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The 48th annual Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to be held from September 7 to 17, 2023.

TIFF has announced that its Contemporary World Cinema stream will be renamed Centrepiece. The festival has also announced some changes to its programming team for the 2023 festival, following the retirement of Steve  Gravestock at the end of 2022[3] and the death of Ravi Srinivasan in early 2023. Noted changes include Norman Wilner taking over Gravestock's role as programmer of Canadian films, and June Kim succeeding Srinivasan as programmer for South Asian films.

The festival has further indicated that with the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival having returned to more normal attendance figures, the event will take place exclusively in-person, ending the online platform that had been offered since the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.  An additional change from past years is that the film market screenings for industry professionals will begin on September 6, one day earlier than the festival's official opening to the public.

Festival organizers acknowledged that the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike was likely to impact the festival if not resolved in time, in particular because the strike prevents actors from taking part in promotional appearances to support their films, but indicated that the festival would still proceed even if fewer celebrities than usual are in attendance. The rule did not necessarily bar all American actors from attending the event, however; for instance, as Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils was a Canadian production shot under ACTRA rather than  SAG-AFTRA contracts, lead actress Amanda Seyfried remained able to attend the premiere, though she ultimately chose not to attend. As well, several films in the 2023 program were directed by notable movie stars, who were able to attend the premieres in their capacity 

The festival indicated that overall, 70 per cent of its planned program for 2023 came from independent and/or international producers, and would not be affected by the strike.