A documentary about the Charlie Hebdo attack will receive its world premiere at this year’s Toronto film festival.
The latest schedule announcement from the festival team is spearheaded by Je Suis Charlie, a film that features interviews with the surviving members of the editorial team. It’s been described as a tribute to those who “died for a certain idea of France”.
It’s part of the latest batch of newly announced films for next month’s festival. The documentary strand also includes a number of music-themed titles, including The Reflektor Tapes, which looks at the making of Arcade Fire’s most recent album, and Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg’s Janis: Little Girl Blue, which follows the troubled life of Janis Joplin.
The Midnight Madness section of the festival has also been revealed and includes a number of anticipated genre titles. District 9 actor Sharlto Copley stars in Hardcore, a film that will be the first ever action thriller seen entirely through the POV of one character. There will also be world premieres for the Wes Craven-produced thriller The Girl in the Photographs and The Devil’s Candy, a horror film from the director The Loved Ones, Sean Byrne.
The set of films joins a list of previously announced titles that include Ridley Scott’s big-budget sci-fi thriller The Martian, Julianne Moore’s gay-rights drama Freeheld, Kate Winslet comedy-drama The Dressmaker and Ethan Hawke’s Chet Baker biopic, Born to Be Blue.
The 2015 Toronto film festival runs from 10-20 September.
