Celebrating Ontario at #TIFF50!

The 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is taking place from September 4th-14th, 2025, and we’re thrilled to see a record-breaking slate of films with Ontario talent and connections at #TIFF50.

An impressive lineup of 21 features screening at TIFF showcases the strength of Ontario’s film industry, both on the screen and behind the scenes.

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Keep reading for our full preview of Ontario films at #TIFF50!

Family ties are pushed to the limit in this devilishly comic neo-noir from actor-director Alex Winter. Starring Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner) and Josh Gad (Frozen), Adulthood follows a pair of grown-up siblings forced to cover their tracks after making a grisly discovery. Premieres Thursday, September 11 at 9:30pm.

The second feature from director Gail Maurice (ROSIE, TIFF ’22) is a singular film: a Métis same-sex romance led by actor Dana Solomon, who is a revelation. Premieres Monday, September 8 at 6:15pm.

A wily gravedigger (Grace Glowicki) falls for the one man who is attracted to her fetid funk (Ben Petrie), but when fate doth conspire, she takes drastic measures to preserve their love in this camp phantasmagoria. Premieres Saturday, September 13 at 11:59pm.

Dinner with Friends brings viewers inside a fractured group of eight longtime friends who intermittently come together for dinner parties to share in the joys and pains of being adults today. Premieres Friday, September 5 at 5:45pm.

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro’s visually sumptuous adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece finds Oscar Isaac as the brilliant scientist whose unearthly creation, eerily and ingeniously conjured by Jacob Elordi, blurs the boundaries between life, death, and madness. Premieres Monday, September 8 at 6pm.

Undergoing an unconventional therapy after a recent injury, a woman begins to experience strange occurrences in Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s genre-bending thriller. Premieres Wednesday, September 10 at 6:30pm.

This galvanizing documentary from director Ally Pankiw (I Used To Be Funny) takes us behind the scenes of Sarah McLachlan’s legendary all-women music festival and features interviews with performers including Bonnie Raitt, Erykah Badu, Olivia Rodrigo, and Emmylou Harris. Premieres Saturday, September 13 at 3pm.

A small town in Cape Breton becomes home to an international drug smuggling ring, featuring Stephen Amell, Stephen McHattie, Sean Astin and Colombian musician J Balvin. Premieres Friday, September 5 at 5:30pm.

Based on her 2017 documentary Birth of a Family, Tasha Hubbard’s Meadowlarks is an emotional drama that follows four siblings, separated by the Sixties Scoop, as they come together over a week. Premieres Sunday, September 7 at 7pm.

I Like Movies director Chandler Levack’s Mile End Kicks is a bright romantic comedy starring Barbie Ferreira as Grace, a young music critic who moves to Montreal to figure out life and love. Premieres Thursday, September 4 at 8:30pm.

Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin challenge toxic misconceptions about sex work and sex workers with great audacity and high style. Premieres Friday, September 5 at 6:25pm.

A fateful encounter with the police propels two estranged friends to reevaluate their relationship, in Eva Thomas’ thoughtful and urgent debut. Premieres Sunday, September 7 at 3:45pm.

They were never in time to book a gig at The Rivoli, then one day… they weren’t in their time at all. From Matt Johnson (BlackBerry) and Jay McCarrol’s cult comedy series comes an adventure 17 years in the making. Premieres Thursday, September 4 at 11:59pm.

The story of Sandra Perron, Canada’s first woman infantry officer, yields a compelling drama that’s as tenacious as its subject. Premieres Tuesday, September 9 at 5:30pm.

This genre-bending otherworldly drama follows two brothers’ journey to avenge the spirits that haunt them from their childhood. Premieres Saturday, September 6 at 3:30pm.

Director Clement Virgo returns with a bold, mesmerizing, and erotically charged thriller that’s part fairy tale, part fever dream. Premieres Friday, September 5 at 8:30pm.

This deeply personal documentary from hometown filmmaker Min Sook Lee follows the trail of grief left behind when her mother died by suicide when she was a preteen. Premieres Tuesday, September 9 at 7pm.

Documentarian Daniel Roher dazzles with his narrative debut, a whip-smart thriller about an unusual safecracker (Leo Woodall). Premieres Monday, September 8 at 2:45pm.

A bucolic small town, a correctional school for troubled teens, and a mysterious headmistress (Toni Collette) are all much more than meets the eye in this new limited series from creator Mae Martin (Feel Good). Premieres Tuesday, September 9 at 9pm.

Director Hubert Davis and a compelling cast deliver a more thoughtful kind of hockey movie that still hits hard. Premieres Saturday, September 6 at 3pm.

Photos and capsule descriptions courtesy of TIFF.