The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its Wavelengths program for artist-driven experimental films that includes the latest work from directors Lav Diaz, Kahlil Joseph and Kamal Aljafari.

The sidebar has seven features in all, including North American premieres for Diaz’s Magellan , where Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal plays the titular Portuguese explorer in the epic historical drama that bowed in Cannes; Ben Rivers’ Mare’s Nest, about a young girl traveling through a dystopian world without adults; Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, where a father searchs for his missing daughter in Georgia in a film shot on an antiquated Sony Ericsson phone; director Nicolás Pereda’s political thriller Copper ; and The Seasons , the solo directorial feature debut for Maureen Fazendeiro.

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