Schedule

Wednesday 17.06

    12:30
    TIFF.25

    Le Roi Soleil

    TIFF.25

    Early morning in a shabby bar outside Paris, one of the regulars wins the €294 million lottery. But another customer decides otherwise: a gun is drawn, shots are fired and the winner collapses, leaving the ticket ownerless.

    France - 2025
    108 minute
    Competition
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    15:00
    TIFF.25

    Feels Like Home

    TIFF.25

    Rita, an ordinary, but lonely woman is kidnapped. Her captors are the Árpáds; they claim she is not called Rita but Szilvi, a runaway from their family. Rita eventually understands that the only way out is in - to escape she must impersonate Szilvi.

    Hungary - 2025
    124 minute
    Competition
    Hungarian Day
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    17:45
    TIFF.25

    A River's Gaze

    TIFF.25

    Lavinia este o adevărată furtună. E impulsivă, nu se gândeşte de două ori înainte de a acţiona şi nu prea ştie să-şi arate dragostea. Dar îşi doreşte să fie o mamă bună. Visul ei de a extinde casa părintească o aruncă într-un iureş de acţiuni şi obstacole de-a lungul a patru anotimpuri.

    România, France, Slovenia - 2026
    91 minute
    Smart 7 Festival Network
    Romanian Days
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    20:00
    TIFF.25

    The President's Cake

    TIFF.25

    While people across 1990’s Iraq struggle to survive, 9-year-old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the President’s birthday.

    Iraq, United States, Qatar - 2025
    105 minute
    Supernova
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    22:30
    TIFF.25

    Titanic Ocean

    TIFF.25

    In the scintillating, pop-infused world of a Japanese boarding school that trains teenage girls to become professional mermaids, 17-year-old Akame learns to hold her breath, perform for adoring crowds, and swim alongside sharks.

    Greece, Germany, România, France, Spain - 2026
    130 minute
    Competition
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Thursday 18.06

    12:30
    TIFF.25

    A Useful Ghost

    TIFF.25

    March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner.

    Thailand, France, Singapore - 2025
    130 minute
    Competition
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    15:30
    TIFF.25

    My Father's Shadow

    TIFF.25

    A father and his estranged sons travel through the massive city of Lagos while political unrest threatens their journey home in this semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian metropolis during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis.

    United Kingdom, Ireland, Nigeria - 2025
    93 minute
    Competition
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    17:30
    TIFF.25

    12:08 East of Bucharest

    TIFF.25

    Everyone saw the furious crowds forcing Ceauşescu to flee by helicopter. In a quiet little town near the capital, the owner of a local TV station wants to answer a question that has remained unresolved for 16 years: did the town join the Revolution or not?

    România - 2006
    89 minute
    Close Up: Corneliu Porumboiu
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    20:00
    TIFF.25

    Sicko

    TIFF.25

    Overwhelmed by debt, young couple Azamat and Tanshoplan hatch a desperate plan: fake a terminal illness to raise money through a viral charity campaign. But as the donations pour in and public sympathy grows, their lie spirals out of control.

    Kazakhstan - 2026
    102 minute
    Competition
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    22:30
    TIFF.25

    Y

    TIFF.25

    Olga, her father and her two younger sisters have been living a carefree life, thanks to the fortune amassed by Ileana, their paternal grandmother, a successful lawyer. Ileana’s sudden death throws their family into disarray.

    România - 2025
    98 minute
    Romanian Days
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Friday 19.06

    10:00
    TIFF.25

    Sicko

    TIFF.25

    Overwhelmed by debt, young couple Azamat and Tanshoplan hatch a desperate plan: fake a terminal illness to raise money through a viral charity campaign. But as the donations pour in and public sympathy grows, their lie spirals out of control.

    Kazakhstan - 2026
    102 minute
    Competition
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    12:00
    TIFF.25

    Titanic Ocean

    TIFF.25

    In the scintillating, pop-infused world of a Japanese boarding school that trains teenage girls to become professional mermaids, 17-year-old Akame learns to hold her breath, perform for adoring crowds, and swim alongside sharks.

    Greece, Germany, România, France, Spain - 2026
    130 minute
    Competition
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    15:00
    This film is not suitable for children

    Truly Naked

    This film is not suitable for children

    Alec, an introverted teenager, has always viewed life through the lens of his father’s pornography business. When they relocate from London to a sleepy seaside town, Alec hopes for a fresh start, trying to make friends without revealing his unconventional life.

    Netherlands, Belgium, France - 2026
    102 minute
    Competition
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    17:30
    TIFF.25

    Bulk

    TIFF.25

    When an overzealous scientist pushes his experiments with string theory too far, his brane explodes. Corey Harlan is sent to find the heart of the brane and its creator Anton Chambers inside a mysterious townhouse where every door can lead to another world.

    United Kingdom - 2025
    90 minute
    No Limit
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    20:00
    TIFF.25

    Orphan

    TIFF.25

    1957. In Budapest, after the uprising against the Communist regime, a young Jewish boy, Andor, raised by his mother with idealized tales of his deceased father, has his world turned upside down when a brutish man appears, claiming to be his true father.

    Hungary, United Kingdom, Germany, France - 2025
    132 minute
    Hungarian Day
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    22:30
    TIFF.25

    Back and Forth

    TIFF.25

    Cornel, a young actor on the verge of divorce, travels with his authoritarian father to Austria. The journey becomes a confrontation with the past, with childhood wounds and the things we struggle to speak about honestly.

    România - 2027
    93 minute
    Romanian Days
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Saturday 20.06

    10:00
    TIFF.25

    Lenin's Pawn

    TIFF.25

    A hybrid documentary following actor Sergiu Voloc, a modern-day Don Quixote whose lonely fight against Lenin monuments across Moldova turns into an absurd confrontation with a system that rebuilds them overnight.

    România - 2026
    85 minute
    Romanian Days
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    12:30
    TIFF.25

    Whitetail

    TIFF.25

    In the isolated landscapes of southern Ireland, Jen works as a conservation ranger in the same forest where her younger sister died in a tragic accident years earlier. When a former boyfriend unexpectedly returns, long-suppressed memories resurface, forcing her to confront their shared past.

    Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland - 2025
    103 minute
    FOCUS Netherlands
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    15:00
    TIFF.25

    Something Familiar

    TIFF.25

    While helping a woman search for her birth mother, Rachel is drawn deeper into her own family history. When Rachel launches an international search for her missing sisters, she uncovers a painful legacy of abuse and exploitation.

    România, United Kingdom - 2026
    89 minute
    Romanian Days
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    17:30
    TIFF.25

    Stuff and Dough

    TIFF.25

    A young man dreams of opening a kiosk, but for now he lacks the means to do so. A local big shot offers him a substantial sum of money for what appears to be a simple delivery job, but things soon get complicated.

    România - 2001
    94 minute
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    20:00
    TIFF.25

    April X

    TIFF.25

    In a near-future city consumed by violence and paranoia, Bax desperately searches for his missing twin sister April. His journey through the darkest corners of the metropolis slowly pushes him toward madness in this dystopian sci-fi thriller.

    United States - 2025
    92 minute
    Full Moon
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Sunday 21.06