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
At a dim sum table where food meets kink, three friends push playfulness and intimacy to its sticky, steamy edges — until a sudden interruption challenges who gets to claim pleasure.
13 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
A simple itch spirals into an outbreak with many legs. Certain things will always find their way to the surface.
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
In a time and place where abortion is illegal, a woman’s repeated attempts to end her pregnancy fail, until she crosses paths with a strange bus driver.
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Videographers Arief and Edi exchange memories and imaginations about Papua based on the footage they captured during their time there.
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
A casual couple’s outing, a mysterious encounter, and an afternoon thunderstorm.
14 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Interwoven with animation, observational footage, and shadow puppetry, Landlines follows migrant truck drivers living in the Greater Toronto Area as they navigate the unjust realities of their industry.
12 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Letter to Celestial is a reanimation and reimagination of archival documents found in the search for Asian sex workers in Montreal's Chinatown and historic red light district.
13 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
A chance encounter at a laundromat sparks a meaningful connection between Vinnie and Ryan. As closeness blurs into desire, they are forced to confront what love demands.
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Struggling actress Devin and sound mixer Tom share an unlikely behind-the-scenes moment of connection, leads to an outpouring of emotion that neither of them expected.
12 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Two lonely grandmas from different cultures connect through daily walks around the neighbourhood. Today is their last walk before one of them flies back home to South Korea.
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
MiaoMiao receives a box of chocolate balls. As she clings to this small treasure, a mix of doubt and quiet rebellion begins to blur the boundaries between order and desire.
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
A boy’s breaking voice derails his dream of reunion, forcing him to confront the irreversible passage into adulthood.
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
The story follows Pankaja, a woman who, along with her daughter Lalli, desperately navigates the city slums and bureaucracy of Bangalore in a quest to find her missing husband.
12 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
A dreamlike parable about immigration, Permit Garden follows a nameless child who toils to exit the garden. But as time goes on, they wonder if escape is even possible.
12 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
In a photography studio, a woman and a photographer struggle to capture an innocent portrait of the woman.
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Ira reluctantly takes the bus to meet up with a guy from online, but when her date cancels mid-ride, she decides to join the middle-aged bus driver on his smoke break.
15 Nov. 1:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C2
Intuitively layered, textual animation is used as a tool to describe and come to terms with hallucinations as a part of sight.
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Using cyanotype animation, feelings of desire, romance, and melancholy are drawn from the lingering memory of a young man who falls in love with a statue.
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Ashima Shiraishi, a former child prodigy climber, and their Butoh dancer father offer a ceremony of climbing and dance to invite healing to both their fractured relationship and the land of Paiute.
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
A portrait of an ordinary “one-child” Chinese family in their habitat in an ordinary apartment.
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
In a home where fights erupt and everything is quietly reset by morning, two young sisters begin secretly plotting their parents’ divorce, believing it’s the only way to save their family.
15 Nov. 1:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C2
As a night-shift security guard at a factory, A-Bang kind of likes his job. Patrolling, taking photos, signing in — it's all quite easy, but also quite solitary…
14 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Mr. Monzavi, a reclusive man, lives in an ice shop alongside a mysterious block of ice that never melts. Their quiet, intimate bond is threatened when a group of strangers arrive.
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
This coming-of-age tale follows Chanda, who unexpectedly discovers masturbation on an otherwise ordinary day — set off by nothing more than the whirl of a washing machine.
13 Nov. 8:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
A tick infestation drives a group of campers out of their tent as their only light source slowly loses power. Their conflicting instincts pit them against one another.
15 Nov. 1:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C2
In a rural Philippine market, a street dog scavenges for scraps while a mother and son, fleeing Canada, search for a fresh start.
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Fatima gets invited to her first husband's chaliswa, the 40th-day-after-death commemoration. She comes face to face with his widow, Safeena, and the memories they have both carried for decades.
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Don, in his adolescence, feels low self-esteem due to his awkward gait. The problem now is his father, who is coming home after years of far-sea fishing.
14 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
A violinist and a violin fall in love. When the violinist is spotted with another instrument, drama ensues.
13 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
A young delivery rider navigates a tough day in Lahore, away from home.
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
A teenage girl must come to terms with her tense relationship with her mother while reckoning with the suspicion that she may be eating far more than just fruits from their garden.
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Rusmee keeps interacting with her dead husband Chalerm, in the form of an AI chatbot. It is only with the arrival of Fa, Chalerm’s former caretaker, that the memories inhabiting the house are released.
14 Nov. 2:45 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
A surreal and kitschy drag performance is mixed with prerecorded, lip-sync-style interviews based on the stories of East and Southeast Asian self-publishing underground heroes.
13 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
This film was shot in the Dirt Palace, a feminist-artist-run space project founded in 2000 in an abandoned library building in the commercial corridor of Olneyville in Providence, R.I.
13 Nov. 6:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Daikon and Bean meet at the edge of the world, and then the hot summer turns into spring.
14 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
Ping faces conflict with her girlfriend's homophobic and aggressive father. As tensions escalate, Ping is forced to take drastic action to save herself.
14 Nov. 8:00 pm | TIFF Lightbox C4
