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TIFF, North America's largest film festival, annually hosts some
of the fall's most anticipated titles. On Monday, it revealed
more than 60 films that will play in the festival's gala and
special presentations sections. Those include the world
premieres of Rock's fourth film as director and first for A24;
Farrelly's drama about the making of “Rocky”; and Courteney
Cox's true-crime drama “Evil Genius.”
Toronto, which runs Sept. 10-20, comes on the heels of the
Venice and Telluride film festivals. Often, how premieres at
TIFF are characterized tips where else they will first screen.
For example, “The Debut,” Jesse Eisenberg's follow-up to 2024's
“A Real Pain,” will play at Toronto as an international
premiere, suggesting it will bow first at Venice. The same
designation is given to Lee Chang-dong's “Possible Love,” the
Korean filmmaker's first film since 2018's acclaimed “Burning.”
British filmmaker Andrew Haigh's latest, “A Long Winter,” and
Mike Leigh's “Tender Loving Care” are both termed a Canadian
premiere, a hint that they will first play Telluride.
Many standouts from May's Cannes Film Festival are also
Toronto-bound, including “Club Kid,” “La Bola Negra,”
“Minotaur,” “Clarissa,” “All of a Sudden” and the Palme d'Or
winner “Fjord.”
In recent years, TIFF has increasingly functioned as a big movie
market, hosting gala premieres of titles looking for
distribution. Last year, that included Curry Barker's
“Obsession,” which Focus Features acquired and then turned into
a massive box-office hit this spring. The festival's top prize,
the moviegoer-voted People's Choice Award, went to Chloe Zhao's
“Hamnet.”
Festival organizers earlier announced that “Being Heumann,”
director Siân Heder’s film about the late disability rights
activist Judith Heumann, will open this year's edition.
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