Program TIFF 2026

In the isolated landscapes of southern Ireland, Jen works as a conservation ranger in the same forest where her younger sister died in a tragic accident years earlier. When a former boyfriend unexpectedly returns, long-suppressed memories resurface, forcing her to confront their shared past. As a poacher begins leaving violent traces across the land she protects, the boundary between past and present blurs, pushing Jen to face the trauma and guilt she has long tried to bury.

Overwhelmed by debt, young couple Azamat and Tanshoplan hatch a desperate plan: fake a terminal illness to raise money through a viral charity campaign. But as the donations pour in and public sympathy grows, their lie spirals out of control.

This film is not suitable for children   Rien, Eef and Hans spend their free time at the amateur dirt bike motorcycle races. They fall in love with Fientje who works at a concession stand at the races with her brother. Everyone is looking for a better life. The young woman wants out of the business and away from her brother....See more details

55-year-old Jos, a small-town criminal, finds himself increasingly sidelined in his own life as his family loses respect for him and his friends mock him. When a drug deal goes disastrously wrong, he becomes convinced that some external force is punishing him, leading him on a desperate search for answers about his fate and his place in the world.

The lonely 17-year-old outcast Aike craves attention and finds it online where he conducts dangerous chemistry experiments. Hoping to pull Aike out of his internet bubble, his mother, a hardworking nurse, sends him to the scouts to make real friends. When that fails, Aike feels rejected and hurt. To prove himself to the world, he begins his biggest experiment yet: he secretly builds a nuclear breeder reactor in his mother's shed! Film based on true events.

Gianina, a young Romanian woman, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. While caring for her employers’ son, her own daughter grows up far away from her, in Romania. As Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion slowly begins to take shape.

Director: Boudewijn Koole Country: Netherlands Year: 2016 Duration: 108 minutes A young geologist arrives in northern Norway on a scientific expedition that takes him far beyond its original purpose. In the Arctic tundra, where the daylight never ends, orientation becomes increasingly difficult, and the planned journey turns into a struggle for survival....See more details

Barb travels through frozen Minnesota to scatter the ashes of her recently deceased husband. In the middle of the wilderness, she inadvertently witnesses the kidnapping of a teenage girl and realizes she is the girl’s only chance of survival...

The life of young Bronja, growing up in the 1980s, changes when her mother dies of cancer. After a childhood marked by this loss, her life is again interrupted by tragic events, which she overcomes with optimism.

Numbi, a little village hidden deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies nonetheless at the heart of our world. Here, with their bare hands, miners dig the coltan which will find its way – legally or otherwise – to our industrialized world. For decades this grey gold, indispensable to the manufacture of almost all contemporary technological devices, has been the cause of conflicts and a bitter exploitation....See more details