TIFF are also getting in on Hana Makhmalbaf’s Green Days. After the title was added as a last minute addition to the Venice Film Festival, the politically-driven, very much relevant half doc/have fiction account of women in Iran has been added to TIFF’s Vanguard lineup. The story is about an Iranian playwright who suffers a creative crisis as her country convulses on the eve of this year’s election. Features never before seen footage shot on the streets of Tehran. Maybe Hana should stay in Canada for a little while, check out the sights, Rockies, Niagara Falls and not be in a rush to return home.
The other title to make the last boarding call, might be a major coup for the festival – in Tian Zhuangzhuang’s The Warrior and the Wolf. Based on the Inoue Yasushi novel, the disillusioned general of an ancient Chinese army regiment finds himself stranded in a village populated by a strange clan with mystical connections to wolves. The make grown men cry starlet Maggie Q stars in The Warrior and the Wolf which is added to the Special Presentation section. Our schedule is not yet complete, so I’ll most likely be covering both films.
