The Vancouver International Film Festival Program Guide 2018

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Contents How to VIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Impact

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

Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Sustainable Production Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Insights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Letters of Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Galas & Special Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Special Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Master Classes & Creator Talks . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Festival Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Next VIFF Immersed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 VIFF AMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Gateway Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Dragons & Tigers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

VIFF LIVE Kid Koala presents Satellite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 RZA: Live from the 36th Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Panorama Contemporary World Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Spotlight on France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Focus on Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Vanguard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Sea to Sky BC Spotlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Totally Indie Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

M/A/D M/A/D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 ALT Altered States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 PIXL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Short Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Indexes Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

True North True North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Films with Screening Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Future//Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Editor Curtis Woloschuk Associate Editors Jack Vermee, Mike Archibald Database Publishing Sandy Gow Graphic Design Steve Chow Cover Design Zak Printing Mitchell Press Published August 30, 2018 in Vancouver, BC, Canada, by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society.

About VIFF The Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society is a non-profit, taxexempt, educational and cultural society incorporated and registered under The Society Act of British Columbia, and a federally registered charity under the Canadian Income Tax Act. Charitable Registration Number 118946821RT0001.

1181 Seymour Street • Vancouver, BC • V6B 3M7 Canada t (604) 685-0260 • f (604) 688-8221 • www.viff.org

How to VIFF

How to VIFF Pick your films or events

Save time with e-Tickets!

Check out our hundreds of films and events in this guide or online at viff.org.

When you order your tickets online, the following delivery options are available:

Please note: All films are shown in their original language with English subtitles.

Buy your tickets

Email: This will send you a PDF attachment containing your tickets. You can print off the PDF at home, or show the PDF on your smartphone to gain entry. If you’re printing your tickets, make sure you don’t distort the barcode – we need to scan that to let you in!

Planning on seeing multiple films? A ticket pack or pass might be a great option for you! Turn to Page 4 for more information.

Otherwise, you can buy individual tickets:

Pick up at Venue: Tickets can also be picked up from the screening or event venue. Make sure you allow plenty of time for this option in case there’s a line up.

Online at viff.org

If you’ve ordered a VIFF Pass, you’ll receive an order confirmation email followed by instructions on how to pick up your physical pass. Ticket Packs are credits on your account and you’ll be able to choose how to receive each ticket as you redeem them.

24 hours a day, 7 days a week In Person Before the Festival Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street – at Davie): Thursday 13 September until Thursday 27 September HOURS Mondays-Saturdays: Noon–7pm; Sundays: 2pm-7pm Theatre Box Offices During the Festival From Thursday, September 27 – Friday October 12, all of our theatres serve as box offices, where you can buy tickets for any film in the festival. Box offices open 30 minutes prior to the first screening of the day at that theatre, and close after the theatre’s last screening of the day has started.

Within 60 minutes of the start of the event you want to attend, tickets are only available at that event’s box office.

For full information about VIFF’s Code of Conduct, please visit goviff.org/code-of-conduct If you have any concerns you would like to raise during the festival, please email feedback@viff.org or speak to a volunteer or festival staff member.

Stay in the know with instant updates Subscribe to daily email updates during the festival:

viff.org Follow @viffest on: Download the VIFF App from the App Store (iPhone) or Google Play Store (Android)

Enjoy yourself!

VIFF’s mission is to celebrate excellence in screen-based storytelling and we pride ourselves on offering our guests unique and unforgettable experiences.

With this in mind, we all have a part to play in ensuring that our members, volunteers, guests and staff are treated with respect. This includes allowing audience members to view a film without disruptions from conversations or phones and ensuring that everyone experiences a festival free of any kind of harassment or discrimination. VIFF takes our responsibility to create an inclusive and welcoming environment seriously and we appreciate your support.

Speak to a friendly, well-informed volunteer on the festival Infoline:

604 683 3456

Our Infoline Volunteers can help you with film and venue questions, ticketing enquiries and website walkthroughs, enabling you to get the most out of your festival experience.

September 6 – October 12: Noon-6pm

Locations

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Festival Info

Tickets

Ticket Packs Student or Senior 5-Ticket Pack..............................................$60

Platinum Pass ...............................................................................$900

6-Ticket Pack.....................................................................................$84

Festival Pass...................................................................................$420

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Festival Pass (Senior)..................................................................$330

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20-Ticket Pack............................................................................... 260

Festival Pass (Student)...............................................................$330

30-Ticket Pack............................................................................... 375

Weekday Matinee .......................................................................$160

Plan on seeing multiple films during VIFF? Have a group who all want to see the same film? Ticket Packs are your chance to buy more and save more.

Passes offer flexibility, the freedom to move between screenings and potentially the greatest savings of all. 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.

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Membership & Age Restrictions

There are no restrictions on the number of tickets from your pack that can be used per screening. For example: If you buy a 6-Ticket Pack, you can use all 6 tickets for one screening, or individual tickets for multiple screenings.

• VIFF presents many films that have not been classified by Consumer Protection BC. By law, anyone wishing to watch films at the festival must be a member of the VIFF society.

Ticket Packs can be redeemed for Special Presentations and Gala Screenings by paying an upgrade fee of $2 or $7 per ticket, respectively.

• A standard $2 membership can be purchased when you buy your tickets online or at any VIFF venue. Alternately, an enhanced VIFF+ Membership will provide you with discounts during the festival and year-round. More details can be found at goviff.org/plus

Ticket Packs work like credits on your viff.org online account; they can only be redeemed by the original purchaser. If you are considering purchasing a Ticket Pack as a gift, please purchase a gift card instead. Ticket Packs cannot be redeemed for “VIFF Repeats” screenings held after the festival closes on October 12. They are also not eligible for FILMS+ events.

• Following the festival, your 2018 Membership Card may be used to attend VIFF Year Round screenings at Vancity Theatre until the expiry date on the card.

• Because the majority of our films have not been classified, you must be aged 18+ to attend most films at VIFF. Due to its liquor license, the Rio Theatre can only admit attendees aged 19+.

Platinum passholder seats are held until 5 minutes before showtime.

Festival and Weekday Matinee passholder seats are held until 20 minutes before showtime.

All passes are strictly non-transferable and photo ID may be requested at the theatres.

Passes are available for purchase online now at viff.org or in person at the Vancity Theatre box office (1181 Seymour Street) starting at noon on Thursday, September 13. Please note that other VIFF Venues will not be able to print your pass.

Passes include your annual VIFF Membership. After the festival, you can exchange your pass for a Year Round Membership Card.

FILMS+ Events Evening Weekday (excluding Weekend Matinee Special Special Gala Holiday (before 5pm) Presentations Screenings Events)

• Every year, a selection of VIFF films is classified so that film lovers under 18 can experience the festival. Check out the Youth stream on viff.org. Discover more about our High School Program on Page 73.

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Festival Info

AMP + Totally Indie Day + SPF + Immersed 2 Day Pass................................................................................ $149 1 Day Pass................................................................................... 96 $

2 Day Student Pass (ID Required) .................................. $96 1 Day Student Pass (ID Required) ................................. $70 Creator Talks and Master Classes (each)................. $25 VIFF Live events are individually priced; see each event for details.

AMP The two-day VIFF AMP summit includes panels, workshops and networking opportunities with music supervisors, agents, executives and other key industry leaders.

With conference delegates attending from Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago and other cities across North America, this promises to be an informative, inspiring and potentially transformative event.

Totally Indie Day Totally Indie Day invites independent content creators to benefit from a dynamic day designed to provide invaluable insights and advice from top experienced industry pros and rising new talent.

SPF Sustainable production is the future of filmmaking.

The screen-based storytelling community can further the global conversation about sustainability and shift business-as-usual practices. As the world’s leading conference focused on advancing the greening of the motion picture industry, the Sustainable Production Forum provides a platform to explore and drive change at all levels of the creative ecosystem.

Immersed VIFF Immersed will transport attendees into the new mediums of VR, AR and MR, with key insights from some of the most respected futurists in the world through a conference and workshop from leading VR creators, companies, technologists and distributors.

What is Standby?

Accessibility

You can tell how busy a screening is expected to be by checking the availability indicator next to each film or event online at viff.org. The best idea is to plan ahead in order to avoid disappointment and arrive at the theatre early.

Members requiring Accessible tickets are not charged the $1 per ticket service charge online.

However, if advance tickets are sold out for a screening, don’t despair!

QSC has supplied VIFF venues with a hearing assistance system. A signal is fed directly from our audio system to the supplied hearing assistance device.

The user of the device can either wear it like headphones, or hook it into their hearing aid device. These devices are available at VIFF concierge tables free of charge.

These screenings will show as being in Standby on viff.org but, in all likelihood, some Standby Tickets will be available at the venue just before showtime. These are usually passholder seats that haven’t been taken, or unfilled seats we can release for sale.

If you want to explore this option, arrive at the theatre early and join the Standby 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.

Box Office + Service Charges Once the festival commences, tickets can be purchased up to 60 minutes prior to showtime online at viff.org or at any VIFF venue box office. Within 60 minutes of showtime, tickets are only available at the screening venue, subject to availability.

Hearing Assistance

Courtesy Seating Courtesy chairs are available while you wait in line if you experience difficulty or discomfort standing for extended periods of time. VIFF Volunteers or VIFF Staff will be happy to help you.

Venues VIFF Screening venues have accessible entrances and wheelchair spaces which will be subject to availability. With the exception of The Rio, all washrooms are fully accessible. At The Rio, space in the washroom is limited and there is a small step to access the facilities.

See page 3 for full venue information.

Passes: There is a $4 service charge per pass.

Ticket Packs: There is a $2 service charge on the 6-Ticket Pack and the Student/Senior 5-Ticket Pack. A $4 service charge applies for Tickets Packs of 8 or larger.

Tickets: There is a $1 service charge per ticket ordered online, up to a maximum charge of $4 per order. This service charge does not apply to Accessible tickets.

Exchange Fees: Exchanges are permitted on purchased tickets. Tickets can be exchanged free of charge by calling the Festival Infoline (604-683-3456). Should you choose to exchange tickets in person at any VIFF box office, there will be a $1 exchange fee for each ticket. All exchanges must be made at least 60 minutes prior to the screening you no longer want. Exchanges cannot be made for missed screenings or complimentary tickets.

Whether you see a few films or dozens, there is a VIFF+ Membership for you! Our wonderful customer loyalty program offers discounts and perks during the festival, as well as year-round at the Vancity Theatre. All VIFF+ Members enjoy reduced ticket prices for all regular VIFF festival films. Silver and Gold VIFF+ Members receive a 15% or greater discount on ticket packs and passes.

Discover more with VIFF+. goviff.org/plus

Civic Theatres Facility Fee: A fee of $3.25 per ticket applies for some special Films+ events taking place at Civic Theatres venues (Annex, Playhouse, Orpheum).

All sales are final. VIFF only offers refunds in cases of technical failure.

