The 2013 Toronto International Film Festival has announced its lineup of Canadian features and shorts, including new work from directors Xavier Dolan and Sarah Polley and the debut of David Cronenberg's son, Brandon Cronenberg.
Among the films announced at a press conference on Wednesday is Antiviral, the debut of Brandon Cronenberg and a film whose subject matter hearkens back to the creepiest early films of its director's father.
It features a clinic that caters to obsessed fans by selling viruses harvested from sick celebrities.
Laurence Anyways is the third film from Dolan, whose first two films - I Killed My Mother and Heartbeats - made him the enfant terrible of Canadian cinema.
Stories We Tell was written and directed by actress-turned-director Polley (Away From Her, Take This Waltz), and features Polley interviewing a family of storytellers who offer contradictory answers to the same questions.
Other films include Kate Melville's Picture Day, Bruce Sweeney's The Crimes of Mike Recket and Rob Stewart's documentary Revolution.
TIFF also announced 44 Canadian films in its Short Cuts Canada program of short films.
Drawn from 700 submissions, the shorts include Bydlo, an interpretation of a section from Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
