TIFF 2026 Gala and Special Presentations lineup has been announced.
For the Toronto International Film Festival’s 51st edition, Being Heumann from director Siân Heder (CODA) has been revealed as the Opening Night Gala, screening on Thursday, September 10, at Roy Thomson Hall. The festival’s Closing Night Gala will be Yan Lanouette Turgeon’s Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend.
2026 Gala Presentations (in alphabetical order):
A Talent for Murder | Anton Corbijn | United Kingdom, Italy
All About Corinne | Marc Fitoussi | France
Always Lalisa | Sue Kim | USA
Atonement | Reed Van Dyk | USA
Babies | Lauren Miller Rogen | USA
Being Heumann | Siân Heder | USA
Bunker | Florian Zeller | France, Spain
Diary of a Mad Old Man | Wayne Wang | USA
Evil Genius | Courteney Cox | USA
Girl Group | Rebel Wilson | United Kingdom
Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story | Adrian Buitenhuis | Canada
Misty Green | Chris Rock | USA
Onwards and Sideways | John Madden | United Kingdom
Pretenders | Joss Crowley | United Kingdom
Prima Facie | Susanna White | Australia, United Kingdom
Run Terry Run | Sean Menard | Canada
Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor | Nguyen Phan Quang Binh | Vietnam
Tenzing | Jennifer Peedom | USA, Australia
The Assassin(s) | Hur Jin-ho | South Korea
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd | Tim Blake Nelson | USA
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York | Noah Segan | USA
Up Against It | Trudie Styler | United Kingdom
Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend | Yan Lanouette Turgeon | Canada
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2026 Special Presentations (in alphabetical order):
A Long Winter | Andrew Haigh | Canada, United Kingdom
All of a Sudden | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | France, Japan, Germany, Belgium
All That She Wants | Scarlett Bermingham, Andrew Rhymer | USA, Canada
Alpha Gang | David Zellner, Nathan Zellner | USA
Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo | Takashi Miike | USA, United Kingdom, Japan
Bitter Christmas | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain
Clarissa | Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri | Nigeria, USA
Club Kid | Jordan Firstman | USA
Coward | Lukas Dhont | Belgium
Elsinore | Simon Stone | United Kingdom
Everest: The Other Side | Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | USA
Everybody Wants To F*** Me | Jonathan Schey | United Kingdom, France, USA
Faith | Paul Andrew Williams | United Kingdom
Fjord | Cristian Mungiu | Romania, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Gentle Monster | Marie Kreutzer | Austria
Glaxo | Benjamín Naishtat | Argentina, Brazil
Growth of the Soil | Hans Petter Moland | Norway
Happily Ever After | Feng-I Fiona Roan | Taiwan
Hombre al agua | Gael García Bernal | Mexico
I Play Rocky | Peter Farrelly | USA
In Alaska | Jaap van Heusden, Vinnie Karetak | Netherlands, Canada
Ink | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, France, USA
Josephine | Beth de Araújo | USA
La Bola Negra | Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi | Spain, France
Le Faux Soir | Michaël R. Roskam | Belgium, France
Look Back | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan
Love of Your Life | Rachel Morrison | USA
Minotaur | Andrey Zvyagintsev | France, Germany, Latvia
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? | Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan
Paradise Lost | Yeon Sang-ho | South Korea
Phoolan | Richie Mehta | India
Possible Love | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea
Tender Loving Care | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom
The Age of Goodbyes | Edmund Yeo | Taiwan, Malaysia
The Beloved | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Spain
The Debut | Jesse Eisenberg | USA
The Housewife | Ben Shirinian | USA
The Julia Set | Niki Byrne | USA
The Man I Love | Ira Sachs | USA
The Stunt Driver | Michael Dowse | Canada
The Unknown | Arthur Harari | France
Whatcha Want | Mina Shum | Canada
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother | Bassam Tariq | USA
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