TIFF’s 2025 Centrepiece programme celebrates the best of international cinema Presenting
Presenting works from celebrated filmmakers including Mathieu Denis’ Cost of Heaven, Hasan Hadi’s The President’s Cake, Jan Komasa’s Good Boy, Anders Thomas Jensen’s The Last Viking, Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, Pietro Marcello’s Duse, Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3, and Álvaro Olmos Torrico’s The Condor Daughter
The Tornoto International Film Festival has selected 55 movies for its Centrepiece programme of the 50th fest, movies which are a “global showcase of compelling cinema from around the world” per this AM’s release. TIFF, presented by Rogers, runs from Sept. 4-14.
Titles from close to 50 countries including Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chad, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire,
France, Germany, Iraq, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Poland, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand are reflected in the curation.
Those filmmakers with works in this part of the lineup, and that also includes North American premieres, are Hubert Davis, Mathieu Denis, Hasan Hadi, Chie Hayakawa, Anders Thomas Jensen, Jan Komasa, Richard Linklater, Sergei Loznitsa, Pietro Marcello, Christian Petzold, Potsy Poncirol and Álvaro Olmos Torrico.
Centrepiece has 19 world premieres including:
Blood Lines, Gail Maurice’s sophomore feature, a pastoral drama of family and reconnection
Carolina Caroline, directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier, an outlaw romance starring Samara Weaving
and Kyle Gallner
Erupcja, directed by Pete Ohs, features a combustible chemistry between a Polish florist (Lena
Góra) and a British tourist (Charli xcx)
Good Boy, by Jan Komasa, a twisted thriller about freedom and identity, starring Stephen Graham,
Andrea Riseborough, and Anson Boon
