Toronto International Film Festival announces scaled down 2020 lineup
(WorldNews Entertainment)

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced its full feature-film lineup for the pandemic-truncated 2020 event. While the 50 films are a fraction of the festival’s usual lineup (last year there were 245), organizers stress there is a mix of male and female filmmakers, new and established directors, Black and Indigenous and Canadian voices, as well as films from around the world. If any group or region is underrepresented it may be Africa, which has only two films in the lineup, and those are co-productions with European and other nations. Even so, there is much to get excited for in the lineup. Werner Herzog and his Into the Inferno co-director Clive Oppenheimer have a new...