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The Toronto Film Festival has expanded its Platform title strand to 12 films for nan upcoming 2026 edition, moving September 10 to 20.
Now successful its eleventh year, TIFF’s Platform title boasts alum specified arsenic Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, TIFF ’16), Darius Marder (Sound of Metal, TIFF ’19), William Oldroyd (Lady Macbeth, TIFF ’16), Sarah Gavron (Rocks, TIFF ’19), Anthony Shim (Riceboy Sleeps, TIFF ’22), and Yoon Ga-eun (The World of Love, TIFF ’25).
Under nan caller Oscar submission rules, TIFF’s Platform strand besides now serves arsenic 1 of nan six world movie show competitions that automatically suffice non-English-language films for nan Best International Feature Film Oscar. The winning movie of nan TIFF Platform Award will unafraid nonstop Oscar eligibility.
Titles group for Platform 2026 see Theja Rio’s Angh, Amanda Kernell’s Brace Your Heart, Ferit Karahan’s Djinn Wedding, Irene Dionisio’s Idda, Nyla Innuksuk’s In nan Heart of nan South, Bertil Nilsson’s Masc, Gabriel Martins’ On Behalf of My Son, Lawrence Fajardo’s Silenced Nights, and John Trengove’s The Smell of Apples. The conception will unfastened pinch Miwa Nishikawa’s Children Untold. Scroll down for nan afloat lineup.
Argentinian producer, director, and writer Pablo Trapero will service arsenic nan Platform Jury President. He will beryllium joined by British writer and head Amma Asante, Taiwanese character and filmmaker Sylvia Chang, French Canadian shaper Luc Déry, and Hong Kong movie manufacture executive Albert Lee. The winning filmmaker will person a $20,000 CAD rate prize.
“Platform was created to spotlight directorial voices and this year’s 12-film action is an imaginative reflection of caller auteur cinema now,” Anita Lee, Chief Programming Officer, TIFF, said successful a statement. “We are honoured to invited a assemblage of distinguished artists and manufacture leaders to animate and support pinch their expertise and committedness to world cinema.”
2026 Platform programme:
Angh | Theja Rio | India
World Premiere
Set successful nan distant jungles of Nagaland adjacent nan Indo–Burma separator successful nan early 1960s and changeable successful richly textured 16mm, Angh follows Anghba, nan past surviving main of an abandoned Indigenous Naga village, who lives successful isolation pinch his ailing woman and shut up young boy aft being deserted by his people.
Rio is simply a London-based writer and head from Nagaland, India. He wrote and directed nan short films Checkpost (2018), Angh (2021), Remains (2024), and Ade (On a Sunday) (2024). Angh is his characteristic directorial debut and an description of his short by nan aforesaid name.
Brace Your Heart | Amanda Kernell | Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Bulgaria World Premiere
Kernell’s sparkling 3rd play is simply a softly devastating image of love, resilience, and nan enduring spot of Sámi women.
Kernell was calved successful Umeå, Sweden, to a Sámi begetter and Swedish mother. She holds a grade from nan National Film School of Denmark. Her directorial credits see nan short movie Stoerre Vaerie (Northern Great Mountain) (2015) and nan features Sami Blood (2016), which played nan Festival, and Charter (2020).
Children Untold | Miwa Nishikawa | Japan
World Premiere
Opening film
A longtime collaborator of Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nishikawa adapted Children Untold from her ain unpublished novel. It follows a 12-year-old woman who disguises herself arsenic a boy to past successful nan contiguous aftermath of nan Second World War successful Tokyo. Featuring Ami Koyae, Fumi Nikaido, and Koji Yakusho.
Nishikawa was calved successful Hiroshima, Japan. Her penning and directing credits see nan characteristic films Wild Berries (2003), Dear Doctor (2009), and nan Festival Official Selections Dreams for Sale (2012) and Under nan Open Sky (2020).
Djinn Wedding | Ferit Karahan | Turkey
World Premiere
Set successful a distant Anatolian village, Karahan’s Djinn Wedding is an awesome family play that unravels family secrets and conflicts crossed 3 periods of time. Carried by a ultimate formed including Demet Özdemir, Kaan Yildirim, İlhan Şen, and Sarp Bozkurt, nan movie swings betwixt belief, hope, and dissolution.
Karahan was calved successful Muş, Turkey. His penning and directing credits see The Fall from Heaven (2013), Brother’s Keeper (2021), which won nan FIPRESCI Prize astatine Berlinale, and The Death of Black Horses (2025).
Idda | Irene Dionisio | Italy
World Premiere
This is Dionisio’s sophomore feature, which she co-penned alongside Marco Borromei. Idda takes an epic attack to unearthing nan packed layers of a stewing friendship. When puerility friends Adele and Sofia reunite to fulfill nan surgery committedness of climbing Mount Etna, they recognize that for illustration nan mountain, aged wounds loom complete everything.
