Schedule

Friday 18.09

    21:00
    Audience Award at TIFF 2026
    +18

    Feels Like Home

    Audience Award at TIFF 2026

    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
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Saturday 19.09

    16:00
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    Leonora Carrington and The Surrealist Game

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    A documentary tracing the odyssey of Leonora Carrington's passionate life, the last surviving member of the surrealist movement. The film follows a woman's struggle to be free and to explore her own unconscious, a struggle that led to her admission to a Spanish psychiatric hospital in the 1940s.

    Spania - 2023
    76 minute
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    18:00
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    Leonora in the Morning Light

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    In the early 1930s, painter Leonora Carrington, a rebel against social expectations, joins the surrealist movement and its iconic figures like André Breton and Salvador Dalí in Paris. A whirlwind love affair with artist Max Ernst confronts her with her inner demons.

    Germany, România, Mexico, United Kingdom - 2025
    103 minute
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    20:00

    The Last Viking

    Finally free from prison after a 20 year sentence, Anker wants to get back the money he has stolen. However, his brother and accomplice Manfred suffers from dissociative identity disorder: he now believes he is John Lennon, and John can’t remember the place in which Manfred buried the money.

    Denmark, Sweden - 2025
    116 minute
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Sunday 20.09

    15:30
    followed by a debate with Norbert Fodor & BAIFF
    powered by Bucharest AI Film Festival
    Pornit

    A Selection of Films Made with Artificial Intelligence

    followed by a debate with Norbert Fodor & BAIFF
    powered by Bucharest AI Film Festival

    Eight short films, eight ways of looking at what happens when the image stops merely reflecting and becomes an instrument of creation: dictators watching their own collapse, an android in search of a memory, a photograph turned into motion, a childhood filtered into disappearance.

    85 minute
    Intrarea liberă
    22:00

    Le chant des forêts

    After The Velvet Queen, celebrated wildlife photographer Vincent Munier invites us into the heart of the Vosges forests, where his father Michel, a lifelong naturalist, once taught him everything about the wild. Now it is Vincent's turn to pass on this knowledge to his own son, Simon.

    Franța - 2025
    95 minute
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