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Jesse Eisenberg in a still from Richard Ayoade's The Double
Jesse Eisenberg in Richard Ayoade's The Double, which will premiere at the Toronto film festival
Jesse Eisenberg in Richard Ayoade's The Double, which will premiere at the Toronto film festival

Toronto film festival 2013: the full line-up

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The films to be screened at this year's Toronto film festival – as the programme release is staggered, this will be updated as more details are revealed

The 38th Toronto Film Festival runs September 5 - 15 2013. This article will be updated as official announcements detailing the full line-up are released.

Opening night film

The Fifth Estate, Dir: Bill Condon, USA

Closing night film

Life of Crime, Dir: Daniel Schechter, USA

World premieres

12 Years a Slave, Dir: Steve McQueen, USA

All Is By My Side, Dir: John Ridley, United Kingdom

The Art of the Steal, Dir: Jonathan Sobol, Canada

Attila Marcel, Dir: Sylvain Chomet, France

August: Osage County, Dir: John Wells, USA

Bad Words, Dir: Jason Bateman, USA

Belle, Dir: Amma Asante, United Kingdom

Beyond the Edge, Dir: Leanne Pooley, New Zealand

Burt's Buzz, Dir: Jody Shapiro, Canada

Can a Song Save Your Life? Dir: John Carney, USA

Cannibal (Caníbal), Dir: Manuel Martín Cuenca, Spain/Romania/Russia/France

Dallas Buyers Club, Dir: Jean-Marc Vallée, USA

Devil's Knot, Dir: Atom Egoyan, USA

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her, Dir: Ned Benson, USA

The Dog, Dir: Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, USA

Dom Hemingway, Dir: Richard Shepard, United Kingdom

The Double, Dir: Richard Ayoade, United Kingdom

Faith Connections, Dir: Pan Nalin, France/India

The Fake, Dir: Yeon Sang-ho, Korea

Felony, Dir: Matthew Saville, Australia

Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story, Dir: Barry Avrich, Canada

Finding Vivian Maier, Dir: John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, USA

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, Dir: Jasmila Žbanić, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Going Away (Il est parti dimanche), Dir: Nicole Garcia, France

The Grand Seduction, Dir: Don McKellar, Canada

Half of a Yellow Sun, Dir: Biyi Bandele Nigeria/United Kingdom

Hateship Loveship, Dir: Liza Johnson, USA

Hi-Ho Mistahey!, Dir: Alanis Obomsawin, Canada

Horns, Dir: Alexandre Aja, USA

Ida, Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland

Ignasi M., Dir: Ventura Pons, Spain

The Invisible Woman, Dir: Ralph Fiennes, United Kingdom

Labor Day, Dir: Jason Reitman, USA

The Love Punch, Dir: Joel Hopkins, France

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Dir: Justin Chadwick, South Africa

Midway, Dir: Chris Jordan, USA

Mission Congo, Dir: David Turner and Lara Zizic, USA

One Chance, Dir: David Frankel, USA

People In Places (Gente En Sitios), Dir: Juan Cavestany, Spain

Prisoners, Dir: Denis Villeneuve, USA

Proxy, Dir: Zack Parker, USA

Quai d'Orsay, Dir: Bertrand Tavernier, France

The Railway Man, Dir: Jonathan Teplitzky, Australia/United Kingdom

The Right Kind of Wrong, Dir: Jeremiah Chechik, Canada

The Square (Al Midan), Dir: Jehane Noujaim, Egypt/USA

Standing Aside, Watching (Na Kathese ke na Kitas), Dir: Yorgos Servetas, Greece

Starred Up, Dir: David Mackenzie, United Kingdom

Supermensch The Legend of Shep Gordon, Dir: Mike Myers, USA

Third Person, Dir: Paul Haggis, Belgium

Those Happy Years (Anni Felici), Dir: Daniele Luchetti, Italy

Tim's Vermeer, Dir: Teller, USA

Unstable Elements, Dir: Madeleine Sackler, USA

Violette, Dir: Martin Provost, France/Belgium

Visitors, Dir: Godfrey Reggio, USA

We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Dir: Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins, USA

