TIFF23 Schedule

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Friday, September 08

3:00 PM — 4:34 PM

Woman of the Hour

Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut examines uncomfortable gender dynamics with the stranger-than-fiction story of Rodney Alcala’s appearance on The Dating Game in the middle of his 1970s murder spree.

VISA Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre
Premium
4:00 PM — 6:31 PM

Anatomy of a Fall

Winner of this year’s Palme d’Or, and starring German actress Sandra Hüller, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is a riveting portrait of a complex woman put on trial for the murder of her spouse.

Scotiabank 12
5:45 PM — 7:29 PM

Dumb Money

Paul Dano and Seth Rogen find themselves on opposite ends during a tug-of-war, in Craig Gillespie’s take on the outrageous battle of wits between amateur investors and hedge fund billionaires that became the infamous GameStop Wall Street scandal.

Roy Thomson Hall
Premium
9:30 PM — 11:36 PM

Finestkind

Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Tommy Lee Jones, and Jenna Ortega star in this new crime drama from Brian Helgeland about a crew of fishermen who tread dangerous waters after their debts start piling up.

Roy Thomson Hall
Premium
10:00 PM — 12:14 AM

Reptile

Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro, Oscar nominee Justin Timberlake, and Alicia Silverstone star in this moody, intricate New England–set noir in which the worlds of real estate, narcotics trafficking, and police work merge.

VISA Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre
Premium

Saturday, September 09

10:30 AM — 12:44 PM

Reptile

Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro, Oscar nominee Justin Timberlake, and Alicia Silverstone star in this moody, intricate New England–set noir in which the worlds of real estate, narcotics trafficking, and police work merge.

TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
2:30 PM — 4:06 PM

Mother, Couch

Three estranged children come together when their mother refuses to move from a couch in a furniture store, in this film boasting all-star talent including Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor, Ellen Burstyn, F. Murray Abraham, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Rhys Ifans.

Royal Alexandra Theatre
Premium
5:30 PM — 7:10 PM

Dream Scenario

This satirical swipe at celebrity and groupthink from writer-director Kristoffer Borgli and co-producer Ari Aster stars Nicolas Cage as an inconspicuous academic who is thrust into the limelight after he starts inexplicably appearing in people’s dreams.

Royal Alexandra Theatre
Premium
6:30 PM — 8:10 PM

Ezra

Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, and Robert De Niro star in this fabulously unpredictable ensemble dramedy from director Tony Goldwyn (TIFF ’10’s Conviction) about parents struggling over how best to raise their child.

VISA Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre
Premium
11:59 PM — 1:51 AM

Boy Kills World

Bill Skarsgård commits bloody martial-arts mayhem as a deaf warrior trained by a mysterious shaman (The Raid’s Yayan Ruhian) to topple a far-flung dystopia in Moritz Mohr’s loony debut feature.

Royal Alexandra Theatre

Sunday, September 10

5:45 PM — 7:25 PM

Ezra

Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, and Robert De Niro star in this fabulously unpredictable ensemble dramedy from director Tony Goldwyn (TIFF ’10’s Conviction) about parents struggling over how best to raise their child.

Scotiabank 3
6:45 PM — 8:28 PM

Next Goal Wins

Michael Fassbender, Elisabeth Moss, and Oscar Kightley star in Taika Waititi’s comedy about the American Samoa soccer team’s attempt to make a World Cup — 12 years after their infamous 31-0 loss in a 2002 World Cup qualifying match.

VISA Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre
Premium
9:45 PM — 11:39 PM

Knox Goes Away

Michael Keaton directs and plays Knox, a hitman losing his memory, putting him in a race against time to help his estranged son (James Marsden) cover up a messy crime.

VISA Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre
Premium
11:59 PM — 1:27 AM

Hell of a Summer

A masked killer terrorizes the counsellors of a summer camp in this sardonic slasher-comedy, the feature directorial debut from actors Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk.

