Four of the top stars of Hispano-American cinema ?
Soledad Villamil,
Penélope Cruz,
Gael García Bernal and
Javier Bardem ? are attending the
37th Toronto International Film Festival, along with one of the most prominent filmmakers internationally,
Juan Antonio Bayona, to present their latest film projects.
Everybody Has a Plan (Todos Tenemos un Plan) (2012),
No (2012),
Venuto al Mundo (2012),
To the Wonder (2012) and
The Impossible (Lo Imposible) (2012) are competing to be top award-winners at the Canadian event. The Festival, which had its first edition in 1976, will get underway on September 6, running through the 16th. More than 300 films from more than 60 countries will be presented at Toronto.
Argentine actress
Soledad Villamil is going to Toronto with the thriller
Everybody Has a Plan (Todos Tenemos un Plan) (2012), starring
Viggo Mortensen. This film is about how Agustín takes on the identity of his twin brother after his death. This decision will take him into the criminal world in which the deceased brother operated.
Everybody Has a Plan is a Spanish-Argentine co-production directed by
Anna Pitterbarg.
For her part,
Penélope Cruz, who has already been nominated for awards twice ?
Volver (2006) and
Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona (2008) ? at previous
Toronto Film Festivals, will be appearing at the festival with
Venuto al Mundo (2012). In the new film, she plays a mother of a boy who lost his father in the Balkans? War. Mother and son will take a journey of discovery to Sarajevo. Spanish presence in the film is rounded out by
Juan Carlos Vellido.
With the award it received at the
Directors? Fortnight at the last Cannes Film Festival,
No (2012), set in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship in the late 1980s, will now be presented in Toronto.
Gael García Bernal leads the cast of this production between Chile and Mexico, playing an advertising executive who prepares a campaign to put and end to Pinochet?s regime.
One of the most eagerly anticipated titles is the new
Terence Malick film
To the Wonder (2012), starring
Javier Bardem. The Madrid actor has previously received a
Best Supporting Actor award at Toronto for the part he played in
No Country for Old Men (2007).
Malick?s film, also slated for the
Official Section at the Venice Film Festival, is about a couple whose loveless marriage is filled with tension to the extent that it affects their daughter.
Finally, another film with high expectations comes from the director of
The Orphanage (El Orfanato) (2007),
Juan Antonio Bayona, with his second feature film,
The Impossible (Lo Imposible) (2012). Bayona?s latest work recreates the tsunami that devastated South-East Asia in 2004 and stars
Naomi Watts and
Ewan McGregor, with participation from
Marta Etura and
Geraldine Chaplin.
The complete line-up of films at this year?s
Toronto International Film Festival has not yet been publicised. Nonetheless, from the first announced so far, there is every indication that numerous Ibero-American countries will be very well represented.
