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Fri, September 11

  1. 2:45 pm → 5:29 pm1st of 2 screeningsClarissaVISA Screening Room at the Princess of Wales TheatreRegularDrama — English · Nigerian PidginA modern reimagining of the Virginia Woolf novel Mrs. Dalloway. Follows society woman Clarissa as she prepares to host a party at her home in Lagos, Nigeria, where she will unexpectedly encounter once-intimate friends from her youth. As the group reflects on their shared past over the course of a single night, memories of their intricate relationships, passionate love, hidden desires, and lost aspirations give rise to bittersweet reckoning.Arie EsiriDirectorChuko EsiriDirectorSophie OkonedoDavid OyelowoIndia Ria AmarteifioAyo EdebiriToheeb JimohNikki Amuka-BirdJude AkuwudikeKehinde CardosoOgranyaDanny Sapani
  2. 9:20 pm → 11:47 pm2nd of 3 screeningsStuffedScotiabank 2RegularOff saleRomance · Horror — EnglishAraminta, a brooding taxidermist whose secret ambition is to stuff a human specimen, meets Bernie, a lonely man so afraid of being forgotten that he volunteers himself, their pact unexpectedly evolves into a haunting romance.Theo RhysDirectorJodie ComerHarry Melling
  3. 11:59 pm → 2:29 am1st of 3 screeningsThe Face of HorrorRoyal Alexandra TheatreRegularOff saleHorror · Romance — EnglishIn medieval England, the beautiful Eleanor pines away for her errant husband, the handsome but adulterous knight Edward. When Edward’s treachery culminates in a tragedy that robs Eleanor first of her beauty and then of her life, she returns as a ghost to eke bloody revenge on Edward and his new bride.Anna BillerDirectorKristine FrosethJonah Hauer-KingBella HeathcoteEllie BamberLeo SuterBen RadcliffePerdita WeeksJohn SackvilleBenedick BlytheSteven Blake

Sat, September 12

  1. 11:30 am → 1:47 pm1st of 3 screeningsTender Loving CareTIFF Lightbox 1PremiumOff saleDrama · Comedy — EnglishAmy is a devoted social service worker who puts her heart and soul into her job to care for those in need. At home, however, she finds herself confronting new challenges as her beloved father begins to show the early signs of dementia, and she and her mother must begin to make peace with their new reality. Through it all, Amy finds comfort, perspective, and plenty of laughter through sips of wine with her lifelong friend Rosie, whose warmth and wit become a vital anchor as both women navigate the shifting rhythms of approaching middle age.Mike LeighDirectorKate O'FlynnAlice Bailey JohnsonMarion BaileyPaul JessonBrid BrennanAlan Williams
  2. 3:35 pm → 5:35 pm1st of 2 screeningsIron BoyScotiabank 3RegularOff saleAnimation — FrenchIn 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?Louis ClichyDirectorGary ClichyRod ParadotDimitri ColasAurélie VassortBrune MoulinAlexandre AstierJean-Pascal Zadi
  3. 9:00 pm → 11:00 pm2nd of 3 screeningsTrash MountainScotiabank 11RegularOff saleDrama · Comedy — EnglishA twenty something gay man travels from Chicago to his home in rural Missouri following the death of his father — an obsessive hoarder who has left a house full of items, some valuable and some not so, to pick through.Kris ReyDirectorCaleb HearonZooey DeschanelKyle MarvinJaboukie Young-WhiteJacki WeaverHolmes

Sun, September 13

  1. 11:15 am → 1:37 pm2nd of 3 screeningsYour Mother Your Mother Your MotherTIFF Lightbox 2RegularOff saleDrama · Crime — EnglishLatif, a devoutly religious hitman, struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children, confronting the forces closing in around him – and the beliefs threatening to unravel within.Bassam TariqDirectorMahershala AliJohn ChoGiancarlo EspositoAbubakr AliLaith NakliAdiaJahleel KamaraTiffany BooneTramell TillmanJohn Henry Ward
  2. 4:45 pm → 7:59 pm1st of 2 screeningsThe Dreamed AdventureTIFF Lightbox 3RegularOff saleDrama · Romance · Mystery — BulgarianThe story of a woman living in the border region between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, who agrees to partake in a special deal in order to help a friend. However, this will lead her into a dangerous situation, and she will have to confront her desiresValeska GrisebachDirectorYana RadevaSyuleyman Alilov LetifoStoicho KostadinovNikolay ShekerdjievDenislava YordanovaTiana Georgieva

