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The calm waters and soothing breeze of the Toronto Islands provide a safe reprieve for two best friends after one of them experiences a jarring, dysphoric hookup, in this deeply affecting take on trans visibility, embodiment, and intimacy by A.C. Birch.
In a Nepalese village nestled in the heart of a forest inhabited by wild elephants, Pirati, the matriarch of a Kinnar community, dreams of escaping to live with the man she loves. But when one of her daughters goes missing, she must investigate and choose between her desire for freedom and her responsibilities to her community.
The sixth season of this smash hit series finds the motley crew of disgraced MI5 agents in Slough House, working under the cantankerous Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman, TIFF '17's Darkest Hour), thrown once again into the fray.
This galvanizing portrait celebrates Rick Hansen, the great Canadian athlete and activist. It chronicles his 26-month Man In Motion World Tour: a 40,000-kilometre wheelchair journey that raised millions to eliminate accessibility barriers and transform public perception of people with disabilities.
In an age of body anxiety, filmmaker Afsaneh Salari embeds herself in the offices of Iranian plastic surgeons to interview their clients with humour and empathy.
The Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney delivers his most ambitious and epic work in exploring the history of the world's richest man, Elon Musk.
A charismatic salesman promises wealth, success, and a fresh start — but at what cost? Alex Liu's wildly entertaining debut blends dark comedy, social satire, and a propulsive thriller into a sharp exploration of ambition and identity.
The bumpy road to success experienced by three aspiring Indigenous hip-hop artists is the focus of Alexandra Lazarowich's (Fast Horse) verité-style feature documentary debut.
Set in New York's cliquish literary scene, writer-director Alexandra Pechman's feature debut chronicles the sentimental education of an aspiring poet (Lily McInerny, TIFF '24's Bonjour Tristesse) who becomes tangled in a web of eros, cultural gatekeeping, and office intrigue.
Wild delusions and genuine dangers threaten a patient recovering from cancer surgery in this visceral and darkly comedic thriller by Quebec's Alexandre Franchi.
Returning home after thirty years at sea, a man surrenders to a cruel fate under his mother's watchful, caring eye in Alexandre Siqueira's emotionally charged, animated drama infused with metaphysical flourishes that capture the powerful essence of the mother-son bond.
From Danish director Amalie Næsby Fick and a cast led by Sidse Babett Knudsen comes a compelling cautionary tale about the ethical and moral boundaries a parent may cross in order to protect a child.
Amanda Kernell's luminous third drama is a quietly devastating portrait of love, resilience, and the enduring strength of Sámi women.
Amanda Strong joins forces with Pamela Post to tell the story of a gender-fluid Ts'msyen youth tasked with retrieving the soul of their great-grandfather's totem pole in this fluid, evocative animation about reclaiming history and righting the wrongs of a dark colonial past.
Set high in the mountains, fall comes to an end and a family prepares for the long winter ahead.
This real-life love story follows the charismatic musicians Zella Day and Jesse Woods as they team to create the alt-country band Chaparelle with collaborator Beau Bedford, in a documentary with as much drama as a season of Nashville.
Russia, 2022. When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.
A young girl is caught in a war between her separated parents, trying to make sense of it all. Bottling up the lightning intensity of childhood, Ang Geck Geck Priscilla uses her memories from 1990s Singapore to craft a heart-rending debut. Seven is the age when you begin to understand the adult world, but you're still treated like a child. Our naïve but sassy titular heroine has a crush on a cute boy and is a thriving chewing gum saleswoman at school. However, she instead must spend more time minding her 5-year-old sister and navigating the petty battle between her separated parents, who are self-absorbed with their dating lives and ricocheting the sisters between homes. Ah Girl tackles the irrationality of adult behaviour through the eyes of children with utmost sincerity, quietly taking seriously the joy and anguish experienced by kids.
An ordinary workday on a building site. Forty-year-old crane operator Thomas receives a call from his wife: he has to pick her up from the hospital. Once there, he finds her sitting alone on a park bench, crying.
The Love Witch's Anna Biller stunningly adapts the famous Japanese ghost story Yotsuya Kaidanto for 14th-century England in this gory tribute to classic Technicolor shockers.
Starring Alba Rohrwacher (Three Goodbyes, TIFF '25) and Guido Caprino, writer-director Anna Foglietta's heartfelt debut feature follows nascent empty nesters who encounter old desires while seeking new meaning in their lives.
Anna Mantzaris brings endearing, peculiar characters to lovable life in her sharp animated portrayal of the friction between the weight of being needed and our deep craving for intimacy, in this quirky, hilarious observation on romance, neediness, and human connection.
A life-altering event forces 21-year-old Junyang and his girlfriend to face reality. At the same time, while Junyang's father is struggling to hold their modest life together, a woman enters his life and both generations are forced to redefine their family.
Between polite small talk and mundane reflections, two university students — one confident, one with self-doubt — walk through a lush forest to complete a photography assignment in Antoine Bourges' unexpectedly moving meditation on discovering divinity and abundance in the world just as it is.
This smouldering chamber thriller from Anton Corbijn (Control) stars Oscar winner Helen Mirren and Alden Ehrenreich (Fair Play) as opponents in a strange confrontation between a youthful literary agent and The Talented Mr. Ripley author Patricia Highsmith.
Led by a stellar cast including Sophie Okonedo and David Oyelowo, Arie and Chuko Esiri's second feature Clarissa is a sensory and hypnotic adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, set in Lagos.
Essay praising human life and work, the everlasting beauty and expression of human thought.
Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.
People's struggle through Soviet mechanisation period. The film starts with homage to Peleshian's Armenian roots.
The last collaboration of Artavazd Peleshian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov is a film-essay about Armenia's shepherds, about the contradiction and the harmony between man and nature, scored to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.
David Zimmerman, almost 40, is a photographer but no one knows it. When friends drag him to a wild party, he spots a woman in the crowd and can't take his eyes off her, he follows her… A few hours later, David wakes up : he's in the body of the unknown woman.
In a hybrid documentary retelling, documentary filmmaker Ashley Duong takes her father's memoir and stages a recreation of it in Vietnam alongside her family.
Single, childless women turning 35 are to report to government-run centres for assessment and desirability coaching in Atalanta Swire's wildly entertaining dystopian comedy grounded in Anjana Vasan's impeccable deadpan instincts as a woman subjected to ludicrous dating exercises.
The latest from Avi Nesher (TIFF '16's Past Life) is a gracefully woven drama about the ways that love intensifies and second chances are possible in the face of adversity and mayhem.
Davika Hoorne plays her most magnetic role yet as Woranart – a grandma possessed by a demon – in the latest chilling psychological thriller by Shutter director Banjong Pisanthanakun.
Barbara Kopple (TIFF '76's Harlan County, U.S.A.) looks at three crucial labour battles as they unfold in New York City involving workers from UPS, Amazon, and deliveristas for DoorDash and GrubHub.
Stars like Bruce Springsteen, Cher, and Dionne Warwick sing the praises of an underappreciated musical icon in this high-spirited and warm-hearted portrait from Canadian director Barry Avrich (Oscar Peterson: Black + White, TIFF '21).
