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  • In cinemas 3w later
    6
    Gala Presentations

    Misty Green

    Years after her Hollywood breakthrough, a talented actress whose career has stalled fights for her second act.

    • Chris RockDirector
    • Adam Driver
    • Anna Kendrick
    • Chris Rock
    • Topher Grace
    • Daniel Kaluuya

    United States of America — English

    Drama · Comedy

    103 min

    World Premiere

  • 8
    Gala Presentations

    Babies

    Struggling with the decision of whether or not to bring a child into the world, Annie and her husband Aaron become instant co-parents when their newly-divorced friend moves into their home with her 4-year-old. An ensemble comedy drama about the journey to parenthood... or not.

    • Lauren Miller RogenDirector
    • Seth Rogen
    • Anna Kendrick
    • Ed Helms
    • David Strathairn
    • Dan Stevens

    United States of America — English

    Comedy · Drama

    96 min

    World Premiere

  • 3
    Primetime

    Slow Horses

    Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

    • Adam RandallDirector
    • Gary Oldman
    • Hugo Weaving
    • Jonathan Pryce
    • Kristin Scott Thomas
    • Olivia Cooke

    United Kingdom, United States of America — English

    Crime · Drama · Mystery

    95 min

    International Premiere

  • In cinemas 3mo later
    13
    Special Presentations

    The Debut

    When Mona Friedman is cast in a bit part at a small community theater, she transforms from a shy, unassuming housewife into a zealous method actor willing to do anything to protect the artistic integrity of her marginal role—even if it means waging war against the show’s domineering director.

    • Jesse EisenbergDirector
    • Julianne Moore
    • Jesse Eisenberg
    • Paul Giamatti
    • Patrick Fabian
    • Cara Buono

    United States of America — English

    Music · Comedy · Drama

    105 min

    International Premiere

  • In cinemas 4mo later
    6
    Centrepiece

    Tangles

    When Alzheimer's disease begins to strip away her mother's vibrant personality, a headstrong young woman is forced to return to her oddball family in the conservative small town she recently fled in order to care for her. She quickly realizes she must accept the cruel and warped reality of the disease, and the imperfect beauty of her family, in order to become the daughter they need.

    • Leah NelsonDirector
    • Seth Rogen
    • Bryan Cranston
    • Sarah Silverman
    • Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    • Pamela Adlon

    Canada, United States of America — English

    Animation · Drama

    102 min

    North American Premiere

  • 11
    Special Presentations

    Alpha Gang

    Alien invaders, in the form of a 1950’s biker gang, are sent on a mission to conquer Earth.

    • David Zellner
    • Nathan ZellnerDirectors
    • Cate Blanchett
    • Dave Bautista
    • Chris Pine
    • Léa Seydoux
    • Riley Keough

    United States of America — English

    Comedy · Science Fiction

    109 min

    International Premiere

  • 8
    Gala Presentations

    The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

    A teacher in an abusive marriage takes a job at a maximum security prison, where she falls for a charismatic inmate. The disastrous consequences call into question not only the nature of punishment and retribution, but the very limits of our humanity.

    • Tim Blake NelsonDirector
    • Amanda Seyfried
    • Scoot McNairy
    • Tim Blake Nelson
    • Missi Pyle
    • Elizabeth Marvel

    United States of America — English

    Drama

    121 min

    World Premiere

  • 7
    Midnight Madness

    Rogue Trooper

    Rogue is a "Genetic Infantryman", a genetically-engineered, blue-skinned, manufactured super soldier who, alongside his three comrades, is searching for the Traitor General. His comrades are with him in the form of biochips—onto which a G.I.'s entire personality is downloaded at the time of death for later retrieval—and are named Gunnar (mounted on Rogue's rifle), Bagman (on his backpack) and Helm (on his helmet). Rogue is designed to be immune to almost all known toxins, can submerge in strong acid unaffected, and is able to withstand a vacuum on his bare skin.

    • Duncan JonesDirector
    • Sean Bean
    • Jemaine Clement
    • Hayley Atwell
    • Asa Butterfield
    • Matt Berry

    United Kingdom — English

    Science Fiction · Action · Animation · Adventure

    120 min

  • 7
    Special Presentations

    Bucking Fastard

    Two sisters, Jean and Joan Holbrooke, are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. We cannot see the world as they see it, but we do see how the world reacts to them – through the courts and the press, through those that want to help and those who want to use them, through the eyes of beasts both tame and wild, and even through their own echoes in the core of the earth.

    • Werner HerzogDirector
    • Orlando Bloom
    • Domhnall Gleeson
    • Kate Mara
    • Rooney Mara
    • Michael Hough

    United States of America — English

    Drama

    109 min

  • In cinemas 5mo later
    12
    Gala Presentations

    Bunker

    When an architect accepts a morally ambiguous project — building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire — his wife begins to question their marriage after 17 years together.

    • Florian ZellerDirector
    • Javier Bardem
    • Paul Dano
    • Penélope Cruz
    • Stephen Graham
    • Mark Gatiss

    France, Spain — English · Spanish

    Thriller · Drama

    126 min

    North American Premiere

  • 5
    Gala Presentations

    Evil Genius

    Follows the true story of the 2003 death of Brian Wells, a notorious case known as the “collar bomb” or “pizza bomber” incident. The FBI investigation revealed an extraordinarily complex and bizarre plot, later described as one of the most intricate crimes in the Bureau’s history.

    • Courteney CoxDirector
    • David Harbour
    • Tom McCarthy
    • Garret Dillahunt
    • Patricia Arquette
    • Michael Chernus

    United States of America — English

    Crime · Thriller

    94 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 3mo later
    11
    Special Presentations

    Ink

    A group of misfits and visionaries had an idea for a new kind of news - one that would give the people what they want, and would change the face of the world we live in today.

    • Danny BoyleDirector
    • Guy Pearce
    • Jack O'Connell
    • Jonathan Hyde
    • Georgie Henley
    • Brian Gleeson

    United Kingdom, France, United States of America — English

    Drama · History

    116 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • In cinemas 5w later
    7
    Gala Presentations

    The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

    Harry Lehman is an aging pickpocket who plies his trade with ever-diminishing returns in a drastically changed New York. Wallets stuffed with cash have been replaced by easily cancelled credit cards, and Harry struggles to make ends meet as he cares for his disabled wife, Rosie. When he unwittingly purloins and fences a valuable USB stick, Harry finds himself in a race against time to return the loot or face the rage of a vengeful crime family.

    • Noah SeganDirector
    • Steve Buscemi
    • Giancarlo Esposito
    • John Turturro
    • Jamie Lee Curtis
    • Tatiana Maslany

    United States of America — English

    Crime · Drama

    88 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    5
    Special Presentations

    I Play Rocky

    The electrifying true story about an unknown actor with an unshakable belief that he wasn't just meant to write Rocky—he was meant to be Rocky Balboa. Told "no" at every turn, Sylvester Stallone bets everything on himself, holding the line on playing the lead against seemingly impossible odds.

    • Peter FarrellyDirector
    • Toby Kebbell
    • Matt Dillon
    • Tracy Letts
    • P.J. Byrne
    • AnnaSophia Robb

    United States of America — English

    Drama · History

    127 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 4mo later
    6
    Special Presentations

    The Liberation

    Rita is entranced by the mesmeric Leader and renounces her family to embrace the world of the enigmatic Harmonia commune. Her daughters Ella and Jo put everything on the line to infiltrate the cult and bring their mother home. Yet, once immersed in the commune, they find themselves inexorably drawn into the Leader’s labyrinthine web of psycho-spiritual manipulation.

    • Guy NattivDirector
    • Lily James
    • Carrie Coon
    • Tracy Letts
    • John Cassini
    • Sharon Taylor

    United States of America — English

    Drama · Thriller

    124 min

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    5
    Gala Presentations

    Being Heumann

    Scrappy, defiant, and done being treated like a burden, Judy Heumann turns her outrage into a revolution. In 1977, she and more than 100 disability rights protestors send a very loud message: The system is broken—not us.

    • Siân HederDirector
    • Mark Ruffalo
    • Dylan O'Brien
    • Ray Fisher
    • Rob Delaney
    • Jon Beavers

    United States of America — English

    Drama

    127 min

    World Premiere

  • 4
    Gala Presentations

    Girl Group

    A pop diva, kicked out of her own group's reunion tour and slapped with a community service court order, seizes the chance to stage a comeback by coaching a group of misfit teen girls for a major record label audition, only to push them too far, forcing her to confront her toxic industry — and her own streak of self-destruction.

    • Rebel WilsonDirector
    • Sally Hawkins
    • Rebel Wilson
    • Randall Park
    • Jennifer Coolidge
    • Nicole Scherzinger

    United States of America, United Kingdom — English

    Comedy · Music

    98 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 4mo later
    11
    Special Presentations

    A Long Winter

    High in the mountains, autumn comes to an end and a family prepares for the long winter ahead.

    • Andrew HaighDirector
    • Martin Freeman
    • Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
    • Caitríona Balfe
    • Ebon Moss-Bachrach
    • Fred Hechinger

    Canada, United Kingdom — English

    Drama

    117 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • In cinemas 7mo later
    5
    Gala Presentations

    Up Against It

    Álvaro and his ex-wife Saffron attempt to set aside the drama of their messy divorce for the sake of their daughter Rose.

    • Trudie StylerDirector
    • Antonio Banderas
    • Forest Whitaker
    • Richard E. Grant
    • Úrsula Corberó
    • Jordan A. Nash

    United Kingdom — English

    Comedy · Drama · Romance

    122 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    7
    Special Presentations

    Elsinore

    The deeply emotional and inspirational true story of Ian Charleson, a gifted actor whose greatest challenge becomes his greatest triumph. Facing his own mortality with unflinching honesty, wit, and grace, Charleson delivers a courageous performance that becomes a source of healing and inspiration for those around him.

    • Simon StoneDirector
    • Olivia Colman
    • Andrew Scott
    • Peter Mullan
    • Adeel Akhtar
    • Matthew Beard

    United Kingdom — English

    Drama

    104 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    13
    Special Presentations

    Wild Horse Nine

    Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.

    • Martin McDonaghDirector
    • Steve Buscemi
    • Sam Rockwell
    • John Malkovich
    • Parker Posey
    • Tom Waits

    United States of America, Chile — English

    Comedy · Crime · Thriller

    118 min

  • Already released
    3
    Special Events

    Hope

    In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to investigate a mysterious creature wreaking havoc on the community. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.

    • Na Hong-jinDirector
    • Michael Fassbender
    • Alicia Vikander
    • Taylor Russell
    • Cameron Britton
    • Hwang Jung-min

    South Korea — Korean

    Science Fiction · Mystery · Action

    157 min

  • In cinemas 1w later
    8
    Special Presentations

    Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

    Latif, a devoutly religious hitman, struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children, confronting the forces closing in around him – and the beliefs threatening to unravel within.

    • Bassam TariqDirector
    • Mahershala Ali
    • Giancarlo Esposito
    • John Cho
    • Alec Rayme
    • Laith Nakli

    United States of America — English

    Drama · Crime

    112 min

    World Premiere

  • 4
    Primetime

    Carrie

    Misfit high-schooler Carrie White has spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother. After her father's sudden death, Carrie finds herself contending with the challenges of attending public high school, a bullying scandal, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.

    • Mike Flanagan
    • Mike FlanaganDirectors
    • Matthew Lillard
    • Samantha Sloyan
    • Amber Midthunder
    • Summer H. Howell
    • Alison Thornton

    Canada, United States of America — English

    Mystery · Drama

    100 min

    World Premiere

  • 7
    Special Presentations

    The Housewife

    A young New York Times journalist tracking down a potential Nazi officer living secretly in Queens.

    • Ben ShirinianDirector
    • Naomi Watts
    • Luke Evans
    • Tye Sheridan
    • Michael Imperioli
    • Norman Reedus

    United States of America — English

    Drama

    102 min

    World Premiere

  • 10
    Special Presentations

    The Julia Set

    Julia, a gifted mathematician, navigates the cutthroat world of academia. Pascal, a teaching assistant, recruits her to join an exclusive training program for the prestigious and notoriously difficult Putnam mathematics competition.

    • Niki ByrneDirector
    • Jason Isaacs
    • Gillian Anderson
    • Carmen Ejogo
    • Karl Farrer
    • Nina Hoss

    United States of America — English

    Drama

    112 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 2w later
    4
    Gala Presentations

    Atonement

    Based on Dexter Filkins’ resonant New Yorker article of the same name, about Marine Lu Lobello, haunted by memories of a deadly incident in Baghdad, whose journey of guilt and remorse leads him to reach out to Nora, the sole surviving member of the family he believes he may have harmed.

    • Reed Van DykDirector
    • Kenneth Branagh
    • Boyd Holbrook
    • Hiam Abbass
    • Jake Weary
    • Dino Kelly

    United States of America — English · Arabic

    War · Drama

    118 min

    North American Premiere

  • 4
    Primetime

    American Hostage

    Fred Heckman, a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter, is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker, Tony Kiritsis, demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program.

    • Adam ArkinDirector
    • Jon Hamm
    • Giovanni Ribisi
    • Mireille Enos
    • William Jackson Harper
    • Kristoffer Polaha

    United States of America — English

    Drama · Crime

    89 min

    World Premiere

  • TIFF Docs

    Darlene Love: I Know Where I've Been

    A documentary on Darlene Love, the singer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee known for “He’s a Rebel” and collaborations with Cher, Bruce Springsteen, Dionne Warwick, Sam Cooke and other greats.

    • Barry AvrichDirector
    • Robert Smigel
    • Jimmy Fallon
    • Marc Shaiman
    • Darlene Love
    • Cher

    Canada — English

    Documentary · Music

    115 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    9
    Special Presentations

    Bitter Christmas

    Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday. She works non-stop and, without realizing, doesn’t give herself time to mourn her mother’s absence. After a crisis, Elsa decides to travel to the island of Lanzarote accompanied by her friend Patricia, who also needs to get away from the city. The story of these characters runs parallel to that of a screenwriter and film director, exploring how life and fiction are inseparably linked, sometimes painfully so.

