{"id":583648,"date":"2026-08-05T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583648\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:30:10","slug":"toronto-adds-zooey-deschanel-michelle-yeoh-barry-keoghan-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583648\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Adds Zooey Deschanel, Michelle Yeoh, Barry Keoghan Films"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe\u00a0Toronto Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday unveiled 54 new film titles for its global-film focused Centerpiece program, including auteur-driven titles from\u00a0Daniel Oriahi, Marie Clements, David Bezmozgis and Cody Lightning.<\/p>\n

\n\tToronto booked world bows for Kris Rey\u2019s comedy Trash Mountain, starring Caleb Hearon, Zooey Deschanel, Jacki Weaver, Kyle Marvin, and Jaboukie Young-White; for Red Rocket star Simon Rex as he brings his latest movie, God Bless You, Mr Kopu, a comedy thriller directed by Alex Liu; the Irish feature Lemonade, starring\u00a0Barry Keoghan and written and directed by documentary filmmaker Kim Bartley in her narrative feature debut; the Michelle Yeoh-starring action film The Surgeon, from writer\/director Rohsan Sethi and Patrick Wachsberger\u2019s 193; \u00a0and the sports feature Smudge the Blades from writer-director Cody Lightning and starring Ed Helms (The Hangover), Paulina Alexis and Jana Schmieding alongside Lightning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s also first looks at TIFF in the auteur-driven sidebar for Ron Murphy\u2019s Back in Black, starring Christopher Walken, Ella Ballentine and Jane Curtin and shot in Toronto;\u00a0Shawn Garry\u2019s sophomore feature After Elena, which stars Alfredo Castro, a frequent collaborator with Pablo Larrain; Indian director Karthik Subbaraj\u2019s tenth feature, the Tamil-language Dorothy; Indonesian director Kamila Andini\u2019s Four Seasons in Java, about a woman released from prison and returning to her village to face the four seasons of her past; and Jenna Cato Bass\u2019s time sci-fi pic Future Tense, where rich tourists use time travel to escape the past and an interracial couple put their relationship to the test when one decides to change history.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tLouise Bagnall\u2019s Julian.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLouis Bagnall<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Toronto turns its spotlight on international cinema and indie filmmakers, there\u2019s world premieres for Bones of Crow director Marie Clement\u2019s How We Stand, a film about an indigenous family forever changed after moving to Los Angeles as part of a 1950s relocation program and starring Amber Midthunder, Cara Jade Myers and Alyssa Wapanat\u00e2hk; Inherit, a horror film from Banjong Pisanthanakun, the Thai filmmaker behind genre landmarks like\u00a0Shutter\u00a0and\u00a0Pee Mak; Alexandre Franchi\u2019s The Other (L\u2019Autre), starring Antigone star Nahema Ricci; Korean director Youm Kyu Bock\u2019s Long Long Night. a 3D animated drama about a rhino befriending a young penguin; Neto Villalobos Brenes\u2019 dystopian thriller Love Is the Monster, starring Paulina Garc\u00eda (Gloria); Avi Nesher\u2019s Oct. 7 tragedy Our Loves; and Rodrigo Barriuso\u2019s Neverman, about a transgender woman battling dementia and starring Laura Wilson and Duane Murray.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther world premieres well outside the Hollywood orbit and bound for Toronto\u2019s Centerpiece sidebar include Hosam Abu Dan\u2019s feature debut Thirteen in Gaza; Sunburn, from director Serville Poblete and about best friends escaping scorching summer heat during a massive power outage; David Bezmozgis\u2019s Crimea-set psychological drama, The Betrayers, which adapts his earlier novel; The Bovine With the Curved Horns, from Colombian director Omar E. Ospina Giraldo; Daniel Oriahi\u2019s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi\u2019s Wives, a novel adaptation from Mo Abudu\u2019s EbonyLife Films; and Where the River Begins, from director Juan Andres Arango.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Congo Boy\u2019 <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Trigon Film<\/p>\n

\n\tToronto also gave Centrepiece slots to Oscar-nominated director Louise Bagnall\u2019s debut 2D animated feature Julian, which bowed in Annecy; Julien Chheng\u2019s 2D animated feature Muyi, a mythic odyssey; The Violinist, animators Ervin Han and Ra\u00fal Garc\u00eda\u2019s hand-drawn 2D and CGI epic; and Viva Carmen, Sebastien Laudenbach\u2019s 2D-animated reimagining of Bizet\u2019s famous opera. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Centerpiece sidebar has also booked North American premieres for Anthony Chen\u2019s We Are All Strangers; Diego Luna\u2019s immigrant drama Ashes; Sandra Wollner\u2019s Cannes family drama Everytime; Yonfan\u2019s autobiographical documentary Intermission; Marine Atlan\u2019s La Gradiva; Light Pillar, by director Xu Zao; and Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars, from Franco-Chadian auteur Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther Centerpiece titles include Rafiki Farlala\u2019s Congo Boy; Iron Boy, from Louis Clichy; Ben\u2019Imana, from Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo; The Dreamed Adventure, by Valeska Grisebach; May el-Toukhy\u2019s Woman Unknown; Muayad Alayan\u2019s Conversation With The Sea; Manuel Wetscher\u2019s Eklipse; and Elephants in the Fog, a thriller and directorial debut from Abinash Bikram Shah.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Toronto Film Festival is set to run Sept. 10 to 20. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAnna D\u00edaz in Ashes.<\/p>\n

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