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
Schedule
Schedule
Thursday 18.06
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
Dead of Winter
TIFF.25
Barb travels through frozen Minnesota to scatter the ashes of her recently deceased husband. In the middle of the wilderness, she inadvertently witnesses the kidnapping of a teenage girl and realizes she is the girl’s only chance of survival...
United States, Germany - 2025
98 minute
Supernova
Whites Wash at Ninety
TIFF.25
The life of young Bronja, growing up in the 1980s, changes when her mother dies of cancer. After a childhood marked by this loss, her life is again interrupted by tragic events, which she overcomes with optimism.
Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia (Hrvatska), Italy, Montenegro, Macedonia - 2025
145 minute
Supernova
Of Mud and Blood
TIFF.25
Numbi, a little village hidden deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies nonetheless at the heart of our world. Here, with their bare hands, miners dig the coltan which will find its way – legally or otherwise – to our industrialized world.
France, Germany - 2025
96 minute
What's Up, Doc?
Something Familiar
TIFF.25
While helping a woman search for her birth mother, Rachel is drawn deeper into her own family history. When Rachel launches an international search for her missing sisters, she uncovers a painful legacy of abuse and exploitation.
România, United Kingdom - 2026
89 minute
Romanian Days
Y
TIFF.25
Olga, her father and her two younger sisters have been living a carefree life, thanks to the fortune amassed by Ileana, their paternal grandmother, a successful lawyer. Ileana’s sudden death throws their family into disarray.
România - 2025
98 minute
Romanian Days
Friday 19.06
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
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
Romanian Shorts IV
TIFF.25
Plan contraplan (Shot Reverse Shot, Radu Jude & Adrian Cioflâncă, România)
Index (Index, Radu Muntean, România)
Cum am învățat să nu mă omor (How I Learned Not to Kill Myself, Norbert Boda, România)
Titanic Ocean
TIFF.25
In the scintillating, pop-infused world of a Japanese boarding school that trains teenage girls to become professional mermaids, 17-year-old Akame learns to hold her breath, perform for adoring crowds, and swim alongside sharks.
Greece, Germany, România, France, Spain - 2026
130 minute
Competition
Of Mud and Blood
TIFF.25
Numbi, a little village hidden deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies nonetheless at the heart of our world. Here, with their bare hands, miners dig the coltan which will find its way – legally or otherwise – to our industrialized world.
France, Germany - 2025
96 minute
What's Up, Doc?
The Vanishing
TIFF.25
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex starts receiving letters from the abductor.
Netherlands, France - 1988
106 minute
FOCUS Netherlands
Romanian Shorts III
TIFF.25
Blessed (Blessed, Voicu Mureșanu, România)
Geese-y Does It! (Geese-y Does It!, Alina Rusu, România)
Atunci când suntem împreună (When We Are Together, Alexia Drăgan, România)
Marea finală (The Grand Final, Rareș Roșca, România)
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
Memory
TIFF.25
After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family.
France, Netherlands - 2025
98 minute
What's Up, Doc?
Truly Naked
This film is not suitable for children
Alec, an introverted teenager, has always viewed life through the lens of his father’s pornography business. When they relocate from London to a sleepy seaside town, Alec hopes for a fresh start, trying to make friends without revealing his unconventional life.
Netherlands, Belgium, France - 2026
102 minute
Competition
Sorella di Clausura
Precedat de scurtmetrajul Canapeaua / The Couch
If you want something badly enough, the whole Universe will conspire to help you achieve it, right? Stela becomes obsessed with a famous Balkan musician after seeing him on TV. Convinced she must meet him, she gradually lets this obsession take over her entire life.
România, Serbia, Spain, Italy - 2026
105 minute
Romanian Days
A River's Gaze
TIFF.25
Lavinia este o adevărată furtună. E impulsivă, nu se gândeşte de două ori înainte de a acţiona şi nu prea ştie să-şi arate dragostea. Dar îşi doreşte să fie o mamă bună. Visul ei de a extinde casa părintească o aruncă într-un iureş de acţiuni şi obstacole de-a lungul a patru anotimpuri.
România, France, Slovenia - 2026
91 minute
Smart 7 Festival Network
Romanian Days
The Uncertainty Principle
TIFF.25
Still haunted by a personal tragedy, Ticu Ionescu decides to resume his work as a physicist. When he receives the results of the latest particle collision experiment, he notices that part of the impact energy is missing. Could this prove the existence of dimensions beyond known reality?
România - 2024
90 minute
Romanian Days
18 Holes to Paradise
TIFF.25
During a torrid summer, a family is about to sell their land. Three women depend on what will happen to the farm, until a fire engulfs the region and, prevented from leaving, they will face the uncertainties about the future.
Portugal, Italy, Argentina - 2025
107 minute
Double Takes
Romanian Shorts II
TIFF.25
Viitorul ți-l faci cu mâna ta, dar de ce să nu îl lași pe mâna unor specialiști? (Alexandra Schinteie, România)
Praf (Dust, Elena Butică, România)
Memory Pills (Memory Pills, Teodora Mihăilă & Agata Olteanu, România)
Margini (Edges, Roberta Șerban, România)
Orphan
TIFF.25
1957. In Budapest, after the uprising against the Communist regime, a young Jewish boy, Andor, raised by his mother with idealized tales of his deceased father, has his world turned upside down when a brutish man appears, claiming to be his true father.
Hungary, United Kingdom, Germany, France - 2025
132 minute
Hungarian Day
The Whistlers
TIFF.25
Cristi, a corrupt cop willing to risk everything for a 30-million-euro fortune, believes that El Silbo, the whistled language used on the Spanish island of La Gomera, is the key to uncovering where the money is hidden.
România, France, Germany - 2019
97 minute
Close Up: Corneliu Porumboiu
Un amour de Swann
TIFF.25
A day in the life of Charles Swann, a young man admired by high society for his artistic refinement. The great passion of his life is Odette de Crécy, who sends him rushing through the fashionable Paris of the Belle Époque.
France, - 1984
110 minute
Special Screenings
The Circle
TIFF.25
New Year’s Eve, 1999. A man is fatally shot during a hunting party. Agachi, a young investigator at the beginning of his career, is sent from the capital to determine whether it was murder or an accident. Soon, this apparently simple case turns into a test of conscience.
România, Moldova, Republic of - 2026
112 minute
Romanian Days
Charlotte Colace (Cuba/France/Germany)
TIFF.25
Charlotte Colace is a singer and songwriter with French and Cuban roots, based in Berlin and active on the local soul and jazz scene. Her voice combines soulful sensitivity with contemporary influences, exploring themes of love, loss, and resilience.
Lenin's Pawn
TIFF.25
A hybrid documentary following actor Sergiu Voloc, a modern-day Don Quixote whose lonely fight against Lenin monuments across Moldova turns into an absurd confrontation with a system that rebuilds them overnight.
România - 2026
85 minute
Romanian Days