Making it to the Toronto International Film Festival is a huge deal for filmmakers at any stage of their careers. The annual Canadian festival features everything from smaller movies by up-and-coming filmmakers to potential blockbusters from some of the biggest names in the business.
The selections for the 2022 festival, which runs Sept. 8 through Sept. 18, reflect some of the best and most creative minds in filmmaking today. TIFF 2022 has divided its presentations up into a few different categories. The marquee categories are the Gala Presentations and the Special Presentations, which are where some of the festival’s most-anticipated movies will make their debuts.
Among the 2022 Gala lineup are “The Woman King,” starring Viola Davis and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Tyler Perry’s latest film, “A Jazzman’s Blues.” The Special Presentations, meanwhile, include buzzy films such as “My Policeman,” starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin; the “Knives Out” sequel “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”; and Steven Spielberg’s latest, “The Fabelmans.”
Along with these big-name presentations, TIFF has also made room for some quirkier fare under its Discovery, Midnight Madness, and Wavelengths categories. The Wavelengths selections are for the niche-art-film fans, while Midnight Madness features the especially bizarre. For example, this year, the Daniel Radcliffe-starring Weird Al Yankovic biopic will highlight the Midnight Madness section. Discovery, meanwhile, is exactly what it sounds like: a showcase designed to feature promising early-career directors.
Here’s a complete list of all the films scheduled to premiere at TIFF 2022.
Gala Presentations
- “Alice, Darling”
- “Black Ice”
- “Butcher’s Crossing”
- “The Greatest Beer Run Ever”
- “The Hummingbird”
- “Hunt”
- “A Jazzman’s Blues”
- “Kacchey Limbu”
- “Moving On”
- “Paris Memories”
- “Prisoner’s Daughter”
- “Raymond & Ray”
- “Roost”
- “Sidney”
- “The Son”
- “The Swimmers”
- “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”
- “The Woman King”
Special Presentations
- “Allelujah”
- “All Quiet on the Western Front”
- “The Banshees of Inisherin”
- “Blueback”
- “The Blue Caftan”
- “Broker”
- “Brother”
- “Bros”
- “Catherine Called Birdy”
- “Causeway”
- “Chevalier”
- “Corsage”
- “Decision to Leave”
- “Devotion”
- “Driving Madeleine”
- “El Suplente”
- “Empire of Light”
- “The Eternal Daughter”
- “The Fabelmans”
- “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
- “Good Night Oppy”
- “The Good Nurse”
- “Holy Spider”
- “Joyland”
- “The King’s Horseman”
- “The Lost King”
- “A Man of Reason”
- “The Menu”
- “Moonage Daydream”
- “My Policeman”
- “Nanny”
- “No Bears”
- “On the Come Up”
- “One Fine Morning”
- “Other People’s Children”
- “The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile”
- “Saint Omer”
- “Sanctuary”
- “Stories Not to be Told”
- “Triangle of Sadness”
- “Walk Up”
- “Wendell & Wild”
- “The Whale”
- “Women Talking”
- “The Wonder”
Discovery
- “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe”
- “Baby Ruby”
- “Carmen”
- “Daughter of Rage (La Hija de todas las Rabias)”
- “A Gaza Weekend”
- “I Like Movies”
- “The Inspection”
- “A Long Break”
- “Pussy Joseph”
- “Return to Seoul”
- “Rosie”
- “Runner”
- “Shimoni”
- “Snow and the Bear”
- “Something You Said Last Night”
- “Susie Searches”
- “Sweet As”
- “The Taste of Apples Is Red”
- “This Place”
- “Unruly (Ustyrlig)”
- “Until Branches Bend”
- “When Morning Comes”
- “The Young Arsonists”
Midnight Madness
- “The Blackening”
- “Leonor Will Never Die”
- “Pearl”
- “The People’s Joker”
- “Project Wolf Hunting”
- “Sick”
- “Sisu”
- “Venus”
- “V/H/S 99”
- “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”
Wavelengths: Features
- “Concrete Valley”
- “De Humani Corporis Fabrica”
- “Dry Ground Burning (Mato Seco em Chamas)”
- “Horse Opera”
- “Pacifiction”
- “Queens of the Qing Dynasty”
- “Unrest (Unrueh)”
- “Will-o’-the-Wisp (Fogo-Fátuo)”
Wavelengths: Shorts
- “After Work”
- “Bigger on the Inside”
- “Eventide”
- “F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now”
- “Fata Morgana”
- “Hors-titre”
- “I Thought the World of You”
- “Moonrise”
- “The Newest Olds”
- “Puerta a Puerta”
- “The Time That Separates Us”
- “What Rules the Invisible”
