The Announcement

The 51st annual Toronto International Film Festival is being held from September 10 to September 20, 2026. The festival included the formal launch of a film market, separately from the public event, building on the introduction of the Industry Selects program at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. The market will take place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, while the main public festival will continue to take place at the Princess of Wales Theatre, Roy Thomson Hall, the Royal Alexandra Theatre, the TIFF Lightbox and Scotiabank Theatre Toronto, with the Convention Centre's John Bassett Theatre added as a festival screening venue. The festival's opening film was Being Heumann by Sian Heder, and its closing film is Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend (Villeneuve : l'ascension d'une légende) by Yan Lanouette Turgeon. The festival will also host the 2026 edition of the Student Academy Awards, and non-English language winners of the festival's Platform Prize will now be automatically eligible for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. The festival's first programming announcement of three Gala titles was revealed on July 7, 2026, and a second announcement of five Special Presentations films was released on July 16. Several full sections were announced in the week of July 20, with additional announcements in the week of August 3, before the complete schedule was announced August 11.