TIFF 2019 Special And Gala Presentations Include ‘Joker’, ‘Knives Out’, ‘Jojo Rabbit’, And More
By Chris Evangelista/July 23, 2019 8:00 am EST
The first 2019 Toronto International Film Festival announcements are here, and they don’t disappoint. The special and gala presentation titles include Todd Phillips’s Joker, Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, and many more. The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5 through September 15, 2019. See the full TIFF 2019 gala presentation line-up below, along with the special presentation titles.
Here it comes, kids: festival season. The time of year when film fans go gaga over screenings of films destined to either become all-time classics, or utterly forgettable drivel that will go straight to streaming. TIFF just sent out its first wave of titles, and I have to say I’m impressed. I’ve been covering TIFF for a few years now, and this is one of the more exciting special and gala presentation lineups I can remember. We’re talking new films from Bong Joon-ho, Taika Waititi, Marielle Heller, James Mangold, Rian Johnson, Noah Baumbach, Armando Iannucci, Steven Soderbergh, and many more. The most surprising title might be Joker, the standalone origin story starring Joaquin Phoenix as the Clown Prince of Crime. Putting that film into festival season indicates Warner Bros. thinks they have something special – even possibly award-worthy – on their hands. Here’s the line-up so far. Expect more soon.
GALAS 2019A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Marielle Heller | USA World Premiere Abominable Jill Culton | USA World Premiere American Woman Semi Chellas | Canada Canadian Premiere Blackbird Roger Michell | United Kingdom World Premiere Clemency Chinonye Chukwu | USA International Premiere Ford v Ferrari James Mangold | USA Canadian Premiere The Goldfinch John Crowley | USA World Premiere Harriet Kasi Lemmons | USA World Premiere Hustlers Lorene Scafaria | USA World Premiere Joker Todd Phillips | USA North American Premiere Just Mercy Destin Daniel Cretton | USA World Premiere Opening Night Film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band Daniel Roher | Canada World Premiere Ordinary Love Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn | United Kingdom World Premiere Closing Night Film Radioactive Marjane Satrapi | United Kingdom World Premiere The Sky Is Pink Shonali Bose | India World Premiere The Song of Names François Girard | Canada World Premiere True History of the Kelly Gang Justin Kurzel | Australia World Premiere Western Stars Thom Zimny, Bruce Springsteen | USA World Premiere SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2019A Herdade Tiago Guedes | Portugal North American Premiere Bad Education Cory Finley | USA
World Premiere Coming Home Again Wayne Wang | USA/South Korea World Premiere Dolemite Is My Name Craig Brewer | USA World Premiere Ema Pablo Larraín | Chile North American Premiere Endings, Beginnings Drake Doremus | USA World Premiere Frankie Ira Sachs | France/Portugal North American Premiere The Friend Gabriela Cowperthwaite | USA World Premiere Greed Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom World Premiere Guest of Honour Atom Egoyan | Canada North American Premiere Heroic Losers (La odisea de los giles) Sebastian Borensztein | Argentina/Spain International Premiere Honey Boy Alma Har’el | USA International Premiere Hope Gap William Nicholson | United Kingdom World Premiere How to Build a Girl Coky Giedroyc | United Kingdom World Premiere Opening Special Presentations Film I Am Woman Unjoo Moon | Australia World Premiere Jojo Rabbit Taika Waititi | USA World Premiere Judy Rupert Goold | United Kingdom Canadian Premiere Knives Out Rian Johnson | USA World Premiere La Belle Époque Nicolas Bedos | France North American Premiere The Laundromat Steven Soderbergh | USA North American Premiere The Lighthouse Robert Eggers | USA North American Premiere Marriage Story Noah Baumbach | USA
Canadian Premiere Military Wives Peter Cattaneo | United Kingdom World Premiere Motherless Brooklyn Edward Norton | USA International Premiere No.7 Cherry Lane Yonfan | Hong Kong North American Premiere The Other Lamb Malgorzata Szumowska | Belgium/Ireland/USA World Premiere Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar | Spain Canadian Premiere The Painted Bird Václav Marhoul | Czech Republic/Ukraine/Slovakia North American Premiere Parasite (Gisaengchung) Bong Joon-ho | South Korea Canadian Premiere Pelican Blood (Pelikanblut) Katrin Gebbe | Germany/Bulgaria North American Premiere The Personal History of David Copperfield Armando Iannucci | United Kingdom World Premiere Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) Céline Sciamma | France Canadian Premiere The Report Scott Z. Burns | USA International Premiere Saturday Fiction (Lan Xin Da Ju Yuan) Lou Ye | China North American Premiere The Two Popes Fernando Meirelles | USA/United Kingdom/Italy/Argentina Canadian Premiere Uncut Gems Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | USA International Premiere Weathering With You Makoto Shinkai | Japan North American Premiere While at War (Mientras Dure La Guerra) Alejandro Amenábar | Spain/Argentina
World Premiere
TIFF 2019 Special And Gala Presentations Include ‘Joker’, ‘Knives Out’, ‘Jojo Rabbit’, And More
By Chris Evangelista/July 23, 2019 8:00 am EST
The first 2019 Toronto International Film Festival announcements are here, and they don’t disappoint. The special and gala presentation titles include Todd Phillips’s Joker, Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, and many more. The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5 through September 15, 2019. See the full TIFF 2019 gala presentation line-up below, along with the special presentation titles.
