TIFF 2025 runs through Sept. 14 and features numerous films adapted from or inspired by novels. A Pale View of Hills, directed by Kei Ishikawa, follows Etsuko reflecting on three decades between 1950s Japan and 1980s England, exploring war, emigration and motherhood. Bad Apples, directed by Jonatan Etzler and starring Saoirse Ronan, portrays an elementary teacher managing an unruly student and questioning her methods and sanity, inspired by Rasmus Andersson's De Oonskade. Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, filmed in Toronto and Scotland and starring Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, revives Mary Shelley's gothic sci‑fi.
In the film adaptation from Japanese director Kei Ishikawa, a woman named Etsuko reflects on a 30-year period in her life beginning when she was still in Japan in the 1950s to her present reality in 1980s England. Reckoning with the effects of war, emigrating and becoming a mother, Etsuko finds friendship in an older woman named Sachiko and uncovers more and more parallels in their lives.
Bad Apples, starring Academy Award-nominated actor Saoirse Ronan, is a satirical thriller about an elementary school teacher's uphill battle with an unruly student named Danny. As Maria contends with Danny's outbursts, his parents' absence and managing the rest of her students, she begins to question her methods and her sanity. Bad Apples is directed by Swedish filmmaker Jonatan Etzler and inspired by the Swedish-language novel De Oonskade by Rasmus Andersson.
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