TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto International Film Festival is kicking off its week of announcements with its Gala, presented by Lavazza, and Special Presentations programmes, welcoming acclaimed filmmakers, celebrated talent, and some of the most anticipated films of the year to Toronto. Showcasing a dynamic mix of World Premieres, critically acclaimed international cinema, and compelling storytelling from directors to watch, the films announced today reflect TIFF\u2019s ongoing commitment to bringing audiences together through exceptional film experiences from around the globe. The 51st edition of TIFF, presented by Rogers, will run September 10\u201420, 2026. <\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Gala and Special Presentations feature films from nearly 30 countries, highlighting distinctive artistic visions by leading global directors including: Pedro Almod\u00f3var, Danny Boyle, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Lee Chang-dong, Jesse Eisenberg, Gael Garc\u00eda Bernal, Ry\u00fbsuke Hamaguchi, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Mike Leigh, John Madden, Rachel Morrison, Cristian Mungiu, Chris Rock, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Florian Zeller and Andrey Zvyagintsev.\n<\/p>\n
The Gala and Special Presentations programmes are popular with TIFF audiences for their glitzy A-list red carpets and future award winners, as well as for presenting a curated collection of films that reflect the diversity and creativity of today\u2019s filmmaking landscape.\n<\/p>\n
TIFF is also announcing that its Closing Night Film will be Yan Lanouette Turgeon\u2019s Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend, a biographical sports drama that chronicles the early years of Canadian racing legend Gilles Villeneuve\u2019s career, taking place on Saturday, September 19.\n<\/p>\n
2026 Gala Presentations (in alphabetical order):
\n*previously announced <\/p>\n
A Talent for Murder | Anton Corbijn | United Kingdom, Italy
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
All About Corinne | Marc Fitoussi | France
North American Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Always Lalisa | Sue Kim | USA
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Atonement | Reed Van Dyk | USA
North American Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Babies | Lauren Miller Rogen | USA
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
*Being Heumann | Si\u00e2n Heder | USA
World Premiere
Opening Night Film\n<\/p>\n
Bunker | Florian Zeller | France, Spain
North American Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Diary of a Mad Old Man | Wayne Wang | USA
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Evil Genius | Courteney Cox | USA
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Girl Group | Rebel Wilson | United Kingdom
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story | Adrian Buitenhuis | Canada
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Misty Green | Chris Rock | USA
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Onwards and Sideways | John Madden | United Kingdom
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Pretenders | Joss Crowley | United Kingdom
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
*Prima Facie | Susanna White | Australia, United Kingdom
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Run Terry Run | Sean Menard | Canada\n<\/p>\n
Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor | Nguyen Phan Quang Binh | Vietnam
International Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Tenzing | Jennifer Peedom | USA, Australia
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
*The Assassin(s) | Hur Jin-ho | South Korea
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd | Tim Blake Nelson | USA
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York | Noah Segan | USA
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Up Against It | Trudie Styler | United Kingdom
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend | Yan Lanouette Turgeon | Canada
World Premiere
Closing Night Film\n<\/p>\n
2026 Special Presentations (in alphabetical order):
\n*previously announced <\/p>\n
A Long Winter | Andrew Haigh | Canada, United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
All of a Sudden | Ry\u00fbsuke Hamaguchi | France, Japan, Germany, Belgium
North American Premiere\n<\/p>\n
All That She Wants | Scarlett Bermingham, Andrew Rhymer | USA, Canada
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
*Alpha Gang | David Zellner, Nathan Zellner | USA
International Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo | Takashi Miike | USA, United Kingdom, Japan
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Bitter Christmas | Pedro Almod\u00f3var | Spain
North American Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Clarissa | Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri | Nigeria, USA
North American Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Club Kid | Jordan Firstman | USA
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Coward | Lukas Dhont | Belgium
North American Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Elsinore | Simon Stone | United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Everest: The Other Side | Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | USA
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Everybody Wants To F*** Me | Jonathan Schey | United Kingdom, France, USA
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Faith | Paul Andrew Williams | United Kingdom
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Fjord | Cristian Mungiu | Romania, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Gentle Monster | Marie Kreutzer | Austria
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
*Glaxo | Benjam\u00edn Naishtat | Argentina, Brazil
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Growth of the Soil | Hans Petter Moland | Norway
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Happily Ever After | Feng-I Fiona Roan | Taiwan
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Hombre al agua | Gael Garc\u00eda Bernal | Mexico
North American Premiere\n<\/p>\n
I Play Rocky | Peter Farrelly | USA
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
In Alaska | Jaap van Heusden, Vinnie Karetak | Netherlands, Canada
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Ink | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, France, USA
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Josephine | Beth de Ara\u00fajo | USA
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
La Bola Negra | Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi | Spain, France
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Le Faux Soir | Micha\u00ebl R. Roskam | Belgium, France
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Look Back | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan
North American Premiere\n<\/p>\n
*Love of Your Life | Rachel Morrison | USA
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Minotaur | Andrey Zvyagintsev | France, Germany, Latvia
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? | Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan
North American Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Paradise Lost | Yeon Sang-ho | South Korea
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Phoolan | Richie Mehta | India
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Possible Love | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea
North American Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Tender Loving Care | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
The Age of Goodbyes | Edmund Yeo | Taiwan, Malaysia
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
The Beloved | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Spain
North American Premiere\n<\/p>\n
The Debut | Jesse Eisenberg | USA
International Premiere\n<\/p>\n
*The Housewife | Ben Shirinian | USA
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
The Julia Set | Niki Byrne | USA
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
The Man I Love | Ira Sachs | USA
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
The Stunt Driver | Michael Dowse | Canada
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
The Unknown | Arthur Harari | France
Canadian Premiere\n<\/p>\n
Whatcha Want | Mina Shum | Canada
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
*Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother | Bassam Tariq | USA
World Premiere\n<\/p>\n
The 51st edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, runs September 10\u201320, 2026. The inaugural edition of TIFF: The Market takes place the first week of Festival, September 10\u201316, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto International Film Festival is kicking off its week of announcements with its Gala, presented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-814761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814761","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=814761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}