Premieres. Running from September 8 to 18, this year?s Festival presents the world premieres of films from directors Bruce Beresford, Luc Besson, Rémi Bezancon, Cameron Crowe, Terence Davies, Mathieu Demy, Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, Roland Emmerich, Julian Farino, Jim Field Smith, Francis Ford Coppola, Marc Foster, Rodrigo Garcia, Lasse Hallstrom, Huh Jong-ho, Cédric Khan, Jonathan Levine, Jamie Linden, Derick Martini, Fernando Meirelles, Bennett Miller, Oren Moverman, Daniel Nettheim, Pawel Pawlikowski, Alexander Payne, Sarah Polley, Malgoska Szumowska, Jonathan Teplitzky, Jennifer Westfeldt, Michael Winterbottom and Wang Xiaoshuai.
Filmmakers Pedro Almodóvar, George Clooney, David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes, William Friedkin, Ann Hui, Madonna, Steve McQueen, Nanni Moretti, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, Lynne Ramsay, Todd Solondz, Morten Tyldum and Lars von Trier make their North American premieres in Toronto.
“The international scope and diversity of voices in these programmes are impressive and inspiring,” said Piers Handling, Director and CEO of TIFF. “We eagerly anticipate welcoming these filmmakers and their provocative works to Toronto and sharing them with audiences in September.”
“These films showcase powerful performances delivered by actors who are in a class all their own, including Antonio Banderas, Juliette Binoche, Ryan Gosling, Woody Harrelson, Vanessa Redgrave and Tilda Swinton to name a few,” said Cameron Bailey, Co-Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. “We hope our audience will be as impressed as we were.”
Moneyball Bennett Miller, USA World Premiere Based on a true story, Moneyball stars Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland As and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball?s conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games. It?s more than baseball, it?s a revolution – one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he?s tearing out the heart and soul of the game.
