From September 7 to 17, Toronto will host the 48th edition of TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival), North America’s largest film festival and market.

Thirteen French films and over twenty co-productions – including one France-Canada co-production (Monia Chokri’s The Nature of Love) – will be presented during the 10-day festival, accompanied by a delegation of some thirty French artists supported by Unifrance.

On the industry side, French director Ladj Ly will present the world premiere of his film Les Indésirables on September 10 at 11 a.m. as part of the “Visionaries” session, which is dedicated to big names in international cinema such as Spike Lee and Guillermo del Toro. The festival will also host two “dialogue” sessions with Toufik Ayadi and Christophe Barral, producers of Les Indésirables (SRAB Films) on the same day at 2pm, and Nora El Hourch, director of Sisterhood, on September 11 at 9:30am.

Several highly-anticipated French films will have their world premiere: Ladj Ly’s Bâtiment 5, Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s Une année difficile in Special Presentations, Héléna Klotz’s La Vénus d’argent and Nora El Hourch’s HLM Pussy in the Platform section, as well as Mehdi Fikri’s debut feature Avant que les flammes ne s’éteignent in the Discovery section.

Several films will also be presented as North American premieres, in particular features discovered at Cannes (such as Anatomie d’une chute, Les Filles d’Ofla, L’Eté dernier, Banel & Adama) or revealed at Venice just prior to the festival (notably La Bête).

Numerous French artists will be coming to the Canadian metropolis to promote their films: Nora El Hourch, Héléna Klotz, Ladj Ly, Justine Triet, Bertrand Bonello, Olivier Nakache, Pio Marmaï, Kaouther Ben Hania, Hiam Abbass, Lina Soualem, Pierre-Henri Gibert, Andrès Peyrot, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, Mehdi Fikri, Paul B. Preciado, Yann Mounir Demange, Carla Melo Gampert.

New this year is a partnership between the Consulate General of France in Toronto, Unifrance and HollywoodNorth for a “Special French Day” on September 9 at Campbell House Museum to celebrate French cinema and culture.

The event is free of charge, and the public can enjoy a rich program to discover or rediscover French cinema: animated films for children, live music, table football/ping pong entertainment, cinema quizzes, etc.

For more information: https://en.unifrance.org/news/16691/all-the-french-films-at-the-48th-toronto-film-festival

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