Klora and Minky work together to solve a very, very "important" equation.
12 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
In the intimate oasis of a tiny women’s-only beauty parlour, generations of devoted customers, including the filmmaker’s family, reflect on letting their hair go grey.
13 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
CABBAGEWORM is a horror stop-motion animation film, exploring queer desire and emancipation after the death of Michelle's abusive and homophobic mother.
15 Nov. 1:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C2
In a dark preservation lab in New York City, international student Ting Su works to digitize archival film negatives from the Daily Worker, a union newspaper that began in Chicago in 1924.
12 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
A 45-year-old corporate worker befriends a group of young skaters and secretly begins learning to skateboard during his lunch breaks. When doubt and judgment creep in, he must decide whether to abandon the joy he’s found or embrace the risk of starting over.
15 Nov. 1:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C2
A middle-aged Indian mother is faced with the dilemma of a lifetime when her yesteryear Bollywood crush arrives at her door with just one request for her husband and kids — to marry her.
15 Nov. 1:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C2
13 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
14 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
12 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
13 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
12 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
12 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
12 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
15 Nov. 1:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C2
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Perhaps it’s time to reconcile your version of reality with the world that's in front of you. It may be more distant than you’d care to admit.
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
One day, you choose to look beyond the stadium show and find yourself in the cracks of the stage. There, you encounter charm, playfulness, and invention beyond imagination. Do you venture in?
13 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Consider the rhythms of labour: in the home, at the workplace, and on the streets. These films capture the stories of those who power our cities and ask, "How do we better meet each other where we are at?"
12 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Under suspicious circumstances, you wonder if the entities around you are withholding your full autonomy. Do you fight back?
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
This past summer, six emerging filmmakers embarked on a months-long filmmaking workshop. We’re proud to present their world premieres here in the 15th edition of Reel Asian’s filmmaking programme.
15 Nov. 1:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C2
We present a collection of short films from the Kaohsiung Film Festival. These shorts present a diverse set of perspectives from Taiwan — wistful, ambivalent, and restless connections across generations of people trying to get through this thing called life.
14 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
We are all guided by desires — some physical, some emotional, some impossible to name. These films explore the tender spaces where craving becomes intimacy, curiosity becomes discovery, and desire leaves a trace.
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
15 Nov. 1:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C2
14 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
15 Nov. 1:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C2
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
14 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
13 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
12 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
In the mountain city of Chongqing, the “Bangbang Army” – pole-bearing labourers averaging 62 years of age – navigate the vertical labyrinth of this metropolis with bamboo poles slung across their weathered shoulders.
12 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
13 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
13 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
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14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
