Charli xcx, Ethan Hawke, Shailene Woodley Movies Join Toronto Festival

The Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled 55 new film titles for its global-film focused Centerpiece program, including titles from Richard Linklater, Christian Petzold, Anders Thomas Jensen, Pietro Marcello and Álvaro Olmos Torrico.

There’s world premieres for the “Brat” singer Charli xcx-starrer Eruption from director Peter Ohs. Furthermore, the Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough and Anson Boon starring thriller Good Boyfrom director Jan Komasa and co-producer Jeremy Thomas; Adam Carter Rehmeier’s romantic crime thriller Carolina Carolinestarring Samara Weaving; and Kirk Jones’ Tourette Syndrome drama I Swear, which stars Robert Aramayo as John Davidson, the trailblazing campaigner. Moreover,

There’s also first looks for Gail Maurice’s indigenous drama Blood Lines. Nevertheless, where the director stars alongside Tamara Podemski, Dana Solomon and Melanie Bray; Nomad ShadowEimi Imanishi’s debut feature about a refugee to Europe forced to return to Western Sahara; The Cost of Heavenfrom director Mathieu Denis and starring French actor Samir Guesmi as a family man desperate to escape a financial abyss; the Green Day buddy comedy New Year’s Rev from director Lee Kirk; The Fox King, from director Wood Our Jein; and Charity Por’s Under The Same Sun.

Other world premieres: Mary Stephen’s documentary Palimpsest: the Story of a Name. However, about parallel families that share a surname; Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa’s Irish sports charli xcx, ethan hawke, shailene drama SaiPanwith Steve Coogan playing Irish manager Mick McCarthy and butting heads with star player Roy Keane (Eanna Hardwicke) at the 2002 World Cup; Álvaro Olmos Torrico’s second feature The Condor Daughter; WastemanCal McMau’s prison drama and debut feature that stars David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus); and Jitank Singh Gurjar’s In Search of the Sky.

Also getting world bows in the section for Canadian. international talent are Youngblooda reboot of a 1986 hockey movie directed by Hubert Davis and starring Blair Underwood and Shawn Doyle; The road director Haifaa Al Mansour’s latest movie, the crime thriller Unidentified; and WhitetailNanouk Leopold’s slow-burn thriller that features Natasha O’Keeffe (Peaky Blinders).

The Centerpiece sidebar has also booked North American premieres for Richard Linklater’s Blue Moonthe Lorenz Hart biopic that bowed in Berlin. stars Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott; charli xcx, ethan hawke, shailene Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s The President’s Cake, a tragicomedy that debuted in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight program; fellow Iraqi filmmaker’s Mohamed Jabarah’s Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream; French animation director Ugo Bienvenu’s Arco; Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s A Useful Ghost; Sad neighborhood, from music video director Stillz; and Chadian director Achille Ronaimou’s debut feature Diya.

Other North American bows to elevate international cinema include the Sean Baker-penned Left-Handed Girldirected. co-written by Shih-Ching Tsou; the Shailene Woodley and Ben Foster-starring action thriller Motor City from director Potsy Poncirolli; Genki Kawamura’s Exit 8; Eric K. Boulianne’s Follies; Lloyd Lee Choi’s Lucky Lu; German’s author charli xcx, ethan hawke, shailene Christian penetold’s Mirrors No. 3. Francesco soreli’s The Last One for The Road; Anders Thomas Jensen’s The Last Viking; Diego Céspedes’ The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingowhich claimed the top Un Certain Regard competition prize in Cannes; and French actor and director Hafsia Herzi’s The Little Sister.

Other North American premieres: Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron. Momoko Seto Dandelion’s Odyssey; Tarik Saleh’s Eagles of the Republic; Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s revenge thriller Honey Bunch; Member of Valley and Line-Cho Han’s Little Amélie or the Character of Rain; Fernando Eimbcke’s Elm; Or Sinai’s Mama; Mihai Mincan’s Milk Teeth; Damien Hauser’s Memory of Princess Mumbi; László noble ‘ Orphan; Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir; Kid Koala’s Space Cadet, Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail.

There’s also an international. premiere for Pietro Marcello’s carriedand a Canadian bow for Hamletfrom director Aneil Karia. The Toronto Film Festival, set to run Sept. 4 to 14, will open with Colin Hanks’ John Candy documentary, John Candy: I Like Me. More lineup announcements will be made this week.