TIFF 2013 Preview: 16 Features Seeking the Big Sale

We Gotta Get Out of This Place
We are expecting great things from Simon and Zeke Hawkins's feature directorial debut Southern teen crime tale produced by Rough & Tumble's Justin X. Duprie and Brian Udovich (The Wackness, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, A Necessary Death).

Life of Crime
Daniel Schechter's third feature (Goodbye Baby, Supporting Characters) is this kidnapping caper comedy based on Elmore Leonard's The Switch.Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, Isla Fisher, Will Forte, and Tim Robbins star.

The Railway Man
Colin Firth stars alongside Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, and Jeremy Irvine in this true story of a man forced into railway labor by the Japanese during World War 2. This is the fourth feature from Aussie director Jonathan Teplitzky (Better Than Sex, Gettin' Square, Burning Man).

All Is By My Side
12 Years A Slave writer John Ridley (but he also wrote Redtails) marks his second feature directorial outing after 1997's Cold Around the Heart with this Jimi Hendrix bio-pic starring Outkast's Andre3000 (Andre Benjamin) as the guitar hero. Imogen Poots and Hayley Atwell co-star.

The Double
Comedian Richard Ayoade's sophomore follow-up to Submarine is this Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska starring adaptation of Dostoevsky's tale of a man and his doppelganger.

Palo Alto
Granddaughter of Francis and daughter of the tragically killed Gio, Gia Coppola must have plenty of her own wild stories to tell. Instead she makes her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of tangled short stories by James Franco set in the eponymous city. Franco stars alongside Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer, Val Kilmer, Nat Wolff, Zoe Levin, and Claudia Levy.

Under the Skin
There has already been quite a bit of buzz about the nudity in Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi thriller that stars Scarlett Johansson as an alien seductress looking for human prey. Suddenly alien abduction doesn't sound all that bad.

Can a Song Save Your Life
Judd Apatow and Anthony Bregman teamed up to produce Once director John Carney's latest music industry drama about a young singer and a washed-up producer. Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld, Adam Levine, Yasiin Bey, Cee Lo Green, and Catherine Keener star.

Enemy
Incendies director Denis Villeneuve's second feature at TIFF (WB's Prisoners) is this doppelganger drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, and Isabella Rossellini.

The F Word
Canadian national treasure Michael Dowse (Fubar, It's All Gone Peter Tong, Goon) returns to TIFF with rom-com about being more than best friends. Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Megan Park, Adam Driver, Mackenzie Davis, and Rafe Spall star.

The Husband
The latest from prolific Canadian director Bruce McDonald (The Tracey Fragments) is this black comedy about an ad exec whose wife goes to prison for sex with a 14-year-old.