Event Schedule

Oct 21 9:15 PM – 9:50 PM (TBLB 4 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 21 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
Exploring the universe inside and around us, this music video program vibrates with love, peace, and good medicine. Ridi (…)
Oct 23 3:00 PM – 3:54 PM (TBLB 4 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Documentary
Life as a herder is hard and solitary, but the 82-year-old Iranian Firouzeh loves the ever-changing nature, the hard lif (…)
Oct 19 7:00 PM – 7:57 PM (Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Documentary
Preceded by waawiyebii’ige: She Draws a Circle. BRING HER HOME follows three Indigenous women — an artist, an ac (…)
Oct 20 6:45 PM – 8:14 PM (TBLB 1 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Fiction
Preceded by Brylcreem Boys. Angel prepares to leave the shelter for a new life, but soon after, she comes to face her bi (…)
Oct 21 6:00 PM – 7:47 PM (TBLB 1 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Fiction
In the Snowy Mountains, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson is pushed to her limits. With the burden of a dark secret and int (…)
Oct 21 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (TBLB 3 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
The iN Originals program includes the premiere of five short films created through imagineNATIVE Institute commissions a (…)
Oct 21 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM (TBLB 1 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Documentary
Preceded by Tibi. This POV documentary narrated by director Trevor Solway begins with his earliest memories of his grand (…)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
This special program presents ten shorts which opened for feature length films during our in-person Festival. Curated to (…)
Oct 21 3:15 PM – 4:35 PM (TBLB 4 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Documentary
In an Aymara community in the Peruvian southern Andes, an alpaquera family gathers to celebrate the ritual of “uywa ch (…)
Oct 20 7:00 PM – 8:32 PM (TBLB 4 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Fiction
Preceded by Cerro Saturno. Elisban arrives in the city of Puno, too late to meet his friend Hermogenes, with whom he was (…)
Oct 19 3:00 PM – 4:36 PM (TBLB 3 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
Short films that celebrate a youth perspective of the world. At times serious and surreal, but most often humorous and i (…)
Oct 22 3:00 PM – 4:04 PM (TBLB 3 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
This program centres on visualizing Arctic land and life, featuring films from the circumpolar region. From Inuit creati (…)
Oct 22 5:30 PM – 7:11 PM (TBLB 3 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
For Pasifika (Pacific Islanders), the popular adage “Water is Life” takes on a deeper meaning: The Great Ocean is th (…)
Oct 22 9:00 PM – 10:20 PM (TBLB 3 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
Time travellers and celestial voyagers beware! We are going on a journey to the dark side of Indigenous cinema, with a c (…)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Oct 23 2:45 PM – 3:46 PM (TBLB 1 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Shorts Program
Comprised of colourful and joyful animations, the films in this program visualize Indigenous cosmovision. They celebrate (…)
Oct 19 3:15 PM – 5:02 PM (TBLB 1 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
This program is all about love — platonic, romantic, or familial. It celebrates the multiplicity of ways humans (and i (…)
Oct 19 6:45 PM – 8:01 PM (TBLB 1 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
Elders are our past, present, and future. Without them, our language(s) and the worldview(s) contained within them would (…)
Oct 19 9:15 PM – 10:30 PM (TBLB 3 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 22 8:15 PM – 9:30 PM (TBLB 4 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
Just as Grandmother Moon cares for us, this program illuminates the care-taking women do as grannies, mothers, daughters (…)
Oct 20 3:00 PM – 4:38 PM (TBLB 3 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
This program acknowledges adults taking on leadership roles, whether it be within their families or their communities, t (…)
Oct 20 6:15 PM – 7:52 PM (TBLB 3 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 24 - 30 (Virtual)
Shorts Program
This program explores our relationship to Spirit World by delving into how we grieve and mourn the loss of a loved one. (…)