VIFF 2014 Program Guide

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CONTENTS How to VIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Dragons & Tigers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Festival Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Spotlight on France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Awards & Juries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Nonfiction Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Arts & Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

High School Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Letters of Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Altered States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

VIFF Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Galas & Special Presentations . . . . . . . . . 21

Index of Films by Theme & Genre . . . . . . 92

Canadian Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Index of Films by Country & Region . . . . . 94

Cinema of Our Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Index of Films with Screening Times . . . . 96

Festival Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Index of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Short Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

1181 Seymour Street • Vancouver, BC • V6B 3M7 Canada t (604) 685-0260 • f (604) 688-8221 www.viff.org EDITOR Curtis Woloschuk ASSOCIATE EDITOR Jack Vermee DATABASE PUBLISHING Sandy Gow GRAPHIC DESIGN Steve Chow SCHEDULE DESIGN Lawrence Boxall COVER DESIGN Traction Creative PRINTING MItchell Press Published September 3, 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada, by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society.

Errata: VIFF’s 2013 Cover Photography by David Ellingsen.

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THANK YOU TO THE 750 FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS! THE FESTIVAL LASTS 16 DAYS. THEIR PASSION IS YEAR-LONG.

H O W TO V I F F The 33rd annual Vancouver International Film Festival welcomes some of the world’s finest films to one of the most beautiful cities on the planet. For 16 days, almost 350 films from more than 70 countries will delight Vancouver film lovers. Which perhaps raises the question: Where does one even start?

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Pick your films

Flip through our film series, where films are listed alphabetically by title. Are there just a few dates during the festival that you’re available? Then turn to the Screening Schedule in the centre of this guide and find the films that are playing on a given day. Looking for something specific?

Jump right to the indexes at the back; there, you can find films by their title, theme, genre or country of origin. Need more info? Visit viff.org for longer film descriptions and additional search tools.

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Print your tickets at home

Make things easy at the theatre by printing your PDF tickets at home or having your PDF tickets ready to display on your smart phone. Be sure you include your barcode (and leave it the original size). That’s what we’ll need to scan in order to get you into the theatre.

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Showtime

If you’ve purchased (and printed) your tickets in advance, arrive and join the appropriate line outside. If you plan on buying your tickets at the venue, be sure to allow yourself sufficient time. (You can tell how busy a screening is expected to be by checking our online film guide at viff. org.) Should you have any questions at the theatre, ask one of our volunteers wearing a VIFF t-shirt. They’re happy to help!

IMPORTANT REMINDERS • Films are shown in their original language with English subtitles.

• You must buy a $2 VIFF membership (or have Membership Plus+) before your first screening and present it at every screening you attend. Lose the card and you’ll need to buy a replacement.

• With only a few exceptions, you must be age 18+ to see a film at VIFF. (19+ at the Rio Theatre.) Do you have kids that want to experience VIFF? Turn to Page 93 to see a list of films that “Under Age 18 May Attend.” Or, learn more about our High School Outreach Program on Page 87.

• Following VIFF, exchange your 2014 VIFF Membership Card for a FREE Vancity Theatre basic membership by December 31, 2014.

STAY IN THE KNOW! Subscribe for daily updates during the festival: viff.org/subscribe FOLLOW US

Buy your tickets

Skip the lines at the theatre box office and purchase your tickets online at viff.org. If you plan on seeing a number of films during the festival, consider buying ticket packs or passes. They’re convenient and can save you money!

You’ll find details on all of your options for attending VIFF on Pages 6 and 7.

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Enjoy

This may be your only chance to see many of these exceptional films on the big screen. Make the most of it and be sure that you’re considerate to your fellow viewers.

Turn off your phones and save your conversation for after the screening. We assure you: these films deserve your full attention.

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viff.org EMAIL info@viff.org CALL 604-683-FILM (3456) VISIT

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FESTIVAL INFO

Tickets

Festival Passes

Membership Plus+

REGULAR

$13

WEEKDAY MATINEE

$11

Passes offer flexibility, freedom to move between screenings and potentially the greatest savings of all. Plus: Passholders are the first people through the doors at each screening (and are allowed entry until the generous passholder allotment of seats has been filled.)

All Plus+ Members receive memberships to VIFF and Vancity Theatre AND their first screening at Vancity Theatre for free.

Each membership level offers unique perks that enable you to experience more VIFF! Visit: www.viff.org/membershipplus for more details or contact membership@viff.org

PLATINUM PASS $900 Admission to all festival screenings with guaranteed seating until 5 minutes before showtime and immediate entry privileges. No waiting in line!

Charitable #: 118946821RROOO1

FESTIVAL PASS $400 Admission to all festival screenings, excluding Opening and Closing Galas.

Tickets can be purchased up to 30 minutes prior to showtime either online or at any VIFF venue box office.

Within 30 minutes of showtime, tickets are only available at the screening venue (subject to availability).

Starting before 6pm.

STUDENT (18+) / SENIOR (65+)

$11

Must present valid ID at screening.

YOUTH (under 18)

$9

Only permitted at limited screenings. See Page 93 for films classified so that “Under 18 Can Attend.”

OPENING OR CLOSING GALA FILM

$15

Prices also apply to repeat screenings of Gala Films.

Membership Plus+ saves you $2 per ticket (until Sept. 24) $1 service charge per ticket ordered online (up to a maximum charge of $4). $1 per ticket exchanged.

Must be exchanged in person at a VIFF box office at least 1 hour prior to the screening you no longer want. Exchanges cannot be made for missed screenings.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

T H E R E W I L L BE NO R EF U NDS EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF C A N C E L L ED SCR EEN I NGS.

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP $2 VIFF presents films that have not been classified by Consumer Protection BC. By law, anyone wishing to see these unclassified films must be a member of the VIFF Society and 18 years of age or older, unless otherwise stated.

Following VIFF, exchange your 2014 VIFF Membership Card for a FREE Vancity Theatre basic membership by December 31, 2014.

STUDENT/SENIOR PASS $325 Available to students (18+) and seniors (65+). Admission to all festival screenings, excluding Opening and Closing Galas. Must present valid ID at all screenings.

WEEKDAY MATINEE PASS $175 Admission to all weekday matinee screenings (starting before 6pm).

STYLE IN FILM PASSPORT $99 Six films, exclusive passholder screening, special guests, events and much more! Details on Page 81.

VIFF Industry Passes DELEGATE PASS October 1-4 POWER TO THE INDIE PROGRAM PASS October 1 DAY PASS October 2 or October 3 TOTALLY INDIE DAY PASS October 4

Ticket Packs Buy more, save more. Plus: Select the films you want in advance and you’re guaranteed admission.

5-TICKET PACK

$60

$12 per ticket. Limit of one ticket per screening.

12-TICKET PACK

$144

$12 per ticket. Limit of two tickets per screening.

20-TICKET PACK

$220

$11 per ticket. Limit of two tickets per screening.

30-TICKET PACK

$300

$10 per ticket. Limit of two tickets per screening.

STUDENT (18+) / SENIOR (65+) 5-TICKET PACK

$50

$10 per ticket. Limit of one ticket per screening.

Must present valid ID at all screenings.

Membership Plus+ saves you 10% on Passes (until Sept. 24) $2 service charge per 5-Ticket Pack purchased online or in person. $4 per Ticket Pack of 12 or more purchased online or in person. Ticket packs cannot be redeemed for “VIFF Repeats” screenings held after the festival closes on October 10.

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Purchasing Tickets

PURCHASE ONLINE. PRINT AT HOME. OR BE “SMART” ABOUT IT.

Avoid the box office lines by purchasing your tickets at viff. org and taking advantage of the Print at Home option. Once your tickets have been emailed to you, you can print them or simply display them on your smart phone at the theatre.

(This is the best option if you want to purchase tickets for someone else. Just forward their ticket to them by email!)

If you’re printing your tickets, be sure you keep the printed barcode with you. This will need to be scanned at the theatre. Please leave the barcode its original size – don’t shrink or reformat it.

THEATRE PICK-UP

$300 $90

If you need us to print your tickets, come to any VIFF office with your order number, photo ID and the credit card used for the purchase. Be sure to allow sufficient time to pick up your tickets before your screening. Arrive at least 30 minutes before showtime.

$125 $90

Combo Passes INDUSTRY+ PASS $600 Valid for all VIFF Industry sessions and VIFF screenings with the exception of galas. Pass is non-transferable.

BIZ PASS $900 Valid for all VIFF Industry sessions. Includes 30 membershipincluded tickets to VIFF screenings. Pass is transferrable.

LAUNCH PASS $400 Available to students 19+. Must present valid ID at all screenings. Valid for all VIFF Industry sessions and VIFF screenings with the exception of galas.

Visit viff.org/industry for more information on VIFF Industry and Combo Passes.

IMPORTANT NOTES: $4 service charge per pass ordered online.

Passes are available for purchase online at viff.org now or in person at the Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street) starting September 13. If passes are purchased online, they can be collected at the Vancity Theatre starting September 13.

(Other VIFF venues will not be able to print your pass.) With the exception of the BIZ PASS, all passes are strictly nontransferable and photo ID may be requested at the theatres.

Visit viff.org/festival/passes for more information.

What’s the best deal?

• Tickets are best if you want to keep it simple and just attend a few films.

• Ticket Packs offer savings and may be your best bet if you plan to attend at least five evening screenings and want guaranteed seats.

• Passes are ideal if you want maximum flexibility to see as many films as possible and don’t mind taking your chances with available seats.

• Platinum Passes are perfect if you want guaranteed premium seating up to 5 minutes before showtime.

How do I know if I’ll get in?

You can tell how busy a screening is expected to be by checking our online film guide at viff.org. You should plan ahead in order to avoid disappointment and arrive at the theatre early.

Rush Tickets If advance tickets are sold out for a screening, don’t despair!

“Rush tickets” will be available at the venue just before showtime. If you want to explore this option, arrive at the theatre early and join the “Rush Line.” Be advised: When this line is admitted, it will be one ticket per person. You won’t be able to buy tickets for anyone who isn’t present.

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DAILY UPDATES: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 THROUGH FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10

Theatres The Centre for the Performing Arts (CENT) 777 Homer Street (at Robson) The Cinematheque (CINE) 1131 Howe Street (at Helmcken) Cineplex Odeon International Village (IN08, IN09, IN10) 88 West Pender Street (at Abbott) VIFF box office located on ground floor.

SFU’S Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (SFU) 149 West Hastings Street (between Cambie and Abbott inside SFU Woodwards) Vancity Theatre (VCT) 1181 Seymour Street (at Davie) VIFF`s year-round venue Liquor served.

About VIFF The Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society is a non-profit, tax-exempt, educational and cultural organization incorporated and registered under The Society Act of British Columbia, and a federally registered charity under the Canadian Income Tax Act. Charitable Registration Number BN118946821RROOO1

Vancouver Playhouse (PLAY) 600 Hamilton Street (at Dunsmuir)

Rio Theatre (RIO) 1660 East Broadway (at Commercial) Liquor served. Ages 19+ unless otherwise noted. ID and bag checks are possible.

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AWARDS + JURIES

Canadian Images Awards

BC Spotlight Awards

Impact Award

While VIFF welcomes films from all over the world, our acclaimed Canadian Images series – the largest exhibition of new Canadian cinema in the world – remains an integral part of the festival. This year, VIFF furthers its commitment to Canadian narrative filmmakers by introducing a cash award to celebrate their outstanding achievements.

VIFF once again invites the latest work by our province’s brightest filmmakers to take centre stage. Furthermore, we offer two significant cash awards to ensure that these local storytellers keep creating and offer film-lovers the chance to vote for their must-see BC features at mustseeBC.viff.org.

Recognizing that documentary filmmaking can be a powerful agent of change, this award is intended for the director of a Canadian documentary that’s deeply concerned with social issues. It’s designed to offer the resources necessary to amplify the film’s message, ensuring that it resonates long after its VIFF screening, potentially transforming the movie into a movement.

BEST CANADIAN FILM

The most anticipated BC film will play the BC Spotlight Gala at the Playhouse on Saturday, October 4 at 6:30pm.

$8,000 cash prize

BEST BC FILM

SPONSORED BY THE DIRECTORS GUILD OF CANADA

$10,000 development bursary

$5,000 development bursary SPONSORED BY AGENTIC DIGITAL MEDIA

+ $5,000 in marketing and strategic in-kind services

SPONSORED BY THE HAROLD GREENBERG FUND

NOMINATED FILMS 1987 Black Fly Dirty Singles Elephant Song Mommy October Gale Sitting on the Edge of Marlene Turbulence The Valley Below Violent You’re Sleeping Nicole

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MOST PROMISING DIRECTOR OF A CANADIAN SHORT FILM

$2,000 cash prize JURORS John Cassini is an award-winning actor.

He has produced four feature films, written and developed TV projects for various networks and has been a personal acting coach and teacher for over 20 years. He is a lifetime member of the prestigious Actors Studio in New York and Los Angeles and is the CoArtistic Director of Vancouver’s Railtown Actors Studio.

Peter Machen was appointed manager of the Durban International Film Festival in April 2013, after seven years of working for the festival as a programmer and writer. He is one of South Africa’s leading arts and film writers. He is currently the Sunday Tribune’s resident film columnist and is the author of two books on Durban.

Gaylene Preston has made some of the most enduring popular classics of New Zealand cinema. An award-winning storyteller whose films have a distinctive flavour that entertains while presenting serious subjects with humour and warmth, she is the inaugural NZ Arts Foundation filmmaker Laureate and an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit for her services to filmmaking. Her latest project, Hope and Wire, screens at VIFF this year.

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+ $15,000 for post-production services

SUPPLIED BY AGENTIC AND STORY MONEY IMPACT

SUPPLIED BY DELUXE

(All films in the BC Spotlight are eligible for Best BC Film.)

BC EMERGING FILMMAKER

$7,500 cash prize SPONSORED BY UBCP/ACTRA FRATERNAL

+ $10,000 equipment credit SUPPLIED BY WILLIAM F. WHITE

(Films must be signatory to a UBCP/ACTRA agreement to be eligible.)

FILMS IN THE BC SPOTLIGHT Black Fly Bloody Knuckles The Boy from Geita Everything Will Be Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story Martin’s Pink Pickle Preggoland The Pristine Coast Sitting on the Edge of Marlene Songs She Wrote About People She Knows Turbulence Two 4 One Violent

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ELIGIBLE FILMS The Boy From Geita Everything Will Be Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story Monsoon The Price We Pay The Pristine Coast JURORS TBA - VISIT VIFF.ORG FOR DETAILS.

BC SPOTLIGHT 13 FILMS + 2 CASH/2 IN-KIND AWARDS + #mustseeBC + BC SPOTLIGHT GALA

BC Spotlight Gala — Playhouse, Sat. Oct 4, 6:30pm <insert YOUR Must See BC Film>!

We are thrilled to offer this coveted gala spot to the winner of the #mustseeBC contest, where audiences will have the power to tell us which film they want to see at this exciting event.

JURORS

Check out mustseebc.viff.org for details!

Joel Bakan, a professor of law at the University of British Columbia, wrote the award-winning book and film (co-created with Mark Achbar) The Corporation, as well as numerous scholarly works. Bakan is also a jazz guitarist who performs with his wife, actress and singer Rebecca Jenkins.

Kathy Chilco has produced, directed and written a wide range of television programming, including award-winning music and comedy specials, series, documentaries and new productions of Sesame Street.

She is currently based in Vancouver.

Bruce Sweeney received a B.A. in visual art and communication from Simon Fraser University and a M.F.A. in film from the University of British Columbia. He won Best Canadian Film at TIFF 95 for Live Bait. His latest film, The Dick Knost Show, won Best BC Film at VIFF 13.

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PROGRAM PARTNERS

AWARDS

MEDIA

INDUSTRY SUPPORTERS

Best New Director Award This prize is awarded annually to a first or second-time international director for a creative and innovative film which has not yet won significant international recognition.

This competition flows directly from our 20-year history of offering the “Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema.”

Over the past two decades, a particularly distinguished group of films were brought to early international attention at VIFF and their visiting directors benefited significantly from their recognition in Vancouver. We’re pleased to continue to help launch the careers of some of the world’s most deserving and promising young filmmakers.

NOMINATED FILMS Asteroid

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August Winds

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Exit

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Miss and the Doctors

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Ow

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Paris of the North

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Rekorder

page 73

The Sun, The Moon and the Hurricane

page 73

Two Step

page 61

Una Vida: A Fable of Music and The Mind

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The Womb

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DIR. MARCELO TOBAR, MEXICO

DIR. GABRIEL MASCARO, BRAZIL

DIR. CHIENN HSIANG, TAIWAN/HONG KONG

DIR. AXELLE ROPERT, FRANCE

DIR. SUZUKI YOHEI, JAPAN

DIR. HAFSTEINN GUNNAR SIGURÐSSON, ICELAND

DIR. MIKHAIL RED, PHILIPPINES

DIR. ANDRI CUNG, INDONESIA

DIR. ALEX R. JOHNSON, USA

DIR. RICHIE ADAMS, USA

DIR. DANIEL RODRÍGUEZ RISCO, PERU

JURORS Ben Gibson is Director, Degree Programs at AFTRS, Australia’s national film school.

He was previously Director of the London Film School and worked as Head of Production at the British Film Institute. He has also been a theatre director, repertory film programmer and film critic and journalist.

DID YOU KNOW? The VIFF Society is a charitable arts and cultural organization that operates 365 days a year. 750 volunteers dedicate over 24,000 hours to the Society each year.

For every $1 earned an additional $3 must be raised to support the world-class programming the Society is renowned for.

Kim Linekin has been a film critic since 1999. She’s currently CBC Radio’s national pop culture columnist and chair of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. She’s covered film and TV extensively for MSN and sporadically for The Georgia Straight, Montage and POV magazines and other outlets.

2000 high school students attend festival screenings as part of their curriculum each year.

Roland Smith has been declared “the godfather of repertory cinema” by The Montreal Gazette. He invented the name (“repertory cinema”) in 1963 and has spent his life operating cinemas showing international films, Canadian films and classics from Hollywood. He is now a distributor of films for cinemas, video and television.

The Vancity Theatre hosts and supports over 70 film festivals and cultural events each year.

The Vancity Theatre presents over 600 of screenings of the best in independent cinema each year.

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THE GREATER VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETY

Board of Directors

Development

CHAIR

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

AUDIENCE SERVICES MANAGER

Dave Hewitt

Shelley Sainsbury

Mickey Brazeau

Audience Services

CHAIR EMERITUS

SPONSORSHIP + DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

BOX OFFICE MANAGER

Michael Francis

Lisa Rasmussen

Lora Haber

Rudy Buttignol, Colin Browne, Kevin Campbell, Scott Dunlop, Thomas Fung, Prem Gill, J. Joly, Jae J. Kim, Pete Mitchell, Marlie Oden, Terry Whitehead

MEMBERSHIP GIVING COORDINATOR

BOX OFFICE COORDINATOR

FESTIVAL FOUNDER

Layla Cameron

Meagan Lum

Jonah McGarva

SPONSORSHIP + DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT

COMPLIMENTARY ACCREDITATION COORDINATOR

Leonard Schein

Executive Director Jacqueline Dupuis

Operations

Brade Stanton

BUSINESS MANAGER

BOX OFFICE STAFF

Linda Gorrie OFFICE & FACILITY MANAGER

Programming DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING

Alan Franey PROGRAM MANAGER + SENIOR PROGRAMMER

PoChu AuYeung CANADIAN IMAGES PROGRAMMER

Terry McEvoy DRAGONS & TIGERS PROGRAMMER

Shelly Kraicer DRAGONS & TIGERS PROGRAMMER

Tony Rayns PROGRAMMING ASSOCIATE

Mark Peranson

Lori Strong IT & SYSTEMS MANAGER

Adam Theriault Sandy Gow ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS

Theatres

Lauren White, Erika Kenning

EXHIBITIONS MANAGER

ACCOUNTING AND PAYROLL ASSISTANT

Susan Cai ADDITIONAL IT SUPPORT

ITS Consulting, Inc.

Marketing MARKETING DIRECTOR

Sandy Gow

Lainé Slater

PROGRAM LOGISTICS COORDINATOR + CANADIAN IMAGES SHORTS PROGRAMMER

MARKETING COORDINATOR

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Tammy Bannister CANADIAN IMAGES PROGRAMMING ASSISTANT

Sophie Jarvis PROGRAMMING CONSULTANTS

Tammy Bannister, Tom Charity, Michael Ghent, Pavol Hell, Robert & Gretchen Ingram, Victor Martinez Aja, Alissa Simon, Jack Vermee, Curtis Woloschuk INTERNATIONAL SCREENING COMMITTEE

Mike Archibald, Austin Aplin, Meghan Bell, Iuliana Constantinescu, Venay Felton, Melanie Friesen, Magali Gillon, Joel Martineau, Ben Milne, Giancarlo Moro, Anil Patadé, Lisa Rasmussen, Kaen Séguin, Kathryn Wood Keith Yoshida CANADIAN IMAGES SCREENING COMMITTEE

Morgaine Jennings DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR

Meghan Bell GRAPHIC DESIGNERS

Belinda Bruce, Salena Keath, Mandy Scanga DISTRIBUTION COORDINATOR

Alex MacGillivray MARKETING INTERNS

Kelsey McHattie-Simpson, Jasmine Li, Vivian Lin

Publicity

GUEST TRAVEL MANAGER

EDITOR + PUBLICATIONS COORDINATOR

Justin Mah

Faye Parlow

Curtis Woloschuk

GUEST TRAVEL ASSISTANT

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Jack Vermee DATABASE PUBLISHING

Eunhee Brown

Sandy Gow

HOSPITALITY ASSISTANT MANAGER

GRAPHIC DESIGN

FOREIGN GUEST COORDINATOR

HOSPITALITY FOOD AND BEVERAGE COORDINATOR

Lillooet Fox HOSPITALITY TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR

Donna Lytle

Steve Chow | chowdesign.ca SCHEDULE DESIGN

Lawrence Boxall CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Mike Archibald, Tammy Bannister, Tom Charity, Adam Cook, Alan Franey, Robert Ingram, Sophie Jarvis, Shelly Kraicer, Justin Mah, Terry McEvoy, Mark Peranson, Tony Rayns, Alissa Simon, Jack Vermee, Curtis Woloschuk

HOSPITALITY ASSISTANT TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR

Chris Kirby

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Matt Kunau VIDEO COORDINATOR

Sandy Gow PROJECTION & SOUND TECHNICAL CREW

Jesse August, Jurgen Beerwald, Edward Dardis, Mike Davison, Kevin Eagle, Rich Eiboff, Marshall Freund, Sandy Gow, Charlie Greenough, Sumit Guha, Brian Iankovs, Scott Jacks, Dave Jones, Matt Kunau, Ingrid Lae, John Langdon, Orlando Ruiz, Gary Stamford, Rob Schnaiberg, Peter Schweiger, Graeme Scott, Damien Scully, John Winslow

Print Logistics PRINT TRAFFIC COORDINATORS

PRINT TRANSPORT

Helen Yagi, Andrew Poon

Publications

Theresa Ho

VENUE MANAGERS

Heather Baker, Stephanie Brogden, Michael Challenor, Brent Coate, Kyle Fostner, Brie Koniczek, Nancy Kurek, Pat Leong, Ciara O’Donnell, Peter Quin-Conroy, Kaen Seguin, Rodney Stewart, Wayne Stewart, Jennifer Tennant, Robbie Vergara, Teresa Weir, Paul Williams, Michael Finnegan, Lucas James Harder, Samantha Reeve

VIFF SENIOR PUBLICISTS

Guest Services + Hospitality

Tallulah

George Mah

Kathy Evans, Selina Crammond

VIFF MEDIA OFFICE MANAGER + PUBLICIST

HOSPITALITY MANAGER

Sean Wilson EXHIBITIONS CONSULTANT

Jive Communications

Jurgen Beerwald, Michelle Bjornson, Nicole Brazeau, Susan Buie, Andrée Faucher, Brie Koniczek, Ray Lai, Janos Sitar

Sophie Jarvis

Heather Baker, Taylor Beaumont, Josie Boyce, Jessica Brudner, Kelvin Chan, Felix Cheng, Gisele da Silva, Travis Deglow, Roberta Fraser, Elizabeth Glancy, Lindy Gray, Larissa Hildebrandt, James Karvellas, Paycia Khamvongsa, Kate Lasiuk, Stephanie Mah, Veronica Maynard, Jade McDonald, Shalini Morgan, Shane Omar, Amanda Thomson, Leila Toledo, Logan Trudeau, Stephen Tweedale, Pia Warwick, Sabrina Zaverganietz

DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAMMER

Curtis Woloschuk

Denice Jagic VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR

We would especially like to thank our exceptional team of 750 volunteers!

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I am pleased to extend my warmest greetings to everyone attending the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).

As Premier of the Province of British Columbia, it is my pleasure to extend greetings to everyone attending the 33rd annual Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).

On the road to Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017, we have a wonderful opportunity to celebrate everything that makes this such a remarkable country—including arts and culture, like film, that bring vitality to our communities.

The Vancouver International Film Festival is one of the five largest events of its kind in North America. Eagerly awaited by fans and industry insiders alike, VIFF presents creative and groundbreaking films, from popular picks to hidden treasures. VIFF Industry advances the film and television sector with opportunities for delegates to share their knowledge while celebrating cinema, TV, and digital media.

I would like to commend the members of the Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society for organizing this event and for their contributions to the motion picture industry on the West Coast. I am certain that this year’s edition of the festival will be a resounding success.

On behalf of the Government of Canada, I offer my best wishes for a memorable experience.

Over these past thirty-three years, VIFF has grown to be one of the largest and most well-renowned film festivals in North America. It showcases a wide variety of films, offering a unique perspective that speaks to the diversity we enjoy here in British Columbia. Audiences are sure to be both entertained and inspired.

British Columbians are proud of our thriving arts community, and, without a doubt, this Festival contributes greatly by supporting and promoting the Canadian film industry.

Thank you to the Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society, along with all those whose efforts have gone towards bringing V I FF to fruition.

The films presented at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival show the powerful role that filmmaking has in our society. With its film screenings and other outreach activities, the Festival continues to solidify Vancouver’s reputation as an international hub for creativity and commerce in the world of cinema.

On behalf of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Government of Canada, I would like to thank the organizers and volunteers who have helped bring this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival to life.

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This year marks VIFF’s 33rd anniversary. The festival’s success has grown steadily into a testament to the vibrancy of arts and culture in British Columbia. As one of North America’s top five film festivals, VIFF features hundreds of fine productions representing leading-edge filmmakers and film cultures from around the world.

VIFF showcases the work of talented filmmakers from British Columbia and Canada. B.C.’s film artists and industry enjoy well-earned global respect. Once again, VIFF Industry will present western Canada’s largest screenbased media conference – always a great opportunity for professional development and networking.

Culturally, VIFF entertains, educates and inspires British Columbians, as well as visitors from across Canada and around the world. Socially, the festival brings people together to enjoy great art. Hundreds of screenings at Vancouver theatres provide abundant opportunities for audiences to enjoy and discuss interesting films together with family and friends.

Economically, VIFF creates a significant benefit for local businesses and tourism. Last year’s festival drew 130,000 admissions.

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The Vancouver International Film Festival is among the leading festivals of the world as a showcase for the most creative and innovative productions in international cinema. As television and other mass media move their focus to immediate local news and “reality” programming, film is becoming an even more important medium of artistic expression, reportage and entertainment.

Telefilm Canada is once again delighted to partner with the Vancouver International Film Festival, an ideal opportunity to discover or rediscover Canadian filmmaking—a cinema brimming with talent!

I want to thank the filmmakers and artists taking part in this year’s festival for sharing your craft with us and to the audiences attending the festival, I trust you will be both entertained and enlightened.

On behalf of all the citizens of Vancouver, thank you and have a wonderful festival.

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Our filmmakers share a rich diversity of stories and characters that surprise, touch and entertain us all as well as make us laugh and think. Their expertise is unique. Their profoundly original stories are appreciated worldwide, as attested by tremendous success at the Oscars, Cannes, Berlin, Shanghai as well as many other major festivals and markets.

Telefilm hopes that more and more Canadians get to experience their national cinema, now accessible on multiple platforms, and that they identify with its importance for the country. We provide support to dynamic companies as well as to highly talented creators, actors and artisans from all regions. And we also work with the industry and numerous partners to promote Canadian cinema, both at home and abroad.

Congratulations to the organizers of the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival. Enjoy the films!

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Jean-Marc Vallée follows up on Dallas Buyers Club with another enthralling odyssey fuelled by an individual’s remarkable resilience. Working from Nick Hornby’s masterful adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s best-selling memoir, Vallée elicits a powerhouse performance from Reese Witherspoon in the role of the author. Viewers who believed that they had Witherspoon pegged will be astonished by her complex turn here as a woman who’s survived the death of her beloved mother (Laura Dern, glimpsed in flashbacks and certain to be in the thick of the conversation come awards season), drug abuse, sex addiction, divorce and homelessness but who now faces her most daunting challenge.

CAST Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski, Michiel Huisman, Gaby Hoffmann, Kevin Rankin EXEC Bergen Swanson, Nathan Ross, Nick Hornby PROD Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandera, Bill Pohlad SCR Nick Hornby CAM Yves Bélanger ED John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa PROD DES John Paino PROD CO Pacific Standard PRINT Fox Searchlight

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Aspiring to achieve both self-discovery and catharsis, Cheryl sets out to hike 1,800 kilometres of the imposing Pacific Crest Trail. This gruelling three-month quest not only pushes her to her physical limits but also forces her to confront the demons that plague her. Vallée and Hornby preserve the unflinching candour and biting humour of Strayed’s book while delivering bold, cinematic storytelling that demands to be experienced on the big screen.

“A ruggedly beautiful and emotionally resonant saga of perseverance and self-discovery that represents a fine addition to the recent bumper crop of big screen survival stories... It’s no surprise that the versatile Vallée, who recently directed two Oscar-winning performances in Dallas Buyers Club, has elicited from Witherspoon an intensely committed turn that, in its blend of grit, vulnerability, physical bravery and emotional immediacy, represents easily her most affecting and substantial work in the nine years since Walk the Line.”—JUSTIN CHANG, VARIETY

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“Unique, personal, transfixing, and transforming... Chazelle’s passion for the movie musical was evident in Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, his no-budget, 16mm, black-and-white, Harvard-film-student ode to the French New Wave and its love for postwar song ‘n’ dance flicks. A leap up the ladder of professionalism, Whiplash shows Chazelle in command of every aspect of directing and writing, with a pure and uncompromised vision of what movies can and should be. Much more complex than the logline bestowed by Sundance fans—’Full Metal Jacket at Juilliard’—the film is indeed a musical, its live jazz core fused with an ambient score by Justin Hurwitz that keeps your pulse rate elevated from beginning to end. Chazelle’s influences here are less Kubrick than Scorsese (especially the performance-anxiety-driven After Hours) and Fincher (especially Read Thea fund’ Social Network).

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Welcome to Me

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ISHII YUYA, JAPAN/CANADA, 2014, 130 MIN.

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WORLD PREMIERE. Once upon a time in Vancouver, there was a baseball team called the Asahi, This was in the 1930s, when the city had a small Japantown on the downtown wharves, and the team was formed by the Canadian-born kids of immigrants. At the start they were always wiped out by the burly Caucasian teams, and they encountered their share of racism and prejudice along the way. But they rethought their strategy and began to pull back lost ground … until Canada’s growing worries about Japanese militarism got in the way and Pearl Harbor led to the mass internment of émigré Japanese. The Asahi never really recovered from the war, so its achievements have become the stuff of legend.

VIFF is proud to have supported Ishii Yuya from his indie beginnings (Bare-assed Japan, VIFF 2007) and we’ve followed his progress with admiration right through to last year’s wonderful The Great Passage. So we’re happy that he’s turned to a resonant piece of Vancouver history for his new film and delighted that we get to stage its premiere with a number of special guests. The film recreates 1930s Vancouver on a lavish scale, explores the clash between separatist immigrants and their assimilationist kids and has a generous measure of Ishii’s trademark humour and humanity. An old-fashioned entertainment in the best sense. In a word, thrilling. TONY RAYNS CAST Tsumabuki Satoshi, Kamenashi Kazuya, Takahata Mitsuki, Miyazaki Aoi, Katsuji Ryo, Kamiji Yusuke, Ikematsu Sosuke, Kanjiya Shihori, Ishida Eri, Sato Koichi PROD Inaba Naoto, Kikuchi Miyoshi SCR Okudera Satoko CAM Kondo Ryuto ED Fushima Shinichi PROD DES Harada Mitsuo MUS Watanabe Takashi PROD CO Film-makers Inc. PRINT Pony Canyon Inc.

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Thanks to a Mega-Millions lottery windfall, Alice Klieg (Kristen Wiig) is free to follow her wildest whims. Unfortunately, her Borderline Personality Disorder-determined impulses drive her to quit her meds, embrace her rampant self-obsession and launch a cable access show as a soapbox for her skewed views on everything from nutrition to neutering. As there’s never been a better time to be a televised train wreck, she builds a mass following and unwittingly assumes a starring role in a cautionary tale about the debilitating side effects of a meteoric rise to infamy.

Scripted by Eliot Laurence and directed by Shira Piven, this outrageous dramedy serves as both an uproarious send-up and scathing indictment of the narcissism flourishing in contemporary culture. Whereas UHF—another television station-set comedy—had to wait years to be fully appreciated, Welcome to Me arrives at just the right time to tap into the zeitgeist. Handed her best role since Bridesmaids, Wiig ensures that Alice’s bizarre behaviour is surprisingly plausible. Her unhinged performance is abetted by stellar supporting turns from Linda Cardellini as her dutiful best friend, Tim Robbins as her put-upon shrink and James Marsden and Wes Bentley as wannabe infomercial tycoons who are roped into producing Alice’s show. Having no concept of what they’ve signed on for, they’re soon caught up in her manic thrall. Glued to the screen, we can completely sympathize.

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The Sils Maria of the title is the glorious above-the-clouds backdrop in the Swiss Alps for Juliette Binoche’s riveting turn as an actor deciding whether or not to revisit the play that made her a star 20 years before. The problem? This time she has been asked to essay the role of the older woman, not the ingenue...

Travelling with her ever-present assistant Val (Kristen Stewart, excellent), 40-ish star Maria Enders (Binoche) is dealing with a divorce and the self-reflection that accompanies such things when the opportunity presents itself to take the “senior” role in a taut lesbian drama about a young woman who manipulates her older lover to the point of madness. When her co-star, the wild, Hollywood starlet Jo-Ann (Chloë Grace Moretz) arrives on the scene, Maria is pushed even further into herself... Writer-director Olivier Assayas’ deep meditation on aging, the art of acting and the role of women on film and in life is both moving and profound.

“Though deceptively casual on its surface, Clouds of Sils Maria... [is] a multi-layered, femmedriven meta-fiction that pushes all involved—including next-gen starlets Kristen Stewart and Chloë Grace Moretz—to new heights... Binoche leaves audiences with [an] exhilarating feeling here—of having witnessed something precious and rare—answering the challenge of Assayas’ script by revealing a character incredibly close to her soul.”—PETER DEBRUGE, VARIETY CAST Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lars Eidinger, Johnny Flynn, Brady Corbet EXEC Sylvia Barthet PROD Charles Gillibert SCR Olivier Assayas CAM Yorick Le Saux ED Marion Monnier PROD DES François Renaud Labarthe PROD CO CG Cinema DIST/PRINT Mongrel Media

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Employing an unsettling mix of suspense and absurdity, Bennett Miller’s (Capote, Moneyball) bravura drama delves into the bizarre true story of Olympic wrestling brothers Mark and David Schultz (Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo) and their well-heeled, mentally imbalanced sponsor John du Pont (an unrecognizable Steve Carell, combining arrogance and anguish to monstrous effect).

Du Pont, a wealthy heir to the chemical-company fortune, had a history of philanthropic works when, in the 1980s, he built a wrestling complex on the Pennsylvania ranch he called Foxcatcher and invited Olympic hopefuls the Schultz brothers to live there and train for the 1988 Games. Originally, only the inward and inarticulate Mark (Tatum) accepted; the more self-possessed and outspoken Dave (Ruffalo), married and with a child, said no. Until, convinced by his brother (who had been pushed into it by du Pont), he said yes. What follows is a complex, masterfully orchestrated psychological huis clos, brilliantly acted by all involved.

“Powerfully disturbing... This insidiously gripping psychological drama is a model of bleak, bruising, furiously concentrated storytelling... What we’re left with... is an acrid, anguished commentary on the temptations of wealth, the abuse of power and the downside of the human drive for success, as well as a picture that, in setting a cold-blooded account of a true crime in the world of competitive sports, retains a faint narrative kinship with both Capote and Moneyball”—JUSTIN CHANG, VARIETY WINNER, BEST DIRECTOR, CANNES 2014.

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The Golden Era is a fascinatingly unconventional biopic about the woman writer Xiao Hong, who died shockingly young in 1942. We know all the basic facts about her life: her birth in Northeast China, her break with her family, her fraught romance with fellow writer Xiao Jun, her eventual marriage to another writer she never loved. But there are tantalizing gaps.

Li Qiang’s brilliant script pieces together episodes from Xiao Hong’s own writings with impressions from her friends to create a picture which acknowledges all the known unknowns and contradictions. This is one biopic which admits that it’s impossible to ever know the objective truth about a person’s life.

You could think of Ann Hui’s masterly film as a companion piece to Stanley Kwan’s Ruan Lingyu, looking at a talented woman of the 1930s caught between self-assertion and the upheavals of the times. Tang Wei gives her best performance yet as the sometimes yearning, sometimes heartless Xiao Hong drifting in and out of contact with the literary giants of her day, including Lu Xun and Ding Ling. The Golden Era captures the bigger picture vividly—the Japanese invasion, the hounding of “leftists” by the authorities—but also gets all the intimate details right. By the end, we’re persuaded that Xiao Hong was one of the defining voices in modern Chinese culture. TONY RAYNS CAST Tang Wei, Feng Shaofeng, Zhu Yawen, Wang Zhiwen, Hao Lei, Wang Qianyuan PRINT China Lion Film Distribution EXEC Yuan Mei, Li Qiang PROD Qin Hong SCR Li Qiang CAM Wang Yu ED Manda Wai MUS Eli Marshall PROD CO Stellar Mega Films / China Film Company / Edko Films / Beijing Spring Film & TV Culture Co. / Beijing Cheerland Film & TV Culture Communication Co. / Stellar Mega Pictures DIST China Lion Film Distribution

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The title, of course, comes from the lyrics to The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever.”

Likewise, this charming, nostalgic road movie is inspired by the true story of a high-school English teacher—and Fab Four devotee—who drove across Spain in 1966 to meet his idol John Lennon on the set of How I Won the War in Almeria in hopes of clarifying some lyrics he couldn’t quite understand.

From this historical tidbit, writer-director David Trueba has concocted an engaging comic drama, imagining the interactions of bookish Antonio (Javier Cámara) with two teenage runaways he picks up along the way: Belén (Natalia de Molina), a pregnant girl fleeing a convent, and Juanjo (Francesc Colomer), a boy escaping a dictatorial father. Trueba lightly evokes a period of transition, when the Franco dictatorship could no longer shield the younger generation from pop culture influences that were opening eyes and ears across Europe and beyond. Most touching, though, is Cámara—familiar to North American audiences from Almodóvar’s Talk to Her and I’m So Excited!—who essays a sweetly affectionate portrait of fandom that’s at once innocent, intelligent and sincere.

“This small gem offers a lovely evocation of Spain as well as a touching tribute to an unforgettable moment in time when the Beatles seemed to offer brand new possibilities, the idea that strawberry fields might indeed go on forever.”—STEPHEN FARBER, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER WINNER, BEST FILM, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST ACTOR, GOYA AWARDS 2014.

CAST Javier Cámara, Natalia de Molina, Francesc Colomer, Ramon Fontserè, Jorge Sanz, Ariadna Gil PROD Cristina Huete SCR David Trueba CAM Daniel Vilar ED Marta Velasco PROD DES Pilar Revuelta MUS Pat Metheny PROD CO Fernando Trueba Producciones Cinematográficas / Canal+ España / Televisión Española (TVE) DIST/PRINT A-Z Films This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

6:30 PM

PLAY

Perverse and playful, David Cronenberg’s merciless satire takes dead aim at the Hollywood glitterati’s vanities, psychoses and foolish belief that the past can be rewritten. A powerhouse ensemble that includes John Cusack, Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson brings Cronenberg’s glamourous grotesques to life.

Mutiple storylines intersect as teenage burn victim Agatha (Wasikowska) arrives in Hollywood, catches a limo ride with chauffeur Jerome (Pattinson) and soon starts working as a “chore whore” (production assistant) for aging—and decidedly vain and neurotic—actress Havana Segrand (Moore). Meanwhile Segrand’s masseur/shrink Dr. Stafford Weiss (an oily Cusack), a famous-on-TV self-help guru, and his Hollywood agent wife Christina (Olivia Williams) are trying to cope with the precocious outbursts of their 13-year-old son Benjie (Evan Bird), Hollywood’s biggest child star, just out of rehab... With Agatha serving as the glue that cements this group together (no spoilers here!), Cronenberg unleashes a barrage of baroque and occasionally bloody barbs at all things Hollywood.

“Mulholland Drive, Sunset Boulevard and The Player wrapped up into one darkly comic, Gothic-tinged package... Wasikowska is the lynchpin of the film’s success, her always believable, sympathetic, occasionally scary performance as a car-crash of a teenager serving to ground the comedy dramatically and tow it into darker waters... There’s a real sting in the satire, and no holds are barred in the dialogue...”—LEE MARSHALL, SCREEN WINNER, BEST ACTRESS (JULIANNE MOORE), CANNES 2014.

CAST Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Olivia Williams EXEC Benedict Carver, Renee Tab, Patrice Theroux PROD Saïd Ben Saïd, Martin Katz, Michel Merkt SCR Bruce Wagner CAM Peter Suschitzky ED Ronald Sanders PROD DES Carol Spier MUS Howard Shore PROD CO Prospero Pictures / Sentient Entertainment / SBS Productions / Integral Film DIST/PRINT eOne Films

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UK

The Riot Club

Men, Women & Children

LONE SCHERFIG, UK, 2014, 106 MIN.

