TIFF16 Schedule

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Thursday, September 08

6:00 PM 7:42 PM

Message from the King

Chadwick Boseman, Teresa Palmer and Luke Evans star in this atmospheric revenge thriller from director Fabrice du Welz (Vinyan, Alléluia), about a mysterious traveller from South Africa combing the Los Angeles underworld for those responsible for the death of his sister.

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
9:15 PM 10:55 PM

Things to Come

French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden, Goodbye First Love) directs the great Isabelle Huppert in this delicate and affecting tale about a middle-aged professor whose carefully structured life is thrown into disarray when her husband leaves her for another woman, and who finds an unlikely new companion in a former student and radical young communist.

Ryerson Theatre
11:59 PM 1:29 AM

Free Fire

Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, and Cillian Murphy star in the hotly anticipated new film by Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High-Rise), about a weapons deal gone wrong that escalates into a manic, bullet-riddled standoff inside an abandoned warehouse.

Ryerson Theatre
Premium

Friday, September 09

9:15 AM 11:25 AM

Nocturama

Bertrand Bonello (House of Tolerance, Saint Laurent) directs this provocative account of a group of young, multiracial radicals whose terrorist attacks on Paris lead to a massive manhunt.

Bell Lightbox 2
12:15 PM 2:57 PM

Toni Erdmann

One of the most talked-about films at this year’s Cannes, the new film from Maren Ade (The Forest for the Trees, Everyone Else) is an alternately hilarious and mortifying comedy about the fraught relationship between a repressed corporate consultant and her incessantly prank-playing dad.

Bell Lightbox 1
3:30 PM 3:45 PM

Nightlife

An immersive, psychedelic work whose sculptural properties are enhanced by 3D, Nightlife by Berlin-based French contemporary artist Cyprien Gaillard summons a hallucinatory rebellion of urban botany as it forges mysterious yet suggestive links of resistance and resolve across time and space.

Bell Lightbox 2
4:15 PM 5:44 PM

Lady Macbeth

Acclaimed theatre director William Oldroyd relocates Nikolai Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk to 19th-century England, in this Gothic tale about a young woman trapped in a marriage of convenience whose passionate affair unleashes a maelstrom of murder and mayhem on a country estate.

Winter Garden Theatre
7:00 PM 8:42 PM

The Rehearsal

A young student at a drama school faces a moral conundrum when his budding romance becomes fodder for a final-year performance, in director Alison Maclean’s (Jesus’ Son) adaptation of the novel by Booker Prize–winning author Eleanor Catton.

Scotiabank 3
8:45 PM 10:03 PM

Werewolf

The hardscrabble existence of two homeless, twentysomething drug addicts is portrayed with sensitivity and brutal honesty in the debut feature by Ashley McKenzie.

Scotiabank 9
11:59 PM 1:56 AM

Headshot

The indomitable Iko Uwais (The Raid) stars in this fast and furious actioner as an amnesiac whose mysterious past as a killing machine comes to the fore when he takes on the henchmen of a vengeful drug lord.

Ryerson Theatre

Saturday, September 10

9:00 AM 11:11 AM

Elle

Isabelle Huppert stars in the daring new film from perennial provocateur Paul Verhoeven, about a high-powered businesswoman whose brutal sexual assault elicits both erotic fantasies and dreams of revenge.

Bell Lightbox 1
12:00 PM 1:50 PM

Colossal

A going-nowhere party girl (Anne Hathaway) discovers a mysterious connection between herself and a giant monster wreaking havoc on the other side of the globe.

Ryerson Theatre
2:15 PM 4:13 PM

The Ornithologist

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, a hunky ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests, in the daring new film from provocative Portuguese auteur João Pedro Rodrigues.

Jackman Hall
4:45 PM 5:51 PM

My Life as a Courgette

Director Claude Barras uses gorgeous stop-motion animation to tackle difficult subject matter in this delicately told story about a young boy sent to a group home after the death of his alcoholic mother, who finds comfort, acceptance and hope with his equally troubled new companions.

Scotiabank 14
6:45 PM 8:38 PM

Frantz

Director François Ozon’s elegiac tale of love and remembrance is set in a small German town in the aftermath of World War I, where a young woman mourning the death of her fiancé forms a bond with a mysterious Frenchman who has arrived to lay flowers on her beloved’s grave.

Bell Lightbox 1
9:00 PM 10:45 PM

Personal Shopper

Kristen Stewart reunites with director Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria) for this artful ghost story about a young woman trying to reconnect with the spirit of her departed brother.

