TUNER

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Tuner    USA/Canada 2025
Location: SilverCity
Showtimes: 6:30 & 8:30 pm
 
Director:  Daniel Roher
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Leo Woodall
Running Time: 109 minutes
Language: English 
 
Nominations: Windsor International Film Festival: People’s Audience Award 2ndplace; Astra Midseason Movie Awards Nominations: Best Actor (Leo Woodall), Best Supporting Actor (Dustin Hoffman), Best Independent Film; Ravno Selo Film Festival Nominations: Best Film Jury Awrd
 
“"Tuner" has an old-school quality to it, like a movie from the 1970s. It has a throwback feel yet could easily exist in any era, which makes it so appealing. It’s a thrill to watch this kind of original, adult moviemaking that’s all too rare these days.”—Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service 
 
Having acutely sensitive hearing is both a blessing and a curse for Niki White (Leo Woodall) in Daniel Roher’s first narrative feature. Though his auditory condition ended a promising musical career, it’s been a boon for his job as a piano tuner. Together with his genial mentor Harry Horowitz (Dustin Hoffman), he spends his days travelling back and forth across New York, tending to instruments that require his special skills. 
 
These duties also compel the typically taciturn Niki to come out of his protective shell and interact with such people as Ruthie (Havana Rose Liu), a music composition student with whom he feels a spark. But when shady individuals discover that Niki’s talents could be just as useful on locked safes as they are on old Steinways, events take a dangerous turn, one that adds the thrills of watching a heist flick to a film that’s already remarkably fleet-footed as a drama and a romance.
 
Indeed, “Tuner” marks a confident shift toward narrative filmmaking for Roher, whose previous efforts include the documentaries “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band,” which opened the Festival in 2019, and “Navalny,” for which the director won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film in 2023.
 
Written by Roher and Robert Ramsey, the whip-smart script also serves as a convincing demonstration of Woodall’s leading-man mettle. The chemistry he develops with Liu becomes one of the film’s great pleasures, as do the equally terrific turns by the cast’s screen veterans, with Hoffman, Tovah Feldshuh, and Jean Reno all helping ensure Roher’s thriller maintains its perfect pitch.