SUN, SEP 28 WED, OCT 1

9:15 PM 3:00 PM

CENT CENT

Men, Women & Children follows the story of a group of high-school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image and their love lives. The film attempts to stare down social issues such as video-game culture, anorexia, infidelity, fame hunting, and the proliferation of illicit material on the Internet. As each character and each relationship is tested, we are shown the variety of roads people choose—some tragic, some hopeful—as it becomes clear that no one is immune to this enormous social change that has come through our phones, our tablets and our computers.

CAST Kaitlyn Dever, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ansel Elgort, Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer, Dean Norris, Adam Sandler EXEC Michael Beugg, Mason Novick PROD Jason Reitman, Helen Estabrook SCR Jason Reitman, Erin Cressida Wilson PROD CO Right of Way Films / Paramount Pictures DIST/PRINT Paramount Pictures Entertainment Canada Inc.

FRI, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 5

6:15 PM 11:00 AM

CENT SFU

The English aristocracy typically enjoys kid-glove treatment in films like The Queen and The King’s Speech and in mini-series like Downton Abbey. The gloves come off in The Riot Club, a searing indictment of Establishment privilege centring on an elite Oxford University society, a lightly fictionalized counterpart to the scandalous Bullingdon Club (which boasts British PM David Cameron, his Chancellor George Osborne, and the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, among its alumni).

Adapted by screenwriter Laura Wade from her play Posh, the film begins more than 200 years ago with the inception of the club, a bastion of privilege and entitlement dedicated to the pursuit of hedonism, then jumps to contemporary Oxford and the arrival of undergraduates Miles (Max Irons) and Alistair (Sam Clafin, The Hunger Games). Handsome, intelligent, and— most importantly— from the right families, these two worthies are soon invited to bolster the thinning ranks of the Riot Club. Seduced by the prospect of hijinks today and power tomorrow, they put any reservations aside and throw themselves into the initiation rites.

But during a long, increasingly debauched banquet at a country pub, the Rioters’ internal politicking threatens to get out of hand...

Be warned: what starts out as an engaging stroll among Britain’s so-called “best and brightest” takes a shocking, violent turn. This is a penetrating, provocative dissection of class entitlement (and the sexism and racism that goes with it); higher learning from An Education director Lone Scherfig. Intense and suspenseful, the movie also functions as an impressive showcase for a whole gallery of brilliant up and coming actors.

CAST Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Jessica Brown Findlay, Holliday Grainger EXEC Steve Norris PROD Pete Czernin, Graham Broadbent SCR Laura Wade CAM Sebastian Blenkov ED Jake Roberts PROD DES Alice Normington MUS Kasper Winding PROD CO Film4 / Blueprint Pictures DIST/PRINT Soda Pictures (Canada) - A Thunderbird Company

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JASON REITMAN, USA, 2014, 116 MIN.

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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Kaguyahime no monogatari

TAKAHATA ISAO, JAPAN, 2014, 137 MIN.

SAT, SEP 27

11:30 AM

CENT

Discovered inside a luminous stalk of bamboo, a magical newborn lights up the life of a childless woodcutter and his wife—even if they’re perplexed by the uncanny speed with which she crawls, walks, talks and transforms into a charming young lady. Kaguya captivates everyone she meets and bestows such bounty on the family that the woodcutter moves them to a city mansion, where she is courted by the most eligible bachelors far and wide. However, the role of “princess” is not to her liking. A wild child at heart, she yearns for the countryside and the carefree life she once knew...

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Studio Ghibli’s other anime master Takahata Isao (Pom Poko) bows out with a tender, joyful and exquisitely crafted folk tale for all ages. His serene, hand-drawn impressionism is the perfect medium for an enchanting story that dates back to the 10th century. The synergy of colour, line, movement and simple human observation ensures that this will stand as one Studio Ghibli’s very finest achievements, a film that other animators will admire and dream of emulating—and, maybe in our sleep, the rest of us will too.

“Princess Kaguya has the feel of a true Takahata film, from its unshrinking emotional fidelity to its sudden, exhilarating leaps into fantasy... There is a deep wisdom in this film, but a deep sadness too. If it is Takahata’s farewell, it’s one that will have a long echo, just like his 1,000-year-old source.”—MARK SCHILLING, JAPAN TIMES CAST Asakura Aki, Kora Kengo, Chii Takeo, Miyamoto Nobuko, Takahata Atsuko, Tabata Tomoko, Shinosuke Tatekawa (voices) PROD Nishimura Yoshiaki SCR Takahata Isao, Sakaguchi Riko CAM Nakamura Keisuke MUS Joe Hisaishi PROD CO Studio Ghibli DIST/PRINT Gkids

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Violence

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Wild Tales

Winter Sleep

Relatos salvajes

Kis uykusu

DAMIÁN SZIFRÓN, ARGENTINA/SPAIN, 2014, 122 MIN.

NURI BILGE CEYLAN, TURKEY/GERMANY/FRANCE, 2014, 196 MIN.

SAT, OCT 4 MON, OCT 6

6:00 PM 3:30 PM

CENT CENT

For sheer entertainment value, you’ll be hard-pressed to beat this outrageous, aptly named anthology film. One of Cannes’ most buzzed about discoveries, Damián Szifrón’s third feature plays like a calling card from a preposterously talented newcomer, it’s so chock-full of crazy ideas and verve.

Szifrón gives us half a dozen stories for the price of one. Aside from the Argentine locales, there isn’t much to link them, except that each tale strips away at the veneer of civilized society to reveal something more primal and animalistic underneath. (No doubt that accounts for the gloriously bestial credit sequence, which is truly one for the ages.) Roald Dahl or O. Henry would relish the macabre yarn about the waitress in an empty late-night diner who realizes that the boorish customer she’s serving is the man who ruined her life; then there’s the bride who discovers her husband has been unfaithful and exacts her revenge during an unforgettable wedding party; the best (or worst) road rage episode you’ll ever see; Ricardo Darín taking on Buenos Aires’ municipal parking enforcers, and oh, that incident on the plane!

It’s at least a week’s worth of water-cooler conversation in one big fix.

“Delicious, horrible, scary and scabrous... Szifrón brings off a very difficult trick: making something genuinely funny and genuinely scary at the same time.”—GUARDIAN CAST Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Darío Grandinetti, Rita Cortese, Julieta Zylberberg, Erica Rivas, Leonardo Sbaraglia EXEC Pola Zito, Leticia Cristi PROD Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar, Esther García, Matías Mosteirín, Hugo Sigman SCR Damián Szifron CAM Javier Julia ED Pablo Barbieri Carrera, Damián Szifron PROD DES María Clara Notari MUS Gustavo Santaolalla PROD CO Kramer & Sigman Films / El Deseo / Telefe DIST/PRINT Mongrel Media

WED, OCT 1 SUN, OCT 5

8:00 PM 1:00 PM

CENT PLAY

There are no two ways about it, Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest is simply a masterpiece. The film largely takes place in the Hotel Othello, carved out of a rocky outcrop in the stunning Cappadocia region of Anatolia. The owner is Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), a retired stage actor of some repute. Aydin considers himself an enlightened individual and an intellectual—he pens a weekly opinion column in the local paper—but he’s not regarded in quite such a glowing light by his pretty, younger wife Nihal (Melisa Sözen), nor by his recently divorced sister Necla (Demet Akbag), nor by some of the local villagers who are his tenants...

It’s not that Aydin is a bad man so much as he’s grown inured to suffering due to his own self-righteous complacency.

The spirit of Chekhov is never far away and the film is notable for its extensive, knotty dialogue scenes. But to Ceylan’s immense credit (he also wrote the screenplay, with his wife Ebru Ceylan), Winter Sleep merits the comparison. It’s demanding to the extent that complex drama has to be but never dull. The movie puts us up close with four or five characters for more than three hours and rewards us with rare nuance and insight, great crosscurrents of feeling and an illuminating understanding of how—despite the best intentions and even despite love—money, sex and age conspire to wrest couples, families and communities apart.

“A richly engrossing and ravishingly beautiful magnum opus...”—JUSTIN CHANG, VARIETY WINNER, PALME D’OR, CANNES 2014.

CAST Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag, Ayberk Pekcan, Serhat Kiliç, Nejat Isler EXEC Sezgi Ustun PROD Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan SCR Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan CAM Gökhan Tiryaki ED Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Bora Göksingöl PROD DES Gamze Kus PROD CO Zeyno Film DIST/PRINT Mongrel Media

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BRAZIL

Above Us All

Amazonia 3D

EUGENIE JANSEN, NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM, 2014, 99 MIN.

SAT, OCT 4 SUN, OCT 5

7:00 PM 1:30 PM

THIERRY RAGOBERT, BRAZIL/FRANCE, 2013, 79 MIN.

VCT VCT

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. A daring formal experiment lies at the heart of this exploration of loss. Eugenie Jansen films her story—a young, half-Aboriginal girl copes with being transplanted from Australia to Belgium after her mother’s death—in 50 fps 3D and uses 360-degree pans to evoke time’s inexorable movement. The result is a boundary-pushing drama that is as affecting as it is bold in execution.

CAST Shayleah Sands, Kaleb Sands, Maarten Baes, Pearl Davern, Greg Griffiths EXEC Mariette van Sisseren PROD René Goossens, Annemiek van Gorp, Digna Sinke SCR Kim Niekerk, Patrick Minks CAM Adri Schrover ED Nico Leunen PROD DES Vinz Kulik PROD CO De Productie / Minds Meet / KRO Television PRINT New Europe Film Sales

SAT, SEP 27 SAT, OCT 4 SUN, OCT 5

IN10 IN09 IN10

A circus-trained capuchin must quickly adapt to life in the wild when it suddenly finds itself lost in the Amazon rain forest. This unwitting, endlessly expressive little guide leads us through Thierry Ragobert’s awe-inspiring, family-friendly docudrama, acquainting us with this lush wonderland’s exotic denizens and other breathtaking splendours. “A thrilling tale... the cinematography is exceptionally vivid throughout...”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER PROD Stéphane Millière, Laurent Baujard, Fabiano Gullane, Caio Gullane, Debora Ivanov, Gabriel Lacerda SCR Johanne Bernard, Luiz Bolognesi, Louis-Paul Desanges, Luc Marescot, Thierry Ragobert CAM Manuel Teran, Gustavo Hadba, Jérôme Bouvier ED Nadine Verdier, Thierry Ragobert MUS Bruno Coulais PROD CO Bilboa / Gullane Filmes / Canal+ / EVA-Film GmbH / France 2 Cinema / Stopline Films / Vereda Filmes DIST/PRINT eOne Films This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

No advisory.

FRANCE

Cathedrals of Culture WIM WENDERS, MICHAEL GLAWOGGER, MICHAEL MADSEN, ROBERT REDFORD, MARGRETH OLIN, KARIM AÏNOUZ, GERMANY/DENMARK/AUSTRIA/NORWAY, 2014, 165 MIN.

TUE, SEP 30 SAT, OCT 4

5:45 PM 11:00 AM

IN09 CENT

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Six stunning buildings, six auteurs and glorious 3D come together in this hymn to the art of architecture. The Berliner Philharmonie concert hall (Wim Wenders), California’s Salk Institute (Robert Redford), the National Library in St. Petersburg (Michael Glawogger), Denmark’s Halden prison (Michael Madsen), the Oslo Opera House (Margreth Olin) and the Pompidou in Paris (Karim Ainouz) are brought to life like never before.

EXEC Wim Wenders PROD Erwin M.Schmidt, Gian-Piero Ringel CAM Øystein Mamen, Wolfgang Thaler, Ali Olcay Gözkaya, Ed Lachman, Christian Rein ED Søren Schumann, Kornelia Theune, Flemming Hedegaard Larsen, Tore Tomter MUS Karsten Fundal, Moby PROD CO Neue Road Movies / Final Cut for Real / Lotus Film / Mer Film / Les Films d’Ici 2 / Sundance Productions / RadicalMedia PRINT Cinephil - Distribution & Co Productions IMPORTANT NOTE:

The October 4 screening will be projected in 2D.

Goodbye To Language 3D Adieu au langage

JEAN-LUC GODARD, FRANCE, 2014, 70 MIN.

Preceded By 130919 A Portrait of Marina Abramovic p. 67

FRI, SEP 26 SUN, SEP 28 FRI, OCT 3

6:00 PM 3:30 PM 2:30 PM

IN09 IN09 IN10

“Jean-Luc Godard’s 3-D opus, was easily [Cannes’] defining event... Less a culmination of the polyphonic mode that is Late Godard than an acceleration, the film is a furiously associative meditation on humanity and history, cinematic and linguistic meaning, the world of nature and the nature of reality—all refracted through fragmentary episodes involving an adulterous couple and dog’s-eye-view roamings through a light-streaked forest.”—ART FORUM

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GERMANY

2:15 PM 4:00 PM 7:30 PM

WINNER, PRIX DU JURY (EX AEQUO), CANNES 2014.

CAST Héloïse Godet, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevallier, Zoé Bruneau, Christian Gregori, Jessica Erickson PROD Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval, Alain Sarde SCR Jean-Luc Godard CAM Fabrice Aragno ED JeanLuc Godard PROD CO Wild Bunch DIST/PRINT Kino Lorber International Corporation

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CANADIAN IMAGES One of the largest showcases of new Canadian cinema on the planet and a true point of pride for VIFF. This series is also home to the BC Spotlight, which focuses on the best and brightest of our homegrown talent.

October Gale RUBA NADDA, CANADA, 2014, 91 MIN.

FRI, SEP 26 SUN, SEP 28

6:45 PM 2:00 PM

CENT IN10

Writer-director Ruba Nadda (Sabah, Cairo Time) delivers layers of fear and distress with this taut psychological thriller. Helen Matthews (Patricia Clarkson) is a big-city doctor mourning the recent death of her husband (Callum Keith Rennie) by spending time alone at their cottage on an island in Ontario’s picturesque Georgian Bay. As she works through her grief, the remote cabin conjures memories of her dearly departed and their love.

When Will (Scott Speedman) arrives at her dock, badly injured by a gun shot, the Hippocratic Oath takes effect and she nervously nurses him back to health. He’s tight-lipped and evasive about both his past and his current predicament. Their isolation from the world and connection to each other increase as the weather worsens. Whoever shot him is clearly coming back to finish the job and Helen is inexorably drawn into Will’s tenebrous world.

Cinematographer Jeremy Benning captures the majestic beauty of Georgian Bay with powerful wide angles. However, it’s his creepy, voyeuristic camera techniques that really enhance the looming threat of a storm’s onslaught and other vicious attacks. Clarkson’s performance is nuanced and compelling and you won’t soon forget Tim Roth as the relentless, cold-as-ice villain.

CAST Patricia Clarkson, Scott Speedman, Tim Roth, Callum Keith Rennie EXEC Emily Alden, Kirk D’Amico, Christine Vachon PROD Daniel Iron SCR Ruba Nadda CAM Jeremy Benning ED Wiebke von Carolsfeld PROD DES Gordon Barnes MUS Mischa Chillak PROD CO Killer Films / Foundry Films

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QUEBEC

QUEBEC

Mommy

Elephant Song

XAVIER DOLAN, CANADA/FRANCE, 2014, 134 MIN.

WED, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 3

9:00 PM 11:15 AM

PLAY IN10

An eminent psychiatrist disappears from his office. The last person known to have seen him is Michael, a handsome and seemingly inoffensive young patient, played here by Xavier Dolan in a tour-de-force performance. The director of the hospital, Doctor Green (Bruce Greenwood) comes in to investigate the disappearance before the word leaks out to the public.

He interviews Michael without bothering to read his file, trusting his superior skills and despite the pointed warnings of the head nurse (Catherine Keener) to be wary. Dolan’s Michael responds to every question put to him by going off on tenuous tangents about elephants and opera, all the while hinting at deep, dark secrets. Michael’s Machiavellian mind games keep raising the stakes and the doctor is helpless in his self-righteous frustration. After all, the good doctor has problems of his own and they simmer beneath the surface in Greenwood’s rigorously contained performance.

Elephant Song is adapted for the screen by Nicholas Billon from his own stage play, with table turning dialogue reminiscent of Ionesco’s 1951 classic play The Lesson and David Mamet’s Oleanna. Charles Binamé (Eldorado, Le coeur au poing, The Rocket) directs this taut psychological drama with a sure and subtle hand and a dream cast.

CAST Xavier Dolan, Bruce Greenwood, Catherine Keener PROD Richard Goudreau, Lenny Jo Goudreau SCR Nicolas Billon CAM Pierre Gill ED Dominique Fortin PROD DES Danielle Labrie MUS Gaëtan Gravel, Patrice Dubuc PROD CO Melenny Productions DIST/PRINT eOne Films

MON, SEP 29

9:00 PM

PLAY

No movie inspired more extreme reactions at Cannes this year than Xavier Dolan’s latest.

And none was cheered more loudly at the awards ceremony, where Canada’s wunderkind shared a special jury award with French New Wave veteran Jean-Luc Godard. Dolan is 25 now and Mommy is already his fifth feature as writer-director. (Godard was 29 when he made Breathless.) He shows no signs of slowing down or wising up: like his previous features, Mommy is raw, vibrant, prickly, bold... A film aimed at both the heart and the gut—and, perhaps, the womb.

Returning to the single mother-troubled son dynamic of his debut (I Killed My Mother), the movie begins as a kind of aggressive social satire: it imagines a near future Canada in which parents commit their children to state care as a sort of default safety net. The indomitable, staunchly devoted Diane (Anne Dorval) would never contemplate such a thing. But her teenage son, Steve (Antoine-Olivier Pilon) is more than a handful. Borderline psychotic, he’s an accident impatient to happen. Still, he’s got a heart of gold and he starts to blossom under the home-schooled influence of shy neighbour Kyla (Suzanne Clement). But for how long?

With characteristic audacity Dolan has elected to present Mommy in a brand new aspect ratio, 1.1, a square format evocative of cellphone displays, CD covers and the restricted horizons these characters keep beating their heads against—sometimes breaking through in moments of giddy liberation and love. It’s in these outpourings of compassion and humanity where Dolan truly excels and which make Mommy a movie to remember.

WINNER, PRIX DU JURY (EX AEQUO), CANNES 2014.

CAST Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément PROD Nancy Grant, Xavier Dolan SCR Xavier Dolan CAM André Turpin ED Xavier Dolan PROD DES Colombe Raby MUS Noia PROD CO Metafilms DIST/ PRINT eOne Films

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CHARLES BINAMÉ, CANADA, 2014, 110 MIN.

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BRITISH COLUMBIA

BRITISH COLUMBIA

1987

All the Time in the World

Black Fly

RICARDO TROGI, CANADA, 2014, 105 MIN.

SUZANNE CROCKER, CANADA, 2014, 89 MIN.

JASON BOURQUE, CANADA, 2014, 96 MIN.

Preceded By The Chaperone p. 67

TUE, SEP 30 THU, OCT 2

6:30 PM 12:45 PM

IN10 IN09

Director Ricardo Troggi (1981) delights with this hilarious and sometimes caustic souvenir of his own life when he was 17 years old.

Jean-Carl Boucher plays young Ricardo as a cockeyed Quixote, fearlessly tilting at the repressive tyranny of everyday adolescence.

Inspired by a surreal vision, he’s on a quirky quest that involves raging hormones, family drama and petty crime.

CAST Jean-Carl Boucher, Sandrine Bisson, Claudio Colangelo PROD Nicole Robert

WED, OCT 1 SAT, OCT 4

6:30 PM 11:00 AM

SFU SFU

WORLD PREMIERE. Suzanne Crocker’s deeply personal documentary offers a poignant commentary on what today’s day-to-day digital existence has devolved into. A courageous family opts to simplify things considerably by moving to a wilderness cabin in the Yukon with no electricity, television, Internet or running water. There are no neighbours, either, which results in a very unique and touching celebration of Halloween.

PROD Suzanne Crocker

SAT, SEP 27 TUE, SEP 30

The Boy From Geita 6:30 PM 4:00 PM

VIC SARIN, CANADA, 2014, 79 MIN.

RIO IN10

WORLD PREMIERE. Jake Henson (Dakota Daulby) is a troubled teen haunted by the deaths of his parents—his father in a hunting accident and mother by suicide—who escapes an abusive uncle to reconnect with his older brother (Matthew MacCaull). In director Jason Bourque’s thriller, their reunion on an isolated island shows that blood may be thicker than water but it’s still blood. And it’s messy as hell.

CAST Matthew MacCaull, Dakota Daulby, Christie Burke PROD Jason Bourque, Ken Frith, Robyn Wiener

BRITISH COLUMBIA

QUEBEC

CANADA

Corbo

The Creation of Meaning

ANNE WHEELER, CANADA, 1989, 117 MIN.

MATHIEU DENIS, CANADA, 2014, 119 MIN.

La creazione di significato

7:00 PM 2:30 PM

VCT VCT

6:30 PM 1:15 PM 10:00 AM

SFU IN08 CINE

Born with albinism, Adam is ostracized in his Tanzanian village and violently assaulted by witch doctors who believe that his limbs possess mystic properties. A Canadian born with the same condition hears of Adam’s plight and takes action. “Harrowing and poignant... Vic Sarin’s [documentary], with its searing images, is both ode to human resilience and ingenuity, and indictment of human cruelty and stupidity.”—GLOBE AND MAIL

ONTARIO

Bye Bye Blues WED, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 10

SUN, SEP 28 SAT, OCT 4 THU, OCT 9

PROD Tina Pehme, Kim Roberts

Coarse language; sexually suggestive scenes

This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

Preceded By The Blue Marble p. 67

SUN, SEP 28 WED, OCT 1

9:15 PM 2:30 PM

CINE CINE

Anne Wheeler’s most decorated film is an upbeat musical melodrama based on her mother’s wartime memories. Daisy Cooper (Rebecca Jenkins) is a wife and mother who joins a dance band to provide for her family while her husband is at war. Beautifully shot by cinematographer Vic Sarin, it’s bittersweet and poignant, with fine performances by Jenkins and Robyn Stevan, both of whom won Genies for their work.

In the crackpot mosaic that is Montréal in 1966, Jean Corbo, an idealistic 16-year-old, befriends two far-left political activists and joins the FLQ (Liberation Front of Québec), an underground movement determined to spark a socialist revolution and Québec’s separation from Canada. Director Mathieu Denis brings the true and tragic story of a decisive moment in Canadian history into sharp focus.

CAST Michael Ontkean, Rebecca Jenkins, Robyn Stevan PROD Arvi Liimatainen, Anne Wheeler

CAST Anthony Therrien, Antoine L’Écuyer, Karelle Tremblay PROD Felize Frappier, Roger Frappier

SIMONE RAPISARDA CASANOVA, CANADA/ITALY, 2014, 94 MIN.

SAT, SEP 27 MON, SEP 29

6:15 PM 5:15 PM

CINE VCT

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. The Apuan Alps in northern Tuscany serve as the stunning backdrop to Simone Rapisarda Casanova’s deeply felt film about a farmer, his vanishing way of life and the echoes of history...

“Remarkable for its vibrancy and generosity...

Under the rustic relics of the past and the calamities of the present, Rapisarda Casanova uncovers a few traces of the infinite...”—CINEMA SCOPE

A Different Drummer: Celebrating Eccentrics JOHN ZARITSKY, CANADA, 2014, 100 MIN.

WED, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 10

7:00 PM 1:15 PM

RIO SFU

WORLD PREMIERE. Academy Award-winning director John Zaritsky (Leave Them Laughing), a bit of an oddball himself, returns with an engaging, light-hearted look at eccentrics. From a desert hermit to Denman Street’s Duck Lady, we’re introduced to those who dare, or are driven, to be different.

Eccentrics are healthier and happier, as we discover in this funny, touching and thoughtprovoking film.

CANADIAN IMAGES

QUEBEC

PROD Anne Pick, Bill Spahic

WINNER, BEST EMERGING DIRECTOR, LOCARNO 2014.

FEATURING Pacifico Pieruccioni, Alexander Auf der Heyde, Benjamin Auf der Heyde,

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Dirty Singles

Everything Will Be

An Eye for Beauty

Fall

ALEX PUGSLEY, CANADA, 2014, 80 MIN.

JULIA KWAN, CANADA, 2013, 85 MIN.

La règne de la beauté

TERRANCE ODETTE, CANADA, 2014, 82 MIN.

Preceded By Broken Palace p. 67

DENYS ARCAND, CANADA, 2014, 102 MIN.

TUE, SEP 30 WED, OCT 1

7:00 PM 2:00 PM

RIO RIO

Jack (Paul Campbell) and Meagan (Alex Paxton-Beesley) have got it all. They’ve just bought a house, they’re thinking about a family and they have a close-knit circle of zany friends that love them. A few hookups, breakups and breakdowns later, the circle unravels and then regroups in this sharpedged and libidinous comedy from writerdirector Alex Pugsley.

CAST Paul Campbell, Alex Paxton-Beesley, Lauren Ash PROD Melanie Windle

MON, SEP 29 WED, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 3

9:00 PM 11:00 AM 10:30 AM

SFU SFU IN09

Director Julia Kwan documents the pivotal changes affecting the culture and economy of Vancouver’s Chinatown, one of the oldest in North America. With humour and sympathy, Kwan introduces us to residents who see their way of living eroding and to others who welcome the transition, including real estate consultant Bob Rennie.

PROD David Christensen

THU, OCT 2 SUN, OCT 5

3:45 PM 9:15 PM

PLAY PLAY

The latest from Denys Arcand (The Decline of the American Empire, The Barbarian Invasions) is the story of Luke (Éric Bruneau), a brilliant young architect who’s beginning to earn acclaim while leading a peaceful, seemingly perfect life with his wife Stephanie (Mélanie Thierry) in Québec’s Charlevoix region. Invited to sit on a architecture jury in Toronto, he meets a mysterious woman who will change his life...

FRI, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 5

7:00 PM 12:30 PM

CINE CINE

WORLD PREMIERE. Terrance Odette’s (Heater, Saint Monica, Sleeping Dogs) drama centres on a Catholic priest (Michael Murphy) in a Niagara Falls parish whose world is turned upside down after he receives a letter alleging sexual transgression. Our sympathies are put to the test as he comes to terms with his memories and deals with the fallout.

CAST Wendy Crewson, Katie Boland, Michael Murphy, Suzanne Clément, Cas Anvar PROD Mehernaz Lentin

CAST Éric Bruneau, Mélanie Thierry, Melanie Merkosky, Marie-Josée Croze, Mathieu Quesnel, Michel Forget PROD Denise Robert, Daniel Louis

QUEBEC

Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story GRANT BALDWIN, CANADA, 2014, 75 MIN.

SUN, SEP 28 TUE, SEP 30 MON, OCT 6

6:30 PM 10:30 AM 1:30 PM

RIO SFU PLAY

We devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. We love food and yet--thanks to our expensive obsession with expiration dates and perfect produce-we throw nearly half of it away. Attempting to live waste-free, Grant Baldwin and Jen Rustemeyer subsist on discarded food for six months. Their documentary charts the experiment’s shocking revelations.

WINNER, EMERGING ARTIST AWARD, HOT DOCS 2014

BRITISH COLUMBIA

QUEBEC

Marinoni

Martin’s Pink Pickle

Miraculum

TONY GIRARDIN, CANADA/FRANCE/ITALY, 2014, 90 MIN.

RENÉ BRAR, CANADA, 2014, 79 MIN.

DANIEL GROU, CANADA, 2014, 110 MIN.

THU, OCT 2 SAT, OCT 4

9:15 PM 4:00 PM

PLAY PLAY

Giuseppe Marinoni has been making some of the most desirable bicycle frames in Canada for decades. A former competitive cyclist, he decides, at age 75, to attempt a world record for distance cycled in an hour for his age group. His perfectionism, combined with a curmudgeonly nature, leaves him impatient with director Tony Girardin, adding a lot of humour to this inspiring film.

FEATURING Giuseppe Marinoni PROD Tony Girardin, Noah Couture-Glassco

Preceded By Land of the Sun p. 67

MON, SEP 29 WED, OCT 1

6:30 PM 1:30 PM

IN08 IN08

WORLD PREMIERE. A boy follows his girlfriend to Hope, an ironically named town where his dreams die a slow death. However, his settled lifestyle is disrupted by a trip back to the city for a medical appointment, where he and a friend become stranded for 24 hours.

René Brar tells the story of two troubled kids who never really grew up while examining the complex nature of relationships.

CAST Quincy Newton, Kerry Knuppe, Alexis Quednau PROD Rene Brar, Sarah Brar

SUN, SEP 28 SAT, OCT 4 MON, OCT 6

10:00 AM 9:30 PM 4:45 PM

CINE VCT CINE

Daniel Grou (aka PODZ) directs this riveting ensemble film about interlocking lives. We have Xavier Dolan playing against type as a buttoned-down Jehovah’s Witness; Julien Poulin and Louise Turcot as casino employees with secrets; Robin Aubert as a high-powered man with gambling issues; Anne Dorval as his perpetually plastered wife and Gabriel Sabourin as a tortured drug mule. Wow.

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BRITISH COLUMBIA

CAST Marilyn Castonguay, Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval PROD Marie-Claude Poulin, Pierre Even

PROD Jenny Rustemeyer

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Monsoon

Preggoland

STURLA GUNNARSSON, CANADA/FRANCE, 2014, 104 MIN.

JACOB TIERNEY, CANADA, 2014, 106 MIN.

FRI, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 5

9:15 PM 3:30 PM

CENT CENT

Sturla Gunnarsson’s latest is a personal reflection on chaos, creation and faith in a land of believers. He explores the incomparably vast seasonal weather system that permeates and unifies the immense and varied cultures of India. As the huge system gradually engulfs every region of the country, we meet a remarkable array of individuals whose lives are fundamentally affected by the phenomenon.

TUE, SEP 30 THU, OCT 2

6:15 PM 4:00 PM

PLAY IN10

Ruth (Sonja Bennett, who also penned the screenplay) fakes being pregnant to fit in with her child-rearing friends. This uproarious comedy from Jacob Tierney (The Trotsky) will have you cringing in between fits of uncontrollable laughter as Ruth’s web of lies becomes increasingly tangled. The road to acceptance has never been so baby-bumpy; you’ll be laughing until you birth. Sorry, burst.

CAST Sonja Bennett, Danny Trejo, Laura Harris, James Caan, Paul Campbell PROD Kevin Eastwood

PROD Ina Fichman, Luc Martin Gousset

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HAROLD CROOKS, CANADA, 2014, 92 MIN.

SCOTT RENYARD, CANADA, 2014, 110 MIN.

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The Price We Pay 1:00 PM 4:30 PM 8:45 PM

IN09 VCT IN09

SAT, SEP 27 FRI, OCT 3 TUE, OCT 7

8:30 PM 4:00 PM 10:00 AM

IN09 SFU CINE

In his latest incendiary investigative documentary, Harold Crooks (Surviving Progress) examines the sordid history of offshore tax havens and the dire contemporary ramifications of such corporate malfeasance. It seems that it’s big business’ world and we’re just picking up the tab. But how long can the middle class and poor bear the tax burden? This is shocking look at an unsustainable system poised to implode.

WORLD PREMIERE. Wild fish populations in BC have been declining since the late 70s, at about roughly the same time the opennet fish-farm industry began to grow fish in marine waters. Focusing on the research of biologist Alexandra Morton, filmmaker Scott Renyard links the crash of many fish species on Canada’s West coast to diseases spread from fish farms in this persuasive and urgent call to action.

PROD Nathalie Barton

FEATURING Alexandra Morton PROD Scott Renyard

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BRITISH COLUMBIA

Sitting on the Edge of Marlene

Songs She Wrote About People She Knows

ANA VALINE, CANADA, 2014, 90 MIN.

KRIS ELGSTRAND, CANADA, 2014, 80 MIN.

WED, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 3

6:30 PM 3:30 PM

RIO IN09

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Ana Valine’s darkly comic drama centres on mother/ daughter con artists who just can’t catch a break. Seen through the eyes of 16-year-old Sammie (Paloma Kwiatkowski)—who lives with her pill-popping, alcoholic mom Marlene (Suzanne Clément)—this bittersweet journey leads us through dysfunction, love and addiction, before culminating with an unusual deliverance for this compelling pair.

WINNER, BEST DIRECTOR, LEO AWARDS 2014

SAT, SEP 27 TUE, SEP 30

9:15 PM 4:45 PM

RIO VCT

Carol (Arabella Bushnell) has a unique way of dealing with her frustrations with family, friends and co-workers: writing brutally honest songs (that frequently feature threats of violence) and leaving them on their voicemail. Carol’s creative catharsis has some immediate and unexpected consequences in this hilarious, offbeat comedy from writerdirector Kris Elgstrand.

CAST Arabella Bushnell, Brad Dryborough, Ross Smith PROD Amy Belling, Thea Grivakes, Kris Elgstrand

BRITISH COLUMBIA

Turbulence

Two 4 One

SORAN MARDOOKHI, CANADA, 2014, 90 MIN.

FRI, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 5

6:00 PM 1:00 PM

MAUREEN BRADLEY, CANADA, 2014, 74 MIN.

IN09 IN09

WED, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 3

9:00 PM 11:00 AM

RIO IN08

WORLD PREMIERE. Writer-director Soran Mardookhi brings us the moving story of Sherzad (Kamal Yamolky) and his estranged young daughter, Jina. A former electrical engineer in Iraqi Kurdistan, he’s now trying to make a new life for himself in his adopted home of Canada. Jina (Camillia Mahal) numbs her harrowing childhood memories with drugs. But even among other misfits, she has a hard time fitting in...

Maureen Bradley’s debut feature is a bittersweet romantic comedy with a transgender hero in an unimaginable predicament. Oddball couple Miriam and Adam have an ill-advised and pivotal one night stand that sees them both wind up pregnant. Engagingly shot by Amy Belling,the film features standout performances from Gavin Crawford (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), Naomi Snieckus (Mr. D) and Gabrielle Rose.

CAST Kamal Yamolky, Camillia Mahal, Nasyar Awil PROD Soran Mardookhi

CAST Gavin Crawford, Naomi Snieckus, Gabrielle Rose PROD Daniel Hogg

CAST Suzanne Clément, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Callum Keith Rennie PROD Amber Ripley

BRITISH COLUMBIA

QUEBEC

The Valley Below

Violent

KYLE THOMAS, CANADA, 2014, 87 MIN.

ANDREW HUCULIAK, CANADA/NORWAY, 2014, 104 MIN.

Preceded By Back Streets p. 67

SUN, SEP 28 TUE, SEP 30

9:00 PM 3:00 PM

IN08 SFU

This multi-narrative drama chronicles life in a small town in the Alberta badlands over the course of one year. As we’re introduced to a pregnant teenager, a hard-drinking musician, a reclusive taxidermist and an ambitious RCMP officer, the intertwining stories in director Kyle Thomas’ ambitious, eloquently executed film render a rich portrait; four circles of Drumheller, if you will.

CAST Stephen Bogaert, Kris Demeanor, Alejandro Rae PROD Kyle Thomas, Alexander Carson, Cameron Macgowan

TUE, SEP 30 THU, OCT 2 FRI, OCT 10

9:30 PM 4:00 PM 3:45 PM

QUEBEC

What Are We Doing Here?

RIO RIO SFU

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Best known as the drummer for Vancouver-based We Are the City, Andrew Huculiak makes his directorial debut with this beautiful, atmospheric film shot in Norway and inspired by the band’s latest album. It stars newcomer Dagny Backer Johnsen as a young woman who, after enduring a catastrophic event, loses herself in memories of the people who loved her most.

CAST Dagny Backer Johnsen, Tor Halvor Halvorsen, Tomine Mikkeline Eide, Yngve Seterås PROD Amy Darling, Josh Huculiak

You’re Sleeping Nicole Tu dors Nicole STÉPHANE LAFLEUR, CANADA, 2014, 93 MIN.

Qu’est-ce qu’on fait ici?

JULIE HIVON, CANADA, 2014, 99 MIN.

MON, SEP 29 WED, OCT 1

6:15 PM 1:30 PM

SFU SFU

Yan, Simon, Roxanne, Maxime and his sister Lily are in their early 20s and absolutely anything seems possible. They’ve been friends forever and the future is bright. Then, on a lovely summer’s day, Yan dies in a car crash... Director Julie Hivon follows their desperate attempts to make some kind of sense of life without Yan. CAST Maxime Dumontier, Sophie Desmarais, Charles-Alexandre Dubé PROD Francois Delisle, Maxime Bernard

THU, OCT 2 SAT, OCT 4

9:30 PM 2:00 PM

IN10 IN10

Nicole (Julianne Côté) has some growing up to do in this sweetly absurd, wryly comic third feature from Stéphane Lafleur (Continental, a Film Without Guns). Vibrantly shot in textured black-and-white 35mm, the appealing dramedy displays a disciplined visual sense, a good ear for dialogue and characters that become more endearing as the episodic action progresses. “Unconventional and slyly entertaining...”—SCREEN

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CAST Julianne Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Catherine St-Laurent PROD Kim McCraw, Luc Déry This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

Coarse language; nudity

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CINEMA OF OUR TIME AUSTRALIA

MEXICO

52 Tuesdays

Asteroid Asteroide

SOPHIE HYDE, AUSTRALIA, 2013, 109 MIN.

THU, SEP 25 SAT, OCT 4 TUE, OCT 7

4:30 PM 9:00 PM 1:30 PM

RIO RIO SFU

So much can happen in a year. For instance, your mom can transition from female to male. Such is the case in Sophie Hyde’s provocative, authentic and refreshingly modern coming-of-age tale. Handled with care and restraint, “(this) accessible narrative experiment boasts breakout talent in front of and behind the camera.”—VARIETY WINNER, DIRECTING AWARD: WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC, SUNDANCE 2014.

CAST Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Del Herbert-Jane, Imogen Archer, Mario Späte, Beau Williams, Sam Althuizen PROD Bryan Mason, Matthew Cormack, Rebecca Summerton, Sophie Hyde This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

Coarse & sexual language; sexually suggestive scenes, nudity

BRAZIL

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MARCELO TOBAR, MEXICO, 2014, 103 MIN.

WED, OCT 1 SAT, OCT 4 TUE, OCT 7

9:30 PM 11:15 AM 4:15 PM

CANADIAN PREMIERE. After personal problems send free spirit Cristina (Sophie AlexanderKatz) scurrying for the comforts of her family home, her taciturn ex-addict brother’s relationship with a new girlfriend threatens the orphan siblings’ fragile peace... “Sibling rivalry is kept at a low, slow simmer in [Marcelo Tobar’s] fractiously intimate family drama... Thanks to flinty performances... it’s a film of subtle but not insubstantial emotional rewards.”—VARIETY CAST Sophie Alexander-Katz, Arturo Barba, Sofía Espinosa, Ari Brickman PROD Elsa Reyes, Miguel Ángel Mendoza, Marcelo Tobar, Alejandro Mejía

SPAIN

August Winds

Beautiful Youth

Ventos de Agosto

Hermosa juventud

GABRIEL MASCARO, BRAZIL, 2014, 77 MIN.

SUN, SEP 28 TUE, SEP 30 FRI, OCT 3

IN10 IN10 CINE

6:30 PM 2:00 PM 4:00 PM

JAIME ROSALES, SPAIN/FRANCE, 2014, 102 MIN.

IN08 RIO IN08

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Lyrical, sensual and poetic, yet grounded in a bracing naturalism that speaks to Brazilian documentarian Gabriel Mascaro’s roots, August Winds tells the tale of a young couple who discover a skull while diving for octopus.

It’s a prismatic evocation of seaside life in the rural tropics. “...a beautiful meditation on life and death... a striking accomplishment...”

—INDIEWIRE

CAST Dandara De Morais, Geová Manoel Dos Santos, Maria Salvino dos Santos PROD Rachel Ellis

FRI, SEP 26 SAT, SEP 27 THU, OCT 2

1:45 PM 11:00 AM 9:15 PM

IN10 IN08 RIO

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Incisively and with great compassion, Jaime Rosales sketches the lives of Spain’s lost generation through the relationship of Carlos (Carlos Rodríguez) and Natalia (Ingrid García Jonsson). “An intelligent, bracing study of Spanish twentysomethings doomed to unemployment and disillusion... Brilliant, challenging... [The] whole film is an audacious leap into real lives and real experiences... A powerful and heartfelt film.”—GUARDIAN CAST Ingrid García Jonsson, Carlos Rodríguez, Inma Nieto, Fernando Barona, Juanma Calderón, Patricia Mendy PROD Jérôme Dopffer, José María Morales, Jaime Rosale

CINEMA OF OUR TIME CUBA

GERMANY

BRAZIL

USA

Behavior

Beloved Sisters

The Boy and the World

Boychoir

Conducta

Die geliebten Schwestern

O Menino e o Mundo

FRANÇOIS GIRARD, USA, 2014, 106 MIN.

ERNESTO DARANAS, CUBA, 2014, 108 MIN.

DOMINIK GRAF, GERMANY/AUSTRIA, 2014, 171 MIN.

ALÊ ABREU, BRAZIL, 2013, 80 MIN.

9:30 PM 1:30 PM

RIO PLAY

SAT, OCT 4 THU, OCT 9

8:30 PM 12:00 PM

IN09 CENT

In a vibrantly depicted Havana, 11-year-old Chala industriously cares for carrier pigeons and dogs on his apartment balcony. Trouble is, there’s easy money in dog fighting. The most important champion in his life however is his aging teacher, Carmela (the marvelous Alina Rodríguez), a woman who refuses to let the boy fall between the cracks and endures government reprisals as a result. Director Ernesto Daranas demonstrates equal bravery in confronting Cuba’s social ills.

Guided by Dominik Graf’s skilled directorial hand and anchored by remarkable performances, the tale of writer Friedrich Schiller’s notorious love triangle with the Lengefeld sisters is woven into a sophisticated, sprawling costume drama full of fervour and resonance. “A work of unimposing power, Beloved Sisters renders its minimal story on the grand scale of a three-hour epic with quaint elegance.”