Royal Alexandra Theatre

Monday, September 11

11:30 AM — 12:57 PM

Not A Word

On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak’s formidable fourth feature film starring Maren Eggert, scored by Amélie Legrand, and shot by Claire Mathon.

TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
12:00 PM — 1:39 PM

The Critic

Gemma Arterton and Ian McKellen star as adversaries forced to take desperate measures to save their careers, in this scintillating tale of ambition and deceit in the theatre world.

VISA Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre
Premium
3:00 PM — 5:13 PM

The Holdovers

Paul Giamatti stars in Alexander Payne’s latest about the bond that forms between a strict professor and a belligerent student he’s stuck supervising over the winter holiday at an elite boarding school.

VISA Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre
Premium
6:00 PM — 7:40 PM

The King Tide

Ten years after a child with miraculous gifts arrives at an isolated East Coast island town, her adoptive parents must decide whether her safety is more important than their community's prosperity.

TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
6:30 PM — 8:36 PM

The Burial

Oscar winners Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx star in this rousing David and Goliath courtroom drama about one family’s struggle to hold onto their mom-and-pop funeral home in the face of heartless corporate exploitation.

VISA Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre
Premium
6:30 PM — 8:00 PM

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Ariane Louis-Seize’s deadpan horror comedy finds droll humour in the plight of a young Montreal bloodsucker who can only feed on people for whom she feels sympathy.

Scotiabank 4
9:30 PM — 11:10 PM

Poolman

Chris Pine makes his directorial debut with a kinetic noir comedy where he plays an anxious pool cleaner who uncovers a curious conspiracy in the city of Los Angeles.

TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
Premium
9:45 PM — 11:47 PM

Pain Hustlers

Based on the book by Evan Hughes, Emily Blunt and Chris Evans star as pharmaceutical drug reps who unwittingly help kickstart the opioid epidemic in the pursuit of financial success.

VISA Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre
Premium

Tuesday, September 12

5:30 PM — 7:30 PM

NYAD

Annette Bening and Jodie Foster dive into the dangerous waters of the Florida Straits, in this film based on the true story of the woman who, at the age of 64, became the first person to swim from Cuba to the US without a shark cage.

Roy Thomson Hall
Premium
5:30 PM — 7:14 PM

Last Summer

In the latest film by French provocateur Catherine Breillat, a prominent lawyer’s passionate affair with her 17-year-old stepson threatens both her career and family.

TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
9:30 PM — 11:04 PM

Flora and Son

The latest from writer-director John Carney (Once, Sing Street) features a revelatory performance from Eve Hewson as a young mother trying to connect with her teenage son through a shared love of music.

Roy Thomson Hall
9:45 PM — 10:59 PM

Bad Boy

A troubled teen is sent away to a brutal juvenile detention facility, in this dynamic drama from the creator of the Israeli series upon which HBO’s Euphoria is based.

TIFF Bell Lightbox 2

Thursday, September 14

8:45 PM — 9:59 PM

Bad Boy

A troubled teen is sent away to a brutal juvenile detention facility, in this dynamic drama from the creator of the Israeli series upon which HBO’s Euphoria is based.

Scotiabank 3
9:00 PM — 10:39 PM

When Evil Lurks

In this shocking supernatural chiller from Argentine master of horror Demián Rugna (Terrified), two brothers race to prevent the spawning of evil incarnate as an epidemic of demonic possessions spreads through their rural community.

Scotiabank 4

Saturday, September 16

4:30 PM — 5:58 PM

Hell of a Summer

A masked killer terrorizes the counsellors of a summer camp in this sardonic slasher-comedy, the feature directorial debut from actors Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk.

Scotiabank 12
11:59 PM — 1:52 AM

Riddle of Fire

Three rascal children run afoul of an enigmatic coven in Weston Razooli’s whimsical neo-fairytale, which evokes a menagerie of esoteric genres and dreamy cult-film vibes.

Royal Alexandra Theatre
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