Midnight movie-goers heading to Toronto's film festival will get the first taste of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's long-awaited new Borat movie.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan will have its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, as part of its annual Midnight Madness program, organizers announced Tuesday.

The upcoming film about Borat, one of the offensive characters created by British comic Sacha Baron Cohen, is set for its world debut at the Toronto festival.
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Cohen is best known for the offensive characters he portrays on his cable TV program Da Ali G Show, seen in the U.S. on HBO and in Canada on Showcase.

One of Cohen's more popular characters is Borat Sagdiyev, a crude, chauvinistic, anti-Semitic TV personality from Kazakhstan who tours the U.S., ostensibly to deliver TV features to an audience back home.

On the show, the Cambridge University-educated Cohen (in character as Borat) conducts interviews with unsuspecting Americans — including prominent politicians and celebrities like Noam Chomsky and Donald Trump. Through his fictional interviewer's coarse, misguided or impertinent questions, he often reveals hidden prejudices or challenges social values in the U.S.

The upcoming film follows a similar pattern, revolving around Borat as he makes a documentary that contrasts what life is like in the U.S. to life in Kazakhstan — which he portrays as a boorish, backward nation.

Cohen has previously drawn the ire of Kazakhstan's foreign ministry, who threatened to sue him in 2005 because they objected to statements he made while hosting the MTV Europe Music Awards (which he fulfilled in character as Borat).

Horror dominates Midnight lineup

Aside from Borat, the 10-film Midnight Madness program is laden with chilling horror tales, including:

• Black Sheep (New Zealand), about what happens when a genetic engineering accident turns a flock of sheep into blood-thirsty killers.
• All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (U.S.), about a high school weekend excursion during which the students get killed off one by one.
• Trapped Ashes (U.S./Japan/Canada), a five-director effort that weaves together a creepy collection of tales.
• The Abandoned (Spain), about a girl who inherits an isolated mountain farm that locals believe is damned.
• The Host (South Korea), a creature-feature about a horrible monster that emerges from Seoul's Han River.
• Severance (U.K.), billed as "The Office meets Deliverance," the film follows a sales team from an arms company that is rewarded with a deadly "team-building" retreat.
• Princess (Denmark), an animated feature about a vigilante who sets out to avenge and clear the name of his deceased, porn-actress sister.
• S&Man (U.S.), a non-fiction film that follows director J.T. Petty interviewing horror film experts and independent filmmakers about the voyeuristic nature of the gruesome genre.
• Sheitan (France), a thriller about a group of unsuspecting friends who spend a weekend at a country house administered by a freakish and diabolical caretaker, portrayed by French film star Vincent Cassel.

The 31st annual Toronto International Film Festival runs Sept. 7-16.