Don’t let anyone inform you in another way: the autumn competition bulletins aren’t even near being over (hey, there, Telluride! see you quickly!). Look no additional than the second a part of right this moment’s morning double whammy, because the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition has simply introduced its sprawling Centrepiece program, only one hour after the New York Movie Competition launched its personal Primary Slate. By itself, this lineup could be juicy sufficient. Paired with NYFF? Properly, there goes our morning.
TIFF’s internationally-focused part has all the time been a feast for followers of world cinema, and this 12 months’s lineup isn’t any exception. This 12 months, there are 55 titles (and 19 world premieres) from filmmakers representing practically fifty nations (together with Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chad, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, France, Germany, Iraq, Eire, Kenya, Mexico, Poland, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand), all reflecting the competition’s enduring dedication to international cinema.
This 12 months’s lineup consists of the newest work from influential filmmakers Hubert Davis, Mathieu Denis, Hasan Hadi, Chie Hayakawa, Anders Thomas Jensen, Jan Komasa, Richard Linklater, Sergei Loznitsa, Pietro Marcello, Christian Petzold, Potsy Poncirol, and Álvaro Olmos Torrico. Linklater now has two movies at TIFF alone, as his “Blue Moon” joins his beforehand introduced “Nouvelle Obscure.”
Over the previous few weeks, TIFF has introduced a big portion of its choices, together with Colin Hanks’ opening evening documentary “John Sweet: I Like Me,” plus new movies from Steven Soderbergh, Nia DaCosta, Chandler Levack, Alejandro Amenábar, and Sung-hyun Byun, the addition of 11 starry titles within the Gala and Particular Displays program (plus that full lineup), the discharge of the Platform jury and lineup, the full Discovery slate, the always-wild Midnight Insanity lineup, plus the skills being celebrated at this 12 months’s Tribute gala.
Centrepiece is programmed by Jason Anderson, Kelly Boutsalis, Diana Cadavid, Robyn Citizen, Claire Diao, Giovanna Fulvi, June Kim, Dorota Lech, Anita Lee, Peter Kuplowsky, Andréa Picard, and Jason Ryle.
2025 Centrepiece lineup (in alphabetical order):
“A Helpful Ghost” | Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke | Thailand/France/Singapore/Germany | North American Premiere
“Arco” | Ugo Bienvenu | France | North American Premiere
“Barrio Triste” | STILLZ | Colombia/USA | North American Premiere
“Blood Strains” | Gail Maurice | Canada | World Premiere
“Blue Heron” | Sophy Romvari | Canada/Hungary | North American Premiere
“Blue Moon” | Richard Linklater | USA/Eire | North American Premiere
“Carolina Caroline” | Adam Carter Rehmeier | USA | World Premiere
“Dandelion’s Odyssey” | Momoko Seto | France/Belgium | North American Premiere
“Diya” | Achille Ronaimou | Chad/France/Germany/Côte d’Ivoire | North American Premiere
“Duse” | Pietro Marcello | France/Italy | Worldwide Premiere
“Eagles of the Republic” | Tarik Saleh | Sweden/France/Denmark/Finland/Germany | North American Premiere
“Erupcja” | Pete Ohs | USA/Poland | World Premiere
“Exit 8” | Genki Kawamura | Japan | North American Premiere
“Follies” | Eric Ok. Boulianne | Canada | North American Premiere
“Lady” | Shu Qi | Taiwan | North American Premiere
“Good Boy” | Jan Komasa | Poland/UK | World Premiere
“Hamlet” | Aneil Karia | UK | Canadian Premiere
“Honey Bunch” | Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli | Canada | North American Premiere
“I Swear” | Kirk Jones | UK | World Premiere
“In Search of The Sky” | Jitank Singh Gurjar | India | World Premiere
“Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream” | Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji | Iraq/United Arab Emirates/France/UK/Qatar/Saudi Arabia | North American Premiere
“Left-Handed Lady” | Shih-Ching Tsou | Taiwan/France/USA/UK | North American Premiere
“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain” | Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han | France | North American Premiere
“Fortunate Lu” | Lloyd Lee Choi | USA | North American Premiere
“Mama” | Or Sinai | Israel/Poland/Italy | North American Premiere
“Reminiscence of Princess Mumbi” | Damien Hauser | Kenya/Switzerland/Saudi Arabia | North American Premiere
“Milk Enamel” | Mihai Mincan | Romania/France/Denmark/Greece/Bulgaria | North American Premiere
“Miroirs No. 3” | Christian Petzold | Germany | North American Premiere
“Motor Metropolis” | Potsy Ponciroli | USA | North American Premiere
“My Father’s Shadow” | Akinola Davies Jr. | UK/Nigeria | North American Premiere
“New 12 months’s Rev” | Lee Kirk | USA | World Premiere
“Nomad Shadow” | Eimi Imanishi | USA/Spain/France | World Premiere
“Olmo” | Fernando Eimbcke | USA/Mexico | North American Premiere
“Orphan” | László Nemes | Hungary/France/Germany/UK | North American Premiere
“Palimpsest: the Story of a Identify” | Mary Stephen | France/Hong Kong/Taiwan | World Premiere
“Renoir” | Chie Hayakawa | Japan/France/Singapore/Philippines/Indonesia/Qatar | North American Premiere
“Saipan” | Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn | Eire/UK | World Premiere
“House Cadet” | Child Koala | Canada | North American Premiere
“The Blue Path” | Gabriel Mascaro | Brazil/Mexico/Chile/Netherlands | North American Premiere
“The Condor Daughter” | Álvaro Olmos Torrico | Bolivia/Peru/Uruguay | World Premiere
“The Value of Heaven” | Mathieu Denis | Canada | World Premiere
“The Fox King” | Woo Ming Jin | Malaysia/Indonesia | World Premiere
“The Final One for The Highway” | Francesco Sossai | Italy/Germany | North American Premiere
“The Final Viking” | Anders Thomas Jensen | Denmark/Sweden | North American Premiere
“The Little Sister” | Hafsia Herzi | France/Germany | North American Premiere
“The Love That Stays” | Hlynur Pálmason | Iceland/Denmark/Sweden/France | North American Premiere
“The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” | Diego Céspedes | Chile/France | North American Premiere
“The President’s Cake” | Hasan Hadi | Iraq/USA/Qatar | North American Premiere
“The Solar Rises On Us All” | Cai Shangjun | China | North American Premiere
“Two Prosecutors” | Sergei Loznitsa | France/Germany/Netherlands/Latvia/Romania/Lithuania | North American Premiere
“Beneath The Identical Solar” | Ulises Porra | Dominican Republic/Spain | World Premiere
“Unidentified” | Haifaa Al Mansour | Saudi Arabia | World Premiere
“Wasteman” | Cal McMau | UK | World Premiere
“Whitetail” | Nanouk Leopold | Netherlands/Belgium/Eire | World Premiere
“Youngblood” | Hubert Davis | Canada | World Premiere
The fiftieth version of the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, offered by Rogers, runs September 4–14, 2025. Extra competition particulars will likely be shared within the coming weeks.