TIFF15 Schedule

McNeil

Thursday, September 10

11:59 PM — 1:39 AM

Green Room preceded by The Chickening

The newest nail-biting thriller from the director of the cult hit Blue Ruin is preceded by Davy Force and Nick DenBoer's clucky fast-food horror flick.

Ryerson Theatre

Friday, September 11

12:00 PM — 1:40 PM

Demolition

Grief-stricken after a family tragedy, a New York investment banker (Jake Gyllenhaal) engages in random acts of destruction, in the highly anticipated new film by Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club, Wild).

Roy Thomson Hall
9:00 PM — 10:54 PM

Dheepan

Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, this powerful drama from director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust & Bone) follows a former Tamil Tiger soldier as he flees from the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war to begin a new life in a Parisian suburb.

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)

Saturday, September 12

11:00 AM — 1:01 PM

Sicario

An idealistic FBI agent (Emily Blunt) joins two shadowy government operatives (Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro) in a high-risk, cross-border sting against a Mexican cartel boss, in this gritty drug-war thriller from Quebec's Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners).

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
4:45 PM — 6:44 PM

The Lobster

Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz and John C. Reilly star in the deliciously bizarre new film from Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, ALPS), about a curious hotel where the residents are charged with finding a new mate within 45 days — under penalty of being transformed into animals should they fail.

The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
10:15 PM — 11:40 PM

Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous

Renowned cinematographer and artist Christopher Doyle celebrates Hong Kong and its people with this documentary-fiction hybrid that focuses on Hong Kong residents in their childhood, youth, and old age.

TIFF Bell Lightbox 3

Sunday, September 13

10:30 AM — 12:33 PM

Youth

Two old friends (Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel) reflect on their past, present, and the beauty and absurdity of the world during a vacation in the Swiss Alps, in the lovely and heart-warming new film from Academy Award winner Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty).

Winter Garden Theatre
4:30 PM — 5:52 PM

Five Nights in Maine

Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo (Selma) and Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway) star in this intimate drama about a grieving widower who sets out to fulfill his wife’s last wish that he finally meet her irascible mother.

TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
9:30 PM — 11:32 PM

Cemetery of Splendour

A young medium and a middle-aged hospital volunteer investigate a case of mass sleeping sickness that may have supernatural roots, in the gorgeous, mysterious, and gently humorous new film from Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives).

TIFF Bell Lightbox 2

Monday, September 14

11:00 AM — 12:45 PM

Brooklyn

In the early 1950s, a young Irish woman (Saoirse Ronan) crosses the Atlantic to begin a new life in America, in this exquisitely crafted adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Colm Tóibín.

Winter Garden Theatre
2:15 PM — 3:56 PM

Into the Forest

Two sisters (Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood) struggle to survive in a remote country house after a continent-wide power outage, in this gripping apocalyptic drama from director Patricia Rozema (Mansfield Park, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing).

TIFF Bell Lightbox 2

Tuesday, September 15

10:30 AM — 12:10 PM

The Wait

Juliette Binoche stars in this dazzling, Sicilian-set meditation on grief and perseverance from first-time feature director Piero Messina (assistant director on Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty).

TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
3:00 PM — 4:51 PM

ma ma

Academy Award winner Penélope Cruz stars in the new film from fearless Spanish director Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia, Chaotic Ana), about a woman recently diagnosed with cancer who forms an unexpected bond with a soccer scout (Luis Tosar) whose wife has been gravely injured in a car accident.

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
9:45 PM — 11:18 PM

Rams

Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at this year's Cannes festival, Grímur Hákonarson’s stunningly shot drama focuses on two Icelandic sheep farmers whose decades-long feud comes to a head when disaster strikes their flocks.

TIFF Bell Lightbox 1

Wednesday, September 16

11:00 AM — 12:30 PM

Anomalisa

Charlie Kaufman, the celebrated screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation and director of Synecdoche, New York, and Duke Johnson venture into the world of stop-motion animation with this fable about a motivational speaker seeking to transcend his monotonous existence.

Visa Screening Room (Elgin)
5:30 PM — 7:48 PM

Victoria

A beautiful young Spanish nightclubber in Berlin becomes wheelwoman for a quartet of bank robbers, in this stunning heist thriller shot in a single extended take.

Ryerson Theatre

Thursday, September 17

3:00 PM — 5:10 PM

The Martian

Stranded on Mars, a NASA astronaut (Matt Damon) struggles to survive on the arid planet while his ground crew races to mount a rescue mission, in this interplanetary epic from director Ridley Scott.

Princess of Wales
6:00 PM — 8:14 PM

Love

French provocateur Gaspar Noé (Enter the Void) continues to push the envelope with this 3D melodrama featuring explicit, unsimulated sex.

TIFF Bell Lightbox 1

Friday, September 18

6:15 PM — 7:45 PM

The Witch

The astonishing feature debut by director Robert Eggers evokes Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining in its tale of a family of settlers in 17th-century New England who encounter mysterious, possibly supernatural forces when they are exiled from their village and forced to live on the outskirts of an ominous forest.

Ryerson Theatre
9:00 PM — 10:42 PM

Northern Soul

World-renowned photographer Elaine Constantine makes her feature directorial debut with this invigorating coming-of-age film about a working-class teen in 1974 Lancashire who finds liberation in the area's burgeoning soul-music scene.

Ryerson Theatre

Saturday, September 19

9:30 AM — 10:55 AM

Semana Santa

In this poignant debut, a young widow’s attempt to bond with both her eight-year-old son and her new boyfriend on a beach vacation becomes a strained exercise in isolation and longing.

Scotiabank 9
9:45 PM — 11:05 PM

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, James Gray, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and others discuss the importance of the epochal book that transcribed the week-long 1962 interview between Alfred Hitchcock and French New Wave luminary François Truffaut.

TIFF Bell Lightbox 2

Sunday, September 20

11:45 AM — 1:31 PM

Girls Lost

Three outcast teenage girls get a new perspective on high-school life when they are mysteriously transformed into boys, in this skillfully crafted tale of sexual confusion with a supernatural twist.

Scotiabank 4
6:00 PM — 7:32 PM

London Road

Tom Hardy and Olivia Colman headline this big-screen adaptation of the stage musical by Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork, about the “Suffolk Strangler” murders in Ipswich in 2006.

The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
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