TIFF continues to deliver its promise to showcase Canadian talent. Just announced today are two more new Features to premiere this September in Toronto, THE SWEARING JAR and STELLAR from levelFILM.
THE SWEARING JAR
Contemporary World Cinema
Directed by: Lindsay MacKay
Written by: Kate Hewlett
Starring: Adelaide Clemens, Patrick J. Adams, Douglas Smith & Kathleen Turner
“It is a rare and miraculous thing to find your one true soul mate.” Carey soon learns that finding two of them can pose an even greater problem. Equal parts humour and heartbreak, THE SWEARING JAR tells two love stories at once, exploring the challenge of marriage, parenting, loss and moving on.
STELLAR
Contemporary World Cinema
Written and Directed by: Darlene Naponse
Starring: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Braeden Clarke, Rossif Sutherland
HE and SHE sit apart, quietly in a tiny dive bar. They accidentally touch and a meteorite blasts through the atmosphere. As the meteorite approaches, the two continue in their protected selves. Based on the historical research of the meteorite hitting the area of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek territory, millions of years ago, forming one of the largest iron ore deposit in the world.
The meteorite bursts into the atmosphere and onto the land, it shoots fireballs hundreds of kilometres away, pushes the water far, building hills of rock, and as the waters come back as a tsunami the water in a way, melts the rocks.
The land millions of years later is occupied by the Anishnawbek of Atikameksheng, then as colonizers approach, the natural beauty of this formation becomes fortune to the settlers. This is the backstory and environment – the natural world around the lovers.
The story pushes through historical trauma, formed by colonization.
Inside this tiny dive bar, though touch, their duality formulates.
STELLAR is set within the fluidity of time, touch, realism and reverie. Some may call this magic realism. Based within Indigenous knowledge and way of life, this story allows two people to heal, through touch, calm, love and patience in a fantastical space that leaves the audience dreamlike and yet it is dangerous and violent, there is love.
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