'Gomorrah,' 'The Class' added to festival lineup
TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival said Thursday that it will give South Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon's "The Good, the Bad and the Weird" the red carpet treatment in September as it announced about two dozen North American premieres for films that bowed at Cannes, Berlin or elsewhere internationally.
Toronto also booked Italian director Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah," which earned the Grand Prix in Cannes, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan's "Adoration" and two French films -- Arnaud Desplechin's "Un conte de Noel" and Laurent Cantet's "The Class" -- for its Special Presentations sidebar.
The festival's Masters sidebar programmed "24 City," from Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke, Jerzy Skolimowski's "Four Nights With Anna," a Poland-France co-production, the Cannes best screenplay winner "Lorna's Silence," from Belgium's Dardenne brothers, British director Terence Davies' "Of Time and the City" and "Three Monkeys," which earned director Nuri Bilge Ceylan the best director trophy at Cannes.
Toronto also booked the documentary "Blind Loves," from Slovakian director Juraj Lehotsky, for its Real to Reel section, while Lisandro Alonso's "Liverpool" and "Service," by Brillante Mendoza, get Visions slots.
The Contemporary World Cinema sidebar booked three Latin American titles -- Federico Veiroj's "Acne," Brazil's "Linha de Passe," from Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, and Pablo Trapero's "Lion's Den" -- along with Bent Hamer's "O'Horten," Amos Kollek's "Restless" and Gotz Spielmann's "Revanche."
The Discovery program will feature Steve McQueen's "Hunger," which earned the Camera d'Or in Cannes, U.S. filmmaker Barry Jenkins' "Medicine for Melancholy," Argentinean director Gabriel Medina's "The Paranoids," Pablo Aguero's "Salamandra," Matthew Newton's "Three Blind Mice," Pablo Larrain's "Tony Manero" and Sergey Dvortsevoy's "Tulpan."
Rounding out the Toronto lineup is Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir" in the Vanguard section.
The 33rd Toronto International Film Festival is set for Sept. 4-13.
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