Toronto Film Festival 2017 lineup: First look images

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Battle of the Sexes

"Emma Stone and Steve Carell star in this recreation of the legendary 1973 tennis match that pitted Billie Jean King against Bobby Riggs."

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BPM (Beats Per Minute)

120-Beats-Per-Minute — Courtesy Cannes Film Festival

"Writer-director Robin Campillo (Les Revenants, Eastern Boys) offers a harrowing yet inspiring look back at the activism of French ACT UP protestors during the height of the AIDS crisis in the late 1980s."

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The Brawler

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"A lower caste boxer struggles to make his mark on the boxing world, in the highly anticipated film from Anurag Kashyap."

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The Breadwinner

"Based on Deborah Ellis’ award-winning novel, director Nora Twomey’s The Breadwinner tells the extraordinary story of an 11-year-old Afghan girl who finds strength in the love of her family and the power of storytelling."

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Breathe

"Actor Andy Serkis makes his directorial debut with the inspiring true love story of Robin and Diana Cavendish (Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy), an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease."

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C'est la vie!

"Directing duo Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (The Intouchables, Samba) serve up a delightful comedy about a long-suffering caterer hoping to get through one last, mishap-heavy dinner party."

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Call Me by Your Name

"The latest from Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash) explores the tender, tentative relationship that blooms over the course of one summer between a 17-year-old boy on the cusp of adulthood (Timothée Chalamet) and his father's research assistant (Armie Hammer)."

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Catch the Wind

"A middle-aged factory worker's life is upended when she follows her employer to Morocco, in the latest film from French actor-director Gaël More."

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The Catcher Was A Spy

"A sterling cast — including Paul Rudd, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels, Paul Giamatti, Sienna Miller, Mark Strong, Tom Wilkinson, and Connie Nielsen — star in this biopic of Moe Berg, the former professional baseball player who became a secret agent in the OSS during World War II."

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The Current War

Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison CR: 101 Studios — 101 Studios

"Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) directs Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, and Katherine Waterston in this biopic chronicling the race for sustainable electricity in the United States between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse."

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Darkest Hour

"Gary Oldman steps into the imposing persona of Winston Churchill in Joe Wright’s (Pride and Prejudice, Atonement) period drama set in the early years of the Second World War, when Churchill’s rousing leadership inspired a nation."

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A Fantastic Woman

"Chilean director Sebastián Lelio follows his 2013 Festival hit Gloria with this drama about a young transgender woman struggling with both her own grief and societal prejudice after the death of her middle-aged lover."

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Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool

"Oscar winner Annette Bening and Jamie Bell star in this adaptation of the memoir by British actor Peter Turner, recounting his romance with the legendary (and legendarily eccentric) Hollywood star Gloria Grahame during the last years of her life."

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First They Killed My Father

"Angelina Jolie co-produces, co-writes, and directs this adaptation of the memoir by Loung Ung, which recounts the author’s horrifying childhood experiences under the murderous Khmer Rouge regime in her native Cambodia."

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The Guardians

"French director Xavier Beauvois’ intimate drama explores the lives of women who are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War."

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The Hungry

"Writer-director Bornila Chatterjee relocates Shakespeare's bloody tragedy Titus Andronicus to modern-day India, where corruption, greed, and revenge run rampant at an extravagant wedding."

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I, Tonya

"Margot Robbie plays Tonya Harding in this biopic of the disgraced Olympic figure skater."

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Kings

"A recluse (Daniel Craig) helps a woman (Halle Berry) and her 12 foster children when riots erupt in Los Angeles following the 1992 beating of Rodney King, in the English-language debut from writer-director Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Mustang)."

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Long Time Running

"Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier capture the emotional and powerful 2016 final tour by Canadian rock icons The Tragically Hip."

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Mary Shelley

"Elle Fanning stars in this scintillating biopic of the Frankenstein author, chronicling her tempestuous marriage to dissolute poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the fateful night at a Swiss chateau that inspired her most famous creation."

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The Mountain Between Us

"A surgeon (Idris Elba) and a journalist (Kate Winslet) must rely on each other for survival when the small plane they share crashes in the wilderness."

