The line-up for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival has been officially announced across the Atlantic this morning – local time, and it is simply amazing.

Opening the festival will be Rian Johnson’s hotly-anticipated Looper, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and joining it are a slew of fantastic films, many of which making their world / North American premieres, with highlights including Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, Ben Affleck’s Argo, Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines, Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers’ Cloud Atlas, Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha, David Ayer’s End of Watch, Mike Newell’s Great Expectations, Stuart Blumberg’s Thanks for Sharing, and Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder.

That suggests that Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives with Ryan Gosling is almost certainly going to be debuting at Venice, as expected.

Variety are the ones to officially confirm the line-up, which will be held from 6th to 16th September.

Making their World Premieres:

  • Looper – Rian Johnson (Opening Film)
  • Cloud Atlas – The Wachowski brothers and Tom Tykwer
  • Argo – Ben Affleck
  • Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
  • Love, Marilyn – Liz Garbus
  • The Place Beyond The Pines – Derek Cianfrance
  • Midnight’s Children – Deepa Mehta
  • Hyde Park On Hudson – Roger Michell
  • Great Expectations – Mike Newell
  • Inescapable – Rubba Nadda
  • Twice Born – Sergio Castellitto
  • English Vinglish – Gauri Shinde
  • The Perks Of Being A Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
  • Thanks For Sharing – Stuart Blumberg
  • End Of Watch– David Ayer
  • Imogene – Robert Puccini and Shari Springer Berman
  • A Late Quartet – Yaron Zilberman
  • Much Ado About Nothing – Joss Whedon
  • Frances Ha – Noah Baumbach
  • The Time Being – Nenad Cicin-Sain
  • Writers – Josh Boone
  • At Any Price – Ramin Bahrani
  • Venus And Serena – Maiken Baird
  • Byzantium – Neil Jordan
  • Quartet – Dustin Hoffman
  • Ginger And Rosa – Sally Potter
  • A Liar’s Autobiography – Ben Timlett, Bill Jones, and Jeff Simpson
  • Foxfire – Laurnet Cantet
  • In The House – Francois Ozon
  • The Impossible – J.A. Bayona
  • Hannah Arendt – Margarethe Von Trotta
  • Mr. Pip – Andrew Adamson
  • Capital – Costa-Gavras
  • The Attack – Ziad Doueriri
  • Zaytoun – Eran Riklis
  • The Deep – Baltasar Kormakur
  • Dreams For Sale – Nishikawa Miwa
  • The Last Supper – Lu Chuan

Making their International/North American Premieres:

  • To The Wonder – Terrence Malick
  • Anna Karenina – Joe Wright
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mira Nair
  • The Company You Keep – Robert Redford
  • Jayne Mansfield’s Car – Billy Bob Thornton
  • A Royal Affair – Nikolai Arcel
  • Dangerous Liasons – Hur Ji-Ho
  • Thermae Romae – Hideki Takeuchi
  • Caught In The Web – Chen Kaige
  • Dormant Beauty – Marco Belloccchio
  • Everybody Has A Plan – Ana Piterbarg w/Viggo Mortensen
  • Kon-Tiki – Espen Sandberg
  • Reality – Matteo Garrone
  • A Few Hours Of Spring – Stephan Brize
  • The Hunt – Thomas Vintenberg
  • The Iceman – Ariel Vromen
  • Lore – Cate Shortland
  • No – Pablo Larrain
  • Outrage Beyond – Takeshi Kitano
  • Rust And Bone – Jacques Audiard
  • The Sapphires – Wayne Blair
  • Tai Chi O – Stephen Fung

Making its Canadian Premiere:

  • The Sessions – Ben Lewis