This year’s program of Toronto IFF will include Czech film We Are Never Alone by director Petr Vaclav and producer Jan Macola (Mimesis Film). The film premiered this year in Berlinale’s Forum where it received Tagesspiegel Reader’s Jury Award and later screened at several other international film festivals.Moreover, Wasteland, a new eight episodes drama series produced by HBO Europe will have its international premiere in the Primetime section.
Contemporary World Cinema
We Are Never Alone / Nikdy nejsme sami
CZ, FR 2016, 105 min
DIRECTOR Petr Vaclav
A paranoid prison guard befriends his new neighbor, an unemployed hypochondriac supported by his wife who works at the local grocery store. Weary of life and caring for her two sons, she develops an attraction to the nightclub bouncer, but he is in love with the club stripper, who is in turn waiting for the father of her child to return from the same prison where the prison guard works. No one is ever alone, no matter how lonely they feel.
CONTACT WIDE - Diane Ferrandes, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SEP 8 12:30 Scotia 5 (P&I)
SEP 8 17:30 Scotia 4
SEP 9 12:00 TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
SEP 14 13:45 Jackman
Primetime
Wasteland / Pustina
CZ 2016, 449 min
DIRECTOR Ivan Zachariáš, Alice Nellis
When Hana Sikorova, mayor of a northern Bohemian village, stands up to a large coal mining concern that offers villagers large compensation in exchange for abandoning their houses built on land containing brown coal deposits, her fourteen year old daughter Misha disappears. Under the pressure of unfolding events, the community starts to fall apart and show its true face. Solving the mystery divides the story into several interweaving narratives that ultimately connect in unexpected ways.
CONTACT Beta Cinema - Thorsten Ritter, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SEP 9 10:15 Jackman
SEP 17 12:30 Scotia 3
Masters
Personal Shopper
FR, CZ, DE 2016, 105 min
DIRECTOR Olivier Assayas
Maureen is a young American in Paris making her living as a personal shopper for a celebrity. Also, she may have the psychic ability to communicate with spirits, just like her twin brother, Lewis, who recently passed away. Maureen soon starts receiving mysterious messages coming from an unknown source.
CONTACT MK2 - Ola Byszuk, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SEP 8 11:45 Scotia 3 (P&I)
SEP 10 21:00 Scotia 1
SEP 18 18:30 Scotia 1
CZECH FILM CENTER AT TIFF 2016
Marketa Santrochova - Head of Czech Film Center
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Sep 8 - 14
Irena Kovarova - New York Representative
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Sep 7 - 14
