TIFF 2026 Lineup: ‘I Play Rocky,’ Films by Chris Rock and Rebel Wilson Set Premieres

Peter Farrelly’s “I Play Rocky,” Anton Corbijn’s “A Talent for Murder” and new films directed by Courteney Cox, Rebel Wilson and Chris Rock will premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF organizers announced Monday. The festival unveiled more than 60 titles from nearly 30 countries in its Gala and Special Presentations programs, two of the marquee sections at the huge fall festival. Films that will have their world premieres in Toronto include “I Play Rocky,” a drama from “Green Book” director Peter Farrelly about the production of the 1976 Oscar-winning film “Rocky”; “A Talent for Murder,” a thriller from “Control” director Anton Corbijn starring Helen Mirren as mystery author Patricia Highsmith; “Diary of a Mad Old Man,” director Wayne Wang’s adaptation of the 1961 novel by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki; “Onwards and Sideways,” from “Shakespeare in Love” director John Madden and starring Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney as a couple with Parkinson’s; Hans Petter Moland’s “Growth of the Soil,” based on Knut Hamsun’s Nobel Prize-winning novel; and Yan Lanouette Turgeon’s “Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend,” which will serve as the closing-night film. The lineup includes several films directed by professionals better known as actors, including Courtecney Cox’s “Evil Genius,” Rebel Wilson’s “Girl Group,” Chris Rock’s “Misty Green,” Tim Blake Nelson’s “The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd,” Jordan Firstman’s “Club Kid,” Gael Garcia Bernal’s “Hombre el agua” and Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Debut.” Mike Leigh’s new film, “Tender Loving Care,” will also screen at TIFF, as will Florian Zeller’s “Bunker,” Trudie Styler’s “Up Against It,” Andrew Haigh’s “A Long Winter” and Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s “Everest: The Other Side.’ While 15 of the 23 galas and 17 of the 41 special screenings are world premieres, the lineup also includes a number of films that have played at previous festivals, including “Josephine” and “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” from Sundance, as well as “All of a Sudden,” “Atonement,” “The Beloved,” “Bitter Christmas,” “Club Kid,” “Coward,” “Gentle Monster,” “La Bola Negra,” “The Man I Love,” “Minotaur,” “The Unknown” and the Palme d’Or winner “Fjord” from Cannes. Additional TIFF films, including Danny Boyle’s “Ink,” are described as a “Canadian premiere,” meaning they will likely play Venice and Telluride prior to their Toronto screenings. TIFF previously announced that Siân Heder’s “Being Heumann” will open the festival, and it revealed programming that included Susanna White’s “Prima Facie,” David and Nathan Zellner’s “Alpha Gang” and Rachel Morrison’s “Love of Your Life.” The 2026 Toronto International Film Festival will run from Sept. 10 through Sept. 20. Additional programming will be announced over the next three weeks. Here are current Gala and Special Presentations lineups: TIFF 2026 Gala Presentations *previously announced “All About Corinne” | Marc Fitoussi | FranceNorth American Premiere “Always Lalisa” | Sue Kim | USAWorld Premiere *”The Assassin(s)” | Hur Jin-ho | South KoreaWorld Premiere “Atonement” | Reed Van Dyk | USANorth American Premiere “Babies” | Lauren Miller Rogen | USAWorld Premiere *”Being Heumann” | Siân Heder | USAWorld Premiere (Opening Night Film) “Bunker” | Florian Zeller | France, SpainNorth American Premiere “Diary of a Mad Old Man” | Wayne Wang | USAWorld Premiere “Evil Genius” | Courteney Cox | USAWorld Premiere “Girl Group” | Rebel Wilson | United KingdomWorld Premiere “The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd” | Tim Blake Nelson | USAWorld Premiere “Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story” | Adrian Buitenhuis | CanadaWorld Premiere “Misty Green” | Chris Rock | USAWorld Premiere “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” | Noah Segan | USACanadian Premiere “Onwards and Sideways” | John Madden | United KingdomWorld Premiere “Pretenders” | Joss Crowley | United KingdomWorld Premiere *”Prima Facie” | Susanna White | Australia, United KingdomWorld Premiere “Run Terry Run” | Sean Menard | Canada “Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor” | Nguyen Phan Quang Binh | VietnamInternational Premiere “A Talent for Murder” | Anton Corbijn | United Kingdom, ItalyWorld Premiere “Tenzing” | Jennifer Peedom | USA, AustraliaCanadian Premiere “Up Against It” | Trudie Styler | United KingdomWorld Premiere “Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend” | Yan Lanouette Turgeon | CanadaWorld Premiere (Closing Night Film) TIFF 2026 Special Presentations *previously announced “The Age of Goodbyes” | Edmund Yeo | Taiwan, MalaysiaWorld Premiere “All of a Sudden” | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | France/Japan/Germany/BelgiumNorth American Premiere “All That She Wants” | Scarlett Bermingham, Andrew Rhymer | USA/CanadaWorld Premiere *”Alpha Gang” | David Zellner, Nathan Zellner | USAInternational Premiere “The Beloved” | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | SpainNorth American Premiere “Bitter Christmas” | Pedro Almodóvar | SpainNorth American Premiere “Clarissa” | Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri | Nigeria/USANorth American Premiere “Club Kid” | Jordan Firstman | USACanadian Premiere “Coward” | Lukas Dhont | BelgiumNorth American Premiere “The Debut” | Jesse Eisenberg | USAInternational Premiere “Elsinore” | Simon Stone | United KingdomCanadian Premiere “Everest: The Other Side” | Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | USACanadian Premiere “Everybody Wants To F*** Me” | Jonathan Schey | United Kingdom, France, USAWorld Premiere “Fjord” | Cristian Mungiu | Romania, France, Norway, Sweden, DenmarkCanadian Premiere “Gentle Monster” | Marie Kreutzer | AustriaCanadian Premiere *”Glaxo” | Benjamín Naishtat | Argentina, BrazilWorld Premiere “Growth of the Soil” | Hans Petter Moland | NorwayWorld Premiere “Happily Ever After” | Feng-I Fiona Roan | TaiwanWorld Premiere “Hombre al agua” | Gael García Bernal | MexicoNorth American Premiere *”The Housewife” | Ben Shirinian | USAWorld Premiere “I Play Rocky” | Peter Farrelly | USAWorld Premiere “In Alaska” | Jaap van Heusden, Vinnie Karetak | Netherlands, CanadaWorld Premiere “Ink” | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, France, USACanadian Premiere “Josephine” | Beth de Araújo | USACanadian Premiere “The Julia Set” | Niki Byrne | USAWorld Premiere “La Bola Negra” | Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi | Spain, FranceCanadian Premiere “Le Faux Soir” | Michaël R. Roskam | BelgiumWorld Premiere “Look Back” | Hirokazu Kore-eda | JapanNorth American Premiere *”Love of Your Life” | Rachel Morrison | USAWorld Premiere *”A Long Winter” | Andrew Haigh | Canada/United KingdomCanadian Premiere “The Man I Love” | Ira Sachs | USANorth American Premiere “Minotaur” | Andrey Zvyagintsev | France, Germany, LatviaCanadian Premiere “Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?” | Shinya Tsukamoto | JapanNorth American Premiere “Paradise Lost” | Yeon Sang-ho | South KoreaWorld Premiere “Phoolan” | Richie Mehta | IndiaWorld Premiere “Possible Love” | Lee Chang-dong | South KoreaNorth American Premiere “The Stunt Driver” | Michael Dowse | CanadaWorld Premiere “Tender Loving Care” | Mike Leigh | United KingdomCanadian Premiere “The Unknown” | Arthur Harari | FranceNorth American Premiere “Whatcha Want” | Mina Shum | CanadaWorld Premiere *”Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” | Bassam Tariq | USAWorld Premiere