Schedule

Friday 13.06

    12:15
    TIFF.24

    1984

    TIFF.24

    In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose work is rewriting history, tries to rebel. He meets a kindred spirit named Julia and they fall into a love affair, but soon they start to realize that happiness might be impossible in such a society.

    United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany - 1984
    110 minute
    Tomorrow is Fear
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    15:00
    TIFF.24

    When the Light Breaks

    TIFF.24

    Preceded by the short film O (dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson, Islanda)

    When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland, from one sunset to another, Una, a young art student encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.

    Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia (Hrvatska), France - 2024
    82 minute
    Supernova
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Sunday 15.06

    12:15
    Q&A with director Pavlo Ostrikov
    Pornit

    U Are the Universe

    Q&A with director Pavlo Ostrikov

    The near future. Ukrainian space trucker Andriy Melnik transports nuclear waste on the a cargo ship to the abandoned Jupiter's moon Callisto. During his routine flight, the Earth explodes, but Andriy manages to survive.

    Ukraine, Belgium, France - 2024
    101 minute
    Tomorrow is Fear
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    15:00
    Q&A with director Danis Tanovic
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    My Late Summer

    Q&A with director Danis Tanovic

    A young woman named Maja heads to a remote island to solve a family inheritance issue. In a whirlwind of new emotions, and through a series of unpredictable situations, she will finally face questions from her past. The search for inheritance becomes a search for her own identity.

    Croatia (Hrvatska), Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia - 2024
    98 minute
    Supernova
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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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Tuesday 17.06

    12:15
    Q&A with director Tova Mozard
    Pornit

    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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Wednesday 18.06

    12:15
    Q&A with directors Christophe Hermans and Boris Tilquin
    Pornit

    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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Thursday 19.06

    12:15
    Q&A with director Olga Chajdas și cinematographer Tomasz Naumiuk
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    Imago

    Q&A with director Olga Chajdas și cinematographer Tomasz Naumiuk

    Late 1980s, at the Polish Coast. The old communist order is in decline, but a new order is yet to be established. Ela is just entering adulthood - already knowing she will not fit into any of these worlds.

    Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic - 2023
    113 minute
    Together as One
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    15:00
    TIFF.24
    Pornit

    Xoftex

    TIFF.24

    Palestinian teenager Nasser and his older brother Yassin have been living in a Greek refugee camp, awaiting a decision on their asylum application. They pass the time recording comedy sketches, fantasizing of making zombie films and moving to Sweden.

    Germany, France - 2024
    99 minute
    Competition
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    15:00
    Q&A with director Eugen Jebeleanu, screenwriter Ioana Moraru and actress Ada Galeș
    Pornit

    Internal Zero

    Q&A with director Eugen Jebeleanu, screenwriter Ioana Moraru and actress Ada Galeș

    Cristina, a 35-year-old secretary living in an alienating and hostile Bucharest, is trying to understand what it means being a bills-paying, ready-to-settle, social-ladder-climbing adult while still desperately wanting to be a good child for the single mom that raised her.

    România - 2025
    100 minute
    Smart 7
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Friday 20.06

    15:00
    TIFF.24

    The Kingdom

    TIFF.24

    Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where she finds her father, in hiding, surrounded by his clan. An underworld war erupts. The noose is tightening around them. Death strikes.

    France - 2024
    112 minute
    Competition
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    15:00
    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments
    Pornit

    The New Year That Never Came

    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments

    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments through the programme Cinema without barriers, with the support of the Institut francais in Romania.

    România, Serbia - 2024
    138 minute
    Romanian Days
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Saturday 21.06

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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