TIFF 2013 Galas and Special Presentations Announced

The festival announced the first batch of films today, in the Galas and the Special Presentations programmes.

There are 17 galas, including:

• August: Osage County, with Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts
• The Fifth Estate, a biopic about Julian Assange, starting Benedict Cumberbatch
• The Grand Seduction, which would appear to be Don McKellar's remake of the 2003 French Canadian film La grande seduction, with Brendan Gleeson and Taylor Kitsch
• Kill Your Darlings, with Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg and Ben Foster as William S. Burroughs
• Life of Crime, based on Elmore Leonard's 1979 novel The Switch, starring Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins, and John Hawkes
• The Love Punch, a caper comedy starring Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson
• Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, with Idris Elba in the title role
• Rush, Ron Howard's latest set in the world of Formula One back in 1976, with Chris Hemsworth

There are 56 films in the Special Presentations programme, including:

• 12 Years a Slave, from director Steve McQueen, with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti, Alfre Woodard, and Benedict Cumberbatch
• All Is By My Side, a biopic of Jimi Hendrix, with Andre Benjamin in the title role
• Bad Words, the directorial debut of Jason Bateman
• Can a Song Save Your Life? the latest from the writer-director of Once, John Carney, starring Mark Ruffalo, Kiera Knightly, and Catherine Keener
• Dallas Buyers Club, with Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, and Jared Leto, from director Jean-Marc Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y.)
• Devil's Knot, a dramatization of the aftermath of the 1993 West Memphis murders starting Reese Witherspoon and directed by Atom Egoyan
• Dom Hemingway, a comic caper film with Jude Law and Richard E. Grant
• Don Jon, from writer-director Joseph Gordon-Levitt, with Scarlett Johannsen and Julianne Moore
• Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's space-based drama with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock
• Hateship Loveship, based on an Alice Munro story and starring Guy Pearce, Kristen Wiig, Nick Nolte, and Hailee Stanfield
• The Invisible Woman, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens
• Joe, the latest from David Gordon Green, starring Nicolas Cage
• Labor Day, the new film from Jason Reitman, with Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet
• Like Father, Like Son, Hirokazu Kore-Eda's latest that won the Jury Prize at Cannes this year
• Night Moves, with Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Saarsgard as eco-terrorists, from Kelly Reichardt
• Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch's latest with Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as vampires
• The Past, director Asghar Farhadi's (A Separation) latest film which won for best actress (Bérénice Bejo) at Cannes
• Third Person, a new film from writer-director Paul Haggis, with Liam Neeson, Adrien Brody, and James Franco
• You Are Here, a comedy starring Owen Wilson, Zack Galifianakis, and Amy Poehler