Metro Toronto Convention Centre

100 films · 110 screenings · Thu Sep 10–Wed Sep 16 · 6 rooms

100 films

110 screenings across the Festival

Metro Toronto Convention Centre

100 films

A Fireside Chat with Jordan Firstman

A New Creative Paradigm: Consistent, Cinematic AI Video Powered by Kling AI

Adapting Real Stories Without Losing the Truth

Always Lalisa

Bitter Christmas

Building a Home for Independent Voices & Storytelling

Closing the Gap: New Models for Financing and Distributing African Film

Decoupling “Empowerment” from “Likability”

DGC Visionaries @ TIFF: The Market

DIALOGUES Betting on Cinema: Warner Bros’ Pam Abdy & Mike De Luca

DIALOGUES Canada's AI Advantage: Building the Next Screen Economy

DIALOGUES Dissecting Genres and Trends of Southeast Asia

DIALOGUES Documentary Producers: How They Did It

DIALOGUES Expanding the Blade Runner Universe: A Multiplatform Evolution

DIALOGUES Holding the Center: Producing Under Pressure

DIALOGUES Immersive Media is Revolutionary Media

DIALOGUES Indigenous Actors Taking the Lead

DIALOGUES Local Sets, Global Laughs: Filming Comedies in Ontario with All That She Wants and Back In Black

DIALOGUES On Adaptation: Hirokazu Kore-eda & Yeon Sang-ho

DIALOGUES Producing in Times of Conflict

DIALOGUES Serial Thrills: Writing Genre Series

DIALOGUES Shorts to First Features

DIALOGUES South-South Co-Productions: New Routes, New Alliances

DIALOGUES The Internet's New Studio System

DIALOGUES The OBSESSION Obsession with Curry Barker & Inde Navarrette

DIALOGUES The Stories We Tell: Advancing Accessibility Through Inclusive Storytelling

Director Spotlight presented by TheWrap

Elsinore

Filmmaking, Social Platforms & the Massive × CapCut Announcement

For You Feed to Feature Film

From Pitch to Production: IP Exchange, Children’s and Family Content

From Pitch to Production: IP Exchange, Drama

From Pitch to Production: IP Exchange, Horror and Comedy

FROM SCENIC TO SCENE - How Thailand Shapes Global Cinema

From Script to Audiences: Building your Community

Having a Moment: Canadian Documentaries

Heated Regulations, Local Content Rivalries

I Play Rocky

Independent Film is Dead. Long Live Independent Film!

Ink

Innovation Hub

Inside Telefilm: Funding, Partnerships and Audiences

Look Back

Meet the Creators: the Innovation Hub, Session 1

Meet the Creators: the Innovation Hub, Session 2

Muganga: The One Who Treats

North is Now: Indigenous Storytelling in the Arctic

Obsession

Ontario Creates Happy Hour

Partner with Australia

PERSPECTIVES Academy Conversation: International Feature Film

PERSPECTIVES Book-2-Film: Bookending the Business of Adaptation

PERSPECTIVES Congrats on the Film! When Can I See It?

PERSPECTIVES Demystifying Film Financing

PERSPECTIVES Documentary State of the Industry

PERSPECTIVES Equity and Parity in Independent Film: The Ethos Model with Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, and Colman Domingo

PERSPECTIVES Everything Old is IP Again

PERSPECTIVES Expanding IP: The Opportunity and the Risk

PERSPECTIVES Financing in the Age of AI

PERSPECTIVES Focus on French-Language Series Co-productions

PERSPECTIVES Fright Night to Spotlight: Making It in Cinema

PERSPECTIVES From the Front Lines: Producer Advocates on the State of the Screen Economy

PERSPECTIVES From the Ground Up: Ontario’s Approach to Developing the Creative Economy

PERSPECTIVES Funding Without Borders: Unlocking Regional and Global Funds

PERSPECTIVES Global TV Series Buyers and Commissioners in Focus

PERSPECTIVES How Documentaries Find Their Audience

PERSPECTIVES How Nollywood is Capturing Global Screens

PERSPECTIVES In Short: What Short Film Programmers Want

PERSPECTIVES New Partnerships, New Possibilities in Series Financing

PERSPECTIVES Producers with Killer Instincts

PERSPECTIVES Taking IP Live: Successful Touring Exhibitions

PERSPECTIVES The Global Rise of Microdramas: New Stories Captivating the World

PERSPECTIVES The Global Sales Playbook

PERSPECTIVES The Role Hollywood Didn't Know it Needed: The Immersive Supervisor

PERSPECTIVES The State of Distribution

Possible Love

Run Terry Run

SeriesFest Pitch-A-Thon Roadshow