Ken Loach's film won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival

As well as the Cannes Palme d'Or winner, the festival announced it would show Babel, which won best director at Cannes for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

Other Cannes entries at Toronto will include Nanni Moretti's The Caiman and Aki Kaurismaki's Lights in the Dusk.

The 31st annual festival runs from 7 to 16 September.

Some 26 international films that have already premiered at other major festivals would be brought to Toronto for a "second unveiling", festival co-director Noah Cowan said.

"They are films that have moved us, by way of their beauty, originality and overall cinematic achievement."

Red Road, the first feature from Britain's Andrea Arnold, will show at the festival following its Jury Prize win at Cannes.

Bruno Dumont's Flandres is another Cannes winner on show, having picked up the Grand Prize in the French resort last month.

Jindabyne, Australian director Ray Lawrence's follow-up to the acclaimed Lantana, features in the festival's Contemporary World Cinema section.

John Cameron Mitchell's sexually graphic Shortbus also gets a north American premiere.

The international film selections so far:

• The Wind that Shakes the Barley (directed by Ken Loach)
• Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
• The Caiman (Nanni Moretti)
• Lights in the Dusk (Aki Kaurismaki)
• These Girls (Tahani Rached)
• Bliss (Sheng Zhimin)
• Reprise (Joachim Trier)
• Flandres (Bruno Dumont)
• Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (Takashi Miike)
• Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer)
• Taxidermia (Gyorgy Palfi)
• Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako)
• Time (Kim Ki-duk)
• Red Road (Andrea Arnold)
• 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)
• Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence)
• Invisible Waves (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
• To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die (Djamshed Usmonov)
• White Palms (Szabolcs Hajdu)
• Summer Palace (Lou Ye)
• Summer '04 (Stefan Krohmer)
• The Bothersome Man (Jens Lien)
• Retrieval (Slawomir Fabicki)
• Cronica De Una Fuga (Israel Adrian Caetano)
• Slumming (Michael Glawogger)
• Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)