If it is a day ending in -y during the summer, it’s a day for a raft of new fall festival announcements. Today, the Toronto International Film Festival has added over 60 new titles to its slate, including the official selections of its Centrepiece program, plus its Wavelengths and TIFF Classics selections. Today’s additions include a number of already buzzed-about titles, including previous festival winners like Cannes sensation “La Gradiva” and Sundance crowd-pleaser “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!”
The Centrepiece lineup features new works from significant voices and festival favorites, including Neto Villalobos Brenes, Anthony Chen, Louis Clichy, Hosam Abu Dan, Valeska Grisebach, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Diego Luna, Avi Nesher, Banjong Pisanthanakun, and Yonfan. The slate also includes a number of Canadian films led by filmmakers Marie Clements, David Bezmozgis, and Cody Lightning, alongside a record-setting slate of eight animated features.
“Spanning feature films, shorts, and boundary-blurring mid-lengths,” Wavelengths goes for “artist-driven works that embrace risk, defy convention, and challenge cinematic form.” This year’s slate features an expanded lineup of 11 feature films, with striking new work from a mix of returning Wavelengths alumni and exciting debuts.
And TIFF Classics brings restored and rediscovered works back into the spotlight, reuniting audiences with iconic films from visionary filmmakers in Canadian and international cinema. Anchoring the list is a “spectacular presentation” in TIFF’s state-of-the-art Cinema 1 of Ken Russell’s “The Devils” (1971), the 4K director’s cut of the politically defiant masterpiece starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, featuring sets designed by Derek Jarman.
Earlier this month, the festival rolled out its first films, including its official opening night gala (Siân Heder’s “CODA” follow-up “Being Heumann”). Following that announcement, the festival shared five additional films that will screen as part of this year’s Special Presentations program, plus its massive overall Galas and Special Presentations listing, its Platform and Discovery picks, its TV selections, and those big stars it will honor at its annual gala. Phew.
Check out the new additions below
2026 Centrepiece program (in alphabetical order)
“A Girl Unknown” | Zou Jing | China
North American Premiere
“After Elena” | Shawn Garry | Chile, Colombia, Italy
World Premiere
“Ah Girl” | Ang Geck Geck Priscilla | Singapore
North American Premiere
“Ashes” | Diego Luna | Mexico, Spain
North American Premiere
“Back in Black” | Ron Murphy | Canada
World Premiere
“Ben’Imana” | Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo | Rwanda, Gabon, France, Norway
North American Premiere
“Congo Boy” | Rafiki Fariala | Central African Republic, France, Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy
North American Premiere
“Conversation With The Sea” | Muayad Alayan | Palestine
North American Premiere
“Dorothy” | Karthik Subbaraj | India
World Premiere
“Eklipse” | Manuel Wetscher | Austria, Italy
North American Premiere
“Elephants in the Fog” | Abinash Bikram Shah | Nepal, France, Germany, Brazil, Norway
North American Premiere
“Everytime” | Sandra Wollner | Austria, Germany
North American Premiere
“Flies” | Fernando Eimbcke | Mexico
North American Premiere
“Four Seasons in Java” | Kamila Andini | Indonesia, France, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore
World Premiere
“Furies” | Rami Kodeih | Lebanon, Brazil
North American Premiere
“Future Tense” | Jenna Cato Bass | South Africa, Australia
World Premiere
“God Bless You, Mr Kopu” | Alex Liu | New Zealand, Australia
World Premiere
“Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” | Josef Kubota Wladyka | USA
Canadian Premiere
“How We Stand” | Marie Clements | Canada
World Premiere
“Inherit” | Banjong Pisanthanakun | Thailand
World Premiere
“Intermission” | Yonfan | Hong Kong
North American Premiere
“Iron Boy” | Louis Clichy | France, Belgium
North American Premiere
“Julián” | Louise Bagnall | Luxembourg, Ireland, Canada, Denmark
North American Premiere
“La Gradiva” | Marine Atlan | France, Italy
North American Premiere
“L’AUTRE” | Alexandre Franchi | Canada
World Premiere
“Lemonade” | Kim Bartley | Ireland, United Kingdom
World Premiere
“Light Pillar” | Xu Zao | China
North American Premiere
“Long Long Night” | Kyu Bock Youm | South Korea
World Premiere
“Love is the monster” | Neto Villalobos Brenes | Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Chile, Mexico
World Premiere
“Marie Madeleine” | Géssica Généus | France, Haiti, Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg
North American Premiere
“Muyi” | Julien Chheng | France
North American Premiere
“Neverman” | Rodrigo Barriuso | Canada
World Premiere
“Our Loves” | Avi Nesher | Israel
World Premiere
“Rehearsals for a Revolution” | Pegah Ahangarani | Czech Republic, Spain
Canadian Premiere
“Smudge the Blades” | Cody Lightning | Canada
World Premiere
“Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars” | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Chad, France
North American Premiere
“Sunburn” | Serville Poblete | Canada
World Premiere
“Tangles” | Leah Nelson | Canada, USA
North American Premiere
