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

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.

Also having its world premiere is the Canadian drama Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves by 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 Goldstone stars 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 by Bertrand Bonello will open the program, which also includes:

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