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Interview: Ruben Ostlund (Play)
With the Un Certain Regard selected Involuntary, Swedish helmer Ruben Östlund examined the conflict of the individual within a group, three years later with...
Video Interview: Joachim Trier (Oslo, 31. august)
A stylistic departure from his breakout international debut film Reprise, Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st is a mature sophomore effort knee deep in the search for the meaning and purpose of life in contemporary Norway.
Video Interview: Ruben Östlund (Play)
...three years later with the Directors' Fortnight selected Play, a newspaper headline-grabbing true story that took place in Sweden a couple of years back, he details the conflict between groups via a demo of the population who often must fiend for themselves the best way they know how and under minimal, but not totally absent supervision.
25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Sebastián Lelio’s The Year of the Tiger
One more standout item from the Vanguard programme offerings is this low budget Chilean film that garnered favorable reviews (Variety, THR and IndieWIRE) but went home empty handed at this year's Locarno Film Festival. Sebastián Lelio's third feature film (following his Cannes selected Navidad in 2009) puts a damaged landscape from Chile's deadly 2010 quake to extremely good use.
