Ron Howard’s ‘Eden’ Joins 2024 Toronto Film Festival Lineup

Ron Howard’s survival thriller Eden The film’s world premiere is scheduled for September at the Toronto Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday.

Edenfrom Imagine Entertainment, starring Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby, Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas and Daniel Brühl and is based on true events and will be released Tetris writer Noah Pink. The film will be shown as a gala at Roy Thomson Hall.

Toronto also added world premieres for Anderson .Paak’s K-pops; ShepherdsThrough Antigone director Sophie Deraspe; and Superboys of Malegaon, by Indian director Reema Kagt, which will be screened as a gala by Amazon MGM Studios. The film based on the life of Nasir Shaikh follows an aspiring filmmaker who joins a group of friends to make a film for his city, Malegaon.

K-pops marks the directorial debut of Grammy Award-winning artist .Paak, starring Yvette Nicole Brown and rapper Jonnie “Dumbfoundead” Park. The dramatic comedy portrays a washed-up Los Angeles musician who hopes to revive his career by joining a band for a K-Pop competition show in Seoul, only to discover that his long-lost son could be leading one of the country’s hottest new groups.

Shepherds is a book adaptation of the Canadian novel Are you coming here, recovery man?in which a young advertising executive trades his life in Montreal for a life as a shepherd in France, discovering that pastoral joy comes only through hard work.

The other announcement Tuesday is a world premiere for John Crowley’s love story We live in timestarring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. StudioCanal is responsible for the feature film under the direction of Crowley, the director of the romantic drama Brooklyn and Garfield’s breakthrough role Boy AHe will direct from a screenplay by playwright Nick Payne. We live in time is about a couple whose lives change through a chance encounter. They fall in love, build a house, start a family and are confronted with difficult truths.

Toronto previously announced that Cate Blanchett will receive the TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award, David Cronenberg will receive the Norman Jewison Career Achievement Award and Oscar-nominated actress Amy Adams will receive the TIFF Tribute Performer Award.

Previous winners of the Tribute Awards include Jessica Chastain, Roger Deakins, Colman Domingo, Brendan Fraser, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Joaquin Phoenix, Taika Waititi, Michelle Yeoh and Chloé Zhao.