Toronto International Film Festival 2026
September 10–20, 2026Winners announced
The 51st TIFF ran September 10–20, 2026, opening with Siân Heder's Being Heumann. Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo's La Bola Negra won the People's Choice Award — the first Netflix film to take the prize. Below: every winner, a launch-ready poll of the festival's top films, and the lineup.
2026 winners
People's Choice AwardLa bola negra
Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo
2026
International People's Choice AwardElsinore
Simon Stone
2026
Platform PrizeAngh
Theja Rio
2026
People's Choice Midnight Madness AwardLadies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney
Matthew Rankin
2026
People's Choice Documentary AwardDarlene Love: I Know Where I've Been
Barry Avrich
2026
Best Canadian Feature FilmSunburn
Serville Poblete
2026
Best Canadian DiscoverySmudge the Blades
Cody Lightning
2026
FIPRESCI PrizeAncestors
David Turpin
2026
NETPAC AwardThirteen in Gaza
Hosam Abu Dan
2026
People's Choice Award – 1st Runner-UpI Play Rocky
Peter Farrelly
2026
International People's Choice Award – 1st Runner-UpPossible Love
Lee Chang-dong
2026
People's Choice Midnight Madness Award – 1st Runner-UpThe Spiral
Paolo Strippoli
2026
People's Choice Documentary Award – 1st Runner-UpBlack Sunflowers
James Marcus Haney
2026
International People's Choice Award – 2nd Runner-UpThe Assassin(s)
Hur Jin-ho
2026
People's Choice Award – 2nd Runner-UpBeing Heumann
Siân Heder
2026
People's Choice Midnight Madness Award – 2nd Runner-UpArrested Memory
Sabu
2026
People's Choice Documentary Award – 2nd Runner-UpThe Ultra Runner
Mila Aung-Thwin
2026
- Best Canadian Feature Film – Honourable Mention
Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story
Adrian Buitenhuis
2026
Platform Prize – Honourable MentionBrace Your Heart
Amanda Kernell
2026
Best Canadian Discovery – Honourable MentionThe Black Box is Orange
Yuula Benivolski
2026
TIFF 2026 Top Films
The People's Choice winners and runners-up, the Platform Prize, and the festival's biggest premieres.
- Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo – La Bola Negra
- Peter Farrelly – I Play Rocky
- Siân Heder – Being Heumann
- Simon Stone – Elsinore
- Lee Chang-dong – Possible Love
- Matthew Rankin – Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney
- Theja Rio – Angh
- Serville Poblete – Sunburn
- Martin McDonagh – Wild Horse Nine
- Pedro Almodóvar – Bitter Christmas
- Cristian Mungiu – Fjord
- Danny Boyle – Ink
Full lineup
Gala Presentations(24)
Red-carpet premieres at Roy Thomson Hall, including opening and closing night.
All About Corinne
Marc Fitoussi
2026
Always Lalisa
Sue Kim
2026
- International People's Choice Award – 2nd Runner-Up
The Assassin(s)
Hur Jin-ho
2026
Atonement
Reed Van Dyk
2026
Babies
Lauren Miller Rogen
2026
- People's Choice Award – 2nd Runner-Up
Being Heumann
Siân Heder
2026
Bunker
Florian Zeller
2026
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Wayne Wang
2026
Evil Genius
Courteney Cox
2026
Girl Group
Rebel Wilson
2026
It's My Time
Bai Xue
2026
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd
Tim Blake Nelson
2026
- Best Canadian Feature Film – Honourable Mention
Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story
Adrian Buitenhuis
2026
Misty Green
Chris Rock
2026
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Noah Segan
2026
Onwards and Sideways
John Madden
2026
Prima Facie
Susanna White
2026
Pretenders
Joss Crowley
2026
Run Terry Run
Sean Menard
2026
Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor
Nguyễn Phan Quang Bình
2026
A Talent for Murder
Anton Corbijn
2026
Tenzing
Jennifer Peedom
2026
Up Against It
Trudie Styler
2027
Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend
Yan Lanouette Turgeon
2026
Special Presentations(52)
The year's most anticipated films from major filmmakers.