Here it comes, kids: festival season. The time of year when film fans go gaga over screenings of films destined to either become all-time classics, or utterly forgettable drivel that will go straight to streaming. TIFF just sent out its first wave of titles, and I have to say I’m impressed. I’ve been covering TIFF for a few years now, and this is one of the more exciting special and gala presentation lineups I can remember. We’re talking new films from Bong Joon-ho, Taika Waititi, Marielle Heller, James Mangold, Rian Johnson, Noah Baumbach, Armando Iannucci, Steven Soderbergh, and many more. The most surprising title might be Joker, the standalone origin story starring Joaquin Phoenix as the Clown Prince of Crime. Putting that film into festival season indicates Warner Bros. thinks they have something special – even possibly award-worthy – on their hands. Here’s the line-up so far. Expect more soon.
GALAS 2019A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Marielle Heller | USA World Premiere Abominable Jill Culton | USA World Premiere American Woman Semi Chellas | Canada Canadian Premiere Blackbird Roger Michell | United Kingdom World Premiere Clemency Chinonye Chukwu | USA International Premiere Ford v Ferrari James Mangold | USA Canadian Premiere The Goldfinch John Crowley | USA World Premiere Harriet Kasi Lemmons | USA World Premiere Hustlers Lorene Scafaria | USA World Premiere Joker Todd Phillips | USA North American Premiere Just Mercy Destin Daniel Cretton | USA World Premiere Opening Night Film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band Daniel Roher | Canada World Premiere Ordinary Love Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn | United Kingdom World Premiere Closing Night Film Radioactive Marjane Satrapi | United Kingdom World Premiere The Sky Is Pink Shonali Bose | India World Premiere The Song of Names François Girard | Canada World Premiere True History of the Kelly Gang Justin Kurzel | Australia World Premiere Western Stars Thom Zimny, Bruce Springsteen | USA World Premiere SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2019A Herdade Tiago Guedes | Portugal North American Premiere Bad Education Cory Finley | USA
World Premiere Coming Home Again Wayne Wang | USA/South Korea World Premiere Dolemite Is My Name Craig Brewer | USA World Premiere Ema Pablo Larraín | Chile North American Premiere Endings, Beginnings Drake Doremus | USA World Premiere Frankie Ira Sachs | France/Portugal North American Premiere The Friend Gabriela Cowperthwaite | USA World Premiere Greed Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom World Premiere Guest of Honour Atom Egoyan | Canada North American Premiere Heroic Losers (La odisea de los giles) Sebastian Borensztein | Argentina/Spain International Premiere Honey Boy Alma Har’el | USA International Premiere Hope Gap William Nicholson | United Kingdom World Premiere How to Build a Girl Coky Giedroyc | United Kingdom World Premiere Opening Special Presentations Film I Am Woman Unjoo Moon | Australia World Premiere Jojo Rabbit Taika Waititi | USA World Premiere Judy Rupert Goold | United Kingdom Canadian Premiere Knives Out Rian Johnson | USA World Premiere La Belle Époque Nicolas Bedos | France North American Premiere The Laundromat Steven Soderbergh | USA North American Premiere The Lighthouse Robert Eggers | USA North American Premiere Marriage Story Noah Baumbach | USA
Canadian Premiere Military Wives Peter Cattaneo | United Kingdom World Premiere Motherless Brooklyn Edward Norton | USA International Premiere No.7 Cherry Lane Yonfan | Hong Kong North American Premiere The Other Lamb Malgorzata Szumowska | Belgium/Ireland/USA World Premiere Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar | Spain Canadian Premiere The Painted Bird Václav Marhoul | Czech Republic/Ukraine/Slovakia North American Premiere Parasite (Gisaengchung) Bong Joon-ho | South Korea Canadian Premiere Pelican Blood (Pelikanblut) Katrin Gebbe | Germany/Bulgaria North American Premiere The Personal History of David Copperfield Armando Iannucci | United Kingdom World Premiere Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) Céline Sciamma | France Canadian Premiere The Report Scott Z. Burns | USA International Premiere Saturday Fiction (Lan Xin Da Ju Yuan) Lou Ye | China North American Premiere The Two Popes Fernando Meirelles | USA/United Kingdom/Italy/Argentina Canadian Premiere Uncut Gems Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | USA International Premiere Weathering With You Makoto Shinkai | Japan North American Premiere While at War (Mientras Dure La Guerra) Alejandro Amenábar | Spain/Argentina
