Be the first to see some of the year’s most exciting new films! On select Tuesday evenings, Secret Movie Club showcases the best of cinema — from highly anticipated festival favourites, to small-budget indies, to the year’s most buzzworthy films. If you like to attend Galas and Special Presentations at the Festival, this series is for you!
Part of the fun is the surprise: titles are not announced ahead of time, and all screenings are previews of films not yet released in theatres. Each event offers a fun post-film discussion with a member of the film team — such as a director, screenwriter, producer, or actor — a critic, or a subject expert. Last season’s lineup included celebrated films that premiered at Sundance, Cannes, and other international film festivals: May December (dir. Todd Haynes), Eileen (dir. William Oldroyd), The Iron Claw (dir. Sean Durkin), Sometimes I Think About Dying (dir. Rachel Lambert), The Animal Kingdom (dir. Thomas Cailley), Sasquatch Sunset (dirs. David Zellner, Nathan Zellner), and Babes (dir. Pamela Adlon).
This season’s hosts are Norm Wilner, Senior International Programmer and Industry Selects Lead; and Jane Schoettle, Senior International Programmer at TIFF.
Secret Movie Club Experience
- Screenings will take place at 7pm on select Tuesday evenings between late October 2024 and late April 2025.
- Guests will join us remotely or in person. The post-film discussion will be live whenever possible, but in select cases we may pre-record a conversation with a special guest and play it in the cinema.
- New for 2024–2025! All Secret Movie Club subscribers (new and returning) will receive a free small bag of popcorn for each event in the series. More details for subscribers about how to redeem your popcorn will be shared by email in the lead-up to the first event in October.
- New for 2024–2025! Members are invited to join the series co-hosts and members of the Secret Movie Club programming team at Varda café-bar ahead of each event.
- October 22, 2024
- November 19, 2024
- December 17, 2024
- January 21, 2025
- February 18, 2025
- March 18, 2025
- April 15, 2025
- July 10: Subscriber renewals (Members)
- July 12: Subscriber renewals (public)
- July 17: New Member subscriptions
- July 19: New public subscriptions
- October 16: Single tickets on sale (Members)
- October 18: Single tickets on sale (public)
The 2024–25 season of Secret Movie Club takes place on the following dates:
Key Dates
Buy a subscription and save! Pricing is as follows:
| In-person pricing | Subscriptions | Single tickets | ||
| Tier | Member price | Public price | Member price | Public price |
| A | $220 | $250 | $33 | $38 |
| B | $205 | $220 | $31 | $33 |
Prices include taxes and fees.
Access is restricted to persons 18 years of age or older unless otherwise stated. Proof of age by government-issued identification will be required prior to admission for persons who appear to be under the age of 21. Regardless of age, each attendee must have a ticket.
Jane Schoettle currently leads the Special Presentations section for TIFF but has worked for several decades as an International Programmer for the Festival, previously responsible for programming films from Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and American independent cinema. Schoettle was also the founder and Director of Sprockets, TIFF’s International Children’s Film Festival for 10 years and for several years she was also the Producer of TIFF’s International Filmmaker Lab and TIFF Writer’s Studio. She has programmed extensively for festivals in Miami, Aspen, and Palm Springs, and produces the Filmmaker Retreats at Sunnylands for the Palm Springs International Film Festival. In addition to having served on international juries in Europe, South America, and South Asia, Jane has herself participated in numerous filmmaker labs as a mentor and speaker.
