Schedule

Saturday 14.06

    17:30
    TIFF.24

    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
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    19:45
    TIFF.24

    Peacock

    TIFF.24

    Matthias is a master of his profession. Do you need a 'cultured boyfriend' to impress your friends? A 'perfect son' to influence your business partners' opinion of you? Or maybe just a sparring partner to rehearse an argument? Whatever it is, just rent Matthias.

    Austria, Germany - 2025
    102 minute
    Competition
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    22:00
    Q&A with director Gala del Sol
    Pornit

    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
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Sunday 15.06

    19:15
    Q&A with director Dimitri Verhulst
    Pornit

    The Weeping Walk

    Q&A with director Dimitri Verhulst

    A group of relatives and friends walk behind a hearse, accompanying the recently deceased

    Belgium, Netherlands - 2025
    107 minute
    Competition
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    22:00
    Q&A with director Jeppe Ronde
    Pornit

    Acts of Love

    Q&A with director Jeppe Ronde

    Hanna lives in a New Age Christian community in rural Denmark and longs to have a child. But her sheltered life starts to unravel as the unexpected arrival of her younger brother Jakob stirs up long-buried memories of their troubled past.

    Denmark - 2025
    125 minute
    Competition
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Monday 16.06

    15:15
    TIFF.24

    Peacock

    TIFF.24

    Matthias is a master of his profession. Do you need a 'cultured boyfriend' to impress your friends? A 'perfect son' to influence your business partners' opinion of you? Or maybe just a sparring partner to rehearse an argument? Whatever it is, just rent Matthias.

    Austria, Germany - 2025
    102 minute
    Competition
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    17:30
    Q&A with director Gala del Sol
    Pornit

    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
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    20:00
    Q&A with director Jose Manuel Carrasco and actress Pilar Berges
    Pornit

    Myocardium

    Q&A with director Jose Manuel Carrasco and actress Pilar Berges

    Pablo is in crisis. One morning, when he hits rock bottom, his phone rings mysteriously. It's Ana, the girl who broke his heart more than fifteen years ago. Over the course of a day, Pablo will be able to settle some pending accounts.

    Spain - 2025
    77 minute
    Competition
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    22:00
    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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Tuesday 17.06

    14:30
    Q&A with director Dimitri Verhulst
    Pornit

    The Weeping Walk

    Q&A with director Dimitri Verhulst

    A group of relatives and friends walk behind a hearse, accompanying the recently deceased

    Belgium, Netherlands - 2025
    107 minute
    Competition
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    20:00
    Q&A with director Peter Hoogendoorn
    Pornit

    Three Days of Fish

    Q&A with director Peter Hoogendoorn

    Just as he does every year, Gerrie flies from sunny Portugal for a three-day visit to the Netherlands, the drab country of his birth. He has his usual errands to run and he visits his doctor for his annual check-up, accompanied by his eccentric grown-up son, Dick.

    Netherlands, Belgium - 2025
    85 minute
    Competition
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    22:30
    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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Wednesday 18.06

    12:30
    Q&A with director Jeppe Ronde
    Pornit

    Acts of Love

    Q&A with director Jeppe Ronde

    Hanna lives in a New Age Christian community in rural Denmark and longs to have a child. But her sheltered life starts to unravel as the unexpected arrival of her younger brother Jakob stirs up long-buried memories of their troubled past.

    Denmark - 2025
    125 minute
    Competition
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    15:30
    Q&A with director Jose Manuel Carrasco and actress Pilar Berges
    Pornit

    Myocardium

    Q&A with director Jose Manuel Carrasco and actress Pilar Berges

    Pablo is in crisis. One morning, when he hits rock bottom, his phone rings mysteriously. It's Ana, the girl who broke his heart more than fifteen years ago. Over the course of a day, Pablo will be able to settle some pending accounts.

    Spain - 2025
    77 minute
    Competition
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    20:30
    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments

    Q&A with actors Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, Anamaria Biluska, Oana Mardare, producer Alex Teodorescu, production manager Vlad Semenescu, production coordinatior Cristiana Popescu, executive producer Ramona Grama and post-production supervisor Viorel Chesaru
    Pornit

    Kontinental '25

    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments

    Q&A with actors Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, Anamaria Biluska, Oana Mardare, producer Alex Teodorescu, production manager Vlad Semenescu, production coordinatior Cristiana Popescu, executive producer Ramona Grama and post-production supervisor Viorel Chesaru

    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments 

    România, Brazil, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg - 2025
    109 minute
    Romanian Days
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    22:30
    Q&A with director Eva Libertad Garcia Lopez and producer Nuria Munoz Ortin

    Deaf

    Q&A with director Eva Libertad Garcia Lopez and producer Nuria Munoz Ortin

    Ángela, a deaf woman, is expecting a child with her hearing partner, Héctor. The baby’s arrival disrupts their relationship, forcing Ángela to face the challenges of raising her daughter in a world not made for her.