Oscar winner Mahershala Ali (TIFF '18 People's Choice Award winner Green Book) stars as a devout Muslim, loving family man, and contract killer in this audaciously inventive Texas-set action thriller from writer-director Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli).
After 8-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a crime in Golden Gate Park, she acts out in search of a way to regain control of her safety while adults are helpless to console her.
Set long before the events of Friday the 13th, Linda Cardellini stars as Pamela Voorhees in this captivating, A24-produced origin series.
Mischief abounds in Brittney Gavin and Amy Mielke's charming '70s-set comedy that introduces a handsome, mysterious newcomer to a Halifax Black community, catching three sisters off guard for various reasons, including a suspicion of occult leanings that calls for some serious supernatural vetting.
A magnificent Julianne Nicholson plays a middle-aged woman longing to be seen in Camille Summers-Valli's elegant, meticulously composed character study set at an art class with a charismatic teacher (Charles Melton) and a delightful group of eccentrics eager to gaze.
A once-close family comes together to say goodbye to an uncle who struggled with mental health issues, in award-winning short filmmaker Carol Nguyen's tender and emotional feature-length documentary debut.
Featuring a career-making performance from Slow Horses' Rosalind Eleazar and supporting turns from Daniel Kaluuya, Adam Driver, and Anna Kendrick, Chris Rock's latest as writer-director brilliantly satirizes the bigotry and hustle at the heart of Hollywood.
Christian Smith's satirical, dark comedy brings body horror to side-splitting heights in this unhinged story of a woman who spirals into extreme paranoia on the basis of a body insecurity, anchored by Maddy Foley's singular writing and performance.
A fresh take on the underdog sports film, centring on an Indigenous hockey team in Northern Alberta, from actor and director Cody Lightning (Hey, Viktor!, TIFF '23) and starring Ed Helms, Jana Schmieding, and Paulina Alexis.
Featuring David Harbour (Stranger Things) and Oscar winner Patricia Arquette (Boyhood), Courteney Cox's second feature as director boldly dramatizes the chilling, darkly hilarious web of stories behind 2003's infamous "pizza bomber" incident.
The Gheorghius, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, resettle in a village set in a distant fjord where they become close to their neighbours, the Halbergs. Their children bond despite their different education. When adolescent Elia Gheorghiu shows up at school with some bruises on her body, the community asks itself if the traditional education that the Gheorghiu children get from their parents might have anything to do with it.
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.
A journey through enclosed landscapes—where the microcosm mirrors and resonates with the greater macrocosm.
When Western medicine fails to explain a couple's multiple miscarriages, a husband turns to his Haitian ancestry for solutions in Daniel «Tètèl» Chérubin's restrained and mood-driven horror that leans on the importance of inherited spiritual traditions.
A wealthy patriarch's fragile household unravels when the youngest of his four wives fails to conceive. Blending sharp Nollywood wit with tenderness, this deeply satisfying drama explores topics of infertility, gendered inheritance, and shifting family power.
In 1969, as rising media tycoon acquires the daily newspaper "The Sun," his partnership with editor Larry Lamb turns the paper into Britain's most influential tabloid.
A gripping cinematic documentary series that reconstructs one of Australia's defining contemporary events, exposing the enduring legacies of race, justice, and colonial policing.
In adapting his own literary prize-winner, Toronto's David Bezmozgis delivers a deft political thriller about the limits of love and loyalty.
This gripping thriller depicts the investigation — and its shortfalls — in the months before the December 2016 attack at the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin.
A haunting journey set in 1980s London, David Turpin's mesmerizing debut transforms one young man's search for a missing friend into an unforgettable story of love, loss, and gay legacy.
The Zellner brothers return with a star-studded cast including Léa Seydoux, Dave Bautista, Lily-Rose Depp, and Cate Blanchett in this look at an alien gang coming to Earth to conquer, but finding the human world has a plague they weren't ready for.
A starry-eyed bellhop (Francis Edemobi) enlists his friends to help him exploit an unsavoury opportunity that could secure them fame and fortune in Deantè Gray's soulful, suspenseful 1960s-set musical chamber thriller.
After an abortion, a woman roams the streets, engaging in a sequence of understated encounters bathed in the glow of neon lights.
Ben Russell's La Prospettiva (1653) explores perspective, illusion, architecture, and the passage of time through the Colonnade of the Palazzo Spada in Rome. Filmed within Francesco Borromini's celebrated Baroque perspective illusion, the six-minute work observes both the architectural composition and the quiet human labour involved in maintaining it. The film turns an architectural illusion into a meditation on perspective, permanence, labour, and time.
Grounded in artful performances from Oscar nominee Naomi Watts (TIFF '01's Mulholland Drive) and Tye Sheridan (TIFF '13's Joe), this salient historical drama depicts the complexities of seeking justice in the long shadow of Nazism.
Glaxo, Benjamín Naishtat's riveting adaptation of Hernán Ronsino's novel, transforms a single betrayal into an absorbing tale of guilt, loyalty, and memory, weaving personal tragedy with Argentina's turbulent twentieth-century history through an atmosphere of mounting mystery and suspense.
This debut feature from London-based artist Bertil Nilsson is a tender, unflinching portrait of self-performance, identity, and the quiet but persistent work of learning to exist as oneself in an often prescriptive world.
Mira travels from one desperate person to another, bound by mysterious death pacts. During a stop with two free-spirited people living in the forest, an unexpected encounter with a young man forces her to question her wandering life and the dark commitments she has made.
Lucila leaves Mexico with her younger brother to reunite with their mother in Madrid, who had left a few years earlier to chase a better future. When they finally arrive, the bitter, suffocating reality that awaits them proves far harsher than Lucila had imagined. Still, she is determined to make the most of this fragile new life.
Directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Warcraft), this outlandish animated adaptation of the influential British comic book follows a clone soldier bred for an interstellar forever-war and his fallen comrades whose personalities live on within his gun, helmet, and backpack.
Vivian Sung stars as the ravishing Du Li An in a breathtaking cinematic adaptation of Li Zi Shu's The Age of Goodbyes, a story about memory, loss, love, doppelgängers, and hidden truths.
The City of the Living is Edoardo Gabbriellini's (Holiday, TIFF '23) gripping yet respectful anti-true crime film based on Nicola Lagioia's bestselling literary chronicle about the senseless 2016 murder of a young man that rocked Rome.
Follows Abdul Ahad Momand, who traveled to the Mir space station in 1988 as Afghanistan neared collapse, exploring a moment of national hope that has since been largely forgotten.
The Indigenous painter Sara Flores gets discovered by the international art world in her 70s, setting her off on an adventure as she travels from her home in the Peruvian Amazon to be fȇted in galleries from New York to Paris.
With meticulous precision, Elia Kalogianni excavates the fissure between care and abuse in a visually stunning and wildly depraved film about two sadistic women who stage experiments and lessons in abject cruelty in their battle for dominance.
Set in the breathtaking landscapes of Piemonte in Northern Italy, Low Lies the Land immerses us in the lives of three winemaking families facing an uncertain future.
Winner of this year's Annecy Cristal award, this intimate animation about two violinists in Singapore circa WWII highlights the healing power of music while pulling heartstrings.