The Age Of Goodbyes
Edmund Yeo
2026
All of a Sudden
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
2026
All That She Wants
Scarlett Bermingham & Andrew Rhymer
2026
Alpha Gang
David Zellner & Nathan Zellner
2026
Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo
Takashi Miike
2026
The Beloved
Rodrigo Sorogoyen
2026
Bitter Christmas
Pedro Almodóvar
2026
- People's Choice Award
La bola negra
Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo
2026
Bucking Fastard
Werner Herzog
2026
Clarissa
Arie Esiri & Chuko Esiri
2026
Closing Night
Cody Fern
2026
Club Kid
Jordan Firstman
2026
Coward
Lukas Dhont
2026
The Debut
Jesse Eisenberg
2026
- International People's Choice Award
Elsinore
Simon Stone
2026
Everest: The Other Side
Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
2026
Everybody Wants to F*ck Me
Jonathan Schey
2027
Faith
Paul Andrew Williams
2026
Le Faux Soir
Michaël R. Roskam
2026
Fjord
Cristian Mungiu
2026
Gentle Monster
Marie Kreutzer
2026
Glaxo
Benjamín Naishtat
2026
A Good Little Soldier
Stéphane Brizé
2026
Growth of the Soil
Hans Petter Moland
2026
Happily Ever After
Feng-I Fiona Roan
2026
Hombre al agua
Gael García Bernal
2026
The Housewife
Ben Shirinian
2026
- People's Choice Award – 1st Runner-Up
I Play Rocky
Peter Farrelly
2026
The Idiot(s)
Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert
2026
In Alaska
Jaap van Heusden & Vinnie Karetak
2026
Ink
Danny Boyle
2026
It will happen tonight
Nanni Moretti
2026
Josephine
Beth de Araújo
2026
The Julia Set
Niki Byrne
2026
The Liberation
Guy Nattiv
2027
A Long Winter
Andrew Haigh
2027
Look Back
Hirokazu Kore-eda
2026
Love of Your Life
Rachel Morrison
2026
The Man I Love
Ira Sachs
2027
Minotaur
Andrey Zvyagintsev
2026
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?
Shinya Tsukamoto
2026
Neil Peart: No One's Disciple
Sam Dunn & Scot McFadyen
2026
Paradise Lost
Yeon Sang-ho
2026
Phoolan
Richie Mehta
2026
- International People's Choice Award – 1st Runner-Up
Possible Love
Lee Chang-dong
2026
The Road Not Taken
Peter Ho-Sun Chan
2026
The Stunt Driver
Michael Dowse
2026
Tender Loving Care
Mike Leigh
2026
The Unknown
Arthur Harari
2026
Whatcha Want
Mina Shum
2026
Wild Horse Nine
Martin McDonagh
2026
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
Bassam Tariq
2026
Platform(12)
TIFF's juried competition for directors' cinema.
- Platform Prize
Angh
Theja Rio
2026
- Platform Prize – Honourable Mention
Brace Your Heart
Amanda Kernell
2026
Children Untold
Miwa Nishikawa
2026
Djinn Wedding
Ferit Karahan
2026
Idda
Irene Dionisio
2026
In the Heart of the South
Nyla Innuksuk
2026
Masc
Bertil Nilsson
2026
On Behalf of My Son
Gabriel Martins
2026
Silenced Nights
Lawrence Fajardo
2026
The Smell of Apples
John Trengove
2026
Wild Wild East
Jan Holoubek
2026
The World Before
Yoon Dan-bi
2026
Midnight Madness(10)
Genre, horror, and late-night mayhem.
Anchors Aweigh
Matt Barats
2026
- People's Choice Midnight Madness Award – 2nd Runner-Up
Arrested Memory
Sabu
2026
The Face of Horror
Anna Biller
2026
Half
Samjad
2026
Kick On
Nick Kozakis
2026
- People's Choice Midnight Madness Award
Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney
Matthew Rankin
2026
River
Joshua Giuliano
2027
Rogue Trooper
Duncan Jones
2026
- People's Choice Midnight Madness Award – 1st Runner-Up
The Spiral
Paolo Strippoli
2026
Vintage Violence
Eugene Kotlyarenko
2026
Other Award Winners(8)
Award winners from TIFF Docs, Centrepiece, Discovery, and Wavelengths.
- People's Choice Documentary Award
Darlene Love: I Know Where I've Been
Barry Avrich
2026
- People's Choice Documentary Award – 1st Runner-Up
Black Sunflowers
James Marcus Haney
2026
- People's Choice Documentary Award – 2nd Runner-Up
The Ultra Runner
Mila Aung-Thwin
2026
- Best Canadian Feature Film
Sunburn
Serville Poblete
2026
- Best Canadian Discovery
Smudge the Blades
Cody Lightning
2026
- Best Canadian Discovery – Honourable Mention
The Black Box is Orange
Yuula Benivolski
2026
- FIPRESCI Prize
Ancestors
David Turpin
2026
- NETPAC Award
Thirteen in Gaza
Hosam Abu Dan
2026
Related
Vancouver International Film Festival 2026October 1–11, 2026
New York Film Festival 2026September 25 – October 12, 2026
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