“The Betrayers” | David Bezmozgis | Canada, Ukraine
World Premiere
“The bovine with the curved horns” | Omar E. Ospina Giraldo | Colombia
World Premiere
“The City of the Living” | Edoardo Gabbriellini | Italy
International Premiere
“The Difficult Bride” | Rubaiyat Hossain | France, Bangladesh, Germany, Norway, Portugal
North American Premiere
“The Dreamed Adventure” | Valeska Grisebach | Germany, France, Bulgaria, Austria
North American Premiere
“The Lost Children Of Tuam” | Frank Berry | Ireland
International Premiere
“The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives” | Daniel Oriahi | Nigeria
World Premiere
“The Surgeon” | Roshan Sethi | Ireland
World Premiere
“The Violinist” | Ervin Han, Raúl García | Singapore, Spain, Italy
North American Premiere
“Thirteen in Gaza” | Hosam Abu Dan | Palestine
World Premiere
“Toy Gun Bandit” | Rémi St-Michel | Canada
World Premiere
“Trash Mountain” | Kris Rey | USA
World Premiere
“Viva Carmen” | Sébastien Laudenbach | France
North American Premiere
“We Are All Strangers” | Anthony Chen | Singapore
North American Premiere
“Where the River Begins” | Juan Andrés Arango | Canada, Colombia, Norway
World Premiere
“Woman Unknown” | May el-Toukhy | Denmark
North American Premiere
Wavelengths Features
“At Night” | Beatrice Gibson | United Kingdom, France
North American Premiere
“Double Freedom (La libertad doble)” | Lisandro Alonso | Chile, Argentina, Luxembourg, Germany, United Kingdom
North American Premiere
“Everything Else is Noise (Lo demás es ruido)” | Nicolás Pereda | Germany, Canada, Mexico
North American Premiere
“Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges)” | Mariano Llinás | Argentina
North American Premiere
“London” | Sebastian Brameshuber | Austria
North American Premiere
“My Wife Cries (Meine Frau Weint)” | Angela Schanelec | Germany, France
North American Premiere
“Nobody’s Violence (Violence du corps de l’autre)” | Denis Côté | Canada
North American Premiere
“Once Upon a Time in Harlem” | William Greaves, David Greaves | USA
Canadian Premiere
“The Black Box is Orange” | Yuula Benivolski | Canada
World Premiere
“The Diary of a Chambermaid (Le journal d’une femme de chambre)” | Radu Jude | France, Romania
North American Premiere
“The Remotes” | John Torres | Philippines
World Premiere
Wavelengths Shorts
WAVELENGTHS 1: HOUSE AND HOME
“Two Pids” | John Smith | United Kingdom
North American Premiere
“After Image” | Rita Ferrando | Canada, Argentina
World Premiere
“Moon Palace (月宫)” | Jiaqi Yu | China, USA
World Premiere
“Microcosmic Orbit: Encased” | Danaya Chulphuthiphong | Thailand
North American Premiere
“The Address Book” | Mustafa Uzuner | Canada
World Premiere | 16mm
“Chronicle of Tiredness (Crónica del cansancio)” | Natalia Marín | Spain
North American Premiere
WAVELENGTHS 2: THIS SUFFOCATING NOW
“Ghazal-e Sorkh (غزال سرخ)” | Maryam Tafakory | Iran, United Kingdom, France
World Premiere
“TM” | Takehisa Kosugi | Japan | 1974
International Premiere of new restoration
“Fire Flies (咒语)” | Zheng Lu Xinyuan | China
World Premiere
“Splits in Two” | Simon Liu | Hong Kong, USA
World Premiere
“This Suffocating Now” | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany
North American Premiere
WAVELENGTHS 3: TIME AND TIDE
“Forever…Forever” | Johann Lurf | Austria, France
North American Premiere | 70mm
“La Prospettiva (1653)” | Ben Russell | France, Italy
World Premiere
“Electric Fragments No. 1 – Rom (Men) (Frammenti Elettrici No. 1 – Rom (Uomini))” | Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi | Italy | 2001
“Fevers” | James Richards | Germany, United Kingdom
North American Premiere
WAVELENGTHS: ANOUSHAHPOUR/ALJAFARI
“با ابرها می آیند طاووس ها (Peacocks Come with the Clouds)” | Parastoo Anoushahpour | Iran, Canada
World Premiere
“Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo (足立正生、パスポート写真を撮る)” | Kamal Aljafari | Germany, France, Japan
World Premiere
2026 TIFF Classics program (in alphabetical order)
“Ken Russell’s The Devils” | Ken Russell | United Kingdom | 1971
North American Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Warner Bros.
“Clockwork Kissed” | Lynne Stopkewich | Canada | 1996
World Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Canadian International Pictures
“Report to Mother (Amma Ariyan)” | John Abraham | India | 1986
North American Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Film Heritage Foundation
“Spring in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun)” | Fei Mu | China | 1948
World Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of the China Film Archive
“Ten Dark Women (Kuroi jûnin no onna)” | Kon Ichikawa | Japan | 1961
North American Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Kadokawa Corporation
Pelechian Project
“Land of the People” | Artavazd Pelechian | Armenia, USSR | 1966 (10 mins.)
“The Beginning” | Artavazd Pelechian | Armenia, USSR | 1967 (10 mins.)
“We” | Artavazd Pelechian | Armenia, USSR | 1969 (27 mins.)
“The Seasons” | Artavazd Pelechian | Armenia, USSR | 1975 (31 mins.)
“The End” | Artavazd Pelechian | Armenia | 1992 (8 mins.)
North American Premiere of 4K restorations, courtesy of Coproduction Office
The 51st edition of TIFF will take place September 10-20. More TIFF films and other programming will be announced in the coming days.
