Spring 2025 Public Programming at TIFF

Join TIFF this April for our annual Next Wave Film Festival, our celebration of Earth Day, a relaxed screening featuring neurodivergent filmmakers, and more free programming! Connect with fellow film lovers this season to explore film as a medium for creative self-expression and social bonding through Public Programming at TIFF.

Silver Screenings: The Biggest Little Farm

Friday, April 4, 2025 | 12:00pm ET
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Silver Screenings is a free series that brings seniors together to connect with fellow film lovers and participate in a variety of events, including film talks, interactive workshops, and activities.

On April 4, Silver Screenings will be hosting a free screening of The Biggest Little Farm (TIFF ’18) in anticipation of Earth Day. Join TIFF to revisit this fan-favourite documentary, which won top audience prizes during its Festival circuit run.

This screening will feature an onstage conversation from 12pm – 12:30pm in partnership with The Stop Community Food Centre. adwoa toku, Urban Agriculture Coordinator at The Stop, will highlight the importance of knowledge sharing in urban agriculture settings from their community food garden as a part of the Global Roots Program.

Relaxed Screening: The Stimming Pool with Spectrum Productions

Sunday, April 6, 2025 | 1:00pm
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TIFF Community Impact and Spectrum Productions are pleased to present the Toronto Premiere of The Stimming Pool, an immersive hybrid documentary co-created by the Neurocultures Collective and artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood, whose non-linear, tessellating structure evokes the concept of an “autistic camera.”

The Stimming Pool is preceded by an introduction from Spectrum Productions, the World Premiere of their multi-media animated short BackJump, and a 30-minute conversation with the Spectrum Productions community about their collaborative creation process moderated by artist Kat Singer.

This screening is open to anyone who may benefit from a more relaxed, sensory-friendly environment, including autistic and neurodivergent audience members. What to expect:

• Open captions for films
• Live captions for stage remarks and moderated conversation
• House lights will remain on a low level
• Volume will be slightly reduced
• Reduced capacity in the cinema
• No trailers
• Audience members are free to move around, express themselves, or take a break in a designated quiet space

See the North: Mourir à tue-tête

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 | 6:30pm ET
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Credited as Quebec’s first feminist film, Anne Claire Poirier’s second feature, Mourir à tue-tête (1979), is a powerful polemic against the societal structures that enable acts of violence against women, particularly rape. Using a mise-en-abyme device and the insertion of ethnographic footage, Poirier delves into the psychological aftermath of violence, examining its impact on the victim’s sense of identity and relationships, and questioning whether cinematic representation inevitably inscribes a male gaze. For her contributions, Poirier was later recognized with a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in film and appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2003.

Please note: this screening contains explicit depictions of sexual and gendered violence and documentary footage of gendered violence.

Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?), Suneil Sanzgiri (2024). 35′ Video still.

TIFF Wavelengths Presents: Infinite Returns curated by Suneil Sanzgiri

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | 6:30pm ET
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TIFF Wavelengths Presents is excited to welcome artist, researcher and filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri for a special curated programme, Infinite Returns. Spanning struggles and geographies across the Caribbean, India, Angola, and Palestine, this screening looks to artists and filmmakers who use a diversity of tactics in staging return through an examination of artifacts, re-creations, rehearsals, repetitions, reincarnations, speculative fictions, and spectro-poems. Proposing film as a possible site for exhibiting and envisioning an infinite number of returns of people, land, resources, kinships, and insurgencies, the lineup includes works by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou Rahme, Naeem Mohamien, Noor Abed, Onyeka Igwe, Sarah Maldoror and Suneil Sanzgiri.

Infinite Returns curated by Suneil Sanzgiri is co-presented by TIFF Wavelengths, Images Festival, and Mercer Union alongside the exhibition Suneil Sanzgiri: An Impossible Address on view at Mercer Union from April 12 to June 14.

TIFF Next Wave Film Festival

April 10 – 13, 2025
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The TIFF Next Wave Film Festival runs April 10–13 with brand new movies free for anyone under 25! Kick things off at Battle of the Scores, in which four bands compete for one big prize; celebrate the next wave of Canadian filmmakers at the Young Creators Showcase; connect with film industry professionals for advice and inspiration at the Young Creators Co-Lab; join our popular Loved It series where Chandler Levack hosts Fast Times at Ridgemont High; participate in a quote-along screening of Josie and the Pussycats; or catch a double-bill screening of Shiva Baby-Bottoms with Emma Seligman — all at TIFF Lightbox.

Make sure you get your Under-25 Free Pass to unlock your free tickets to TIFF Next Wave Official Selection screenings! Full programming details and tickets for TIFF Members and Under-25 Free Pass holders go on sale on March 19, and to the public on March 21.

TIFF’s Next Wave Film Festival is presented by Takis® and supported by the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto, and the Rossy Foundation.

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