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Here is the press release from TIFF:
The Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, is thrilled to reveal its 2026 lineup for the Wavelengths and TIFF Classics programmes. Across acclaimed contemporary cinema, daring experimental work, and anticipated restorations, these distinct programmes showcase artistry and creative risk-taking at TIFF 2026.
2026 Wavelengths programme
Spanning feature films, shorts, and boundary-blurring mid-lengths, Wavelengths foregrounds artist-driven works that embrace risk, defy convention, and challenge cinematic form. This year’s curation features an expanded lineup of 11 feature films, with striking new work from a mix of returning Wavelengths alumni and exciting debuts.
Highlights include At Night, the long-awaited first feature by British artist Beatrice Gibson, a moving work of hybrid autofiction shot on 16mm by Ben Rivers; Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom (La libertad doble), a not-quite-sequel to the Argentine auteur’s 2001 breakout feature La libertad; and Sebastian Brameshuber’s award-winning London, a deeply felt portrait of connection across a changing Europe, shot with vintage rear-projection technology.
TIFF favourites Nicolás Pereda and Angela Schanelec both bring their newest features to the Festival, the former with Everything Else is Noise (Lo demás es ruido), a deft, self-reflexive comedy of manners and mishaps interrogating the polyvalent nature of noise, the latter with My Wife Cries (Meine Frau Weint), an austere and surprising parable exploring romantic misalignment, but punctuated by vivid bursts of life.
World Premieres include The Black Box is Orange, a multimodal essay film by local filmmaker and artist Yuula Benivolski that balances the political with the poetic, as well as John Torres’ The Remotes, which refracts sci-fi, film noir, the thriller, and Filipino commercial cinema through his own signature lens.
Essential non-fiction highlights also include William and David Greaves’ posthumous historical documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem, capturing a 1972 gathering of luminaries from the original Harlem Renaissance, and Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges), a roaming, erudite 5.5-hour epic by filmmaker Mariano Llinás, which explores the life of the iconic writer through objects and places.
Rounding out the feature lineup is Denis Côté’s energetic and unpredictable Nobody’s Violence(Violence du corps de l’autre), as well as Romanian auteur Radu Jude’s wry, highly political, and surprisingly moving adaptation The Diary of a Chambermaid (Le journal d’une femme de chambre).
This year’s short and mid-lengths lineup features a similarly eclectic mix of returning talent and new names. World Premiere highlights include new films by both established and emerging international figures, among them Kamal Aljafari with Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo, anunderstated portrait of the legendary Japanese iconoclast; Maryam Tafakory’s Ghazal-e Sorkh, a layered, lucid essay film that connects national, international, and personal histories to recount the 1976 boycott of the Shiraz Art Festival; and Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s nocturnal Fire Flies, in which the filmmaker is led on a flashlight-illuminated stroll through the mountains.
World Premieres from Canadian artists and filmmakers include Parastoo Anoushahpour’s Peacocks Come with the Clouds, which reflects on a series of elegant wedding embroideries by way of workshops with local children; Rita Ferrando’s After Image, which traces her family’s history of migration from Argentina to Canada by way of archival fragments; and The Address Book by Mustafa Uzuner, which screens on 16mm. Further World Premieres include Ben Russell’s sly La Prospettiva (1653), Jiaqi Yu’s mysterious Moon Palace, and Simon Liu’s ghost story-tingedSplits in Two.
Special highlights include a rare 70mm presentation of Johann Lurf’s magisterial Forever…Forever, a rediscovered and restored archival gem by legendary Fluxus musician Takehisa Kosugi, and a special tribute to the recently departed Italian-Armenian icon Yervant Gianikian. Fresh from recent festival premieres and acclaimed exhibitions, Wavelengths Shorts is rounded out by new work from artists John Smith, Natalia Marín, James Richards, Danaya Chulphuthiphong, and Vika Kirchenbauer.
Wavelengths is curated by TIFF Senior Curator Andréa Picard and Jesse Cumming. From acclaimed auteurs to exciting new talent, this diverse programme celebrates cinema as a space for subversion, expression, and disruption, honouring the spirit of Canadian artist Michael Snow’s masterpiece Wavelength, the 1967 film that gave the section its name. Notable films that have previously featured in the programme include At Sea (Peter Hutton, 2007), Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014), The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec, 2016), The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams, 2016), Altiplano (Malena Szlam, 2018), The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili, 2020), Ste-Anne (Rhayne Vermette, 2021), Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude, 2023), Magellan (Lav Diaz, 2025), and Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze, 2025).
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 (غزالِ 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
Peacocks Come with the Clouds (طاووسها با ابرها میآیند) | 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
TIFF Classics
TIFF Classics presented by MUBI, supported by Ontario Creates and the Canada Council for the Arts, brings restored and rediscovered works back into the spotlight, reuniting audiences with iconic films from visionary filmmakers in Canadian and international cinema. This year’s TIFF Classics programme spans landmark historical works, radical form, and bold social satire.
Anchoring the programme is a spectacular presentation in TIFF’s state-of-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. Lynne Stopkewich’s transgressive TIFF ’96 premiere Kissed, starring Molly Parker, returns in a beautiful new 4K restoration; John Abraham’s extraordinary final film and iconic Malayalam classic Report to Mother (Amma Ariyan, 1986), is newly resuscitated in this meticulous, handsome 4K restoration; the World Premiere of Fei Mu’s Spring in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun, 1948) — the earliest title in the programme — is a haunting, strikingly modern story of longing and one of Wong Kar-wai’s inspirations for In the Mood for Love; and from legendary Japanese filmmaker Kon Ichikawa, Ten Dark Women (Kuroi jûnin no onna, 1961), a stylish, satirical, and ahead-of-its-time black comedy with a brilliant script by Natto Wada about 10 women who discover they are sharing the same pathologically unfaithful man and orchestrate a collective revenge. One of the year’s greatest cinematic gifts, the Pelechian Project presents five newly restored films by leading Armenian filmmaker and theorist Artavazd Pelechian, whose visionary “distance montage” techniques have yielded some of the most exhilarating short films of all time.
Curated by Robyn Citizen and Andréa Picard, past TIFF Classics Official Selections include the restorations of L’Amour fou (Jacques Rivette, 1969), Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray, 1970), Bona (Lino Brocka, 1980), Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got (Brigitte Berman, 1985), Nadja(Michael Almereyda, 1994), and Werckmeister Harmonhies (Béla Tarr, 2000).
2026 TIFF Classics programme (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 the Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, runs September 10–20, 2026.
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