Playlist
<p>A Parkdale apartment complex becomes a place of intrigue, desire, and deceit in Kunsang Kyirong’s stunning mystery drama.</p>
<p>Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across borders.</p>
<p>Oscar Restrepo's obsession with poetry brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a humble teenager, and helping her cultivate her talent brings some light to his days, but dragging her into the world of poets may not be the way.</p>
<p>The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.</p>
<p>Family ties are strained to their limits in this devilishly comic neo-noir from actor-director Alex Winter. Starring Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner) and Josh Gad (Frozen), Adulthood follows a pair of grown-up siblings forced to cover their tracks after making a grisly discovery.</p>
<p>When a chemical fire spreads smoke across her village, young Esma must help her father manage new and old troubles in this brutal and powerful look at a rural Anatolian family.</p>
<p>Instagram vs. Reality takes on a whole new meaning in Joscha Bongard’s Babystar, where the teenage daughter of a pair of family vloggers learns she’s not just the star but the victim.</p>
<p>The satirical thriller Bad Apples stars Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) as a primary school teacher forced to take drastic action because of a foul-mouthed, violent student, and uncovers how her community will turn a blind eye to the most outrageous events to preserve harmony and their sense of safety.</p>
<p>When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.</p>
<p>When a revered cult leader is anonymously accused of sexual abuse, rookie detective Roohi battles entrenched power, silenced victims, and rising danger in a tense, uncompromising fight for justice.</p>
<p>A trans man and his partner travel to a remote Iranian village to face his estranged father and obtain documents that would permit them to live authentically, in visionary director Farnoosh Samadi’s bold queer love story.</p>
<p>Shot using 3D animation, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s singular and affecting debut feature Bouchra combines documentary techniques with an inventive narrative structure, exploring the relationship between Bouchra, a queer Moroccan Coyote filmmaker, and her cardiologist mother (also a Coyote), who lives in Casablanca.</p>
<p>Actor James McAvoy makes his directorial debut with this irresistible, feel-good underdog tale about two Scottish men pretending to be Americans to achieve their dreams of hip-hop stardom. It’s based on a true story that’s stranger than fiction.</p>
<p>An aged Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter's decision to sell her home.</p>
<p>CODA breakout Emilia Jones and Nick Robinson (The Kings of Summer) star in this charming, grounded love story from first-time filmmakers Tom Dean and Mac Eldridge.</p>
<p>Tells the story of Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer of the 90s.</p>
<p>Anchored by a memorable performance from Oscar winner Angelina Jolie, this absorbing network narrative from Alice Winocour (TIFF ’22’s Paris Memories), set in the Parisian fashion industry, weaves multiple threads of women and girls from Ukraine, France, and Sudan, in the lead up to a fashion show.</p>
<p>A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.</p>
<p>On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis, entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a "dead man's wire" from the trigger to Tony's own neck.</p>
<p>Creators, superfans, and stars including Aubrey Drake Graham delve deep into all things Degrassi in this engaging history of the Canadian show that changed teen TV.</p>
<p>Dinner with Friends brings viewers inside a fractured group of eight longtime friends who intermittently come together for dinner parties to share in the joys and pains of being adults today.</p>
<p>Bobby Farrelly’s charming Driver’s Ed follows a high school senior (Sam Nivola from The White Lotus) who hits the road to save his relationship with his college-bound girlfriend, with his principal (Molly Shannon) and driving instructor (Kumail Nanjiani) in hot pursuit.</p>
<p>A 10-year-old girl procures the services of a hit man (Mads Mikkelsen) to kill the monster under her bed in this whimsically macabre feature debut from acclaimed television showrunner Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Hannibal).</p>
<p>Documentary about Elvis Presley, featuring never-before-seen footage and recordings.</p>
<p>True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto’s Easy’s Waltz focuses on a Vegas crooner (Vince Vaughn) who’s offered a shot at the big time when an older star (Al Pacino) offers help, but will his old habits torpedo his last chance? With Shania Twain and Cobie Smulders.</p>
<p>Freaky science fiction collides with a ruthless satire of gonzo journalism and indie-sleaze excess in this audacious feature by Sweden’s Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja.</p>
<p>After seventy years with best friend, Eleanor moves to New York City for a fresh start. Making new friends at ninety proves difficult. Longing for connection, she befriends a 19-year-old student</p>
<p>Follows Cass a young woman who has come to a personal point of emotional invulnerability, until she meets Virgil, a cartographer. Along with his partner Malcolm, the pair will attempt to travel back in time to awaken Cass to love again.</p>
<p>Set in the afterlife, this stirring drama from director David Freyne (TIFF ’17’s The Cured) features Elizabeth Olsen (TIFF ’24’s The Assessment) and Miles Teller (Whiplash) as souls in transit — and a troubled love triangle.</p>
<p>Spending her summer in Mallorca, Antonia comes to recognize the latent similarities between her and her dead grandmother and discovers a power over her mourning grandfather. She can’t resist playing dress-up, but it becomes unclear who is inhabiting who.</p>
<p>A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation</p>
<p>Toggling between past and present, the latest from filmmaker Agnieszka Holland is a masterful tour de force portrait of legendary writer Franz Kafka, who remains celebrated worldwide for his books, short stories, fables, and aphorisms.</p>
<p>Todd Rohal (The Catechism Cataclysm, Uncle Kent 2) violates all boundaries of good taste in this gleefully profane adaptation of Johnny Ryan’s underground comic about a decrepit mother (Robert Longstreet) who will stop at nothing to get her mutant son (Steve Little) laid.</p>
<p>Veteran director David Mackenzie returns to TIFF with Fuze, a propulsive heist movie packed with twists and turns. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Sam Worthington, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.</p>
<p>Ten‑year‑old Rabia defies rural superstition and bureaucratic neglect to uncover why her school abruptly closed. Untangling eerie rumours, corrupt local power, and silence, she undertakes a solitary, courageous search for truth and justice.</p>
<p>Two brothers following a violent exchange with their father on the day of their mother's funeral, the younger of the two left their Highland home for America. After forty years they reunite in the land of their birth.</p>
<p>Actor-writer-director Aziz Ansari co-stars with Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen, Sandra Oh, and Keke Palmer in this hilarious modern fantasy in which the angel Gabriel, dissatisfied with performing minor acts of divine intervention, attempts to improve the lives of several struggling mortals.</p>
<p>Starring Sul Kyung-gu (TIFF ’02’s Oasis), Hong Kyung (A Distant Place), and Ryoo Seung-bum (The Unjust) this tension-riddled, 1970s-set action thriller from South Korean writer-director Byun Sung-hyun (The Kingmaker) takes us aboard a hijacked plane.</p>
<p>Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, TIFF ’20 People’s Choice Award) helms this lush and tender drama about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his family, as seen through the eyes of his thoughtful wife Agnes (a luminous Jessie Buckley).</p>
<p>Transplanted to mid-century England, Candyman director Nia DaCosta’s bold reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s play features a magnetic lead performance from Tessa Thompson (Passing) in a fresh, feminist game of power.</p>
