Lav Diaz’s sublime Magellan is an epic portrait of the Portuguese explorer starring Gael García Bernal.

While TIFF celebrates its 50th birthday and keeps on growing and growing, its festival within a festival, Wavelengths – named after Canadian artist Michael Snow’s landmark experimental short – hits 25 and finds itself on the brink of forced early retirement.

Devoted to promoting the art of cinema, which is not an oxymoron, Wavelengths has a loyal and committed following, with its avant-garde shorts programs attracting numerous aficionados from abroad. Tickets for those one-off screenings are as hard to come by as the most star-studded special presentations.

The diverse curation of the program (now by Andréa Picard and Jesse Cumming) is equally respected by its audience and by art-

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