Stars including Kate Winslet and Mark Wahlberg will be unveiling new Oscar-aiming films at an unconventional Toronto film festival over the next two weeks.
The film, directed by Francis Lee (God’s Own Country), tells the story of the underappreciated British palaeontologist Mary Anning, played by the Oscar winner Kate Winslet, in the early 19th century.
But Lee has stated that “it’s not a biopic” and is a film about women finding liberation during an oppressed time.
That means the romantic drama Ammonite, which was originally scheduled for a Cannes premiere, will now have its first screening at Toronto.