This year, Cinema Florin Piersic will also host the first 3D screenings in the history of TIFF, with two stunning art-house documentaries, signed by iconic figures of German cinema: Pina (Germany-France, 2011), directed by Wim Wenders, one of the most hyped films at this year’s edition of Berlin Film Festival, screened of June 4, at 8.30 p.m., and the Cave of Forgotten Dreams (USA-France, 2010), which will be screened on Sunday, June 5, at 10.30 p.m. - by Werner Herzog, the focus of one of the portraits in the 3x3 section.
Pina
By: Wim Wenders
Saturady, June 4, 20.30
Cinema Florin Piersic
The most recent film and, at the same time, the first 3D feature signed by Wim Wenders, one of the most hyped productions at the 2011 edition of the Berlin Film Festival, where it was screened in the Official Selection - Out of Competition.
In the words of the very director who received the Lifetime Achievement Award offered to a European film personality at TIFF 2010, „Pina is a film for Pina Bausch”, one of the most important choreographers of the last decades, and a good friend of Wim Wenders.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
By: Werner Herzog
Sunday, June 5, 22.30
Cinema Florin Piersic
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting. He puts 3D technology to a profound use, taking us back in time over 30,000 years. The film was successfully presented at Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals.
Observation
Masterclass on Stereoscopic filmmaking in the digital age
Held by Wolf Bosse
Sunday, June 5, 11.00
Cinema Florin Piersic
The audience fascinated by 3D filmmaking can find out more details on this type of cinema during a presentation on stereoscopic shooting techniques, held by Wolf Bosse - General Manager at Das Werk company.
The presentation focuses on the 2010 shoot for Pina, with examples from the film.