TIFF 2025 Includes Films from Benny Safdie, Gus Van Sant, Guillermo del Toro, Baz Luhrmann, Mark Jenkin, and Others
This year marks the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, which will be held from September 4 to 14. The festival has revealed its lineup for Galas & Special Presentations, showcasing new films from directors such as Benny Safdie, Gus Van Sant, Alice Winocour, Baz Luhrmann, Mark Jenkin, Steven Soderbergh, Rian Johnson, Paul Greengrass, Mamoru Hosoda, Joachim Trier, Richard Linklater, Jafar Panahi, Guillermo del Toro, Arnaud Desplechin, and many others.
Details are as follows.
**2025 Galas (in alphabetical order):**
*previously announced
- **A Private Life** | Rebecca Zlotowski | France | North American Premiere
- **Adulthood** | Alex Winter | USA | World Premiere
- **Driver’s Ed** | Bobby Farrelly | USA | World Premiere
- **Eleanor the Great** | Scarlett Johansson | USA | North American Premiere
- **Eternity** | David Freyne | USA | World Premiere
- **Fuze** | David Mackenzie | United Kingdom | World Premiere
- **Glenrothan** | Brian Cox | United Kingdom | World Premiere
- **Good Fortune** | Aziz Ansari | USA | World Premiere
- **Hamnet** | Chloé Zhao | United Kingdom | Canadian Premiere
- **Homebound** | Neeraj Ghaywan | India | North American Premiere
- **John Candy: I Like Me** | Colin Hanks | USA | World Premiere
- **Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery** | Ally Pankiw | Canada | World Premiere
- **Nuremberg** | James Vanderbilt | USA | 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 | USA | 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 | USA | World Premiere
- **The Choral** | Nicholas Hytner | United Kingdom | World Premiere
- **Two Pianos** | Arnaud Desplechin | France | World Premiere
**2025 Special Presentations (in alphabetical order):**
*previously announced
- **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/USA | World Premiere
- **Calle Malaga** | Maryam Touzani | Morocco/France/Spain/Germany/Belgium | North American Premiere
- **Charlie Harper** | Tom Dean, Mac Eldridge | USA | World Premiere
- **Christy** | David Michôd | USA | World Premiere
- **Couture** | Alice Winocour | USA/France | World Premiere
- **Dead Man’s Wire** | Gus Van Sant | USA | North American Premiere
- **Degrassi: Whatever It Takes** | Lisa Rideout | Canada | World Premiere
- **Easy’s Waltz** | Nic Pizzolatto | USA | World Premiere
- **EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert** | Baz Luhrmann | Australia/USA | World Premiere
- **Eternal Return** | Yaniv Raz | United Kingdom/USA | World Premiere
- **Frankenstein** | Guillermo del Toro | USA | North American Premiere
- **Franz** | Agnieszka Holland | Czech Republic/Germany/Poland | World Premiere
- **Good News** | Byun Sung-hyun | South Korea | World Premiere
- **Hedda** | Nia DaCosta | USA | World Premiere
- **If I Had Legs I’d Kick You** | Mary Bronstein | USA | 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
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