The POV #TIFF18 Hub
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Features and Interviews
- Can You Handle the Truth? – Marc Glassman
-Previewing TIFF’s doc line-up
- The Best of Times – MG
-POV Editor Marc Glassman picks four highlights from this year’s fest.
- Andréa Picard’s Wavelengths Brings the Bleeding Edge of Film Aesthetics to Toronto – Tyler Prozeniuk
-An interview with TIFF Wavelengths curator Andréa Picard highlights some of the best films you can’t see anywhere else.
- “Populism: Documenting the Controversial Movement” – Daniel Glassman
-Astra Taylor’s TIFF doc What is Democracy? is one of several new films tackling the current political climate. (Pick up a copy of POV #109 to read. Subscribe or order your single copy today!)
- “The Epoch Films of the Anthropocene” – Michael John Long
-TIFF docs Sharkwater Extinction and Anthropocene are two films that tackle the new age of human-made destruction on the environment. (Pick up a copy of POV #109 to read. Subscribe or order your single copy today!)
- Short Circuit – Pat Mullen
-TIFF shorts Norman Norman by Sophy Romvari and Veslemøy’s Song by Sofia Bohdanowicz join Jamie Miller’s Hot Docs champ Prince’s Tale in ushering in a new generation of filmmakers.
- Sites of Memory: Igor Drljača’s The Stone Speakers – PM
-Drljača discusses his new film about tourist sites in Bosnia and the contradictions of national myth-making.
- Who is Astra Taylor? – Susan G. Cole
-Profiling the director of What is Democracy?
- TIFF Talk: Sine Plambech and Janus Metz on Heartbound – PM
-The directors discuss their powerful film that examines the borders of love in the age of globalization.
- Searching for Margarethe von Trotta – Maya Gallus
-A talk with the director of Searching for Ingmar Bergman.
- Has Everything Changed? – MY
-A filmmaker reflects on This Changes Everything.
- Anthropocene’s Three Filmmakers and Ecological Disaster – SC
-A chat with Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nick de Pencier
- Destroyer Dominated TIFF’s Platform Competition, But Where Were the Docs? – PM
-Reporting on TIFF’s fourth annual competitive line-up, which featured a career best performance by Nicole Kidman but an absence of documentaries for the third year in a row.
- TIFF Talk: Christo and Andrey Paounov on Walking on Water – PM
-Legendary artist Christo made a comeback with 2016’s The Floating Piers. Paounov’s film captures the artist’s process unlike any other doc has before.
- Mira Nair: Queen of Social Realism – MY
-Nair, who served on TIFF’s Platform jury, reflects on her career and early roots in documentary.
- TIFF 2018 Doc Conference – Maurie Alioff
-A report from TIFF’s big industry day featuring Werner Herzog, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, and more on documentary.
In Review – Documentaries
- American Dharma – DG
- Angels Are Made of Light – PM
- Anthropocene: The Human Epoch – PM
- The Biggest Little Farm – PM
- Carmine Street Guitars – PM
- Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes – Liam Lacey
- The Elephant Queen – Chelsea Phillips-Carr
- Fahrenheit 11/9 – PM
- Free Solo – PM
- Ghost Fleet – LL
- Graves without a Name – DG
- Heartbound – PM
- The Image Book – DG
- Maiden – LL
- Maria by Callas – PM
- Meeting Gorbachev – PM
- Screwball – PM
- Searching for Ingmar Bergman – PM
- Sharkwater Extinction – PM
- The Short Docs of TIFF ’18 – CPC
- The Trial – DG
- The Truth About Killer Robots – CPC
- Walking on Water – PM
- What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire? – DG
- When Arabs Danced – PM
In Review – Dramas
- Birds of Passage – PM
- Capernaum – PM
- The Death and Life of John F. Donovan – PM
- Diamantio – DG
- Donbass – DG
- _An Elephant Sitting Still – DG
- Fausto – DG
- Les Salopes or the Wanton Pleasure of Skin – PM
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night – DG
- Ray & Liz – DG
On the Blog
- Free Solo Wins People’s Choice Award for Documentary
- Watch the Anthopocene Q&A from TIFF!
- Photos from the Sharkwater Extinction premiere
- Photos from the Fahrenheit 11/9 premiere
- Before Seeing Walking on Water at TIFF, Revisit the Maysles Classic Christo’s Valley Curtain
TIFF runs Sept. 6-16. Visit TIFF.net for more information on this year’s festival.