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The Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society

Board of Directors

Films+ Curators

Chair

Creator Talks & Totally Indie Day

Dave Hewitt

Frances Bergin

Chair Emeritus

Michael Francis

Sustainable Production Forum

AMP

Board Members

Colin Browne, Kevin Campbell, Scott Dunlop, Joan Elangovan, Mathew Handford, Blair Miller, Lucille Pacey, Farnaz Riahi, Liz Shorten, Terry Whitehead, Michelle Yung Festival Founder

Leonard Schein

Zena Harris/Green Spark Group

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Rob Calder, Kyle Fostner, Ken Tsui

Operations

Guest Services

Director of Operations

Guest Services Manager

Kyle Fostner

Logistics Manager

Jenny Lee Craig

Guest Travel Coordinator

Sean Wilson

Gregory Adams

Controller

Guest Hospitality Coordinator

Linda Gorrie Business Administrative Coordinator

Ruthie Tabata Bookkeeper

Irene Lee

Tallulah

Guest Support Coordinator

Leandro Matos

Hospitality Caterer

Zoe Currelly

Vancity Theatre Operations Manager

Executive Director Jacqueline Dupuis

Programming Associate Director of Programming

Curtis Woloschuk

Director of International Programming

Alan Franey

Program Manager & Senior Programmer

PoChu AuYeung

Year Round Programmer

Sponsorship Director of Corporate Partnerships

Colin Jarvis

Sponsorship Manager

Morgaine Jennings

Grant & Foundations Manager

Kristin Cheung

Sponsorship & Development Coordinator

Andrea Cheng

Individual Giving Coordinator

Ashleigh Withall

Mark Peranson

International Shorts Programmer

Sandy Gow

Future//Present Programmer

Adam Cook

Quebec Cinema Programmer

Dan Karo

MODES Programmer & International Program Coordinator

Tammy Bannister

Canadian Program & Guest Coordinator

Melanie Lemaire

Films+ Logistics Coordinator

Caroline Ballhorn

Saul Zetler

Gala Producer

AMP Coordinator

Reegan Evans

Lydia Hol

Transportation Assistants

Jeffrey Lee

Chris Kirby, Ryan Wagner

Marketing Coordinator

Exhibitions

Print Logistics

Exhibitions Manager

Print Logistics Assistants

Renee Sutton

Aaron Mchattie, Amanda Thomson

Box Office Coordinator

Print Transporters

Georgina Chaplin Ellyn Hadley

VIFF+ Manager

Ashleigh Withall

Gouri Bose

Elizabeth Zvonar

Social Media Coordinator

Heather Gunn

Exhibitions Coordinator

Tyson Storozinski

Digital Production Producer

Sepehr Samimi

Warren Chan, Georgina Chaplin, Vivian Chen, Morgaine Jennings

Marketing Interns

Jannik Rösgen, Tiffany Tam

Cinema Salon Programmer

Publicity & Communications

International Programming Consultants

Kei Baritugo

Director of Public Relations

Mike Archibald, Tammy Bannister, Tom Charity, Michael Falter, Pavol Hell, Alissa Simon, Jack Vermee

Senior Publicists

International Screening Committee

Publicity Coordinator

Sonja Baksa, Susan Buie, Josh Hamm, Brie Koniczek, Melanie Lemaire, Janos Sitar, Amanda Thomson

Distribution Coordinator

Digital Communications Coordinator

Alysha Seriani

Canadian Screening Committee

Rachelle Jones

Kevin Bredeson

Youth Engagement Coordinator

Andree Faucher, Josh Hamm, Ray Lai, Lori Strong

Special Projects Coordinator

Lora Haber

IT Consultant

Lainé Slater

Canadian Documentary Consultant

International Shorts Screening Committee

Robert Wilson

Infoline Coordinator

Transportation Manager

Graphic Designers

Tania Alekson, Michelle Bjornson, Jorge Ignacio Castillo, Iuliana Constantinescu, Venay Felton, Ann Marie Fleming, Melanie Friesen, Michael Ghent, Dylan Griffiths, Paul Hancock, David House, Robert Ingram, Gretchen Ingram, Patrycja Kamska, Meagan Lum, Joel Martineau, Giancarlo Moro, Anil Patade, Graham Peat, Jonathan Stonehouse, Lili Vieira De Carvalho, Donna Welstein, Keith Yoshida

Films+ Production Manager

Shawn Brazeau, Howie Rabey

Sandy Gow

Director of Marketing

Leah Fladgate

Melanie Friesen

Facilities

Transportation

Digital Production Coordinator

Josh Cabrita

Ken Tsui

Database Administrator

Marketing

Shelly Kraicer, Maggie Lee

Canadian Programming Consultant

Films+ Producer

Kathy Evans

Joe Liang

Gateway, Dragons & Tigers Programming Consultants

Milena Salazar

Films+

Year Round Tech Coordinator

Festival Information Technology Coordinator

Tom Charity

Programming Associate

J Bradford

Helen Yagi, Andrew Poon, Owen Cameron Nargis Dhirani

Exhibitions Volunteer Coordinator

Veronika Tkacova

Exhibitions Supervisors

Daphne Andrews, Frances Fee

Venue Captains

Venue Managers

Brent Coate, Paul Denis, Elizabeth Glancy, Alex Henderson, Francisca Lau, Pat Leong, Veronica Maynard, Kaen Seguin, Rodney Stewart, Wayne Stewart, Jonathan Stonehouse, Jennifer Tennant, Vincent Turnida, Madeline Wahl, Sasha Van Wie, Vanessa Yip Lindsie Arbeiter, Kelvin Chan, Christian Díaz Durán, Marco Fratarcangeli, Chris Howarth, Brian Hum, Denice Jagic, Amy Leyte, Laura Mcewan, James Narvey, Wade Nott, Neelam Prasad, Nitsa Provias, Stephen Tweedale, Lina Salah, Shelley Vidal, Graham Wong

Ticketing & Sales Coordinator

Volunteer Engagement Manager

Savannah Kemp

Brie Koniczek

Volunteer Department Assistants

Sirin Gargili, Tilmann Heinicke, Parker O’Brian, Hanna-Lena Pieper, Michael Scoular, Janice Walter

Accreditation Assistant

Brian Hum

Ticketing & Logistics Volunteer

Alicia Kubusch

Festival Publications Editor

Curtis Woloschuk

Associate Editor

Jack Vermee

Associate Editor & Copywriter Cashiers

Volunteer Programme

Ticketing & Accreditation Coordinator

Jesse August, Jurgen Beerwald, Bruno Benedetto, Andy Buxton , Selina Crammond, Alexis Douglas, Kevin Eagle, Rich Eiboff, Kathy Evans, Tim Fernandes, Marshall Freund, Brian Iankovs, Ali Jones, Dave Jones, Matt Kunau, Ron Lacheur, Ingrid Lae, Clement Llobet, Ciara Odonnell, Orlano Ruiz, Peter Schweiger, Graeme Scott, Damien Scully, Garth Wiens

Peter Quin-Conroy, Zoe Peled

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Technical Crew

Onboarding team

Lucia Benavides (Lead), Ya’el Campbell, Sabrina Heise, Joel Kaplan, Colleen Wong, Kathleen Wright, Kai Zmuda

Mike Archibald

Publications, Programming & Scheduling Assistant

Josh Cabrita

Publications Proofreader

Melanie Lemaire

Database Publishing

Sandy Gow

Graphic Designer

Steve Chow | chowdesign.ca Contributing Writers

Mike Archibald, Tammy Bannister, Josh Cabrita, Jorge Ignacio Castillo, Tom Charity, Adam Cook, Sandy Gow, Lawrence Garcia, Dylan Griffith, Josh Hamm, Dan Karo, Shelly Kraicer, Maggie Lee, Paloma Pacheco, Mark Peranson, Milena Salazar, Jack Vermee, Curtis Woloschuk Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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Sponsors

Premier Partner

Premier Supporters

Signature Partners

Festival Partners

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Sponsors

Supporting Partners

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Awards

True North Awards Best Canadian Film

Best Canadian Documentary

$10,000 award presented by the Directors Guild of Canada.

15,000 prize presented by the Rogers Group of Funds.

Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film $2,000 + Roundtrip Flight anywhere Delta Air Lines flies.

Presented by Gary Harvey and Delta Air Lines.

Emerging Canadian Director

Best Canadian Short Film

$2,000 award presented by the Directors Guild of Canada.

$15,000 colour grading and/or VFX services credit supplied by Side Street Post & VFX.

Sea to Sky Awards Sea To Sky Award

BC Emerging Filmmaker Award

BC Short Film Award

Presented by TELUS, this award will recognize the outstanding work of one female key creative on a BC-produced feature or short. The significant $20,000 prize money can be used for a future production or towards customized training that will further advance the creator’s career.

This award includes a $7,500 cash prize sponsored by the Union of BC Performers/ACTRA and Actra Fraternal Benefits Society and $10,000 equipment credit supplied by William F. White International Inc. This award is open to narrative features that are signatory to a UBCP/ACTRA agreement.

Presented by VIFF - $5000 cash prize

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Best BC Film Award Presented by Creative BC and Encore by Deluxe. $10,000 from Creative BC and $15,000 post-production services credit supplied by Encore (Deluxe Ent Services Group).

Impact Awards

Audience Awards

VIFF Impact Award

Super Channel People’s Choice Award

$5,000 award presented by the Lochmaddy Foundation

Presented by Super Channel. VIFF festival-goers will determine the winner of the Super Channel People’s Choice Award. The results of this balloting will also determine the winner of several other audience awards.

VIFF Most Popular International Feature VIFF Most Popular International Documentary VIFF Most Popular Canadian Feature VIFF Most Popular Canadian Documentary

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Donors

Private Foundations

Annual Donors Patrons Circle Visionary $5000

Patrons Circle Innovator $500

Sim International

Jeff Armstrong

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Letters of Welcome

A Message from the Prime Minister of Canada

A Message from the Premier of British Columbia

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the 37th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival.

As Premier of the Province of British Columbia, it is my pleasure to welcome everyone to the 37th edition of the world-renowned Vancouver International Film Festival.

For the last 37 years, artists from across our country and around the world gather in Vancouver to experience this incredible event. This festival provides an opportunity for new and established filmmakers to showcase their dynamic and vibrant artistry. As you share these moments with colleagues and new friends, it is my hope that you come away from this event with a smile on your face.

Arts and culture play an integral role in reflecting back to us the conditions and circumstances of our societies, and film is a powerful medium to provide this mirror. VIFF has created a worldclass platform for us to immerse ourselves in film culture and explore the expansive range of Canadian and international films.

Thank you to the organizers of this amazing event and to all of you who are in attendance to this remarkable festival. Please accept my warmest welcome and best wishes for a memorable Vancouver International Film Festival.

I would like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the Greater Vancouver International Film Society for bringing decades of stellar programming and project opportunities to film fans and filmmakers from near and far. VIFF plays a vital role in fostering, facilitating, and bringing together all aspects of film culture and its contribution to the entertainment, business, and tourism sectors is to be applauded.

Please accept my best wishes for another successful festival season!

The Rt. Hon. Justin P. J. Trudeau, P.C., M.P.

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The Honourable John Horgan

Letters of Welcome

A Message from the Mayor of Vancouver On behalf of the City of Vancouver and my colleagues on City Council, I want to extend my warmest greetings to everyone attending the 37th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival.

The Vancouver International Film Festival is one of the largest showcases of Canadian films in the world, but the event also has a decided international flavour, screening films from over 70 countries. This is a credit to the founders, organizers and thousands of volunteers who have worked so hard over the years to make the Film Festival such a success. Film exposes us to new realities, emotion, social and cultural experiences, like nothing else is able to do. We are drawn to the images on the screen for entertainment and insight. I want to congratulate all those who bring this wonderful event to life on the screen.

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.

A Message from the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism Welcome to the 37th annual Vancouver International Film Festival!

The diverse lineup of films at this year’s VIFF is a great reminder of the power of arts and culture. Our government believes that the arts are an ideal way to build strong bonds among Canadians and bring our communities together. This is why we are pleased to support the Vancouver International Film Festival, which offers some of the best contemporary films from this country and beyond. This major celebration of cinema continues to make an outstanding contribution to Vancouver’s cultural and economic vitality as it provides audiences with oneof-a-kind artistic experiences.

As Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism, I thank everyone who helped make VIFF 2018 such a success. I would also like to congratulate all of this year’s award nominees and recipients. Enjoy the films!

Yours truly,

Pablo Rodriguez

Gregor Robertson

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Letters of Welcome

A Message from the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture

A Message from the Executive Director, Telefilm Canada

A Message from the Chief Executive Officer of Creative BC

As Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, it is a pleasure to welcome everyone to this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), one of the largest film festivals in Western Canada.

Festivals play a vital role in ensuring that Canadian films from all regions of our country are discovered and enjoyed, and that Canadian talent is in the spotlight. The Vancouver International Film Festival provides a unique opportunity to do just that!

Creative BC is excited to welcome you to the 37th annual Vancouver Film Festival!

With outstanding talent, great locations and stunning scenery, British Columbia has emerged as a formidable presence in the global creative economy. Vancouver’s creative industries have rightly garnered significant attention both here in Canada and abroad.

Canadian films are brought to the screen by vibrant teams that care deeply about creating the best possible product and reaching audiences at home and abroad.

In addition to featuring some of the best in world cinema, this event is a valuable opportunity for British Columbians working in Vancouver’s creative sector to hear and learn from industry leaders. The profile and attention generated by the Vancouver International Film Festival means our home-grown film industry benefits and that, in turn, helps our communities and the creative economy in our province.

Congratulations to VIFF on their 37th year! I would like to thank the Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society for once again organizing another outstanding festival. I would also like to acknowledge volunteers, artists, community partners and audience members whose support is an integral part of this festival’s success.

At Telefilm Canada, we are committed to seeing even bigger; and are supported in this endeavour by a growing number of public and private partners, both Canadian and foreign. We are also counting on your commitment so that our talent and their stories may take their rightful place.

Our focus is on diversity, a great Canadian asset. We encourage the next generation to dare to make their first feature films. Indigenous filmmakers now enjoy more support, and we have seen our industry come together to support the shared goal of gender parity. We know that these voices will revitalize Canada’s rich cultural heritage and ensure its bright future.

I would like to thank and congratulate all those who work to bring our diversity to the screen.

We are thrilled once again to partner and support VIFF – one of the world’s most prominent film festivals and a leading contributor to our province’s rich and distinctive film culture.

Creative BC is the provincial organization devoted to uniting and championing the economic success of BC’s creative industries. As the provincial film commission, it is with great pride that we support and collaborate with the dynamic, diverse and internationally recognized creative community that delivers this festival each year.

One of North America’s largest film festivals, VIFF is an eagerly anticipated highlight of this city’s fall season. From audiences and storytellers to industry and community, VIFF connects and supports BC on many levels – socially, economically, culturally and more.

Heartfelt congratulations to the fantastic team at VIFF – especially to the participating filmmakers, organizers and volunteers. Thank you for your dedication, creativity and vision.

Because of your hard work, we’re able to gather and experience the best in local and international filmmaking for 2018.

Together again, let’s enjoy the show!

Sincerely, Christa Dickenson

Prem Gill Lisa Beare

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The Hummingbird Project KIM NGUYEN, CANADA, 2018, 111 MIN.

THU, SEP 27 SUN, SEP 30

7:00 PM 1:00 PM

CENT PLAY

Having previously transported us to the heart of a war zone with the Oscar-nominated Rebelle, Kim Nguyen now immerses us in even more hostile territory: the world of highfrequency stock trading.

Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård play Vincent and Anton Zalesky, respectively, working-class cousins who are intent on creating a 1,000-mile-long fibre-optic cable that’ll allow them to shave a millisecond (or “one flap of a hummingbird’s wing”) off of New York Stock Exchange transactions. This seemingly slight competitive advantage could easily result in millions in additional profits. While Anton is undoubtedly the brains of the operation, Vincent is the mouth, making rash promises and enemies with equal frequency. The gob-smacking scale of their project ensures that it’s beset by myriad challenges. But the geographic obstacles impeding their progress can’t hold a candle to the wrath of their outraged former boss (Salma Hayek, having a field day as a villainess) who’s made their personal and professional ruin her top priority.

Cast Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek Exec Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fred Berger, Marie-Gabrielle Stewart, Heidi Levitt, Kim Nguyen Prod Pierre Even Cam Nicolas Bolduc Ed Arthur Tarnowski, Nicolas Chaudeurge Prod Des Emmanuel Fréchette Mus Yves Gourmeur Prod Co Item 7, Belga Productions Dist/Print Elevation Pictures Selected Filmography Rebelle; Two Lovers and a Bear; Eye on Juliet

While Nguyen’s sharply written drama has much to say about technology’s penchant for making us more distant and isolated, it’s also a wildly entertaining affair that comes by its comparisons to The Social Network honestly and frequently flirts with becoming an outright caper flick in the vein of an Ocean’s film. Ultimately a cautionary tale about ambition running afoul of reality, The Hummingbird Project wings its way to a poignant, poetic close.

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The Front Runner JASON REITMAN, USA, 2018, 113 MIN.

FRI, OCT 12

6:30 PM

CENT

In 1988, Senator Gary Hart was the odds-on favourite for the Democratic presidential nomination. In the space of three fateful weeks, his political career imploded thanks to monkey business and muckraking.

As the film opens, Hart’s (Hugh Jackman) campaign has amassed considerable momentum thanks to him possessing “the hair” (the cameras practically swoon) and a progressive platform. The only thing holding him back would seem to be his reluctance to play the P.R. game or delve into his personal life. Murmurs of strained relations with his wife, Lee (Vera Famiga), serve as kindling for subsequent raging rumours about an extramarital affair (with Sarah Paxton) that began on a pleasure craft all too fittingly christened Monkey Business.

Cast Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons, Alfred Molina, Mamoudou Athie, Sarah Paxton, Kevin Pollak Exec Michael Beugg, Matt Bai, Jay Carson, Jason Blumenfeld, George Wolfe, Steven Thibault, Brenda Gilbert, David Gendron, Ali Jazayeri, Jason Cloth, Chris Conover, Edward Carpezzi Prod Jason Reitman, Helen Estabrook, Aaron L. Gilbert Scr Matt Bai, Jay Carson, Jason Reitman Cam Eric Steelberg Ed Stefan Grube Prod Co Bron Studios, Right of Way Dist/Print Sony Selected Filmography Thank You for Smoking; Juno; Up in the Air

Working from Matt Bai’s All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid, director Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) maintains a wonderful directorial control as Hart and his handlers (led by the delightfully surly J.K. Simmons) desperately try to fend off the various breeds of journalistic wolves outside their door, including the opportunistic (Kevin Pollak) and the conflicted (Mamoudou Athie). In detailing the calculated damage control that unfolds during such crises, The Front Runner also serves notice that privacy died long before the rise of the internet.

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Rare documentary archive and contemporary underwater photography reveal the life and legacy of legendary free-diver Jacques Mayol in Dolphin Man

Special Presentations

True North / Canada

Panorama / USA

ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch

Boy Erased JOEL EDGERTON, USA, 2018, 118 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6

JENNIFER BAICHWAL, NICHOLAS DE PENCIER, EDWARD BURTYNSKY, CANADA, 2018, 87 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28 SUN, SEP 30

1:45 PM 6:30 PM

SFU CENT

This characteristically masterful collaboration between documentarians Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier and legendary photographer Edward Burtynsky isn’t so much eyeopening as mind-blowing as it essays our unprecedented impact on the Earth to stunning effect.

A companion piece to Manufactured Landscapes (VIFF 06) and Watermark (VIFF 13), this enthralling piece of experiential cinema transports us around the globe to pay witness to the irreparable changes that humanity has wrought on our planet. While it’s one thing to be apprised of the alarming fact that humans move more sediment than all of the world’s rivers combined, it’s another proposition entirely to lay eyes on what that actually entails through the graces of Burtynsky’s trademark aerial tableaux. The staggering images captured here are at once surreal and sobering: landfill sites staffed by thousands... mountains of elephant tusks aflame... concrete seawalls lining China’s coastline... monolithic machines hell-bent on terraforming their surroundings... potash mines that evoke a bad drug trip…

Filmmaking of the highest order that unfolds on a dizzying, almost inconceivable scale, ANTHROPOCENE will forever change the way you see the world.

9:15 PM

PLAY

“Fake it ’til you make it,” is the philosophy (taken from AA) espoused at the gay conversion therapy centre where 19-year-old Jared (Lucas Hedges) is sent by his Baptist minister father (Russell Crowe) and god-fearing mom (Nicole Kidman). “You cannot be born a homosexual.

It’s a choice,” they tell him. But the only choice Jared can see is whether he should live a lie or lose the love of his family and friends.

Based on the memoir by Garrard Conley, this powerful, sensitive film is written and directed

by Joel Edgerton (The Gift), who also appears as the head of the conversion program. Declining to caricature religious conservatives, Boy Erased makes it clear just how hard it is for everybody concerned when something as fundamental as religious beliefs come up against a person’s sexual identity.

Lucas Hedges (who can also be seen in Ben Is Back at this year’s VIFF) is the movie’s emotional lynchpin, and he’s ably supported by the rest of the outstanding cast, which also includes Canada’s Xavier Dolan and South African born actor and singer Troye Sivan.

Cast Lucas Hedges, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, Joel Edgerton, Cherry Jones, Troye Sivan Prod Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Steve Golin, Joel Edgerton Scr Joel Edgerton Cam Eduard Grau Ed Jay Rabinowitz Prod Des Chad Keith Mus Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans Dist/Print Universal Films Canada/NBC Universal Canada Filmography The Gift

Exec Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky, Daniel Iron, Nicholas Metivier Prod Nicholas de Pencier Scr Jennifer Baichwal Cam Nicholas de Pencier Mus Norah Lorway, Rose Bolton Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc. Selected Filmography (Jennifer Baichwal) Manufactured Landscapes; Watermark; Long Time Running; (Nicholas de Pencier) Four Wings and a Prayer; Black Code; Long Time Running; (Edward Burtynsky) Watermark

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Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Cold War Zimna Wojna

MARIELLE HELLER, USA, 2018, 107 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6

8:45 PM

CENT

Star comedienne Melissa McCarthy proves her dramatic range in this smart true-life literary caper from director Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl).

Before turning to the criminal life by running a one-woman forgery scam out of an Upper West Side studio, shared with her tortoiseshell cat, and dodging the FBI, Lee Israel enjoyed a celebrated reputation as an author. When her writing career suddenly took a turn for the worse, she conceived of the astonishing literary scheme that fooled even many of the experts. Forging hundreds of letters from such collectible luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward and Lillian Hellman—and recreating their autographs with a flourish—Israel sold her “memorabilia” to dealers across the country, producing a collection of pitch-perfect imitations virtually indistinguishable from the voices of their real-life counterparts. Still, buyers became suspicious at the sudden glut in the market, exacerbated when Lee’s friend Jack (Richard E. Grant) comes up with his own crude variation on the scam, stealing actual letters from library archives and reselling them…

With a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said) adapted from Israel’s memoir of the same name, Can You Ever Forgive Me? bears all the hallmarks of the real deal: a sharp comic drama for grown-ups.

Cast Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Jane Curtin, Jennifer Westfeldt, Dolly Wells Exec Jawal Nga, Pamela Hirsch, Bob Balaban Prod Anne Carey, Amy Nauiokas, David Yarnell Scr Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty Cam Brandon Trost Ed Anne McCabe Prod Des Archer Gray Mus Nate Heller Dist/Print Fox Searchlight Pictures

PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI, POLAND/UK/FRANCE, 2018, 88 MIN.

