The Prefab People
TIFF.24
A man finally decides he's had it, and he's walking out on his wife. But this is not a story about a cruel man abandoning a woman.
Hungary - 1982
102 minute
Close Up: Bela Tarr
Schedule
Schedule
Friday 13.06
Saturday 14.06
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
Sunday 15.06
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
Monday 16.06
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
Rains Over Babel
Q&A with director Gala del Sol
Today marks the end of Dante's contract with La Flaca, death personified. As Dante starts recalling who he was before he died, he aids Monet, a ghost desperate to return to his body before it decomposes.
Colombia - 2025
113 minute
Competition
Tuesday 17.06
The Danish Woman
TIFF.24
When Ditte Jensen retires from the Danish Secret Service, she moves into an apartment block in Reykjavik where should live her life in anonymity. But Ditte can not stop being how she is: when she sees her neighbors’ problems she is compelled to help, whether they want her help or not.
Iceland, France - 2025
94 minute
Coming Up Next
Block Pass
Q&A with director Antoine Chevrollier
Willy and Jojo are childhood friends who never leave each other's side. Training at the motocross track is their way to beat boredom. One evening, Willy discovers Jojo's secret.
France - 2024
105 minute
Teen Spirit
Wednesday 18.06
Other People's Money
TIFF.24
Pay a tax, get it refunded twice, and claim it's legal: that’s a Cum-Ex deal. Young lawyer Sven Lebert and his boss, Dr. Bernd Hausner, expand the scheme and steal billions from European citizens. But soon two tax officials from Denmark and Germany take action.
Germany, Denmark, Austria - 2025
88 minute
Coming Up Next
17:30
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
Thursday 19.06
The New Years
TIFF.24
Oscar is stuck with a crappy medical contract and is still hooked on his ex. Ana, without a partner or a job, feels lost and plans to move away. But on 1 January 2016, they meet and fleeing loses its meaning.
Spain - 2024
98 minute
Coming Up Next
A Rebel Edge
Doru Chirodea fled to America in the 1980s and started writing poetry in English without actually knowing the language. Back in Romania, he prints books of poetry at his own expense, for an increasingly narrow audience. A serene meditation on the end of a bohemian, rebellious lifestyle.
România - 2024
87 minute
Romanian Days
Love Hurts
Love Hurts is an intimate documentary about the fragility and power of love, which tells the true stories of two couples over two years of suffering, separations and reconciliations. The film explores the sinuous dynamics of relationships and the difficult process of emotional healing.
România - 2025
94 minute
Romanian Days
Friday 20.06
Comatogen
Trying to get money to cover a debt for her son, who is in danger of going to prison, Alina, a nurse, faces an unexpected ethical problem. World premiere at TIFF!
România, Moldova, Republic of - 2025
105 minute
Romanian Days
Romanian Shorts II
TIFF.24
Despre imposibilitatea unui omagiu (On the Impossibility of an Homage, dir. Xandra Popescu, România)
Alișveriș (Alisveris, dir. Vasile Todinca, România)
Zi de sărbătoare (Celebration Day, dir. Octavian Șaramet, România)
Grandpa Is Sleeping (dir. Matei Branea, România)
118 minute
Saturday 21.06
Cadet
Q&A with director Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Single mother Alina tries to enroll her son, Serik, in an elite military academy, but he is bullied by his classmates because of his girlish appearance, and the principal deems him unfit for the school. Alina succeeds in getting Serik reinstated, but the consequences will be terrible…
Kazakhstan - 2024
123 minute
3 x 3
Sunday 22.06
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
Being Maria
TIFF.24
Maria is a young, struggling actress with promise. When an emerging Italian director casts her to
France - 2024
103 minute
Supernova