Toronto Taps David Hare's 'Page Eight' As Closer, Bulks Up Slate With Gala Starpower

The 2011 Toronto Film Festival has selected David Hare's spy drama Page Eight, starring Bill Nighy, Rob Fiennes and Rachel Weisz, since it's closing-evening film and added a slew of Gala premieres and Special Presentations that raise the star wattage with the kind of Robert P Niro, Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Nicole Kidman, James Gandolfini and Gerard Butler. The inclusions in the formerly introduced film slate features a Future Projects selection that has James Franco and Gus Van Sant reminiscing about My Very Own Private Idaho, a documentary about Exit with the Gift Shop's Mr. Brainwash (Thierry Guetta), and Peter Lynch's Zoysia Days along with a Wavelengths program of worldwide experimental films. This is actually the release concerning the additional Galas and Special Presentations: Toronto The Toronto Worldwide Film Festival announces adding 8 Galas and 17 Special Presentations towards the high-calibre choice of crowd-pleasers premiering in September. The modern announcement includes 14 World Premieres and discloses that Festival-goers is going to be treated to some programming selection featuring world premieres from company directors including Nick Murphy, Gary McKendry, Joel Schumacher, Gianni Amelio, Agnieszka Holland, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Pankaj Kapur, Anne Fontaine, Mathieu Kassovitz and Geoffrey Fletcher.The flicks revealed today feature onscreen looks by Jason Statham, Robert P Niro, Clive Owen, Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Gerard Butler, Rob Fiennes, Imelda Staunton, Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Deneuve, Shahid Kapur, Isabelle Huppert, Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel and James Gandolfini, amongst others. This announcement brings the ultimate quantity of Galas to twenty, and also the final quantity of Special Presentations to 67. GALAS Closing Evening Film Page Eight David Hare,Uk Worldwide Premiere Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is really a lengthy-serving M15 officer. His boss and closest friend Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon) dies all of a sudden, abandoning him an inexplicable file, threatening the soundness from the organization. Meanwhile, a apparently chance encounter with Johnny's striking next-door neighbour and political activist Nancy Pierpan (Rachel Weisz) appears too good to be real. Occur London and Cambridge, Page Eight is really a contemporary spy film which addresses intelligence issues and moral problems peculiar towards the new century. Also stars Rob Fiennes and Judy Davis. The Awakening Nick Murphy, Uk World Premiere Haunted through the dying of her fianc, Florence Cathcart is on the pursuit to expose all sances as exploitative sheets. However, when she's known as to some boys boarding school to research a situation from the uncanny, she's progressively instructed to confront her skepticism within the most terrifying way, trembling her scientific convictions and her feeling of self towards the very core. Haunting and relocating equal measure, The Awakening is really a sophisticated mental/supernatural thriller within the tradition from the Others and also the Orphanage, however with its unique and thrilling twist. Starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton. Beloved Christophe Recognition, France Worldwide Premiere From Paris within the sixties to Londons modern days, Madeleine and her daughter Vera waltz interior and exterior the lives from the males they love. But love could be light or painful, cheerful and bitter. An elegy to womanliness and passion with musical reactions. Starring Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. Hysteria Tanya Wexler, USA/Uk World Premiere An intimate comedy in line with the surprising truth of how Mortimer Granville emerged using the world's first electro-mechanical vibrator within the title of medical science. Academy Award-nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy headline within this untold tale of the youthful Victorian doctor's mission to determine the important thing to women's happiness. Also starring Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett and Felicity Johnson. Killer Elite Gary McKendry, USA/Australia World Premiere With different true story, Killer Elite races around the world from Australia to Paris, London and also the Middle East within the action-packed account of the ex-special operations agent (Jason Statham) who's attracted from retirement to save his mentor (Robert P Niro). To create the save, he or she must develop a near-impossible mission of killing three tough-as-nails assassins having a cunning leader (Clive