Get ready to unlock the ultimate movie-watching experience with the exclusive WIFF Festival Pass. With this pass in hand, you'll have the keys to a cinematic wonderland, featuring over 300 screenings that span the full spectrum of storytelling. Price: $130 for Students (must show valid student ID) $360 for Adults Pass Details: Available for Purchase: Secure your pass online starting Sept. 4 or visit the Box Office from Oct. 22 to 28, daily from 12 PM to 6 PM (for advanced sales). The festival itself runs from Oct. 29 to Nov. 8. More Access to WIFF: Your pass will entitle you to one general screening ticket per time block. This pass is not a ticket. An individual physical ticket must be obtained at the WIFF box office to enter a screening. The festival pass is valid from October 29 - November 8, 2026. Redeemable for Individual Film Tickets: Starting Oct. 28 (one day before the festival begins), you can redeem your pass for individual film tickets. Collect tickets for two days of screenings at a time for your convenience. Pass Policies and Procedures: Pass Redemption: If you purchase your pass online, remember to visit the Box Office at 109 University Ave. W (The Gallery at the Capitol), just two doors down from the Capitol Theatre, to redeem your ticket for a festival pass and an exclusive lanyard. Online passes can be picked up at the Box Office starting Oct. 22. Comprehensive Coverage: Your pass will entitle you to one general screening ticket per time block. Premium screening tickets are not included [Opening Night Film ($40), Closing Night Film ($40), Centerpiece Film ($35), Special Event Screenings ($40)] Student Discounts: If you're a student, don't forget to bring your valid student ID when purchasing and picking up your pass. We've got special deals just for you! ID and Pass Verification: For every pass ticket pickup, you'll need to show a valid ID and your festival pass. It's all part of our commitment to ensuring a seamless and enjoyable experience for you. Passholder Station: During the festival, there is a designated station just for pass holders. It's your hub for hassle-free ticket collection! FYI: Reserved Tickets: We set aside an allocation of tickets exclusively for passholders. You're guaranteed a ticket up to 2 hours before the general screening, so you won't miss a moment of movie magic. After that, tickets will be subject to availability. Massive Savings: If you're planning on enjoying more than 18 films, the Festival Pass is your ticket to tremendous savings. With over 300 screenings to choose from, your cinematic adventure awaits!

Experience the thrill of the festival with our WIFF General Screening 10-Pack. Dive into the world of film and embark on a cinematic experience that will leave you wanting more. What's Included: Ten General Screening Vouchers: Get ready for an exciting lineup of films that cater to every taste. Our extensive film slate offers a diverse range of world-class cinema. Enjoy all 10 tickets yourself, or share the tickets with friends. Ultimate Flexibility: With the 10-Pack, you have the freedom to choose any ten general screenings that pique your interest, while saving you money. With the 10-pack you save a total of $20. How It Works: 1. Purchase Your 10-Pack: Buy your 10-Pack online (available now) or at our box office (starting October 22) and get a ticket order. 2. Pick Up Your Ticket Vouchers: Patrons must come to the box office and use their ticket order to collect ten general ticket vouchers. [109 University Ave W – (The Gallery at the Capitol Theatre) from Thursday, October 29 – Sunday, November 8] 3. Pick Your Films: Browse our extensive film catalog and over 300 screenings, and select the ten screenings you wish to attend. The world of film is at your fingertips. Mix and Match any film, or bring a friend – ticket vouchers can be used by anyone. 4. Redeem Your Vouchers: At the box office or online (using the code and pin on the back of the voucher), exchange your vouchers for tickets to your chosen screenings. 5. Experience the Excitement: Join us for an unforgettable movie-watching experience. Ticket Bundle Online orders can be redeemed at the Box Office for your vouchers during the following times: October 22 - 28: 12pm-6pm daily. October 29 - November 8: 8:00am until 11pm daily.

