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Merry Christmas Mr. Mo<\/em> is a poignant and quietly humorous film directed by Lim Dae-hyung. The film delicately explores the themes of life, death, and family bonds through the story of Mr. Mo, a small-town barber. Upon learning that he has terminal cancer, Mr. Mo, portrayed by veteran actor Gi Ju-bong, embarks on fulfilling a lifelong wish: to make a movie with his estranged son, Stephen (David Oh), who is an aspiring filmmaker.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

In a snow-covered town, the film unfolds with a mix of melancholy and heartwarming moments. Lim expertly uses minimalistic cinematography and a gentle narrative style to convey the quiet desperation and underlying warmth of Mr. Mo\u2019s character. The film\u2019s black-and-white aesthetic further accentuates its nostalgic and contemplative tone, inviting the audience to the inner world of its protagonist. Merry Christmas Mr. Mo<\/em>\u2019s subtle humour and deep emotional resonance make it a standout in contemporary Korean cinema, offering a tender meditation on mortality.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

HANBIN KIM<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Content advisory: mature themes<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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20th anniversary screening!<\/b><\/p> \r\n\r\n

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When Sophie, a teenage girl who works in her father\u2019s hat shop, meets the charismatic wizard Howl, she inadvertently arouses the wrathful jealousy of the evil Witch of the Waste, who casts a spell that turns Sophie\u2019s face and body into that of a 90-year-old woman. Seeking to dispel the curse, Sophie is led to Howl\u2019s castle, a colossal, sentient flying machine, and embarks with the wizard into the crucible of a destructive war that Howl is desperately trying to stop. Adapting and considerably altering Diana Wynne Jones\u2019 fantasy novel, Hayao Miyazaki creates one of his most visually inventive works and introduces a deeply felt pacifist theme, which he stated was inspired by his outrage over the American invasion of Iraq. One of the most financially successful Japanese films of all time, Howl\u2019s Moving Castle<\/em> received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Adapted from the original programme note by Jesse Wente<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Tibetan director Pema Tseden (1969\u20132023), one of the most impressive filmmakers to emerge in the last 25 years, revolutionized the representation of Tibet and Tibetans within Chinese cinema. He accomplished this by re-imagining the ways narrative cinematic fiction can operate in what has often been too restrictively defined as \u201cChinese minority cinema\u201d using alternative formal strategies and storytelling materials inspired by the contemporary lived experience of Tibetans to centre their culture, language, religion, and their ways of inhabiting and interpreting their world.<\/p>\n\n

Pema Tseden died mid-career, at the age of 53. Born to farmer-herder parents in the Tibetan highlands of Qinghai Province, China, he went to rural schools and trained as a teacher. After studying Tibetan literature at Northwest Minorities University, he discovered a passion for making films. A scholarship enabled him to enroll in the prestigious Beijing Film Academy (BFA), where he entered the acting department, and then later switched to study film directing. He was the first Tibetan to graduate from the BFA in 2004. Since 1991, he has published short stories in both Chinese and Tibetan that use humour and a seemingly simple yet eloquent style to depict aspects of contemporary Tibetan life.<\/p>\n\n

While at the BFA, Pema Tseden shot two short films. After he graduated, he became the first Tibetan filmmaker working in China to shoot a feature film entirely in Tibetan: The Silent Holy Stones<\/em> (2005).<\/p>\n\n

\u201cTibet and Tibetans have always been my theme. All my actors are Tibetan. I shoot on location in Tibet. All the dialogues are in Tibetan. My films reflect Tibetan ways of thinking. We\u2019ve been trying to find our own film language.\u201d \u2015Pema Tseden, Asia Society, 2010<\/p>\n\n

It is fascinating to examine just how Pema Tseden sustained and elaborated this mission while working in a complicated context, as a Tibetan director creating his films inside China. He shot seven more feature films, working largely with the same group of collaborators from Amdo (the Tibetan minority region near Xining and Qinghai Lake where he lived). This new generation of filmmakers he trained are now the nucleus of a \u201cTibetan New Wave\u201d and continue his legacy today: they include Sonthar Gyal, Dukar Tserang, Lhapal Gyal, Dargye Tenzin, and Pema Tseden\u2019s son Jigme Trinley.<\/p>\n\n

Pema Tseden began in an artful realist style, employing carefully framed, exquisitely timed long takes and non-professional actors (The Search<\/em> in 2009, Old Dog<\/em> in 2010). These films explore the lives of rural Tibetans living in the People\u2019s Republic of China in the early 21st century: the pressures they face as contemporary ways of life seep into traditional farming and monastic lifestyles; the challenges urban culture\u2019s encroaching media attractions pose to traditional Tibetan opera and story-telling; the always-present status of Tibetan minority culture in a Han Chinese dominated country. This topic, though, is prudently built into the films\u2019 deep structures and backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n

A key source of early inspiration for Pema Tseden\u2019s film style and practice was the films of Abbas Kiarostami:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cAt the Beijing Film Academy, I happened to come across some Iranian films [\u2026]. Although Tibet and Iran have different religions and cultures, the landscapes and human conditions have similarities. Iranian cinema also faces censorship. There are many topics they cannot film [\u2026] That inspired me a great deal as well. In Tibet, there are many rich stories to tell, there are many topics. But under the current circumstances, we are extremely limited in terms of what topics we can film. So I have focused on contemporary life in Tibet.\u201d \u2015Pema Tseden<\/p>\n\n

