Schedule

Monday 16.06

    12:15
    Q&A with director Amrou Al-Kadhi

    Layla

    Q&A with director Amrou Al-Kadhi

    Layla is a struggling Muslim drag performer in London whose confident façade hides their desperate desire for love. At the lowest point in their life, they are surprised to win the affection of Max, a charming, successful white gay man who is bewitched by Layla’s power on stage.

    United Kingdom, United States - 2024
    100 minute
    Give Me 5: UK Debuts
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    14:30
    TIFF.24

    Mistress Dispeller

    TIFF.24

    Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband’s affair. Teacher Wang is a ‘mistress dispeller’ – a profession devoted to helping couples in the face of infidelity.

    China, United States - 2024
    94 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
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    14:45
    Q&A with director Rodrigo Cortes
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    The Contestant

    Q&A with director Rodrigo Cortes

    Martín Circo is the fortunate winner of the most lucrative game show in the history of television. He may have won three million euros, but in this biting satire of consumer society, Martin’s stroke of good luck will see his life turned upside down.

    Spain - 2007
    87 minute
    3 x 3
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    17:00
    Q&A with director Helen Takkin
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    Life & Love

    Q&A with director Helen Takkin

    In 1933, in times of hardship when nothing is certain and love only seems to exist in films, optimistic cinephile Irma believes in the possibility of true love. The country girl catches the eye of the lonely, handsome older publisher Rudolf, but he is surrounded by unsettling rumors.

    Estonia - 2024
    119 minute
    FOCUS Estonia
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    17:15
    Q&A with director Doris Taaker and actress Doris Tilk
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    My Dear Mother

    Q&A with director Doris Taaker and actress Doris Tilk

    When the brutally murdered mother of Alina, a drug addict, is found on the beach one day, the question arises whether Alina is a cold- blooded manipulator or a lifelong victim of abuse.

    Estonia, Ukraine - 2025
    90 minute
    Coming Up Next
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    19:45
    Q&A with directors Aitor Arregi, Jan Garano and actor Eduard Fernandez
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    Marco, the Invented Truth

    Q&A with directors Aitor Arregi, Jan Garano and actor Eduard Fernandez

    The story of a concentration camp deportee who never existed. Enric Marco, an immensely charismatic man who, for years, was able to maintain, before public opinion and his own family, a deeply complex lie: that he had been a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp.

    Spain - 2024
    101 minute
    Supernova
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    20:00
    Q&A with director Danial Shah
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    Make It Look Real

    Q&A with director Danial Shah

    A local photo studio in Pakistan serves as a vibrant cultural hub where personal dreams and community connections are brought to life through photography.

    Pakistan, Netherlands, Belgium - 2024
    68 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
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    22:00
    Q&A with director Arjun Talwar
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    Letters from Wolf Street

    Q&A with director Arjun Talwar

    A street in downtown Warsaw, Poland. Arjun Talwar immigrated here a decade ago from India but still struggles to fit in. „Wolf Street” hasn’t made it easy for him.

    Poland, Germany - 2025
    98 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
    Together as One
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    22:15
    Q&A with director Aislinn Clarke
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    Frewaka

    Q&A with director Aislinn Clarke

    Haunted by a personal tragedy, home care worker Shoo is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears the neighbours as much as she fears the Na Sídhe – sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before.

    Ireland - 2024
    103 minute
    Full Moon
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Tuesday 17.06

    10:00
    TIFF.24

    2000 Meters to Andriivka

    TIFF.24

    Amid a failing counteroffensive in 2023, the director and his Associated Press colleague Alex Babenko follow a Ukrainian brigade battling through approximately one mile of a heavily fortified forest on their mission to liberate the Russian-occupied village of Andriivka.

    Ukraine - 2025
    108 minute
    No Limit
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    12:15
    Q&A with director Tova Mozard
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    ILOVERUSS

    Q&A with director Tova Mozard

    Russell Kingston, a lifelong extra, has spent decades on Hollywood’s periphery, slipping in and out of roles without ever stepping into the spotlight. A drifter in the world of cinema, he takes on the personas of the characters he has played, those he admires, and those he invents himself.

    Sweden - 2025
    90 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
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    14:30
    Q&A with director Orkhan Aghazadeh
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    The Return of the Projectionist

    Q&A with director Orkhan Aghazadeh

    In a remote village in the Talysh montains between Iran and Azerbaijan, Samid, a TV repairman, dusts off his old Soviet film projector. He dreams of bringing his village together in front of the silver screen once more.

    France, Germany - 2024
    87 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
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    14:45
    Q&A with director Mattias Skoglund
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    The Home

    Q&A with director Mattias Skoglund

    Years after leaving the small town behind, Joel returns to move his mother Monika to a home for the elderly struggling with dementia. However, Monika’s health takes a turn for the worse soon after her arrival.

