Toronto Unveils Wavelengths & TIFF Classics With Films By Angela Schanelec, Radu Jude, Denis Côté & Lisandro Alonso

The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled the 2026 lineups for it Wavelengths and TIFF Classics sidebars. The Wavelengths program – celebrating boundary-pushing filmmaking– will showcase 11 feature films as well as a selection short and mid-length works. Feature highlights include At Night by UK artist Beatrice Gibson; Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom, a spin-off of 2001 breakout La Libertad, and Sebastian Brameshuber’s award-winning work London exploring connection across a changing Europe and shot with vintage rear-projection technology. TIFF regulars Nicolás Pereda and Angela Schanelec return with Everything Else is Noise and My Wife Cries respectively. Watch on Deadline There will be world premieres for The Black Box is Orange, an essay film by Toronto-based filmmaker and artist Yuula Benivolski balancing 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. Non-fiction highlights also include William and David Greaves’ posthumous historical documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem and Life of Jorge Luis Borges, a five-and-a-half-hour epic by filmmaker Mariano Llinás, exploring explores the life of the iconic writer through objects and places. Rounding out the feature lineup is Denis Côté’s Nobody’s Violence as well as Romanian auteur Radu Jude’s The Diary of a Chambermaid. The short and mid-lengths lineup includes Kamal Aljafari’s Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo; Maryam Tafakory’s Ghazal-e Sorkh, an essay film recounting 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. TIFF Classics highlights include a 4K director’s cut of Ken Russell’s The Devils, starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave and featuring sets by Derek Jarman, and Lynne Stopkewich’s transgressive worl Kissed, starring Molly Parker, which premiered at the festival in 1996 and now returns in a new 4K restoration. A sidebar entitled the Pelechian Project will also present five newly restored films by Armenian filmmaker and theorist Artavazd Pelechian. 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 | 70mmLa Prospettiva (1653) | Ben Russell | France, ItalyWorld Premiere Electric Fragments No. 1 – Rom (Men) (Frammenti Elettrici No. 1 – Rom (Uomini)) | YervantGianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi | Italy | 2001 Fevers | James Richards | Germany, United KingdomNorth American Premiere WAVELENGTHS: ANOUSHAHPOUR/ALJAFARI Peacocks Come with the CloudsParastoo 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, JapanWorld Premiere 2026 TIFF Classics programme (in alphabetical order) Ken Russell’s The Devils | Ken Russell | United Kingdom |1971North American Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Warner Bros. 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)