TUE, OCT 2 TUE, OCT 9

6:30 PM 8:45 PM

CENT CENT

The title of Pawel Pawlikowski’s film, his first since 2013’s Oscar-winning Ida, is a double reference: to the great postwar conflict and to a relationship of similar toxicity on a smaller scale. Poland, 1949: while scouting players for his folk troupe, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) comes across the rambunctious Irena (Agata Kulesza) and is immediately taken with her misanthropic charm. What follows is a narrative that takes in two decades of cultural and political history with these capricious protagonists in the foreground, transitioning from folk to jazz, assuming new identities and more while they fall in and out of love.

Cold War was among the most acclaimed films at this year’s Cannes, where it won the Best Director award, and it’s easy to see why. Pawlikowski has made a masterful anti-romance, shot in magnificent monochrome that recalls Ida and powerfully, even zealously, portraying the dread of a generation that lived through WWII but was never quite able to move past it.

This is a remarkable achievement—the most intoxicating, lively and sophisticated feel-bad movie we’re likely to see for some time.

“The lovingly handpicked soundtrack, ranging from darkly mesmerizing folk curiosities to torchy blues standards to a climactic, ethereal wave of Glenn Gould-interpreted Bach, is perhaps the most invaluable below-the-line contribution to a film crafted with almost eerie exactitude…” —Guy Lodge, Variety Best Director, Cannes 18

Filmography The Diary of a Teenage Girl Cast Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar Exec Nathanaël Karmitz, Lizzie Francke, Rohit Khattar, John Woodward, Jeremy Gawade, Daniel Battsek Prod Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczynska Scr Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki Cam Lukasz Zal Ed Jaroslaw Kaminski Prod Co Opus Film, Apocalypso Pictures, MK Prods. Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc. Selected Filmography Last Resort; My Summer of Love; Ida

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Panorama / Spain

Colette

Everybody Knows Todos lo saben

WASH WESTMORELAND, UK, 2018, 112 MIN.

SAT, SEP 29 WED, OCT 3

3:00 PM 6:00 PM

CENT CENT

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Keira Knightley gives the performance of her professional career in Wash Westmoreland’s sparkling look at the early life of Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette, the French writer and feminist icon who turned fin de siècle Paris upside down with her lifestyle and work. Co-starring a perfectly cast Dominic West as Colette’s libertine first husband, the charming rogue and writer known only as “Willy” who took credit for Colette’s first four novels while sharing a lover with her, Westmoreland’s biopic traces the writer-actor’s life from her provincial upbringing to her halcyon days scandalizing the salons and vaudeville theatres of Paris. The core of the film, however, is her fraught relationship with Willy and how the constraints and slights she faced ended up engendering a writing career that made her one of France’s most beloved artists. This is a heady, champagne cocktail of a film made all the more delightful by Knightley’s bravura turn.

“No, not another biopic about a writer! Ugh, Keira Knightley’s in a corset again! Get all of that out of your system now because I’m here to tell you that Wash Westmoreland’s Colette is exhilarating, funny, inspiring and (remember: corsets!) gorgeous, too… Colette’s life is deserving of nuance and care, and that’s what she gets in this film. She also gets Keira Knightley in top form: luminous, clever, sexy and sympathetic.”—Jordan Hoffman, Guardian Cast Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona Shaw, Eleanor Tomlinson Prod Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters. Executive producers: Svetlana Metkina, Norman Merry, Mary Burke Scr Richard Glatzer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz Cam Giles Nuttgens Ed Lucia Zucchetti Mus Thomas Adès Prod Co Bold Films, BFI Film Fund, HanWay Films, Killer Films, Number 9 Films Dist/Print Elevation Pictures Filmography Quinceañera; The Last of Robin Hood; Still Alice

ASGHAR FARHADI, SPAIN/FRANCE/ITALY, 2018, 130 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28

9:00 PM

CENT

In the 15 years since his first feature, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman) has consistently proven himself one of cinema’s most incisive and observant dramatists. The sun-dappled Everybody Knows, which takes place in Spain and is Farhadi’s second film to be made outside of Iran (the first was 2013’s Paris-set The Past), has all of the qualities and hallmarks we have come to expect from this world-class filmmaker.

Making the most of a powerhouse cast that includes Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, and Ricardo Darín, Farhadi weaves a convoluted web of mistrust and deceit. When Laura (Cruz) returns to her native Spain for her sister’s wedding, leaving her husband Alejandro (Darín) back in Argentina to search for work (the first of many lies to come), she is reunited with a longtime family friend (Bardem)--a bristly man with whom she was once romantically involved. As if this tense situation wasn’t fraught enough, Farhadi adds wood to the fire: Laura’s daughter suddenly vanishes from the wedding reception and is nowhere to be found...

“The outer threat, the inner wound and the mystery in between. These are the determinant factors in Asghar Farhadi’s intimately painful and powerfully acted kidnap drama… Such flair, such muscular confidence… Farhadi’s storytelling has overpowering force.” —Peter Bradshaw, Guardian Cast Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darín, Eduard Fernández, Bárbara Lennie, Inma Cuesta Prod Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Álvaro Longoria Scr Asghar Farhadi Cam José Luis Alcaine Ed Hayedeh Safiyari Prod Des Clara Notari Mus Javier Limón Dist/Print Universal Films Canada/ NBC Universal Canada Selected Filmography About Elly; A Separation; The Salesman

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The Favourite

The Grizzlies

YORGOS LANTHIMOS, IRELAND/UK/USA, 2018, 121 MIN.

TUE, OCT 2

9:00 PM

MIRANDA DE PENCIER, CANADA/USA, 2018, 104 MIN.

CENT

Canadian Premiere. Greek iconoclast Yorgos Lanthimos (Alps, VIFF 11; The Lobster, VIFF 15; The Killing of a Sacred Deer, VIFF 17) continues his dissection of the human condition with this blackly humorous period piece set in the sumptuous court of Queen Anne (as played, hilariously, by a rouge-cheeked Olivia Colman) in 18th-century England. As the semimad queen frivolously spends her days conducting duck races even while her country is in the midst of war with France, her most trusted advisor, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (a wickedly good Rachel Weisz), and the Duchess’ new servant (Emma Stone) themselves go to war over just who will secure the role of queen’s favourite and, by proxy, exert control over the whole of England… Lanthimos, characteristically, turns the tropes of the powdered-wig period drama upside down, playing what would be taken deadly seriously by other directors for laughs, and delivering comic set-pieces with a solemnly straight face. Drawing comparisons to both Barry Lyndon, for Robbie Ryan’s (American Honey; I, Daniel Blake) gorgeous cinematography, and Marie Antoinette, for the way it reinvents the period piece for a modern audience, The Favourite continues Lanthimos’ ongoing quest to uphold the Modernist creed and “make it new!” “[The] trio of truly brilliant performances is the dynamo that powers Lanthimos’s top-tobottom reimagining of the costume epic, in which the visual pageantry of court life in 18thcentury England becomes not just a lushly appointed backdrop but an ironically heightened counterpoint to the primal conflict unreeling behind closed doors.”—New York Film Festival Cast Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Colman Exec Daniel Battsek, Deborah Davis, Rose Garnett, Ken Kao, Andrew Lowe Prod Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday Scr Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara Cam Robbie Ryan Ed Yorgos Mavropsaridis Art Dir Fiona Crombie Dist/Print Fox Searchlight Pictures

MON, OCT 1 MON, OCT 8

6:30 PM 1:00 PM

PLAY PLAY

Boasting arctic conditions and North America’s highest suicide rates, remote Kugluktuk, Nunavet, isn’t the sort of place that’s conducive to dreaming big. When first-year teacher Russ Sheppard (Ben Schnetzer) is airlifted in, he’s intent on paying down his student loan and inspiring the Inuit youth in the process. It takes only days for him to witness the extent of the serious issues facing the community but significantly longer to recognize his own ignorance. Even after introducing his students to lacrosse—a personal passion—in a bid to boost morale, Russ must slowly accept that the restoration of pride can only come from within the community rather than courtesy of an outsider.

As the decidedly rag-tag team trains for a tournament in far-flung Toronto, it’s evident that producers Stacey Aglok MacDonald (a former Kugluktuk resident) and Alethea ArnaquqBaril (Angry Inuk) have scored a rousing victory by teaming up with director Miranda de Pencier to bring this 1998-set true story to the big screen. And while the cross-cultural approach to the film’s production is undeniably laudable, it wouldn’t carry much weight if the end result wasn’t so involving and uplifting. With a cast composed of both established Indigenous performers and remarkable new discoveries (including Paul Nutarariaq and Emerald MacDonald, both based in Nunavut), The Grizzlies is a stirring tale of collective rebirth.

Cast Emerald MacDonald, Ben Schnetzer, Paul Nutarariaq, Ricky Marty-Pahtaykan, Booboo Stewart, Tantoo Cardinal Exec Jake Steinfeld, Frank Marshall Prod Stacey Aglok MacDonald, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Miranda de Pencier, Damon D’Oliveira, Zanne Devine Scr Graham Yost, Moira Walley-Beckett Cam Jim Denault Ed Ronald Sanders, James Vandewater Prod Des Zazu Myers Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc.

Selected Filmography Dogtooth; The Lobster; The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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Special Presentations

Panorama / UK

Panorama / France

The Happy Prince

Non-Fiction Doubles vies

RUPERT EVERETT, UK/BELGIUM/ITALY/GERMANY, 2018, 104 MIN.

TUE, OCT 2 FRI, OCT 5

3:15 PM 6:45 PM

PLAY PLAY

Actor Rupert Everett writes, directs and stars in this honest and powerfully empathetic chronicle of the last years of legendary Irish writer Oscar Wilde. After spending two years in prison for his homosexuality—”gross indecency” was the official conviction—Wilde exiled himself to Paris, where he continued his self-destructive lifestyle while living in penury.

Buoyed only by occasional contact with old friends Reggie Turner (Colin Firth) and Robbie Ross (Edwin Thomas), and with his wife (Emily Watson) and two sons far away, he’s a desperately lonely man who assuages his pain with alcohol, drugs and a succession of young men… Everett was born to play Wilde, and his open, deeply felt film both honours his idol and conveys the essence of a man who, deprived of the things that make life worth living, maintained his ironic sense of humour until the end.

“Everett has made the film of his career. The Happy Prince is a heartbreaking gem… There’s so much to admire here. Everett has wrung every last penny out of a modest budget to evoke an enjoyably convincing sense of period and place… While this may be a film about how Wilde’s life—and genius—were cruelly curtailed by the stigma of his homosexuality, it’s also about lives lived, enduring friendships and the relentless passing of time.”—Matthew Bond, Daily Mail Cast Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Emily Watson, Edwin Thomas Prod Sébastien Delloye, Philipp Kreuzer, Jörg Schulze Scr Rupert Everett Cam John Conroy Ed Nicolas Gaster Prod Des Brian Morris Mus Gabriel Yared Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc.

OLIVIER ASSAYAS, FRANCE, 2018, 106 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6 THU, OCT 11

3:00 PM 6:15 PM

CENT CENT

After working with her on Summer Hours and Clouds of Sils Maria (VIFF 08 and VIFF 13, respectively), Vancouver fave Olivier Assayas—12 of his films have played the festival, ranging from A New Life, VIFF 93, to Personal Shopper, VIFF 16—teams up once again with the great Juliette Binoche, this time for a gimlet-eyed and very funny relationship comedy cum social critique, set in the publishing world, in which our obsession with social media and all things digital is the source of much of the humour and human folly on display...