Owen). Machine Gun Preacher Marc Forster, USA World Premiere Machine Gun Preacher is definitely an inspiring true story, about Mike Childers, an old drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an impressive transformation and finds an unpredicted calling because the saviour of 100s of kidnapped and orphaned children. Gerard Butler (300) provides a searing performance as Childers in Golden Globe-nominated director Marc Forsters (Monsters Ball, Finding Neverland) moving story of violence and redemption. Machine Gun Preacher was formerly introduced like a Special Presentation. Trespass Joel Schumacher, USA World Premiere What goes on whenever a guy with everything else an attractive wife, a teenage daughter along with a wealthy estate is faced with a realistic look at losing everything? That's what Kyle Burns must be prepared for because he and the family get to be the sufferers of the vicious home invasion. Starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman. Winnie Darrell J. Roodt, Nigeria /Canada World Premiere This film discloses the enigma that's Winnie Mandela. A sensitive depiction, Winnie shows her lifes journey amongst the unwavering love between her and Nelson Mandela, as well as their unfaltering resolve for the struggle for democracy in Nigeria. Winnie takes the crowd with an epic voyage of understanding painting a vivid portrait of among the mobile phone industry's most amazing women. Starring Jennifer Hudson, Terrence Howard, Elias Koteas and Wendy Crewson. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS The CardboardVillage Ermanno Olmi, Italia Worldwide Premiere A classic priest and the chapel are going to be destroyed. Several clandestine immigrants seeking protection find refuge for the reason that chapel. Inside a circumstance of crisis and discouragement, together these folks will have the ability to discover the real concept of the term solidarity and understand that the chapel is a lot more than a spot for liturgical events and golden altars. Starring Michael Lonsdale and Rutger Hauer. Damsels in Distress Whit Stillman, USA United States Premiere Damsels in Distress is really a comedy in regards to a trio of lovely women because they set to transform existence in a grubby American college the dynamic leader Purple Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Louise (Barbara MacLemore). They welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) to their group, which seeks to assist seriously depressed students having a program of excellent hygiene and musical dance amounts. The women become romantically entangled with a number of males includingsmooth Charlie (Adam Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker), the mad frat-pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen) who threaten the women friendship and sanity. Dying of the Super hero Ian FitzGibbon, Germany/Ireland World Premiere Jesse is 15 and hopes for women, sex and crazy adventures. In the fantasy world, he produces an immortal super hero who fights against all evil. As well as in reality? Jesse is falling deeply in love with the college digital rebel while combating a terminal illness. Starring Andy Serkis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Aisling Loftus, Michael McElhatton, Sharon Horgan and Jessica Schwarz. The Very First Guy Gianni Amelio, France/Algeria/Italia World Premiere An adaptation of Albert Camus autobiographical last novel. Part childhood memoir, part epic narrative of Camus beloved Algeria and it is struggle for independence from France, The Very First Guy remained incomplete through the Nobel Prize-champion who died at 46. In Darkness Agnieszka Holland, Canada/Germany/Belgium World Premiere In Darkness informs the real story of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty crook in Nazi-occupied Lvov, Belgium. Tripping upon several Jews within the sewers, he concurs to cover them for any cost. What begins out like a straightforward business arrangement becomes something unpredicted, because they all attempt to outsmart certain dying throughout 14 several weeks of intense danger. Starring Robert Wiekiewicz and Benno Frmann. Burglars Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, The country World Premiere Juan and Mia, two children who reside in different nations, are visited every evening with a faceless burglar a terrifying being that really wants to acquire them. These presences be effective and begin ruling their lives in addition to their families. Anxiety and tension increase when their parents also witness these apparitions. Starring Clive Owen. Existence Without Principle Johnnie To, Hong Kong United States Premiere What perform a bank teller, a little-time thug along with a police inspector share? Nothing. Not until a