The Night is Fading Away
TIFF.25
Pelu is a 30-something barely scraping by on his salary as a projectionist at a film theater that belongs to the city hall.
Argentina - 2025
105 minute
Competition
Schedule
Schedule
Thursday 18.06
Goodbye Sisters
TIFF.25
Jamuna and her sister live in Kathmandu. They embark on an ascent into the mountains to take part in the harvest of yarsagumba, a rare creature, half-fungus, half-insect, whose value now exceeds that of gold.
France, Nepal - 2025
91 minute
What's Up, Doc?
We Were Left Alone
TIFF.25
An intimate journey between a son and his father aboard a fishing boat bound for Sole Bank.
Spain - 2025
82 minute
What's Up, Doc?
Meant to be: The Story of Pogany Indulo
TIFF.25
In contemporary Hungary, a small-town teenager with a strikingly deep voice becomes a rap star by 18. As Marci’s fame surges, balancing school, family, and music proves impossible. His raw, honest lyrics captivate a generation, drawing huge crowds and millions of streams.
Hungary - 2026
85 minute
Hungarian Day
A Useful Ghost
TIFF.25
March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner.
Thailand, France, Singapore - 2025
130 minute
Competition
Patty is Such a Girly Name
TIFF.25
Daphne, a teenage judo athlete from a remote Greek island, is ready to spread her wings and follow Sensei Yuri to the big city and ultimately to the next Olympic Games.
Greece - 2025
113 minute
Smart 7 Festival Network
Damian & Brothers 20 Years
Precedat de scurtmetrajul Tuya Milan - Revisited
60 minute
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism
TIFF.25
Paul is in the middle of shooting his latest feature film and is having an affair with an actress cast in a supporting role. The director decides to shoot a nude scene with her, but changes his mind the next morning. Gradually, the filmmaker’s life and the film itself begin to merge.
România - 2013
89 minute
Close Up: Corneliu Porumboiu
Don't Worry Sari!
TIFF.25
Six years after her mother's death, Sári is trying to keep her family together.
Hungary - 2025
82 minute
Hungarian Day
Catane
TIFF.25
After investigations reveal an unusually high number of residents receiving disability aid in a small Romanian village, social services dispatch a team of inspectors to uncover the truth. What will they discover?
România, Italy - 2025
96 minute
Romanian Days
My Father's Shadow
TIFF.25
A father and his estranged sons travel through the massive city of Lagos while political unrest threatens their journey home in this semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian metropolis during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis.
United Kingdom, Ireland, Nigeria - 2025
93 minute
Competition
A Safe Place
TIFF.25
Lucia is spending her vacation with her husband and friends in a small Bulgarian seaside village. The arrival of a mysterious man disrupts the group’s fragile harmony, while the disappearance of a local child casts an increasingly unsettling shadow over their holiday.
România - 2025
103 minute
Romanian Days
Atlas of the Universe
TIFF.25
Ten-year-old Filip is sent by his mother to the near town to buy a new pair of shoes. After choosing them carefully, he happily heads home, only to discover that both shoes in the box are for the right foot. What will Filip do?
România, Bulgaria - 2026
85 minute
Romanian Days
miniTIFF
Don't Let Me Die
TIFF.25
Maria wanders through a seaside town for the burial of her enigmatic neighbor Isabela. As the nights grow longer, she adopts Isabela’s dogs, meets her son, and encounters a woodcutter who is afraid of sleep.
România, Bulgaria, France - 2025
108 minute
Romanian Days
Motherwitch
TIFF.25
Cyprus, 1882. Eleni, a French-educated painter, loses her three children in a tragic accident at the ruins of an abandoned chapel. Cursed by the villagers, she retreats into grief until she meets Michalakis, a lonely boy abused by his violent father.
Cyprus, Macedonia, United States, Canada - 2026
105 minute
Full Moon
12:08 East of Bucharest
TIFF.25
Everyone saw the furious crowds forcing Ceauşescu to flee by helicopter. In a quiet little town near the capital, the owner of a local TV station wants to answer a question that has remained unresolved for 16 years: did the town join the Revolution or not?
România - 2006
89 minute
Close Up: Corneliu Porumboiu
Hen
TIFF.25
With great power comes great responsibility, right? But what if the hero is just a hen? Escaping from a chicken farm, she finds refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant. There, she discovers love, confronts the pecking order, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedy owner.
Germany, Greece, Hungary - 2025
96 minute
Hungarian Day
On Our Own
TIFF.25
In a small town in Romania, several teenagers learn how to get by without their parents, who have left the country to work abroad. Forced to grow up too soon, they form their own family in a desperate attempt to fill the void.
România, Italy - 2026
94 minute
Teen Spirit
Romanian Days
Mortician
TIFF.25
Rahim is from Iran and has settled in Canada, where he works at a funeral home. Business is good, as he has an agreement with the Iranian government to properly give the last rites to his fellow countrymen.
Canada - 2025
95 minute
The Pitch Black Anthology
Always Winter
TIFF.25
Miguel, a young landscape architect, travels to Belgium to participate in a conference. His girlfriend dumps him there, and he meets Olga, an older woman that makes him reconsider his personal and professional life.
Spain, Belgium - 2025
117 minute
Supernova
Vibrant (Romania)
TIFF.25
Vibrant is a musical project blending electronic and acoustic elements, analog synths, and live instrumentation, drawing inspiration from folk rhythms, oriental motifs, and Byzantine music.
Motel Paraiso
TIFF.25
Using the same handycam his grandfather once used to film him as a child, the filmmaker turns the camera back on his grandfather, the irreverent owner of a small roadside motel on the Gulf of Mexico.
Mexico - 2026
90 minute
What's Up, Doc?
Fargo
TIFF.25
Things go terribly awry when small-time Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard hires two thugs to kidnap his wife so he can collect the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. Once people start dying, the very chipper and very pregnant Police Chief Marge Gunderson takes the case.
United States - 1996
98 minute
The Pitch Black Anthology
Whitetail
TIFF.25
In the isolated landscapes of southern Ireland, Jen works as a conservation ranger in the same forest where her younger sister died in a tragic accident years earlier. When a former boyfriend unexpectedly returns, long-suppressed memories resurface, forcing her to confront their shared past.
Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland - 2025
103 minute
FOCUS Netherlands
Sicko
TIFF.25
Overwhelmed by debt, young couple Azamat and Tanshoplan hatch a desperate plan: fake a terminal illness to raise money through a viral charity campaign. But as the donations pour in and public sympathy grows, their lie spirals out of control.
Kazakhstan - 2026
102 minute
Competition
Netherlands - 1980
120 minute
FOCUS Netherlands
Fabula
TIFF.25
55-year-old Jos, a small-town criminal, finds himself increasingly sidelined in his own life as his family loses respect for him and his friends mock him.
Netherlands, Belgium, Germany - 2025
121 minute
FOCUS Netherlands
Nuclear Boy
TIFF.25
The lonely 17-year-old outcast Aike craves attention and finds it online where he conducts dangerous chemistry experiments. Hoping to pull Aike out of his internet bubble, his mother, a hardworking nurse, sends him to the scouts to make real friends.
Netherlands - 2026
79 minute
Teen Spirit
Diary of a Chambermaid
TIFF.25
Gianina, a young Romanian woman, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. While caring for her employers’ son, her own daughter grows up far away from her, in Romania. As Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion slowly begins to take shape.
France, România - 2026
94 minute
Romanian Days
Cine-concert: The White Nights
TIFF.25
Director: Boudewijn Koole
Country: Netherlands
Year: 2016
Duration: 108 minutes