Calling all filmmakers! The Industry Program Pass is your coveted ticket to WIFF’s new 2-day conference with inspiring discussions, in-depth panels, and networking opportunities with industry professionals and nominated filmmakers. Dates: Friday, October 30th & Saturday, October 31st What's Included in the Industry Program Pass: 2 days of workshops, masterclasses, panel discussions, free film screening, catered networking receptions, and more. The full program itinerary will be announced soon. Price: $299 Early Bird Discount before September 22. $375 Standard Pricing For more information on our special guests, please visit our Industry page on our website. How It Works: 1. Purchase Your Industry Pass: Buy your Industry Pass online or at our box office and get a ticket order. 2. Get Your Industry Pass Lanyard: Delegates must come to the box office and use that ticket order to collect they Industry Pass & Lanyard. [109 University Ave W – (The Gallery at the Capitol Theatre) from Thursday, October 22 – Sunday, November 8] 3. Collect Your Film Tickets: When you pick up your lanyard, you will receive your tickets to the dedicated film screening(s). 4. Experience the Excitement: Use your Industry Pass Lanyard to gain access to our exclusive Industry Program events.

Get ready for an unforgettable cinematic experience with our WIFF Premium 3-Pack! Dive into the most buzzworthy and anticipated films of the year and save big while you're at it. What's Included: Three Premium Screening Vouchers: Immerse yourself in the magic of cinema with three premium film screenings. These are no ordinary movies; they're captivating stories, breathtaking visuals, and unforgettable experiences. Enjoy all 3 tickets yourself, or share the bundle with friends. Savings: Experience world-class cinema without breaking the bank. With the 3-Pack, you save a total of $21. How It Works: 1. Purchase Your 3-Pack: Buy your 3-Pack online (available now) or at our box office (starting October 22) and get a ticket order. 2. Pick Up Your Ticket Vouchers: Patrons must come to the box office and use that ticket order to collect three premium vouchers.

WIFF Prize in Canadian Film Nominee In Ba’s Book, filmmaker Ashley Da-Lê Duong travels from Canada to her father’s childhood village in Vietnam to understand her roots and meet her estranged family. While there, she receives letters from her father, recounting his youth during the war. Duong collaborates with her father and relatives to film participatory re-creations of their past. In these re-creations, we experience the Vietnam War and a student’s perspective of the Iranian Revolution. Duong’s father recounts finding his way through Saigon and Tehran, before securing his passage to Canada and escaping for good. While the film showcases imaginative re-creations of these events, its heart lies in the process. Building and performing these scenes gives the family a way to say things they have never said out loud. Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Ba’s Book offers a disarming look at how a family heals from the generations-long impact of war.

The documentary film Brunello: the Gracious Visionary charts the life of Brunello Cucinelli, the humanist entrepreneur who brought together the worlds of work and philosophy. Blending documentary and fiction, the film revisits the places and pivotal moments that shaped Cucinelli’s life journey—from his rural childhood to the hamlet of Solomeo, later transformed into a symbol of humanistic capitalism. Testimonies, archival footage, and personal recollections portray a man who, from humble beginnings, built a globally renowned company while remaining steadfast in his values of dignity, beauty, and social justice. The story ends with the awareness that dreams—when nurtured with courage—are the true force that guide one’s destiny.

A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.

In three hours, Nina unveils her first production at the Comédie-Française. But in the hustle and bustle of the final rehearsals, nothing goes according to plan: delays, stressful moments, technical problems, and ego clashes shake the troupe. Yet, Nina has no choice but to see it through because if there's one golden rule at the Comédie-Française, it's that you don't cancel. A race against time then begins to save the performance.

As the First World War drags on, Pierre, a soldier newly arrived at the front, is eager to prove himself. Behind the lines, he meets Francis, who decides to lift the spirits of his comrades by putting together a theatre show. While the violence continues, both men try to find ways to escape the brutality of war, even if only for a moment.

WIFF 2026 CLOSING NIGHT FILM - When Mona Friedman (Julianne Moore) is cast in a bit part at a small community theater, she transforms from a shy, unassuming housewife into a zealous method actor willing to do anything to protect the artistic integrity of her marginal role—even if it means waging war against the show’s domineering director (Paul Giamatti).

