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

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February 24  |  2010 Film Festival, HRWFF Special Guests, Triage  |   julie

HRWFF | Special Guest | Linden MacIntyre

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.

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

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February 4  |  2010 Film Festival, Triage  |   julie


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

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January 28  |  2010 Film Festival, Triage  |   julie


 
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.
 
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Video: Actor Christopher Lee Talks About The Nature of War

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January 22  |  2010 Film Festival, Triage  |   julie


 
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.
 
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Triage: Program Notes

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January 3  |  2010 Film Festival, Triage  |   julie

Colin Farrell and Jamie Sives in Triage

“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

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