2013 Toronto Film Festival Complete Line-Up

Today the organizers of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival announced about a quarter of the festival’s lineup including Galas, Special Presentations and the fest’s opening night film, which will be Bill Condon‘s Wikileaks feature The Fifth Estate. That, however, is just the start.

As far as the Gala Presentations are concerned you have John Wells‘ August: Osage County starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, John Krokidas‘ Kill Your Darlings with Daniel Radcliffe, Justin Chadwick‘s Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom starring Idris Elba in the title role, Peter Landesman‘s JFK assassination pic Parkland and Jonathan Teplitzky‘s The Railway Man with Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.

The Special Presentations grow even more insane as it begins with Steve McQueen‘s 12 Years a Slave, the much-talked-about Cannes feature Blue is the Warmest Color, Jean-Marc Vallée‘s Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew McConaughey, Atom Egoyan‘s Devil’s Knot based on the story of the West Memphis Three starring Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon, Ned Benson‘s The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her, Dom Hemingway starring Jude Law, which Fox Searchlight dated for a 2014 release only yesterday, Richard Ayoade‘s The Double, Alfonso Cuarón‘s Gravity with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, David Gordon Green‘s Joe, Kelly Reichardt‘s Night Moves, Jim Jarmusch Only Lovers Left Alive, Asghar Farhadi‘s The Past, Stephen Frears‘ Philomena starring Judi Dench, Denis Villeneuve‘s Prisoners with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal and Jonathan Glazer‘s long-gestating Under the Skin starring Scarlett Johansson.

Yeah, the list is long and it is distinguished and it is only about 25% complete as plenty more titles are yet to be announced, including the Midnight Madness selection.

I have listed the films announced so far directly below and will be updating the list as more and more are announced.

The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5 to 15, 2013 and I will be there through the 13th covering as many of these films as possible, but clearly it’s going to be tough.

• American Dreams in China (dir. Peter Ho-Sun Chan) – Hong Kong/China
• The Art of the Steal (dir. Jonathan Sobol) – Canada
• August: Osage County (dir. John Wells) – USA
• Blood Ties (dir. Guillaume Canet) – France/USA
• Bright Days Ahead (Les Beaux jours) (dir. Marion Vernoux) – France
• Cold Eyes (dir. Cho Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo) – South Korea
• The Fifth Estate (dir. Bill Condon) – USA [Opening Night Film]
• The Grand Seduction (dir. Don McKellar) – Canada
• Kill Your Darlings (dir. John Krokidas) – USA
• Life of Crime (dir. Daniel Schechter) – USA [Closing Night Film]
• The Love Punch (dir. Joel Hopkins) – France
• The Lunchbox (dir. Ritesh Batra) – India/France/Germany
• Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (dir. Justin Chadwick) – South Africa
• Parkland (dir. Peter Landesman) – USA
• The Railway Man (dir. Jonathan Teplitzky) – Australia/United Kingdom
• Rush (dir. Ron Howard) – United Kingdom/Germany
• The Right Kind of Wrong (dir. Jeremiah Chechik) – Canada
• Shuddh Desi Romance (dir. Maneesh Sharma) – India
• Supermensch The Legend of Shep Gordon (dir. Mike Myers) – USA
• Words and Pictures (dir. Fred Schepisi) – USA