WIFF Prize in Canadian Film Nominee Mathilde, a teenager forced to move to a rural area with her family for mysterious reasons, discovers that her new house is haunted by Isabeau, a 19th-century woman who has surprisingly adapted well to the modern world, but remembers nothing about her past life. As they investigate the ghost’s history, this unlikely duo embarks on an adventure that gradually forges a deep friendship between them.

After witnessing a sexual assault, a young girl is haunted by the trauma of the disturbing incident, opening her eyes to the violence that surrounds her.

WIFF Prize in Canadian Film Nominee Wide-eyed Julián is about to spend the summer with a grandmother he barely knows. He is amazed to discover her treasure-trove apartment, his own Caribbean heritage, and the lively Brooklyn community he is surrounded by. But most surprising of all, Julián discovers that he is, in fact, a mermaid!

WIFF Prize in Canadian Film Nominee Once upon a time, there was a boy from Baie-Comeau. That boy would become a man of the people and a furnace of political ambition, destined for the bright lights of our nation’s capital. Haunted by the ghost of John Diefenbaker and the disembodied voice of Pierre Trudeau, he sets out to accomplish the Progressive Conservative dream: winning over Quebec, uniting a fragmented country and creating fiscally responsible prosperity for all. In a genre-bending collage of VHS-ravaged Canadiana, filmmaker Matthew Rankin (Universal Language) remixes and reimagines 80,000 pieces of archive, chronicling our 18th prime minister’s crash course with destiny as he clobbers Joe Clark and ushers in a new kind of conservatism for the 80s. What emerges is a fever dream of politics, propaganda and pop culture as hypnotic as its subject. Behold the unstoppable ascent of a generational political genius who charmed a nation into oblivion. Ladies and gentlemen, Brian Mulroney.

In his debut feature documentary, Aziz Zoromba follows acclaimed chef Fadi Kattan and Canadian co-venturer Nicole Mankinen as they race to open a Palestinian restaurant in Toronto. While their dream takes shape, escalating attacks devastate Gaza and the West Bank. Part immersive food film and part urgent record, Louf is a powerful meditation on diaspora, resistance, and the politics of preservation.

Russia, 2022. When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.

WIFF Prize in Canadian Film Nominee A story of trauma, resilience, and the power of community. Nekai Walks is an intimate, urgent feature documentary that follows the extraordinary survival and recovery of Nekai Foster, a Toronto teenager who was shot through the head in a sudden hail of gunfire during the summer of 2023. Anchored by the profound, unbreakable bond between Nekai and his mother who navigates fear, faith, and exhaustion while refusing to accept her son's near-zero survival odds, the film expands into a portrait of Toronto's Jane and Finch corridor and the challenges faced by many North American urban communities. Through the raw testimonies of educators, survivors, and grassroots mentors, the documentary powerfully reframes urban gun violence. It moves away from standard true-crime tropes to expose a systemic public health crisis deeply rooted in poverty, racism, trauma, and institutional neglect.

WIFF Prize in Canadian Film Nominee When Alzheimer's lands her in a hostile nursing home, a long-retired transgender activist must fight her last battle for dignity before dementia makes it impossible to win.

WIFF Prize in Canadian Film Nominee Mihail fled Bulgaria in the ‘90s after the death of his wife, raising his young daughter Roza in Montreal. Far from his native culture and painful memories, he built a new life, one steeped in French and contemporary art. A specialist in the field, he is commissioned to authenticate the work of an eight-year-old Bulgarian girl, Nina, whose paintings have gone viral online. Mihail, feels unready to return to Bulgaria, yet his daughter’s wish to pass on her heritage to her son pushes him to overcome his reluctance. As his stay stretches on, he gradually comes to terms with his ghosts while trying to unravel the mystery of this child who seems to commune with the cosmos through her paintings. Is she truly the author of her works? Has someone helped her? And if she really is gifted, what gives him the right to impose the sale of her paintings, and with it, the forced migration her mother has been dreaming of? Mihail’s journey highlights the intricate relationships between life, art, and the people who inhabit both. Sometimes, the journey matters more than the destination.

