The films by best friends George Clooney and Brad Pitt will be the highlight of the star-studded line-up of the Toronto International Film Festival this year.

Opening on September 8, organizers of this year’s Toronto Film Fest announce that Bennett Miller’s “Moneyball” starring Pitt and “The Descendants” featuring Clooney will have their world premieres in the eleven-day event.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the Canadian film gathering has served as an essential venue for highly acclaimed films naming “Black Swan” and “The King’s Speech” as among the A-list films that had had their early stops at the Toronto festival.

Other films featured in the film fest include “360” starring Jude Law and Anthony Hopkins; “Butter” by Kim Field Smith starring Jennifer Garner and Marc Forster’s “Machine Gun Preacher”.

The festival also listed North American movies including “A Dangerous Method” starring Viggo Mortensen and “The Ides of March” again starring Clooney and Ryan Gosling.

Check out the line-up at 2011 Toronto International Film Festival compiled by Inside Movies:

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“Albert Nobbs” : Rodrigo Garcia, World Premiere, starring Glenn Close.
“Butter” : Jim Field Smith, World Premiere, starring Jennifer Garner, Ty Burrell, Olivia Wilde, Yara Shahidi, Hugh Jackman
“A Dangerous Method” : David Cronenberg, North American Premiere, starring Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightley.
“A Happy Event” : Rémi Bezancon, World Premiere; starring Louise Bourgoin.
“The Ides of March” : George Clooney, North American Premiere; starring Ryan Gosling George Clooney, Paul Giamatti and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
“The Lady” : Luc Besson, World Premiere; Starring Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis.
“Moneyball”: Bennett Miller, World Premiere, starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill.
“Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding” : Bruce Beresford, World Premiere; starring Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Chace Crawford, and Elizabeth Olsen.
“Take this Waltz” : Sarah Polley, World Premiere; starring Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen and Luke Kirby.
“W.E.” : Madonna, North American Premiere; starring Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, James D’Arcy, Oscar Isaac.

Special Presentations
“11 Flowers”: Wang Xiaoshuai, World Premiere; starring Liu Wenqing, Wang Jinchun and Yen Ni.
“50/50”: Jonathan Levine, World Premiere; starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anjelica Huston. Written by Will Riser and directed by Jonathan Levine.
“360”: Fernando Meirelles, World Premiere; starring Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz and Ben Foster.
“The Artist”: Michel Hazanavicius, Toronto Premiere; starring Malcolm McDowell, James Cromwell and John Goodman.
“Americano”: Mathieu Demy, World Premiere, starring Salma Hayek and Géraldine Chaplin.
“Anonymous” Roland Emmerich, World Premiere, starring David Thewlis and Vanessa Redgrave.
“A Better Life”: Cédric Kahn, World Premiere; Starring Guillaume Canet, Leïla Bekhti and Slimane Ketthabi.
“Burning Man” Jonathan Teplitzky, World Premiere; starring Matthew Goode and Rachel Griffiths.
“Chicken with Plums” : Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, North American Premiere
“Coriolanus” : Ralph Fiennes, North American Premiere, starring Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler
“Countdown” Huh Jong-ho, World Premiere,
“Dark Horse” Todd Solondz, North American Premiere, starring Justin Bartha, Selma Blair
“The Deep Blue Sea” Terence Davies, World Premiere, starring Rachel Weisz, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Hiddleston.
“The Descendants” Alexander Payne, World Premiere
“Drive” Nicolas Winding Refn, Canadian Premiere, starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac
“Elles” Malgoska Szumowska, World Premiere, starring Juliette Binoche, Joanna Kulig, Anaïs Demoustier.
“The Eye of the Storm” Fred Schepisi, International Premiere
“Friends With Kids”: Jennifer Westfeldt, World Premiere
“Habemus Papam”: Nanni Moretti, North American Premiere
“Headhunters” Morten Tyldum, North American Premiere
“Hick Derick” Martini, World Premiere
“The Hunter” Daniel Nettheim, World Premiere
“Jeff, Who Lives at Home”: Jay and Mark Duplass, World Premiere
“Killer Joe” William Friedkin, North American Premiere
“Like Crazy” Drake Doremus, International Premiere
“Machine Gun Preacher”: Marc Forster, World Premiere
“Martha Marcy May Marlene”: Sean Durkin, Canadian Premiere
“Melancholia” Lars von Trier, North American Premiere
“The Oranges” Julian Farino, World Premiere
“Pearl Jam Twenty”: Cameron Crowe, World Premiere
“Rampart” Oren Moverman, World Premiere
“Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” Lasse Hallstrom, World Premiere
“Shame” Steve McQueen, North American Premiere
“A Simple Life” Ann Hui, Hong Kong, North American Premiere
“The Skin I Live In” Pedro Almodóvar, North American Premiere
“Take Shelter” Jeff Nichols, Canadian Premiere
“Ten Year” Jamie Linden, World Premiere
“Trishna” Michael Winterbottom, World Premiere
“Twixt” Francis Ford Coppola, World Premiere
“Tyrannosaur” Paddy Considine, Canadian Premiere
“We Need to Talk About Kevin” Lynne Ramsay, North American Premiere
“Where Do We Go Now?” Nadine Labaki, International Premiere
“Woman in the Fifth” Pawel Pawlikowski, World Premiere

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