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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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