Binoche plays a successful actress married to a stressed-out publisher (Guillaume Canet), and she has grown mildly bored on both fronts. Hubby, on the other hand, confronted by the so-called “death of print,” is jumping wholeheartedly into the new disruptive age—which includes hiring a young woman to handle his publishing house’s transition to digital. Throw into the mix an obnoxious novelist (Vincent Macaigne), whose marriage to a political operative (Nora Hamzawi) is also under duress, demanding that his latest manuscript be rushed into print, and all the trappings are in place for a wicked comedy of manners as witty as it is pungent and pertinent. Assayas has always made intelligent films for thinking adults, and Non-Fiction is of a piece with the rest of his oeuvre. It says a lot about the way we live now and does so with verbal style and visual panache to spare.

Cast Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet, Vincent Macaigne, Nora Hamzani, Christa Théret, Pascal Greggory Exec Ky Ly Nha Prod Charles Gillibert Cam Yorick Le Saux Ed Simon Jacquet Prod Des François-Renaud Labarthe Prod Co CG Cinema, Vortex Sutra, Arte France Cinéma Dist/Print Axia Films Inc. Selected Filmography Irma Vep; Clouds of Sils Maria; Personal Shopper

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Special Presentations

Panorama / USA

Panorama / USA

The Old Man & The Gun

A Private War

DAVID LOWERY, USA, 2018, 93 MIN.

SAT, SEP 29

MATTHEW HEINEMAN, USA/UK, 2018, 106 MIN.

6:00 PM

CENT

Robert Redford has announced that this will be his final film as an actor, and, as such, David Lowery’s (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, VIFF 13; the terrific A Ghost Story) charming comedic caper, based on David Grann’s New Yorker profile of spiffy bank robber Forrest Tucker, serves as a fitting capper to a legendary career. Tucker, who died in prison in 2004, is a legend, too: he was an amiable and quiet-spoken septuagenarian whose last heist happened when he was 78 years old, completing a career that made him one of the most infamous bank robbers of the last century. That he was also one the world’s greatest prison escapologists—he told Grann that he had escaped successfully 18 times and failed in 12 other attempts—adds another layer to this irresistible figure, and Redford draws on all his charm to tell the story of a lifelong criminal who even the police came to regard as a gracious gentleman of style.

Oscar-winner Sissy Spacek is also winning as the last love-interest in Tucker’s life, while Casey Affleck, a begrudging smile of admiration eventually crossing his face at Tucker’s sheer audacity, essays the police officer who has sworn to put Tucker behind bars. The rest of the stellar cast includes Elisabeth Moss, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Tika Sumpter and Keith Carradine, all doing fine work here. But, of course, the screen belongs to Mr. Redford...

Cast Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Tika Sumpter Exec Patrick Newall, Lucas Smith, Julie Goldstein, Tim Headington, Karl Spoerri, Marc Schmidheiny Prod James D. Stern, Dawn Ostroff, Jeremy Steckler, Anthony Mastromauro, Bill Holderman, Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, Robert Redford Scr David Lowery Cam Joe Anderson Ed Lisa Zeno Churgin Prod Des Scott Kuzio Mus Daniel Hart Prod Co Endgame Entertainment, Condé Nast Entertainment, Sailor Bear Film, Identity Films, Tango Productions, Wildwood Enterprises Dist/Print Fox Searchlight Pictures Selected Filmography Ain’t Them Bodies Saints; Pete’s Dragon; A Ghost Story

WED, OCT 10

8:45 PM

CENT

Canadian Premiere. While the majority of Fifth Estate members feel embattled at the moment, few have ever had an actual grenade go off in their face and then simply walked it off.

Such is the unflagging determination of Marie Colvin, the celebrated war correspondent played here with a winning combination of prickliness and principles by Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike.

While her Queens accent leaves Marie standing out like a sore working-class thumb in the London offices of The Sunday Times, she truly distinguishes herself with her penchant for fearlessly rushing to the frontlines of war zones. After an encounter with an explosive in Sri Lanka leaves her wearing an eyepatch, she seems to use the new accessory as an excuse to amplify her maverick tendencies. Continuing to seek out conflicts, she finds her true calling in giving a voice to the innocents caught in the crossfire.

Pike is a force of nature here, proving equally convincing going toe-to-toe with tyrants in strife-plagued nations—where her celebrated photographer Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan) rides shotgun—or tipping back a martini amidst London’s elite. Oscar-nominated director Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land) brings a gritty in-the-trenches documentary style to his narrative debut, harnessing the considerable powers of legendary cinematographer Robert Richardson (Inglourious Basterds) to illustrate the chaos Colvin routinely imbedded herself in. It’s then left to Pike to skillfully convey how someone could face such devastation and yet retain their faith in humanity.

Cast Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci Exec Jonathan Fuhrman, Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones, Peter Lawson, Erica Lee Prod Matthew George, Matthew Heineman, Basil Iwanyk, Marissa McMahon, Charlize Theron Scr Arash Amel Cam Robert Richardson

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Special Presentations

Gateway / China

Impact / Canada

Shadow

Sharkwater Extinction

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ROB STEWART, CANADA, 2018, 88 MIN.

ZHANG YIMOU, CHINA, 2018, 116 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6 MON, OCT 8

5:45 PM 3:00 PM

CENT CENT

Zhang Yimou is back. The man who gave us Hero and House of Flying Daggers now delivers Shadow, another kinetic feast for the eyes. Period spectacle, palace intrigue and fantastic martial arts share the screen in this tale of a kingdom, its military leader and his mysterious double. Deng Chao plays the general as well as his “shadow”--a well-trained look-alike who can fool even the king (Zheng Kai). Also on our hero’s side is his graceful wife, played by the beautiful Sun Li. Add an enemy kingdom to the mix, and the stage is set for explosive confrontation--and a master class in big-budget filmmaking.

From his beginnings as a cinematographer to his overseeing of the Olympic ceremonies in Beijing, Zhang has come a long way; his knack for visual splendour has served him well. Here he brings something new to his body of work: bright colours have been replaced by moody grays and menacing darkness. But the energy is still there: once again, the director has made a bravura crowd-pleaser.

Cast Deng Chao, Sun Li, Zheng Kai, Wang Qianyuan, Wang Jingchun Scr Li Wei, Zhang Yimou Cam Zhao Xiaoding Ed Zhou Xiaolin Prod Des Ma Kwong Wing Mus Lao Zai (Loudboy) Prod Co Perfect Village Entertainment HK, Le Vision Pictures, Shanghai Tencent Pictures Culture Media Dist/Print Perfect Village Entertainment HK Limited Selected Filmography Hero; House of Flying Daggers; Coming Home

FRI, SEP 28 SUN, SEP 30

6:30 PM 2:00 PM

CENT IN10

With 2006’s monumental Sharkwater, documentarian and conservationist Rob Stewart not only illustrated the importance of endangered sharks to underwater ecosystems but also motivated a generation of viewers to believe that it was within their power to effect change.

It’s a testament to Stewart’s commitment and character that he recognized that no single documentary could ever completely turn a destructive tide. As this follow-up opens, he’s racing across the globe to document the rampant corruption that’s ensuring that sharks remain imperiled. In these moments, Stewart’s infectious passion for his cause is rivalled only by the sense of urgency to his clandestine operations. And understandably so: over the last 40 years the global shark population has dropped by an almost inconceivable 90%.

What Stewart demonstrates in every immaculately shot scene is a keen understanding that activism is always a rush against the clock. If your objective is saving the world, there’s never a moment to waste.

Tragically, Sharkwater Extinction marks Stewart’s final film, as he perished in a diving accident during its production. (His devoted team ensured its completion.) Employing stunning underwater 6K cinematography to tremendous effect, it ensures that Stewart leaves a legacy of inspiration in his wake. So much more than a call-to-arms, this film encourages all of us to look at the world with a newfound sense of wonder that encourages us to ignore stigmas and overcome our fears.

Featuring Rob Stewart, Regi Domingo, Brock Cahill, Madison Stewart, Will Allen Exec Patrice Théroux, Alexandra Stewart, Shannon O’Leary Joy, Shari Sant Plummer Prod Rob Stewart, Sandra Campbell, Brian Stewart Cam Rob Stewart Ed Nick Hector Mus Jonathan Goldsmith Dist/Print D Films Filmography Sharkwater; Revolution

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Image Richard Tetrault, Alley Variation #3, woodcut and metal print 2012, with photo of Jim Byrnes by David Cooper.

Special Presentations

Gateway / Japan

Panorama / France

Shoplifters

The Sisters Brothers

Manbiki Kazoku

JACQUES AUDIARD, FRANCE/BELGIUM/ROMANIA/SPAIN, 2018, 120 MIN.

KORE-EDA HIROKAZU, JAPAN, 2018, 121 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 MON, OCT 1

3:30 PM 6:00 PM

CENT CENT

VIFF favourite Kore-eda Hirokazu (Still Walking, After the Storm) is back with the top prizewinner at Cannes 2018. Also a smash hit in his native Japan, Shoplifters is a film about love and crime. When a little girl (Sasaki Miyu) is found alone in the cold by Osamu (Lily Franky) and his young companion Shota (Jyo Kairi), Osamu brings her home for a hot meal; when signs point to her being an abuse victim, he decides she should stay. And so she joins the Shibata family, which also includes wife Nobuyo (Ando Sakura), teenager Aki (Matsuoka Mayu) and “grandma” Hatsue (Kiki Kilin). To all appearances, they’re a caring and contented bunch, but they’re also very poor, and they have ways of getting by that “respectable” society frowns on—most notably, theft. Can their happiness last?

Kore-eda is a filmmaker of exquisite sensitivity, attuned to the small moments of significance that so many movies seem designed to make us forget about. One by one, he adds those moments, building ever so patiently to revelation and heartbreak. With its gestures of love, subtle visual grace, superb acting and rich human portraiture this is a very generous film— powerfully sad, but with a lot of beauty to take with you as you leave the theatre.

“A thrilling, beautiful tale... This is a film that steals in and snatches your heart.”—Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph Palme d’Or, Cannes 18 Cast Lily Franky, Ando Sakura, Matsuoka Mayu, Kiki Kilin Exec Ishihara Takashi, Tom Yoda, Nakae Yasuhito Prod Yose Akihiko, Taguchi Hijiri, Matsuzaki Kaoru Scr Kore-eda Hirokazu Cam Ryuto Kondo Ed Kore-eda Hirokazu Prod Des Mitsumatsu Keiko Mus Hosono Haruomi Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc. Selected Filmography Still Walking; Like Father, Like Son; After the Storm

SAT, SEP 29 SUN, OCT 7

8:30 PM 5:30 PM

CENT CENT

Kicking off with a spectacularly staged shootout in which bullets and profanities fly with equal velocity, The Sisters Brothers serves notice that Jacques Audiard (Dheepan, Rust and Bone) feels right at home on the range.

Adapted from a novel by British Columbia-born Patrick deWitt, set in Oregon circa 1851 and pitched in a darkly comic register, this is the tale of Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix). Routinely drunk but deceptively deadly, these professional men of violence have been charged with assassinating a gold prospector (Riz Ahmed) who’s purportedly betrayed their cold-blooded benefactor (Rutger Hauer). Little do they realize that a detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) is also on their quarry’s trail and perhaps ready be swayed to his cause.

