TIFF17 / TIFFR

Thursday, September 07

6:45 PM — 8:21 PM

Les Affamés

A remote village in Quebec is terrorized by a flesh-eating plague, in the latest from Robin Aubert.

Scotiabank 1

9:00 PM — 11:07 PM

The latest from Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) profiles a family torn apart by a vicious divorce, in which the parents are more interested in starting their lives over with new partners than tending to their 12-year-old son.

Winter Garden Theatre

11:59 PM — 2:00 AM

Bodied

A satirical exploration of the world's most artistically brutal sport — battle rapping — from music video director Joseph Kahn, based on a script by Toronto rapper Alex Larsen (Kid Twist) and produced by Eminem.

Ryerson Theatre

Friday, September 08

9:30 AM — 11:42 AM

Call Me By Your Name

The latest from Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino ( I Am Love, A Bigger Splash) explores the tender, tentative relationship that blooms over the course of one summer between a 17-year-old boy on the cusp of adulthood (Timothée Chalamet) and his father's research assistant (Armie Hammer).

Bell Lightbox 1

12:45 PM — 2:35 PM

On Chesil Beach

Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) and Billy Howle (Dunkirk) star in this adaptation of Ian McEwan’s acclaimed novel, about a newlywed couple whose honeymoon retreat becomes a comedy of sexual errors.

Bell Lightbox 1

5:00 PM — 6:47 PM

The Death of Stalin

Armando Iannucci (Veep) directs Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Buscemi, and Andrea Riseborough in this acerbic send-up of the Soviet dictator and the bootlick Ministers who vie for power after his sudden demise

Winter Garden Theatre

7:15 PM — 8:48 PM

The Lodgers

Set in rural Ireland in 1920, this Gothic chiller evokes the spooky stories of Shirley Jackson and Oscar Wilde in its tale of teenage twins living in a haunted manor under the shadow of a family curse.

Scotiabank 4

9:00 PM — 10:34 PM

Lady Bird

A rebellious young woman (Saoirse Ronan) navigates the pressures and constraints of Catholic school and life in Sacremento, in Greta Gerwig's solo directorial debut.

Ryerson Theatre

11:59 PM — 1:34 AM

The Ritual

Venturing into the wilderness of the Swedish highlands to perform a remembrance for a dearly departed friend, four men are subjected to a night of terror when they unwisely take refuge in a derelict house.

Ryerson Theatre

Saturday, September 09

9:00 AM — 11:07 AM

Ana, mon amour

Romanian filmmaker Calin Peter Netzer (Child’s Pose) won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for this captivating study of a passionate romance that is threatened by both the spectre of mental illness, and the sufferer’s subsequent journey from dependence to self-reliance.

Jackman Hall

11:30 AM — 1:31 PM

I, Tonya

Margot Robbie stars as controversial Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding in this alternately tragic, hilarious and absurd look at one of the biggest scandals in US sports history.

Roy Thomson Hall

2:30 PM — 4:15 PM

The Children Act

Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci star in this adaptation of the novel by Ian McEwan, about a high-court judge (Thompson) who finds personal and professional crises colliding when she is asked to rule in the case of a brilliant 18-year-old boy who is refusing the blood transfusion that would save his life.

Elgin Theatre

5:30 PM — 7:33 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.

Ryerson Theatre

9:30 PM — 11:29 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.

Bell Lightbox 2

11:59 PM — 1:29 AM

Mom and Dad preceded by Great Choice

This horror-comedy double bill features Robin Comisar's short Great Choice, followed by Brian Taylor's Mom and Dad.

Ryerson Theatre

Sunday, September 10

9:00 AM — 10:34 AM

Mademoiselle Paradis

The true story of the relationship between a blind 18th-century Viennese pianist and the controversial physician who worked to restore her sight: Dr. Franz Mesmer.

Bell Lightbox 3

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

1:30 PM — 3:30 PM

Mary Shelley

Elle Fanning stars in this scintillating biopic of the Frankenstein author, chronicling her tempestuous marriage to dissolute poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the fateful night at a Swiss chateau that inspired her most famous creation.

Scotiabank 2

4:15 PM — 6:01 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.

Jackman Hall

6:45 PM — 8:32 PM

Angels Wear White

Chinese writer-director Vivian Qu (Trap Street) creates a moody modern-day noir with this thriller set in a sleepy seaside village, where a teenage motel receptionist and the young victim of a brutal assault are caught in an ever-tightening net of danger and violence.

