Film Food in Livada
TIFF.25
5:00 PM – Open Doors & Local Producers' Market
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM – Dinner
7:00 PM – Slow Food talk with Chef Adi Hădean and guests
9:30 PM – Film screening
Schedule
Schedule
Monday 15.06
Sad Girlz
TIFF.25
Paula and La Maestra are sixteen and inseparable. They train together over the summer to represent Mexico at the Junior Pan American Swimming Championship and are the strongest swimmers on their team. One night, at a party, Paula ends up alone with Daniel, a good friend and her longtime crush.
Mexico, Spain, France - 2026
91 minute
Teen Spirit
I Shall See
TIFF.25
17-year-old Lot is a bold and determined teenager whose life takes a devastating turn when a fireworks accident leaves her nearly blind. Struggling to reconcile who she was with who she’s becoming, Lot wrestles with the loss of her independence and the dreams she once held so tightly.
Netherlands - 2025
96 minute
FOCUS Netherlands
Lionel
TIFF.25
With the start of summer in Murcia, Lionel receives some news: when he turns 26, he will lose the orphan's pension he has been living on since the death of his mother. Lionel finds himself in a moment of uncertainty about his future.
Spain, France - 2025
94 minute
Competition
In-I Motion
TIFF.25
In 2007, actress Juliette Binoche and choreographer Akram Khan create In-I, a radical performance built through improvisation. Looking back on that intense creative process today, Binoche explores the personal transformation that is vital for artistic creation.
France - 2025
125 minute
Special Screenings
Species
TIFF.25
Margot, a young intern at the most competitive ER in the country, has trouble keeping up in this stressful environment. As she’s confronted with multiple patients her age presenting unusual symptoms, her own body starts to show disturbing changes...
France, Belgium - 2026
103 minute
Full Moon
Follies
TIFF.25
François and Julie, together for sixteen years and parents of two children, can no longer connect intimately. They decide to open up their relationship in order to engage in sexual follies that will allow them to learn more about themselves... But it can’t be that simple, right?
Canada - 2025
103 minute
No Limit
Un Anno di Scuola
TIFF.25
September 2007. Fred, who has just moved to Trieste with her father, enrolls in the local Technical High School for her senior year, finding herself as the only girl in an all-male class.
Italy, France - 2025
102 minute
Teen Spirit
Kazdoura (Syria/Lebanon/Canada)
TIFF.25
Kazdoura is a duo formed in Toronto by Syrian vocalist Leen Hamo and Lebanese multi-instrumentalist John Abou Chacra. Their name, meaning “a stroll” in Levantine Arabic, reflects a musical universe at the intersection of Arabic tradition, psychedelia, funk, and soul.
Bouchra
TIFF.25
Bouchra (35), a Moroccan filmmaker in New York, is paralyzed by the fear of the blank page. A phone call with her mother in Casablanca will have memories resurfacing.
United States, Italy, Morocco - 2025
82 minute
What's Up, Doc?
Spirited Away
TIFF.25
After her parents are transformed into pigs, young Chihiro becomes trapped in a mysterious, magical world inhabited by spirits and monsters. Terrified at first, the little girl slowly discovers a courage she never knew she possessed...
Japan - 2001
124 minute
Eternal Flame
TIFF.25
Love, cinema and naivety. They meet randomly in the street: João is unemployed, Clara is a cinema production assistant. They remember each other from film school. She invites him to come along in this film she’s working on.
Portugal - 2025
72 minute
Smart 7 Festival Network
Feels Like Home
TIFF.25
Rita, an ordinary, but lonely woman is kidnapped. Her captors are the Árpáds; they claim she is not called Rita but Szilvi, a runaway from their family. Rita eventually understands that the only way out is in - to escape she must impersonate Szilvi.
Hungary - 2025
124 minute
Competition
Hungarian Day
United States - 2025
94 minute
The Pitch Black Anthology
Queen at Sea
TIFF.25
Amanda and her stepfather Martin struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is experiencing advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interest?
