Deadline: Toronto Sets Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy And The Heron’ As Opening Film

Toronto International Film Festival has announced Japanese animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron as its opening night film.

Several films from Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli have screened at Toronto - including The Red Turtle (2016), The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2014), The Wind Rises (2013), From Up on Poppy Hill (2011), Spirited Away (2002), and Princess Mononoke (1999) - but it will be the first time a Japanese film or an animated film has opened the festival.