TORONTO -- Toronto International Film Festival organizers said Tuesday that the Hilary Swank starrer "Red Dust" and Taylor Hackford's Ray Charles biography "Ray" will receive world premieres at the festival in September.

Organizers also tapped a number of European movies that bowed at the Festival de Cannes for North American premieres in Toronto.

Noah Cowan, making his maiden appearance before the media after being named co-director of the Toronto festival, praised Jamie Foxx's performance as Charles in "Ray," the Universal Pictures release that follows the life of Charles from his roots in Georgia to his triumphs as a gospel, country, jazz and orchestral music performer.

Tom Hooper's "Red Dust," which stars Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor ("Dirty Pretty Things"), is a suspense drama surrounding South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

The "Ray" and "Red Dust" premieres will take place at Roy Thomson Hall, as will the North American premiere of Zhang Yimou's "House of Flying Daggers," for which Sony Pictures Classics acquired the North American rights at Cannes.

In the Masters sidebar, Toronto has booked North American premieres for Benoit Jacquot's "A tout de suite," Chantal Akerman's "Demain on demenage," Jean-Luc Godard's "Notre musique" and Patricio Guzman's "Salvador Allende," all of which debuted at Cannes.

Toronto also announced six films for its Contemporary World Cinema program, including four that first bowed in Cannes: Lucrecia Martel's "The Holy Girl"; Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland's first feature, "Somersault"; U.S. director Nicole Kassell's debut feature, "The Woodsman," starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick; and another first film, French director Eleonore Faucher's "Brodeuses."

The other two world-cinema titles are Eytan Fox's "Walk on Water," from Israel, and Susanne Bier's "Brothers," from Denmark.

Toronto will put the spotlight on South Africa in its National Cinema sidebar, leading off with high-profile special presentation screenings for Terry George's "Hotel Rwanda" and Darrell Roodt's "Yesterday."

Other South African movies coming to Toronto include Zola Maseko's "Drum," which stars Taye Diggs as a hard-living writer living in 1950s Johannesburg; Ian Gabriel's "Forgiveness"; Teddy Mattera's comedy "Max and Mona"; and Ramadan Suleman's "Zulu Love Letter."

Rounding out the National Cinema spotlight are Mark Bamford's "Cape of Good Hope," Mickey Dube's short film "Mozart -- The Music of the Violin" and Tony Strasborg's documentary "A South African Love Story -- Walter and Albertina Sisulu," about two leaders of the African National Congress.

Toronto also booked for Special Presentation screenings world premieres of John Sayles' "Silver City," a drama about American politics starring Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss and Danny Huston; and Roger Michell's "Enduring Love," a screen adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel. Rounding out the section are Dylan Kidd's "P.S.," featuring Laura Linney as the seducer of a potential student at Columbia University; and Todd Solondz's "Palindromes," a film about a 12-year-old girl determined to become pregnant that gets its North American premiere. The movie's cast includes Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin and Chris Penn.

The Visions sidebar will feature Francoise Romand's "Theme Je," receiving its international premiere, and North American premieres for Lukas Moodysson's "A Hole in My Heart," Shinya Tsukamoto's "Vital" and Lisandro Alonso's "The Dead," and a Canadian premiere for Jonathan Caouette's debut film, "Tarnation."

Organizers of the festival, set to run Sept. 9-18, said they will make additional announcements about the lineup in the coming weeks.