The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival announced its People’s Choice Awards and Platform Prize live during the annual Tribute Awards broadcast today.
How do you create slow cinema at the speed of sound? Apichatpong Weerasethakul delivers a mysterious and hauntingly elusive work with Memoria. The Colombia-set film, the first English/Spanish work from the Thai director, imagines the sound of memory. Such a statement might sound ridiculously pretentious, but this is a Weerasethakul film after all. Memoria echoes […]
Favourites from the festival circuit coming to TIFF include Titane, Flee, Jockey, and Bergman Island.
Opaque and inscrutable by design, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's follow up to his most successful feature, the lengthy short film Mekong Hotel almost feels to dry to warrant a second viewing despite its waterlogged setting.