Singer
An explosion and exploration of the moment — the breath taken — before the first note of an opening night performance is sung.
Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival. Each film screened as a prelude to a feature film in the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival program. The full "Preludes" anthology was screened on the web in November 2000, and was given theatrical retrospectives at the TIFF Lightbox in the subsequent years.
A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously familiar or just plain "good". Actors hoping their well-conceived sincerity and ritual entrances have that special glow. Press and critics poised to love or hate lucidly. And proud, desperate filmmakers looking for that little blessing on their latest self-projection. All squeezing together for a few days, in a few rooms wondering whether this will truly be the perfect place at the perfect time. Of course, it rarely is. Mostly it's just a collection of almosts. Delicious, shared almosts.
Klara Stephens
Adaptación de "El flautista de Hamelin". Un autobús escolar se despeña montaña abajo y se hunde en un lago helado. En el accidente mueren todos los niños del pueblo. El abogado Mitchell Stevens se entrevista con los padres, reabre sus heridas del pasado y les propone llevar el caso a los tribunales.
Roaring Woman
Camille es una bella profesora de teología en una universidad protestante de Toronto, y está comprometida con Martin, también teólogo, llevando ambos una ejemplar vida cristiana. Pero Camille no está del todo satisfecha con su vida, y cuando pierde a su mascota en un trágico accidente de coche Camille se siente devastada. En una lavandería, todavía deprimida, conoce a Petra, una joven que trabaja en un circo y de la que Camille se siente atraída, cambiando la visión convencional del mundo y del amor que tenía hasta ese momento. (FILMAFFINITY)
