Buzz-making docs including Parvez Sharma’s A Jihad for Love and a talk from the president of Pakistan have been added to the lineup for the Toronto International Film Festival, which on Tuesday revealed titles for its Real to Reel program.

‘This is quite a big year,’ says Thom Powers, a programmer with the all-documentary section. ‘The work this year is very politically engaged, and there is also a great deal of portraiture.’

In the political vein, the five-country copro Jihad for Love will have its world premiere at TIFF. The film, which has been in the works for over five years, involves the intersection of homosexuality and Islam. Gay and lesbian Muslims from 12 different countries discuss their hidden lives. It is produced by Sandi Simcha DuBowski, who produced and directed the critically lauded and similarly themed Trembling Before G-d in 2001.

Additional Real to Reel titles include Darfur Now, about the ongoing genocide; Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World, a documentary about life in Antarctica and his first since Grizzly Man; and Dinner with the President: A Nation’s Journey, about a conversation with Pervez Musharraf, by Pakistani filmmakers Sachithanandam Sathananthan and Sabiha Sumar.

Celebrated American documentarian Arthur Dong (Licensed to Kill) will also premiere his latest, Hollywood Chinese, about how Chinese have been represented in Hollywood films.

TIFF also announced several new titles for its Vanguard and Midnight Madness programs. Celebrated Italian horror director Dario Argento is back with The Mother of Tears, his long-anticipated final entry in his Three Mothers trilogy, starring his daughter Asia Argento. Japanese cult favorite Takashi Miike returns with Sukiyaki Western Django, his own variation on the spaghetti western.

This year’s envelope-pushing Vanguard selections will include Paranoid Park, the latest from American iconoclast Gus Van Sant (Elephant), about a criminal investigation into a murder, based on the novel by Blake Nelson.