    • Pedro AlmodóvarDirector
    • Leonardo Sbaraglia
    • Bárbara Lennie
    • Rossy de Palma
    • Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
    • Patrick Criado

    Spain — Spanish

    Drama · Comedy

    111 min

    North American Premiere

  • Already released
    1
    TIFF Classics

    Ken Russell's The Devils

    In 1634 France, charismatic Father Urbain Grandier becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun’s witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state officials are all too happy to exploit.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

    • Ken RussellDirector
    • Gemma Jones
    • Vanessa Redgrave
    • Oliver Reed
    • Kenneth Colley
    • John Woodvine

    United Kingdom — English

    Drama · History · Horror

    114 min

  • In cinemas 4w later
    9
    Special Presentations

    La Bola Negra

    The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.

    • Javier Calvo
    • Javier AmbrossiDirectors
    • Penélope Cruz
    • Glenn Close
    • Antonio de la Torre
    • Lola Dueñas
    • Miguel Bernardeau

    Spain, France — Spanish

    Drama · War

    160 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • 5
    Gala Presentations

    Onwards and Sideways

    Tony Evans is the deputy head of a local primary school. Emma Dretzin is a pianist, composer and single mother of two daughters. Neither knows the other until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives: on the same morning, they are both confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s.

    • John MaddenDirector
    • Rhys Ifans
    • Laura Linney
    • Rory Kinnear
    • Danielle Galligan
    • Monica Dolan

    United Kingdom — English

    Comedy · Drama

    115 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 5w later
    12
    Gala Presentations

    A Talent for Murder

    A young man travels from New York to Switzerland to try to persuade acclaimed thriller writer Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment of her Tom Ripley series, with his efforts gradually turning more sinister.

    • Anton CorbijnDirector
    • Helen Mirren
    • Alden Ehrenreich
    • Olivia Cooke
    • James Faulkner
    • Juliet Stevenson

    United Kingdom, Italy — English

    Drama · Crime

    106 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 3mo later
    5
    Special Presentations

    Clarissa

    A modern reimagining of the Virginia Woolf novel Mrs. Dalloway. Follows society woman Clarissa as she prepares to host a party at her home in Lagos, Nigeria, where she will unexpectedly encounter once-intimate friends from her youth. As the group reflects on their shared past over the course of a single night, memories of their intricate relationships, passionate love, hidden desires, and lost aspirations give rise to bittersweet reckoning.

    • Arie Esiri
    • Chuko EsiriDirectors
    • David Oyelowo
    • Sophie Okonedo
    • Ayo Edebiri
    • Nikki Amuka-Bird
    • Danny Sapani

    Nigeria, United States of America — English · Nigerian Pidgin

    Drama

    134 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 2w later
    3
    Special Presentations

    Love of Your Life

    After a chance encounter sparks a sweeping romance, Maya's future is suddenly upended, sending her on an unexpected journey to love and live again.

    • Rachel MorrisonDirector
    • Catherine Keener
    • Corey Johnson
    • Margaret Qualley
    • Gabriel Basso
    • Patrick Schwarzenegger

    United States of America — English

    Drama · Romance

    106 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    5
    Discovery

    Drifter

    In a forgotten desert town, a solitary racetrack janitor with a gift for drifting is haunted by his tragic past. Given a single chance to compete at a pro drifting event, he discovers his raw talent is useless without the one thing he's always avoided: connection with others. Under a hardened mentor, he must learn to trust his found family and transform his untamed, lonely art into a dangerous dance of partnership, or be consumed and controlled by the past he's desperate to escape.

    • Sung KangDirector
    • Sung Kang
    • Shane Johnson
    • Gregory Cruz
    • Tamara Braun
    • McCaleb Burnett

    United States of America — Korean · English

    Action · Drama

    147 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    7
    Special Presentations

    Josephine

    After eight-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a brutal assault in Golden Gate Park, she begins acting out violently to protect herself. This emotional trauma leads to conflicts between her parents as they search for justice, and a way to feel safe again.

    • Beth de AraújoDirector
    • Channing Tatum
    • Gemma Chan
    • Philip Ettinger
    • Dana Millican
    • Syra McCarthy

    United States of America — English

    Drama · Crime · Thriller

    119 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • Already released
    Special Events

    Obsession

    After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

    • Curry BarkerDirector
    • Andy Richter
    • Darin Toonder
    • Michael Johnston
    • Inde Navarrette
    • Megan Lawless

    United States of America — English

    Horror · Thriller

    108 min

  • 2
    Centrepiece

    How We Stand

    Tombs weaves together the triangular story points of three Oklahoma sisters and their mother who travel to Los Angeles as a part of a relocation program in the 1950s that gave Native Americans the opportunity to become “civilized” by getting jobs in urban centres. When they arrive, they begin to understand that like many east-to-west dreams, the reality is not the new beginning they sought. Abandoned by government policy and in acute poverty, they begin to search for their own, finding home in “the tombs” – the cemented riverways of LA. It is here a young mother is killed, and the lives of her children separate down three very different paths that emerge in 1970s Los Angeles – weaving together one telling, one flood.

    • Marie ClementsDirector
    • Gil Bellows
    • Eric Johnson
    • Amber Midthunder
    • Gary Farmer
    • Darren Mann

    Canada — English

    Drama

    107 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 3w later
    14
    Special Presentations

    Fjord

    Following the deaths of Mihai's parents, Mihai and Lisbeth Gheorghiu leave their life behind in Romania and move with their children to a remote village in Norway, hoping to rebuild their lives near Lisbeth's family. There, they grow close to their neighbors, the Halbergs, whose warmth gives them hope for a fresh start. But the fragile peace begins to unravel when the Gheorghiu family’s young daughter, Elia, arrives at school covered in bruises.

    • Cristian MungiuDirector
    • Sebastian Stan
    • Christian Rubeck
    • Renate Reinsve
    • Lisa Loven Kongsli
    • Thorbjørn Harr

    Romania, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark — Norwegian · English · Swedish · Romanian

    Drama

    146 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • In cinemas 1w later
    6
    Special Presentations

    Hombre al agua

    Camilo, a Cuban lifeguard, saves Mexican businessman Abel from drowning. Grateful, Abel brings Camilo to Mexico, where he marries Abel's daughter, Juana, and they have a child. But Camilo soon discovers his new life is part of Abel's Machiavellian plan of manipulation and control. With his world collapsing, Camilo must uncover the plot and take control of his destiny. Will he find a way out, or remain trapped in the power game?

    • Gael García BernalDirector
    • Gael García Bernal
    • Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
    • Esmeralda Pimentel
    • Anna Diaz
    • Jorge Salinas

    Mexico — Spanish · Portuguese

    Drama · Comedy

    116 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 1w later
    4
    Special Presentations

    The Stunt Driver

    Based on the true story of Montrealer Ken Carter, the “Mad Canadian” stunt driver who tried to jump the Saint Lawrence River in a rocket car in the mid-’70s. Carter's dream was to end his 30-year career with a big jump, a big paycheck, and mega stardom. In the process of accomplishing it, he hired a big sports manager and enlisted the best in rocket car design, with the National Film Board of Canada filming a documentary leading up to the event.

    • Michael DowseDirector
    • Ed Helms
    • Jay Baruchel
    • Ben Foster
    • Dan Bakkedahl
    • Joe Cobden

    Canada — English

    Action · Comedy · Drama

    99 min

    World Premiere

  • 6
    Centrepiece

    Back in Black

    In a wellness-obsessed small town where nobody dies anymore, struggling mortician Clyde faces bankruptcy — until his granddaughter Sam devises an unexpected solution to save the family business.

    • Ron MurphyDirector
    • Christopher Walken
    • Jane Curtin
    • Tony Nappo
    • Deborah Grover
    • Stuart Hughes

    Canada — English

    Comedy · Thriller

    92 min

    World Premiere

  • 4
    Primetime

    Crystal Lake

    Single mother Pam Voorhees has been unable to shake her grief after her young, sickly son Jason tragically drowned in the town lake almost a year before. When two strangers arrive at Pam’s door digging into her past, a disturbing chain of events are set into motion, leaving the townspeople of Crystal Lake wondering: just who is Pam Voorhees?

    • Brad Caleb Kane
    • Logan George
    • Celine HeldDirectors
    • Linda Cardellini
    • William Catlett
    • Cameron Scoggins
    • Joy Suprano
    • Devin Kessler

    United States of America — English

    Mystery · Drama

    108 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    8
    Gala Presentations

    Prima Facie

    Tessa is a brilliant British defence barrister dominating London’s ruthless courtrooms. Fierce, witty, and self-made, she defends men accused of sexual assault — until she is assaulted herself by a colleague from a powerful legal dynasty. Suddenly, the system she trusted turns against her. As she faces the same tactics she once used in court, Tessa’s faith in justice unravels. Once in control, now exposed and disbelieved, she must fight to reclaim her voice and sense of self.

    • Susanna WhiteDirector
    • Cynthia Erivo
    • Simon Russell Beale
    • Noma Dumezweni
    • Khalid Abdalla
    • Daniel Ings

    Australia, United Kingdom — English

    Drama

    106 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    1
    TIFF Classics

    Kissed

    Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.

    • Lynne StopkewichDirector
    • Peter Outerbridge
    • Jay Brazeau
    • Molly Parker
    • Joe Maffei
    • Robert Thurston

    Canada — English

    Romance · Drama

    78 min

  • Already released
    5
    Special Presentations

    The Beloved

    The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. Living together on set will foster a closeness they haven’t shared for years, but it will also reopen old wounds that never healed.

    • Rodrigo SorogoyenDirector
    • Javier Bardem
    • Marina Foïs
    • Raúl Arévalo
    • Laura Birn
    • Melina Matthews

    Spain — Spanish · English · French

    Drama

    135 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 2w later
    5
    Gala Presentations

    All About Corinne

    Corinne Maclou is a background actor who dreams of one day being more than an extra. Confident her breakthrough is right around the corner, she befriends famous actor Sandrine Kiberlain, hoping it will help her achieve her goal.

    • Marc FitoussiDirector
    • Diane Kruger
    • Isabelle Huppert
    • Sandrine Kiberlain
    • Anne Marivin
    • Emmanuelle Bercot

    France — French

    Comedy

    115 min

    North American Premiere

  • 6
    Special Presentations

    All That She Wants

    Emma desperately wants a baby but as she sets about getting her life in order to make it happen, she just won't let herself give in to the idea that the man she really loves is a recent college grad ten years younger than her, whom she used to babysit when she was a teenager and he was four.

    • Scarlett Bermingham
    • Andrew RhymerDirectors
    • Christine Baranski
    • Finn Wittrock
    • Bill Irwin
    • Zosia Mamet
    • John Gemberling

    United States of America, Canada — English

    Comedy · Romance

    104 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas during TIFF
    1
    Centrepiece

    Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

    Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor. She must face what comes next as sparks fly.

    • Josef Kubota WladykaDirector
    • Rinko Kikuchi
    • Derek Mio
    • Damián Alcázar
    • Alejandro Edda
    • Soji Arai

    United States of America — Spanish · English · Japanese

    Comedy · Drama · Romance

    121 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • In cinemas 3mo later
    4
    Special Presentations

    It Will Happen Tonight

    The film will explore contemporary emotions, fears, and relationships through intertwined stories, resembling Nevo's narrative style.

    • Nanni MorettiDirector
    • Louis Garrel
    • Nanni Moretti
    • Angela Finocchiaro
    • Jasmine Trinca
    • Hippolyte Girardot

    Italy, France, Spain — Italian · English · Spanish

    Drama · Romance

    109 min

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    6
    Special Presentations

    Le Faux Soir

    November 1943, German-occupied Belgium. In the face of grave danger if caught, the Independent Front, a Belgian resistance organization, publishes a spoof edition of Le Soir to satirize the German occupiers and the nation’s main propaganda-controlled newspaper. Le Faux Soir is considered the first act of media hacking in history.

    • Michaël R. RoskamDirector
    • François Damiens
    • Bouli Lanners
    • Mélanie Thierry
    • Yolande Moreau
    • Alexis Manenti

    Belgium, France — French

    Drama · History

    133 min

    World Premiere

  • 9
    Midnight Madness

    The Face of Horror

    In medieval England, the beautiful Eleanor pines away for her errant husband, the handsome but adulterous knight Edward. When Edward’s treachery culminates in a tragedy that robs Eleanor first of her beauty and then of her life, she returns as a ghost to eke bloody revenge on Edward and his new bride.

    • Anna BillerDirector
    • Bella Heathcote
    • Brian Caspe
    • Jonah Hauer-King
    • Perdita Weeks
    • Ellie Bamber

    United Kingdom — English

    Horror · Romance

    120 min

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    8
    Special Presentations

    Club Kid

    A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.

    • Jordan FirstmanDirector
    • Cara Delevingne
    • Colleen Camp
    • Kirby Howell-Baptiste
    • Diego Calva
    • Vicki Pepperdine

    United States of America — English

    Comedy · Drama

    122 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • 1
    Primetime

    Below

    Chasing sun, romance and adventure… we follow the Princess Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises crew and guests as they live their best lives at sea.

    • Jamie Childs
    • Jesse McKeownDirectors
    • Josh Hartnett
    • Mackenzie Davis
    • Natasha Henstridge
    • Charlie Heaton
    • Rohan Campbell

    Canada — English

    Documentary

    80 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 4mo later
    5
    Special Presentations

    The Man I Love

    In late 1980s New York, a theater artist living with AIDS takes on one possibly last great role.

