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Natalie Portman's Jackie Kennedy film, new Zacharias Kunuk tale make TIFF's Platform lineup

The Jacqueline Kennedy biopic Jackie, starring Natalie Portman, and Canadian filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk's kidnapping-murder tale Maliglutit will compete for a $25,000 jury prize at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, which established its Platform program to champions 'director's cinema from around the world.'

Platform program, introduced in 2015, 'champions director's cinema from around the world'

Natalie Portman stars in the upcoming biopic Jackie, which chronicles the week in the life of the former First Lady after her husband's assassination. (TIFF)

The Jacqueline Kennedy biopic Jackie,starring Natalie Portman, will compete for a $25,000 jury prize at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

The Pablo Larrain film which also stars Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, and Billy Crudup follows the first lady after U.S. President John F. Kennedy is murdered.

It's competing in the festival's international Platform program, which also includes the world premiere of Canadian Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk's Maliglutit(Searchers), a kidnapping-murder tale set in Nunavut, circa 1913.

Zacharias Kunuk's kidnapping-murder tale Maliglutit (Searchers), set in Nunavut circa 1913, will have its world premiere at TIFF. (TIFF)

Also having its world premiere is the Canadian drama Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Gravesby Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie. It follows four 20-somethings from Quebec who engage in vandalism.

The second-annual Toronto Platform Prize "champions director's cinema from around the world."

A three-person international jury will announce the winner on the last day of the fest, which runs Sept. 8 to 18. The jury will be announced in the coming weeks.

Other films in the Platform program include the U.S. coming-of-age story Moonlight,directed by Barry Jenkins. It stars Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, and Janelle Monae, among others.

The Australian crime thriller Goldstonestars Jacki Weaver in a tale of an indigenous detective on a missing persons case in the outback.

Quebec star Anne Dorval is in the cast of the France/Belgium drama Heal the Living(Reparer les vivants), about an accident involving three young surfers.

The France/Germany/Belgium co-production Nocturama, Bertrand Bonello's provocative film about a group of young, multiracial radicals who stage terrorist attacks in Paris, will open the Platform program at TIFF 2016. (TIFF)

The France/Germany/Belgium co-production Nocturamaby Bertrand Bonello will open the program, which also includes:

  • the France/Japan/Belgium co-production Daguerrotypeby Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  • Bhutan/Hong Kong's Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Waitby Khyentse Norbu
  • Belgium's Homeby Fien Troch
  • the U.K.'s Lady Macbethby William Oldroyd
  • and the Netherlands/Belgium/Germany/Jordan co-production Layla M.by Mijke de Jong.