This canadian film festival started 45 years ago under the proud name “Festival of festivals”. Young creative team intended it to be a collection of all the best that showed for the year of the world film forums. However, she did not forget to respond to major world events. So, in 1988, in the midst of perestroika in the Soviet Union and the associated expectations, he staged an unprecedented scale retrospective of Soviet films from new releases to movie archives, from classic to cinematic experiments. And since then there was the year when TIFF would not show a couple of movies of the fast-changing Russia.
it Seems that dramatic 2020 will be the first. The conditions of the pandemic forced the festival to dramatically cut their programs when it shows more than 300 films from around the world, but now their numbers are shrunken to 50. It was previously announced that state festival has been significantly reduced and the format changed – it combines a “live” screening of films with a demonstration online. And for the first years in the program there are no tapes from Russia. Although there is one from the former Soviet Union – Georgian film “the Beginning” DEA Kulumbegashvili, filmed in co-production with France.
But carefully observed parity gender and skin color of the authors. Observed gender balance in the leadership of the festival: at the head of his now politically correct tandem of Cameron Bailey and joana Vicente. “We started preparing this year’s festival in normal mode, as always before, – says artistic Director Cameron Bailey. But in the process was forced to rethink everything. And structure of the program reflects the excitement”.
“TIFF-2020 – a very special festival, it symbolizes the possibilities when the focus collaboration, creativity, and enthusiasm – echoes joana Vicente, Executive Director. – It is time to reaffirm some of the fundamental values of TIFF: to show films that Express the diversity of voices and forces that drive society forward.”
the Result of these thought leaders festival in Toronto – a strong representation from women, blacks, indigenous peoples and people of all colors and skin tones. Among the known names in the program noticed by the Dane Thomas Vinterberg’s movie “one More”, Chinese Jing Wang and drama “the best is yet to come”, African American spike Lee with the social drama “American utopia,” a white American Viggo Mortensen movie “the Fall”, the Frenchman Francois Ozon (“Summer of 85”), the Japanese Naomi Kawase (“Real mothers”), Hindu Mira Nair (“a Suitable groom”).
the Festival will be held in Toronto from September 5 to 15.
