Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its first lineup of films to debut at the festival. Coming on board for its world premiere is Marielle Heller's 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' starring Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers, the beloved educator and children's TV personality. Todd Philip's 'Joker' also features on the released lineup as well as DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studios' 'Abominable' ahead of its September 27, theater release date. Out of the showing films are 29 world premieres, 6 international premieres (films that debuted in the U.S.), 13 North American premieres and 8 Canadian premieres. For the first time in TIFF history, 50% of the gala films announced are directed or co-directed by women and also for the first time in the history of cinema, a Canadian documentary will open the festival. Hollywood A-listers such as Tom Hanks, Brie Larson, Nicole Kidman, Christian Bale, Eddie Murphy and Jamie Foxx are expected to attend, thanks to their starred in pictures, which made the cut on the first lineup list. The festival will run from September 5-15. Below are the announced films coming to the festival. GALAS 2019 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Marielle Heller | USA World Premiere Abominable Jill Culton | USA World Premiere American Woman Semi Chellas | Canada Canadian Premiere Blackbird Roger Michell | United Kingdom World Premiere Clemency Chinonye Chukwu | USA International Premiere Ford v Ferrari James Mangold | USA Canadian Premiere The Goldfinch John Crowley | USA World Premiere Harriet Kasi Lemmons | USA World Premiere Hustlers Lorene Scafaria | USA World Premiere Joker Todd Phillips | USA North American Premiere Just Mercy Destin Daniel Cretton | USA World Premiere   *Opening Night Film* Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band Daniel Roher | Canada World Premiere Ordinary Love Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn | United Kingdom World Premiere *Closing Night Film* Radioactive Marjane Satrapi | United Kingdom World Premiere The Sky Is Pink Shonali Bose | India World Premiere The Song of Names François Girard | Canada World Premiere True History of the Kelly Gang Justin Kurzel | Australia World Premiere Western Stars Thom Zimny, Bruce Springsteen | USA World Premiere   SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2019 A Herdade Tiago Guedes | Portugal North American Premiere Bad Education Cory Finley | USA World Premiere Coming Home Again Wayne Wang | USA/South Korea World Premiere Dolemite Is My Name Craig Brewer | USA World Premiere Ema Pablo Larraín | Chile North American Premiere Endings, Beginnings Drake Doremus | USA World Premiere Frankie Ira Sachs | France/Portugal North American Premiere The Friend Gabriela Cowperthwaite | USA World Premiere Greed Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom World Premiere Guest of Honour Atom Egoyan | Canada North American Premiere Heroic Losers (La odisea de los giles) Sebastian Borensztein | Argentina/Spain International Premiere Honey Boy Alma Har’el | USA International Premiere Hope Gap William Nicholson | United Kingdom World Premiere How to Build a Girl Coky Giedroyc | United Kingdom World Premiere   *Opening Special Presentations Film* I Am Woman Unjoo Moon | Australia World Premiere Jojo Rabbit Taika Waititi | USA World Premiere Judy Rupert Goold | United Kingdom Canadian Premiere Knives Out Rian Johnson | USA World Premiere La Belle Époque Nicolas Bedos | France North American Premiere The Laundromat Steven Soderbergh | USA North American Premiere The Lighthouse Robert Eggers | USA North American Premiere Marriage Story Noah Baumbach | USA Canadian Premiere Military Wives Peter Cattaneo | United Kingdom World Premiere Motherless Brooklyn Edward Norton | USA International Premiere No.7 Cherry Lane Yonfan | Hong Kong North American Premiere The Other Lamb Malgorzata Szumowska | Belgium/Ireland/USA World Premiere Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar | Spain Canadian Premiere The Painted Bird Václav Marhoul | Czech Republic/Ukraine/Slovakia North American Premiere Parasite (Gisaengchung) Bong Joon-ho | South Korea Canadian Premiere Pelican Blood (Pelikanblut) Katrin Gebbe | Germany/Bulgaria North American Premiere The Personal History of David Copperfield Armando Iannucci | United Kingdom World Premiere Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) Céline Sciamma | France Canadian Premiere The Report Scott Z. Burns | USA International Premiere Saturday Fiction (Lan Xin Da Ju Yuan) Lou Ye | China North American Premiere The Two Popes Fernando Meirelles | USA/United Kingdom/Italy/Argentina Canadian Premiere Uncut Gems Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | USA International Premiere Weathering With You Makoto Shinkai | Japan North American Premiere While at War (Mientras Dure La Guerra) Alejandro Amenábar | Spain/Argentina World Premiere