And now we can officially state that the TIFF selections are now complete with the Wavelengths programme being unveiled. A mix of Berlin, Cannes and a good chunk of Locarno titles make up the almost dozen choices here with (almost exclusively North American Premieres) with award winners in Paul B. Preciado‘s Orlando, My Political Biography, Phạm Thiên An‘s Camera d’Or winner Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell with a quartet from Locarno in Radu Jude‘s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Bas Devos‘ Here, Eduardo Williams‘ The Human Surge 3 and Denis Côté‘s Mademoiselle Kenopsia. Here is the complete press release which also includes the Classics and Wavelength items in the short form.
2023 Wavelengths programme:
WAVELENGTHS FEATURES
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Radu Jude | North American Premiere Here Bas Devos | Belgium North American Premiere The Human Surge 3 Eduardo Williams | North American Premiere Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell Phạm Thiên An | Vietnam/Singapore/France/Spain North American Premiere Mademoiselle Kenopsia Denis Côté | Canada North American Premiere Mambar Pierrette Rosine Mbakam | Belgium/Cameroon North American Premiere Music Angela Schanelec | Germany/France/Serbia North American Premiere / Luminaries Nowhere Near Miko Revereza | Philippines North American Premiere Orlando, My Political Biography Paul B. Preciado | France Canadian Premiere Pictures of Ghosts Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil North American Premiere Youth (Spring)Wang Bing | France/Luxembourg/Netherlands North American Premiere Luminaries
WAVELENGTHS PAIRINGS
He Thought He Died Isiah Medina | Canada
World Premiere
preceded by
Laberint Sequences Blake Williams | Canada
North American Premiere
WAVELENGTHS SHORTS
Wavelengths 1: Quiet as It’s Kept
Borrowing its title from Ja’Tovia Gary’s latest film, this programme invites and encourages alternate modes of seeing ― through queer abstraction, repurposed fragments, and imagined memories ― as well as new forms of listening: to others, to ourselves, and to the natural world.
Bouquets 31-40 Rose Lowder | France
Canadian Premiere
Film Sculpture (1) Philipp Fleischmann | Austria
World Premiere
Film Sculpture (2) Philipp Fleischmann | Austria
World Premiere
Film Sculpture (4) Philipp Fleischmann | Austria
World Premiere
Film Sculpture (3) Philipp Fleischmann | Austria
World Premiere
It follows It passes on Erica Sheu | Taiwan/USA
World Premiere
Mast-del Maryam Tafakory | United Kingdom/Iran
North American Premiere
Shrooms Jorge Jácome | Portugal
World Premiere
Quiet as It’s Kept Ja’Tovia Gary | USA
International Premiere
Wavelengths 2: Sundown
With sensory delights, overloads, and mysteries, this programme probes the hallucinatory underpinnings of the world around us and its layered, incongruous temporalities.
Let’s Talk Simon Liu | Hong Kong
World Premiere
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke Tomonari Nishikawa | Japan
World Premiere
NYC RGB Viktoria Schmid | Austria/USA
Canadian Premiere
Slow Shift Shambhavi Kaul | India/USA
World Premiere
Sundown Steve Reinke | USA/Canada/Austria
World Premiere
We Don’t Talk Like We Used To Joshua Gen Solondz | USA/Japan/Hong Kong
World Premiere
Wavelengths 3: Outlines – Akerman/Costa/Godard
Bookended by a recently discovered and restored suite of Chantal Akerman’s first cinema forays and the legendary Jean-Luc Godard’s final testament, alongside the latest mesmerizing film by Pedro Costa, this special programme pays tribute to a trio of iconic artists and their intoxicating, enticing approach to sketches and outlines as a means of expression.
Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera Chantal Akerman | Belgium
North American Premiere
The Daughters of Fire Pedro Costa | Portugal
North American Premiere
Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars Jean-Luc Godard | France/Switzerland
North American Premiere
2023 Classics programme:
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got Brigitte Berman | Canada
Farewell My Concubine Chen Kaige | China/Hong Kong
L’amour fou Jacques Rivette | France
Touki Bouki Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal
Xala Ousmane Sembène | Senegal
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).
