New TIFF News: eight galas and 17 special presentations added to the roster
The TIFF news keeps pouring in, with the festival announcing today the addition of eight galas (those splashy parties everyone wants to crash) and 17 special presentations, totalling 25 additions, 14 of which are world premieres. This brings the final number of galas this season to 20 (that’s a whole lot of free champagne) and the number of special presentations to 67. At TIFF, there’ll be a star for everyone, like brawny action dudes Jason Statham, Clive Owen (who has two movies premiering) and Gerard Butler, French actress Catherine Deneuve (so engaging we’d watch her eat Kraft dinner and do laundry), TV stars Adam Brody and Alexis Bledel (who taught us that the best way to solve complex teen problems is to talk really, really fast) and mega-stars Robert DeNiro, Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage.
To the recently added galas »
Galas
Page Eight (Closing-night film)
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Nighy, Michael Gambon
Director: David Hare
The Awakening
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton
Director: Nick Murphy
The Beloved
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastoianni
Director: Christophe Honoré
Hysteria
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Johnathan Pryce, Rupert Everett, Felicity Jones
Director: Tanya Wexler
Killer Elite
Starring: Jason Statham, Robert De Niro, Clive Owen
Director: Gary McKendry
Machine Gun Preacher
Starring: Gerard Butler
Director: Marc Forster
Trespass
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman
Director: Joel Schumacher
Winnie
Starring: Jennifer Hudson, Terrance Howard, Wendy Crewson
Director: Darrel J. Roodt
To the recently added special presentations »
Special Presentations
The Cardboard Village
Starring: Michael Lonsdale, Rutger Hauer
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Damsels in Distress
Starring: Adam Brody, Greta Gerwig, Megalyn Echikunwoke
Director: Whit Stilman
Death of a Superhero
Starring: Andy Serkis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Aisling Loftus
Director: Ian FitzGibbon
The First Man
Director: Gianni Amelio
In Darkness
Starring: Robert Wieçkiewicz, Benno Fürmann
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Intruders
Starring: Clive Owen
Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Life Without Principle
Director: Johnnie To
Low Life
Director: Nicolas Klotz
Mausam
Starring: Shahid Kapur, Sonam A. Kapoor, Anupam Kher
Director: Pankaj Kapur
My Worst Nightmare
Starring: Isabelle Huppert
Director: Anne Fontaine
Rebellion
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Sleeping Beauty
Starring: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake
Director: Julia Leigh
Terraferma
Director: Emanuele Crialese
That Summer
Director: Philippe Garrel
Violet and Daisy
Starring: Alexis Bledel, Saoirse Ronan, Danny Trejo
Director: Geoffrey Fletcher
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Director: We Te-Sheng
Wuthering Heights
Starring: James Howson, Kaya Scodelario
Director: Andrea Arnold