TIFF 2024 Opening Gala: Dogman
Dogman, dir. Luc Besson, France, 2023
Main cast: Caleb Landry Jones, Jojo T. Gibbs, Christopher Denham, Clemens Schick, Grace Palma
Dogman, dir. Luc Besson, France, 2023
Main cast: Caleb Landry Jones, Jojo T. Gibbs, Christopher Denham, Clemens Schick, Grace Palma
Metropolis, dir. Fritz Lang, Germania, 1926
Original music & live interpretation: Edison Studio (IT)
Musicians: Mauro Cardi, Luigi Ceccarelli, Alessandro Cipriani, Vincenzo Core, Andrea Veneri cu vocile artiștilor Anna Clementi, Martin Figura, Eric Moser, Marco Noia și Andreas Otto.
Set in the future, Metropolis is a perfect, super-technologized city where people live happily. But appearances are deceptive. Behind it lies a huge gap between the upper class and the workers who toil endlessly to sustain this world. Is mediation possible between these two social categories? The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Thea von Harbou in 1925. A story imagined 100 years ago is just as relevant today. After a turbulent history, in which the original version seemed lost, Metropolis was digitally restored in 2010.
August 1971. Soccer teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark, and Italy gather at Mexico City for a monumental tournament: crowds of over 100,000 roaring fans attending every match. But this is a tournament unlike anything that’s happened before.
18:30 – Film Screening: Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, dir. Pedro Peira, Spain, 2024, 83’ | Cercul Militar
20:30 – Dinner prepared by Chef Radu Dumitrescu at Da Pino, presented by URSUS
1936, Tokyo. Sada Abe is a former prostitute who now works as a maid in a hotel. The hotel's owner initiates an intense affair that consists of sexual experiments. But as he is more eager to please her, she becomes increasingly possessive and jealous of him.
1972. Ilie Năstase wins his first US Open, while reaching both the Wimbledon and Davis Cup finals, and enters tennis history. Nasty explores his highs and lows, the controversies that surrounded him and the enduring impact he has had on the world of tennis.
18:30 - Film Screening: A Chef for Dalí, dir. David Pujol, Spain, 114’ | Cercul Militar
20:30 - Dinner prepared by Chef Florin Dumitrescu at Da Pino, presented by LIDL
Cheerily amoral Hassan is willing to try almost anything to escape his financially challenged, dead-end life as a security guard in Egypt and head to Europe.
A Page of Madness, dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japonia, 1926
Original music & live interpretation: Irina-Margareta Nistor & CelloFun
Garden Party at the Castle
Tuesday, June 18, 6:00 PM
Bánffy Castle in Răscruci
18:30 - Film Screening: Sugar and Stars, dir. Sèbastien Tulard, France, 110’ | Cercul Militar
20:30 - Dinner prepared by Chef Paul Oppenkamp at Da Pino, presented by Nespresso
In 1755, the impoverished captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal: to build a colony in the name of the King. In exchange, he’ll receive a desperately desired Royal name for himself.
Dracula’s Death / Moartea lui Dracula, r. Károly Lajthay, Austria, 1921
Luís Villas Boas, the Last Trip, r. Laurent Filipe, 2023, Portugalia
1794. General Tadeusz 'Kos' Kosciuszko returns to Poland, planning to start an uprising against the Russians by mobilizing the Polish nobility and peasants. A ruthless Russian captain, Dunin, plans to capture the general at all costs before he causes a national rebellion.
City Without Jews / Orașul fără evrei, r. Hans Karl Breslauer, Austria, 1924
Original Music and Live Performance: Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin
17-year-old Adi is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street and the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.
The Stolen Jewels (1909)
The Cord of Life (1909)
The Voice of the Violin (1909)
The Englishman and the Girl (1909)
Original Music and Live Performance: Donald Sosin & Joanna Seaton
Moromeții 3 continues the story of Niculae, Moromete's youngest son, who in the 1950s becomes a young, well-regarded writer living his life and complicated love stories in a charged atmosphere, tainted by suspicion.
Two teenage brothers take a road trip to the border between Mexico and the US to track down the man responsible for the car accident that caused their father’s death.
On a rainy night aboard a moving train, a chance encounter with a rat sets off a chain of events that entwines the fates of a 32-year-old ordinary man and an 8,000 year old immortal man. As the ordinary man grapples with survival, the immortal man seeks to heal centuries-old wounds.
One out of 19 million – the odds of being hit by a meteorite far exceed those of winning the lottery.