A Silence
TIFF.23
Having remained silent for 25 years, Astrid, the wife of a prominent lawyer, sees her family’s equilibrium shatter when her children initiate their quest for justice.
Belgium - 2023
101 minute
Supernova
Schedule
Schedule
Friday 14.06
The Ballad of Narayama
TIFF.23
Still strong at the age of 69, Orin prepares herself for an inevitable yet frightening ritual. In her village, where food is scarce, life is harsh and people are desperate and cruel.
Japan - 1983
130 minute
Focus Japan
The Path of Excellence
TIFF.23
Sophie is a brilliant student. Encouraged by her maths teacher, she leaves the family farm to attend a science preparatory class.
France - 2023
107 minute
miniTIFF
Oddity
TIFF.23
A year after her twin is brutally murdered at a remote country estate, Darcy, a self-proclaimed psychic and collector, pays her brother-in-law and new girlfriend an unexpected visit.
Ireland - 2024
98 minute
Full Moon
Saturday 15.06
Remembering Every Night
TIFF.23
A spring day in the overgrown leafy environs of once hopeful Tokyo satellite city Tama New Town. While tidying up, unemployed 44-year-old Chizu discovers a postcard from an old friend sent several years ago suggesting they get together now that she’s moved nearby.
Japan - 2022
116 minute
Focus Japan
All and Eva
TIFF.23
For 40 years, Eva has remained steadfast in her disbelief in love. After deciding to get pregnant she goes to Copenhagen to get a sperm donor. She chooses a donor who seems perfect, but the night before the big insemination, she can't help but think whether she made the right choice.
Sweden - 2024
94 minute
Coming Up Next
Grey Bees
TIFF.23
Only two of them left. In a small village cut off from electricity, in the 'grey zone' that formed in Donbas after the Russian invasion in 2014. Childhood enemies, later mine workers, and now pensioners.
Ukraine - 2024
102 minute
Supernova
It's Not My Film
TIFF.23
A woman and a man walk down a beach dragging a sled filled with luggage looking like polar explorers. After another row and an attempt to divorce, Janek and Wanda give themselves an ultimatum and decide to go on a 400-kilometer hike along the Baltic Sea in the middle of winter.
Poland - 2024
99 minute
Smart 7
Girls of Dark
TIFF.23
In the late 1950s prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession she was sent to a reformatory. This is a story of Kuniko, who is released from the reformatory and tries to build a new life.
Japan - 1961
93 minute
Focus Japan
Sunday 16.06
I'm Not Everything I Want To Be
TIFF.23
Libuše Jarcovjáková documents her life with photos and diary entries. Her Czechoslovakian homeland is in the repressive phase of “normalisation” after the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968.
Czech Republic - 2024
90 minute
Larger than Life
1286
TIFF.23
In 1997, a surgeon named Aman is about to separate from his wife when he is abducted, trafficked across the country and forced to work under physical and psychological pressure in a labor camp run by two unlikely brothers: a fascist drunk Kazbek and a meek mute Hasan.
Kazakhstan - 2023
90 minute
Coming Up Next
Stolen
TIFF.23
Gautam has reluctantly come to the train station to pick up his younger brother, Raman, for an extravagant destination wedding. The relationship between the two brothers is already tenuous at best and it will be further challenged when they chance upon Jhumpa.
India - 2023
92 minute
No Limit
Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius
TIFF.23
Five guests experience a crisis of love in an AirBnB in Vilnius, unaware of the joys and tragedies that transpired within the same walls and under the same bedsheets.
Lithuania - 2023
112 minute
Smart 7
Hesitation Wound
TIFF.23
Nesrin is an idealistic criminal lawyer from a small town who spends her mornings in the courthouse and her evenings in the hospital by her mother’s side who lives connected to the respirator.
Türkiye - 2023
84 minute
Supernova
Monday 17.06
Plan 75
TIFF.23
Japan, in a near future. The government program "Plan 75" encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized in order to remedy a super-aged society.