<p>Hen chronicles a remarkable chicken as she escapes her grisly fate in this unorthodox and bold story from György Pálfi, telling a tall tale of human misery via a small bird in search of home.</p>
<p>Homebound is the second feature film by Neeraj Ghaywan, following his acclaimed debut Masaan (2015). While specific plot details remain under wraps, the film is described as a poignant drama that delves into themes of identity, belonging, and the complexities of human relationships. The narrative is expected to reflect Ghaywan's signature storytelling style, characterized by emotional depth and social relevance.</p>
<p>With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.</p>
<p>Described as a tightly guarded mystery film, It Was Just an Accident begins with a minor incident that triggers a series of escalating consequences. The narrative delves into the unforeseen ramifications of a seemingly trivial event, exploring themes of fate and the interconnectedness of human actions</p>
<p>In crumbling Caracas, after burying her mother, Adelaida finds her home taken by armed militia. With society falling apart, she must risk all, including her identity, to survive.</p>
<p>A surprise attack on a joint expedition between humans and their emancipated clones becomes the freaky fulcrum for a dimension-hopping, time-travel fable set over a millennia before Takahide Hori’s original subterranean stop-motion animated opus, Junk Head.</p>
<p>Featuring candid testimonies from John Candy’s friends and family — including Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Catherine O’Hara, and more — Colin Hanks’ wildly entertaining documentary celebrates one of the most beloved comedic actors of our time.</p>
<p>Two women’s unique campaign for marriage equality inspires a poignant screen love story by director Cato Kusters.</p>
<p>Aleksandar Radivojević (co-writer of A Serbian Film) makes his directorial debut with an audacious satirical thriller about an expectant mother (Jelena Djokić) who receives a phone call from a deity that demands she obey a list of murderous instructions.</p>
<p>In post-war Japan's economic boom, gangster family-born Kikuo Tachibana finds himself adopted by a kabuki actor. Despite life's challenges, he develops into a gifted performer.</p>
<p>In post-war Saigon, a young translator and an older widow find comfort with each other in Leon Le’s gentle and subtle sophomore feature, starring Lien Binh Phat of The Outlaw Doctor and Do Thi Hai Yen of The Quiet American.</p>
<p>A young man struggles to find his own path and save his father and his family business under a violent and oppressive apartheid regime in Zamo Mkhwanazi’s stunning feature debut.</p>
<p>This galvanizing documentary from director Ally Pankiw (I Used To Be Funny) takes us behind the scenes of Sarah McLachlan’s legendary all-women music festival and features interviews with performers including Bonnie Raitt, Erykah Badu, Olivia Rodrigo, and Emmylou Harris.</p>
<p>A small town in Cape Breton becomes home to an international drug smuggling ring, featuring Stephen Amell, Stephen McHattie, Sean Astin and Colombian musician J Balvin.</p>
<p>Philippe Falardeau returns with a playful yet poignant deconstruction of the wedding movie.</p>
<p>Opening this year’s Discovery programme is Maddie’s Secret, the unmissable directorial debut satirizing and skewering content culture from iconic alt-comedian John Early, who plays the titular role, alongside a troupe of comedians including Kate Berlant, Vanessa Bayer, and Conner O’Malley.</p>
<p>Based on her 2017 documentary Birth of a Family, Tasha Hubbard’s Meadowlarks is an emotional drama that follows four siblings, separated by the Sixties Scoop, as they come together over a week.</p>
<p>I Like Movies director Chandler Levack’s Mile End Kicks is a bright romantic comedy starring Barbie Ferreira as Grace, a young music critic who moves to Montreal to figure out life and love.</p>
<p>Based on true events, Monkey in a Cage follows a hard-hitting drama centered around political intrigue and personal upheaval. Bobby Deol leads the cast (supported by Sanya Malhotra, Saba Azad, Sapna Pabbi), delivering a performance rooted in Kashyap’s signature grit.</p>
<p>Far from home and haunted by visions, a Māori woman uncovers gruesome secrets inside an English manor. A bold, unsettling gothic tale of identity, memory, and colonial reckoning.</p>
<p>A fateful encounter with the police propels two estranged friends to reevaluate their relationship, in Eva Thomas’ thoughtful and urgent debut.</p>
<p>Three days in the life of Nino – the wanderings of a young man in Paris, as he is torn between his yearning for solitude and his need for other people.</p>
<p>They were never in time to book a gig at The Rivoli, then one day… they weren’t in their time at all. From Matt Johnson (BlackBerry) and Jay McCarrol's cult comedy series comes an adventure 17 years in the making.</p>
<p>Director Ben Wheatley and John Wick creator Derek Kolstad pit a provisional sheriff (Bob Odenkirk) against his constituents when the exposure of a small town’s sordid secret sparks a rip-roaring firefight.</p>
<p>This is the story of Godard making ”Breathless”, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made “Breathless”.</p>
<p>Based on the 1985 Palace of Justice siege, Noviembre blends gripping fiction and striking archival footage to deliver a tense, haunting reflection on conviction, chaos, and the enduring wounds of one of Colombia’s darkest days.</p>
<p>Featuring powerhouse performances from Oscar winners Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, this gripping historical drama from writer-director James Vanderbilt (TIFF ’15’s Truth) chronicles the events that brought the Nazi high command to justice in the wake of World War II.</p>
<p>When a hopeless romantic makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him, a sinister enchantment ensues in writer-director Curry Barker’s freaky and frightening feature debut.</p>
<p>A young nun sets off on a poetic, mystical pilgrimage to save her dying congregation, encountering others whose own trials of faith, privilege, and contradiction mirror her haunting search for divine meaning in a fractured, material world.</p>
<p>Based on true events, Goran Stankovic’s Our Father portrays a recovering addict in an isolated Serbian monastery where not even God can save him from the extreme treatment methods of an authoritarian patriarch.</p>
<p>The story of Sandra Perron, Canada’s first woman infantry officer, yields a compelling drama that’s as tenacious as its subject.</p>
<p>1936. As villages across Mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With rising numbers of Jewish immigrants escaping antisemitism in Europe, and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against Britain's 30-year dominion, all sides spiral towards inevitable collision in a decisive moment for the British Empire and the future of the entire region.</p>
<p>A kennel owner, grappling with climate anxiety, falls in love with a customer service rep over the phone. Amid a natural disaster, he embarks on an adventurous, bilingual romantic journey to find her.</p>
<p>Maude Apatow’s debut feature, the hilarious and generous college comedy Poetic License, focuses on the unlikely friendship between two college seniors and a mature woman auditing their poetry course. It’s the perfect fall movie — when optimism and excitement rule and finals are months and months away.</p>
<p>Early 18th century. Venice, Italy. The fate of a virtuoso violinist named Cecilia (Tecla Insolia) is transferred when her orphanage hires an ambitious composer as the new musical instructor: Antonio Vivaldi.</p>
<p>Two women are friends and of the same age. They make an audacious plan to steal $6 million USD in gold bars and flee from the area.</p>
<p>Oscar winner Brendan Fraser stars as an American actor in Tokyo who suffers a colossal case of impostor syndrome when he becomes a professional surrogate in this wise and whimsical dramedy from director HIKARI (TIFF ’19’s 37 Seconds).</p>
<p>Starring Channing Tatum and Oscar nominee Kirsten Dunst, this wildly entertaining true-crime drama from Oscar-nominated director Derek Cianfrance (TIFF ’10’s Blue Valentine) tells the story of Jeffrey Manchester, the “Rooftop Robber,” and his efforts to evade capture.</p>
<p>Mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.</p>