United Kingdom - 2026
121 minute
Supernova
El Ultimo Arrebato
TIFF.25
Arrebato (1980), the ultimate cult film of contemporary Spanish cinema, and its enigmatic director Iván Zulueta are bound together by a dark history in which cinema, addiction, and self-destruction become inseparable.
Spain - 2025
108 minute
Double Takes
Wit
TIFF.25
Vivian Bearing, a brilliant and fiercely independent professor of English literature, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer and undergoes an aggressive experimental treatment.
United States - 2001
99 minute
Variations on a Theme
TIFF.25
An elderly goat herder in the mountains of Namaqualand, South Africa, falls victim to a scam promising long-overdue reparations for her father’s WWII service. As she waits for money that will never come, the disruptions of her 80th birthday threaten to strip away the last of her independence.
South Africa, Netherlands, Qatar - 2026
65 minute
What's Up, Doc?
Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
TIFF.25
Viv, a Chinese artist wannabe, got stuck in Berlin after the pandemic and accidentally ventured into the vibrant alternative culture scene. To someone who was raised to follow “the standard”, everything seems so exciting.
Germany, Netherlands - 2026
85 minute
Teen Spirit
The Shadow's Edge
TIFF.25
Wong Tak-chung is an unmatched investigator, but he retired some time ago, as profession made him the target of ruthless criminals.
Hong Kong, China - 2025
136 minute
Supernova
Ghost World
TIFF.25
Alienated teenager Enid drifts through the final summer after high school with her best friend Rebecca. As their friendship begins to fracture, Enid becomes fascinated by a lonely middle-aged man...
United Kingdom, United States, Germany - 2001
112 minute
No Ghosts on Good Street
TIFF.25
Four siblings on the verge of adulthood try to build their independent lives without losing the bonds that connect them.
Poland - 2025
90 minute
Smart 7 Festival Network
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
Sabado
TIFF.25
Antonia is fuming. She is pregnant and the man who slept with her is getting married in a few hours to another woman. Antonia decides to search out her rival and confront her...
A film made in a single shot, exactly as its Double Takes partner, Romanian production 3 Days in September!
Chile - 2003
63 minute
Double Takes
Tuesday 16.06
If Pigeons Turned to Gold
TIFF.25
This deeply personal documentary captures several years in the lives of four family members. Pepa, the director, records on an iPhone and tries to understand why their beloved older brother and cousins live unhoused and experience substance addiction.
Czech Republic, Slovakia - 2026
113 minute
Supernova
Skiff
TIFF.25
Fifteen-year-old Malou grows up in a small town with her two brothers and their mother. She excels at the local rowing club, but also gets bullied by her teammates. While her mother is trying to start dating again, the one person she can turn to is her older brother Max.
Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden - 2026
107 minute
Teen Spirit
Far From Maine
TIFF.25
Roy Cohen, an Israeli filmmaker of Arab-Jewish descent, addresses his Palestinian friend Aseel Asleh, killed by Israeli police in their youth, through an intimate cinematic dialogue across time.
France, Italy, Hungary - 2026
100 minute
What's Up, Doc?
Green Light
TIFF.25
The film follows Dr. Johann Spittler, a German neuropsychiatrist and one of the few specialists qualified to assess the decision-making capacity of individuals seeking assisted suicide.
Austria, România - 2025
101 minute
No Limit
Our Father
TIFF.25
After years of spiraling addiction, 32-year-old Dejan arrives at an isolated monastery where addicts are treated through labor, discipline, obedience and faith. Immersed in a rigid daily routine, Dejan begins his painful journey toward recovery.
Serbia, Croatia (Hrvatska), Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2025
89 minute
Competition
The Visitor
TIFF.25
30-year-old Danielius has been living in Norway for over a decade. He has everything he needs — a job, a family, and friends. But when his father passes away, he is forced to return to his hometown in Lithuania to sell his childhood flat.
Lithuania, Norway, Sweden - 2025
115 minute
Smart 7 Festival Network