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TIFF preview

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The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled the first list of films for the 2016 line up.

Nicole Martin was at the first press conference of the year to get a sneak peak of what’s to come, including the highly anticipated film that will open the show on September 8th.

GALAS

  • Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival(Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner)
  • Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon(Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich)
  • Mark Williams’ The Headhunters Calling(Gerard Butler, Willem Dafoe, Anupam Kher, Alfred Molina, Alison Brie)
  • Bronwen Hughes’ The Journey is the Destination
  • JT and the Tennessee Kids(Justin Timberlake)
  • Rob Reiner’s LBJ(Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Bill Pullman)
  • Garth Davis’ Lion(Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidmanm Dev Patel)
  • Jeff Nichols’ Loving(Ruth Negga, Michael Shannon)
  • A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls
  • Rebecca Zlotowski’s Planetarium(Natalie Portman)
  • Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe(David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyongo, Madina Nalwanga)
  • Paul Dugdale’s The Rolling Stones Ole Ole Ole
  • Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture(Rooney Mara)
  • Oliver Stone’s Snowdon(Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto)
  • Katherine Dieckmann’s Strange Weather
  • Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest
  • Amma Asante’s United Kingdom(David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike)

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

  • Kim Jee-woon’s The Age of Shadows
  • Marc Forster’s All I See Is You(Blake Lively)
  • Andrea Arnold’s American Honey(Shia LaBeouf)
  • Ewan McGregor’s American Pastoral(Ewan McGregor, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Connolly)
  • Mahmoud Sabbagh’s Barakah Meets Barakah
  • Vikram Gandhi’s Barry
  • Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation(Gabrielle Union, Armie Hammer)
  • Ben Younger’s Bleed For This(Miles Teller)
  • Alex Lehmann’s Blue Jay
  • Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone (Dakota Fanning, Kit Harrington)
  • Noel Clarke’s Brotherhood
  • Susan Johnson’s Carrie Pilby (Jason Ritter, Nathan Lane)
  • Onur Tukel’s Cat Fight (Sandra Oh, Anne Heche, Alicia Silverstone)
  • Pete Travis’ City of Tiny Lights
  • Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune
  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype
  • Konkona Sensharma’s A Death in the Gunj
  • Mick Jackson’s Denial (Rachel Weisz)
  • Paul Verhoeven’s Elle
  • Raja Amari’s Foreign Body
  • François Ozon’s Frantz
  • Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden
  • Kôji Fukada’s Harmonium
  • Feng Xiaogang’s I Am Not Madame Bovary
  • Nick Hamm’s The Journey
  • Nick Cannon’s King of the Dancehall (Nick Cannon, Busta Rhymes, Whoopi Goldberg)
  • Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone)
  • Juan Carlos Medina’s The Limehouse Golem
  • Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea (Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Kyle Chandler)
  • Christopher Guest’s Mascot (Parker Posey)
  • e Aisling Walsh’s Maudi (Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke)
  • Pablo Larraín’s Neruda
  • Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals (Amy Adam, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon)
  • Baltasar Kormákur’s The Oath
  • Arnaud des Pallières’ Orphan
  • Eleanor Coppola’s Paris Can Wait (Diane Lane, Alec Baldwin)
  • Jim Jarmusch’s Patterson (Adam Driver)
  • Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman
  • Werner Herzog’s Salt and Fire (Michael Shannon, Gael Garcia Bernal)
  • Garth Jennings’ Sing (Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane)
  • Mia Hansen-Løve’s L’Avenir(Isabelle Huppert)
  • Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann
  • Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us(Michael Fassbender)
  • Benedict Andrews’s Una
  • Alan Gilsenan’s Unless
  • Cheng Er’s The Wasted Times

OPENING/CLOSING

  • Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven
  • Kelly Fremon Craig’s The Edge of Seventeen(Hailee Steinfeld)

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