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Toronto Film Fest Adds Gael Garcia Bernal's ‘Magellan,' Rhayne Vermette's ‘Levers' to Wavelengths
The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its Wavelengths program for artist-driven experimental films that includes the latest work from directors Lav Diaz, Kahlil Joseph and Kamal Aljafari. The sidebar has seven features in all, including North American premieres for Diaz's Magellan, where Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal plays the titular Portuguese explorer in the epic historical drama that bowed in Cannes; Ben Rivers' Mare's Nest, about a young girl traveling through a dystopian world without adults; Alexandre Koberidze's Dry Leaf, where a father searchs for his missing daughter in Georgia in a film shot on an antiquated Sony Ericsson phone; director Nicolás Pereda's political thriller Copper; and The Seasons, the solo directorial feature debut for Maureen Fazendeiro. More from The Hollywood Reporter Jason Bateman, Jude Law, Toni Collette, Ethan Hawke TV Series Join Toronto Fest Lineup Neon Nabs Japanese Video Game Movie Adaptation 'Exit 8' Ben Proudfoot's Obamas-Backed 'The Eyes of Ghana' to Open Toronto Fest Doc Program There's a world premiere for Rhayne Vermette's Levers, a drama about humanity's uneasy relationship with the natural world; and a Canadian premiere for Kahlil Joseph's Sundance title BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, a feature debut and a multimedia tribute to black experimental thinkers. The Wavelengths program will also pair two movies by Palestinian directors: a North American bow for Kamal Aljafari's With Hasan in Gaza, the Locarno competition opener and a journey round pre-war Gaza in 2001, with an international premiere for Basma al-Sharif's It's So Beautiful Here. The Wavelengths will also present short films, including world premieres for shorts by Viktoria Schmid, Björn Kämmerer, Blake Williams, Friedl vom Gröller, Fredj Moussa, Kaiwen Ren and Eri Saito. There's also an international premiere for another film by Basma al-Sharif, Morgenkreis. On Friday, TIFF also announced the lineup for its Classics sidebar of film restorations, to include a 50th anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg's Jaws in 35mm; and 4K restorations of Manoel de Oliveira's Aniki-Bobo (1942); Bahram Beyzaie's Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986); Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest (1970); Michael Almereyda's Nadja (1994); Ramesh Sippy's Sholay (1975); and T'ang Shushuen's The Arch (1968). The 50th edition of the Toronto Film Festival is set to run from Sept. 4 to 14. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 25 Best U.S. Film Schools in 2025 The 40 Greatest Needle Drops in Film History The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Solve the daily Crossword
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01-08-2025
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‘With Hasan in Gaza' Is a Cinematic 'Homage to Gaza and Its People' (Exclusive Locarno Trailer)
Images speak louder than words, they say. A trailer for With Hasan in Gaza from Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari (A Fidai Film, Recollection, An Unusual Summer), which world premieres in the competition lineup of the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on Aug. 7, abides by that saying. Below, THR can exclusively reveal the first trailer for the film ahead of the Swiss festival, which runs Aug. 6-16. More from The Hollywood Reporter Avex Music Group and S10 Report Early 2025 Chart Successes Japan's Biggest Bank Joins K2 Pictures' Indie Film Fund (Exclusive) Henry Cavill, Longines' Ambassador of Elegance, on Watches, Style and Summer Plans ("Highlander!") 'Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered,' reads a synopsis of the movie on the Locarno festival website. 'What started as a search for a former prison mate from 1989 led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown.' The summary also promises 'a cinematic reflection on memory, loss, and the passage of time, capturing a Gaza of the past and lives that may never be found again.' Aljafari, in a director's note, describes the film as 'an homage to Gaza and its people, to all that was erased and that came back to me in this urgent moment of Palestinian existence, or non-existence.' And he highlights: 'It is a film about the catastrophe, and the poetry that resists.' The movie was produced by the filmmaker through his Kamal Aljafari Productions, with the support of the Doha Film Institute, Cnap – Image/mouvement, the Gwaertler Stiftung, the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Media City Film Festival's Chrysalis Fellowship, and Atelier 105 – Light Cone. The trailer for With Hasan in Gaza now provides a first glimpse of some of the images captured on this trip through Gaza, including kids approaching the camera and a drive along the coastline. 'I went to Gaza 24 years ago searching for a friend, without an address,' the filmmaker says. 'This is my first film, which I have never made.' Check out the trailer for With Hasan in Gaza below. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Greatest Needle Drops in Film History The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best Solve the daily Crossword