<p>An environmental conference is disrupted — first by celebrities — and then by eco-terrorists. Chris Evans, Anya-Taylor Joy, Vincent Cassel, Salma Hayek, John Malkovich, Ambika Mod, Charli XCX, and Jonatan “Yung Lean” Leandoer star in Romain Gavras’ satirical thriller Sacrifice.</p>
<p>Follows the story of a brave princess who transcends time and space.</p>
<p>An intimate and moving exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.</p>
<p>A bizarre case caused thousands of waves. There are different opinions on the truth. When the whole story of the case was gradually restored like pieces of a puzzle, people realized that the truth was not that important anymore.</p>
<p>After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.</p>
<p>Tales told from the perspective of a lonely old tree standing in the middle of a botanical garden.</p>
<p>Zain Duraie’s debut feature is a magnificent portrait of a mother struggling with her son’s unravelling mental state in a film buoyed by the sublime camerawork of Farouk Laâridh (Four Daughters).</p>
<p>This genre-bending otherworldly drama follows two brothers’ journey to avenge the spirits that haunt them from their childhood.</p>
<p>A remote German farm harbors generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered walls.</p>
<p>Director Clement Virgo returns with a bold, mesmerizing, and erotically charged thriller that's part fairy tale, part fever dream.</p>
<p>Oscar winner Cillian Murphy anchors this gripping adaptation of a bestselling novella from 2023. Faced with ever-increasing pressures, the head of a crumbling reform school for boys navigates a pivotal, fraught day while clinging to a fading sense of hope.</p>
<p>Starring Lily James, this drama from director Rachel Lee Goldenberg (Unpregnant) is inspired by the real-life story of Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd.</p>
<p>A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.</p>
<p>In 1575 Algiers, a young soldier named Miguel de Cervantes is held for ransom — unaware he’s on the path to becoming one of history’s greatest storytellers. This bold, visually stunning film is a reimagining of the true story behind Cervantes’ transformation.</p>
<p>Starring Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes (TIFF ’24’s Conclave), this heart-soaring period drama from director Nicholas Hytner (The Madness of King George) tells the story of young men raising their voices in song under the shadow of WWI.</p>
<p>The great Ian McKellen and I May Destroy You’s Michaela Coel make a brilliant pairing in Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh’s incisively witty chamber comedy about art, commerce, and avarice.</p>
<p>Celebrated Argentinian artist Lina survives a fall in the icy waters of a lake in Switzerland, triggering a haunting journey through trauma, memory, and motherhood. Milagros Mumenthaler’s bold third feature immerses us in Lina’s fractured world—beautiful, fragile, and charged with emotional urgency.</p>
<p>Acclaimed action choreographer-turned-director Kenji Tanigaki (SPL, Flash Point, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In) propels a desperate father (Xie Miao) into a knock-down, drag-out war to rescue his daughter from a nefarious array of cutthroat kidnappers.</p>
<p>Based on events that transpired during the California Camp Fire, this tale of heroism from Oscar-nominated director Paul Greengrass (United 93) stars Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in a desperate struggle to bring a busload of children to safety.</p>
<p>When a mysterious man (Willem Dafoe) approaches Charles Blakey (Corey Hawkins) to rent his basement for a generous sum, Blakey is drawn into a chilling reality involving his own family’s hidden history in Nadia Latif’s adaptation of Walter Mosley’s novel.</p>
<p>In the tradition of American Pie, Lord of the Rings, and Wet Hot American Summer comes a new instalment in a beloved IP franchise: The Napa Boys are back! In search of wine. In search of women. In search of themselves.</p>
<p>Against the threatening specter of 1977 Brazil, we meet Marcelo, a man in his 40s who has recently moved to Recife to escape a violent past, but finds himself becoming an agent of chaos.</p>
<p>A gritty, emotionally charged biopic, The Smashing Machine chronicles the rise and fall of legendary MMA fighter Mark Kerr through the lens of his most triumphant and troubled moments. Dwayne Johnson transforms into Kerr, capturing both his ferocious power inside the octagon and his personal struggles with addiction and relationships. The film delves into Kerr’s tumultuous relationship with his wife Dawn Staples (Emily Blunt), as well as his friendships and rifts with fellow fighters and mentors. Shot on 16 mm film by cinematographer Maceo Bishop, its visual texture evokes the raw, visceral reality of the early UFC era. As much a character study as a sports drama, it explores themes of fame, recovery, and identity.</p>
<p>Set against the rugged beauty of the northern Scottish coast, Stroma Cairns’s intimate, visually striking debut feature follows three young men at a turning point — learning, with quiet grace, what it means to grow up.</p>
<p>Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. Depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers' worship through song and dance, based on real events.</p>
<p>Acclaimed director Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan) trades spectacle for intimacy with a haunting tale of memory and moral ambiguity, about a son’s search for truth and a past that refuses to stay buried.</p>
<p>In this powerful, emotionally layered drama, a spirited teenager confronts buried pain, while director Yoon Ga-eun explores the quiet resilience it takes to own one’s story — and future.</p>
<p>Based on the bestselling novel by Michela Murgia, the latest from Isabel Coixet is a heartfelt love letter to life — precious and fleeting — starring Alba Rohrwacher and Elio Germano.</p>
<p>The latest from multi-talented filmmaker Valentyn Vasyanovych, who also plays the lead character, is set in Ukraine’s post-war future. While the country has been liberated, it's not quite the homeland that he and many others had longed for.</p>
<p>Robert Grainier is a day laborer building America’s railroads at the start of the 20th century as he experiences profound love, shocking defeat, and a world irrevocably transforming before his very eyes.</p>
<p>Documentarian Daniel Roher dazzles with his narrative debut, a whip-smart thriller about an unusual safecracker.</p>
<p>Mathias, a virtuoso pianist, lives an impossible love story.</p>
<p>A strange death, village upheavals, and swarming suitors lead to a love story gone awry in acclaimed Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s latest enthralling imagining of ancient Inuit stories.</p>
<p>Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) faces his most dangerous mystery yet in the latest entry in Rian Johnson’s beloved Knives Out series.</p>
<p>Based on a short story by Nobel Prize–winner Olga Tokarczuk, the latest from director Kasia Adamik is a thrilling cat-and-mouse game set on the eve of Poland’s Martial Law era, starring the supremely talented Lesley Manville.</p>
<p>Nick Davis’ high-spirited documentary reveals how a humble Toronto run of the hippie musical Godspell became an historic incubator for modern comedy.</p>
<p>Marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder goes on a journey to the ocean depths hoping to capture the phenomenon of bioluminescence like it’s never been seen on camera before, from director Tasha Van Zandt and the production company behind Fire of Love.</p>
<p>After Russia's 2022 invasion, Ryzhykov became a soldier in the Ukrainian army. But he also remained a filmmaker, often carrying both a camera and a gun. Joining the Territorial Defence Forces and given the nickname ‘Canon’, Ryzhykov attempts to grapple with military life alongside his comrades, while striving to stay connected with Irina, his young wife. As his experience grows, his perspective shifts – he is forced to come to terms with the pain of losing fellow soldiers as well as confronting the profound ethical dilemma of documenting war. An intelligent and searching documentary exploring honour, duty and the impact of conflict, A Simple Soldier is also a story of love, friendship and family.</p>
