Kidman film to debut in Toronto

The Toronto festival announced many of the titles Tuesday that will be screened at the event Sept. 9-19.

Affleck directs and stars in the heist tale “The Town,” playing a thief who falls for a bank manager his crew takes hostage on their last job.

Other actors-turned-directors premiering films at the festival include Robert Redford with the Abraham Lincoln assassination tale “The Conspirator,” starring James McAvoy, Robin Wright Penn, Kevin Kline and Evan Rachel Wood; David Schwimmer with “Trust,” featuring Clive Owen and Catherine Keener as parents of a teenage girl raped by a pedophile she met online; and Emilio Estevez, who directs his father, Martin Sheen, in “The Way,” a drama about a father on a pilgrimage after his son's death.

The festival also features Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as parents grieving over the death of their son in John Cameron Mitchell's “Rabbit Hole”; De Niro and Edward Norton in John Curran's “Stone,” about a prison inmate plotting his release by manipulating a parole officer; Reeves in Malcolm Venville's “Henry's Crime,” about a man wrongly convicted for bank robbery who decides to pull a heist for real after he's released from prison; and Portman as a ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's “Black Swan,” a psychological thriller set behind the scenes at a dance company.

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