The TIFF Primetime selection of international series brings Zach Baylin and Kate Susman’s crime drama Black Rabbit starring Jude Law and Jason Ba
The TIFF Primetime selection of international series brings Zach Baylin and Kate Susman’s crime drama Black Rabbit starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman as brothers, and Wayward, Netflix’s original Canadian thriller about a teen therapeutic facility from Mae Martin and Ryan Scott starring Martin, Sarah Gadon, and Toni Collette.
Six world premieres among a roster of 10 shows includes Pål Jackman and Åse Kathrin Vuolab’s Norwegian class drama A Sámi Wedding, and FX’s The Lowdown from Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo starring executive producer Ethan Hawke as a citizen journalist.
There are North American premieres of Italian maestro and TIFF Luminaries recipient Marco Bellocchio’s HBO series Portobello – The Fall Of Enzo Tortora, which world-premieres in Venice and tells of a TV host accused of belonging to the Camorra; and Balázs Lengyel’s Ottoman epic Rise Of The Raven produced by Robert Lantos.
TIFF runs September 4-14. Primetime selections appear in alphabetical order below.
A Sámi Wedding (Nor)
Åse Kathrin Vuolab, Pål Jackman
World premiere
Black Rabbit (US)
Zach Baylin, Kate Susman
World premiere
Gandhi (India)
Sameer Nair, Hansal Mehta
World premiere
Origin: The Story Of The Basketball Africa League (Rwa-UK-US)
Richard Brown, Tebogo Malope
World premiere
Portobello – The Fall Of Enzo Tortora (It-Fr)
Marco Bellocchio
International premiere
Reunion (UK)
William Mager, Luke Snellin
North American premiere
Rise Of The Raven (Hun-Austria-Ger)
Balázs Lengyel, Robert Dornhelm
North American Premiere
The Lowdown (US)
Sterlin Harjo
World premiere
The Savage (Iran)
Houman Seyyedi
International premiere
Wayward (Can)
Mae Martin, Ryan Scott
World premiere.
TIFF also announced its Short Cuts programme on Thursday, which includes Dust To Dreams directed by Idris Elba and starring the British singer Seal, and The Contestant featuring David Hasselhoff.
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