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High Life, If Beale Street Could Talk con­firmed for 2018 Toron­to Film Festival

24 Jul 2018

Words by Hannah Strong

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Claire Denis and Bar­ry Jenk­ins will present their lat­est work when the fes­ti­val kicks off on 6 September.

Fol­low­ing last week’s announce­ment that Damien Chazelle’s First Man will open the 75th Venice Film Fes­ti­val, the Toron­to Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val has con­firmed a flur­ry of excit­ing new fea­tures for their upcom­ing 43rd edition.

Claire Denis’ hot­ly-antic­i­pat­ed High Life, star­ring Robert Pat­tin­son, and Bar­ry Jenk­ins’ Moon­light fol­low-up, If Beale Street Could Talk, are among the main gala high­lights, along with the lat­est works from Olivi­er Assayas, Michael Win­ter­bot­tom, Mia Hansen-Løve, Jason Reit­man, Lás­zló Nemes, Yimou Zhang, Jacques Audi­ard and David Lowery.

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Felix Van Groeningen’s Eng­lish-lan­guage debut, Beau­ti­ful Boy, is also in this year’s line-up, which star Tim­o­th­ée Cha­la­met hint­ed at yes­ter­day on Twit­ter, while First Man and Steve McQueen’s Wid­ows round out the impres­sive programme.

The fes­ti­val opens on 6 Sep­tem­ber with Patri­cia Rozema’s Mouth­piece, while Hirokazu Koreeda’s Palme d’Or win­ning Shoplifters clos­es pro­ceed­ings 10 days lat­er. A hand­ful of oth­er Cannes titles, includ­ing Paul Dano’s direc­to­r­i­al debut, Wildlife, and Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War will also screen.

Borg/​McEnroe opened last year’s fes­ti­val, which saw Three Bill­boards Out­side Ebbing, Mis­souri take home the festival’s high­est hon­our, the People’s Choice Award.

The 2018 Toron­to Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val runs 6 – 16 Sep­tem­ber. For more info vis­it tiff​.net/tiff

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