The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its 2026 TIFF Docs and Short Cuts programs, adding 66 films from around the world to the festival’s growing lineup.
TIFF Docs features 21 titles from 20 countries, including 18 world premieres. More than two-thirds of the films are directed by women, with new work from Alex Gibney, Barbara Kopple, Sophie Fiennes, Rebeca Huntt, Maiken Baird, Lacey Schwartz Delgado, Mila Aung-Thwin, and Sine Plambech.
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Huntt’s “Rapinoe,” a personal profile of American soccer star Megan Rapinoe, will open the program. Other world premieres include Baird’s “Edward Said: Between Worlds,” tracing the life of the Palestinian-American writer and scholar, and Schwartz Delgado’s “Re/Pair,” which examines the connections and tensions between Black and Jewish communities in the United States.
Gibney returns with “Musk,” which receives its North American premiere, while Kopple’s “Union Town” follows three labor battles in New York City. Kopple’s “Harlan County, U.S.A.” screened during TIFF’s inaugural edition in 1976.
Additional selections include Fiennes’ “The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias,” Barry Avrich’s “Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been,” James Marcus Haney’s “Black Sunflowers,” Andrew Morgan’s “Bleeding Hearts,” and Taimi Arvidson’s “Cheyenne.”
Short Cuts adds 45 films from 30 countries across seven curated programs spanning live-action narrative, documentary, animation, hybrid filmmaking, and the Midnight Madness-adjacent Strange Cuts section.
World premieres include Camille Summers-Valli’s “Untitled Woman,” starring Julianne Nicholson and Charles Melton; Fala Chen’s “Bloodline,” produced by Colin Farrell; Michael Del Monte’s “Fight Kid,” executive produced by Derek Cianfrance; Shaunak Sen’s “Termite,” and Shamier Anderson’s directorial debut “Call Me Tim.”
Other highlights include Yung Chang’s fiction debut “The Highway” and Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s stop-motion comedy “The End,” executive produced by and starring Noomi Rapace, with Denis Lavant and Alexander Skarsgård also in the cast. Canadian filmmakers account for 20 of the program’s 45 selections.
The 51st Toronto International Film Festival runs September 10–20, 2026.
2026 TIFF Docs Program
Ba’s Book
Director: Ashley Duong
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Black Sunflowers
Director: James Marcus Haney
Countries: Ukraine, USA
Premiere: World Premiere
Bleeding Hearts
Director: Andrew Morgan
Country: USA
Premiere: World Premiere
Cheyenne
Director: Taimi Arvidson
Country: USA
Premiere: World Premiere
Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been
Director: Barry Avrich
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Edward Said: Between Worlds
Director: Maiken Baird
Country: USA
Premiere: World Premiere
Gail
Director: Michael Maxxis
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Like Magic
Director: Melissa Saavedra Gil
Countries: Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay
Premiere: World Premiere
Low Lies The Land
Director: Emanuele Gerosa
Countries: Denmark, Italy
Premiere: World Premiere
Musk
Director: Alex Gibney
Country: USA
Premiere: North American Premiere
Rapinoe
Director: Rebeca Huntt
Countries: United Kingdom, USA
Premiere: World Premiere
Re/Pair
Director: Lacey Schwartz Delgado
Country: USA
Premiere: World Premiere
Rescue
Director: Sine Plambech
Countries: Denmark, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Iceland
Premiere: World Premiere
Still Night, Burning House
Director: Carol Nguyen
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Tehran, Under the Skin
Director: Afsaneh Salari
Countries: France, Iran, Sweden
Premiere: Èliad Premiere
The Final Act
Director: Sophie Deraspe
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs
Directors: Èlia Gasull Balada, Matteo Norzi
Countries: Peru, USA, Qatar
Premiere: World Premiere
The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias
Director: Sophie Fiennes
Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Netherlands, Norway
Premiere: North American Premiere
The Ultra Runner
Director: Mila Aung-Thwin
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Turtle Island Rap
Director: Alexandra Lazarowich
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Union Town
Director: Barbara Kopple
Country: USA
Premiere: North American Premiere
2026 TIFF Short Cuts Program
Short Cuts Program 01
