TIFF 2025 Announces First Films To Have World Premieres At Festival

The 50th TIFF Toronto International Film Festival has today added its first raft of world premieres, which include new films from Rian Johnson, Nicholas Hytner, Derek Cianfrance, Paul Greengrass, Chloe Zhao and more! (via Deadline)

“Since its inception, TIFF has championed global cinema that opens our eyes and brings us together,” said Anita Lee, Chief Programming Officer, TIFF. “We are delighted to share 11 more titles from our Gala and Special Presentations programmes that showcase the remarkable originality and excellence of today’s most exciting and acclaimed directors. These films reflect a sweeping range of voices and styles that embodies the spirit of TIFF and our commitment to a public audience.”

The festival runs from September 4th until September 14th this year.

The Choral is Hytner’s first feature narrative film since 2015’s The Lady in the Van, the theatre director’s first movies being The Madness of King George in 1994 and The Crucible in 1996. It’s the fourth movie between scribe Alan Bennett and Hytner after The Lady In The Van, The History Boys and The Madness Of King George. The Choral is about an ambitious choral society in Yorkshire in 1916 in which the chorus master and most of the choir have volunteered for the front. Ralph Fiennes stars.

Starring Oscar winner Brendan Fraser, Rental Family follows a lonely, down-and-out American actor living in Tokyo who starts working for a Japanese “rental family” company to play various stand-in roles in other people’s lives. Along the way, he discovers unexpected joys within his built-in family. Wake Up Dead Man is the third Knives Out movie to world premiere at TIFF. The third movie in the franchise sees Daniel Craig return in his role of famed private detective Benoit Blanc to solve his most dangerous case with Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church. The movie debuts on Netflix on Dec. 12 and also opens this year’s London Film Festival.