Confirming what will show at Telluride and Venice, the 2019 edition of the Toronto Intl.Film Festival has managed to land several World Preem and acquisitions titles packing the Galas (Marielle Heller, John Crowley, Destin Daniel Cretton and Justin Kurzel) and Special Presentations (Taika Waititi, Armando Iannucci) sections with a heavy English language presence. Here are the announced titles with plenty more being announced over the next couple of weeks.
GALAS 2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood / Marielle Heller | USA – World Preem
Abominable / Jill Culton | USA – World Preem
American Woman / Semi Chellas | Canada – Canadian Preem
Blackbird / Roger Michell | United Kingdom – World Preem
Clemency / Chinonye Chukwu | USA – Intl. Preem
Ford v Ferrari / James Mangold | USA – Canadian Preem
The Goldfinch / John Crowley | USA – World Preem
Harriet / Kasi Lemmons | USA – World Preem
Hustlers / Lorene Scafaria | USA – World Preem
Joker / Todd Phillips | USA – NA Preem
Just Mercy / Destin Daniel Cretton | USA – World Preem
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band / Daniel Roher | Canada – World Preem *OPENING*
Ordinary Love / Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn | United Kingdom – World Preem
Radioactive / Marjane Satrapi | United Kingdom – World Preem *CLOSING*
The Sky Is Pink / Shonali Bose | India – World Preem
The Song of Names / François Girard | Canada – World Preem
True History of the Kelly Gang / Justin Kurzel | Australia – World Preem
Western Stars / Thom Zimny, Bruce Springsteen | USA – World Preem
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2019
A Herdade / Tiago Guedes | Portugal – NA Preem
Bad Education / Cory Finley | USA – World Preem
Coming Home Again / Wayne Wang | USA/South Korea – World Preem
Dolemite Is My Name / Craig Brewer | USA – World Preem
Ema / Pablo Larraín | Chile – NA Preem
Endings, Beginnings / Drake Doremus | USA – World Preem
Frankie / Ira Sachs | France/Portugal – NA Preem
The Friend / Gabriela Cowperthwaite | USA – World Preem
Greed / Michael Winterbottom | UK – World Preem
Guest of Honour / Atom Egoyan | Canada – NA Preem
Heroic Losers / Sebastian Borensztein | Argentina/Spain – Intl. Premiere
Honey Boy / Alma Har’el | USA – Intl. Premiere
Hope Gap / William Nicholson | UK – World Preem
How to Build a Girl / Coky Giedroyc | UK – World Preem
I Am Woman / Unjoo Moon | Australia – World Preem – *OPENING*
Jojo Rabbit / Taika Waititi | USA – World Preem
Judy / Rupert Goold | UK – Canadian Preem
Knives Out / Rian Johnson | USA – World Preem
La Belle Époque / Nicolas Bedos | France – NA Preem
The Laundromat / Steven Soderbergh | USA – NA Preem
The Lighthouse / Robert Eggers | USA – NA Preem
Marriage Story / Noah Baumbach | USA – Canadian Preem
Military Wives / Peter Cattaneo | United Kingdom – World Preem
Motherless Brooklyn / Edward Norton | USA – Intl. Premiere
No.7 Cherry Lane / Yonfan | Hong Kong – NA Preem
The Other Lamb / Malgorzata Szumowska | Belgium/Ireland/USA – World Preem
Pain and Glory / Pedro Almodóvar | Spain – Canadian Preem
The Painted Bird / Václav Marhoul | Czech Republic/Ukraine/Slovakia – NA Preem
Parasite / Bong Joon-ho | South Korea – Canadian Preem
Pelican Blood / Katrin Gebbe | Germany/Bulgaria – NA Preem
The Personal History of David Copperfield / Armando Iannucci | UK – World Preem
Portrait of a Lady on Fire / Céline Sciamma | France Canadian Preem
The Report / Scott Z. Burns | USA – Intl. Premiere
Saturday Fiction / Lou Ye | China – NA Preem
The Two Popes / Fernando Meirelles | USA/UK/Italy/Argentina – Canadian Preem
Uncut Gems / Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | USA – Intl. Premiere
Weathering With You / Makoto Shinkai | Japan – NA Preem
While at War / Alejandro Amenábar | Spain/Argentina – World Preem
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
