Mozart’s Visionary Cinema: New Crowned Hope
As a new programme in this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Mozart’s Visionary Cinema: New Crowned Hope celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The films bear the tradition of combining social ideas and political autonomy with artistic visions.
In Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Daratt, Atim, a young man raised by his grandfather, is given a gun. He journeys to the capital to avenge his father’s murder but to his astonishment, finds his father’s murderer as a quiet man who has left a life of crime to bake baguettes for a living. Haroun’s use of a barren landscape echoes the characters who live marginally.
Catch Daratt on Tuesday September 12th at 6:00 p.m. in the Isabel Bader Theatre, Thursday September 14th at 9:15 a.m. in Paramount 4 and Saturday September 16th at 7:15 p.m. in Varsity 3.
Another film in this new programme is Garin Nugroho’s Opera Jawa, a beautiful story of a married couple living in small village who were previously Ramayana dancers but left their art to sell earthenware. Opera Jawa enriches the story with artistic compilations of visual art, gamelan music and court dances.
You can watch Opera Jawa on Sunday September 10th at 4:30 p.m. in Cumberland 1, Wednesday September 13th at 9:30 p.m. in the Isabel Bader Theatre and Saturday September 16th at 2:00 p.m. in Varsity 3.
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