Sion Sono’s Tokyo Tribe (Japan) is set to open the Midnight Madness program at the 2014 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, while the docs program will feature the world premiere of projects from Marah Strauch, Nick Broomfield and Tamara Erde.

In addition to Sono’s film, Kevin Smith’s Tusk, starring Haley Joel Osment, Justin Long and Genesis Rodriguez, will be featured in this year’s Midnight Madness program the festival announced Tuesday. Tusk, which follows the story of a man who is captured by a maniac (in Canada) and tortured into becoming a walrus, will get its world premiere at TIFF (final line in trailer: “I don’t want to die in Canada.”).

Other films screening in the Midnight Madness program include the world premiere of Jalmari Heleander’s Big Game (Finland/UK/Germany), Jonas Govaerts’ Cub (Belgium) and Jaume Balagueró’s [REC] 4: Apocalypse (Spain).

In the docs program, films slated for world premieres at the festival include Marah Strauch’s Sunshine Superman (USA/Norway/UK), Nick Broomfield’s Tales of the Grim Sleeper (USA/UK) and The Yes Men Are Revolting from Laura Nix and the Yes Men (USA). Ethan Hawke’s documentary, Seymour: An Introduction (USA) will also get its international premiere in the TIFF doc program.

The TIFF Docs slate unveiled today features significantly fewer world premieres than last year’s line-up. And while more films are likely to be added to the slate in the coming weeks, at this point in 2013, TIFF had announced a slate of 22 docs, 14 of which were world premieres.

By contrast, today’s announcement consists of just 16 docs, and only six of those are listed as world premieres.

TIFF also revealed the early lineup for its Masters program, which will feature the world premieres of The Face of an Angel from Michael Winterbottom (UK) and Bent Hamer’s 1001 Grams (Norway/Germany/France). Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D (France) will get its North American premiere at TIFF as part of the Masters program, as well as Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Sweden/Norway/France/Germany) and Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu (France/Mauritania/Mali).

Finally, several titles that will be included in TIFF’s Vanguard program were announced on Tuesday, including the world premieres of Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy (UK), Dave McKean’s Luna (UK), Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s Spring (USA) and Pieter Van Hees’ Waste Land (Belgium).

Canadian films to be featured in these programs will be announced on Aug. 6.

– with files from realscreen