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- DirectorAnubha MominStarsSofia BanzhafMaika HarperKaatali, an Inuk woman seeking to cover up a tattoo that represents a difficult past, is thrown off when her tattoo artist turns out to be the now-grown child she used to babysit.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 3
- DirectorRenee ZhanStarsXiaonan WangSimon Paisley DayAlina LewWhen pressures mount on a tightly wound violinist in a London youth orchestra, her internal monsters take external form.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 3
- DirectorTrinidad Plass CaussadeTitouan TillierIsaac WenzekA man discovers another meaning for recycling in this ingenious fusion of mock doc, workplace satire, and stop-motion.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 3
- DirectorEric K. BoulianneStarsEric K. BoulianneFlorence Blain MbayeRémi St-MichelAfter many years together, a couple decides to have a baby. Throughout their relentless efforts, the partners try to maintain their love and unity.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 3
- DirectorJohn Paul Lopez-AliStarsBruno KanterRené RamirezDylan RedfordWhile working for a children's show, a wildlife researcher encounters Bigfoot in the woods.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 4
- DirectorJules Kalla EyangoFusing the visual language and kineticism of African themes, traditions, and histories and warrior's most momentous battle.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 4
- DirectorEdith JorischStarsDean BrissonVincent ChampagneInes DefosseAn elegant woman presides over a banquet whose increasingly surreal nature reflects ideals and anxieties about modern motherhood.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 4
- DirectorIvan D. OssaStarsJoshua ObraMartin MarticorenaIsaiah PeckA young man who prides himself on his drive and determination makes some tough discoveries as he awaits some big news in this energetic and perceptive drama by Ivan D. Ossa.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 4
- DirectorAlisi TelengutReimagined the formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia featuring the voice in endangered Buryat-Mongolian language.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 4
- DirectorPatrick BresnanIvete LucasStarsCindy LoftonMichael MullenKatherine O'NeilA Texas house call veterinarian Dr. Michael Mullen carries the burden of guiding people through the totality of their pets lives. He runs his clinic from an answering machine in his house and a white van that he drives across Austin to visit his patients. On this day after finishing his appointments, he must guide his neighbor Cindy through one of the hardest days of her life.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 4
- DirectorMackenzie DavisStarsSidse Babett KnudsenA woman practices self-care.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 5
- DirectorLeonardo MartinelliStarsAyla GabrielaHenrique BulhõesJard CostaA bird called Memory has forgotten how to come back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets, but the city can be a hostile place.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 5
- DirectorAndrea Nirmala WidjajantoStarsYesaya MishaelAnne YasmineA young Pribumi woman confronts the realities of how she is valued by her society in an imagined scenario of post-New Order Indonesia.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 5
- DirectorMarielle DalpéStarsClare CoulterA bracingly expressionistic and emotionally devastating depiction of neurocognitive deterioration using a strong and emotive visual aesthetic and clever sound design that highlights the voice performance by the great Clare Coulter.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 5
- DirectorAylin GökmenA Kurdish man reveals the experiences and situations that shaped him as he reflects on his peripatetic and occasionally traumatic journey through the world.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 5
- DirectorRyan McKennaStarsDaniel GersonMonika SchneiderDan is a photographer losing his vision due to a degenerative eye disorder. Monika just got out of a long relationship and has recently decided to get back into acting, after having been away from the craft for a number of years. Monika and Dan come together at a rented studio for a brief photo shoot. Dan takes her headshot, and Monika gives him a loaf of fresh bread.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 5
- DirectorMarni Van DykStarsJessica AllenJennifer De LuciaEmma HunterAfter her mother's death, Kyle goes on a quest to learn to swim in spite of her sister's attempts to sabotage her plan.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 5
- DirectorFlóra Anna BudaStarsNatasa StorkÁdám FeketeFranciska FarkasAlice lives at her parents' place at the age of 27 with no private life or a relationship. It takes a bicycle accident and a short coma to make her realize that it's time to move out.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 6
