TIFF17 / TIFFR

Thursday, September 07

7:00 PM — 9:57 PM

The Nothing Factory

This elegiac epic from Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho chronicles a bitter labour dispute sparked by the closure of a factory on the outskirts of Lisbon.

Jackman Hall

Friday, September 08

12:00 PM — 3:17 PM

Ex Libris - The New York Public Library

Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman (In Jackson Heights, National Gallery) takes his cameras within the walls of the New York Public Library.

Jackman Hall

4:30 PM — 5:50 PM

Beyond the One preceded by Strangely Ordinary This Devotion

We pair Anna Marziano's Beyond the One with Strangely Ordinary This Devotion from Dani Leventhal and Sheilah Wilson.

Jackman Hall

Saturday, September 09

11:00 AM — 1:20 PM

Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut stars Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba in the true story of Molly Bloom, proprietor of Hollywood’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being shut down by the FBI.

Elgin Theatre

2:30 PM — 3:43 PM

Occidental

The arrival of a gay couple at a retro-’70s Parisian hotel sparks a series of absurd anecdotal actions involving homophobia, racism, misogyny, terrorist threats, and political manipulations, in artist-filmmaker Neïl Beloufa’s clever, hyper-stylized critique of today’s xenophobic ideologies.

Jackman Hall

4:45 PM — 6:22 PM

Our People Will Be Healed

Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decolonization looks like in Norway House, one of Manitoba's largest First Nations communities.

Jackman Hall

Sunday, September 10

11:15 AM — 1:15 PM

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The strange relationship between a cardiac surgeon and a 16-year-old boy portends a terrifying sacrifice, in this eagerly awaited supernatural thriller from Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, and Alicia Silverstone.

Princess of Wales

2:15 PM — 4:38 PM

BPM (Beats Per Minute)

Writer-director Robin Campillo (Les Revenants, Eastern Boys) offers a harrowing yet inspiring look back at the activism of French ACT UP protestors during the height of the AIDS crisis in the early 1990s.

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5:45 PM — 7:32 PM

Happy End

Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant star in Michael Haneke's semi-sequel to 2012's Amour, about the dysfunctional lives of a bourgeois European family.

Winter Garden Theatre

9:30 PM — 11:05 PM

Caniba

Filmmaking-anthropologist duo Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Leviathan) return to Wavelengths with this complex and deeply disturbing interview-portrait of Issei Sagawa, the notorious Japanese cannibal now living a reclusive life as a paralytic and seeking atonement for his gruesome crimes.

Jackman Hall

Monday, September 11

12:30 PM — 2:29 PM

Western

Cultural difference, masculine bravado, and national pride lead to high tensions in the latest from Valeska Grisebach, about a group of German construction workers labouring in the Bulgarian countryside.

Jackman Hall

4:00 PM — 5:21 PM

Wavelengths 4: As above, so below

Four exceedingly different films, each with its own documentary impulse, suggest rich interplay between metaphoric and physical horizon lines and amid shifting scales: of thread, of light and shadow, of environmental elements, of existential contemplation and memory. With films by Laura Huertas Millán, Dan Browne, André Lehmann, and Luis López Carrasco.

Bell Lightbox 3

7:30 PM — 9:04 PM

Winter Brothers

Hlynur Pálmason’s feature debut examines the lives of Johan and his younger brother Emil, two miners whose routines, habits, and rituals are ruptured by a violent feud with a neighbouring family.

Bell Lightbox 4

Tuesday, September 12

11:30 AM — 1:45 PM

Downsizing

Matt Damon headlines a cast that includes Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Laura Dern, Jason Sudeikis, Alec Baldwin, and Neil Patrick Harris in Alexander Payne’s sci-fi social satire about a man who chooses to shrink himself (literally) to simplify his life.

Elgin Theatre

4:30 PM — 6:16 PM

Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc

French master Bruno Dumont (Hadewijch, P’tit Quinquin) recreates the adolescence of the Maid of Orleans as a radical, electro-metal musical.