<p>What happens when you mix reindeer herders, family secrets, and a 3,000-person wedding planned in a month? This riotous comedy-drama is both heartfelt and hilarious; a chaotic celebration of culture, kin, love, and imperfection.</p>
<p>A happily married couple, and their seven-year-old son Dot. Nat dies of respiratory disease caused by air pollution.</p>
<p>Set on Atikameksheng Anishnawbek (formerly known as Whitefish Lake), this visual art documentary follows the seasons in director Darlene Naponse’s home community in Northern Ontario.</p>
<p>The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough" by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos soon has a crush on Terezinha, the only girl in the group. The trouble is that Eduardo, the gang boss, is also in love with the pretty girl. And he will not allow any rival to challenge him.</p>
<p>Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, , leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing a journalist into a journey that shatters her understanding of consciousness and time.</p>
<p>In the gritty outskirts of Medellín, Barrio Triste captures a hallucinatory day and night in the lives of youth navigating the raw edges of survival, desire, and escape. Through hypnotic imagery and a pulsating score by Arca, Stillz crafts a poetic portrait of street life where violence and tenderness coexist. With a loose, dreamlike narrative, the film drifts between moments of silence, chaos, and intimacy, as its characters search for meaning amid a crumbling urban reality. Executive produced by Harmony Korine, Barrio Triste is an audiovisual descent into the textures of marginalization and resilience, blurring the line between fiction, documentary, and music video.</p>
<p>An Iranian boy is lost after fleeing home for his life; his family has been killed during the Iran-Iraq war. He's saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.</p>
<p>Documentarian Gianfranco Rosi’s monumental latest details with pointillist precision and unnerving beauty a region in Naples living under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and above the simmering Campi Flegrei volcanic caldera.</p>
<p>Jude Law and Jason Bateman star as brothers and co-founders of a trendy New York restaurant, each hustling in their own way to keep their business — and each other — afloat amid a rising tide of chaos.</p>
<p>Blood Lines is a lesbian romance wrapped up in a celebration of Métis culture</p>
<p>A family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the eyes of the youngest child.</p>
<p>A portrait of one crucial night in the melancholy life of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (played by Ethan Hawke, in a tour de force), Blue Moon is a surprising yet entirely fitting addition to the Richard Linklater canon.</p>
<p>Filmmaker Billy Corben (Cocaine Cowboys) traces the history of celebrity chef Paula Deen and reconsiders the scandal that exploded her multi-million dollar empire.</p>
<p>With the soulful appeal of the Jonathan Edwards song that shares its name, Carolina Caroline is a sweet, slick road movie about a woman yearning to find herself. Finding love instead, she starts robbing banks.</p>
<p>On the outskirts of an isolated mining town, Lázaro discovers a dead body. He thinks he has a respiratory illness and doesn’t want to go back to the mine. Rumours, suspicion and desire surround him.</p>
<p>An investigative documentary that follows journalist Seymour Hersh as he uncovers and exposes significant politically sensitive stories—continuing Poitras’s acclaimed engagement with high‑stakes investigative journalism and governmental power.</p>
<p>Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa, four dandelion achenes rescued from nuclear explosions that destroyed the Earth, find themselves projected into the cosmos. After landing on an unknown planet, they start searching for a suitable soil to perpetuate their species. But they will have to overcome the elements, the fauna, the flora and the changing climate.</p> <p>Rescued from Earth's nuclear annihilation, four friends crash-land on an unknown planet and courageously set out to locate a new home capable of sustaining their species.</p>
<p>In this newly restored cult favourite by Indian legend Satyajit Ray, four young male urbanites decamp to the countryside for some rest and relaxation, only to have their pride and prejudices challenged by three women.</p>
<p>In this surprising debut feature, Chadian director Achille Ronaimou crafts a relentless thriller where a man accused of killing a child must pay a blood debt.</p>
<p>In a future Paris divided by class, an AI named Alma oversees society. When Alma's creator dies, cop Salia teams with Zem to unravel a mystery questioning their segregated world.</p>
<p>Sports photographer Lisa vanishes without warning, leaving behind a letter asking not to be found. She was last seen photographing rural football fields in remote Georgian villages. Her father, Irakli, unable to accept her disappearance, sets out on a journey to find her. He teams up with Levani, Lisa’s enigmatic best friend, and together they travel across the countryside, retracing her steps through quiet villages, meeting kind strangers, and speaking with children playing football along the way.</p>
<p>The legendary Italian stage diva Eleonora Duse, through the latter part of her life and her legendary career is now long over.</p>
<p>Egypt's most adored actor, George El-Nabawi, falls into disgrace with the authorities overnight. On the verge of losing everything, George is forced to accept an offer he can't refuse.</p>
<p>In this bold debut, director Zahraa Ghandour weaves a personal yet woefully universal story from her childhood into a careful, modern-day inquiry into the mistreatment of Iraqi women and girls.</p>
<p>François and Julie, a married couple of 16 years with two children, find their sexual connection waning. In a bid to rekindle intimacy, they decide to open their relationship—exploring polyamory, libertinism, and BDSM. What starts as an experiment turns into a raw, hyperreal, and emotionally “folichonne” journey toward self‑discovery and reconnection</p>
<p>This sweeping, cinematic series from director Hansal Mehta depicts the formative years and legal career of civil rights icon and champion of Indian independence, Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi.</p>
<p>In 1988, the smoke and dust covered the sky in Keelung Harbor. Lin Xiaoli grew up in confusion and longed to escape the darkness. Until she met Li Lili, a fearless and free girl, that she saw the colors of the world for the first time.</p>
<p>Nineteen-year-old hooligan Tommy (Anson Boon) is on a bender with his wild friends. When he becomes separated from the group, he continues partying into the early hours. Though he is no stranger to inflicting violence, Tommy is horrified when he wakes with a chain around his neck in the basement of the isolated suburban family home of well-to-do Chris (Stephen Graham), his wife Kathryn (Andrea Riseborough), and their young son Jonathan. The kidnapping is part of a process of turning Tommy into a “good boy,” which he — at first — vehemently rejects. Finding himself the subject of a forced rehabilitation while trapped inside a dysfunctional family unit, he seeks escape at any cost. As the walls close around him, Tommy finds middle ground with his tormentors though he soon learns that, although independence might be close, it would come at a significant cost. Fresh and unsettling, Good</p>
<p>Diana’s husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she can’t remember why... As her memories begin to creep back in so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.</p>
<p>Funny, honest, and deeply human, I Swear tells the inspirational true story of John Davidson, a trailblazer whose honesty and humour helped the world better understand what it means to live with Tourette Syndrome.</p>
<p>Jitank Singh Gurjar’s latest is a moving tale of faith, poverty, and familial obligation. Facing old age and at risk of losing their land, all while caring for a mentally challenged adult son, an elderly couple must make an impossible decision.</p>
<p>A poetic and dramatic exploration set in modern-day Iraq, following a young boy whose imagination crosses paths with ancient Mesopotamian myth, blending reality and legend through the archetype of Gilgamesh</p>
