Program TIFF 2026

While pregnant with her second child, Kika faces the sudden death of her partner. Totally heartbroken, and broke, she sets her priorities straight: stay strong and make money fast. Dirty underwear, dildos and neurotic parents will unexpectedly help.

Margot, a young intern at the most competitive ER in the country, has trouble keeping up in this stressful environment. As she’s confronted with multiple patients her age presenting unusual symptoms, her own body starts to show disturbing changes...

In the early 1930s, painter Leonora Carrington, a rebel against social expectations, joins the surrealist movement and its iconic figures like André Breton and Salvador Dalí in Paris. A whirlwind love affair with artist Max Ernst confronts her with her inner demons. During the war, Leonora flees to Mexico and finally empowers herself....See more details

This film is not suitable for children   Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Conservatory in Vienna. In her early forties, her sexuality is an affair of morbid voyeurism and masochistic self-mutilation. Erika and life travel separate paths until one of her students gets it into his head to seduce her...  

At just 16, Soraya Akhalaghi is already creating stunning drawings and sculptures that are as beautiful as they are dark. She has been trying for five years to find a way out of Iran and join her mother in Austria. This subtly textured self-portrait interweaves chilling scenes of her escape attempts with videos in which she sings and dances — or shows her bruises....See more details

Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. In search of new energy in their relationship, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo....See more details

“A lifetime at great heights, where love refuses to grow old, and the mountain becomes the source of an endless youth.” The story follows the inner and outer evolution of two of Romania’s legendary mountaineers, Dinu and Marlene Mititeanu, from ascents in the Carpathians, the Alps, and Patagonia, to reflections on time, nature, and the meaning of life.

Without telling their wives, five factory co-workers set off on a fishing expedition in the Danube Delta. Their dream is to catch “the Monster”, a legendary catfish, but absolutely nothing goes according to plan. Special screening marking 50 years since the premiere of this cult comedy seen by 1....See more details

On December 3rd, 2024, in Seoul, the President declares martial law in an attempt to overcome a political crisis. As troops advance toward the National Assembly, citizens rush to block them while lawmakers break through police barricades to vote against the decree. The confrontation unfolds into a powerful civic resistance against military control, echoing the Gwangju Democratic Uprising 45 years earlier, one of the deepest traumas in South Korea’s history.

A group of vampire sisters struggles to survive the scarcity of “clean human blood” caused by the Black Death — but the true poison is the silence that surrounds them. Centuries later, one of their descendants faces the same conflict during the AIDS epidemic in Spain, only to discover that social stigma remains unchanged.