WINNER, AUDIENCE AWARD, MÁLAGA 2014.

CAST Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius PROD Uschi Reich

CAST Armando Valdés Freire, Alina Rodríguez, Amaly Junco, Miriel Cejas, Yuliet Cruz, Armando Miguel Gómez This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

—FILM COMMENT

THU, SEP 25 SUN, SEP 28 THU, OCT 2

1:30 PM 10:30 AM 7:00 PM

Alê Abreu’s animated odyssey follows a young boy as he journeys from the country into a towering metropolis in search of his father. Awaiting him is a world where music gives birth to birds, cities float in the sky and good and evil clash in a riot of colour.

“A simple, universal parable... An enchanting visual treat...”—VARIETY CAST Marco Aurélio Campos, Vinicius Garcia, Lu Horta (voices) PROD Fernanda Carvalho, Tita Tessler

SUN, OCT 5 TUE, OCT 7

6:30 PM 4:00 PM

CENT CENT

Newcomer Garrett Wareing goes toe-to-toe with Dustin Hoffman in this rousing story of a determined, angel-voiced orphan who clashes with the strict choir master of the prestigious American Boychoir School.

Acclaimed director François Girard (The Red Violin) uses the sublime choral performances to heighten the spiralling drama in this fierce battle of wills. Kathy Bates, Eddie Izzard and Debra Winger also star.

CAST Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Garrett Wareing, Kevin McHale, Eddie Izzard, Debra Winger PROD Judy Cairo, Carol Baum, Jane Goldenring

Coarse language; violence; sexually suggestive scene

USA

BRAZIL

AUSTRALIA

SLOVENIA

Buzzard

Casa Grande

Charlie’s Country

JOEL POTRYKUS, USA, 2014, 97 MIN.

FELLIPE BARBOSA, BRAZIL, 2014, 113 MIN.

ROLF DE HEER, AUSTRALIA, 2013, 108 MIN.

SAT, SEP 27 THU, OCT 9

SFU IN09 IN10

9:30 PM 4:45 PM

IN10 CINE

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. After contemptuously gaming the system through uproarious (if inconsequential) scams, a true 21stcentury man-child (Joshua Burge) becomes convinced that he’s about to be collared.

As paranoia sets in, he goes on the lam and Joel Potrykus’ (Ape) unflinching Buzzard transforms into “an affecting character study.

It’s a fearless and moving exploration of a man whose smug ambivalence masks an inner rage...”—FILM COMMENT CAST Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Teri Ann Nelson, Katie Call, Joe Anderson PROD Michael Saunders, Ashley Young

SAT, SEP 27 WED, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 10

1:30 PM 4:15 PM 9:00 PM

RIO RIO SFU

SAT, OCT 4 TUE, OCT 7 FRI, OCT 10

4:15 PM 11:00 AM 6:30 PM

Class Enemy Razredni sovražnik

CINE SFU SFU

ROK BICEK, SLOVENIA, 2013, 112 MIN.

FRI, SEP 26 FRI, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 5

12:45 PM 1:00 PM 7:15 PM

IN09 IN09 CINE

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Balancing sharp comedy and commentary, Fellipe Barbosa’s wellobserved film charts the increasingly disparate fortunes of a Brazilian bourgeoisie family. While father Hugo (Marcello Novaes) shamefully conceals his bankruptcy, his teenage son Jean (Thales Cavalcanti) experiences the exhilaration of defiance and self-discovery. Of course, coming of age also means finally seeing the unjust world for what it is.

The magnificent David Gulpilil quietly dominates Rolf de Heer’s heartfelt portrait of contemporary Aboriginal life. Gulpilil drew on his own troubles while co-writing the story of down-on-his-luck Charlie, squeezed on all sides in his Arnhemland community. “The third film collaboration between Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil is a majestic work.”—SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Holding their hardline substitute teacher (Igor Samobor) responsible for the suicide of an emotionally vulnerable classmate, a Slovenian secondary class stages a revolt. Rok Bicek orchestrates the ensuing chaos masterfully, crafting an engrossing cautionary tale concerning herd mentalities and the exploitation of tragedy.

WINNER, BEST ACTOR, UN CERTAIN REGARD, CANNES 2014.

WINNER, BEST FILM (INTERNATIONAL FILM CRITICS WEEK), VENICE 2013.

CAST Marcello Novaes, Suzana Pires, Thales Cavalcanti, Clarissa Pinheiro, Bruna Amaya, Gentil Cordeiro PROD Iafa Britz

CAST David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford, Jennifer Budukpuduk Gaykamangu, Peter Minygululu, Gary Sweet PROD Nils Erik Nielsen, Peter Djigirr, Rolf de Heer

CAST Igor Samobor, Natasa Barbara Gracner, Tjasa Zeleznik, Masa Deganc PROD Janez Lapajne, Aiken Veronika Prosenc

This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

Sexually suggestive scenes, nudity

This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

CINEMA OF OUR TIME

TUE, OCT 7 THU, OCT 9

Coarse language; nudity

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CZECH REPUBLIC

TURKEY

Clownwise

Come to My Voice

Klauni

Were Dengê Min

VIKTOR TAUŠ, CZECH REPUBLIC/FINLAND/ LUXEMBOURG/SLOVAKIA, 2013, 120 MIN.

HÜSEYIN KARABEY, TURKEY/GERMANY/FRANCE, 2013, 105 MIN.

WED, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 3 MON, OCT 6

6:30 PM 10:30 AM 2:00 PM

IN10 SFU RIO

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Thirty years after achieving the zenith of his career in grease paint, an acclaimed actor returns from self-imposed exile for one last show in Prague. Reunited with his former partners, he and his colleagues attempt to restage their greatest performance, stave off old rivalries and ensure that time doesn’t have the last laugh.

Viktor Tauš’ poignant film reminds us that tragicomedy is the lifeblood of clowning.

CAST Oldrich Kaiser, Jirí Lábus, Didier Flamand, Kati Outinen, Eva Jenícková, Tatjana Medvecká PROD Viktor Tauš, Michal Kollár

SUN, SEP 28 SAT, OCT 4 MON, OCT 6

GEORGIA

WINNER, AUDIENCE AWARD, ISTANBUL 2014.

CAST Feride Gezer, Melek Ülger, Tuncay Akdemir, Muhsin Tokçu, Ali Tekbas, Kadir Ilter PROD Hüseyin Karabey, Emre Yeksan

Corn Island

Difret

Simindis kundzuli

ZERESENAY BERHANE MEHARI, ETHIOPIA, 2014, 99 MIN.

CINEMA OF OUR TIME

THU, SEP 25 SAT, SEP 27 THU, OCT 2

12:15 PM 6:30 PM 4:45 PM

VCT VCT CINE

Eloquent and engrossing, George Ovashvili’s fable-like drama unfolds on a tiny island that emerges each summer from a river between warring Georgia and Abkhazia. For the skillful elderly peasant who plants its amazing corn crop and his nubile granddaughter, it’s soon the site of a desperate struggle for survival.

“A master class in emotionally charged minimalism...”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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WINNER, CRYSTAL GLOBE, KARLOVY VARY 2014.

CAST lyas Salman, Mariam Buturishvili, Irakli Samushia, Tamer Levent PROD Guillaume de Seille, Nino Devdariani, Eike Goreczka, George Ovashvili

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TORONTO

HALIFAX

Coarse language

ETHIOPIA

GEORGE OVASHVILI, GEORGIA/GERMANY/FRANCE/ CZECH REPUBLIC/KAZAKHSTAN, 2014, 100 MIN.

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SFU CINE VCT

Passionate and utterly compelling, Hüseyin Karabey’s beautifully crafted film is founded in political absurdity. When the Turkish military surrounds a Kurdish village, takes alleged rebels into custody and demands the return of nonexistent guns, a little girl and her grandmother set off in search of a weapon—any weapon—that might earn her father’s freedom.

This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

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1:30 PM 6:45 PM 10:00 AM

FRI, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 5

7:00 PM 10:30 AM

IN10 VCT

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Ethiopian tradition calls for a man to abduct his wife-to-be, sometimes without her consent. When 14-year-old Hirut (Tizita Hagere) resists and ends up killing her abductor, the death penalty awaits. Enter Addis Ababa lawyer Meaza (Meron Getnet) determined to present a case for self-defense... Based on a true story, Zeresenay Berhane Mehari’s debut is “a quiet and powerful drama.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

CAST Meron Getnet, Tizita Hagere PROD Mehret Mandefro, Leelai Demoz, Zeresenay Berhane Mehari

CINEMA OF OUR TIME

IRAN

RUSSIA

SWEDEN

Field of Dogs

Fish & Cat

The Fool

Force Majeure

Psie Pole

Mahi va gorbeh

Durak

Turist

LECH MAJEWSKI, POLAND/SWITZERLAND/ITALY, 2014, 101 MIN.

SHAHRAM MOKRI, IRAN, 2013, 134 MIN.

YURY BYKOV, RUSSIA, 2014, 116 MIN.

SAT, SEP 27 TUE, SEP 30

8:45 PM 2:00 PM

VCT VCT

Lech Majewski’s follow-up to The Mill and the Cross is another visually ravishing tale, this one about a poet coping with the car-accident deaths of his beloved and best friend. “[Like The Mill...], the visuals are again striking and the theme of death deeply examined... Again there is a strong feeling that the stakes are high—a dialogue with God, a struggle for the soul...”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER CAST Michal Tatarek, Elzbieta Okupska, Jacenty Jedrusi, Jan Warta, Szymon Budzyk PROD Angelus Silesius

FRI, SEP 26 THU, OCT 2 TUE, OCT 7

9:00 PM 11:15 AM 8:45 PM

CINE IN10 CINE

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Shot in one bravura take, Shahram Mokri’s blackly comic, coolly inventive art/horror mash-up follows two sinister cooks and a group of students camping at a lake... “The camera’s complex choreography creates fissures in time, piling on stories within stories that trap viewers in an increasingly ominous... nightmare.”

—VARIETY

WINNER, SPECIAL ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE CONTENT, VENICE 2013; MUHR ASIA AFRICA SPECIAL JURY PRIZE, DUBAI 2013.

CAST Babak Karimi, Saeed Ebrahimifar, Abed Abest PROD Sepehr Seifi

HUNGARY

LITHUANIA

MON, SEP 29 TUE, SEP 30 WED, OCT 8

12:30 PM 9:30 PM 4:45 PM

RUBEN ÖSTLUND, SWEDEN, 2014, 120 MIN.

VCT CINE CINE

Dima (Artem Bystrov), an honest plumber, discovers a fissure in the foundation of an apartment building that could bring the whole thing down upon the 800 residents—within 24 hours. Yuri Bykov’s electrically paced work has Dima fighting the clock—and a plethora of corrupt officials—to avert disaster. “A distressing moral drama, gripping thriller and scathing sociopolitical portrait of Russia rolled into one.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER CAST Artem Bystrov, Natalia Surkova, Dmitry Kulichkov, Ilya Isaev, Maxim Pinsker, Lyubov Rudenko PROD Alexey Uchitel, Kira Saksaganskaya

COLOMBIA

FRI, SEP 26 MON, OCT 6

12:00 PM 6:30 PM

Echoing The Hunt’s psychological intensity, Ruben Östlund’s riveting drama features another desperate man whose world crumbles around him. After an avalanche at a ski resort in the Alps, a family’s narrow escape is overshadowed by husband/father Tomas’ cowardice in the clutch. It seems that running for his (own) life is a slight his wife Ebba just can’t shake. “Precisely calibrated... Visually stunning... Emotionally perceptive...”—VARIETY CAST Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren, Vincent Wettergren, Kristofer Hivju, Fanni Metelius PROD Erik Hemmendorff, Marie Kjellson, Philippe Bober

UK

Free Fall

The Gambler

Gente de Bien

God Help the Girl

Szabadesés

Losejas

Gente de bien

STUART MURDOCH, UK, 2014, 111 MIN.

GYÖRGY PÁLFI, HUNGARY/FRANCE/SOUTH KOREA, 2014, 89 MIN.

IGNAS JONYNAS, LITHUANIA/LATVIA, 2013, 109 MIN.

FRANCO LOLLI, COLOMBIA, 2014, 86 MIN.

THU, SEP 25 FRI, SEP 26 TUE, SEP 30

9:00 PM 3:30 PM 1:00 PM

VCT IN09 PLAY

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Hungarian director/ringmaster György Pálfi (Hukkle) turns an apartment building into seven rings of carnivalesque hell in this stunner. Pálfi essays the grotesqueries of modern life through stories that run the gamut from social realism to sci-fi. “It’s thrilling to see a director in such clear command of the cinematic medium operating in such a playfully stylized way.”—VARIETY WINNER, BEST DIRECTOR, KARLOVY VARY 2014.

CAST Piroska Molnár, Zsolt Nagy, Tamás Jordán PROD Ferenc Pusztai

SUN, OCT 5 TUE, OCT 7 FRI, OCT 10

9:15 PM 9:00 PM 9:15 PM

VCT SFU VCT

A Lithuanian paramedic makes his own macabre fun (and some fast cash) by devising an office pool that allows his coworkers to bet on whether a patient will survive. As this dubious lark evolves into an Internet sensation, director Ignas Jonynas’ striking, inventive visuals plunge us into the morass enveloping our morally wounded anti-hero.

WINNER, SPECIAL JURY PRIZE, WARSAW 2013.

CAST Vytautas Kaniusonis, Oona Mekas, Rimas Blockis, Giedre Giedraityte, Valerijus Jevsejevas, Lukas Kersys PROD Uljana Kim

SAT, SEP 27 MON, SEP 29

Preceded By Leidi p. 69

MON, SEP 29 FRI, OCT 3 MON, OCT 6

CENT CENT

3:45 PM 4:15 PM 9:00 PM

SFU RIO SFU

CANADIAN PREMIERE. It’s Christmas in Bogotá and 10-year-old Eric has been sent to live with his impoverished handyman father.

When a wealthy client takes pity on them, and invites them to stay at her family’s country villa over the holidays, tensions and discomfort soon begin to crackle, exposing the gap between Christian charity and the starker realities of the class structure. “An engrossing, sensitive and admirably nuanced social drama.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER CAST Brayan Santamarià, Carlos Fernando Perez, Alejandra Borrero, Santiago Martínez, Sofía Rivas PROD Gregoire Debailly

7:00 PM 1:00 PM

IN10 IN09

Populated by gorgeous misfits and propelled by effervescent pop songs, this jubilant musical from Belle & Sebastian lynchpin Stuart Murdoch comically depicts a critical juncture for three Glaswegians when it seems they’ve no other option than starting a band. “It’s warm and generous... Even nonbelievers will acknowledge the film’s utter sincerity... It means what it says.”—GUARDIAN

CINEMA OF OUR TIME

POLAND

WINNER, SPECIAL JURY PRIZE: ENSEMBLE ACTING, SUNDANCE 2014.

CAST Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray, Cora Bissett, Pierre Boulanger PROD Barry Mendel This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

Classification: TBA (check viff.org)

BUY TICKETS AND READ FULL FILM DESCRIPTIONS AT VIFF.ORG

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Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Love at First Fight

12:00

12:00 pm/107min./p.59

10:30 am/181min./p.85

National Gallery

11:00 am/110min./p.83

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: ...

11:15 am/110min./p.61

The Wonders

Papusza

12:00

11:00 am/131min./p.56 10:30 am/80min./p.45

Boy and the World

Miraculum

10:00 am/110min./p.41

11:00

Exit

3:00

Mercedes Sosa: ...

2:00 pm/93min./p.85

1:30 pm/105min./p.46

Nas: . . .

Come to My Voice

2:00 pm/74min./p.85

2:00 pm/91min./p.36

October Gale

1:45 pm/86min./p.67 1:00 pm/91min./p.61

4:00 pm/82min./p.81

4:00

The Liberator

Listen Up Philip

The Editor

4:00 pm/99min./p.88

4:00 pm/100min./p.77

Red Knot

How I Came to Hate Maths

October Gale

The Golden Era

8:00

Mr. Turner

Flowing Stories

6:30 pm/97min./p.69

6:30 pm/86min./p.39

Boy From Geita

Just Eat It: ...

6:30 pm/75min./p.41

7:00 pm/120min./p.54

Kindergarten Teacher

6:30 pm/77min./p.44 5:45 pm/102min./p.75

Miss and the Doctors

August Winds

6:30 pm/101min./p.73

8:00

Sun, the Moon and the Hurricane

6:00 pm/149min./p.55

7:00

Corn Island

6:30 pm/100min./p.46

Black Fly

6:30 pm/96min./p.39

God Help the Girl

7:00 pm/111min./p.47

6:30 pm/86min./p.67

Amazing Anime

6:15 pm/94min./p.39

Creation of Meaning

6:00 pm/178min./p.28

7:00

7:00 pm/70min./p.81

Yakona

6:15 pm/115min./p.53

In Order of Disappearance

7:00 pm/109min./p.55

Listen Up Philip

Princess of France

The Rooftops

7:00 pm/91min./p.57 6:30 pm/70min./p.57

6:00 pm/81min./p.57

6:00

8:00

6:45 pm/91min./p.36\

7:00

7:00 pm/83min./p.85

Possibilities Are Endless

6:30 pm/81min./p.55

7:00 pm/86min./p.82

Before . . . Last Curtain Falls

Journey . . . West

Of Horses and Men

Red Knot

8:00

7:00 pm/56min./p.71

6:00 pm/77min./p.35

6:00

4:30 pm/109min./p.55

4:00 pm/81min./p.57

3:30 pm/77min./p.35

Goodbye To Language 3D

4:00 pm/81min./p.55

Two Shots Fired

Of Horses and Men

4:15 pm/104min./p.59

5:00

4:45 pm/76min./p.81

Walking Under Water

4:15 pm/86min./p.87

Que Caramba es la Vida

Faith Connections

4:15 pm/117min./p.77

Glen Campbell: ...

3:30 pm/104min./p.83

Waiting for August

La Sapienza

5:00

4:45 pm/92min./p.79

My Name Is Salt

3:45 pm/107min./p.75

3:00 pm/119min./p.55 2:15 pm/94min./p.69

Amazing Anime

2:00

Furthest End Awaits

2:00 pm/118min./p.69

Casa Grande

Amazonia 3D

2:15 pm/79min./p.35

1:30 pm/113min./p.45

White Bird in a Blizzard

12:15 pm/107min./p.59

1:00

Sorrow and Joy

11:45 am/71min./p.73

Uncertain Relationships...

Sunday, September 28

Food Chains

10:00 am/83min./p.77

Nuoc 2030

11:30 am/98min./p.71

1:15 pm/81min./p.55

1:45 pm/70min./p.57

Journey . . . West

2:15 pm/56min./p.71

4:00

3:00 pm/120min./p.21

Wild

The Midnight After

3:30 pm/124min./p.71

4:15 pm/115min./p.53

Wild

6:30 pm/120min./p.21

7:00

Goodbye To Language 3D

Hill of Freedom

6:00

5:15 pm/82min./p.69

In Order of Disappearance

3:30 pm/89min./p.47

Free Fall

4:00 pm/99min./p.88

5:00

Past . . . Grotesque Animal 4:45 pm/79min./p.85

52 Tuesdays

4:30 pm/109min./p.44

4:30 pm/102min./p.75

Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Meat and Milk

3:00 pm/104min./p.79

2:30 pm/79min./p.83

3:00

4:00

Highway

6:00

Opening Gala Miss and the Doctors

5:00

3:30 pm/107min./p.77

Jalanan

4:00

2:45 pm/135min./p.53

Dominguinhos

Princess of France

Of Horses and Men

12:15 pm/90min./p.57

2:00

Jungle School

1:15 pm/90min./p.71

Something Must Break

11:00 am/102min./p.44

Beautiful Youth

10:30 am/123min./p.69

1:00

11:30 am/137min./p.32

Tale of the Princess Kaguya

12:00

Disconcerto

Cartoonists: ...

10:00 am/106min./p.83

11:00

Beautiful Youth

1:45 pm/102min./p.44

12:45 pm/112min./p.45

Stations of the Cross

Saturday, September 27

10:00 am/77min./p.76

Still Life

Class Enemy

1:30 pm/86min./p.82

3:00

The Owners

2:30 pm/93min./p.56

Before . . . Last Curtain Falls

12:45 pm/100min./p.77

2:00

How I Came to Hate Maths

12:00 pm/120min./p.47

11:30 am/93min./p.59

10:30 am/95min./p.56

1:00

12:15 pm/100min./p.46

Boy and the World

1:30 pm/125min./p.71

Cartoonists: ...

2:15 pm/106min./p.83

3:00

Man on High Heels

2:00

1:30 pm/80min./p.45

Force Majeure (aka Tourist)

11:00 am/100min./p.75

Paris of the North

Maidan

10:00 am/133min./p.79

11:00

Creator of the Jungle

10:00

Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

10:00 am/107min./p.87

Corn Island

To Kill a Man

1:00

12:15 pm/81min./p.59

Friday, September 26

10:00

Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Finding Fela

12:00

10:45 am/119min./p.83

Trespassing Bergman

Waiting for August

10:00 am/82min./p.81

10:00

Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

11:00

Thursday, September 25

10:00

VIFF 2014 Screening Schedule

Papusza

10:00

9:30 pm/91min./p.61

The Wonders

9:00 pm/110min./p.61

Buzzard

10:00

The Owners

9:00 pm/93min./p.56

Marmato

9:00 pm/87min./p.79

Zero Motivation

The Decent One

9:30 pm/94min./p.77

9:00 pm/101min./p.61

8:30 pm/91min./p.63

9:00 pm/98min./p.43

Corbo

The Valley Below

9:15 pm/119min./p.39

9:15 pm/116min./p.31

11:00

Men, Women & Children

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Leave a Mark

9:00

Field of Dogs

8:45 pm/101min./p.47

8:00 pm/200min./p.75

Liâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l Quinquin

9:15 pm/80min./p.43

9:30 pm/97min./p.45

11:00

Songs. . . People She Knows

Pristine Coast

9:00 pm/116min./p.71

The Dossier

Non Fiction Diary

9:00 pm/128min./p.69

10:00

8:30 pm/110min./p.42

9:00

Horse Money

9:15 pm/110min./p.53

8:30 pm/107min./p.77

Jalanan

11:00

White Bird in a Blizzard

8:15 pm/123min./p.69

Disconcerto

Run

Fish & Cat

9:00 pm/134min./p.47

9:30 pm/95min./p.59

Two Days, One Night

9:00 pm/89min./p.47

National Gallery

8:30 pm/181min./p.85

8:45 pm/100min./p.57

9:00

Pulp

9:15 pm/93min./p.85

Free Fall

11:00

Foxcatcher

9:30 pm/134min./p.27

10:00

8:30 pm/131min./p.56

9:00

12:00

The Editor

11:30pm/99min/p.88

12:00

It Follows

11:30pm/97min/p.89

12:00

12:00

11:00 am/79min./p.82

10:00 am/117min./p.77

Faith Connections

Everything Will Be

11:00 am/91min./p.41

Fish & Cat

11:00 am/100min./p.57

11:15 am/134min./p.47

Run

10:30 am/93min./p.71

Rekorder

August Winds

Field of Dogs

2:00 pm/94min./p.77

The Decent One

1:30 pm/105min./p.77

Iranian

2:00 pm/87min./p.79

Marmato

1:30 pm/90min./p.83

Looking for Light: ...

1987

12:45 pm/117min./p.39

Paris of the North

4:00 pm/111min./p.75

24 Days

Violent

4:00 pm/104min./p.43

Eye for Beauty

4:00 pm/106min./p.42

Preggoland

3:45 pm/102min./p.41

Flore

Two Step

Corn Island

6:00

4:45 pm/100min./p.46

5:00

3:45 pm/95min./p.61

3:15 pm/134min./p.27

Foxcatcher

4:00

Listen Up Philip

4:00 pm/109min./p.55

Dominguinhos

Clownwise

Navajazo

7:00 pm/75min./p.55

Faith Connections

6:30 pm/117min./p.77

6:15 pm/86min./p.25

7:00 pm/80min./p.45

Boy and the World

Welcome to Me

Nuoc 2030

6:00 pm/98min./p.71

Can You Relate?

Challat of Tunis

7:00 pm/90min./p.76

8:00

6:30 pm/106min./p.65

7:00

7:00 pm/93min./p.77

Flore

6:30 pm/89min./p.39

All the Time in the World

6:30 pm/90min./p.43

Sitting on the Edge of Marlene

6:30 pm/104min./p.83

Glen Campbell: ...

6:30 pm/120min./p.46

6:00 pm/113min./p.65

The Womb

5:45 pm/83min./p.61

Ow

8:00

7:00 pm/100min./p.73

I’m (not) Having a Good Day

Hill of Freedom

4:30 pm/79min./p.83

3:45 pm/125min./p.61

Food Chains

7:00

Great Museum

Exit

7:00 pm/80min./p.41

6:30 pm/94min./p.69

5:45 pm/94min./p.83

6:00

5:15 pm/82min./p.69

4:30 pm/83min./p.77

Welcome to New York

3:15 pm/93min./p.77

Wound and the Gift

3:00

2:30 pm/80min./p.81 1:30 pm/95min./p.56

2:00

1:30 pm/99min./p.43

What Are We Doing Here?

2:00 pm/80min./p.41

1:30 pm/95min./p.59

Dirty Singles

2:00 pm/101min./p.61

The Midnight After

4:00 pm/83min./p.85

5:00

4:45 pm/80min./p.43

Songs. . . People She Knows

4:30 pm/104min./p.79

Dirty Singles

Preggoland

6:15 pm/106min./p.42

6:30 pm/117min./p.39

1987

5:45 pm/165min./p.35

Rekorder

8:00

10:00

Winter Sleep

Man on High Heels

8:45 pm/125min./p.71

Beautiful Youth

9:15 pm/102min./p.44

9:15 pm/90min./p.41

Marinoni

9:30 pm/93min./p.43

11:00

You’re Sleeping Nicole

8:30 pm/91min./p.62

Waiting for August

9:15 pm/82min./p.81

Iron Ministry

9:15 pm/82min./p.71

9:15 pm/123min./p.27

10:00

Clouds of Sils Maria

Emergency/Response

9:00

9:30 pm/100min./p.85

Miss Hill: ...

Cartoonists: ...

9:00 pm/106min./p.83

Two 4 One

9:00 pm/74min./p.43

9:00 pm/110min./p.37

Asteroid

Elephant Song

9:30 pm/103min./p.44

9:00 pm/104min./p.59

History is Old News

8:30 pm/95min./p.62

Two Shots Fired

9:30 pm/102min./p.69

11:00

Horses of Fukushima

Noble

9:30 pm/101min./p.55

Violent

9:30 pm/104min./p.4

Human Capital

9:00 pm/110min./p.53

Güeros

9:30 pm/106min./p.53

9:00 pm/96min./p.63

8:00 pm/196min./p.33

9:00

The Fool

11:00

9:30 pm/116min./p.47

10:00

This Must Be the Place

Two Step

9:00

La Sapienza

11:00

9:30 pm/107min./p.75

9:00 pm/91min./p.41

8:30 pm/95min./p.61

7:45 pm/76min./p.81

9:30 pm/95min./p.53

Everything Will Be

Heaven Knows What

Mommy

Paris of the North

9:30 pm/95min./p.56 9:00 pm/134min./p.37

8:30 pm/92min./p.63

We Both Go Down Together

9:00 pm/100min./p.77

Furthest End Awaits

.59:00 pm/118min./p.69

10:00

How I Came to Hate Maths

9:00

Walking Under Water

7:00 pm/92min./p.73

Cathedrals of Culture

5:30 pm/80min./p.81

7:00

6:15 pm/99min./p.43

7:00 pm/93min./p.85

Mercedes Sosa: ...

6:30 pm/95min./p.29

Maps to the Stars

Uncle Victory

7:00 pm/105min./p.73

What Are We Doing Here?

Wound and the Gift

Meat and Milk

Possibilities Are Endless 2:45 pm/124min./p.71

Corbo

3:00 pm/116min./p.31

Men, Women & Children

2:30 pm/119min./p.39

Zero Motivation

1:30 pm/96min./p.41

Martin’s Pink Pickle

3:00

4:00

3:00 pm/98min./p.43 2:00 pm/101min./p.47

The Valley Below

3:15 pm/133min./p.79

4:00 pm/96min./p.39

Maidan

6:00

4:45 pm/83min./p.85

5:00

Black Fly

3:30 pm/95min./p.53

Heaven Knows What

2:45 pm/98min./p.61

Una Vida: ...

2:00 pm/93min./p.85

Two Days, One Night

12:00 pm/149min./p.55

Mr. Turner

1:00

12:00 pm/92min./p.73 10:45 am/131min./p.56

Papusza

12:00

Men Who Save the World

New Boobs

10:00 am/84min./p.79

11:00

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Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Uncle Victory

2:00

1:00 pm/74min./p.85

Nas: ...

12:15 pm/101min./p.73

11:30 am/105min./p.73

10:30 am/107min./p.87

Tales

12:45 pm/88min./p.59

1:00

Sun, . . . Moon and the Hurricane

11:00 am/107min./p.75

La Sapienza

Trespassing Bergman

Horse Money

10:00 am/110min./p.53

12:00

Thursday, October 2

10:00

Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

11:00

Sharing

4:00

5:15 pm/94min./p.39

Creation of Meaning

Possibilities Are Endless

3:45 pm/102min./p.47

Horse Money

3:00 pm/110min./p.53

Gente de Bien

4:30 pm/86min./p.82

Love at First Fight

4:30 pm/100min./p.75

6:30 pm/96min./p.41

7:00 pm/71min./p.73

Uncertain Relationships...

Martin’s Pink Pickle Food Chains

8:00

Vancouver Asahi

6:30 pm/130min./p.25

7:00

6:00 pm/83min./p.77

6:00

Before the Last Curtain Falls

3:30 pm/83min./p.61

Non Fiction Diary

The Dossier

4:00 pm/128min./p.69

5:00

3:45 pm/116min./p.71

The Womb

4:00

2:30 pm/108min./p.73

3:00

2:00 pm/77min./p.44 1:00 pm/79min./p.53 11:45 am/111min./p.73

Revivre

History of Fear

Free Fall

1:00 pm/89min./p.47

Teen Tales 2014

12:45 pm/108min./p.65

12:00 pm/97min./p.69

11:00 am/120min./p.54

10:30 am/75min./p.41

Just Eat It: ...

The Owners

2:00

12:45 pm/93min./p.56

1:00

Pulp

1:15 pm/87min./p.79 12:30 pm/116min./p.47

The Fool

2:00 pm/106min./p.68

Marmato

Black Coal, Thin Ice

2:00 pm/90min./p.57

3:00

Something Must Break

1:00 pm/111min./p.47

Run

God Help the Girl

1:30 pm/100min./p.57

1:00 pm/81min./p.63

2:00

Reel Youth Film Festival

1:00

Flowing Stories

Kindergarten Teacher

10:30 am/102min./p.75

Miss and the Doctors

10:15 am/77min./p.76

Creator of the Jungle

10:30 am/100min./p.87

12:00

Regarding Susan Sontag

11:00

Wednesday, October 1

10:00

Centre for Arts

Ballet 422

11:30 am/70min./p.81

Yakona

10:30 am/109min./p.54

Under Water Vancity Theatre Walking 10:00 am/76min./p.81

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

The Rooftops

Lakshmi

11:00 am/91min./p.57

Horses of Fukushima

10:00 am/102min./p.69

12:00

Tuesday, September 30

10:00

Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

11:00

Monday, September 29

10:00

12:00

12:00

12:00

12:00

Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

11:00 am/81min./p.59

11:00 am/89min./p.39

All the Time in the World

11:15 am/103min./p.44

Asteroid

Stations of the Cross

11:00 am/107min./p.59

12:00

10:30 am/99min./p.46

Difret

11:00 am/106min./p.31

The Riot Club

10:00 am/105min./p.46

Come to My Voice

Man on High Heels

10:00 am/125min./p.71

11:00

12:00

Salt of the Earth

2:00

12:15 pm/105min./p.77

Just Eat It: ...

New Boobs

2:30 pm/98min./p.61

Una Vida: ...

Wild Tales

Still Life

4:45 pm/91min./p.63

That’ll Leave a Mark

4:00 pm/89min./p.82

Art and Craft

4:45 pm/86min./p.85

The Other One: ...

4:00 pm/93min./p.59

Miraculum

4:45 pm/110min./p.41

5:00

4:30 pm/92min./p.42

Price We Pay

4:00 pm/140min./p.54

Leviathan

6:00

5:00 pm/76min./p.79 4:00 pm/93min./p.85

3:30 pm/122min./p.33

4:00

2:45 pm/84min./p.79

2:00 pm/120min./p.46

1:30 pm/75min./p.41

12:30 pm/113min./p.65

3:00

Clownwise

1:30 pm/99min./p.35

Above Us All

1:30 pm/107min./p.59

Sorrow and Joy

I’m (not) Having a Good Day

Iranian

Güeros

Pulp

Red Army

1:00 pm/196min./p.33

Haemoo

4:30 pm/130min./p.69

Winter Sleep

2:00 pm/70min./p.75

3:30 pm/115min./p.53

In Order of Disappearance

Housebound

6:00

6:00

7:00

The Riot Club

Lakshmi

6:30 pm/120min.

8:00

Amazonia 3D

8:00

6:45 pm/95min./p.53

Hope and Wire

In Search of Chopin

6:00 pm/112min./p.83

7:00 pm/110min./p.81

We Come As Friends

6:15 pm/80min./p.76

Becoming Bulletproof

Sacro GRA

7:30 pm/93min./p.79

6:30 pm/120min./p.47

7:00

Force Majeure (aka Tourist)

7:00 pm/85min./p.79

7:00 pm/88min./p.57

...Mandela, The Myth and Me

Rocks in My Pockets

Finding Fela

6:15 pm/119min./p.83

7:00 pm/72min./p.82

7:30 pm/79min./p.35

Advanced Style

6:00 pm/101min./p.55

Noble

6:30 pm/77min./p.76

Creator of the Jungle

Class Enemy

7:15 pm/112min./p.45

6:30 pm/106min./p.45

Boychoir

7:00

7:00 pm/99min./p.35

Above Us All

6:30 pm/70min./p.75

Handmade...from France

The Other One: ...

6:45 pm/86min./p.85

BC Spotlight Gala

7:00 pm/109min./p.54

6:00 pm/107min./p.59

Stations of the Cross

6:30 pm/112min./p.65

Life/Crisis

Come to My Voice

8:00

6:45 pm/105min./p.46

6:00 pm/122min./p.33

7:00

Wild Tales

7:00 pm/98min./p.61

Una Vida: ...

6:30 pm/90min./p.77

6:45 pm/125min./p.61

A Dangerous Game

Welcome to New York

Difret

7:00 pm/99min./p.46

6:30 pm/104min./p.79

Turbulence

Meat and Milk

Fall

8:00

7:00 pm/82min./p.41

6:15 pm/106min./p.31

6:00 pm/90min./p.43

5:00 pm/109min./p.89 4:15 pm/89min./p.76

5:00

Concerning Violence

3:30 pm/104min./p.42

Monsoon

4:00

4:00 pm/102min./p.55

N: The Madness...

4:30 pm/84min./p.89

The Infinite Man

4:00 pm/90min./p.41

Marinoni

Highway

4:15 pm/135min./p.53

Amazonia 3D

4:00 pm/79min./p.35

3:45 pm/85min./p.88

Bloody Knuckles

Charlie’s Country

4:15 pm/108min./p.45

5:00

4:00 pm/110min./p.42

Gente de Bien

Pristine Coast

4:15 pm/102min./p.47

3:45 pm/116min./p.75

Handmade...from France

1:30 pm/106min./p.53

12:30 pm/110min./p.87

1:00

11:30 am/106min./p.68

Turbulence

Hope and Wire

Challat of Tunis

3:00

3:00 pm/90min./p.76 1:30 pm/95min./p.53

2:00

Jauja

1:30 pm/108min./p.54

1:00 pm/90min./p.43

Fall

1:00

2:00 pm/93min./p.43

You’re Sleeping Nicole 1:30 pm/108min./p.74

4:00

2:30 pm/130min./p.25 2:15 pm/88min./p.57

Rocks in My Pockets

Life of Riley

Price We Pay

1:00 pm/92min./p.42

1:15 pm/86min./p.39

Boy From Geita

12:30 pm/82min./p.41

Black Coal, Thin Ice

10:30 am/115min./p.57

Queen and Country

A Dangerous Game

10:00 am/90min./p.77

11:00

Iron Ministry

Human Capital

4:30 pm/110min./p.53

In the Name of My Daughter

3:30 pm/90min./p.43

Navajazo

6:00

5:00 pm/75min./p.55

4:00 pm/77min./p.44

August Winds

Sitting on the Edge of Marlene

Vancouver Asahi

3:00

Manos Sucias

2:00 pm/90min./p.55 1:30 pm/100min./p.85

2:00

The Womb

5:00

3:30 pm/123min./p.27

Clouds of Sils Maria

4:00

3:00 pm/83min./p.61

2:30 pm/77min./p.35

3:00

Goodbye To Language 3D

Miss Hill: ...

1:00 pm/86min./p.25

Welcome to Me

12:15 pm/82min./p.71

11:00 am/165min./p.35

To Kill a Man

Blind Massage

1:00

Elephant Song

Class Enemy

1:00 pm/112min./p.45

1:15 pm/72min./p.82

Advanced Style

12:45 pm/97min./p.75

Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

Cathedrals of Culture

12:00

10:30 am/114min./p.68

Flore

10:00 am/93min./p.77

11:00

2:00

1:00 pm/108min./p.29

Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed

1:00

11:15 am/110min./p.37

Monday, October 6

10:00

Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

10:30 am/120min./p.46

Clownwise

10:30 am/91min./p.41

Sunday, October 5

10:00

Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

11:00 am/74min./p.43

Two 4 One

Everything Will Be

Ow

10:00 am/100min./p.73

12:00

Saturday, October 4

10:00

Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

11:00

Friday, October 3

10:00

Monsoon

10:00

9:30 pm/81min./p.63

Reel Youth Film Festival

9:15 pm/119min./p.55

The Liberator

10:00

9:00

My Name Is Salt

24 Days

9:30 pm/86min./p.87

Que Caramba es la Vida

Gente de Bien

9:00 pm/102min./p.47

Highway

11:00

11:00

9:30 pm/135min./p.53

Revivre

9:00 pm/111min./p.73

Corner of Heaven

9:30 pm/94min./p.68

9:15 pm/111min./p.75

10:00

Gambler

9:15 pm/109min./p.47

9:00 pm/107min./p.87

Trespassing Bergman

Manos Sucias

9:00 pm/90min./p.55

9:15 pm/102min./p.41

Eye for Beauty

9:30 pm/92min./p.79

Price We Pay

8:45 pm/92min./p.42

8:15 pm/133min./p.79

Maidan

9:00

Miraculum

9:30 pm/110min./p.41

Ballet 422

52 Tuesdays

9:00 pm/109min./p.44

9:30 pm/96min./p.59

The Midnight After

Two Faces of January

9:30 pm/124min./p.71

Beloved Sisters

8:30 pm/171min./p.45

Love at First Fight

11:00

9:30 pm/100min./p.75

Jungle School

9:15 pm/90min./p.71

10:00

9:00 pm/79min./p.82

9:00

Parasite

9:30 pm/66min./p.56

9:00 pm/110min./p.57

Nas: ...

Phoenix

9:30 pm/74min./p.85

Leviathan

9:00 pm/140min./p.54

Black Coal, Thin Ice

11:00

9:30 pm/106min./p.68

Queen and Country

8:30 pm/115min./p.57

9:00 pm/79min./p.85

To Kill a Man

9:15 pm/81min./p.59

9:15 pm/104min./p.42

Past Is a Grotesque Animal

9:00

12:00

Alleluia

11:30pm/95min/p.88

12:00

Housebound

11:30pm/109min/p.89

12:00

Bloody Knuckles

11:30pm/85min/p.88

12:00

Red Army

Pristine Coast

10:00

11:00 am/85min./p.79

Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Great Museum

12:00

Lakshmi

12:00 pm/91min./p.62

The Wild Years

Corner of Heaven

2:30 pm/94min./p.68

3:00

3:00

1:15 pm/100min./p.39

Different Drummer

Bye Bye Blues

5:00

Boychoir

Noble The Fool

4:15 pm/113min./p.45

Buzzard

6:00

3:45 pm/104min./p.43

4:00 pm/99min./p.88

Welcome to Me

4:15 pm/86min./p.25

My Name Is Salt

Closing Gala 4:45 pm/92min./p.79

5:00

4:45 pm/95min./p.62

History is Old News

4:00 pm/110min./p.81

We Come As Friends

It Follows

4:30 pm/97min./p.89

Güeros

4:00 pm/106min./p.53

Violent

6:00

5:00 pm/96min./p.63

7:00

Handmade...from France 5:30 pm/70min./p.75

7:00

Red Army

Art and Craft

7:15 pm/89min./p.82

6:30 pm/108min./p.45

Charlie’s Country

Life of Riley

9:00

11:00

10:00

Coming Home

9:15 pm/110min./p.83

Gambler

10:00

Salt of the Earth

History of Fear

9:30 pm/79min./p.53

9:15 pm/97min./p.75

11:00

Foxcatcher

Gambler

9:15 pm/109min./p.47

9:00 pm/113min./p.45

The Well

Casa Grande

9:15 pm/95min./p.89

Whiplash

9:00 pm/105min./p.23

9:30 pm/134min./p.27

10:00

9:00 pm/102min./p.55

Sorrow and Joy

N: The Madness...

9:00 pm/107min./p.59

The Infinite Man

9:15 pm/84min./p.89

Blind Massage

9:00 pm/114min./p.68

Yakona

9:15 pm/70min./p.81

11:00

Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

9:30 pm/89min./p.76

Tales

Concerning Violence

9:30 pm/88min./p.59

Sharing

9:00 pm/108min./p.73

11:00

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: ...