• 12 Years a Slave (dir. Steve McQueen) – USA
• All Is By My Side (dir. John Ridley) – United Kingdom
• The Armstrong Lie (dir. Alex Gibney) – USA
• Attila Marcel (dir. Sylvain Chomet) – France
• Bad Words (dir. Jason Bateman) – USA
• Belle (dir. Amma Asante) – United Kingdom
• Blind Detective (dir. Johnnie To) – Hong Kong
• Blue Is the Warmest Color (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche) – France
• Burning Bush (dir. Agnieszka Holland) – Czech Republic
• Can a Song Save Your Life? (dir. John Carney) – USA
• Cannibal (Caníbal) (dir. Manuel Martín Cuenca) – Spain/Romania/Russia/France
• Child of God (dir. James Franco) – USA
• Dallas Buyers Club (dir. Jean-Marc Vallée) – USA
• Devil’s Knot (dir. Atom Egoyan) – USA
• The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (dir. Ned Benson) – USA
• Dom Hemingway (dir. Richard Shepard) – United Kingdom
• Don Jon (dir. Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – USA
• The Double (dir. Richard Ayoade) – United Kingdom
• Enemy (dir. Denis Villeneuve) – Canada/Spain
• Enough Said (dir. Nicole Holofcener) – USA
• Exit Marrakech (dir. Caroline Link) – Germany
• The F Word (dir. Michael Dowse) – Canada/Ireland
• The Face of Love (dir. Arie Posin) – USA
• Fading Gigolo (dir. John Turturro) – USA
• Felony (dir. Matthew Saville) – Australia
• The Finishers (dir. Nils Tavernier) – Belgium/France
• Gabrielle (dir. Louise Archambault) – Canada
• Gloria (dir. Sebastián Lelio) – Chile/Spain
• Going Away (Il est parti dimanche) (dir. Nicole Garcia) – France
• Gravity (dir. Alfonso Cuarón) – USA/United Kingdom
• The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) (dir. Paolo Sorrentino) – Italy
• Hateship Loveship (dir. Liza Johnson) – USA
• How I Live Now (dir. Kevin Macdonald) – United Kingdom
• The Husband (dir. Bruce McDonald) – Canada
• Ida (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski) – Poland
• L’intrepido (dir. Gianni Amelio) – Italy
• The Invisible Woman (dir. Ralph Fiennes) – United Kingdom
• Joe (dir. David Gordon Green) – USA
• Labor Day (dir. Jason Reitman) – USA
• The Last of Robin Hood (dir. Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland) – USA
• The Liberator (Libertador) (dir. Alberto Arvelo) – Venezuela/Spain
• Like Father, Like Son (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda) – Japan
• Love is the Perfect Crime (Amour Crime Parfait) (dir. Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu) – France/Switzerland
• Lucky Them (dir. Megan Griffiths) – USA
• MARY Queen of Scots Thomas (dir. Imbach) – France/Switzerland
• Night Moves (dir. Kelly Reichardt) – USA
• Omar (dir. Hany Abu-Assad) – Palestine
• One Chance (dir. David Frankel) – USA
• Only Lovers Left Alive (dir. Jim Jarmusch) – USA
• The Past (Le Passé) (dir. Asghar Farhadi) – France/Italy
• Philomena (dir. Stephen Frears) – United Kingdom
• Pioneer (Pionér) (dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg) – Norway/Germany/Sweden/France/Finland
• Prisoners (dir. Denis Villeneuve) – USA
• A Promise (Une Promesse) (dir. Patrice Leconte) – Belgium/France
• Quai d’Orsay (dir. Bertrand Tavernier) – France
• REAL (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – Japan
• Rock the Casbah (dir. Laïla Marrakchi) – France/Morocco
• Singing Women (Sarki Söyleyen Kadinlar) (dir. Reha Erdem) – France/Germany/Turkey
• Southcliffe (dir. Sean Durkin) – United Kingdom
• Starred Up (dir. David Mackenzie) – United Kingdom
• Sunshine on Leith (dir. Dexter Fletcher) – United Kingdo
• Therese (dir. Charlie Stratton) – USA
• Third Person (dir. Paul Haggis) – Belgium
• Those Happy Years (Anni Felici) (dir. Daniele Luchetti) – Italy
• Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) (dir. Xavier Dolan) – Canada/France
• Under the Skin (dir. Jonathan Glazer) – USA/United Kingdom
• Unforgiven (Yurusarezarumono) (dir. Lee Sang-il) – Japan
• Violette (dir. Martin Provost) – France/Belgium
• Visitors (dir. Godfrey Reggio) – USA
• Walesa. Man of Hope. (Walesa. Czlowiek z nadziei.) (dir. Andrzej Wajda) – Poland
• Watermark (dir. Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky) – Canada
• We are the Best! (Vi är bäst!) (dir. Lukas Moodysson) – Sweden
• The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) (dir. Hayao Miyazaki) – Japan
• Le Week-End (dir. Roger Michell) – United Kingdom
• You Are Here (dir. Matthew Weiner) – USA

• Afflicted (dir. Derek Lee and Clif Prowse) – Canada/USA [Midnight Madness Opening Night Film]
• All Cheerleaders Die (dir. Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson) – USA
• Almost Human (dir. Joe Begos) – USA
• The Green Inferno (dir. Eli Roth) – USA
• Oculus (dir. Mike Flanagan) – USA
• R100 (dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto) – Japan
• Rigor Mortis (dir. Juno Mak) – Hong Kong
• The Station (Blutgletscher) (dir. Marvin Kren) – Austria
• Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Jigoku de Naze Warui) (dir. Sion Sono) – Japan

