Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Galas and Special Presentation Lineup
Joker, Ford v Ferrari, Parasite, and other films in the Galas and Special Presentation sections of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has been announced. The 44th Toronto International Film Festival is “a publicly-attended non-competitive film festival. Founded in 1976, the TIFF is now one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The festival has begun to give more attention to mainstream Hollywood films [but] still maintains its focus on independent cinema. It features retrospectives of national cinemas and individual directors, highlights of Canadian cinema, as well as a variety of African, South American, and Asian films.” This year at TIFF, there will be 18 Galas and 38 Special Presentations, 29 World Premieres, 6 International Premieres, 13 North American Premieres and 8 Canadian Premieres. Some of the most noteworthy films include: Joker, Ford v Ferrari, Parasite, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, The Goldfinch, and Hustlers.
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The full lineup of the Galas and Special Presentation for the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival: GALAS 2019 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Marielle Heller | USA World Premiere Abominable Jill Culton | USA World Premiere American Woman Semi Chellas | Canada Canadian Premiere Blackbird Roger Michell | United Kingdom World Premiere Clemency Chinonye Chukwu | USA International Premiere Ford v Ferrari James Mangold | USA Canadian Premiere The Goldfinch John Crowley | USA World Premiere Harriet Kasi Lemmons | USA World Premiere Hustlers Lorene Scafaria | USA World Premiere Joker Todd Phillips | USA North American Premiere Just Mercy Destin Daniel Cretton | USA World Premiere Opening Night Film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band Daniel Roher | Canada World Premiere
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Ordinary Love Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn | United Kingdom World Premiere Closing Night Film Radioactive Marjane Satrapi | United Kingdom World Premiere The Sky Is Pink Shonali Bose | India World Premiere The Song of Names François Girard | Canada World Premiere True History of the Kelly Gang Justin Kurzel | Australia World Premiere Western Stars Thom Zimny, Bruce Springsteen | USA World Premiere SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2019 A Herdade Tiago Guedes | Portugal North American Premiere Bad Education Cory Finley | USA World Premiere Coming Home Again Wayne Wang | USA/South Korea World Premiere Dolemite Is My Name Craig Brewer | USA World Premiere Ema Pablo Larraín | Chile North American Premiere Endings, Beginnings Drake Doremus | USA World Premiere Frankie Ira Sachs | France/Portugal North American Premiere The Friend Gabriela Cowperthwaite | USA World Premiere Greed Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom World Premiere Guest of Honour Atom Egoyan | Canada North American Premiere Heroic Losers (La odisea de los giles) Sebastian Borensztein | Argentina/Spain International Premiere Honey Boy Alma Har’el | USA International Premiere Hope Gap William Nicholson | United Kingdom World Premiere How to Build a Girl Coky Giedroyc | United Kingdom World Premiere Opening Special Presentations Film I Am Woman Unjoo Moon | Australia World Premiere Jojo Rabbit Taika Waititi | USA World Premiere Judy Rupert Goold | United Kingdom Canadian Premiere Knives Out Rian Johnson | USA World Premiere La Belle Époque Nicolas Bedos | France North American Premiere The Laundromat Steven Soderbergh | USA North American Premiere The Lighthouse Robert Eggers | USA North American Premiere Marriage Story Noah Baumbach | USA Canadian Premiere Military Wives Peter Cattaneo | United Kingdom World Premiere Motherless Brooklyn Edward Norton | USA International Premiere No.7 Cherry Lane Yonfan | Hong Kong North American Premiere The Other Lamb Malgorzata Szumowska | Belgium/Ireland/USA World Premiere Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar | Spain Canadian Premiere The Painted Bird Václav Marhoul | Czech Republic/Ukraine/Slovakia North American Premiere Parasite (Gisaengchung) Bong Joon-ho | South Korea Canadian Premiere Pelican Blood (Pelikanblut) Katrin Gebbe | Germany/Bulgaria North American Premiere The Personal History of David Copperfield Armando Iannucci | United Kingdom World Premiere Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) Céline Sciamma | France Canadian Premiere The Report Scott Z. Burns | USA International Premiere Saturday Fiction (Lan Xin Da Ju Yuan) Lou Ye | China North American Premiere The Two Popes Fernando Meirelles | USA/United Kingdom/Italy/Argentina Canadian Premiere Uncut Gems Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | USA International Premiere Weathering With You Makoto Shinkai | Japan North American Premiere While at War (Mientras Dure La Guerra) Alejandro Amenábar | Spain/Argentina World Premiere Leave your thoughts on the Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Galas and Special Presentation Lineup below in the comments section. Readers seeking to support this type of content can visit our Patreon Page and become one of FilmBook’s patrons. For more Toronto International Film Festival news coverage, photos, videos, and information, visit our Film Festival Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. This year’s Toronto International Film Festival will be held from September 5-15, 2019 in Toronto, Canada.
