TORONTO INTL FILM FESTIVAL
Wavelengths
YOUTH (Hard times)
Individual and collective stories unfold in Zhili's textile workshops, becoming ever more dramatic as the seasons go by. Fu YUN keeps making mistakes and is mocked by her colleagues. Xu WANXIANG can't find his notebook, without which his (...)
YOUTH (Homecoming)
As New Year's break is coming, Zhili's textile workshops are almost deserted. The fewn remaining employees are desperate to be paid for their trip home. From the banks of the Yangtze River to the mountains of Yunnan, everyone will be celebrating (...)
Special Presentations
SHEPHERDS
Mathyas, an aspiring writer, trades his life in Montreal as a young advertising executive for that of a shepherd in the South of France. But the road to his desired pastoral tranquillity is filled with hard work. A visit from Elise, a civil servant who (...)
Wavelengths
VIET AND NAM
Nam and Viet love each other. Both are miners, working 1000 meters below ground where danger awaits and darkness prevails. Coal earns them a living, while polluting the land and the sea. Black sea. Black coal. Burnt coal. Wet coal. Dusty coal. When Nam (...)
Center Piece
SOULEYMANE'S STORY
As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers. But Souleymane is not (...)