Schedule

Schedule

Friday 20.06

    21:30
    Art Museum
    Q&A with director Bogdan Pușlenghea, producer and cameraman Cristian Maghiar and protagonist Doru Chirodea
    Pornit

    A Rebel Edge

    Q&A with director Bogdan Pușlenghea, producer and cameraman Cristian Maghiar 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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    22:00
    ARTA Cinema Cluj
    Q&A with director Andra MacMasters, editor Andrei Gorgan, producer Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan and sound designer Matei Vasilache
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    Bright Future

    Q&A with director Andra MacMasters, editor Andrei Gorgan, producer Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan and sound designer Matei Vasilache

    In the summer of 1989, thousands of people from various nations and beliefs gathered in North Korea for a grand student festival that championed peace, friendship, and anti-imperialism. Here is a documentary about the festival that took place at a pivotal moment in history.

    România, Korea, Republic of - 2024
    89 minute
    Romanian Days
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Saturday 21.06

    10:00
    Victoria Cinema
    Q&A with actor Robert Iovan, producer Tudor Reu and production coordinator Antonia Marin
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    Traffic

    Q&A with actor Robert Iovan, producer Tudor Reu and production coordinator Antonia Marin

    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
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    12:00
    ARTA Cinema Cluj
    Q&A with distributors Iriana Adnana and Alex Sîrbu
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    Merman

    Q&A with distributors Iriana Adnana and Alex Sîrbu

    A female voice is haunting a male gaze.

    România - 2024
    86 minute
    Romanian Days
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    12:45
    Victoria Cinema
    Q&A with director Andra MacMasters, editor Andrei Gorgan, producer Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan and sound designer Matei Vasilache
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    Bright Future

    Q&A with director Andra MacMasters, editor Andrei Gorgan, producer Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan and sound designer Matei Vasilache

    In the summer of 1989, thousands of people from various nations and beliefs gathered in North Korea for a grand student festival that championed peace, friendship, and anti-imperialism. Here is a documentary about the festival that took place at a pivotal moment in history.

    România, Korea, Republic of - 2024
    89 minute
    Romanian Days
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    15:45
    Military Club
    Q&A with directors Lina Vdovîi & Radu Ciorniciuc, producer Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan and editor Ciprian Cimpoi
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    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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    16:30
    ARTA Cinema Cluj
    Meet and greet with director Cristi Puiu, actress Monica Bîrlădeanu, Location Director Oana Bujgoi Giurgiu, Adriana Bumbeș (financial director) and Smaranda Puiu Zărnoianu

    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

    Meet and greet with director Cristi Puiu, actress Monica Bîrlădeanu, Location Director Oana Bujgoi Giurgiu, Adriana Bumbeș (financial director) and Smaranda Puiu Zărnoianu

    Old Mr. Lãzãrescu is suddenly sick and the neighbours call the ambulance. The dying man is shuttled from hospital to hospital as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis.

    România - 2005
    153 minute
    Special Screenings
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    17:00
    Mărăști Cinema
    TIFF.24

    The Peasants

    TIFF.24

    The tragic story of peasant girl Jagna forced to marry a much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and hate of the villagers...

    Poland, Serbia, Lithuania - 2023
    114 minute
    Special Screenings
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    18:15
    Military Club
    Q&A with director Igor Cobileanski, actors Ada Lupu, Andreea Chiritescu, Gheorghe Visu, Andrei Aradits, Theodor Soptelea, Vlad Brumaru, Ionut Cornila and DOP and producer Cristian Gugu
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    Comatogen

    Q&A with director Igor Cobileanski, actors Ada Lupu, Andreea Chiritescu, Gheorghe Visu, Andrei Aradits, Theodor Soptelea, Vlad Brumaru, Ionut Cornila and DOP and producer Cristian Gugu

    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
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    18:30
    Student House
    TIFF.24

    Dreams (Sex Love)

    TIFF.24

    Johanne falls in love for the first time… with her teacher. To preserve her feelings, she documents her emotions and experiences in writing. When her mother and grandmother read the account, they were shocked by its intimate content...

    Norway - 2025
    110 minute
    Special Screenings
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    19:30
    ARTA Cinema Cluj
    Q&A with director and producer Mădălina Roșca, producer Paul Arne Wagner, sound designer Mihnea Ciulei
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    Little Syria

    Q&A with director and producer Mădălina Roșca, producer Paul Arne Wagner, sound designer Mihnea Ciulei

    Shot over 20 years, Little Syria follows the quest of a brother, his sister and her boyfriend trapped between Syria, from where they ran for their lives, and Europe, which seems at times to embrace them and and then to push them back where they came from.

    Germany, Romania, Portugal - 2025
    90 minute
    Romanian Days
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    23:00
    Sapientia University
    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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Sunday 22.06

    12:15
    Sapientia University
    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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    15:45
    Military Club
    TIFF.24

    The Kingdom | The Best Performance Award Winner

    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. Forced to go on the run, father and daughter will learn to face one another, to understand and love each other...

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    16:00
    Student House
    TIFF.24

    Sex

    TIFF.24

    Two men, both in heterosexual marriages, have an unexpected experience that challenges them to reconsider their understanding of sexuality, gender, and identity.

    The first Romanian screening of Haugerud's finished Sex-Love-Dreams trilogy!

    Norway - 2024
    118 minute
    Special Screenings
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    17:45
    Victoria Cinema
    TIFF.24

    Xoftex | The Best Director Award Winner

    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. Nasser, however, feels increasingly trapped in this no-man’s-land. With nowhere to escape, boiling tensions in the camp push Nasser to another world.

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    18:15
    Military Club
    TIFF.24

    Saturn | The What's Up Doc? Section Award Winner

    TIFF.24

    "In 2018 my grandfather was arrested for child abuse and attempted kidnapping. Now I meet him again and am confronted with his looks, his responses, and my own feelings. Meanwhile, my family gathers at our country house, dealing with the emotional fallout of having grown up with him as a father figure." (Daniel Tornero)

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    19:45
    Florin Piersic Cinema
    TIFF.24

    Love

    TIFF.24

    Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.

    Norway - 2024
    119 minute
    Special Screenings
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    20:00
    Victoria Cinema
    TIFF.24

    Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued | The Special Jury Award Winner

    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. After some preliminary research, he realizes these objects may have been left by a painting forger who seemingly disappeared two decades earlier. After failing to decipher the clues he’s found, Julian realizes he would do anything in order to solve the mystery...

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    21:45
    Iulius Park Open Air
    TIFF.24

    Bolero

    TIFF.24

    Boundary-pushing dancer Ida Rubinstein selects Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.

    A special screening presented by JTI, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ravel's birth.

    France, Belgium - 2024
    120 minute
    Special Screenings
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