As the autumn festivals start to roll out their lineups (a phrase you’ll be seeing so much of on IndieWire within the coming days), a phrase of each warning and delight: don’t neglect concerning the competition movies which have already premiered elsewhere, from Sundance to Cannes. The Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition actually has not, as in the present day’s full lineup of Gala and Particular Displays contains loads of previously-premiered movies which might be already rating among the many yr’s finest.
We’re speaking Sundance standouts like Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” and Clint Bentley’s “Practice Goals,” plus Cannes hits likes Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Worth,” Mascha Schilinski’s “Sentimental Worth,” Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Simply an Accident,” Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Imprecise,” and Óliver Laxe’s “Sirāt.”
And in the present day’s announcement additionally contains world premieres like Aziz Ansari’s “Good Fortune,” Maude Apatow’s “Poetic License,” Isabel Coixet’s “Three Goodbyes,” Romain Gavras’ “Sacrifice,” David Michôd’s Sydney Sweeney-starring “Christy,” Yeon Sang-ho’s “The Ugly,” James Vanderbilt’s “Nuremberg,” and Alice Winocour’s “Couture,” in addition to new movies from Guillermo del Toro, Mamoru Hosoda, Zacharias Kunuk, Baz Luhrmann, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Benny Safdie, and Gus Van Sant.
Over the previous few weeks, TIFF has rolled out some early picks for its choice, together with Colin Hanks’ opening night time documentary “John Sweet: I Like Me,” plus new movies from Steven Soderbergh, Nia DaCosta, Chandler Levack, Alejandro Amenábar, and Sung-hyun Byun, and the addition of 11 starry titles within the Gala and Particular Displays program simply final week.
The competition has additionally in the present day introduced that Canadian director Anne Émond’s “Peak Every little thing” will probably be this yr’s Closing Night time Gala, happening on the final night of the Competition, Saturday, September 13. The movie premiered at this yr’s Cannes Movie Competition, the place our personal David Ehrlich referred to as it “a lightweight comedy concerning the finish of the world.”
This yr, the competition has invited movies from over 30 nations that, per in the present day’s announcement, “showcase daring storytelling, world views, and the facility of movie to attach audiences throughout cultures.”
Try the total itemizing of this yr’s Galas and Particular Displays, together with each older bulletins and in the present day’s additions under:
2025 Galas (in alphabetical order):
*beforehand introduced
*“A Non-public Life” | Rebecca Zlotowski | France | North American Premiere
“Maturity” | Alex Winter | USA | World Premiere
“Driver’s Ed” | Bobby Farrelly | USA | World Premiere
“Eleanor the Nice” | Scarlett Johansson | USA | North American Premiere
“Eternity” | David Freyne | USA | World Premiere
“Fuze” | David Mackenzie | United Kingdom | World Premiere
“Glenrothan” | Brian Cox | United Kingdom | World Premiere
“Good Fortune” | Aziz Ansari | USA | World Premiere
*“Hamnet” | Chloé Zhao | United Kingdom | Canadian Premiere
“Homebound” | Neeraj Ghaywan | India | North American Premiere | Gala Presentation
*“John Sweet: I Like Me” | Colin Hanks | USA | World Premiere
“Lilith Truthful: Constructing a Thriller” | Ally Pankiw | Canada | World Premiere
“Nuremberg” | James Vanderbilt | USA | World Premiere
“Palestine 36” | Annemarie Jacir | Palestine/United Kingdom/France/Denmark/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/Jordan | World Premiere
“Peak Every little thing” | Anne Émond | Canada | Toronto Premiere | Closing Night time Gala
*“Roofman” | Derek Cianfrance | USA | World Premiere
*“She Has No Title” | Peter Ho-Solar Chan | Hong Kong/China | North American Premiere
“Sholay” | Ramesh Sippy | India | North American Premiere | fiftieth Anniversary Restoration
“Swiped” | Rachel Lee Goldenberg | USA | World Premiere
*“The Choral” | Nicholas Hytner | United Kingdom | World Premiere
“Two Pianos” | Arnaud Desplechin | France | World Premiere
2025 Particular Displays (in alphabetical order):
*beforehand introduced
*“A Pale View of Hills” | Kei Ishikawa | Japan/United Kingdom/Poland | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
“A Poet” | Simón Mesa Soto | Colombia/Germany/Sweden | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Dangerous Apples” | Jonatan Etzler | United Kingdom | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Ballad of a Small Participant” | Edward Berger | United Kingdom | Canadian Premiere | Particular Presentation
“California Schemin’” | James McAvoy | United Kingdom/USA | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Calle Malaga” | Maryam Touzani | Morocco/France/Spain/Germany/Belgium | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Charlie Harper” | Tom Dean, Mac Eldridge | USA | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Christy” | David Michôd | USA | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Couture” | Alice Winocour | USA/France | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Lifeless Man’s Wire” | Gus Van Sant | USA | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Degrassi: No matter It Takes” | Lisa Rideout | Canada | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Straightforward’s Waltz” | Nic Pizzolatto | USA | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“EPiC: Elvis Presley in Live performance” | Baz Luhrmann | Australia/USA | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Everlasting Return” | Yaniv Raz | United Kingdom/USA | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Frankenstein” | Guillermo del Toro | USA | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
