The POV #TIFF18 Hub

Posted on September 9th, 2018 • Comments

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.