    • Ira SachsDirector
    • Rebecca Hall
    • Rami Malek
    • Ebon Moss-Bachrach
    • Sasha Lane
    • Tom Sturridge

    United States of America — English

    Drama · Romance

    97 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • In cinemas 5w later
    8
    Special Presentations

    Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo

    A corrupt gambler in the Metropolitan Police Force finds himself thrown into a tangled case after an enigmatic FBI agent arrives in Tokyo to investigate the disappearance of a politician’s daughter.

    • Takashi MiikeDirector
    • Lily James
    • Jun Kunimura
    • Shun Oguri
    • Gionna Daddio
    • Jun Murakami

    United States of America, Japan — English · Japanese

    Thriller · Crime · Action

    108 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas during TIFF
    4
    Discovery

    Bedford Park

    Haunted by an abusive childhood, Audrey, a Korean American woman in her 30s, faces her emotional past. When her mother’s car accident brings her back to her parents’ home, she meets the man responsible for the accident. Their relationship builds, passions ignite, and they form a loving connection.

    • Stephanie AhnDirector
    • Aaron Yoo
    • Jefferson White
    • Cindy Hogan
    • Paco Lozano
    • Taylor Kowalski

    United States of America — English · Korean

    Drama · Romance

    121 min

    International Premiere

  • In cinemas 6w later
    5
    Special Presentations

    Gentle Monster

    After relocating with her family to the countryside, a renowned pianist uncovers a life-shattering truth that forces her to confront the complexities of love, trust, and deception.

    • Marie KreutzerDirector
    • Léa Seydoux
    • Catherine Deneuve
    • Sylvester Groth
    • Jella Haase
    • Laurence Rupp

    Austria — French · English · German

    Drama

    114 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • 5
    Special Presentations

    The Idiot(s)

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna travel to Europe for their honeymoon and end up staying in a health resort in Switzerland, only to return to Russia after four years. Fyedya can’t shake his roulette habit and keeps losing their money. His wife accepts this fate since he keeps assuring her that it’s all for inspiration and soon he shall write his to-be masterpiece, 'The Idiot'.

    • Małgorzata Szumowska
    • Michał EnglertDirectors
    • Rainer Bock
    • Vicky Krieps
    • Johnny Flynn
    • Christian Friedel
    • Aimee Lou Wood

    Poland, Germany — English · German · French

    Drama

    118 min

  • In cinemas 8mo later
    12
    Special Presentations

    Everybody Wants to F*ck Me

    An original razor-sharp dark comedy thriller set in the world of modern dating in London.

    • Jonathan ScheyDirector
    • Taron Egerton
    • Jessica Henwick
    • Mia McKenna-Bruce
    • Herbert Nordrum
    • Antonia Clarke

    United Kingdom, France — English

    Comedy · Thriller

    97 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas during TIFF
    8
    Gala Presentations

    The Assassin(s)

    In 1974, a shooting shocks South Korea. Detective Cheol-gu, who witnesses the attack, Jae-hwan, the city desk editor whose coverage is suppressed, and Young-il, a rookie reporter, begin to dig beneath the cover-up. As their pursuit of the truth deepens, they come to confront forces meant to remain unseen.

    • Hur Jin-hoDirector
    • Park Hae-il
    • Yoo Hai-jin
    • Park Sung-hoon
    • Jung Woo-sung
    • You Seong-joo

    South Korea — Korean · Japanese

    Drama · Crime · Thriller · Action

    131 min

    World Premiere

  • 5
    Special Presentations

    Closing Night

    A celebrated actress's life begins to unravel on the eve of her greatest performance. When her sister April arrives in New York after a 30-year estrangement, the stage is set for a tense family confrontation.

    • Cody FernDirector
    • Naomi Watts
    • Sarah Paulson
    • Dianne Wiest
    • Odessa A'zion
    • Toby Wallace

    Australia, Canada — English

    Thriller

    115 min

  • 6
    Discovery

    Magazine

    A young intern faces intoxicating power dynamics at a prestigious New York City literary magazine.

    • Alexandra PechmanDirector
    • AnnaSophia Robb
    • Jake Lacy
    • Daniel Zolghadri
    • Iris Apatow
    • Lukita Maxwell

    United States of America — English

    Drama

    105 min

    World Premiere

  • Centrepiece

    Neverman

    A transgender woman with Alzheimer's moves into a retirement home. As her lucidity wanes, she must confront the challenges of her condition and fight for her identity once more.

    • Rodrigo BarriusoDirector
    • Elias Koteas
    • Jess Salgueiro
    • Marie-Josée Croze
    • Laura Wilson
    • Duane Murray

    Canada — English

    Drama

    98 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 4w later
    4
    Platform

    Children Untold

    War may be over, but for the children of Miwa Nishikawa’s latest film — adapted from her forthcoming novel — survival has only begun.

    • Miwa NishikawaDirector
    • Koji Yakusho
    • Yuko Tanaka
    • Junichi Okada
    • Yutaka Takenouchi
    • Fumi Nikaido

    Japan — Japanese

    Drama · War

    150 min

    World Premiere

  • Centrepiece

    Intermission

    Spanning nearly sixty years, Yonfan features his career in music, dance, photography, and writing through fifteen films in Intermission. This captivating cinematic journey stands as a witness to the essence of a changing world.

    • YonfanDirector
    • Chow Yun-Fat
    • Daniel Wu
    • Maggie Cheung
    • Sylvia Chang
    • Rie Miyazawa

    Hong Kong — Chinese · English · Japanese

    Documentary

    225 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    6
    Special Presentations

    All of a Sudden

    Marie-Lou Fontaine, director of a nursing home in the Paris suburbs, defies convention by adopting the 'Humanitude' method despite her team’s resistance. Her encounter with Mari Morisaki, a terminally ill Japanese playwright, transforms her life. Together, they turn the facility into a symbol of resistance and humanity against the system’s limits.

    • Ryûsuke HamaguchiDirector
    • Tao Okamoto
    • Virginie Efira
    • Marie Bunel
    • Jean-Charles Clichet
    • Marie Denarnaud

    France, Japan, Germany, Belgium — French · Japanese

    Drama

    196 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 1w later
    4
    Centrepiece

    The Lost Children Of Tuam

    When amateur historian Catherine Corless begins examining records from a former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, she stumbles upon evidence pointing towards a deeply troubling past. Refusing to let the questions go, she embarks on a painstaking investigation, putting her in conflict with the Church, State, and local town. As official resistance mounts, and unsettling discoveries emerge, her determination challenges powerful institutions, exposing a hidden chapter of Ireland's past that many would rather keep hidden.

    • Frank BerryDirector
    • Ian McElhinney
    • Monica Dolan
    • Patrick O'Donnell
    • Ruth McCabe
    • Ian Dillon

    Ireland — English

    Drama · History

    84 min

    International Premiere

  • 3
    Centrepiece

    Smudge the Blades

    Treaty 6 Blades, an under-18 hockey team from an Alberta reservation, face their last season together while navigating their tough northern league.

    • Cody LightningDirector
    • Ed Helms
    • David Lawrence
    • David McNally
    • Tom Carey
    • Cody Lightning

    Canada — English

    96 min

    World Premiere

  • 8
    Discovery

    Purgatory

    In the early 1980s, 13-year-old Beatrice Gravel's comfortable world—family, school, and church—fractures when her mother moves out to 'self actualize', leaving Beatrice and her younger sister Chloe with their devastated father. As Beatrice doubles down on a plan to 'fix' her family, she barrels through bullies, friendship blowups, a make-out party, and a kleptomaniac babysitter—forcing her to decide who she wants to be when she can’t get what she wants.

    • Lindsay LanzillottaDirector
    • J.K. Simmons
    • John Reynolds
    • Abby Elliott
    • Mary Walsh
    • Julianne Arrieta

    Canada, United States of America — English

    Comedy · Drama

    104 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    3
    Special Presentations

    The Unknown

    Photographer David Zimmerman rarely leaves home until friends bring him to a wild party. He becomes fixated on a mysterious woman and follows her. By dawn, his life transforms - he awakens in her body.

    • Arthur HarariDirector
    • Léa Seydoux
    • Victoire du Bois
    • Niels Schneider
    • Radu Jude
    • Jonathan Turnbull

    France — French

    Fantasy · Drama · Mystery

    140 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • 4
    Primetime

    YAGA

    While a private investigator probes the disappearance of the young heir to a powerful fishery, he finds himself at odds with an apprehensive local detective, a charismatic university professor with a taste for younger men, and a labyrinth of enigmatic suspects, secret lives, and ancient magic.

    • Rachel Talalay
    • David FrazeeDirectors
    • Carrie-Anne Moss
    • Patrick Gilmore
    • Sheila McCarthy
    • Clark Backo
    • Noah Reid

    Canada — English · Ukrainian

    Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    56 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    Special Presentations

    Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?

    Vietnam veteran Allen Nelson returns with severe PTSD, winding up on the streets before crossing paths with Dr. Daniels of the Veterans Affairs who sets about trying to help him.

    • Shinya TsukamotoDirector
    • Geoffrey Rush
    • Lily Franky
    • Tatyana Ali
    • Rodney Hicks
    • Natalie Jacobs

    Japan — English · Vietnamese

    Drama · War

    116 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    1
    Gala Presentations

    Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend

    Showcases the early years of Québec racing driver Gilles Villeneuve.

    • Yan Lanouette TurgeonDirector
    • Joe Cobden
    • Neil Webb
    • Frank Crudele
    • Maurizio Terrazzano
    • Luc Picard

    Canada — French · English

    Drama · History

    102 min

    World Premiere

  • 7
    Centrepiece

    The Surgeon

    A former surgeon is kidnapped and given an impossible choice.

    • Roshan SethiDirector
    • Martin Freeman
    • Michelle Yeoh
    • Yuri Kolokolnikov
    • Laurie Davidson
    • Joseph Mydell

    Ireland — English

    Action · Thriller

    92 min

    World Premiere

  • 9
    Centrepiece

    Trash Mountain

    A twenty something gay man travels from Chicago to his home in rural Missouri following the death of his father — an obsessive hoarder who has left a house full of items, some valuable and some not so, to pick through.

    • Kris ReyDirector
    • Zooey Deschanel
    • Jacki Weaver
    • Jaboukie Young-White
    • Caleb Hearon
    • Kyle Marvin

    United States of America — English

    Drama · Comedy

    90 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    8
    Special Presentations

    Look Back

    Fourth-grader Fujino is admired for the comics she makes for her school newspaper. Her world is upended when asked to share the space with her reclusive classmate Kyomoto, whose stunning artwork is better than anything she can make. When the girls finally meet, Fujino discovers Kyomoto has been idolizing her from afar all along. Her one-sided rivalry abates, and the two are pulled into an all-consuming love of drawing that carries them into adulthood as aspiring manga artists. The adult Fujino and Kyomoto embark on a shared journey where the joys of artistic expression collide with the unpredictability of life.

    • Hirokazu Kore-edaDirector
    • Masaki Suda
    • Miyu Sasaki
    • Kenshi Yonezu
    • Kankuro Kudo
    • Aju Makita

    Japan — Japanese

    Drama

    100 min

    North American Premiere

  • 4
    Special Presentations

    Faith

    Gina, a hard-working and devoted single mother, meets a quietly enigmatic stranger, Michael. The presence of someone who appears to care for her brings a new and exciting dynamic to her life, despite the fact she knows nothing about him or what his intentions towards her really are. Is he a friend, a potential lover or something more sinister?

    • Paul Andrew WilliamsDirector
    • James McAvoy
    • Clea Martin
    • Erin Doherty
    • Liv Hill
    • Sandra Huggett

    United Kingdom — English

    Drama · Fantasy

    109 min

    World Premiere

  • Centrepiece

    The Betrayers

    A former Israeli politician and Soviet dissident finds his betrayer at a Crimean resort, sparking a confrontation with past wounds and questions of justice and forgiveness.

    • David BezmozgisDirector
    • Simon McBurney
    • Tina Benko
    • Michael Aronov
    • Roxanna Hope Radja
    • Kaelen Ohm

    Canada, Ukraine — English

    Drama

    90 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 1w later
    3
    Discovery

    What Lies Between Us

    A quiet suburban community is shaken by the alleged sexual assault of a teenage boy by two of his peers. As the town reels, successful real estate agent Anne Sofie discovers her own son may be more involved than she imagined. Determined to protect him and the family's reputation, she makes a choice that sets her on a collision course with the other boys' mothers, Sarah and Ulrikke. As accusations against her son begin to spread, the pressure mounts and to shield her family, Anne Sofie pins the blame on one of the other boys. But as her relationships fracture and her moral compass wavers, she’s forced to make a life-altering decision.

    • Amalie Næsby FickDirector
    • Sidse Babett Knudsen
    • Sofie Gråbøl
    • Trond Espen Seim
    • Kurt Ravn
    • Thomas Hwan

    Denmark — Danish

    Drama

    105 min

    World Premiere

  • 3
    Platform

    Wild Wild East

    In occupied Poland 1943, German official Martin Wolff is sent to a remote village to investigate the disappearance of a Jewish lawyer. His arrival unsettles the fragile order between scarred villagers, corrupt collaborators, and Nazi authorities, unearthing a web of betrayal and greed tied to whispers of the lawyer’s hidden fortune. Yet as the village’s darkest truths come to light, Wolff’s search may be hiding more than it reveals.

    • Jan HoloubekDirector
    • Jacek Koman
    • Joanna Kulig
    • Robert Więckiewicz
    • Itay Tiran
    • Jacek Beler

    Poland — German · Polish · Ukrainian

    War · Thriller · Crime

    108 min

    World Premiere

  • 4
    Special Presentations

    Whatcha Want

    A recent immigrant and trophy wife from Hong Kong rediscovers her love of dance after her wealthy husband's betrayal.

