The Tirana Conspiracy
TIFF.24
December 2000. The famous photographer Oliviero Toscani accepts an invitation from the art critic Giancarlo Politi to curate a section of the first edition of the Tirana Biennial.
Italy - 2024
71 minute
No Limit
Schedule
Schedule
Friday 13.06
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
Saturday 14.06
The Contestant
TIFF.24
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
Sunday 15.06
Moor
TIFF.24
Ex-military Beibars, nicknamed Moor, returns from prison to look after his brother's family, but finds that his brother has disappeared, leaving huge debts behind. It's up to Moor to pay. If you ever wished for a Kazakh Rambo, here it is!
Kazakhstan, France - 2024
85 minute
3 x 3
Things to Come
TIFF.24
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel. The future imagined by director William Cameron Menzies in 1936, based on the works of famous writer H.G.
United States, United Kingdom - 1936
117 minute
Tomorrow is Fear
Little Trouble Girls
Q&A with cinematographer Lev Predan Kowarski
To fulfill her mother’s expeIntroverted 16-year-old Lucia joins her Catholic school’s all-girls choir, where she befriends popular and flirty Ana-Maria.
Slovenia, Italy, Croatia (Hrvatska), Serbia - 2025
89 minute
Teen Spirit
The End
TIFF.24
One of the last families on Earth have lived happily in their luxurious compound deep underground. The sudden arrival of a stranger, Girl, threatens the family’s life and Son begins to question their seemingly perfect existence.
Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden - 2024
149 minute
Tomorrow is Fear
Monday 16.06
A Year in the Life of a Country
TIFF.24
Martial law, which was imposed in Poland on 13 December 1981, targeted the Solidarity movement, but it had other faces, too. On the basis of exclusively archival footage, the film questions the mythicised image of Polish society as a victim of the system...
Poland - 2024
85 minute
Together as One
Little Trouble Girls
Q&A with cinematographer Lev Predan Kowarski
To fulfill her mother’s expeIntroverted 16-year-old Lucia joins her Catholic school’s all-girls choir, where she befriends popular and flirty Ana-Maria.
Slovenia, Italy, Croatia (Hrvatska), Serbia - 2025
89 minute
Teen Spirit
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
Tuesday 17.06
Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued
TIFF.24
A young man named Julian moves to New York City. He rents a small room and one day, as he repaints the room, he finds a book and a pencil drawing of a deer concealed in the wall.
United States - 2025
78 minute
Competition
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
Cine-concert Steamboat Bill, Jr.
TIFF.24
Directed in 1928 by Charles Reisner, Steamboat Bill, Jr. is an exceptional example of Buster Keaton’s talent for physical comedy and stunts.
- 1928
Special Screenings
Wednesday 18.06
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
Sister Midnight
TIFF.24
Under the humid Mumbai nights, a small-town misfit in a newly arranged marriage attempts to navigate an awkward spouse, nosy neighbours and her own feral impulses.
United Kingdom, India, Sweden - 2024
110 minute
Full Moon
Thursday 19.06
The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortes
TIFF.24
Yerai Cortés is a rising star in Spain’s flamenco scene. Anton Álvarez aka C. Tangana met him at a party where Cortés played guitar under the Starlight satellites.
Spain - 2024
95 minute
What's Up, Doc?
To a Land Unknown
TIFF.24
Chatila and Reda are Palestinian refugees living in Athens. They are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Greece, but then Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his dangerous drug addiction. Now Chatila hatches an extreme plan so that their dream can get back on track...
United Kingdom, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Qatar - 2024
105 minute
Competition
17:00
TIFF.24 la ISSA Resort: o seară de film și echitație
Thursday, June 19, audiences are invited to ISSA Resort in Turda for an evening that blends cinema with a passion for horses, exceptional wines, and fine gastronomy. ISSA Resort will host, in a special preview, a TIFF-exclusive event – an exclusive experience in a space soon to be opened to the public. Just steps away from Salina Turda, ISSA is a retreat for lovers of nature, fine wines, and purebred horses.
Friday 20.06
Beyond the River
Beyond the river lies a world where suffering, poverty, and violence define everyday life. The film doesn’t explain or judge - it listens. With no external narration, the community tells its own story - with pain, with humor, with dignity.
România, Hungary - 2024
60 minute
Romanian Days
Hysteria
Q&A with director Mehmet Akif Buyukatalay
When a burned Quran is found on a film set, the shoot takes a dark turn and the crew is thrown into turmoil. Caught in the crossfire of accusations, 24-year-old intern Elif is drawn into a dangerous game of secrets and lies, finding herself at the heart of an all-absorbing conspiracy.
Germany - 2025
104 minute
Competition
Saturday 21.06
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?
Traffic
Natalia and Ginel leave their small Romanian Danube village to work abroad in a big Flemish city. When she is assaulted, Natalia asks Iţă, a friend from home turned into a crook, to help her. Iţă uses the opportunity to make an unexpected proposition...
România, Belgium, Netherlands - 2024
126 minute
Romanian Days
Sunday 22.06
The Idiot
TIFF.24
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