bag of stolen money worth $tens of millions of crosses their pathways and forces these phones make soul-searching choices about right and wrong and my way through between about the morality scale. Low Existence Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval, France United States Premiere After having sex, the children ended up happily into dreamland however when they opened up their eyes the planet made an appearance joyless, and stomach-wrenchingly old. And they also rapidly sank back to their happy world, where all sleepers are equal. This is actually the place they known as Low Existence. Mausam (Seasons of affection) Pankaj Kapur, India World Premiere Mausam is really a story of timeless love when confronted with political hostilities and religious conflict, from a proud Punjabi air pressure officer as well as an innocent Kashmiri refugee. Set against a landscape that goes beyond decades and spans continents, Mausam is really a classic journey that transports one into an enormous amount of indestructible bonds of affection surrounded through the roulette of future. Starring Shahid Kapur, Sonam A Kapoor and Anupam Kher. My Worst Nightmare Anne Fontaine, France/Belgium World Premiere Agathe does not realize as to the extent her existence will probably be switched upside lower when she consumes Tony, the closest friend of her boy Adrien. Tonys father, Patrick, leads Agathe lower a merry path of existential chaos, which just could deliver her from herself. Starring Isabelle Huppert. Rebellion Mathieu Kassovitz, France World Premiere April 1988, Ouvea island, New Caledonia, a French colony. Thirty cops are kidnapped by local people fighting for his or her independence.3 hundred people from the French military special forces unit are immediately sent on the pursuit to fix the problem. An encounter of two cultures: Philippe Legorjus, mind from the unit, versus Alphonse Dianou, mind from the rebels. Together, theyll battle to resolve the problem through mutual trust and dialogue over violence. With the exception that theyre in the centre of the very-tense presidential elections in French history when issues on the line are purely political, rules of law and order aren't exactly moral. Sleeping Beauty Julia Leigh, Australia United States Premiere You'll fall asleep: you'll awaken. It will likely be as though individuals hrs never been around. Dying-haunted, silently reckless, Lucy is really a youthful college student who requires a job like a Sleeping Beauty. Within the Sleeping Beauty Chamber, old males seek an erotic experience that needs Lucys absolute submission. This unsettling task begins to bleed into Lucys daily existence and she or he evolves an growing have to know what goes on to her when she's asleep. Starring Emily Browning and Rachael Blake. Terraferma Emanuele Crialese, Italia Worldwide Premiere Terraferma may be the story of the uncontaminated Sicilian island lived on by fisherman. Still barely touched by tourism, the islanders have started to change their attitude and behavior because they realize the economical potential of the new industry. Simultaneously, they cope with illegal aliens flooding the area along with a new law needing these phones reverse undocumented peoples seeking aid. That Summer time Philippe Garrel, France/Italia/Europe United States Premiere A few living together in Paris hes a painter, shes a movie actress befriends a few film extra supplies who fall deeply in love with one another. All visit Rome where their associations undergo profound changes as feelings change and alter. Purple & Daisy Geoffrey Fletcher, USA World Premiere Purple & Daisy, the fanciful story of the teens surreal and violent journey through New You are able to City, follows Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Hanna, Atonement, The Lovely Bones) as Daisy. Together with her volatile partner-in-crime Purple, performed by Alexis Bledel (Las Vegas, The Sisterhood from the Traveling Pants, The Gilmore Women), both youthful assassins face a number of competitors, including one abnormally mysterious guy (James Gandolfini), inside a existence-changing encounter. The film, written and directed by Oscar-winning film writer Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious), also stars Oscar nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Danny Trejo. Players from the Rainbow: Seediq Bale Wei Te-Sheng, Taiwan United States Premiere Wei Te-Shengs epic film Players from the Rainbow: Seediq Bale reclaims an remarkable episode from 20th-century history that is little-known even just in Taiwan. Its a tale from the encounter from a individuals who have confidence in rainbows along with a nation which thinks under the sun. It requires are a heroic fight in defence of belief and dignity.