WIFF 2026 OPENING NIGHT FILM - In James Gray’s deeply felt and intense drama, two brothers (Adam Driver, Miles Teller) become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through the dangerous world of the Russian mafia, family bonds begin to fray with life-altering consequences.

A woman battles for her voice as her country fights for its own. Based on a true story. Pauline Julien, an iconic Quebec singer and a true poetic and political icon, left an indelible mark on the province. Her story unfolds during a time of profound social and political upheaval in Quebec, marked by a growing movement for independence and the 1970 October Crisis. The film traces her life filled with light, work, love, and heartbreak. Pauline dances, Pauline loves, Pauline rages, Pauline smokes, Pauline makes love, Pauline burns. Pauline lives. Pauline dies. What remains of her? Today, Quebec continues to grapple with the questions of language, identity, and sovereignty that shaped Pauline’s life, with the possibility of another referendum still present in the political landscape.

After a robbery goes bad, Clare escapes with a duffel bag carrying a life-saving organ and meets with her dying brother Danny. With police closing in and time running out, she hijacks a cosmetic surgery clinic, forcing an unwilling surgeon to attempt an impossible transplant. As the night spirals into violence, betrayal, and desperation, Clare must outrun both law enforcement and ruthless criminals while gambling everything on one final chance to save her brother.

Amanda (Juliette Binoche) and her stepfather Martin (Tom Courtenay) struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother Leslie (Anna Calder-Marshall) who is suffering from advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible—a spouse, a child, an institution—for making such

WIFF Prize in Canadian Film Nominee After losing a leg to cancer, 21-year-old Terry Fox embarks on a cross-country run that inspired a nation. This feature-length documentary by filmmaker Sean Menard (299 Queen Street West) offers an unprecedented look at Canadian hero Terry Fox’s 1980 Marathon of Hope. Through 96 reels of never-before-seen visuals and unheard audio interviews, viewers are brought directly into the van and onto the streets with Terry, his best friend Doug, and his younger brother Darrell as they experience an emotional and historic journey across the Country.

WIFF 2026 CENTREPIECE SCREENING - THIS ABOVE ALL: THE THEATRICAL LIFE OF ANTONI CIMOLINO - Antoni Cimolino, the Stratford Festival’s longest-serving artistic director, began his Festival journey as an actor four decades ago. As he prepares for his final season, this documentary offers an exclusive insight as Cimolino reflects on his legacy. With candid and powerful interviews from actors, directors and collaborators, the film presents a raw portrait of a leader closing an extraordinary chapter while paving the way for the Festival’s future.

Padraic McKinley’s tense, atmospheric Depression-era crime drama follows a group of desperate convicts on a perilous journey through a physically and morally treacherous backcountry. Set against the stark beauty of the Oregon landscape, The Weight draws on the introspective action cinema of the 1970s, combining gritty survivalist set pieces with uncommonly intelligent dialogue and finely drawn characters. Although rich with period detail, The Weight is charged with elemental energy, fueled by brothers Latham and Shelby Gaines’ harrowing score and Matteo Cocco’s vivid cinematography. Ethan Hawke gives a muscular performance as the film’s reluctant but resourceful hero, while Russell Crowe is quietly menacing as his foil. Julia Jones brings dignity and defiance to her role as Anna, the sole woman in the group.

WIFF Prize in Canadian Film Nominee Afghanistan, Spring 2002. Forced to marry a 65-year-old man, 15-year-old Zarmina flees her country for Montreal. But her freedom comes at a price: her daughter will one day have to marry her cousin who remained in Kabul. Fifteen years later, the pact resurfaces. Zarmina refuses to accept the same fate for her daughter. Her fight for freedom turns into tragedy.