Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See will have its world premiere in Toronto before heading to Netflix in the fall. The same goes for Lulu Wang’s Amazon series Expats, starring Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, and Ji-young Yo.

The Primetime program line-up will also include Alice & Jack starring Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson, the Israeli crime drama Bad Boy, and several Canadian projects, including comedy Bria Mack Gets a Life and docu-series Black Life: Untold Stories.

Anita Lee, TIFF’s Chief Programming Officer, described this year’s Primetime program as “bigger than ever” and said it will give audiences “the exclusive and unmatched opportunity to celebrate the best new international series together, in cinema, on the big screen.”

The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to take place from September 7-17, with Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron making history as the first animated film to open the festival.

All the Light We Cannot See takes place in the midst of World War II, and it’s been described as the story of a shared secret connection between two young people, who find faith in humanity and the possibility of hope during the darkest of times.

“Over the course of a decade, this limited series interweaves the lives of Marie-Laure Leblanc, a blind French girl taking refuge with her uncle during WWII, and Werner Pfennig, a brilliant German teenager with an expertise in radio repair,” reads Netflix’s official logline.

All the Light We Cannot See stars Aria Mia Loberti as Marie-Laure LeBlanc and Louis Hofmann as Werner Pfennig, with Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, Lars Eidinger, and Andrea Deck in supporting roles.

All the Light We Cannot See will feature a total of four episodes, all written by Steven Knight and directed by Shawn Levy, who co-created the series for Netflix. Its release date has been set for November 2, and you can watch the first teaser trailer below.

Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See will have its world premiere in Toronto before heading to Netflix in the fall. The same goes for Lulu Wang’s Amazon series Expats, starring Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, and Ji-young Yo.

The Primetime program line-up will also include Alice & Jack starring Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson, the Israeli crime drama Bad Boy, and several Canadian projects, including comedy Bria Mack Gets a Life and docu-series Black Life: Untold Stories.

Anita Lee, TIFF’s Chief Programming Officer, described this year’s Primetime program as “bigger than ever” and said it will give audiences “the exclusive and unmatched opportunity to celebrate the best new international series together, in cinema, on the big screen.”

The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to take place from September 7-17, with Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron making history as the first animated film to open the festival.

All the Light We Cannot See takes place in the midst of World War II, and it’s been described as the story of a shared secret connection between two young people, who find faith in humanity and the possibility of hope during the darkest of times.

“Over the course of a decade, this limited series interweaves the lives of Marie-Laure Leblanc, a blind French girl taking refuge with her uncle during WWII, and Werner Pfennig, a brilliant German teenager with an expertise in radio repair,” reads Netflix’s official logline.

All the Light We Cannot See stars Aria Mia Loberti as Marie-Laure LeBlanc and Louis Hofmann as Werner Pfennig, with Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, Lars Eidinger, and Andrea Deck in supporting roles.

All the Light We Cannot See will feature a total of four episodes, all written by Steven Knight and directed by Shawn Levy, who co-created the series for Netflix. Its release date has been set for November 2, and you can watch the first teaser trailer below.