In Eugene Kotlyarenko's mixed-media caper, a livestreamer (Cole Sprouse) discovers a cache of vintage denim only to run afoul of the Yakuza when he is lured to Japan to sell the jeans by one of his subscribers (Kiko Mizuhara).
Crowned the greatest Chinese film ever made by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society, director Fei Mu's poetic, romantic 1948 masterpiece observes a bored wife enlivened by a surprise visit from an old flame, whose presence threatens to upend the matrimonial home.
As one sister prepares for marriage and the other resists every convention it represents, their fragile bond is tested by love, family expectations, and the question of whether happiness can ever truly be chosen.
Set in a remote Anatolian village, Ferit Karahan's Djinn Wedding is an impressive family drama that unravels family secrets and conflicts across three periods of time.
Olga rents out a room to a man whose wife has been admitted to a hospital nearby. However, the man has a nine-year-old son he has been sneaking into the room, which leads to Olga's carefully controlled world shifting as their lives become intertwined.
In a 19th century farming village, an old woman lives with her adult son. After a drunk incident, the son disappears. The mother goes looking for him, unsuccessfully. When the devil suddenly arrives in the village, all hell breaks loose. Milk is about family ties and their destructive consequences.
Oscar winners Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem play a couple whose bond is tested when a mysterious billionaire's proposal prompts an ethical impasse in the latest from Oscar-winning writer-director Florian Zeller (TIFF '20's The Father).
A quietly powerful true story of an amateur historian's quest to uncover a long-buried injustice. By exposing what rightly became a national scandal, Catherine Corless changed Ireland forever.
Over a ski weekend, 14-year-old Aiden navigates the boundaries of his friendship with Lucas. Fraser Wolfe's poignant exploration of queer awakenings marks an assured, memorable directorial debut with strong vision and full command of the craft.
Anchored by a deeply affecting performance from Rejane Faria, Gabriel Martins' moving drama follows a grieving mother seeking forgiveness from the families of a tragic bus accident. What unfolds is a profound meditation on guilt and whether forgiveness is possible.
Camilo, a Cuban lifeguard, saves Mexican businessman Abel from drowning. Grateful, Abel brings Camilo to Mexico, where he marries Abel's daughter, Juana, and they have a child. But Camilo soon discovers his new life is part of Abel's Machiavellian plan of manipulation and control. With his world collapsing, Camilo must uncover the plot and take control of his destiny. Will he find a way out, or remain trapped in the power game?
In Jacmel, on Haiti's southern coast, the sea, the churches, and the spirits shape everyday life. Marie Madeleine is a free woman. She lives from prostitution and moves through the nights without submitting to the rules of those who claim to save souls. When her path crosses that of Joseph, a young believer deeply involved in an evangelical community, a relationship forms between these two beings who seem to have nothing in common. As Joseph begins to waver in his faith, Marie Madeleine draws him into a world where desire, belief, and the search for freedom open a space where everything can be reinvented.
Iranian filmmaker Ghasideh Golmakani's absurd and sharply satirical debut feature explores what happens when a female director forces male actors to wear skirts and headscarves.
In their poignant debut feature, co-directors Christine Boateng and Hajara Musah Chambas depict the journey of three Ghanaian women eking out a living as kayayei or porters in the trenches of the world's largest secondhand clothing market.
A young Muslim woman raised in Marseille reunites with a young Jewish woman after a period of estrangement, reconnecting as friends over summer break. When a sudden tragedy disrupts their carefree holiday, the pair face the similarities and differences that strengthen and threaten their relationship together.
Nobel Prize-winner Knut Hamsun's novel about a farmer's struggles in early 20th-century Norway gets a powerful and richly textured adaptation by director Hans Petter Moland and his superb cast.
In the 16th century, on the newly conquered Canary Islands, colonial misgivings intersect with personal desperation. Fátima, an enslaved and pregnant woman, must struggle to survive both the landscape, and the other inhabitants.
Visionary auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda helms this tender and slow-burning adaptation of manga creator Tatsuki Fujimoto's acclaimed story, following two young artists whose friendship and bond become the engine of their art.
Reinforcements have been diverted to battle wildfires and all communication has been cut off. Hope's police outpost chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae struggle to defend a village of the elderly, while in the mountains, Sung-ki and the locals who set out to track the beast find themselves hunted instead. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.
Palestinian director Hosam Abu Dan makes his narrative feature debut with a nuanced and deeply human portrait of a father and his teenage daughter navigating everyday life in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
Based on the attempted assassination of South Korean President Park Chung-hee, the latest from Hur Jin-ho (TIFF '23's A Normal Family) is a large-canvas procedural about police and journalists determined to uncover a seemingly impenetrable conspiracy.
A bodybuilder struggles to keep it together as he cares for his elderly father in this perceptive and deeply felt drama by Winnipeg's Ian Bawa.
Outside of Madrid, two sisters unite their families on a summer weekend, celebrating milestones and the solstice-heralding San Juan Festival. However, joy quickly turns to horror when a serious allegation of sexual abuse surfaces from one of their children.
Set in the vibrant era of late 80s New York, the film follows Jimmy George, a Downtown performance artist in an extraordinary moment between great illness and death when, still, all beauty and love is possible.
When two childhood friends meet after years to fulfill the broken promise of climbing Mount Etna, Adele and Sofia realize that like the mountain, old wounds loom over everything.
Black Sunflowers is a mosaic of Ukrainian youth, shuttling between the frontlines and civilian life, captured by the gifted American filmmaker James Marcus Haney (No Cameras Allowed) collaborating with an esteemed Ukrainian crew.
Fevers explores perception as a heightened, unstable bodily experience through layered moving images, sound, archival fragments, and digitally manipulated material. The exhibition considers memory, violence, sensation, the instability of images, and the relationship between bodily states and visual perception. Works including Orphan Drift (2025), Fevers (2025), and Negative Hands (2024) create immersive compositions in which images and sounds fragment, overlap, and resist straightforward interpretation.
Set in occupied Poland in the middle of the Second World War, Jan Holoubek's tour-de-force is part suspenseful western, part gritty wartime noir.
'La bola negra' tells the interconnected stories of three men in three different eras. Three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain and inheritance, and one of Federico García Lorca´s last, unfinished works.
With Future Tense, Jenna Cato Bass deals with climate change, human guilt, and South Africa's identity in this bold time-lapse story based in the near future.
Starring Tom Hiddleston (TIFF '24's The Life of Chuck), Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe, and Genden Phuntsok (TIFF '18's Jinpa), this wondrous biopic recounts the story of Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay who, alongside Edmund Hillary, became first to top Everest in 1953.
Jérémi Roy turns the camera on his parents in this dreamy, richly textured docufiction set in the snowy hills of rural Quebec, capturing the elderly couple's daily routine peppered with sweet gestures and a healthy dose of romance.
Jess Barclay Lawton's achingly raw documentary is a deeply affecting snapshot of early motherhood in which a young woman reflects on childhood scars in an effort to become the nurturing, attentive mother she longed to have.
