Sugar and Stars
TIFF.23
Ever since he was a little boy, Yazid has dreamed of becoming a pastry chef. Moved from one foster home to another, nothing predestined him for such a career.
France - 2023
110 minute
Film Food
Schedule
Schedule
Sunday 23.06
My Sunshine
TIFF.23
On a small Japanese island, life revolves around the changing seasons. Winter is time for ice hockey at school, but Takuya isn’t too thrilled about it. His real interest lies in Sakura, a figure skating rising star from Tokyo, for whom he starts to develop a genuine fascination.
Japan - 2024
90 minute
Focus Japan
Kneecap
TIFF.23
The riotous rap trio Kneecap emerges in Belfast, setting the stage for the Irish language’s resurgence against the establishment.
Ireland - 2024
105 minute
Supernova
The Old Bachelor
Screening of the best performance award winner
In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him.
Iran - 2024
192 minute
Competition
Upon Open Sky
TIFF.23
Two teenage brothers take a road trip to the border between Mexico and the US to track down the man responsible for the car accident that caused their father’s death.
Mexico - 2023
117 minute
Supernova
The Ballad of Narayama
TIFF.23
Still strong at the age of 69, Orin prepares herself for an inevitable yet frightening ritual. In her village, where food is scarce, life is harsh and people are desperate and cruel.
Japan - 1983
130 minute
Focus Japan
Girls of Dark
TIFF.23
In the late 1950s prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession she was sent to a reformatory. This is a story of Kuniko, who is released from the reformatory and tries to build a new life.
Japan - 1961
93 minute
Focus Japan
The Other Son
Screening of the best director award winner
Federico and his brother Simón live their adolescence to the fullest, until the day Simón dies when he falls from a balcony at a party. While his family environment crumbles before his eyes, Federico tries to live his last weeks of school normally.
Argentina - 2023
90 minute
Competition
Green Border
TIFF.23
In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called "green border" between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko.
Poland - 2023
152 minute
Supernova
Crossing
TIFF.23
Lia, a retired teacher, made a promise to find her long lost niece Tekla. The search takes her to Istanbul, a beautiful city that seems full of connections and possibilities. There she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever...
Sweden - 2024
105 minute
Supernova
May December
TIFF.23
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
United States - 2023
117 minute
Supernova
Kix
Screening of the What’s Up Doc? Section award winner
Kix is a 12-year odyssey following Sanyi's journey from a rowdy street kid in Budapest to a disillusioned young adult.
Hungary - 2024
94 minute
What's Up, Doc?
Hungarian Day
A Man
TIFF.23
After divorcing, Rie has found happiness with her second husband Daisuke and formed a new family. But when Daisuke dies in a tragic accident, she discovers her new husband was not the man she thought he was.
Japan - 2022
121 minute
Focus Japan
Upon Open Sky
TIFF.23
Two teenage brothers take a road trip to the border between Mexico and the US to track down the man responsible for the car accident that caused their father’s death.
Mexico - 2023
117 minute
Supernova
Steppenwolf
TIFF.23
A brutal story of an unlikely duo that will stop at nothing to find what they are looking for. Tamara is searching for her missing son in a small town consumed by riots and violence.
Kazakhstan - 2024
102 minute
No Limit
The Adamant Girl
Screening of the special jury award winner
When a 21-year-old girl falls in love with a boy from an oppressed caste, her infuriated family believes that she is possessed by his love spell. They ruthlessly drag her to a distant village shaman to break the spell by sacrificing a rooster.
India - 2024
101 minute
Competition
Exhuma
TIFF.23
After suffering from serial paranormal events, a wealthy family living in Los Angeles summons two shamans to save the newborn of the family. Once they arrive, they sense the dark shadow of their ancestor has latched on the family. The solution?
Republic of Korea (South Korea) - 2024
134 minute
Full Moon
Shoshana
TIFF.23
Inspired by real events, Shoshana is a political thriller set in the 1930s in Tel Aviv, a brand new city being built on the shores of the Mediterranean. Thomas Wilkin is in love with the city and with beautiful Shoshana.
Italy - 2023
121 minute
Supernova
La Cocina
TIFF.23
It is the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a New York tourist trap that serves thousands of customers on a regular Friday like today. One of the cooks is Pedro, a young Mexican who is seeking more from life than this job has to offer.
Mexico - 2024
139 minute
Supernova
Vermin
TIFF.23
Facing an invasion of venomous spiders, residents of a suburb building will have to find their way out to survive.
France - 2023
105 minute
Full Moon
The Monk
TIFF.23
Can you find happiness in solitude? When filmmakers Mira Jargil and Christian Sønderby Jepsen try to find a balance in their stressful lives, they look for guidance from a renowned Danish HIV researcher turned monk deep in the mountains of Sri Lanka.
Denmark - 2023
90 minute
Larger than Life
Seven Hills Seven Seas
TIFF.23
On a rainy night aboard a moving train, a chance encounter with a rat sets off a chain of events that entwines the fates of a 32-year-old ordinary man and an 8,000 year old immortal man. As the ordinary man grapples with survival, the immortal man seeks to heal centuries-old wounds.
India - 2024
137 minute
No Limit
One Life
TIFF.23
Visiting Prague in December 1938, young London broker Nicky Winton found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion.
United Kingdom - 2023
109 minute
Larger than Life
Diagnosis: Dissent
TIFF.23
Andrii finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of "anti-Soviet propaganda" were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow progressive schizophrenia".
Ukraine - 2023
119 minute
Larger than Life
Oddity
TIFF.23
A year after her twin is brutally murdered at a remote country estate, Darcy, a self-proclaimed psychic and collector, pays her brother-in-law and new girlfriend an unexpected visit.
Ireland - 2024
98 minute
Full Moon
The Blue Star
TIFF.23
The 1990s. Mauricio, a famous Spanish rock musician, crosses Latin America seeking to reconnect with his vocation. There he meets Don Carlos, an elderly musician going through hard times who, despite having written some of his country’s most famous folk songs, can hardly pay his bills.
Spain - 2023
129 minute
Larger than Life
The Erection Of Toribio Bardelli
TIFF.23
Toribio discovers, at his wife's funeral, that she was unfaithful to him for many years and no one – including his own children – ever told him anything.
Peru - 2023
82 minute
No Limit
Monday 24.06
Fox and Hare Save the Forest
TIFF.23
Fox and Hare have been throwing a party with their friends. After the party, Owl returns home and discovers strange streams of water flowing past his tree. He panics and flees into the forest. The following day, Fox and Hare discover that Owl is missing.
Netherlands - 2024
71 minute
miniTIFF
All about the Levkoviches
TIFF.23
The generous but stubborn boxing coach Tamás gets along well with everyone but his own son. They have not spoken since Iván moved to Israel and entered a deeply religious orthodox community.
Hungary - 2024
85 minute
Hungarian Day
miniTIFF