Trust a modern French master to make the most of some of the more intriguing faces in American movies. As captured by cinematographer Benoît Debie (who also shot VIFF 18 selection Climax), their countenances are as striking to behold as the imposing landscapes they traverse. In their eyes and sour expressions, we witness hardened men coming to grips with the realization that their age is coming to a close. With the frontier spawning new communities overnight, barbarism is ceding to civilization. And while the Sisters Brothers seem intent on going out in a blaze of glory, the fates seem to have other plans. Fortunately, they also have a wicked sense of humour, ensuring that this Western is a Gold Rush of melancholic comedy.

Cast Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Riz Ahmed, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rutger Hauer Exec Chelsea Barnard, Sammy Scher, Fernando Victoria de Lecea, Tudor Reu, Delphine Tomson Prod Pascal Caucheteux, Grégoire Sorlat, Michel Merkt, Megan Ellison, Michael De Luca, Alison Dickey, John C. Reilly Scr Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain Cam Benoît Debie Ed Juliette Welfling Prod Des Michel Barthélémy Mus Alexandre Desplat Prod Co Why Not Productions Dist/Print Elevation Pictures Selected Filmography A Prophet; Rust and Bone; Dheepan

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Special Presentations

Special Event

Special Events

VIFF Tribute Award: Jean-Marc Vallée TUE, OCT 2

6:00 PM

PLAYHOUSE

VIFF is thrilled to have this opportunity to celebrate the storytelling accomplishments of Jean-Marc Vallée, an Oscar nominee and one of our country’s finest directors. This special event will see Jean-Marc receive a VIFF Tribute Award.

When we screened his debut feature, Black List, in 1995, it was already evident that he possessed rare talent. Ten years later, he returned to the festival with C.R.A.Z.Y. and confirmed that he’d fulfilled his potential, demonstrating a deft ability to interweave stunning visuals and impeccably curated music through meticulous editing in order to evoke characters’ emotions and memories. VIFF was honoured to open the 2014 festival with Wild, set along the neighbouring Pacific Crest Trail. Since then, we’ve cheered his every success, including winning an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special for Big Little Lies.

This special event will commence with an encore screening of the series premiere of Sharp Objects, the acclaimed adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling book by Marti Noxon that had Vallée at the helm for every episode. In the series premiere, “Vanish”, Camille Preaker (Amy Adams), a reporter for the St. Louis Chronicle, is sent to her rural hometown of Wind Gap to file a story about two missing girls, one of whom was found dead and presumed murdered. Trying to put together a psychological puzzle from her own past, she finds herself identifying with the young victims a bit too closely.

The ‘in conversation’ event is presented by the Directors Guild of Canada and hosted by Tim Southam, President.

Also screening at VIFF 2018:

Dallas Buyers Club Jean-Marc Vallée, USA, 2013, 117 min.

WED, OCT 3

4:00 PM

SFU

Director Jean-Marc Vallée will introduce this retrospective screening of his multiple Oscarwinning drama. Playing a Texas homophobe who contracts HIV in the 80s, Matthew McConaughey is transfixing as a cadaverous cowboy who refuses to go down without a fight — or without making a quick buck peddling unauthorized meds. “A fierce celebration of the unpredictable power that belongs to the outcast, the despised, the pariah. That’s not a story of the ‘80s, it’s a story of always.”—Salon Cast Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto Prod Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter

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Special Events

Special Event

Special Event

An Evening with Jane

Film screening and conversation with Dr. Jane Goodall Following the screening of Jane, there will be a 45-minute Q&A with Dr. Goodall who will discuss her ground breaking work—which revolutionized our understanding of nature and humanity—and her hopes for the future. This is a special charity event to help raise funds for the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, which promotes the understanding and protection of chimpanzees, as well as other great apes, and their habitats.

Jane

Brett Morgen, USA, 2017, 90 min.

THU, OCT 4

6:30 PM

CENTRE

In 1960, at the age of 26 and with little academic training, Jane Goodall set off into the forests of what is now Tanzania to study the relatively unexamined life of the chimpanzee. Her discoveries led to a lifelong fascination with our primate kin, and she went on to transform the world’s view of them. During the filming of this feature, Oscar-nominated director Brett Morgen unearthed 16mm footage shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s. It is this gorgeous archival material--plus the energetic presence of Goodall herself--which elevates Morgen’s portrait to the highest level of biographical documentary. The film delivers a powerful and uplifting portrayal of Goodall, a supremely intelligent woman who has transformed our relationship to the animals more like humans than any other creature--and is still, as an octogenarian, fighting the good fight on behalf of ecologists everywhere.

“Fascinating… The colour-saturated footage has a lush, heightened quality, which is complimented by a tumbling score by Philip Glass. But the film’s main asset is undoubtedly the magnificent Goodall, as poised, articulate and engaged in her 80s as she was in her fearless 20s, living alongside animals who, as Morgen bluntly points out, could have ripped her face off.”--Wendy Ide, Guardian

Bethune: The Making of a Hero Phillip Borsos, Canada/China/France, 1990, 118 min.

FRI, OCT 5

6:00 PM

VCT

When Phillip Borsos’ epic depiction of Canadian icon Dr. Norman Bethune’s work with the Chinese Communist forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War was released in 1990, some critics looked askance at its big budget, foreign setting, and huge ambition. Shortly after its initial release, it all but disappeared from the festival and repertory circuit. VIFF is very happy to report that it has now returned to its rightful place on the big screen, its scope undiminished and its bold conception of what a Canadian film can be still serving as an example for filmmakers across the land.

Donald Sutherland gives a towering performance as Bethune, a driven and cantankerous man whose convictions lead him to remotest China in support of his fellow comrades. As he tends to the wounded and spends his spare time treating civilians, his stature grows in the eyes of Mao and the Chinese people; by the time of his early death from blood poisoning, in 1939, he is a secular saint. The film’s grand opening has thousands mourning his death before the story flashes back to show the man in all of his contradictions. (His wife Frances Penny Bethune--played here by Helen Mirren--recalled that he promised to “make my life miserable, but he would never bore me.”)

Despite its troubled production history, Borsos’ film remains true to its complicated protagonist. As Borsos’ frequent producer Peter O’Brian said, “The number one thing for Phillip was to find the point of true origin. It couldn’t be good unless it was honest. He was faithful to that every day that he worked.”

Cast Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore, James Pax Prod Nicolas Clermont, Pieter Kroonenburg

Featuring Jane Goodall Prod Brett Morgen, Bryan Burk, James Smith, Tony Gerber

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Master Class Series + Creator Talks

DGC Master Class

DGC Master Class

Patricia Rozema

Paris Barclay

Director/Writer, Mouthpiece MON, OCT 1

Directors Guild of Canada

Building on the momentum of VIFF’s year-round Directors Guild of Canada Master Class Series, VIFF is delighted to welcome our first guest speakers for the 2018 edition. The series invites award-winning directors from celebrated films and television series to educate and inspire emerging and established creators alike. Plus: These sessions are also open to the general public, offering them unique insights into the creative process.

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VCT

Join us for a fascinating session with Patricia Rozema, one of Canada’s most acclaimed filmmakers, as she take us behind the scenes of Mouthpiece, her latest feature. Patricia burst onto the scene with her internationally celebrated debut, I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, which scored the Prix de la Jeunesse at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. Other critically acclaimed credits include When Night is Falling, Mansfield Park, the Yo-YoMa/Bach film Six Gestures and Into the Forest. Her TV credits include Anne with an E and Mozart in the Jungle. Host: Jem Garrard, writer/director, Android Employed.

Master Class Series

Creator Talks

6:00 PM

Director, Scandal

In these exclusive sessions, audiences will be inspired by some of the world’s leading creators and innovators as they share expertise on their craft.

M/A/D

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SAT, OCT 6

3:00 PM

CINE

Paris Barclay is one of television’s most successful and honored directors. Throughout his illustrious career, he’s directed over 155 episodes of television including NYPD Blue, Glee, ER, The West Wing, Lost, The Good Wife, Sons of Anarchy, Scandal, Empire, Pitch and Station 19. He is a two-time Emmy award-winner and has received an additional six Emmy nominations. Paris was honored with the Robert Aldrich Award in 2007, which is given for providing extraordinary service to the Directors Guild of America. Paris was elected President of the DGA in June 2013, and served two terms before stepping down in June of 2017.

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Michael Schur

Creator/Executive Producer, The Good Place SUN, SEP 30

1:00 PM

RIO

Join us for an entertaining and enlightening session with one of comedy’s best TV writers.

Michael Schur knows all the sitcom rules and how to break them! The creator and executive producer of NBC’s award-winning comedy The Good Place, Schur is also a co-creator and executive producer of beloved series Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Parks and Recreation.

He not only wrote and produced the Emmy Award-winning hit The Office but also turned in appearances as Dwight Schrute’s bearded, beet-farming cousin, Mose. Host: Tim Goodman, Chief TV Critic, The Hollywood Reporter.

Meet the Showrunners WED, OCT 3

6:00 PM

VCT

A spike in the number of scripted series and available outlets has changed both the nature of television and the way we consume it. Our featured showrunners will share their insights on making it in the “Peak TV” era — getting green-lit, hiring a writers’ room, working with directors and keeping up with social media!

Guests: Amy Berg (Counterpart), Veena Sud (Seven Seconds), Sarah Dodd (Cardinal), Hart Hanson (Bones), Dennis Heaton (The Order), Simon Barry (Ghost Wars), Graeme Manson (Orphan Black) and Graham Yost (Sneaky Pete). Host: Tim Goodman, Chief TV Critic, The Hollywood Reporter. Presented by Pacific Screenwriting Program.

Paul Austerberry

Production Designer,The Shape of Water THU, OCT 4

6:00 PM

VCT

Paul is a critically acclaimed Canadian production designer who most recently won an Oscar for his work on Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winner The Shape of Water. He is also the recipient of a Critics’ Choice Award and a BAFTA. Paul has designed extensively for feature film with credits including 12/24, 30 Days of Night, Pompeii, The Liberator, Deadfall, The Three Musketeers, Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Death Race and Men With Brooms. Paul is currently designing Andy Muschietti’s It: Chapter 2. Host: Nathalie Atkinson, Culture and Film Critic.

RZA

Composer/Writer/Director TUE, OCT 9

6:00 PM

RIO

The multi-talented RZA is, first and foremost, a hip-hop producer and leader of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan. Born Robert Diggs in Brownsville, Brooklyn, he was inspired by martial arts movies at a young age, and he and his fellow Clan members would later incorporate these themes into their music. They shook the rap world with their debut Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), and since then RZA has, while remaining loyal to hip-hop, moved into the film world. After scoring a number of films, he wrote and directed his own: The Man with the Iron Fists (2012). He has also acted in numerous films and TV series.

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CO-PRESENTED WITH

In Kid Koala’s latest live innovation, the master Canadian DJ empowers his audience, drawing them into a communal experience of light and sound. The audience collaborates in groups of four at stations equipped with a turntable, an effects box and a small crate of colour-coded records. Through subtly coloured lighting changes in the room, they’re cued to play along — DJs in a spontaneous collective, collaborating to create an “ambient vinyl orchestra.”

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An innovator from his first days as a turntablist, Kid Koala has moved beyond hip-hop into the realm of radical experimentation. With this show, he’s making participatory music on a high level—an interactive symphony in which the line between listener and composer is erased. The lowbrow word for this kind of experience is “trippy”; but more appropriate would be “sublime.” The show works its wonders on neophytes and DJ-music addicts alike. You could call it an equal-opportunity mind-blower, for as much as the music or the visuals, that’s what it’s about: equality. We’ve come a long way in music— from classical to rock and hip-hop, and now to wonders like this. Who knows what tomorrow will bring? Ask Kid Koala: he’s probably working on it.

