TIFF 2025 Lineup Blessed With Divine Being Keanu Reeves
O Canada! The movie lovers are ready for you. The 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, which runs September 4–14, has started teasing the lineup for its 50th anniversary. Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune, which stars Keanu Reeves as the angel Gabriel (and Seth Rogen and Ansari as humans), will have its world premiere at TIFF 2025. Good Fortune hasn’t had the best fortune so far — it was previously delayed during the WGA strike in 2023, after Ansari’s first attempt at a directorial debut, Being Mortal, was halted in 2022 over allegations that Bill Murray behaved inappropriately on set.
Ansari joins several actors — including Maude Apatow, Brian Cox, and James McAvoy — who will be making their feature directorial debuts at the festival. Other confirmed world premieres include Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery; Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (with Oscar Isaac as the scientist who brings Jacob Elordi to life); the David Michôd biopic Christy, which will turn Sydney Sweeney into pro boxer Christy Martin; Alice Winocour’s Angelina Jolie–starring Couture; and Train to Busan filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho’s mystery thriller The Ugly. Baz Luhrmann will be back (with another Elvis-related project, naturally), while the full list of directors with films screening at the festival includes Benny Safdie, Romain Gavras, Scarlett Johansson, Mamoru Hosoda, and Conclave director Edward Berger.
While the full program and schedule won’t be announced until August 12, TIFF has already announced the two titles bookending this year’s festival. The booking team must’ve been feeling pretty patriotic: Colin Hanks’s documentary John Candy: I Like Me — about the Canadian comedic icon and Planes, Trains and Automobiles star — will open the festival, while Canadian director Anne Émond’s Peak Everything will close it out. On that note, take a peek at everything we know about TIFF 2025 so far below.
What’s on the lineup?
Premieres on premieres on premieres. And that includes plenty of American films, no matter how disgruntled our northern neighbors might be with us right now. Below, the full TIFF 2025 lineup in alphabetical order so far:
Galas
A Private Life — Rebecca Zlotowski (France)
North American Premiere
Adulthood — Alex Winter (U.S.)
World Premiere
Driver’s Ed — Bobby Farrelly (U.S.)
World Premiere
Eleanor the Great — Scarlett Johansson (U.S.)
North American Premiere
Eternity — David Freyne (U.S.)
World Premiere
Fuze — David Mackenzie (United Kingdom)
World Premiere
Glenrothan — Brian Cox (United Kingdom)
World Premiere
Good Fortune — Aziz Ansari (U.S.)
World Premiere
Hamnet — Chloé Zhao (United Kingdom)
Canadian Premiere
Homebound — Neeraj Ghaywan (India)
North American Premiere
John Candy: I Like Me — Colin Hanks (U.S.)
World Premiere
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery — Ally Pankiw (Canada)
World Premiere
Nuremberg — James Vanderbilt (U.S.)
World Premiere
Palestine 36 — Annemarie Jacir (Palestine/United Kingdom/France/Denmark/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/Jordan)
World Premiere
Peak Everything — Anne Émond (Canada) — Closing Night Gala
Toronto Premiere
Roofman — Derek Cianfrance (U.S.)
World Premiere
She Has No Name — Peter Ho-Sun Chan (Hong Kong/China)
North American Premiere
Sholay — Ramesh Sippy (India) — 50th Anniversary Restoration
North American Premiere
Swiped — Rachel Lee Goldenberg (U.S.)
World Premiere
The Choral — Nicholas Hytner (United Kingdom)
World Premiere
Two Pianos — Arnaud Desplechin (France)
World Premiere
Special Presentations
A Pale View of Hills — Kei Ishikawa (Japan/United Kingdom/Poland)
North American Premiere
A Poet — Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia/Germany/Sweden)
North American Premiere
Bad Apples — Jonatan Etzler (United Kingdom)
World Premiere
Ballad of a Small Player — Edward Berger (United Kingdom)
Canadian Premiere
California Schemin’ — James McAvoy (United Kingdom/U.S.)
