Ben Wheatley's 'High-Rise' Lands in TIFF Platform Lineup

In an effort to boost worthy acquisitions titles that might otherwise pale amid Toronto's higher-profile, awards-courting titles, the festival this year added the Platform sidebar, to be juried by auteurs Zhang-ke, Claire Denis and Agnieszka Holland. READ MORE: Why the Toronto Film Festival is Adding 'Platform' Competition Sidebar "We want to provide a platform for special world cinema with strong voices and strong visions," TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey told us in an interview. "This is a way to give a significantly higher profile to strong films that come to us without big red carpet hoopla." Thus, the festival launches its slate of 12 competition titles,...

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