The screening schedule for the 2013 Toronto Film Festival was announced earlier today.
Twelve Years a Slave will be shown on Friday, September 6, at 6 pm, Saturday, September 7, at 11:30 am, and Saturday, September 14, at 9 pm. The film has an 18A rating, so anyone under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
For venues and tickets, visit TIFF.net.
First with Hunger and then with Shame, Steve McQueen established himself as a director of the highest order, and a filmmaker in keen pursuit of truth. Drawing on a shocking real-life story, 12 Years a Slave illuminates, like no other film before it, what it must have been like to live as an American slave.
In Saratoga Springs, New York, 1841, Solomon Northup is a free man making his living as a musician. After accepting a job offer from two men to play for a circus, he soon finds himself kidnapped, transported to the South and sold into slavery. Forced to take a new name, he is thrown together with other enslaved African Americans, each suffering the horrors of gruelling labour, daily humiliations, and families torn apart. But for Northup, there is the added nightmare of remembering the freedom and identity he so recently enjoyed.