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The Toronto International Film Festival has announced its official line-up for this year with the event in full swing and fully in-person: 260 feature films, 18 galas, 45 special screenings, press conferences, theaters without masks at full capacity and no need no proof of vaccination. .
Starting with some big releases and there’s Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light,” Billy Eichner’s “Bros,” “The Wonder” by Sebastian Lelio, “My Policeman” directed by Harry Styles, “The Woman King” directed by Viola Davis, “Causeway” directed by Jennifer Lawrence, Henry Selick’s animated “Wendell & Wild” and the Nicolas Cage western “Butcher’s Crossing “.
There will be premieres of films opening in Venice such as Darren Aronofsky’s ‘The Whale’, Martin McDonagh’s ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’, Florian Zeller’s ‘The Son’ and Peter Farrelly’s ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ .
Other films include Lena Dunham’s “Catherine Called Birdy,” Tyler Perry’s “A Jazzman’s Blues,” Joanna Hogg’s “The Eternal Daughter,” Sanaa Lathan’s “On the Come Up,” Catherine Hardwicke’s “Prisoner’s Daughter,” “The Lost King” by Stephen Frears. ”, “Women Talking” by Sarah Polley, “Moonage Daydream” by Bowie by Brett Morgen and “The Swimmers” by Sally El Hosaini which will open the festival.
There’s also Anna Kendrick in “Alice, Darling,” Eric Bana in “Blueback,” Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor in “Raymond and Ray,” Lily James and Emma Thompson in “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” by Shekhar Kapur and Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in “Moving On.”
Then there are some big movies already locked in for release this fall, like Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell’s “Devotion,” Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne in “The Good Nurse,” and both Anya Taylor- Joy as Ralph Fiennes in “The Menu”. “.
International films include Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to Leave,” Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Broker,” Mia Hansen-Løve’s “One Fine Morning,” “No Bears” by Jafar Panahi and Lee Jung-jae. the thriller “Hunt”, “A Man of Reason” sung by Jung Woo, “Saint Omer” by Alice Diop, “Holy Spider” by Ali Abbasi, “Corsage” by Marie Kreutzer and “Other People’s Children” by Rebecca Zlotowski .
This year’s Toronto Film Festival will take place September 8-18.