Overview
- Festival organizers on Monday unveiled more than 60 gala and special presentation films for the Sept. 10–20 Toronto International Film Festival, including world premieres of Chris Rock’s Misty Green and Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky.
- The slate mixes star-driven titles and festival favorites, with gala entries such as Courteney Cox’s Evil Genius alongside films that played Cannes this spring like Club Kid, Clarissa and Palme d’Or winner Fjord.
- TIFF used premiere labels (world, international, Canadian) to signal prior or first screenings at Venice and Telluride, with Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut and Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love marked as international premieres and films by Andrew Haigh and Mike Leigh listed as Canadian premieres.
- The announcement reinforces TIFF’s marketplace role after recent years when distributors used the festival to acquire films that later found major box-office success and awards attention.
- Organizers said further programming will be revealed in the coming weeks and the festival will open with Siân Heder’s Being Heumann, a film about disability-rights activist Judith Heumann.