Overview
- TIFF announced on Thursday, July 16 that Alpha Gang, Glaxo, The Housewife, Love of Your Life and Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother will join the festival’s Special Presentations program.
- Four titles — Glaxo, The Housewife, Love of Your Life and Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother — are scheduled to have their world premieres in Toronto, while Alpha Gang is listed as an international premiere, which typically means it will play another major festival first.
- Alpha Gang, an alien sci‑fi comedy from David and Nathan Zellner, features Cate Blanchett, Riley Keough, Chris Pine and Dave Bautista and is expected to debut off‑Toronto before the festival; Bassam Tariq’s Mahershala Ali thriller Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother has an Orion Pictures theatrical window tied to the fall season.
- TIFF runs Sept. 10–20, 2026, and organizers said more Special Presentations and gala announcements will follow in the coming days as the festival builds its fall marketplace slate.
- The lineup mixes established and emerging filmmakers and high‑profile casts to drive press attention, help secure distribution deals and shape awards‑season paths for the films and the artists involved.