World Premiere
Here it comes, kids: festival season. The time of year when film fans go gaga over screenings of films destined to either become all-time classics, or utterly forgettable drivel that will go straight to streaming. TIFF just sent out its first wave of titles, and I have to say I’m impressed. I’ve been covering TIFF for a few years now, and this is one of the more exciting special and gala presentation lineups I can remember. We’re talking new films from Bong Joon-ho, Taika Waititi, Marielle Heller, James Mangold, Rian Johnson, Noah Baumbach, Armando Iannucci, Steven Soderbergh, and many more. The most surprising title might be Joker, the standalone origin story starring Joaquin Phoenix as the Clown Prince of Crime. Putting that film into festival season indicates Warner Bros. thinks they have something special – even possibly award-worthy – on their hands. Here’s the line-up so far. Expect more soon.
GALAS 2019A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Marielle Heller | USA
World Premiere
Abominable Jill Culton | USA
American Woman Semi Chellas | Canada
Canadian Premiere
Blackbird Roger Michell | United Kingdom
Clemency Chinonye Chukwu | USA
International Premiere
Ford v Ferrari James Mangold | USA
The Goldfinch John Crowley | USA
Harriet Kasi Lemmons | USA
Hustlers Lorene Scafaria | USA
Joker Todd Phillips | USA
North American Premiere
Just Mercy Destin Daniel Cretton | USA
Opening Night Film
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band Daniel Roher | Canada
Ordinary Love Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn | United Kingdom
Closing Night Film
Radioactive Marjane Satrapi | United Kingdom
The Sky Is Pink Shonali Bose | India
The Song of Names François Girard | Canada
True History of the Kelly Gang Justin Kurzel | Australia
Western Stars Thom Zimny, Bruce Springsteen | USA
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2019A Herdade Tiago Guedes | Portugal
Bad Education Cory Finley | USA
Coming Home Again Wayne Wang | USA/South Korea
Dolemite Is My Name Craig Brewer | USA
Ema Pablo Larraín | Chile
Endings, Beginnings Drake Doremus | USA
Frankie Ira Sachs | France/Portugal
The Friend Gabriela Cowperthwaite | USA
Greed Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom
Guest of Honour Atom Egoyan | Canada
Heroic Losers (La odisea de los giles) Sebastian Borensztein | Argentina/Spain
Honey Boy Alma Har’el | USA
Hope Gap William Nicholson | United Kingdom
How to Build a Girl Coky Giedroyc | United Kingdom
Opening Special Presentations Film
I Am Woman Unjoo Moon | Australia
Jojo Rabbit Taika Waititi | USA
Judy Rupert Goold | United Kingdom
Knives Out Rian Johnson | USA
La Belle Époque Nicolas Bedos | France
The Laundromat Steven Soderbergh | USA
The Lighthouse Robert Eggers | USA
Marriage Story Noah Baumbach | USA
Military Wives Peter Cattaneo | United Kingdom
Motherless Brooklyn Edward Norton | USA
No.7 Cherry Lane Yonfan | Hong Kong
The Other Lamb Malgorzata Szumowska | Belgium/Ireland/USA
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar | Spain
The Painted Bird Václav Marhoul | Czech Republic/Ukraine/Slovakia
Parasite (Gisaengchung) Bong Joon-ho | South Korea
Pelican Blood (Pelikanblut) Katrin Gebbe | Germany/Bulgaria
The Personal History of David Copperfield Armando Iannucci | United Kingdom
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) Céline Sciamma | France
The Report Scott Z. Burns | USA
Saturday Fiction (Lan Xin Da Ju Yuan) Lou Ye | China
The Two Popes Fernando Meirelles | USA/United Kingdom/Italy/Argentina
Uncut Gems Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | USA
Weathering With You Makoto Shinkai | Japan
While at War (Mientras Dure La Guerra) Alejandro Amenábar | Spain/Argentina