- DirectorJames Michael ChiangStarsJake ShannonA biracial man uncovers difficulties and complications in his attempts to connect with his Chinese background.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 6
- DirectorMalia ObamaStarsTunde AdebimpeLaTonya BorsayJohn WeigandAn unexpected request and a terrible loss bring attention to the intense and complex relationship between a mother and her son.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 6
- DirectorCatherine BoivinMorning runs are used in this intriguing film by artist and filmmaker Catherine Boivin to retrace the steps of her Atikamekw ancestors and connect with deeper rhythms.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 6
- DirectorKarsten WallDocumentary that encourages viewers to think more deeply about the circumstances we humans have made for the birds that serve as one of this country's toughest symbols by encouraging a closer examination of the birds themselves.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 6
- DirectorSpencer CreighFollows a beach-town fixture who is devastated after receiving some depressing news.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 6
- DirectorJasmin MozaffariStarsBehtash FazlaliOriana LemanJohn RalstonDuring 1979 at the height of the Iran Hostage crisis, Babak goes on a trip to meet his fiance's parents and ends up confronting the realities of what it means to be an Iranian immigrant in a patriotic post-Vietnam America.Festival Category: Short Cuts Programme 6
- DirectorTarsem SinghStarsPavia SidhuYugam SoodGourav SharmaA young couple desperately want to be together but they are separated due to time, distance, and societal expectations.Festival Category: Platform
- DirectorKristoffer BorgliStarsLily BirdNicolas CageJulianne NicholsonAn ordinary family man finds his life turned upside down when strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams.Festival Category: Platform
- DirectorKei Chika-uraStarsMirai MoriyamaTatsuya FujiYôko MakiFollows the story of the reconciliation of a father and son who had been estranged for a long time among lost memories and dispersed pieces of lives.Festival Category: Platform
- DirectorGinevra ElkannStarsDanny HustonValeria GolinoGreta ScacchiIn Rome, during a January weekend a sudden heatwave arrives. The sun is initially pleasant, but the heat quickly escalates to a frightening degree, resulting in people and animals losing self-control.Festival Category: Platform
- DirectorChristian SparkesStarsFrances FisherClayne CrawfordAlix West LeflerAfter the mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a child with mysterious powers awash on their shores, the once peaceful community devolves into civil war, torn over the belief that the child is the next saviour.Festival Category: Platform
- DirectorHanna Antonina Wojcik SlakStarsMaren EggertJona Levin NicolaiMaryam ZareeA mother and son must deal with years of quiet and misunderstandings on a desolate island.Festival Category: Platform
- DirectorJaione CambordaStarsJanet NovásSiobhan FernandesCarla RivasIlla of Arousa, 1971. María earns her living fishing and also helps other women in their deliveries. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee from her and begins a dangerous journey that will make her fight for her survival.Festival Category: Platform
- DirectorNora el HourchStarsLeah AubertMédina DiarraSalma TakalineThree teenagers attract public outcry after they post a video identifying the assailant who attacked one of them.Festival Category: Platform
- DirectorAxel PetersénStarsJoel SpiraChristopher WagelinJulia SporreA worried former fraudster arrives in Malta only to encounter significant difficulty in a hedonistic Swedish expat society.Festival Category: Platform
- DirectorHéléna KlotzStarsPommeNiels SchneiderSofiane ZermaniAbused by her gendarme father and forced to provide for her younger siblings, Jeanne Francoeur looks to make a living in the world of finance.Festival Category: Platform
- DirectorJames BurnsStevie SalasStarsJessica MattenAutumn PeltierSantee SmithActivist Layla Staats shows the faces and personal stories behind the struggle of First Nations reserves to receive a basic human right: drinkable water.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorLina SoualemStarsHiam AbbassUm AliNemat AbbassYears after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorJames ErskineRachel RamsayStarsElvira AracenBrandi ChastainBirte KjemsTold by the pioneering women who participated, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women's Soccer World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history - until now.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorKarim AmerStarsMykhailo FedorovDmytro KulebaRustem UmerovUnique access to Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and other key figures in the administration who are fighting to save their country against Russia's invasion by combatting disinformation.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorChristopher WilchaA comical attempt to save a New Jersey record store and confront a mid-life crisis.