The Academy has voted 16 winners of the 53rd Student Academy Awards® competition. Gold, silver and bronze placements in the four award categories will be announced at the ceremony.
Awards Ceremony: September 14, 6:00 PM, TIFF LIGHTBOX
FURTHER GERMAN CO-PRODUCTIONS
Special Presentations ALL OF A SUDDEN by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (FR/JP/DE/BE, Heimatfilm) GENTLE MONSTER by Marie Kreutzer (AT/DE/FR, Komplizen Film) MINOTAUR by Andrey Zvyagintsev (FR/DE/LV, Razor Film Produktion)
Centrepiece ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG (ELEFANTEN IM NEBEL) by Abinash Bikram Shah (NP/DE/BR/FR/NO, Die Gesellschaft DGS, Zischlermann Filmproduktion) THE DIFFICULT BRIDE by Rubaiyat Hossain (FR/BD/PT/NO/DE, Tandem Production)
Discovery HEAD TO HEAD by Ghasideh Golmakani (IR/DE, Ghasideh Golmakani)
Tiff Docs RESCUE by Sine Plambech (DK/IT/DE/SE/IS, Kloos & Co.)
Wavelengths DOUBLE FREEDOM (LA LIBERTAD DOBLE) by Lisandro Alonso (CL/AR/LU/DE/UK, The Match Factory) EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOISE by Nicolás Pereda (MX/DE/CA, weltfilm)
Tiff Innovation Hub SOLWATA by Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran (US/DE/SB, NowHere Media)
We’ll be hosting the event LIVE from TIFF, honoring Valeska Grisebach and her most recent drama THE DREAMED ADVENTURE that is part of the CENTREPIECE section.
We will discuss her modern adventure film WESTERN that celebrated its world premiere in Cannes International Competition (2017) and was also presented at TIFF in the same year.
Our conversation is preceded by a recorded introduction by Valeska Grisebach.
Date and time: Sunday, September 13th, 11:30am – 12:30 pm PT 2:30pm – 3:30pm ET, 8:30pm – 9:30pm CET
Lost, found, made: Three recent German films take us inside the most intimate social unit we know —the (chosen) family as refuge and battlefield, north star or source of drift. Family is the first story we're told about ourselves and the one we spend our lives rewriting. Featuring Sandra Hüller and Nina Hoss, German Film Award winners and a debut.
8 October 2026, 6:30pm
OH, THIS UNSPEAKABLE VOID
Germany 2026, 130 min. by Simon Verhoeven
*Canadian Premiere*
13 October 2026, 6:30pm
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
France, Germany, Belgium 2024, 101 min. by Claire Burger
15 October 2026, 6:30pm
TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER
Germany 2022, 89 min. by Annika Pinske
The Goethe-Institut Toronto’s signature film series screens at the TIFF Lightbox.More info here.
GERMAN FILMS CONTACT IN TORONTO
TIFF INDUSTRY CENTER
GERMAN FILMS @ EFP EUROPE! HUB D-24 + D-25 @ Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) North Building, 255 Front St W, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2W6
