Film Festivals

2018 PYIFF Dailies: Borders & Boundaries in Seigner’s Los Silencios & Xue’s The Crossing | Day 9

Published on October 19, 2018

These days, the notion of borders is commonly associated to building walls and keeping what some deem as social ills at arm’s length. In my screen pairing of the day in Beatriz Seigner‘s Los Silencios and festival award winner Bae Xue‘s The Crossing, one gets the sense that borders are about clutching onto positive streams of acute consciousness, keeping its inhabitants in a cloak like protective layering that and spaces that are boundaryless.

The pictures below represent what happens when you walk into a restaurant to discover a courtyard or you walk into a shop with no consumerist wants or needs. You’ll also find odds and ends videos of the last couple of days.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).