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorAndres PeyrotStarsOlonigdi ChiariLaida Diaz de PrestanDemetria Prestan DiazThe Kuna indigenous people of the Guna Yala islands of Panama intend to claim a 1975 documentary that portrayed their community, but was not ever shown to them.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorAnssi KömiSuvi WestStarsÁile AikioEeva-Kristiina NylanderHeini WesslinA Indigenous Sámi people fights to get back their stolen ancestral heritage.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorMaciek HamelaA small van traverses war-torn roads, picking up Ukrainians as they abandon their homes at the front. Shuttling them across the battered landscape into exile, the van becomes a fragile refuge, a zone for its passengers' confidences.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorFrederick WisemanA 93-year-old director embeds inside a French restaurant that's held three Michelin stars for more than 50 years.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorLucy WalkerStarsShiny DijmarescuSunny DijmarescuLhakpa SherpaA single mother working as a dishwasher who has another life as record-breaking mountain climber.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorRobert McCallumStarsCraig BairdLilly BarnesSandra BeechTake a detailed look about at famed, iconic television show from Canada that impacted multiple generations across its 39 year presence on television and its on-going legacy.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorRaoul PeckStarsJohn C. BarnettClassie CurleyMelvin DavisA Black family in North Carolina has been harassed for decades by land developers attempting to take their waterfront property.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorMargreth OlinStarsJørgen MykløenMagnhild MykløenBeing connected to nature, what does it mean? Father knows and father shows. The director's father is 84. We follow in his footsteps into the mountain home. Into nature's smallest life and out to grand panoramas, where he grew up.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorCara MonesCaroline SuhStarsMichael Ian BlackCara BuckleyLouis C.K.An examination of Louis C.K., who was accused of sexual harassment in 2017. They explore his comeback and the unseen effects of this on the women who spoke publicly about his behavior.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorRoger Ross WilliamsStarsJohn ToonAngela DavisDavid GoldsteinA hybrid documentary/scripted feature based on Dr. Kendi's National Book Award-winning "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas".Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorDeepa MehtaSirat TanejaStarsSirat TanejaA transgender woman must act as her mother's son at home in New Delhi, but can be the woman she really is with her friends and at work with the Government of India.Festival Category: TIFF Doc
- DirectorAnssi KömiSuvi WestStarsÁile AikioEeva-Kristiina NylanderHeini WesslinA Indigenous Sámi people fights to get back their stolen ancestral heritage.Festival Category: TIFF Doc
- DirectorJen MarkowitzAt a camp in rural Alberta, queer, non-binary, and trans teens get to just be kids in a supportive space, surrounded by counsellors who can relate to their experience.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorClair TitleyStarsTomoaki HamatsuJason HerToshio TsuchiyaA Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorAsmae ElMoudirStarsMohamed El MoudirAsmae ElMoudirZahra JeddaouiA Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread Riots, drawing out connections to modern Morocco.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsJake DoveCharlotte HamblinGarry CooperSpans six decades as le Carré gives his final and most personal interview, interrupted with rare archival footage and dramatic anecdotes. It is set against the stormy Cold War backdrop that extends into the present day.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorAnand PatwardhanExplores the personal background of Anand Patwardhan's parents and their connections to the key figures in the Indian independence movement.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorPierre-Henri GibertStarsLouis GarrelSandrine BonnaireMathieu DemyAgnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. For the first time ever, this documentary provides a counter-shot through interviews and previously unseen archives materials.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- DirectorKasia SmutniakStarsKasia SmutniakFollows Kasia Smutniak, actor turned filmmaker, as she visits Poland's banned red zone to shed light on her home nation's border restrictions and the refugee situation in the European Union.Festival Category: TIFF Docs
- CreatorVictor LevinStarsDomhnall GleesonAndrea RiseboroughSunil PatelFollows the story of a 16-year relationship between two imperfect lovers and its highs and lows.Festival Category: Primetime TV Series
