Toronto International Film Festival heeft de selectie van zijn corona-editie aangekondigd. Daartoe behoren de regiedebuten van twee acteurs, Halle Berry’s Bruised en Viggo Mortensen Falling, plus de eerste bioscoopfilm van Regina King, One Night in Miami.

De selectie bestaat voor 46 procent uit films van vrouwelijke (co)regisseurs, een stijging van tien procent vergeleken met vorig jaar en een nieuw record.

Verder staan ook Werner Herzogs documentaire Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds en acht films met het Cannes 2020-label op het programma.

Het gaat om Falling, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning, François Ozons Été 85, Ben Sharrocks Limbo, Suzanne Lindons Seize printemps en zoals eerder aangekondigd Francis Lee’s Ammonite, Thomas Vinterbergs Druk en Naomi Kawase’s True Mothers.

Bekijk de volledige lijst hieronder:

“180 Degree Rule,” Farnoosh Samadi, Iran
“76 Days,” Hao Wu, Anonymous, Weixi Chen, USA
“Ammonite,” Francis Lee, United Kingdom
“Another Round (Druk),” Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark
“Bandar Band,” Manijeh Hekmat, Iran/Germany
“Beans,” Tracey Deer, Canada
“Beginning (Dasatskisi),” Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia/France
“The Best is Yet to Come (Bu zhi bu xiu),” Wang Jing, China
“Bruised,” Halle Berry, USA
“City Hall,” Frederick Wiseman, USA
“Concrete Cowboy,” Ricky Staub, USA
“David Byrne’s American Utopia,” Spike Lee, USA Opening Night Film
“The Disciple,” Chaitanya Tamhane, India
“Enemies of the State,” Sonia Kennebeck, USA
“Falling,” Viggo Mortensen, Canada/United Kingdom
“The Father,” Florian Zeller, United Kingdom/France
“Fauna,” Nicolás Pereda, Mexico/Canada
“Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds,” Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, United Kingdom/USA “Gazamonamour,” Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser, France/Germany/Portugal/Palestine/Qatar
“Get the Hell Out (Taochulifayuan),” I-Fan Wang, Taiwan
“Good Joe Bell,” Reinaldo Marcus Green, USA
“I Care A Lot,” J Blakeson, United Kingdom
“Inconvenient Indian,” Michelle Latimer, Canada
“The Inheritance,” Ephraim Asili, USA
“Lift Like a Girl (Ashya Captain),” Mayye Zayed, Egypt/Germany/Denmark
“Limbo,” Ben Sharrock, United Kingdom
“Memory House (Casade Antiguidades),” João Paulo, Miranda Maria, Brazil/France
“MLK/FBI,” Sam Pollard, USA
“The New Corporation: An Unfortunately Necessary Sequel,” Joel Bakan, Jennifer Abbott, Canada
“New Order (Nuevo orden),” Michel Franco, Mexico
“Night of the Kings (La Nuit des rois),” Philippe Lacôte, Côte d’Ivoire/France/Canada/Senegal
“Nomadland,” Chloé Zhao, USA
“No Ordinary Man,” Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt, Canada
“Notturno,” Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/France/Germany
“One Night in Miami,” Regina King, USA
“Penguin Bloom,” Glendyn Ivin, Australia/USA
“Pieces of a Woman,” Kornél Mundruczó, USA/Canada/Hungary
“Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time (Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre),” Lili Horvát, Hungary
“Quo Vadis, Aïda?,” Jasmila Žbanic, Bosnia and Herzegovina/Norway/The Netherlands/Austria/Romania/France/Germany/Poland/Turkey
“Shadow In The Cloud,” Roseanne Liang, USA/New Zealand
“Shiva Baby,” Emma Seligman, USA/Canada
“Spring Blossom,” Suzanne Lindon, France
“A Suitable Boy,” Mira Nair, United Kingdom/India Closing Night Presentation
“Summer of 85 (Été 85),” François Ozon, France
“The Third Day,” Felix Barrett, Dennis Kelly, United Kingdom
“Trickster,” Michelle Latimer, Canada
“True Mothers (Asagakuru),” Naomi Kawase, Japan
“Under the Open Sky (Subarashikisekai),” Miwa Nishikawa, Japan
“Violation,” Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli, Canada
“Wildfire,” Cathy Brady, United Kingdom/Ireland

Bron: IndieWire