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.
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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.
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
Screening Thursday, February 26th, 9 PM, at Jackman Hall, Snijeg (Snow), director Aida Begic’s touching story about several women and children in a Bosnian village trying to survive on their own in the wake of the conflict that ripped Yugoslavia apart.
Guest speaker for the evening will be Carol Off, Host of CBC’s “As it Happens.”
“The grand prize winner of the International Critics Week at Cannes. . . . Humanely wrought and sensitively rendered by Begic and her excellent cast, Snow is a work of rare modesty and poignancy” (Jason Anderson, eye Weekly).
It is 1997, two short years after the end of the bitter internecine conflict that ripped apart Yugoslavia. We find ourselves in the eastern Bosnian village of Slavno, where the survivors of the conflict are struggling to reassemble their lives. The village is populated almost entirely by women and children, either orphans or fatherless. All of them struggle to get by, pushing carts up the local hills to the highway in vain attempts to sell goods and make some money. Everything changes when a couple of men, Serbs, turn up and offer to buy their various properties to develop into hotels and a resort.
Aida Begic’s extraordinary and penetrating study of this post-war society resonates on many levels, but above all it is a wonderful testament to the resilience of the human spirit – witnessed mostly through the eyes of three generations of women.
– Dimitri Eipides, 2008 Toronto International Film Festival Programme Book
Rated 14A.
