Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival » Triage

Tonight’s Film: ‘Triage’ With Special Guest Linden MacIntyre

julie — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:00:02 +0000

Journalist and author Linden MacIntyre will introduce tonight’s film, Triage, Danis Tanovic’s latest exploration of how battle alters the human heart.

The film stars Colin Farrell as a war photographer. High in the arid mountains of Kurdistan pursuing a war without borders, Mark (Colin Farrell) and David (Jamie Sives) witness and capture horrendous images, from combatants pulverized by ammunition, to a doctor who works heroically to save the wounded but shoots dead those he knows he can’t help. The friends begin to disagree over whether to stay or flee the chaos. Eventually they separate and lose contact, and Mark must return home to Ireland alone.

Linden MacIntyre is the co-host of The Fifth Estate, CBC Television’s flagship investigative affairs program. He is the winner of nine Gemini Awards for broadcast journalism. His most recent book, The Bishop’s Man, won the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Triage screens at 7 PM at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario. A limited number of tickets are still available. For more information or to order tickets, please call the TIFFG Box Office at 416-968-FILM or toll-free 1-877-968-FILM. Tickets can also be purchased online at tiff.net/cinematheque.

Video: An Interview with ‘Triage’ Director Danis Tanovic and Actors Colin Farrell and Branko Djuric

julie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:04:13 +0000

An interview with Triage director Danis Tanovic and actors Colin Farrell and Branko Djuric conducted during the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.

Triage screens Thursday, February 25th, 7 PM at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, part of the 7th annual Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

Buy your tickets here.

Video: ‘Triage’ Director Danis Tanovic Talks About His Personal Experience of War

julie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:55:57 +0000

Triage director Danis Tanovic talks about his personal experience of war at a post screening press conference during the 4th annual Rome Film Festival. Born in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, he studied music, engineering and film there before war broke out in 1992.

He eventually left Sarajevo to study directing at L’Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion (INSAS) in Brussels. No Man’s Land, his first feature, won the Academy Award® for best foreign-language film in 2002.

Triage screens Thursday, February 25th at 7 PM at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, part of the 7th annual Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

Buy your tickets here.

Video: Actor Christopher Lee Talks About The Nature of War

julie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:45:25 +0000

Actor Christopher Lee at a post screening press conference for Triage. In the film, Lee plays Joaquín Morales, a psychiatrist with a dark past. A much appreciated character actor, Lee has starred in more than 250 films.

In this video, Lee shares his views on the nature of war and recalls his dark memories of WWII. He enlisted in the RAF in 1941 later joining the Rank Organization and going on to appear as a spear carrier in Laurence Olivier’s film version of Hamlet.

Triage screens Thursday, February 25th at 7 PM at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario.

Buy your tickets here

Triage: Program Notes

julie — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:54:09 +0000

“It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.” This quote from Plato shadows the story of Triage, Danis Tanovic’s latest exploration of how battle alters the human heart. But unlike his Academy Award-winning No Man’s Land, this new drama follows not the soldier but the chronicler.

Colin Farrell plays Mark Walsh, a war photographer in the late eighties. High in the arid mountains of Kurdistan pursuing a war without borders, Mark and David (Jamie Sives) witness and capture horrendous images, from combatants pulverized by ammunition, to a doctor who works heroically to save the wounded but shoots dead those he knows he can’t help.

Worse, the friends begin to disagree over whether to stay or flee the chaos. Eventually they separate and lose contact, and Mark must return home to Ireland alone.

Triage is a slow burn, gathering more and more emotional impact as it goes. Working at the centre of this moving character study, Farrell is terrific. But it is Christopher Lee as Walsh’s therapist who is the revelation, giving perhaps his most detailed dramatic performance of a very long career.

Program Notes by Cameron Bailey