TIFF 2026 Line-Up

Key:
Features (40min. and up) are in bold
Shorts are in italics
● - I have seen this film
★ - I have seen this film and am fond of it (6.0 and higher)
✘ - I have seen this film and had a bad time watching it (4.0 and lower)
○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film
16mm, 35mm, 70mm - This film will be screened from a celluloid print
👓 - This film is stereoscopic
L - Has TIFF's "Luminaries" label, i.e. it'd be in "Masters" if the section still existed

Colour coding:
NYFF - Slate and Main
SUNDANCE - Cinéma concret
BERLINALE - The opposite of politics
CANNES - Known unknowns
LOCARNO - Somewhere to lay my eyes
VENICE - Awaken the umbra
NOTABLE - New films by directors whose work I actively look forward to

(Colours trump whatever is below them; e.g. if a film premiered in Berlin it will be red,
unless it gets announced as part of NYFF's Main Slate, in which case it will become purple)

 

Special Presentations (43 | 2025: 58)
The Age of Goodbyes (Edmund Yeo)
All of a Sudden (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
All That She Wants (Scarlett Bermingham & Andrew Rhymer)
Alpha Gang (David Zellner & Nathan Zellner)
Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo (Takashi Miike) ○
The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodóvar)
Clarissa (Arie & Chuko Esiri
Club Kid (Jordan Firstman)
Coward (Lukas Dhont)
The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg)
Elsinore (Simon Stone)
Everest: The Other Side (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)
Everybody Wants To F*** Me (Jonathan Schey)
Faith (Paul Andrew Williams)
Fjord (Cristian Mungiu)
Gentle Monster (Marie Kreutzer)
Glaxo (Benjamín Naishtat) ○
Growth of the Soil (Hans Petter Moland)
Happily Ever After (Feng-I Fiona Roan)
Hombre al agua (Gael García Bernal)
The Housewife (Ben Shirinian)
I Play Rocky (Peter Farrelly) ○
In Alaska (Jaap van Heusden & Vinnie Karetak)
Ink (Danny Boyle)
Josephine (Beth de Araújo)
The Julia Set (Niki Byrne)
La Bola Negra (Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi)
Le Faux Soir (Michaël R. Roskam)
A Long Winter (Andrew Haigh) ○
Look Back (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Love of Your Life (Rachel Morrison)
The Man I Love (Ira Sachs)
Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? (Shinya Tsukamoto)
Paradise Lost (Yeon Sang-ho)
Phoolan (Richie Mehta)
Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong)
The Stunt Driver (Michael Dowse)
Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh)
The Unknown (Arthur Harari)
Whatcha Want (Mina Shum)
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (Bassam Tariq)

 

Discovery (24 | 2025: 23)
Ancestors (David Turpin)
Arne Goes to Space (Lars Vega)
Bedford Park (Stephanie Ahn)
A Common Story (Anna Foglietta)
The Daughters of Abraham (Hanaël El Yousfi)
Drifter (Sung Kang) ○
The Fortunate Isles (Helena Girón & Samuel Delgado) ○
Head to Head (Ghasideh Golmakani )
I Am Mario (Sharon Kleinberg)
In Waves (Phuong Mai Nguyen)
Krux (Tony Vahl)
Magazine (Alexandra Pechman)
Memories of a Forest (Katharina Rabl)
Nosotros (Joaquín Ruano)
Purgatory (Lindsay Lanzillotta)
Salvation (Tom Nicoll)
Seventeen (Justin Ducharme)
Sisters (Ione Hernández)
Strong Son (Ian Bawa)
Stuffed (Theo Rhys) ○
Voices (Deantè Gray)
We Are Born Good (Leung Chuen Yeung)
What Lies Between Us (Amalie Næsby Fick)
Zjili: A Story of Sisterhood and The Burdens of Excess (Christine Boateng & Hajara Musah Chambas)

 

Gala Presentations (23 | 2025: 22)
All About Corinne (Marc Fitoussi)
Always Lalisa (Sue Kim)
The Assassin(s) (Hur Jin-ho)
Atonement (Reed Van Dyk)
Babies (Lauren Miller Rogen)
Being Heumann (Siân Heder)
Bunker (Florian Zeller)
Diary of a Mad Old Man (Wayne Wang)
Evil Genius (Courteney Cox)
Girl Group (Rebel Wilson)
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd (Tim Blake Nelson)
Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story (Adrian Buitenhuis)
Misty Green (Chris Rock)
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (Noah Segan)
Onwards and Sideways (John Madden)
Pretenders (Joss Crowley)
Prima Facie (Susanna White)
Run Terry Run (Sean Menard)
Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor (Nguyen Phan Quang Binh)
A Talent for Murder (Anton Corbijn)
Tenzing (Jennifer Peedom)
Up Against It (Trudie Styler)
Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend (Yan Lanouette Turgeon)

 

Platform (12 | 2025: 10)
Angh (Theja Rio)
Brace Your Heart (Amanda Kernell)
Children Untold (Miwa Nishikawa)
Djinn Wedding (Ferit Karahan)
Idda (Irene Dionisio)
In the Heart of the South (Nyla Innuksuk)
Masc (Bertil Nilsson)
On Behalf of My Son (Gabriel Martins)
Silenced Nights (Lawrence Fajardo)
The Smell of Apples (John Trengove)
Wild Wild East (Jan Holoubek)
The World Before (Yoon Dan-bi)

 

Primetime (10 | 2025: 10)
Alice (Virginie Verrier & Guillaume Lonergan)
American Hostage (Shawn Ryan, Eileen Myers, & Adam Arkin)
Below (Jesse McKeown)
Blindspot Berlin (David Nawrath)
Carrie (Mike Flanagan)
Crystal Lake (Brad Caleb Kane & Michael Lennox)
Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically (Marcelo Gomes & Carol Minêm)
Slow Horses (Will Smith & Adam Randall)
2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback (Darren Dale)
YAGA (Kat Sandler, Rachel Talalay, & David Frazee)

 

Centrepiece (TK | 2025: 55)

 

TIFF Docs (TK | 2025: 24)

 

Wavelengths (TK | 2025: 11 [incl. 3 shorts programmes])

 

Midnight Madness (TK | 2025: 10)

 

TIFF Classics (TK | 2025: 6)