TIFF16 Schedule

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Friday, September 09

11:30 AM — 1:00 PM

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
6:15 PM — 7:42 PM

Gaza Surf Club

This handsome and heartfelt documentary takes us into the world of the Gaza Strip’s surfing enthusiasts, and reveals a formidable resilience pulsing within a beleaguered population.

Scotiabank 9
9:15 PM — 10:43 PM

ARQ

Orphan Black screenwriter Tony Elliott makes his feature directorial debut with this brain-twisting sci-fi thriller, about a husband and wife (The Flash’s Robbie Amell and Jessica Jones’ Rachael Taylor) living in a dystopic future who become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.

Scotiabank 4

Saturday, September 10

6:15 PM — 7:53 PM

Afterimage

The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda returns with this passionate biopic about avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski (brilliantly played by Polish superstar Boguslaw Linda), who battled Stalinist orthodoxy and his own physical impairments to advance his progressive ideas about art.

Scotiabank 1
9:30 PM — 11:55 PM

The Handmaiden

A crook-turned-servant falls for the vulnerable heiress she had originally schemed to swindle, in this audacious, visually sumptuous, and highly erotic period piece from acclaimed writer-director Park Chan-wook.

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)

Monday, September 12

12:00 PM — 2:10 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).

Roy Thomson Hall
3:00 PM — 4:50 PM

Their Finest

Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig (An Education, The Riot Club) directs a sterling British cast — including Gemma Arterton, Bill Nighy, Jack Huston and Richard E. Grant — in this period comedy-drama about a group of filmmakers struggling to make an inspirational film to boost morale during the Blitz of London in World War II.

Princess of Wales

Tuesday, September 13

9:15 AM — 11:12 AM

After the Storm

A divorced man struggles to regain his estranged family’s trust while sheltering with them during a typhoon, in the latest film from celebrated Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda (Like Father, Like Son, Our Little Sister).

Bell Lightbox 2
4:00 PM — 5:35 PM

Handsome Devil

A music-mad 16-year-old outcast at rugby-mad boarding school forms an unlikely friendship with his dashing new roommate, in this funny and observant coming-of-age tale from Irish novelist and filmmaker John Butler.

Scotiabank 11

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
12:00 PM — 1:34 PM

Maliglutit () Searchers

Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) returns with this Arctic epic inspired by the classic John Ford western of the same name, about a vengeful husband who sets off in pursuit of the violent men who kidnapped his wife and destroyed his home.

Bell Lightbox 2
3:00 PM — 4:36 PM

Two Lovers and a Bear

Montreal-born director Kim Nguyen's first fiction film following his Oscar-nominated Rebelle is a hypnotic romance about two star-crossed lovers (Tatiana Maslany and Dane DeHaan) who find that even the icy expanses of the Arctic offer little refuge from their pasts.

Ryerson Theatre

Thursday, September 15

6:00 PM — 7:42 PM

Burn Your Maps

In this charming and moving adventure story, an eight-year-old boy (Jacob Tremblay, Room) becomes convinced that he actually hails from the steppes of Mongolia, leading his troubled parents (Vera Farmiga and Martin Csokas) to undertake an incredible family voyage.

Ryerson Theatre
9:00 PM — 11:00 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.

Princess of Wales

Friday, September 16

9:45 AM — 11:18 AM

Mali Blues

Director Lutz Gregor follows rising world music star Fatoumata Diawara as she prepares for her first-ever concert performance in her home country of Mali at the Festival of the Niger in 2015.

Bell Lightbox 3
12:30 PM — 2:00 PM

J: Beyond Flamenco

The new film from legendary Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura (Carmen, Tango) captures the vivacity and charisma of the jota, a waltz-like castanet dance with its origins in Saura's home province of Aragon.

Scotiabank 1

Saturday, September 17

3:00 PM — 5:04 PM

Queen of Katwe

David Oyelowo (Selma) and Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) star in the true story of a young girl from rural Uganda (played by newcomer Madina Nalwanga) who discovers a passion for chess, and sets out to pursue her dream of becoming an international champion.

Ryerson Theatre
6:45 PM — 8:18 PM

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.

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
9:30 PM — 11:05 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).

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema

Sunday, September 18

3:00 PM — 4:27 PM

The Eagle Huntress

Executive producer Daisy Ridley narrates this visually stunning documentary about Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl who becomes the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries.

Scotiabank 3
8:30 PM — 10:25 PM

Politics, Instructions Manual

A fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary about the rise of Podemos, the insurgent Spanish political party founded on the basis of a nationwide anti-austerity movement that dramatically upended the country’s traditional, hidebound two-party system.

Scotiabank 3
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