TIFF17 Schedule

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Friday, September 08

6:15 PM — 7:58 PM

AVA

A 16-year-old girl’s relationship with her family is challenged after her mother takes her to a gynaecologist in order to ensure she’s still a virgin.

Scotiabank 3

Saturday, September 09

2:30 PM — 3:53 PM

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

Patricia Rozema’s internationally acclaimed debut feature was a watershed moment in Canadian film.

Bell Lightbox 4
9:45 PM — 11:28 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.

Bell Lightbox 1

Sunday, September 10

4:30 PM — 5:56 PM

Waru

Comprised of eight vignettes that document the funeral of a young Maori boy, Waru is a formally complex reflection on tragedy, responsibility, and the intimate grain of a community united in the face of grief.

Bell Lightbox 3
9:45 PM — 11:12 PM

Village Rockstars

A 10-year-old girl living in a remote village in northeast India fights against stereotypes and poverty to pursue her dream of owning a guitar and forming a rock band.

Scotiabank 9

Monday, September 11

3:00 PM — 4:32 PM

Unicorn Store

Brie Larson stars in her directorial debut about a dreamer reluctant to abandon her childish wonder who is offered the most magical gift she can imagine, with Samuel L. Jackson, Joan Cusack, and Bradley Whitford.

Ryerson Theatre

Tuesday, September 12

8:00 PM — 9:26 PM

If You Saw His Heart

Cast out of his insular community, a damaged and down-on-his-luck man (Gael García Bernal) teeters between a life of crime and the path to redemption.

Winter Garden Theatre

Wednesday, September 13

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

9:00 PM — 10:40 PM

The Hungry

Writer-director Bornila Chatterjee relocates Shakespeare's bloody tragedy Titus Andronicus to modern-day India, where corruption, greed, and revenge run rampant at an extravagant wedding.

Bell Lightbox 1

Friday, September 15

8:30 PM — 10:12 PM

Plonger

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

Winter Garden Theatre

Saturday, September 16

12:45 PM — 2:07 PM

Alanis

A young Buenos Aires mother and sex worker suffers the hypocrisy of the laws that are supposed to protect her, in this compelling, profoundly political drama about the dismal choices foisted upon vulnerable women.

Scotiabank 7
3:00 PM — 4:43 PM

My Days of Mercy

The daughter (Ellen Page) of a man on death row falls in love with a woman (Kate Mara) on the opposing side of her family's political cause.

Winter Garden Theatre

Sunday, September 17

12:30 PM — 2:02 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.

Scotiabank 1
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