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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    14:45
    Q&A with director Rodrigo Cortes
    Pornit

    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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    17:15
    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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    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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Sunday 22.06

    12:15
    Q&A with director Ciro Guerra
    Pornit

    Embrace of the Serpent

    Q&A with director Ciro Guerra

    The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists searching the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

    Special screening in honor of director Ciro Guerra, who serves as a jury member at TIFF 2025!

    Colombia - 2015
    124 minute
    Special Screenings
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    14:45
    Q&A with actress Lyndsey Marshal
    Pornit

    Restless

    Q&A with actress Lyndsey Marshal

    A mild-mannered care worker’s peaceful existence is disturbed when an intimidating party animal moves into the house next door. Subjected to endless sleepless nights, she is gradually drawn into an escalating war of attrition that will test her resolve and her sanity to the limit.

    United Kingdom - 2024
    89 minute
    Give Me 5: UK Debuts
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    17:15
    TIFF.24

    Damnation

    TIFF.24

    In a desolate landscape, Karrer lived for years cut off from the rest of the world, by passing his time to staring at dumpsters disappearing under an endless rain. His only social links are a pub, the Titanic, where he ran aground every night, and his boss, Willarsky.

    Hungary - 1988
    120 minute
    Close Up: Bela Tarr
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    22:15
    TIFF.24

    Sunlight

    TIFF.24

    Two people on the edge of life find purpose and romance through an unlikely connection, escaping the darkness in search of some sunlight. A hilariously dark and unconventional love story where one of the protagonists is always dressed in a monkey costume...

    United Kingdom - 2024
    96 minute
    Give Me 5: UK Debuts
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