{"id":155364,"date":"2026-08-04T16:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/155364\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:44:17","slug":"toronto-unveils-2026-wavelengths-tiff-classics-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/155364\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Unveils 2026 Wavelengths & TIFF Classics Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Toronto<\/a> Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the 2026 lineups for it Wavelengths and TIFF<\/a> Classics sidebars. The fest runs September 10-20.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Wavelengths program \u2013 celebrating boundary-pushing filmmaking \u2013 will showcase 11 feature films as well as a selection of short and mid-length works.<\/p>\n

\n\tFeature highlights include At Night by UK artist Beatrice Gibson; Lisandro Alonso\u2019s Double Freedom, a spinoff of 2001 breakout La Libertad; and Sebastian Brameshuber\u2019s award-winning work London, exploring connection across a changing Europe and shot with vintage rear-projection technology.<\/p>\n

\n\tTIFF regulars Nicol\u00e1s Pereda and Angela Schanelec return with Everything Else is Noise and My Wife Cries, respectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere 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\u2019 The Remotes, which refracts sci-fi, film noir, the thriller and Filipino commercial cinema through his own signature lens.<\/p>\n

\n\tNon-fiction highlights include William and David Greaves\u2019 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 Llin\u00e1s, exploring explores the life of the iconic writer through objects and places.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the feature lineup is Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9\u2019s Nobody\u2019s Violence as well as Romanian auteur Radu Jude\u2019s The Diary of a Chambermaid.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe short and mid-lengths lineup includes Kamal Aljafari\u2019s Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo; Maryam Tafakory\u2019s Ghazal-e Sorkh, an essay film recounting the 1976 boycott of the Shiraz Art Festival; and Zheng Lu Xinyuan\u2019s nocturnal Fire Flies, in which the filmmaker is led on a flashlight-illuminated stroll through the mountains.<\/p>\n

\n\tTIFF Classics<\/a> highlights include a 4K director\u2019s cut of Ken Russell\u2019s The Devils, starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, and features sets by Derek Jarman, and Lynne Stopkewich\u2019s transgressive whorl Kissed, starring Molly Parker, which premiered at the festival in 1996 and now returns in a new 4K restoration.<\/p>\n

\n\tA sidebar entitled the Pelechian Project will also present five newly restored films by Armenian filmmaker and theorist Artavazd Pelechian.<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow are the lineups:<\/p>\n

\t\tWavelengths\t<\/p>\n

\n\tFeatures<\/p>\n

At Night | Beatrice Gibson | United Kingdom, France
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

Double Freedom (La libertad doble) | Lisandro Alonso | Chile, Argentina, Luxembourg, Germany,
United Kingdom
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

Everything Else is Noise (Lo dem\u00e1s es ruido) | Nicol\u00e1s Pereda | Germany, Canada, Mexico
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Biograf\u00eda de Jorge Luis Borges) | Mariano Llin\u00e1s | Argentina
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

London | Sebastian Brameshuber | Austria
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

My Wife Cries (Meine Frau Weint) | Angela Schanelec | Germany, France
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

Nobody\u2019s Violence (Violence du corps de l\u2019autre) | Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9 | Canada
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

Once Upon a Time in Harlem | William Greaves, David Greaves | USA
Canadian Premiere<\/p>\n

The Black Box is Orange | Yuula Benivolski | Canada
World Premiere<\/p>\n

The Diary of a Chambermaid (Le journal d\u2019une femme de chambre) | Radu Jude | France, Romania
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

The Remotes | John Torres | Philippines
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tShorts<\/p>\n

\n\tWAVELENGTHS 1: HOUSE AND HOME<\/p>\n

Two Pids | John Smith | United Kingdom
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

After Image | Rita Ferrando | Canada, Argentina
World Premiere<\/p>\n

Moon Palace (\u6708\u5bab ) | Jiaqi Yu | China, USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

Microcosmic Orbit: Encased | Danaya Chulphuthiphong | Thailand
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

The Address Book | Mustafa Uzuner | Canada
World Premiere | 16mm<\/p>\n

Chronicle of Tiredness (Cr\u00f3nica del cansancio) | Natalia Mar\u00edn | Spain
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tWAVELENGTHS 2: THIS SUFFOCATING NOW<\/p>\n

Ghazal-e Sorkh (\u063a\u0632\u0627\u0644 \u0633\u0631\u062e) | Maryam Tafakory | Iran, United Kingdom, France
World Premiere<\/p>\n

TM | Takehisa Kosugi | Japan | 1974
International Premiere of new restoration<\/p>\n

Fire Flies (\u5492\u8bed ) | Zheng Lu Xinyuan | China
World Premiere<\/p>\n

Splits in Two | Simon Liu | Hong Kong, USA
World Premiere<\/p>\n

This Suffocating Now | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany
North American Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tWAVELENGTHS 3: TIME AND TIDE<\/p>\n

\n\tWAVELENGTHS: ANOUSHAHPOUR\/ALJAFARI<\/p>\n

Peacocks Come with the Clouds
Parastoo Anoushahpour | Iran, Canada
World Premiere<\/p>\n

Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo (\u8db3\u7acb\u6b63\u751f\u3001\u30d1\u30b9\u30dd\u30fc\u30c8\u5199\u771f\u3092\u64ae\u308b
Kamal Aljafari |Germany, France, Japan
World Premiere<\/p>\n

\t\tTIFF Classics\t<\/p>\n

Ken Russell\u2019s The Devils | Ken Russell | United Kingdom |1971
North American Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Warner Bros. Clockwork<\/p>\n

Kissed | Lynne Stopkewich | Canada | 1996
World Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Canadian International Pictures<\/p>\n

Report to Mother (Amma Ariyan) | John Abraham | India | 1986
North American Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Film Heritage Foundation<\/p>\n

Spring in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun) | Fei Mu | China | 1948
World Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of the China Film Archive<\/p>\n

Ten Dark Women (Kuroi j\u00fbnin no onna) | Kon Ichikawa | Japan | 1961
North American Premiere of 4K restoration, courtesy of Kadokawa Corporation<\/p>\n

\n\tPelechian Project<\/p>\n

Land of the People | Artavazd Pelechian | Armenia, USSR | 1966 (10 mins.)<\/p>\n

The Beginning | Artavazd Pelechian | Armenia, USSR | 1967 (10 mins.)<\/p>\n

We | Artavazd Pelechian | Armenia, USSR | 1969 (27 mins.)<\/p>\n

The Seasons | Artavazd Pelechian | Armenia, USSR | 1975 (31 mins.)<\/p>\n

The End | Artavazd Pelechian | Armenia | 1992 (8 mins)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the 2026 lineups for it Wavelengths and TIFF Classics sidebars. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15609,50258,48,19255],"class_list":["post-155364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-tiff","tag-tiff-classics","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}