a family torn between tenderness and violence. Wavelengths Scotiabank 8
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(Chile-US) 117mins. Funny Balloons (Int). Dir: Pablo Larrain. Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal. A drama about a young ad exec in Chile in 1988 who is recruited to craft the political opposition’s publicity campaign when the rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet is put to a national plebiscite. Special Presentation Scotiabank 3
OUT IN THE DARK (Israel-US) 96mins. m-appeal (Int). Dir: Michael Mayer. Cast: Michael Aloni, Nicholas Jacob. Two young men — a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer — meet and fall in love. Discovery Scotiabank 11
11:45
IMAGINE (Poland-France-Portugal) 105mins. Dir: Andrzej Jakimowski. Cast: Alexandra Maria Lara, Edward Hogg. A young blind man who can psychically envision the landscape through which he walks takes a blind woman into the beautiful, and perilous, streets of Lisbon. Contemporary World Cinema Scotiabank 6
LONDON —THE MODERN BABYLON (UK) 128mins. Ealing Metro International (Int). Dir: Julien Temple. A documentary about the past century of London’s tumultuous history. TIFF Docs Scotiabank 2
MEKONG HOTEL (preceded by BigIn Vietnam, 27 mins) (Thailand-UK- France) 57mins. The Match Factory (Int). Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Cast: Apichatpong
Weerasethakul, Chai Bhatana, Chatchai Suban. The new film from Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul is at once a soothing lullaby, a film à clef, fragments from an unrealised project, and an experiment in collaboration. Wavelengths Scotiabank 9
12:00
A FEWHOURS OF SPRING (France) 109mins. Rezo (Int). Dir: Stéphane Brizé. Cast: Emmanuelle Seigner, Hélene Vincent, Vincent Lindon. A drama about a man faced with a painful decision when his ill mother determines she wants to die with dignity. Special Presentation Scotiabank 10
ERNEST & CELESTINE (France-Belgium- Luxembourg) 80mins. StudioCanal (Int). Dir: Benjamin Renner, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar. Cast: Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner. A reclusive bear musician forges an unlikely friendship with a young orphaned mouse in this animated film. TIFF Kids TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE (US) 119mins. PBS International (Int). Dirs: David McMahon, Ken Burns, Sarah Burns. A documentary exploring the ‘Central Park jogger’ case, detailing how five black and Latino teenagers were convicted of a crime they did not commit. TIFF Docs Scotiabank 4
THE WE AND THE I (US) 103mins. William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (WME) (US). Kinology (Int). Dir: Michel Gondry. Cast: Alex Barrios, Jonathan Ortiz, Jonathan Worrell, Laidychen Carrasco, Michael Brodie. A group of teenagers on a Bronx bus head towards an uncertain future in this
rollicking new film from Michel Gondry. Vanguard TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
12:15
REINCARNATED (US) 98mins. Paradigm (US). Dir: Andy Capper. Cast: Snoop Dogg . This documentary portrait follows rapper Snoop Dogg on a trip to Jamaica. TIFF Docs Scotiabank 1
WHEN NIGHT FALLS (South Korea-China) 70mins. Jeonju International Film Festival (Int). Dir: Ying Liang. Cast: Kate Wen, Nai An, Sun Ming. Inspired by the case of a young man’s 2008 murder of six Shanghai police officers, When Night Falls focuses on the killer’s mother, as she struggles to comprehend her son’s act. Wavelengths Scotiabank 5
12:30
THE WAR OF THE VOLCANOES: BERGMAN AND MAGNANI (preceded by Rossellini’s Stromboli, 107 mins) (US) 52mins. Wide (Int). Dir: Francesco Patierno. The Aeolian Islands become the centre of the world when competing productions arrive to shoot Robert Rossellini’s Stromboli alongside William Dieterle’s Vulcano. Combined P&I and public TIFF Cinematheque TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
FAR OUT ISN’T FAR ENOUGH: THE TOMI UNGERER STORY (US) 98mins. Le Pacte (Int). Dir: Brad Bernstein. Cast: Jules Feiffer, Maurice Sendak, Michael Patrick Hearn, Tomi Ungerer. Follows the career of the artist Tomi Ungerer, who had stints as a children’s author, an illustrator of 1960s protest posters, and a creator of erotica until he was shunned by the US publishing industry. TIFF Docs TIFF Bell Lightbox 5
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