The Toronto International Film Festival today announced a new round of titles that will play at this year’s fest, which kicks off September 10 through September 20, for its docus, Midnight Madness and Vanguard sections. Among the docs playing are David Guggenheim’s much-anticipated Malala Yousefai feature docu He Named Me Malala. Also playing at the fest will be Emmanuel Leconte and Daniel Leconte’s Je Suis Charlie, about the attack on the Charlie Hebdo HQ in Paris by terrorists that left 11 people dead.
Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s award-winning Taxi plays in the Masters programe, repping distinctive voices in world cinema, while Gaspar Noe’s Love and Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Evolution are selected in the Vanguard section. Some of the titles playing in the Midnight Madness section are Sean Byrne’s The Devil’s Candy and Takashi Miike’s Yakuza Apocalypse.
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The full list below:
TIFF Docs:
Amazing Grace – directed by Sydney Pollack
A Flickering Truth– directed by Pietra Brettkelly
A Journey Of A Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers – directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
A Young Patriot– directed by Du Haibin
Being AP– directed by Anthony Wonke
Bolshoi Babylon– directed by Nick Read
Dark Horse– directed by Louise Osmond
He Named Me Malala– directed by Davis Guggenheim
Heart Of A Dog– directed by Laurie Anderson
Hitchcock/Truffaut– directed by Kent Jones
Horizon– directed by Bergur Bernburg and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
In Jackson Heights– directed by Frederick Wiseman
It All Started At The End– directed by Luis Ospina
Janis: Little Girl– directed by Blue Amy Berg
Je Suis Charlie– directed by Emmanuel Leconte and Daniel Leconte
Miss Sharon Jones!– directed by Barbara Kopple
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma And The Silk Road Ensemble -directed by Morgan Neville
Nasser- directed by Jihan El-Tahri
Our Last Tango– directed by German Kral
P.S. Jerusalem– directed by Danae Elo
The Reflektor Tapes– directed by Kahlil Joseph
Return Of The Atom– directed by Mika Taanila and Jussi Eerola
Sherpa– directed by Jennifer Peedom
Thru You Princess– directed by Ido Haar
Winter On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom– directed by Evgeny Afineevsky
Women He’s Undressed– directed by Gillian Armstrong
MIDNIGHT MADNESS
Baskin– directed by Can Evrenol
The Devil’s Candy– directed by Sean Byrne
The Girl In The Photographs– directed by Nick Simon
Green Room– directed by Jeremy Saulnier
Hardcore– directed by Ilya Naishuller
The Mind’s Eye– directed by Joe Begos
Southbound– directed by Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath and Radio Silence
SPL 2 – A Time For Consequences– directed by Soi Cheang
Yakuza Apocalypse– directed by Takashi Miike
The Final Girls – directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson
VANGUARD
Collective Invention– directed by Kwon Oh-kwang
Demon– directed by Marcin Wrona
Der Nachtmahr– directed by AKIZ NAP
Evolution– directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović
February– directed by Osgood Perkins
Lace Crater– directed by Harrison Atkins
Love– directed by Gaspar Noé
Men & Chicken– directed by Anders Thomas Jensen
My Big Night– directed by Álex de la Iglesia
The Missing Girl– directed by A.D. Calvo
Veteran– directed by Ryoo Seung-wan
MASTERS PROGRAMME
11 Minutes– directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
The Assassin– directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Bleak Street– directed by Arturo Ripstein
Blood Of My Blood– directed by Marco Bellocchio
Cemetery Of Splendour– directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Francofoni- directed by Alexander Sokurov
In The Shadow Of Women – directed by Philippe Garrel
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi – directed by Jafar Panahi
Our Little Sister – directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Pearl Button –directed by Patricio Guzmán
Rabin, The Last Day – directed by Amos Gitai
Right Now, Wrong Then – directed by Hong Sang-soo
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