A new program about the ‘urban experience’ will debut at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, putting the spotlight on Tel Aviv. Ten films, either about or from the Israeli metropolis (which is celebrating its 100th anniversary), will be part of the inaugural City to City program. The titles will be announced later this month. Filmmakers from Toronto and Tel Aviv are also expected to take part in a public forum.

At the same time, organizers named the first films selected to play at this year’s festival – 26 titles brought back from the likes of Cannes and Berlin. Some of the selections include:

In the Masters program, Air Doll from Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda tells the story of a blow-up doll that becomes a real person. Independencia by Raya Martin, coming from France, emulates the style of early silent films and will screen in the Visions category. Also in Visions is Die Like a Man by Joao Pedro Rodrigues, a Portugal/France copro about a transsexual who decides to reverse her sex change.

Included in the Vanguard program is Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank from the U.K., which explores a taboo love story between a young girl and her mother’s boyfriend. The comedy The Happiest Girl in the World, a Romania/Netherlands copro by Radu Jude, will screen in the Discovery program, as will Samson and Delilah by Australia’s Warwick Thornton, about two teenagers who live in an isolated Aboriginal community.

In the Contemporary World Cinema program there’s Colombia’s The Wind Journeys by Ciro Guerra, about a traveling musician, and Men on the Bridge, a Germany/Turkey/Netherlands copro that portrays the lives of six workmen in Istanbul.

The festival runs Sept. 10-19.