Swiss participation at the Toronto International Film Festival
09.09.2009
Films by the Swiss cineastes Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Mettler and Klaus Lutz as well as a film co-produced by Switzerland are on the programme for the 34th International Film Festival in Toronto (10 to 19 September 2009). The festival, which does not organise any competitions, is regarded as one of the most important film events in North America.
The “Real To Reel” section, reserved for documentary films, will be showing the film “Bassidji” – premiered at the Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon – by the Iranian Mehran Tamadon, a co-production of the Lausanne company Box Productions. The approximately two-hour film deals with the origins of the ideological-religious fundament of the Bassidj militia in Iran. As part of “Real to Reel”, the Swiss-Canadian director Peter Mettler will be presenting his film “Petropolis” which also celebrated ist premiere in Nyon and which documents the consequences of oil drilling in the Alberta Tar Sands of northwest Canada through 40-minute aerial pictures. The major construction site is destroying nature.
The “Wavelength” section, which presents gems of avant-garde filmmaking, will include the one-minute film “Une catastrophe” by Jean-Luc Godard in its programme. The 79-year-old cineaste who lives in the Canton of Vaud produced this last year as a trailer for the Vienna film festival Viennale. In October 2008 it was shown in 100 Austrian cinemas. Also being shown in this section is the 12-minute space odyssey “Titan” by the 69-year-old Swiss artist Klaus Lutz who lives in New York and Zurich.
Zurich, 9 September 2009
«Une catastrophe» by Jean-Luc Godard
The “Wavelength” section, which presents gems of avant-garde filmmaking, will include the one-minute film “Une catastrophe” by Jean-Luc Godard in its programme. The 79-year-old cineaste who lives in the Canton of Vaud produced this last year as a trailer for the Vienna film festival Viennale. In October 2008 it was shown in 100 Austrian cinemas. Also being shown in this section is the 12-minute space odyssey “Titan” by the 69-year-old Swiss artist Klaus Lutz who lives in New York and Zurich.
Zurich, 9 September 2009
«Une catastrophe» by Jean-Luc Godard