U2, Madonna, Pearl Jam head to Toronto Film Festival

27 July 2011

by Poppy Reid

U2, Madonna and Pearl Jam will go head to head at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.

U2 will open the festival on September 8 with their documentary From The Sky Down; the first time in TIFF’s 36-year history that a screening of this nature has opened the festival.

Directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud), From The Sky Down explores U2’s seventh album Achtung Baby and the following 20 years.

Pearl Jam will also premiere their Cameron Crowe directed documentary, Twenty which uses over 1200 hours of footage that includes never before seen video of the years leading up to Pearl Jam’s formation.

Pearl Jam Twenty will show in Australia for one night only in select Hoyts, Village, and Event Cinemas on Tuesday September 20.

Madonna’s self-directed film, W.E. will make its North American debut at TIFF and according to its synopsis, it is "a romantic exploration of the mysterious connection across decades between two women confronting the consequences of desire."

The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8 – 18 2011.

Watch the preview for Twenty below.