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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #19. Arielle Javitch’s Look, Stranger

I’m always keeping tabs on the folk that are featured among Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces. Javitch made the grade this year, and her feature debut employs one of the best European actresses working today in Marinca.

Eric Lavallée

Published on September 7, 2010

#19. Look, Stranger

Director: Arielle Javitch
Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Tom Burke, Valentina Berisa
Distributor: Rights Available.

Buzz: I’m always keeping tabs on the folk that are featured among Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces. Javitch made the grade this year, and her feature debut employs one of the best European actresses working today in Marinca, and Ramin Bahrani’s DP in Michael Simmonds.

The Gist: An elegant, spare and powerful telling of one young woman’s journey through a wartorn landscape in an effort to get back home.

TIFF Schedule: Saturday September 11 7:00:00 PM AMC 9
Monday September 13 9:30:00 PM AMC 7
Saturday September 18 10:00:00 AM AMC 4

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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).