TIFF Announces Their Gala & Special Presentations Line-Up

 The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is set to kick off in early September and today, they announced their Gala and Special Presentations lineup for the 2021 edition of the festival. Some of these selections are sure to surprise many, including Clifford The Big Red Dog Dear Evan Hansen opening the festival

Here is the full list of films:
Ali & Ava (dir. Clio Barnard
All My Puny Sorrows (dir. Michael McGowan)
Belfast (dir. Kenneth Branagh)
Benediction (dir. Terence Davies)
Bergman Island (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
Charlotte (dir. Eric Warin & Tahir Rana)
Clifford the Big Red Dog (dir. Walt Becker)
Dear Evan Hansen (dir. Stephen Chbosky)
Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over (dir. Dave Wooley & David Heilbroner)
Drive My Car (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Encounter (dir. Michael Pearce)
I’m Your Man (dir. Maria Schrader)
Inexorable (dir. Fabrice du Welz)
Jagged (dir. Alison Klayman)
Lakewood (dir. Phillip Noyce)
Last Night in Soho (dir. Edgar Wright)
Night Raiders (dir. Danis Goulet)
Official Competition (dir. Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat)
One Second (dir. Zhang Yimou)
Paris, 13th District (dir. Jacques Audiard)
Petite Maman (dir. Céline Sciamma)
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (dir. Will Sharpe)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (dir. Michael Showalter)
The Guilty (dir. Antoine Fuqua)
The Mad Women’s Ball (dir. Mélanie Laurent)
The Middle Man (dir. Bent Hamer)
The Starling (dir. Theodore Melfi)
The Story of My Wife (dir. Ildikó Enyedi)
The Survivor (dir. Barry Levinson)
The Worst Person In The World (dir. Joachim Trier)
Three Floors (dir. Nanni Moretti)
Violet (dir. Justine Bateman)

The upcoming festival will run from September 9th -September 18th.


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