Schedule

Saturday 22.06

    15:00
    TIFF.23

    Family Movies

    TIFF.23

    A random post on Facebook: "A few rolls of film have been found abandoned for decades somewhere in an old attic!" Digitizing the film brings to light family footage: ordinary home scenes, birthdays, holidays, visits, outings.

    Romania - 2024
    83 minute
    Romanian Days
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    15:15
    TIFF.23

    A Cautionary Tale

    TIFF.23

    A filmmaker starts following the story of a man who is fighting a lone, harrowing battle against a Kafkaesque system that refuses to recognize he is alive. As her camera rolls and days turn into weeks, she becomes dangerously enmeshed in his journey.

    Romania - 2023
    79 minute
    Romanian Days
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    17:30
    TIFF.23

    Ext. Car. Night

    TIFF.23

    A bloody thriller (sort of Agatha Christie does The Twilight Zone) morphs into its own “making of”, a really talky one - a conversation about film, about fear, about fiction. The type of film where the less you know, the better.

    Romania - 2024
    73 minute
    Romanian Days
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    17:45
    TIFF.23

    Maia - Portrait with Hands

    TIFF.23

    Maia was born into a semi-nomadic population facing ethnic cleansing. The director, Maia's granddaughter, has produced a vivid visual reconstruction of her journey through the 20th century. Maia's history blends into the larger History.

    Romania - 2024
    90 minute
    Romanian Days
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    18:00
    TIFF.23

    Warboy

    TIFF.23

    Fall of 1944. World War II is coming to an end. Nicu, a teenager, crosses the wild landscape of the Apuseni Mountains and embarks on an initiatory journey trying to save the family's two horses.

    Romania - 2023
    88 minute
    Romanian Days
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    19:00
    TIFF.23

    Between Silence and Sin

    TIFF.23

    To one of the world’s most brutal dictatorial regimes, poetry represented the last molecules of freedom and the poets who dared to speak the truth became icons – and enemies of the Romanian Communist state.

    Romania - 2024
    97 minute
    Romanian Days
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    21:00
    TIFF.23

    Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

    TIFF.23

    Angela is an overworked production assistant who must drive around the city of Bucharest in order to film the casting for a “safety at work” video commissioned by a multinational company. Soon she encounters Marian, a half paralysed worker, who gets the part.

    Romania - 2023
    164 minute
    Romanian Days
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