9:00 pm/109min./p.47

Behavior

9:30 pm/108min./p.45

Fish & Cat

8:45 pm/134min./p.47

8:45 pm/110min./p.87

9:00

Li’l Quinquin

Haemoo

9:15 pm/130min./p.69

10:00

8:45 pm/111min./p.68

9:00

9:00

7:00 pm/200min./p.75

8:00

6:30 pm/108min./p.74

6:30 pm/105min./p.23

Whiplash

7:00

7:15 pm/79min./p.83

Dominguinhos

Jauja

6:30 pm/108min./p.54

7:00 pm/90min./p.57

Something Must Break

7:00 pm/93min./p.71

8:00

Men Who Save the World

6:30 pm/76min./p.79

Bye Bye Blues

7:00 pm/117min./p.39

6:30 pm/100min./p.87

Regarding Susan Sontag

7:00 pm/100min./p.39

Still Life

Different Drummer

7:15 pm/93min./p.59

The Wild Years

7:15 pm/70min./p.81

8:00

6:45 pm/108min./p.65

Teen Tales 2014

6:45 pm/90min./p.83

Looking for Light: ...

New Boobs

7:00 pm/84min./p.79

Iranian

6:30 pm/105min./p.77

6:00 pm/108min./p.29

This Must Be the Place

4:45 pm/97min./p.45

5:00

Alleluia

4:00 pm/95min./p.88

8:00

6:45 pm/116min./p.75

In the Name of My Daughter

7:00

Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed

6:00

4:45 pm/116min./p.47

Casa Grande

5:00

4:30 pm/92min./p.63

Phoenix

6:00

We Both Go Down Together

4:00 pm/110min./p.57

The Well

4:30 pm/95min./p.89

Asteroid

4:15 pm/103min./p.44

4:00 pm/106min./p.45

Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

4:00

4:00

2:30 pm/117min./p.39

2:00 pm/79min./p.53

History of Fear

1:00 pm/130min./p.25

Vancouver Asahi

2:00

2:15 pm/80min./p.76

Becoming Bulletproof

1:30 pm/97min./p.75

2:15 pm/86min./p.85

The Other One: ...

1:30 pm/108min./p.45

Behavior

2:00

2:15 pm/112min./p.83

In Search of Chopin

Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

12:30 pm/70min./p.81

1:00

12:15 pm/90min./p.77

A Dangerous Game

12:15 pm/95min./p.53

2:00 pm/93min./p.79

Finding Fela

4:00

4:00

3:30 pm/101min./p.55 2:30 pm/100min./p.89

The Incident

3:00

2:30 pm/96min./p.59

Two Faces of January

Sacro GRA

1:15 pm/119min./p.83

12:00 pm/171min./p.45

Heaven Knows What

Mr. Turner

2:00

1:00 pm/149min./p.55

Beloved Sisters

1:00

Life/Crisis

Emergency/Response

11:00 am/94min./p.83

10:00 am/90min./p.83

Looking for Light: ...

Miss Hill: ...

10:00 am/100min./p.85

11:00

Friday, October 10

10:00 am/110min./p.83

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: ...

10:30 am/100min./p.87

12:00

Regarding Susan Sontag

Boy From Geita

10:00 am/86min./p.39

10:00

Vancity Theatre

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

11:00

1:00

52 Tuesdays

Manos Sucias

2:00 pm/90min./p.55

Parasite

2:30 pm/66min./p.56

3:00

1:30 pm/109min./p.44

12:30 pm/109min./p.54 12:00 pm/112min./p.65

Thursday, October 9

10:00

Centre for Arts

12:00

...Mandela, The Myth and Me

Jungle School

10:00 am/90min./p.71

11:00

Caramba es la Vida Vancity Theatre Que 10:00 am/86min./p.87

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

11:45 am/106min./p.65

12:30 pm/88min./p.57

Rocks in My Pockets

Wednesday, October 8

2:00

Li’l Quinquin

12:00 pm/200min./p.75

1:00

Can You Relate?

Charlie’s Country

12:00

11:00 am/108min./p.45

10:00 am/110min./p.42

Vancity Theatre 10:00 am/76min./p.79

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Int. Village #10

Int. Village #9

Int. Village #8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

11:00

Tuesday, October 7

10:00

The Incident

11:30pm/100min/p.89

12:00

Girl...Alone at Night

11:30pm/99min/p.88

12:00

12:00

12:00

CINEMA OF OUR TIME USA

INDIA

ARGENTINA

Güeros

Heaven Knows What

Highway

ALONSO RUÍZ PALACIOS, MEXICO, 2014, 106 MIN.

JOSHUA SAFDIE, BENNY SAFDIE, USA, 2014, 95 MIN.

IMTIAZ ALI, INDIA, 2014, 135 MIN.

TUE, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 5 THU, OCT 9

9:30 PM 1:30 PM 4:00 PM

IN10 RIO PLAY

CANADIAN PREMIERE. A hugely enjoyable blackand-white homage to the Nouvelle Vague set against 1999’s student demonstrations in Mexico City, Alonso Ruízpalacios’ debut focuses on teenaged Tomás, his slacker older brother and their search for a folk-music icon who once made Bob Dylan cry... Playful and charming, it’s “full of life and related with intelligence and a sense of humour.”—SLANT SPECIAL JURY MENTION: BEST NEW NARRATIVE DIRECTOR, TRIBECA 2014.

CAST Tenoch Huerta, Sebastián Aguirre, Ilse Salas, Leonardo Ortizgris, Raúl Briones, Laura Almela PROD Ramiro Ruiz

NEW ZEALAND

MON, SEP 29 TUE, SEP 30 THU, OCT 9

9:30 PM 3:30 PM 12:15 PM

RIO IN09 CINE

Benny and Joshua Safdie’s (Daddy Longlegs) corrosively energetic mélange of documentary and fiction draws on the reality of real junkie Arielle Holmes (playing a slightly fictionalized version of herself) as she tries to score while obsessing about her boyfriend.

Adding scripted scenes featuring real drug dealers and denizens of the neighbourhood, the brothers have fashioned something powerful and sui generis.

CAST Arielle Holmes, Caleb Landry Jones, Buddy Duress, Necro PROD Oscar Boyson, Sebastian BearMcClard

PORTUGAL

FRI, SEP 26 SAT, OCT 4 MON, OCT 6

History of Fear 2:45 PM 4:15 PM 9:30 PM

Imtiaz Ali’s drama is anchored by A.R. Rahman’s lilting music and Alia Bhatt’s amazing turn as a kidnapped heiress.

“Abduction paradoxically results in liberation for both the sheltered daughter of a rich industrialist and her hardened-criminal kidnapper in... this Bollywood road movie, which intertwines dark social issues and blithe romance, thanks in part to relative newcomer Alia Bhatt’s endearingly cockeyed performance.”—VARIETY CAST Alia Bhatt, Randeep Hooda, Durgesh Kumar, Pradeep Nagar, Saharsh Kumar Shukla PROD Imtiaz Ali, Sajid Nadiadwala

ITALY

Horse Money

Human Capital

GAYLENE PRESTON, NEW ZEALAND, 2014, 95 MIN.

Cavalo Dinheiro

Il capitale umano

1:30 PM 6:45 PM

IN08 VCT

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. Set in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 Christchurch earthquakes, Gaylene Preston’s docudrama tells the true stories of New Zealanders picking up the pieces and fully earns its tagline: “It’s the aftershocks that run the deepest.” Real news footage and recreated disaster sites are seamlessly blended in a moving tale of survival that “certainly pulls no punches.”—NEW ZEALAND HERALD CAST Bernard Hill, Rachel House, Jarod Rawiri PROD Chris Hampson, Gaylene Preston

PEDRO COSTA, PORTUGAL, 2014, 110 MIN.

FRI, SEP 26 MON, SEP 29 WED, OCT 1

9:15 PM 3:00 PM 10:00 AM

“The restless spirits of Portugal’s postcolonial underclass stumble dazedly though the wilds of Horse Money, the latest—and in some respects the most striking—of director Pedro Costa’s hallucinatory bulletins from the Lisbon slum known as Fontainhas... [A] strange, hauntingly beautiful effort... [It] defies classification as readily as it reimagines the possibilities of cinema...”—VARIETY WINNER, BEST DIRECTOR, LOCARNO 2014.

CAST Ventura, Vitalina Varela, Tito Furtado PROD Abel Ribeiro Chaves

TUE, SEP 30 FRI, OCT 3

TUE, SEP 30 WED, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 10

1:00 PM 9:30 PM 2:00 PM

SFU VCT RIO

There are echoes of VIFF 12 standout Neighbouring Sounds in this anxietyfuelled thriller. As increasingly odd events unfold in an affluent Buenos Aires suburb, anxiety escalates, setting the stage for an intoxicatingly tense climax. Benjamín Naishtat “invokes a sinister vibe [and] dramatizes the point at which desire for safety sublimates into paranoid acquiescence.”—FILM COMMENT WINNER, GRAND PRIZE, JEONJU 2014; NEW DIRECTORS PRIZE, SAN FRANCISCO 2014.

CAST Jonathan Da Rosa, Mirella Pascual, Tatiana Giménez, Claudia Cantero, Francisco Lumerman PROD Benjamín Doménech, Santiago Gallelli

In Order of Disappearance

PAOLO VIRZÌ, ITALY, 2013, 110 MIN.

VCT VCT CINE

BENJAMIN NAISHTAT, ARGENTINA/FRANCE/ GERMANY/URUGUAY/QATAR, 2014, 79 MIN.

NORWAY

Hope and Wire SUN, OCT 5 MON, OCT 6

Historia del miedo

CENT IN10 RIO

9:00 PM 4:30 PM

Kraftidioten

PLAY IN10

CANADIAN PREMIERE. A hit-and-run accident splinters this drama into three distinct chapters, each unfolding from a different character’s perspective. The involving, overlapping structure recalls Kieslowski and summons bold performances from a uniformly brilliant cast (headlined by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). “This slick, stylish fusion of class critique and murder mystery confirms Paolo Virzi as one of Italy’s more dynamic directors.”—VARIETY WINNER, BEST ACTRESS, TRIBECA 2014.

CAST Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Gifuni, Luigi Lo Cascio PROD Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib

HANS PETTER MOLAND, NORWAY/SWEDEN/ DENMARK, 2014, 115 MIN.

FRI, SEP 26 FRI, SEP 26 SUN, OCT 5

4:15 PM 6:15 PM 3:30 PM

IN10 RIO IN09

Having just won “Citizen of the Year” in his sleepy Norwegian community, an unassuming snowplough operator (Stellan Skarsgård) now wants his pound of flesh from the vegan gangster who murdered his son. Hans Petter Moland’s bloody, farcical crime thriller is “a rip-roaring revenge tale... Moland’s tongue is planted firmly in his cheek... but there’s a transfixing solemnity underlying the black comedy.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

CINEMA OF OUR TIME

MEXICO

CAST Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gard B. Eidsvold PROD Finn Gjerdrum, Stein B. Kvae

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CINEMA OF OUR TIME ARGENTINA

ISRAEL

Jauja

The Kindergarten Teacher Lakshmi

LISANDRO ALONSO, ARGENTINA/DENMARK/FRANCE/ MEXICO/GERMANY/BRAZIL, 2014, 108 MIN.

Haganenet

SAT, OCT 4 THU, OCT 9

1:30 PM 6:30 PM

SFU SFU

NADAV LAPID, ISRAEL/FRANCE, 2014, 120 MIN.

SUN, SEP 28 TUE, SEP 30

RUSSIA

Leviathan Leviafan

NAGESH KUKUNOOR, INDIA, 2014, 109 MIN.

7:00 PM 11:00 AM

IN10 IN10

Lisandro Alonso returns with a gorgeous, 19th-century-set existential exploration.

Viggo Mortensen is a Danish engineer who heads into the Patagonian wilderness in search of his missing daughter. “This hallucinatory head-trip Western remains unmistakably Alonso’s film... a metaphysical road movie in which origin and destination are markedly less important than the journey itself.”—VARIETY

The story of an idealistic teacher who becomes convinced that one of her fiveyear old charges is a prodigious poet, Nadav Lapid’s second feature (Policeman was in VIFF 11) invites myriad questions about life and art, words and meaning, and the perceptual boundaries between adults and children. Elusive, haunting and ultimately disturbing, this is a drama you’ll be replaying in your mind long afterwards.

WINNER, FIPRESCI PRIZE, UN CERTAIN REGARD, CANNES 2014.

CAST Sarit Larry, Avi Shnaidman, Lior Raz, Hamuchtar, Ester Rada, Guy Oren PROD Osnat Handelsman-Keren,Talia Kleinhendler, Carole Scotta

CAST Viggo Mortensen, Ghita Nørby, Viilbjørk Malling Agger, Adrian Fondari PROD Ilse Hughan, Andy Kleinman, Viggo Mortensen, Sylvie Pialat, Jaime Romandia, Helle Ulsteen

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INDIA

MON, SEP 29 SAT, OCT 4 WED, OCT 8

10:30 AM 7:00 PM 12:30 PM

IN09 IN10 CENT

Nagesh Kukunoor’s raw, powerful and deeply disturbing drama about sex trafficking and child prostitution in Andhra Pradesh packs a wallop, in no small part due to the performance of Monali Thakur as the 14-year-old heroine Lakshmi. “The film belongs to singer-turned-actress Thakur.

[Her] portrait of ravaged innocence will haunt you forever.”—NDTV WINNER, AUDIENCE AWARD: BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE, PALM SPRINGS 2014.

CAST Monali Thakur, Shefali Shah, Ram Kapoor, Nagesh Kukunoor, Satish Kaushik PROD Jayantilal Gada, Elahe Hiptoola, Satish Kaushik, Nagesh Kukunoor

ANDREÏ ZVYAGINTSEV, RUSSIA, 2014, 140 MIN.

FRI, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 5

9:00 PM 4:00 PM

PLAY SFU

This surely cements Andreï Zvyagintsev’s standing as Russia’s leading filmmaker.

Initially, its subject—a dispute between a garage owner and a small-town mayor— seems modest in scope. However, this is undeniably a major work: an angry lament for a nation in thrall to endemic corruption.

“A tragedy of biblical proportions [but] also a stingingly effective pitch-black comedy.”

—INDIEWIRE

WINNER, BEST SCREENPLAY, CANNES 2014.

CAST Alexeï Serebriakov, Elena Liadova, Vladimir Vdovitchenkov, Roman Madianov, Anna Oukolova, Alexeï Rozine PROD Alexander Rodnyanovsky, Sergei Melkumov

CINEMA OF OUR TIME USA

COLOMBIA

UK

The Liberator

Listen Up Philip

Manos Sucias

Libertador

ALEX ROSS PERRY, USA, 2014, 109 MIN.

JOSEF WLADYKA, COLOMBIA/USA, 2014, 90 MIN.

ALBERTO ARVELO, VENEZUELA/SPAIN, 2013, 119 MIN.

SUN, SEP 28 SUN, OCT 5

3:00 PM 9:15 PM

CENT CENT

The extraordinary life of South American hero Simón Bolívar (the mesmerizing Édgar Ramírez, Carlos) is given appropriately epic treatment in Alberto Arvelo’s sumptuously mounted period piece. Beginning in the early 1800s and spanning 30 years in the great revolutionary’s struggles to free South Americans from the yoke of Spanish occupation, Arvelo’s impressive achievement is a rousing and entertaining corrective to Bolívar’s relative anonymity in North America.

CAST Édgar Ramírez, Erich Wildpret, María Valverde, Danny Huston, Juana Acosta PROD Alberto Arvelo, Ana Loehnert

BELGIUM

7:00 PM 4:30 PM 4:00 PM

IN10 IN10 SFU

Narcissists tangle and barbed tongues draw blood in this savage comedy from The Color Wheel’s Alex Ross Perry. When an arrogant novelist (Jason Schwartman, making snipe sing) takes a literary titan as a mentor (Jonathan Pryce, emulating Philip Roth), he’s encouraged to devote himself fully to his favourite muse: himself. Of course, selfinvolvement rarely begets self-discovery. “A clever, nasty piece of work...”—FILM COMMENT CAST Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Krysten Ritter, Joséphine De La Baume, Jonathan Pryce PROD Joshua Blum, Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, David Lowery, Katie Stern

MEXICO

N: The Madness of Reason 4:00 PM 9:00 PM

SFU VCT

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Based on the life of French musician Raymond Borremans, who moved to West Africa in the 20s and tried to compile an encyclopedia of The Ivory Coast (he got to “N” before dying in 1988), this poetic semi-documentary is beautiful and revelatory. Nigerian novelist/ poet Ben Okri co-wrote the script, director Peter Krüger authored the striking visual style and the great Michael Lonsdale embodies Borremans’ spirit.

CAST Michael Lonsdale, Wendyam Sawadogo PROD Peter Krüger

FRI, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 5 TUE, OCT 7

2:00 PM 9:00 PM 2:00 PM

RIO RIO RIO

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Two young Colombian brothers, stymied by a dearth of legitimate job opportunities, decide to run drugs up the coast in a fishing boat... “Shot on location in and around Buenaventura, the movie has a frantic, gritty energy attuned to its characters’ frustrations... It’s a fierce snapshot of reckless behavior enacted by helpless men.”—INDIEWIRE WINNER, BEST NEW NARRATIVE DIRECTOR; AUDIENCE AWARD RUNNER-UP, TRIBECA 2014.

IRELAND

Noble STEPHEN BRADLEY, IRELAND/UK, 2013, 101 MIN.

VCT CINE

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Ricardo SIlva’s controversial, disturbing and unclassifiable film features interviews (and, be warned, much more) with various marginal characters existing on the fringes of Tijuana, Mexico. “[An] utterly transfixing fiction-documentary hybrid... The total lack of delineation between staging and real life [adds] an additional layer of fascination... Mesmerizing...”—SLANT WINNER, CINEASTI DEL PRESENTE AWARD, LOCARNO 2014.

CAST Richard Lewis, Amador Granados, Yareni García, El Muerto de Tijuana, Star Kelly PROD Ricardo Silva, Paulina Valencia

TUE, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 5 WED, OCT 8

SUN, SEP 28 THU, OCT 2 WED, OCT 8

6:00 PM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM

CENT CENT PLAY

Acclaimed director Mike Leigh and perennially unsung actor Timothy Spall are at the heights of their considerable powers in this enthralling account of visionary J.M.W. Turner’s final years. “As successful in its tiny details as it is in its epic amplitude [it works] as a warts-and-all portrait of the painter and his circle, and as a large-scale evocation of Victorian England.”—SCREEN

CAST Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Lesley Manville, Martin Savage PROD Georgina Lowe

ICELAND

RICARDO SILVA, MEXICO, 2014, 75 MIN.

7:00 PM 5:00 PM

MIKE LEIGH, UK/FRANCE/GERMANY, 2014, 149 MIN.

WINNER, BEST ACTOR, CANNES 2014.

CAST Cristian James Advincula, Jarlin Javier Martinez, Manuel David Riascos, Hadder Blandon PROD Elena Greenlee, Márcia Nunes

Navajazo THU, OCT 2 FRI, OCT 3

PETER KRÜGER, BELGIUM/GERMANY/ NETHERLANDS, 2014, 102 MIN.

SAT, OCT 4 THU, OCT 9

FRI, SEP 26 SUN, SEP 28 WED, OCT 1

Mr. Turner

Of Horses and Men 9:30 PM 6:00 PM 3:30 PM

VCT IN09 CENT

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Dubliner Christina Noble (Deirdre O’Kane) travels to Ho Chi Minh City to better the lot of street children and war orphans. Is the fighting spirit coursing through her Irish veins a match for widespread corruption and indifference?

Stephen Bradley offers “a joyful and rousing affirmation of the human spirit that will resound widely.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER WINNER, AUDIENCE AWARD: BEST WORLD NARRATIVE FEATURE, NASHVILLE 2014.

CAST Dierdre O’Kane, Sarah Greene, Gloria Cramer Curtis, Brendan Coyle, Liam Cunningham, David Mumeni PROD Melanie Gore-Grimes, Stephen Bradley

Hross I Oss BENEDIKT ERLINGSSON, ICELAND/GERMANY, 2013, 81 MIN.

THU, SEP 25 SAT, SEP 27 SUN, SEP 28

6:30 PM 1:15 PM 4:00 PM

SFU IN09 IN08

An impromptu tryst between two horses serves as the catalyst for further dark comedy in this celebration of equine grandeur and human eccentricities. Benedikt Erlingsson’s debut is every bit as rugged, otherworldly and striking as its Icelandic backdrop. “A hugely enjoyable film from the wild side of the wild side… [It] deserves its cult status.”—GUARDIAN

CINEMA OF OUR TIME

VENEZUELA

WINNER, BEST NEW DIRECTOR, SAN SEBASTIÁN 2013.

CAST Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Charlotte Bøving, Steinn Ármann Magnússon, Kjartan Ragnarsson, Helgi Björnsson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada PROD Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

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CINEMA OF OUR TIME KAZAKHSTAN

POLAND

The Owners

Papusza

ADILKHAN YERZHANOV, KAZAKHSTAN, 2014, 93 MIN.

THU, SEP 25 SUN, SEP 28 TUE, SEP 30

2:30 PM 9:00 PM 12:45 PM

VCT VCT CINE

Decamping to the countryside, three siblings discover an alcoholic squatter holed up in their late mother’s cabin. Given that the local police chief is the intruder’s brother, an escalating blood feud becomes unavoidable.

“Kafka meets Kaurismäki... [Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s film] is a caustic critique of small-town corruption and croneyism in contemporary Kazakhstan. It is also poetic, surreal and visually arresting.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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CAST Yerbolat Yerzhan, Aidyn Sakhaman, Aliya Zainalova, Bauyrzhan Kaptagai, Nurbek Mukushev, Murat Makhan

JOANNA KOS-KRAUZE, KRZYSZTOF KRAUZE, POLAND, 2013, 131 MIN.

THU, SEP 25 SUN, SEP 28 THU, OCT 2

8:30 PM 11:00 AM 10:45 AM

CINE IN08 IN08

Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze’s (My Nikifor) amazing drama is exquisitely designed and replete with stunning musical sequences. “Spanning most of the 20th century... [this] ravishingly beautiful biopic commemorates the life and works of Bronislawa Wajs, the first publicly feted female poet from Poland’s travelling gypsy minority... Every frame is a painterly masterclass in light and shadow.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

WINNER, SPECIAL JURY PRIZE, ISTANBUL 2014.

CAST Jowita Budnik, Zbigniew Walerys, Antoni Pawlicki PROD Lambros Ziotas

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CINEMA OF OUR TIME

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Parasite

Paris of the North

Huba

París norðursins

WILHELM SASNAL, ANKA SASNAL, POLAND/UK, 2014, 66 MIN.

HAFSTEINN GUNNAR SIGURÐSSON, ICELAND, 2014, 95 MIN.

FRI, OCT 3 TUE, OCT 7

9:30 PM 2:30 PM

VCT CINE

FRI, SEP 26 MON, SEP 29 THU, OCT 2

10:30 AM 9:30 PM 1:30 PM

IN09 IN10 IN08

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Wilhelm Sasnal— whose paintings hang in MOMA and Paris’ Pompidou—has a second life, alongside his wife Anka, as a director; their Parasite is a haunting, gorgeously made evocation of contemporary Polish alienation. Centred on a lonely old man and a troubled younger mother (with baby) who move in together, this formally daring work has both a rare immediacy and an aching sense of compassion.

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. This droll and appealing dramedy, set in a picturesque (if run-down) fishing village in northwest Iceland, focuses on dry alcoholic Hugi who’s trying to cope both with the feelings he still has for his ex-wife and a visit from his hard-drinking father... “One of the best up-and-coming young European directors, [Sigurðsson] has crafted a revealing, amusing and intelligent film to be cherished.”—SCREEN

CAST Joanna Drozda, Jerzy Gajlikowski, Wojtek Slowik PROD Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal, Sadie Coles

CAST Björn Thors, Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir, Helgi Björns PROD Thor Sigurjonsson, Sindri Kjartansson

CINEMA OF OUR TIME ARGENTINA

UK

USA

Phoenix

The Princess of France

Queen and Country

CHRISTIAN PETZOLD, GERMANY, 2014, 110 MIN.

La princesa de Francia

JOHN BOORMAN, UK, 2014, 115 MIN.

FRI, OCT 3 TUE, OCT 7

9:00 PM 4:00 PM

SFU SFU

Director Christian Petzold and muse Nina Hoss follow Barbara with this brilliantly acted drama about a facially disfigured camp survivor, Nelly (Hoss), in 1945 Berlin, who receives reconstructive surgery before searching for her husband. When she finds him (Ronald Zehrfeld), he doesn’t recognize her—but, believing Nelly dead, enlists her in a plan to inherit his wife’s money... Echoes of Vertigo redound in this haunting work.

CAST Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Megan Gay, Valerie Koch, Nina Kunzendorf, Uwe Preuss PROD Michael Weber, Florian Koerner von Gustorf

LATVIA

MATÍAS PIÑEIRO, ARGENTINA, 2014, 70 MIN.

FRI, SEP 26 SAT, SEP 27

6:30 PM 1:45 PM

IN08 IN08

Droll and seductive, Matías Piñeiro’s romantic drama revolves around young theatre director Victor (Julián Larquier Tellarini), working on a radio adaptation of Love’s Labour’s Lost in Buenos Aires, who gets caught up in the lives of the five actresses he’s directing... “The film underlines the fluidity of romantic attachments... bringing to mind the complexity of the amorous allegiances in the Bard’s work.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER CAST Julián Larquier Tellarini, Agustina Muñoz, Alessio Rigo de Righi, María Villar, Romina Paula, Laura Paredes PROD Melanie Schapiro

ALGERIA

FRI, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 5

8:30 PM 10:30 AM

Red Knot SCOTT COHEN, USA/ARGENTINA, 2014, 81 MIN.

IN09 IN09

John Boorman’s (Point Blank, The General) gently comic follow-up to the Oscarnominated Hope and Glory chronicles the travails of the director’s alter-ego, Bill (Callum Turner), a young man conscripted into the army with the prospect of the Korean War hanging over him. That he never gets further than a Home Counties barracks is just one of the ironies sprinkled over this richly allusive career-capper.

CAST Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, David Thewlis, Richard E. Grant, Tamsin Egerton, Vanessa Kirby PROD Kieran Corrigan, John Boorman

IVORY COAST

SAT, SEP 27 SUN, SEP 28

6:00 PM 4:00 PM

IN09 RIO

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Forsaking a traditional honeymoon, newlyweds Peter (Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser) and Chloe (Olivia Thirlby) book passage on a research vessel bound for Antarctica. As seasickness sets in, romantic bliss sours and Scott Cohen’s astonishingly assured, elegantly shot debut sets course for troubled, Polanski-indebted waters. “A quiet stunner of a drama...”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER WINNER, GRAND JURY PRIZE: BEST NEW AMERICAN CINEMA, SEATTLE 2014.

CAST Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Thirlby, Billy Campbell, Lisa Harrow, Roger Payne PROD Scott Cohen

SWEDEN

Rocks in My Pockets

The Rooftops

Run

Something Must Break

SIGNE BAUMANE, LATVIA/USA, 2014, 88 MIN.

Es-Stouh

PHILIPPE LACÔTE, IVORY COAST/FRANCE, 2014, 100 MIN.

Nånting måste gå sönder

SAT, OCT 4 SUN, OCT 5 TUE, OCT 7

2:15 PM 7:00 PM 12:30 PM

CINE SFU CINE

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Rightfully billed as “a crazy quest for sanity,” Signe Baumane’s animated memoir spins her troubling family history into a rich fantastical tale. Delving into her grandmother’s mysterious death as well as Baumane’s own struggles with inherited illness, “the film explores with wit, surreal invention and insight something left far too often undiscussed.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER WINNER, FIPRESCI PRIZE, KARLOVY VARY 2014.

CAST Signe Baumane (narrator) PROD Signe Baumane

MERZAK ALLOUACHE, ALGERIA/FRANCE, 2013, 91 MIN.

FRI, SEP 26 MON, SEP 29

7:00 PM 11:00 AM

CINE IN08

FRI, SEP 26 MON, SEP 29 THU, OCT 2

8:45 PM 1:30 PM 11:00 AM

IN08 IN08 SFU

ESTER MARTIN BERGSMARK, SWEDEN, 2014, 90 MIN.

SAT, SEP 27 MON, SEP 29 THU, OCT 9

12:15 PM 2:00 PM 7:00 PM

CINE IN10 RIO

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Five neighbourhoods, five different rooftops, five tragic stories.

With these tales, veteran director Merzak Allouache takes the pulse of Algiers, a city rife with crime, teeming with intrigue and reeling from the clash of cultures. Allouache’s view is at once panoramic and intimate: he reaches across the city and pulls us close to its people. “Confident, composed and full of contemporary relevance.”—FILMMAKER

Beginning with an assassination that makes it obvious why our protagonist (Abdoul Karim Konaté) is called “Run,” Philippe Lacôte’s alternately oneiric and ultra-realistic coming-of-age tale is mesmerizing cinema.

“Run makes one young man’s picaresque adventures into a magical realist microcosm of the Ivory Coast’s recent history... The current hotness of African cinema just got a little hotter.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

While identities and genders are alluringly fluid in Ester Martin Bergsmark’s narrative debut, the desire for connection is unrelenting. Initially trepidatious to explore a feminine side, Sebastian—who sometimes prefers to be called Ellie—falls hard for Andreas, a straight man. But when Andreas proves a fast friend but reluctant lover, Ellie rushes to the fore.

CAST Nassima Belmihoub, Hacène Benzerari, Adila Bendimerad, Aïssa Chouat, Mourad Khen, Myriam Ait El Hadj PROD Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin, Merzak Allouache

CAST Isaach De Bankolé, Abdoul Karim Konaté, Reine Sali Coulibaly, Abdoul Bah, Rasmané Ouedraogo, Alexandre Desane PROD Claire Gadea, Ernest Kouamé Konan

CAST Saga Becker, Iggy Malmborg, Shima Niavarani, Mattias Åhlén PROD Anna-Maria Kantarius

CINEMA OF OUR TIME

GERMANY

WINNER, HIVOS TIGER AWARD, ROTTERDAM 2014.

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CINEMA OF OUR TIME GERMANY

UK

IRAN

Sorrow and Joy

Stations of the Cross

Still Life

Tales

Sorg og glæde

Kreuzweg

UBERTO PASOLINI, UK/ITALY, 2013, 87 MIN.

Ghesseha

NIL MALMROS, DENMARK, 2013, 107 MIN.

DIETRICH BRÜGGEMANN, GERMANY/FRANCE, 2014, 107 MIN.

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RAKHSHAN BANI-ETEMAD, IRAN, 2014, 88 MIN.

SUN, SEP 28 SUN, OCT 5 THU, OCT 9

12:15 PM 1:30 PM 9:00 PM

CINE SFU SFU

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Nil Malmros draws on an incident from his own life—due an array of tragic circumstances, his wife killed their baby—to forge an intense, empathetic and bracingly intelligent drama. “The images have a sober, self-effacing beauty, the acting is subdued, and the fatal deed itself is never shown... Sorrow and Joy is a... melodrama about grace—a small miracle in today’s cinema.”—FILM COMMENT CAST Jakob Cedergren, Helle Fagralid, Ida Dwinger, Kristian Halken, Nicolas Bro, Helle Hertz PROD Thomas Heinesen

CHILE

FRI, SEP 26 SAT, OCT 4 SUN, OCT 5

12:00 PM 6:00 PM 11:00 AM

Dietrich Brüggemann’s conceptually daring story of a devout teenager’s trials is eloquently told in 14 chapters, each a masterful single take. As Maria becomes a “warrior of Christ,” the film proves itself both a condemnation of fundamentalist religion and a testament to faith. “While stark, it’s far from chilly— Brüggemann has a sense of humor about his subject matter.”—VILLAGE VOICE WINNER, BEST SCREENPLAY, BERLIN 2014.

BELGIUM

Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuit

ALEJANDRO FERNÁNDEZ ALMENDRAS, CHILE/ FRANCE, 2014, 81MIN.

JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE, LUC DARDENNE, BELGIUM/FRANCE/ITALY, 2014, 95 MIN.

CINE CINE IN08

Beautifully wrought and meticulously controlled, Alejandro Fernández Almendras’ taut drama follows a bullied man as he wrestles with the moral implications of revenge... “A terrifically tense first half culminates in a truly brilliant scene... [and it] all ends with a dramatic pop as sharp as the first of only two gunshots in this menacing, morally agnostic film.”—GUARDIAN WINNER, WORLD CINEMA GRAND JURY PRIZE: DRAMATIC, SUNDANCE 2014.

CAST Daniel Candia, Daniel Antivilo, Alejandra Yañez, Ariel Mateluna PROD Eduardo Villalobos, Guillaume De Saille

FRI, SEP 26 WED, OCT 1

11:30 AM 4:00 PM 7:15 PM

IN10 PLAY PLAY

CANADIAN PREMIERE. A dutiful civil servant (Eddie Marsen, superb) whose job it is to thanklessly—and often fruitlessly—try to locate next of kin is inspired to finally start living by the daughter (Downton Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt) of a recently deceased neighbour. Uberto Pasolini’s latest is dry and sardonic comedy at its best. “Resonant and life-affirming, Still Life is a tonic for the soul.”—EMPIRE

9:30 PM 1:30 PM

WINNER, SYDNEY FILM PRIZE, SYDNEY 2014.

CAST Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Timur Magomedgadzhiev, Catherine Salée, Olivier Gourmet, PROD Denis Freyd, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

CENT PLAY

Iran’s premier female filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad returns with this brilliantly constructed tapestry of intersecting stories and characters from different levels of Iranian society. All struggle against the strictures of contemporary Iranian life; all find some solace in love... “The characters of my... films are still alive to me... Tales returns to the characters of my previous films under today’s circumstances.”—BANI-ETEMAD CAST Fatemeh Motamedaria, Peiman Moadi, Baran Kosari, Farhad Aslani PROD Rakhshan Bani-Etemad

Two Shots Fired Dos Disparos

HOSSEIN AMINI, UK/USA/FRANCE, 2013, 96 MIN.

Marion Cotillard gives her rawest performance as a woman desperately trying to save her job and discovering the meaning of solidarity and self-worth. “A tense dramatic situation and a subtly magnificent central performance... add up to an outstanding new movie from the Dardenne brothers: impassioned, exciting and moving—a Twelve Angry Men of the 21st-century workplace.”—GUARDIAN

12:45 PM 9:30 PM

ARGENTINA

The Two Faces of January CENT PLAY

WED, OCT 1 WED, OCT 8

CAST Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt, Karen Drury, Andrew Buchan, Ciaran McIntyre, Neil D’Souza PROD Uberto Pasolini, Christopher Simon, Felix Vossen

UK

Matar a un hombre

12:15 PM 9:15 PM 11:00 AM

FRI, SEP 26 MON, OCT 6 WED, OCT 8

WINNER, HORIZONS: BEST DIRECTOR, VENICE 2013.

CAST Lea van Acken, Franziska Weisz, Florian Stetter, Lucie Aron, Moritz Knapp PROD Leif Alexis, Fabian Maubach

To Kill a Man THU, SEP 25 FRI, OCT 3 SAT, OCT 4

VCT IN09 IN08

SAT, OCT 4 TUE, OCT 7

9:30 PM 2:30 PM

PLAY VCT

MARTÍN REJTMAN, ARGENTINA/CHILE/GERMANY/ NETHERLANDS, 2014, 104 MIN.

SUN, SEP 28 WED, OCT 1

4:15 PM 9:00 PM

CINE IN08

Bizarre circumstances makes reluctant bedfellows out of American con artist Chester (Viggo Mortensen) and Athens hustler Rydal (Oscar Isaac) in Hossein Amini’s absorbing 60s-set adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel. As they evade the authorities, Chester’s wife (Kirsten Dunst) finds herself torn between these seductive charlatans. “An elegantly pleasurable period thriller, a film of tidy precision and class.”—TELEGRAPH

One New Argentine Cinema’s mainstays, Martín Rejtman returns with this funny, deliberately episodic study of 18-year-old flute player Mariano (Rafael Federman) and his circle of friends and family. “A nearly uncategorizable seriocomedy whose string of non-sequiturs oddly mimics life’s implausibilities... There’s a great deal of humor built in to the characters, whose instability has a certain endearing quality.”

CAST Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac, David Warshofsky, Daisy Bevan, Aleifer Prometheus PROD Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo, Tom Sternberg

—VARIETY

CINEMA OF OUR TIME

DENMARK

CAST Susana Pampín, Rafael Federman, Laura Paredes, Mariel Fernández, Benjamín Coelho, Manuela Martelli PROD Violeta Bava, Rosa Rivero

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CINEMA OF OUR TIME USA

Two Step ALEX R. JOHNSON, USA, 2014, 95 MIN.

TUE, SEP 30 THU, OCT 2

8:30 PM 3:45 PM

IN08 IN08

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. A college dropout gets mixed up with a malicious con artist in Alex R. Johnson’s atmospheric Texas-set thriller. As it shifts perspectives and delivers shocks, it demonstrates dexterity fit for a barn dance and a sucker punch that would do any barroom brawler proud. “A cult following could be in the offing, and crimemovie aficionados will want to seek it out...”

—VARIETY

CAST Beth Broderick, James Landry Hébert, Skyy Moore, Jason Douglas, Ashley Rae Spillers, Barry Tubb PROD Paul Biedrzycki, Pat Cassidy, Charles Mulford

PERU

USA

Una Vida: A Fable of Music and The Mind

Welcome to New York

2:45 PM 7:00 PM 2:30 PM

IN08 VCT VCT

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. Garnering audience awards all over the festival circuit, Richie Adams’ true indie is a beautiful, soul-stirring drama that brings together the city of New Orleans and the jazz that made it famous with the story of a haunted neuroscientist trying to help the declining jazz singer (The Help’s Aunjanue Ellis, remarkable here) he discovers singing in the streets.

CAST Joaquím De Almeida, Aunjanue Ellis, Bill Cobbs, Ruth Negga, Andre Royo, Sharon Lawrence PROD Richie Adams, Brent Caballero, Nicolas Bazan, Nancy Green-Keyes

ITALY

WED, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 3

3:45 PM 6:45 PM

IN10 IN09

CAST Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni, Shiloh Fernandez, Gabourey Sidibe, Thomas Jane PROD Pascal Caucheteux, Sebastien K. Lemercier, Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Pavlina Hatoupis, Gregg Araki

ISRAEL

Zero Motivation

Le meraviglie

TALYA LAVIE, ISRAEL, 2014, 101 MIN.

DANIEL RODRÍGUEZ RISCO, PERU, 2014, 83 MIN.

ALICE ROHRWACHER, ITALY/SWITZERLAND/ GERMANY, 2014, 110 MIN.

FRI, SEP 26 SUN, SEP 28

9:30 PM 1:00 PM

Cast Gérard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Marie Mouté, Pamela Afesi PROD Adam Folk

The Wonders IN09 IN09 CINE

FRI, SEP 26 SUN, SEP 28

Shailene Woodley (The Fault in Our Stars) plays the insecure suburban daughter of a seriously disturbed mother (Eva Green, unforgettable) who disappears without a trace in Gregg Araki’s skewed and provocative 80s-set drama. “Araki... seizes on White Bird as a chance to explore familiar issues of body image, sexual awakening and extreme family dysfunction with his trademark mix of uneasy seduce-and-repel tactics.”—VARIETY

El Vientre

3:30 PM 5:45 PM 3:00 PM

GREGG ARAKI, USA, 2014, 91 MIN.

PLAY RIO

The meteoric fall of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is luridly rendered and lent enthralling velocity by Abel Ferrara in this debauched, sexually explicit sensory assault starring a magnificently vile Gérard Depardieu as gluttony personified. “A bluntly powerful provocation that begins as a kind of tabloid melodrama and gradually evolves into a fraught study of addiction, narcissism and the lava flow of capitalist privilege.”—VARIETY

The Womb MON, SEP 29 WED, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 3

White Bird in a Blizzard

ABEL FERRARA, USA/FRANCE, 2014, 125 MIN.

RICHIE ADAMS, USA, 2014, 98 MIN.

TUE, SEP 30 FRI, OCT 3 MON, OCT 6

USA

9:00 PM 11:15 AM

RIO IN10

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. A monstrous case of manipulation lies at the heart of Daniel Rodríguez Risco’s stylish psychothriller.

Obsessed with having a child, 45-year-old widow Silvia (Vanessa Saba) tricks the naïve Mercedes (Mayella Lloclla) into accepting a room in her home and arranges a meeting with young handyman Jaime (Manuel Gold).

When Mercedes gets pregnant, Silvia will stop at nothing to claim the baby...

An entrancing coming of age story, this is a superb companion piece to Alice Rohrwacher’s remarkable debut, Corpo Celeste. Drawing on Rohrwacher’s own childhood, it’s the tale of a young girl forging her identity while her beekeeper father attempts to sidestep financial ruin. “A wistful but no-tears swan song... The tone hovers mysteriously between dream and reality...”

CAST Vanessa Saba, Mayella Lloclla, Manuel Gold, Gianfranco Brero, Cristhian Esquivel PROD Marco Moscoso

WINNER, GRAND PRIX, CANNES 2014.

—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

CAST Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louvyck, Alba Rohrwacher, Sabine Timoteo, Luis Huilca, Monica Bellucci PROD Carlo Cresto-Dina, Karl Baumgartner, Tiziana Soudani, Michael Weber

SUN, SEP 28 WED, OCT 1

9:00 PM 2:00 PM

RIO IN10

“Two young women serving out their military service as office workers on a remote desert army base play out the inanity and insanity of military bureaucracy in... Talya Lavie’s aptly titled black comedy... [The film], full of unexpected twists and turns, inventively recasts conflict in decidedly non-heroic, absurdist white-collar terms...”—VARIETY WINNER, BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE, NORA EPHRON PRIZE, TRIBECA 2014.

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CINEMA OF OUR TIME

USA

facebook.com/VIFFest

CAST Dana Ivgy, Nelly Tagar, Shani Klein, Heli Twito, Meytal Gal, Tamara Klingon PROD Eilon Ratzkovsky, Yossi Uzrad, Guy Jacoel, Yochanan Kredo

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SHORT FILMS CANADIAN IMAGES SHORTS

CANADIAN IMAGES SHORTS

WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU

Emergency/Response

History is Old News

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 91 MIN.