<p>Celebrating 50 years, Jaws remains one of the most terrifying movies ever made, and announced Spielberg’s arrival as one of the most powerful filmmakers in the world.</p>
<p>A single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, each navigating the challenges of adapting to their new environment while striving to maintain family unity.</p>
<p>Rhayne Vermette’s (Ste. Anne, NYFF59) newest feature spins an eerie tale about humanity’s uneasy relationship with the natural world, featuring a mysterious narrative, tactile visuals, and dense soundscapes.</p>
<p>Until the age of two and a half years old, Amélie describes herself as a digestive tube, inert and vegetative. Then comes the crucial event that makes her leap into childhood. She discovers language, parents, brothers and sisters, a heavenly garden, passions (Japan and water), aversions (to carp), seasons and time. Everything that, from the age of three, constitutes the human person forever. Because at that age, everything is played out, happiness as well as tragedy.</p>
<p>Oscar winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo, TIFF ’18) turn the camera on Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Lynsey Addario as she documents the war in Ukraine and looks back on her career.</p>
<p>A delivery driver in New York City discovers his e-bike has been stolen. With his family en route after many years apart, Lu must contend with a community that has turned its back on him while he tries to replace the only thing promising to keep his family afloat.</p>
<p>Historical drama in black and white. We follow the life of Beatrice Barbosa de Magallanes in contrast to the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan, her husband. Beatrice fights for her survival and that of her children, while the navigator tries to carry out an impossible maritime expedition. Beatrice will die young, in a world too old for her.</p>
<p>A film set in a fictional world where there are no longer adults. The kids live without governance and do what they please.</p>
<p>Set in Umata, a futuristic African country, Memory of Princess Mumbi recounts a love triangle between a film director, an aspiring actress, and a prince.</p>
<p>In the final days of Ceausescu’s Romania, Maria, 10, becomes the last witness to her sister’s mysterious disappearance and must find the courage to grow up in a collapsing world.</p>
<p>Laura’s life is upended when she is in a car crash with her boyfriend who is killed. Laura wanders into the house and life of a family of strangers, who offer to take care of her, but their motivations turn out to not be as simple as they first appear.</p>
<p>Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin challenge toxic misconceptions about sex work and sex workers with great audacity and high style.</p>
<p>In 1970s Detroit, MILLER falls in love with a local gangster's girl. In retaliation, the gangster enacts a frame job to send the innocent man to prison. Life ruined, Miller plots a revenge campaign against the man who took his girl away.</p>
<p>Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city's magnitude and their father's daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.</p>
<p>New York, 1995. The members of a dysfunctional vampire family are trying to reconcile with each other following the death of their father Dracula, murdered by Dr Van Helsing. Meanwhile, they are pursued by him and his unfortunate nephew. An ultra-stylised, post-modern vampire tale that brings the forces of love and the forces of destruction face to face in New York, the contemporary battleground for the eternal confrontation of vampire stories.</p>
<p>A garage rock trio gets the opportunity of a lifetime to open up for Green Day and hit the road across America to make the gig. The only problem is… they didn’t realize it was a prank.</p>
<p>Despite it lasting 90 days in 1974, there is only eight minutes of footage about an Indigenous youth-led armed occupation in Kenora, Ontario. The documentary Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising tells that story of Indigenous resilience and power.</p>
<p>After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.</p>
<p>Eimi Imanishi’s poignant debut feature explores the refugee experience through a young Sahrawi woman who’s deported back to Western Sahara, a very different world than she’s used to among a family that still resents her departure.</p>
<p>Armed men kill Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar during attempted eviction in Argentina, 2009. After years of protests, court case opens in 2018. community voices and trial footage amid colonial land struggles.</p>
<p>Nuns vs. The Vatican exposes a scandal that’s growing in momentum inside the Catholic Church, from Emmy-winning director Lorena Luciano and executive producer Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: SVU).</p>
<p>A fourteen-year-old must care for his bedridden father with multiple sclerosis, but when his neighbor invites him to a party, his world is turned upside down.</p>
<p>An in-depth look at the transformative power of sport, as told through the creation, launch, and impact of the Basketball Africa League (BAL).</p>
<p>In Budapest in 1957, one year after the failure of the Hungarian Revolution, a young Jewish boy whose mother has raised him to believe that his father will return from the camps has his hopes shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the doorstep to take his family back.</p>
<p>The ultimate and comprehensive documentary film about the exceptional writer George Orwell.</p>
<p>Veteran filmmaker Mary Stephen digs into her own family past to uncover the long-hidden origins of her Western surname, revealing a story of culture shock, colonialism, and contested remembrance.</p>
<p>The six‑episode drama series recreates the dramatic true story of iconic Italian TV host Enzo Tortora, who was arrested in 1983 after claims from state witnesses alleging involvement with the Camorra. Tortora’s wrongful imprisonment and long legal ordeal unfold in detail, as Bellocchio explores injustice, media power, and personal tragedy with historical depth and moral urgency.</p>
<p>Powwow People is a radically immersive, durational portrait and cinematic celebration of a contemporary powwow by Sky Hopinka, one of the most vital artists working today.</p>
<p>This film is a window, opened through a miraculous encounter with Fatima. Offering glimpses of the ongoing massacre of the Palestinians. She has become my eyes in Gaza, and I, her connection to the outside world. We have kept this line of life going for almost a year. The bits of pixel and sound that we exchanged have become the film that you see.</p>
<p>Acclaimed director Chie Hayakawa weaves an emotional and poignant coming-of-age story about resilience, the healing power of the imagination and a traumatized family struggling for connection.</p>
<p>A Deaf man, recently released from prison, struggles to reconnect with his family and community, while at the same time pursuing justice, in this powerfully emotional tale of redemption from the producers of Adolescence.</p>
<p>This historical epic tells the story of Hungarian army commander John Hunyadi, who faced an Ottoman military force twice the size of his own troops at the bloody Siege of Belgrade.</p>
<p>The real-life drama behind star player Roy Keane’s rift with manager Mick McCarthy on the eve of the 2002 World Cup, Saipan is a story of ego, loyalty, and identity that resonates beyond the world of sports.</p>
<p>A group of business people gather in a performance hall to discuss important business. Buried under endlessly amusing, eccentric minutiae, Richard Hunter’s absurdist wonder is an anarchic meditation on rules of social engagement.</p>
<p>Body horror meets prairie gothic in Gavin Baird’s mind-blowing period sci-fi that flips the script on colonization as an alien in the form of an Indigenous man infiltrates a remote Saskatchewan community and seduces its members one by one.</p>
<p>The saying “If walls could talk…” takes on a whole other dimension in Gonçalo Almeida’s astute, mood-driven study of a hotel housekeeper slowly succumbing to the building’s sinister rhythms, punctuated by an unnerving, precisely calibrated score.</p>
<p>A surreal portrait of married life told across a day in three parts. A couple navigates life's smaller ruptures - the world distorts, the body surprises - but their bond holds, serene and slightly off-kilter.</p>
