{"id":164161,"date":"2026-08-11T17:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/164161\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:26:21","slug":"martin-mcdonagh-werner-herzog-cody-fern-films-in-toronto-fest-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/164161\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin McDonagh, Werner Herzog, Cody Fern Films in Toronto Fest Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Toronto Film Festival<\/a> has unveiled a fresh round of titles to finalize its upcoming 51st edition, including Martin McDonagh<\/a>\u2019s Wild Horse Nine and Werner Herzog<\/a>\u2019s Bucking Fastard.<\/p>\n

\n\tToronto is giving Cody Fern\u2019s directorial debut, Closing Night, a world premiere, with Naomi Watts<\/a>, Sarah Paulson and Dianne Wiest starring in the Special Presentations title. There\u2019s also a first look for Peter Ho-Sun Chan\u2019s The Road Not Taken in the Special Presentations program, and a world bow for Bahman Ghobadi\u2019s Trees are Watching film in the Centrepiece section.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso in the Special Presentations program, Toronto booked an international premiere for Nanni Moretti\u2019s It Will Happen Tonight after it opens in Venice; and there\u2019s North American premieres for St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9\u2019s\u00a011th feature, Un bon petit soldat (A\u00a0Good Little Soldier), led by Alba Rohrwacher and Vincent London; and It\u2019s My Time, by Chinese director Bai Xue.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tBucking Fastard with Rooney Mara, Kate Mara.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Lena Herzog<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Special Presentations program also has Canadian premieres for Martin McDonagh\u2019s Wild Horse Nine, a\u00a0dark comedy with John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as CIA officers sent to Easter Island ahead of the 1973 coup in Chile; Werner Herzog\u2019s Bucking Fastard, the latest feature from the Grizzly Man director set for a Venice world premiere starring sisters\u00a0Kate Mara<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Rooney Mara<\/a>, along with\u00a0Orlando Bloom<\/a>\u00a0and Domhnall Gleeson<\/a>; and Neil Peart: No One\u2019s Disciple, a documentary about the late Rush drummer and lyricist from directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s also Canadian premieres for Ma\u0142gorzata Szumowska offbeat newlywed adventure The Idiot(s), starring Aimee Lou Wood and Johnny Flynn; and Guy Nattiv\u2019s Liberation, starring Carrie Coon, Lily James and Bella Ramsey.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe latest film additions to the TIFF lineup are the last announced titles for a 51st edition to feature in all 293 titles. Oscar-winning CODA filmmaker Sian Heder\u2019s upcoming feature Being Heumann will open the September event, while Yan Lanouette Turgeon\u2019s Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend, a biopic about the late Canadian racing\u00a0car driver Gilles Villeneuve, will close the annual film festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Toronto Film Festival is set to run Sept. 10 to 20. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled a fresh round of titles to finalize its upcoming 51st edition, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[52748,52749,48,19254,19255,18619],"class_list":["post-164161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-martin-mcdonagh","tag-naomi-watts","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-2026","tag-toronto-film-festival","tag-werner-herzog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}