    • Mina ShumDirector
    • Tzi Ma
    • Ming-Na Wen
    • Hugh Tran
    • Isabella Wei
    • Russell Lee

    Canada — English · Cantonese · Mandarin

    Music · Drama

    90 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Centrepiece

    Julián

    Wide-eyed Julián is about to spend the summer with a grandmother he barely knows. He is amazed to discover her treasure-trove apartment, his own Caribbean heritage and the lively Brooklyn community he is surrounded by. But most surprising of all, Julián discovers that he is, in fact, a mermaid!

    • Louise BagnallDirector
    • Kim Roberts
    • Stephanie Herrera
    • Yanna McIntosh
    • Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz
    • Milcania Diaz-Rojas

    Luxembourg, Ireland, Canada, Denmark — English · Spanish

    Animation · Family · Fantasy

    85 min

    North American Premiere

  • Primetime

    Alice

    • Virginie Verrier
    • Guillaume LonerganDirectors
    • Bérénice Bejo
    • Irène Jacob
    • Oscar Lesage
    • François Arnaud
    • Yannick Choirat

    France, Canada — French · English

    90 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    1
    Discovery

    In Waves

    In Los Angeles, AJ, a shy teenager, meets Kristen. She lives for surfing; he loves skateboarding and drawing. They fall madly in love, and a happy future seems within reach. But everything changes when Kristen faces a sudden illness. Together, they face adversity, driven by the strength of their love, their friends, and their newly shared passion for surfing and the ocean.

    • Phuong Mai NguyenDirector
    • Stephanie Hsu
    • Will Sharpe
    • Lyna Khoudri
    • Gauthier Battoue
    • Paul Kircher

    France, Belgium — English

    Animation · Romance · Drama

    91 min

    International Premiere

  • 6
    Midnight Madness

    Vintage Violence

    When a disgraced livestreamer discovers a trove of rare vintage denim in a Colorado mine, he follows it to Tokyo and straight into the arms of a woman who may be using him. Caught between desire and betrayal, he soon finds himself entangled in black-market turf wars, yakuza, and a past that refuses to stay buried.

    • Eugene KotlyarenkoDirector
    • Cole Sprouse
    • Nijiro Murakami
    • Kiko Mizuhara
    • Pierre Taki
    • Hio Miyazawa

    United States of America, Japan — English · Japanese

    Action · Comedy · Romance

    105 min

  • Already released
    6
    Gala Presentations

    It's My Time

    At the age of seventy, a fiercely non-conformist grandmother partners with a lethargic, underachieving young prodigy to navigate the highly competitive and eccentric subculture of speedcubing, defying familial skepticism and generational expectations.

    • Bai XueDirector
    • Michelle Yeoh
    • Liu Haoran
    • Bai Ke
    • Qi Xi
    • Tian Yu

    China — Mandarin · Cantonese

    Drama · Family

    107 min

  • 1
    Discovery

    Seventeen

    Set over the course of seventeen hours, the lives of three young, queer, Indigenous sex workers intersect through chance, relation, and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.

    • Justin DucharmeDirector
    • Kaniehtiio Horn
    • Ray G. Thunderchild
    • Mathias Retamal
    • Renae Morriseau
    • Shannon Baker

    Canada — English · Cree

    Drama

    88 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Special Presentations

    Neil Peart: No One's Disciple

    Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson team up with four revered drummers — Stewart Copeland, Danny Carey, Chad Smith, and Gavin Harrison — for an exhilarating and poignant tribute to late Rush legend Neil Peart.

    • Scot McFadyen
    • Sam DunnDirectors
    • Chad Smith
    • Stewart Copeland
    • Geddy Lee
    • Alex Lifeson
    • Danny Carey

    Canada — English

    Documentary

    106 min

  • In cinemas 5mo later
    4
    Discovery

    Krux

    In a German village near war's end, women struggle to maintain normalcy as corpses appear along the river. When ordered to leave no Germans alive for arriving Russians, villagers face brutal choices about survival and humanity.

    • Tony VahlDirector
    • Clemens Schick
    • Martin Wuttke
    • Jella Haase
    • Hans-Uwe Bauer
    • Steffi Kühnert

    Germany, Poland — German

    Drama · History · War

    92 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 3mo later
    8
    Special Presentations

    Tender Loving Care

    Amy is a devoted social service worker who puts her heart and soul into her job to care for those in need. At home, however, she finds herself confronting new challenges as her beloved father begins to show the early signs of dementia, and she and her mother must begin to make peace with their new reality. Through it all, Amy finds comfort, perspective, and plenty of laughter through sips of wine with her lifelong friend Rosie, whose warmth and wit become a vital anchor as both women navigate the shifting rhythms of approaching middle age.

    • Mike LeighDirector
    • Brid Brennan
    • Alan Williams
    • Marion Bailey
    • Paul Jesson
    • Alice Bailey Johnson

    United Kingdom — English

    Drama · Comedy

    107 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • 1
    Gala Presentations

    Diary of a Mad Old Man

    A seventy year old widow recovers from a stroke in the care of his dysfunctional family. While his body is failing him, his libido still rages on – unwittingly sparked by the attentions of his daughter-in-law, a dancer with a shady past.

    • Wayne WangDirector
    • Fan Bingbing
    • Lily Franky
    • Youki Kudoh
    • Takumi Saitoh
    • Momoka Ayukawa

    United States of America — Mandarin · Japanese

    Drama

    115 min

    World Premiere

  • 4
    Centrepiece

    Lemonade

    Danny, a kind-hearted teen about to age out of the care system is facing adulthood without family or support. After a turbulent childhood and separation from his younger brother, Danny is determined to build a future - but one reckless mistake puts him at risk of prison. As his 18th birthday approaches, Josh - his former social worker and the only adult who ever believed in him - returns, offering guidance when Danny needs it most. With new love, big dreams, and overwhelming challenges, Danny must choose whether to repeat the cycle of his past or fight for the life he deserves.

    • Kim BartleyDirector
    • Barry Keoghan
    • Eileen Walsh
    • Carla Tous
    • John Connors
    • Connie Doona

    Ireland, United Kingdom — English

    Drama

    112 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 5w later
    2
    Wavelengths

    The Diary of a Chambermaid

    Gianina, a young Romanian, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. In the evenings, she rehearses the role of a maid with an amateur theater troupe in an adaptation of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau. She takes care of Louen, her employers’ son, while her own daughter is growing up far from her, in Romania. The maternal absence deepens into a wound but, as Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion begins to take shape.

    • Radu JudeDirector
    • Mélanie Thierry
    • Vincent Macaigne
    • Marie Rivière
    • Amélie Prévot
    • Ilinca Manolache

    France, Romania — French · Romanian

    Drama · Comedy

    94 min

    North American Premiere

  • 3
    Discovery

    Ancestors

    1988. Dreams, memories and history collide as a young man searches for his missing friend.

    • David TurpinDirector
    • Rupert Everett
    • Christina Hendricks
    • Éanna Hardwicke
    • Jack Wolfe
    • Jessica Reynolds

    Ireland, United Kingdom — English

    Drama · Fantasy · Romance

    106 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    1
    TIFF Classics

    Ten Dark Women

    Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.

    • Kon IchikawaDirector
    • Kyôko Kishida
    • Jūzō Itami
    • Jun Hamamura
    • Tamao Nakamura
    • Eiji Funakoshi

    Japan — Japanese

    Comedy · Drama

    103 min

  • In cinemas 4w later
    7
    Gala Presentations

    Tenzing

    A determined man embarks on a high-stakes quest—and defies seemingly impossible odds—to fulfill his dream of being the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

    • Jennifer PeedomDirector
    • Willem Dafoe
    • Tom Hiddleston
    • Caitríona Balfe
    • Genden Phuntsok
    • Thinley Lhamo

    United States of America, Australia — English

    Drama

    128 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    9
    Special Presentations

    Minotaur

    When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures, an increasingly unstable world, and the discovery of his wife's affair, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.

    • Andrey ZvyagintsevDirector
    • Anatoliy Belyy
    • Artur Smolyaninov
    • Mikhail Safronov
    • Vladimir Friedman
    • Yurii Zavalnyuk

    France, Germany, Latvia — Russian

    Drama · Crime · Thriller

    141 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • In cinemas 5w later
    8
    Special Presentations

    Possible Love

    A laid-off worker and his wife cross paths with a documentary filmmaker and her spouse and confront their hidden desires.

    • Lee Chang-dongDirector
    • Cho Yeo-jeong
    • Sul Kyung-gu
    • Jo Yuri
    • Jeon Do-yeon
    • Zo In-sung

    South Korea — Korean

    Drama

    164 min

    North American Premiere

  • 4
    Midnight Madness

    Arrested Memory

    Lee is a superstar police detective in Taipei. After losing his team during a crime investigation, he is haunted by guilt and transferred to a rural police station. Traumatized by the incident, Lee develops amnesia—but is determined to keep it a secret. Soon, he is assigned a new case: the kidnapping of the son of an influential Japanese businessman. As his memory continues to fade, Lee can only rely on his instincts—which, against all odds, lead him to the criminals.

    • SABUDirector
    • Shinichi Tsutsumi
    • Reika Kirishima
    • Ethan Juan
    • Hsieh Ying-shiuan
    • Brando Huang

    Taiwan, Japan — Mandarin · Taiwanese · Japanese

    Action · Comedy · Drama

    87 min

  • In cinemas 3w later
    5
    Midnight Madness

    The Spiral

    On a stormy night in Rome, Anna arrives at her daughter Alice’s apartment with a devastating confession: their entire family history is built on a lie. Twenty years earlier, after a horrific accident that nearly cost Alice her leg, Anna claims she made a pact with a mysterious Stranger to save her. But the miracle came at a price. What she believed was a single desperate bargain has in fact unleashed a spiraling chain reaction — a domino effect of increasingly dark events that have haunted their lives ever since. Now, the Stranger has come to collect. And Anna is convinced that only Alice can break the spiral and set things right. But at what cost?

    • Paolo StrippoliDirector
    • Jasmine Trinca
    • Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
    • Adriano Giannini
    • Romana Maggiora Vergano
    • Alessandro Carbonara

    Italy, France, Belgium — Italian

    Drama · Thriller

    115 min

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    Platform

    On Behalf of My Son

    Vicentina struggles to cope with the death of her son Wesley after a tragic bus accident, in which he was the driver. As the investigation unfolds, evidence suggests that Wesley’s actions may have been suicidal. Vicentina then embarks on a journey to seek out the victims’ families and apologize, while confronting her own grief and uncertainty.

    • Gabriel MartinsDirector
    • Bárbara Colen
    • Karine Teles
    • Carlos Francisco
    • Flávio Bauraqui
    • Grace Passô

    Brazil — Portuguese

    Drama

    145 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 4w later
    4
    Special Presentations

    Paradise Lost

    A bus full of children mysteriously vanishes. When an altered version of a grieving mother's son returns years later, she must grapple with the technologically revised reality she has created.

    • Yeon Sang-hoDirector
    • Koo Kyo-hwan
    • Kim Jong-tae
    • Kim Hyun-joo
    • Lee Hyun-kyun
    • Bae Hyeon-seong

    South Korea — Korean

    Thriller · Drama · Science Fiction

    101 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 5w later
    5
    Special Presentations

    Growth of the Soil

    It is late autumn. Isak fights to survive in the wilderness. One day, Inger appears over the mountain. Out of a meeting in need, love grows. In merciless nature, Isak and Inger fight to create a life together. With love as their driving force, they build the farm Sellanraa from nothing. When a dark secret comes to the surface, love is put to the test.

    • Hans Petter MolandDirector
    • Gard B. Eidsvold
    • Anders Baasmo Christiansen
    • Herbert Nordrum
    • Sjur Vatne Brean
    • Oddgeir Thune

    Norway — Norwegian

    Drama

    155 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Primetime

    Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically

    1988: A Brazilian flight attendant named Fernando jets between Rio and New York, loves many men, and lives life to the fullest. He ignores the fact that lots of people around him are contracting a mysterious illness. When he himself is diagnosed with HIV, he resolves to fight it. Taking a risk, he smuggles a drug out of the US and into Brazil, where it is illegal.

    • Marcelo Gomes
    • Carol MinêmDirectors
    • Hermila Guedes
    • Carla Ribas
    • Johnny Massaro
    • Júlio Machado
    • Rita Assemany

    Brazil — Portuguese

    Drama

    110 min

    North American Premiere

  • 1
    Platform

    In the Heart of the South

    Yura Ivalu is an ambitious Inuk multimedia artist who spirals out of control when an estranged childhood friend, Sesi Ilupaalik, forces Yura to confront the trauma she’s built her career on and the identity she built as an avenue to escape.

    • Nyla InnuksukDirector
    • Alexander Nunez
    • Rob Ramsay
    • Tara Nicodemo
    • Anna Lambe
    • Star Slade

    Canada — English

    Comedy · Drama · Thriller

    95 min

    World Premiere

  • 5
    Platform

    Djinn Wedding

    When four estranged siblings reunite in their remote Anatolian village for their sister’s wedding, long-buried memories begin to resurface. As the celebrations unfold, two of them are drawn back into the unbreakable bond they once shared. Family secrets slowly come to light, leading them on a journey through grief and the invisible ties between generations.

    • Ferit KarahanDirector
    • Sarp Bozkurt
    • Ushan Çakır
    • Baki Davrak
    • Demet Özdemir
    • Hakan Salınmış

    Turkey — Turkish

    Drama

    132 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    1
    Centrepiece

    Inherit

    Follows a wealthy family whose polished exterior begins to crack when an ancient centipede spirit infiltrates their bloodline.

    • Banjong PisanthanakunDirector
    • Kowit Wattanakul
    • Pongsatorn Jongwilas
    • Sinjai Plengpanich
    • Davika Hoorne
    • Trin Settachoke

    Thailand — Thai

    Horror · Mystery

    128 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    5
    Centrepiece

    Everytime

    A tragedy brings a mother, daughter, and teenage boy together. Struggling with blame and forgiveness, the unlikely trio take a trip to Tenerife for a family holiday that never happened. Under the glow of the sun, past and present quietly start to overlap.

