2018 Toronto International Film Festival
by Raquel Stecher
I’m very excited to announce that I will be attending this year’s Toronto International Film Festival as a member of the press! This will be my very first time attending TIFF and I can’t wait to bring you coverage here on Quelle Movies. I’ll also be writing and posting about TIFF on my Twitter, Instagram, on the Cine Suffragette blog, and over on DVD Netflix’s Inside the Envelope blog and on their Instagram. I hope to secure some more outlets in the coming weeks. While TIFF is a 10 day festival, I’ll only be able to attend the first five days. But I’m confident I’ll see lots great films in that time frame!
In light of the tragedy that occurred on Sunday in Toronto, TIFF decided to forego their annual Festival Press Conference. Today announced their big films in a press release instead. These movies will receive gala screenings, special presentations, press conferences and red carpet premieres. Here is the list of today’s announced films.
GALAS
Beautiful Boy (world premiere)
dir. Felix van Groeningen
Steve Carrell, Timothée Chalamet
Everybody Knows
dir. Asghar Farhadi
Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem
First Man
dir. Damien Chazelle
Ryan Goslin, Claire Foy
Galveston
dir. Mélanie Laurent
Elle Fanning, Ben Foster, Beau Bridges
The Hate U Give (world premiere)
dir. George Tillman, Jr.
Amandla Stenberg, K.J. Apa, Regina Hall
Hidden Man
dir. Jiang We
Eddie Peng
High Life (world premiere)
dir. Claire Denis
Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth, Andre Benjamin
Husband Material (world premiere)
dir. Anurag Kashyap
Vicky Kaushal, Abhishek Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu
The Kindergarten Teacher
dir. Sara Colangelo
Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Land of Steady Habits (world premiere)
dir. Nicole Holofcener
Ben Mendelsohn, Edie Falco, Connie Britton
Life Itself (world premiere)
dir. Dan Fogelman
Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Benning, Antonio Banderas
The Public (world premiere)
dir. Emilio Estevez
Alec Baldwin, Jena Malone, Gabrielle Union, Christian Slater
Red Joan (world premiere)
dir. Sir Trevor Nunn
Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson
Shadow
dir. Zhang Yimou
A Star is Born
dir. Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga
What They Had
dir. Elizabeth Chomko
Hilary Swank, Blythe Danner, Robert Forster, Michael Shannon
Widows (world premiere)
dir. Steve McQueen
Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Ben is Back (world premiere)
dir. Peter Hedges
Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges
Burning Lee
dir. Chang-dong
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
dir. Marielle Heller
Melissa McCarthy
Capernaum
dir. Nadine Labaki
Cold War
dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
Colette
dir. Wash Westmoreland
Keira Knightley
Dogman
dir. Matteo Garrone
The Front Runner
dir. Jason Reitman
Hugh Jackman, Vera Fermiga, J.K. Simmons
Giant Little Ones
dir. Keith Behrman
Kyle MacLachlan, Maria Bello
Girls of the Sun
dir. Eva Husson
Hotel Mumbai (world premiere)
dir. Anthony Maras
Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Anupam Kher
The Hummingbird Project (world premiere)
dir. Kim Nguyen
Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgard, Salma Hayek
If Beale Street Could Talk (world premiere)
dir. Barry Jenkins
Stephan James, Kiki Layne, Dave Franco, Pedro Pascal
Manto
dir. Nandita Das
Maya (world premiere)
dir. Mia Hansen-Løve
Monsters and Men (opening film)
dir. Reinaldo Marcus Green
MOUTHPIECE (world premiere)
dir. Patricia Rozema
Non-Fiction
dir. Olivier Assayas
Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet
The Old Man & The Gun
dir. David Lowery
Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Elizabeth Moss, Casey Affleck
Papi Chulo (world premiere)
dir. John Butler
Roma
dir. Alfonso Cuarón (closing film)
Shoplifters
dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cannes Palme d’Or winner
The Sisters Brothers
dir. Jacques Audiard
Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed
Sunset
dir. László Nemes
Through Black Spruce (world premiere)
dir. Don McKellar
Tantoo Cardinal, Brandon Oakes, Graham Greene, Tanaya Beatty
The Wedding Guest (world premiere)
dir. Michael Winterbottom
Dev Patel
The Weekend (world premiere)
dir. Stella Meghie
Sasheer Zamata, Tone Bell, DeWanda Wise, Y’Lan Noel
Where Hands Touch (world premiere)
dir. Amma Asante
Amandla Stenberg
White Boy Rick
dir. Yann Demange
Matthew McConaughey, Bruce Dern, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eddie Marsan
Wildlife
dir. Paul Dano
Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal
See you in Toronto!