Mon, September 14

  1. 12:00 pm → 2:19 pm1st of 3 screeningsBucking FastardTIFF Lightbox 1PremiumOff saleDrama — EnglishTwo sisters, Jean and Joan Holbrooke, are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. We cannot see the world as they see it, but we do see how the world reacts to them – through the courts and the press, through those that want to help and those who want to use them, through the eyes of beasts both tame and wild, and even through their own echoes in the core of the earth.Werner HerzogDirectorKate MaraRooney MaraOrlando BloomDomhnall GleesonHugh O'ConorSimon DelaneyTerry McMahonShane ConnellanJohn KavanaghJohn Connors
  2. 5:30 pm → 8:25 pm1st of 2 screeningsLa GradivaScotiabank 11RegularOff saleDrama — French · ItalianA small group of French high school students goes on a school trip to Pompeii to discover its ruins and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius in 79 CE. It is in this ghost town that they are suddenly overcome by a dizzying sensation. One after another, James, Toni, Suzanne, and their Latin teacher, Mme Mercier, allow themselves to be engulfed by desire, anger, and despair—until they surrender to it completely and lose everything.Marine AtlanDirectorColas QuignardAntonia BuresiMitia Capellier-AudatSuzanne GerinHadya FofanaRouge IsaacLou-Ann Le GlorennecChamathka WarahenaCherazade HammediCamille Ménard-Harnish
  3. 8:45 pm → 11:00 pm2nd of 3 screeningsThe DebutScotiabank 1RegularOff saleMusic · Comedy · Drama — EnglishWhen Mona Friedman is cast in a bit part at a small community theater, she transforms from a shy, unassuming housewife into a zealous method actor willing to do anything to protect the artistic integrity of her marginal role—even if it means waging war against the show’s domineering director.Jesse EisenbergDirectorJulianne MoorePaul GiamattiHalle BaileyBernadette PetersK. Todd FreemanEldar IsgandarovSusan BlommaertColton RyanBonnie MilliganJesse Eisenberg

Tue, September 15

  1. 11:15 am → 2:29 pm2nd of 4 screeningsPossible LoveTIFF Lightbox 3RegularOff saleDrama — KoreanA laid-off worker and his wife cross paths with a documentary filmmaker and her spouse and confront their hidden desires.Lee Chang-dongDirectorJeon Do-yeonSul Kyung-guZo In-sungCho Yeo-jeongJo Yuri
  2. 6:20 pm → 8:30 pm1st of 2 screeningsOnce Upon a Time in HarlemScotiabank 4RegularOff saleDocumentary — EnglishA decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.William GreavesDirectorDavid GreavesDirectorAaron DouglasRichard Bruce NugentErnest CrichlowEubie BlakeLeigh WhipperArna BontempsWilliam GreavesJames Van Der ZeeIda Mae CullenNoble Sissle
  3. 11:59 pm → 2:14 am1st of 3 screeningsLadies and Gentlemen, Brian MulroneyRoyal Alexandra TheatreRegularDocumentary — English · FrenchHaunted by visions of the future. Vilified by the political establishment. Charming beyond belief. Behold the dazzling ascent of Brian Mulroney, the “Boy from Baie-Comeau” who built a brand-new Canada.Matthew RankinDirectorBrian Mulroney

Wed, September 16

  1. 11:45 am → 1:55 pm2nd of 4 screeningsLook BackTIFF Lightbox 1RegularDrama — JapaneseFourth-grader Fujino is admired for the comics she makes for her school newspaper. Her world is upended when asked to share the space with her reclusive classmate Kyomoto, whose stunning artwork is better than anything she can make. When the girls finally meet, Fujino discovers Kyomoto has been idolizing her from afar all along. Her one-sided rivalry abates, and the two are pulled into an all-consuming love of drawing that carries them into adulthood as aspiring manga artists. The adult Fujino and Kyomoto embark on a shared journey where the joys of artistic expression collide with the unpredictability of life.Hirokazu Kore-edaDirectorNatsuki DeguchiAju MakitaFuuri NanaseRokka OkadaMasaki SudaKankuro KudoKayo NoroRyo IkedaMiyu SasakiMaho Yamada
  2. 2:30 pm → 4:59 pm2nd of 2 screeningsEverytimeScotiabank 2RegularDrama — GermanA 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.Sandra WollnerDirectorBirgit MinichmayrTristán LópezLotte KeilingCarla HüttermannHermann BeyerEva WeißenbornKnut BergerLilly Marie TschörtnerMila El-AhmadSven Riemann
  3. 6:15 pm → 8:42 pm1st of 2 screeningsA Long WinterTIFF Lightbox 2RegularOff saleDrama — EnglishHigh in the mountains, autumn comes to an end and a family prepares for the long winter ahead.Andrew HaighDirectorFred HechingerCaitríona BalfeD'Pharaoh Woon-A-TaiKit ConnorEbon Moss-BachrachManuel Garcia-RulfoDavid FurrSusan SerraoAnthony TimpanoGeoff Gustafson
  4. 11:59 pm → 1:40 am1st of 3 screeningsAnchors AweighRoyal Alexandra TheatreRegularComedy — EnglishWhen a well-meaning loser gets rejected by his much younger and more successful blonde girlfriend, he rents a small sailboat by the airport and spirals into a state of deep personal reflection.Matt BaratsDirectorMatt BaratsSerena ProfaciMike HoltAna FabregaFelipe Di PoiLizzy CappuccinoAvery NavarroClark Conway