    Sweden, Estonia, Iceland - 2025
    90 minute
    Full Moon
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    16:45
    Q&A with director Rainer Sarnet
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    The Idiot

    Q&A with director Rainer Sarnet

    The story of a naive man, whose direct behavior stirs in people moral unrest, rage and embarrassment over their own pettiness, making them yearn for goodness. An atypical adaptation of Dostojevski's novel of the same title.

    Estonia - 2011
    132 minute
    3 x 3
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    17:15
    TIFF.24

    The Danish Woman

    TIFF.24

    When Ditte Jensen retires from the Danish Secret Service, she moves into an apartment block in Reykjavik where should live her life in anonymity. But Ditte can not stop being how she is: when she sees her neighbors’ problems she is compelled to help, whether they want her help or not.

    Iceland, France - 2025
    94 minute
    Coming Up Next
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    19:45
    Q&A with director Daniel Tornero
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    Saturn

    Q&A with director Daniel Tornero

    "In 2018 my grandfather was arrested for child abuse and attempted kidnapping. Now I meet him again and am confronted with his looks, his responses, and my own feelings.

    Spain - 2024
    96 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
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    19:45
    Q&A with director Kamila Tarabura
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    Travel Essentials

    Q&A with director Kamila Tarabura

    Ada, a pregnant American journalist of Polish descent, receives a mysterious package – an autobiographical book about childhood trauma, authored by her friend, Roksana. Ada, on her last journalistic adventure before maternity leave, joins Roksana in Poland to recount the gripping story.

    Poland, Germany - 2024
    105 minute
    Smart 7
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    22:15
    Q&A with director Rainer Sarnet
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    November

    Q&A with director Rainer Sarnet

    In 19th-century Estonia, werewolves and spirits roam free, and Jesus co-exists with kratts, the farmers’ mythological helpers made of tools and bones.

    Estonia, Poland, Netherlands - 2017
    115 minute
    3 x 3
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Wednesday 18.06

    12:00
    Q&A with director Danial Shah
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    Make It Look Real

    Q&A with director Danial Shah

    A local photo studio in Pakistan serves as a vibrant cultural hub where personal dreams and community connections are brought to life through photography.

    Pakistan, Netherlands, Belgium - 2024
    68 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
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    12:15
    Q&A with directors Christophe Hermans and Boris Tilquin
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    Merckx

    Q&A with directors Christophe Hermans and Boris Tilquin

    Eddy Merckx is more than a champion cyclist; in his time of unprecedented sporting victory during the 1960s and 1970s, he represented the fusion of Belgium’s Walloon and Flemish cultures.

    Belgium - 2025
    84 minute
    Supernova
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    14:00
    Q&A with director Arjun Talwar
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    Letters from Wolf Street

    Q&A with director Arjun Talwar

    A street in downtown Warsaw, Poland. Arjun Talwar immigrated here a decade ago from India but still struggles to fit in. „Wolf Street” hasn’t made it easy for him.

    Poland, Germany - 2025
    98 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
    Together as One
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    14:45
    Q&A with producer Adam Farkas
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    Growing Down

    Q&A with producer Adam Farkas

    Sándor, a widowed father of two, is tested by fate when he becomes the only witness of a serious accident involving his stepdaughter caused by his youngest son. He has to decide between accepting the consequences of speaking the truth or lying to keep his boy out of juvie.

    Hungary - 2025
    85 minute
    Hungarian Day
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    16:30
    Q&A with operator Csaba Banto
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    Vulture's Wake

    Q&A with operator Csaba Banto

    A death reunites three old friends whose paths have diverged over the years. Оne has a teaching job in Mexico, another lives a lower-middle-class life, and the third is financially ruined.

    Hungary - 2024
    82 minute
    Hungarian Day
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    17:15
    TIFF.24

    Other People's Money

    TIFF.24

    Pay a tax, get it refunded twice, and claim it's legal: that’s a Cum-Ex deal. Young lawyer Sven Lebert and his boss, Dr. Bernd Hausner, expand the scheme and steal billions from European citizens. But soon two tax officials from Denmark and Germany take action.

    Germany, Denmark, Austria - 2025
    88 minute
    Coming Up Next
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    18:45
    TIFF.24

    Endless Cookie

    TIFF.24

    An imaginatively animated family portrait that explores the contrasting upbringings between two half-brothers, one white and one Indigenous, in a humorous oral history.

    Canada - 2025
    98 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
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    19:45
    Q&A with producer Renan Artukmac
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    La Réparation

    Q&A with producer Renan Artukmac

    A few hours before his third Michelin star was awarded, a renowned chef disappeared with his second chef during a hunting trip. His daughter Clara found herself alone at the head of the restaurant, harassed by paparazzi...

    France, Taiwan - 2025
    104 minute
    Film Food
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    21:00
    TIFF.24

    Invention

    TIFF.24

    In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s unexpected death, his daughter receives his patent for an experimental healing device.

    United States - 2024
    72 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
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