It's finally here! The 45th annual Toronto International Film Festival kicks off today and runs to September 19. Due to the worldwide pandemic, we'll be experiencing a different TIFF this year. It will be an enhanced festival experience for film lovers, with a mix of drive-in screenings, socially distanced public screenings, virtual screenings, virtual talks and special events.
Here are some of the films we are looking forward to this year.
One Night in Miami…
Based on Kemp Powers’ 2013 play, this is a fictionalized account of a 1964 meeting between Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown. Oscar-winner Regina King makes her feature directing debut with this one.
Showtimes:
Friday, Sept.11, 7:45 pm, Visa Skyline Drive-In at CityView
Sunday, Sept. 13, online at Bell Digital Cinema
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 4:30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Ammonite
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan star in a love story between a solitary paleontologist and a wealthy, grieving wife in 19th-century Dorset.
Showtimes:
Friday, Sept. 11, 9:15 pm and 9:30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Saturday, Sept. 12, 6 pm, Online at Bell Digital Cinema
Monday, Sept. 14, 12:30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Concrete Cowboy
While spending the summer in North Philadelphia, a troubled teen is caught between a life of crime and is sent to live with his estranged father, who spends his days at the Fletcher Street stables down the block. Starring Idris Elba, Caleb McLaughlin, Jharrel Jerome.
Showtimes:
Sunday, Sept. 13, 9 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Monday, 6 pm, Sept. 14, Online at Bell Digital Cinema
Saturday, Sept. 19, 9 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Bruised
Halle Berry brings her directorial debut film to TIFF and also stars in it, telling a redemption story about a former MMA fighter struggling to regain custody of her son while also attempting to restart her athletic career.
Showtimes:
Saturday, Sept. 12, 7:45 pm, Visa Skyline Drive-In at CityView; 6 pm, Online at Bell Digital Cinema
Friday, Sept. 18, 9 pm, Visa Skyline Drive-In at CityView
Good Joe Bell
Mark Wahlberg stars in this true story of Joe Bell, a father who walked across America to raise awareness about the harms of bullying. The film is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green from a script by Brokeback Mountain screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.
Showtimes:
Monday, Sept. 14, 9:15 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Friday, Sept. 18, 6 pm, Online at Bell Digital Cinema
Saturday, Sept. 19, 8 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Nomadland
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand), a woman in her sixties, packs her van and embarks on a journey through the American West, on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad.
Showtimes:
Friday, Sept. 11, 9:15 pm, RBC Lakeside Drive-In at Ontario Place
Saturday, Sept. 12, 6 pm, Online at Bell Digital Cinema
I Care a Lot
Rosamund Pike and Eiza Gonzalez play lawyers who defraud elderly clients out of their money. However, things go sour when they run into ruthless gangster (Peter Dinklage).
Showtimes:
Saturday, Sept. 12, 9:30 pm, RBC Lakeside Drive-In at Ontario Place
Sunday, Sept. 13, 6 pm, Online at Bell Digital Cinema
Pieces of a Woman
Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf star as a couple reeling — in very different ways — from tragedy, in the new film from Kornél Mundruczó.
Showtimes:
Saturday, Sept. 12, 12 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 9 pm, Visa Skyline Drive-In at CityView
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 6 pm, Online at Bell Digital Cinema
Friday, Sept. 18, 9 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Shadow in the Cloud
Roseanne Liang's Midnight Madness film Shadow In The Cloud is a rip-roaring action/horror hybrid that follows WWII pilot Maude Garrett (Chloë Grace Moretz), assigned under mysterious circumstances to a B-17 Flying Fortress, where she is custodian of a strictly classified piece of cargo. However, Garrett and the crew are unaware of a sinister presence that may jeopardize the lives of all aboard.
Showtimes:
Saturday, Sept. 12, 11:59 p.m., Visa Skyline Drive-in at CityView
Sunday, Sept. 13, 6pm, Online at Bell Digital Cinema
Trickster
Michelle Latimer's CBC drama series Trickster premieres as part of the TIFF Next Wave. It's the highly anticipated adaptation of Robinson’s novel, Son of a Trickster. The series follows an Indigenous teen struggling to support his dysfunctional family just as talking ravens, doppelgängers, and shapeshifters start appearing and slowly infiltrate his life.
Showtimes:
Tuesday, Sept. 15, 12:30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox;
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 6 pm, Online at Bell Digital Cinema
Penguin Bloom
Glendyn Ivin's Penguin Bloom tells the true story of Sam Bloom (Naomi Watts), whose recovery from a tragic accident is helped when she and her family take in a stray magpie and name it Penguin. When the little bird cries when it needs help, Sam shifts her focus to Penguin more than her own pain.
Showtimes:
Saturday, Sept. 12, 12:30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox; 6 pm, Online at Bell Digital Cinema
Thursday, Sept. 17, 8:30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
A Suitable Boy
Directed by Mira Nair, this is a coming-of-age story of a spirited university student Lata Mehra (Tanya Maniktala) in North India in 1951, the same time as the country becomes an independent nation.
Showtimes:
Saturday, Sept. 19, 2 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Saturday, Sept. 19, 6 pm, Online at Bell Digital Cinema
The Water Man
Selma star David Oyelowo directs this adventure, taking us back to the family-friendly movies of the 1980s. This is one of two specially selected family films at the festival.
Showtimes:
Saturday, Sept. 19, 4 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, 6pm Online at Bell Digital Cinema, 7:30 pm Visa Skyline Drive-In at CityView
Falling
Three-time Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen directs and stars in this story of a gay man who has to care for his elderly homophobic father (Lance Henriksen).
Showtimes:
Friday, Sept. 11, 4:30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Sunday, Sept. 13, 4:45 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Thursday, Sept. 17, 6 pm, Online at Bell Digital Cinema
Click here to read the rest of our TIFF coverage. ~Marriska Fernandes
Tags:
A Suitable Boy, Ammonite, Bruised, Concrete Cowboy, One Night in Miami, Penguin Bloom, Shadow in the Cloud, TIFF 2020
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