Program TIFF 2026

Calcutta, India, August 1948. Teresa, Mother Superior of the convent of the Sisters of Loreto, is anxiously waiting for the letter that will finally allow her to leave her monastery and create her new order in response to the call she has received from God. Just when everything seems ready, she finds herself faced with a dilemma that questions her own ambitions and faith at a major turning point in her life.

Nineteen-year-old hooligan Tommy revels in a life of drugs, parties, and violence. One night, after becoming separated from his friends, he is abducted by a mysterious man and wakes up chained in the basement of an isolated suburban home. There, a strange family begins forcing him into psychological games designed to “reform” his behavior, turning captivity into a brutal battle of manipulation and survival.

6:30 PM – Film screening: La Cena (dir. Manuel Gómez Pereira, Spain, 2025, 106’) | Military Circle 8:30 PM – Dinner prepared by chef Florin Dumitrescu at Da Pino, presented by LIDL Winner of two awards at the latest Goya Awards, where it was nominated in eight categories, La Cena is set in 1939, immediately after the end of the Spanish Civil War....See more details

Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, in northern Morocco, where she enjoys the city and her daily life. Everything changes when her daughter, Clara, arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has lived her entire life. Determined to stay in the city where she grew up, she does everything she can to keep her home and reclaim the objects she has accumulated over a lifetime.

April 15th, 1939. Just two weeks after the war’s end, Franco invites his top generals for a night of triumph. But in the hotel’s kitchen, a group of defeated Republican chefs are secretly preparing the meal, while also cooking up their last chance to escape the country.

Gramofone is a four-piece band blending jazz, electro, and rock into a contemporary, eclectic sound. Known for their independent spirit and interest in visual and technological innovation, they have developed experimental multimedia projects and had their music featured in advertising campaigns and documentaries....See more details

Roy Cohen, an Israeli filmmaker of Arab-Jewish descent, addresses his Palestinian friend Aseel Asleh, killed by Israeli police in their youth, through an intimate cinematic dialogue across time. Revisiting their shared past at a peace camp in Maine, he confronts memory, friendship and the ongoing violence shaping the present, using letters, archives and conversations to explore loss, moral responsibility and the collapse of a once-possible future of coexistence.

In suburban America during the final days of October 1988, emotionally troubled teenager Donnie Darko begins experiencing visions of a monstrous rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world will end in 28 days. As reality fractures around him, Donnie is drawn into a labyrinth of time travel, paranoia, and apocalyptic destiny.

Bea is a 50-year-old woman going through a divorce, and Denís is a 28-year-old trans man struggling with job insecurity. An unexpected incident brings them together, and this encounter will change their lives forever.

Half-sisters Diana and Lily grew up as the only resident children at an all-inclusive resort on Gran Canaria, where their uninhibited mother, Vera, worked as a Star Tour hostess. 25 years later, they have both created distance from the island and from each other, but now they are forced to return to the island to deal with their mother’s sudden death in the Canarian mountains....See more details