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Toronto International Film Festival · 2026

Toronto International Film Festival 2026

Gala Presentations

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24 films

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All About Corinne

Corinne Maclou is a background actor. She dreams of one day being more than an extra and stays confident her breakthrough is right around the corner. When she meets famous actress Sandrine Kiberlain, whom she befriends, Corinne hopes to achieve her goal. But will she be welcomed into the respectable family of French cinema?

(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Marc Fitoussi; Writer: Marc Fitoussi; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Dedienne, Diane Kruger, Anne Marivin, Emmanuelle Bercot, Thomas Jolly, Ana Girardot, Pierre-François Garel, Anne Marivin)

Always Lalisa

The story of Blackpink K-pop idol–turned–global superstar Lisa.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Sue Kim; Stars: Lalisa Manobal)

The Assassin(s)

A procedural about police and journalists determined to uncover a seemingly impenetrable conspiracy with political implications at the top level.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2026; Director: Hur Jin-ho; Writer: Gwon Gi-jun, Lee Ji-min; Stars: Yoo Hai-jin, Park Hae-il, Lee Min-ho)

Atonement

Based on a 2012 New Yorker article about a Marine who seeks to reconcile with the survivors of an Iraqi family victimised by his unit years earlier.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Reed Van Dyk; Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Hiam Abbass, Kenneth Branagh)

Babies

A couple bicker over the question of whether or not they should become parents.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Lauren Miller Rogen; Writer: Lauren Miller Rogen; Stars: Anna Kendrick, Seth Rogen, Issa Rae, Dan Stevens, Kate Berlant, Zach Cherry, Ed Helms, Ashley Park, Sharon Stone, David Strathairn)

Being Heumann

The story of activist Judy Heumann, 'Mother of the Disability Rights Movement'.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Siân Heder; Writer: Siân Heder, Rebekah Taussig; Stars: Ruth Madeley, Madeline Delp, Mark Ruffalo, Dylan O'Brien, Rob Delaney, Daniel Durant, Roberta Colindrez, Antwan Tolliver, Jon Beavers, Ray Fisher, Andrew Pilkington, Michael Patrick Thornton, Russell Harvard, Charlie Rush-Reese, Rio Finnegan, D'Arcee Charrington Neal, Will Brill, Matthew August Jeffers, Sienna Rafter, Rein Barcel)

Bunker

When an architect accepts a morally ambiguous project - building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire - his wife begins to question their marriage after 17 years together.

(Country: France, Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Florian Zeller; Writer: Florian Zeller; Stars: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Paul Dano, Stephen Graham, Eileen Atkins, Mark Gatiss, Nimmi Harasgama, Jamie Bisping, Christos Lawton, Karen Ascoe, Shelley Williams, Abe Jarman, Greta Bellamacina)

Diary Of A Mad Old Man

An aging widower is drawn into an unnervingly intimate relationship with his caregiver daughter-in-law.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Wayne Wang; Writer: Kelvin Wyles, based on the book by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki; Stars: Lily Franky, Fan Bingbing)

Evil Genius

Erie, Pennsylvania, 2003. From a phone booth outside a waffle joint, Bill calls the police to report the corpse of a murdered man stashed in a freezer in the garage of his former paramour.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Courteney Cox; Writer: Courtenay Miles; Stars: Patricia Arquette, David Harbour, Michael Chernus, Garret Dillahunt, Ryan Eggold, Gregory Alan Williams, Tom McCarthy, Owen Teague, Harlow Jane, David Rasche, Dascha Polanco, Danielle Macdonald, Thomas Michael Allen)

Girl Group

The story of a pop star who, following a downward spiral, finds a new sense of purpose by assembling a bunch of young up-and-comers to form a group of their own.

(Country: US, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Rebel Wilson; Writer: Rebel Wilson; Stars: Rebel Wilson, Randall Park, Sheridan Smith, Melanie Chisholm, Nicole Scherzinger, Jamie-Lee O'Donnell, Shaznay Lewis, Ashley Roberts, Judi Love, Guz Khan, Chabely Ponce, Daniela Couso, Lilah Pate, Mia Kaplan, Bailey Stender, Loren Gray, Miracle Washington, Ana Yi Puig, Keith Duffy, Chris Colfer, Bechill, Jolene, Sally Hawkins, Jennifer Coolidge)

It's My Time

A comedy about a woman on the road to Rubik's Cube mastery.

