TIFF 2017: Wavelengths
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1. (100ft) (2017)
3 min | Short
Minjung 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.
Director: Min-Jung Kim
2. Aliens (2017)
23 min | Short
A 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.
Director: Luis López Carrasco | Star: Tesa Arranz
Votes: 24
3. Al di là dell'uno (2017)
53 min
An essayistic exploration of love's various guises, considering different attempts at courtship, living together, and sustaining connections with people once they have died.
Director: Anna Marziano
Votes: 12
4. Brown and Clear (2017)
G | 8 min | Short
A 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".
Director: Kevin Jerome Everson | Star: William Wanky Everson
5. Caniba (2017)
Unrated | 92 min | Documentary
Caniba 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.
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel | Stars: Renée Hartevelt, Issei Sagawa, Jun Sagawa
Votes: 613
6. Cocote (2017)
TV-14 | 106 min | Drama
An 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.
Director: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias | Stars: Vicente Santos, Jose Cruz, Yuberbi de la Rosa, José Miguel Fernández
Votes: 376
7. Konfiguration schwarz und weiss (2017)
9 min | Short
A 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.
Director: Helga Fanderl
8. Dislocation Blues (2017)
17 min | Documentary, Short
An incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock.
Director: Sky Hopinka
Votes: 87
9. Division Movement to Vungtau (2017)
4 min | Short
Four pieces of fruit find themselves in a tropical theatre of war.
Directors: Benjamin Crotty, Bertrand Dezoteux | Star: Nancy Lane Kaplan
10. Dragonfly Eyes (2017)
81 min | Documentary, Mystery
Each 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Xu Bing
Votes: 207
11. Good Luck (2017)
143 min | Documentary
Filmed 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.
Director: Ben Russell
Votes: 112
12. Heart of a Mountain (2017)
15 min | Short
A photograph of volcanic rock in Taiwan sparks a divide between languages.
Directors: Faraz Anoushah Pour, Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko
13. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017)
TV-PG | 105 min | Drama, History, Musical
France, 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... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Jeanne Voisin, Lucile Gauthier, Victoria Lefebvre
Votes: 1,172
15. Scaffold (2017)
15 min | Short
Recent 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.
Director: Kazik Radwanski | Stars: Igor Drljaca, Nicole Fairbairn, Jasmin Geljo
Votes: 32
16. A Skin So Soft (2017)
93 min | Documentary, Sport
Jean-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 ... See full summary »
Director: Denis Côté | Stars: Alexandre Auger, Jean-François Bouchard, Cédric Doyon, Benoit Lapierre
Votes: 288
17. Turtles Are Always Home (2016)
12 min | Documentary, Short
This 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.
Director: Rawane Nassif
Votes: 22
18. Le fort des fous (2017)
Not Rated | 150 min | Documentary
Re-enactments, improvisations and interviews with the Inhabitants of Algiers, Kythira Island and Athens.
Director: Narimane Mari | Stars: Chronis Barbarian, Dimitris Gaitanis, Thekla Gounaridou, Michel Haas
Votes: 53
19. Mrs. Fang (2017)
86 min | Documentary
Surrounded 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.
Director: Wang Bing | Star: Fang Xiuying
Votes: 318
20. Occidental (2017)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Neïl Beloufa | Stars: Anna Ivacheff, Idir Chender, Paul Hamy, Louise Orry-Diquéro
Votes: 256
21. Palmerston Blvd. (2017)
14 min | Short
A look at the passing seasons from the viewpoint of a bay window.
Director: Dan Browne
Votes: 5
22. Fantasy Sentences (2017)
17 min | Short
Many 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Dane Komljen
Votes: 87
23. Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (2017)
26 min | Short, Drama
SOTD 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, ... See full summary »
Directors: Dani Leventhal, Sheilah Wilson | Stars: Dani Leventhal, Sheilah Wilson
Votes: 8
24. The Nothing Factory (2017)
Not Rated | 177 min | Drama, Musical
One 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.
Director: Pedro Pinho | Stars: José Smith Vargas, Carla Galvão, Njamy Sebastião, Joaquim Bichana Martins
Votes: 917
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