TIFF Adds More Than 60 New Titles, Including Festival Winners ‘La Gradiva’ and ‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!’

If it is a day ending in -y during the summer, it’s a day for a raft of new fall festival announcements. Today, the Toronto International Film Festival has added over 60 new titles to its slate, including the official selections of its Centrepiece program, plus its Wavelengths and TIFF Classics selections. Today’s additions include a number of already buzzed-about titles, including previous festival winners like Cannes sensation “La Gradiva” and Sundance crowd-pleaser “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” The Centrepiece lineup features new works from significant voices and festival favorites, including Neto Villalobos Brenes, Anthony Chen, Louis Clichy, Hosam Abu Dan, Valeska Grisebach, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Diego Luna, Avi Nesher, Banjong Pisanthanakun, and Yonfan. The slate also includes a number of Canadian films led by filmmakers Marie Clements, David Bezmozgis, and Cody Lightning, alongside a record-setting slate of eight animated features. “Spanning feature films, shorts, and boundary-blurring mid-lengths,” Wavelengths goes for “artist-driven works that embrace risk, defy convention, and challenge cinematic form.” This year’s slate features an expanded lineup of 11 feature films, with striking new work from a mix of returning Wavelengths alumni and exciting debuts. And 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 list is a “spectacular presentation” in TIFF’s state-of-the-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. Earlier this month, the festival rolled out its first films, including its official opening night gala (Siân Heder’s “CODA” follow-up “Being Heumann”). Following that announcement, the festival shared five additional films that will screen as part of this year’s Special Presentations program, plus its massive overall Galas and Special Presentations listing, its Platform and Discovery picks, its TV selections, and those big stars it will honor at its annual gala. Phew. Check out the new additions below 2026 Centrepiece program (in alphabetical order) “A Girl Unknown” | Zou Jing | ChinaNorth American Premiere “After Elena” | Shawn Garry | Chile, Colombia, ItalyWorld Premiere “Ah Girl” | Ang Geck Geck Priscilla | SingaporeNorth American Premiere “Ashes” | Diego Luna | Mexico, SpainNorth American Premiere “Back in Black” | Ron Murphy | CanadaWorld Premiere “Ben’Imana” | Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo | Rwanda, Gabon, France, NorwayNorth American Premiere “Congo Boy” | Rafiki Fariala | Central African Republic, France, Democratic Republic of Congo, ItalyNorth American Premiere “Conversation With The Sea” | Muayad Alayan | PalestineNorth American Premiere “Dorothy” | Karthik Subbaraj | IndiaWorld Premiere “Eklipse” | Manuel Wetscher | Austria, ItalyNorth American Premiere “Elephants in the Fog” | Abinash Bikram Shah | Nepal, France, Germany, Brazil, NorwayNorth American Premiere ‘Everytime’ “Everytime” | Sandra Wollner | Austria, GermanyNorth American Premiere “Flies” | Fernando Eimbcke | MexicoNorth American Premiere “Four Seasons in Java” | Kamila Andini | Indonesia, France, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, SingaporeWorld Premiere “Furies” | Rami Kodeih | Lebanon, BrazilNorth American Premiere “Future Tense” | Jenna Cato Bass | South Africa, AustraliaWorld Premiere “God Bless You, Mr Kopu” | Alex Liu | New Zealand, AustraliaWorld Premiere “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” | Josef Kubota Wladyka | USACanadian Premiere “How We Stand” | Marie Clements | CanadaWorld Premiere “Inherit” | Banjong Pisanthanakun | ThailandWorld Premiere “Intermission” | Yonfan | Hong KongNorth American Premiere “Iron Boy” | Louis Clichy | France, BelgiumNorth American Premiere “Julián” | Louise Bagnall | Luxembourg, Ireland, Canada, DenmarkNorth American Premiere “La Gradiva” | Marine Atlan | France, ItalyNorth American Premiere “L’AUTRE” | Alexandre Franchi | CanadaWorld Premiere “Lemonade” | Kim Bartley | Ireland, United KingdomWorld Premiere “Light Pillar” | Xu Zao | ChinaNorth American Premiere “Long Long Night” | Kyu Bock Youm | South KoreaWorld Premiere ‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!’Daniel Satinoff “Love is the monster” | Neto Villalobos Brenes | Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Chile, MexicoWorld Premiere “Marie Madeleine” | Géssica Généus | France, Haiti, Belgium, Canada, LuxembourgNorth American Premiere “Muyi” | Julien Chheng | FranceNorth American Premiere “Neverman” | Rodrigo Barriuso | CanadaWorld Premiere “Our Loves” | Avi Nesher | IsraelWorld Premiere “Rehearsals for a Revolution” | Pegah Ahangarani | Czech Republic, SpainCanadian Premiere “Smudge the Blades” | Cody Lightning | CanadaWorld Premiere “Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars” | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Chad, FranceNorth American Premiere “Sunburn” | Serville Poblete | CanadaWorld Premiere “Tangles” | Leah Nelson | Canada, USANorth American Premiere “The Betrayers” | David Bezmozgis | Canada, UkraineWorld Premiere “The bovine with the curved horns” | Omar E. Ospina Giraldo | ColombiaWorld Premiere “The City of the Living” | Edoardo Gabbriellini | ItalyInternational Premiere “The Difficult Bride” | Rubaiyat Hossain | France, Bangladesh, Germany, Norway, PortugalNorth American Premiere ‘Julián’ “The Dreamed Adventure” | Valeska Grisebach | Germany, France, Bulgaria, AustriaNorth American Premiere “The Lost Children Of Tuam” | Frank Berry | IrelandInternational Premiere “The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives” | Daniel Oriahi | NigeriaWorld Premiere “The Surgeon” | Roshan Sethi | IrelandWorld Premiere “The Violinist” | Ervin Han, Raúl García | Singapore, Spain, ItalyNorth American Premiere “Thirteen in Gaza” | Hosam Abu Dan | PalestineWorld Premiere “Toy Gun Bandit” | Rémi St-Michel | CanadaWorld Premiere “Trash Mountain” | Kris Rey | USAWorld Premiere “Viva Carmen” | Sébastien Laudenbach | FranceNorth American Premiere “We Are All Strangers” | Anthony Chen | SingaporeNorth American Premiere “Where the River Begins” | Juan Andrés Arango | Canada, Colombia, NorwayWorld Premiere “Woman Unknown” | May el-Toukhy | DenmarkNorth American Premiere ‘The Surgeon’ Wavelengths Features “At Night” | Beatrice Gibson | United Kingdom, FranceNorth American Premiere “Double Freedom (La libertad doble)” | Lisandro Alonso | Chile, Argentina, Luxembourg, Germany, United KingdomNorth American Premiere “Everything Else is Noise (Lo demás es ruido)” | Nicolás Pereda | Germany, Canada, MexicoNorth American Premiere “Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges)” | Mariano Llinás | ArgentinaNorth American Premiere “London” | Sebastian Brameshuber | AustriaNorth American Premiere “My Wife Cries (Meine Frau Weint)” | Angela Schanelec | Germany, FranceNorth American Premiere “Nobody’s Violence (Violence du corps de l’autre)” | Denis Côté | CanadaNorth American Premiere “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” | William Greaves, David Greaves | USACanadian Premiere “The Black Box is Orange” | Yuula Benivolski | CanadaWorld Premiere “The Diary of a Chambermaid (Le journal d’une femme de chambre)” | Radu Jude | France, RomaniaNorth American Premiere “The Remotes” | John Torres | PhilippinesWorld Premiere Wavelengths Shorts WAVELENGTHS 1: HOUSE AND HOME “Two Pids” | John Smith | United KingdomNorth American Premiere “After Image” | Rita Ferrando | Canada, ArgentinaWorld Premiere “Moon Palace (月宫)” | Jiaqi Yu | China, USAWorld Premiere “Microcosmic Orbit: Encased” | Danaya Chulphuthiphong | ThailandNorth American Premiere “The Address Book” | Mustafa Uzuner | CanadaWorld Premiere | 16mm “Chronicle of Tiredness (Crónica del cansancio)” | Natalia Marín | SpainNorth American Premiere WAVELENGTHS 2: THIS SUFFOCATING NOW “Ghazal-e Sorkh (غزال سرخ)” | Maryam Tafakory | Iran, United Kingdom, FranceWorld Premiere “TM” | Takehisa Kosugi | Japan | 1974International Premiere of new restoration “Fire Flies (咒语)” | Zheng Lu Xinyuan | ChinaWorld Premiere “Splits in Two” | Simon Liu | Hong Kong, USAWorld Premiere “This Suffocating Now” | Vika Kirchenbauer | GermanyNorth American Premiere WAVELENGTHS 3: TIME AND TIDE “Forever…Forever” | Johann Lurf | Austria, FranceNorth American Premiere | 70mm “La Prospettiva (1653)” | Ben Russell | France, ItalyWorld 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 KingdomNorth American Premiere WAVELENGTHS: ANOUSHAHPOUR/ALJAFARI “با ابرها می آیند طاووس ها (Peacocks Come with the Clouds)” | Parastoo Anoushahpour | Iran, CanadaWorld 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, JapanWorld Premiere 2026 TIFF Classics program (in alphabetical order) “Ken Russell’s The Devils” | Ken Russell | United Kingdom | 1971North American Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Warner Bros. ‘The Devils’Courtesy Clockwork “Clockwork Kissed” | Lynne Stopkewich | Canada | 1996World Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Canadian International Pictures “Report to Mother (Amma Ariyan)” | John Abraham | India | 1986North American Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Film Heritage Foundation “Spring in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun)” | Fei Mu | China | 1948World Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of the China Film Archive “Ten Dark Women (Kuroi jûnin no onna)” | Kon Ichikawa | Japan | 1961North 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 TIFF will take place September 10-20. More TIFF films and other programming will be announced in the coming days.