The long awaited film adaptation of Sunset Song, directed by Terence Davies, will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
Shot in Scotland and Luxembourg last year, and starring Agyness Deyn as Chris Guthrie, it will be shown for the first time at the Canadian festival, which runs from September 10 to 20.
The new version of Scottish author Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 classic novel also stars Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie.
The movie was expected by some to appear at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June but it was not ready to be shown.
It was shot on locations in Aberdeenshire last year as well as New Zealand, to capture the March harvest season, followed by the shooting of interiors at Filmland in Luxembourg, which had contributed financially to the production.
The book, regarded as one of the greatest Scottish novels of the last century, tells the story of Chris Guthrie growing up in fictional Kinraddie in the Mearns in the north-east of Scotland.
The novel forms part of the trilogy A Scots Quair.
It was previously made into a television series by the BBC in 1971 and has also been produced as a stage play.
Creative Scotland, the national arts and film funding body, has given £450,000 towards the film's budget.
The 40th annual Toronto International Film Festival will open with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Ridley Scott’s The Martian, starring Matt Damon, and Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next were among the world premieres unveiled in the Festival’s first major announcement.
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