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good evening welcome thank you so much uh for coming tonight welcome to the world premiere of the new film by Angelina Jolie without [Applause] blood my name is <PRESIDIO_ANONYMIZED_PERSON> I'm the CEO here at Tiff I'm glad to see all of you here this is a very special night and a very special film and it is thanks to a lot of people and organizations that I just want to um recognize right now beginning with a presenting sponsor of the festival Rogers thank you to them and also our major sponsors RBC and visa

for their continued support we also want to thank the uh government Partners uh government of Ontario telefilm Canada and the City of Toronto and uh reminder this uh film is part of the special presentations program which is uh possible through the sponsorship of Tik Tok and it is eligible for our most important prize that is the People's Choice Award and that is presented by Rogers and you get to decide what wins that award so please go online to TI .n/ vote to vote for the films of your choice uh we want to thank Deo

entertainment and freemantle and Jolie Productions and the apartment for providing us with this film also our uh Partners at CA and um just want to kind of talk a little bit about Angelina Jolie as a filmmaker as a director uh she's of course an academy award-winning actor as well but also a writer producer and director uh her credits as a director include in the Land of Blood and honey uh unbroken and first they killed my father which was uh her last time at the festival this is her latest film and you may have noticed that uh

many of Angelina's films as a director are about the long impact of War when we think of Wars we often think of the dates they started and the dates they ended when you watch an Angelina Jolie's films you understand that Wars last for a very long time and without blood is very much about the long-term impact of War um when I saw it I found it to be a deeply moving film and a film that really created a lot of reflection because it's about a war that might have happened many years ago and the impact

after that but of course we know there are many wars now uh happening as well and the film also I think offers some insights into how we deal with war today very pleased that the team from the film has come to introduce without blood to you so please join me in welcoming director Angelina Jolie and her cast Patricia Jose Juan minin Jorge Antonio Guerrero Damian Basher and Salma Hayek [Applause] Peno thank you so much I'll keep this short um I know you've been sitting here a minute thank you um well just thank

you for everybody thank you to the festival for allowing us to be here for welcoming us to all of you for for being with us tonight um we have those extraordinary cast I'm so happy to see everybody it's been sometimes you don't see each other for a minute after you make a film so we became a family and I'm happy to be proud to be standing there with these with these wonderful artists really you'll see their work it's extraordinary um and to we have crew also our composer our editor many are in the amongst you um so I'm happy you're

here as well this thank you so much thank you so much um this this isn't an easy film um it's we all have there's in this book in this beautiful book towards the end there's a he writes about that there was a time when we in our lives where we break something happens something changes us some relationship some trauma something happens and we spend a lot of Our Lives kind of trying to we somehow visit that moment it affects us for the rest of our life um and sometimes we don't know how to sit at that table and

and address that issue or that person or have that conversation and and so that's what is one of the most difficult things about this film is a lot of the gray area of life and a lot of the asking why and a a lot of the the listening which is maybe the most important thing and um so it's a hard table to sit at it's a hard film Maybe to sit through but thank you for sitting through it with us thank you for joining us at the table and I hope it inspires all of us that's the reason for its being is to have more

conversation and more listening um and finding that middle between us as human beings so here it is thank you so much please join me in welcoming back to the stage the co-writer and director of without blood Angelina Jolie Sal mahek Damen [Applause] Basher thank you so much for the film um you know it's a it's a serious film about a very serious subject uh but what I really appreciated was how it gives the time to deal with the long-term impact of war and I wanted to ask you first Angelina about uh adapting

the book um with the the novelist and uh what choices you were making about where you wanted to keep the focus as you turned it into a film he said to me when I first uh met with Baro he said they're going to force you to change the end they're going to force you to pick a country they're going to force you to decide what year it is try to hold and and um because it's intended this is what it's intended to be you know but but sometimes these things don't we we don't get to leave them because there's a there's a you know

there's an Impulse or a feeling that you have to finish something or or explain something um so now I think back I feel like he was almost challenged me instead of warning me um so I think it was that it was the commitment to the it's that it's Universal I think the book is so strong but but really it rested so much on what could be alive at that table I shot we shot so much cuz I didn't know how much until they they gave their extraordinary performances I didn't know how much I was going to be

able to stay and how much I was going to have to reenact and because they were so strong I was able to stay and and be pulled into so really we were I was in some way prepared for to adapt in different ways um but then but then it was them yes and at what point did you uh choose your cast for the film at what point did you decide that salon and Daman were the ones that needed to be in these two roles I mean I I I thought of Salma early and I called her and she said no what Salma you didn't know I was going

to say that did you I was going to admit it I love what that you're saying I first I didn't know she was going to direct it microphone I I got confused this the beginning she sent me the script I was looking for material and I always get confused she sent the script and I said something I said her it's super interesting but it's completely director dependent so I don't know and she is the director I don't know yeah and then she comes back to me and she's we're talking and it comes out that it's her

directing and and she said well if you really really don't want to do it which I don't understand why who should I cast and I go but what do you mean you directing it I thought you were just producing it and um no no this is my next now mind you I was confused but she always has a lot of projects you know in like so I thought it was going to be a different one going first you know and she was just producing and all of a sudden it just went like boom I know I'm producing it in two months you better

get you know make a decision or something and then I said I'm I'm afraid to suffer so much I don't want to put my step through this character I've suffered my entire life now life is good for a moment I don't want to go to a I just got to be B the entire time I don't want to go there but you did what made you deci she convinced me I don't even remember I don't know before I knew it I was so already on the set loving it no I in all our conversations about her movie where I was I realized this was so much more than that and so much