Jesse Eisenberg directs Academy Award winner Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti in a dark comedy about a bored suburban housewife who finds purpose acting in community theatre.
Something monstrous lurks off the coast in this suspenseful, Newfoundland-set limited series, starring Josh Hartnett (Trap) and Mackenzie Davis (Station Eleven).
Creates a (non-)space linking his loved ones across different realms.
An intimate portrait of two people bound by love, ambition, and the pursuit of the impossible. Elite ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson fell deeply in love while reaching the pinnacle of their sport: Everest's north face.
After leaving his Indigenous family for work in Guatemala City, a lonely security guard falls for a business owner at the mall he patrols, discovering an unexpected refuge and a new sense of self in a world not yet ready to make space for them.
The uninterrupted light trail of one year and ten months, condensed down to 20 minutes, filmed on a self-made camera. Daily rhythms accelerate, slowly at first, then more intensely. A structuralist film about transience.
A daring clarion call and one of the most significant works of Indian political cinema, John Abraham's extraordinary final film Amma Ariyan (Report to Mother) follows a young man in 1970s Kerala as he journeys — with a progressive swell of companions — to inform a mother of her son's death, amid widespread unrest.
English avant-garde icon John Smith contemplates the transient roles we assume and the temporary spaces we inhabit.
This ambitious, beguiling narrative debut from acclaimed Filipino filmmaker and experimentalist John Torres follows a grieving detective who finds himself increasingly ensnared while investigating a case involving a sinister navigation app causing physical and psychological debris.
In John Trengove's relentless third feature, a sheltered 11-year-old white South African boy gradually comes to realize the horrors of the apartheid system.
An original razor-sharp dark comedy thriller set in the world of modern dating in London.
A washed-up New York party promoter is forced to turn his life around when an unexpected visitor arrives.
Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo's ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor. She must face what comes next as sparks fly.
Joshua Giuliano makes an audacious debut with a suspenseful slasher that sets three embittered siblings adrift along a rural waterway, and in the sights of a masked killer.
Tough, stylish, and effortlessly cool, the Pretenders founder Chrissie Hynde is the real thing. Grounded in extensive interviews with Hynde and archival materials, Pretenders chronicles the evolution of one of rock's most singular icons.
In Juan Andrés Arango's bracing and poetic third feature, an Emberá woman displaced by violence undertakes a dangerous journey to find a better life for herself and her daughter.
An unspeakable act of cruelty on an idyllic summer night disrupts and forever changes a young boy and his sister's understanding of the world in Julie Charette's deeply moving animated drama that so vividly evokes a sense of summer air tinged with heartbreak.
A teenager undertakes a fantastic journey in order to save her mountaintop village where men are forbidden, in Julien Chheng's charming and magical animated feature.
Three young queer Indigenous people's lives intersect and overlap over the course of 17 hours in downtown Vancouver.
After basketball practice, a 15-year-old girl meets a stranger for a transaction that goes terrifyingly off script, in Justine Prince's sharp, heart-stopping story of secrecy, gendered power dynamics, and the suffocating experience of being on the precipice of real danger.
On her daughter's wedding day, a mother finds herself catapulted into a fever-dream quest to rescue her daughter in Kaelo Iyizoba's wonderfully imaginative narrative and uproarious love letter to 2000s Nollywood, packed with bold aesthetics, chaotic twists, and delightfully over-the-top melodrama.
True to signature form, Kalainithan Kalaichelvan conjures a deeply sensorial experience with stunning, dreamlike visuals reflecting the inner turmoil of a dancer under immense pressure at a prestigious Bharatanatyam dance academy in this stunning observation of bodily autonomy.
In Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo, Palestinian filmmaker and artist Kamal Aljafari documents one of Japan's great maverick artists — now 85 — as he makes one last attempt to attain a passport decades after his was confiscated.
Kamila Andini, the brilliant mind behind TIFF '21 Platform Award winner Yuni, returns with another polished and picturesque film with a strong women's narrative, starring Indonesia's biggest talents Putri Marino, Christine Hakim, and Arya Saloka.
A mystery drama set in a rural village, centered on a mysterious young woman and the people around her. The film is described by its director Karthik Subbaraj as a story that is personally close to his heart. Keerthy Suresh stars in the lead role, with the recently released teaser emphasizing the film's suspenseful atmosphere and enigmatic village setting.
Starring Canadians Hudson Williams, Noah Reid, and Carrie-Anne Moss, this adaptation of Kat Sandler's award-winning play unfurls the truth behind a mysterious disappearance in a small coastal town.
Katharina Rabl's stunning debut feature toggles between loyalty and longing for independence, centring a doctoral student who must choose between carrying on her family's legacy or forging her own path.
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
Lewis Brophy delivers a breakout performance in Kim Bartley's compassionate debut drama about Irish teen, forced to leave foster care on his 18th birthday, who must find his way in a world that suddenly expects him to be a man.
In the stylish, satirical, and ahead-of-its-time Ten Dark Women (Kuroi jûnin no onna, 1961), by legendary Japanese director Kon Ichikawa, 10 women discover they are sharing the same pathologically unfaithful man, and temporarily abandon jealousy to meticulously orchestrate a collective revenge.
After the death of their hoarder father in rural Missouri, two siblings (Caleb Hearon and Zooey Deschanel) reunite to sort through the baggage — both literal and emotional — in Kris Rey's poignant and funny exploration of love and grief.
This deeply moving debut from Kyu Bock Youm is a radiantly detailed animation chronicling the peripatetic lives of a rhino and a penguin as they traverse a vast, ever-changing wilderness brimming with natural beauty and human-generated danger.
Lacey Schwartz Delgado (Little White Lie) explores the bonds and tensions between American Black and Jewish communities in a series of dialogues with prominent figures.
An extraterrestrial visitor upends the lives of two elderly brothers in northern Sweden in Lars Vega's disarming blend of sci-fi fable and small-town comedy.
Seth Rogen and Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick (TIFF '09's Up in the Air) star in Lauren Miller Rogen's big-hearted comedy about the dilemma that eventually infiltrates every long-term relationship: to parent or not to parent?
For some, staying silent is the only way to survive. Lawrence Fajardo's bleak sociopolitical drama Silenced Nights follows a witness to an extrajudicial killing in a Philippines slum as he seeks to make the truth known.
When Alzheimer's begins to erase her mother's vibrant personality, Sarah leaves her exciting life as an activist and artist in 90's San Francisco to return to her eccentric family in the conservative small town she recently fled. Initially confident she can manage the situation, she soon realizes she must accept the harsh, disorienting reality of the disease to become the daughter her family needs.
Lee Chang-dong's eagerly anticipated new film brings stories of relationships, generational and class divides, in this gripping tale of two couples playing games with themselves and one another.
Golden Horse winner Suet Ying Chung and Wai Lun Yeung lead Leung Chuen Yeung's assured debut, in which a struggling actress and an ex-con restaurant owner turn a petty dispute into an unlikely bond. Witty, moving, and accessible.
This coming-of-age dramedy, set in the 1980s, follows Beatrice as she tries to reunite her recently separated parents, and stars J.K. Simmons, Abby Elliott, John Reynolds, and Jack Innanen.
