TORONTO Accustomed each year to display their finery to welcome countless pictures and film from the five continents, this city goes live from today and during the next ten days an even stronger and intense film festival.
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF 2015) celebrates four decades. And what has been used especially to first look at the titles that will star in the upcoming awards season that culminates with the Oscar this time increases its size and scope for the round celebration of these 40 years.
In addition to a series of events in the streets and a string of 40 major free screenings of many other classics, the organizers thought of adding a double novelty in programming, which this year includes 399 films from 71 countries. Of these, 289 are feature films, 132 world premiere in character.
This innovation includes Argentine cinema, which each year has a very strong presence, as Toronto managed to stand out in the calendar of major international festivals to function as a window through which the world cinema disclosed. No more conducive than this one, outside Europe, that the titles with the greatest potential to achieve their international sales place. This is expected to occur with The clan , Pablo Trapero, one of 12 films chosen to integrate brand new section Platform, which opens in the history of TIFF, a festival characterized by the non-competition, time competitive sections. “Toronto was born as a space marked by its non-competitive, unlike Cannes, for example, where the official section and search for the Palme d’Or is more important.
” But when we think Platform we think of keeping the identity of our festival. There are 12 films that will emerge a winner, but above all we believe that space offers an opportunity to present the most influential and personal voices of the current filmmaking, “says Cameron Bailey, TIFF’s artistic director.
“From everything we’ve seen around the world chose 12 representative titles of this vision, which distinguishes its directors and brand differences in mobilizing the public, critics and distributors. The clan is one of them and Pablo Trapero, one of the most fascinating writers of today. It represents very well the identity of this section, “Bailey added.
According to the artistic director of TIFF, the film is a great contribution to the political debate in a stage of Argentina, but also” has the virtue of being immediately understood by any audience in the world. “The award Platform ($ 25,000) will be announced at the closing day, Sunday 20, the jury comprising directors Agnieszka Holland, Claire Denis and Jia Zhang-Ke .
The other novelty is Primetime, dedicated to television productions which will have its world premiere Chrome, and Nicolas de Lucía Puenzo, an erotic thriller about the life of a group of scientists faced several attacks on the environment while working in northern Argentina.
The program of Argentine cinema that will be here, it is also highly anticipated world premiere of Eva does not sleep, Pablo Agüero, on the erratic path of the body Eva Peron, with an international cast led by Gael García Bernal, Denis Lavant, Imanol Arias, Daniel Fanego and Ailín Salas. The world premiere will also incident light, of Ariel Rotter, with Erica Rivas. Argentina’s presence in Toronto, with a total of nine titles, complete with several co-productions: Truman, Cesc Gay, with Ricardo Darin and Dolores Fonzi (with Spain); Magellan Magellan Salvador (with Peru, Colombia and Spain), and the embrace of the snake, Ciro Guerra (with Colombia and Venezuela), by the documentary Our Last Tango, Germán Kral, and short magnetic being, Matthew Bendesky.
Toronto is enhanced by the presence of many of the titles that aim to find a place in the world of awards each year starts with this show. So once again there will be a parade of stars and glittering names. Since today is expected, among others, Johnny Depp, Jessica Chastain, Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hardy, Jesse Eisenberg, Ryan Reynolds, Steve Martin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts and Drew Barrymore.
The opening film will be Demolition, Canadian Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club, wild Alma), and the program for galas and special presentations also includes Rescue Mission (The Martian) Ridley Scott; The Program, Stephen Frears; Remember, Atom Egoyan; Stonewall, Roland Emmerich; The Club, by Pablo Larrain; Desert, Jonas Cuarón; The Lady in the Van, Nicholas Hytyner; Office, Johnnie To; Sicario, Denis Villeneuve; Trumbo, Jay Roach; A plus une, Claude Lelouch; . Youth, Paolo Sorrentino, and Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore
No shortage of some favorites of the Festival of Venice: Criminal Pact, Scott Cooper; The Danish Girl, by Tom Hooper, and Spotlight on Tom McCarthy, as well as an extensive program of films devoted to music, including the premiere of Under the Influence, the result of conversations with Keith Richards stands, whose presence is awaited in Toronto from today. .
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