TIFF preview

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The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled the first list of films for the 2016 line up.

Nicole Martin was at the first press conference of the year to get a sneak peak of what’s to come, including the highly anticipated film that will open the show on September 8th.

GALAS

• Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival(Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner)
• Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon(Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich)
• Mark Williams’ The Headhunters Calling(Gerard Butler, Willem Dafoe, Anupam Kher, Alfred Molina, Alison Brie)
• Bronwen Hughes’ The Journey is the Destination
• JT and the Tennessee Kids(Justin Timberlake)
• Rob Reiner’s LBJ(Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Bill Pullman)
• Garth Davis’ Lion(Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidmanm Dev Patel)
• Jeff Nichols’ Loving(Ruth Negga, Michael Shannon)
• A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls
• Rebecca Zlotowski’s Planetarium(Natalie Portman)
• Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe(David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyongo, Madina Nalwanga)
• Paul Dugdale’s The Rolling Stones Ole Ole Ole
• Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture(Rooney Mara)
• Oliver Stone’s Snowdon(Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto)
• Katherine Dieckmann’s Strange Weather
• Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest
• Amma Asante’s United Kingdom(David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike)

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

• Kim Jee-woon’s The Age of Shadows
• Marc Forster’s All I See Is You(Blake Lively)
• Andrea Arnold’s American Honey(Shia LaBeouf)
• Ewan McGregor’s American Pastoral(Ewan McGregor, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Connolly)
• Mahmoud Sabbagh’s Barakah Meets Barakah
• Vikram Gandhi’s Barry
• Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation(Gabrielle Union, Armie Hammer)
• Ben Younger’s Bleed For This(Miles Teller)

• Alex Lehmann’s Blue Jay
• Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone (Dakota Fanning, Kit Harrington)
• Noel Clarke’s Brotherhood
• Susan Johnson’s Carrie Pilby (Jason Ritter, Nathan Lane)
• Onur Tukel’s Cat Fight (Sandra Oh, Anne Heche, Alicia Silverstone)
• Pete Travis’ City of Tiny Lights
• Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune
• Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype
• Konkona Sensharma’s A Death in the Gunj
• Mick Jackson’s Denial (Rachel Weisz)
• Paul Verhoeven’s Elle
• Raja Amari’s Foreign Body
• François Ozon’s Frantz
• Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden
• Kôji Fukada’s Harmonium
• Feng Xiaogang’s I Am Not Madame Bovary
• Nick Hamm’s The Journey
• Nick Cannon’s King of the Dancehall (Nick Cannon, Busta Rhymes, Whoopi Goldberg)
• Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone)
• Juan Carlos Medina’s The Limehouse Golem
• Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea (Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Kyle Chandler)
• Christopher Guest’s Mascot (Parker Posey)
• e Aisling Walsh’s Maudi (Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke)
• Pablo Larraín’s Neruda
• Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals (Amy Adam, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon)
• Baltasar Kormákur’s The Oath
• Arnaud des Pallières’ Orphan
• Eleanor Coppola’s Paris Can Wait (Diane Lane, Alec Baldwin)
• Jim Jarmusch’s Patterson (Adam Driver)
• Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman
• Werner Herzog’s Salt and Fire (Michael Shannon, Gael Garcia Bernal)
• Garth Jennings’ Sing (Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane)

• Mia Hansen-Løve’s L’Avenir(Isabelle Huppert)
• Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann
• Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us(Michael Fassbender)
• Benedict Andrews’s Una
• Alan Gilsenan’s Unless
• Cheng Er’s The Wasted Times

OPENING/CLOSING

• Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven
• Kelly Fremon Craig’s The Edge of Seventeen(Hailee Steinfeld)