TORONTO -- New films from James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Garner and last year's breakout star, Canadian Jacob Tremblay, are heading to the Toronto International Film Festival.
Festival organizers announced new additions to the gala and special presentation slate on Tuesday, including Cranston and Garner's "Wakefield," about a man who hides from his family in his garage attic after suffering a nervous breakdown.
Cranston also appears in "In Dubious Battle, also starring and directed by Franco, about California migratory workers who rise up against the landowners in a wage dispute. The sprawling cast includes Vincent D'Onofrio, Selena Gomez, Ed Harris, Sam Shepard and Robert Duvall.
Tremblay follows up his star-making turn in "Room" with Jordan Roberts's "Burn Your Maps," about an eight-year-old boy who becomes convinced he is actually a Mongolian goat herder. It also stars Vera Farmiga, and Virginia Madsen.
The Canadian film "(Re)Assignment," directed by Walter Hill, is a revenge tale about a double-crossed assassin featuring Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver; while Quebec's Philippe Falardeau unspools his U.S. film "The Bleeder," starring Liev Schreiber as journeyman Chuck Wepner, the boxer who inspired the billion-dollar film series "Rocky."
The festival runs Sept. 8 to 18.
Over in the Masters program, which features the latest works from masters of cinema, "Julieta" from Spain's Pedro Almodovar is an adaptation of three stories from Canadian Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. It centres on the relationship between a Madrid teacher and her beloved daughter.
That section also includes "Personal Shopper" from France's Olivier Assayas, with Kristen Stewart as a woman trying to reconnect with the spirit of her dead brother; and "Certain Women" from Kelly Reichardt, about the lives of three women in small town America. It also features Stewart, along with Laura Dern and Michelle Williams.
Other additions to the festival slate include:
-- "The Exception," directed by David Leveaux and starring Christopher Plummer as Kaiser Wilhelm II in the days following Germany's 1940 invasion of Holland.
-- "I, Daniel Blake," the Palme d'Or-winning film from Ken Loach, about an ailing handyman's battle to survive after being denied his government health allowance.
-- "Christine" directed by Antonio Campos, based on the true story of a Sarasota local news reporter who killed herself live on television.
-- The documentary "Voyage of Time: Life's Journey," directed by Terrence Malick.
