Top Movies To Look Forward To At The Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival will run this year from Sept. 7-17.

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL LINEUP

Margot Robbie, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lawrence, and Idris Elba will appear in movies, as well as Lady Gaga in her first picture at the festival. Robbie will star as Tonya Harding in I, Tonya, about the Olympic skater’s attempt to take over rival Nancy Kerrigan. Jolie is making her fourth directorial debut with First They Killed My Father, while Lawrence will appear in Mother! Elba and Kate Winslet play a duo struggling to survive after a plane crash. And Gaga stars in her own documentary Five Foot Two.

While the festival has not released the names of all the productions that will be screened, they announced a slew of films and presentations already. Emma Stone and Steve Carell will star in Battle of the Sexes story as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs about their famed tennis match. Frances McDormand will star alongside Woody Harrelson in a murder mystery in Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri.

New films by directors Guillermo del Toro, George Clooney, Terrence Malick, Darren Aronofsky, Alexander Payne, Dee Rees, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Andy Serkis, and first timer Greta Gerwig.

The closing night of the festival will bring C’est la Vie!, the Oliver Nakache and Eric Toledano film starring Gilles Lellouche, Suzanne Clément, Eye Haïdara, and Jean-Pierre Bacri.

See the full list of screenings so far below.

GALAS 2017

Breathe
Andy Serkis, United Kingdom (World Premiere)

The Catcher Was A Spy
Ben Lewin, USA (World Premiere)

Closing Night Film
C’est la vie!
Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, France (World Premiere)

Darkest Hour
Joe Wright, United Kingdom (Canadian Premiere)

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Paul McGuigan, United Kingdom (Canadian Premiere)

Kings
Deniz Gamze Ergüven, France/Belgium (World Premiere)

Long Time Running
Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Canada (World Premiere)

Mary Shelley
Haifaa Al Mansour, Ireland/United Kingdom/Luxembourg/USA (World Premiere)

The Mountain Between Us
Hany Abu-Assad, USA (World Premiere)

Mudbound
Dee Rees, USA (International Premiere)

Stronger
David Gordon Green, USA (World Premiere)

Untitled Bryan Cranston/Kevin Hart Film
Neil Burger, USA (World Premiere)

The Wife
Björn Runge, United Kingdom/Sweden (World Premiere)

Woman Walks Ahead
Susanna White, USA (World Premiere)

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2017

Battle Of The Sexes
Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, USA (International Premiere)

BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Robin Campillo, France (North American Premiere)

The Brawler
Anurag Kashyap, India (World Premiere)

The Breadwinner
Nora Twomey, Canada/Ireland/Luxembourg (World Premiere)

Call Me By Your Name
Luca Guadagnino, Italy/France (Canadian Premiere)

Catch The Wind
Gaël Morel, France (International Premiere)

The Children Act
Richard Eyre, United Kingdom (World Premiere)

The Current War
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, USA (World Premiere)

Disobedience
Sebastián Lelio, United Kingdom (World Premiere)

Downsizing
Alexander Payne, USA (Canadian Premiere)

A Fantastic Woman
Sebastián Lelio, Chile (Canadian Premiere)

First They Killed My Father
Angelina Jolie, Cambodia (Canadian Premiere)

The Guardians
Xavier Beauvois, France (World Premiere)

Hostiles
Scott Cooper, USA (International Premiere)

The Hungry
Bornila Chatterjee, India (World Premiere)

I, Tonya
Craig Gillespie, USA (World Premiere)
Special Presentations Opening Film

Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig, USA (International Premiere)
Opening Film For Special Presentations

mother!
Darren Aronofsky, USA (North American Premiere)

Novitiate
Maggie Betts, USA (International Premiere)

Omerta
Hansal Mehta, India (World Premiere)

Plonger
Mélanie Laurent, France (World Premiere)

The Price Of Success
Teddy Lussi-Modeste, France (International Premiere)

Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
Angela Robinson, USA (World Premiere)

The Rider
Chloé Zhao, USA (Canadian Premiere)

A Season In France
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, France (World Premiere)

The Shape Of Water
Guillermo del Toro, USA (Canadian Premiere)

Sheikh Jackson
Amr Salama, Egypt (World Premiere)
Special Presentations Closing Film

The Square
Ruben Östlund, Sweden North American (Premiere)

Submergence
Wim Wenders, France/Germany/Spain (World Premiere)

Suburbicon
George Clooney, USA (North American Premiere)

Thelma Joachim Trier, Norway/Sweden/France/Denmark (International Premiere)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Martin McDonagh, USA (North American Premiere)

Victoria And Abdul
Stephen Frears, United Kingdom (North American Premiere)