TIFF 2017: Wavelengths
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- DirectorMin-Jung KimMinjung Kim's (100ft) consists of a single uninterrupted shot, lasting an entire 100ft roll of 16mm film, as two figures with different sized feet traverse a vast, striated landscape.
- DirectorLuis López CarrascoStarsTesa ArranzA portrait of the multi-talented Tesa Arranz, an icon of the "Movida" scene in Madrid. Personal testimonials are juxtaposed with diary entries, poems, performance clips, and selections from Arranz's 500+ paintings of extraterrestrials.
- DirectorAnna MarzianoAn essayistic exploration of love's various guises, considering different attempts at courtship, living together, and sustaining connections with people once they have died.
- DirectorKevin Jerome EversonStarsWilliam Wanky EversonA collection of sfumato-tinged bottles shot with tight framing and shallow focus provides a mesmeric portrait of a man and a community in Northeast Ohio, where "Brown and Clear" commonly refer to "Bourbon and Vodka".
- DirectorLucien Castaing-TaylorVerena ParavelStarsRenée HarteveltIssei SagawaJun SagawaCaniba is a film that reflects on the discomforting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun.
- DirectorNelson Carlo de Los Santos AriasStarsVicente SantosJose CruzYuberbi de la RosaAn Evangelical Christian man attends the funeral services of his father in his hometown, where he has to participate in religious rites that clash with his beliefs and finds himself pressured to take revenge on the murderer.
- DirectorHelga FanderlA quartet of four black-and-white miniatures edited in-camera, Helga Fanderl's Configuration in Black and White captures fleeting moments of visual poetry: glimmers from a canal, snowfall, flowers for Peter Hutton, and birds in flight.
- DirectorSky HopinkaAn incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock.
- DirectorBenjamin CrottyBertrand DezoteuxStarsNancy Lane KaplanFour pieces of fruit find themselves in a tropical theatre of war.
- DirectorXu BingEach of us is captured on surveillance cameras, on average, 300 times a day. These all-seeing 'eyes' observe a young woman named Qing Ting (her name means 'Dragonfly') as she leaves the Buddhist temple where she has been training to be a nun and returns to the secular world, taking a job in a highly mechanized dairy farm. Ke Fan, a technician working on the farm, falls in love with her and breaks the law in an attempt to please her. On his release from jail Ke Fan looks for Qing Ting again, without success - until he comes to think that she has reinvented herself as the online celebrity Xiao Xiao. But Xiao Xiao slips from her pedestal, and Ke Fan resolves to reinvent himself as Qing Ting.
- DirectorBen RussellFilmed between a large-scale underground mine in post-war Serbia and an illegal mining collective in the tropical heat of Suriname, Good Luck is a visceral non-fiction portrait of hope and sacrifice in a time of global economic turmoil.
- DirectorFaraz Anoushah PourParastoo AnoushahpourRyan FerkoA photograph of volcanic rock in Taiwan sparks a divide between languages.
- DirectorBruno DumontStarsLise Leplat PrudhommeJeanne VoisinLucile GauthierFrance, 1425. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young Jeannette, at the still tender age of 8, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy. One day, she tells her friend Hauviette how she cannot bear to see the suffering caused by the English. Madame Gervaise, a nun, tries to reason with the young girl, but Jeannette is ready to take up arms for the salvation of souls and the liberation of the Kingdom of France. Carried by her faith, she will become Joan of Arc.
- DirectorBlake Williams
- DirectorKazik RadwanskiStarsIgor DrljacaNicole FairbairnJasmin GeljoRecent immigrants to Canada, working on scaffolding break the routine of their job by observing the people in the the neighbourhood from a unique, precarious and ephemeral vantage point.
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsAlexandre AugerJean-François BouchardCédric DoyonJean-François, Ronald, Alexis, Cédric, Benoit and Maxim are gladiators of modern times. From the strongman to the top-class bodybuilder, to the veteran who has become a trainer, they all share the same definition and obsession with overcoming their limitations. They are waiting for the next competition, working hard in the gym and following extreme diets.
- DirectorRawane NassifThis is an essay about the search for home in a transient environment. It is a personal journey inwards with an intimate camera that observes and takes its time to look at the buildings and the surroundings only to find its reflections.
- DirectorNarimane MariStarsChronis BarbarianDimitris GaitanisThekla GounaridouRe-enactments, improvisations and interviews with the Inhabitants of Algiers, Kythira Island and Athens.
- DirectorWang BingStarsFang XiuyingSurrounded by the careless family and neighbors, Fang Xiuying is deprived of all intellectual abilities and she slowly dies in a modest room, in some of the villages of South China.
- DirectorNeïl BeloufaStarsAnna IvacheffIdir ChenderPaul HamyThe mood is heated. Demonstrations are taking place across France, also in front of the Paris hotel where an Italian named Giorgio is booking the bridal suite for him and his boyfriend Antonio. Hotel manager Diana doesn't trust them and calls the police to get rid of the odd couple.
- DirectorDan BrowneA look at the passing seasons from the viewpoint of a bay window.
- DirectorDane KomljenMany years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and everything slowly became something else. It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of the disease or a way to escape it. The contagion touched everything and everyone: animals and plants, stones and soil, men, women and children, their thoughts, their dreams, their memories. An old woman once told me how all memories turn into trees, I could hardly make out what she was saying. She said she could hear the trees singing: To be a body, to be any body. After the years of contagion ended, the cities appeared untouched. One had to look hard to see the traces of the previous time. If one could listen to the trees, what would they say? A way out, a way out?
- DirectorDani LeventhalSheilah WilsonStarsDani LeventhalSheilah WilsonSOTD was birthed out of a desire to privilege and amplify the strange and banal quality of daily life, to see what it can yield as an entrance to larger concerns, such as the environment, representation of motherhood, queer desire, the domestic as site of radicality.
- DirectorPedro PinhoStarsJosé Smith VargasCarla GalvãoNjamy SebastiãoOne night, a group of workers discover their factory is being dismantled by the same administration that runs it. Quickly, the labourers organize themselves in order to occupy the plant.