Misael works alone. Armed with his axe, he fells trees in the forest. An unexpected responsibility upends his life, and the rhythm of his days gradually dissolves into a wilderness where human reason no longer holds meaning.
Things quickly go from bad to worse in Logan Graham Greene's boisterous, sharply scripted comedy featuring a pitch-perfect Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll as a man in the throes of an epic meltdown prompted by his girlfriend's steamy on-screen kiss with a fellow actor.
In rural France, Christophe (10) tries to live up to his rigid and distant father on the family farm. But the young boy starts to lean over and collapse without warning – on the tractor, at school, at dinner… A doctor finds the solution: Christophe must wear an iron corset to keep himself upright. Forced to reinvent his life away from the farm, Christophe discovers a new passion for music, meets a new friend, and follows her into his first mischief. But will any of this really fix what is out of balance?
From the acclaimed studio behind Wolfwalkers and Song of the Sea comes a joyful adaptation of Jessica Love's beloved children's book about a young boy whose dream of becoming a mermaid transforms both his summer and his relationship with his grandmother.
As the First World War drags on, Pierre, a soldier newly arrived at the front, is eager to prove himself. Behind the lines, he meets Francis, who decides to lift the spirits of his comrades by putting together a theatre show. While the violence continues, both men try to find ways to escape the brutality of war, even if only for a moment.
Initially a controversial outlier, Lynne Stopkewich's singular debut Kissed (TIFF '96) is a subversive, tender drama about sexual awakening that shares the same ethereal atmosphere as erotic Canadian classics David Cronenberg's Crash (1996) and Atom Egoyan's Exotica (1994).
Seventeen-year-old Kellou has been gifted with supernatural powers she does not understand. Her disquiet and uncertainty only change when she meets Aya. It is an encounter with destiny that forges a mystical world where the visible and invisible converge.
Palestinian scholar Edward Said is profiled in his own words, drawing upon decades of archives, to explore the legacy of his groundbreaking works including Orientalism and The Question of Palestine.
As the highly anticipated 1999 solar eclipse comes and goes, everything that was shrouded in darkness suddenly comes to light in Eklipse, the feature-length debut of Austrian writer-director Manuel Wetscher, whose penchant for poetic realism brings emotional turbulence to a bucolic setting.
Corinne Maclou (Isabelle Huppert) is a background actor. She dreams of one day being more than an extra and stays confident her breakthrough is right around the corner. When she meets famous actress Sandrine Kiberlain, whom she befriends, Corinne hopes to achieve her goal. But will she be welcomed into the respectable family of French cinema?
The first-ever series from renowned Brazilian filmmaker Marcelo Gomes tells the true story of a group of young flight attendants who smuggle treatment drugs from America into the hands of patients with AIDS in 1980s Brazil.
Chaos and heightened tensions at a jam-packed gas station serve as a microcosm of a nation in crisis in Maria Belen Poncio's sharp, offbeat comedy centred on three generations of women waiting in line the night before fuel prices are set to skyrocket.
With the erudition and insight of a literary scholar and the gumption of an amateur detective, Argentinian auteur (and raconteur) Mariano Llinás (La Flor, TIFF '18) explores the life and fiction of the legendary writer Jorge Luis Borges through objects and places.
How We Stand combines magical realism, a story of sisters separated by tragedy, and a cast of rising Indigenous talent. Starring Amber Midthunder, Alyssa Wapanatâhk, Isabel DeRoy-Olson, and Cara Jade Myers.
Lucy, a concert pianist, has just relocated her family from the city to a country house in the hope of easing her husband Philip's severe burnout. Before they have a chance to set up their new home, an early morning police visit tears their world apart. Isolated and desperate to protect her young son, Lucy must face the situation alone, trapped between the man she loves and the fear of what he may have done.
Rwanda, 2012. In the years following the Genocide against the Tutsi, community-led trials for justice and reconciliation continue across the country. Vénéranda, a survivor, leads dialogue between victims and the families of perpetrators, helping others rebuild their lives and look towards the future. But when she learns of her daughter's unexpected pregnancy, she is forced to confront the limits of her own convictions.
Her patronymic — a father-coded middle name — is more than just a formality in Mariia Ponomarova's personal and structurally playful documentary that expertly blends archival material, meta re-enactments, and present-day family exchanges to deconstruct the notion of cultural identity.
A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent. One by one, they are swept up in desire and anger, until they surrender to them completely.
A multilayered essay linking national, international, and personal histories through narrative fragments, documentaries, and industrial cinema to chronicle the 1976 Shiraz Art Festival boycott.
After a thwarted marriage proposal, alt-comedian Matt Barats spirals into an existential crisis in this semi-autobiographical blend of deadpan absurdism and unexpected poignancy told in a first-person, confessional style à la Ross McElwee or John Wilson.
This kaleidoscopic culture jam from visionary filmmaker Matthew Rankin (The Twentieth Century, Universal Language) details the rise of Canada's 18th prime minister through a satirical collage of archival footage, television nostalgia, and national mythmaking.
A woman with secrets to hide desperately tries to avoid mob justice in postwar Copenhagen in May el-Toukhy's bracing third feature.
Blending archival footage, personal testimony and a decades-long search for answers, Melissa Saavedra Gil transforms a childhood tragedy into a powerful exploration of memory, truth, and healing. An intimate and deeply resonant debut that illuminates both a personal story and a generation shaped by violence.
Drawing on his non-fiction roots and naturalistic traditions, Michael Del Monte crafts an astute, emotionally layered portrait of a father resting the weight of his hopes and dreams on the shoulders of the son he's rushing into a high-stakes boxing match.
Jay Baruchel and director Michael Dowse re-team for a raucous yet heartfelt comedy about a Canadian stuntman who dared to dream big and fly (very) high.
This music documentary on an Our Lady Peace superfan follows her on the band's 30th anniversary Canadian tour, and boasts an original score by Lesley Barber (Bonjour Tristesse, TIFF '24), and orchestral arrangements by Eric Rosse (Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes).
The Belgian resistance secretly produced a spoof version of the country's leading newspaper, Le Soir, which had become a propaganda tool of the occupying Nazi forces in 1943.
Unable to cover the fees on a storage unit, Carmen enlists the help of her brother to break into it, in Mick Robertson and Margaret Rose's masterful character study about the messy complexities of family dynamics and the absurdity of arbitrary societal rules.
Master of character-driven horror Mike Flanagan (Life of Chuck, TIFF '24) returns to episodic storytelling with this kinetic adaptation of Stephen King's classic novel, about the cruelty faced by a sheltered young girl entering high school.
Seven-time Academy Award nominee Mike Leigh returns with an uplifting story of family and how to deal with grief, featuring remarkably emotional performances from Kate O'Flynn and Alice Bailey Johnson.
Punishing tests of human endurance become a means of escaping past demons for the unforgettable subject of Mila Aung-Thwin's superb new film.
The latest comedy from writer-director Mina Shum (Double Happiness, TIFF '17's Meditation Park) tells the story of a young woman from Hong Kong whose marriage to an affluent businessman is beginning to resemble a gilded cage.
Follows a 12-year-old orphaned girl in post-WWII Tokyo who disguises herself as a boy to survive the underworld, while her former teacher retraces her path.
