'Page Eight' to shut Toronto fest Gala

"Page Eight""Trespass""Hysteria""Winnie"TORONTO -- Author-helmer David Hare's modern spy thriller "Page Eight" (BBC/PBS), starring Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz and Rob Fiennes, will close the Toronto Film Festival's Gala slate, it had been introduced Tuesday.The fest's final major announcement revealed eight Galas and 18 Special offers Presentations, along with the Contemporary World Cinema (51 game titles, 18 world preems), Visions, Wavelengths and Future Forecasts programs.The Gala screen will world preem Nick Murphy's mental thriller "The Awakening," starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West, Joel Schumacher's home-invasion chiller "Trespass," with Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman, Tanya Wexler's comedy concerning the invention from the vibrator "Hysteria," with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy, Gary McKendry's special-operations actioner "Killer Elite," with Jason Statham, and Darrell J. Roodt's "Winnie," starring Jennifer Hudson as Winnie Mandela. Christophe Honore's "Beloved," receiving its worldwide preem, and Marc Forster's formerly introduced (inside a different program) "Machine Gun Preacher" also join the Gala slate.Special Presentations adds eight world preems, including Anne Fontaine's "My Worst Nightmare," Ian Fitzgibbon's "Dying of the Super hero," Gianni Amelio's "The Very First Guy," Agnieszka Holland's "In Darkness," Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's "Burglars," Pankaj Kapur's "Seasons of affection,Inch Mathieu Kassovitz' "Rebellion" and Geoffrey Fletcher's "Purple and Daisy."U.S. game titles world preeming in Contemporary World Cinema include Lynn Shelton's "Your Sister's Sister," Nancy Savoca's "Union Square" and Bryan Wizemann's "Think about Me." The worldwide cinema program also world preems Ridha Behi's "Always Brando," Joao Canijo's "Bloodstream of my Bloodstream," Maggie Peren's "Colour of the Sea," Faouzi Bensaidi's "Dying available," Nacho Vigalondo's "Extraterrestrial," Ozcan Alper's "Future Lasts Forever," Jose Henrique Fonseca's "Heleno," Stefano Chiantini's "Islands," Alejandro Brugues' "Juan from the Dead," Christophe Van Rompaey's "Lena," Avie Luthra's "Lucky," "Akin Omotoso's "Guy on the floor," Ribhu Dasgupta's "Michael," Mohamed Asli's "Rough Hands" and Xiaolu Guo's "UFO in her own Eyes."Visions' 18 boundary-pushing game titles range from the world preems of Matias Meyer's "The Final Christeros," Toshiako Toyoda's "Monsters Club" and Joaquim Sapinho's "This Side of Resurrection." The fest's Wavelengths present five programs of experimental film and video work, for example Tacita Dean's portrait from the late Cy Twombly, "Edwin Parker," Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Empire," Ben Rivers' Balouis Art Prize-champion "Sack Barrow," James Benning's "Twenty Cigarettes" and Mark Lewis' "Black Mirror in the National Gallery."Future Forecasts, the fest's city-wide program of moving-image art, will release the planet preems of James Franco and Gus Van Sant's collaborative "Reminiscences of Idaho (1991, 2010 and 2011)," multiple projects by Mr. Brainwash (a.k.a. Thierry Guetta), Peter Lynch's "Zoysia Days," Nicholas and Sheila Pye's "Light like a Feather, Stiff like a Board," David Rokeby's "Plot Against Time," and Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatsky's "Road Movie."The Toronto Film Festival run Sept. 8-18. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com