THU, OCT 2 FRI, OCT 10

8:30 PM 12:00 PM

JUTRA

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 95 MIN.

IN09 VCT

WED, OCT 1 THU, OCT 9

8:30 PM 4:45 PM

IN09 VCT

Never Stop Cycling

Tigerbomb!

COLIN LEPPER, CANADA, 2014, 4 MIN.

ANDREW STRUTHERS, CANADA, 2014, 17 MIN.

In order to maintain his routine, a creature must do something extraordinary.

A young boy falls in love in Victoria’s Chinatown and sparks a symphony in dynamite.

3rd Page from the Sun THEODORE USHEV, CANADA, 2014, 6 MIN.

An abstract exploration of ephemerality and recycling.

Pour Retourner

Not Indian Enough ALEX ZAHARA, CANADA, 2013, 10 MIN.

A woman confronts her cousin, who’s been telling people that she isn’t actually First Nations.

SCOOTER CORKLE, CANADA, 2014, 13 MIN.

A chef who’s honed his talents in prison finds the outside world to be an unforgiving place.

The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer RANDALL LLOYD OKITA, CANADA, 2014, 9 MIN.

The Hearing RUSSEL RATT-BRASCOUPE, CANADA, 2014, 5 MIN.

There’s one thing a deaf teenager would like to hear more than anything else...

Jutra

Cutaway

MARIE-JOSÉE SAINT-PIERRE, CANADA, 2014, 14 MIN.

KAZIK RADWANSKI, CANADA, 2014, 7 MIN.

An intimate portrait of uncertainty and loss told through close details of hands and objects.

SHORT FILMS SHORT FILMS

These programmes showcase both established and emerging artists who push short-form storytelling to its limits.

An animated ode to filmmaker Claude Jutra and an account of his views on art and cinema.

Righteous

Kreb

CORY BOWLES, CANADA, 2014, 12 MIN.

Learning the dark truth about his workplace, a factory worker revolts.

Believing that he’s been racially profiled, a young black man blows off steam. Then, things get personal.

Bengal Light

Luk’Luk’i: Mother

TIM TRACEY, CANADA, 2013, 8 MIN.

OLIVIER GODIN, CANADA, 2014, 11 MIN.

With a foreign military force encroaching, an odd interrogation ensues.

What Doesn’t Kill You ROB GRANT, CANADA, 2014, 13 MIN.

Three bullied teenagers discover unexpected solution to their problems.

an

Just Living BRYAN DEMORE, NEIL CHAMPAGNE, CANADA, 2014, 8 MIN.

A first aid attendant is called into action in an Okanagan mill town.

Bedbugs: A Musical Love Story MATTHEW KOWALCHUK, CANADA, 2014, 16 MIN.

Tormented by bedbugs, an ostracized woman learns an unexpected lesson about acceptance.

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Two brothers share the scars of an untold history that has driven them to existential extremes.

WAYNE WAPEEMUKWA, CANADA, 2014, 20 MIN.

A full-time mother/part-time sex-worker goes missing on the Downtown Eastside during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Day 40 SOL FRIEDMAN, CANADA, 2013, 5 MIN.

On Noah’s Ark, the animals discover the darker side of their natures and things get unholy very fast.

Mynarski Death Plummet MATTHEW RANKIN, CANADA, 2014, 8 MIN.

A fantastical, phantasmagoric retelling of the final moments of Winnipeg’s WWII legend Andrew Mynarski.

SHORT FILMS CANADIAN IMAGES SHORTS

GODHEAD

This Must Be the Place

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 91 MIN.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 96 MIN.

8:30 PM 4:45 PM

IN09 VCT

TUE, SEP 30 WED, OCT 8

9:00 PM 5:00 PM

IN09 VCT

Chamber Drama

AIDAN SHIPLEY, CANADA, 2014, 15 MIN.

JEFFREY ZABLOTNY, CANADA, 2014, 11 MIN.

A little girl believes that a homeless man is the reincarnation of her recently flushed goldfish.

A stubborn teenager with hypersensitive hearing tries to prove herself during an internship at an acoustics lab.

GENEVIÈVE DULUDE-DECELLES, CANADA, 2014, 14 MIN.

A father and daughter bond as she cuts his hair. But then the phone rings...

40 Candles SOPHIE JARVIS, CANADA, 2014, 8 MIN.

It turns out that there’s a distinct difference between growing up and growing old.

Petit Frère RÉMI ST-MICHEL, CANADA, 2014, 14 MIN.

Broken Face ALAIN FOURNIER, CANADA, 2014, 17 MIN.

While posted at a remote lighthouse, a disfigured sailor is besieged by a strange storm.

Bison KEVAN FUNK, CANADA, 2014, 12 MIN.

At a Saskatchewan cattle ranch during branding season, a blue-collar kid is rattled by an unsettling discovery.

A kid and his Big Brother mess around in the streets of a metropolis.

Fallow

Godhead

An eloquent animated study of a sleepy prairie community.

CONNOR GASTON, CANADA, 2014, 11 MIN.

A broken family learns to cope when their autistic son shows them everything they need—without saying a word.

Stray ASHLEY MCKENZIE, CANADA, 2013, 15 MIN.

A meek nine-year-old roams a post-industrial landscape in search of a feral cat.

Ship JEFF PETRY, CANADA, 2014, 14 MIN.

Finishing his late grandfather’s final model ship, a young boy drifts between surreal dreams and waking life.

BREANNA CHEEK, CANADA, 2014, 5 MIN.

Lifers JOEL SALAYSAY, CANADA, 2014, 10 MIN.

A young dishwasher contemplates the nightmarish prospect of making a life as a kitchen worker.

Light YASSMINA KARAJAH, CANADA, 2014, 14 MIN.

After a tragic death, a Lebanese immigrant struggles to arrange Islamic pre-burial rituals in his adopted home.

Eclissi TYGH RUNYAN, CANADA/USA, 2014, 10 MIN.

While waiting for a bus, a man spies an odd piece of technology and investigates.

Sleeping Giant ANDREW CIVIDINO, CANADA, 2014, 17 MIN.

Out of his depth in a fight for a girl’s affections, Adam issues a challenge to his rival.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 81 MIN.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 92 MIN.

MON, SEP 29 TUE, OCT 7

8:30 PM 4:30 PM

WAKE UP

The Reel Youth Film Festival

We Both Go Down Together

Dorsal

The Cut

BURNT GRASS

BROKEN FACE

That’ll Leave a Mark SUN, SEP 28 MON, OCT 6

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

CANADIAN IMAGES SHORTS

IN09 VCT

Burnt Grass RAY WONG, CANADA, 2014, 12 MIN.

After a couple discovers a supernatural phenomenon in their backyard, their relationship takes an unexpected turn.

Withering Heights LIZ VAN ALLEN CAIRNS, CANADA, 2014, 10 MIN.

A failing marriage leaves a woman sleepless and shrinking from sight.

Howard & Jean HEATHER YOUNG, CANADA, 2014, 7 MIN.

As a woman and her dog go about their day, our understanding of their relationship shifts dramatically.

Hole MARTIN EDRALIN, CANADA, 2014, 15 MIN.

An isolated and disabled man yearns to experience intimacy in a world that would rather ignore him.

Life’s a Bitch FRANÇOIS JAROS, CANADA, 2013, 6 MIN.

Love. Grief. Shock. Denial. Sleeplessness.

Bubble bath. Masturbation. Pop Tart. Bootie.

Rejection. Weeping. Awkward. Life’s a bitch.

Hard Card LUCAS HRUBIZNA, CANADA, 2014, 15 MIN.

In need of cash for a lifesaving operation, a senior schemes to rig a bingo game.

The Acting Teacher AARON CRAVEN, CANADA, 2014, 10 MIN.

An acting guru leads two hapless performers through a scene from A Streetcar Named Desire.

Dead Hearts STEPHEN W. MARTIN, CANADA, 2014, 17 MIN.

A gothic bedtime story filled with love, loss, taxidermy, Kung fu and biker werewolves.

MON, SEP 29 SUN, OCT 5

1:00 PM 9:30 PM

CINE CINE

Once again, VIFF partners with The Reel Youth Film Festival to showcase a collection of incredibly diverse youth-made shorts.

They are deeply honest, disarmingly beautiful and sometimes just plain hilarious. Chosen by a youth selection panel from hundreds of international submissions, this collection will show you the world through the eyes of the next generation of filmmakers.

2014’s showcase is home to 27 short films that show remarkable promise:

A Bhadralok’s Adventure Wake Up The Life of Dilys Mary Shotton Casacasacasa Water Play What If There Was a Place?

Don’t Hate on Love And That’s Remarkable Bullet Mouth Sin Madre Clutter No Show Eddie in/operable Muffins Pressure Bernie Custis: A Star is Born Gutty Faded Frames Cicles The Light Polar Where?

I Am From No Strings Attached Orchestra for a Dream Vino ni Resitev Spread the Glove

SHORT FILMS

CANADIAN IMAGES SHORTS

VISIT VIFF.ORG FOR FULL LISTINGS. This programme has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

Violence; Coarse Language.

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SHORT FILMS INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

I’m (not) Having a Good Day

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 106 MIN.

THU, OCT 2 TUE, OCT 7

6:30 PM 11:45 AM

IN08 VCT

6-Minute Mom CHRIS SHIMOJIMA, USA, 2014, 6 MIN.

When the person who’s supposed to be closest to you is no more than a stranger...

The Black Butterflies ANTOINE BLANCHET, FRANCE, 2014, 18 MIN.

Can a road trip to an unexpected place be a miraculous healing experience?

Grounded ALEXIS MICHALIK, FRANCE, 2014, 19 MIN.

A family runs into the unbending rules of airport regulations which conspire against them.

In the Blind DAVIS HALL, USA, 2013, 18 MIN.

Duck hunting, two estranged brothers brought together by their father’s death wait for dawn.

The Light Harvester JASON HOWDEN, NEW ZEALAND, 2013, 18 MIN.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 113 MIN.

WED, OCT 1 MON, OCT 6

6:00 PM 12:30 PM

IN08 CINE

Absolution DEAN BUTLER, AUSTRALIA, 2014, 11 MIN.

A man has a fateful chance encounter with his wife—five years after she walked out...

Alphonso ERENIK BEQIRI, ALBANIA, 2014, 14 MIN.

A collection of memories set in stone. A contemplation of life, death and our place in time.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 108 MIN.

IN08 CINE

NEIL TRIFFETT, AUSTRALIA, 2013, 16 MIN.

A man tries to save the life of a minuscule fish, but the situation spirals out of control.

A school music-room turf-war threatens to disrupt Ethan’s entire negative world view.

Business As Usual The Prophet’s on Board

Inside Voices RYLAND WALKER KNIGHT, USA, 2014, 12 MIN.

LENN KUDRJAWIZKI, GERMANY, 2014, 11 MIN.

Rain On Film TIM WOODALL, PHIL DRINKWATER, UK, 2013, 9 MIN.

A bittersweet love story that explores the ways movies can construct and skew our perspectives.

Sequence CARLES TORRENS, USA, 2013, 20 MIN.

A man wakes up to find his girlfriend terrified of him—and strangely enough, so is everyone else.

Sophie ALEX LOMBARD, USA, 2013, 14 MIN.

On his lunch hour in the park, a shy L.A. office worker meets the girl of his dreams.

The Tide Keeper ALYX DUNCAN, NEW ZEALAND, 2014, 9 MIN.

One night an old seaman dreams a storm into his bed, but who knows how to stem the tide?

For two teen girls, a clandestine night sharing secrets is transformed when there’s a power failure.

Katie NATHAN GOTSCH, USA, 2014, 16 MIN.

SCOTT RAWSTHORNE, JON SHAIKH, UK, 2014, 9 MIN.

Outlier

JEFF WOLFE, USA, 2014, 11 MIN.

IN09 VCT

EMO (The Musical)

Hollygrove: The True Life Story of Monserrat

Two elderly, completely opposite women with terminal conditions get stuck in the same hospital room.

12:45 PM 6:45 PM

TOMMASO PITTA, UK, 2014, 13 MIN.

In times of desperation, reconnecting with a childhood friend in a bar might not be the best idea.

MARTIN WALLNER, GERMANY, 2014, 15 MIN.

TUE, SEP 30 TUE, OCT 7

All the Pain in the World

In an industrial world, a robot works a strange machine that produces his only means of survival.

A Long Beside

KIM NOCE, UK, 2014, 7 MIN.

6:30 PM 12:00 PM

Cowboy Ben

A man staggers into a church one evening to cleanse his inner demons and a buried past is revealed.

Nest of Stone

SAT, OCT 4 WED, OCT 8

Los Rosales DANIEL FERREIRA, ITALY, 2013, 10 MIN.

EMO (THE MUSICAL)

Teen Tales 2014

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 112 MIN.

Fear, prejudice and misunderstandings collide on a crowded plane just before takeoff.

Penance

Kate returns home after living abroad and struggles to reconnect with her younger brother.

Life/Crisis

A middle-aged Albanian man documents himself on the day he has decided to blow himself up.

In a world shrouded in darkness a desperate man might risk everything to obtain light.

PAUL WONG, NEW ZEALAND, 2014, 20 MIN.

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

LETTER TO ANNABELLE

SEQUENCE

BLACK BUTTERFLIES

Can You Relate?

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

A desperate girl gets caught up in the cruel world of the underaged sex trade.

No One But Lydia ROB RICHERT, USA, 2013, 14 MIN.

Arif’s ex-girlfriend won’t return his calls or texts but he has a plan to try and win her over.

CARLOS HURTADO, USA, 2014, 8 MIN.

An abused girl shares her story of trauma and despair—and how she learned to love herself again.

Letter to Annabelle

Rattlefly MIN DING, USA, 2013, 20 MIN.

A teen girl with a sick mother finds hope when she falls for the daughter of the new pastor.

DOM MARANO, AUSTRALIA, 2013, 16 MIN.

Revelations

In a dystopian future a resistance fighter clutches on to his past by writing one last love letter.

ANNAKATE CHAPPELL, USA, 2013, 14 MIN.

Out of Reach (Rain Night) PABLO DIARTINEZ, BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS, 2014, 8 MIN.

A poet wanders around Brussels in this stunning collage of animation, graphics and text.

Phone Box ALAN POWELL, UK, 2014, 12 MIN.

The troubles and desperation of a handful of Londoners intersect at an iconic red phone box.

The awkward divide between love and friendship on the threshold of adulthood in bible-belt America...

Skunk ANNIE SILVERSTEIN, USA, 2014, 16 MIN.

Isolated teen Leila is forced into difficult choices after a guy at the swimming hole comes on to her.

This programme has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

Coarse & suggestive language

The Stomach

SHORT FILMS

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

BEN STEINER, UK, 2014, 15 MIN.

A spirit medium wants out, but others, in this world and the next, have plans of their own.

They Came at Night ANDREW ELLIS, ALEX MALLIS, USA, 2013, 20 MIN.

A man in central Africa desperately tries to escape from Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army.

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SHORT FILMS

Shorts with Features

DRAGONS & TIGERS SHORTS

130919 A Portrait of Marina Abramovic

Land of the Sun

MATTHU PLACEK, USA, 2014, 7 MIN.

MELISSA FLAGG, CANADA, 2014, 17 MIN.

A formal yet intimate study of this seminal performance artist.

A young military couple struggles to keep their marriage together through the last days of the husband’s tour.

• Screens with: Goodbye To Language 3D p. 35

• Screens with: Martin’s Pink Pickle p. 41

Anmado / Clean Me

Leidi

KANG SANGWOO, SOUTH KOREA, 2014, 3 MIN/ 20 MIN.

Amazing Anime

• Screens with: Non Fiction Diary p. 71

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 86 MIN.

SAT, SEP 27 SUN, SEP 28

6:30 PM 1:45 PM

IN08 IN08

An old VIFF tradition is revived in this electrifying anthology of new indie animation from Japan—with a special bonus in the form of Hwang Gyuil’s Deaf and Wind from Korea. A wide range of graphic styles and techniques, tackling everything from a ninja vendetta to the secret origin of the universe. The full listing is on VIFF’s website.

Budding, Swelling

Snow Hut

USUHA RYOYA, JAPAN, 2014, 7 MIN.

MIZUSHIRI YORIKO, JAPAN, 2013, 6 MIN.

Computer animation, exploring the space between chemical structures and organic structures. Sparking life is like pushing a bell.

The director of Futon (VIFF 2013) returns with a sensual meditation on the snow in Kamakura, her home town... and on sewing.

Newspaper

Waiter

SATOH YOSHINAO, JAPAN, 2013, 7 MIN.

YAMADA RYOJI, JAPAN, 2013, 8 MIN.

If newspapers are dying, this could be their last gasp. Starring The Japan Times, USA Today and the late, lamented International Herald Tribune, amongst others.

A seriously weird animation which plays on two meanings of “wait”: “wait on (someone)” and “to wait (for something).” Yamada himself says “it might be a criticism of nuclear power.”

De_Riria_Subasutaimu HIDAKA SHINSAKU, JAPAN, 2013, 13 MIN.

A man visits his wife in hospital, and goes on a mental journey … a journey through space and time, involving much climbing, sudden death syndrome and a body swap.

Flower Bud NAKANO SAKI, JAPAN, 2014, 5 MIN.

The first of four titles in this selection by women animators. A rhapsody of touchingfeeling-dreaming, in red and black brushstrokes.

TERAYAMA SHUJI PRIZE AT IMAGE FORUM FESTIVAL 2014.

Anal Juice KABUKI SAWAKO, JAPAN, 2013, 3 MIN.

A funny/sad pop-art mini-extravaganza! Ms Kabuki says that it’s based on a dream she had when her lover left her. He was a man who liked enemas.

Rappa NAKAJIMA YUKI, JAPAN, 2014, 5 MIN.

A prison break, a traitor in the gang, a cynical act of betrayal. The quintessence of ninja action in a five-minute vignette!

AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE, IMAGE FORUM FESTIVAL 2014.

Gyrø MADOKA, JAPAN, 2014, 6 MIN.

A reggae-rhythmed feminist protest against men who idle while women do all the work.

Featuring a woman whose face has been erased and a man who rules with his nose.

AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE, IMAGE FORUM FESTIVAL 2014.

The Small Garden SAITO SHUNSUKE, JAPAN, 12 MIN.

Did the universe begin with a yin-yang globe or with an egg? The most plausible, sciencebased insight into the mystery of everything since The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Deaf and Wind HWANG KYUIL, SOUTH KOREA, 2014, 14 MIN.

Does time flow horizontally or vertically? In wintry Moon Town, a small boy dreams of his father’s disappearance while flying. Or is this just an old man’s fantasy?

SELECTION AND NOTES BY TONY RAYNS

SIMÓN MESA SOTO, UK, 2014, 16 MIN.

In the high neighborhoods of Medellin, Colombia, Leidi sets out in search of the father of her child.

• Screens with: Gente de Bien p. 47

The Lion’s Mouth Opens

Back Streets CAMERON MACGOWAN, CANADA, 2014, 11 MIN.

An ambitious drag racer’s dreams are undermined by the realities of his personal life.

• Screens with: The Valley Below p. 43

LUCY WALKER, UK, 2014, 16 MIN.

Lucy Walker’s affecting doc features Scottish actress Marianna Palka courageously confronting her risk of inheriting Huntington’s Disease.

• Screens with: New Boobs p. 79

The Blue Marble

Magnificent View

CO HOEDEMAN, CANADA, 2014, 7 MIN.

An African village is the stage for a story of oppression and hope.

• Screens with: The Boy From Geita p. 39

NAM KEUNHAK, SOUTH KOREA, 2014, 16 MIN.

It’s amazing what you get to see when you’re working on demolishing or repairing an old roof. (TR) • Screens with: Hill of Freedom p. 69

Broken Palace ROSS MUNRO, CANADA, 2014, 6 MIN.

A paean to Vancouver’s disappearing movie palaces.

• Screens with: Everything Will Be p. 41

The Chaperone FRASER MUNDEN, NEIL RATHBONE, CANADA, 2013, 12 MIN.

A lone school teacher fights off an entire motorcycle gang while chaperoning a middle-school dance.

• Screens with: 1987 p. 39

Niagara HAYAKAWA CHIE, JAPAN, 2013, 28 MIN.

Trained in photography in New York, Hayakawa put her filmmaking career on hiatus ten years ago. This excellent “comeback” film centres on the moment that a young woman (who has grown up thinking she’s an orphan) learns for the first time to see... and to start living. (TR) • Screens with: The Horses of Fukushima p. 69

The Rehearsal CARL-ANTONYN DUFAULT, CANADA, 2013, 7 MIN.

David Hockney IN THE NOW ( in 6 minutes ) LUCY WALKER, USA, 2013, 7 MIN.

The sexy story of the iconic British artist David Hockney, who is adamant about living life in the now.

• Screens with: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here p. 83

Can thousands of carefully synchronized gestures and movements recreate an overall choreography?

• Screens with: Ballet 422 p. 82

Soliton HIRABAYASHI ISAMU, JAPAN, 2013, 14 MIN.

VIFF regular Hirabayashi turns his thoughts back to the 2011 tsunami with a brilliantly imagined sequence-shot journey. (TR)

I’m Not a Hairdresser LEE HYUNGSUK, SOUTH KOREA, 2014, 18 MIN.

The director of Western Movie and Two Boys and a Sheep returns with a sardonic tale of “funeral training” and a girl whose favourite colour is blue. (TR) • Screens with: Revivre p. 73

Keep Dancing

• Screens with: Sharing p. 73

A Tomb With a View RYAN J. NOTH, CANADA, 6 MIN.

Memorial Necropole Ecumenica, the world’s tallest cemetery, allows the dead to be laid to rest amongst the clouds.

SHORT FILMS

DEAF AND WIND

Kang’s first films since serving time (for conscientious objection) are studies of postprison rehab and of life on Anmado island, both precise and poetic. (TR)

• Screens with: Still Life p. 59

GREG VANDER VEER, USA, 2010, 20 MIN.

Seamlessly blending nine decades of film and photographs, this is a story about the process of aging told through dance.

• Screens with: Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter p. 85

White, Heat, Lights NAKAJIMA TAKASHI, JAPAN, 2014, 11 MIN.

The sun rises and sets, but we make lights of our own. Three sharp vignettes by a veteran avant-garde director... with a sci-fi punch line. (TR) • Screens with: Ow p. 73

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DRAGONS & TIGERS CHINA

DRAGONS &TIGERS THE CINEMAS OF EAST ASIA For over 25 years, VIFF has presented one of the world’s largest and most adventurous collections of East Asian cinema. This tradition continues with another inspired selection of films.

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CHINA

Black Coal, Thin Ice

Blind Massage

Bairi yanhuo

Tui Na

DIAO YI’NAN, CHINA, 2014, 106 MIN.

LOU YE, CHINA/FRANCE, 2014, 114 MIN.

MON, SEP 29 FRI, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 5

2:00 PM 9:30 PM 11:30 AM

RIO IN10 IN10

Diao Yi’nan’s film noir is a stylish, exhilarating descent into a nightmarish wintery Manchurian mystery. Following a series of murders, alcoholic former cop Zhang Zili’s (Liao Fan) suspicions are aroused by laundress Zhichen (Taiwan superstar Gwei Lun-mei), who seems intimately linked to the victims. China’s biggest art-house box-office hit so far. SHELLY KRAICER WINNER, GOLDEN BEAR (BEST FILM), SILVER BEAR (BEST ACTOR), BERLIN 2014.

10:30 AM 9:00 PM

CHINA

Based on Bi Feiyu’s best-selling novel, Lou Ye’s sensual drama explores a Nanjing massage parlour and the desires of the sightless masseurs and masseuses employed there. As the camera and actors (including the extraordinary Guo Xiaodong and Qin Hao) grow as intimate as lovers and Lou artfully conveys how his characters experience the world, the film becomes “entirely engrossing...”—VARIETY

CAST Guo Xiaodong, Qin Hao, Zhang Lei, Mei Ting, Huang Xuan, Huang Lu PROD Wang Yong, Nai An, Li Ling

CHINA

Coming Home

A Corner of Heaven

Gui lai

Tiantang jiaoluo

ZHANG YIMOU, CHINA, 2014, 111 MIN.

DRAGONS & TIGERS

WED, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 10

IN09 PLAY

WINNER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BERLIN 2014.

CAST Liao Fan, Gwei Lun-mei, Wang Xuebing, Ni Jingyang, Wang Jingchun, Yu Ailei PROD Vivian Qu, Wan Juan

8:45 PM 12:30 PM

ZHANG MIAOYAN, CHINA/FRANCE, 2014, 94 MIN.

CENT CENT

The radiant Gong Li is magnificent in this staggering period piece about a woman with Alzheimer’s-like symptoms who anxiously awaits her husband’s return despite the fact he’s already come home to her. “Chinese master Zhang Yimou’s... family drama of guilt, love and reconciliation set during the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution [is] heartbreaking in its depiction of ordinary lives affected by political upheaval.”—VARIETY CAST Gong Li, Chen Daoming, Zhang Huiwen

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SAT, OCT 4 THU, OCT 9

MON, OCT 6 THU, OCT 9

9:30 PM 2:30 PM

CINE CINE

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Abandoned by his mother, a small village boy sets out to find her on a Dickensian adventure through the horrors of China’s brutal economy. First he’s a factory slave, then he’s abducted by thieves... Zhang’s film, however, is shockingly, poetically beautiful, with a black and white floating camera-eye that turns every shot into lyrical poetry. SHELLY KRAICER CAST Guo Xinjiang, Huo Xuehui, Bai PROD Zhang Miaoyan, Guillaume de Seille

Haonan

DRAGONS & TIGERS JAPAN

CHINA

TAIWAN

HONG KONG

Disconcerto

The Dossier

Exit

Flowing Stories

Mahoro Eki-mae Kyosokyoku

Dang’an

Hui guang zoumingqu

OMORI TATSUSHI, JAPAN, 2014, 123 MIN.

ZHU RIKUN, CHINA, 2014, 128 MIN.

CHIENN HSIANG, TAIWAN/HONG KONG, 2014, 94 MIN.

TSANG TSUI SHAN, HONG KONG/FRANCE, 2014, 97 MIN.

FRI, SEP 26 SAT, SEP 27

8:15 PM 10:30 AM

IN09 IN09

SAT, SEP 27 MON, SEP 29

9:00 PM 4:00 PM

CINE CINE

WORLD PREMIERE. Omori follows The Ravine of Goodbye with a delicious comedy-drama about the perfect odd couple: Tada (Eita), who runs a shaky do-it-all service, and his buddy Gyoten (Matsuda Ryuhei), who usually gets in the way. The storyline involves phoney organic farming, pensioners, babysitting, yakuza and lesbian parenting. Two hours of sheer charm! TONY RAYNS

Among the most eloquent voices advocating for Tibet and its people is that of Beijingbased Tibetan writer/blogger/activist Tsering Woeser. This sharply designed, formally innovative documentary is completely in her own voice: combining readings from her secret government “dossier” with her own passionate, moving account of her political awakening and unrelenting advocacy. SHELLY

CAST Eita, Matsuda Ryuhei, Maki Yoko, Masatoshi Nagase, Kora Kengo, Maro Akaji, Omori Nao, Iwasaki Miku PROD Tsuchii Tomoo, Yoshimura Tomomi

PROD Zhu Rikun

KRAICER

SUN, SEP 28 TUE, SEP 30

2:15 PM 6:30 PM

CINE VCT

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. In Chienn Hsiang’s subtle urban drama, the great Chen Shiang-chyi plays Lingzi, whose romantic imagination strains against the boundaries of a downwardly mobile working woman’s life. When she encounters an almost comatose man lying next to her mother-inlaw in hospital, she seizes the opportunity to transform her life, one tender, anonymous touch at a time. SHELLY KRAICER

SUN, SEP 28 TUE, SEP 30

6:30 PM 12:00 PM

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. Tsang Tsui Shan brings the past to life in this beautiful, bittersweet documentary that shares the story of a Hong Kong family and recounts their fortunes over the span of decades, replete with home videos and photos. The culture the film sketches is unique but the emotions it evokes are immediately familiar.

“There’s much nostalgia to feel for, and much beauty to behold...”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER PROD Tsang Tsui Shan, Teresa Rezkallah, Christophe Dorkeld

WINNER, BEST FEATURE, BEST ACTRESS, TAIPEI FILM AWARDS 2014.

VCT IN08

Kwong,

Farid

CAST Chen Shiang-chyi, Easton Dong, Pai Minghua, Yu An-shun, Huang Tsi-yi, Wen Chen-ling PROD Chen Pao-ying

SOUTH KOREA

SOUTH KOREA

JAPAN

The Furthest End Awaits

Haemoo

Hill of Freedom

The Horses of Fukushima

Saihatenite

aka Sea Mist

Jayoo ui Undeok

Matsuri no Uma

CHIANG HSIU-CHIUNG [JIANG XIUQIONG], JAPAN/ TAIWAN, 2014, 118 MIN.

SHIM SUNGBO, SOUTH KOREA, 2014, 130 MIN.

HONG SANGSOO, SOUTH KOREA, 2014, 66 MIN.

MATSUBAYASHI YOJU, JAPAN, 2013, 74 MIN.

Preceded By Magnificent View p. 67

Preceded By NIAGARA p. 67

SAT, SEP 27 MON, SEP 29

2:00 PM 9:00 PM

VCT CINE

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Made in Japan by a Taiwanese woman director, this sets a high benchmark for films about female solidarity. A woman returns to the remote peninsula where she grew up; she wants to “find” her father, lost at sea, but instead bonds with a single mother living nearby. Piercing emotional depth and wonderful performances, plus great visual beauty. TONY RAYNS CAST Nagasaku Hiromi, Sasaki Nozomi, Ogata Issei, Nagase Masatoshi, Murakami Jun, Asada Miyoko

SUN, OCT 5 TUE, OCT 7

4:30 PM 9:15 PM

IN10 CENT

Co-written (and reputedly also supervised)

by Bong Joonho, this is an exceptionally gripping story set at sea between Korea and China. A fishing-boat skipper is persuaded (against his better judgment) to smuggle a group of North Korean illegals ashore: what could possibly go wrong? Like Memories of Murder, this is based on a real incident notorious in Korea. TONY RAYNS CAST Kim Yoonseok, Park Yuchun, Han Yeri, Moon Sungkuen, Kim Sangho, Lee Heejun PROD Bong Joonho, Cho Neungyeon, Lewis Taekwan Kim

FRI, SEP 26 WED, OCT 1

5:15 PM 5:15 PM

CINE CINE

MON, SEP 29 WED, OCT 1

10:00 AM 9:30 PM

CINE CINE

Named after the coffee shop in which several key scenes are set, Hong Sangsoo’s latest centres on a Japanese man (Kase Ryu, Like Someone in Love) who fetches up in Seoul in search of a long-lost girlfriend. His amusingly awkward encounters with several other women and his landlady’s adult son make for Hong’s wittiest deconstruction of the romcom in some time. TONY RAYNS

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Much of Matsubayashi’s prize-winning documentary was shot inside the “exclusion zone” around the crippled nuclear power-plant at Fukushima. He finds a stable of horses injured in the tsunami, and follows their rehabilitation to take part in a local horse festival. Very movingly, we watch one horse overcome its traumas... and one man overcome his fears. TONY RAYNS

CAST Kase Ryu, Moon Sori, Seo Younghwa, Kim Euisung, Youn Yuhjung, Kee Joobong PROD Kim Kyounghee

PROD Hashimoto Yoshiko, Kimoshita Shigeki

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DRAGONS & TIGERS TAIWAN

INDONESIA

SOUTH KOREA

The Iron Ministry

Journey to the West

Jungle School

Man on High Heels

Tie dao

Xi you

Sokola Rimba

Haihil [High Heel]

J.P. SNIADECKI, CHINA/USA, 2014, 82 MIN.

TSAI MING-LIANG, TAIWAN/FRANCE, 2014, 56 MIN.

RIRI RIZA, INDONESIA, 2014, 90 MIN.

THU, OCT 2 SAT, OCT 4

9:15 PM 12:15 PM

CINE CINE

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Award-winning documentary filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki travelled throughout China by train for three years, capturing—with dazzling range and astonishing intimacy—the public and private spaces, faces and thoughts of Chinese people on the move. The film’s visceral forward-charging play of light and sound is pure cinema; what its Chinese passengers have to say to us is nothing short of revelatory.

SHELLY KRAICER

THU, SEP 25 SAT, SEP 27

7:00 PM 2:15 PM

CINE CINE

A small miracle of a movie, Tsai Ming-liang’s insanely slow, magnificently gorgeous film is his most beautiful in years. For 56 minutes we watch Tsai’s actor fetiche Lee Kang-sheng, accompanied by French art-house icon Denis Lavant, walk ever-so-slowly through a series of urban spaces in Marseilles. Hilarious visual puzzles; plays of light and space; pure cinema magic. SHELLY KRAICER CAST Lee Kang-sheng, Denis Lavant PROD Vincent Wang, Fred Bellaïche

PROD Joshua Neves

MALAYSIA

HONG KONG

FRI, SEP 26 SAT, OCT 4 WED, OCT 8

1:15 PM 9:15 PM 10:00 AM

JANG JIN, SOUTH KOREA, 2014, 125 MIN.

RIO CINE CINE

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Riri Riza follows his exploration of Timor’s civil war in Atambua 39°C with a very different but equally engrossing movie. A young woman is giving “primitive” children their first schooling in a huge preservation area in southern Sumatra.

She finds herself fighting tribal prejudices, bureaucratic arrogance... and illegal loggers.

TONY RAYNS

FEATURING Prisia Nasution, Nyungsang Bungo, Nengkabau, Beindah, Rukman Rosadi, Nadhira Suryadi PROD Mira Lesmana

SOUTH KOREA

THU, SEP 25 THU, OCT 2 MON, OCT 6

1:30 PM 8:45 PM 10:00 AM

RIO VCT CINE

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Yoon (Cha Seungwon) is the ultimate hard man, a battle-scarred cop who gets his man by any means necessary. But Yoon has a secret: she’s a woman trapped in a man’s body.

Arch-satirist Jang Jin delivers all the thrills and ultraviolence we’ve come to expect from Korean cop/gangster movies, but with a very subversive twist. TONY RAYNS CAST Cha Seungwon, Oh Jeongse, Lee Som, Song Yeongchang, Kim Eungsoo, Ko Gyeongpyo

VIETNAM

Men Who Save the World The Midnight After

Non Fiction Diary

Nuoc 2030

Lelaki harapan dunya

JUNG YOONSUK, SOUTH KOREA, 2013, 93 MIN.

NGUYEN-VO NGHIEM-MINH, VIETNAM, 2014, 98 MIN.

FRUIT CHAN, HONG KONG, 2014, 124 MIN.

LIEW SENG TAT, MALAYSIA/NETHERLANDS/ GERMANY/FRANCE, 2014, 93 MIN.

THU, OCT 2 THU, OCT 9

10:30 AM 7:00 PM

IN09 CINE

FRI, SEP 26 WED, OCT 1 SAT, OCT 4

3:30 PM 2:45 PM 9:30 PM

RIO IN09 IN10

Preceded By Clean Me and Anmado p. 67

SAT, SEP 27 MON, SEP 29

9:00 PM 3:45 PM

IN08 IN08

Pak Awang wants to give his daughter a wedding gift: a house he finds in the jungle. He enlists fellow villagers to literally move it, on their shoulders, to their Malaysian village. But when an illegal African immigrant sheltering there is mistaken for a ghost, a madcap series of hilarious misunderstandings ensues. Black humour with a serious political/allegorical twist. SHELLY KRAICER

CANADIAN PREMIERE. A mysterious incident empties Hong Kong (an eerie sight reminiscent of 28 Days Later), leaving a busload of disparate strangers to determine what happened. “Hong Kong doesn’t do scifi,” claims one survivor. Fruit Chan dispels that notion as he “bends genre like it’s putty in his hands, distilling the macabre from the everyday and making the apocalyptic seem absurdly matter-of-fact.”—VARIETY

VIFF has screened many of Jung Yoonsuk’s short films, so the global success of his feature-length essay is no surprise to us. He starts from some notorious, nihilistic murders in the early 1990s, then opens out to examine the spaces between the death penalty and murder, between negligence and culpability, between dictatorship and freedom. A dynamic blow to Korea’s body politic! TONY

CAST Wan Hanafi Su, Soffi Jikan, Harun Salim Bachik, Jalil Hamid, Roslan Salleh, Azhan Rani PROD Sharon Gan

CAST Wong You-nam, Janice Man, Simon Yam, Kara Hui, Chui Tien-you, Lam Suet PROD Amy Chin

FEATURING Ko Byungchun, Kim Hyungtae, Park Sanggu, Jo Sungae, Oh Hugeun PROD Jung Yoonsuk

RAYNS

SAT, SEP 27 THU, OCT 2

11:30 AM 6:00 PM

IN10 IN09

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. We’re in 2030, when rising sea levels have flooded much of the Mekong delta. A husband and wife live in a hut on stilts above their former land, subsisting on fish and seafood. Nearby, a slightly sinister corporation experiments with salt-water hydroponics. The husband dies mysteriously... Vietnam’s first sci-fi ecothriller is a real eye-opener. TONY RAYNS

DRAGONS & TIGERS

CHINA

CAST Quynh Hoa, Quy Binh, Thach Kim Long, Hoang Tran Minh Duc PROD Nguyen-Vo Nghiem-Minh, Nguyen Bao

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DRAGONS & TIGERS PHILIPPINES

SOUTH KOREA

JAPAN

Ow

Rekorder

Revivre

Sharing

Maru

MIKHAIL RED, PHILIPPINES, 2013, 92 MIN.

Hwajang

SHINOZAKI MAKOTO, JAPAN, 2014, 94 MIN.

IM KWONTAEK, SOUTH KOREA, 2014, 93 MIN.

Preceded By Solition p. 67

SUZUKI YOHEI, JAPAN, 2014, 89 MIN.

TUE, SEP 30 THU, OCT 2

Preceded By White, Heat, Lights p. 67

WED, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 3

7:00 PM 10:00 AM

CINE CINE

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. The mysterious sphere which appears in an ordinary suburban house seems to stop time and scramble the brains of the Suzuki family.

Maybe it’s a cousin of 2001’s monolith?

The police are too dopey to care much, but an intrepid reporter goes where angels fear to tread... A brilliantly original debut feature, scary and funny. The accompanying short’s great too! TONY RAYNS

7:00 PM 12:00 PM

CINE CINE

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Maven, once a camera pro, is now a scuzzy videographer who compulsively records everything from the birth of his daughter to crime on the streets. One night he shoots a murder, with ruinous consequences... A riveting debut from Mikhail Red (son of Raymond), half noir thriller, half study of what it means to stand apart and look. TONY RAYNS CAST Ronnie Quizon, Mike Lloren, Lowell Conales, Suzette Renillo, Belinda Mariano, Earl Tonacio PROD Pamela L Reyes

Preceded By I’m Not a Hairdresser p. 67

TUE, SEP 30 MON, OCT 6

11:45 AM 9:00 PM

VCT PLAY

Im Kwontaek’s 102nd film is no less compelling than any of his earlier masterworks. Ahn Songgi stars as a company director who knows better than to develop a crush on his new woman marketing manager—especially while caring for his dying wife. Elegantly shot, this is a wise and worldly film, all the more moving for its subtlety and emotional restraint. TONY RAYNS CAST Ahn Songgi, Kim Gyuri

HONG KONG

Uncertain Relationships Society

ANDRI CUNG, INDONESIA, 2014, 101 MIN.

Aimei buming guanxi yanjiu xuehui

6:30 PM 12:15 PM

CINE CINE

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. Rain falls in love with the enigmatic Kris when they’re both high-school seniors and is devastated when Kris abruptly goes abroad. Several years later he gets an invitation to visit his former crush, now married and living in Bali. But what does Kris really want? Andri Cung’s debut feature is sexy, seductive and emotionally intense.

TONY RAYNS

CAST Natalius Chendana, William Tjokro, Gesata Stella, Cornelio Sunny PROD Andri Cung, Paul Agusta, Kyo Hayanto

HEIWARD MAK, HONG KONG, 2014, 71 MIN.

SAT, SEP 27 MON, SEP 29

CINE CINE

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. VIFF regular Shinozaki brings a touch of his enthusiasm for horror-fantasy movies to the tragic story of a teacher who has lost her fiancé in the 2011 tsunami. Her traumatizing loss meshes with her interest in precognitive dreams... and with the post-tsunami play developed by one of her students. Hirabayashi’s brilliant short also explores the aftershocks of the disaster.

TONY RAYNS

CHINA

The Sun, the Moon and the Hurricane SUN, SEP 28 WED, OCT 1

2:30 PM 9:00 PM

CAST Yamada Kinuo, Hinoi Asuka, Takahashi Ryudai, Kimura Tomoki, Hyodo Kumi PROD Ichiyama Shozo

CAST Iida Kaoru, Kihara Masatoshi, Ikeda Shu, Kaneko Sari, Karube Hitomi PROD Imamura Samori, Ikeda Shu

INDONESIA

TUE, SEP 30 WED, OCT 8

11:45 AM 7:00 PM

VCT CINE

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. Hong Kong pop meets art in Heiward Mak’s latest feature, a rich, moving, dazzling, and deeply, sympathetically savvy look at the amorous and professional lives of six twentysomething Hong Kongers. Their complex, ambivalent lives play out over six years in fascinating, interlocking stories. Mak’s fiercely contemporary sensibility creates an essential snapshot of Hong Kong’s hopes, anxieties and pleasures today. SHELLY KRAICER CAST Anjo Leung, Venus Wong, Kaman Kong, Lo Chun-yip, Wong Yat-ho, Lam Yiu-sing, Helen Ko PROD Lo Chi-wah

Uncle Victory Shengli ZHANG MENG, CHINA, 2014, 105 MIN.

