Daaaaaali!
TIFF.23
A young French journalist meets Salvador Dall repeatedly for a documentary film project which never gets to start shooting...
France - 2023
77 minute
No Limit
Schedule
Schedule
Saturday 15.06
The School
Screening in the presence of director Daniele Luchetti
Professor Vivaldi passionately believes that the purpose of education is to allow students to creatively express themselves. To this end, he comes up with all sorts of crazy ways to enliven his history class so that the students will pass their final exams.
Italy - 1995
104 minute
3 x 3
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
Toll
TIFF.23
Suellen, a Brazilian toll booth attendant and mother, falls in with a gang of thieves in an attempt to keep her family afloat.
Brazil - 2023
101 minute
Competition
Sunday 16.06
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
Touché
TIFF.23
Touché is the story of fencing world champion Nathalie Moellhausen, a ten-year course featuring the participation in three Olympiads as a representative of two different countries, generous doses of drama on and off the field, and above all else a bright personality transcending the noble sport’s
Italy - 2023
87 minute
Game On
I'm Not Everything I Want To Be
TIFF.23
Libuše Jarcovjáková documents her life with photos and diary entries. Her Czechoslovakian homeland is in the repressive phase of “normalisation” after the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968.
Czech Republic - 2024
90 minute
Larger than Life
The Path of Excellence
TIFF.23
Sophie is a brilliant student. Encouraged by her maths teacher, she leaves the family farm to attend a science preparatory class.
France - 2023
107 minute
miniTIFF
Testament
Free access for people over the age of 60
Jean-Michel, a 73-year-old bachelor, lives in a retirement home run by Suzanne. Their world is shaken up by the sudden arrival of young political activists campaigning for the removal of an ancient fresco depicting the welcoming of Europeans by Native Americans.
Canada - 2023
115 minute
Supernova
It's Not My Film
TIFF.23
A woman and a man walk down a beach dragging a sled filled with luggage looking like polar explorers. After another row and an attempt to divorce, Janek and Wanda give themselves an ultimatum and decide to go on a 400-kilometer hike along the Baltic Sea in the middle of winter.
Poland - 2024
99 minute
Smart 7
A Silence
TIFF.23
Having remained silent for 25 years, Astrid, the wife of a prominent lawyer, sees her family’s equilibrium shatter when her children initiate their quest for justice.
Belgium - 2023
101 minute
Supernova
Skunk
TIFF.23
Liam grows up in a family where alcohol, violence and sex dominate, to become a confused teenager who goes beyond the pale to break with his past. Based on real events.
Belgium - 2023
105 minute
No Limit
The Performance
TIFF.23
Harold May is an American Jew and gifted tap dancer. While on tour in Europe, Harold and the rest of his troupe are scouted by a German attaché who leads the troupe to an exclusive performance for Hitler himself.
United States - 2023
112 minute
Supernova
1286
TIFF.23
In 1997, a surgeon named Aman is about to separate from his wife when he is abducted, trafficked across the country and forced to work under physical and psychological pressure in a labor camp run by two unlikely brothers: a fascist drunk Kazbek and a meek mute Hasan.
Kazakhstan - 2023
90 minute
Coming Up Next
Something Is About to Happen
TIFF.23
When her employer goes bankrupt, Lucía decides to make a radical change in her life and become a taxi driver.
Spain - 2023
122 minute
No Limit
La mesías
TIFF.23
Siblings Enric and Irene have a dark childhood because of their toxic relationship with their mother, a religious fanatic. They live outside their family sect and are now far from the reach of their mother, yet not completely free.
Spain - 2023
133 minute
Coming Up Next
The Ties
Screening in the presence of director Daniele Luchetti
Naples, early 1980s. Aldo and Vanda go through a separation, after he reveals his affair. Their two young children are torn between their parents, in a whirlwind of resentment. But the ties that keep people together are inescapable, even without love.
Italy - 2020
100 minute
3 x 3
Felix, Dare to Dream
TIFF.23
Eclectic artist, existentialist and hippie Felix Leu discovered tattooing as a resource to support his traveller life, but then he became an innovator. Roaming the world, Felix and his wife Loretta gave their children a fertile ground to grow up independently as artists.
Italy - 2023
105 minute
Larger than Life
Stolen
TIFF.23
Gautam has reluctantly come to the train station to pick up his younger brother, Raman, for an extravagant destination wedding. The relationship between the two brothers is already tenuous at best and it will be further challenged when they chance upon Jhumpa.
India - 2023
92 minute
No Limit
Girls Will Be Girls
TIFF.23
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance; but her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come-of-age herself.
India - 2024
119 minute
Competition
Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
TIFF.23
Here is the life story of how Nicolae Ceauşescu rose from extreme poverty to extreme power.
Romania - 2024
140 minute
Coming Up Next
Life's A Bitch
TIFF.23
To make Cecile happy, Tom accepts to adopt his dead neighbor's Chihuahua. The problem is that the apparently harmless animal seems to want the new owner's hide! Actress Greta is broken down: her dog and her assistant have just been killed by a bus.
Belgium - 2023
88 minute
No Limit
Film Food: Buddha jumps over the wall
Dinner prepared by Chef Radu Dumitrescu at Da Pino, presented by URSUS
18:30 – Film Screening: Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, dir. Pedro Peira, Spain, 2024, 83’ | Cercul Militar
20:30 – Dinner prepared by Chef Radu Dumitrescu at Da Pino, presented by URSUS
83 minute
Guardians of the Formula
TIFF.23
October 1958, the Cold War is at its peak. Working on a secret experiment at the state nuclear institute Vinča in Yugoslavia, a group of young communist scientists led by Professor Dragoslav Popović get irradiated with a lethal dose of uranium.
Serbia - 2023
120 minute
Supernova
Buddha Jumps Over the Wall
TIFF.23
David Yarnoz is a 4 Michelin stars chef who besides running a high-end restaurant in the North of Spain also heads a replica of that restaurant in Taipei. Since he hasn't been able to visit Taiwan for three years due to the pandemic, he needs to embark on a vital trip.
Spain - 2024
83 minute
Film Food
Concert KADJAVSI (RO)
TIFF.23
Influenced by some of UK’s most prestigious artists like James Blake, Squid, Black Country New Road or The Smile, KADJAVASI set out to embark on a journey where his life-long exposure to music, theatre and film merged into one, creating a cinematic experience through live performances.
The Featherweight
TIFF.23
Set in the mid-1960s, The Featherweight presents a gripping chapter in the true-life story of Italian-American boxer Willie Pep who, down and out in his mid-40s and with his personal life in shambles, decides to make a return to the ring, at which point a documentary camera crew enters his life.
United States - 2023
100 minute
What's Up, Doc?
Sons
TIFF.23
The idealistic prison guard Eva faces the dilemma of her lifetime when a young man from her past is transferred to the prison where she works. Without revealing her secret, she asks to be moved to his block, the toughest and most violent in the prison.
Denmark - 2024
100 minute
Supernova
Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius
TIFF.23
Five guests experience a crisis of love in an AirBnB in Vilnius, unaware of the joys and tragedies that transpired within the same walls and under the same bedsheets.
Lithuania - 2023
112 minute
Smart 7
Summer Brother
TIFF.23
Brian is 13 and lives with his father Maurice in a shabby mobile home park. When the care institution housing Brian's severely mentally disabled brother Lucien offers Maurice a large financial incentive if they take care of him over the summer holiday, Maurice immediately agrees.
Netherlands - 2023
86 minute
Competition