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 printL - Has TIFF's "Luminaries" label, i.e. it'd be in "Masters" if the section still existedColour coding: NYFF - Slate and Main SUNDANCE - Cinéma concret BERLINALE - The opposite of politics CANNES - Known unknowns LOCARNO - Somewhere to lay my eyes VENICE - Finally some cucking finema NOTABLE - Films that I am actively look forward to, for whatever reason (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)
Centrepiece (55 | 2025: 55)
After Elena (Shawn Garry)
Ah Girl (Ang Geck Geck Priscilla)
Ashes (Diego Luna)
Back in Black (Ron Murphy)
Ben’Imana (Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo) ○
The Betrayers (David Bezmozgis)
The bovine with the curved horns (Omar E. Ospina Giraldo)
The City of the Living (Edoardo Gabbriellini)
Congo Boy (Rafiki Fariala)
Conversation with the Sea (Muayad Alayan)
The Difficult Bride (Rubaiyat Hossain)
Dorothy (Karthik Subbaraj) ○
The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach) ●
Eklipse (Manuel Wetscher)
Elephants in the Fog (Abinash Bikram Shah)
Everytime (Sandra Wollner) ●
Flies (Fernando Eimbcke) ●
Four Seasons in Java (Kamila Andini)
Furies (Rami Kodeih)
Future Tense (Jenna Cato Bass)
A Girl Unknown (Zou Jing)
God Bless You, Mr Kopu (Alex Liu)
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (Josef Kubota Wladyka)
How We Stand (Marie Clements)
Inherit (Banjong Pisanthanakun)
Intermission (Yonfan)
Iron Boy (Louis Clichy)
Julián (Louise Bagnall)
La Gradiva (Marine Atlan) ●
L’autre (Alexandre Franchi)
Lemonade (Kim Bartley)
Light Pillar (Xu Zao) ●
Long Long Night (Kyu Bock Youm)
The Lost Children Of Tuam (Frank Berry)
Love Is the Monster (Neto Villalobos Brenes)
Marie Madeleine (Géssica Généus)
Muyi (Julien Chheng)
Neverman (Rodrigo Barriuso)
Our Loves (Avi Nesher)
Rehearsals for a Revolution (Pegah Ahangarani)
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives (Daniel Oriahi)
Smudge the Blades (Cody Lightning)
Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
Sunburn (Serville Poblete)
The Surgeon (Roshan Sethi)
Tangles (Leah Nelson)
Thirteen in Gaza (Hosam Abu Dan) ○
Toy Gun Bandit (Rémi St-Michel)
Trash Mountain (Kris Rey)
Trees are Watching (Bahman Ghobadi)
The Violinist (Ervin Han & Raúl García)
Viva Carmen (Sébastien Laudenbach)
We Are All Strangers (Anthony Chen)
Where the River Begins (Juan Andrés Arango)
Woman Unknown (May el-Toukhy) ○
Special Presentations (52 | 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) ●
Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog) ○
Clarissa (Arie & Chuko Esiri) ○
Closing Night (Cody Fern)
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) ○
A Good Little Soldier (Stéphane Brizé)
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) ○
The Idiot(s) (Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert)
In Alaska (Jaap van Heusden & Vinnie Karetak)
Ink (Danny Boyle) ○
It Will Happen Tonight (Nanni Moretti)
Josephine (Beth de Araújo) ✘
The Julia Set (Niki Byrne)
La Bola Negra (Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi) ●
Le Faux Soir (Michaël R. Roskam)
The Liberation (Guy Nattiv)
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) ○
Neil Peart: No One’s Disciple (Scot McFadyen & Sam Dunn)
Paradise Lost (Yeon Sang-ho)
Phoolan (Richie Mehta)
Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong) ○
The Road Not Taken (Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
The Stunt Driver (Michael Dowse)
Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh) ○
The Unknown (Arthur Harari) ★
Whatcha Want (Mina Shum)
Wild Horse Nine (Martin McDonagh) ○
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 (24 | 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)
It’s My Time (Bai Xue)
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)
TIFF Docs (21 | 2025: 24)
Ba’s Book (Ashley Duong)
Black Sunflowers (James Marcus Haney)
Bleeding Hearts (Andrew Morgan)
Cheyenne (Taimi Arvidson)
Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been (Barry Avrich)
Edward Said: Between Worlds (Maiken Baird)
The Final Act (Sophie Deraspe)
Gail (Michael Maxxis)
The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs (Èlia Gasull Balada & Matteo Norzi)
Like Magic (Melissa Saavedra Gil)
Low Lies The Land (Emanuele Gerosa)
Musk (Alex Gibney)
The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias (Sophie Fiennes) ○
Rapinoe (Rebeca Huntt)
Re/Pair (Lacey Schwartz Delgado)
Rescue (Sine Plambech)
Still Night, Burning House (Carol Nguyen)
Tehran, Under the Skin (Afsaneh Salari)
Turtle Island Rap (Alexandra Lazarowich)
The Ultra Runner (Mila Aung-Thwin)
Union Town (Barbara Kopple) ○
Wavelengths (15 [incl. 3 shorts programmes] | 2025: 11 [3])
At Night (Beatrice Gibson) ★
The Black Box is Orange (Yuula Benivolski) ○
The Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude) ★
Double Freedom (Lisandro Alonso) ★
Everything Else Is Noise (Nicolás Pereda) ★
Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Mariano Llinás) ○
London (Sebastian Brameshuber) ★
My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec) ★
Nobody’s Violence (Denis Côté) ●
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (William & David Greaves) ○
Peacocks Come with the Clouds (Parastoo Anoushahpour) ○
– followed by Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo (Kamal Aljafari)
The Remotes (John Torres) ○
Wavelengths 1: House and Home ○
– Two Pids (John Smith)
– After Image (Rita Ferrando)
– Moon Palace (Jiaqi Yu)
– Microcosmic Orbit: Encased (Danaya Chulphuthiphong)
– The Address Book (Mustafa Uzuner) 16mm
+ Chronicle of Tiredness (Natalia Marín)
Wavelengths 2: This Suffocating Now ○
– Ghazal-e Sorkh (Maryam Tafakory)
– TM (1974, Takehisa Kosugi)
– Fire Flies (Zheng Lu Xinyuan)
– Splits in Two (Simon Liu)
+ This Suffocating Now (Vika Kirchenbauer)
Wavelengths 3: Time and Tide ○
+ Forever…Forever (Johann Lurf) 70mm
– La Prospettiva (1653) (Ben Russell)
– Electric Fragments No. 1 – Rom (Men) (2001, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi)
– Fevers (James Richards)
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)
Midnight Madness (10 | 2025: 10)
Anchors Aweigh (Matt Barats)
Arrested Memory (Sabu)
The Face of Horror (Anna Biller) ○
Half (Samjad)
Kick On (Nick Kozakis)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney (Matthew Rankin) ○
River (Joshua Giuliano)
Rogue Trooper (Duncan Jones)
The Spiral (Paolo Strippoli)
Vintage Violence (Eugene Kotlyarenko)
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)
TIFF Classics (6 | 2025: 6)
The Devils (1971, Ken Russell) ●
Kissed (1996, Lynne Stopkewich)
Pelechian Project ★
+ Land of the People (1966, Artavazd Pelechian)
+ The Beginning (1967, Artavazd Pelechian)
+ We (1969, Artavazd Pelechian)
+ The Seasons (1975, Artavazd Pelechian)
+ The End (1992, Artavazd Pelechian)
Report to Mother (1986, John Abraham)
Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu) ●
Ten Dark Women (1961, Kon Ichikawa)