Podcasts
Podcast: Lynden Barber's Top Picks - 1st Week
Festival Artistic Director Lynden Barber recommends some of his favourites screening in the first week of the Festival: Police Beat, Winter Soldier, Five Days in September and House of Sand.
Winter Soldier: a rediscovered documentary gem about Vietnam
Vietnam veterans detail war atrocities they witnessed or committed in this devastating 1972 documentary, barely seen until now.
'I always thought this was the most important film we had about this country's tragic involvement in Vietnam, and I still do.' -Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
FINAL SCREENING TUESDAY: Dendy Opera Quays, 8.45pm
Police Beat: cutting edge cinema at its best
A visually striking and hauntingly unique US indie in which a Seattle cop recently arrived from Senegal struggles to understand US society.
SCREENS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
House of Sand: new Brazilian landscapes
A strikingly original and visually stunning epic spanning six decades set amid the dunes of coastal Northern Brazil. Stars Oscar nominee Fernanda Montenegro.
'I thought at first that this was going to be one of those "difficult" films but you ended up being carried along by the story line in the same way that the characters were carried along by the relatively strange environment in which they were in. It was therefore interesting to see some cinema from Brazil set in a very unique landscape ...' - Quote from our online Festival Discussion.
FINAL SCREENING THURSDAY
Five Days in September: the survival of an orchestra + Q&A with director
A must-see for orchestral music lovers, a behind-the-scenes look at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as it makes a last bid to survive. Features Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax.
Director Barbara Willis Sweete will introduce the film and take questions afterwards.
SCREENS FRIDAY + SATURDAY