MON, SEP 29 WED, OCT 1

7:00 PM 11:30 AM

IN10 IN10

Ex-con Shengli, whose rough exterior hides a gentle soul, has a nutty plan: open a kindergarten with his dancer-cumnurse partner. But he can’t shake the violent shadows of his past. Zhang Meng’s controversial winner at the Shanghai Film Festival is a rare Chinese commercial film that’s dramatically powerful, absurdly comic, politically astute and somehow censorapproved. SHELLY KRAICER

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CAST Li Haitao, Zhang Xinyi, Guo Xue, Tian Yu PROD Michael Ren

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SPOTLIGHT ON FRANCE FRANCE

Life of Riley Aimer, boire et chanter

ALAIN RESNAIS, FRANCE, 2014, 108 MIN.

SAT, OCT 4 FRI, OCT 10

1:30 PM 6:30 PM

PLAY PLAY

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. The cinema world is still mourning the great Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad), a longtime VIFF favourite who passed away earlier this year at the age of 91. Fortunately, we have the pleasure and privilege of enjoying his final film, the deliciously theatrical Life of Riley. Shot on sound stages with painted backgrounds bursting with candy colours, the film has all of the energy and inventiveness of the work of a young artist. This marks the third time Resnais has adapted the work of Alan Ayckbourn for the screen, with the British playwright’s fascination with love and marriage serving as perfect inspiration for Resnais’ playful and witty melodramas.

Revolving around three couples (the cast includes Sabine Azéma, Sandrine Kiberlain, Caroline Sihol, André Dussollier, Hippolyte Girardot, Michel Vuillermoz and Alba Gaia Bellugi, all in top form) dealing with the news that their mutual friend George Riley is terminally ill, the film unfolds as his ensuing absence from their lives reshapes the dynamics in their relationships. But Riley—in Godot-like fashion—never appears and we’re left to enjoy the hysterical interactions between the others, who each find themselves at a mid-life crossroads, pondering their next directions in life and love.

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SPOTLIGHT ON FRANCE

WINNER, ALFRED BAUER PRIZE, BERLIN 2014 EXEC Christophe Jeauffroy PROD Jean-Louis Livi SCR Laurent Herbier, Alex Reval, Jean-Marie Besset CAM Dominique Bouilleret

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“If Resnais had gone into the culinary arts instead of the cinematic ones, then surely he would have emerged as a molecular gastronomist avant la lettre, whipping up foie gras-flavored cotton candy as if it were the most normal thing in the world.” —SCOTT FOUNDAS, VARIETY

Please see our Index of Films by Country for listings of French films playing in other sections, including the following: Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy Clouds of Sils Maria Flore Goodbye to Language 3D How I Came to Hate Maths

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24 Days 24 jours ALEXANDRE ARCADY, FRANCE, 2014, 111 MIN.

THU, OCT 2 MON, OCT 6

4:00 PM 9:15 PM

SFU CENT

A terrific cast featuring Zabou Breitman, Pascal Elbe, Jacques Gamblin and Sylvie Testud anchors Alexandre Arcady’s true-life thriller. “[The film] offers up a white-knuckle dramatization of the nearly month-long kidnapping and torture of 23-year-old Ilan Halimi, whose traumatic ordeal... prompted a massive police manhunt and, eventually, a national outcry against anti-Semitism in France... Captivating...”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER CAST Zabou Breitman, Pascal Elbé, Jacques Gamblin, Sylvie Testud, Éric Caravaca, Syrus Shahidi PROD Alexandre Arcady, Frédérique Dumas

FRANCE

Handmade with Love from France

In the Name of My Daughter

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

Le Temps Suspendu

L’Homme qu’on aimait trop

L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq

JULIE GEORGIA BERNARD, FRANCE, 2014, 70 MIN.

ANDRÉ TÉCHINÉ, FRANCE, 2014, 116 MIN.

GUILLAUME NICLOUX, FRANCE, 2014, 97 MIN.

SAT, OCT 4 SUN, OCT 5 FRI, OCT 10

6:30 PM 2:00 PM 5:30 PM

SFU IN10 VCT

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. The French title —time suspended—perfectly captures this affectionate celebration of the artisans who create fabulous haute-couture outfits for Dior, Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent: a third-generation specialist in pleat-making; a designer of perfect artificial flowers whose atelier opened in 1880; and one of three remaining sculptors of wooden forms for hat-making. A delightful look at a vanishing breed.

PROD Diane Jassem, Grégory Bernard

FRANCE

FRANCE

FRANCE

FRI, OCT 3 TUE, OCT 7

3:45 PM 6:45 PM

PLAY CENT

Catherine Deneuve owns the screen in her seventh collaboration with André Téchiné (Scene of the Crime, Thieves). She plays reallife casino owner Renée Le Roux, who went up against the mob in 1970s Nice and whose daughter Agnès (rising star Adèle Haenel, also in Love at First Fight) subsequently disappeared. Guillaume Canet (Tell No One) is the shady lawyer—Agnès’ lover—who may (or may not) be involved in the disappearance.

Cast Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve, Adèle Haenel, Jean Corso, Judith Chemla PROD Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier

FRI, OCT 3 WED, OCT 8 THU, OCT 9

12:45 PM 9:15 PM 1:30 PM

CINE SFU SFU

Acclaimed and controversial French author Michel Houellebecq is the centre of this hilarious and strange mélange of real life and fiction. When the notorious curmudgeon (playing himself) is kidnapped and anesthetized with alcohol, a caustic (and occasionally inebriated) game of cat and mouse commences and the barriers between captor and captive slowly dissolve...

WINNER, BEST SCREENPLAY, TRIBECA 2014 CAST Michel Houellebecq, Mathieu Nicourt, Maxime Lefrançois, Françoise Lebrun, Luc Schwarz PROD Sylvie Pialat

FRANCE

FRANCE

Li’l Quinquin

Love at First Fight

Miss and the Doctors

La Sapienza

P’tit Quinquin

Les combattants

Tirez la langue, mademoiselle

EUGÈNE GREEN, FRANCE/ITALY, 2014, 107 MIN.

BRUNO DUMONT, FRANCE, 2014, 200 MIN.

THOMAS CAILLEY, FRANCE, 2014, 100 MIN.

AXELLE ROPERT, FRANCE, 2013, 102 MIN.

SAT, SEP 27 TUE, OCT 7 FRI, OCT 10

8:00 PM 12:00 PM 7:00 PM

SFU CENT CINE

Provocateur Bruno Dumont (Humanité) delivers arguably his biggest shocker yet with this outrageous comedy. An absurdist police procedural, it follows a Clouseau-like, tic-infested inspector as he investigates a macabre murder spree (dead cows are being stuffed with human remains) and contends with mischievous interference courtesy of a pack of juvenile scoundrels led by the impish Quinquin. “Wonderfully weird and unexpectedly hilarious...”—VARIETY CAST Alane Delhaye, Lucy Caron, Bernard Pruvost, Philippe Jore, Corentin Carpentier, Julien Bodard PROD Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin

FRI, SEP 26 MON, SEP 29 SAT, OCT 4

11:00 AM 4:30 PM 9:30 PM

IN08 IN10 IN08

An unflappable free spirit (Kevin Azaïs, casually charismatic) and driven survivalist (Adèle Haenel, intense and alluring) make for unlikely lovers in Thomas Cailley’s wonderfully oddball comedy. When the couple enlists in boot camp, paintball pellets stand in for Cupid’s arrows and their fledgling romance is put through the paces. “Overflowing with relentlessly acerbic humour...”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

WINNER, FIPRESCI PRIZE, DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT, CANNES 2014.

THU, SEP 25 SUN, SEP 28 TUE, SEP 30

4:30 PM 5:45 PM 10:30 AM

CINE IN09 IN09

Two very different pediatrician brothers (Cédric Kahn, Laurent Stocker) fall for the same barmaid (the luminous Louise Bourgoin) in Axelle Ropert’s (The Wolberg Family) intelligent romance. “Reminiscent of... [the] cleverly scripted adult dramas of François Truffaut’s late period. It’s at once astutely observed and deeply, though subtly, passionate... The direction and performances are spot-on throughout.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER CAST Louise Bourgoin, Cédric Kahn, Laurent Stocker, Paula Denis, Serge Bozon PROD Philippe Martin, David Thion

SAT, SEP 27 MON, SEP 29 WED, OCT 1

3:45 PM 9:30 PM 11:00 AM

CINE VCT IN08

A celebrated Swiss architect and his wife embark on a trip to Ticinio and Rome in hopes that it will reinvigorate them (and kickstart his book about baroque architect Francesco Borromini). An encounter with teenage siblings dramatically changes the course and purpose of their journey. “A work that’s both weighted with scholarly inquiry and an undercurrent of poignancy unlike anything else.”—INDIEWIRE

SPOTLIGHT ON FRANCE

FRANCE

CAST Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Prot Landman, Ludovico Succio, Arianna Nastro PROD Alessandro Borrelli, Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre

CAST Kevin Azaïs, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Laurent, Brigitte Roüan PROD Pierre Guyard

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NONFICTION FEATURES USA

TUNISIA

Becoming Bulletproof

Challat of Tunis Challat de Tunis

MICHAEL BARNETT, USA, 2013, 80 MIN.

MON, OCT 6 THU, OCT 9

6:15 PM 2:15 PM

PLAY VCT

WORLD PREMIERE. At California’s Zeno Actors Camp, disabled people band together to make an old-fashioned Western costume drama in which they contribute to every element of the production and play starring roles. Michael Barnett documents their endeavour, celebrating the discipline and creativity demanded by such an undertaking while also calling into question why we so rarely see actual disabled actors on the big screen.

FEATURING AJ Murray PROD Theodore James

KAOUTHER BEN HANIA, TUNISIA/FRANCE/CANADA, 2013, 90 MIN.

THU, OCT 2 SUN, OCT 5

7:00 PM 3:00 PM

CINE CINE

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. Writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania turns her caustically funny eye to the sexist practices and antediluvian views she finds endemic in her country. “An audacious mockumentary...

Hilarious and acerbic... Ostensibly about the director’s search for a man who slashed 11 women from his motorbike back in 2003, the pic shines a discomfiting light on Tunisia’s attitudes toward women, using a fakedocumentary approach...”—VARIETY FEATURING Mohamed Slim Bouchiha, Jallel Dridi, Moufida Dridi, Narimène Saidane PROD Habib Attia, Julie Paratian

SWEDEN

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NON FICTION FEATURES As we mark the centenary of In the Land of the Head Hunters, the seminal British Columbia nonfiction film, VIFF unveils another series of acclaimed documentary and essay films that expand the form’s possibilities and invite us to view the world in different lights.

SPAIN

Concerning Violence

The Creator of the Jungle

GÖRAN HUGO OLSSON, SWEDEN/FINLAND/ DENMARK/USA, 2014, 89 MIN.

Sobre la marxa

SUN, OCT 5 WED, OCT 8

4:15 PM 9:30 PM

JORDI MORATÓ, SPAIN, 2014, 77 MIN.

IN08 RIO

Assembling striking archival material of African liberation efforts and scoring it with passages from Frantz Fanon’s vital treatise on colonialism, The Wretched of the Earth, acclaimed director Göran Hugo Olsson fashions one of the most impressively structured and incredibly intense foundfootage films in recent memory. Lauren Hill narrates this “prickly, passionate call to arms.”—TIME OUT WINNER, CINEMA FAIRBINDET PRIZE, BERLIN 2014.

FEATURING Lauryn Hill (narrator) PROD Tobias Janson, Annika Rogell

FRI, SEP 26 TUE, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 5

10:00 AM 10:15 AM 6:30 PM

VCT IN08 IN08

In the heart of Catalonia, a bit west of Dali’s Figueres, lies the wooded terrain of an artist of a different stripe: a 72-year-old eccentric nicknamed “Garrell” who, for 45 years, has been playing Tarzan and handcrafting elaborate tree houses, labyrinths, waterfalls and towers in the forest. Documentarian Jordi Morató captures Garrell’s beautiful world in all its delightful wonder.

FEATURING Josep Pijiula Alias Garrell PROD Isa Campo, Isaki Lacuesta, Jordi Morató

NONFICTION FEATURES

ISRAEL

INDIA

FRANCE

A Dangerous Game

The Decent One

Faith Connections

ANTHONY BAXTER, UK, 2014, 90 MIN.

Der Anständige

PAN NALIN, INDIA/FRANCE, 2013, 117 MIN.

FRI, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 5 THU, OCT 9

6:30 PM 10:00 AM 12:15 PM

SFU CINE VCT

After revealing the deplorable intimidation tactics used to build a Scottish golf course in You’ve Been Trumped (VIFF 11), documentarian Anthony Baxter returns with this globetrotting condemnation of the sport’s environmental impact and culture of entitlement. Plus: He’s finally granted an audience with The Donald, resulting in a smug sermon from Trump Tower that has to be seen to be believed. “Fascinating...”

—SCOTSMAN

FEATURING Donald Trump, Michael Forbes, Alec Baldwin, Karine Polwart, Robert Kennedy Jr. PROD Richard Phinney

USA

VANESSA LAPA, ISRAEL/AUSTRIA/GERMANY, 2014, 94 MIN.

SUN, SEP 28 THU, OCT 2

9:30 PM 2:00 PM

IN10 IN10

Drawing on a huge cache of personal documents, photos and letters found in Heinrich Himmler’s home after his 1945 suicide, Vanessa Lapa crafts a compulsively watchable archival inquiry into the personal side of one of the biggest mass murderers in history. “Engrossing... Quite how [Himmler] made the journey from an ordinary middleclass man to Hitler’s henchman is a fascinating story.”—SCREEN FEATURING Tobias Moretti, Sophie Rois, Antonia Moretti, Lenz Moretti, Pauline Knof PROD Vanessa Lapa

FRANCE

SAT, SEP 27 MON, SEP 29 THU, OCT 2

4:15 PM 10:00 AM 6:30 PM

Flore Flore, route de la Mer

IN10 VCT RIO

Pan Nalin, whose Samsara and Ayurveda: Art of Being struck such chords with Vancouverites, turns his spiritually questing eye towards the Kumbh Mela, the sacred Hindu pilgrimage/festival that unfolds along the Ganges and attracts 100 million devotees.

By alternating specific characters—a 10-year-old runaway, an aging holy man— with the sheer spectacle on display, Nalin’s gorgeous film is a celebration of diversity.

PROD Raphaël Berdugo, Gaurav Dhingra, Virginie Lacombe, Pan Nalin

IRAN

JEAN-ALBERT LIÈVRE, FRANCE, 2014, 93 MIN.

WED, OCT 1 THU, OCT 2 SAT, OCT 4

7:00 PM 3:15 PM 10:00 AM

VCT IN09 CINE

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Beginning as a cellphone -shot record of his mother’s losing battle with Alzheimer’s, Jean-Albert Lièvre’s documentary retains its incredible intimacy but grows into a universal testament to dignity. “An unexpectedly hopeful exploration of a terribly sad situation... A portrait of love, patience and the pursuit of a more humane, holistic approach...”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER WINNER, BEST DOCUMENTARY, COLCOA 2014.

PROD Jean-Albert Lièvre

INDONESIA

Food Chains

How I Came to Hate Maths Iranian

Jalanan

SANJAY RAWAL, USA, 2014, 83 MIN.

Comment j’ai détesté les maths

Iranien

DANIEL ZIV, INDONESIA/CANADA, 2013, 107 MIN.

OLIVIER PEYON, FRANCE, 2013, 100 MIN.

MEHRAN TAMADON, IRAN/FRANCE/SWITZERLAND, 2014, 105 MIN.

SAT, SEP 27 MON, SEP 29 WED, OCT 1

10:00 AM 6:00 PM 4:30 PM

VCT IN09 IN10

CANADIAN PREMIERE. It’s a grim irony that while food has become a topic of constant debate, the plight of field workers is more hidden than ever. Correctly likening the role of (mostly immigrant) food pickers to that of modernday slaves, Sanjay Rawal documents the abuses suffered, while enlisting a stellar group of commentators—Eric Schlosser and Robert Kennedy Jr. among them—to suggest ways forward.

FEATURING Forest Whitaker, Eric Schlosser, Eva Longoria, Barry Estabrook, Dolores Huerta, Robert Kennedy Jr., Kerry Kennedy PROD Hamilton Fish, Smriti Keshari, Sanjay Rawal

FRI, SEP 26 SUN, SEP 28 MON, SEP 29

12:45 PM 4:00 PM 9:00 PM

CINE SFU IN08

CANADIAN PREMIERE. A rigorous discussion of the importance (and regular misuse) of mathematics in our lives, Olivier Peyon’s documentary is also about why we should love math, and care that its power is used well. This captivating work builds its arguments on significant recent data, as well as inspired testimonials from gifted teachers, mathematicians, finance critics— and kvetching children.

FEATURING Anne Siety, Cédric Villani, Francois Sauvageot, George Papanicolaou, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Jim Simons PROD Bruno Nahon, Laurence Petit, Carole Scotta This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

THU, OCT 2 MON, OCT 6 TUE, OCT 7

1:30 PM 12:15 PM 6:30 PM

SFU VCT CINE

CANADIAN PREMIERE. A surreal (and occasionally highly entertaining) summit unfolds when Iranian expat Mehran Tamadon convenes four Islamic religious leaders to discuss creating a more open society in his homeland.

The sense of melancholic mischief here recalls Panafi’s This Is Not a Film but the concerns expressed and consequences incurred are unique to Tamadon. “An amusing game to watch...”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

THU, SEP 25 FRI, SEP 26

3:30 PM 8:30 PM

SFU SFU

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Canada’s Daniel Ziv has made the most successful documentary in Indonesian history. Shining a light on urban poverty, it’s also made stars of three inspirational Jakarta street musicians whose talent is only rivalled by their resourcefulness. Life is hard for these troubadours but commitment and passion always have a fighting chance. “Stunningly vivid and full of energy...”—TEMPO MAGAZINE

NONFICTION FEATURES

UK

WINNER, BEST DOCUMENTARY, BUSAN 2013.

PROD Daniel Ziv

WINNER, GRAND PRIX, CINÉMA DU RÉEL 2014.

PROD Raphaël Pilloso, Elena Tatti

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NONFICTION FEATURES UKRAINE

COLOMBIA

FRANCE

SWITZERLAND

Maidan

Marmato

Meat and Milk

My Name Is Salt

SERGEI LOZNITSA, UKRAINE/NETHERLANDS, 2014, 133 MIN.

MARK GRIECO, COLOMBIA/USA, 2014, 87 MIN.

De chair et de lait

FARIDA PACHA, SWITZERLAND, 2013, 92 MIN.

FRI, SEP 26 TUE, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 5

10:00 AM 3:15 PM 8:15 PM

CINE PLAY IN08

The ongoing crisis in Ukraine makes Sergei Loznitsa’s (My Joy) achievement here doubly relevant and engaging. His chronicle of the revolution that overthrew Viktor Yanukovych’s corrupt regime has the kinds of urgency and artistry rarely seen in documentaries. “This stunning, epic-scaled film harkens back to the heroic, journalistic roots of documentarymaking and yet feels ineffably modern and formally daring.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

SUN, SEP 28 MON, SEP 29 THU, OCT 2

9:00 PM 1:15 PM 2:00 PM

SFU SFU RIO

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Colombian miners find their livelihoods and way of life threatened when a Canadian mining company sets up shop in their small town and targets the immense gold deposit that lies under their humble homes. Mark Grieco’s stirring documentary “impressively presents a beautifully shot (the views from the houses over the surrounding valleys are stunning) portrait of resistance...”—SCREEN WINNER, GRAND JURY PRIZE: DOCUMENTARY, SEATTLE 2014.

PROD Maria Baker, Sergei Loznitsa

BERNARD BLOCH, FRANCE, 2013, 104 MIN.

FRI, SEP 26 TUE, SEP 30 FRI, OCT 3

3:00 PM 4:30 PM 6:30 PM

CINE RIO IN08

Given reactions to the recent exposé of cruelty at a Fraser Valley dairy farm, this revealing, unsentimental account of where cattle stand in our world is bound to strike a chord. But this is not just a journey into a charnel house. It’s an unforgettable, globetrotting (from the Algerian Sahara to the Amazon to the Alps), ravishingly cinematic study of man’s relationship with his bovine brother.

FRI, SEP 26 SUN, OCT 5 FRI, OCT 10

4:45 PM 9:30 PM 4:45 PM

VCT IN10 CINE

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Farida Pacha’s documentary transports us into the middle of nowhere and leaves us with a sense of awe. We follow one of the thousands of Indian families who leave their villages, mine salt in the desert and transform the earth in astounding ways. “A beautifully crafted meditation... A film crystalline in its austere purity...”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER WINNER, BEST DOCUMENTARY, EDINBURGH 2014.

PROD Farida Pacha, Lutz Konermann

PROD Bernard Bloch, Frédéric Féraud

PROD Mark Grieco, Stuart Reid

NETHERLANDS

Nelson Mandela, The Myth and Me KHALO MATABANE, SOUTH AFRICA/GERMANY, 2013, 85 MIN.

SUN, OCT 5 WED, OCT 8

7:00 PM 11:00 AM

VCT SFU

USA

ITALY

New Boobs

Red Army

SACHA POLAK, NETHERLANDS, 2013, 68 MIN.

GABE POLSKY, USA/RUSSIA, 2014, 76 MIN.

Preceded By The Lion’s Mouth Opens p. 67

THU, OCT 2 MON, OCT 6 TUE, OCT 7

10:00 AM 2:45 PM 7:00 PM

CINE CINE RIO

Completed just prior to Mandela’s passing, Khalo Matabane’s deeply personal documentary finds the celebrated filmmaker wrestling with his conflicted feelings concerning the icon’s life and legacy. Posing provocative questions to world leaders, South Africans and himself, he foregoes nostalgia and assembles “a wonderful exploration of a complicated man and even more complicated issues that feels like vital viewing.”—POV MAGAZINE

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. The frankness of the title reflects Sacha Polak’s uncommon candour in this reflective, unsentimental and incredibly personal documentary. Having inherited a rare cancer gene, is a preventative mastectomy the answer for Polak? What if it’s all for naught and cancer never appears?

Does such surgery diminish or alter one’s femininity? Nearing the age at which cancer tragically claimed her mother, the filmmaker urgently searches for answers.

WINNER, SPECIAL JURY PRIZE, IDFA 2013.

PROD Marleen Slot

SUN, OCT 5 TUE, OCT 7 THU, OCT 9

Sacro GRA 5:00 PM 10:00 AM 6:30 PM

GIANFRANCO ROSI, ITALY/FRANCE, 2013, 93 MIN.

PLAY VCT CENT

Home to some of the greatest hockey players ever, the Soviet Union’s Red Army team was also a key combatant in the Cold War’s propaganda battle and exemplars of the ethos that the system trumped individual stardom.

Viacheslav Fetisov—a Red Army standout and eventual defector to the NHL—makes an ideal guide for Gabe Polsky’s exploration of the ties between on-ice ambition and national identity.

FEATURING Slava Fetisov, Alexei Kasatonov, Vladimir Krutov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman, Anatoli Karpov PROD Gabe Polsky

MON, OCT 6 WED, OCT 8

7:30 PM 2:00 PM

CINE RIO

In this remarkable documentary, the storied ring road that encircles Rome doubles as a grand stage for the everyday dramas of the eccentrics who reside along it. Gianfranco Rosi “brings humor and sensitivity to his filming... The recurring characters, almost all of them funny in an absurd, gentle way, make this intelligent film a curious outsider...”

—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

NONFICTION FEATURES

SOUTH AFRICA

WINNER, GOLDEN LION, VENICE 2013.

PROD Marco Visalberghi

PROD Carolyn Carew

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NONFICTION FEATURES

BELGIUM

POLAND

SPAIN

FRANCE

The Wild Years

Waiting for August

Walking Under Water

We Come As Friends

TEODORA ANA MIHAI, BELGIUM/ROMANIA, 2014, 82 MIN.

ELIZA KUBARSKA, POLAND/GERMANY/UK, 2014, 76 MIN.

HUBERT SAUPER, FRANCE/AUSTRIA, 2014, 110 MIN.

THU, SEP 25 SAT, SEP 27 THU, OCT 2

10:00 AM 4:00 PM 9:15 PM

CINE IN08 IN08

Thrust into the role of stand-in mother at the age of 15, Georgina dwells sardine-like with a handful of energetic rugrats—her five younger siblings—in a social housing condo at the outskirts of Bacau, Romania. Teodora Ana Mihai’s astute documentary gracefully paints a portrait of love and resilience.

WINNER, BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE, HOT DOCS 2014; BEST DOCUMENTARY, KARLOVY VARY 2014.

SAT, SEP 27 MON, SEP 29 TUE, SEP 30

4:45 PM 7:45 PM 10:00 AM

CANADIAN PREMIERE. The nomadic Badjao tribe are citizens of the sea, subsisting for centuries on the spoils of their compressordiving expeditions. Eliza Kubarska‘s poetic documentary follows 10-year-old Sari as he sets out on his first fishing trip and is initiated into his people’s traditions and lore.

“A mythological tale of wonder and water...”

WINNER, SPECIAL JURY PRIZE: INTERNATIONAL FEATURE, HOT DOCS 2014.

This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

PROD Monika Braid

USA

7:00 PM 4:00 PM

RIO SFU

Skipping across South Sudan in a plane he built himself, uncompromising Oscarnominated documentarian Hubert Sauper (Darwin’s Nightmare) reveals how the world’s newest country is being carved up by foreign multinationals and missionaries. “A surreal, moving, infuriating and persuasive argument that in South Sudan there’s nothing ‘post’ about colonialism.”—THE NEW YORK TIMES WINNER, SPECIAL JURY PRIZE: CINEMATIC BRAVERY, SUNDANCE 2014.

—DOX

PROD Hanne Phlypo, Antoine Vermeesch No advisory.

VCT VCT VCT

MON, OCT 6 THU, OCT 9

PROD Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Hubert Sauper

Els anys salvatges VENTURA DURALL, SPAIN/ETHIOPIA, 2013, 70 MIN.

WED, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 10

7:15 PM 12:30 PM

CINE CINE

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Three of the 270,000 kids living on the streets of Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa are the focus of Ventura Durall’s moving and complex portrait of survival and solidarity. Daniel, 9, lives in an abandoned car with Yohannes and Habtom, both 12. They scrounge, thieve and evade the violent gangs that surround them. Eventually, they decide to journey to their respective villages for the first time in years...

PROD Marija Capek, Ventura Durall

USA

in Yakona

LINDA HOAGLUND, USA, 2014, 80 MIN.

ANLO SEPULVEDA, PAUL COLLINS, USA, 2013, 70 MIN.

TUE, SEP 30 THU, OCT 2

5:30 PM 2:30 PM

IN08 CINE

WORLD PREMIERE. Taking her cue from the ancient fable (beautifully animated here) of the wounded crane, nursed back to health by peasants, that seeks to show her gratitude through a gift, Linda Hoaglund’s (ANPO: Art X War) deeply felt portrait of the animal-rescue movement shows how our relationship to our fellow creatures is evolving and benefitting not just the rescued animals, but the rescuers as well.

FEATURING Va ne ssa Re d gra ve (nar r at o r ) PROD Maryanne Culpepper, Linda Hoaglund

FRI, SEP 26 MON, SEP 29 THU, OCT 9

7:00 PM 11:30 AM 9:15 PM

VCT IN10 CINE

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Anlo Sepulveda and Paul Collins’ visually stunning (much of it is shot underwater) and totally mesmerizing chronicle of Texas’ San Marcos River—its history, its place in First Nations’ mythology, its more utilitarian position in modern times, its uncertain future—has been compared to Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi for the way it forces us to contemplate our relationship with the natural world.

WINNER, AUDIENCE AWARD, SXSW 2014.

FEATURING Tony Two Hawks Molina, Geoff Marslett, Tina Rodriguez, Jacqueline Claire, Anis Mojgani PROD Jillian Hall, Kevin Huffaker, Clint McCrocklin, Samuel Trim

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NONFICTION FEATURES

The Wound and the Gift

cinematic aesthetic and cultural icono clasts, this series will be an experience fabulous Vancouverites will surley adore.

Advanced Style (Page 82) / God Help The Girl (Page 47) / Hand Made With Love In France (Page 74) / In The Name Of My Daughter (Page 74) / Looking For Light: Jane Bown (Page 83) / Two Faces Of January (Page 59)

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USA

USA

Advanced Style

Art and Craft

LINA PLIOPLYTE, USA, 2014, 72 MIN.

FRI, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 5

1:15 PM 7:00 PM

IN08 PLAY

Prompted by Ari Seth Cohen’s wildly popular blog (itself indebted to Bill Cunningham’s guerrilla fashion photography), Lina Plioplyte’s inspiring documentary profiles seven New York women—aged “between 50 and death”—whose eccentric approaches to style and glamour reflect their inextinguishable vitality. “They reject the youth-culture diktat that age makes you invisible, and offer us all an example of selfacceptance.”—GLOBE & MAIL

SAM CULLMAN, JENNIFER GRAUSMAN, USA, 2014, 89 MIN.

MON, OCT 6 FRI, OCT 10

4:00 PM 7:15 PM

SFU VCT

This is the incredible story of art forger Mark Landis who, using coloured pencils, frames from Walmart and simple stain techniques, has replicated the works of masters and then donated them to 46 US museums—duping dozens of scrupulous curators along the way. Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman’s fascinating film is “in the tradition of Crumb and the early films of Errol Morris...”—VARIETY PROD Jennifer Grausman, Sam Cullman

PROD Ari Seth Cohen

ARTS & LETTERS

USA

BELGIUM

A cinematic celebration of visual and performing arts with a strong focus on captivating films in which music takes centre stage.

Ballet 422

Before the Last Curtain Falls

JODY LEE LIPES, USA, 2014, 72 MIN.

Preceded By The Rehearsal p. 67

MON, SEP 29 SAT, OCT 4

11:00 AM 9:00 PM

Bevor der letzte Vorhang fällt

SFU SFU

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Cinematographer/ director Jody Lee Lipes slips us inside The New York City Ballet’s storied confines and observes Justin Peck’s creation of the company’s 422nd original piece. Punctuated by instances of divine inspiration and profound frustration, the film celebrates movement while illustrating how arduous creativity can sometimes be. “A delight for balletophiles, the film [represents] a beautifully crafted entree into the intricacies of collective endeavor.”—VARIETY FEATURING New York City Ballet, Justin Peck, Tiler Peck, Sterling Hyltin, Amar Ramasar PROD Anna Rose Holmer, Ellen Bar

THOMAS WALLNER, BELGIUM/GERMANY/CANADA, 2014, 86 MIN.

THU, SEP 25 FRI, SEP 26 MON, SEP 29

7:00 PM 1:30 PM 4:30 PM

It’s closing night for popular Belgian cabaret Gardenia and its gay and trans stars face reintroduction into reality. Mixing avant-garde choreography with confessional interviews, Thomas Wallner offers “an endearing recollection of life as an outsider, a sincere exploration of queer identity, and a stunning celebration of the communion we achieve in art.”—INDIEWIRE WINNER, SPECIAL JURY PRIZE: CANADIAN FEATURE,HOT DOCS 2014.

PROD Georg Tschurtschenthaler

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ARTS & LETTERS

FRANCE

BRAZIL

USA

Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers Dominguinhos JOAQUIM CASTRO, EDUARDO NAZARIAN, MARIANA of Democracy AYDAR, BRAZIL, 2014, 79 MIN. Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie STÉPHANIE VALLOATTO, FRANCE, 2014, 106 MIN.

THU, SEP 25 SAT, SEP 27 WED, OCT 1

2:15 PM 10:00 AM 9:00 PM

CINE CINE SFU

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. “A government without a sense of humour isn’t democratic.”

This caption from a Venezuelan cartoon speaks volumes about satire’s power to test the establishment in political hotspots.

Stéphanie Valloatto’s stirring, funny documentary profiles a dissident profession’s leading practitioners. “Just like the best political cartoons, the documentary... manages to synthesize a vast subject in ways both insightful and, at times, frightfully funny.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

FRI, SEP 26 WED, OCT 1 THU, OCT 9

2:30 PM 4:30 PM 7:15 PM

VCT RIO VCT

USA

Finding Fela

Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me

ALEX GIBNEY, USA/UK/NIGERIA/FRANCE, 2014, 119 MIN.

JAMES KEACH, USA, 2014, 104 MIN.

THU, SEP 25 SUN, OCT 5 WED, OCT 8

10:45 AM 6:15 PM 1:15 PM

SFU RIO SFU

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Legendary accordionist, composer and singer José Domingos de Morais—better known as Dominguinhos— died last year, but not before participating in Joaquim Castro, Eduardo Nazarian and Mariana Aydar’s celebration of his life and music. With his wide smile and prodigious talent, Dominguinhos and his unique mix of bossa nova, jazz and pop, all anchored by his baião rhythms, will leave you delighted.

Legendary Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer and political dissident Fela Kuti is brought to life in Oscar-winner Alex Gibney’s (Taxi to the Dark Side) stirring evocation of the man and his music. Mixing archival concert footage from the 70s and 80s, present-day interviews and behind-the-scenes documentation of the 2009 Broadway musical Fela!, Gibney’s kaleidoscopic film is as protean and rousing as Kuti himself was.

FEATURING Dominguinhos, Luiz Gonzaga, Gilberto Gil, João Donato PROD Gilberto Topczewski, Felipe Briso

FEATURING Fela Kuti, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Paul McCartney PROD Alex Gibney, Jack Gulick

SAT, SEP 27 WED, OCT 1

3:30 PM 6:30 PM

IN09 PLAY

Singer and legendary guitarist Glen Campbell is so much more than just the purveyor of great tunes like “Wichita Lineman.” When Campbell was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, director James Keach was given unfettered access to the singer during his farewell tour; the result is a remarkably musical testament to courage and determination that serves as the lead-in to VIFF’s “Gentle on My Mind” sidebar.

WINNER, GRAND JURY PRIZE, NASHVILLE 2014.

FEATURING Glen Campbell PROD Trevor Albert, James Keach

FEATURING Nadia Khiari, Michel Kichka, Baha Boukhari, Rayma Suprani, Jeff Danziger, Menouar Merabtene PROD Radu Mihaileanu

USA

The Great Museum Das große Museum JOHANNES HOLZHAUSEN, AUSTRIA, 2014, 94 MIN.

WED, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 10

5:45 PM 11:00 AM

CENT SFU

Secreting us inside the storied Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Johannes Holzhausen’s unobtrusive documentary not only offers glimpses of works by Raphael, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Bruegel but also shares fascinating insights into the people and processes that ensure their preservation and continued cultural relevance. Thanks to Holzhausen, masterpieces are suddenly seen in a whole new light. “As all-enveloping and elegant as the establishment itself.”—VARIETY PROD Johannes Rosenberger

UK

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here AMEI WALLACH, USA/AUSTRIA/FRANCE/GERMANY/ RUSSIA, 2013, 103 MIN.

Preceded By David Hockney IN THE NOW (in 6 minutes) p. 67

SUN, SEP 28 TUE, OCT 7 THU, OCT 9

11:00 AM 9:15 PM 10:00 AM

SFU VCT VCT

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Generally considered the most important living Russian artists, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov cooperated fully on this documentary by Amei Wallach (Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine). More than 20 years after fleeing Russia, the Kabakovs return to install six walk-through installations in venues throughout Moscow. “Dynamically shot... conveying the emotional urgency of the Kabakovs’ work.”—THE NEW YORK TIMES

UK

In Search of Chopin PHIL GRABSKY, UK, 2014, 112 MIN.

MON, OCT 6 WED, OCT 8

6:00 PM 2:15 PM

SFU VCT

It’s always a pleasure to present VIFF favourite Phil Grabsky’s (In Search of Mozart, In Search of Beethoven) latest beautifully made, exquisite-sounding inquiry into the life and music of one of classical music’s great composers. Now it is the Polish maestro’s turn... “Grabsky has astutely woven together an indelible portrait, offering us a rich and personal insight into Chopin the man and his music.”—URBAN CINEFILE FEATURING Juliet Stevenson, David Dawson, Leif Ove Andsnes, Daniel Barenboim, Jeremy Siepmann, Lars Vogt

Looking for Light: Jane Bown LUKE DODD, MICHAEL WHYTE, UK, 2014, 90 MIN.

THU, OCT 2 TUE, OCT 7 FRI, OCT 10

1:30 PM 6:45 PM 10:00 AM

PLAY SFU VCT

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. “An excellent, intelligent, and unfussily traditional documentary about a gifted artist who photographed many key 20th-century figures, including Mick Jagger, John Betjeman, Queen Elizabeth and Samuel Beckett. Now 89, a frail and lucid Bown reflects on her life...

Others pay homage... and speak insightfully about aesthetics, technique, and the context of Bown’s work. Directors Luke Dodd and Michael Whyte’s austere filmmaking eminently suits the material...”—GUARDIAN

ARTS & LETTERS

AUSTRIA

FEATURING Jane Bown PROD Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte

PROD Amei Wallach

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USA

Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America

Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter

Mercedes Sosa: La voz de Latinoamérica

GREG VANDER VEER, USA, 2014, 80 MIN.

RODRIGO H. VILA, ARGENTINA, 2013, 93 MIN.

Preceded By Keep Dancing p. 67

SUN, SEP 28 MON, SEP 29

2:00 PM 7:00 PM

VCT RIO

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Argentina’s Mercedes Sosa (1935-2009) was one of the most talented and politically engaged singers of the 20th century. Known as “the voice of the voiceless ones,” she was a mainstay of the nueva canción folk movement, dazzled audiences worldwide and won numerous Grammy awards. Rodgrigo H. Vila’s loving portrait melds archival concert footage and contemporary interviews to breathtaking effect.

WINNER, AUDIENCE AWARD, PANAMA 2013.

WED, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 3 FRI, OCT 10

9:30 PM 1:30 PM 10:00 AM

VCT SFU CINE

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Legendary teacher Martha Hill made a colossal impact on the North American dance scene that few others can lay claim to. A colleague of Martha Graham, Hill became Juilliard’s first Director of Dance, where she pioneered a mix of classical ballet and modern dance forms. Sprinkled with archival footage and anecdotes from dance luminaries, Greg Vander Veer’s lively and inspiring biography celebrates this singular heroine.

FEATURING Fabian Matus, Pablo Milanés, León Gieco, Milton Nascimento, Isabel Parra, Chico Buarque, David Byrne PROD Mauro Ruffino

USA

USA

SAT, OCT 4 MON, OCT 6 THU, OCT 9

6:45 PM 4:45 PM 2:15 PM

RIO RIO RIO

Having spent most of his career in Jerry Garcia’s shadow, Bob Weir assumes the spotlight in this affectionate tribute to The Grateful Dead’s influential rhythm guitarist and resident heartthrob. Mike Fleiss’ rollicking documentary reveals a man every bit as unique and complex as his inimitable playing style. “A well-deserved tribute to a musician whose stature belies the film’s title.”—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER FEATURING Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Sammy Hagar, Trixie Garcia PROD Marc Weingarten

THU, SEP 25 FRI, OCT 3

Nas: Time Is Illmatic

National Gallery

ONE9, USA, 2014, 74 MIN.

FREDERICK WISEMAN, USA/FRANCE, 2014, 181 MIN.

SUN, SEP 28 WED, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 3

2:00 PM 1:00 PM 9:30 PM

RIO IN09 RIO

Twenty years ago, Nas released Illmatic and redefined the sound of hip-hop with the album’s intricate jazz-infused rhythms and blunt-force rhymes. In his directorial debut, graffiti artist One9 looks back at the seminal record’s creation, as well as the environment and experiences that contributed to it. “It’s impossible not to get swept up in the energy of the era.”—INDIEWIRE FEATURING Nas, Alicia Keys, Busta Rhymes, Swizz Beatz, Q-Tip, Pharrell Williams, Jabari “Jungle” Jones, Olu Dara PROD Erik Parker, One9, Anthony Saleh This film has been classified so that those under 18 may attend.

4:45 PM 9:00 PM

VCT IN08

As Of Montreal’s madcap leader, Kevin Barnes’ creativity stems from chaos, be it outlandish stage shows, revolving bandmates or hairpin turns of musical direction.

Recognizing that a definitive portrait of an artist so mercurial simply isn’t possible, Jason Miller instead “evokes the frantic consciousness of Barnes, his compulsion to create and move on to the next thing... It’s a spiraling kaleidoscope...”—BOSTON GLOBE FEATURING Kevin Barnes, Jon Brion PROD Jason Miller, Andrew Napier

8:30 PM 10:30 AM

SFU VCT

Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman continues his supremely intelligent examinations of institutions with this probing, beautifully made look at one of the west’s great bastions of culture—Britain’s National Gallery. Key staff and ongoing problems and controversies are all quietly examined, and the result is “a truly inspiring piece of filmmaking [that is] universally recognisable as a great, great film.”—TELEGRAPH FEATURING Nicholas Penny, Larry Keith, Luke Syson, Dawson Carr, Ashok Roy, David Jaffe PROD Frederick Wiseman, Pierre-Olivier Bordet

UK

The Possibilities Are Endless

Pulp FLORIAN HABICHT, UK, 2014, 93 MIN.

JAMES HALL, EDWARD LOVELACE, UK, 2014, 83 MIN.

THU, SEP 25 TUE, SEP 30 WED, OCT 1

THU, SEP 25 SUN, SEP 28

Coarse language; drug use

UK

The Other One: The The Past Is a Grotesque Long, Strange Trip of Bob Animal JASON MILLER, USA, 2014, 79 MIN. Weir MIKE FLEISS, USA, 2014, 86 MIN.

USA

7:00 PM 4:45 PM 4:00 PM

VCT CINE IN08

As both Orange Juice frontman and a solo artist, Edwyn Collins had a way with words.

Then, two debilitating strokes reduced his vocabulary to his wife’s name and the phrase “the possibilities are endless.”

Documentarians James Hall and Edward Lovelace “immerse us in the experience...