Scotiabank 1
10:45 PM 11:30 PM

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

Visionary filmmaker Terrence Malick (The New World, The Tree of Life) directs this spectacular IMAX documentary, which chronicles nothing less than the history of the universe.

Scotiabank 12
11:59 PM 1:27 AM

The Belko Experiment

Office politics turns into a real-life survival of the fittest when a group of co-workers are forced into a sick game of kill or be killed by sinister forces who lock down their building, in this gruesomely funny horror thriller from director Greg McLean (Wolf Creek) and writer James Gunn (Slither, Guardians of the Galaxy).

Ryerson Theatre

Sunday, September 11

9:00 AM 10:51 AM

Moonlight

The second feature from writer-director Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy) follows its young protagonist from childhood to adulthood as he navigates both the dangers of drugs and violence in his depressed Florida neighbourhood, and his complex love for his best friend.

Bell Lightbox 1
11:30 AM 1:30 PM

Lion

Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman star in the true story of Saroo Brierley, who was adopted by an Australian couple after being separated from his family in India at the age of five, and then located his original home using Google Earth 25 years later.

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
2:45 PM 3:57 PM

My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea

The title tells the tale in this inventive, beautiful and bizarre animated feature from acclaimed graphic novelist Dash Shaw, featuring the voices of Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Maya Rudolph, Susan Sarandon and Reggie Watts.

Ryerson Theatre
4:30 PM 6:41 PM

Daguerrotype

Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Tokyo Sonata) makes his first film outside Japan with this French-language fantasy, about an aging photographer whose obsession with an archaic technique draws his young assistant and beautiful daughter into a dark and mysterious world.

Winter Garden Theatre
7:00 PM 8:41 PM

Nelly

Award-winning filmmaker Anne Émond (Nuit #1, Les êtres chers) returns to the Festival with this creatively imagined biopic of controversial Quebec writer Nelly Arcan, who scandalized the French literary world with her semi-autobiographical novel based on her experiences as a sex worker.

Bell Lightbox 3
9:15 PM 11:01 PM

The Unknown Girl

After refusing to answer a late-night knock on her clinic door, a doctor seeks to uncover the truth behind the mysterious death of her unidentified caller, in this social-realist procedural from Belgian auteurs Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
11:59 PM 1:28 AM

Blair Witch

A man seeks answers to the disappearance of his sister by venturing into an ominous, potentially haunted forest, in this nerve-wracking found-footage thriller from Midnight Madness veterans Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (You’re Next, The Guest).

Ryerson Theatre

Monday, September 12

9:00 AM 10:33 AM

Mimosas

Winner of the Grand Prize at Cannes’ Semaine de la Critique, Oliver Laxe’s mesmerizing, minimalist “Eastern western” follows a caravan transporting the body of a sheik to his remote resting place in the perilous wilderness of the Moroccan desert.

Jackman Hall
11:00 AM 12:56 PM

Nocturnal Animals

Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Armie Hammer headline the second feature from director Tom Ford (A Single Man), about a woman who is forced to confront the demons of her past as she is drawn into the world of a thriller novel written by her ex-husband.

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
2:30 PM 4:01 PM

Jackie

Provocative Chilean director Pablo Larraín (Tony Manero, No) depicts the events leading up to and following the assassination of JFK through the eyes of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman).

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
4:15 PM 5:45 PM

Souvenir

Isabelle Huppert stars as a middle-aged factory worker whose long-ago brush with fame comes to the fore again when she begins a romance with a young aspiring boxer.

Scotiabank 2
6:30 PM 7:50 PM

The Red Turtle

The first international co-production from renowned Japanese animation giant Studio Ghibli enlists the talents of Oscar-winning Dutch animator Michaël Dudok De Wit for a wondrous story about the unlikely friendship between a castaway on a deserted island and an enormous sea turtle.

Scotiabank 12
8:45 PM 10:35 PM

Hello Destroyer

Jared Abrahamson (Fear the Walking Dead) plays a painfully shy but ruggedly capable enforcer on a minor-league hockey team who discovers the cutthroat nature of his locker-room “family,” in the forceful first feature from Canadian director Kevan Funk.

Scotiabank 3
11:59 PM 1:37 AM

Raw

A shy, vegetarian student at a veterinary college develops an insatiable lust for flesh as the result of a gruesome hazing ritual, in this grisly and gory tale of a cannibalistic coming of age.

Ryerson Theatre

Tuesday, September 13

9:00 AM 10:55 AM

Maudie

Academy Award nominees Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky, Blue Jasmine) and Ethan Hawke star in the true story of Maud Lewis, who overcame the physical challenge of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis to become one of Canada’s premier folk artists.

