Program TIFF 2026

After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family. Years later, the filmmaker reflects on her childhood in this poetic, autobiographical hybrid film, exploring how cycles of violence shape children and how healing and change are possible.

This film is not suitable for children   Alec, an introverted teenager, has always viewed life through the lens of his father’s pornography business. When they relocate from London to a sleepy seaside town, Alec hopes for a fresh start, trying to make friends without revealing his unconventional life....See more details

If you want something badly enough, the whole Universe will conspire to help you achieve it, right? Stela becomes obsessed with a famous Balkan musician after seeing him on TV. Convinced she must meet him, she gradually lets this obsession take over her entire life.

Lavinia este o adevărată furtună. E impulsivă, nu se gândeşte de două ori înainte de a acţiona şi nu prea ştie să-şi arate dragostea. Dar îşi doreşte să fie o mamă bună. Visul ei de a extinde casa părintească o aruncă într-un iureş de acţiuni şi obstacole de-a lungul a patru anotimpuri....See more details

Still haunted by a personal tragedy, Ticu Ionescu decides to resume his work as a physicist. When he receives the results of the latest particle collision experiment, he notices that part of the impact energy is missing. Could this prove the existence of dimensions beyond known reality? The hero is ready to do anything to verify this theory...

During a torrid summer, a family is about to sell their land. Three women depend on what will happen to the farm, until a fire engulfs the region and, prevented from leaving, they will face the uncertainties about the future.

Viitorul ți-l faci cu mâna ta, dar de ce să nu îl lași pe mâna unor specialiști? (Alexandra Schinteie, România) Praf (Dust, Elena Butică, România) Memory Pills (Memory Pills, Teodora Mihăilă & Agata Olteanu, România) Margini (Edges, Roberta Șerban, România) Cristina a fost foarte cuminte (Cristina Has Been Very Good, Alin Boeru, România) Dumnezeu, mama și eu (God, My Mother and I, Ana Pop, România)

1957. In Budapest, after the uprising against the Communist regime, a young Jewish boy, Andor, raised by his mother with idealized tales of his deceased father, has his world turned upside down when a brutish man appears, claiming to be his true father.

Cristi, a corrupt cop willing to risk everything for a 30-million-euro fortune, believes that El Silbo, the whistled language used on the Spanish island of La Gomera, is the key to uncovering where the money is hidden.

A day in the life of Charles Swann, a young man admired by high society for his artistic refinement. The great passion of his life is Odette de Crécy, who sends him rushing through the fashionable Paris of the Belle Époque. This adaptation of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is screened in honor of actress Ornella Muti, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at TIFF 2026!