Where the Wind Comes From
TIFF.24
Alyssa, a rebellious 19-year-old girl, and her friend Mehdi, an introverted 23-year-old man, use their imagination to escape their unpromising reality.
Tunisia, France, Qatar - 2025
100 minute
Teen Spirit
Schedule
Schedule
Friday 13.06
Saturday 14.06
Our Wildest Days
TIFF.24
Chloe forgoes her flawed family for a group of youngsters crossing Greece. Through her journey she helps the poor in unconventional ways, faces danger and wonders if tenderness is the ultimate act of rebellion.
Greece, France, Germany, Belgium - 2025
104 minute
Teen Spirit
United States - 2024
291 minute
Coming Up Next
Teen Spirit
The Girls at the Station
Q&A with director Juana Macias
Jara, Alex and Miranda are three girls who grew up in a juvenile detention center. Jara’s birthday is coming and the three of them want to celebrate.
Spain - 2024
118 minute
Teen Spirit
Kevlar Soul
TIFF.24
When love enters the lives of teenage brothers Alex and Robin, it shatters their protective symbiotic bubble. While marking the start of a healing process for one of them, it sends the other one down a path that will lead to complete catastrophe.
Sweden, Norway, Finland - 2025
101 minute
Teen Spirit
Sunday 15.06
Kevlar Soul
Q&A with actor Josef Kersh
When love enters the lives of teenage brothers Alex and Robin, it shatters their protective symbiotic bubble. While marking the start of a healing process for one of them, it sends the other one down a path that will lead to complete catastrophe.
Sweden, Norway, Finland - 2025
101 minute
Teen Spirit
Little Trouble Girls
Q&A with cinematographer Lev Predan Kowarski
To fulfill her mother’s expeIntroverted 16-year-old Lucia joins her Catholic school’s all-girls choir, where she befriends popular and flirty Ana-Maria.
Slovenia, Italy, Croatia (Hrvatska), Serbia - 2025
89 minute
Teen Spirit
Monday 16.06
Little Trouble Girls
Q&A with cinematographer Lev Predan Kowarski
To fulfill her mother’s expeIntroverted 16-year-old Lucia joins her Catholic school’s all-girls choir, where she befriends popular and flirty Ana-Maria.
Slovenia, Italy, Croatia (Hrvatska), Serbia - 2025
89 minute
Teen Spirit
The Girls at the Station
Q&A with director Juana Macias
Jara, Alex and Miranda are three girls who grew up in a juvenile detention center. Jara’s birthday is coming and the three of them want to celebrate.
Spain - 2024
118 minute
Teen Spirit
Tuesday 17.06
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
World Between Us
Q&A with director Marie Dvořáková
Marie no longer feels at home in her native Mikulov, nor does she feel like she belongs to America. The phenomenon of pulling up one’s roots, migrating elsewhere, and finding a new home in a foreign land is a universal theme.
Czech Republic, Slovakia - 2024
93 minute
Teen Spirit
Wednesday 18.06
World Between Us
Q&A with director Marie Dvořáková
Marie no longer feels at home in her native Mikulov, nor does she feel like she belongs to America. The phenomenon of pulling up one’s roots, migrating elsewhere, and finding a new home in a foreign land is a universal theme.
Czech Republic, Slovakia - 2024
93 minute
Teen Spirit
Southern Chronicles
Q&A with director Ignas Miškinis
It’s 1992 and Rimantas loves to plays rugby, doesn’t want to study at school, and dreams of becoming rich. One day he meets a girl who likes literature. To get her attention, he starts reading books.
Lithuania, Estonia - 2024
121 minute
Teen Spirit
20:30
Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments
Q&A with the actors and producers
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
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
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
Thursday 19.06
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
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
20:30
Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments
Q&A with the actors and producers
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
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
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
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
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
Merman
A female voice is haunting a male gaze.
România - 2024
86 minute
Romanian Days
Friday 20.06
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
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
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
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
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
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
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