Toronto announces line-up for 2010 festival

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced its line-up for next month’s event, and a number of British directors are set to screen their films.

John Madden’s The Debt, which tells the story of three young Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission to capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal in the Sixties, will premiere, alongside Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, the real-life tale of how King George VI's attempted to overcome his nervous stammer upon taking to the throne. Mike Leigh’s Another Year and Stephen Frears’ Tamara Drewe, which both screened at Cannes, will have their North American premieres.

Richard Ayoade’s feature debut Submarine, a coming-of-age comedy drama, will be screened in the Special Presentations category, as will Rowan Joffe’s own first film, an adaptation of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock. Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham, a dramatization of the 1968 strike by female workers at the Ford Dagenham car plant, and Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, will also screen, as will Kim Longinotto’s documentary Pink Saris.

Toronto Film Festival runs from 9 – 19 September 2010. For more, click here.