Japan - 2022
108 minute
Focus Japan
La mesías
TIFF.23
Siblings Enric and Irene have a dark childhood because of their toxic relationship with their mother, a religious fanatic. They live outside their family sect and are now far from the reach of their mother, yet not completely free.
Spain - 2023
133 minute
Coming Up Next
Can't Feel Nothing
TIFF.23
A man lies in bed illuminated by the blue-white light of his mobile phone. He doom scrolls past cute pets, outraged opinion pieces and haunting images from the world's hotspots – and he feels absolutely nothing.
Denmark - 2024
81 minute
No Limit
Greice
TIFF.23
Greice, a 21-year-old Brazilian girl, studies at Fine Arts university in Lisbon. In the early days of summer, she gets involved with a mysterious guy, Afonso. The couple is accused for a strange accident that occurs at the students' welcoming party.
Brazil - 2024
110 minute
Smart 7
Natatorium
TIFF.23
18-year-old Lilja stays with her estranged grandparents in the city while she auditions for a performance group. Waiting for the result Lilja observes her grandmother's peculiar behaviours that involve weird religious rituals.
Iceland - 2024
106 minute
Smart 7
Tuesday 18.06
Ellipsis
TIFF.23
Leo is a successful author of mystery novels, who writes under the pseudonym Cameron Graves. While penning his next book in an isolated chalet, he receives a strange visit from Jota, a somewhat troubling character, who claims to be a journalist.
Spain - 2024
89 minute
Full Moon
Soviet Jeans
TIFF.23
1979, Soviet Latvia. Behind the Iron Curtain, fierce propaganda against Western culture runs rampant. But Renars, an avid rock’n’roll fan and petty criminal, is not impressed. Working as a costume tailor in a theatre, he trades Western jeans to make extra money.
Latvia - 2024
117 minute
Coming Up Next
Kretsul
TIFF.23
Moldova, 1997. 22-year-old Oleg Kretsul, judo champion, is a contender at Atlanta Olympics. Days later after his wedding an accident kills his wife. Oleg survives but he will never be able to see again.
Moldova - 2024
105 minute
Game On
On the Go
TIFF.23
To be or not to be a mother, that is the question. At 37, Milagros stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility, while Jonathan seeks solace on Grindr in order to overcome abandonment issues.
Spain - 2023
72 minute
Smart 7
Werewolf
TIFF.23
Adrià is a boy who lives in a village with his older brother. Adrià is mute, can't stand enclosed spaces, and finds it hard to keep his attention when spoken to. Wherever he goes, everyone makes fun of him, insults him, throws stones at him.
Spain - 2023
104 minute
Full Moon
Wednesday 19.06
Hungary - 2023
105 minute
Hungarian Day
Milky Way
TIFF.23
In a secluded mountain town, adults live a life with secrets and untold desires, while teenagers struggle to imagine a future in the big city. High-school senior Maria, who is dreaming of becoming a dancer, finds her dream colliding with an unwanted pregnancy.
Greece - 2023
111 minute
Coming Up Next
Pelikan Blue
TIFF.23
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Hungary's borders suddenly open up. Everyone wants to travel to Western Europe - young people in particular - but the price of train tickets is prohibitive.
Hungary - 2023
79 minute
Hungarian Day
Raw Material
TIFF.23
A young film director, Tamás, is invited to a village to lead a summer art workshop for kids. He quickly discovers that the village is overrun with corruption and that even exploitation might be involved in the lucrative local businesses.
Hungary - 2024
108 minute
Hungarian Day
Fairy Garden
TIFF.23
On the outskirts of Budapest, in the heart of the woods, hides a ramshackle little hut. Inside, two social outcasts have formed the unlikeliest of bonds.
Hungary - 2023
83 minute
Hungarian Day
Thursday 20.06
Some Birds
TIFF.23
Béla feels like the world is conspiring against him when his son places him in a nursing home. Here, he crosses paths with rebellious teenager Zoé, who has been sentenced to community service.
Hungary - 2023
93 minute
Hungarian Day