Man” – Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt (Canada)
“Notturno” – Gianfranco Rosi (Italy/France/Germany)
“One Night in Miami” – Regina King (USA)
“Penguin Bloom” – Glendyn Ivin (Australia)
“Pieces of a Woman” – Kornél Mundruczó (USA/Canada/Hungary)
“Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time” – Lili Horvát (Hungary)
“Quo Vadis, Aida?” – Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Norway/The Netherlands/Austria/Romania/France/Germany/Poland/Turkey)
“Shadow In The Cloud” – Roseanne Liang (USA/New Zealand)
“Shiva Baby” – Emma Seligman (USA/Canada)
“Spring Blossom” – Suzanne Lindon (France)
“A Suitable Boy” – Mira Nair (United Kingdom/India (Closing Night Presentation))
“Summer of 85” – Francois Ozon (France)
“The Third Day” – Felix Barrett, Dennis Kelly (United Kingdom)
“Trickster” – Michelle Latimer (Canada)
“True Mothers” – Naomi Kawase (Japan)
“Under the Open Sky” – Miwa Nishikawa (Japan)
“Violation” – Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli (Canada)
“Wildfire” – Cathy Brady (United Kingdom/Ireland)
Source: TIFF
