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The 46th Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 9 to 18, 2021. The Berlinale hit I Am Your Man by writer-director-actor Maria Schrader (Unorthodox) will receive its North American premiere as a Special Presentation. The AI robot love story won a Berlinale Audience Award and lead Maren Eggert (I Was At Home, But…) won the Silver Bear Award for Best Performance. You will also recognize Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) and Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann).
Another Berlinale hit is having its North American premiere at #TIFF21: Swiss-German filmmaker brothers Ramon and Silvan Zürcher’s second film, THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER, is a thrilling roundelay of mystery and sexual intrigue set off by a young woman’s move into a new apartment. It won the Berlinale Encounters Award for Best Director and the FIPRESCI Prize.
Berlin filmmakers Daniel Carsenty and Mohammed Abugeth have been invited to TIFF for the world premiere of their documentary The Devil's Drivers about Bedouins smuggling Palestinian workers from the West Bank through the Negev desert. A portrait filmed over five years about men living on the edge in one the most fragile regions of the world. The Goethe-Institut Toronto showed the Canadian premiere of Carsenty’s debut, the refugee drama After Spring Comes Fall in 2016 at
GOETHE FILMS @ TIFF Lightbox.
TIFF will also present the animated drama Charlotte, inspired by the life and work of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon. The French-Canadian film is co-written by Toronto’s David Bezmozgis.
Locarno Festival hit "Whether the Weather is fine" by Carlo Francisco Manatad, produced by Cologne-based Weydemann Bros. as a Filipino-French-Indonesian-German co-production with funding from the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund, has its North American premiere at TIFF. The drama tells of dramatic survival in a Philippine town after a super typhoon.
Stay tuned for our Goethe Film Talks with directors and film experts this fall!
This year’s TIFF takes you back into the cinema, outdoors and online for a hybrid film festival experience. In-person screenings will happen at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Roy Thomson Hall, the Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre, and Festival Village at Ontario Place with the Cinesphere IMAX Theatre, Visa Skyline Drive-in, RBC Lakeside Drive-In and the West Island Open Air Cinema. Catch festival highlights, including Q&As, and screenings Canada-wide on the digital TIFF Bell Lightbox and TIFF Bell Digital Talks (worldwide) platforms.
Please visit
TIFF’s Key Dates page for information regarding ticketing.
TIFF continues to work closely with the Province of Ontario, the City of Toronto, and public health officials on the safe execution of the Festival. Please visit TIFF’s Help page if you have any questions or contact TIFF with further inquiries.
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