The Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled 54 new film titles for its global-film focused Centerpiece program, including auteur-driven titles from Daniel Oriahi, Marie Clements, David Bezmozgis and Cody Lightning.
Toronto booked world bows for Kris Rey’s comedy Trash Mountain, starring Caleb Hearon, Zooey Deschanel, Jacki Weaver, Kyle Marvin, and Jaboukie Young-White; for Red Rocket star Simon Rex as he brings his latest movie, God Bless You, Mr Kopu, a comedy thriller directed by Alex Liu; the Irish feature Lemonade, starring Barry Keoghan and written and directed by documentary filmmaker Kim Bartley in her narrative feature debut; the Michelle Yeoh-starring action film The Surgeon, from writer/director Rohsan Sethi and Patrick Wachsberger’s 193; and the sports feature Smudge the Blades from writer-director Cody Lightning and starring Ed Helms (The Hangover), Paulina Alexis and Jana Schmieding alongside Lightning.
There’s also first looks at TIFF in the auteur-driven sidebar for Ron Murphy’s Back in Black, starring Christopher Walken, Ella Ballentine and Jane Curtin and shot in Toronto; Shawn Garry’s sophomore feature After Elena, which stars Alfredo Castro, a frequent collaborator with Pablo Larrain; Indian director Karthik Subbaraj’s tenth feature, the Tamil-language Dorothy; Indonesian director Kamila Andini’s Four Seasons in Java, about a woman released from prison and returning to her village to face the four seasons of her past; and Jenna Cato Bass’s time sci-fi pic Future Tense, where rich tourists use time travel to escape the past and an interracial couple put their relationship to the test when one decides to change history.
