International auteurs Miguel Gomes, Wang Bing and Roberto Minervini will be part of the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival’s Wavelengths program, TIFF organizers announced on Thursday.
The festival will present the North American premieres of “Grand Tour,” a period piece for which Gomes won the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival; Minervini’s “The Damned,” a Civil War-era drama that screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section; and two films by Chinese documentarian Wang Bing, “Youth (Hard Times)” and “Youth (Homecoming).”
The Wavelengths section, which is devoted to daring cinema and contemporary art, will also include “exergue – on documenta 14,” a 14-hour documentary by Greek director Dimitris Athiridis that will be presented over three separate screenings.
Wavelengths is divided into different sections – one consisting of 11 feature films, another with a special presentation of Egyptian director Wael Shawky’s “Drama 1882” and another showcasing 13 different short and medium-length films grouped into thematic programs.
The festival will present the North American premieres of “Grand Tour,” a period piece for which Gomes won the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival; Minervini’s “The Damned,” a Civil War-era drama that screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section; and two films by Chinese documentarian Wang Bing, “Youth (Hard Times)” and “Youth (Homecoming).”
The Wavelengths section, which is devoted to daring cinema and contemporary art, will also include “exergue – on documenta 14,” a 14-hour documentary by Greek director Dimitris Athiridis that will be presented over three separate screenings.
Wavelengths is divided into different sections – one consisting of 11 feature films, another with a special presentation of Egyptian director Wael Shawky’s “Drama 1882” and another showcasing 13 different short and medium-length films grouped into thematic programs.
- 8/8/2024
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced its Wavelengths programme highlighting visionary work including Dimitris Athiridis’s 14-hour documentary exergue - on documenta 14, and a Classics line-up featuring work from Atom Egoyan and Frederick Wiseman.
The Wavelengths programme comprises 11 features, three shorts programmes, and an in-cinema looped presentation of Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s Drama 1882.
The features selections includes Cannes entries Viêt And Nam by Trương Minh Quý, Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes and The Damned by Roberto Minervini, and Berlin selection Pepe by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias.
exergue - on documenta 14 receives its North American premiere after...
The Wavelengths programme comprises 11 features, three shorts programmes, and an in-cinema looped presentation of Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s Drama 1882.
The features selections includes Cannes entries Viêt And Nam by Trương Minh Quý, Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes and The Damned by Roberto Minervini, and Berlin selection Pepe by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias.
exergue - on documenta 14 receives its North American premiere after...
- 8/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
Bollywood action movie Dabangg, the directing debut of Abhinav Kashyap, has dominated the International Indian Film Academy awards.
The film bagged 10 trophies - including Best Picture plus the awards for best screenplay, action, choreography, sound re-recording, music direction, male playback singer, female playback singer, debutant star female and performance in a negative role.
Released last September, Dabangg had huge success at the Indian box office, holding the record for opening day and first weekend takings. It's the third highest-grossing Bollywood film in history.
It went on to cement its blockbuster status at last weekend's 12th Videocon d2h Weekend and Floriana Iifa Awards, held at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada.
Hollywood stars Hilary Swank and Cuba Gooding Jr joined the biggest names from Indian cinema and a crowd of 21,000 people for the presentation of the trophies.
"India and Toronto has a special place in my heart. Hollywood and Indian...
The film bagged 10 trophies - including Best Picture plus the awards for best screenplay, action, choreography, sound re-recording, music direction, male playback singer, female playback singer, debutant star female and performance in a negative role.
Released last September, Dabangg had huge success at the Indian box office, holding the record for opening day and first weekend takings. It's the third highest-grossing Bollywood film in history.
It went on to cement its blockbuster status at last weekend's 12th Videocon d2h Weekend and Floriana Iifa Awards, held at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada.
Hollywood stars Hilary Swank and Cuba Gooding Jr joined the biggest names from Indian cinema and a crowd of 21,000 people for the presentation of the trophies.
"India and Toronto has a special place in my heart. Hollywood and Indian...
- 6/29/2011
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Srinivas Krishna’s documentary from Canada is striking visually for a broad set of reasons. But the Canadian filmmaker has done much more than make an impression with the choice of his subject for the work; he has opened up a broader set of themes, some of them clearly known best to himself or to the intensions expressed in this film.
A couple in Karnataka appeals to Lord Ganesh for a boy, quite a common practice in belief-based culture of ours. The God obliges and the couple is rewarded with a son. There is serious birth defect with the son, who appears to have a tissue outgrowth between his eyes and over his nose that makes him look like he has a trunk and therefore a similarity with the appearance of Ganesh. The parents name him Ganesh. Not a usual case of odd congenital problem, the case attracts attention, gradually...
A couple in Karnataka appeals to Lord Ganesh for a boy, quite a common practice in belief-based culture of ours. The God obliges and the couple is rewarded with a son. There is serious birth defect with the son, who appears to have a tissue outgrowth between his eyes and over his nose that makes him look like he has a trunk and therefore a similarity with the appearance of Ganesh. The parents name him Ganesh. Not a usual case of odd congenital problem, the case attracts attention, gradually...
- 4/17/2011
- by Shekhar Deshpande
- DearCinema.com
Vikramaditya Motwane’s “Udaan”, the film that made it to Un Certain Regard at Cannes International Film festival after seven years has been the talk of the town lately. With Udaan, Indian cinema’s seven year long jinxed relationship with the premier film festival has come to an end. Murali Nair’s Arimpara was the last film to have made it to Un Certain Regard, the section that carries the second most prestigious award, in the year 2003. Prior to that, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas was presented as a special screening out of competition at the festival in 2002.
Come to think of it, India and Cannes have had a cordial relationship right from the start. 1946, the year one of the oldest film festivals began at Cannes, Chetan Anand’s Neecha Nagar was screened as a Feature film in competition. Neecha Nagar was a pioneering effort in realistic Indian cinema and...
Come to think of it, India and Cannes have had a cordial relationship right from the start. 1946, the year one of the oldest film festivals began at Cannes, Chetan Anand’s Neecha Nagar was screened as a Feature film in competition. Neecha Nagar was a pioneering effort in realistic Indian cinema and...
- 4/20/2010
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
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