TORONTO - "Adoration," the latest film from Toronto-based director Atom Egoyan, will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Thursday.
The feature, about a youth who reinvents himself in cyberspace, unspooled last month at the Cannes Film Festival in France, where it competed for the prestigious Palme d'Or.
Canadian actor Scott Speedman of "Felicity" fame is among the stars of the piece, executive produced by Robert Lantos.
"The Class" ("Entre les murs"), a French film that did win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, will also have its North American debut at the Toronto festival, which runs Sept. 4 to 13.
The docudrama, about a high school in a tough neighbourhood, was the first French film to win the main prize at Cannes since "Under Satan's Sun" in 1987.
A total of 27 international films, several of them Cannes winners, were unveiled Thursday for the 33-year-old festival.
Other notables include the Italian feature "Gomorrah," which won the grand prize at Cannes for its tale of the criminal underworld in Naples.
"Lorna's Silence" ("Le Silence de Lorna"), another mob-related tale that's set in Belgium and directed by two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, won best screenplay at Cannes last month.
Catherine Deneuve, star of the family drama "A Christmas Tale" ("Un conte de Noel"), won a special prize at Cannes for her role in the film, also screening at the Toronto festival.
Among the other Cannes winners in the Toronto lineup are: "Three Monkeys," (best director for Nuri Bilge Ceylan) and "Linha de Passe" (best actress for Sandra Corveloni).
One gala presentation has been announced: "The Good, The Bad, The Weird," a "kimchi western" that is said to be South Korea's biggest budget movie ever.
