Schedule

Sunday 15.06

    20:45
    Q&A with director Mattias Skoglund
    Pornit

    The Home

    Q&A with director Mattias Skoglund

    Years after leaving the small town behind, Joel returns to move his mother Monika to a home for the elderly struggling with dementia. However, Monika’s health takes a turn for the worse soon after her arrival.

    Sweden, Estonia, Iceland - 2025
    90 minute
    Full Moon
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    21:00
    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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    21:30
    Q&A with director Heiko Lange
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    Gut

    Q&A with director Heiko Lange

    Preceded by the short film What Freedom Looks Like (dir. Dorel Gnatiuc)

    Gudrun Gut, an icon of the German underground music scene, dares the unexpected: a film about herself. Here is a personal homage to female creativity: it's poetic, radical, and unmistakably Gudrun Gut!

    Germany - 2024
    64 minute
    Special Screenings
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    21:45
    TIFF.24

    The Marching Band

    TIFF.24

    Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy, who works in a school cafeteria and plays the trombone in a small marching band.

    France - 2024
    103 minute
    Supernova
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    21:45
    TIFF.24

    The Marching Band

    TIFF.24

    Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy, who works in a school cafeteria and plays the trombone in a small marching band.

    France - 2024
    103 minute
    Supernova
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    21:45
    Q&A with director Uberto Pasolini
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    The Return

    Q&A with director Uberto Pasolini

    After 20 years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognisable. The King has finally returned home but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.

    Italy, Greece, United Kingdom, France - 2024
    116 minute
    Supernova
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    22:00
    Q&A with director Tova Mozard
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    ILOVERUSS

    Q&A with director Tova Mozard

    Russell Kingston, a lifelong extra, has spent decades on Hollywood’s periphery, slipping in and out of roles without ever stepping into the spotlight. A drifter in the world of cinema, he takes on the personas of the characters he has played, those he admires, and those he invents himself.

    Sweden - 2025
    90 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
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    22:00
    Q&A with director Jeppe Ronde
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    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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    22:15
    Q&A with director Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon
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    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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Tuesday 17.06

    10:00
    TIFF.24

    2000 Meters to Andriivka

    TIFF.24

    Amid a failing counteroffensive in 2023, the director and his Associated Press colleague Alex Babenko follow a Ukrainian brigade battling through approximately one mile of a heavily fortified forest on their mission to liberate the Russian-occupied village of Andriivka.

    Ukraine - 2025
    108 minute
    No Limit
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    12:00
    Q&A with director Aislinn Clarke
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    Frewaka

    Q&A with director Aislinn Clarke

    Haunted by a personal tragedy, home care worker Shoo is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears the neighbours as much as she fears the Na Sídhe – sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before.

    Ireland - 2024
    103 minute
    Full Moon
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    12:15
    Q&A with director Tova Mozard
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    ILOVERUSS

    Q&A with director Tova Mozard

    Russell Kingston, a lifelong extra, has spent decades on Hollywood’s periphery, slipping in and out of roles without ever stepping into the spotlight. A drifter in the world of cinema, he takes on the personas of the characters he has played, those he admires, and those he invents himself.

    Sweden - 2025
    90 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
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    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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    14:30
    Q&A with director Orkhan Aghazadeh
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    The Return of the Projectionist

    Q&A with director Orkhan Aghazadeh

    In a remote village in the Talysh montains between Iran and Azerbaijan, Samid, a TV repairman, dusts off his old Soviet film projector. He dreams of bringing his village together in front of the silver screen once more.

    France, Germany - 2024
    87 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
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    14:30
    Q&A with director Dimitri Verhulst
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    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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    14:45
    Q&A with director Mattias Skoglund
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    The Home

    Q&A with director Mattias Skoglund

    Years after leaving the small town behind, Joel returns to move his mother Monika to a home for the elderly struggling with dementia. However, Monika’s health takes a turn for the worse soon after her arrival.

