Toronto International Film Festival 2023 unveiled the first wave of 60 films in Galas and Special Presentations.
Films include Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money, Anna Kendrick’s Woman of the Hour, Viggo Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t Hurt, Ning Hao’s The Movie Emperor, Maggie Betts’ The Burial, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, Ellen Kuras’ Lee, Um Tae-Hwa’s Concrete Utopia, Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters, Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, Lukas Moodysson’s Together 99, Michael Keaton’s Knox Goes Away, Lee Tamahori’s The Convert, Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat,
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster, Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer, Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped, and more.
The Toronto International Film Festival takes place September 7–17, 2023.
GALA PRESENTATIONS 2023
*Previously announced
Concrete Utopia Um Tae-Hwa | South Korea
North American Premiere
Sales Title – North America Rights Available
Dumb Money Craig Gillespie | USA
World Premiere
Fair Play Chloe Domont | USA
International Premiere
Flora and Son John Carney | Ireland/USA
Canadian Premiere
Hate to Love: Nickelback Leigh Brooks | Canada
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
Lee Ellen Kuras | United Kingdom
World Premiere
Sales Title – US Rights Available
*Next Goal Wins Taika Waititi | USA
World Premiere
NYAD Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | USA
International Premiere
Punjab ’95 Honey Trehan | India
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
Solo Sophie Dupuis | Canada
World Premiere
Sales Title – US Rights Available
The End We Start From Mahalia Belo | United Kingdom
World Premiere
Sales Title – North American Rights Available
The Movie Emperor Ning Hao | China
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
The New Boy Warwick Thornton | Australia
North American Premiere
Sales Title – North American Rights Available
The Royal Hotel Kitty Green | Australia/United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2023
*Previously announced
A Difficult Year
Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | France
International Premiere
Sales Title – US Rights Available
A Normal Family
Hur Jin-ho | South Korea
World Premiere
Sales Title – North American Rights Available
American Fiction
Cord Jefferson | USA
World Premiere
Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet | France
Canadian Premiere
Close to You
Dominic Savage | Canada/United Kingdom
World Premiere
Sales Title – US Rights Available
Days of Happiness
Chloé Robichaud | Canada
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
El Rapto
Daniela Goggi | Argentina
North American Premiere
Sales Title – North American Rights Available
Ezra
Tony Goldwyn | USA
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
Fingernails
Christos Nikou | USA
International Premiere
Four Daughters
Kaouther Ben Hania | France/Tunisia/Germany/Saudi Arabia
North American Premiere
Sales Title – Some Rights Available
His Three Daughters
Azazel Jacobs | USA
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
Hit Man
Richard Linklater | USA
North American Premiere
Sales Title – US Rights Available
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
Alex Gibney | USA
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
Kidnapped
Marco Bellocchio | Italy/France/Germany
North American Premiere
Knox Goes Away
Michael Keaton | USA
World Premiere
Sales Title – US Rights Available
La Chimera
Alice Rohrwacher | Italy/France/Switzerland
North American Premiere
Last Summer
Catherine Breillat | France
North American Premiere
*Les Indésirables
Ladj Ly | France
World Premiere
Sales Title – North America Rights Available
Memory
Michel Franco | USA/Mexico
North American Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
Monster
Kore-eda Hirokazu | Japan
North American Premiere
Mother Couch
Niclas Larsson | USA
World Premiere
North Star
Kristin Scott Thomas | United Kingdom
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
One Life
James Hawes | United Kingdom
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
Pain Hustlers
David Yates | USA
World Premiere
Poolman
Chris Pine | USA
World Premiere
Sales Title – Some Rights Available
Reptile
Grant Singer | USA
World Premiere
Rustin
George C. Wolfe | USA
International Premiere
*Seven Veils
Atom Egoyan | Canada
World Premiere
Sales Title – US Rights Available
Shoshana
Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom/Italy
World Premiere
Sales Title – North American Rights Available
Sing Sing
Greg Kwedar | USA
World Premiere
Sales Title – US Rights Available
Smugglers
Ryoo Seung-wan | South Korea
North American Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
Swan Song
Chelsea McMullan | Canada
World Premiere
Sales Title – Some Rights Available
The Beast
Bertrand Bonello | France/Canada
North American Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
The Burial
Maggie Betts | USA
World Premiere
The Convert
Lee Tamahori | Australia/New Zealand
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
The Critic
Anand Tucker | United Kingdom
World Premiere
Sales Title – Some Rights Available
The Dead Don’t Hurt
Viggo Mortensen | Mexico/Canada/Denmark
World Premiere
Sales Title – North American Rights Available
The Holdovers
Alexander Payne | USA
International Premiere
The Peasants
DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman | Poland/Serbia/Lithuania
World Premiere
Sales Title – Some Rights Available
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom/Poland/USA
Canadian Premiere
Together 99
Lukas Moodysson | Sweden/Denmark
World Premiere
Unicorns
Sally El Hosaini, James Krishna Floyd | United Kingdom/USA/Sweden
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
Uproar
Paul Middleditch, Hamish Bennett | New Zealand
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
Wicked Little Letters Thea Sharrock | United Kingdom
World Premiere
Sales Title – International Rights Available
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke | USA
International Premiere
Sales Title – North American Rights Available
Woman of the Hour
Anna Kendrick | USA
World Premiere
Sales Title – US Rights Available