Finn Wolfhard, Larry Charles, Harmony Korine Films Set for Midnight Madness at Toronto Film Festival

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The Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness sidebar will open with Borat director Larry Charles’ latest movie Dicks: The Musical getting a world premiere.

“This year’s madness infectiously ignites with 11 o’clock numbers that go all the way to midnight courtesy of Larry Charles’ bonkers and bawdy Dicks: The Musical. A menagerie of tastes will be sated, so bottoms up!” Peter Kuplowsky, TIFF International programmer of Midnight Madness, said in a statement on Thursday.

The latest additions to the Toronto Film Festival also include the lineup for the Discovery program set to open with a world premiere for Patricia Arquette’s directorial debut Gonzo Girl.

The Midnight Madness gorefest will also give a North American premiere to Spring Breakers director Harmony Korine’s infrared action film Aggro Dr1ft, which was shot with Travis Scott in the starring role and headed to TIFF after a Venice bow. And there’s world premieres for Moritz Mohr’s Boy Kills World, a fever dream action film that stars Bill Skarsgård; Hell of a Summer, a horror comedy written, directed by and starring Stranger Things actor Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk; and Meshal Aljaser’s Naga, from Saudi Arabia.

There’s also North American premieres added for Weston Razooli’s Riddle of Fire, about three kids on a mythic quest and which will close Midnight Madness after bowing in Cannes; and Jason Yu’s Sleep, from South Korea.

Elsewhere, Arquette’s Gonzo Girl will kick off the Discovery program, as it stars Arquette, Ray Nicholson, Camila Morrone and Willem Dafoe and is a gonzo journalism drama set in 1992 and inspired by a real story.

Discovery also booked slots for Backstop, a queer cheerleading drama that features Reservation Dogs star Devery Jacobs and is directed by D.W. Waterson, with Elliot Page as an executive producer; Billy Luther’s Frybread Face and Me, a coming-of-age drama set on a Navajo reservation that’s executive produced by Taika Waititi; Fawzia Mirza’s The Queen of My Dreams, starring Transparent series actor Hamza Haq, Amrit Kaur and Nimra Bucha; and Molly Manning Walker’s debut film How to Have Sex, starring Mia McKenna-Bruce.

The Toronto Film Festival is set to run from Sept. 7 to 17, with additional lineup announcements to be made in the coming weeks.

A complete list of Midnight Madness titles follows:

Boy Kills World Moritz Mohr | Germany/South Africa/USA World Premiere

Dicks: The MusicalLarry Charles | USA World Premiere

Hell of a Summer Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk | USA/Canada World Premiere

KILL Nikhil Nagesh Bhat | India World Premiere

NAGA Meshal Aljaser | Saudi Arabia World Premiere

Riddle of Fire Weston Razooli | USA North American Premiere

SleepJason Yu | South Korea North American Premiere

When Evil Lurks Demián Rugna | Argentina World Premiere

Working Class Goes to Hell Mladen Đorđević | Serbia World Premiere

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A complete list of Discovery titles follows:

Achilles Farhad Delaram | Iran/Germany/France World Premiere

After the Fire Mehdi Fikri | France World Premiere

A Match (Sthal). Jayant Digambar Somalkar | India World Premiere

Andragogy Wregas Bhanuteja | Indonesia/Singapore World Premiere

An Endless Sunday Alain Parroni | Italy/Germany/Ireland International Premiere

Arthur&Diana Sara Summa | Germany World Premiere

Backspot D.W. Waterson | Canada World Premiere

Frybread Face and Me Billy Luther | USA International Premiere

Gonzo Girl Patricia Arquette | USA World Premiere

Hajjan Abu Bakr Shawky | Saudi Arabia/Egypt/Jordan World Premiere

How to Have Sex Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom North American Premiere

I Don’t Know Who You Are M. H. Murray | Canada World Premiere

La Suprema Felipe Holguín Caro | Colombia World Premiere

Mandoob Ali Kalthami | Saudi Arabia World Premiere

Mimang Kim Taeyang | South Korea World Premiere

Seagrass Meredith Hama-Brown | Canada World Premiere

Solitude Ninna Pálmadóttir | Iceland/Slovakia/France World Premiere

Tautuktavuk (What We See)Carol Kunnuk, Lucy Tulugarjuk | Canada

The Teacher Farah Nabulsi | United Kingdom/Palestine/Qatar World Premiere

The Tundra Within Me (Eallugierdi)Sara Margrethe Oskal | Norway World Premiere

The Queen of My Dreams Fawzia Mirza | Canada World Premiere

Valentina or the Serenity (Valentina o la serenidad) Ángeles Cruz | Mexico World Premiere

Widow Clicquot Thomas Napper | France World Premiere

Wild Woman Alán González | Cuba World Premiere

Without AirKatalin Moldovai | Hungary World Premiere

Yellow BusWendy Bednarz | United Arab Emirates World Premiere

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