{"id":814439,"date":"2026-07-20T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814439\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:59:11","slug":"toronto-film-festival-unveils-first-2026-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814439\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Film Festival Unveils First 2026 Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe 51st Toronto<\/a> Film Festival on Monday revealed 64 titles across its Gala and Special Presentations sections, which include 32 premieres from such filmmakers as Anton Corbijn (A Talent for Murder), Shakespeare in Love\u2018s John Madden (Onwards and Sideways), Chris Rock (Misty Green), as well as the return of two-time Oscar winner Peter Farrelly with the anticipated Amazon MGM Studios Sylvester Stallone biopic I Play Rocky (opening in theaters November 6).<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was here at TIFF<\/a> where Farrelly lit the wick on 2018\u2019s Green Book, which after winning the festival\u2019s Oscar bellwether People\u2019s Choice Award went on to win three Oscars including Best Picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year\u2019s TIFF runs September 10-20 and kicks off with the recently announced Being Heumann from CODA\u2018s Si\u00e2n Heder<\/a> as the opening-night film.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tHelen Mirren and Alden Ehrenreich in A TALENT FOR MURDER <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBleecker Street and LD Entertainment<\/p>\n

\n\tA Talent for Murder, from Bleecker Street and LD Entertainment, stars Helen Mirren as Ripley author Patricia Highsmith. In the crime drama thriller, a mysterious young man from a New York publisher is sent to Switzerland to persuade her to pen one final installment of the Ripley anthology. Olivia Cooke, Alden Ehrenreich and Juliet Stevenson star. The pic hits theaters on Oct. 23. <\/p>\n

\n\tOnwards and Sideways stars three-time Oscar nominee Laura Linney, Rhys Ifans and Rory Kinnear in a story about a man and woman who are battling Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\n\tA24\u2019s Mistry Green stars Rosalind Eleazer in the title role, Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick (doing double duty at this year\u2019s TIFF), Adam Driver and Topher Grace, in pic about a gifted actress who struggles with vices hindering her career revival. A director with a perfect role presents a golden opportunity complicated by their turbulent history.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tChase Infiniti stars in Niki Byrne\u2019s coming-of-age drama \u2018The Julia Set\u2019 about freshman of considerable talent who is drafted into a math competition, where she\u2019s swept off her feet by a dashing young mathematician<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s also the second feature directorial of Friends star Courteney Cox (the pizza bomber movie Evil Genius starring Oscar winner Patricia Arquette); Tim Blake Nelson\u2019s Amanda Seyfried and Scott McNairy prison thriller The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd which is generating some pre-festival sales buzz; Chase Infiniti\u2019s next feature after her breakout in One Battle After Another, The Julia Set (being sold by Gersh stateside and HanWay for international); and the return of Rebel Wilson in the director\u2019s chair with the Jennifer Coolidge-Randall Park comedy Girl Group following her 2024 TIFF world premiere The Deb. <\/p>\n

\n\tAmong the notable pics arriving at TIFF and premiering elsewhere is Jesse Eisenberg\u2019s Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti community theater dramedy The Debut, which is getting an international premiere; the Canadian premiere of Mike Leigh\u2019s Tender Loving Care starring Kate O\u2019Flynn, Marion Bailey and Paul Jesson; the North American premiere of Florian Zeller\u2019s thriller Bunker starring Javier Bardem, Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, Stephen Graham, Paul Dano and Patrick Schwarzenegger; and Danny Boyle\u2019s Ink, which was recently announced as the Venice opener.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThere also are a number of Cannes\u2019 greatest hits from back in May here at TIFF: Palme d\u2019Or winner Fjord, as well as La Bola Negra, All of a Sudden, Bitter Christmas, Club Kid, Coward and Ira Sachs\u2019 The Man I Love to name a few.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe closing-night film September 19 is Yan Lanouette Turgeon\u2019s sports drama Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend, about the early years of Canadian racing legend Gilles Villeneuve.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the pillars in the fall film festival troika alongside Venice and Telluride, TIFF is not only a place that\u2019s prime to launch awards-season fare but also mainstream product given the cinephile sentiment of the city, i.e., Lauren Miller Rogen\u2019s second movie as a feature director, Babies, starring hubby Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Dan Stevens, Ed Helms, David Strathairn, Issa Rae, Ashely Park and Sharon Stone.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s a new film festival sales market launching with this year\u2019s edition (it runs September 10\u201316 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre) that follows in the wake of the biggest acquisition at last year\u2019s fest, Curry Barker\u2019s $750,000 indie-financed Obsession, which played in the TIFF Midnight section, was snapped up by Focus Features for $15M for stateside and most foreign, and went on to gross $442.6M at the global box office. It was the most successful film festival acquisition at the box office, besting 1999\u2019s Blair Witch Project. <\/p>\n

