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Toronto Film Festival Lineup: Mandela, Fifth Estate, Kill Your Darlings

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The Toronto International Film Festival announced 75 of its likely 250-plus films today. And as is the case, September’s festival will feature a lot of big movies’ premieres. World premieres include: Bill Condon’s Benedict Cumberbatch–starring WikiLeaks movie, The Fifth Estate; John Wells’s August: Osage County adaptation, which stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts; the Idris Elba–starring Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom; Mike Myers’s directorial debut Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon; Steve McQueen’s star-studded 12 Years a Slave; Paul Haggis’s most recent offering, Third Person, which stars Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Adrien Brody, James Franco, and more; and Matthew Weiner’s first film, You Are Here, which is a road-trip movie starring Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, and Amy Poehler. Read the rest below.

World Premieres
All Is By My Side (John Ridley)
The Art of the Steal (Jonathan Sobol)
Attila Marcel (Sylvain Chomet)
Bad Words (Jason Bateman)
Belle Amma (Asante)
Can a Song Save Your Life? (John Carne)
Cannibal (Manuel Martín Cuenca)
Devil’s Knot (Atom Egoyan)
Dom Hemingway (Richard Shepard)
The Double Richard (Ayoade)
Enough Said Nicole (Holofcener)
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (Jasmila Žbanić)
Going Away (Nicole Garcia)
The Grand Seduction (Don McKellar)
Half of a Yellow Sun (Biyi Bandele)
Hateship Loveship (Liza Johnson)
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowsk)
The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes)
Labor Day (Jason Reitman)
Life of Crime (Daniel Schechter)
The Love Punch (Joel Hopkins)
Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve)
Quai d’Orsay (Bertrand Tavernier)
The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky)
Starred Up (David Mackenzie)
Those Happy Years (Daniele Luchetti)
Violette (Martin Provost)
Visitors (Godfrey Reggio)
Le Week-End (Roger Michel)

International/North American/Canadian Premieres
American Dreams in China (Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
Blue Is The Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo)
Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (Ned Benson)
Don Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
Exit Marrakech (Caroline Link)
Felony (Matthew Saville)
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
L’intrepido (Gianni Amelio)
The Love Punch (Joel Hopkins)
Joe (David Gordon Green)
Kill Your Darlings (John Krokidas)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Man of Tai Chi (Keanu Reeves)
MARY Queen of Scots (Thomas Imbach)
Omar (Hany Abu-Assad)
One Chance (David Frankel)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
Parkland (Peter Landesman)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
Philomena (Stephen Frears)
Pioneer (Erik Skjoldbjærg)
REAL (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
The Right Kind of Wrong (Jeremiah Chechik)
Rush (Ron Howard)
Shuddh Desi Romance (Maneesh Sharma)
Tracks (John Curran)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
Walesa. Man of Hope. (Andrzej Wajda)
We are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson)
Young and Beautiful (François Ozon)

Toronto Film Festival: Mandela, Fifth Estate