TIFF 2015: Celeb Portrait Photos

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SHOHREH AGHDASHLOO, SALMA HAYEK & ALON ABOUTBOUL

Salma Hayek, along with her Septembers of Shiraz cast members, stars in the film, which explores the lives of a secular family caught in the Iranian Revolution. "It was my second film and it was about choosing a great story," director Wayne Blair tells the Toronto Sun of his experience on the project. "This story is romantic. This was a dream project. So many young cast members stepped up."

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TOM NOONAN, JENNIFER JASON LEIGH & DAVID THEWLIS

In his first-ever stop-motion animated feature, director Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich) recruits Noonan, Leigh and Thewlis, who all lend their voices to the introspective film, which delves into the life of a motivational speaker who seeks to find meaning in his life.

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DEVIKA BHISE

The actress stars in The Man Who Knew Infinity, a biopic about groundbreaking Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

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SOHREH AGHDASHLOO

The Septembers of Shiraz star is no stranger to buzzy films – the Iranian actress was previously nominated for an Oscar for her work in House of Sand and Fog.

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KATE WINSLET

The award-winning actress, who's premiering her film The Dressmaker at the festival, stuns in head-to-toe black.

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JOEL EDGERTON, DAKOTA JOHNSON & JULIANNE NICHOLSON

The Black Mass cast are caught in a candid moment.

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SAORSIE RONAN & DOMHNALL GLEESON

Ronan and Gleeson star in the upcoming Brooklyn, a film that tells the story of a young Irish immigrant who recently arrives in New York.

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LIAM HEMSWORTH

Gale, is that you? The Hunger Games actor leaves his famed character aside to take on the very challenging role of Kate Winslet's love interest in The Dressmaker.

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ALFONSO CUARON, JONéS CUARéN GAEL GARCIA BERNAL

Bernal joins director and writer of Desierto for PEOPLE's portrait.

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EMILY BROWNING

Browning stars opposite Tom Hardy in Legend, which explores the reign of two of England's most notorious criminals.

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SARAH SILVERMAN

How pensive! The comedienne bends down for her portrait.

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DREW BARRYMORE & TONI COLLETTE

"The first time Drew and Toni met, honestly, it was magical," says Miss You Already director Catherine Hardwicke. By the looks of this playful photo, we'll have to agree.

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ALICIA VIKANDER

Vikander's touching performance in The Danish Girl is already garnering the actress plenty of Oscar buzz. The actress, who plays wife to Eddie Redmayne's Lili in the biopic, was ecstatic from the first time she read the movie script. "I so badly wanted the part," she said in a recent interview.

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MICHAEL CAINE

Youth, says Caine, shares a key message about growing older with The Hollywood Reporter: "If you're young, don't be afraid; If you're old, just be happy."

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CARY FUKUNAGA & IDRIS ELBA

Joined by the Beasts of No Nation director, Elba stops by the PEOPLE studio at TIFF to get his portrait taken. The actor, who stars in the Netflix original movie, portrays a vicious leader of a child army.

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GEOFFREY RUSH

When it comes to The Daughter actor, age is nothing but a number – especially when it comes to work. "I'm old enough now that I'm working with people who are decades younger than I am," Rush tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I still think I'm 21. You just write the rule book yourself."

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DRAKE DOREMUS, KRISTEN STEWART & NICHOLAS HOULT

"It was far less about the execution, and more about the exploration of us as human beings and what love really means," Doremus, director of Equals said in an interview at the PEOPLE, EW and InStyle photo studio.

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JOHN GOODMAN

The camera captures the Trumbo star smiling as he swings by the PEOPLE portrait studio.

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EDDIE REDMAYNE

Redmayne, who won an Oscar for his role in The Theory of Everything, attends TIFF to premiere the upcoming film The Danish Girl, which tells the story of transgender woman Lili as she becomes one of the first people to receive gender reassignment surgery.

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PAUL DANO

Looking pensive as always, the Youth star gives a memorable performance in the film, also starring Rachel Weisz and Michael Caine.

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RACHEL WEISZ

We get up close and personal with Weisz, who stars in Youth and the upcoming film The Lobster.

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BRYAN CRANSTON

"It's hard for me sometimes to step out and look at things objectively, because I get into it so subjectively and that's where I live," says Cranston, who stars in Trumbo as famed blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

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DANIEL BRUHL

The actor stars opposite Emma Watson in Colonia, a film about two lovers looking to reunite again after Bruhl's character is taken away by a cult.

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AGNYESS DEYN

Deyn gives her best pose at the PEOPLE portrait studio – the task was easy for the Sunset Song actress, who worked as a model before becoming an actress.

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ELISABETH MOSS

"There are so many moving pieces to it and there's so much suspense in the story, which you wouldn't expect," Moss, who also stars in High-Rise tells The Hollywood Reporter of her film Truth.

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HARVEY KEITEL

Keitel, one of the stars of the upcoming film Youth, is the personification of "cool" in his PEOPLE portrait.

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EVAN RACHEL WOOD

The biggest challenge for Wood, who plays Ellen Page's younger sibling in Into the Forest, was "nailing the little sister moments you can't fake," she tells TheWrap.com of the film.

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KIERNAN SHIPKA & LUCY BOYNTON

Getting ready to be totally freaked out by the young stars' February, which centers on a series of sinister events at a girls' boarding school. Here, however, they keep it cool in PEOPLE's TIFF portrait studio.

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SIR PATRICK STEWART

The legendary star gives the perfect stoic face for his Green Room character: the leader of a murderous group of white supremacists.

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TOM HIDDLESTON, ELIZABETH OLSEN & MARC ABRAHAM

The stars and director of Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light bring plenty of brightness to the PEOPLE photo booth.

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TOPHER GRACE

A little side-eye seems appropriate from the Truth actor, whose film examines the the controversy surrounding the 2004 60 Minutes investigation of then-President George W. Bush's military service in the Texas Air National Guard.

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NAOMI WATTS & ELLE FANNING

Watts and Fanning, who star in About Ray, pose for their portrait. In the film, Fanning plays a transgender teen, and Watts plays the star's mother.

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MICHAEL SHANNON

The Freeheld star gives his signature serious stare as he poses for his portrait.

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ELLEN PAGE

"I felt connected to it," Page told TIME of her leading role in Freeheld. "It had entered me on an emotional level."

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NATALIE PORTMAN

It's a big year for Portman, who premiered her film A Tale of Love and Darkness, which also happens to be her directorial debut, in Cannes this May.

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JULIANNE MOORE

Dressed in an asymmetrical black ensemble, the Freeheld star looks as elegant as ever.

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SANDRA BULLOCK, SCOOT MCNAIRY, ZOE KAZAN, DAVID GORDON GREEN & GRANT HESLOV

The cast of Our Brand Is Crisis stops by the TIFF photo booth for a group shot. "I wasn't looking for this [role]," Bullock told PEOPLE. "It had to be something extraordinary that would be a life experience for myself and my boy because he comes with me."

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JOSH BROLIN, EMILY BLUNT & BENICIO DEL TORO

What a cast! The stars of the action film Sicario arrive for their portrait while staying in character – ready to put up an epic fight at any given moment.

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