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.
Director Lixin Fan will be a special guest at tonight’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival Opening Night Gala.
Lixin will introduce his award-winning film, Last Train Home, and participate in a Q&A session with Human Rights Watch Media Director, Minky Worden. Last Train Home tells the story of one family trying to navigate the transit snafu that befalls China every February during Lunar New Year — the largest human migration on Earth. In doing so, it explores the human cost of China’s large-scale urbanization and entrance into the global marketplace. Last Train Home won the award for best documentary at last year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Last Train Home screens at 6:30 PM at The Isabel Bader Theatre and will be followed by a reception at McKinsey & Co. for those holding gala tickets.
Tickets for the screening are still available. 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 or in person at the theatre (tonight only).
Lixin Fan worked as a producer/journalist at China’s state broadcaster CCTV before he became a filmmaker and moved to Montreal, Canada. Born and raised in the period of China’s integration into the world, Lixin had engaged himself in social political filmmaking to document and interpret the vast changes took place in a time of changes. Lixin worked as associate producer on the acclaimed feature documentary, Up the Yangtze, a best Canadian documentary film at TIFF in 2007, a finalist at IDFA and Sundance 2007. In 2003, Lixin edited the Peabody and Grierson award-wining documentary To Live Is Better Than To Die. The film, recognized as one of the most shocking documentary on the topic, reveals China’s AIDS epidemic and was featured at The Sundance Film Festival and broadcast on BBC, CBC and PBS.
Lixin Fan recently spoke to The Globe & Mail, Metro News and The National Post in advance of tonight’s screening. Last Train Home opens theatrically in select theatres across Canada on Friday. You can also listen to an audio interview with Lixin Fan on Pop88 podcast.
Student tickets for the Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival are on sale for $5 at campus locations across the GTA.
For last minute orders, please e-mail any of the following student reps:
Humber College – Amy Rynsoever or Vanessa Richards – hrw.humbertickets@gmail.com
Ryerson Univerity – Jessica Holmes or Sachin Seth – humanrights@arts.ryerson.ca
University of Toronto — Jessika Berns – jessika.berns@utoronto.ca
York University – Amira Mohamed or Emile Wickham — filmfestivalyork@hotmail.com
The festival opens tomorrow evening with Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home.
Tickets are still available for the 6:30 screening at the Isabel Bader Theatre. 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 or in person at the theatre (night of show only).
A lengthy radio interview with director Lisa F. Jackson, director of The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, for Talking Stick TV. Jackson discusses her own gang rape as a young woman living in Washington, DC. and how that influenced her relationships with the many women interviewed for the film.
Jackson was able to interview not only the victims of this silent war but also the perpetrators. Many of the problems began after the Rwandan civil war when Hutu militia crossed the border. It has since become a strategy of war. This is compounded by a culture of impunity where most of the rapes go unpunished. The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo screens Tuesday, March 2nd, 9 PM at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, part of the 7th annual Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Buy your tickets to The Greatest Silence.
An excerpt from Lisa F. Jackson’s documentary film, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, in which Congolese soldiers talk about the tribal motivations behind the systematic rape of female civilians in the Eastern Congo. For many, rape is a powerful magic, which makes them stronger in battle. Several of the soldiers confessed to raping more than 10 women but concluded that their actions were far less serious than those of Hutu militia living in the forests. The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo screens Tuesday, March 2nd, 9 PM at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, part of the 7th annual Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Buy your tickets to The Greatest Silence.