• A Story of Children and Film (dir. Mark Cousins) – United Kingdom
• Ain’t Misbehavin’ (dir. Marcel Ophüls) – France
• At Berkeley (dir. Frederick Wiseman) – USA
• Beyond the Edge (dir. Leanne Pooley) – New Zealand
• Burt’s Buzz (dir. Jody Shapiro) – Canada
• The Dark Matter of Love (dir. Sarah McCarthy) – UK
• The Dog (dir. Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren) – USA
• Faith Connections (dir. Pan Nalin) – France/India
• Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story (dir. Barry Avrich) – Canada
• Finding Vivian Maier (dir. John Maloof and Charlie Siskel) – USA
• Hi-Ho Mistahey! (dir. Alanis Obomsawin) – Canada
• Ignasi (dir. M. Ventura Pons) – Spain
• Jodorowsky’s Dune (dir. Frank Pavich) – USA
• The Last of the Unjust (dir. Claude Lanzmann) – France/Austria
• The Mayor Emiliano (dir. Altuna Fistolera) – Mexico
• Midway (dir. Chris Jordan) – USA
• Mission Congo (dir. David Turner and Lara Zizic) – USA
• The Square (Al Midan) (dir. Jehane Noujaim) – Egypt/USA
• Tim’s (dir. Vermeer Teller) – USA
• The Unknown Known (dir. Errol Morris) – USA
• Unstable Elements (dir. Madeleine Sackler) – USA
• When Jews Were Funny (dir. Alan Zweig) – Canada

• Asphalt Watches (dirs. Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehman) – Canada
• Blue Ruin (dir. Jeremy Saulnier) – USA
• Borgman (dir. Alex van Warmerdam) – The Netherlands/Belgium/Denmark
• Celestial Wives of the Meadow (dir. Mari Alexey Fedorchenko) – Russia
• The Fake (dir. Yeon Sang-ho) – Korea
• Gerontophilia (dir. Bruce LaBruce) – Canada
• Horns (dir. Alexandre Aja) – USA
• People In Places (Gente En Sitios) (dir. Juan Cavestany) – Spain
• Proxy (dir. Zack Parker) – USA
• The Sacrament (dir. Ti West) – USA
• Sapi (dir. Brillante Mendoza) – Philippines
• Sex, Drugs & Taxation (Spies & Glistrup) (dir. Christoffer Boe) – Denmark
• Soul (dir. Chung Mong-Hong) – Taiwan
• The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (dir. Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani) – Belgium/France/Luxembourg
• Thou Gild’st the Even (dir. Onur Ãœnlü) – Turkey
• We Gotta Get Out of This Place (dir. Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins) – USA

• An Autumn Afternoon (dir. Yasujiro Ozu) – Japan
• Gun Crazy (dir. Joseph H. Lewis) – USA
• Hiroshima mon amour (dir. Alain Resnais) – France/Japan
• The Lovely Month of May (Le Joli Mai) (dir. Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme) – France
• Manila in the Claws of Light (Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko Ng Liwanag) (dir. Lino Brocka) – Philippines
• Rome, Open City (Roma, città aperta) (dir. Roberto Rossellini) – Italy
• Shivers (dir. David Cronenberg) – Canada

• The Daughter (I Kori) (dir. Thanos Anastopoulos) – Greece
• The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (I Aionia Epistrofi tou Antoni Paraskeua) (dir. Elina Psykou) – Greece
• J.A.C.E. – Just Another Confused Elephant (dir. Menelaos Karamaghiolis) – Greece/FYROM/Portugal/Turkey
• Miss Violence (dir. Alexandros Avranas) – Greece
• September (dir. Penny Panayotopoulou) – Germany/Greece
• Standing Aside, Watching (Na Kathese ke na Kitas) (dir. Yorgos Servetas) – Greece
• To the Wolf (Sto Lyko) (dir. Aran Hughes and Christina Koutsospyrou) – Greece/United Kingdom
• Unfair World (Adikos Kosmos) (dir. Filippos Tsitos) – Greece/Germany
• Wasted Youth (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel) – Greece
• Wild Duck (dir. Yannis Sakaridis) – Greece

• All the Wrong Reasons (dir. Gia Milani) – Canada
• Rhymes for Young Ghouls (dir. Jeff Barnaby) – Canada
• Sarah Prefers To Run (Sarah préfère la course) (dir. Chloé Robichaud) – Canada

