While it may be hard to believe, the fall festival season—and as a result, film awards season—is quickly approaching. That was made further evident by today's initial programming announcement for the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, the 43rd annual North American celebration of big premieres, special presentations, galas, talks, and more. 47 films have so far been announced to screen at the Canadian festival (listed below) with many more to come over the following weeks.
As officially announced by the festival, "Of the 17 Galas and 30 Special Presentations, this first announcement includes 21 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 8 North American Premieres and 11 Canadian Premieres. The selection announced today includes 13 features directed by women."
A few films to keep an eye on include Barry Jenkins' follow-up project to Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, the latest film from French master Claire Denis, High Life, Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)'s Chicago-set remake, Widows, Alfonso Cuarón's heavily buzzed about Roma, French actress Mélanie Laurent's Galveston, David Lowery's re-teaming with his Pete's Dragon leading man Robert Redford on The Old Man & the Gun, Sara Colangelo's American remake of The Kindergarten Teacher, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Cannes-winning Shoplifters, and Jason Reitman's second film of 2018, The Front Runner.
Check out the list below of the films that have been announced thus far.
Galas
Beautiful Boy, Felix van Groeningen
Everybody Knows, Asghar Farhadi
First Man, Damien Chazelle
Galveston, Mélanie Laurent
The Hate U Give, George Tillman, Jr
Hidden Man, Jiang Wen
High Life, Claire Denis
Husband Material, Anurag Kashyap
The Kindergarten Teacher, Sara Colangelo
The Land of Steady Habits, Nicole Holofcener
Life Itself, Dan Fogelman
The Public, Emilio Estevez
Red Joan, Sir Trevor Nunn
Shadow, Zhang Yimou
A Star is Born, Bradley Cooper
What They Had, Elizabeth Chomko
Widows, Steve McQueen
Special Presentations
Mouthpiece (Opening Film)
Patricia Rozema
Ben is Back, Peter Hedges
Burning, Lee Chang-dong
Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Marielle Heller
Capernaum, Nadine Labaki
Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski
Colette, Wash Westmoreland
Dogman, Matteo Garrone
The Front Runner, Jason Reitman
Giant Little Ones, Keith Behrman
Girls of the Sun, Eva Husson
Hotel Mumbai, Anthony Maras
The Hummingbird Project, Kim Nguyen
If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins
Manto, Nandita Das
Maya, Mia Hansen-Løve
Monsters and Men, Reinaldo Marcus Green
Non-Fiction, Olivier Assayas
The Old Man & The Gun, David Lowery
Papi Chulo, John Butler
Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
Shoplifters (Closing Film), Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Sisters Brothers, Jacques Audiard
Sunset, László Nemes
Through Black Spruce, Don McKellar
The Wedding Guest, Michael Winterbottom
The Weekend, Stella Meghie
For more information on the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, click here.
Richard Gere and Uma Thurman in 'Oh, Canada' via Kino Lorber 
Uma Thurman in 'Oh, Canada'via Kino Lorber 
