TIFF 50 will take place September 4 - 14, 2025.

Purchasing Festival tickets online is the easiest and most efficient way to get tickets to the screenings you want. Visit About TIFF 50 to review on-sale dates and ticket options for this year’s Festival.

TIFF’s Call Centre will be available for purchasing accessible seats and for technical support with online ticket purchases. Before calling, we encourage you to attempt to purchase your tickets online, referencing our troubleshooting tips on TIFF Helps’ Ticketing page, as you may be subject to long wait-times.

Festival tickets can be extremely limited, especially to red carpet screenings, World or North American Premieres, and screenings that feature audience Q&As. We do our best to ensure a fair distribution of tickets during the Festival, but we are not able to guarantee access to any specific film.

We recommend that you choose a variety of Festival films that are of interest to you, including the films you want to see most and back-up options for each. Popular films and screenings may be “off-sale” during individual ticket on-sales, and you will also have a limited time to make your selections.

Many Festival films will screen at TIFF Lightbox in the months following the Festival, or following their theatrical release. If your preferred film is “off-sale” for the Festival, you still may be able to see it at TIFF in the future.

When a screening no longer has available tickets, it is referred to as “off-sale.” Inventory may fluctuate, so we recommend regularly checking to see if more tickets have become available.

If a Festival screening is off-sale, customers without tickets may wait in the Rush line as a last-chance to see the film. Around 15 minutes prior to a screening’s start time, Front of House staff will count the empty seats in the cinema and sell a select amount of Rush tickets to those in the Rush line on a first-come, first-served basis.

We recommend arriving for a Rush line no earlier than 60 minutes prior to your screening. Please note that being in a Rush line does not guarantee a ticket to the screening.

Here are some tips to ensure you are prepared for your screening:

1. Double check your screening date, time and venue. Our Festival schedule can change, so ensure you have accurate information by checking tiff.net. You can also see a full list of schedule changes at tiff.net/changes.
2. Download a digital ticket to your mobile phone. You will need your tickets to get into the screening, and it’s easier to download them at home before you arrive. Follow the steps in this TIFF Helps section to access your tickets and download them to your mobile wallet. If you are having difficulty accessing your tickets prior to your screening, please reach out to TIFF Customer Relations for assistance.
3. Show up early. 30 minutes early is on time. 15 minutes early is late. Your seat is only guaranteed up to 15 minutes before the start of the film. After this point, the Rush process begins. Latecomers will only be seated at the discretion of the Front of House staff.
4. Have fun! You’re at a film festival. Our staff and volunteers are here to ensure the best possible Festival experience for all audience members.

All screening changes (including date, time, and location) are noted on tiff.net/changes after our schedule goes live on August 12 at 10am. If you have purchased tickets to a screening that has been changed or cancelled, you will receive a notification email from our Customer Relations team.

Yes. Children aged two and older require a Festival ticket to attend a screening. Tickets are subject to regular Festival pricing. Children under two years of age do not require a ticket if they are sharing a seat with an adult. Content advisories may be available for select films.