<p>A praying mantis mutant seduces and preys on men out of desperation to save her child. A failed mission led to revelations of her past and dark secrets as the story unfolds.</p>
<p>In Gabriel Motta’s elegantly staged, unsettling horror, communing with the dead under a bridal veil is signature practice of a family-run cult. But repressed dynamics come to a head when a sinister force is unleashed in one of the sessions.</p>
<p>In Will Niava’s masterfully orchestrated jazz ride, Koffi, son of a legendary trumpet player, must confront the weight of his father’s legacy and leave the ghosts of Ivory Coast behind.</p>
<p>Anticipation builds as staff at the Duckpin Bowling Center make meticulous preparations for a mystery event in Arvin Belarmino and Kyla Danelle Romero’s utterly dazzling, pitch-perfect homage to sibling love and chosen family.</p>
<p>In Chelsea McMullan’s poignantly observed role reversal, a daughter extends unconditional support to her ailing mother as they explore alternative healing methods, deftly transmuting inherent eccentricity into a profound expression of care.</p>
<p>For Ramón, a sensitive sound recordist and subject of Shervin Kermani’s delightful mockumentary, making sure that the ghosts of La Palma island are given a voice is a life’s purpose.</p>
<p>Dorothea Sing Zhang’s documentary instincts reach new heights in this intimate behind-the-scenes glimpse of her mother’s solitary routine as the star of Chinese opera, a life’s calling that alienates her from her closest.</p>
<p>A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.</p>
<p>Jim Cummings and Victoria Ratermanis hit it out of the park in Blake Rice’s singular spin on the hookup trope, in which an intimate crisis involving a feminine hygiene product brings two strangers closer than they ever imagined.</p>
<p>In a world where speech is a forbidden form of intimacy, a local outsider stumbles from a loveless marriage into true connection with a stranger in Joecar Hanna’s remarkably fresh take on the norms of relational engagement.</p>
<p>Through this haunting portrayal of an aid worker’s story, Salar Pashtoonyar sheds light on the troubling realities of a nation in turmoil in his measured and unsettling piece about the repercussions of the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Mia has spent her whole life freediving, fishing and gliding through seaweed and rocks. Time has passed, tracing its lines on her body, and shaping the landscapes around her. Loved ones have vanished. Tonight, Mia remembers.</p>
<p>A unit of dedicated bots scheme chaos and divisiveness from their office desks in Rich Williamson’s wickedly humorous and sharp satirical take on the absurd amount of power relinquished to the unhinged forces steering world politics.</p>
<p>Turning the camera on her family and surroundings in Beirut during the recent Israeli bombings of the city, Isabelle Mecattaf captures the jarring coexistence of regular life with the relentless shock and grief of living on the periphery of war.</p>
<p>Sounds of bustling nightlife, crowded markets, and techno parties fill the air as the lives of two unlikely strangers intersect in Yassmina Karajah’s lyrical and dreamy love letter to the pulsing, vibrant, and deeply charming city of Amman.</p>
<p>Congested traffic and endless construction in the city of Ulaanbaatar are the backdrop of a young couple’s tense exchanges as they navigate their strained relationship while apartment hunting in Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir’s distinctly poignant and sophisticated drama.</p>
<p>Dan's mysterious neck wound won't heal. Unable to recall or discuss why, he returns to his dark childhood grounds to recover a lost piece of himself-the key to becoming whole again.</p>
<p>An older black man partakes in his first swimming lesson while battling with his own hardships beneath the surface.</p>
<p>The residents of a quiet Mediterranean town are thrown into speculation overdrive with the unusual appearance of a bear in the midst of asparagus season in Ivan Grgur’s delightfully whimsical documentary about the blurred lines between truth and personal agenda.</p>
<p>In Kelly Fyffe-Marshall's cleverly crafted drama, written and performed by Preeti Torul, an estranged mother and daughter reunite to confront buried resentments, address their differences, and try to decide whether to come together or walk away from each other for good.</p>
<p>Elliot is staying with her ex’s new girlfriend while attending a medical trial for her recent, unexplained loss of hearing. As she reconfigures her relationship with her (sonic) environment and herself, an intimate connection sparks between the two women. With captivating performances by Victoria Pedretti and Maya Hawke, this loose adaptation of director Eliza Barry Callahan’s semi-autobiographical novel The Hearing Test captures the uneasy process of letting go and embracing change with sensitive warmth.</p>
<p>A desperate man seeks treatment for an acute case of earworm when a severely catchy tune takes over his mind and spirals him towards madness in Patrik Eklund’s darkly humorous and wildly entertaining take on a universally relatable experience.</p>
<p>Adnan Al Rajeev stuns with this utterly singular, fantastical drama set in a remote Bangladeshi community where a high-stakes singing competition leads to young Ali and his mother resorting to some bodily modifications to hide his true pitch.</p>
<p>Beautifully lensed and brimming with tenderness, the delicate handling of a mother’s love resonates deeply in Giran Findlay-Liu’s poignant character study, starring Fiona Fu as a devoted mother making family rounds on her son’s birthday.</p>
<p>Dreamy visuals, an evocative score, and a seamless fusion of animated techniques lend a distinctly wistful aura to the intimate conversations between two queer couples in Wei Keong Tan’s profoundly affecting meditation on love, family, and friendship.</p>
<p>A simulation center inside the maternity ward of Elmhurst Hospital provides the setting for Carolyn Lazard’s astutely observational video, which documents an all-Black obstetrics team of doctors, nurses, and midwives as they rehearse a complex childbirth scenario with a ventriloquized mannequin for a patient. Deriving its title from the shared agreement among participants in a training simulation, Fiction Contract lingers on the careful staging and surreal performance of care during an exercise designed to reduce racial disparities in maternal mortality.</p>
<p>Earthly and spiritual guides are a young Vietnamese woman’s allies as she decides whether to enter an arranged marriage in Solara Thanh Bình Đặng’s ethereal drama steeped in sensual rhythms of the land.</p>
<p>Of Brother, Sister remembers his black eyes, the same hair as hers, slender shoulders like the wings of a bird, and that he knew by heart the path to the river. Of Brother, Sister has forgotten nothing.</p>
<p>Idris Elba’s poised turn behind the camera extends into a profoundly moving, Lagos-set tale of a fractured family unit finding healing through music, made in close collaboration with Nigerian producer Mo Abudu and featuring a magnetic performance by Seal.</p>
<p>Unresolved grief and dysfunctional family dynamics burst to the surface in a kaleidoscope of emotions in Kalainithan Kalaichelvan’s absurd and vibrantly staged multi-generational story of a troubled matriarch, her dramatic announcement, and the chaos that ensues.</p>
<p>In a wild autobiographical turn, Patrick Xavier Bresnan resurrects old footage of him winning a contest to visit the set of Baywatch. This endlessly entertaining, lo-fi ’90s throwback is a thrilling and cutting account of the excesses of fan culture.</p>
<p>As a restaurant closes for the night, a server holds out hope for an unlikely opportunity while a dishwasher cooks a hearty meal in Anna Hopkins’ endearing look at how friendships can be formed over shared heartbreaks and aspirations.</p>
<p>This year’s Short Film Palme d’Or winner, Tawfeek Barhom’s heartbreaking drama about two brothers coming to terms with the ghosts of their past is as emotionally charged as it is cathartic in its probing of deeply buried wounds.</p>
<p>Using a visceral and evocative animated style, María Cristina Pérez González offers an unflinching reflection on emotional distress through the eyes of a woman whose sisterly guilt over a childhood incident manifests as lifelong body dysmorphia.</p>
