Luc Besson's Aung San Suu Kyi biopic, The Lady, will have its world premiere at September's Toronto film festival. The news was announced on Twitter by festival co-director, Cameron Bailey (@cameron_tiff).
Other confirmed world premieres include Bennett Miller's baseball drama Moneyball (starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill), Michael Winterbottom's Trishna (a contemporary remake of Tess of the d'Urbervilles) and Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, a drama based on the theory that Shakespeare's major works may not have been written by the playwright. Joining them will be cancer comedy 50/50 (starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogan), George Clooney's comedy-drama The Descendants and Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea, starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, an adaptation of Paul Today's best-selling novel by Lasse Hallström, will also premiere, alongside Pawel Pawlikowski's Woman in the Fifth, a Paris-set murder mystery, starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas.
Festivalgoers will also get a first look at Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs – in which Glenn Close plays a 19th-century English woman who disguises herself as a male butler – and Fernando Meirelles's sex drama 360, a steamy tale of love across the class divide. Meanwhile, Cameron Crowe will rock up with Pearl Jam Twenty (a video history of the Seattle band) and Bruce Beresford will bring family comedy Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding, which stars Jane Fonda as a hippy grandmother struggling to relate to her conservative lawyer daughter.
The festival opens with the world's first screening of From the Sky Down, a documentary about rock band U2, directed by Davis Guggenheim.
Full lineup so far
11 Flowers
360
50/50
Albert Nobbs
Americano
Anonymous
The Artist
A Better Life
Burning Man
Butter
Chicken with Plums
Coriolanus
Countdown
A Dangerous Method
Dark Horse
The Deep Blue Sea
The Descendants
Drive
Elles
The Eye of the Storm
Friends With Kids
Habemus Papum
A Happy Event
Headhunters
Hick
The Hunter
The Ides of March
Jeff Who Lives at Home
Killer Joe
The Lady
Like Crazy
Machine Gun Preacher
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Melancholia
Moneyball
The Oranges
Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
Pearl Jam Twenty
Rampart
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Shame
A Simple Life
The Skin I Live in
Take Shelter
Take This Waltz
Ten Year
Trishna
Twixt
Tyrannosaur
W.E.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Where Do We Go Now
The Woman in the Fifth