• A Place in Heaven (Makom be-gan eden) (dir. Yossi Madmony) – Israel
• A Wolf at the Door (O Lobo atrás da Porta) (dir. Fernando Coimbra) – Brazil
• An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (Epizoda u životu beraca željeza) (dir. Danis Tanović) – Bosnia-Herzegovina/France/Slovenia
• The Animal Project (dir. Ingrid Veninger) – Canada
• Bad Hair (Pelo Malo) (dir. Mariana Rondón) – Venezuela
• Bastardo (dir. Nejib Belkadhi) – Tunisia/France/Qatar
• The Bit Player (Ekstra) (dir. Jeffrey Jeturian) – Philippines
• Blind Dates (Brma Paemnebi) (dir. Levan Koguashvili) – Georgia
• Brazilian Western (Faroeste Caboclo) (dir. René Sampaio) – Brazil
• Break Loose (Vosmerka) (dir. Alexey Uchitel) – Russia
• Child’s Pose (Pozitia Copilului) (dir. Calin Peter Netzer) – Romania
• Cinemanovels (dir. Terry Miles) – Canada
• Club Sandwich (Club Sándwich) (dir. Fernando Eimbcke) – Mexico
• Cristo Rey (dir. Leticia Tonos Paniagua) – Dominican Republic/France/Haiti
• The Dick Knost Show (dir. Bruce Sweeney) – Canada
• The Dinner (Het Diner) (dir. Menno Meyjes) – The Netherlands
• Eastern Boys (dir. Robin Campillo) – France
• El Mudo (dir. Diego Vega and Daniel Vega) – Peru/France/Mexico
• Empire of Dirt (dir. Peter Stebbings) – Canada
• Friends from France (Les Interdits) (dir. Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski) – France/Germany/Canada/Russia
• Giselle (dir. Toa Fraser) – New Zealand
• Heart of a Lion (Leijonasydän) (dir. Dome Karukoski) – Finland/Sweden
• Honeymoon (Líbanky) (dir. Jan Hrebejk) – Czech Republic/Slovakia
• Hotell (dir. Lisa Langseth) – Sweden/Denmark
• The Immoral (De Umoralske) (dir. Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen) – Norway
• Intruders (Jo Nan-ja-deul) (dir. Noh Young-Seok) – South Korea
• The Kids from the Port (Los Chicos del Puerto) (dir. Alberto Morais) – Spain
• iNumber Number (dir. Donovan Marsh) – South Africa
• A Journey (Une Jeune Fille) (dir. Catherine Martin) – Canada
• Ladder to Damascus (Soullam iIa Dimashq) (dir. Mohamad Malas) – Syria/Lebanon/Qatar
• Le Grand Cahier (A Nagy Füzet) (dir. János Szász) – Germany/Hungary/Austria/France
• Life’s a Breeze (dir. Lance Daly) – Ireland/Sweden
• Little Feet (dir. Alexandre Rockwell) – United States of America
• The Major (dir. Yuri Bykov) – Russia
• Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Dast-neveshtehaa nemisoozand) (dir. Mohammad Rasoulof) – Iran
• McCanick (dir. Josh C. Waller) – USA
• Metalhead (Málmhaus) (dir. Ragnar Bragason) – Iceland
• October November (Oktober November) (dir. Götz Spielmann) – Austria
• Old Moon (Luna Vieja) (dir. Raisa Bonnet) – Puerto Rico
• Palestine Stereo (Falastine Stereo) (dir. Rashid Masharawi)
• Paradise: Hope (Paradies: Hoffnung) (dir. Ulrich Seidl) – Austria/France/Germany
• Qissa (dir. Anup Singh) – Germany/India/The Netherlands/France
• Rags and Tatters (Farsh wa ghata) (dir. Ahmad Abdalla) – Egypt
• The Sea (dir. Stephen Brown) – Ireland
• The Selfish Giant (dir. Clio Barnard) – United Kingdom
• Siddharth (dir. Richie Mehta) – Canada
• Something Necessary (dir. Judy Kibinge) – Kenya/Germany
• Stay (dir. Wiebke von Carolsfeld) – Canada/Ireland
• Stop the Pounding Heart (dir. Roberto Minervini) – Belgium/Italy/USA
• Stranger by the Lake (dir. Alain Guiraudie) – France
• Unbeatable (dir. Dante Lam) – China/Hong Kong
• Under the Starry Sky (Des Etoiles) (dir. Dyana Gaye) – France/Senegal
• When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Cand se lasa seara peste Bucuresti sau Metabolism) (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu) – Romania
• White Lies (Tuakiri Huna) (dir. Dana Rotberg) New Zealand
• The Wonders (Plaot) (dir. Avi Nesher) – Israel
• Homecoming (African Metropolis) (dir. Jim Chuchu) – Kenya
• Berea (African Metropolis) (dir. Vincent Moloi) – South Africa
• To Repel Ghosts (African Metropolis) (dir. Philippe Lacôte) – Ivory Coast
• Kwaku Ananse Akosua (dir. Adoma Owusu) – Ghana/Mexico/USA
• Noah’s Flood (Unogumbe, Noye’s Fludde) (dir. Mark Dornford-May) – South Africa