The Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the 2026 lineups for it Wavelengths and TIFF Classics sidebars. The fest runs September 10-20.
The Wavelengths program – celebrating boundary-pushing filmmaking – will showcase 11 feature films as well as a selection of short and mid-length works.
Feature highlights include At Night by UK artist Beatrice Gibson; Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom, a spinoff 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.
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 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 features sets by Derek Jarman, and Lynne Stopkewich’s transgressive whorl 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.
Below are the lineups:
Wavelengths
Features
At Night | Beatrice Gibson | United Kingdom, France
North American Premiere
Double Freedom (La libertad doble) | Lisandro Alonso | Chile, Argentina, Luxembourg, Germany,
United Kingdom
North American Premiere
Everything Else is Noise (Lo demás es ruido) | Nicolás Pereda | Germany, Canada, Mexico
North American Premiere
Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges) | Mariano Llinás | Argentina
North American Premiere
London | Sebastian Brameshuber | Austria
North American Premiere
My Wife Cries (Meine Frau Weint) | Angela Schanelec | Germany, France
North American Premiere
Nobody’s Violence (Violence du corps de l’autre) | Denis Côté | Canada
North American Premiere
Once Upon a Time in Harlem | William Greaves, David Greaves | USA
Canadian Premiere
The Black Box is Orange | Yuula Benivolski | Canada
World Premiere
The Diary of a Chambermaid (Le journal d’une femme de chambre) | Radu Jude | France, Romania
North American Premiere
The Remotes | John Torres | Philippines
World Premiere
Shorts
WAVELENGTHS 1: HOUSE AND HOME
Two Pids | John Smith | United Kingdom
North American Premiere
After Image | Rita Ferrando | Canada, Argentina
World Premiere
Moon Palace (月宫 ) | Jiaqi Yu | China, USA
World Premiere
Microcosmic Orbit: Encased | Danaya Chulphuthiphong | Thailand
North American Premiere
The Address Book | Mustafa Uzuner | Canada
World Premiere | 16mm
Chronicle of Tiredness (Crónica del cansancio) | Natalia Marín | Spain
North American Premiere
WAVELENGTHS 2: THIS SUFFOCATING NOW
Ghazal-e Sorkh (غزال سرخ) | Maryam Tafakory | Iran, United Kingdom, France
World Premiere
TM | Takehisa Kosugi | Japan | 1974
International Premiere of new restoration
Fire Flies (咒语 ) | Zheng Lu Xinyuan | China
World Premiere
Splits in Two | Simon Liu | Hong Kong, USA
World Premiere
This Suffocating Now | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany
North American Premiere
WAVELENGTHS 3: TIME AND TIDE
WAVELENGTHS: ANOUSHAHPOUR/ALJAFARI
Peacocks Come with the Clouds
Parastoo 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, Japan
World Premiere
TIFF Classics
Ken Russell’s The Devils | Ken Russell | United Kingdom |1971
North American Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Warner Bros. Clockwork
Kissed | Lynne Stopkewich | Canada | 1996
World Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Canadian International Pictures
Report to Mother (Amma Ariyan) | John Abraham | India | 1986
North American Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Film Heritage Foundation
Spring in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun) | Fei Mu | China | 1948
World Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of the China Film Archive
Ten Dark Women (Kuroi jûnin no onna) | Kon Ichikawa | Japan | 1961
North 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)