A Woman Heats the Sauna
TIFF.24
Preceded by the short film Sauna Day (dir. Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash)
Estonia - 1979
69 minute
FOCUS Estonia
Schedule
Schedule
Wednesday 18.06
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?
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
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
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?
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?
The Blue Trail
TIFF.24
Tereza, 77, receives an official government order to relocate to a senior housing colony. The colony is an isolated area where the elderly are brought to «enjoy» their final years, freeing the younger generation to focus fully on productivity and growth.
Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Netherlands - 2025
86 minute
Tomorrow is Fear
Sleep #2
TIFF.24
A fallen flower/Returning to the branch?/It was a butterfly. (Arakida Moritake). Sleep #2 means: life, death, nature, poetry, fragility, impressionism, selfies, Andy Warhol, love and kisses.
România - 2024
61 minute
Romanian Days