Skinny Bottines
Director: Romain F. Dubois
Country: Canada
Premiere: North American Premiere
Untitled Woman
Director: Camille Summers-Valli
Countries: United Kingdom, USA
Premiere: World Premiere
When the Ground Paused
Director: Jess Barclay Lawton
Country: Australia
Premiere: International Premiere
The End
Director: Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Countries: Sweden, France, Denmark
Premiere: North American Premiere
The Highway
Director: Yung Chang
Countries: Canada, China
Premiere: World Premiere
Fried Chicken & Strip Checkers
Director: Ophelia Harutyunyan
Countries: Armenia, France
Premiere: World Premiere
Short Cuts Program 02
Leftover Women
Director: Atalanta Swire
Country: United Kingdom
Premiere: World Premiere
The Comet
Director: Julie Charette
Country: Canada
Premiere: North American Premiere
Forgotten Spaceman
Director: Elham Ehsas
Countries: Afghanistan, United Kingdom
Premiere: North American Premiere
Between Late April and Early May
Director: Sophia Smith
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Termite
Director: Shaunak Sen
Country: India
Premiere: World Premiere
The Lion Does Not Concern Himself
Director: Zarrar Kahn
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Short Cuts Program 03
A Tenderness
Director: Sabrine Khoury
Countries: Netherlands, Palestine
Premiere: World Premiere
Dough Man
Directors: Brittney Gavin, Amy Mielke
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Fight Kid
Director: Michael Del Monte
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Terminal
Director: Alexandre Siqueira
Countries: Portugal, Spain, France
Premiere: World Premiere
Under the Same Clouds
Director: Jérémi Roy
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Patronymic
Director: Mariia Ponomarova
Countries: Netherlands, Ukraine
Premiere: World Premiere
The Episode
Director: Logan Graham Greene
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Short Cuts Program 04
El Aumento
Director: Maria Belen Poncio
Countries: Argentina, USA
Premiere: World Premiere
BID16
Directors: Mick Robertson, Margaret Rose
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Beans and Belief
Director: Tenzin Sedon
Countries: USA, Canada, China
Premiere: World Premiere
Yek Rooz-e Shirin
Director: Omid Abdollahi
Country: Iran
Premiere: North American Premiere
(Haboolm Ksinaalgat) Soul Catcher
Directors: Amanda Strong, Pamela Post
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Fivehead
Director: Christian Smith
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Short Cuts Program 05
Bloodline
Director: Fala Chen
Country: USA
Premiere: World Premiere
Driftwood
Director: A.C. Birch
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Till The Milk Runs Dry
Director: Kalainithan Kalaichelvan
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Almost Pink
Director: Justine Prince
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
2:Love
Director: Ronni Shalev
Countries: Belgium, France, Israel
Premiere: World Premiere
Buddies
Director: Fraser Wolfe
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
The Spectacular Death of Prisca
Director: Kaelo Iyizoba
Country: Nigeria
Premiere: World Premiere
Short Cuts Program 06
Aman
Director: Rahul Roye
Countries: India, United Kingdom, USA, France
Premiere: World Premiere
The Day I Smoked a Cigarette with my Father
Directors: Sameh Alaa, Robin Vouters
Countries: France, Egypt, Belgium
Premiere: World Premiere
Call Me Tim
Director: Shamier Anderson
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Pacific Spirit
Director: Antoine Bourges
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Imichki
Director: Yza Nouiga
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
Please
Director: Anna Mantzaris
Countries: Sweden, France, Czech Republic, Norway, Finland
Premiere: North American Premiere
Moongirl
Director: Victor Boccard
Country: Japan
Premiere: World Premiere
Strange Cuts
Melk
Director: Filip Anthonissen
Country: Èliaium
Premiere: North American Premiere
Koden’n
Director: Daniel «Tètèl» Chérubin
Country: Canada
Premiere: World Premiere
MAMMALIA
Director: Èlia Kalogianni
Countries: Greece, Netherlands
Premiere: World Premiere
Into The Betaverse
Directors: Varun Raman, Tom Hancock
Country: United Kingdom
Premiere: World Premiere
Madrugada
Director: Sebastián Lojo
Country: Guatemala
Premiere: North American Premiere
The Dream Is A Snail
Director: Thien An Nguyen
Countries: Vietnam, South Korea
Premiere: North American Premiere