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RZA brings the ruckus! The award-winning musician, film director and leader of rap group Wu-Tang Clan comes to live-score the Kung-fu flick that’s been one of his biggest influences: Lau Kar-leung’s The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. Using a Wu-Tang catalog over two decades deep, he drops beats from opening scene to closing credits, amplifying the action of this martial arts classic.

Long before he was a rapper and producer, RZA was an obsessive fan of movies like Lau’s. He first saw The 36th Chamber of Shaolin on TV at the age of 12, and he’s now come full circle to combine two loves of his life: the aggressive instrumentals of hip-hop and the wild kinetics of martial arts. As you might guess, the combination is explosive — a real-time orchestration that will have your

head nodding even as you can’t take your eyes off the screen. RZA has scored films before, but the achievement here is on another level. Hip-hop heads, Kung-fu film fans and anybody who wants to see some electrifying innovation, this is for you.

TUE, OCT 9

8:15 PM CO-PRESENTED WITH

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“36th Chamber to me has had a strong spiritual connection… The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country. But then this film showed me that oppression was worldwide. Here I am seeing the Manchurians oppressed, and it was a bunch of college kids standing up, trying to get involved with the revolution, risking their lives, destroying the school, and then this kid now has find a way to get revenge to uplift the people.”-RZA

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USA

Ben Is Back

PETER HEDGES, USA, 2018, 103 MIN.

SUN, OCT 7 THU, OCT 11

Panorama The world’s boldest creators and their

3:00 PM 9:00 PM

CENT CENT

Rising star Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea, Lady Bird, Three Billboards, and also starring in Boy Erased at VIFF this year) is remarkable here, as the prodigal son returning home for Christmas Day after a stint in rehab. His mom, Holly (Julia Roberts), couldn’t be happier. But the rest of the family is not so sure. Over the next 24 hours there will be heartbreak and hilarity, recrimination and reconciliation: a Christmas to remember.

Cast Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Courtney B. Vance, Kathryn Newton Prod Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Teddy Schwarzman, Peter Hedges Filmography Pieces of April; Dan in Real Life; The Odd Life of Timothy Green

exceptional works. The year’s most anticipated international films and new discoveries curated specifically for VIFF audiences.

Iran

Bulgaria

3 Faces

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JAFAR PANAHI, IRAN, 2018, 100 MIN.

WED, OCT 3 WED, OCT 10

Contemporary World Cinema A spectacular collection of narrative films from around the globe, featuring both today’s masters and tomorrow’s visionaries.

9:15 PM 3:45 PM

PLAY PLAY

Despite the ban imposed upon him by the Iranian authorities, Jafar Panahi continues to find ways to make masterful films. His latest is a deceptively simple tale wherein he and actress Behnaz Jafari—both playing themselves—travel to a remote village to investigate the veracity of a video Panahi received, in which a teenage girl with show-business dreams seems to kill herself… “This is Jafar Panahi… turning a deeply respectful, artful and compassionate eye outward, to the struggles of others…”—Variety Best Screenplay (ex-aequo), Cannes 18 Cast Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi Prod Jafar Panahi Selected Filmography Offside; This Is Not a Film; Jafar Panahi’s Taxi

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MILKO LAZAROV, BULGARIA/GERMANY/FRANCE, 2018, 96 MIN.

TUE, OCT 9 THU, OCT 11

6:30 PM 4:00 PM

IN09 IN09

North American Premiere. Nanook (Mikhail Aprosimov) and his wife Sedna (Feodosia Ivanova) are Inuits living in Siberia. The titular character (Galina Tikhonova) is their daughter, who has left the family; Nanook has never forgiven her for an earlier transgression, but Sedna is now gravely ill and yearns for the two to reconcile. Milko Lazarov directs with an eye for wintry beauty, and the film’s theme of nostalgia is conveyed with wonderful grace.

Fans of Atanarjuat take note: this will be right up your alley.

Cast Mikhail Aprosimov, Feodosia Ivanova, Galina Tikhonova, Sergey Egorov, Afanasiy Kylaev Prod Veselka Kiryakova Filmography Otchuzhdenie

Panorama

Germany

Sweden

Denmark

Czech Republic

All Good

Amateurs

Barefoot

EVA TROBISCH, GERMANY, 2018, 93 MIN.

GABRIELA PICHLER, SWEDEN, 2018, 102 MIN.

JAN SVERÁK, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2017, 104 MIN.

Alles ist gut

TUE, OCT 2 FRI, OCT 5

Amatörer

2:00 PM 7:00 PM

IN10 IN10

WED, OCT 3 FRI, OCT 5

SFU SFU

All is definitely not good in Eva Trobisch’s seriously impressive, incredibly incendiary debut.

Assaulted by a former classmate at a reunion, Janne (Aenne Schwarz) refuses to report the incident due to her pride and the fear it might impact her job prospects. Trobisch’s gripping drama examines the complications that arise when business and personal relationships grow entangled and one actually starts to believe delusional adages like, “If you don’t see any problems, you don’t have any.”

Desperate to lure a corporate chain store to their Swedish town, the local council recruits a group of youngsters to shoot a video about the place at its best. When they’re fired from the project, the nascent filmmakers decide to make their own movie—a considerably more honest one... Gabriela Pichler’s movie is warm, witty, smart and truly invigorating. “[M]agical... wonderfully touching... just as essential for an international audience as for a Swedish one.... “—RogerEbert.com

Best First Feature, Locarno 18; New talent, Best Director, Best Actress, Munich 18

Best Nordic Film, Goteborg 18

Cast Aenne Schwarz, Andreas Döhler, Hans Löw, Tilo Nest, Lisa Hagmeister, Lina Wendel Prod Trini Götze, David Armati Lechner

USA

Filmography Eat Sleep Die

6:00 PM 3:45 PM

CENT PLAY

Ann Patchett’s best seller comes to the screen in a remarkably smooth and assured adaptation. Julianne Moore is the opera singer caught up in a South American hostage siege and gradually falling in love with a fellow captive, a Japanese industrialist (Ken Watanabe). Both a suspense-drama and a romance, this movie explores cultural and political themes with insight and passion. The fine cast includes Sebastian Koch, Ryo Kase, and Christopher Lambert, with Renée Fleming supplying Moore’s singing voice.

Cast Julianne Moore, Ken Wantanabe Prod Anthony Weintraub, Caroline Baron, Lizzie Friedman Selected Filmography About a Boy; Being Flynn; Grandma

SAT, OCT 6 MON, OCT 8

Unga Astrid

11:00 AM 9:15 PM

Canadian Premiere. Jan Sverák (Kolya, Dark Blue World) returns with a prequel to his Oscar-nominated The Elementary School; it portrays life during WWII as seen through the eyes of eight-year-old Eda (ball-of-energy Alois Grec), a city boy exiled to the countryside.

For Eda, this new life is one big adventure…

“An able touch of sardonic East European humour keeps things smart and light… [The film] describes the experience of war from a bold, unfamiliar perspective: through the eyes of innocents.”—Hollywood Reporter Cast Tereza Voriskova, Ondrej Vetchý, Jan Tríska, Zdenek Sverak, Oldrich Kaiser, Hynek Cermak Prod Jan Sverák

Lebanon

Capernaum

CRISTINA GALLEGO, CIRO GUERRA, COLOMBIA/ DENMARK/MEXICO, 2018, 125MIN.

NADINE LABAKI, LEBANON, 2018, 120 MIN.

6:30 PM 4:00 PM

PLAY SFU

Beginning in 1968 and spanning 12 years, Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s terrific drama focuses on one desert-dwelling indigenous Waayu family and its rise and fall in the early days of the Colombian drug trade. Structured around five chapters and replete with Waayu traditions and costumes, this is a crime story like you’ve never seen before. “A textured and utterly unique re-imagining of the family crime saga [that] offers… a fascinating glimpse into a little-understood community.”—Sight & Sound Cast Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Jhon Narváez, Natalia Reyes, Jose Vicente Cotes, Greider Meza Prod Katrin Pors, Cristina Gallego Filmography (Ciro Guerra) Wandering Shadows; The Wind Journeys; Embrace of the Serpent

SUN, SEP 30 TUE, OCT 9

9:00 PM 3:30 PM

CENT PLAY

Astrid Lindgren is famous the world over for creating the indefatigable Pippi Longstocking, and Pernille Fischer Christensen’s vibrant biopic chronicling Lindgren’s (Alba August) difficult years between the ages of 16 and 21 in 1920s Sweden--when the ever-questioning young woman did the unthinkable and had a child out of wedlock—shows that Pippi’s moxie was not created out of whole cloth…

“Gorgeous… Christensen takes to period filmmaking like a duck to water, and brings to it an uncommon energy.”—Variety Cast Alba August, Maria Bonnevie, Magnus Krepper, Henrik Rafaelsen, Trine Dyrholm Prod Maria Dahlin, Anna Anthony, Lars G Lindström Selected Filmography A Soap; A Family; Someone You Love

Carmen and Lola

Capharnaüm

FRI, OCT 5 MON, OCT 8

PERNILLE FISCHER CHRISTENSEN, DENMARK, 2018, 123 MIN.

Spain

Birds of Passage SUN, OCT 7 THU, OCT 11

SFU PLAY

Selected Filmography Kolya; Kooky; Three Brothers

Pájaros de verano

PAUL WEITZ, USA, 2018, 102 MIN.

MON, OCT 8 THU, OCT 11

Cast Zahraa Aldoujaili, Fredrik Dahl, Yara Aliadotter Prod Anna-Maria Kantarius

Colombia

Bel Canto

Becoming Astrid

Po strništi bos

10:45 AM 9:00 PM

Contemporary World Cinema

Carmen y Lola

4:00 PM 8:45 PM

ARANTXA ECHEVARRÍA, SPAIN, 2018, 105 MIN.

SFU CENT

MON, OCT 8 WED, OCT 10

9:15 PM 4:00 PM

IN09 IN09

In the slums of Beirut, hardened 12-year-old Zain (Zain Al Rafeea, amazing) sues his parents for bringing him into the world. Beginning with that shocking scene, Nadine Labaki then flashes back to show the poverty and turmoil that have been a constant in Zain’s life.

In the process, she crafts a deeply empathetic melodrama that is as moving as anything you’ll see this year. “Fired by furious compassion and teeming with sorrow, yet strewn with diamond-shards of beauty, wit and hope.”— Daily Telegraph

Teenage Lola (Zaira Romero) is about to be married off to a man she doesn’t know in Madrid’s Roma community. But then she meets the brash and sexy Carmen (Rosy Rodríguez)… Coming of age as a lesbian in a closed, conservative and decidedly patriarchal culture is a difficult thing, and Arantxa Echevarría’s debut handles this subject matter with grace and poignancy. “This energetic first feature… combines a vibrantly realized sense of place… with assured work with a cast of non-professional actors.”—Screen

Jury Prize, Cannes 18

Cast Carolina Yuste, Moreno Borja, Rafaela León, Rosy Rodriguez, Zaira Romero Prod Eduardo Santana

Cast Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawthar Al Haddad, Nadine Labaki Prod Khaled Mouzanar, Michel Merkt

Filmography 7 from Etheria

Filmography Caramel; Where Do We Go Now?

