The latest additions to the Toronto International Film Festival slate boast stars including Gerard Butler, Alicia Keys, Queen Latifah, Keira Knightley, Bill Maher and Ralph Fiennes, as the fete on Thursday announced several high-profile films for its Special and Gala presentations.

The drama Secret Life of Bees, based on the best-selling novel, will have its world premiere as a Gala screening. Dakota Fanning stars as a lonely 14-year-old girl haunted by the memory of her late mother, alongside Jennifer Hudson and Queen Latifah.

Also getting the red-carpet treatment is U.K. director Saul Dibb’s historical drama The Duchess, featuring Fiennes and Knightley as an 18th century aristocrat.

Titles by name filmmakers Guy Ritchie, Larry Charles, Wong Kar-wai and David Koepp join a list of previously announced films bowing in the Special Presentation section. Ritchie’s mobster crime drama RocknRolla, starring Butler and Tom Wilkinson, will play alongside Kar-wai’s martial-arts film Ashes of Time Redux and Charles’ Religulous, which follows political humorist Maher as he travels the world interviewing people about God and religion.

Koepp, who wrote the screenplay for Spider-Man and the latest Indiana Jones, will bring his fantasy-comedy Ghost Town, starring Ricky Gervais as a man who lacks people skills.

Theatrical documentary Every Little Step, from directors James Stern and Adam Del Deo, comedy Happy-Go-Lucky from Mike Leigh and biographical drama Waltz with Bashir by Israeli director Ari Folman will also screen in the Special Presentation section.

In the Masters program, TIFF added Everlasting Moments from Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell and Tokyo Sonata from Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Sonata won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes this year.

TIFF runs Sept. 4-13.