While UK and Irish films have long struggled for traction at the major European festivals Berlin, Cannes and Venice, this year’s Toronto International Film Festival is typically awash with them.
World premieres at TIFF include Sally El Hosaini’s opening night film The Swimmers; Richard Eyre’s Allelujah, a drama about old age featuring Judi Dench; Lena Dunham’s 13th-century set Catherine Called Birdy; Frances O’Connor’s Emily Brontë biopic Emily; Shekhar Kapur’s cross-cultural romantic comedy What’s Love Got To Do With
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