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The Grapevine picks the events, places and things to check out in the next two weeks.
If you want to see...
… Hot Topics
Gianfranco Rosi’s ‘Fire at Sea’, shot around
the Sicilian island of Lampedusa at the height
of the European refugee crisis, has earned
praise at major festivals around the world for
its urgency and poetry. It’s the highest-pro-
file new film in this year’s lineup, but not the
only documentary to tackle the plight of mi-
grants in our supposedly global world. If read-
ing about Trump’s Wall and Iceland’s interpre-
tation of the Dublin Regulation gets you all hot:
‘Chasing Asylum’ takes a look at offshore de-
tention in Australia, while the Spanish ‘Walls’
looks at people who live on the right and wrong
side of borders in Africa, Europe, and, yes, the
Americas.
… Old Masters
Within this year’s spotlight on Polish film,
rejoice at the “Decalogue” of the late, great
Krzysztof Kieślowski: ten short films made
for Polish television in the late 1980s, loosely
inspired by the Ten Commandments, that
will change your life if you let them. This
year’s festival also features Guests of Honor
Darren Aronofsky, returning to the country
where he shot ‘Noah’—which will not screen
at RIFF, though film-school favourites ‘Re-
quiem for a Dream’, ‘The Wrestler’ and ‘Black
Swan’ will—and the Canadian director Dee-
pa Mehta, whose brand-new ‘Anatomy of
Violence’ imagines the lives leading up to a
shocking real-life Delhi crime of 2012.
… New Blood
The 27-year-old Russian director Ivan I. Tver-
dovskiy has raised hackles across the festival
circuit with his second feature ‘Zoology’,
about a middle-aged woman who starts to
grow a tail. The Rome-based duo Rainer
Frimmel and Tizza Covi’s ‘Mister Univer-
so’, about an out-of-work lion tamer seek-
ing a meeting with an aging strongman, is
the latest work from a duo known for mag-
ic-neorealist portraits of European margi-
nalia. And the Polish filmmaker Michael
Marczak is represented with ‘Fuck for For-
est’, a star-crossed portrait of radical eco-
activism, and ‘All These Sleepless Nights’,
an experimental documentary about the
passions and indulgences of youth.
... Boldface Names
New York City’s eternal It Girl, Chloë Se-
vigny, will appear at the festival to pres-
ent her directorial debut ‘Kitty’, a short
adapted from a Paul Bowles story. ‘Tiny:
The Life of Erin Blackwell’ follows up with
the child prostitute who stole the screen in
the photographer Mary Ellen Mark’s land-
mark 1984 documentary ‘Streetwise’. And
in ‘My Scientology Movie’, charismatic UK
television presenter Louis Theroux takes a
playful look inside Scientology—or as far
inside as he can, anyway.
… Northern Neighbors
Dogme 95 cofounder Thomas Vinterberg
delves into his memories of growing up on
a hippie commune in 1970s Denmark for
his dramedy ‘The Commune’, while Nor-
wegian writer-director Erik Skjoldbjærg
attempts a study of a single disturbed
mind, a teenage arsonist, in ‘Pyromaniac’.
From Sweden, Johannes’s Nyholm’s first
feature ‘The Giant’ concerns an autistic
man with a massive face tumor on his
journey to a pétanque tournament, while
the documentary ‘Cheer Up’ concerns
some of the worst cheerleaders in Finland
(and the festival’s sole Greenlandic film,
‘STG’, profiles the best rock band in Nuuk,
Small Time Giants). ‘The Islands and the
Whales’ looks at the effects of ecological
change on the Faroe Islands.
RIFF EDITION