Toni Erdmann

Toni Erdmann (2016) — Maren Ade's German-Austrian comedy — is available to watch online on iFILM. Winfried, a retired music teacher, shows up unannounced at his daughter Ines's flat in Bucharest, where she is deep in a consulting contract. Finding no way in, he puts on a wig and a set of novelty teeth and reinvents himself as "Toni Erdmann," lifestyle coach.

Peter Simonischek plays the father with a prankster's persistence; Sandra Hüller plays the daughter who has to handle him while juggling actual deadlines. At 162 minutes the film refuses to rush, and the comedy earns its weight because the hurt underneath it is real.

Ade's film competed at Cannes 2016 and became one of the decade's most decorated European releases — a BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language, the top European Film Award. Stream Toni Erdmann online on iFILM: a slow-burn father-daughter comedy that lands when you least expect it.