2013 Toronto Festival: 90 New Titles Added Including New Miyazaki, Turturro, Durkin, Gibney, MacDonald and Wheatley

The titles just keep coming as we are now just over three weeks away from the start of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and they have gone and added 90 new feature length titles to the program and it’s not as if they are titles you haven’t heard of.

New to the Galas selection is Guillaume Canet‘s Blood Ties which premiered at Cannes earlier this year (read my review here) and Words and Pictures starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche.

In the Special Presentations selection you find the bulk of the more noted titles including Alex Gibney‘s new documentary The Armstrong Lie about cyclist Lance Armstrong, Johnnie To‘s Blind Detective which also premiered at Cannes, James Franco‘s Child of God based on the Cormac McCarthy novel, John Turturro‘s Fading Gigolo which features Woody Allen in one of the roles, Kevin Macdonald‘s How I Live Now starring Saoirse Ronan (watch the trailer here), Southcliffe from Martha Marcy May Marlene director Sean Durkin, Lee Sang-il‘s Japanese Unforgiven remake Yurusarezarumono and Hayao Miyazaki‘s newest movie The Wind Rises.

Finally, in the Contemporary World Cinema selection is The Dinner (Het Diner) from Menno Meyjes, director of Martian Child and screenwriter on The Color Purple and the Wavelengths selection adds Ben Wheatley‘s A Field in England.

I have listed all the new titles added directly below, or you could click here to check out the entire line-up.

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.

Galas

Blood Ties (dir. Guillaume Canet) – France/USA
Bright Days Ahead (Les Beaux jours) (dir. Marion Vernoux) – France
Words and Pictures (dir. Fred Schepisi) – USA

Special Presentations

A Promise (Une Promesse) (dir. Patrice Leconte) – Belgium/France
The Armstrong Lie (dir. Alex Gibney) – USA
Blind Detective (dir. Johnnie To) – Hong Kong
Child of God (dir. James Franco) – USA
The Face of Love (dir. Arie Posin) – USA
Fading Gigolo (dir. John Turturro) – USA
The Finishers (dir. Nils Tavernier) – Belgium/France
How I Live Now (dir. Kevin Macdonald) – United Kingdom
The Last of Robin Hood (dir. Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland) – USA
The Liberator (Libertador) (dir. Alberto Arvelo) – Venezuela/Spain
Love is the Perfect Crime (Amour Crime Parfait) (dir. Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu) – France/Switzerland
Lucky Them (dir. Megan Griffiths) – USA
Rock the Casbah (dir. LaÃ¯la Marrakchi) – France/Morocco
Singing Women (Sarki SÃ¶yleyen Kadinlar) (dir. Reha Erdem) – France/Germany/Turkey
Southcliffe (dir. Sean Durkin) – United Kingdom
Sunshine on Leith (dir. Dexter Fletcher) – United Kingdo
Therese (dir. Charlie Stratton) – USA
Unforgiven (Yurusarezarumono) (dir. Lee Sang-il) – Japan
The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) (dir. Hayao Miyazaki) – Japan

Contemporary World Cinema

A Place in Heaven (Makom be-gan eden) (dir. Yossi Madmony) – Israel
A Wolf at the Door (O Lobo atrÃ¡s da Porta) (dir. Fernando Coimbra) – Brazil
An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (Epizoda u Å¾ivotu beraca Å¾eljeza) (dir. Danis TanoviÄ‡) – Bosnia-Herzegovina/France/Slovenia
Bad Hair (Pelo Malo) (dir. Mariana RondÃ³n) – Venezuela
Bastardo (dir. Nejib Belkadhi) – Tunisia/France/Qatar
The Bit Player (Ekstra) (dir. Jeffrey Jeturian) – Philippines
Blind Dates (Brma Paemnebi) (dir. Levan Koguashvili) – Georgia
Break Loose (Vosmerka) (dir. Alexey Uchitel) – Russia
Child’s Pose (Pozitia Copilului) (dir. Calin Peter Netzer) – Romania
Club Sandwich (Club SÃ¡ndwich) (dir. Fernando Eimbcke) – Mexico
Cristo Rey (dir. Leticia Tonos Paniagua) – Dominican Republic/France/Haiti
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
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 (LeijonasydÃ¤n) (dir. Dome Karukoski) – Finland/Sweden
Honeymoon (LÃbanky) (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
Ladder to Damascus (Soullam iIa Dimashq) (dir. Mohamad Malas) – Syria/Lebanon/Qatar
Le Grand Cahier (A Nagy FÃ¼zet) (dir. JÃ¡nos SzÃ¡sz) – 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 (MÃ¡lmhaus) (dir. Ragnar Bragason) – Iceland
October November (Oktober November) (dir. GÃ¶tz 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
Something Necessary (dir. Judy Kibinge) – Kenya/Germany
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 LacÃ´te) – Ivory Coast
Kwaku Ananse Akosua (dir. Adoma Owusu) – Ghana/Mexico/USA
Noah’s Flood (Unogumbe, Noye’s Fludde) (dir. Mark Dornford-May) – South Africa

Wavelengths

A Field in England (dir.Ben Wheatley) – United Kingdom
I’m the same, I’m an other (dir. Caroline Strubbe) – Belgium
La ultÃma pelÃcula (dir. Raya Martin and Mark Peranson) – Canada/Denmark/Mexico/Philippines
RP31 (dir. Lucy Raven) – USA
MANAKAMANA (dir. Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez) – USA/Nepal
Pays Barbare (dir. Yvervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi) – France
Story of My Death (dir. Albert Serra) – Spain/France
Stray Dogs (Jiao You) (dir. Tsai Ming-Liang) – Taiwan/France
The Battle of TabatÃ´ (dir. Joao Viana) – Portugal/Guinea-Bissau
The Disquiet (dir. Ali Cherri)
The Missing Picture (L’image manquante) (dir. Rithy Panh) – Cambodia/France
The Police Officer’s Wife (dir. Philip GrÃ¶ning) – Germany
The Strange Little Cat (dir. Ramon ZÃ¼rcher) – Germany
‘Til Madness Do Us Apart (dir. Wang Bing) – France/Hong Kong/Japan