One particularly Kiarostamian feature of Pema Tseden\u2019s cinema is the road movie. His films spend a lot of time on the road: his characters are often in motion through Tibetan landscapes by road, across plateaus and grasslands, by motorcycle, and by car. Motion through landscape becomes one of the key tropes and generators of meaning in his films. Tibetan landscapes here are free of that romanticized, exoticized function as a consumable spectacle that they have in most Western and Chinese films set in Tibet. Pema Tseden\u2019s cinematic landscapes are real, varied, contested spaces, sometimes run-down, sometimes fence-infested, with highways laid through the landscape as open-ended pathways for emotionally complex personal trajectories.<\/p>\n\n

In Pema Tseden\u2019s later films (Tharlo<\/em> in 2015, Jinpa in 2018, Balloon in 2019, and Snow Leopard in 2023), his style began to change, as he experimented with a visionary, occasionally hallucinatory style that led audiences towards the more fabulous, fantastical, spiritual dimensions of Tibetans\u2019 experiences.<\/p>\n\n

The openness of Pema Tseden\u2019s stories; his careful constructions of multiple, non-definitive points of view; his willingness to under-explain rather than over-explain his character\u2019s complicated emotional trajectories: all of these open up his cinema to different audiences and complementary readings. This may help explain his unprecedented ability to create, as no one had before, an audience of Tibetan, Chinese, and Western viewers.<\/p>\n\n

Given Pema Tseden\u2019s position as a Tibetan in China, and the necessity of having his films pass Chinese censorship, his ability to tell these kinds of stories honestly, naturally, and eloquently, is masterful. That he managed to do so in films of such quiet, rhapsodic beauty is nothing short of astonishing.<\/p>\n\n

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We enter films from anywhere. It could be the story that sweeps us up. It could be watching a character who becomes more compelling with each scene. It could be the details \u2015 the way a shot is framed, the way light hits a costume, or the way a music cue drops at just the right moment. Or, it could be all of this, plus the visceral pleasure of watching light dance on the big screen.<\/p>\n\n

For me, that experience hits a new level when we watch a 35mm print of a great film. That\u2019s how I began watching films in the pre-digital era, and that\u2019s what I want to bring to life as often as possible in our cinemas.<\/p>\n\n

TIFF is fortunate enough to be the caretakers of 3,500 35mm film prints, held at a storage facility down the highway from TIFF Bell Lightbox. We began this work in 1990, when we acquired the collection of the Ontario Film Institute. In 2016, as film distributors completed their transition from 35mm prints to digital cinema packages (DCPs), we acquired print collections from Universal Pictures, Mongrel Media, eOne, and others. Our promise then was to protect and preserve film on film.<\/p> \n\n

Partly, it\u2019s practical. Film prints remain the most durable, stable way to preserve what filmmakers create. Under the right conditions, they can last a century.<\/p>\n\n

Partly, it\u2019s curatorial. When a film is shot on 35mm, screening it in the same format preserves the intentions of the artist as closely as possible.<\/p>\n\n

And partly, it\u2019s emotional. Projecting light through the physical strip of film, at 24 still frames every second, offers a richer, warmer experience than even the purest digital copy. It\u2019s like listening to a favourite album on vinyl, or picking up a physical book and savouring the turning of each page, instead of swiping a screen.<\/p> \n\n

Analogue. There\u2019s nothing like it.<\/p>\n\n

But it can\u2019t be just any film print. For this new series, From the Collection, I went through our list of films carefully, almost obsessively. Which films show us something central to film history? Which films are so cinematic that they cry out to be seen on the big screen? Or so rare that they can\u2019t be found on a streaming service? Or so provocative that they\u2019re bound to start conversations, bound to send you home more alive to the possibilities of art in your world? Which films are simply so great that you want to share them with people you care about?<\/p>\n\n

Today, we live in an infinite flood of digital images. From the Collection is our invitation to step in the other direction.<\/p> \n\n

One film each month (except September, when we always have something special for you).<\/p> \n\n

Chosen with care from our 35mm collection.<\/p> \n\n

Presented by some of the best cinema technicians in the world. In Canada\u2019s best cinema.<\/p> \n\n

With conversation afterwards in Varda, our newly renovated third-floor lounge bar.<\/p>\n\n

Join us on the first Tuesday of each month for a truly unique film experience.<\/p>\n\n

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Select screenings will be presented in 35mm.<\/p><\/b>\r\n\r\n

Two boys at brutal reformatory school build a formative bond in RaMell Ross\u2019 poetic and experimental adaptation of the acclaimed novel.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Be the first to see some of the year\u2019s most exciting new films! On select Tuesday evenings, Secret Movie Club showcases the best of cinema \u2014 from highly anticipated festival favourites, to small-budget indies, to the year\u2019s most buzzworthy films. If you like to attend Galas and Special Presentations at the Festival, this series is for you!<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Part of the fun is the surprise: titles are not announced ahead of time, and all screenings are previews of films not yet released in theatres. Each event offers a fun post-film discussion with a member of the film team \u2014 such as a director, screenwriter, producer, or actor \u2014 a critic, or a subject expert. Last season\u2019s lineup included celebrated films that premiered at Sundance, Cannes, and other international film festivals: May December<\/em> (dir. Todd Haynes), Eileen<\/em> (dir. William Oldroyd), The Iron Claw<\/em> (dir. Sean Durkin), Sometimes I Think About Dying<\/em> (dir. Rachel Lambert), The Animal Kingdom<\/em> (dir. Thomas Cailley), Sasquatch Sunset<\/em> (dirs. David Zellner, Nathan Zellner), and Babes<\/em> (dir. Pamela Adlon).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

This season\u2019s hosts are Norm Wilner, Senior International Programmer and Industry Selects Lead; and Jane Schoettle, Senior International Programmer at TIFF.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Secret Movie Club Experience<\/strong>
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