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
雪深い小さな町。ある日の朝、平和な日常が一瞬で崩れ去った。子どもたちを乗せたスクールバスがスリップをおこし、凍った湖に転落。多くの⼦供の命が奪われた。町にやって来たベテランの弁護士スティーブンスは集団訴訟を起こすべく、子供を失った親たちを説得して訪ねてまわる。やがてスティーブンスは事故の唯⼀の⽣存者の美しい少⼥ニコールに訴訟に勝つために証⾔するように説得する。しかし、彼⼥が口にしたのは意外な「真実」だった・・・。
Roaring Woman
A prudish woman working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university finds herself attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman who works at a local carnival.
