Program TIFF 2026

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.

A tragic mistake shatters the life of a devoted father, shaking his marriage and isolating him in guilt. As the threat of prison looms, he begins to question whether he deserves to go on living. But when he and his wife come to see that the tragedy was not a personal failure, but something rooted deep in the architecture of the human mind, a fragile path toward forgiveness begins to emerge....See more details

Early morning in a shabby bar outside Paris, one of the regulars wins the €294 million lottery. But another customer decides otherwise: a gun is drawn, shots are fired and the winner collapses, leaving the ticket ownerless. The remaining customers lock themselves behind closed doors, and see an opportunity to concoct the perfect story to cover up the crime, then all walk away millionaires....See more details

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.

An elderly goat herder in the mountains of Namaqualand, South Africa, falls victim to a scam promising long-overdue reparations for her father’s WWII service. As she waits for money that will never come, the disruptions of her 80th birthday threaten to strip away the last of her independence. Structured as a series of recurring visual ‘variations’, the film transforms repetition into revelation to frame a portrait of waiting, endurance, and loss.

Amidst the turmoil of the Thirty Years´ War, somewhere in Germany, a mysterious soldier appears in a secluded Protestant village. The stranger declares himself the heir of a long-abandoned farmstead and produces a document to support his claim to the suspicious villagers. With time, he overcomes their doubts and shows himself to be a hard-working, God-fearing man, becoming part of the community in a quest for acceptance made up of impossible deceit....See more details

Bouchra (35), a Moroccan filmmaker in New York, is paralyzed by the fear of the blank page. A phone call with her mother in Casablanca will have memories resurfacing. Their tender yet complex exchange sparks a creative breakthrough, opening a journey through family bonds, daughterhood, and the thrill of love.

Arrebato (1980), the ultimate cult film of contemporary Spanish cinema, and its enigmatic director Iván Zulueta are bound together by a dark history in which cinema, addiction, and self-destruction become inseparable. The documentary reconstructs the downfall of one of Spanish cinema’s most legendary figures.

Early morning in a shabby bar outside Paris, one of the regulars wins the €294 million lottery. But another customer decides otherwise: a gun is drawn, shots are fired and the winner collapses, leaving the ticket ownerless. The remaining customers lock themselves behind closed doors, and see an opportunity to concoct the perfect story to cover up the crime, then all walk away millionaires....See more details

Four siblings on the verge of adulthood try to build their independent lives without losing the bonds that connect them. The youngest, Benek, struggles with rejection from an older brother who was once his best friend and who now isolates himself from his family while dealing with problems with his girlfriend, drugs, and himself....See more details