Le Week-End, Dir: Roger Michell, United Kingdom

When Jews Were Funny, Dir: Alan Zweig, Canada

Wild Duck, Dir: Yannis Sakaridis, Greece

You Are Here, Dir: Matthew Weiner, USA

North American premieres

A Story of Children and Film, Dir: Mark Cousins, United Kingdom

Ain't Misbehavin', Dir: Marcel Ophüls, France

American Dreams in China, Dir: Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong/China

At Berkeley, Dir: Frederick Wiseman, USA

Cold Eyes, Dir: Cho Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo, Korea

The Dark Matter of Love, Dir: Sarah McCarthy, UK

The Daughter (I Kori), Dir: Thanos Anastopoulos, Greece

The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (I Aionia Epistrofi tou Antoni Paraskeua), Dir: Elina Psykou, Greece

Jodorowsky's Dune, Dir: Frank Pavich, USA

J.A.C.E. – Just Another Confused Elephant, Dir: Menelaos Karamaghiolis, Greece/FYROM/Portugal/Turkey

The Last of the Unjust, Dir: Claude Lanzmann, France/Austria

The Lunchbox, Dir: Ritesh Batra, India/France/Germany

Rush, Dir: Ron Howard, United Kingdom/Germany

Blue Is The Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle: Chapters 1 & 2), Dir: Abdellatif Kechiche, France

Blue Ruin, Dir: Jeremy Saulnier, USA

Borgman, Dir: Alex van Warmerdam, The Netherlands/Belgium/Denmark

Burning Bush, Dir: Agnieszka Holland, Czech Republic

Gloria, Dir: Sebastián Lelio, Chile/Spain

Gravity, Dir: Alfonso Cuarón, USA/United Kingdom

The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza), Dir: Paolo Sorrentino, Italy

L'intrepido, Dir: Gianni Amelio, Italy

Joe, Dir: David Gordon Green, USA

Like Father, Like Son, Dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda, Japan

Man of Tai Chi Keanu Reeves, USA/China

Mary, Queen of Scots, Dir: Thomas Imbach, France/Switzerland

Miss Violence, Dir: Alexandros Avranas, Greece

Night Moves, Dir: Kelly Reichardt, USA

Omar, Dir: Hany Abu-Assad, Palestine

Only Lovers Left Alive, Dir: Jim Jarmusch, USA

Parkland, Dir: Peter Landesman, USA

The Past (Le Passé), Dir: Asghar Farhadi, France/Italy

Philomena, Dir: Stephen Frears, United Kingdom

Real, Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan

The Sacrament, Dir: Ti West, USA

Sapi, Dir: Brillante Mendoza, Philippines

September, Dir: Penny Panayotopoulou, Germany/Greece

The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears, Dir: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Belgium/France/Luxembourg

Thou Gild'st the Even, Dir: Onur Ünlü, Turkey

To the Wolf (Sto Lyko), Dir: Aran Hughes and Christina Koutsospyrou, Greece/United Kingdom

Tracks, Dir: John Curran, United Kingdom/Australia

Under the Skin, Dir: Jonathan Glazer, USA/United Kingdom

The Unknown Known, Dir: Errol Morris, USA

Walesa. Man of Hope (Walesa. Czlowiek z nadziei), Dir: Andrzej Wajda, Poland

We are the Best! Dir: Lukas Moodysson, Sweden

Young and Beautiful, (Jeune & jolie), Dir: François Ozon, France/Belgium

International premieres (screened only in home country before festival)

Kill Your Darlings, Dir: John Krokidas, USA

Exit Marrakech, Dir: Caroline Link, Germany

Mystery Road, Dir: Ivan Sen, Australia

Pioneer, Dir: Erik Skjoldbjærg, Norway

Canadian premieres

Celestial Wives of the Meadow, Dir: Mari Alexey Fedorchenko, Russia

Don Jon, Dir: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, USA

The Mayor, Dir: Emiliano Altuna Fistolera, Mexico

Sex, Drugs & Taxation (Spies & Glistrup), Dir: Christoffer Boe, Denmark

Shuddh Desi, Dir: Romance Maneesh Sharma, India

Soul, Dir: Chung Mong-Hong, Taiwan

Toronto premieres

Unfair World (Adikos Kosmos), Dir: Filippos Tsitos, Greece/Germany

Wasted Youth, Dir: Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel, Greece

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