Schedule

Thursday 20.06

    21:45
    TIFF.23

    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
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    22:15
    TIFF.23

    My Dinner with Andre

    TIFF.23

    Old friends Wallace and Andre haven't seen each another in five years and agree to meet for dinner. Andre, a once well-known theater director, dropped out of the New York scene to travel the world, while Wallace stuck around, finding only mixed success as a playwright.

    United States - 1981
    110 minute
    Special Screenings
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    22:30
    TIFF.23
    +18

    The Summer With Carmen

    TIFF.23

    While enjoying a day at Athens’ queer beach, 30-something Demosthenes offers to help his bestie and aspiring filmmaker Nikitas in drafting an idea for his feature debut. Two summers ago, Demosthenes was stuck in Athens dealing with health issues of his father.

    Greece - 2023
    106 minute
    Smart 7
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    23:00
    TIFF.23

    The Contestant

    TIFF.23

    The Contestant is the incredible true story of a man who lived for 15 months trapped inside a small room, naked, starving and alone... and completely unaware that his life was being broadcast on national TV in Japan, to over 15 million viewers a week.

    United Kingdom - 2023
    90 minute
    Focus Japan
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Friday 21.06

    10:00
    TIFF.23

    The Hypnosis

    TIFF.23

    André and Vera are a young entrepreneurial couple. They get the opportunity to pitch their female health app at a prestigious competition. Before going there, Vera tries hypnotherapy to quit smoking. From this point, her attitude changes and André starts to behave unexpectedly.

    Norway - 2023
    99 minute
    Competition
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    10:00
    TIFF.23

    Holy Week

    TIFF.23

    The Holy Week, around 1900, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee, reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter.

    Romania - 2024
    133 minute
    Romanian Days
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    12:00
    TIFF.23

    Trust

    TIFF.23

    Can a secret threaten you to the point of deciding to live as an honest man? Based on the novel by Domenico Starnone, Trust is a thriller of the soul about how love and fear can affect our lives forever.

    Italy - 2024
    136 minute
    3 x 3
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    12:15
    TIFF.23

    Sansho the Bailiff

    TIFF.23

    While on a journey to visit their father, Zushio and Anju are attacked, separated from their mother and sold as slaves to an estate managed by the brutal Sansho.

    Japan - 1954
    124 minute
    Focus Japan
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    12:45
    TIFF.23

    Family Weekend

    TIFF.23

    A visit to the director's hometown is the opportunity to bring to an end a series of sensitive, long-postponed discussions targeting topics such as identity, the drag scene in Romania, sexual orientation and the social pressure imposed by all of this.

    Romania - 2023
    60 minute
    Romanian Days
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    14:30
    TIFF.23

    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
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    14:30
    TIFF.23

    Casablanca

    TIFF.23

    Fouad, a Moroccan clandestine living in Italy for years, and Daniela, a former drug-addict, find each other by chance in Umbria. The meeting is the beginning of a love that helps them heal.

    France - 2023
    64 minute
    What's Up, Doc?
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    14:45
    TIFF.23
    +18

    When Evil Lurks

    TIFF.23

    Two brothers find a mutilated corpse near their property and convene with the locals to suss it out. They learn that the odd happenings in their village are caused by a spirit that’s found its way into a local man.

    Argentina - 2023
    100 minute
    Full Moon
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    15:00
    TIFF.23

    Night Butterflies

    TIFF.23

    In 2019, Marina Voica stars in a short film directed by Andrei Răuţu, and since then, Andrei refuses to leave her alone. Initially, Marina agrees to shoot a music video with Andrei, and later, the idea of making a documentary. However, she is not entirely satisfied with the way he films her.

    Romania - 2024
    80 minute
    Romanian Days
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    15:30
    TIFF.23

    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
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    16:30
    TIFF.23

    The School

    TIFF.23

    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
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    17:00
    TIFF.23

    Where Elephants Go

    TIFF.23

    Where Elephants Go is a film in which no elephant appears. It is a story of love and friendship between three characters in a difficult moment of their existence. Leni's, a sick little girl, but at the same time full of life.

    Romania - 2024
    115 minute
    Smart 7
    Competition
    Romanian Days
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    17:00
    TIFF.23

    Magnificent Sky

    TIFF.23

    Theory and practice meet the noise of reality in a portrait of avant-garde Romanian composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram. Driven by the high ideal of a worldwide revolution in sound, the two artists elaborated a seminal philosophy around composition and interpretation.

    Romania - 2023
    86 minute
    Romanian Days
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    17:15
    TIFF.23

    The Ties

    TIFF.23

    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
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    18:00
    TIFF.23

    Ext. Car. Night

    TIFF.23

    A bloody thriller (sort of Agatha Christie does The Twilight Zone) morphs into its own “making of”, a really talky one - a conversation about film, about fear, about fiction. The type of film where the less you know, the better.

    Romania - 2024
    73 minute
    Romanian Days
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    18:00
    TIFF.23

    Perfect Days

    TIFF.23

    Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them.

    Japan - 2023
    123 minute
    Focus Japan
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    19:00
    TIFF.23

    8 Views of Lake Biwa

    TIFF.23

    The Eight Views is an Eastern artistic tradition that describes humans’ state of mind through eight poetic motifs, such as evening glow, first snow, sails returning in the evening, rain in the night, autumn moon, temple bell, clear breeze, wild geese departing.

    Estonia - 2024
    126 minute
    No Limit
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    19:00
    TIFF.23

    Concert PLANET OPAL (IT)

    TIFF.23

    Chromatic sounds and pulsating groove: Giorgio Assi (producer, synthesizers and vocals) and Leonardo De Franceschi (drums and percussion) are inspired by the sound of post-punk and post-disco, intertwining it with a kraut-rock in sound-system key.

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    19:30
    TIFF.23

    Dying

    TIFF.23

    The members of the Lunies family haven’t been a family for a long time. Lissy is quietly happy about her demented husband Gerd slowly wasting away in a home. But her new freedom is short-lived: diabetes, cancer and kidney failure mean that she doesn't have much time left either.

    Germany - 2024
    183 minute
    Supernova
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    19:30
    TIFF.23

    The Promised Land

    TIFF.23

    In 1755, the impoverished captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal: to build a colony in the name of the King. In exchange, he’ll receive a desperately desired Royal name for himself.

    Denmark - 2023
    127 minute
    Supernova
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    19:45
    TIFF.23

    Maia - Portrait with Hands

    TIFF.23

    Maia was born into a semi-nomadic population facing ethnic cleansing. The director, Maia's granddaughter, has produced a vivid visual reconstruction of her journey through the 20th century. Maia's history blends into the larger History.

    Romania - 2024
    90 minute
    Romanian Days
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