The Toronto International Film Festival released its complete 2026 screening schedule on Tuesday, August 11, adding 11 feature films to the programme for its 51st edition. The late additions broaden a festival already built around major premieres, international filmmakers and a new industry market, while giving audiences the times and venues needed to plan for the September event in Toronto.
The added titles span work from Canada, the United States, Europe, China and Turkey. They include world premieres for Closing Night, directed by Cody Fern; the Rush drummer documentary Neil Peart: No One’s Disciple, directed by Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn; and Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s The Road Not Taken. Bai Xue’s It’s My Time joins the Gala programme as a North American premiere.
The Special Presentations additions also include Stéphane Brizé’s A Good Little Soldier, Nanni Moretti’s It Will Happen Tonight, Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s The Idiot(s), Guy Nattiv’s The Liberation and Bahman Ghobadi’s Trees are Watching. Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard, starring Kate Mara, Rooney Mara, Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson, is listed for a Canadian premiere after its scheduled competition appearance at the Venice Film Festival.
TIFF had previously said the full schedule would go online August 11 after staged programme announcements during July and early August. The festival runs from September 10 through September 20, according to the Associated Press and TIFF. Siân Heder’s Being Heumann, starring Ruth Madeley as disability-rights advocate Judith Heumann, is the opening-night film, while the wider selection includes new work by Chris Rock and Peter Farrelly.
The schedule release moves the festival from lineup announcements to public planning. It confirms how the newly added films fit among Gala and Special Presentations screenings and establishes which works will arrive as world, international, North American or Canadian premieres. Those designations matter to filmmakers, distributors and audiences because Toronto follows the Venice and Telluride festivals and serves as a prominent launch point for fall releases.
Member single-ticket sales are due to begin August 21, with public access following through TIFF’s ticketing process. Until the festival opens, screening details can still be subject to operational changes, so attendees are being directed to the official online schedule. The next major step will be the arrival of filmmakers and casts in Toronto, followed by screenings, industry activity and the announcement of festival awards on the final day.
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