    • Sandra WollnerDirector
    • Birgit Minichmayr
    • Hermann Beyer
    • Knut Berger
    • Eva Weißenborn
    • Lilly Marie Tschörtner

    Germany, Austria — German

    Drama

    119 min

    North American Premiere

  • Discovery

    I Am Mario

    Mario is a trans taxi driver who gets pregnant. He has the possibility of fulfilling his desire to become a father, but this confronts him with his expectations regarding his masculinity. Before exposing himself to a "macho" and prejudice-filled society, he must face himself.

    • Sharon KleinbergDirector
    • Hector Kotsifakis
    • Fermín Martínez
    • Mayra Batalla
    • Kristyan Ferrer
    • Mercedes Hernández

    Mexico — Spanish

    Drama

    98 min

    International Premiere

  • In cinemas during TIFF
    Centrepiece

    The Violinist

    It is Singapore in the late 1930s. Kai and Fei are childhood friends and aspiring violinists. When Japan invades Malaya in 1941, Kai chooses to forgo his music career to join the anti-Japanese forces. After the war Kai goes missing. Determined to find him, Fei performs all over Southeast Asia, all the while seeking any news of Kai. Yet, as time fades, Fei has to decide if she must find her own music to define the remaining years of her life.

    • Ervin Han
    • Raúl GarcíaDirectors
    • Enrique Arce
    • Tan Kheng Hua
    • Kazuya Tanabe
    • Adrian Pang
    • Ayden Sng

    Singapore, Spain, Italy — English · Japanese

    Animation · Drama · Music

    114 min

    North American Premiere

  • 3
    Special Presentations

    Glaxo

    Chivilcoy, 1957. In a quiet Argentinian town, the arrival of an ominous former police commissioner and his seductive wife fractures the bond between four inseparable young men. Decades later, the past resurfaces, forcing them to confront old wounds, guilt, and the possibility of revenge in a country which has lost its innocence.

    • Benjamín NaishtatDirector
    • Esteban Bigliardi
    • Alan Sabbagh
    • Esteban Lamothe
    • Lali Espósito
    • Marcelo Subiotto

    Argentina, Brazil — Spanish

    Drama · Crime

    107 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 4w later
    4
    Discovery

    Arne Goes to Space

    Two small-town brothers are visited by an alien. Having crash-landed in the forests of Norrbotten, the visitor is named Roland. The brothers, Arne and Stefan, teach him everything important about life on Earth, including moonshine, hunting, and the mystery of love.

    • Lars VegaDirector
    • Kiran Shah
    • Rolf Lassgård
    • Lennart Jähkel
    • Jarmo Mäkinen
    • Margareta Pettersson

    Sweden — Swedish

    Science Fiction

    101 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 3w later
    Wavelengths

    Nobody's Violence

    Mira is a solitary woman of few words. She travels the roads meeting desperate people with whom she seems to have forged strange death pacts. With no apparent destination, she meets Madeleine and Ludo, two free-spirited hedonists living deep in the forest. Taking a break from her missions and unsettled by a sudden encounter with an excessive and intriguing young man, she uses this stopover to question her wandering life and reassess her dark agreements.

    • Denis CôtéDirector
    • Philippe Rebbot
    • Gabrielle Lazure
    • Larissa Corriveau
    • Pierrette Robitaille
    • Belkacem Lahbairi

    Canada — French

    Drama

    118 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 3w later
    4
    Centrepiece

    Four Seasons in Java

    Pertiwi returns to her hometown after spending two decades in prison to rebuild her life. There, she finds power in things that have been abandoned: discarded electronic devices that mysteriously light up and a community of outcasts living on the fringes of society. But coming home also means confronting the four men who sent her to prison and now rule the village. Together with the outcasts, Pertiwi begins to uncover the darkness that still haunts the place - and the past she thought she had left behind.

    • Kamila AndiniDirector
    • Christine Hakim
    • Hana Malasan
    • Putri Marino
    • Cut Mini
    • Shofia Shireen

    Indonesia, France, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore — Javanese · Indonesian

    Drama · Thriller · Crime · Western

    137 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 3w later
    1
    Centrepiece

    Iron Boy

    In rural France, Christophe (10) tries to live up to his rigid and distant father on the family farm. But the young boy starts to lean over and collapse without warning — on the tractor, at school, at dinner... A doctor finds the solution: Christophe must wear an iron corset to keep himself upright. Forced to reinvent his life away from the farm, Christophe discovers a new passion for music, meets a new friend, and follows her into his first mischief. But will any of this really fix what is out of balance?

    • Louis ClichyDirector
    • Alexandre Astier
    • Jean-Pascal Zadi
    • Rod Paradot
    • Brune Moulin
    • Aurélie Vassort

    France, Belgium — French

    Animation

    90 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    Centrepiece

    L'AUTRE

    Bedridden following a severe cancer, a man sees his recovery falter when his young roommate begins to stir up his deepest fears.

    • Alexandre FranchiDirector
    • Pierre-Yves Cardinal
    • Benoît Gouin
    • Bilel Chegrani
    • Marc Messier
    • Nahéma Ricci

    Canada — French

    Thriller · Comedy

    98 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 5mo later
    4
    Centrepiece

    Woman Unknown

    Marie, a former housekeeper, plans an extravagant dinner party for her engagement to the household's patriarch. As preparations unfold, hidden aspects of her past begin to surface, threatening to disrupt the celebration.

    • May el-ToukhyDirector
    • Mikael Birkkjær
    • Joen Højerslev
    • Carsten Bjørnlund
    • Marina Bouras
    • Mathilde Arcel

    Denmark — Danish

    Drama

    126 min

    North American Premiere

  • 2
    Discovery

    Salvation

    A tenacious aspiring guru must go to extreme measures to pay off the debts he’s accrued from trying, and failing, to set up an online life-coaching business in a post-industrial Scottish town. Exploring the world of male influencer culture and how it might be affecting the young men who come into its orbit, SALVATION blends mounting tension, dark comedy and a forensic focus on its protagonist to explore the very modern story of a delusional life coach spiralling out of control.

    • Tom NicollDirector
    • Kim Allan
    • Rian Gordon
    • Kathleen McDermott
    • Conor McCarron
    • Ronan Doyle

    United Kingdom — English

    Drama · Thriller

    91 min

    World Premiere

  • 3
    Centrepiece

    Conversation With The Sea

    In Jerusalem, Kamal, a 60-year-old Palestinian man, is ordered by an Israeli court to pay a large social security debt allegedly owed by his son Wael. But Wael drowned in the Red Sea decades ago. When no official record of his death can be found, Kamal follows the only remaining lead to uncover what happened to his son.

    • Muayad AlayanDirector
    • Amer Hlehel
    • Kamel El Basha
    • Ebla Mari
    • Ruba Bilal
    • Maria Zreik

    Palestine — Arabic · Hebrew · English

    Drama · Mystery

    112 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 3mo later
    2
    Discovery

    The Daughters of Abraham

    After several years apart, Myriam, a young woman from a Muslim background who grew up in Marseille, reconnects with Eva, who comes from a Jewish family, during the summer vacation. Together, they live out their youth outside the imposed norms. But this carefree summer begins to unravel when a tragedy upends the balance of their social and family circles—and soon, their own destinies.

    • Hanaël El YousfiDirector
    • Younes Bouab
    • Syrus Shahidi
    • Melissa Guers
    • Ava Baya
    • Hiba Bennani

    France — French · Arabic

    Drama

    94 min

    International Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    5
    Special Presentations

    A Good Little Soldier

    Follows Carla, a 43-year-old high-performing executive newly recruited as HR manager of a major insurer, tasked with rebuilding its brand in a corporate environment where vulnerability is not an asset.

    • Stéphane BrizéDirector
    • Alba Rohrwacher
    • Vincent Lindon
    • Sharif Andoura
    • David Talbot

    France — French · Italian

    Drama

    102 min

  • In cinemas 2w later
    Centrepiece

    The City of the Living

    Luca is twenty-three years old. He lives with an adoptive family who loves him. He moves between the suburbs and the city center with his friends and has a girlfriend with whom he shares a love that is young, yet significant for them both. Luca is searching for his path at an age when everything still feels possible and, at the same time, already lost; in this pursuit, he leads a double life. One night, after a seemingly chance encounter, the trajectory of Luca’s life is shattered, colliding with blind and senseless violence.

    • Edoardo GabbrielliniDirector
    • Valerio Mastandrea
    • Roberta Mattei
    • Emanuele Maria Di Stefano
    • Simona Senzacqua
    • Gaia Merlonghi

    Italy — Italian

    Drama · Thriller

    103 min

    International Premiere

  • Discovery

    A Common Story

    Erika and Mauro live in the province, living a simple life made up of reassuring habits and small gestures. When their daughter Irene leaves to study abroad, the house empties, and the balance on which the couple has built their existence seems to be shaken.

    • Anna FogliettaDirector
    • Alba Rohrwacher
    • Guido Caprino
    • Elio De Capitani
    • Caterina Casini

    Italy — Italian

    Drama

    107 min

    International Premiere

  • 2
    Special Presentations

    The Age of Goodbyes

    Set in Malaysia, the film follows a young woman named Du Li An who falls in love with a man named Lin Sang in 1969 before he mysteriously disappears. Years later, after marrying a gangster and becoming stepmother to a teenage girl, Du Li An encounters a man who looks exactly like her vanished lover. The decade-spanning narrative blends elements of romance, mystery and coming-of-age storytelling.

    • Edmund YeoDirector
    • Emerson Tsai
    • Vivian Sung Yun-hua
    • Liu Liang-tso
    • Troy Liu
    • Phoebe Lin

    Taiwan, Malaysia — Mandarin · Cantonese · Malay · Thai · English

    Drama

    142 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Discovery

    Strong Son

    A former South Asian bodybuilder moves back in with his aging father to become his primary caregiver, forcing him to balance the physical strength that once defined him with the mental and emotional challenges of caring for the man who raised him.

    • Ian BawaDirector
    • Erik Athavale
    • Onalee Ames
    • Quinn Greene
    • Yuvraj Dhesi
    • Michaela Kurimsky

    Canada — English · Punjabi

    Drama · Comedy

    88 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    2
    Gala Presentations

    Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor

    Set in the Dinh Dynasty of the 10th century, the period film follows seven loyal warriors who must race against time to transport 99 coffins to different parts of the kingdom as a decoy to the enemy and keep the final resting place of the first emperor a secret.

    • Nguyễn Phan Quang BinhDirector
    • Johnny Tri Nguyen
    • Như Quỳnh
    • Đỗ Thị Hải Yến
    • Lê Vũ Long
    • Tuấn Trần

    Vietnam — Vietnamese

    Action · Drama · War · Thriller · Mystery · Fantasy · Adventure

    155 min

    International Premiere

  • In cinemas 2mo later
    2
    Discovery

    Sisters

    • Ione HernándezDirector
    • Elena Anaya
    • Emma Suárez
    • Josean Bengoetxea
    • Leon Martínez
    • Aritz Kortabarria

    Spain — Spanish · Basque

    Drama

    101 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 4w later
    4
    TIFF Docs

    Musk

    A definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.

    • Alex GibneyDirector
    • Elon Musk
    • Kara Swisher
    • Geoffrey Hinton
    • Ashley St. Clair
    • Justine Musk

    United States of America — English

    Documentary

    230 min

    North American Premiere

  • Already released
    Centrepiece

    Our Loves

    Based on true events. The story of 7 characters whose lives will unknowingly entangle. Each character is trapped in a failed relationship due to both tragic and comedic events, which leads them all to a shared belief: October 6th, the day the love died, is their worst day ever. The following day, during Hamas' sudden attack on Israel, they'll desperately have to try to survive while figuring out the true meaning of their lives and what must be changed.

    • Avi NesherDirector
    • Hadas Yaron
    • Noa Cohen
    • Evelin Hagoel
    • Yaniv Biton
    • Shalom Michaelshvili

    Israel — Hebrew · Arabic

    War

    117 min

    World Premiere

  • 2
    Platform

    The Smell of Apples

    In the insulated bubble of white Apartheid South Africa, Marnus, a sheltered 11-year old boy accuses the grandson of his family’s domestic worker of steeling his fishing rod. A brutal chain of events is set in motion, shattering the illusion of his family’s wholesome facade.

    • John TrengoveDirector
    • Inge Beckmann
    • Alejandro Goic
    • Hilton Pelser
    • Maude Sandham
    • Dawian van der Westhuizen

    South Africa, Netherlands, Chile — Afrikaans · English

    History · Drama

    104 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 6w later
    2
    Discovery

    We Are Born Good

    A dining mishap caused a rift between Ji and Rui, leading to a cycle of revenge. Their already troubled lives only came together to fall apart.

    • Leung Chuen YeungDirector
    • Coco Chiang Yi
    • Fish Liew Chi-Yu
    • Lo Chun-Yip
    • Yeung Wai-Lun
    • Chung Suet-Ying

    Hong Kong — Chinese

    Drama

    96 min

    World Premiere

  • Gala Presentations

    Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story

    This galvanizing portrait celebrates Rick Hansen, the great Canadian athlete and activist. It chronicles his 26-month Man In Motion World Tour: a 40,000-kilometre wheelchair journey that raised millions to eliminate accessibility barriers and transform public perception of people with disabilities.