Their take on accident and recovery is romantic and terrifying, lush but insular. They dig beauty out of tragedy...”—OBSERVER FEATURING Edwyn Collins, Grace Maxwell, William Collins, Yasmin Paige PROD Thomas Benski, Julia Nottingham

THU, SEP 25 TUE, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 5

9:15 PM 2:00 PM 4:00 PM

RIO IN10 RIO

Almost two decades after “Common People” dominated the UK charts, beloved Britpop stars Pulp return to their unlikely industrial hometown of Sheffield to play one last gig.

Florian Habicht commemorates the occasion by sharing Jarvis Cocker’s musings (he equates fame to a nut allergy), high-concept vignettes (a seniors’ choir sings “Help the Aged”) and footage of the epochal concert.

“The live performances are electrifying...”

ARTS & LETTERS

ARGENTINA

—OBSERVER

FEATURING Nick Banks, Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Richard Hawley, Steve Mackey, Mark Webber PROD Alex Boden

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USA

Que Caramba es la Vida

Regarding Susan Sontag

Das schöne Scheißleben

NANCY KATES, USA, 2014, 100 MIN.

DORIS DÖRRIE, GERMANY, 2014, 86 MIN.

SAT, SEP 27 MON, OCT 6 WED, OCT 8

4:15 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 AM

RIO VCT VCT

VIFF favourite Doris Dörrie (Cherry Blossoms) immerses us in the mayhem of Mexico City’s bustling Plaza Garibaldi and introduces us to the female Mariachis—still a rare breed— who perform there. While their passionate voices suggest indomitable spirits, moving confessional interviews reveal the discrimination and personal doubts they must contend with on a daily basis. “The female performers are dynamite... Inspiring.”

—NOW TORONTO

FEATURING Maria del Carmen, Las Estrellas de Jalisco PROD Helge Albers

TUE, SEP 30 WED, OCT 8 THU, OCT 9

10:30 AM 6:30 PM 10:30 AM

CINE SFU SFU

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. “This portrait of the influential writer and public intellectual somehow manages to do justice to both the breadth of her work... as well as the ins and outs of her personal life... That director Nancy Kates manages to hit so many important pivot points in Sontag’s life and career in a cinematically engaging way feels like a small miracle.” —VULTURE.COM.

VIFF’S HIGH SCHOOL OUTREACH PROGRAM

Last year, VIFF welcomed more than 2,000 secondary students to weekday matinee screenings and offered them the chance to experience the very best in contemporary international cinema. In 2014, we’ve selected another set of films that are particularly relevant for today’s youth. Whether its Scottish misfits starting a band, a vilified Cuban kid discovering a fierce defender in his teacher or Nas rising to stardom from Queens’ projects, these are vibrant stories that resonate with younger audiences and offer exciting glimpses into the same planet, different worlds we inhabit.

HIGH SCHOOL GROUPS: ONLY $7 PER TICKET Details at viff.org/festival/series/high-school-outreach

WINNER, SPECIAL JURY MENTION, TRIBECA 2014.

1987

FEATURING Patricia Clarkson (narrator) PROD Nancy D. Kates

DIR. RICARDO TROGI, CANADA

THU, OCT 2

p. 85

12:45 PM

IN09

p. 45

THU, OCT 9

1:30 PM

PLAY

The Salt of the Earth

Trespassing Bergman

Le Sel de la terre

JANE MAGNUSSON, HYNEK PALLAS, SWEDEN/ FRANCE, 2013, 107 MIN.

WIM WENDERS, JULIANO RIBEIRO SALGADO, FRANCE/ITALY/BRAZIL, 2014, 110 MIN.

MON, OCT 6 THU, OCT 9

12:30 PM 8:45 PM

CENT CENT

Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado’s magnetic portrait of photographer Sebastião Salgado, is “illuminating and uplifting... [It moves] from his early years growing up on a Brazilian farm... through to his increasingly large-scale photographic projects that took him to many of the world’s most hostile and dangerous conflict zones... A moving tribute to a peerless talent.” —GUARDIAN WINNER, SPECIAL JURY PRIZE, UN CERTAIN REGARD, CANNES 2014.

CAST Sebastião Salgado, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado PROD David Rosier

THU, SEP 25 WED, OCT 1 SUN, OCT 5

10:00 AM 10:30 AM 9:00 PM

The Reel Youth Film Festival p. 63 MON, SEP 29

1:00 PM

CINE

Violence; coarse language

p. 45

DIR. ROK BICEK, SLOVENIA

FRI, OCT 3

IN09

VARIOUS DIRECTORS, COUNTRIES

Coarse language; violence; sexually suggestive scene

Class Enemy

1:00 PM

Coarse language; drug use

DIR. ERNESTO DARANAS, CUBA

SWEDEN

(DIR. ONE9, USA)

WED, OCT 1

Coarse language; sexually suggestive scenes

Behavior FRANCE

Nas: Time is Illmatic

p. 39

1:00 PM

IN09

Teen Tales 2014

p. 65

VARIOUS DIRECTORS, COUNTRIES

Coarse language; violence

TUE, SEP 30

12:45 PM

IN09

Coarse & sexual language

VCT IN09 SFU

Mixing awe and irreverence, this cinephile’s delight explores the legendary Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman’s home, life, films and legacy through interviews with luminaries like Michael Haneke, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, John Landis, Claire Denis, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou and Lars von Trier (as quotable as ever). Their insights will inspire an intense desire to view (or re-view) Bergman’s classics.

FEATURING Michael Haneke, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Lars von Trier PROD Fatima Varhos

God Help the Girl

p. 47

DIR. STUART MURDOCH, UK

MON, SEP 29

1:00 PM

IN09

The Vancouver Asahi p. 25

Classification TBA

DIR. ISHII YUYA, JAPAN/CANADA

FRI, OCT 10

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed p. 29

1:00 PM

PLAY

Classification TBA

ARTS & LETTERS

GERMANY

DIR. DAVID TRUEBA, SPAIN

FRI, OCT 3

1:00 PM

CENT

Sexually suggestive scene

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BELGIUM

CANADA

Alleluia

Bloody Knuckles

FABRICE DU WELZ, BELGIUM/FRANCE, 2014, 95 MIN.

SUN, OCT 5 WED, OCT 8

ALTERED STATES This is where international genre films come out to play. Experience fantastic cinema that defies ready classification.

11:30 PM 4:00 PM

RIO SFU

A mentally unstable woman and a low-rent con artist embark on a gruesome killing spree in this sinister, spellbinding update of cult classic The Honeymoon Killers.

Director Fabrice Du Welz (Calvaire) keeps us constantly off-balance as he sends his outrageous film careening from macabre psychodrama to unsettling musical numbers.

“Alleluia is all attempted repression, bursting carnal appetites and escalating craziness...

A dose of some real midnight madness.”

—SCREEN

MATT O’MAHONEY, CANADA, 2014, 85 MIN.

FRI, OCT 3 SAT, OCT 4

11:30 PM 3:45 PM

RIO IN08

After having this hand lopped off by a gangster he’s offended, a brash underground cartoonist watches the disembodied appendage return to life and become a reanimated avenging angel/defender of free speech. Deliriously irreverent, wantonly vulgar and perversely gory, Matt O’Mahoney’s splatter horror flick is one of the year’s most gonzo genre offerings and “signals an underground spirit thriving in Vancouver...”—SPECTACULAR OPTICAL CAST Adam Boys, Kasey Ryne Mazak, Ken Tsui PROD Daniel Domachowski, Christena Zatylny

CAST Lola Dueñas, Laurent Lucas, Héléna Noguerra, Edith le Merdy, Anne-Marie Loop PROD Clément Miserez, Vincent Tavier, Matthieu Warter

CANADA

IRAN

The Editor ADAM BROOKS, MATTHEW KENNEDY, CANADA, 2014, 99 MIN.

SAT, SEP 27 SUN, SEP 28

11:30 PM 4:00 PM

RIO VCT

When a series of grisly murders plague a low-rent film production, a former mastereditor turned whipping-boy becomes the prime suspect. Astron-6 (Manborg) film collective members Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy write, direct and star in this deranged, debauched ode to ‘70s Italian giallo fare. Gore, gratuitous nudity and an inspired guest appearance by Udo Kier make for the perfect late night out.

CAST Matthew Kennedy, Adam Brooks, Paz de le Huerta, Udo Kier PROD Matthew Kennedy, Adam Brooks

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night ANA LILY AMIRPOUR, IRAN/USA, 2014, 99 MIN.

FRI, SEP 26 THU, OCT 9 FRI, OCT 10

4:00 PM 11:30 PM 4:00 PM

IN08 RIO RIO

Looking for love (and hemoglobin) in the desolate streets of Iranian ghost town Bad City, a lonesome, alluring vampire (Sheila Vand) must also navigate the comically offbeat, unequivocally cool reality envisioned by director Ana Lily Amirpour. Channelling vintage Jarmusch and cranking the postpunk soundtrack to spellbinding effect, “Amirpour has crafted a beguiling, cryptic and often surprisingly funny look at personal desire.”—INDIEWIRE CAST Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Dominic Rains, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Marnó, Milad Eghbali PROD Sina Sayyah, Justin Begnaud, Ana Lily Amirpour

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MEXICO

AUSTRALIA

USA

Housebound

The Incident

The Infinite Man

GERARD JOHNSTONE, NEW ZEALAND, 2014, 109 MIN.

El Incidente

HUGH SULLIVAN, AUSTRALIA, 2014, 84 MIN.

SAT, OCT 4 SUN, OCT 5

11:30 PM 5:00 PM

ISAAC EZBAN, MEXICO, 2014, 100 MIN.

RIO CINE

WED, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 10

2:30 PM 11:30 PM

CINE RIO

Genre filmmakers from Down Under are once again raising hell, with Gerard Johnstone’s gory, goofy debut setting the standard for this renaissance. While under house arrest, a young offender (Morgana O’Reilly, spectacularly surly) starts to believe that she may be locked away with something genuinely sinister. “A deadpan, diabolical, haunted thriller... Housebound quickly tears apart the classic haunted-house movie piece by piece...”—TWITCH

CANADIAN PREMIERE. When reality is knocked for a loop, desperate characters are stranded in infinitely repeating realms. As limbo distorts their psyches, Isaac Ezban delivers mind-bending sci-fi that recalls Philip K. Dick while revealing a brilliant new voice in genre cinema. “One of the most intriguing Mexican films of the year... bright and concise, perfectly expressing its director’s (very human) concerns while also offering an exciting alternate world.”—TWITCH

CAST Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru, Cameron Rhodes, Millen Baird, Ross Harper PROD Luke Sharpe

CAST Raúl Méndez, Humberto Busto, Nailea Norvind, Hernán Mendoza, Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, Gabriel Santoyo PROD Salomón Askenazi, Isaac Ezban, Miriam Mercado, Andrea Quiroz

SAT, OCT 4 THU, OCT 9

4:30 PM 9:15 PM

It Follows DAVID ROBERT MITCHELL, USA, 2014, 97 MIN.

RIO RIO

FRI, SEP 26 THU, OCT 9

11:30 PM 4:30 PM

RIO RIO

After botching a romantic weekend, a luckless inventor travels back in time to try again. Instead, he initiates an inescapable circuit of events and spawns a legion of romantic rivals: other misguided versions of himself. Hugh Sullivan’s absurd, antic debut is “an exemplary time travel comedy... [It] uses the constant pileup of future and past events to enhance its humor and intelligence at once.”—INDIEWIRE

In David Robert Mitchell’s devilishly conceived horror flick, a malevolent spirit ruthlessly stalks one victim after another.

Once this spirit has you in its sights, the only permanent escape is through sexual congress—at which point your partner inherits this supernatural creeper as if it were a particularly virulent form of STD. “Tender, remarkably ingenious and scalp-pricklingly scary.”—DAILY TELEGRAPH

CAST Josh McConville, Hannah Marshall, Alex Dimitriades PROD Sandy Cameron, Kate Croser

CAST Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe, Jake Weary PROD Rebecca Green, David Kaplan, Erik Rommesmo, Laura D. Smith

USA

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TUE, OCT 7 FRI, OCT 10

4:30 PM 9:15 PM

RIO RIO

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. In a drought-ravaged Oregon of the near future, a teenage girl (Haley Lu Richardson) resourcefully defends her working well. Production designer Tom Hammock (You’re Next) seamlessly transitions to director, combining elements of gritty Westerns and post-apocalyptic thrillers into an immaculately realized, utterly nightmarish tale of survival. “The Well doesn’t need a gimmick—it’s as brutal and beautiful as genre flicks get...”—LA WEEKLY

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ALTERED STATES

The Well

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CAST Haley Lu Richardson, Booboo Stewart, Max Charles, Nicole Fox, Michael Welch, Jon Gries PROD Seth Caplan, Jacob Forman, Chris Harding

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INDEX OF FILMS BY THEME & GENRE YOU CAN FIND FILMS BY SUBJECT (OR ANY WORD) BY SEARCHING VIFF.ORG!

3D 130919 A Portrait of Marina Abramovic Above Us All Amazonia 3D Cathedrals of Culture Goodbye To Language 3D

Aboriginal / First Nations Bison Charlie’s Country The Hearing Hope and Wire Jungle School Luk’Luk’i: Mother Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America Not Indian Enough The Salt of the Earth The Sun, the Moon and the Hurricane Walking Under Water Yakona

Action, Thrills & Suspense 24 Days Alleluia Black Coal, Thin Ice The Fool Force Majeure The Gambler Haemoo Hard Card Highway History of Fear I’m (not) Having a Good Day In Order of Disappearance Man on High Heels The Midnight After Nuoc 2030 October Gale Rekorder Sequence The Two Faces of January Two Step The Well What Doesn’t Kill You White Bird in a Blizzard Wild Tales The Womb

Animals Day 40 The Horses of Fukushima Howard & Jean Meat and Milk Of Horses and Men The Salt of the Earth The Wound and the Gift

Animation 3rd Page from the Sun Amazing Anime Amazonia 3D The Boy and the World Broken Face The Chaperone Day 40 Fallow Hollygrove: The True Life Story of Monserrat I’m (not) Having a Good Day Jutra 92

Kreb Life/Crisis Los Rosales Mynarski Death Plummet Never Stop Cycling Out of Reach (Rain Night) The Rehearsal Rocks in My Pockets The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Tide Keeper The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer

Award Winners

24 Days 52 Tuesdays Before the Last Curtain Falls Behavior Bye Bye Blues Charlie’s Country Class Enemy Come to My Voice The Creation of Meaning Exit Fish & Cat Foxcatcher Free Fall God Help the Girl Güeros Horse Money The Horses of Fukushima Lakshmi Listen Up Philip Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed Love at First Fight Maps to the Stars Marmato Nelson Mandela, The Myth and Me Noble Of Horses and Men Sacro GRA Sitting on the Edge of Marlene Something Must Break Still Life To Kill a Man Uncle Victory Waiting for August Walking Under Water Whiplash Winter Sleep Yakona

Biography David Hockney IN THE NOW ( in 6 minutes ) The Decent One Dominguinhos Finding Fela In Search of Chopin Jutra The Liberator Looking for Light: Jane Bown Marinoni Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter Mr. Turner Nas: Time Is Illmatic Noble The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir

The Past Is a Grotesque Animal Regarding Susan Sontag

Comedy 1987 40 Candles The Acting Teacher Bedbugs: A Musical Love Story Bloody Knuckles Buzzard The Chaperone Day 40 Dead Hearts Dirty Singles Disconcerto Dorsal The Editor Force Majeure The Gambler Hard Card Hill of Freedom Housebound I’m (not) Having a Good Day In Order of Disappearance The Infinite Man The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq Li’l Quinquin Life’s A Bitch Listen Up Philip Love at First Fight Maps to the Stars Men Who Save the World The Midnight After No One But Lydia Not Indian Enough Of Horses and Men Petit Frère Phone Box Preggoland Rain On Film Songs She Wrote About People She Knows The Stomach Teen Tales 2014 Tigerbomb!

Two 4 One Two Shots Fired Uncle Victory Welcome to Me Wild Tales You’re Sleeping Nicole Zero Motivation

Crime 1987 24 Days Alleluia Art and Craft Black Coal, Thin Ice Black Fly Hard Card Heaven Knows What In Order of Disappearance In the Name of My Daughter The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq Man on High Heels Manos Sucias Non Fiction Diary October Gale The Owners

Pour Retourner Rekorder Sitting on the Edge of Marlene To Kill a Man The Two Faces of January Two Step Welcome to New York

Disabilities

Becoming Bulletproof Blind Massage The Boy From Geita The Hearing Hole

Drama

24 Days 52 Tuesdays 6-Minute Mom Absolution All the Pain in the World Alphonso Asteroid Back Streets Behavior Beloved Sisters Bison The Black Butterflies Black Fly Boychoir Business As Usual - The Prophet’s on Board Can You Relate?

Chamber Drama Class Enemy Clownwise Corn Island Cowboy Ben Cutaway An Eye for Beauty Fall Grounded I’m (not) Having a Good Day In the Blind Inside Voices Just Living Katie Lakshmi Leviathan Life/Crisis Light A Long Beside Manos Sucias Martin’s Pink Pickle Outlier Penance Rattlefly Revelations Righteous Ship Skunk Sleeping Giant Something Must Break Sophie Still Life The Sun, the Moon and the Hurricane Teen Tales 2014 They Came at Night Uncertain Relationships Society Vancouver Asahi Welcome to Me Welcome to New York

Economics & Globalization The Boy and the World Casa Grande The Creation of Meaning A Dangerous Game Everything Will Be Food Chains Foxcatcher The Gambler Gente de Bien Handmade with Love from France History of Fear Hope and Wire How I Came to Hate Maths Human Capital Jalanan Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story Leviathan Marmato Monsoon The Price We Pay The Pristine Coast Two Days, One Night We Come As Friends The Wild Years The Wonders

Environment All the Time in the World Amazonia 3D Corn Island The Creation of Meaning The Creator of the Jungle Flore Jungle School Marmato Meat and Milk Monsoon My Name Is Salt The Pristine Coast Red Knot Walking Under Water We Come As Friends The Wonders The Wound and the Gift Yakona

Experimental & Avant garde 130919 A Portrait of Marina Abramovic 3rd Page from the Sun Above Us All Can You Relate?

Cutaway Field of Dogs Fish & Cat Free Fall A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Goodbye To Language 3D Horse Money The Incident The Iron Ministry Jauja Journey to the West Life/Crisis Mynarski Death Plummet Nest of Stone Out of Reach (Rain Night) The Owners

Parasite Violent The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer

Family Relations 1987 52 Tuesdays Black Fly Come to My Voice A Corner of Heaven Flowing Stories Force Majeure Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me In the Name of My Daughter Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed Men Who Save the World Men, Women & Children Mommy The Owners Revivre Sitting on the Edge of Marlene Sorrow and Joy

Fantasy The Boy and the World Broken Face The Creator of the Jungle Dead Hearts Eclissi The Editor Free Fall A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night The Incident Mynarski Death Plummet Never Stop Cycling Sharing Ship The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Tigerbomb!

Violent The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer What Doesn’t Kill You Withering Heights

Filmmaking 52 Tuesdays Becoming Bulletproof Broken Palace The Editor Jutra The Rehearsal Trespassing Bergman

Fine Arts or Theatre 130919 A Portrait of Marina Abramovic 3rd Page from the Sun The Acting Teacher Advanced Style Art and Craft Ballet 422 Becoming Bulletproof Before the Last Curtain Falls Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy

INDEX OF FILMS BY THEME & GENRE Cathedrals of Culture Clouds of Sils Maria Clownwise The Creator of the Jungle David Hockney IN THE NOW ( in 6 minutes ) Elephant Song An Eye for Beauty Field of Dogs Finding Fela The Great Museum Handmade with Love from France Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here Life of Riley Looking for Light: Jane Bown National Gallery Parasite The Princess of France Regarding Susan Sontag The Riot Club The Salt of the Earth La Sapienza Winter Sleep

Food, Farm & Garden Food Chains Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story Meat and Milk The Pristine Coast

The Great Divide One of the hottest topics today is the growing gap between the haves and have-nots. Many films screening at VIFF address issues of social justice, politics and the dispossessed, but here is a dynamite group chosen to illuminate just some of what rising inequality is bringing to our world.

Marinoni Mommy New Boobs The Possibilities Are Endless Rocks in My Pockets Sorrow and Joy Una Vida: A Fable of Music and The Mind Welcome to Me

History Above Us All Beloved Sisters Broken Palace Bye Bye Blues Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy Clownwise Coming Home Concerning Violence Corbo The Creation of Meaning Day 40 The Decent One Everything Will Be The Golden Era The Great Museum Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here Jauja The Liberator Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed Mr. Turner N: The Madness of Reason Nelson Mandela, The Myth and Me Non Fiction Diary Papusza Phoenix Red Army Rocks in My Pockets Tigerbomb!

The Vancouver Asahi We Come As Friends

Human Rights The Boy and the World Casa Grande Concerning Violence A Dangerous Game Foxcatcher Gente de Bien History of Fear Hope and Wire Human Capital Jalanan Leviathan The Price We Pay The Riot Club Run Two Days, One Night

Health (Mental & Physical) Art and Craft Becoming Bulletproof Coming Home Elephant Song Flore Foxcatcher Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me Hollygrove: The True Life Story of Monserrat

52 Tuesdays The Boy From Geita Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy Challat of Tunis Charlie’s Country A Dangerous Game The Decent One Difret The Dossier Finding Fela Food Chains Jalanan Lakshmi Marmato Noble Papusza The Salt of the Earth Turbulence The Vancouver Asahi The Wild Years

Immigration Above Us All Flowing Stories Haemoo Turbulence The Vancouver Asahi

Islamic World Challat of Tunis Iranian The Rooftops

Jewish Interest 24 Days The Decent One Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here The Kindergarten Teacher Zero Motivation

Literary (inc.

Adaptations) Beloved Sisters Blind Massage The Golden Era The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq The Kindergarten Teacher Listen Up Philip Men, Women & Children Noble Regarding Susan Sontag The Two Faces of January White Bird in a Blizzard Wild

Music & Dance Ballet 422 Bedbugs: A Musical Love Story Boychoir Bye Bye Blues Dominguinhos Finding Fela Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me God Help the Girl Güeros Highway In Search of Chopin Jalanan Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter N: The Madness of Reason Nas: Time Is Illmatic The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir The Past Is a Grotesque Animal The Possibilities Are Endless Pulp Que Caramba es la Vida Songs She Wrote About People She Knows Una Vida: A Fable of Music and The Mind The Valley Below Violent Whiplash You’re Sleeping Nicole

Mystery Fish & Cat Foxcatcher A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Housebound In the Name of My Daughter Jauja The Kindergarten Teacher

Li’l Quinquin Man on High Heels Maps to the Stars Miraculum Phoenix Que Caramba es la Vida The Two Faces of January Two Step

Queer Interest 52 Tuesdays Before the Last Curtain Falls Disconcerto Hole Man on High Heels Regarding Susan Sontag Something Must Break The Sun, the Moon and the Hurricane Two 4 One Uncertain Relationships Society White Bird in a Blizzard

Religion, Spirituality & Myth The Boy From Geita Day 40 Faith Connections Fall Field of Dogs Iranian Journey to the West Li’l Quinquin Light Stations of the Cross A Tomb With a View Walking Under Water

Romance Alleluia Beautiful Youth Blind Massage Burnt Grass Dead Hearts Dirty Singles EMO (The Musical) An Eye for Beauty God Help the Girl The Golden Era Heaven Knows What Hill of Freedom In the Name of My Daughter The Infinite Man Land of the Sun Life’s A Bitch Love at First Fight Martin’s Pink Pickle Miss and the Doctors October Gale Queen and Country Rain On Film Red Knot Something Must Break Teen Tales 2014 Two 4 One Withering Heights

Sci-fi & Horror Alleluia Bloody Knuckles Burnt Grass Can You Relate?

Eclissi

The Editor A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Housebound The Incident The Infinite Man It Follows Letter to Annabelle Life/Crisis The Light Harvester Nuoc 2030 Ow Sharing The Well

Science & Technology Hope and Wire How I Came to Hate Maths My Name Is Salt N: The Madness of Reason

Sex & Eroticism August Winds Day 40 Dirty Singles The Editor An Eye for Beauty Hole It Follows Life’s A Bitch Something Must Break Welcome to New York

Sport Back Streets Force Majeure Foxcatcher Marinoni Red Army The Vancouver Asahi Wild

Style & Fashion Advanced Style God Help the Girl Handmade with Love from France In the Name of My Daughter Looking for Light: Jane Bown The Two Faces of January

War & Espionage Above Us All The Blue Marble Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy Come to My Voice Concerning Violence Corn Island The Creation of Meaning The Decent One Land of the Sun Mynarski Death Plummet Queen and Country Run Turbulence We Come As Friends

Women Directors 40 Candles 52 Tuesdays Above Us All Advanced Style Bye Bye Blues Challat of Tunis The Cut The Decent One Difret Dorsal Fallow The Furthest End Awaits A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night The Golden Era Hope and Wire Land of the Sun Light Miss and the Doctors New Boobs October Gale Que Caramba es la Vida Regarding Susan Sontag The Riot Club Rocks in My Pockets Sitting on the Edge of Marlene Stray Tales Turbulence Uncertain Relationships Society Waiting for August Walking Under Water Welcome to Me What Are We Doing Here?

Withering Heights The Wonders The Wound and the Gift Zero Motivation

Under 18 May Attend 1987 52 Tuesdays Amazonia 3D Ballet 422 Behavior Casa Grande Class Enemy Come to My Voice EMO (The Musical) God Help the Girl How I Came to Hate Maths Inside Voices Katie Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed Nas: Time Is Illmatic No One But Lydia Rattlefly The Reel Youth Film Festival Revelations Skunk The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Teen Tales 2014 The Vancouver Asahi Waiting for August You’re Sleeping Nicole Zero Motivation

Western Becoming Bulletproof The Well 93

INDEX OF FILMS BY COUNTRY & REGION THIS LIST INDICATES WHERE A FILM WAS PRODUCED, FINANCED, WHERE IT IS SET OR ITS SUBJECT.

Abkhazia Corn Island / Simindis kundzuli

August Winds / Ventos de Agosto 46

Albania Alphonso

65

44

The Boy and the World / O Menino e o Mundo 45 Casa Grande

45

Dominguinhos

83

The Salt of the Earth / Le Sel de la terre

87

A Tomb With a View

59

Algeria Bengal Light / Feu de Bengale Meat and Milk / De chair et de lait The Rooftops / Es-Stouh

62 79 57

History of Fear / Historia del miedo

53

Jauja

54

Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America / Mercedes Sosa: La voz de Latinoamérica 85 The Princess of France / La princesa de Francia 57

Wild Tales / Relatos salvajes

59 33

Australia 52 Tuesdays

44

Above Us All

35

Absolution

65

Charlie’s Country

45

EMO (The Musical)

65

The Infinite Man Letter to Annabelle

The Great Museum / Das große Museum

Blind Massage / Tui Na 68

63

Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story

41

Just Living

62

Jutra

62

Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy / Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie

Kreb

62

Coming Home / Giu lai 68

41

A Corner of Heaven / Tiantang jiaoluo

83

88

65 59

Brazil 35

83

68

Lifers

63

Light

63

The Golden Era / Huangjin Shidai

83

Canada 1987

39

3rd Page from the Sun / 3e page après le soleil 62 40 Candles

63

The Acting Teacher

63

All the Time in the World

Back Streets Bedbugs: A Musical Love Story

Luk’Luk’i: Mother

62

Maps to the Stars

29

Martin’s Pink Pickle

41

Miraculum

41

Mommy

37

62

Gente de Bien / Gente de bien

Never Stop Cycling

62

Manos Sucias

55

62

Marmato

79

Not Indian Enough

36

39 43

Pour Retourner

62

Croatia

Preggoland

42

A Dangerous Game

The Pristine Coast

42

Red Army

79

Cuba Behavior / Conducta

63

The Rehearsal / La Répétition

82

Black Fly

39

Righteous

62

88

Ship

63

39

Sitting on the Edge of Marlene

43

Sleeping Giant

63

43

Burnt Grass

63

Songs She Wrote About People She Knows

Bye Bye Blues

39

Stray

63

Chamber Drama

63

Tigerbomb!

62

The Chaperone

39

Two 4 One

43

Corbo

39

The Valley Below

43

The Cut / La Coupe

63

Cutaway

62

The Vancouver Asahi / Vancouver no Asahi

25

Day 40

63

Bison

Uncle Victory / Shengli 73

Colombia

62

The Blue Marble / La Bille Bleue

62

Dead Hearts

63

A Different Drummer

39

Dirty Singles

41

Dorsal

63

Eclissi

63

The Editor

88

Elephant Song

37

Everything Will Be

41

An Eye for Beauty / La règne de la beauté

41

Fall

41

Fallow

63

71

Mynarski Death Plummet / Mynarski chute mortelle

Bengal Light / Feu de Bengale

Bloody Knuckles

The Iron Ministry / Tie dao

Petit Frère

62

28

Haemoo / aka Sea Mist 69

October Gale

65

Before the Last Curtain Falls / Bevor der letzte Vorhang fällt 82

94

63

Howard & Jean

68

Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy / Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie

41

Alleluia

Amazonia 3D

62

Hole

The Black Butterflies / Les Papillons Noirs

The Dossier / Dang’an 69

Broken Palace

35

Two Days, One Night / Deux jours, une nuit

The Hearing

Black Coal, Thin Ice / Bairi yanhuo

63

63

Above Us All

Out of Reach (Rain Night)

63

Burkina Faso

89

Belgium

63

Life’s A Bitch / Toutes des connes

Broken Face / Sale Gueule

Austria

China

Hard Card

Land of the Sun

Argentina

Two Shots Fired / Dos Disparos

Godhead

The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer

62

47

77

Cathedrals of Culture

35

Faith Connections

77

Flore / Flore, route de la Mer

77

Force Majeure / Turist

47

Goodbye To Language 3D / Adieu au langage 35 Grounded / Au Sol Handmade with Love from France / Le Temps Suspendu 75

77

Journey to the West / Xi you

71

59

You’re Sleeping Nicole / Tu dors Nicole 43

To Kill a Man / Matar a un hombre

59

24 Days / 24 jours

75

Alleluia

88

Iceland Of Horses and Men / Hross I Oss

55

Paris of the North / París norðursins

56

India Faith Connections

77

Highway

53

Lakshmi

54 79

Life of Riley / Aimer, boire et chanter 74 Love at First Fight / Les combattants

75

Welcome to New York

61

My Name Is Salt

79

Indonesia Jalanan

77

Jungle School / Sokola Rimba

71

The Sun, the Moon and the Hurricane

73

46

Iran Germany

Fish & Cat / Mahi va gorbeh

47

Beloved Sisters / Die geliebten Schwestern

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

88

Iranian / Iranien

77

45

Business As Usual The Prophet’s on Board / Business As Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit

65

Cathedrals of Culture

35

Class Enemy / Razredni sovražnik

45 77

Stations of the Cross / Kreuzweg

43

Israel

83

59

The Kindergarten Teacher / Haganenet

54

Zero Motivation

61

Italy

Greece The Two Faces of January

59

Turbulence

57

65

Tales / Ghesseha

Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy / Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie

81

France

Chile

Free Fall / Szabadesés 47

42

Phoenix

The Wild Years / Els anys salvatges

Hungary

Monsoon

Outlier 46

71

Uncertain Relationships Society / Aimei buming guanxi yanjiu xuehui 73

75

62

28

The Midnight After

Li’l Quinquin / P’tit Quinquin

43

Difret

69

The Golden Era / Huangjin Shidai

Meat and Milk / De chair et de lait

What Doesn’t Kill You

Ethiopia

Flowing Stories

75

46

65

Hong Kong

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq / L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq

The Decent One / Der Anständige

63

Iranian / Iranien

What Are We Doing Here? / Qu’est-ce qu’on fait ici?

Withering Heights

65

In the Name of My Daughter / L’Homme qu’on aimait trop 75

Corn Island / Simindis kundzuli

Denmark Sorrow and Joy / Sorg og glæde

83

Georgia

Democratic Republic of Congo They Came at Night

Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy / Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie

45

Czech Republic Clownwise / Klauni

65

59

The Creation of Meaning / La creazione di significato 39

INDEX OF FILMS BY COUNTRY & REGION Human Capital / Il capitale umano

53

Los Rosales

65

Marinoni

41

Sacro GRA

79

La Sapienza

75

The Wonders / Le meraviglie

61

Japan Disconcerto / Mahoro Eki-mae Kyosokyoku

69

The Furthest End Awaits / Saiha Tenite

69

New Boobs Out of Reach (Rain Night)

79

Hope and Wire

53

Housebound

89

The Light Harvester

65

A Long Beside

65

Cathedrals of Culture

35

The Tide Keeper

65

The Fool / Durak

47

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here

83

Leviathan / Leviafan

54

Red Army

79

New Zealand

Nigeria

Ow / Maru

73

Norway

Sharing

73

Cathedrals of Culture

67

In Order of Disappearance / Kraftidioten

53

Violent

43

The Vancouver Asahi / Vancouver no Asahi

83

35

56

83

A Dangerous Game The Possibilities Are Endless

77

Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy / Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie

55

Slovenia 83

Class Enemy / Razredni sovražnik

46

Peru

South Africa

Turbulence

43

The Womb / El Vientre 61

Nelson Mandela, The Myth and Me

Latvia 57

73

Lithuania The Gambler / Losejas 47

Malaysia Men Who Save the World / Lelaki harapan dunya

71

Mexico 44

Food Chains

77

Güeros

53

The Incident / El Incidente

89

Navajazo

55

Que Caramba es la Vida / Das schöne Scheißleben

Netherlands

69

130919 A Portrait of Marina Abramovic

35

6-Minute Mom

65

Advanced Style

82

The Boy From Geita

39

The Dossier / Dang’an 69

87

Poland Field of Dogs / Psie Pole

47

In Search of Chopin

83

Papusza

56

Parasite / Huba

56

76

Boychoir

45

Buzzard

45

Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy / Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie

83

Cathedrals of Culture

35

Clouds of Sils Maria / Sils Maria

27

Foxcatcher

27 83

Heaven Knows What

53

33

65

How I Came to Hate Maths / Comment j’ai détesté les maths

77

In the Blind

65

Inside Voices

65

It Follows

89

Katie

65

Listen Up Philip

55

Maps to the Stars

29

Meat and Milk / De chair et de lait

79

Men, Women & Children

31 85

69 71

All the Pain in the World 65

Non Fiction Diary

71

Cowboy Ben

65

Revivre / Hwajang

73

Finding Fela

83

Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter

God Help the Girl

47

Nas: Time Is Illmatic

85

No One But Lydia

65

Beautiful Youth / Hermosa juventud

44

53 61

Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed / Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados 29

55

Sudan We Come As Friends

Sweden Something Must

81

25

Welcome to New York

61

The Well

89

Whiplash

23

21

The Wound and the Gift

81

Yakona

81

Venezuela Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy / Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie

83

The Liberator / Libertador

55

Vietnam Noble

55

Nuoc 2030

71

Hollygrove: The True Life Story of Monserrat 65

Man on High Heels / Haihil [High Heel]

The Liberator / Libertador

83

Becoming Bulletproof

Hill of Freedom / Jayoo ui Indeok

Horse Money / Cavalo Dinheiro

Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy / Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie

82

76

They Came at Night

The Creator of the Jungle / Sobre la marxa 76

Romania

82

Ballet 422

Challat of Tunis / Challat de Tunis

79

Portugal Una Vida: A Fable of Music and The Mind

Art and Craft

Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me

Winter Sleep / Kis uykusu

Spain

61

Wild

83

45

South Korea

65

Two Step

White Bird in a Blizzard 61

Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy / Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie

Uganda

Philippines Rekorder

Asteroid / Asteroide

USA

Turkey

Come to My Voice / Were Dengê Min

79

69

Tunisia N: The Madness of Reason

The Furthest End Awaits / Saiha Tenite

Tanzania

They Came at Night Welcome to Me

Ukraine

Exit / Hui guang zoumingqu

85

Kurdistan

Rocks in My Pockets

87

Tibet

Senegal Palestine

The Owners

Trespassing Bergman

65

Taiwan

Scotland

25

Kazakhstan

57

Maidan

Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy / Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie

Finding Fela

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya / Kaguyahime no monogatari 32

The Stomach

Break / Nånting måste gå sönder

Russia

69

81

65

The Horses of Fukushima / Matsuri no Uma

Snow Hut / Kamakura

Waiting for August

UK

How I Came to Hate Maths / Comment j’ai détesté les maths

77

Leidi

47

The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir 85

Looking for Light: Jane Bown

83

The Past Is a Grotesque Animal

85

Mr. Turner

55

Penance

65

National Gallery

85

The Price We Pay

42

Nest of Stone

65

Rattlefly

65

Phone Box

65

Red Knot

57

The Price We Pay

42

Pulp

85

Regarding Susan Sontag

87

Revelations

65

Queen and Country

57

Rain On Film

65

The Riot Club

31

Still Life

59

Rocks in My Pockets

57

Sequence

65

Skunk

65

Sophie

65 95

INDEX OF FILMS WITH SCREENING TIMES 1987 p. 39 (Tue, Sep 30, 6:30pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct 2, 12:45pm, IN09) 1’57 24 Days p. 75 (Thu, Oct 2, 4:00pm, SFU + Mon, Oct 6, 9:15pm, CENT) 1’51

52 Tuesdays p. 44 (Thu, Sep 25, 4:30pm, RIO + Sat, Oct 4, 9:00pm, RIO + Tue, Oct 7, 1:30pm, SFU) 1’49

Above Us All p. 35 (Sat, Oct 4, 7:00pm, VCT + Sun, Oct 5, 1:30pm, VCT) 1’39

Advanced Style p. 82 (Fri, Oct 3, 1:15pm, IN08 + Sun, Oct 5, 7:00pm, PLAY) 1’12

All the Time in the World p. 39 (Wed, Oct 1, 6:30pm, SFU + Sat, Oct 4, 11:00am, SFU) 1’29

Alleluia p. 88 (Sun, Oct 5, 11:30pm, RIO +

Before the Last Curtain Falls p. 82 (Thu, Sep 25, 7:00pm, RIO + Fri, Sep 26, 1:30pm, IN08 + Mon, Sep 29, 4:30pm, RIO)

Casa Grande p. 45 (Sat, Sep 27, 1:30pm, RIO + Wed, Oct 8, 4:15pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 10, 9:00pm, SFU) 1’53

1’17

1’26

Thu, Oct 9, 1:30pm, PLAY) 1’48

Cathedrals of Culture p. 35 (Tue, Sep 30, 5:45pm, IN09 + Sat, Oct 4, 11:00am, CENT) 2’45

Beloved Sisters p. 45 (Sat, Oct 4, 8:30pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 9, 12:00pm, CENT)

Challat of Tunis p. 76 (Thu, Oct 2, 7:00pm, CINE + Sun, Oct 5, 3:00pm, CINE)

The Decent One p. 77 (Sun, Sep 28,

2’51

1’30

9:30pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct 2, 2:00pm, IN10)

Behavior p. 45 (Tue, Oct 7, 9:30pm, RIO +

6:30pm, IN08 + Sun, Sep 28, 1:45pm, IN08)

Black Coal, Thin Ice p. 68 (Mon, Sep 29, 2:00pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 3, 9:30pm, IN10 + Sun, Oct 5, 11:30am, IN10) 1’46

Charlie’s Country p. 45 (Sat, Oct 4, 4:15pm, CINE + Tue, Oct 7, 11:00am, SFU + Fri, Oct 10, 6:30pm, SFU) 1’48

A Different Drummer p. 39 (Wed, Oct 8,

Black Fly p. 39 (Sat, Sep 27, 6:30pm, RIO + Tue, Sep 30, 4:00pm, IN10) 1’36

Class Enemy p. 45 (Fri, Sep 26, 12:45pm,

Difret p. 46 (Fri, Oct 3, 7:00pm, IN10 + Sun,

IN09 + Fri, Oct 3, 1:00pm, IN09 + Sun, Oct 5, 7:15pm, CINE) 1’52

Oct 5, 10:30am, VCT) 1’39

Blind Massage p. 68 (Sat, Oct 4, 10:30am, IN09 + Thu, Oct 9, 9:00pm, PLAY)

Clouds of Sils Maria p. 27 (Thu, Oct 2,

1’54

9:15pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 3, 3:30pm, CENT) 2’3

Bloody Knuckles p. 88 (Fri, Oct 3,

Clownwise p. 46 (Wed, Oct 1, 6:30pm,

1’25

IN10 + Fri, Oct 3, 10:30am, SFU + Mon, Oct 6, 2:00pm, RIO) 2’0

The Boy and the World p. 45 (Thu, Sep

Come to My Voice p. 46 (Sun, Sep 28,

11:30pm, RIO + Sat, Oct 4, 3:45pm, IN08)

1’26

Amazonia 3D p. 35 (Sat, Sep 27, 2:15pm, IN10 + Sat, Oct 4, 4:00pm, IN09 + Sun, Oct 5, 7:30pm, IN10) 1’19

Art and Craft p. 82 (Mon, Oct 6, 4:00pm,

A Dangerous Game p. 77 (Fri, Oct 3, 6:30pm, SFU + Sun, Oct 5, 10:00am, CINE + Thu, Oct 9, 12:15pm, VCT) 1’30

1’34

Wed, Oct 8, 4:00pm, SFU) 1’35

Amazing Anime p. 67 (Sat, Sep 27,

The Creator of the Jungle p. 76 (Fri, Sep 26, 10:00am, VCT + Tue, Sep 30, 10:15am, IN08 + Sun, Oct 5, 6:30pm, IN08)

25, 1:30pm, SFU + Sun, Sep 28, 10:30am, IN09 + Thu, Oct 2, 7:00pm, IN10) 1’20

1:30pm, SFU + Sat, Oct 4, 6:45pm, CINE + Mon, Oct 6, 10:00am, VCT) 1’45

The Boy From Geita p. 39 (Sun, Sep 28,

Coming Home p. 68 (Thu, Sep 25,

7:00pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 10, 1:15pm, SFU) 1’40

Dirty Singles p. 41 (Tue, Sep 30, 7:00pm, RIO + Wed, Oct 1, 2:00pm, RIO) 1’20

Disconcerto p. 69 (Fri, Sep 26, 8:15pm, IN09 + Sat, Sep 27, 10:30am, IN09) 2’3

Dominguinhos p. 83 (Fri, Sep 26, 2:30pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 1, 4:30pm, RIO + Thu, Oct 9, 7:15pm, VCT) 1’19