World Premiere
Calle Malaga — Maryam Touzani (Morocco/France/Spain/Germany/Belgium)
North American Premiere
Charlie Harper — Tom Dean, Mac Eldridge (U.S.)
World Premiere
Christy — David Michôd (U.S.)
World Premiere
Couture — Alice Winocour (U.S./France)
World Premiere
Dead Man’s Wire — Gus Van Sant (U.S.)
North American Premiere
Degrassi: Whatever It Takes — Lisa Rideout (Canada)
World Premiere
Easy’s Waltz — Nic Pizzolatto (U.S.)
World Premiere
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert — Baz Luhrmann (Australia/U.S.)
World Premiere
Eternal Return — Yaniv Raz — United Kingdom/U.S.
World Premiere
Frankenstein — Guillermo del Toro — U.S.
North American Premiere
Franz — Agnieszka Holland (Czech Republic/Germany/Poland)
World Premiere
Good News — Byun Sung-hyun (South Korea)
World Premiere
Hedda — Nia DaCosta (U.S.)
World Premiere
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You — Mary Bronstein (U.S.)
Canadian Premiere
It Was Just an Accident — Jafar Panahi (Iran/France/Luxembourg)
Canadian Premiere
It Would Be Night in Caracas — Mariana Rondón, Marité Ugás (Mexico)
World Premiere
Kokuho — Lee Sang-il (Japan)
North American Premiere
Ky Nam Inn — Leon Le (Vietnam)
World Premiere
Lovely Day — Philippe Falardeau (Canada)
World Premiere
Meadowlarks — Tasha Hubbard (Canada)
World Premiere
Mile End Kicks — Chandler Levack (Canada)
World Premiere
Monkey in a Cage — Anurag Kashyap (India)
World Premiere
Nouvelle Vague — Richard Linklater (France)
Canadian Premiere
Poetic License — Maude Apatow (U.S.)
World Premiere
Primavera — Damiano Michieletto (Italy/France)
World Premiere
Project Y — Lee Hwan (South Korea)
World Premiere
Rental Family — HIKARI (U.S./Japan)
World Premiere
Rose of Nevada — Mark Jenkin (United Kingdom)
North American Premiere
Sacrifice — Romain Gavras (United Kingdom/Greece)
World Premiere
Scarlet — Mamoru Hosoda (Japan)
North American Premiere
Sentimental Value — Joachim Trier (Norway/France/Denmark/Germany/Sweden/United Kingdom)
Canadian Premiere
Silent Friend — Ildikó Enyedi (Germany/Hungary/France)
North American Premiere
Sirāt — Óliver Laxe (France/Spain)
North American Premiere
Sound of Falling — Mascha Schilinski (Germany)
North American Premiere
Steal Away — Clement Virgo (Canada/Belgium)
World Premiere
The Captive — Alejandro Amenábar (Spain/Italy)
World Premiere
The Christophers — Steven Soderbergh (United Kingdom)
World Premiere
The Lost Bus — Paul Greengrass (U.S.)
World Premiere
The Secret Agent — Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil/France/Netherlands/Germany)
Canadian Premiere
The Smashing Machine — Benny Safdie (U.S.)
North American Premiere
The Testament of Ann Lee — Mona Fastvold (United Kingdom)
North American Premiere
The Ugly — Yeon Sang-ho (South Korea)
World Premiere
Three Goodbyes — Isabel Coixet (Italy/Spain)
World Premiere
Train Dreams — Clint Bentley (U.S.)
International Premiere
Tuner — Daniel Roher (U.S.)
Canadian Premiere
Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) — Zacharias Kunuk (Canada)
North American Premiere
s — Rian Johnson (U.S.)
World Premiere
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution … — Nick Davis (U.S.)
World Premiere
Who’s on the juries?
Historically, some big-name directors. We just don’t know who yet. This year’s jurors will be announced on July 22, according to TIFF.
Is TIFF doing anything to celebrate the big 5-0?
The birthday festivities have already begun. To mark its 50th anniversary, TIFF launched a marquee series this summer with 50 films that were influential in its history. Screenings began in June and will run through August. Will someone bring out a cake at the festival in September?
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