The Toronto International Film Festival starts today, 7th September. Seven Irish titles have been selected across the Special Presentations, Discovery, TIFF Docs, Contemporary World Cinema, and Gala Presentation. See screening details below.
Special Presentations
THE BREADWINNER
Based on Deborah Ellis’ award-winning novel, director Nora Twomey’s The Breadwinnertells the extraordinary story of an 11-year-old Afghan girl who finds strength in the love of her family and the power of storytelling.
Sep 08 Scotiabank 12 2.30pm (press and industry)
Sep 08 Scotiabank 10 4.45pm (press and industry)
Sep 10 Winter Garden Theatre 3pm
Sep 16 TIFF Bell Lightbox Cinema 2 1pm
Director Nora Twomey
Script Anita Doran based on the novel by Deborah Ellis
Production Companies Cartoon Saloon, Melusine Productions, Aircraft Pictures
Main Cast Saara Chaudry, Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif, Liza Hamidi, Kawa Ada, Ali Badshah, Noorin Gulamgaus
Sales Agent WestEnd Films
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
The strange relationship between a cardiac surgeon and a 16-year-old boy portends a terrifying sacrifice, in this eagerly awaited supernatural thriller from Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) starring Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan and Nicole Kidman.
07 Sep Scotiabank 2 3pm (press and industry)
09 Sep Elgin Theatre 9pm
10 Sep Prince of Wales 11.15pm
Director Yorgos Lanthimos
Script Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Production Companies Element Pictures, Limp Film
Main Cast Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan, Nicole Kidman, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone, Bill Camp
Worldwide Sales Agent HanWay Films
THE CURED
The Cured is a gloriously terrifying yet thought-provoking horror thriller about the fraught process of reintegrating formerly infected flesh-eaters into society in the aftermath of a zombie plague.
09 Sep Ryerson Theatre 9pm
10 Sep Scotiabank 3 11.45am (press and industry)
10 Sep Scotiabank 12 8.45pm
13 Sep Scotiabank 3 9.15am (press and industry)
16 Sep Scotiabank 1 9pm
Director/Script David Freyne
Production Companies Tilted Pictures, Bounder & Cad, Bac Films Production
Main Cast Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Sam Keeley, Ellen Page
Worldwide Sales Agent Bac Films Distribution
DISCOVERY
KISSING CANDICE
Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous local gang, in Irish music video director Aoife McArdle’s feature debut.
08 Sep TIFF Bell Lightbox Cinema 1 9.30pm
09 Sep Scotiabank 9 6.30pm (press and industry)
10 Sep Scotiabank 4 9.45pm
14 Sep Scotiabank 10 10.45am (press and industry)
15 Sep Scotiabank 13 6pm
Director/Script Aoife McArdle
Production Companies Venom Film, Somesuch
Main Cast Ann Skelly, Ryan Lincoln, Ryan McParland, Conall Keating, Tony Doyle, Maghnús Foy, James Greene, John Lynch, Catriona Ennis, Kwaku Fortune, Lalor Roddy
Worldwide Sales Agent Film Constellation
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
THE LODGERS
Set in rural Ireland in 1920, this Gothic chiller evokes the spooky stories of Shirley Jackson and Oscar Wilde in its tale of teenage twins living in a haunted manor under the shadow of a family curse.
08 Sep Scotiabank 4 7.15pm
09 Sep Scotiabank 3 4.15pm
09 Sep Scotiabank 12 9.30pm (press and industry)
14 Sep Scotiabank 10 1.30pm (press and industry)
15 Sep Scotiabank 11 3pm
Director Brian O'Malley
Script David Turpin
Production Company Tailored Films
Main Cast Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, Eugene Simon, David Bradley
Worldwide Sales Agent Epic Pictures
GOOD FAVOUR
Rebecca Daly’s subtle and brilliantly realized parable, a teenage stranger welcomed into a household in a devout Christian village gradually reveals his mysterious motives — and what seem to be magical powers.
8 Sep Scotiabank 7 5pm (press and industry)
9 Sep TIFF Bell Lightbox Cinema 2 6.45pm
12 Sep Scotiabank 14 7pm
13 Sep Scotiabank 7 1.45pm (press and industry)
15 Sep Scotiabank 11 12pm
Director Rebecca Daly
Script Rebecca Daly, Glenn Montgomery
Production Companies Savage Productions, Wrong Men, Final Cut for Real, Viking Film
Main Cast Vincent Romeo, Clara Ruggard, Lars Brygmann, Victoria Mayer, Alexander Willaume
Worldwide Sales Agent Visit Films
TIFF Docs
GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI
Filmed over the course of a decade, the new documentary from director Sophie Fiennes (The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology) offers a stylish and unconventional look at the Jamaican-born model, singer, and New Wave icon.
07 Sep Elgin 9.30pm
08 Sep Scotiabank 14 8.45am (press and industry)
08 Sep Scotiabank 2 4.15pm
12 Sep Scotiabank 7 11.15am (press and industry)
15 Sep Scotiabank 2 6.15pm
Director Sophie Fiennes
Production Companies Blinder Films, Sligoville Ltd, Amoeba Film
Music Grace Jones
Worldwide Sales Agent WestEnd Films
GALA PRESENTATION
Mary Shelley
A scintillating biopic of the Frankensteinauthor, chronicling her tempestuous marriage to dissolute poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the fateful night at a Swiss chateau that inspired her most famous creation.
09 Sep RTH 6.30pm
10 Sep Scotiabank 2 8.30am (press and industry)
10 Sep Scotiabank 2 1.30pm
12 Sep Scotiabank 2 1.15pm (press and industry)
Director Haifaa Al-Monsour
Script Emma Jensen, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Conor McPherson
Production Companies Parallel Films, Gidden Media, Juliette Films
Main Cast Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Tom Sturridge, Stephen Dillane