Scotiabank 3

9:00 PM — 10:29 PM

Dark River

Ruth Wilson stars in British filmmaker Clio Barnard’s atmospheric and layered drama about the old wounds and bitter new grievances that come to light when a woman returns home to settle the tenancy of her family’s Yorkshire farm.

Winter Garden Theatre

11:59 PM — 1:47 AM

Revenge

Never take your mistress on an annual guys’ getaway, especially one devoted to hunting — a violent lesson for three wealthy married men, in writer-director Coralie Fargeat's feature debut.

Ryerson Theatre

Monday, September 11

9:15 AM — 11:02 AM

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.

Bell Lightbox 1

12:00 PM — 1:54 PM

Disobedience

Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Gloria) directs Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams in this adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s novel about a woman who returns home to her orthodox Jewish community in London and rekindles a romance with her cousin’s wife.

Bell Lightbox 1

4:15 PM — 5:58 PM

The Rider

Chloé Zhao’s (Songs My Brothers Taught Me) Art Cinema Award–winning impressionistic drama casts real-life wrangler Brady Jandreau as a South Dakota cowboy struggling to chart a new course.

Scotiabank 4

6:15 PM — 8:10 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).

Bell Lightbox 2

9:30 PM — 11:21 PM

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

The latest by Québecois auteur Simon Lavoie (Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves) follows the lives of two children who, in the wake of their father’s death, gradually come to realize the perverse nature of their upbringing.

Bell Lightbox 2

11:59 PM — 1:37 AM

The Disaster Artist

James Franco directs this giddy tribute to eccentric filmmaker Tommy Wiseau and his friend, actor Greg Sestero, whose notoriously awful film The Room has become one of the most beloved cult classics of all time.

Ryerson Theatre

Tuesday, September 12

9:30 AM — 11:14 AM

Euphoria

Swedish filmmaker Lisa Langseth reunites with her Pure and Hotell star Alicia Vikander, along with Eva Green, in this story of two estranged sisters attempting a difficult and ominous reconciliation, with supporting performances from Charlotte Rampling and Charles Dance.

Bell Lightbox 1

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

3:45 PM — 6:08 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.

Scotiabank 2

7:00 PM — 9:07 PM

Hostiles

Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Jesse Plemons, Wes Studi, and Adam Beach star in this 19th-century western drama from director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Black Mass), about an Army captain who agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief back to his tribal lands.

Scotiabank 12

10:15 PM — 11:50 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.

Bell Lightbox 3

Wednesday, September 13

9:30 AM — 11:15 AM

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Annette Bening and Jamie Bell star in this adaptation of the memoir by British actor Peter Turner, recounting his romance with the legendary (and legendarily eccentric) Hollywood star Gloria Grahame during the last years of her life.

Bell Lightbox 1

1:00 PM — 2:52 PM

First Reformed

Tortured by the loss of a son he encouraged to enlist in the armed forces, a church minister and ex-military chaplain (Ethan Hawke) struggles with his faith when a pregnant woman (Amanda Seyfried) and her radical environmentalist husband come to him for counselling, in the latest from Paul Schrader.

Winter Garden Theatre

3:30 PM — 5:40 PM

Racer and the Jailbird

The only threat to the romance between thief Gino (Matthias Schoenaerts) and race car driver Bénédicte is the lure of his next heist, in this latest crime-thriller from Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam (Bullhead, The Drop).

Scotiabank 2

6:30 PM — 8:11 PM

Radiance

An audio-description writer and a photographer losing his eyesight form a personal connection that will allow each to see the world in new ways, in acclaimed director Naomi Kawase's stunning new film.

Bell Lightbox 1

9:30 PM — 11:05 PM

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.

Scotiabank 4

11:59 PM — 1:31 AM

Let the Corpses Tan

Absconding with a truckload of stolen gold, a gang of thieves engages in a day-long firefight with pursuing cops through the ruins of a remote Mediterranean hamlet, in this deliriously stylish thriller from Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears).

Ryerson Theatre

Thursday, September 14

9:15 AM — 11:09 AM

Foxtrot

A grieving father experiences the absurd circumstances around death of his son, in this latest critical reflection on military culture from Israeli filmmaker Samuel Maoz (Lebanon).

Bell Lightbox 2

12:15 PM — 1:49 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

2:30 PM — 4:02 PM

Kings

In the English-language debut from writer-director Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Mustang), a recluse (Daniel Craig) helps a woman (Halle Berry) and her multiple children when riots erupt in Los Angeles following the 1992 acquittal of the policemen charged with assaulting Rodney King.

