Oscar-winning filmmaker Sian Heder to open TIFF 2026 with Being Heumann

Sian Heder. Pic/AFP

Oscar-winning filmmaker Siân Heder's disability rights drama Being Heumann will open the 51st Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

The film, starring Ruth Madeley as late disability rights activist Judith Heumann, will have its world première on September 10 at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall, coinciding with the opening night of the festival.

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