Opening domestically on the Lunar New Year, Jan. 28 (day - and - date in U.S.),
the film competes head - to - head with» Buddies in India,» the directing debut of popular comedian / martial artist Wang Baoqiang.
The 2017 edition will also give world bows to two U.K.
films, Michael Pearce's Beast and Clio Barnard's Dark River, led by The Affair star Ruth Wilson; and three
films from France: Xavier Legrand's Custody,
headed to Toronto after
competing in Venice, Joan Chemla's If You Saw His Heart and Morrocan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch's Razzia, which revisits the 1942 classic Casablanca.