Elgin Theatre

5:00 PM — 6:53 PM

The Insult

A dispute between two men — one Christian, one Palestinian — on the streets of Beirut becomes a national sensation when it opens up old wounds and traumatic memories.

Winter Garden Theatre

7:30 PM — 8:55 PM

Porcupine Lake

Two girls dangling on the brink of adulthood enjoy a summertime of fleeting childhood adventures, in the latest by Slovakian-Canadian director Ingrid Veninger.

Bell Lightbox 3

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.

Scotiabank 2

11:59 PM — 1:38 AM

The Crescent

The trio behind 2012’s fever dream–like Lowlife return with a hallucinatory story focused on a woman and her child enveloped by creeping dread upon retreating to a remote coastal estate.

Ryerson Theatre

Friday, September 15

9:30 AM — 11:17 AM

Journey's End

Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, and Paul Bettany star in this tense drama about a group of British soldiers awaiting a massive German offensive during the First World War, in this new adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's classic play.

Bell Lightbox 1

11:45 AM — 1:31 PM

Manhunt

Action maestro John Woo returns to the mold of his classic The Killer with this remake of a classic 1970s Japanese thriller, about an innocent man who sets out to clear his name after his is framed for robbery and rape.

Scotiabank 2

3:45 PM — 5:41 PM

Thelma

Recently moved to Oslo to attend school, a young woman falls in love and discovers that she possesses terrifying powers, in this supernatural thriller from acclaimed director Joachim Trier (Louder Than Bombs).

Scotiabank 3

6:00 PM — 7:55 PM

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

A frustrated and grieving mother (Frances McDormand) antagonizes her local police force (including Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell) to call attention to the lack of progress in the search for her daughter’s killer, in the latest from dark-humour master Martin McDonagh.

Princess of Wales

9:00 PM — 11:03 PM

The Shape of Water

At the height of the Cold War, circa 1962, two workers in a high-tech US government laboratory (Sally Hawkins and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer) discover a terrifying secret experiment, in this otherworldly fairytale from Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth).

Elgin Theatre

11:59 PM — 1:29 AM

Downrange

Stranded at the side of the road after a tire blowout, a group of friends become targets for an enigmatic sniper, in this wickedly entertaining bloodbath from Midnight Madness regular Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus).

Ryerson Theatre

Saturday, September 16

9:00 AM — 10:49 AM

Outside In

In this new drama from Lynn Shelton (Your Sister's Sister), an ex-con (Jay Duplass) struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high-school teacher (Edie Falco).

Scotiabank 1

12:00 PM — 2:05 PM

Darkest Hour

Gary Oldman steps into the imposing persona of Winston Churchill in this period drama from director Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice, Atonement), set in the early years of World War II.

Princess of Wales

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.

Bell Lightbox 1

7:00 PM — 8:27 PM

Pyewacket

A frustrated girl attempts an occult ritual in order to kill her mother, but awakens something sinister in the woods instead, in the latest from director Adam MacDonald (Backcountry).

Scotiabank 7

9:45 PM — 11:41 PM

On Body and Soul

Two introverted abattoir employees find that they share the same dream every night and try to recreate it in broad daylight, from provocative Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi.

Bell Lightbox 2

11:59 PM — 1:20 AM

Vampire Clay

Japanese director and master makeup artist Soichi Umezawa gives life to a plasticine demon that subsequently devours the denizens of a rural art school.

Ryerson Theatre

Sunday, September 17

9:45 AM — 11:32 AM

Redoubtable

Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) returns to the Festival with this fictionalized glimpse into the life of iconoclastic filmmaking legend Jean-Luc Godard and his search for inspiration in late 1960s Paris.

Scotiabank 1

12:45 PM — 2:25 PM

A Season in France

An African high-school teacher (Eriq Ebouaney) flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman (Sandrine Bonnaire) who offers a roof for him and his family.

Bell Lightbox 2

2:30 PM — 5:27 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.

Bell Lightbox 4

6:45 PM — 8:30 PM

Veronica

Inspired by real events that transpired in Madrid in 1991, the nerve-rattling new feature from Spanish director Paco Plaza (co-creator of the hugely successful [REC] series) chronicles a teenage girl’s descent into terror following her naïve attempt to communicate with her dead father.

Scotiabank 11

9:30 PM — 11:16 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.

Bell Lightbox 4