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TIFF 2018’s final announcement includes films with Isabelle Huppert and Natalie Portman

The Toronto International Film Festival revealed one last wave of programming today, named its International Rising Stars and announced a change to the Platform jury.

Mira Nair, director of Monsoon Wedding and last year’s Queen Of Katwe, will join the previously announced jurors Lee Chang-dong and Belá Tarr. (Nair replaces Margarethe Von Trotta, who is no longer able to attend the festival due to another commitment.)

TIFF also added two more titles to its Special Presentations lineup: the world premiere of Neil Jordan’s Greta, starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert as two very different women who forge an unlikely friendship, and the North American premiere of Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux, a tale of traumatized sisters that also features Natalie Portman and Jude Law – their first shared credit since 2007’s Wong Kar-wai’s My Blueberry Nights.

And, of course, the festival rolled out its Discovery program, adding 46 first features from 37 different countries, 29 of them world premieres.

Among the titles screening in the program are Bai Xue’s The Crossing, about a teenage girl drawn into dangerous activities in China Daniel Sawka’s Icebox, about a young boy caught up in the American immigration process, and Wanuri Kahiu’s Rafiki, a gay love story set in Kenya.

Adina Pintille’s Berlin prizewinner Touch Me Not, about a filmmaker’s attempts to capture intimacy, will have its North American premiere as a Discovery title, alongside Ash Mayfield’s The Third Wife, a drama set in 19th century Vietnam, and Farming, the directorial debut of actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost, Trumbo, Ten Days In The Valley), about a Nigerian immigrant to Britain who becomes the leader of a skinhead gang.

The festival also revealed the names of its 2018 International Rising Stars: Stéphan Bak, from France, who appears in the Discovery selection The Mercy Of The Jungle Josh Wiggins, from the U.S., who co-stars in Canadian filmmaker Keith Berhman’s Giant Little Ones Ahmed Malek, from Egypt, who’s here with Ahmad Abdalla’s EXT. Night and from the UK, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, who stars in William McGregor’s Gwen, another of the Discovery titles.

The festival also released its official screening schedule, so you know what that means: time to start obsessing over which movies are showing against one another. That’s right: whoever you are, wherever you come from, your three most eagerly awaited titles are all overlapping on the same night. It’s tradition!

The 43rd Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 to 16, 2018. More information on this year’s programming is available at the festival’s website.

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