What Can Audiences Expect from the 25th Edition of TIFF’s Wavelengths Program in 2025?

The 25th edition of TIFF’s Wavelengths programme will showcase a diverse selection of eight feature Films, a unique double-bill presentation, and three shorts programmes. Among the highlights is the world premiere of Levers by Rhayne Vermette, following her acclaimed Ste. Anne (2021), which won the TIFF Amplify Voices Award.

Audiences can also look forward to the North American premiere of Lav Diaz’s Magellan—an adventurous Cannes Premiere title starring Gael García Bernal and Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, an experimental project filmed on an old Sony Ericsson phone, set to debut at Locarno before its TIFF screening.

This year, the lineup of TIFF, one of the most prominent Film Festivals, also includes a heartfelt tribute to avant-garde Filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa, a cherished friend of the Film Festival who passed away in April. In his memory, TIFF will screen his short film Ten Mornings Ten Evenings And One Horizon, which first premiered at the Film Festival in 2016.

Curated by senior curator Andréa Picard and associate curator Jesse Cumming, with contributions from Jason Anderson and Diana Cadavid, the programme promises to be a vibrant celebration of experimental and international cinema.

The selection appears in alphabetical order below.

Wavelengths Features 

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (US)
Dir. Kahlil Joseph
Canadian premiere

Copper (Cobre, Can-Mex)
Dir. Nicolás Pereda
North American premiere

Dry Leaf (Ger-Georgia)
Dir. Alexandre Koberidze
North American premiere

Levers (Can)
Dir. Rhayne Vermette
World premiere

Magellan (Magalhães, Port-Sp-Fr-Phil-Tai)
Dir. Lav Diaz
North American premiere

Mare’s Nest (Fr-UK-Can)
Dir. Ben Rivers
North American premiere

The Seasons (As Estações, Port-Fr-Sp-Austria)
Dir. Maureen Fazendeiro
North American premiere

Wavelengths Pairings

With Hasan In Gaza (Pal-Ger-Fr-Qatar)
Dir. Kamal Aljafari
North American Premiere preceded by

It’s So Beautiful Here (Pal)
Dir. Basma al-Sharif
International premiere.

Wavelengths Shorts

Wavelengths 1: Map Of Traces

Ten Mornings Ten Evenings And One Horizon (Japan)
Dir. Tomonari Nishikawa

Rojo Žalia Blau (Austria)
Dir. Viktoria Schmid
World premiere

Disappeared (India-Nep)
Dir. Sohrab Hura
Canadian premiere

09/05/1982 (Mex-Sp)
Dirs. Jorge Caballero, Camilo Restrepo
North American premiere

Map Of Traces (HK)
Dir. Chan Hau Chun
World premiere

En Traversée (Fr)
Dir. Vadim Kostrov
Canadian premiere

Wavelengths 2: Into The Blue

I Saw The Face Of God In The Jet Wash (UK)
Dir. Mark Jenkin
North American premiere

From My Cloud (S Kor)
Dir. Minjung Kim
World premiere

Cairo Streets (Fr)
Dir. Abdellah Taïa
North American premiere

Daria’s Night Flowers (Fr-Iran-UK)
Dir. Maryam Tafakory
North American premiere

Aftertide (US-China)
Dir. Kaiwen Ren
World premiere

Wavelengths 3: Slightest Pretense

Land Of Barbar (Tun)
Dir. Fredj Moussa
World premiere

Conditio Humana (Austria)
Dir. Friedl vom Gröller
World premiere

Slightest Pretense (Japan)
Dir. Eri Saito
World premiere

CONFERENCE (Austria)
Dir. Björn Kämmerer
World premiere

Morgenkreis (Can-UAE)
Dir. Basma al-Sharif
International premiere

FELT (Can)
Dir. Blake Williams
World premiere.