The full film lineup for the 2020 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is here and it includes directorial offerings from Halle Berry, Regina King and Viggo Mortensen.
While the festival usually boasts more than 300 titles, this year’s slimmed-down fest comprises just 50 feature films, which will screen in a combined digital and in-person festival. Of this year’s slate, 45 per cent are directed by women.
Regina King’s directorial debut “One Night In Miami” will premiere at the festival. The drama is a fictionalized account of a meeting between Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke, Malcolm X, and Jim Brown as they plot to change the course of history in the segregated southern U.S.
.@ReginaKing's feature directorial debut ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI is a fictionalized account of a 1964 meeting between Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown. #TIFF20 https://t.co/0sTZXhdmwM pic.twitter.com/AtitQ9YX19
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More actors stepping behind the camera for TIFF premieres include Berry for her MMA drama “Bruised”, in which she stars alongside Canadian Shamier Anderson, and Mortensen, who directs the Canadian co-production “Falling”, about a conservative father who moves from his rural farm to live with his gay son’s family in Los Angeles.
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.@halleberry's directorial debut BRUISED follows a former MMA fighter struggling to regain custody of her son and restart her athletic career. Also starring @adancanto, Sheila Atim, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and @ShamierAnderson. #TIFF20 https://t.co/2ohBn53gkC pic.twitter.com/H4FBh1DfQ9
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Viggo Mortensen stars as a man on a patience-testing mission to care for his ailing father in his feature directorial debut, FALLING. Also starring @LanceHenriksen, @theTerryChen, Sverrir Gudnason, Hannah Gross, Laura Linney, and Bracken Burns. #TIFF20 https://t.co/zrOvNZpg5r pic.twitter.com/fD9tb0ODtx
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“Nomadland” starring Oscar winner Frances McDormand and directed by Chloe Zhao joins the lineup, which includes the opening-night selection, Spike Lee’s “David Byrne’s American Utopia”. “Nomadland” is one of the festival season’s most-buzzed-about titles and will also play the Venice Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. In the drama, McDormand plays a woman who embarks on a modern-day journey across the country by van following the economic collapse of her company in rural Nevada. The film marks McDormand’s first role since her Oscar-winning turn in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”.
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Chloé Zhao's NOMADLAND is a wise and intimate portrayal of life as a modern-day nomad. Starring Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, and Charlene Swankie. #TIFF20 https://t.co/n26Y9XXDrK pic.twitter.com/EeN3QCeBUy
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Newly announced highlights of the program include a new documentary by Werner Herzog, “The Father” starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, the Rosamund Pike gangster thriller “I Care A Lot” with Peter Dinklage, Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf as a couple dealing with the fallout of a tragedy in “Pieces Of A Woman”, Naomi Watts as a paralyzed woman in “Penguin Bloom” with Andrew Lincoln, and “Shadow In The Cloud” featuring Chloe Grace Moretz as a WWII pilot.
.@AnthonyHopkins and Olivia Colman star in Florian Zeller's THE FATHER, a hallucinatory chamber drama about a man’s slide into dementia. #TIFF20 https://t.co/3LzuMz9W6f pic.twitter.com/r0ykbUsQEF
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.@VanessaKirby and Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) star in Kornél Mundruczó's PIECES OF A WOMAN, as a couple reeling — in very different ways — from tragedy. #TIFF20 https://t.co/Arjlh1QGlq pic.twitter.com/dxZPJwJOTv
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Previously announced films include Idris Elba’s urban horseback riding drama “Concrete Cowboy”, a re-teaming of Mads Mikkelsen and “The Hunt” director Thomas Vinterberg for “Another Round”, the Mark Wahlberg drama “Good Joe Bell”, and “Ammonite” starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan as lovers.
Ricky Staub's CONCRETE COWBOY follows a troubled teen torn between a life of crime and his estranged father’s vibrant urban-cowboy subculture. Starring @calebmclaughlin, @JharrelJerome, Lorraine Toussaint (@LPToussaint), @IdrisElba, and @methodman. #TIFF20 https://t.co/EerrbBFtlB pic.twitter.com/O2WuW0h89F
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Thomas Vinterberg's ANOTHER ROUND, starring Mads Mikkelsen (@theofficialmads), Thomas Bo Larsen, @MillangMagnus, Lars Ranthe, and Maria Bonnevie. #TIFF20 https://t.co/McW29h95XC pic.twitter.com/U73pYuvJCl
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Reinaldo Marcus Green's GOOD JOE BELL tells the true story of a father's walk across the US to raise awareness of the harms of bullying. Starring @markwahlberg, @thereidmiller and @conniebritton. #TIFF20 https://t.co/LuEWx5FApm pic.twitter.com/9WhF5BQMma
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Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan star in Francis Lee's (@strawhousefilms) AMMONITE, a raw love story between a solitary paleontologist and a wealthy, grieving wife in 19th-century Dorset. #TIFF20 https://t.co/grDMxtdGcb pic.twitter.com/HA9nywLCLI
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The 45th edition of TIFF will close things out with the post-partition Indian drama “A Suitable Boy”.
.@MiraPagliNair's A SUITABLE BOY follows a young woman in post-partition India struggling to balance family duty and personal independence. Starring Tabu, Ishaan Khatter, Tanya Maniktala, and Rasika Dugal.
The Closing Night Presentation of #TIFF20: https://t.co/miyZO40UWU pic.twitter.com/oe3wA3PGpQ
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TIFF will run Sept. 10 to 19 and will include a mix of physical screenings and drive-ins, digital screenings, virtual red carpets, and online industry talks. The full list of TIFF titles playing the festival is available on tiff.net.