<p>Inspired by his real life, Harrison Browne’s self-assured directorial debut follows an ex-pro hockey player who time travels back to his pre-transitioned self, when he was waiting for life to begin — only to realize that he has always been the person he was waiting to become.</p>
<p>India Opzoomer crafts a sensitive coming-of-age tale, bringing to life the cutthroat world of boy bands through the crushing story of a desperate 16-year-old who betrays his bandmates in a misguided attempt to secure his spot in the limelight.</p>
<p>Set in a flooded and burning digital wasteland, ghosts argue about genetic testing, grief, and love.</p>
<p>In a performance of uncommon gravitas, Rasti Farooq plays a young woman whose world is rattled by the arrival of a relative who forces her to weigh family obligations against her growing discomfort, from Sana Zahra Jafri.</p>
<p>An elite group of athletes gathers under one of the world’s tallest permanent diving platforms. Guided by the gentle rhythms of training, the hum of the pool deck and a breathtaking sense for cinematography, Divers observes their training process, from careful preparation to the restless anticipation that builds before ascending the 27-meter tower.</p>
<p>In an attempt to move past a traumatic incident, an Anishinaabe ballerina strikes a friendship with a kindred soul in this uplifting drama about healing through self-expression from Dana Solomon.</p>
<p>A tenant in seniors’ housing is forced to make a heartbreaking decision after she lends money to someone who disappears, revealing the isolation and fragile security experienced by those living on the margins of society in Heather Young’s deeply affecting drama.</p>
<p>The traumatic event sometimes replays itself within the trivial. The death of a fish awakens the sorrows of a lifetime. The Mother’s great losses take shape in the form of doubles, drawing her toward the center of a pond where her depression crystallizes. The Daughter uses dance to hold her back, as words seem devoid of meaning. The figure of a Heron, both symbolic and ordinary, urges the girl to accept her powerlessness and find her place.</p>
<p>Joshua Seftel follows news correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp on a seven-year-long project documenting the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings, laying bare the heartbreaking realities of forgotten families still grappling with insurmountable grief.</p>
<p>Directors Jamal Burger and Jukan Tateisi bring viewers into the unpredictable world of Masaki Saito, Toronto’s sushi superstar.</p>
<p>One of the first independent films made in Hong Kong, and an important precursor to the Hong Kong New Wave, T’ang Shushuen’s formidable debut, The Arch adapts a 17th-century Chinese folktale about the suppression of a woman’s desire.</p>
<p>Adventurers Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones set out to become the first balloonists to circumnavigate the globe in this white-knuckle, suspenseful documentary.</p>
<p>In the near future, the elderly must relocate to remote retirement colonies so that the younger generations can go about their work undisturbed. The 77-year-old Tereza refuses and instead embarks on a life-changing journey through the Amazon.</p>
<p>In the Bolivian Andes, a young woman inherits the sacred art of midwifery but dreams of conquering the city with her voice, in this breathtaking story of tradition, ambition, and carving your own destiny.</p>
<p>Stymied by socio-economic insecurities and determined to get a taste of the good life, a family man resorts to increasingly dark and desperate measures in Mathieu Denis’ enthralling drama.</p>
<p>In this love letter to cinema, we witness Ghanaian cameraman Chris Hesse, now in his 90s, pass on his legacy to the younger filmmaker Anita Afonu, captured by two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot.</p>
<p>In Claire Denis’s absorbing and intimate film, set at a white-run construction site in West Africa, Albouny (Isaach de Bankolé) demands the return of his brother’s body, killed in a mysterious work accident, but the site’s foreman (Matt Dillon) is clearly hiding the truth.</p>
<p>Malaysian director Woo Ming Jin tells the intimate story of a set of fraternal twins whose relationship cracks with the appearance of their beautiful new teacher, played enchantingly by Indonesian superstar Dian Sastrowardoyo.</p>
<p>Two blustery 50-somethings, have an obsession: going for their last drink. One night, they run into Giulio, a shy architecture student, whose way of seeing the world and love will be transformed as the trio wander from bar to bar of Veneto</p>
<p>A bank robber released from jail must unlock his traumatised brother's memory to recover stolen loot.</p>
<p>When Fatima leaves her close-knit suburban family to study philosophy in Paris, she finds herself caught between her religious upbringing and the freedom of student life in the city.</p>
<p>Captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through intimate vignettes and strange occurrences, the film explores the complexities of family, love, and the impact of shared memories.</p>
<p>Opening the tenth year of Primetime, Sterlin Harjo’s The Lowdown is a modern noir set in Tulsa, with Ethan Hawke playing Lee Raybon, a latter-day Philip Marlowe.</p>
<p>1982. As an unknown disease begins to spread in a small mining town in the Chilean desert, gay men are accused of transmitting it through their eyes. Twelve-year-old Lidia, the only girl in the community, sets out in search of the truth.</p>
<p>It’s April 26, 1991, which means that schools across Iraq will select students for the honor of bringing items to their mandatory local celebration of President Saddam’s birthday. Kind-hearted and resourceful Saeed lives with his grandmother Bibi in the historic Iraqi marshes.</p>
<p>A devastating tragedy puts a labourer on a collision course with the authorities in this gripping miniseries from Iranian director Houman Seyyedi (World War III).</p>
<p>The film travels at the pace of the seasons through the real and fictional story of a region in Portugal, the Alentejo, and the peoples who have lived there. It begins at a present with no memory and travels back in time to the immemorial time, before the invention of writing. Along the way, it crosses more or less distant pasts: the work and life of German archaeologists detained far away from home during WWII, through their archives and letters; the occupation of the land by the rural workers after the revolution in April 1974; stories kept in the collective memory. During this journey we meet women and men, old people and children, shepherds, hunters, beekeepers, archaeologist, teachers and storytellers, and also ruins, dolmens and a thousand-year old olive tree. All contribute, with their memories, believes and knowledge, to compose a poetic, political, multi-layered and polyphonic portrait of the region</p>
<p>The former lovers meet again after several years. The everyday life of alienation and bondage, revealing the regretful past. Love and sacrifice, repentance and repayment. The heavy burden was not only on her but also on him. Finally, they bid farewell once again, heart-wrenching yet suddenly awakened, the two lost souls finally embraced and cried.</p>
<p>In The Tale of Silyan, Tamara Kotevska crafts an intimate documentary portrait of Silyan, a rural Macedonian farmer whose quiet life is transformed by an unexpected bond with a stray dog. Against the backdrop of changing landscapes and shifting demographics, Silyan’s simple routines become deeply poetic: tending fields, greeting neighbors, worrying for wildlife. As his relationship with the animal deepens, the film gently explores themes of solitude, belonging, and the human-animal connection. Subtle humor and lyrical imagery evoke a timeless rural existence touched by fleeting gestures of kindness. Ultimately, the story becomes a meditation on aging, memory, and quiet resilience.</p>
<p>Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.</p>
<p>A young Russian filmmaker becomes an unlikely advisor to Vladimir Putin as he rises to power in post-Soviet Russia, navigating the new era's complexities and chaos.</p>
<p>This deeply personal documentary from hometown filmmaker Min Sook Lee follows the trail of grief left behind when her mother died by suicide when she was a preteen.</p>