Jackman Hall

8:00 PM — 9:21 PM

Dragonfly Eyes

The mind-blowing debut feature of renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing is a fictional feature created entirely from surveillance-camera recordings, about a young woman whose life takes a series of unexpected turns after she leaves the Buddhist temple where she has lived most of her adult life.

Bell Lightbox 3

Wednesday, September 13

11:45 AM — 1:40 PM

Zama

Tired of waiting for the King to transfer him to a more liberating location, a South American officer of the Spanish Crown embarks on a perilous journey towards freedom, in the latest from Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (The Holy Girl, The Headless Woman).

Jackman Hall

3:00 PM — 5:23 PM

Good Luck

Ben Russell continues his explorations in speculative ethnography with this bifurcated study of two mines: a subterranean, state-owned and-operated copper mine in Serbia, and a small-scale, collective-run open-air gold mine in Suriname, restoring visibility to an often unseen labour force.

Jackman Hall

Thursday, September 14

12:00 PM — 2:04 PM

The Third Murder

Festival favourite Hirokazu Kore-eda (Still Walking, Nobody Knows) takes a fascinating left turn with this intricate murder mystery, about a defense attorney who believes that his client — the self-confessed killer of a wealthy industrialist — is the fall guy for a sinister conspiracy.

Bell Lightbox 1

5:45 PM — 6:57 PM

PROTOTYPE preceded by Florence

Decades of experimental film converge in this pairing of Blake Williams' 3D sci-fi feature debut and an abstract travelogue from Finnish computer music pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi.

Bell Lightbox 4

9:15 PM — 10:47 PM

The Day After

Prolific Korean master Hong Sangsoo’s conversational comedy of errors intertwines the stories of an unfaithful publishing company manager and his new assistant, whom his wife mistakes as his former lover.

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Friday, September 15

12:15 PM — 1:44 PM

Faces Places

French master Agnès Varda collaborates with mysterious street artist JR in this wondrous travelogue, in which the duo travel through small villages in the French countryside and immortalize the faces of those they meet in immense public murals.

Bell Lightbox 1

3:00 PM — 4:46 PM

Cocote

Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias explores the lurking violence, corruption, and class conflicts in his homeland through the tale of a gardener whose tense return to his country home is compounded by the fact that he is expected to avenge his father’s murder.

Bell Lightbox 4

6:30 PM — 7:56 PM

Mrs. Fang

Celebrated documentarian Wang Bing (West of the Tracks, Three Sisters) returns with this deeply affecting visual document of a dying elderly woman in a little village in southern China.

Jackman Hall

Saturday, September 16

12:45 PM — 2:27 PM

Plonger

A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving, in this emotional drama from Mélanie Laurent.

Bell Lightbox 1

3:30 PM — 5:29 PM

Lean On Pete

Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) directs Steve Buscemi and Chloë Sevigny in this modern-day western, about a 15-year-old lost soul who hooks up with a pair of itinerant horse trainers and develops a powerful bond with a racehorse on its last legs.

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Sunday, September 17

9:30 AM — 11:05 AM

Hannah

Charlotte Rampling stars in this intimate portrait of a woman drifting between reality and denial when she is left alone to grapple with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment.

Bell Lightbox 3

11:30 AM — 1:18 PM

Ta peau si lisse preceded by Scaffold

Denis Côté's Ta peau si lisse and Kazik Radwanski's Scaffold pair up and profile men at work in differing capacities.

Bell Lightbox 4

2:30 PM — 4:33 PM

I Love You, Daddy

Shot on 35mm in black and white, Louis C.K.'s I Love You, Daddy was filmed entirely in secret.

Scotiabank 4

6:45 PM — 8:19 PM

Custody

A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre, in this intense family drama from director Xavier Legrand (Just Before Losing Everything).

Bell Lightbox 2

9:30 PM — 11:15 PM

In the Fade

Celebrated German auteur Fatih Akin (Head-On, The Edge of Heaven) returns with this gritty drama about a grief-stricken woman (Diane Kruger) struggling with the emotional aftermath of a terrorist attack.

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