Six of the seven Red Sea Film Foundation-backed films are showcasing regional storytelling at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. A seventh film, “We Are All Strangers,” directed by Anthony Chen, is about 21-year-old Junyang and his widowed father, Boon Kiat.
6 RSIFF-backed films screening at Toronto International Film Festival
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Ben’Imana
The film by Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo explores reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda through a survivor forced to face her own past.
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Conversation with the Sea
A Palestinian father investigates his son's decades-old disappearance after a disputed debt notice reveals no official death record in the film by Muayad Alayan.
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A Girl Unknown
Director Zou Jing’s debut feature follows a young Chinese girl’s search for identity as she is passed to three families between her childhood and adolescence.
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Four Seasons in Java
Directed by Kamila Andini, the film follows Pertiwi as she returns home after prison as electricity transforms her village, forcing buried trauma and change to collide.
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Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, the film follows a visionary teen and an ostracized woman who unite against village hostility, fighting for freedom in Chad.
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The Violinist
Directed by Ervin Han and Raul Garcia, the animated historical epic follows two violin prodigies whose friendship is shattered by war in Singapore and Malaya.
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