Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, September 4-14) has unveiled the 25th edition of its Wavelengths line-up celebrating international, experimental and avant-garde cinema and contemporary art.
A roster of eight features, a special pairing, and three shorts programmes brings the world premiere of Rhayne Vermette’s Levers, the follow-up to her TIFF Amplify Voices award-winning Ste. Anne (2021).
There are North American premieres for Lav Diaz’s adventure and Cannes Premiere entry Magellan starring Gael García Bernal, and Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, which shot on an antiquated Sony Ericsson phone and gets its world premiere in Locarno next week.
The line-up features a tribute to avant-garde filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa, a longtime friend of the festival who died in April. In his honour, with his short Ten Mornings Ten Evenings And One Horizon. The short screened as a world premiere at TIFF 2016.
The programme is curated by senior curator Andréa Picard and associate curator Jesse Cumming, with contributions from Jason Anderson and Diana Cadavid.
The selection appears in alphabetical order below.
Wavelengths Features
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (US)
Dir. Kahlil Joseph
Canadian premiere
Copper (Cobre, Can-Mex)
Dir. Nicolás Pereda
North American premiere
Dry Leaf (Ger-Georgia)
Dir. Alexandre Koberidze
North American premiere
Levers (Can)
Dir. Rhayne Vermette
World premiere
Magellan (Magalhães, Port-Sp-Fr-Phil-Tai)
Dir. Lav Diaz
North American premiere
Mare’s Nest (Fr-UK-Can)
Dir. Ben Rivers
North American premiere
The Seasons (As Estações, Port-Fr-Sp-Austria)
Dir. Maureen Fazendeiro
North American premiere
Wavelengths Pairings
With Hasan In Gaza (Pal-Ger-Fr-Qatar)
Dir. Kamal Aljafari
North American Premiere preceded by
It’s So Beautiful Here (Pal)
Dir. Basma al-Sharif
International premiere.
Wavelengths Shorts
Wavelengths 1: Map Of Traces
Ten Mornings Ten Evenings And One Horizon (Japan)
Dir. Tomonari Nishikawa
Rojo Žalia Blau (Austria)
Dir. Viktoria Schmid
World premiere
Disappeared (India-Nep)
Dir. Sohrab Hura
Canadian premiere
09/05/1982 (Mex-Sp)
Dirs. Jorge Caballero, Camilo Restrepo
North American premiere
Map Of Traces (記憶座標, HK)
Dir. Chan Hau Chun
World premiere
En Traversée (Fr)
Dir. Vadim Kostrov
Canadian premiere
Wavelengths 2: Into The Blue
I Saw The Face Of God In The Jet Wash (UK)
Dir. Mark Jenkin
North American premiere
From My Cloud (구름으로부터, S Kor)
Dir. Minjung Kim
World premiere
Cairo Streets (Fr)
Dir. Abdellah Taïa
North American premiere
Daria’s Night Flowers (گل ھای شب دِریا, Fr-Iran-UK)
Dir. Maryam Tafakory
North American premiere
Aftertide (US-China)
Dir. Kaiwen Ren
World premiere
Wavelengths 3: Slightest Pretense
Land Of Barbar (بلاد البربر, Tun)
Dir. Fredj Moussa
World premiere
Conditio Humana (Austria)
Dir. Friedl vom Gröller
World premiere
Slightest Pretense (わずかな見せかけ, Japan)
Dir. Eri Saito
World premiere
CONFERENCE (Austria)
Dir. Björn Kämmerer
World premiere
Morgenkreis (Can-UAE)
Dir. Basma al-Sharif
International premiere
FELT (Can)
Dir. Blake Williams
World premiere.
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