Thu, September 17

  1. 3:30 pm → 5:30 pm2nd of 3 screeningsLight PillarScotiabank 9RegularDrama · Animation — ChineseThe future. Winter. Space travel is no longer a dream. A lonely janitor tends the grounds of a dilapidated bankrupt film studio with only a former cat actor for company until he embarks on a romantic journey with a female player in a beautiful virtual world.Xu ZaoDirectorDong ChengpengQing YiDa Peng
  2. 6:20 pm → 8:29 pm2nd of 3 screeningsAh GirlScotiabank 4RegularDrama — Chinese · EnglishSingapore, 1994. Ah Girl is a curious 7-year-old girl. Since her parents separated, she lives in a small flat with her younger sister, Ah Tian, her easygoing Pa who works nightshifts, and her irritable Grandmother. They see their needy and unreliable Mum on weekends. One weekend, drunk Mum asks if Ah Girl wants to live with her when she gets a bigger flat. This question disrupts Ah Girl's sense of the world, and the rest of the film unfolds as she struggles with the decision. She becomes increasingly aware that her family life is far from normal.Ang Geck Geck PriscillaDirectorXuan Jing OngSydney WongCarrie WongJames SeahDoreen Toh
  3. 9:30 pm → 12:11 am2nd of 4 screeningsThe Assassin(s)VISA Screening Room at the Princess of Wales TheatreRegularDrama · Crime · Thriller · Action — Korean · JapaneseIn 1974, a shooting shocks South Korea. Detective Cheol-gu, who witnesses the attack, Jae-hwan, the city desk editor whose coverage is suppressed, and Young-il, a rookie reporter, begin to dig beneath the cover-up. As their pursuit of the truth deepens, they come to confront forces meant to remain unseen.Hur Jin-hoDirectorYoo Hai-jinPark Hae-ilLee Min-hoChoi Yu-riRyu Hye-youngKim Dae-myungBae Sung-wooPark Ji-hwanJung Woo-sungShim Eun-kyung

Fri, September 18

  1. 11:00 am → 1:11 pm2nd of 3 screeningsFliesScotiabank 9RegularDrama · Comedy — SpanishOlga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old son, an unlikely bond forms. Her carefully controlled world begins to shift, and their lives become intertwined against her will.Fernando EimbckeDirectorBastián EscobarTeresa SánchezHugo RamírezEnrique ArreolaTeresita Sánchez
  2. 3:30 pm → 5:27 pm2nd of 3 screeningsArrested MemoryScotiabank 3RegularAction · Comedy · Drama — Mandarin · Taiwanese · JapaneseLee is a superstar police detective in Taipei. After losing his team during a crime investigation, he is haunted by guilt and transferred to a rural police station. Traumatized by the incident, Lee develops amnesia—but is determined to keep it a secret. Soon, he is assigned a new case: the kidnapping of the son of an influential Japanese businessman. As his memory continues to fade, Lee can only rely on his instincts—which, against all odds, lead him to the criminals.SABUDirectorEthan JuanMoon LeeReika KirishimaShinichi TsutsumiHsieh Ying-shiuanDaisuke TsukaharaKent TsaiAkira HuangChang Tsai-hsingBrando Huang

Sat, September 19

  1. 2:15 pm → 6:01 pm2nd of 2 screeningsAll of a SuddenScotiabank 10RegularOff saleDrama — French · JapaneseMarie-Lou Fontaine, director of a nursing home in the Paris suburbs, defies convention by adopting the 'Humanitude' method despite her team’s resistance. Her encounter with Mari Morisaki, a terminally ill Japanese playwright, transforms her life. Together, they turn the facility into a symbol of resistance and humanity against the system’s limits.Ryûsuke HamaguchiDirectorVirginie EfiraTao OkamotoKyōzō NagatsukaKodai KurosakiJean-Charles ClichetMarie BunelRomain CottardMarie DenarnaudGabriel DahmaniSephora Pondi

Sun, September 20

  1. 6:40 pm → 8:44 pm2nd of 2 screeningsThe Diary of a ChambermaidScotiabank 9RegularDrama · Comedy — French · RomanianGianina, 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 far from her, in Romania. The maternal absence deepens into a wound but, as Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion begins to take shape.Radu JudeDirectorAna DumitrașcuMarie RivièreLouen BouteillerArnaud BaudoinMélanie ThierryVincent MacaigneIlinca ManolacheSofia DragomanLiliana GhițăKahina Mounier