TIFF08: My Russian Film List: Smaller, Thinner and Lighter

tiff08: smaller, thinner and lighter
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tiff08: smaller, thinner and lighter

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is a cinema fête of filmmakers and moviegoers, motion pictures and stars, cars and bars, cell phones and ipods, etcetera; so it's something for everyone.

I have 8 movies in My Film List (compare with last year):

The Ghost
Domovoy, triller
director: Karen Oganesyan
country: Russia
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Contemporary World Cinema


Country Wedding
Sveitabrúðkaup
director: Valdís Óskarsdóttir, directorial debut
country: Iceland
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Contemporary World Cinema


White Night Wedding
Brúðguminn, "...updates and modernizes Anton Chekhov's "Ivanov" and transplants it to Flatey, a remote island off Iceland's north shore."
director: Baltasar Kormákur
country: Iceland
year: 2008
tiff's program: Contemporary World Cinema

Tulpan
Dreaming of a nomadic wedding in the Hunger Steppe
director: Sergey Dvortsevoy
country: Germany / Switzerland / Kazakhstan / Russia / Poland
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Discovery


Medicine for Melancholy
"A Medicine for Melancholy was originally a collection of science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury. The colossal differences and quaint similarities between our two tales can be explored..."
- strikeanywherefilms.com
director: Barry Jenkins
country: USA
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Discovery
tiff tags: First Time Feature, Romance, Identity
The screening was preceded by the short:
Jesus and the Giant
director: Akin Omotoso
country: South Africa
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Discovery

New York, I Love You
Brighton Beach, Brodsky, Dostoevsky, Tchaikovsky are essential parts of this NYC's love stories.
"NEW YORK is a dozen foreign cities, so far as its alien population is concerned. It is already known as one of the largest German, the largest Italian, the largest Russian, cities in the world."
- NYT, June 7, 1908
director: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randy Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Scarlett Johansson, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Jiang Wen, Andrey Zvyagintsev
country: USA
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Special Presentations


The Sky Crawlers
“You can change the side of the road that you walk down every day. Even if the road is the same, you can still see new things. Isn't that enough to live for?”
– Yuichi Kannami in The Sky Crawlers
director: Mamoru Oshii
country: Japan
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Visions
tiff's tags: Animation, Literary Adaptation, Science Fiction

Native Dancer
Baksy
Co-written and produced by the great Russian director Sergei Bodrov.
director: Guka Omarova
country: Kazakhstan/Russia/France/ Germany
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Contemporary World Cinema


tiff07 blogs:
Girish Shambu's Blog TIFF 2008 Film-List
MySpace Daniel Clark's Blog: Toronto Film Festival
prospere-magazine.com: Interview with a TIFF Volunteer
artjunction's tiff posts
TIFF07: My Russian Film List
TIFF06: My Russian Film List
TIFF05: From TIFF to MIFF using SWA

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