Dionisio was calved successful Torino, Italy. She is simply a filmmaker and ocular creator whose credits see nan short films Le storie che saremo (2020) and Murmur (2025). Her feature-length films see nan documentaries The mill is full (2012) and Shores (2015), and nan fictional characteristic Pawn Street (2017).
In nan Heart of nan South | Nyla Innuksuk | Canada
World Premiere
A astonishing and breathtaking swerve distant from Innuksuk’s 2022 debut characteristic Slash/Back. In nan Heart of nan South is what Single White Female would beryllium if it were group successful Toronto, pinch an Inuk protagonist and a dash of supernatural elements, starring North of North’s Anna Lambe arsenic Yura Ivalu, nan latest darling of nan Toronto creation world, whose virtual reality portion promises to rustle your mind.
Innuksukwas calved successful Igloolik, Nunavut, and studied movie astatine Toronto Metropolitan University. She co-wrote and co-produced nan short movie Kajutaijuq (2015), which screened astatine nan Festival and was named to Canada’s Top Ten. Her different directorial credits see nan short movie Breaths (2016) and debut characteristic Slash/Back (2022).
Masc| Bertil Nilsson | United Kingdom
World Premiere
Nilsson’s debut characteristic is simply a tender, unflinching image of self-performance, identity, and learning to beryllium arsenic oneself successful an often prescriptive world. The movie draws connected nan filmmaker’s experiences arsenic a neurodivergent cheery man navigating nan contradictory demands of masculinity.
Nilsson is an award-winning Swedish creator and filmmaker based successful London. He has directed galore short films, including Repair (2023) and Alfie’s Island (2023), and has exhibited internationally pinch solo shows successful nan UK, nan Netherlands, Canada, and nan USA.
On Behalf of My Son | Gabriel Martins | Brazil
World Premiere
Anchored by a profoundly affecting capacity from Rejane Faria, Martins’ moving play follows a grieving mother seeking forgiveness from nan families of a tragic autobus accident, unfolding arsenic a profoundly humane meditation connected guilt and whether forgiveness is moreover possible.
Martins is simply a Brazilian writer-director and co-founder of Filmes de Plástico. His debut characteristic Mars One (2022) was Brazil’s action for Best International Feature astatine nan Academy Awards. He besides directed nan shorts Nada (2017), In nan Heart of nan World (2019), and Pelas Mãos (2021).
Silenced Nights | Lawrence Fajardo | Philippines
World Premiere
For some, staying silent is nan only measurement to survive. Fajardo’s bleak sociopolitical play Silenced Nights follows a witnesser to an extrajudicial sidesplitting successful a Philippines slum arsenic he seeks to make nan truth known. The movie takes a earthy cinema verité attack and echoes nan director’s erstwhile works, including The Hearing.
Fajardo is simply a Filipino head from Bacolod City successful nan Philippines. His penning and directing credits see Amok (2011), Posas (2012), and Invisible (2015), which screened astatine nan Festival.
The Smell of Apples | John Trengove | South Africa, Netherlands, Chile World Premiere
In Trengove’s relentless 3rd feature, a sheltered 11-year-old achromatic South African boy gradually comes to realise nan horrors of nan apartheid system. Adapted from South African writer Mark Behr’s 1993 bestselling caller of nan aforesaid name.
Trengove is an award-winning South African writer and head who holds an MFA from New York University. His features see The Wound (2017), which was South Africa’s action for nan Best Foreign Language Film astatine nan Academy Awards, and Manodrome (2023).
The World Before | Yoon Dan-bi | South Korea
World Premiere
In her 2nd communicative feature, Dan-bi (Moving On) turns her attraction from puerility to adolescence pinch a tender, sharply observed image of first emotion and increasing up. This coming-of-age communicative follows 2 teenagers, puerility champion friends, who reunite for a summertime connected a mini agrarian land successful Korea.
Dan-bi is simply a South Korean filmmaker who holds a BFA successful Theatre and Film from Kookmin University. Her movie credits see nan short movie Fireworks (2015) and nan characteristic film Moving On (2019), which debuted successful Busan and won nan NETPAC and DGK Awards.
Wild Wild East | Jan Holoubek | Poland
World Premiere
Set successful occupied Poland successful nan mediate of nan Second World War, Holoubek’s circuit de unit is portion suspenseful western, portion gritty wartime noir.
Holoubek was calved successful Warsaw, Poland. His directing credits see nan bid The Mire (2018– 2024) and High Water (2024), arsenic good arsenic nan characteristic 25 Years of Innocence (2020).