(Country: China; Year: 2026; Director: Bai Xue; Writer: Sun Yan, Bai Xue, Xu Yizhou; Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Liu Haoran)

The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd

A teacher finds work at a maximum security prison. It’s there that she encounters an inmate whose arresting charisma and unexpected tenderness pierce the emotional armour she cultivated over the course of her abusive marriage.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Tim Blake Nelson; Writer: Tim Blake Nelson; Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Scoot McNairy, Wunmi Mosaku, Devyn Tyler, Missi Pyle, Grant Harvey, William Jackson Harper, Tim Blake Nelson, Elizabeth Marvel)

Man In Motion: The Rick Hansen Story

A portrait of Rick Hansen, Canadian athlete and activist, chronicling his 26-month Man In Motion World Tour: a 40,000-kilometre wheelchair journey raising money to tackle accessibility barriers and transform public perception of disabled people.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Adrian Buitenhuis; Stars: Rick Hansen, Amanda Hansen, Mike Reid, Tim Frick, Nancy Thompson, Don Alder, Fred Cawsey, Dave Doroghy)

Misty Green

A story about the extremes one Black actor goes to to keep both her career and brother alive.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Chris Rock; Writer: Chris Rock; Stars: Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Chris Rock)

The Only Living Pickpocket In New York

When a theft goes awry, a veteran pickpocket is sent on a mission through New York to reclaim the stolen goods.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Noah Segan; Writer: Noah Segan; Stars: John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslany, Victoria Moroles, Will Price, Steve Buscemi)

Onwards And Sideways

Two strangers find their lives becoming entwined when both are diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: John Madden; Writer: Paul Mayhew-Archer; Stars: Rhys Ifans, Laura Linney, Rory Kinnear, Monica Dolan)

Pretenders

A documentary profiling Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde.

(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Joss Crowley; Writer: Joss Crowley; Stars: Chrissie Hynde, Martin Chambers)

Prima Facie

An ambitious barrister who primarily defends those accused of sex crimes unexpectedly becomes the accuser in a sexual assault case.

(Country: Australia, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Susanna White; Writer: Suzie Miller; Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Daniel Ings, Noma Dumezweni, Toheeb Jimoh, Elizabeth Dulau, Harry Treadaway, Khalid Abdalla, Elliot Levey, Simon Russell-Beale, Sarah Junillon)

Run Terry Run

A look at the process behind Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope to raise awareness and money for cancer research.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Sean Menard; Stars: Terry Fox, Darrell Fox, Doug Alward, Leslie Scrivener, Darryl Sittler, Bill Vigars)

Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret Of The First Emperor (Hộ Linh Tráng Sĩ: Bí Ẩn Mộ Vua Đinh)

During the Đinh dynasty, a band of fearless warriors sets out on a secret mission to safeguard a sacred mystery.

(Country: Vietnam; Year: 2026; Director: Nguyễn Phan Quang Binh; Writer: Nguyễn Phan Quang Binh, Ngo Vinh Hoang, Lam Manh Tung; Stars: Tuan Tran, Tran Thien Tu, Johnny Tri Nguyen, Tu Long, Quach Ngoc Ngoan, Do Thi Hai Yen, Le Vu Long, Hua Vi Van, Le Minh Thuan, Danis Nguyen, Dang Tran, Tran Quang Loc, Hien Ngo, Diep Quang Binh, Thai Tran)

A Talent For Murder

A strange confrontation between a youthful literary agent and author Patricia Highsmith.

(Country: UK, Italy; Year: 2020; Director: Anton Corbijn; Writer: Joanna Murray-Smith; Stars: Helen Mirren, Alden Ehrenreich, Olivia Cooke)

Tenzing

The story of Himalayan Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay who, alongside Edmund Hillary, became first to top Everest in 1953.

(Country: US, Australia; Year: 2026; Director: Jennifer Peedom; Writer: Luke Davies; Stars: Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston, Willem Dafoe, Caitríona Balfe, Tenzin Dalha, Thinley Lhamo)

Up Against It

A divorced couple who loathe each other learn that their daughter has leukaemia and her best chance of survival lies in them having another child together who can be a stem cell donor.

(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Trudie Styler; Stars: Antonio Banderas, Forest Whitaker, Úrsula Corberó, Eva Birthistle, Arinzé Kene, Eden Hamilton)

Villeneuve: The Rise Of A Legend (Villeneuve: L'ascension d'une Légende)

A biopic of race car driver Gilles Villeneuve.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Yan Lanouette Turgeon; Writer: Daniel Roby, Guillaume Lonergan; Stars: Rémi Goulet, Rosalie Bonenfant, Patrice Robitaille, Anick Lemay, Luc Picard, Fabien Cloutier, Hubert Proulx, Étienne Galloy, Joe Cobden, Neil Webb, Frank Crudele)