- CreatorSteven KnightStarsAria Mia LobertiLouis HofmannLars EidingerThe story of Marie-Laure, a blind French teenager, and Werner, a German soldier, whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.Festival Category: Primetime TV Series
- StarsDaniel ChenGuy MansterHavtamo FardaFrom the original creators of EUPHORIA, this dynamic drama tells the story of a troubled teen who is sent away to a brutal juvenile detention facility, and how his humor and wit keep him alive.Festival Category: Primetime TV Series
- StarsLee Ju-youngJeon Jong-seoJin Seon-kyuMen are lured to a remote hotel, only to be caught in an organ trafficking ring. After a catastrophic earthquake, the survivors fight to escape.Festival Category: Primetime TV Series
- CreatorLeslie NorvilleStarsBrian ObonnaWes WilliamsJully BlackInterviews to narrate the long history of anti-black racism in Canada, including police brutality and the rise of hip-hop music.Festival Category: Primetime TV Series
- CreatorSasha Leigh HenryStarsMalaika Hennie-HamadiHannan YounisLeslie AdlamIt follows a Black woman living in a mainly white world with the help from her invisible hype girl.Festival Category: Primetime TV Series
- StarsKaniehtiio HornEdna ManitowabiJoséphine BaconCommunity members tell the histories, experiences, outlooks, and aspirations of 11 different First Nations, illuminating the cultures, the stories, and the resilience of Indigenous peoples whose homelands now host Canada.Festival Category: Primetime TV Series
- CreatorLulu WangStarsNicole KidmanSarayu BlueJi-young YooA look at the personal and professional lives of a tight-knit group of expatriates living in Hong Kong.Festival Category: Primetime TV Series
- CreatorMiikko OikkonenStarsJussi NikkiläClaes HarteliusKaspar VelbergThe sinking of the MS Estonia, the deadliest civil maritime disaster in European waters, and its aftermath are chronicled in this powerful drama series.Festival Category: Primetime TV Series
- DirectorLouise ArchambaultStarsSophie NélisseDougray ScottAndrzej SewerynThrough the eyes of a strong-willed woman comes the remarkable story of Irena Gut, and the triumphs of the human spirit over devastating tragedy, as she risked her life to save a generation of Jews from the atrocities of the Holocaust.Festival Category: Centrepiece
- DirectorKatja GauriloffStarsAgafia NiemenmaaHeidi GauriloffSanna-Kaisa PaloIida, an elderly Skolt Sámi woman who has abandoned her past under the pressures of assimilation, weaving across three different historical eras to examine the fate of Finland's Indigenous peoples in the post-war period.Festival Category: Centrepiece
- DirectorHenri PardoStarsRayan DieudonnéPenande EstimeMartin DubreuilIn the early 70s, after leaving their troubled hometown in Haiti, a young boy and his mother settle in a small rural village in Quebec where the boy counts on his invisible friend to understand the new world around him.Festival Category: Centrepiece
- DirectorIvan SenStarsSimon BakerRob CollinsNatasha Wanganeen'Limbo' follows the investigation of a twenty year-old outback cold case murder by jaded detective Travis Hurley.Festival Category: Centrepiece
- DirectorKiran RaoStarsNitanshi GoelPratibha RantaSparsh ShrivastavaThe misadventures of two young brides who get lost from the same train. From mistaken identities to laugh-out-aloud escapades, the ensuing chaos guarantees laughter galore and heartwarming moments.Festival Category: Centrepiece
- DirectorMonica SorelleStarsAtibon NazaireSheila AnozierChris RenoisA Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.Festival Category: Centrepiece
- DirectorLuke GilfordStarsCharlie PlummerEve LindleyRene RosadoA 21-year-old construction worker in New Mexico joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.Festival Category: Centrepiece
- DirectorWim WendersStarsKoji YakushoTokio EmotoArisa NakanoHirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.Festival Category: Centrepiece
- DirectorPablo BergerStarsIvan LabandaAlbert Trifol SegarraRafa CalvoThe adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in New York City during the 1980s.Festival Category: Centrepiece
- DirectorJun LanaStarsKokoy De SantosSue PradoElora EspañoRelationship between a hard-working mother and her son is challenged when she invites one of her students to their home.Festival Category: Centrepiece
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsIlinca ManolacheOvidiu PîrsanNina HossAn overworked and underpaid production assistant drives around Bucharest to shoot the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company.Festival Category: Wavelengths Features
- DirectorBas DevosStarsStefan GotaLiyo GongTeodor CorbanSet in Brussels, the film revolves around a potential love story between a Romanian construction worker and a Belgian-Chinese doctorate student of moss, who cross paths just before the former is about to move back home.Festival Category: Wavelengths Features
- DirectorEduardo WilliamsStarsBo-Kai HsuMeera NadarasaSharika NavamaniDifferent groups of people wander in a rainy, windy, dark world. They are spending time together, trying to escape from their depressing jobs and to own the question of what to do with their time.Festival Category: Wavelengths Features