Bell Lightbox 1
11:30 AM 1:36 PM

La La Land

An ambitious jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling) and an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) fall in love while pursuing their dreams of stardom, in this dazzlingly stylized homage to the classic Hollywood musical from Whiplash director Damien Chazelle.

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
2:00 PM 5:47 PM

The Woman Who Left

Director Lav Diaz's drama examines economic disparity in modern Filipino society through the eyes of a woman released from prison 30 years after being framed and wrongly convicted.

Jackman Hall
6:15 PM 7:59 PM

Into the Inferno

The great Werner Herzog teams up with volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer for this globe-trotting tour of some of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes.

Scotiabank 1
8:45 PM 10:25 PM

The Untamed

Cannes prize-winning director Amat Escalante (Heli) combines family drama and social commentary with science fiction and horror in this hypnotic and utterly enthralling tale, about an unhappily married couple whose life is turned upside down when they encounter a mysterious creature that is both a source of pleasure and a force of destruction.

Bell Lightbox 2
11:59 PM 1:23 AM

Rats

Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) takes us on an unnerving (and sometimes grisly) globe-trotting journey to explore different cultures’ methods of controlling, killing, or profiting off the common rat.

Ryerson Theatre

Wednesday, September 14

9:00 AM 10:58 AM

Paterson

The new film from Jim Jarmusch focuses on a working-class poet (Adam Driver) in a small New Jersey town who practices his craft amidst the quiet magic of everyday life.

Bell Lightbox 2
11:30 AM 1:46 PM

Manchester by the Sea

Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Kyle Chandler star in this emotionally overwhelming and critically acclaimed drama from writer-director Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me, Margaret), about a reclusive handyman who must face his painful past when he returns to his Massachusetts hometown after the sudden death of his beloved older brother.

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
3:15 PM 5:10 PM

The Bad Batch

A young girl wanders a savage desert wasteland in a dystopian future United States, in Ana Lily Amirpour’s highly anticipated follow-up to A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
6:00 PM 7:35 PM

(re)ASSIGNMENT

This jaw-droppingly audacious revenge thriller from the great Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hours) stars Michelle Rodriguez as a lowlife killer put through full male-to-female gender reassignment surgery by a score-settling surgeon (Sigourney Weaver).

Ryerson Theatre
8:00 PM 10:14 PM

Sweet Dreams

Italian master Marco Bellocchio (Vincere, Blood of My Blood) adapts the popular biographical novel by Massimo Gramellini, about a journalist who is haunted by the memory of the mother who died in his childhood.

Scotiabank 2
11:59 PM 1:49 AM

The Girl with All the Gifts

A sweet little girl who may hold the key to a cure for the zombie virus that has decimated most of the world’s population escapes from a military compound and sets out to find her place in the world.

Ryerson Theatre

Thursday, September 15

9:00 AM 11:08 AM

Graduation

Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) won the Best Director prize at Cannes for this terse, percolating drama about a Cluj physician who goes to highly questionable lengths to ensure his daughter’s academic success.

Bell Lightbox 2
12:45 PM 2:11 PM

Yourself and Yours

Korean maestro and Festival favourite Hong Sang-soo (Right Now, Wrong Then) embarks on an intriguing foray into the uncanny with this ingenious spin on Luis Buñuel’s final masterpiece That Obscure Object of Desire.

Bell Lightbox 1
3:00 PM 4:34 PM

Una

Rooney Mara (Carol) and Ben Mendelsohn (Mississippi Grind, Netflix’s Bloodline) star in this adaptation of David Harrower’s play Blackbird, about a young woman who arrives in the workplace of an older man from her past, seeking answers for the long-ago events that have fatefully shaped both of their lives.

Princess of Wales
6:15 PM 7:41 PM

Never Ever

Benoit Jacquot (The School of Flesh, L’Intouchable) adapts a novella by Don DeLillo for this tale of amour fou between a self-centred filmmaker and a beautiful body artist.

Bell Lightbox 1
9:45 PM 11:35 PM

Ma' Rosa

Filipino firebrand Brillante Mendoza (Slingshot, Kinatay) incisively explores the street-level corruption of the Duterte-era Philippines with this tragicomic tale about a low-level drug dealer (Jaclyn Jose, Best Actress winner at Cannes) on a desperate search for cash to pay a bribe to the local cops.