    Sweden, Estonia, Iceland - 2025
    90 minute
    Full Moon
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    15:45
    Q&A with director Doris Taaker and actress Doris Tilk
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    My Dear Mother

    Q&A with director Doris Taaker and actress Doris Tilk

    When the brutally murdered mother of Alina, a drug addict, is found on the beach one day, the question arises whether Alina is a cold- blooded manipulator or a lifelong victim of abuse.

    Estonia, Ukraine - 2025
    90 minute
    Coming Up Next
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    16:00
    TIFF.24

    Riefenstahl

    TIFF.24

    Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century as an artist and a Nazi propagandist. Her films Triumph of the Will and Olympia stand for perfectly staged body worship and the celebration of the superior and victorious.

    Germany - 2024
    115 minute
    No Limit
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    16:45
    Q&A with director Rainer Sarnet
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    The Idiot

    Q&A with director Rainer Sarnet

    The story of a naive man, whose direct behavior stirs in people moral unrest, rage and embarrassment over their own pettiness, making them yearn for goodness. An atypical adaptation of Dostojevski's novel of the same title.

    Estonia - 2011
    132 minute
    3 x 3
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    17:15
    TIFF.24

    The Danish Woman

    TIFF.24

    When Ditte Jensen retires from the Danish Secret Service, she moves into an apartment block in Reykjavik where should live her life in anonymity. But Ditte can not stop being how she is: when she sees her neighbors’ problems she is compelled to help, whether they want her help or not.

    Iceland, France - 2025
    94 minute
    Coming Up Next
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    17:30
    Q&A with director Antoine Chevrollier
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    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
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    18:00
    Q&A with director Simon Jaquemet
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    Electric Child

    Q&A with director Simon Jaquemet

    Sonny and Akiko’s joy upon the arrival of their first child quickly turns to panic when their doctor gives them unimaginable news.

    Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Philippines - 2024
    119 minute
    Tomorrow is Fear
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    18:30
    Dinner @ Da Pino, prepared by Chef Alex Petricean, presented by URSUS

    Film Food La Réparation

    Dinner @ Da Pino, prepared by Chef Alex Petricean, presented by URSUS

    18:30 – Film Screening: La Réparation (dir. Régis Wargnier, France, 104’) | Cercul Militar

    A legendary chef disappears on the eve of receiving his third Michelin star. In his wake, a young daughter must keep his culinary legacy alive. A mysterious and moving story about family, identity, and rebuilding.

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    18:30
    Q&A with director Rodrigo Cortes & DOP Eduard Grau
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    Buried

    Q&A with director Rodrigo Cortes & DOP Eduard Grau

    Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

    Spain, United States, France - 2010
    95 minute
    3 x 3
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    18:30
    TIFF.24

    La Réparation

    TIFF.24

    A few hours before his third Michelin star was awarded, a renowned chef disappeared with his second chef during a hunting trip. His daughter Clara found herself alone at the head of the restaurant, harassed by paparazzi...

    France, Taiwan - 2025
    104 minute
    Film Food
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    19:00

    Postman (Ukraine)

    Tuesday, June 17, 7:00 PM

    Kostiantyn Pochtar, better known as Postman, began his musical odyssey in Kyiv, crafting intimate 'city folk' songs with just a guitar and harmonica. His early works captured the everyday wonders of his hometown’s urban life, offering a raw, acoustic sound that reflected his surroundings. One of those early songs, ‘Kyivski Vulytsi’ (The Streets of Kyiv), was a huge success and has since been considered by many as an unofficial hymn of Ukraine’s capital.

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    19:15
    Q&A with director Fabrice Du Welz
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    Pornit

    Maldoror

    Q&A with director Fabrice Du Welz

    When two girls go missing, Paul Chartier, an impulsive young police recruit, is assigned to Maldoror. This secret unit has been set up to monitor a dangerous sex offender.

    Belgium, France - 2024
    155 minute
    Full Moon
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