- DirectorThien An PhamStarsLe Phong VuNguyen ThinhVu Ngoc ManhA man returns to his hometown, where he's haunted by past memories and desires.Festival Category: Wavelengths Features
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsLarissa CorriveauEvelyne de la ChenelièreOlivier AubinSet on carrying out her task with dedication, a woman is obsessed with watching over anonymous interiors and occupying them. She becomes an echo of how we relate to time, solitude and the melancholy of forsaken spaces.Festival Category: Wavelengths Features
- DirectorRosine Mfetgo MbakamStarsPierrette Aboheu NjeuthatMarguerite MbakopDuval Franklin Nwodu ChineduPortrait of fortitude and care centred on a valiant seamstress single mother in Douala.Festival Category: Wavelengths Features
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsAliocha SchneiderAgathe BonitzerMarisha TriantafyllidouAbandoned as a baby, Jon finds himself in prison on a manslaughter charge. He falls in love with prison guard Iro, unaware of their fateful connection.Festival Category: Wavelengths Features
- DirectorMiko ReverezaStarsBernadette GutierrezAurora Fernandez ReverezaJet ReverezaProfound portrait of immigration, disillusionment, and the elusiveness of home.Festival Category: Wavelengths Features
- DirectorPaul B. PreciadoStarsArthurEmma AvenaAmir BayllyAcademic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado's Berlin Film Festival award-winning doc tells his and others' stories of transition through unique reenactments and visual interpretations of Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography.Festival Category: Wavelengths Features
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaSeverino CavalcantiTony CurtisDowntown Recife's classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that's just part of the story.Festival Category: Wavelengths Features
- DirectorWang BingZhili is one of the centers of the textile industry and people around rural areas flock there for work. They toil away tirelessly, live in squalid conditions, face prejudice from their families, and have to fight for better pay.Festival Category: Wavelengths Features
- DirectorIsiah MedinaStarsKelley DongAlexandre GalmardAndilib KhanA painter plots a heist to steal back his own painting from the same museum vault where a filmmaker is shooting their next project.Festival Category: Wavelengths Pairings
- DirectorBlake WilliamsA recursive search for the center of Barcelona's Laberint d'Horta, where a statue of Eros waits.Festival Category: Wavelengths Pairings
- DirectorRose LowderShot between 2014 and 2022 in France and Italy, it is elegant and electric in its portrayal of the natural world and the loved ones who inhabit its periphery.Festival Category: Wavelengths Shorts (Wavelengths 1: Quiet As It'S Kept)
- DirectorPhilipp FleischmannThey are 16mm looped miniatures shown on custom projectors that explore queer sensibilities and different states of visibility.Festival Category: Wavelengths Shorts (Wavelengths 1: Quiet As It'S Kept)
- DirectorPhilipp FleischmannThey are 16mm looped miniatures shown on custom projectors that explore queer sensibilities and different states of visibility.Festival Category: Wavelengths Shorts (Wavelengths 1: Quiet As It'S Kept)
- DirectorPhilipp FleischmannThey are 16mm looped miniatures shown on custom projectors that explore queer sensibilities and different states of visibility.Festival Category: Wavelengths Shorts (Wavelengths 1: Quiet As It'S Kept)
- DirectorPhilipp FleischmannThey are 16mm looped miniatures shown on custom projectors that explore queer sensibilities and different states of visibility.Festival Category: Wavelengths Shorts (Wavelengths 1: Quiet As It'S Kept)
- DirectorErica SheuPost-war memories of the Taiwanese islands are seen as if through broken glass, summoned through incense, pottery, sand, light and shadows.Festival Category: Wavelengths Shorts (Wavelengths 1: Quiet As It'S Kept)
- DirectorMaryam TafakoryTwo women lie together in bed. As the wind bashes against the window, one recalls a past date to the cinema. The narrated scene cannot be conveyed through images.Festival Category: Wavelengths Shorts (Wavelengths 1: Quiet As It'S Kept)
- DirectorJorge JácomeStarsTiza GonçalvesDan PadrinoFilipe PereiraA young man searches for magic mushrooms in Lisbon, before distributing them with carrier pigeons to locals afflicted by depression.Festival Category: Wavelengths Shorts (Wavelengths 1: Quiet As It'S Kept)
- DirectorJa'Tovia GaryStarsJa'Tovia GaryUsing Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye, Ja'Tovia Gary expands on the book's themes in a contemporary reflection on the desirability of whiteness, the solidarity of black women, and the value of producing work on one's own terms.Festival Category: Wavelengths Shorts (Wavelengths 1: Quiet As It'S Kept)
- DirectorSimon LiuCaptures the anxiety of an uncertain future.Festival Category: Wavelengths Shorts (Wavelengths 2: Sundown)