*“Franz” | Agnieszka Holland | Czech Republic/Germany/Poland | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
*“Good Information” | Byun Sung-hyun | South Korea | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
*“Hedda” | Nia DaCosta | USA | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” | Mary Bronstein | USA | Canadian Premiere | Particular Presentation
“It Was Simply an Accident” | Jafar Panahi | Iran/France/Luxembourg | Canadian Premiere | Particular Presentation
“It Would Be Night time in Caracas” | Mariana Rondón, Marité Ugás | Mexico | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Kokuho” | Lee Sang-il | Japan | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Ky Nam Inn” | Leon Le | Vietnam | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Pretty Day” | Philippe Falardeau | Canada | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Meadowlarks” | Tasha Hubbard | Canada | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
*“Mile Finish Kicks” | Chandler Levack | Canada | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Monkey in a Cage” | Anurag Kashyap | India | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Nouvelle Imprecise” | Richard Linklater | France | Canadian Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Poetic License” | Maude Apatow | USA | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Primavera” | Damiano Michieletto | Italy/France | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Venture Y” | Lee Hwan | South Korea | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
*“Rental Household” | HIKARI | USA/Japan | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Rose of Nevada” | Mark Jenkin | United Kingdom | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Sacrifice” | Romain Gavras | United Kingdom/Greece | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Scarlet” | Mamoru Hosoda | Japan | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Sentimental Worth” | Joachim Trier | Norway/France/Denmark/Germany/Sweden/United Kingdom | Canadian Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Silent Buddy” | Ildikó Enyedi | Germany/Hungary/France | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Sirāt” | Óliver Laxe | France/Spain | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Sound of Falling” | Mascha Schilinski | Germany | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
*“Steal Away” | Clement Virgo | Canada/Belgium | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
*“The Captive” | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain/Italy | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
*“The Christophers” | Steven Soderbergh | United Kingdom | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
*“The Misplaced Bus” | Paul Greengrass | USA | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“The Secret Agent” | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil/France/Netherlands/Germany | Canadian Premiere | Particular Presentation
“The Smashing Machine” | Benny Safdie | USA | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
“The Testomony of Ann Lee” | Mona Fastvold | United Kingdom | North American Premiere | Introduced in 70mm | Particular Presentation
“The Ugly” | Yeon Sang-ho | South Korea | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Three Goodbyes” | Isabel Coixet | Italy/Spain | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Practice Goals” | Clint Bentley | USA | Worldwide Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Tuner” | Daniel Roher | USA | Canadian Premiere | Particular Presentation
“Uiksaringitara (Unsuitable Husband)” | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada | North American Premiere | Particular Presentation
*“Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller” | Rian Johnson | USA | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
“You Needed to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution…” | Nick Davis | USA | World Premiere | Particular Presentation
This yr’s official screening venues will as soon as once more embody TIFF Lightbox, Roy Thomson Corridor, the Visa Screening Room on the Princess of Wales Theatre, Cineplex’s Scotiabank Theatre Toronto, Glenn Gould Studio on the Canadian Broadcast Centre, Cinema Park at David Pecaut Sq., and the Royal Alexandra Theatre. The seventh version of the TIFF Tribute Awards Gala will happen on Sunday, September 7, 2025, at Fairmont Royal York Resort.
On the final day of the competition, TIFF publicizes the winners of its numerous awards. Alongside the favored Folks’s Selection Awards, offered by Rogers, this September introduces the brand-new Worldwide Folks’s Selection Award. Additionally returning are the esteemed Jury Prizes together with the Platform Award, now celebrating its tenth yr, and honors from FIPRESCI and NETPAC.
The fiftieth version of the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, offered by Rogers, runs September 4–14, 2025. Extra competition particulars will probably be shared within the coming weeks, with this week set to play dwelling to some main different bulletins.