TIFF 2023: Film fest lineup to include films of Wang Bing, Chantal Akerman, Jean-Luc Godard
The HinduThe Toronto Film Festival’s Wavelengths program for artist-driven experimental work has been unveiled. As far as documentaries are concerned, the TIFF section selected Youth from Wang Bing, Miko Revereza’s Nowhere Near, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts, and Paul B. Preciado’s Orlando, My Political Biography. The program also has a restored selection of the late Chantal Akerman’s Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera, Jean-Luc Godard’s last film, Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars; and Pedro Costa’s Daughters of Fire. Apart from this the selection also includes a Classic Lineup featuring 4K uncut restoration of Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine, Brigitte Berman’s Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got, Jacques Rivette’s L’amour fou, a 50th-anniversary screening of Sengalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Boukic and Ousmane Sembène’s Xala. The Toronto Film Festival, set to run Sept. 7 to 17, will open its 2023 edition with Japanese anime legend Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, The Boy and the Heron.