more than War before I knew it I I still can't get rid of Nina inside of me it's it's so it's a haunting she took she took over Damian can you talk a little bit about speaking with Angelina about the film and deciding to do it but then also this is so much of the second half of the film is a to hander and it depends so much on the connection that you have with each other and can you talk a little bit about how you developed that and and working on set with Salo also um I I I got an email from my agent

uh Tracy Brandon and um saying uh yeah lovely Tracy Brandon and um saying um Angelina I would like you to read this uh story this uh script and that alone was a little bit crazy right it was it was it was an honor for me to uh just be able to read that and uh knowing Alexandro aro's work um I I I I did the uh his monologue nento on which uh the film that Tim BR did was based and um and then of course I knew uh silk and then uh but but I my f first uh approach to without blood was with the script that Angelina sent me

and I at some point I I couldn't I couldn't continue to read because I was fully crying and I I had to stop and I I called Tracy and I said we have to do whatever is necessary to do uh to make this film and then I I I wrote a long letter to Angelina explaining what my feelings were about the uh the the work and the character and uh everything else and U I tried to uh explain what I was feeling not only as an spectator but also as as an actor and the things that we we could do together and um and it

was it was and then we we we had the chance to talk about it extensively and uh that alone was was a gift and that set up the whole thing for the future for our future encounter and and work on set and when I knew that S I was going to do it I was I was so relieved because uh when you Embark yourself into such a such a heavy type of a work you need someone to support you and to hold you back and to be there for you and uh I've known Salma for for many many years this is our third film together and um and I

I knew she would be there for me and uh I I was jumping off a cliff with no safety safety Nate but she was my safety Nate and uh I I I don't know any you know more generous peer than Salma in many different ways because Angelina and Salma they did everything possible they moved the dates the personal you know uh uh things that they had to do him badly for for me to be able to make it and uh and and go there and uh this is the most difficult role that I played in my life me too it me too yeah and uh and

we were connected in in that sense in many different ways but uh we were there sitting at that table for for long long hours we wouldn't even move and uh the and you know when when when you go into something crazy like that you need a good soul and a beautiful artist and a free director Fearless director Brave director such as Angelina and Angelina I just want to ask you onset with these two wonderful actors and a lot of dialogue and a lot of emotional Peaks and valleys between the two of them how

are what are you saying to them on set how are you guiding them through the Dynamics of this relationship as it's evolving uh I mean there's there's um there's so much they probably don't realize they said to them separately so I wouldn't tell you everything but it was almost like um you know they they had to come to the table with some with one point of view strongly and then the table had to and the conversation had to actually they had to convince each other through through the days that would happen and

they would and they would give space for each other and they would listen to each other and then they would the next day have heard the other and asked different questions and and it kind of kept changing and I had this privilege of being there watching them and listening to them as they would kind of lead all of us through this and and let it happen and and be so open so a lot of it I was guiding a little but I was listening a lot and and um and there many other actors here that are in the film that I

realize are not sitting with us night be shy but they're here yeah Salma I want to correct myself on something it's it's not the most difficult role I played it's the most maybe most complex but it was kind of easy in a way now if I really think about it it seemed really hard I was surprised how fast how fast um we would get there honestly it was like it was it was moving very fast yeah because he was so we were he was so good and she was so good and everything was so right and the crew and the you know the rest of the cast it

was just something that kind of FL I I was afraid every day because there were like she would ask for impossible things and we look at each other oh you need your mic with from time to time from time to time she would ask for unexpected kind of impossible things you know or just beautifully strange things and um and sometimes we look at each other and say what and to be specific you know there's a a range of things but and she was doing so well that she was ahead of time it never happens so you saw there's a lot lot of

dialogue right and she would go guys good news this is amazing we're doing so well we're ahead of times so I will give you what do you need 45 minutes to learn the next five pages of monologues while I move the lights because I think we can shoot it today that was the good news really and we were so in awe of her magic and magnificent and so grateful because she was she's an amazing director that we look at each other and would go okay and then she would leave and she how the hell are we going to how I don't know

but let's start trying you know and um and then it was fun and all of a sudden we would do it and we look at each other and oh my God I said yes yes you know we were surprised of ourselves that's fantastic that's inspiring actually that you can get that from your actors um I just maybe want to ask uh one last question um something that you alluded to in the introduction that this is a film you you kind of need to sit with there's a lot of substance here a lot of kind of deep ideas uh a lot of grappling

with the impact of War and what it means for each one of us um as we sit with it as we leave the theater and we sit with this film and what you've told us in in it what kind of I don't know words of direction do you have any that you would offer Us in terms of how we sit with a film like this because it could last you could think about it days and weeks later I mean I it's it's bless you um I suppose I wish we'd just all sit together and just keep talking you know I think that's the part of it is it

should just start a conversation that I don't really have an end to or an answer um I think one of the interesting things within it is this idea that now that you've seen it you understand this idea of well who's a bad guy who's wrong who's right who's who's there's this this idea that there's some absolute and that and and how important that is and and and that the power and that how hard it is to sit at that table right it wasn't easy for you to join them at that table that is the hardest table to sit

at and the most important table to sit at right for us to get through this life and for us to understand each other um and and so much of that's happening in the world because we're unable to do that so I don't know I just hope that there's more conversation and and uh and um and that's really it just to just to thank you for really sitting with us because I really know this isn't an easy one in the beginning as this opens and I see the violence and the pain I I know that's not easy it's intentionally not

easy and and uh and then I thank you for staying in your seat and and continuing to listen so thank you Angelina thank you for the film thank you Salma thank you Damen please join me in thanking the team from without blood no [Applause] question e e