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Mudbound

"Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Mary J. Blige, and Garrett Hedlund star in this ensemble drama from director Dee Rees, an adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s prize-winning novel about simmering racial tensions in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s."

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Novitiate

"Oscar winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter) oversees a bevy of up-and-coming female actors in this drama about aspiring nuns at an isolated Catholic school in 1964, who are forced to re-examine their faith and their calling in light of the liberal reforms of Vatican II."

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Omerta

"Hansal Mehta recounts the story of infamous British-born terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who kidnapped and murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002."

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The Price of Success

"A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off, in this drama featuring a top-notch French cast including Tahar Rahim (The Past, A Prophet), Roschdy Zem (Bodybuilder, Days of Glory), and Maiwenn (Polisse, Love is the Perfect Crime)."

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Professor Marston & the Wonder Women

PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN — Courtesy of TIFF

"Luke Evans (High-Rise, Beauty and the Beast), Rebecca Hall (Christine), and Bella Heathcote (Fifty Shades Darker) star in this biopic of William Moulton Marston, the American psychologist who put his progressive ideals about female liberation into practice by creating the DC superhero Wonder Woman and living in an 'extended relationship' with his wife and another woman."

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The Rider

"Chloé Zhao’s (Songs My Brothers Taught Me) Art Cinema Award-winning impressionistic drama casts real-life wrangler Brady Jandreau as a South Dakota cowboy struggling to chart a new course."

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A Season in France

"An African high school teacher (Eriq Ebouaney) flees his wartorn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman (Sandrine Bonnaire) who offers a roof for him and his family."

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The Shape of Water

The Shape of the Water — Fox Searchlight Pictures

"At the height of the Cold War, circa 1962, two workers in a high-tech U.S. government laboratory (Sally Hawkins and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer) discover a terrifying secret experiment, in this otherwordly fairytale from Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth)."

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Sheikh Jackson

"The sudden death of Michael Jackson sends a former King of Pop devotee — now a young imam — into a tailspin, in this tender and comedic film from Egyptian filmmaker Amr Salama."

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The Square

"Swedish provocateur Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure) took home the Palme d’Or at Cannes for this no-holds-barred satire of the postmodern art world, about a self-important curator whose attempts to mount an ambitious exhibition go hilariously awry."

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Stronger

"David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls) directs Jake Gyllenhaal and Tatiana Maslany in this adaptation of the memoir by Jeff Bauman, which recounts his struggles to adjust to a new kind of life after losing his legs in the Boston Marathon bombing."

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Submergence

"The new film from the great Wim Wenders (Pina) is a globe-trotting romance about a water engineer (James McAvoy) and a deep-sea researcher (Oscar winner Alicia Vikander) striving to reconnect although separated by oceans, continents, and civil war."

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Thelma

"Recently moved to Oslo to attend school, a young woman falls in love and discovers that she possesses terrifying powers, in this supernatural thriller from acclaimed director Joachim Trier (Louder Than Bombs)."

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

“A frustrated and grieving mother (Frances McDormand) antagonizes her local police force (including Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell) to call attention to the lack of progress in the search for her daughter’s killer, in the latest from dark-humour master Martin McDonagh.”

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Untitled Bryan Cranston/Kevin Hart Film

"Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart star in this remake of the French hit The Intouchables, a dramatic buddy comedy about the unlikely friendship between a rich quadriplegic and his working-class caregiver."

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Victoria and Abdul

"Acclaimed British auteur Stephen Frears reunites with his Philomena star, Academy Award winner Judi Dench, in this charming dramedy chronicling the friendship between Queen Victoria and a decades-younger Indian clerk named Abdul Karim."

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The Wife

"Jonathan Pryce, Glenn Close, and Christian Slater star in Björn Runge's adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's bestselling novel about an author who travels to Stockholm to collect her Nobel Prize — and leaves her husband in the process."

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Woman Walks Ahead

"Jessica Chastain stars in the true-life story of Catherine Weldon, a 19th-century Brooklyn artist who travelled to the Dakota Territory and became the confidante of legendary Sioux chief Sitting Bull."