TIFF 2018 Announces First Slate of Buzzworthy Films
Toronto International Film Festival started rolling out their 2018 lineup today. Although not every TIFF selection is a world premiere, it is often the first time the press and the public get eyes and ears on award hopefuls. The immediate standouts include Beautiful Boy, A Star is Born, First Man, and The Hate U Give.
TIFF boasted, “The selection announced today includes 13 features directed by women.” Among them are major players like Amma Asante (A United Kingdom) and Claire Denis (Let the Sunshine In). Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity), Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), and Damien Chazelle (La La Land) are also featured.
If you have never been and want to get your feet wet, these are the films that impressed us the most last year. TIFF 2017 featured a few films that may sound familiar including Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, and The Shape of Water. Notice anything in common here? Yes, they all captured Oscar nominations with The Shape of Water taking home the big prize. Additionally, Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, and Spotlight all launched at TIFF in previous years.
Here is the full list. ‘Galas’ are shorthand for the biggest buzz with red carpet premieres. Special Presentations is one tier down with major talent or directors. We will, of course, be heading up to the Great White North for all the action. Keep an eye out for updates on the films that generate the biggest buzz September 6-16.
GALAS
Beautiful Boy | Felix van Groeningen, USA
World Premiere
Everybody Knows | Asghar Farhadi, Spain/France/Italy
North American Premiere
First Man | Damien Chazelle, USA
Canadian Premiere
Galveston | Mélanie Laurent, USA
Canadian Premiere
The Hate U Give | George Tillman, Jr., USA
World Premiere
Hidden Man | Jiang Wen, China
International Premiere
High Life | Claire Denis, Germany/France/Poland/United Kingdom
World Premiere
Husband Material | Anurag Kashyap, India
World Premiere
The Kindergarten Teacher | Sara Colangelo, USA
Canadian Premiere
The Land of Steady Habits | Nicole Holofcener, USA
World Premiere
Life Itself | Dan Fogelman, USA
World Premiere
The Public | Emilio Estevez, USA
World Premiere
Red Joan | Sir Trevor Nunn, United Kingdom
World Premiere
Shadow | Zhang Yimou , China
North American Premiere
A Star is Born | Bradley Cooper, USA
North American Premiere
What They Had | Elizabeth Chomko, USA
International Premiere
Widows | Steve McQueen, United Kingdom/USA
World Premiere
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Ben is Back | Peter Hedges, USA
World Premiere
Burning | Lee Chang-dong, South Korea
North American Premiere
Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Marielle Heller, USA
International Premiere
Capernaum | Nadine Labaki, Lebanon
North American Premiere
Cold War | Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland/United Kingdom/France
Canadian Premiere
Colette | Wash Westmoreland, United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere
Dogman | Matteo Garrone, Italy/France
Canadian Premiere
The Front Runner | Jason Reitman, USA
International Premiere
The Land of Steady Habits
Giant Little Ones | Keith Behrman, Canada
World Premiere
Girls of the Sun | Eva Husson, France
International Premiere
Hotel Mumbai | Anthony Maras, Australia
World Premiere
The Hummingbird Project | Kim Nguyen, Canada
World Premiere
If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins, USA
World Premiere
Manto | Nandita Das, India
North American Premiere
Maya | Mia Hansen-Løve, France
World Premiere
Monsters and Men | Reinaldo Marcus Green, USA
Canadian Premiere
Special Presentations Opening Film
MOUTHPIECE | Patricia Rozema, Canada
World Premiere
Non-Fiction | Olivier Assayas, France
Canadian Premiere
Hidden Man
Old Man & the Gun | David Lowery, USA
International Premiere
Papi Chulo | John Butler, Ireland
World Premiere
Roma | Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico/USA
Canadian Premiere
Special Presentations Closing Film
Shoplifters | Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
Canadian Premiere
The Sisters Brothers | Jacques Audiard, USA/France/Romania/Spain
North American Premiere
Sunset | László Nemes, Hungary/France
North American Premiere
Through Black Spruce | Don McKellar, Canada
World Premiere
The Wedding Guest | Michael Winterbottom, United Kingdom
World Premiere
The Weekend | Stella Meghie, USA
World Premiere
Where Hands Touch | Amma Asante, United Kingdom
World Premiere
White Boy Rick | Yann Demange, USA
International Premiere
Wildlife | Paul Dano, USA
Canadian Premiere
Featured Image: (L-R) Algee Smith as Khalil and Amandla Stenberg as Starr in Twentieth Century Fox’s THE HATE U GIVE.
