Unaware it's her dementia-ridden grandmother’s final months, a filmmaker documents her grandmother's physical changes.
10 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C3
Following an exchange of text messages with her mother about her newly adopted dog Abby, a young woman sees her experience as a transracial adoptee reflected in this adoption.
11 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
One night, a person brushes the teeth of a dog and turns into a bus.
12 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Directed by Emma Zuck. Faye, a 16-year-old ballet dancer, prepares for her final solo.
11 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
When Anu, a recent widow, moves to New Zealand from India, she's forced to confront her grief by completing an ordinary ritual in an extraordinary circumstance: quarantine.
11 Nov. 7:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
In this complex family thriller, Gian has been plotting revenge since the day Janine, his mother, was sent away.
12 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
The formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia are re-imagined with handmade animation.
11 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
In this charming and meditative documentary, Jackie, Nora and Gayle are three Hakka Chinese women from Victoria, B.C. who unite to save Canada's oldest Chinese temple from crumbling.
11 Nov. 2:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C3
Working as a fisherman to support his small family, Ucup is used to consuming his catch from the sea until one day something strange happens that makes him realize something about his daily meal.
11 Nov. 7:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
After a coven of witches is discovered in the mountains, the government conducts an experiment attempting to mix magic and technology.
11 Nov. 2:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C3
Two crocodilian men go to a swimming pool to cool off. One of them is seemingly of a different and special kind; the other is unable to control his desire.
12 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Directed by Aldina Lydia Nabilah Azani. A religious officer and a journalist embark on a close-proximity case in a house that seems to have other plans.
10 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
Andrew and Nina reunite when Andrew moves into a new place in the city. As the day passes, they mould the empty apartment into a home, awakening dormant feelings from their past.
11 Nov. 2:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C3
Filmmakers Njo Kong Kie and John Greyson have created an original short opera about the last day on Earth for Li Shiu Tong, the lover of Berlin sexologist and legendary gay-rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld.
12 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
A tender short film about a daughter who attempts to chop a coconut for her dying father.
11 Nov. 2:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C3
Grinding away at the inherited family business, Mohamed works tirelessly making sales of knock-off perfume, while living as a knock-off version of his true self.
11 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Out of work and forced to marry a man she dislikes, young San Kyi plans to run away with her best friend, but complications unfold.
12 Nov. 2:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
On her 21st birthday, A Xin, who studied abroad in Taiwan, meets her brother who came from Malaysia.
10 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
Two sisters who have chosen different paths are reunited while preparing for a wedding, forcing them to face their differences, whether they are ready or not.
11 Nov. 2:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C3
Between nuclear reactors and military curfews, 14-year-old Jani lives in a dystopian world oppressively devoid of empathy. Together, she and her slippery new friend Kiefer the talking catfish gear up to strike a surreal blow for freedom.
12 Nov. 2:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Flaming lobsters and menstruation woes plague 12-year-old Yuki’s doomed Hawai'ian beach vacation.
11 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
In the strange, polarized world of Hands and Butts, a single act of violence toward an oppressed Butt sets the mediaverse ablaze.
11 Nov. 7:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Unable to find the presence of women in the artwork of Lee Jung-seob, I am a Horse spins an imaginative tale inspired by tae-mong (Korean birth dreams) of women born with half of their bodies, being a horse and a tiger.
11 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Sujin, who was recently fired and is planning to go to Canada on a working holiday, lives with her family after her parents’ return.
12 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
In the height of the Iran–Iraq war, Caroline takes the final car ride with her father through the Iranian countryside.
12 Nov. 2:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Maggie, a young Asian American sound artist, grapples with her imposter syndrome as it takes on new extremes at her first artist's residency.
11 Nov. 7:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
In a small village in northern Sri Lanka, a young girl is forced to confront the consequences of a deadly civil war as a wounded freedom fighter is brought into their home.
12 Nov. 2:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
A beloved horror actress questions the triviality of her career starring in Pontianak films, all the while being filmed by a group of documentary filmmakers.
10 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C3
Back-and-forth movement blends discrete pictures into each other, contrasting the memory of innocent childhood life in a remote, peaceful environment against the surrounding political affairs of post-revolutionary Iran.
12 Nov. 2:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Kyu-ho, an ordinary office worker, receives an interview request from a famous writer and agrees to talk to her.
11 Nov. 7:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Pixels of the Orient appropriates Western media depictions of East Asia for a psychedelic and comedic exploration of ahistorical East Asian aesthetics and identity.
11 Nov. 7:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Directed by Sonny Calvento. The audition process for an exploitative game show becomes the latest test of a long-suffering mother’s fortitude and tenacity.
12 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
In a post-New Order Jakarta, native Indonesians (Pribumi) are legalized to perform the black magic ritual babi ngepet to balance their economy against Chinese Indonesians.
12 Nov. 2:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
In the peripheries of near-future Tokyo, high schoolers Kou and Yuta practice a prank that begins as a faux argument and involves a prop glass bottle stolen from their theater department.
11 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Anna, a cognitively disabled woman, and her estranged sister, Emily, must learn to communicate after their mother’s death in order to move forward.
11 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
A boy longs for his father's affection, but he is only interested in fishing.
11 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
A lifetime of abusing his natural talent for making up stories has led an arrogant serial liar to quit his deceiving ways forever.
11 Nov. 2:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C3
Kathy Tran and Agnès Gaudreau work as auto mechanics at Bâtiment 7, a collective-run space where they can truly be themselves.
11 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Directed by Ji-won Han. Sejin once had the power to have anything she wanted just by thinking about it. But now she has lost her magic.
11 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Two sisters seeking revenge for the murder of their sister, Isabel.
10 Nov. 5:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C3
A mad clock takes the viewer on a time trip to a random planet where the concept of time is experienced differently from the one we know...
12 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
An Iranian Canadian girl reluctantly makes a new friend when the new student from Iran offers to help fix her ruined unibrow — for her, a symbol of the Iranian heritage she tries desperately to hide from the world.
11 Nov. 7:30 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Teenager Ly and her cousins get high before a boisterous family Thanksgiving at their auntie’s house in southeast San Diego in 2006.
11 Nov. 12:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
Opaque memories seep into a quotidian flow despite efforts to move onward.
11 Nov. 5:00 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox C4
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