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Toronto International Film Festival · 2024

Toronto International Film Festival 2024

Wavelengths

Programme

6 films

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The Damned (Les Damnes)

Drama about a volunteer troop of soldiers during the American Civil War.

(Year: 2024; Director: Roberto Minervini; Writer: Roberto Minervini)

Grand Tour

The travels of a civil servant after he runs away from his finacee.

(Country: Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, China; Year: 2024; Director: Miguel Gomes; Writer: Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Babu Targino; Stars: Jani Zhao, Gonçalo Waddington, João Pedro Vaz, Teresa Madruga, Manuela Couto, Crista Alfaiate, Lang Khê Tran, Diogo Dória, Cláudio da Silva, Américo Silva, João Pedro Bénard, Jorge Andrade, Joana Bárcia, André Lourido, Giacomo Leone)

Pepe

A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.

(Country: Dominican Republic, Namibia, Germany, France; Year: 2024; Director: Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias; Stars: Jhon Narváez, Sor María Ríos, Fareed Matjila, Harmony Ahalwa, Jorge Puntillón García)

See: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias on experimentation and storytelling in Pepe

Viet and Nam

Nam and Việt are coal miners, working 300 meters below ground, where danger awaits, darkness prevails. Nam doesn’t want his future to continue with coal and hires someone to smuggle him to the western world.

(Year: 2024; Director: Truong Minh Quý)

Youth (Hard Times) (Qing Chun (Ku))

Individual and collective stories unfold in Zhili's textile workshops, becoming more dramatic as the seasons go by. From atop a passageway, workers watch their boss beat up a supplier. In another workshop, the boss has taken off with all the money.

(Country: France, Luxembourg, Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Wang Bing; Writer: Wang Bing)

Youth (Homecoming) (Quin Chun Gui)

Third instalment of a documentary trilogy about young Chinese workers. It follows them over Chinese New Year.

(Country: France, Luxembourg, Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Wang Bing; Writer: Wang Bing)