The highlight of our year is hosting Canadian, German and international filmmakers, talent, producers and programmers at our Goethe Film Brunch during TIFF. Thank you everyone for coming, see you next September!
Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, at TIFF23 with the premiere of his latest film Seven Veils, in conversation
Heather Haynes, Hot Docs Associate Director of Programming; Katherine Bruce, Executive Director of Planet in Focus Film Festival; former Images Festival AD Chris Gehman, York University
Jutta Brendemuhl, Goethe-Institut, with Nicole Kaufmann and Simone Baumann of German Films
Jessica Smith, TIFF, and Niall Macpherson, Highball TV
Former TIFF CEO Piers Handling, filmmaker Farhad Delaram, Chris Gehman, York University
The artististic team of the TIFF23 film Achilles: Toronto composer Mehrdad Jafari Raad, Iranian filmmaker Farhad Delaram and Berlin producer Johannes Suhm with Jutta Brendemuhl and Nina Wichmann of the Goethe-Institut
Heather Haynes and Kristin Boivin of Hot Docs with Katherine Bruce, Planet in Focus Film Festival
Yi Qiao, Director of Drama at ZDF Studios, with Canadian producer Damon D'Oliveira (winner of the TIFF 2023 Amplify Voices Trailblazer Award)
Berlinale programmer and TIFF23 FIPRESCI jury member Jenni Zylka with Jutta Brendemuhl, Goethe-Institut Toronto
Goethe partners Flore de Bayser and Jeremie Abessira of the European Union Film Festival Toronto
Berlin filmmaker Rudolf Fitzgerald Leonard, TIFF23 Filmmaker Lab and his producing partner Annika Birgel of Problemkind
The artistic team of TIFF23 film Arthur & Diana, with Berlin filmmaker Sara Summa in the middle
Amanda Brason, TIFF Cinematheque, Lauren Howes, DOC Institute, Jesse Cummings, TIFF programmer
Karen Thorne-Stone, President & CEO of Ontario Creates (Ontario Media Development Agency), tries out the VR experience "Seed Systems"
photos Henry Chan c Goethe-Institut