    • Adrian BuitenhuisDirector
    • Nancy Thompson
    • Don Alder
    • Mike Reid
    • Amanda Hansen
    • Fred Cawsey

    Canada — English

    Documentary

    96 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Primetime

    Blindspot Berlin

    • David NawrathDirector
    • Albrecht Schuch
    • Jeanne Goursaud
    • Bernd Hölscher
    • Bayan Layla
    • Wael Alkhatib

    Germany — German · Arabic · Turkish · Polish

    89 min

    World Premiere

  • 4
    Midnight Madness

    Kick On

    When a night of partying leads four friends to kick on, at the extravagant drug-fueled lair of a mobster's reckless son, they find themselves fighting for their lives amidst a brutal spiral of paranoia, violence and ultimate betrayal.

    • Nick KozakisDirector
    • Nikolai Nikolaeff
    • Jacek Koman
    • Markella Kavenagh

    Australia — English

    Horror · Action · Thriller

    91 min

  • 5
    Midnight Madness

    River

    • Joshua GiulianoDirector
    • Jessica Rothe
    • Jane Levy
    • Max Mattern

    United States of America — English

    92 min

  • 1
    Centrepiece

    Viva Carmen

    • Sébastien LaudenbachDirector
    • Milo Machado-Graner
    • Camélia Jordana
    • Carl Malapa
    • Soumaye Bocoum

    France — French

    90 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 3mo later
    8
    Special Presentations

    Coward

    Pierre, a young Belgian soldier, wants to prove himself on the battlefield during the First World War. Behind the frontlines, he meets Francis, who is asked to find a way to boost morale.

    • Lukas DhontDirector
    • Valentin Campagne
    • Orlando Vauthier
    • Jules Smekens
    • Jef Jacobs
    • Mistral Guidotti

    Belgium, France, Netherlands — Dutch · French

    Drama · Romance · War

    125 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 3mo later
    2
    Centrepiece

    The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

    A rich patriarch's delicate family falls apart when his youngest of four wives cannot have a child.

    • Daniel OriahiDirector
    • Bimbo Manuel
    • Odunlade Adekola
    • Daniel Etim Effiong
    • Tina Mba
    • Omowunmi Dada

    Nigeria — Yoruba · English

    Comedy · Drama · Romance

    119 min

    World Premiere

  • 3
    Platform

    Masc

    Robin, a young autistic man desperate to fit in, tries on different roles to understand what kind of man he's supposed to be.

    • Bertil NilssonDirector
    • Ed White
    • Hi Ching
    • Lincoln Conway
    • Tega Alexander
    • Joshua Griffin

    United Kingdom — English

    Drama

    83 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    1
    Wavelengths

    My Wife Cries

    A normal working day on a construction site. Thomas, a 40-year-old crane operator, receives a call from his wife asking him to pick her up from the hospital. He finds her crying.

    • Angela SchanelecDirector
    • Agathe Bonitzer
    • Laure-Lucille Simon
    • Birte Schnöink
    • Clara Gostynski
    • Thorbjörn Björnsson

    Germany, France — German

    Drama

    93 min

    North American Premiere

  • Centrepiece

    Muyi

    • Julien ChhengDirector
    • Guillaume Bouchède
    • Lucie Zhang
    • Jean-Stan du Pac
    • Colette Venhard

    France — French

    90 min

    North American Premiere

  • 3
    Platform

    Silenced Nights

    An ordinary worker witnesses the extrajudicial killing of a teenage boy by police officers. Inspired by real-life events during the Philippine anti-drug campaign, the film tracks the lone witness who risks his safety in an attempt to make the truth known.

    • Lawrence FajardoDirector
    • Joel Saracho
    • Lotlot De Leon
    • Nico Antonio
    • Jorrybell Agoto
    • Tanya Gomez

    Philippines — Tagalog

    Drama · Thriller

    112 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 1w later
    4
    Centrepiece

    Dorothy

    Set in a world shaped by caste, violence, and toxic masculinity, two childhood friends grow up inseparable in rural Tamil Nadu. Their lives are transformed by the arrival of Dorothy, a woman whose compassion quietly challenges the world around them.

    • Karthik SubbarajDirector
    • Keerthy Suresh
    • Anthony Daasan
    • Sananth
    • Rishikanth
    • Muruganantham

    India — Tamil

    Action · Adventure · Drama · Romance

    150 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Special Presentations

    Happily Ever After

    As one sister prepares for marriage and the other resists every convention it represents, their fragile bond is tested by love, family expectations, and the question of whether happiness can ever truly be chosen.

    • Feng-I Fiona RoanDirector
    • Jack Kao
    • Yang Kuei-mei
    • Kent Tsai
    • Yeh Shu-hua
    • Xuan Chen

    Taiwan — Chinese

    Drama

    95 min

    World Premiere

  • 2
    Centrepiece

    Ashes

    • Diego LunaDirector
    • Adriana Paz
    • Anna Diaz

    Mexico, Spain — Catalan · English · Spanish

    98 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 3mo later
    3
    Wavelengths

    Everything Else is Noise

    Rosa, a contemporary music composer, agrees to give her first television interview at her colleague Tere’s apartment to keep it secret from her husband. What begins as a simple professional conversation turns into an absurd and comic portrait of rivalries and affections among three women—Rosa, Tere, and Tere’s daughter Luisa—interrupted by power outages, a constantly barking dog, and the visit of a famous composer. As the interview unravels, family and artistic tensions surface, revealing, with humor, both the fragility of prestige and the strength of complicity.

    • Nicolás PeredaDirector
    • Gabino Rodríguez
    • Francisco Barreiro
    • Teresa Sánchez
    • Luisa Pardo
    • José Rodríguez López

    Germany, Canada, Mexico — Spanish

    Comedy · Music

    71 min

    North American Premiere

  • TIFF Docs

    Rapinoe

    Soccer star Megan Rapinoe explores what it means to win and lose in this intimate portrait.

    • Rebeca HunttDirector
    • Megan Rapinoe
    • Sue Bird
    • Alex Morgan
    • Colin Kaepernick
    • Briana Scurry

    United Kingdom, United States of America — English

    Documentary

    92 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    1
    TIFF Classics

    Spring in a Small Town

    A married couple living in a desolate small town in post-WWII China are paid a surprise visit by an old friend of the husband's.

    • Fei MuDirector
    • Li Wei
    • Wei Wei
    • Cui Chaoming
    • Yu Shi
    • Zhang Hongmei

    China — Mandarin

    Drama · Romance

    98 min

  • 4
    Centrepiece

    God Bless You, Mr Kopu

    A struggling Tongan immigrant is taken under the wing of a charismatic American salesman. What begins as a dream job quickly unravels into a nightmare as the protégé begins questioning his mentor’s methods.

    • Alex LiuDirector
    • Simon Rex
    • Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi
    • Grace Palmer

    New Zealand, Australia — English · Tongan

    Comedy · Thriller

    102 min

    World Premiere

  • 2
    Wavelengths

    Double Freedom

    Misael works alone with his axe, cutting down trees in the woods. An unexpected responsibility upends his life, and the logic of his days fades away in a nature where human reason holds no meaning.

    • Lisandro AlonsoDirector
    • Catalina Saavedra
    • Adrián Fondari
    • Misael Saavedra
    • Laura López Moyano
    • Iván Carra

    Chile, Argentina, Luxembourg, Germany, United Kingdom — Spanish

    Drama

    100 min

    North American Premiere

  • 4
    Centrepiece

    Trees are Watching

    Novelist Darya returns to her hometown with her deaf daughter to work on her new book. There she is haunted by the memory of twin girls from her childhood, and the two trees planted as their memorials.

    • Bahman GhobadiDirector
    • Eva Green
    • Murat Yildirim

    Turkey — Kurdish · Turkish · English

    Horror

    112 min

  • Discovery

    Memories of a Forest

    • Katharina RablDirector
    • Linde Prelog
    • Lukas Walcher
    • Dominik Warta
    • Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg
    • Marie-Therese Futterknecht

    Germany, Austria — German

    91 min

    International Premiere

  • 4
    Special Presentations

    In Alaska

    When a suicidal Inuk teen accidentally pierces an oil pipeline with a bullet, the FBI launches a full-scale manhunt across the northern wilderness.

    • Jaap van Heusden
    • Vinnie KaretakDirectors
    • Noomi Rapace
    • Yin Wang
    • Miali Buscemi
    • Zorga Qaunaq
    • Leo Matthew Temela

    Netherlands, Canada — English · Inuktitut

    Drama

    108 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    1
    Centrepiece

    Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars

    Seventeen-year-old Kellou has been gifted with supernatural powers she does not understand. Her disquiet and uncertainty only change when she meets Aya. It is an encounter with destiny that forges a mystical world where the visible and invisible converge.

    • Mahamat-Saleh HarounDirector
    • Ériq Ebouaney
    • Achouackh Abakar Souleymane
    • Saleh Sambo
    • Maïmouna Miawama
    • Brigitte Tchanégué

    Chad, France — Arabic · French

    Drama

    101 min

    North American Premiere

  • 2
    Platform

    Idda

    Adele and Sofia, childhood friends now in their thirties, reunite after years apart to fulfill a dream they once shared: reaching the summit of Mount Etna. But something feels off, and a bitter confrontation breaks out, opening old wounds and unveiling deeply buried secrets. They separate just as the volcano begins to tremble. Adele presses on alone, haunted by the wish that she had turned back and reached the crater together with Sofia to listen to the mountain’s magical breathing.

    • Irene DionisioDirector
    • Romana Maggiora Vergano
    • Giuseppe De Domenico
    • Tecla Insolia
    • Mati Galey

    Italy — Italian

    Drama

    93 min

    World Premiere

  • 4
    Midnight Madness

    Anchors Aweigh

    When a well-meaning loser gets rejected by his much younger and more successful blonde girlfriend, he rents a small sailboat by the airport and spirals into a state of deep personal reflection.

    • Matt BaratsDirector
    • Mike Holt
    • Ana Fabrega
    • Matt Barats
    • Felipe Di Poi
    • Serena Profaci

    United States of America — English

    Comedy

    71 min

  • Already released
    3
    Centrepiece

    We Are All Strangers

    A life-altering event forces 21-year-old Junyang and his girlfriend to face reality. At the same time, while Junyang’s father is struggling to hold their modest life together, a woman enters his life and both generations are forced to redefine their family.

    • Anthony ChenDirector
    • Yeo Yann Yann
    • Koh Jia Ler
    • Yang Shi Bin
    • Alaric Tay
    • Regene Lim

    Singapore — Mandarin · English

    Drama

    157 min

    North American Premiere

  • 10
    Discovery

    Stuffed

    Araminta, a brooding taxidermist whose secret ambition is to stuff a human specimen, meets Bernie, a lonely man so afraid of being forgotten that he volunteers himself, their pact unexpectedly evolves into a haunting romance.

    • Theo RhysDirector
    • Harry Melling
    • Jodie Comer

    United Kingdom — English

    Romance · Horror

    117 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    1
    TIFF Classics

    Report to Mother

    Purushan, a student on his way to Delhi, becomes obsessed with the tragic suicide of a young drummer. He collects many people to go with him to tell the boy’s mother.

    • John AbrahamDirector
    • Joy Mathew
    • Anand
    • Nilambur Balan
    • Maji Venkatesh
    • Harinarayan

    India — Malayalam

    Drama

    115 min

  • 5
    Centrepiece

    After Elena

    When a family's matriarch dies, four relatives are forced to confront decades of silence, resentment, and buried affection. Led by Alfredo Castro, this sharp ensemble balances humour and melancholy in a moving portrait of grief and reconciliation.

    • Shawn GarryDirector
    • Alfredo Castro
    • Catalina Saavedra
    • Nicolás Zárate
    • Guilherme Sepúlveda

    Chile, Colombia, Italy — Spanish

    Drama

    85 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Discovery

    The Fortunate Isles

    In the arid Canary Islands of the 15th century, Fátima is enslaved by a decadent marquis who controls the island’s only source of fresh water. When rebellion erupts and the well runs dry, she ventures into the barren landscape in search of water — and a chance of survival for the entire community.

    • Helena Girón
    • Samuel DelgadoDirectors
    • Grégoire Colin
    • Lou Castel

    Spain, Greece — Spanish · French · Arabic

    80 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 4w later
    2
    Wavelengths

    Once Upon a Time in Harlem

    A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.

    • William Greaves
    • David GreavesDirectors
    • William Greaves
    • Leigh Whipper
    • Eubie Blake
    • Noble Sissle
    • Ernest Crichlow

    United States of America — English

    Documentary

    100 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • Already released
    1
    Centrepiece

    Flies

    Olga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old son, an unlikely bond forms. Her carefully controlled world begins to shift, and their lives become intertwined against her will.

    • Fernando EimbckeDirector
    • Enrique Arreola
    • Teresa Sánchez
    • Hugo Ramírez
    • Bastián Escobar
    • Teresita Sánchez

    Mexico — Spanish

    Drama · Comedy

    101 min

    North American Premiere

  • Already released
    1
    Special Presentations

    The Road Not Taken

    ...But, At least you're still out there, somewhere in the world. That trail of the comet that once streaked across the sky, Is now the untrodden path by which I seek you.

    • Peter Ho-Sun ChanDirector
    • Zhou Xun
    • Tian Zhuangzhuang
    • Wen Qi
    • Diana Lin
    • Wang Xiao

    China — Chinese

    Animation · Fantasy

    135 min

  • 1
    Wavelengths

    Life of Jorge Luis Borges

    A biography of Jorge Luis Borges working from an exhaustive review of the papers he left, the books he read, the places he went to. And with this, an attempt to decipher a very peculiar life: someone who lived like a hidden, underground warrior, whose cause was literature, literature conceived as a kingdom and as a landscape. If Cold War spies fought from their desks or from an uninhabited house to defend their half of the world, Borges strove from a library to elevate and broaden the territories of his own tribe: the people for whom the most important part of the universe is books, plots and words. This film is devoted to that secret pilgrim (to borrow from Le Carré, the king of all spies).