<p>Michèle Stephenson’s moving documentary centres on the 1969 student protests against racism at Montreal’s Concordia University and their contribution to the story of Black liberation.</p>
<p>1937: When a prisoner's letter escapes destruction, idealistic prosecutor Kornev uncovers NKVD corruption. His pursuit of justice in Stalin's USSR becomes a dangerous journey into the heart of a system devouring its own.</p>
<p>A Spanish settler, his Chinese companion, and a former Haitian soldier work together to bring high-quality silk production to early 19th-century Hispaniola, in this emotionally charged, politically resonant historical drama.</p>
<p>The latest from Saudi Arabian director Haifaa Al Mansour (Wadjda) is a crime thriller that challenges simplistic narratives of femicide and transgresses all manner of jurisdiction in its dogged pursuit of justice.</p>
<p>In tribute to the recently departed, much-beloved Tomonari Nishikawa, whose work was an integral part of Wavelengths for nearly 15 years, we again share his elegant and elegiac Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (World Premiere, TIFF ’16).</p>
<p>A mesmerizing visual journey across Spain, Lithuania, and Austria transforms natural scenery through vibrant Technicolor techniques, creating a stunning interplay of vivid hues and shadows.</p>
<p>In the cryptic and beguiling Disappeared by Indian artist Sohrab Hura, a near-distorted single shot of a forest tent is elevated through sound, colour, and texture into a near-narrative mystery about the malleability of perspective.</p>
<p>A damaged film shot in 1982 in a Latin American country documents the violence that took place on 9 May that year. Beneath its apparent banality, the film raises suspicions of manipulation of the truth.</p>
<p>Folding together a mediated memory of a Hong Kong thoroughfare, missives to an imprisoned acquaintance, and an artist’s subversive street art, Chan Hau Chun’s Map of Traces is at once precise and slippery in its exploration of presence and absence.</p>
<p>Shifting subtly between figuration and abstraction, with Rothko-esque golds and reds, the hypnotic En Traversée by prolific and steadfastly DIY filmmaker Vadim Kostrov evokes the poetry of dislocation by way of a world in motion.</p>
<p>A buzzing, kinetic companion piece to his Festival feature Rose of Nevada, Mark Jenkin stitches together and riffs on Super 8 fragments from his travels through the lens of cinema — both his own and others — literature, and folk tales.</p>
<p>An exercise in excavation and a reflection on impermanence, Minjung Kim’s From My Cloud delicately sifts through and assembles videos from her personal archive, rescuing moments both banal and sublime from the digital ether.</p>
<p>Cairo, 2007. Abdellah searches for Omar, his old companion who has disappeared among the city’s busy streets. A visit with the legendary Youssef Chahine, a nighttime film shoot at the pyramids, and maritime revelry are all captured on nostalgia-textured video while Omar—a brilliant structuring absence—haunts proceedings until, during a final encounter, comfort is found in cinema and personal touch alike.</p>
<p>The night flowers in Daria’s garden hide the secrets of a country that has turned love stories into routine crime scenes. A tale of patriarchal violence combined with botanical (mis)uses, told from the archives of Iranian cinema.</p>
<p>Inspired by concepts of decay and fossilization, Kaiwen Ren’s tactile miniature Aftertide responds to a spate of 2025 whale strandings along the California coast by way of abstract and ghostly 35mm, itself partially decomposed.</p>
<p>With the fable-like Land of Barbar, set and shot in Sousse, along the Tunisian coast, artist Fredj Moussa reimagines a passage from the Decameron detailing a confrontation between Italians and North Africans from the latter’s perspective.</p>
<p>An elusive 16mm miniature from the legendary Friedl vom Gröller, Conditio Humana intersperses footage of the crumbling sandstone façade of Pavia’s Basilica di San Michele Maggiore with the returned stares of three performers.</p>
<p>Inspired by a text by legendary Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, and the “scintillating scotoma” that precedes a migraine, Eri Saito’s Slightest Pretense is a wordless, Super 8 near-narrative that feels like a lost oddity that could have washed up on a shoreline.</p>
<p>At once minimal and maximal, the latest experiment from Austrian formalist Björn Kämmerer recasts elements as simple as a campfire and three seated men into a paranoid play of gazes, variously suggesting assent and discordance.</p>
<p>Drifting through the streets of former East Berlin neighborhoods, Morning Circle traces the unsteady affective terrain of isolation and displacement, assimilation and oppression. In Basma al-Sharif’s (O, Persecuted, NYFF52) film, the bureaucratic condescension and violence of a residency interview sits alongside domestic scenes featuring a father and his young son. The film uncovers the loss and thrumming tensions of exilic life under Western Europe’s smooth gray surfaces.</p>
<p>Blake Williams’s (Something Horizontal, NYFF53) 3D travelogue of the American Southwest is a literal adventure in stereoscopy and retrospection, capturing the textured desert landscapes, snaking powerlines, streaming atmospheres, and hazy roadsides in fractured glimpses and headlong motion. Gesturing toward cinema’s roots in 19th-century phantom rides and panoramas, FELT finds a dynamic new form for the sensory experience of space and movement.</p>
<p>A bucolic small town, a correctional school for troubled teens, and a mysterious headmistress (Toni Collette) are all much more than meets the eye in this new limited series from creator Mae Martin (Feel Good).</p>
<p>Only through his camera is Swiss-Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler (The End of Time, Becoming Animal) able to relate to the world, study himself and the people around him, and share his insights. This also applies to his relationship with the phenomenon of time and the finite nature of our existence on earth. He is confronted by this when his mother dies and he knows that his 90-year-old father, despite his cheerful zest for life, inevitably will follow. During Mettler’s cinematographic exploration of the meaning of life and what comes before and after, the COVID pandemic breaks out, which puts everything even more sharply into perspective.</p> <p>While the Green Grass Grows consists of parts 1 and 6 of a seven-part filmic diary that unfolds unhurriedly and meditatively. Mettler asks his parents and friends his existential questions. At the same time, he focuses on nature: the Swiss Alps, where his parents come from, and the forests of his own native country, Canada. Everything flows, reproduces and continues—with great beauty, and without revealing any meaning.</p>
<p>At the Masters of Musical Whistling competition, where virtuoso whistlers compete for global supremacy and bragging rights, we follow an array of quirky personalities and dazzling talents in a film sure to be a crowd-pleaser.</p>
<p>As the ranger overseeing a thickly forested patch of southern Ireland, the woman at the heart of Nanouk Leopold’s seventh feature is a formidable presence in her community. Played with all due tenacity and ferocity by Natasha O’Keeffe, Jen is equally unlikely to suffer fools as tolerate the poachers who’ve been encroaching on her territory under cover of night.</p>
<p>Originally presented as an installation, this raw, haunting short by Basma al-Sharif depicts a horse ride at dusk on a farm in Gaza through enveloping sights and sounds — serene and devastating at once.</p>
<p>Rediscovered MiniDV footage from Gaza in 2001 frames the filmmaker’s search for a former prison‑mate, accompanied by Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. As they journey from north to south Gaza, the film evokes memory, loss, and the fleeting beauty of everyday life in a place forever changed</p>
<p>Follows Dean Youngblood, a hockey prodigy who joins the Hamilton Bulldogs and has to deal with toxic behavior during his journey to the National Hockey League draft.</p>
<p>When the astronaut Celeste blasts off into space on her first solo mission, the guardian robot that has accompanied her throughout her childhood is left alone to wonder: What now? A tomorrow-days lullaby about finding your place in the universe.</p>