The Toronto International Film Festival has released the names of titles to be features in its Future Projections, Contemporary World Cinema, Short Cuts, Cinematheque and Wavelengths programs, as well as the lineup from Seoul, Korea in the City to City program.

Now in its sixth year, TIFF released the names of eight films to be featured in the City to City program from contemporary Korean directors, including: Cart (Ka-teu) from Boo Ji-Young, and Scarlett Innocence from Yim Pil-sung, Gyeongju from Zhang Lu, Confession (Jo-Eun-Chin-Goo-Deul) from Lee Do-yun, and A Girl at My Door (Dohee-Ya) from July Jung.

The Future Projections programs, which features city-wide art installations from moving-image artists, will include the world premiere of Some Graphic Sex, Heavy Drinking, Bloody Violence, and Dirty Language: Seven One-Minute Feature-Like Films About Seoul, from collaborative Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. The installation was commissioned by TIFF, and is meant to complement the festival’s City to City Spotlight on Seoul. A total of four projects will be featured in the program, including Anna and the Tower project from Canadian artist Lynne Marsh. Anna and the Tower was co-commissioned by TIFF and the Goethe-Insitut.

The festival also released additional titles that will receive gala presentations this year. Francois Girard’s Boychoir (USA), Cédric Jimenez’s The Connection (La French) (France/Belgium), Andrea Di Stefano’s Escobar: Paradise Lost (France), Philip Martin’s The Forger (USA) and Richard Loncraine’s Ruth & Alex (USA) will all receive gala world premieres at TIFF.

Additional films added to the special presentations lineup includes the world premieres of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Beyond the Lights (USA), Thomas McCarthy’s The Cobbler (USA), Shira Piven’s Welcome to Me (USA), Johnnie To’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Dan Shen Nan Nu 2) (Hong Kong/China), and Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery (France).

As previously announced, Wavelengths will feature Canadian short brouillard – passage #14 from Alexandre Larose, which will screen in the Open Forms Wavelengths short program. The two other Canadian films slated to appear in the Wavelengths program Jean-Paul Kelly’s The Innocents and Blake Williams’ Red Capriccio, both of which will appear in the Something in the Atmosphere shorts program under the overarching Wavelengths banner. Features that will appear in the Wavelengths program include the world premiere of A Single World from Mariama and Khady Sylla (Senegal/Qatar), and the North American premieres of René Frölke’s Le beau danger (Germany) and Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan (Maïdan) (Ukraine/Netherlands).

Elsewhere, the Contemporary World Cinema Program will include the world premieres of Baran bo Odar’s Who Am I – No System is Safe (Germany), Nino Kirtadze’s Don’t Breathe (La Faille) (France), Mijke de Jong’s Frailer (Brozer) (Netherlands), Jyoti Mistry’s Impunity (South Africa) and Ole Christian Madsen’s Itsi Bitsi (Denmark/Sweden). In total, films from 42 countries will screen in the program.

The TIFF Cinematheque programme, which features restored classic films, will include John Ford’s My Darling Clementine, Nagisa Ôshima’s Cruel Story of Youth,  Sergei Parajanov’s The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova) and King Hu’s Dragon Inn. The program will also include a special tribute screening of In Comparison, from late director Harun Farocki. As previously announced, two Canadian films will be showcased in this year’s Cinematheque program: Atom Egoyan’s Speaking Parts, and John Paizs’ Crime Wave.

Finally, the festival also released the names of international shorts to be featured in its short cuts program. A total of 36 international shorts will screen across five prorgams, and will include the world premiere of the Claire Denis short Here is the Concatenation (Voilà l’enchainement) (France).

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