First Batch of Toronto Film Festival Titles Announced!

They haven't started getting into the major premieres yet, but the Toronto International Film Festival announced the first twenty films for the 2005 edition of the festival with festival co-director Noah Cowan describing these twenty as "our programmers' personal favourites from other major international film festivals".

On the list: Cannes winners L'Enfant and Cache, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun, Hou Hsiao Hsien's Three Times, Lars Von Trier's Manderlay, Wim Wenders' Don't Come Knocking, Tsai Ming-Liang's The Wayward Cloud, Eric Khoo's Be With Me, Vimukthi Jayasundara's The Forsaken Land, Carlos Reygadas' Battle In Heaven (one of the big buzz films at Cannes), Hany Abu-Assad's Paradise Now, Mohammad Rasoulof's Iron Island, Cristi Puiu's The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu, Laïla Marrakchi's Marock, Wang Xiaoshuai's Shanghai Dreams, Mark Dornford-May's Carmen In Khayelitsha, the Vinterberg / Von Trier collaboration Dear Wendy, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab's Gilaneh, Mike Mills' Thumbsucker, and Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale.

Not a bad list at all ... I count at least six or seven must see's in there and the festival has another 230 films or so left to announce ... going to be a busy year ...

Via the Toronto Star