TORONTO: The 39th Toronto International Film Festival will feature a host of Hollywood favorites when it opens next month, with actors including Robert Downey Jr. and Al Pacino expected to attend.

Widely considered the kick-off to Oscar season, the festival will show 285 feature films, 143 of which will be world premieres. The festival unveiled its guest list and full program recently.

Downey will be on hand for the showing of David Dobkin’s “The Judge,” which will be among the films screening on opening night. Downey plays a big-city lawyer who returns home when his estranged father, a small-town judge played by Robert Duvall, is accused of murder.

“The Humbling” will also be on the opening night’s roster. Adapted from the Philip Roth novel, the film stars Pacino as an aged actor who embarks on an affair with a much younger woman.

Noah Baumbach, Alan Rickman and Chris Rock are among filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto.