The Toronto International Film Festival is nearing the completion of its 2025 lineup reveal—an always overwhelming endeavor, given the sheer volume of films featured. Today, we turn our attention to documentary programmer Thom Power’s selections for the TIFF Docs program, which includes just under two dozen films. Alongside documentaries scattered throughout the broader festival lineup, this year’s TIFF Docs boasts sixteen world premieres, many from Canadian filmmakers, as well as what we imagine are standout titles from the international festival circuit in Venice’s Below the Clouds by Gianfranco Rosi, Cover-Up from Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, Lucrecia Martel’s Nuestra Tierra, and Raoul Peck’s Cannes-premiered Orwell: 2+2=5. Here are the selections:
A Life Illuminated | Tasha Van Zandt | USA – WP
A Simple Soldier | Juan Camilo Cruz, Artem Ryzhykov | Ukraine – – NAP
Aki | Darlene Naponse | Canada – WP
Below the Clouds | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy – IP
Canceled: The Paula Deen Story | Billy Corben | USA – WP
Cover-Up | Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus | USA – CP
Flana | Zahraa Ghandour | Iraq/France/Qatar – WP
LOVE+WAR | Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | USA – WP
Modern Whore | Nicole Bazuin | Canada – WP
Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising | Shane Belcourt | Canada – WP
Nuestra Tierra | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina/USA/Mexico/France/Denmark/Netherlands – NAP
Nuns vs. The Vatican | Lorena Luciano | USA – WP
Orwell: 2+2=5 | Raoul Peck | USA/France – NAP
Powwow People | Sky Hopinka | USA – WP
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk | Sepideh Farsi | France/Palestine/Iran – NAP
Still Single | Jamal Burger, Jukan Tateisi | Canada – WP
The Balloonists | John Dower | USA/UK/Austria – WP
The Eyes of Ghana | Ben Proudfoot | USA | Opening Film – WP
The Tale of Silyan | Tamara Kotevska | North Macedonia – NAP
There Are No Words | Min Sook Lee | Canada – WP
True North | Michèle Stephenson | USA/Canada – WP
While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts | Peter Mettler | Canada/Switzerland WP
Whistle | Christopher Nelius | Australia – WP
