Hollywood stars in latest TIFF flicks
Organizers announced Thursday seven films that will join the glitzy gala lineup and a dozen that will bolster the special presentations program.
New galas include Agora, a Spanish film starring actress Weisz as an ancient astronomer at the library of Alexandria, and The Men Who Stare at Goats, a U.S. production starring Clooney as a man who claims he is part of a secret military unit.
Also getting the gala treatment will be:
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinski (Jan Kouene, France)
- I, Don Giovanni (Carlos Saura, Australia/Italy/Spain)
- Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (Don Roos, U.S.)
- Mother and Child (Rodrigo Garcia, U.S.)
- Phantom Pain (Matthias Emcke, Germany)
Brampton, Ont.-born Cera is featured in Miguel Arteta's teen "dramady" Youth in Revolt, based on C.D. Payne's hit book.
Other special presentations will include:
- Baaria (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy)
- L'Affaire Farewell (Christian Carion, France)
- The Joneses (Derrick Borte, U.S.)
- Les Derniers Jours du Monde (Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu, France/Spain/Taiwan)
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog, U.S.)
- Road, Movie (Dev Benegal, India/U.S.)
- A Single Man (Tom Ford, U.S.)
- The Traveller (Ahmed Maher, Egypt/Italy)
- The Waiting City (Claire McCarthy, Australia)
- Wheat (He Ping, China)
The Toronto International Film Festival, the premiere film event that helps kick off the fall movie season and the race towards the year-end film awards, begins Sept. 10 with the Charles Darwin drama Creation. It ends Sept. 19.