The Dossier p. 69 (Sat, Sep 27, 9:00pm, CINE + Mon, Sep 29, 4:00pm, CINE) 2’8

6:30pm, SFU + Sat, Oct 4, 1:15pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 9, 10:00am, CINE) 1’26

1:45pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 8, 8:45pm, CENT)

SFU + Fri, Oct 10, 7:15pm, VCT) 1’29

Asteroid p. 44 (Wed, Oct 1, 9:30pm, IN10

Boychoir p. 45 (Sun, Oct 5, 6:30pm, CENT

Concerning Violence p. 76 (Sun, Oct 5, 4:15pm, IN08 + Wed, Oct 8, 9:30pm, RIO)

Elephant Song p. 37 (Wed, Oct 1,

1’29

9:00pm, PLAY + Fri, Oct 3, 11:15am, IN10)

+ Sat, Oct 4, 11:15am, IN10 + Tue, Oct 7, 4:15pm, CINE) 1’43

+ Tue, Oct 7, 4:00pm, CENT) 1’46

1’51

The Editor p. 88 (Sat, Sep 27, 11:30pm, RIO + Sun, Sep 28, 4:00pm, VCT) 1’39

1’50

August Winds p. 44 (Sun, Sep 28, 6:30pm, IN08 + Tue, Sep 30, 2:00pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 3, 4:00pm, IN08) 1’17 Ballet 422 p. 82 (Mon, Sep 29, 11:00am, SFU + Sat, Oct 4, 9:00pm, SFU) 1’19

Beautiful Youth p. 44 (Fri, Sep 26, 1:45pm, IN10 + Sat, Sep 27, 11:00am, IN08 + Thu, Oct 2, 9:15pm, RIO) 1’42

Becoming Bulletproof p. 76 (Mon, Oct 6, 6:15pm, PLAY + Thu, Oct 9, 2:15pm, VCT) 1’20

Buzzard p. 45 (Sat, Sep 27, 9:30pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct 9, 4:45pm, CINE) 1’37

Bye Bye Blues p. 39 (Wed, Oct 8, 7:00pm, VCT + Fri, Oct 10, 2:30pm, VCT) 1’57

Can You Relate? p. 65 (Thu, Oct 2, 6:30pm, IN08 + Tue, Oct 7, 11:45am, VCT) 1’46

Corbo p. 39 (Sun, Sep 28, 9:15pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 1, 2:30pm, CINE) 1’59

2, 8:30pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 10, 12:00pm, VCT)

Corn Island p. 46 (Thu, Sep 25, 12:15pm, VCT + Sat, Sep 27, 6:30pm, VCT + Thu, Oct 2, 4:45pm, CINE) 1’40

A Corner of Heaven p. 68 (Mon, Oct 6, 9:30pm, CINE + Thu, Oct 9, 2:30pm, CINE) 1’34

Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy p. 83 (Thu, Sep 25, 2:15pm, CINE + Sat, Sep 27, 10:00am, CINE + Wed, Oct 1, 9:00pm, SFU) 1’46

Emergency/Response p. 62 (Thu, Oct 1’31

Everything Will Be p. 41 (Mon, Sep 29, 9:00pm, SFU + Wed, Oct 1, 11:00am, SFU + Fri, Oct 3, 10:30am, IN09) 1’31 Exit p. 69 (Sun, Sep 28, 2:15pm, CINE + Tue, Sep 30, 6:30pm, VCT) 1’34

The Creation of Meaning p. 39 (Sat, Sep 27, 6:15pm, CINE + Mon, Sep 29, 5:15pm, VCT) 1’34

An Eye for Beauty p. 41 (Thu, Oct 2, 3:45pm, PLAY + Sun, Oct 5, 9:15pm, PLAY) 1’42

96

INDEX OF FILMS WITH SCREENING TIMES Faith Connections p. 77 (Sat, Sep 27, 4:15pm, IN10 + Mon, Sep 29, 10:00am, VCT + Thu, Oct 2, 6:30pm, RIO) 1’57

Gente de Bien p. 47 (Mon, Sep 29,

History of Fear p. 53 (Tue, Sep 30,

Iranian p. 77 (Thu, Oct 2, 1:30pm, SFU +

3:45pm, SFU + Fri, Oct 3, 4:15pm, RIO + Mon, Oct 6, 9:00pm, SFU) 1’42

1:00pm, SFU + Wed, Oct 8, 9:30pm, VCT + Fri, Oct 10, 2:00pm, RIO) 1’19

Mon, Oct 6, 12:15pm, VCT + Tue, Oct 7, 6:30pm, CINE) 1’45

Fall p. 41 (Fri, Oct 3, 7:00pm, CINE + Sun,

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Hope and Wire p. 53 (Sun, Oct 5, 1:30pm,

The Iron Ministry p. 71 (Thu, Oct 2,

Oct 5, 12:30pm, CINE) 1’22

p. 88 (Fri, Sep 26, 4:00pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 9, 11:30pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 10, 4:00pm, RIO)

IN08 + Mon, Oct 6, 6:45pm, VCT) 1’35

Field of Dogs p. 47 (Sat, Sep 27, 8:45pm, VCT + Tue, Sep 30, 2:00pm, VCT) 1’41

Finding Fela p. 83 (Thu, Sep 25, 10:45am, SFU + Sun, Oct 5, 6:15pm, RIO + Wed, Oct 8, 1:15pm, SFU) 1’59

Fish & Cat p. 47 (Fri, Sep 26, 9:00pm, CINE + Thu, Oct 2, 11:15am, IN10 + Tue, Oct 7, 8:45pm, CINE) 2’14

Flore p. 77 (Wed, Oct 1, 7:00pm, VCT + Thu, Oct 2, 3:15pm, IN09 + Sat, Oct 4, 10:00am, CINE) 1’33

Flowing Stories p. 69 (Sun, Sep 28, 6:30pm, VCT + Tue, Sep 30, 12:00pm, IN08) 1’37

1’39

Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me p. 83 (Sat, Sep 27, 3:30pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 1, 6:30pm, PLAY) 1’44

God Help the Girl p. 47 (Sat, Sep 27,

Horse Money p. 53 (Fri, Sep 26, 9:15pm, VCT + Mon, Sep 29, 3:00pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 1, 10:00am, CINE) 1’50

It Follows p. 89 (Fri, Sep 26, 11:30pm, RIO + Thu, Oct 9, 4:30pm, RIO) 1’37

The Horses of Fukushima p. 69 (Mon, Sep 29, 10:00am, CINE + Wed, Oct 1, 9:30pm, CINE) 1’42

Jalanan p. 77 (Thu, Sep 25, 3:30pm, SFU +

7:00pm, IN10 + Mon, Sep 29, 1:00pm, IN09) 1’51

The Golden Era p. 28 (Sat, Sep 27, 6:00pm, CENT) 2’58

Goodbye To Language 3D p. 35 (Fri, Sep 26, 6:00pm, IN09 + Sun, Sep 28, 3:30pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 3, 2:30pm, IN10) 1’17

The Great Museum p. 83 (Wed, Oct 1,

Housebound p. 89 (Sat, Oct 4, 11:30pm,

VCT + Mon, Sep 29, 6:00pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 1, 4:30pm, IN10) 1’23

The Fool p. 47 (Mon, Sep 29, 12:30pm, VCT + Tue, Sep 30, 9:30pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 8, 4:45pm, CINE) 1’56

Force Majeure p. 47 (Fri, Sep 26, 12:00pm, CENT + Mon, Oct 6, 6:30pm, CENT) 2’0

Foxcatcher p. 27 (Thu, Sep 25, 9:30pm, CENT + Thu, Oct 2, 3:15pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 10, 9:30pm, CENT) 2’14

Free Fall p. 47 (Thu, Sep 25, 9:00pm, VCT + Fri, Sep 26, 3:30pm, IN09 + Tue, Sep 30, 1:00pm, PLAY) 1’29

The Furthest End Awaits p. 69 (Sat, Sep 27, 2:00pm, VCT + Mon, Sep 29, 9:00pm, CINE) 1’58

1’34

Güeros p. 53 (Tue, Sep 30, 9:30pm, IN10 + Sun, Oct 5, 1:30pm, RIO + Thu, Oct 9, 4:00pm, PLAY) 1’46 Haemoo p. 69 (Sun, Oct 5, 4:30pm, IN10 + Tue, Oct 7, 9:15pm, CENT) 2’10 Handmade with Love from France p. 75 (Sat, Oct 4, 6:30pm, SFU + Sun, Oct 5, 2:00pm, IN10 + Fri, Oct 10, 5:30pm, VCT) 1’10

Heaven Knows What p. 53 (Mon, Sep 29, 9:30pm, RIO + Tue, Sep 30, 3:30pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 9, 12:15pm, CINE) 1’35

Highway p. 53 (Fri, Sep 26, 2:45pm, CENT + Sat, Oct 4, 4:15pm, IN10 + Mon, Oct 6, 9:30pm, RIO) 2’15

Hill of Freedom p. 69 (Fri, Sep 26,

How I Came to Hate Maths p. 77 (Fri, Sep 26, 12:45pm, CINE + Sun, Sep 28, 4:00pm, SFU + Mon, Sep 29, 9:00pm, IN08) 1’40

Human Capital p. 53 (Tue, Sep 30,

The Gambler p. 47 (Sun, Oct 5, 9:15pm, VCT + Tue, Oct 7, 9:00pm, SFU + Fri, Oct 10, 9:15pm, VCT) 1’49

History is Old News p. 62 (Wed, Oct 1, 8:30pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 9, 4:45pm, VCT) 1’35

Jauja p. 54 (Sat, Oct 4, 1:30pm, SFU + Thu, Oct 9, 6:30pm, SFU) 1’48

Journey to the West p. 71 (Thu, Sep 25, 7:00pm, CINE + Sat, Sep 27, 2:15pm, CINE) 0’56

Jungle School p. 71 (Fri, Sep 26, 1:15pm, RIO + Sat, Oct 4, 9:15pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 8, 10:00am, CINE) 1’30

9:00pm, PLAY + Fri, Oct 3, 4:30pm, IN10) 1’50

I’m (not) Having a Good Day p. 65 (Wed, Oct 1, 6:00pm, IN08 + Mon, Oct 6, 12:30pm, CINE) 1’53

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here p. 83 (Sun, Sep 28, 11:00am, SFU + Tue, Oct 7, 9:15pm, VCT + Thu, Oct 9, 10:00am, VCT) 1’50

In Order of Disappearance p. 53 (Fri, Sep 26, 4:15pm, IN10 + Fri, Sep 26, 6:15pm, RIO + Sun, Oct 5, 3:30pm, IN09) 1’55 In Search of Chopin p. 83 (Mon, Oct 6, 6:00pm, SFU + Wed, Oct 8, 2:15pm, VCT) 1’52

Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story p. 41 (Sun, Sep 28, 6:30pm, RIO + Tue, Sep 30, 10:30am, SFU + Mon, Oct 6, 1:30pm, PLAY) 1’15

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq p. 75 (Fri, Oct 3, 12:45pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 8, 9:15pm, SFU + Thu, Oct 9, 1:30pm, SFU) 1’37

The Kindergarten Teacher p. 54 (Sun, Sep 28, 7:00pm, IN10 + Tue, Sep 30, 11:00am, IN10) 2’0

Lakshmi p. 54 (Mon, Sep 29, 10:30am, IN09 + Sat, Oct 4, 7:00pm, IN10 + Wed, Oct 8, 12:30pm, CENT) 1’49

In the Name of My Daughter p. 75 (Fri, Oct 3, 3:45pm, PLAY + Tue, Oct 7, 6:45pm, CENT) 1’56

Leviathan p. 54 (Fri, Oct 3, 9:00pm, PLAY +

The Incident p. 89 (Wed, Oct 8, 2:30pm,

Li’l Quinquin p. 75 (Sat, Sep 27, 8:00pm,

CINE + Fri, Oct 10, 11:30pm, RIO) 1’40

SFU + Tue, Oct 7, 12:00pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 10, 7:00pm, CINE) 3’20

5:15pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 1, 5:15pm, CINE) 1’22

Fri, Sep 26, 8:30pm, SFU) 1’47

RIO + Sun, Oct 5, 5:00pm, CINE) 1’49

5:45pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 10, 11:00am, SFU)

Food Chains p. 77 (Sat, Sep 27, 10:00am,

9:15pm, CINE + Sat, Oct 4, 12:15pm, CINE) 1’22

The Infinite Man p. 89 (Sat, Oct 4, 4:30pm, RIO + Thu, Oct 9, 9:15pm, RIO) 1’24

Sun, Oct 5, 4:00pm, SFU) 2’20

The Liberator p. 55 (Sun, Sep 28, 3:00pm, CENT + Sun, Oct 5, 9:15pm, CENT) 1’59

97

INDEX OF FILMS WITH SCREENING TIMES Life of Riley p. 74 (Sat, Oct 4, 1:30pm, PLAY + Fri, Oct 10, 6:30pm, PLAY) 1’48

Men Who Save the World p. 71 (Thu, Oct 2, 10:30am, IN09 + Thu, Oct 9, 7:00pm, CINE) 1’33

Life/Crisis p. 65 (Sat, Oct 4, 6:30pm, IN08 + Wed, Oct 8, 12:00pm, CINE) 1’52

Listen Up Philip p. 55 (Fri, Sep 26, 7:00pm, IN10 + Sun, Sep 28, 4:30pm, IN10 + Wed, Oct 1, 4:00pm, SFU) 1’49

Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed p. 29 (Fri, Oct 3, 1:00pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 8, 6:00pm, CENT) 1’48 Looking for Light: Jane Bown p. 83 (Thu, Oct 2, 1:30pm, PLAY + Tue, Oct 7, 6:45pm, SFU + Fri, Oct 10, 10:00am, VCT) 1’30

Love at First Fight p. 75 (Fri, Sep 26, 11:00am, IN08 + Mon, Sep 29, 4:30pm, IN10 + Sat, Oct 4, 9:30pm, IN08) 1’40

Men, Women & Children p. 31 (Sun, Sep 28, 9:15pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 1, 3:00pm, CENT) 1’56

Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America p. 85 (Sun, Sep 28, 2:00pm, VCT

Man on High Heels p. 71 (Thu, Sep 25, 1:30pm, RIO + Thu, Oct 2, 8:45pm, VCT + Mon, Oct 6, 10:00am, CINE) 2’5

Phoenix p. 57 (Fri, Oct 3, 9:00pm, SFU + Tue, Oct 7, 4:00pm, SFU) 1’50

Nelson Mandela, The Myth and Me

The Possibilities Are Endless p. 85

p. 79 (Sun, Oct 5, 7:00pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 8, 11:00am, SFU) 1’25

(Thu, Sep 25, 7:00pm, VCT + Tue, Sep 30, 4:45pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 1, 4:00pm, IN08) 1’23

New Boobs p. 79 (Thu, Oct 2, 10:00am, CINE + Mon, Oct 6, 2:45pm, CINE + Tue, Oct 7, 7:00pm, RIO) 1’24

Preggoland p. 42 (Tue, Sep 30, 6:15pm,

Noble p. 55 (Tue, Sep 30, 9:30pm, VCT + Sun, Oct 5, 6:00pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 8, 3:30pm, CENT) 1’41

The Price We Pay p. 42 (Sat, Oct 4, 1:00pm, IN09 + Sun, Oct 5, 4:30pm, VCT + Sun, Oct 5, 8:45pm, IN09) 1’32

Non Fiction Diary p. 71 (Sat, Sep 27,

The Princess of France p. 57 (Fri, Sep 26, 6:30pm, IN08 + Sat, Sep 27, 1:45pm, IN08) 1’10

The Midnight After p. 71 (Fri, Sep 26, 3:30pm, RIO + Wed, Oct 1, 2:45pm, IN09 + Sat, Oct 4, 9:30pm, IN10) 2’4

Miraculum p. 41 (Sun, Sep 28, 10:00am, CINE + Sat, Oct 4, 9:30pm, VCT + Mon, Oct 6, 4:45pm, CINE) 1’50

Miss and the Doctors p. 75 (Thu, Sep 25, 4:30pm, CINE + Sun, Sep 28, 5:45pm, IN09 + Tue, Sep 30, 10:30am, IN09) 1’42

Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter p. 85 (Wed, Oct 1, 9:30pm, VCT + Fri, Oct 3, 1:30pm, SFU + Fri, Oct 10, 10:00am, CINE) 1’40

Mommy p. 37 (Mon, Sep 29, 9:00pm, PLAY) 2’14

Manos Sucias p. 55 (Fri, Oct 3, 2:00pm,

9:00pm, IN08 + Mon, Sep 29, 3:45pm, IN08) 1’56

Nuoc 2030 p. 71 (Sat, Sep 27, 11:30am, IN10 + Thu, Oct 2, 6:00pm, IN09) 1’38

October Gale p. 36 (Fri, Sep 26, 6:45pm, CENT + Sun, Sep 28, 2:00pm, IN10) 1’31

Of Horses and Men p. 55 (Thu, Sep 25, 6:30pm, SFU + Sat, Sep 27, 1:15pm, IN09 + Sun, Sep 28, 4:00pm, IN08) 1’21

The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir p. 85 (Sat, Oct 4, 6:45pm, RIO + Mon, Oct 6, 4:45pm, RIO +

RIO + Sun, Oct 5, 9:00pm, RIO + Tue, Oct 7, 2:00pm, RIO) 1’30

Monsoon p. 42 (Fri, Oct 3, 9:15pm, CENT + Thu, Oct 9, 2:15pm, RIO) 1’26

Maps to the Stars p. 29 (Mon, Sep 29,

Mr. Turner p. 55 (Sun, Sep 28, 6:00pm,

6:30pm, PLAY) 1’35

Sun, Oct 5, 3:30pm, CENT) 1’44

CENT + Thu, Oct 2, 12:00pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 8, 1:00pm, PLAY) 2’29

Marinoni p. 41 (Thu, Oct 2, 9:15pm, PLAY + Sat, Oct 4, 4:00pm, PLAY) 1’30

Marmato p. 79 (Sun, Sep 28, 9:00pm, SFU + Mon, Sep 29, 1:15pm, SFU + Thu, Oct 2, 2:00pm, RIO) 1’27 Martin’s Pink Pickle p. 41 (Mon, Sep 29, 6:30pm, IN08 + Wed, Oct 1, 1:30pm, IN08) 1’36

Meat and Milk p. 79 (Fri, Sep 26, 3:00pm, CINE + Tue, Sep 30, 4:30pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 3, 6:30pm, IN08) 1’44

My Name Is Salt p. 79 (Fri, Sep 26, 4:45pm, VCT + Sun, Oct 5, 9:30pm, IN10 + Fri, Oct 10, 4:45pm, CINE) 1’32

N: The Madness of Reason p. 55 (Sat, Oct 4, 4:00pm, SFU + Thu, Oct 9, 9:00pm, VCT) 1’42

Nas: Time Is Illmatic p. 85 (Sun, Sep 28, 2:00pm, RIO + Wed, Oct 1, 1:00pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 3, 9:30pm, RIO) 1’14

National Gallery p. 85 (Thu, Sep 25, 8:30pm, SFU + Sun, Sep 28, 10:30am, VCT) 3’1

The Pristine Coast p. 42 (Sat, Sep 27, 8:30pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 3, 4:00pm, SFU + Tue, Oct 7, 10:00am, CINE) 1’50 Pulp p. 85 (Thu, Sep 25, 9:15pm, RIO + Tue, Sep 30, 2:00pm, IN10 + Sun, Oct 5, 4:00pm, RIO) 1’33 Que Caramba es la Vida p. 87 (Sat, Sep 27, 4:15pm, RIO + Mon, Oct 6, 9:30pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 8, 10:00am, VCT) 1’26

Queen and Country p. 57 (Fri, Oct 3, 8:30pm, IN09 + Sun, Oct 5, 10:30am, IN09) 1’55

Ow p. 73 (Wed, Oct 1, 7:00pm, CINE + Fri, Oct 3, 10:00am, CINE) 1’40

The Owners p. 56 (Thu, Sep 25, 2:30pm, VCT + Sun, Sep 28, 9:00pm, VCT + Tue, Sep 30, 12:45pm, CINE) 1’33

Red Army p. 79 (Sun, Oct 5, 5:00pm, PLAY + Tue, Oct 7, 10:00am, VCT + Thu, Oct 9, 6:30pm, CENT) 1’16

Red Knot p. 57 (Sat, Sep 27, 6:00pm, IN09 + Sun, Sep 28, 4:00pm, RIO) 1’21

Papusza p. 56 (Thu, Sep 25, 8:30pm, CINE + Sun, Sep 28, 11:00am, IN08 + Thu, Oct 2, 10:45am, IN08) 2’11

Parasite p. 56 (Fri, Oct 3, 9:30pm, VCT + Tue, Oct 7, 2:30pm, CINE) 1’6

Paris of the North p. 56 (Fri, Sep 26, 10:30am, IN09 + Mon, Sep 29, 9:30pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct 2, 1:30pm, IN08) 1’35

The Past Is a Grotesque Animal p. 85 (Thu, Sep 25, 4:45pm, VCT + Fri, Oct 3, 9:00pm, IN08) 1’19

98

PLAY + Thu, Oct 2, 4:00pm, IN10) 1’46

+ Mon, Sep 29, 7:00pm, RIO) 1’33

Maidan p. 79 (Fri, Sep 26, 10:00am, CINE + Tue, Sep 30, 3:15pm, PLAY + Sun, Oct 5, 8:15pm, IN08) 2’13

Navajazo p. 55 (Thu, Oct 2, 7:00pm, VCT + Fri, Oct 3, 5:00pm, CINE) 1’15

The Reel Youth Film Festival p. 63 (Mon, Sep 29, 1:00pm, CINE + Sun, Oct 5, 9:30pm, CINE) 1’21

Regarding Susan Sontag p. 87 (Tue, Sep 30, 10:30am, CINE + Wed, Oct 8, 6:30pm, SFU + Thu, Oct 9, 10:30am, SFU) 1’40

Rekorder p. 73 (Tue, Sep 30, 7:00pm, CINE + Thu, Oct 2, 12:00pm, CINE) 1’32

INDEX OF FILMS WITH SCREENING TIMES Revivre p. 73 (Tue, Sep 30, 11:45am, VCT + Mon, Oct 6, 9:00pm, PLAY) 1’51

The Riot Club p. 31 (Fri, Oct 3, 6:15pm, CENT + Sun, Oct 5, 11:00am, SFU) 1’46

Rocks in My Pockets p. 57 (Sat, Oct 4, 2:15pm, CINE + Sun, Oct 5, 7:00pm, SFU + Tue, Oct 7, 12:30pm, CINE) 1’28

The Sun, the Moon and the Hurricane p. 73 (Sun, Sep 28, 6:30pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 1, 12:15pm, CINE) 1’41

Uncertain Relationships Society p. 73 White Bird in a Blizzard p. 61 (Fri, Sep (Sat, Sep 27, 11:45am, VCT + Mon, Sep 29, 26, 9:30pm, IN10 + Sun, Sep 28, 1:00pm, IN09) 1’31 7:00pm, CINE) 1’11

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya p. 32

Uncle Victory p. 73 (Mon, Sep 29,

(Sat, Sep 27, 11:30am, CENT) 2’17

7:00pm, IN10 + Wed, Oct 1, 11:30am, IN10)

Wild p. 21 (Thu, Sep 25, 6:30pm, CENT + Sat, Sep 27, 3:00pm, CENT) 2’0

1’45

Tales p. 59 (Wed, Oct 1, 12:45pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 8, 9:30pm, PLAY) 1’28

The Valley Below p. 43 (Sun, Sep 28,

Wild Tales p. 33 (Sat, Oct 4, 6:00pm, CENT + Mon, Oct 6, 3:30pm, CENT) 2’2

9:00pm, IN08 + Tue, Sep 30, 3:00pm, SFU)

The Rooftops p. 57 (Fri, Sep 26, 7:00pm,

Teen Tales 2014 p. 65 (Tue, Sep 30,

CINE + Mon, Sep 29, 11:00am, IN08) 1’31

12:45pm, IN09 + Tue, Oct 7, 6:45pm, VCT) 1’48

Run p. 57 (Fri, Sep 26, 8:45pm, IN08 + Mon, Sep 29, 1:30pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 2, 11:00am, SFU) 1’40

Sacro GRA p. 79 (Mon, Oct 6, 7:30pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 8, 2:00pm, RIO) 1’33

The Salt of the Earth p. 87 (Mon, Oct 6, 12:30pm, CENT + Thu, Oct 9, 8:45pm, CENT) 1’50

La Sapienza p. 75 (Sat, Sep 27, 3:45pm, CINE + Mon, Sep 29, 9:30pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 1, 11:00am, IN08) 1’47

Sharing p. 73 (Tue, Sep 30, 2:30pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 8, 9:00pm, CINE) 1’48

Sitting on the Edge of Marlene p. 43 (Wed, Oct 1, 6:30pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 3, 3:30pm, IN09) 1’30

That’ll Leave a Mark p. 63 (Sun, Sep 28, 8:30pm, IN09 + Mon, Oct 6, 4:45pm, VCT) 1’31 This Must Be the Place p. 63 (Tue, Sep 30, 9:00pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 8, 5:00pm, VCT) 1’36

To Kill a Man p. 59 (Thu, Sep 25, 12:15pm, CINE + Fri, Oct 3, 9:15pm, CINE + Sat, Oct 4, 11:00am, IN08) 1’21

Trespassing Bergman p. 87 (Thu, Sep 25, 10:00am, VCT + Wed, Oct 1, 10:30am, IN09 + Sun, Oct 5, 9:00pm, SFU) 1’47

Turbulence p. 43 (Fri, Oct 3, 6:00pm, IN09 + Sun, Oct 5, 1:00pm, IN09) 1’30 Two 4 One p. 43 (Wed, Oct 1, 9:00pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 3, 11:00am, IN08) 1’14

Something Must Break p. 57 (Sat, Sep 27, 12:15pm, CINE + Mon, Sep 29, 2:00pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct 9, 7:00pm, RIO) 1’30

Two Days, One Night p. 59 (Fri, Sep 26,

Tue, Sep 30, 4:45pm, VCT) 1’20

Sorrow and Joy p. 59 (Sun, Sep 28, 12:15pm, CINE + Sun, Oct 5, 1:30pm, SFU + Thu, Oct 9, 9:00pm, SFU) 1’47

The Two Faces of January p. 59 (Sat, Oct 4, 9:30pm, PLAY + Tue, Oct 7, 2:30pm, VCT) 1’36

Two Shots Fired p. 59 (Sun, Sep 28, 4:15pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 1, 9:00pm, IN08) 1’44

Stations of the Cross p. 59 (Fri, Sep 26,

29, 6:30pm, CENT + Sat, Oct 4, 2:30pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 10, 1:00pm, PLAY) 2’10

Violent p. 43 (Tue, Sep 30, 9:30pm, RIO + Thu, Oct 2, 4:00pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 10, 3:45pm, SFU) 1’44

Waiting for August p. 81 (Thu, Sep 25, 10:00am, CINE + Sat, Sep 27, 4:00pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 2, 9:15pm, IN08) 1’22

The Wild Years p. 81 (Wed, Oct 8, 7:15pm, CINE + Fri, Oct 10, 12:30pm, CINE) 1’10

Winter Sleep p. 33 (Wed, Oct 1, 8:00pm, CENT + Sun, Oct 5, 1:00pm, PLAY) 3’16

The Womb p. 61 (Mon, Sep 29, 3:30pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 1, 5:45pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 3, 3:00pm, CINE) 1’23

The Wonders p. 61 (Fri, Sep 26, 9:00pm, RIO + Sun, Sep 28, 11:15am, IN10) 1’50

Walking Under Water p. 81 (Sat, Sep 27, 4:45pm, VCT + Mon, Sep 29, 7:45pm, VCT + Tue, Sep 30, 10:00am, VCT) 1’16

The Wound and the Gift p. 81 (Tue, Sep 30, 5:30pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 2, 2:30pm,

CINE) 1’20

We Both Go Down Together p. 63 (Mon, Sep 29, 8:30pm, IN09 + Tue, Oct 7, 4:30pm, VCT) 1’32 We Come As Friends p. 81 (Mon, Oct 6, 7:00pm, RIO + Thu, Oct 9, 4:00pm, SFU) 1’50 Welcome to Me p. 25 (Thu, Oct 2, 6:15pm, PLAY + Fri, Oct 3, 1:00pm, PLAY + Fri, Oct 10, 4:15pm, PLAY) 1’26

Welcome to New York p. 61 (Wed, Oct

Yakona p. 81 (Fri, Sep 26, 7:00pm, VCT + Mon, Sep 29, 11:30am, IN10 + Thu, Oct 9, 9:15pm, CINE) 1’10 You’re Sleeping Nicole p. 43 (Thu, Oct 2, 9:30pm, IN10 + Sat, Oct 4, 2:00pm, IN10) 1’33

Zero Motivation p. 61 (Sun, Sep 28, 9:00pm, RIO + Wed, Oct 1, 2:00pm, IN10) 1’41

1, 3:45pm, PLAY + Fri, Oct 3, 6:45pm, RIO) 2’5

The Well p. 89 (Tue, Oct 7, 4:30pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 10, 9:15pm, RIO) 1’35 What Are We Doing Here? p. 43 (Mon, Sep 29, 6:15pm, SFU + Wed, Oct 1, 1:30pm,

12:00pm, VCT + Sat, Oct 4, 6:00pm, IN09 + Sun, Oct 5, 11:00am, IN08) 1’47

Two Step p. 61 (Tue, Sep 30, 8:30pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 2, 3:45pm, IN08) 1’35

Still Life p. 59 (Fri, Sep 26, 11:30am, IN10

Una Vida: A Fable of Music and The Mind p. 61 (Tue, Sep 30, 2:45pm, IN08 + Fri,

+ Mon, Oct 6, 4:00pm, PLAY + Wed, Oct 8, 7:15pm, PLAY) 1’33

The Vancouver Asahi p. 25 (Mon, Sep

9:30pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 1, 1:30pm, PLAY) 1’35

Songs She Wrote About People She Knows p. 43 (Sat, Sep 27, 9:15pm, RIO +

1’38

SFU) 1’39

Whiplash p. 23 (Fri, Oct 10, 6:30pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 10, 9:00pm, PLAY) 1’45

Oct 3, 7:00pm, VCT + Mon, Oct 6, 2:30pm, VCT) 1’38

99

INDEX OF DIRECTORS

A Abdel-latif, Amr Abraham, Michael Abreu, Alê Adams, Richie Aïnouz, Karim Ali, Imtiaz

Allouache, Merzak Almendares, Buffy Almendras, Alejandro Fernández Alonso, Lisandro Amini, Hossein Amirpour, Ana Lily Araki, Gregg Arcady, Alexandre Arcand, Denys Arvelo, Alberto Assayas, Olivier Aydar, Mariana

D 63 63 45 61 35 53 57 63 59 54 59 88 61 75 41 55 27 83

B Baksht Somonte, Nicolás Baldwin, Grant Bani-Etemad, Rakhshan Barbosa, Fellipe Barnett, Michael Barrie, Mohamed Baumane, Signe Baxter, Anthony Becker, Mark Ben Hania, Kaouther Beqiri, Erenik Bergsmark, Ester Martin Bernard, Julie Georgia Bicek, Rok Binamé, Charles Blanchet, Antoine Bloch, Bernard Boorman, John Bourque, Jason Bowles, Cory Bradley, Maureen Bradley, Stephen Brar, René Brooks, Adam Brüggemann, Dietrich Butler, Dean Bykov, Yuri

63 41 59 45 76 63 57 77 82 76 65 57 75 45 37 65 79 57 39 62 43 55 41 88 59 65 47

C Cailley, Thomas Castro, Joaquim Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Champagne, Neil Chan, Fruit Chandler, Joey Chappell, Annakate Chazelle, Damien Cheek, Breanna Chiang Hsiu-Chiung [Jiang Xiuqiong] Chienn Hsiang Cividino, Andrew Cohen, Scott Collins, Paul Conteh, Mohamed Coon-Come, Allison Corkle, Scooter Costa, Pedro Craven, Aaron Crocker, Suzanne Cronenberg, David Crooks, Harold Cullman, Sam Cung, Andri 100

75 83 33 62 71 63 65 23 63 69 69 63 57 81 63 63 62 53 63 39 29 42 82 73

Dabic, Jacob 63 Daniels, Stephanie 63 Daranas, Ernesto 45 Dardenne, Jean-Pierre 59 Dardenne, Luc 59 Datok, Ngawang 63 Davis-McGregor, Ciaran 63 de Heer, Rolf 45 Demore, Bryan 62 Denis, Mathieu 39 Diao Yi’nan 68 Diartinez, Pablo 65 Ding, Min

65 Dodd, Luke 83 Dolan, Xavier 37 Dörrie, Doris 87 Drinkwater, Phil 65 Du Welz, Fabrice 88 Dufault, Carl-Antonyn 67, 82 Dulude-Decelles, Geneviève 63 Dumont, Bruno 75 Duncan, Alyx 65 Durall, Ventura 81

E Edralin, Martin Elgstrand, Kris Ellis, Andrew Erlingsson, Benedikt Ezban, Isaac

63 43 65 55 89

F Ferenchik, Brian Ferrara, Abel Ferreira, Daniel Flagg, Melissa Fleiss, Mike Fournier, Alain Friedman, Sol Funk, Kevan

63 61 65 41, 67 85 63 62 63

G Gaston, Connor Gibney, Alex Girard, François Girardin, Tony Glawogger, Michael Glenn, Phelan Godard, Jean-Luc Godin, Olivier Gotsch, Nathan Grabsky, Phil Graf, Dominik Grant, Rob Grausman, Jennifer Green, Eugène Grieco, Mark Grou, Daniel Gunnarsson, Sturla

63 83 45 41 35 63 35 62 65 83 45 62 82 75 79 41 42

H Habicht, Florian Haley

Hall, Davis Hall, James Hammock, Tom Hansen, Michael CF Hayakawa Chie Heiward Mak Hidaka Shinsaku Hidalgo, Cheryll Hillel, Hadley Hirabayashi Isamu Hivon, Julie

85 63 65 85 89 63 67, 69 73 67 63 63 67, 73 43

Hoaglund, Linda 81 Hoedeman, Co 39, 67 Holly

63 Holzhausen, Johannes 83 Hong Sangsoo 69 Howden, Jason 65 Hrubizna, Lucas 63 Huculiak, Andrew 43 Hui, Ann

28 Hurtado, Carlos 65 Hwang Kyuil 67 Hyde, Sophie 44

I Im Kwontaek Ishii Yuya

73 25

J Jang Jin

Jansen, Eugenie Jaros, François Jarvis, Sophie Johnson, Alex R. Johnstone, Gerard Jonynas, Ignas Jordan

Jung Yoonsuk

71 35 63 63 61 89 47 63 71

K Kabuki Sawako 67 Kadence

63 Kali

63 Kamara, Alimamy 63 Kamara, Allusine 63 Kang Sangwoo 67, 71 Karabey, Hüseyin 46 Karajah, Yassmina 63 Kasaima, Jamie 63 Kates, Nancy 87 Keach, James 83 Kennedy, Matthew 88 Kim, Sarah 63 Knight, Ryland Walker 65 Kos-Krauze, Joanna 56 Kowalchuk, Matthew 62 Krauze, Krzysztof 56 Krüger, Peter 55 Kubarska, Eliza 81 Kudrjawizki, Lenn 65 Kukunoor, Nagesh 54 Kwan, Julia 41

L Lacôte, Philippe Lafleur, Stéphane Lapa, Vanessa Lapid, Nadav Lau, Ginger Lavie, Talya Leah

Lee Hyungsuk Leigh, Mike Lepper, Colin Lièvre, Jean-Albert Liew Seng Tat Lin, Emma Lipes, Jody Lee Logan

Lolli, Franco Lombard, Alex Lou Ye Lovelace, Edward Loznitsa, Sergei

57 43 77 54 63 61 63 67, 73 55 62 77 71 63 82 63 47 65 68 85 79

M Macgowan, Cameron 43, 67

Madsen, Michael 35 Magnusson, Jane 87 Majewski, Lech 47 Makoda

67 Mallis, Alex 65 Malmros, Nil 59 Marano, Dom 65 Mardookhi, Soran 43 Martin, Stephen W. 63 Mascaro, Gabriel 44 Matabane, Khalo 79 Matsubayashi Yoju 69 McDonnell, Kyla 63 McDonnell, Nicola 63 McGuinness, Ben 63 McKenzie, Ashley 63 Megan

63 Mehari, Zeresenay Berhane

46 Mesa Soto, Simón 47, 67 Michalik, Alexis 65 Mihai, Teodora Ana 81 Miller, Bennett 27 Miller, Jason 85 Mitchell, David Robert 89 Mizushiri Yoriko 67 Mokri, Shahram 47 Moland, Hans Petter 53 Montoya, Kevin 63 Moosavi, Seyed Sajad 63 Morató, Jordi 76 Mulat, Betty 63 Munden, Fraser 39, 67 Munro, Ross 41, 67 Murao, Natalie 63 Murdoch, Stuart 47

N Nadda, Ruba 36 Naishtat, Benjamin 53 Nakajima Takashi 67, 73 Nakajima Yuki 67 Nakano Saki 67 Nakeb, John 63 Nalin, Pan 77 Nam Keunbak 67, 69 Nazarian, Eduardo 83 Nezioa

63 Nguyen-Vo Nghiem-Minh 71 Nicloux, Guillaume 75 Noce, Kim 65 Noth, Ryan J. 59, 67

O O’Mahoney, Matt Odette, Terrance Okita, Randall Lloyd Olin, Margreth Olsson, Göran Hugo Omori Tatsushi One9

Östlund, Ruben Ovashvili, George

88 41 62 35 76 69 85 47 46

P Pacha, Farida Pálfi, György Pallas, Hynek Pascal, Bastián Pasolini, Uberto Perry, Alex Ross Petry, Jeff Petzold, Christian Peyon, Olivier Piñeiro, Matías Pitta, Tommaso

79 47 87 63 59 55 63 57 77 57 65

Piven, Shira Placek, Matthu Plioplyte, Lina Polak, Sacha Polsky, Gabe Potrykus, Joel Powell, Alan Preston, Gaylene Proudfoot, Elys Pugsley, Alex

25 35, 67 82 79 79 45 65 53 63 41

R Radwanski, Kazik Ragobert, Thierry Rankin, Matthew Rapisarda Casanova, Simone

Rathbone, Neil 67 Ratt-Brascoupe, Russel Rawal, Sanjay Rawsthorne, Scott Red, Mikhail 73 Redford, Robert Reitman, Jason Rejtman, Martín Renyard, Scott Resnais, Alain Reynolds, Carleigh Richert, Rob Riri Riza

Ritland, Linnea Rodríguez Risco, Daniel Rohrwacher, Alice Ropert, Axelle Rosales, Jaime Rosi, Gianfranco Ruíz Palacios, Alonso Runyan, Tygh

62 35 62 39 39, 62 77 65 35 31 59 42 74 63 65 71 63 61 61 75 44 79 53 63

S Saarna, Kana Safdie, Benny Safdie, Joshua Saint-Pierre, Marie-Josée Saito Shunsuke Salaysay, Joel Salgado, Juliano Ribeiro Sarin, Vic

Sasnal, Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Satoh Yoshinao Sauper, Hubert Scherfig, Lone Sepulveda, Anlo Sesay, Gasimu Sesay, Simeh Shaikh, Jon Shim Sungbo Shimojima, Chris Shinozaki Makoto Shipley, Aidan Shwaikh, Humam Sigurðsson, Hafsteinn Gunnar Silickas, Joshua Silva, Ricardo Silverstein, Annie Singh, Aastha Singh, Emily Sniadecki, J.P. St-Michel, Rémi Steiner, Ben Struthers, Andrew Sullivan, Hugh Suzuki Yohei Szifron, Damián

63 53 53 62 67 63 87 39 56 56 67 81 31 81 63 63 65 69 65 73 63 63 56 63 55 65 63 63 71 63 65 62 89 73 33

T Takahata Isao Tamadon, Mehran Tarawally, Abdul Tareke, Hopy Tauš, Viktor Téchiné, André Tecson, Jethray Thomas, Kyle Thomas, Terry Tierney, Jacob Tobar, Marcelo Torrens, Carles Tracey, Tim Triffett, Neil Trogi, Ricardo Trueba, David Tsaï Ming-liang Tsang Tsui Shan

32 77 63 63 46 75 63 43 63 42 44 65 62 65 39 29 71 69

U Ushev, Theodore Usuha Ryoya

62 67

V Val-do-Rio, Carolina Valine, Ana Vallée, Jean-Marc Valloatto, Stéphanie Van Allen Cairns, Liz Vander Veer, Greg Various Directors Vásquez Miranda, Elio Alonso Vila, Rodrigo H. Virzì, Paolo

63 43 21 83 63 67, 85 63, 67 63 85 53

W Walker, Lucy 67, 79, 83 Wallach, Amei 83 Wallner, Martin 65 Wallner, Thomas 82 Wang, Jodi-Ann 63 Wapeemukwa, Wayne 62 Wenders, Wim 35, 87 Wheeler, Anne 39 Whyte, Michael 83 Wiseman, Frederick 85 Wladyka, Josef 55 Wolfe, Jeff 65 Wong, Paul 65 Wong, Ray 63 Woodall, Tim 65

Y Yamada Ryoji Yerzhanov, Adilkhan Young, Heather Yu, Lily

67 56 63 63

Z Zablotny, Jeffrey Zahara, Alex Zaritsky, John Zhang Meng Zhang Miaoyan Zhang Yimou Zhu Rikun Zhuang, Jiehang Ziv, Daniel ZVVIKS Slovenski Filmski Centre, Students at Zvyagintsev, Andreï

63 62 39 73 68 68 69 63 77 63 54

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