    • Mariano LlinásDirector
    • Laura Paredes
    • Jorge Luis Borges
    • Pablo Dacal
    • Milva Leonardi
    • Ernesto Montequín

    Argentina — Spanish

    Documentary

    330 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 6w later
    2
    Special Presentations

    Everest: The Other Side

    An intimate portrait of two people bound by love, ambition, and the pursuit of the impossible. Elite ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson fell deeply in love while reaching the pinnacle of their sport. Their drive sharpened into a shared dream: to climb and ski the direct North Face of Mount Everest - the most difficult and dangerous climb on the mountain and the most coveted ski line on Earth - something only a handful have ever achieved, and no one has successfully skied down.

    • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
    • Jimmy ChinDirectors
    • Hilaree Nelson
    • Jim Morrison

    United States of America — English

    Documentary

    115 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • 1
    Wavelengths

    The Remotes

    A grieving detective finds himself increasingly ensnared while investigating a case involving a sinister navigation app causing physical and psychological debris.

    • John TorresDirector
    • Gabby Padilla
    • Enchong Dee
    • Jorrybell Agoto
    • Alcris Galura
    • Jhoanna San Juan

    Philippines — Tagalog · English

    Science Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

    153 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Centrepiece

    Toy Gun Bandit

    After bragging about stealing from a convenience store, Félix is pulled in by his new friend Dave into a plan to rob a local bank. Hungry for recognition, he dives in without hesitation. But the thrill fades fast as things unravel, and the guns turn out to be all too real. This is almost a true story.

    • Rémi St-MichelDirector
    • Brandon Truong
    • Sara Montpetit
    • Lou Thompson
    • David Beaudoin
    • Mathieu Bourret

    Canada — French

    Crime · Comedy · Thriller · Action · Drama

    102 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Centrepiece

    The Difficult Bride

    Novera, a bride-to-be in present-day Dhaka, is in love with her groom and dreams of a fairytale wedding, but secretly struggles with her body’s resistance to wedding rituals. As stress and emotional pain intensify, a mysterious woman with long hair begins appearing in Novera’s imagination.

    • Rubaiyat HossainDirector
    • Shatabdi Wadud
    • Azmeri Haque Badhon
    • Sunerah Binte Kamal
    • Reekita Nondine Shimu
    • Saberi Alam

    France, Bangladesh, Germany, Norway, Portugal — Bengali · English

    Fantasy · Drama · Thriller · Horror

    88 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 4mo later
    5
    Centrepiece

    A Girl Unknown

    A Chinese girl is passed between three families from the age of 6 to 18, receiving each time a new name and identity. As she searches for belonging and the possibility of love, she has to navigate between the weight of her past and the uncertainty of her future, until she finds her own way.

    • Zou JingDirector
    • Zu Feng
    • Li Gengxi
    • Liu Xiaoyu
    • Shen Jiani
    • Cao Ruofan

    China — Chinese

    Drama

    128 min

    North American Premiere

  • 1
    Special Presentations

    Phoolan

    Follows an impoverished 17-year-old girl who becomes a famous outlaw and survives a brutal 48-hour siege when thousands of armed men trap her in a village.

    • Richie MehtaDirector
    • Aakash Dahiya
    • Anurag Thakur
    • Vikram Pratap Singh

    India — Hindi

    113 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Centrepiece

    Sunburn

    When a citywide blackout knocks out the power on one of the hottest days on record, a group of neighborhood kids set out in search of relief, unaware that the day will quietly mark the end of their childhood.

    • Serville PobleteDirector
    • Joshua Obra
    • Milan Deng
    • Ericka Leobrera
    • Arianna Shannon
    • Dashawn Lloyd Blackwood

    Canada — English

    Comedy

    82 min

    World Premiere

  • Already released
    3
    Centrepiece

    The Dreamed Adventure

    The story of a woman living in the border region between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, who agrees to partake in a special deal in order to help a friend. However, this will lead her into a dangerous situation, and she will have to confront her desires

    • Valeska GrisebachDirector
    • Syuleyman Alilov Letifo
    • Yana Radeva
    • Stoicho Kostadinov
    • Nikolay Shekerdjiev
    • Denislava Yordanova

    Germany, France, Bulgaria, Austria — Bulgarian

    Drama · Romance · Mystery

    164 min

    North American Premiere

  • 5
    Midnight Madness

    HALF

    • SamjadDirector
    • Amala Paul
    • Abbas
    • Ranjith Sajeev
    • Aiswarya Raj

    India — Tamil · Malayalam · English · Telugu · Hindi

    111 min

  • In cinemas 3mo later
    1
    Centrepiece

    La Gradiva

    A small group of French high school students goes on a school trip to Pompeii to discover its ruins and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius in 79 CE. It is in this ghost town that they are suddenly overcome by a dizzying sensation. One after another, James, Toni, Suzanne, and their Latin teacher, Mme Mercier, allow themselves to be engulfed by desire, anger, and despair—until they surrender to it completely and lose everything.

    • Marine AtlanDirector
    • Antonia Buresi
    • Anna Heckel
    • Emmanuelle Lafon
    • Alma Polgár
    • Mitia Capellier-Audat

    France, Italy — French · Italian

    Drama

    145 min

    North American Premiere

  • TIFF Docs

    Bleeding Hearts

    A music-driven love story about real-life couple Zella Day and Jesse Woods, the musicians behind Chaparelle. Following their first year together, they chase a shared dream while facing pressures that could spark a breakup—or a breakthrough

    • Andrew MorganDirector
    • Zella Day
    • Jesse Woods

    United States of America — English

    Documentary · Music

    97 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Discovery

    Head to Head

    Bahar is an acclaimed Iranian director, having made numerous films selected in international festivals. So when she casts actors and asks them to wear women’s outfits for her latest film, they agree in the hope of an international career — or even a visa to leave the country. But wearing skirts and headscarves under the heat is harder than they expected … as is the hit to their pride.

    • Ghasideh GolmakaniDirector
    • Ebrahim Azizi
    • Lily Farhadpour
    • Elaheh Farazmand
    • Saeed Naderi
    • Bahador Bastanhagh

    Iran, Germany — Persian

    Drama

    80 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Centrepiece

    Long Long Night

    The last rhino of his kind forms an unlikely bond with a penguin born from an abandoned egg. Together, they set out on a heartwarming journey toward the ocean.

    • Kyu Bock YoumDirector
    • Suzy
    • Kim Kyu-na
    • Park Ki-wook

    South Korea — Korean

    Animation · Family · Adventure

    99 min

    World Premiere

  • Wavelengths

    Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo

    A deeply personal portrait of one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in Japanese cinema: filmmaker, writer, and revolutionary Masao Adachi.

    • Kamal AljafariDirector
    • Masao Adachi
    • Neo Sora
    • Ikuyo Shida
    • Makiko Nishigaito
    • Hideo Shida

    Germany, France, Japan — Japanese

    Documentary

    28 min

    World Premiere

  • TIFF Docs

    The Final Act

    • Sophie DeraspeDirector
    • François Aubin
    • Mathieu Moreau
    • Simon Roy
    • André Trépanier
    • Sheldon Solomon

    Canada — English · French

    98 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Wavelengths

    At Night

    Six women in Paris traverse the neon-soaked anxiety of the city after dark.

    • Beatrice GibsonDirector
    • Lily McMenamy
    • Beatrice Gibson
    • Laida Lertxundi
    • Pauline Curnier-Jardin
    • Denna Cartamkhoob

    United Kingdom, France — English · French · Bambara · Tibetan

    Drama · Fantasy

    87 min

    North American Premiere

  • 3
    Centrepiece

    Future Tense

    In a dystopian future, a young couple clashes during their time-traveling vacation.

    • Jenna Cato BassDirector
    • Kristen Raath
    • Qondiswa James
    • Lawrence Maleka

    South Africa, Australia — Dutch · Xhosa · English · Afrikaans

    Science Fiction · Thriller · Romance

    96 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Gala Presentations

    Pretenders

    Based on in-depth interviews with Hynde and archival sources, Pretenders traces the journey of a truly unique rock icon.

    • Joss CrowleyDirector
    • Chrissie Hynde
    • Martin Chambers

    United Kingdom — English

    Documentary

    107 min

    World Premiere

  • In cinemas 3w later
    1
    Gala Presentations

    Run Terry Run

    The extraordinary story of Canadian icon Terry Fox will be told like never before in Run Terry Run, a new feature-length documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sean Menard. The film offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at Terry’s legendary 1980 Marathon of Hope, drawing from 96 reels of never-before-seen footage and unheard audio interviews that have remained untouched for 45 years.

    • Sean MenardDirector
    • Al Waxman
    • Terry Fox
    • Darrell Fox
    • Darryl Sittler
    • Bill Vigars

    Canada — English

    Documentary

    108 min

  • Discovery

    Voices

    When a rising soul duo overdose just hours before their big break, a desperate bellhop and his closest friends seize the chance of a lifetime, only to discover that the price of fame is blood.

    • Deanté GrayDirector
    • Ezekiel Ajeigbe
    • Francis C. Edemobi
    • Jamal R. Averett
    • Raèl Ba
    • Antoine Gardner

    United States of America — English

    Drama · Music

    99 min

    International Premiere

  • 1
    Centrepiece

    Eklipse

    Twelve-year-old Tomy spends the summer of the 1999 solar eclipse with his best friend Chris on an alpine pasture. When Chris learns that Tomy's father is in hospital with AIDS, their friendship falls apart – and Tomy suddenly finds himself torn between exclusion and the secrecy of his own family.

    • Manuel WetscherDirector
    • Barbara Romaner
    • Lisa Schützenberger
    • Hannes Perkmann
    • Lenz Moretti
    • Finley Brown

    Austria, Italy — German

    Drama

    91 min

    North American Premiere

  • 1
    TIFF Docs

    The Pervert's Guide to Utopias

    Philosopher Slavoj Žižek is our guide through landscapes of classic film, music, social media, archive and webcasts. Making unexpected twists and turns, he maps the utopian illusions of our times. Through absurd juxtapositions and startling insights, we are seduced into recognising our fate, in order to change it.

    • Sophie FiennesDirector
    • Slavoj Žižek

    Ireland, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Netherlands, Norway — English

    Documentary

    133 min

    North American Premiere

  • Already released
    2
    Centrepiece

    Elephants in the Fog

    In a small Nepalese village nestled in the heart of a forest populated by wild elephants, Pirati is the matriarch of a Kinnar community. She dreams of escaping to a “normal” life with the man she is in love with. But when one of her daughters disappears, she must investigate and choose between love and responsibility to her community.

    • Abinash Bikram ShahDirector
    • Gauri Malla
    • Maotse Gurung
    • Aashant Sharma
    • Shanti Giri
    • Dura Sanjay Gupta

    Nepal, France, Germany, Brazil, Norway — Nepali

    Thriller

    108 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 3w later
    1
    Gala Presentations

    Always Lalisa

    Documentary following global superstar LISA during a transformative year away from BLACKPINK, the K-pop phenomenon that made her one of the world's most recognizable performers. Documenting a year of risk, reinvention, and self-discovery as LISA begins to define her next chapter.

    • Sue KimDirector
    • LISA

    United States of America — English · Thai · Korean

    Documentary · Music

    97 min

    World Premiere

  • TIFF Docs

    Ba's Book

    Production/Post-production. After a father writes a memoir in the form of letters to his daughter about his harrowing experiences of the Vietnam War and the Iranian Revolution, the daughter responds by making a film.

    • Ashley DuongDirector
    • Anh Duong
    • Duy Nguyen
    • Ashley Duong

    Canada — Vietnamese · English

    93 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Platform

    The World Before

    On a small island, Jin, a teenage girl going through puberty, begins her first love affair with her best friend Dujae.

    • Yoon Dan-biDirector
    • Sim Su-bin
    • Kim Eo-jin

    South Korea — Korean

    Drama · Romance

    115 min

    World Premiere

  • 5
    Centrepiece

    Furies

    During Lebanon’s corruption-fueled economic collapse, the banks freeze millions of depositors out of their own life savings. Maro, a determined single mom, and her wild-hearted sister Dalia begin to scheme a daring, all-night heist to get their own money back.

    • Rami KodeihDirector
    • Hasan Akil
    • Issam Bou Khaled
    • Maria Nakouzi
    • Rym Mroue

    Lebanon, Brazil — Arabic

    Drama · Crime · Thriller

    134 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 4w later
    1
    Centrepiece

    Marie Madeleine

    In Jacmel, Haiti, the sea, the churches, and the spirits shape daily life. Marie Madeleine is a free woman. She makes a living as a prostitute and navigates the nights without submitting to the rules of those who save souls. Her path crosses Joseph's, a young evangelist. A relationship blossoms between these two opposite beings. As Joseph’s faith wavers, Marie Madeleine draws him into a world where desire and the quest for freedom open up a space where everything can be reinvented.

    • Géssica GénéusDirector
    • Gessica Généus
    • Gaëlle Bien-Aimé
    • Edouard Baptiste
    • Mélissa Mildort
    • Ginou Jules

    France, Haiti, Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg — Haitian · French

    Drama

    104 min

    North American Premiere

  • 1
    Centrepiece

    Light Pillar

    The future. Winter. Space travel is no longer a dream. A lonely janitor tends the grounds of a dilapidated bankrupt film studio with only a former cat actor for company until he embarks on a romantic journey with a female player in a beautiful virtual world.

    • Xu ZaoDirector
    • Dong Chengpeng
    • Qing Yi
    • Da Peng

    China — Chinese

    Drama · Animation

    90 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 4w later
    3
    Wavelengths

    London

    Bobby drives back and forth between Vienna and Salzburg, giving lifts to strangers on the way, sharing conversations that drift from the mundane to the deeply personal. In this tender portrait of today’s Europe, anonymity and warmth still go hand in hand.

