

Gillespie’s comedy drama focuses on the recent Wall Street scandal that pitted amateur investors against hedge fund billionaires over stocks in videogame retailer GameStop. It was released locally and in several other Asian territories in August. His latest is produced by Climax Studio, the company behind Netflix hits D.P. Um won best new director at Korea’s Daejong Film Awards with 2016’s Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned.

Survivors gather at the last remaining apartment building but swelling numbers threaten its original inhabitants, who adopt extreme measures to defend themselves. Squid Game star Lee Byung-hun and Park Seo-joon from upcoming The Marvels lead this disaster thriller set in the aftermath of an earthquake in Seoul. The film led the box office when released by Toho in Japan on July 14, despite a teaser poster being the only piece of marketing ahead of release. While several Studio Ghibli films - including The Wind Rises, Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke - have previously screened at TIFF, this will be the first Japanese or animated film to ever open the festival. Produced by Studio Ghibli and written by Miyazaki, the story follows a teenage boy who meets a talking grey heron and enters a magical world through an abandoned tower in his new town.

Legendary Japanese animation director Miyazaki returns with what will likely be his final film in a career that includes the iconic My Neighbour Totoro and Oscar-winning Spirited Away.
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