The 20 Most Anticipated Films Of The 2015 Toronto International Film Festival

Fall festival season is officially underway: this morning saw the cinematic version of a starter’s pistol being fired with the unveiling of “Everest” (read our review), the opening movie at the Venice Film Festival and the fall’s first Oscar contender. Venice continues on for another ten days, and our Playlist rep for the Telluride Film Festival is about to get on a plane and head to Colorado, but we’re still a week away from perhaps the biggest of them all: the Toronto International Film Festival.

Increasingly important in recent years as an Oscar launching pad, TIFF is also pure cinephile heaven, featuring literally hundreds of movies from all over the world, from giant blockbusters to tiny foreign pictures. With just seven days to go, we’ve picked out our twenty most anticipated films from the festival (mostly excluding those premiering elsewhere). Take a look below and check back from September 10th to September 20th for our verdict on all the below and much, much more.

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