    • Sebastian BrameshuberDirector
    • Ted Fendt
    • Bobby Sommer
    • Anca Cipariu
    • Lana Prerad
    • Paul Schild

    Austria — German · English · Romanian

    Drama · Comedy

    120 min

    North American Premiere

  • 1
    Platform

    Angh

    In 1960s Nagaland, a proud Konyak chief struggles to protect his dying traditions when an American missionary arrives with promises of aid that threaten his people’s identity. As his wife’s health deteriorates and famine looms, he and his mute son must make an impossible choice between survival and staying true to their ancestral ways.

    • Theja RioDirector
    • Douglas Henshall

    India — Konyak

    Drama

    103 min

    World Premiere

  • 2
    Platform

    Brace Your Heart

    In a remote Sámi village high in the mountains, 20-year-old Ejva inherits her late father's reindeer herd. As she struggles to keep the herd thriving, local leader Heaika develops romantic feelings for her, and though hesitant, she feels compelled to accept. But everything changes when Nejla, Heaika's cousin, arrives, and Ejva discovers true love for the first time. Betrayed and jealous, Heaika reacts harshly, leaving Ejva with a condition that makes her hands shake uncontrollably, threatening her ability to care for the herd. Now, Ejva must find a way to reclaim control over her life and her future.

    • Amanda KernellDirector
    • Nils Peder Gaup
    • Elli-Sara Valkeapää
    • Andte Gaup-Juuso
    • Vincent Niia
    • Siri Marakatt

    Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Bulgaria — Northern Sami · Swedish

    Drama

    97 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    TIFF Docs

    Edward Said: Between Worlds

    An all archival documentary that chronicles the personal journey and ideas of Palestinian-American intellectual, Edward Said.

    • Maiken BairdDirector
    • Edward Said

    United States of America — Arabic · English

    Documentary

    107 min

    World Premiere

  • 2
    Centrepiece

    Love is the monster

    • Neto Villalobos BrenesDirector
    • Paulina García
    • Natalia Regidor
    • Gloriana Vargas

    Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Chile, Mexico — Spanish

    95 min

    World Premiere

  • 4
    Midnight Madness

    Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney

    Haunted by visions of the future. Vilified by the political establishment. Charming beyond belief. Behold the dazzling ascent of Brian Mulroney, the “Boy from Baie-Comeau” who built a brand-new Canada.

    • Matthew RankinDirector
    • Brian Mulroney

    Canada — English · French

    Documentary

    105 min

  • 2
    TIFF Docs

    Union Town

    Set against the backdrop of New York City, the film follows delivery industry workers as they take on some of the world s most powerful corporate giants, touching on the challenges, joys and human elements that make this movement possible.

    • Barbara KoppleDirector

    United States of America — English · Spanish

    Documentary

    110 min

    North American Premiere

  • TIFF Docs

    Turtle Island Rap

    Follows three aspiring Indigenous hip-hop artists on their challenging journey to success.

    • Alexandra LazarowichDirector
    • Travis Thompson

    Canada — English · Diné

    Documentary

    97 min

    World Premiere

  • Primetime

    2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback

    • Darren DaleDirector
    • Derek Williams
    • Andrew Boe
    • Kate Wild

    Australia — English · Warlpiri

    118 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    TIFF Docs

    Like Magic

    Blending archival footage, personal testimony and a decades-long search for answers, Melissa Saavedra Gil transforms a childhood tragedy into a powerful exploration of memory, truth, and healing. An intimate and deeply resonant debut that illuminates both a personal story and a generation shaped by violence.

    • Melissa Saavedra GilDirector
    • Mónica García
    • Samuel Conde
    • Fabian Cardenas
    • Melissa Saavedra Gil

    Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay — Spanish

    Documentary

    75 min

    World Premiere

  • 4
    Centrepiece

    Ah Girl

    Singapore, 1994. Ah Girl is a curious 7-year-old girl. Since her parents separated, she lives in a small flat with her younger sister, Ah Tian, her easygoing Pa who works nightshifts, and her irritable Grandmother. They see their needy and unreliable Mum on weekends. One weekend, drunk Mum asks if Ah Girl wants to live with her when she gets a bigger flat. This question disrupts Ah Girl's sense of the world, and the rest of the film unfolds as she struggles with the decision. She becomes increasingly aware that her family life is far from normal.

    • Ang Geck Geck PriscillaDirector
    • Doreen Toh
    • James Seah
    • Carrie Wong
    • Xuan Jing Ong
    • Sydney Wong

    Singapore — Chinese · English

    Drama

    99 min

    North American Premiere

  • In cinemas 4mo later
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    Centrepiece

    Rehearsals for a Revolution

    Through five portraits of relatives and mentors, five expressions of resistance, Pegah Ahangarani sketches her life story. Drawing from personal archives, home videos, street protests footage, newspapers, and recorded voices, she retraces more than 40 years of Iran’s history. From the early days of 1979, until the war that began in 2026, she pieces together intimate and collective memories, forming the portrait of a country shaped by political repression and in constant hope for a revolution.

    • Pegah AhangaraniDirector

    Czech Republic, Spain — Persian

    Documentary

    98 min

    Canadian Premiere

  • In cinemas 4mo later
    3
    Centrepiece

    Ben'Imana

    Rwanda, 2012. The country is emerging from an era of silence after the 1994 Tutsi genocide, and people's courts are being set up with the aim of bringing justice and reconciliation. Veneranda, a survivor, is convinced of the need for these trials. Despite pressures, she organises discussion sessions between victims and the families of the executioners. Therapy for some, an act of betrayal for others, these testimonial sessions revive and reveal the traumas that each of them try to overcome, in their own way. The wounds of Veneranda's past are exposed again when she learns of her daughter's unexpected pregnancy and the identity of the father. Veneranda has to face her own contradictions and the dark parts of her past.

    • Marie-Clémentine DusabejamboDirector
    • Isabelle Kabano
    • Kesia Kelly Nishimwe
    • Arivere Kagoyire
    • Antoinette Uwamahoro
    • Leocadie Uwabeza

    Rwanda, Gabon, France, Norway — Kinyarwanda

    Drama

    101 min

    North American Premiere

  • TIFF Docs

    Cheyenne

    Cheyenne follows a group of fearless cowgirls who compete at riding wild broncos on the rodeo circuit after nearly a century of being excluded because of their gender.

    • Taimi ArvidsonDirector

    United States of America — English

    Documentary

    104 min

    World Premiere

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    TIFF Docs

    The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs

    After a lifetime of hardship, 75-year-old Indigenous artist Sara Flores emerges from the Peruvian Amazon into the global art scene. As she confronts the toll of success, she turns her work into an act of resistance for her Shipibo Nation.

    • Èlia Gasull Balada
    • Matteo NorziDirectors
    • Sara Flores

    Peru, United States of America, Qatar — Spanish

    88 min

    World Premiere

  • TIFF Docs

    The Ultra Runner

    Driven by a violent past and hardened by years of crime and incarceration, Romanian ultramarathoner Tibi Useriu battles endless terrain and his own demons in search of a better life for his family, his country, and himself.

    • Mila Aung-ThwinDirector
    • Eftina Moeșan
    • Ana Szekely
    • Tiberiu Ușeriu
    • Alin Uhlmann Ușeriu
    • Maria Mihaela Ștefănuț

    Canada — English · Romanian · Italian · German

    Documentary · History · War

    98 min

    World Premiere

  • TIFF Docs

    Black Sunflowers

    Black Sunflowers is a mosaic of Ukrainian youth, shuttling between the frontlines and civilian life, captured by the gifted American filmmaker James Marcus Haney (No Cameras Allowed) collaborating with an esteemed Ukrainian crew.

    • James Marcus HaneyDirector

    Ukraine, United States of America — Ukrainian · Russian · English

    Documentary

    97 min

    World Premiere

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    Centrepiece

    Congo Boy

    Bangui, Central African Republic. 17 year-old Robert dreams of a career in music, but civil war is tearing the country apart. When both his parents are thrown into prison, he is left to look after his four younger siblings on his own, juggling daily life, odd jobs, school exams and concert stages, determined to follow his dream.

    • Rafiki FarialaDirector
    • Christy Djomanda Louba
    • Pétruche Mbomba
    • Rosiana Kotozia
    • Gloria Ambacko
    • Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset

    Central African Republic, France, Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy — Sango · French · Lingala · Swahili

    Drama · Music

    94 min

    North American Premiere

  • Centrepiece

    Where the River Begins

    Yajaira, a young but strong Embera woman, lives with her daughter Maria in a violent Bogotá neighborhood. Haunted by dreams of the jungle, she longs to return to the village she once called home. After a tragedy strikes, they have no choice but to leave. Jhon, a charismatic young gang member, joins them on their dangerous journey to the Andágueda River, driven by motives he keeps hidden. Donde Comienza el Río is a poignant, poetic film where a perilous escape becomes a journey of healing. As the jungle reemerges through memory and dream, masks fall and reality is touched by the magic of Yajaira’s inner world.

    • Juan Andrés ArangoDirector
    • Girleza Duave Cerezo
    • Juan David Junca Linares
    • Ana Michell Nama Dumaza

    Canada, Colombia, Norway — Spanish · Emberá

    Drama

    102 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Centrepiece

    The bovine with the curved horns

    The bovine with the curved horns follows a boy searching for his missing father through a landscape where myth and violence coexist.

    • Omar E. Ospina GiraldoDirector
    • Carlos Fernández
    • Amanda Maldonado
    • Jose Sandoval

    Colombia — Spanish

    Fantasy · History · Drama

    80 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    TIFF Docs

    Still Night, Burning House

    In her deeply personal debut feature, award-winning filmmaker Carol Nguyen charts her family’s first reunion since her uncle’s mysterious death. Travelling together to Vietnam, the family embarks on a revelatory—and at times uncanny—journey through intergenerational trauma and many-layered loss. With care and probing curiosity, Nguyen guides her loved ones as they navigate unsealed medical records and a decades-long silence, ultimately leading them back to each other. A metaphysical poem for complex mourning, Still Night, Burning House shows how storytelling can transform grief into collective healing.

    • Carol NguyenDirector

    Canada — English · Vietnamese

    Documentary

    76 min

    World Premiere

  • TIFF Docs

    Gail

    A superfan of the Canadian band Our Lady Peace follows them on their 30th anniversary tour across Canada.

    • Michael MaxxisDirector

    Canada — English

    Documentary

    92 min

    World Premiere

  • TIFF Docs

    Low Lies The Land

    Set in the breathtaking landscapes of Piemonte in Northern Italy, the lives of three winemaking families face an uncertain future.

    • Emanuele GerosaDirector

    Denmark, Italy — Italian

    Documentary

    92 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    TIFF Docs

    Tehran, Under the Skin

    In an age of body anxiety, filmmaker Afsaneh Salari embeds herself in the offices of Iranian plastic surgeons to interview their clients with humour and empathy.

    • Afsaneh SalariDirector

    France, Iran, Sweden — Persian

    Documentary

    84 min

    World Premiere

  • TIFF Docs

    Rescue

    On a dead-calm morning in the Mediterranean, the migrant rescue ship of Doctors Without Borders spots a deflating rubber boat. Dozens of people are struggling in the water. Among the refugees is Roro, a Yemeni mother traveling with her husband, Hani, their two-month-old baby, and two young sons. As the rescue begins, a Libyan militia intervenes and abducts Roro and the children, dragging them back to Libya. Meanwhile, Hani is rescued and arrives in Europe alone. A family is violently torn apart across the Mediterranean. While Hani fights from Europe to reunite the family, Roro struggles to survive captivity in Libya and to protect her children. Trapped by a violent system deeply entangled with EU border politics, she relentlessly attempts to cross the sea again. RESCUE is a gripping story of survival and injustice, and a powerful portrait of a young mother whose strength drives the film.

    • Sine PlambechDirector

    Denmark, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Iceland — Arabic · English · Italian · German

    Documentary

    90 min

    World Premiere

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    Discovery

    Nosotros

    Romero, a 23-year-old Indigenous man who used to drive a three-wheeled mototaxi (TucTuc) in his rural town, flees local gang extortion and migrates to Guatemala City. He finds a job as a security guard at a commercial center, where he falls in love with a trans woman who runs a local business. Together, they build an emotional sanctuary, but their bond is quickly threatened by the deep-seated prejudice and hostility of his coworkers.

    • Joaquín RuanoDirector
    • Lola Vásquez
    • Jozef Coxaj

    Guatemala, Mexico — Spanish · Maya K'iche'

    Drama · Romance

    79 min

    World Premiere

  • 2
    Wavelengths

    The Black Box is Orange

    Follows a multimodal, autobiographical essay that deploys both personal memory and incomplete archives to reflect on a childhood in a militarized border town.

    • Yuula BenivolskiDirector

    Canada — Arabic · English · Hebrew

    90 min

    World Premiere

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    In Conversation With... Lee Min-ho

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    TIFF Classics

    Pelechian Project

  • TIFF Docs

    Re/Pair

    Prominent Black and Jewish figures engage in conversations about rifts in their historic alliance, partly centered on but not limited to current events in the Middle East.

    • Lacey Schwartz DelgadoDirector

    United States of America — English

    Documentary

    101 min

    World Premiere

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    REDEFINED | Short Film Showcase

  • 2
    Centrepiece

    Thirteen in Gaza

    Palestinian director Hosam Abu Dan makes his narrative feature debut with a nuanced and deeply human portrait of a father and his teenage daughter navigating everyday life in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

    • Hosam Abu DanDirector
    • Ghassan Salem

    Palestine — Arabic

    War · Drama

    77 min

    World Premiere

  • 1
    Discovery

    Zjili: A Story of Sisterhood and The Burdens of Excess

    The story draws from the experiences of several kayayei, who carry 55-kilogram bales of imported secondhand clothing around Kantamanto, Accra’s principal secondhand clothing market.

    • Christine Boateng
    • Hajara Musah ChambasDirectors

    Ghana — Dagbani · Twi · English

    Drama

    119 min

    World Premiere