  Brad Pitt in Babel. |
TORONTO - Cannes Film Festival hit Babel, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, is among 26 movies announced yesterday for this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
The films, all of which have been shown at other major festivals worldwide, fall into several programs: Babel, which won the Best Director prize at Cannes, is a Special Presentation.
In the Masters program are Palme d'Or winner The Wind That Shakes The Barley, director Ken Loach's film about Ireland's bid for independence; Nanni Moretti's The Caiman, and Lights In The Dusk from Aki Kaurismaeki, the final film in a trilogy focused on social problems facing Finland.
In the Real to Reel program of documentary films, the festival has the North American premiere of Tahani Rached's These Girls, about adolescent girls living on the streets of Cairo.
In the Discovery program, which features films by new and emerging filmmakers, are Sheng Zhimin's Bliss and Reprise from Joachim Trier.
In the Visions program are Cannes Grand Prize winner Flandres, by Bruno Dumont; Big Bang Love, Juvenile A, from Takashi Miike; Ten Canoes, Rolf de Heer's mythical story of a man in moral jeopardy; Taxidermia, by Hungarian director Gyorgy Palfi; Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako; and Kim Ki-duk's Time, a film about cosmetic surgery.
Other films announced for the fall festival include Andrea Arnold's Red Road; Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East Of Bucharest; Jindabyne from Australian director Ray Lawrence; Pen-ek Ratanaruang's noir thriller Invisible Waves; Djamshed Usmonov's To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die; White Palms from Szabolcs Hajdu; Lou Ye's Summer Palace; Summer '04 from Stefan Krohmer; The Bothersome Man from Jens Lien; Slawomir Fabicki's first theatrical feature, Retrieval; Israel Adrian Caetano's Cronica De Una Fuga; Michael Glawogger's Slumming; and Shortbus, the second feature from John Cameron Mitchell.
Passes and coupons for this year's festival, Sept. 7- 16, go on sale on July 10. Info at 416-968-3456 or bell.ca/filmfest.