Condemned to pay the social security contributions owed by his son, a father (Kamel El Basha) desperately tries to prove his death in this moving drama.
Owned by reclusive iconoclast Joseph Cornell, its pages map a constellation of mid-century Manhattan artists including Yayoi Kusama and Carolee Schneemann, showing both their connections and locations.
The land belongs to those who work it. But what about houses, homes, the place where one can rest and start a family? Image and sound unfold the history of the underlying structures that turn the right to a home into a tool of control, exploitation or dispossession.
In a chilling dystopian thriller shaped by fear and inequality, Neto Villalobos Brenes follows a grandmother, powerfully portrayed by Paulina García, whose granddaughter's kidnapping forces her into impossible moral choices.
The largest production in Vietnamese history, this sweeping epic from Nguyễn Phan Quang Binh (The Floating Lives) transports us to the Đinh dynasty, when a band of fearless warriors set out on a secret mission to safeguard a sacred mystery.
Looking to prolong their night of partying, four youths are plunged into paranoid pandemonium after crossing a mobster's volatile son in Nick Kozakis' bloody ripper of a siege thriller.
In Mexico, Tere, a musician-composer, opens her home to a TV interview with a friend, as topics meander and new voices drift in. An absurdist comical chamber piece that skewers art-world hypocrisy, mocks pretension and celebrates a singular womanly bond.
Chase Infiniti stars as a gifted university student who becomes romantically involved with a teaching assistant as they both prepare for the Putnam Exam, the most challenging math competition in North America. Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs co-star.
A tale of death and existence set in a large, international airport.
When a theft goes awry, a veteran pickpocket is sent on a mission through New York to reclaim the stolen goods. Harry is a classic native New Yorker, an old-school hustler who has moved through life lubricating palms with pickpocket cash since the 1980s. He stays smooth, continually sharpening his skills, but times are changing for Harry. Now it's 2025, and the daily take from the streets? Fancy trackable phones. Cashless wallets full of credit cards. Gym bags holding cryptocurrency and guns. The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is a nostalgic portrait of a hustler getting lapped by today's digitally networked world, who now must prepare for the final act of his life. Director Noah Segan's modern metropolis is powered by the ephemera of a time gone by, with OG street action brought to radiant life by a terrific cast — led by John Turturro's exceptional turn as Harry.
In the Heart of the South is what Single White Female would be if it were set in Toronto, with an Inuk protagonist and a dash of supernatural elements, starring North of North's Anna Lambe.
Blending Caribbean fantasy, magical realism, and Colombia's painful history, The bovine with the curved horns follows a boy searching for his missing father through a landscape where myth and violence coexist. A haunting, poetic debut of remarkable beauty and emotional power.
When a young woman gets the chance to have a conjugal meeting with her imprisoned husband after a long time, she decides to re-experience a romantic time in the apathetic and harsh atmosphere of the prison.
A brother and sister at odds over household responsibilities are in for a dose of the bigger picture when a visit to their father in prison opens their eyes to the dark cloud hanging over their family's future, in Ophelia Harutyunyan's richly textured sibling drama.
Director Paolo Strippoli turns the screws on a desperate mother (Jasmine Trinca) as she confesses a series of Faustian bargains to her estranged daughter (Romana Maggiora Vergano) in this riveting morality chiller.
Shot over a decade in multiple Kurdish-majority villages on the border of Iran and Turkmenistan, Peacocks Come with the Clouds by Parastoo Anoushahpour reflects on a series of elegant wedding embroideries by way of workshops with local children.
Follows Gina, a single mother who meets Michael, an enigmatic stranger. As their relationship deepens, Michael's extraordinary true identity is revealed, teaching Gina to embrace life fully again.
Raúl is a cult filmmaker in the midst of a creative crisis. When tragedy strikes one of his closest collaborators, he draws inspiration from it to write his next film. Little by little, he imagines Elsa, a filmmaker in the midst of writing a script, whose journey begins to mirror his own.
Through five portraits of relatives and mentors, five expressions of resistance, Pegah Ahangarani sketches her life story. Drawing from personal archives, home videos, street protests footage, newspapers, and recorded voices, she retraces more than 40 years of Iran's history. From the early days of 1979, until the war that began in 2026, she pieces together intimate and collective memories, forming the portrait of a country shaped by political repression and in constant hope for a revolution.
Featuring a career-making performance from Anthony Ippolito, the latest from Oscar winner Peter Farrelly (TIFF '18 People's Choice Award winner Green Book) vividly recreates the story of how an unknown named Sylvester Stallone got Rocky produced — and became a superstar.
In Los Angeles, AJ, a shy teenager, meets Kristen. She lives for surfing; he loves skateboarding and drawing. They fall madly in love, and a happy future seems within reach. But everything changes when Kristen faces a sudden illness. Together, they face adversity, driven by the strength of their love, their friends, and their newly shared passion for surfing and the ocean.
Featuring a beautifully understated performance from Margaret Qualley (TIFF '24's The Substance), this sweeping romantic character study from director Rachel Morrison (TIFF '24's The Fire Inside) is an exhilarating testament to loving fully, making amends, and moving on.
Gianina, a young Romanian, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. In the evenings, she rehearses the role of a maid with an amateur theater troupe in an adaptation of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau. She takes care of Louen, her employers' son, while her own daughter is growing up away from her, in Romania.
Bangui, Central African Republic. 17 year-old Robert dreams of a career in music, but civil war is tearing the country apart. When both his parents are thrown into prison, he is left to look after his four younger siblings on his own, juggling daily life, odd jobs, school exams and concert stages, determined to follow his dream.
A heart-piercing bond between two trans siblings forms the emotional core of Rahul Roye's profound exploration of identity, body, and the meaning of manhood, as a trans man's journey takes an unexpected turn on the eve of his gender-affirming surgery.
Set in a bankrupt and sweaty Beirut, Rami Kodeih's impressive thriller follows two sisters in need of money for an important surgery.
Soccer star Megan Rapinoe explores what it means to win and lose in this intimate portrait by Rebeca Huntt (Beba).
Rebel Wilson plays a former girl group star from the early naughties who is forced to coach a rag tag bunch of teen girls to make them into a group for a record label competition.
In the early days of the Iraq War, a U.S. Marine's split-second decision during a firefight devastates an Iraqi family. Years later, aided by a New Yorker journalist, he seeks to reconcile with the woman and her family who survived. Atonement is inspired by true events.
A prank gone wrong launches a Quebec teen into a life of crime in Rémi St-Michel's energetic and unpredictable second feature.
In the heartland of India, a young Phoolan Devi becomes one of the most famous outlaws in Indian history and the target of 2,000 heavily armed men sent to kill her over a gruelling 48-hour siege.
A short experimental film by British artist and filmmaker John Smith, presented within TIFF Wavelengths 1: House and Home. The film reflects on the nature of domestic space and the boundaries between fixed habitation, temporary shelter, and refuge.
Broadway and cabaret icon Justin Vivian Bond stars as a transgender gay rights activist with worsening Alzheimer disease suffering from the treatment in her nursing home, in Rodrigo Barriuso's poignant second feature.
