TIFF16 / TIFFR

Thursday, September 08

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

Friday, September 09

2:45 PM — 4:45 PM

One Sings, the Other Doesn't

Agnès Varda’s 1977 masterwork is simultaneously a musical, a protest film, a portrait of a generation and, most importantly, a tender and insightful exploration of female friendship.

Bell Lightbox 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

Saturday, September 10

11:15 AM — 1:00 PM

A United Kingdom

Amma Asante (Belle) helms this biopic of Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo), the former African royal who courted controversy with his interracial marriage to Englishwoman Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike) and later led his nation to independence from the British Empire as the first president of Botswana.

Winter Garden Theatre

Sunday, September 11

11:30 AM — 1:22 PM

Daughters of the Dust

A landmark in the history of American independent cinema, Julie Dash's masterpiece was the first American feature directed by an African American woman to receive a general theatrical release.

Bell Lightbox 4

9:30 PM — 11:06 PM

Buster's Mal Heart

A troubled man (Mr. Robot’s Rami Malek) on the run recalls the mysterious events that brought him to his present fugitive state, in the enigmatic, elliptical and moving second feature from director Sarah Adina Smith (Midnight Swim).

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema

Monday, September 12

9:00 PM — 11:38 PM

American Honey

Acclaimed filmmaker Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights) won the Jury Prize at Cannes for her first film set in America, about a crew of hard-partying teenagers criss-crossing the Midwest while working as travelling magazine salesmen.

Scotiabank 12

Tuesday, September 13

9:00 PM — 10:55 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.

Ryerson Theatre

Wednesday, September 14

5:00 PM — 6:22 PM

Jean of the Joneses

Writer-director Stella Meghie takes the multigenerational family comedy into fresh new territory with this whip-smart tale about the twentysomething scion of an all-female Brooklyn clan wrestling with her literary aspirations, romantic mishaps, and the chaotic preparations for her estranged father’s funeral.

Scotiabank 1

Thursday, September 15

7:45 PM — 9:17 PM

Below Her Mouth

One of the boldest and sexiest dramas of the year, the new film by Canadian actor-director April Mullen (Dead Before Dawn) tells the story of an unexpected romance between two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.

Scotiabank 2

Saturday, September 17

9:00 AM — 10:41 AM

The Empty Box

Mexican filmmaker Claudia Sainte-Luce (The Amazing Catfish) directs and stars in her touching second feature, about a young woman in Mexico City who is forced to care for her estranged father as he descends into senile dementia.

Scotiabank 3

6:15 PM — 7:43 PM

Prevenge

Alice Lowe (Sightseers) is a triple threat as the writer, director and star of this pitch-black comedy about a pregnant woman whose unborn child psychically spurs her on to murder.

Scotiabank 8

Sunday, September 18

12:00 PM — 1:50 PM

Okafor's Law

A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash hit Wives on Strike.