    Spain - 2025
    99 minute
    Competition
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    23:00
    TIFF.24

    Sleep #2

    TIFF.24

    A fallen flower/Returning to the branch?/It was a butterfly. (Arakida Moritake). Sleep #2 means: life, death, nature, poetry, fragility, impressionism, selfies, Andy Warhol, love and kisses.

    România - 2024
    61 minute
    Romanian Days
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Thursday 19.06

    10:00
    TIFF.24

    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
    Buy tickets
    12:30
    Q&A with director Peter Hoogendoorn
    Pornit

    Three Days of Fish

    Q&A with director Peter Hoogendoorn

    Just as he does every year, Gerrie flies from sunny Portugal for a three-day visit to the Netherlands, the drab country of his birth. He has his usual errands to run and he visits his doctor for his annual check-up, accompanied by his eccentric grown-up son, Dick.

    Netherlands, Belgium - 2025
    85 minute
    Competition
    Buy tickets
    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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    17:15
    Q&A with director Bogdan Pușlenghea and protagonist Doru Chirodea
    Pornit

    A Rebel Edge

    Q&A with director Bogdan Pușlenghea and protagonist Doru Chirodea

    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
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    17:30
    Q&A with director Alexandru Mavrodineanu, editor Eugen Kelemen, executive producer Cristiana Mitea
    Pornit

    Love Hurts

    Q&A with director Alexandru Mavrodineanu, editor Eugen Kelemen, executive producer Cristiana Mitea

    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
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    18:00
    Q&A with directors Mihai Gavril Dragolea and Radu Mocanu, editor Andrei Gorgan, producers Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan and Elena Martin
    Pornit

    Tooth and Nail

    Q&A with directors Mihai Gavril Dragolea and Radu Mocanu, editor Andrei Gorgan, producers Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan and Elena Martin

    Two filmmakers follow an entrepreneur turned eco-activist as he exposes Romania's timber mafia. Their journey takes a dramatic turn when, in the middle of a forest, the three are attacked by a group of 12 angry men.

    România - 2024
    85 minute
    Romanian Days
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    20:00
    Q&A with director Mehmet Akif Buyukatalay
    Pornit

    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
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    20:30
    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments

    Q&A with actors Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, Oana Mardare, producer Alex Teodorescu, production manager Vlad Semenescu, production coordinatior Cristiana Popescu, executive producer Ramona Grama and post-production supervisor Viorel Chesaru
    Pornit

    Kontinental '25

    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments

    Q&A with actors Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, Oana Mardare, producer Alex Teodorescu, production manager Vlad Semenescu, production coordinatior Cristiana Popescu, executive producer Ramona Grama and post-production supervisor Viorel Chesaru

    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments 

    România, Brazil, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg - 2025
    109 minute
    Romanian Days
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    21:00
    Q&A with directors Lina Vdovîi & Radu Ciorniciuc, producer Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan and editor Ciprian Cimpoi
    Pornit

    Tata

    Q&A with directors Lina Vdovîi & Radu Ciorniciuc, producer Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan and editor Ciprian Cimpoi

    A journalist from Moldova, estranged from her father who had emigrated to Italy years before, finds out he has become a victim of workplace harassment.

    România, Germany, Netherlands - 2024
    82 minute
    Romanian Days
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    21:45
    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments

    Q&A with director Bogdan Mureșanu, actors Adrian Văncică, Emilia Dobrin, Andrei Miercure, Ada Galeș, Doru Catanescu, Gabriel Spahiu, Alice Cora Mihalache, Dana Voicu, editor Mircea Lăcătuș, costume creator Dana Anghel, coproducers Ada Solomon and Viorel Chesaru, executive producers Irina Enea and Adriana Bumbeș, creative producer Roxana Ardelean, historical car consultant Răzvan Marinescu and Andreea Zidaru from film distribuitor Forum Film
    Pornit

    The New Year That Never Came

    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments

    Q&A with director Bogdan Mureșanu, actors Adrian Văncică, Emilia Dobrin, Andrei Miercure, Ada Galeș, Doru Catanescu, Gabriel Spahiu, Alice Cora Mihalache, Dana Voicu, editor Mircea Lăcătuș, costume creator Dana Anghel, coproducers Ada Solomon and Viorel Chesaru, executive producers Irina Enea and Adriana Bumbeș, creative producer Roxana Ardelean, historical car consultant Răzvan Marinescu and Andreea Zidaru from film distribuitor Forum Film

    Screening also accessible for people with visual and hearing impairment 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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    22:00
    Q&A with director David Endre
    +18
    Pornit

    Beyond the River

    Q&A with director David Endre

    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
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