The Toronto International Film Festival has revealed the 2026 lineups for its Wavelengths and TIFF Classics sidebars, naming 11 feature films alongside short and mid-length works Deadline. Wavelengths is TIFF's programme dedicated to avant-garde and art-house cinema; TIFF Classics screens restored or rediscovered films from cinema history. Both were announced on 4 August 2026.

The feature slate spans the globe. Lisandro Alonso's Double Freedom, a co-production of Chile, Argentina, Luxembourg, Germany and the United Kingdom, is a spin-off of his 2001 film La Libertad and has its North American premiere in Toronto. Mariano Llinás brings Life of Jorge Luis Borges, a five-and-a-half-hour epic from Argentina, also a North American premiere. Radu Jude, the Romanian director, contributes The Diary of a Chambermaid (France and Romania).

Two films will hold their world premieres in the section. The Black Box is Orange, an essay film by Toronto-based filmmaker and artist Yuula Benivolski, and The Remotes by Philippine director John Torres both bow at the festival.

The remaining Wavelengths features include At Night by UK artist Beatrice Gibson (United Kingdom and France), London by Sebastian Brameshuber (Austria), shot with vintage rear-projection technology, Everything Else is Noise by Nicolás Pereda (Germany, Canada, Mexico), My Wife Cries by Angela Schanelec (Germany and France), Nobody's Violence by Denis Côté (Canada), and Once Upon a Time in Harlem, a posthumous historical documentary by William and David Greaves (USA) having its Canadian premiere.

The shorts programme carries its own weight. Kamal Aljafari's Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo, Maryam Tafakory's Ghazal-e Sorkh — an essay film recounting the 1976 boycott of the Shiraz Art Festival — and Zheng Lu Xinyuan's Fire Flies round out the selections announced so far.

On the classics side, the 2026 TIFF Classics lineup reaches into film history with a 4K director's cut of Ken Russell's The Devils, starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, with sets designed by Derek Jarman. A new 4K restoration of Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed, starring Molly Parker, which premiered at the festival in 1996, also screens. A dedicated sidebar called the Pelechian Project will present five newly restored films by Armenian filmmaker and theorist Artavazd Pelechian.

TIFF had previously announced five Special Presentations in its 2026 Official Selection — David and Nathan Zellner's Alpha Gang, Benjamín Naishtat's Glaxo, Rachel Morrison's Love of Your Life, Ben Shirinian's The Housewife, and Bassam Tariq's Your Mother — and had scheduled the Wavelengths and TIFF Classics reveal for 8 August before the announcement landed on 4 August TIFF.

For audiences tracking the festival calendar, the Wavelengths and Classics programmes are where TIFF separates itself from the awards-season conversation that dominates its Gala and Special Presentations. These are the films that trade red-carpet visibility for curatorial commitment — restorations that bring forgotten work back to a theatrical screen, and experimental features that may not reach a commercial cinema again.