Schedule

Friday 13.06

    22:00
    TIFF.24

    Hanami

    TIFF.24

    On a remote volcanic island – a place everyone wants to leave – Nana has learned to stay. Her mother Nia, who suffers from a mysterious illness, left soon after her birth. When Nana comes down with a high fever, she is sent to the foot of a volcano for treatment.

    Portugal, Cape Verde, Switzerland - 2024
    96 minute
    Smart 7
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Saturday 14.06

    13:15
    TIFF.24

    Hanami

    TIFF.24

    On a remote volcanic island – a place everyone wants to leave – Nana has learned to stay. Her mother Nia, who suffers from a mysterious illness, left soon after her birth. When Nana comes down with a high fever, she is sent to the foot of a volcano for treatment.

    Portugal, Cape Verde, Switzerland - 2024
    96 minute
    Smart 7
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    19:45
    TIFF.24

    As Silence Passes by

    TIFF.24

    A lost intimacy between two brothers begins to resurface when Antonio returns to his town, to a collapsing family home to help his twin brother Javier, who suffers from a congenital disease.

    Spain - 2024
    98 minute
    Smart 7
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    22:15
    Q&A with director Dimitris Nakos
    Pornit

    Meat

    Q&A with director Dimitris Nakos

    In a village in the Greek countryside, Takis prepares the opening of his new butcher shop. One day before the inauguration, his son Pavlos kills the neighbor who claims part of their land. The only witness is Christos, a young man from Albania whom Takis has had with him since childhood.

    Greece - 2024
    104 minute
    Smart 7
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Sunday 15.06

    13:15
    TIFF.24

    As Silence Passes by

    TIFF.24

    A lost intimacy between two brothers begins to resurface when Antonio returns to his town, to a collapsing family home to help his twin brother Javier, who suffers from a congenital disease.

    Spain - 2024
    98 minute
    Smart 7
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    19:45
    Q&A with producer Klementina Remeikaite
    Pornit

    Drowning Dry

    Q&A with producer Klementina Remeikaite

    To celebrate Lukas’ victory at the martial arts tournament and Tomas’ birthday party, two sisters organize a weekend at the country house. With their kids, they go swimming in a nearby lake, relax and discuss family finances.

    Lithuania, Latvia - 2024
    88 minute
    Smart 7
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    22:15
    Q&A with director Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon
    Pornit

    Epilogues

    Q&A with director Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon

    The story of an 85-year-old man who has recently lost his wife. By mixing his wife's ashes in a cup of hot water and drinking it, she appears to him, and they share memories of their life together.

    Iceland, Belgium, Norway, Faroe Islands - 2024
    90 minute
    Smart 7
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Monday 16.06

    13:15
    Q&A with director Dimitris Nakos
    Pornit

    Meat

    Q&A with director Dimitris Nakos

    In a village in the Greek countryside, Takis prepares the opening of his new butcher shop. One day before the inauguration, his son Pavlos kills the neighbor who claims part of their land. The only witness is Christos, a young man from Albania whom Takis has had with him since childhood.

    Greece - 2024
    104 minute
    Smart 7
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Tuesday 17.06

    13:15
    Q&A with director Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon
    Pornit

    Epilogues

    Q&A with director Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon

    The story of an 85-year-old man who has recently lost his wife. By mixing his wife's ashes in a cup of hot water and drinking it, she appears to him, and they share memories of their life together.

    Iceland, Belgium, Norway, Faroe Islands - 2024
    90 minute
    Smart 7
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    19:45
    Q&A with director Kamila Tarabura
    Pornit

    Travel Essentials

    Q&A with director Kamila Tarabura

    Ada, a pregnant American journalist of Polish descent, receives a mysterious package – an autobiographical book about childhood trauma, authored by her friend, Roksana. Ada, on her last journalistic adventure before maternity leave, joins Roksana in Poland to recount the gripping story.

    Poland, Germany - 2024
    105 minute
    Smart 7
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Wednesday 18.06

    13:15
    Q&A with producer Klementina Remeikaite
    Pornit

    Drowning Dry

    Q&A with producer Klementina Remeikaite

    To celebrate Lukas’ victory at the martial arts tournament and Tomas’ birthday party, two sisters organize a weekend at the country house. With their kids, they go swimming in a nearby lake, relax and discuss family finances.

    Lithuania, Latvia - 2024
    88 minute
    Smart 7
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    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
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    20:30
    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments
    Q&A with the actors and producers
    Pornit

    Kontinental '25

    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments
    Q&A with the actors and producers

    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments

    România, Brazil, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg - 2025
    109 minute
    Romanian Days
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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

    13:15
    Q&A with director Kamila Tarabura
    Pornit

    Travel Essentials

    Q&A with director Kamila Tarabura

    Ada, a pregnant American journalist of Polish descent, receives a mysterious package – an autobiographical book about childhood trauma, authored by her friend, Roksana. Ada, on her last journalistic adventure before maternity leave, joins Roksana in Poland to recount the gripping story.

    Poland, Germany - 2024
    105 minute
    Smart 7
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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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    17:15
    Pornit

    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
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    17:30
    Pornit

    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
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    18:00
    Pornit

    Tooth and Nail

    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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    20:30
    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments
    Q&A with the actors and producers
    Pornit

    Kontinental '25

    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments
    Q&A with the actors and producers

    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
    Pornit

    Tata

    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
    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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    22:00
    +18
    Pornit

    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
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Friday 20.06

    10:00
    +18
    Pornit

    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
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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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    17:30
    Pornit

    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
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    18:15
    Q&A with director Simona Constantin
    Pornit

    Caliu. Nothing else, what more could I do?

    Q&A with director Simona Constantin

    Not willing to accept that his glorious life as the "King of the violin" is over, Caliu starts the journey of reinventing himself. Traveling back and forth between present struggles and the old, golden days, music is the only constant in Caliu's life.

    Romania, Qatar - 2025
    90 minute
    Romanian Days
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    19:00
    Q&A with director Tudor Giurgiu and the film crew
    Pornit

    The Spruce Forest

    Q&A with director Tudor Giurgiu and the film crew

    Inspired by the tragedy of Fântâna Albă on April 1, 1941, the film recounts the fate of a Romanian community in Bessarabia, massacred in a desperate attempt to find refuge from the Soviet occupation.

    România, Moldova, Republic of - 2025
    75 minute
    Romanian Days
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    19:30
    Pornit

    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
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