The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. Living together on set will foster a closeness they haven't shared for years, but it will also reopen old wounds that never healed.
A nimble-fingered pickpocket has one more day to pay back his ex, whose trust he has betrayed. With no accomplice, he turns to his cousin Pinpin, left in his care by his aunt until the next day.
Christopher Walken leads a terrific cast in director Ron Murphy's hilarious satire about a failing family funeral home that experiences a reversal of fortune thanks to their town's suspicious spike in fatality rates.
A fluorescent colour palette, sharp angular visuals, and a gleeful choir coalesce exquisitely, building up to an epic crescendo in Ronni Shalev's joyful animated story of two ball girls on a tennis court whose initial rivalry transforms into an electric, magnetic passion.
Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) is back in action as a kidnapped surgeon forced to perform one last operation in this fun, pulse-pounding thriller.
Following the strange visions afflicting a woman on the cusp of marriage, the latest from Rubaiyat Hossain (TIFF '19's Made in Bangladesh) examines the pressures applied to brides in a milieu where weddings demand an asphyxiating feminine ideal.
Director of a care facility for the elderly, Marie-Lou strives to introduce an innovative care philosophy based on listening and respecting residents' dignity, despite resistance from part of her staff. Her encounter with Mari, a Japanese theater director battling cancer, will profoundly reshape her path. By forming a deep, supportive friendship, the two women join forces in a shared struggle to "make the impossible possible."
Sabrine Khoury weaves a myriad of emotional and cultural threads in her delicate postpartum drama about a young Palestinian mother navigating seemingly small daily challenges, amplified by a visit from her parents at her new Amsterdam home.
A seasoned detective (Ethan Juan) recently diagnosed with dementia is doggedly pursued by both cops and crooks after he unwittingly wanders off with a multimillion-dollar ransom in a new absurdist crime caper from cult auteur Sabu.
Sameh Alaa and Robin Vouters'animation brings the warmth of charming, bustling neighbourhoods of 1960s Cairo to life in this touching tale of a father returning home from prison after many years and attempting to repair a fragile bond with his eldest son.
A tragedy brings a mother, daughter, and teenage boy together. Struggling with blame and forgiveness, the unlikely trio take a trip to Tenerife for a family holiday that never happened. Under the glow of the sun, past and present quietly start to overlap.
Annie Murphy (Schitt's Creek) stars in this effervescent, tender-hearted, refreshingly modern rom-com that chronicles a casual encounter between a millennial and a Gen Zer — and the life-altering consequences that result.
This intimate and inspiring portrait from filmmaker Sean Menard (TIFF '17's The Carter Effect) draws upon never-before-seen footage to reveal the arduous process and profound commitment behind Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope to raise awareness and money for cancer research.
Bobby shuttles between Vienna and Salzburg, picking up strangers. Their conversations range from casual to intimate, revealing how anonymous connections create warmth in modern Europe.
Koki, a gardener in Guatemala City, hides a secret: he is a vampire. By day he lives with his wife, and young son; by night he feeds in the shadows. Together, the parents try to shield the boy from the curse.
In the back alleys of Seville, Salva, Belén, and their gang of street kids will brave every danger to ward off the threat hanging over Carmen, a free-spirited and flamboyant young woman. The fate of Carmen, a rebellious soul, lies in their hands.
Over one hot summer day in Toronto, a group of young people try to survive the heatwave and a blackout by making jokes, roaming the city, and forming tangible connections that feel like they can disappear at any moment.
Packed with dry humour and deadpan wit, actor Shamier Anderson's mockumentary and irreverent character study centres on a city outsider who buys a rural hunting shop and inadvertently sparks a bitter rivalry with an incensed local animal-rights activist.
A transgender taxi driver's dream of fatherhood becomes a reality when he gets pregnant, forcing him to confront his own notions of masculinity while navigating unexpected social, moral, and emotional consequences.
Shaunak Sen's follow-up to the Academy Award–nominated documentary All That Breathes is an evocative drama set in the vibrant neighbourhoods of Old Delhi, where the routined lives of two middle-aged termite exterminators are about to drastically change when one of them receives an unexpected marriage proposal.
When a family's matriarch dies, four relatives are forced to confront decades of silence, resentment, and buried affection. Led by Alfredo Castro, this sharp ensemble balances humour and melancholy in a moving portrait of grief and reconciliation.
Jon Hamm stars in this adaptation of the hit podcast, which tells the true story of an Indianapolis radio reporter thrust into a high-stakes situation when a local man takes a bank employee hostage and demands to be interviewed live on air.
Cult Japanese filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto directs acclaimed Broadway actor Rodney Hicks and Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush in a harrowing, visceral, and morally urgent portrait of Vietnam veteran Allen Nelson.
Featuring a breakout performance by Ruth Madeley and Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo (TIFF '15's Spotlight), this inspiring historical drama from Oscar-winning filmmaker Siân Heder (CODA) celebrates the paradigm-shifting activist Judy Heumann, "Mother of the Disability Rights Movement."
Draws from Cantonese Ghost Stories while exploring Hong Kong's physical and symbolic terrain, where an underground art scene endures amid threats to the city's broader cultural identity.
A powerful, deeply moving and inspiring story of the actor Ian Charleson who faced incredible odds while preparing to give the performance of his life in Hamlet at the National Theatre in London.
Director Sine Plambech (Heartbound, TIFF '18) documents the kidnapping of a mother and her long quest to be reunited with her husband, illuminating a mass crisis experienced by migrants in the Mediterranean.
As cherry blossom season peaks in Toronto's High Park, so do some of the camera-ready visitors' worst impulses, as evidenced in Sophia Smith's hilarious mockumentary that captures the unscrupulous methods and frenzied quest for that elusive snap.
Quebec's Sophie Deraspe returns to the Festival with a philosophical and intimate look at the many profound issues surrounding both death and medically assisted dying in an extraordinary documentary.
Twenty years after The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, the renowned intellectual Slavoj Žižek reunites with director Sophie Fiennes for a fresh meditation on movies and ideas that crackles with energy.
Haunted by an abusive childhood, Audrey, a Korean American woman in her 30s, faces her emotional past. When her mother's car accident brings her back to her parents' home, she meets the man responsible for the accident. Their relationship builds, passions ignite, and they form a loving connection. Audrey and Eli are very different people, but they are haunted by their past in a similar way. Having lived through difficult times as children of immigrant parents, they carry their hurt and isolation in their adulthood with the accompanying confusion of how to care for family and themselves. Actors Moon Choi and Son Sukku sparkle as two people who find each other amid all the guilt, anger, and "han," and, in doing so, find a way to heal. In her feature debut, marked with great vulnerability, writer-director Stephanie Ahn beautifully articulates the complicated emotional landscape of immigrant children who are now all grown up. Bedford Park is a heartfelt expression of human experience not often seen on screen. It is a film so many have been waiting for.
K-pop idol–turned–global superstar Lisa stars in this intimate and transformative documentary tracing her journey from childhood ambition through BLACKPINK stardom into the artist she is today.
Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo (Wicked) stars in this adaptation of Suzie Miller's globally acclaimed play that examines what happens when an ambitious barrister who primarily defends those accused of sex crimes unexpectedly becomes the accuser in a sexual assault case.
Cheyenne follows a group of fearless cowgirls who compete at riding wild broncos on the rodeo circuit after nearly a century of being excluded because of their gender.
The latest from prolific maestro Takashi Miike, like Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant (TIFF '92) and Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call — New Orleans (TIFF '09), is a sensational ride through the darkest crevasses of the criminal underworld.
Tokyo park skies and trees are captured with playful, lyrical in-camera effects. Unseen since 1974, this new Collaborative Cataloging Japan restoration reveals Kosugi as an unsung polymath who sadly never continued filmmaking.
The sounds of prayers and of selling beans echo through a city where past and present collide in Tenzin Sedon's textured and cinematic ethnographic study on the relentless way modernization and urban development have reshaped a sacred, historically revered Tibetan tradition.
A young artist develops an addiction to snails after landing a bizarre gig: serving as a motionless human racetrack for snails during a rejuvenation therapy workshop for seniors.
Starring Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee, TIFF '25) and Scoot McNairy (Nightbitch, TIFF '24), the latest from Tim Blake Nelson is a psychologically rich prison story about crime, punishment, and love.
A hunger for purpose and a flair for delusion in a small Scottish town: Tom Nicoll's debut is a sharp, empathetic portrait of young men adrift.
Post-marital acrimony and parental devotion make strange bedfellows in Trudie Styler's wicked comedy, starring Oscar nominee Antonio Banderas (TIFF '19's Pain and Glory) and Eva Birthistle (TIFF '05's Imagine Me & You) as co-parenting divorcees faced with an indecent proposal.
The feature debut of writer-director Tony Vahl delivers a powerful and stark portrait of moral collapse, societal panic, and the consequences of being on the wrong side of history.
In Svilengrad, a small town on the Bulgarian border, Veska, crosses paths with Said, an old acquaintance whose car has been stolen. Offering her help, she brings him along to the excavation site where she is working as an archaeologist. As they reconnect, Veska is pulled more into the shady world that he (Said) has emerged from, soon embarking on her own exploration of the criminal ties that lurk beneath the surface of this seemingly innocent town at the outskirts of Europe. As figures from her own past start to close in, Veska is forced to confront the truth about the town and her experiences.
A virtual identity crisis meets dank British comedy in Varun Raman and Tom Hancock's satirical take on the pressures of class and masculinity, and the value of homosocial friendship.
Blurring fiction and reality, Victor Boccard maps an artist's obsession across decades of paintings revisiting one subject: the woman he buried long ago at the foot of a statue, in this ethereal meditation on grief, memory, and bonds that transcend time.
At a time when elements of fascisation are becoming ever more apparent, ever more pervasive, artist Vika Kirchenbauer takes a personal look at what is in the air in present-day Germany.
Learning for the first time in life what it actually means to be alive.
Amidst the advent of modern cinema, trailblazing artist Alice Guy becomes the first female film director in this lush historical series starring Academy Award nominee Bérénice Bejo (The Artist).
This captivating adaptation of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel from director Wayne Wang (TIFF '93's The Joy Luck Club) follows an aging widower drawn into an unnervingly intimate relationship with his caregiver daughter-in-law.
A decade after his death, one of the most significant and compelling filmmakers of the past century has one last trick up his sleeve: a trove of never-before-seen footage that he believed to be the most important he ever filmed. Genre-defying director William Greaves searches for the divine origins of his own creativity at a cocktail party he masterminded in 1972 for the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.
The future. Winter. Space travel is no longer a dream. A once-thriving film studio faces bankruptcy. The enormous compound, with structures ranging from the Great Sphinx of Giza to the Forbidden City, is now completely covered in snow and stripped of its former glory. Zha, a lonely janitor, tends to this forgotten place, with only a cat that used to perform in films for company. Running out of money, the studio owner gives him a VR headset as partial compensation. Zha is immediately drawn into the virtual world and embarks on a romantic journey with a female player who invites him on a trip to the moon. Meanwhile, the studio, which is about to close permanently, is temporarily brought back to life when a film crew arrives to shoot an alien invasion movie on the expansive backlot – with the studio's actual destruction slated to be shot as the movie's final showdown.
Chronicling the exhilarating career of Gilles Villeneuve, one of Canada's foremost athletes, this biopic from director Yan Lanouette Turgeon stars Rémi Goulet as the kid from Quebec who changed Formula One.
A bus full of children mysteriously vanishes. When an altered version of a grieving mother's son returns years later, she must grapple with the technologically revised reality she has created in this sharp thriller from Yeon Sang-ho.
The first from a series of short found-footage films of which the festival is showing three as film and presenting one as an installation. Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi are virtuoso adapters of archive material, that changes in their hands into sensitive witnesses to the dramatic history of the 20th century. The archive material for this series, Frammenti Elettrici, comes from a private collection and dates from soon after the Second World War. This part looks at the topical theme of migration and xenophobia through a tourist 8mm recording of a gypsy family. People in their Sunday best come out to gawp at the exotic show. For the first time since their persecution in the war, gypsies can be seen again.
Yonfan transforms excerpts from his 15 films into a brilliant, genre-defying meditation on cinema, memory, beauty, desire, and his own singular body of work, featuring Maggie Cheung, Chow Yun-fat, Sylvia Chang, Shu Qi, Daniel Wu, and many, many more.
Yoon Dan-bi's coming-of-age story follows two childhood best friends who reunite for a summer on a remote Korean island. This beautifully constructed slice of life captures the emotional intensity of adolescence through assured filmmaking and compelling performances.
Yung Chang, one of Canada's most prominent documentary filmmakers, makes a haunting narrative debut with this visually arresting, atmospheric slow-burner about an affluent businesswoman whose cushy routine and sense of reality unravel after she drives past the aftermath of a hit and run.
The debut feature by Toronto artist and filmmaker Yuula Benivolski, The Black Box is Orange is a multimodal, autobiographical essay film that deploys both personal memory and incomplete archives to reflect on a childhood in a militarized border town.
Yza Nouiga evokes a fraught chapter in Morocco's history through the intimate and stirring story of an illiterate woman in the 1970s attempting to write to her absent husband in a profound act of resistance against the boundaries of her world.
Zarrar Kahn's latest is a charming romantic comedy about an endearing gym coach who is convinced that his online persona as a toxic podcaster is his only ticket to relevance and popularity until a new client and love interest enters his life.
A nocturnal journey through the mountains, illuminated by a flashlight and captured with a night-vision camera. Green digital images reveal flora, fauna, and distant stars as the filmmaker moves through the darkness, creating an eerie and immersive portrait of the natural world at night.
A Chinese girl grows up from the age of 6 to 18 across three families, each giving her a new name and a different life. As she searches for belonging and the possibility of love, she must face the weight of her past and the uncertainty of her future - until she finds her own way.
The latest from Oscar-nominated director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) stars Oscar nominee Laura Linney (TIFF '08's The Savages) and Rhys Ifans (TIFF '23's Mother Couch) as strangers whose lives become entwined when both are diagnosed with Parkinson disease.