Toronto Film Festival Announces 2026 Wavelengths and TIFF Classics Lineup

The Toronto International Film Festival revealed its 2026 lineup for the Wavelengths and TIFF Classics programs, showcasing experimental work and anticipated restorations, respectively.

Spanning feature films, shorts, and boundary-blurring mid-lengths, this year’s Wavelengths showcases an expanded lineup of 11 feature films, with new work from a mix of returning Wavelengths alumni and exciting debuts.

Highlights include At Night, the 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.

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).

TIFF Classics brings restored and rediscovered works back into the spotlight, reuniting audiences with iconic films from visionary filmmakers in Canadian and international cinema.

Anchoring the program is a 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.

The 51st edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, runs September 10–20, 2026.

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

2026 TIFF Classics program

(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