Toronto Film Festival Lineup to Include Films Directed by Regina King, Halle Berry

Halle Berry is marking her 54th birthday with a stunning Instagram post.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAnthony Hopkins, Chloé Zhao, and Mira Nair will be honored at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.Hopkins, an Oscar winner for “The Silence of the Lambs,” will receive a TIFF Tribute Actor Award. Zhao, the director of “The Rider,” will receive the TIFF Ebert Director Award.

In the summer of 1989, less than two months after the release of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, a dramatization of racial tensions between Black and Italian Americans in Brooklyn, Yusuf Hawkins was shot to death for being a Black boy in a white neighborhood just a few miles from the film's Bedford-Stuyvesant setting. Sixteen years old, Hawkins was the victim of an impromptu mob in Bensonhurst that had gathered to attack another Black youth rumored to be dating an Italian-American girl.

Halle Berry never wastes a moment to shine for social media. The former Bond girl -- who famously played Jinx Johnson, James Bond’s American muse in the 2002 film installment “Die Another Day" -- channeled her innermost spy when she donned a similar swimsuit to the one she wore in the iconic film.

was forced to scrub this year’s edition due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Tribeca Film Festival has announced it will return in 2021.

New films from Tilda Swinton and Regina King will be headlining the Venice Film Festival this September.

Also Read: Toronto Film Festival Lineup to Include Films Directed by Regina King, Halle BerryNYFF this year will host outdoor and virtual screenings with some indoor screenings as possible as directed by state and health officials.

A damning reported about director Bryan Singer is shedding light on the production of the “X-Men” franchise.

ongoing pandemic.«The names you already know are doing brand new things this year, and there's a whole crop of exciting new names to discover,» said TIFF artistic director and co-head, Cameron Bailey.The 45th Toronto International Film Festival will open on Sept. 10 with Spike Lee's concert film,, and run through Sept.

The full film lineup for the 2020 edition of TIFF is here and it includes directorial offerings from Halle Berry, Regina King, and Viggo Mortensen.

The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled a line-up including the directorial debut of Regina King and the latest documentaries from Frederick Wiseman and Werner Herzog.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaFemale filmmakers are behind nearly half of the films that will screen at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, representing a high-water mark for the annual celebration of the best in movies and pushing the gathering tantalizingly close to achieving gender parity.The lineup includes new works by ​Roseanne Liang​ (“Shadow In The Cloud​”), Tracey Deer​ (“Beans”), Sonia Kennebeck​ (“Enemies of the State”), Chloé Zhao​ (“Nomadland”), as well as the feature

Like everything else this year, the 2020 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is looking a little different. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the film festival is undergoing some changes, starting with a reduced program and an unusual coalition with other festivals like Telluride, Venice and NYFF.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThe Toronto Film Festival (September 10-19) has revealed the lineup for its hybrid 2020 edition, which has had to be pared back due to the impact of coronavirus.Joining movies previously announced for the festival are new projects by the likes of Werner Herzog, Regina King, Francois Ozon and Naomi Kawase. Mira Nair’s TV series A Suitable Boy has been set as the festival’s closing film.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Hong Kong International Film Festival has taken the unusual decision of revealing the pictures it selected for its now canceled 44th edition. It also plans to award prizes in its competition sections, though there will be neither in-person or online screenings for the public.The festival had previously rescheduled its 44th edition from its usual slot in March, due to the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak.

Especially in his most recent works, which have increasingly taken on the qualities of essay film in their use of archive and metatext, Spike Lee has always been interested in how the history of American film and racism intersect.

Le Sorelle Macaluso, dir: Emma Dante The World To Come, dir: Mona Fastvold Nuevo Orden, dir: Michel Franco Lovers, dir: Nicole Garcia Laila in Haifa, dir: Amos Gitai Dear Comrades, dir: Andrei Konchalovsky Wife Of A Spy, dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Sun Children, dir: Majid Majidi Pieces Of A Woman, dir: Kornel Mundruczo Miss Marx, dir: Susanna Nicchiarelli Padrenostro, dir: Claudio Noce Notturno, dir: Gianfranco Rosi Never Gonna Snow Again, dirs: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert The Disciple,

Also Read: Fall Film Festivals Venice, Telluride, Toronto and New York Team Up With 'United Platform'Based on journalist Jessica Bruder’s 2017 nonfiction book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century,” the film follows Fern (McDormand), a woman who, after the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe Hong Kong Film Festival, which was due to get underway in less than four weeks on August 18, has been forced to cancel its upcoming edition after spikes of COVID-19 in the territory.The event already rescheduled from its original March dates after the virus began to spread, but had been on course to become one of the first big festivals to take place in a physical form after a swathe of cancellations over the summer.However, fest director Albert Lee