With festival time rapidly approaching, the Toronto International Film Festival lineup is beginning to take shape — including the makeup of three of Toronto’s premiere programs.

Nine titles have been added the TIFF’s Vanguard program — the fest’s destination for innovative films that blur genres and challenge social perceptions.

The program consists of Accident by Soi Cheang (China), The Ape by Jesper Ganslandt (Sweden), Bunny and the Bull by Paul King (U.K.), The Dirty Saints by Luis Ortega (Argentina), Enter the Void by Gaspar Noé (France/Germany/Italy), Hipsters by Valery Todorovsky (Russia), The Misfortunes by Felix Van Groeningen (Belgium/Holand), Dorothee van den Berghe’s My Queen Karo (Belgium), and Spring Fever by Lou Ye (China).

In the Discovery program, 21 films have been announced, all from emerging new directors.

Included is My Dog Tulip (U.S.) by Paul Fierlinger and Sandra Fierlinger, an animated film voiced by Christopher Plummer and Isabella Rossellini about the friendship between an elderly man and his dog.

Also in the lineup is The Unloved out of the U.K., the directorial debut from actress Samantha Morton about a young girl who is taken from her abusive household and put into government care, and Dima El-Horr’s Every Day Is a Holiday (France/Germany/Lebanon), a story about three Lebanese women who go on a road trip. Le Jour ou Dieu est parti en voyage (Belgium) by Philippe van Leeuw offering a first-person perspective through one woman’s struggle during the Rwandan genocide.

Eight titles have been added to TIFF’s Special Presentations program.

From Spain there is Broken Embraces by Pedro Almodovar; from the U.K., An Education by Lone Scherfig and Glorious 39 by Stephen Poliakoff; and from Italy, The Front Line by Renato De Maria. Other titles include Yoichi Sai’s Kumui from Japan; Life During Wartime (U.S.) by Todd Solondz, director of Happiness; Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet out of France; and Jaun José Campanella’s The Secret of Their Eyes (Argentina/Spain).

Jennifer’s Body, starring Transformers‘ Megan Fox, will be opening this year’s Midnight Madness along with Daybreakers from Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig, which stars Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke. Also featured is George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead, among others.

As for the documentary lineup for this year’s fest, to date 17 docs have been announced to screen. Highlights include The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights from Emmett Malloy, which follows the rock group as the tour Canada, and Snowblind from director Vikram Jayanti, the story of a blind woman who competes in Alaska’s Iditarod dog sled race.

Wavelengths returns with its ninth edition. Presenting avant-garde film and video works, Wavelengths is comprised of six programs featuring 25 projects from Ernie Gehr, Michael Snow and Karl Kels, to name a few.

‘The works in this year’s Wavelengths display a confident, gutsy and personal engagement with the world. This is a lineup of first rate filmmakers and artists, whose interrogations of history and our current socio-economic climate often include a daring form of self-portraiture — one that equally explores the mediums of film and video in the most provocative and profound ways,’ said Andréa Picard, film programmer for TIFF Cinematheque and Wavelengths, in a statement.

Two new Cadillac Choice awards will be presented at this year’s TIFF — one in the documentary category, and another during Midnight Madness. Winners will be chosen by audience votes at screenings throughout the festival. The awards will be handed out at a reception Sept. 19.

TIFF runs Sept. 10-19.