Bell Lightbox 2
11:59 PM 1:38 AM

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Father-and-son coroners (Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch) enter a world of terror while conducting a late-night autopsy on a murdered young woman, in the English-language debut of Norwegian fearmonger André Øvredal (Troll Hunter).

Ryerson Theatre

Friday, September 16

9:30 AM 11:00 AM

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

The debut documentary from visionary filmmaker Terrence Malick (The New World, The Tree of Life) chronicles nothing less than the history of the universe.

Bell Lightbox 1
12:00 PM 1:48 PM

The Secret Scripture

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and ’30s. Rooney Mara, Jack Reynor, Eric Bana and Vanessa Redgrave star in this adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s award-winning 2008 novel from Oscar-nominated director Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father).

Ryerson Theatre
3:15 PM 5:18 PM

Loving

Jeff Nichols (Mud) directs Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga in the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, who waged a decade-long legal battle that led to the overturning of the state of Virginia’s law prohibiting interracial marriage.

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
6:00 PM 7:40 PM

I, Daniel Blake

British master Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or at Cannes for this timely drama about an aged, ailing handyman’s battle to survive after being denied his government health allowance.

Bell Lightbox 1
8:15 PM 10:25 PM

The Promise

An Armenian medical student (Oscar Isaac), an artist (Charlotte Le Bon), and a worldly American journalist (Christian Bale) form a love triangle amid the chaos of the First World War, in this epic romance from director Terry George (Hotel Rwanda).

Winter Garden Theatre
11:59 PM 1:32 AM

Dog Eat Dog

Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe star in this blackly comic crime caper from director Paul Schrader (Affliction, The Walker), about a crew of ex-cons hired by a Cleveland mafioso to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster.

Ryerson Theatre

Saturday, September 17

9:00 AM 10:44 AM

Heal the Living

Ivory Coast-born filmmaker Katell Quillévéré adapts Maylis de Kerangal’s Booker Prize–longlisted novel for this elegant and affecting film which draws three seemingly unrelated stories together into a tale about the moment when tragedy meets hope.

Bell Lightbox 2
12:00 PM 1:47 PM

Certain Women

Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Night Moves) directs Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and Lily Gladstone in this tripartite portrait of striving, independent women whose lives intersect in suggestive and powerful ways.

Scotiabank 3
2:45 PM 5:41 PM

Sieranevada

A patriarch’s wake turns into a full-on familial tempest, in the brilliant new film from uncompromising Romanian auteur Cristi Puiu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu).

Bell Lightbox 2
6:15 PM 7:43 PM

Katie Says Goodbye

A truck-stop waitress (Olivia Cooke, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) believes she has found a way out of her dead end when she falls in love with a handsome young mechanic, in this heartrending character study co-starring Christopher Abbott (James White), Mary Steenburgen, and Jim Belushi.

Scotiabank 1
9:00 PM 11:28 PM

Brimstone

Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, and Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington and Carice van Houten star in this gritty revenge western, about a young woman in a frontier community who must go on the run when she is targeted by a diabolical preacher.

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
11:59 PM 1:37 AM

Sadako vs. Kayako

Two iconic J-horror franchises face off in this wild monster mash-up that pits the house-haunting phantoms of Ju-on (The Grudge) against the analogue-to-digital demon of Ringu (The Ring).

Ryerson Theatre

Sunday, September 18

9:00 AM 11:04 AM

A Quiet Passion

Cynthia Nixon stars as the legendary poet Emily Dickinson in this luminous biopic from director Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song).

Scotiabank 3
12:00 PM 1:48 PM

Neruda

Pablo Larraín (The Club, No, Tony Manero) weaves an engrossing metafictional fable around the 1948 manhunt for celebrated poet and politician Pablo Neruda, who goes underground when Chile outlaws communism and is pursued by an ambitious police inspector (Gael García Bernal) hoping to make a name for himself by capturing the famous fugitive.

Scotiabank 3
3:45 PM 5:15 PM

Safari

Austrian provocateur Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days) returns to Africa for this raw, grimly humourous portrait of European tourists hunting animals for sport.

Scotiabank 13
6:30 PM 8:26 PM

Arrival

Visionary Quebecois auteur Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario) directs Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker in this sci-fi drama about the panic that follows a wave of mysterious spacecraft landings across the globe.

Ryerson Theatre
9:30 PM 11:05 PM

It's Only the End of the World

Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, the new film from Quebecois wunderkind Xavier Dolan (Mommy) ropes in an all-star French cast (including Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux and Nathalie Baye) for its tempestuous tale about the fraught reunion of a fractured family.

Bell Lightbox 2