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World premieres of Free Solo co-directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin\u2019s profile of photojournalist Lynsey Addario in Love+War and Tasha Van Zandt\u2019s feature A Life Illuminated about oceanographer Edith Widder are among the TIFF Docs line-up announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The programme brings first looks of John Dower\u2019s The Balloonists about circumnavigating adventurers, Lorena Luciano\u2019s account of Catholic Church abuse in Nuns vs. The Vatican with Mariska Hargitay on board as executive producer, and Canadian filmmaker Nicole Bazuin\u2019s sex industry film Modern Whore.<\/p>\n
TIFF Docs will open with Canadian director Ben Proudfoot\u2019s The Eyes Of Ghana,\u00a0backed by executive producers Barack and Michelle Obama, which profiles the Ghanaian filmmaker Chris Hesse.<\/p>\n
There is a North American premiere for Lucrecia Martel\u2019s Landmarks, an international premiere for Rosi\u2019s Below The Clouds, and the Canadian premiere of Cover Up from Poitras and Mark Obenhaus \u2013 all of which are Venice-bound. Raoul Peck\u2019s recent Cannes premiere Orwell: 2+2=5 gets its North American premiere.<\/p>\n
The new selections join several that have already been announced. John Candy: I Like Me and Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery screen in the Gala programme; Degrassi: Whatever It Takes, Epic: Elvis Presley In Concert, and You Had To Be There: How The Toronto Godspell Ignited The Comedy Revolution\u2026 in Special Presentations; and Palimpsest: The Story Of A Name was announced yesterday in the Centrepiece programme.<\/p>\n
All in all there are\u00a023 titles\u00a0from 18 countries, and 16 world premieres.\u00a0TIFF runs September 4-14.<\/p>\n
2025 TIFF Docs programme appears in alphabetical order below<\/p>\n
A Life Illuminated (USA)
Dir. Tasha Van Zandt
World premiere<\/p>\n
A Simple Soldier (Ukr)
Dirs. Juan Camilo Cruz, Artem Ryzhykov
North American premiere<\/p>\n
Aki (Can)
Dir. Darlene Naponse
World premiere<\/p>\n
The Balloonists\u00a0(US-UK-Austria)
Dir. John Dower
World premiere<\/p>\n
Below The Clouds (It)
Dir. Gianfranco Rosi
International premiere<\/p>\n
Canceled: The Paula Deen Story (US)
Dir. Billy Corben
World premiere<\/p>\n
Cover-Up (US)
Dirs. Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus
Canadian premiere<\/p>\n
Opening Film
The Eyes Of Ghana\u00a0(US)
Dir. Ben Proudfoot
World premiere<\/p>\n
Flana (Iraq-Fr-Qat)
Dir. Zahraa Ghandour
World premiere<\/p>\n
Love+War (US)
Dirs. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
World premiere<\/p>\n
Modern Whore (Can)
Dir. Nicole Bazuin
World premiere<\/p>\n
Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising (Can)
Dir. Shane Belcourt
World premiere<\/p>\n
Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra, Arg-US-Mex-Fr-Den-Neth)
Dir. Lucrecia Martel
North American premiere<\/p>\n
Nuns vs. The Vatican (US)
Dir. Lorena Luciano
World premiere<\/p>\n
Orwell: 2+2=5 (US-Fr)
Dir. Raoul Peck
North American premiere<\/p>\n
Powwow People (US)
Dir. Sky Hopinka
World premiere<\/p>\n
Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk (Fr-Pal-Iran)
Dir. Sepideh Farsi
North American premiere<\/p>\n
Still Single\u00a0(Can)
Dirs. Jamal Burger, Jukan Tateisi
World premiere<\/p>\n
The Tale Of Silyan (N Mac)
Dir. Tamara Kotevska
North American premiere<\/p>\n
There Are No Words (Can)
Dir. Min Sook Lee
World premiere<\/p>\n
True North (US-Can)
Dir. Mich\u00e8le Stephenson
World premiere<\/p>\n
While The Green Grass Grows: A Diary i\\In Seven Parts
Dir. Peter Mettler
World premiere<\/p>\n
Whistle (Australia)
Dir. Christopher Nelius
World premiere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World premieres of Free Solo co-directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin\u2019s profile of photojournalist Lynsey Addario in Love+War…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-48206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}