The Toronto International Film Festival Announces Lineup of International Short Films
By: Kaitlin Milligan Aug. 09, 2018
The Toronto International Film Festival® today unveiled the 36 short films that make up the International portion of this year's Short Cuts programme.
The Short Cuts programme is made possible through the generous sponsorship of IWC Schaffhausen.
The lineup of provocative, exciting shorts includes 14 World Premieres and works from 32 countries, in 19 different languages, with a strong array of new voices. Of the 36 films in the selection, 18 were directed or co-directed by women.
"Short Cuts is the place to see films that will not only entertain, but also challenge and inspire, from filmmakers who push the boundaries of their craft," said Lisa Haller and Jason Anderson, TIFF Short Cuts Programmers. "We are proud to continue showcasing work by filmmakers from diverse backgrounds, and this year's programme has an especially high number of new works from South and East Asia. The 2018 programme also features our strongest-ever representation of female filmmakers, with 18 of the International titles directed and co-directed by women - bringing the total Short Cuts selection of women directors to 54 percent."
Highlights among the selection of live-action narrative films include Reed Van Dyk's Interior, a bold follow-up to his recent Academy Award-nominated DeKalb Elementary; A.V. Rockwell's vivid and vital drama Feathers; He?ctor Silva Nu?n?ez's exceptional exploration of identity in The Foreign Body; and Charles Williams' All These Creatures, an emotionally wrenching drama that won the Short Film Palme d'Or at Cannes.
The 2018 programme also includes such fascinating short documentaries as Theresa Traore Dahlberg's The Ambassador's Wife, an elegant study of a woman who represents the complexities of class, women's roles, and post-colonialism, and Jayisha Patel's Circle, A HAUNTING documentary that tells the horrifying story of a young woman caught in a cycle of abuse.
Amazing animations are also prominent at this year's Festival. Standouts include: Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels' This Magnificent Cake!, a wildly ambitious and original stop-motion marvel that uses stories set in the Belgian Congo in the 19th century to reveal the absurdity and horror of European colonialism in Africa; Anca Damian's free-flowing yet astoundingly intricate The Call; and Donato Sansone's Bavure, a bravura display of eye-popping, mind-bending, and body-morphing ingenuity.
The 43rd Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 to 16, 2018.
International titles screening as part of the Short Cuts programme include:
A New Year (Akhali Tseli) George Sikharulidze | Georgia World Premiere
A Wedding Day (Un jour de mariage) Elias Belkeddar | Algeria/France North American Premiere
All Inclusive Corina Schwingruber Ilic? | Switzerland North American Premiere
All These Creatures Charles Williams | Australia North American Premiere
The Ambassador's Wife Theresa Traore Dahlberg | Burkina Faso/Sweden Canadian Premiere
Ballad of Blood and Two White Buckets Yosep Anggi Noen | Indonesia World Premiere
Bavure Donato Sansone | France World Premiere
Birdie Shelly Lauman | Australia International Premiere
The Call (Telefonul) Anca Damian | Romania North American Premiere
Circle Jayisha Patel | United Kingdom/Canada/India North American Premiere
Dodgy Dave Charlotte Regan | United Kingdom World Premiere
Dulce Guille Isa, Angello Faccini | Colombia/USA International Premiere
Everything calms down (Todo se calma) Virginia Scaro | Argentina World Premiere
Facing North (Bukiikakkono) Tukei Muhumuza | USA/Uganda World Premiere
The Fall (La Chute) Boris Labbe? | France North American Premiere
Feathers A.V. Rockwell | USA World Premiere
The Field Sandhya Suri | France/United Kingdom/India Canadian Premiere
The Foreign Body (El Destetado) He?ctor Silva Nu?n?ez | Venezuela/France World Premiere
f You Anette Sidor | Sweden North American Premiere
Guaxuma Nara Normande | France/Brazil North American Premiere
Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (Ektoras Malo: I Teleftea Mera Tis Chronias) Jacqueline Lentzou | Greece
North American Premiere
The Imminent Immanent (Baga't Diri Tuhay Ta't Pamahungpahung) Carlo Francisco Manatad | Philippines/Singapore/Italy
World Premiere
Interior (Interiør) Reed Van Dyk | Norway/USA World Premiere
Judgement Raymund Ribay Gutierrez | Philippines North American Premiere
L'e?te? et tout le reste Sven Bresser | Netherlands North American Premiere
Lou Clara Balzary | USA World Premiere
Old Thing (Ha'Alte-Zachen) Roni Bahat | Israel International Premiere
The Orphan (O O?rfa?o) Carolina Markowicz | Brazil North American Premiere
Reneepoptosis Renee Zhan | Japan/USA North American Premiere
Shadow Cut Lucy Suess | New Zealand North American Premiere
Shinaab: Part II Lyle Corbine Jr. | USA World Premiere
This Magnificent Cake! (Ce Magnifique Ga?teau!) Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels | Belgium/France/Netherlands
Canadian Premiere
To Plant a Flag Bobbie Peers | Norway/Iceland World Premiere
Umbra (Tariki) Saeed Jafarian | Iran North American Premiere
Viktori?a Bru?si O?lason | Iceland International Premiere
Winners Bitch Sam Gurry | USA World Premiere
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