Fall/Winter 2026 Programming at TIFF

Join TIFF this November and December to commemorate Viola Desmond Day, see the best in artist film and video in our Wavelengths Presents programme, and sing along to classics. Connect with fellow film lovers this season to explore film as a medium for creative self-expression and celebration.

Home Movie Day

Saturday, October 24, 2026 | 6:00 – 9:00pm
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Drop-in, no pre-registration required

The Film Reference Library is partnering with Toronto Metropolitan University’s AMIA Chapter to host Home Movie Day 2026. Celebrating small format film and providing visitors with the opportunity to bring in their own home movies on 8mm, Super8, and 16mm to be inspected, repaired and replayed among a community of film enthusiasts. Attendance is free.

Invisible Beauty with Bethann Hardison and Julie Crooks

Sunday, November 8, 2026 | 2:00pm
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To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Viola Desmond’s historic stand against racial segregation on November 8, 1946, TIFF proudly presents a free screening of Invisible Beauty—a documentary self-portrait of trailblazing model, modelling agent, and activist Bethann Hardison, co-directed by Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng—selected by Julie Crooks, Curator of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Hardison (virtually) and Crooks in-person join us after the screening for a conversation about the film and histories of Black self-fashioning from the 1880s to the present.

This event is presented in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario, co-organizers of the exhibition Sunday Best: The Power & The Glory of Black Style, on view through February 28, 2027.

Boxcutter with Vibe Arts

Wednesday, November 25, 2026 | 6:00pm
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This event co-created with Vibe Arts is a celebration of the artists and communities that make Toronto such a vibrant, cultural hub. Reza Dahya’s Boxcutter—a “love letter to Toronto” about an aspiring rapper (Ashton James) on a quest to find his stolen laptop in time for the event that could change his life—is preceded by Vibe Arts facilitator and TIFF Next Wave alum Paul Daniel Torres’ short Fried Fish and Plantain (TIFF Next Wave ’26). James, Torres, and Boxcutter producer Soko Negash join Vibe Arts Executive Director Golshan Abdmoulaie for a Q&A after the screening.

Starting at 5pm, audiences are invited to participate in free drop-in buttonmaking and journal decorating activities inspired by the film and facilitated by Vibe Arts.

THEATER – Episode 2 (2024) dir. Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff

TIFF Wavelengths Presents: THEATER and its doubles

Wednesday, November 11, 2026 | 6:30pm
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TIFF Wavelengths Presents is pleased to welcome Toronto-based curator Jacob Korczynski and his newly-conceived shorts programme THEATER and its doubles, featuring work by Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Colin Campbell, and Martine Syms. Drawing on Antonin Artaud’s book The Theatre and its double, the programme centres on Henkel & Pitegoff’s series THEATER to address how performance “[…] can bring about a glimpse into real life […]”, and weaves the first two episodes between three historical works that situate their image-making methods within their current home of Los Angeles.

THEATER and its doubles is curated by Jacob Korczynski and presented in partnership with Bonny Poon, and coincides with the exhibition Yesterday’s Paper, on view at Bonny Poon November 13, 2026 through January 16, 2027.

Small, Slow but Steady with Sho Miyake

Tuesday, November 17, 2026 | 6:30pm
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TIFF Cinematheque welcomes filmmaker Sho Miyake for a special screening for his understated boxing film Small, Slow but Steady (2022). Loosely based on Keiko Ogasawara’s memoir Makenaide!, the film follows Keiko, a semi-professional boxer who has been deaf since childhood, as the gym she trains at comes under threat of closure during the pandemic. Miyake joins us for an in-person Q&A following the screening.

Small, Slow but Steady with Sho Miyake is presented in partnership with The Japan Foundation, and coincides with additional screenings across Toronto with the director in attendance on Wednesday, November 18 at Fox Theatre, and Thursday, November 19 at Paradise Theatre.

Sing Along: The Greatest Showman

Saturday, December 19, 2026 | 1:00pm
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Calling all dreamers—join us for a night of dancing, singing, and wonder with a special screening of The Greatest Showman, hosted by comedian/ringleader Martha Chaves. Dust off your top hat or your best aerial attire for a participatory screening of the 2017 musical that tells a fantastical version of P.T. Barnum’s life and his world-famous Barnum & Bailey Circus, with magnetic performances by musical superstars Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, and Zendaya.

This event will feature warm-up activities, props, and onscreen lyrics so the whole audience can perform chart-topping hits such as “This Is Me” and “Rewrite the Stars.” Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve waited for—sing your heart out at TIFF Lightbox this December!

**TIFF Wavelengths Presents: Crossings: Kaleh Ziyarat with Rouzbeh Akhbari**

Wednesday, December 9, 2026 | 6:30pm
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Tickets on sale November 11 at tiff.net

TIFF Wavelengths Presents is pleased to host the Toronto premiere of Rouzbeh Akhbari’s debut feature, Crossings: Kaleh Ziyarat (2026). An experimental documentary filmed between the Caspian lowlands and the Strait of Hormuz, Crossings traces the undercurrents of sanctioned economies, revealing how informal trade and rumour sustain movement in a region increasingly defined by constraint. Through archival re-animation and documentary observation, the film follows the informal livestock trade that coils beneath the official infrastructures of the International North South Transport Corridor.

Crossings: Kaleh Ziyarat with Rouzbeh Akhbari is presented in partnership with Mercer Union alongside the exhibition Rouzbeh Akhbari: Of Wool and Diesel, on view at Mercer Union from September 26, 2026 to January 23, 2027.

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