\n\tHere are the lineups below.<\/p>\n

\t\tGala Presentations (in alphabetical order):
*previously announced\t<\/p>\n

\n\tA Talent for Murder | Anton Corbijn | United Kingdom, Italy
World Premiere<\/p>\n

All About Corinne | Marc Fitoussi | France
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tAlways Lalisa | Sue Kim | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

Atonement | Reed Van Dyk | USA
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

Babies | Lauren Miller Rogen | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\t*Being Heumann | Si\u00e2n Heder | USA
World Premiere
Opening Night Film<\/p>\n

\n\tBunker | Florian Zeller | France, Spain
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

Diary of a Mad Old Man | Wayne Wang | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

Evil Genius | Courteney Cox | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tGirl Group | Rebel Wilson | United Kingdom
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tMan in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story | Adrian Buitenhuis | Canada
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tMisty Green | Chris Rock | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tOnwards and Sideways | John Madden | United Kingdom
World Premiere<\/p>\n

Pretenders | Joss Crowley | United Kingdom
World Premiere<\/p>\n

*Prima Facie | Susanna White | Australia, United Kingdom
World Premiere<\/p>\n

Run Terry Run | Sean Menard | Canada
Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor | Nguyen Phan Quang Binh | Vietnam<\/p>\n

Tenzing | Jennifer Peedom | USA, Australia
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

*The Assassin(s) | Hur Jin-ho | South Korea
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd | Tim Blake Nelson | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Only Living Pickpocket in New York | Noah Segan | USA
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tUp Against It | Trudie Styler | United Kingdom
World Premiere<\/p>\n

Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend | Yan Lanouette Turgeon | Canada
World Premiere
Closing Night Film<\/p>\n

\t\tSpecial Presentations (in alphabetical order):
*previously announced\t<\/p>\n

\n\tA Long Winter | Andrew Haigh | Canada\/United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

All of a Sudden | Ry\u00fbsuke Hamaguchi | France\/Japan\/Germany\/Belgium
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

All That She Wants | Scarlett Bermingham, Andrew Rhymer | USA\/Canada
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\t*Alpha Gang | David Zellner, Nathan Zellner | USA
International Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tBad Lieutenant: Tokyo | Takashi Miike | USA, UK, Japan
World Premiere <\/p>\n

Bitter Christmas | Pedro Almod\u00f3var | Spain
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tClarissa | Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri | Nigeria\/USA
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

Club Kid | Jordan Firstman | USA
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tCoward | Lukas Dhont | Belgium
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

Elsinore | Simon Stone | United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tEverest: The Other Side | Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | USA
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tEverybody Wants To F*** Me | Jonathan Schey | United Kingdom, France, USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tFaith | Paul Andrew Williams | UK
World Premiere <\/p>\n

Fjord | Cristian Mungiu | Romania, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

Gentle Monster | Marie Kreutzer | Austria
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

*Glaxo | Benjam\u00edn Naishtat | Argentina, Brazil
World Premiere<\/p>\n

Growth of the Soil | Hans Petter Moland | Norway
World Premiere<\/p>\n

Happily Ever After | Feng-I Fiona Roan | Taiwan
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tHombre al agua | Gael Garc\u00eda Bernal | Mexico
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Anthony<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Ippolito as a young\u00a0Sylvester Stallone\u00a0in \u2018I Play Rocky\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmazon MGM<\/p>\n

\n\tI Play Rocky | Peter Farrelly | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Alaska | Jaap van Heusden, Vinnie Karetak | Netherlands, Canada
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tInk | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, France, USA
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tJosephine | Beth de Ara\u00fajo | USA
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tPen\u00e9lope Cruz as Nen\u00e9 in \u2018La Bola Negra\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCarla Oset\/Netflix \u00a9 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\t
La Bola Negra | Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi | Spain, France
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tLe Faux Soir | Micha\u00ebl R. Roskam | Belgium, France
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tLook Back | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\t*Love of Your Life | Rachel Morrison | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tMinotaur | Andrey Zvyagintsev | France, Germany, Latvia
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tMr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? | Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tParadise Lost | Yeon Sang-ho | South Korea
World Premiere<\/p>\n

Phoolan | Richie Mehta | India
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tPossible Love | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

Tender Loving Care | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

The Age of Goodbyes | Edmund Yeo | Taiwan, Malaysia
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Beloved | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Spain
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Debut | Jesse Eisenberg | USA
International Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\t*The Housewife | Ben Shirinian | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Julia Set | Niki Byrne | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Man I Love | Ira Sachs | USA
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Stunt Driver | Michael Dowse | Canada
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Unknown | Arthur Harari | France
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

Whatcha Want | Mina Shum | Canada
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\t*Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother | Bassam Tariq | USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 51st Toronto Film Festival on Monday revealed 64 titles across its Gala and Special Presentations sections, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,15896,3302,2559],"class_list":["post-814439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tiff","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}