This year's selection of festival favourites includes everything from animated wonders to explosive rave-ups, making several of these the most obvious place to start when planning your TIFF 2025 schedule. Here are 12 of the best festival films making their local debut at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Rapturously received during its Cannes premiere, the ovations are sure to continue as Jafar Panahi's film makes its way to TIFF as its Canadian debut. Complex, provocative, and absolutely unique, this feature-length debut from an emerging filmmaker is precisely the kind of distinctive and groundbreaking international cinema that TIFF patrons crave. Co-winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, Mascha Schilinski's richly realized film focuses on generations of inhabitants of one family farm.