Overview

• TIFF’s Docs program runs Sept. 4–14 in Toronto with 23 feature documentaries from 18 countries.
• Programmer Thom Powers selected the lineup from over 1,000 submissions, including 16 world premieres, despite industry-wide budget cuts and shrinking distribution channels.
• The festival will open with Ben Proudfoot’s The Eyes of Ghana, executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground.
• Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s Cover Up on investigative journalist Seymour Hersh will make its Canadian premiere after debuting at the Venice Film Festival.
• National Geographic will distribute Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi’s LOVE+WAR about photojournalist Lynsey Addario, and Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 will make its North American debut at TIFF.