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Brazil

Tunisia

The Dead and the Others

Dear Son MOHAMED BEN ATTIA, TUNISIA/BELGIUM/FRANCE/ QATAR, 2018, 100 MIN.

JOÃO SALAVIZA, RENÉE NADER MESSORA, BRAZIL/ PORTUGAL, 2018, 114 MIN.

9:00 PM 4:00 PM

RIO IN10

Canadian Premiere. João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora lived with the indigenous Krahô people in northern Brazil before making this beautifully modulated drama.

Young Ihjãc (Henrique Ihjãc Krahô) resists voices from the spirit world insisting that he become a shaman. He falls ill and decides to visit a doctor in the “outside” world… The glory here is in the visual detail and the way we’re immersed in the lush natural settings.

“Great visual poetry, with an impeccable balance of drama and intrigue.”—Cineuropa Special Jury Prize, Un Certain Regard, Cannes 18

THU, OCT 4 THU, OCT 11

USA

Diamantino

Weldi

Chuva é cantoria na aldeia dos mortos

MON, OCT 8 TUE, OCT 9

Portugal

4:00 PM 8:45 PM

SFU IN09

Tense and poignant, Mohamed Ben Attia’s film is the story of an ordinary family—or so it seems at first. Riadh (Mohamed Dhrif) and Nazli (Mouna Mejri) are a Tunisian couple approaching their senior years. One day their son Sami (Zakaria Ben Ayed) disappears, and when they discover where to, and why, they’re horrified. This is certainly a topical film, but it hits especially hard as a story of parental powerlessness... “Superbly controlled.”—Screen Cast Mohamed Dhrif, Mouna Mejri, Zakaria Ben Ayed, Imen Cherif, Taylan Mintas, Tarik Copty Prod Dora Bouchoucha, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Nadim Cheikhrouha Filmography Hedi

GABRIEL ABRANTES, DANIEL SCHMIDT, PORTUGAL/ FRANCE/BRAZIL, 2018, 92 MIN.

SAT, SEP 29 WED, OCT 3

Contemporary World Cinema

4:00 PM 9:45 PM

SFU IN10

Diamantino (Carloto Cotta), a Cristiano Ronaldo-like football star, is hoodwinked into participating in an anti-EU terrorist plot… And that is only the bare outline of this wildly entertaining first feature from Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt; it’s a pastiche that scores satirical bull’s-eyes on everything from the vapidity of fame to Brexit to gender fluidity. “[The directors] rustle up one of the year’s most singular debuts with this winningly bizarre, genre-melding political satire.”—Variety Grand Prize, Critics’ Week, Cannes 18 Cast Carloto Cotta, Cleo Tavares, Anabela Moreira, Margarida Moreira Prod Justin Taurand, Maria João Mayer, Daniel van Hoogstraten

Cast Henrique Ihjãc Krahô, Raene Kôtô Krahô Prod João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora, Ricardo Alves Jr., Thiago Macêdo Correia

Diane

KENT JONES, USA, 2018, 95 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 29 THU, OCT 4

3:30 PM 9:15 PM 1:30 PM

IN08 CINE VCT

Canadian Premiere. Seventy-year-old widow Diane (the marvelous Mary Kay Place) appears selfless in her dedication to others. She visits the sick and feeds the homeless. If she could appease whatever demons are haunting her grown, drug-addicted son, Brian (Jake Lacy), she would do that too, but in this her efforts seem doomed. The first dramatic feature from critic and documentarian Kent Jones is a deceptively modest character study, yet this intensely absorbing, acutely observed piece cuts to the very quick.

Best US Narrative Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Tribeca 18 Cast Mary Kay Place, Jake Lacy, Estelle Parsons, Andrea Martin Prod Luca Borghese, Ben Howe, Caroline Kaplan, Oren Moverman Filmography A Letter to Elia; Hitchcock/Truffaut

Filmography (João Salaviza) Montanha

Portugal

Russia

Djon África

FILIPA REIS, JOÃO MILLER GUERRA, PORTUGAL/CAPE VERDE/BRAZIL, 2018, 95 MIN.

TUE, OCT 9 THU, OCT 11

9:45 PM 11:15 AM

IN10 IN10

After coming into a little money, likeable Lisbon slacker Miguel (Miguel Moreira)—he prefers the nickname Djon África—goes back to his roots on the islands of Cape Verde, off Africa’s northwest coast, in search of his father.

Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra’s loose and lovely film makes great use of island locations and a cast of non-professional actors as it follows our hero’s picaresque path. “Charming…

Unobtrusively conjure[s]… a pleasant mood of seductive sensuality.”—Hollywood Reporter Cast Miguel Moreira Prod Pedro Pinho Selected Filmography Orquestra Geração; Cama de Gato; Triângulo

Iran

Dovlatov

ALEXEY GERMAN JR., RUSSIA/POLAND/SERBIA, 2018, 126 MIN.

TUE, OCT 9 WED, OCT 10

11:00 AM 6:30 PM

IN09 SFU

Poland

Dressage

Fugue Fuga

POOYA BADKOOBEH, IRAN, 2018, 95 MIN.

WED, OCT 3 FRI, OCT 5

6:30 PM 2:00 PM

IN09 IN10

Canadian Premiere. Sturdily crafted and nimbly performed, Alexey German Jr.’s account of six pivotal days for Sergei Dovlatov (Milan Maric), a marginalized writer in the 70s-era Soviet Union, is a potent, poetic reminder that rebellion can assume myriad forms. Unwilling to toe the party line and consequently incapable of getting published, Dovlatov bands together with Joseph Brodsky (Artur Beschastny) in a bid to preserve their integrity and expressiveness in the face of oppression. “Visually enthralling...”—Variety

North American Premiere. First-time director Pooya Badkoobeh’s tale of a 16-year-old girl who participates in a robbery, gets away with it and then faces unexpected consequences serves as an indictment of the Iranian middle and upper classes, which seem to be more interested in acquiring money and luxury goods than in anything else. As the young protagonist Golsa, newcomer Negar Moghaddam is a dazzling presence.

“Expertly acted and lensed, Dressage has a quiet authority that goes beyond most first films.”—Hollywood Reporter

Silver Bear: Artistic Contribution, Berlin 18

Best First Film, Fajr 18

Cast Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovsky, Helena Sujecka, Artur Beschastny, Anton Shagin Prod Dariusz Jablonski, Isabella Wojcik, Wioleta Kaminska, Miroslav Mogorovich

Cast Negar Moghaddam, Ali Mosaffa, Shabnam Moghaddami, Yasna Mirtahmasb, Baset Rezaei Prod Samira Baradari, Roohollah Baradari

AGNIESZKA SMOCZYNSKA, POLAND, 2018, 100 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6 WED, OCT 10

6:00 PM 2:00 PM

RIO IN10

Canadian Premiere. After a two-year absence due to amnesia, a battered woman (Gabriela Muskala, riveting) emerges from the wilds and returns to her forgotten family as a completely different person. This is the jumping-off point for Agnieszka Smoczynska’s (The Lure) psychological mystery, a chilling and subversive feminist drama. “Its controlled expansiveness of tone, psychology and camera mark its [director]—invaluably aided by writerstar Gabriela Muskala—as a stylist of considerable, unpredictable finesse.”—Variety Cast Gabriela Muskala, Lukasz Simlat Prod Agnieszka Kurzydlo, Karla Stojáková, Jonas Kellagher Filmography The Lure

Selected Filmography Garpastum; Bumazhnyy soldat; Under Electric Clouds

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Panorama

Czech Republic

Denmark

Garden Store: Suitor

The Guilty

Napadnik

GUSTAV MÖLLER, DENMARK, 2018, 85 MIN.

JAN HREBEJK, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2017, 113 MIN.

FRI, OCT 5 FRI, OCT 12

3:30 PM 6:30 PM

IN09 PLAY

North American Premiere. It’s the late 1950s, Czechoslovakia is under communism’s sway and a yawning chasm has opened between the prewar and postwar generations.

Surviving occupation is one thing; parenthood is a far more daunting prospect. With kids wanting to live—and love—like there’s no tomorrow and parents intent on orchestrating perfect matches and promising futures, the stage is set for a winning romantic tragicomedy... Jan Hrebejk’s film pulses with the sort of youthful energy that fueled the Czech New Wave.

Cast Anna Fialová, Ivan Lupták, Tereza Hálová, Ana Geislerová, Martin Finger Prod Viktor Tauš

SUN, OCT 7 FRI, OCT 12

4:00 PM 9:30 PM

RIO PLAY

This taut thriller from debuting director Gustav Möller gives us an ex-cop (Jakob Cedergren, onscreen throughout and masterful) relegated to the emergency services call room, where he takes a call from a kidnapped woman. As he races against time to save her—while never leaving the confines of the room—the camera stays at his side, and we become him… “Möller masterfully ratchets up tension without the benefit of the usual visual aids… [but] with chillingly effective results.”

—Hollywood Reporter Audience Awards, Sundance 18; Rotterdam 18 Cast Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Johan Olsen, Omar Shargawi Prod Lina Flint

Selected Filmography Divided We Fall; Up and Down; The Teacher

Iran

Paraguay

The Heiresses

Hat-Trick

Las herederas

Hattrick

RAMTIN LAVAFI, IRAN, 2018, 92 MIN.

FRI, OCT 5 SUN, OCT 7

8:30 PM 1:45 PM

IN09 IN10

North American Premiere. After a leaving a fancy party, two young, quibbling couples strike something in the road with their car.

Afraid to investigate, they take off to one of their homes to discuss what to do. Thus the stage is set for Ramtin Lavafi’s disquisition on the Iranian middle class and its moral bankruptcy. As the four discuss and argue through the night, secrets come out and lives are changed forever... “A taut, four-character drama… Well-crafted… Its ensemble cast makes a suspenseful quartet.”—Hollywood Reporter Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Fajr 18 Cast Amir Jadidi, Parinaz Izadyar, Mahour Alvand, Saber Abar Prod Majid Motallebi Filmography Be Calm and Count to Seven; Berlin -7º

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MARCELO MARTINESSI, PARAGUAY/GERMANY/ BRAZIL/URUGUAY/NORWAY/FRANCE, 2018, 95 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6 TUE, OCT 9

1:30 PM 6:30 PM

SFU PLAY

Canadian Premiere. With her partner (Margarita Irún) imprisoned for fraud, Chela (Ana Brun) commits her own transgression to make ends meet. Starting an unlicensed taxi service for affluent women, Chela encounters Angy (Ana Ivanova), whose alluring candor and fiery bearing shake her from her stupor.

Marcelo Martinessi crafts a stirring tale of empowerment, and Brun delivers an absolutely stunning performance punctuated by stolen glances and telling gestures. “Full of gentle wit and playful observations...”—Guardian Silver Bear: Alfred Bauer Prize, Silver Bear: Best Actress (Ana Brun), Berlin 18 Cast Ana Brun, Margarita Irún, Ana Ivanova Prod Sebastian Peña Escobar, Marcelo Martinessi

Panorama

Iran

Denmark

Hendi and Hormoz

Holiday

Hendi va Hormoz

1:45 PM 9:45 PM

IN10 IN10

FRI, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 29

6:45 PM 4:30 PM

ULRICH KÖHLER, GERMANY, 2018, 120 MIN.

IN10 IN10

North American Premiere. Abbas Amini’s movie tells the story of a 13-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy and their arranged marriage.

Hendi (Zohreh Eslami) is fiery, proud and most unhappy with her situation; Hormoz (Hamed Alipour) is awkward, proud and unhappy as well, if in a different way. As he searches for employment, they slowly grow close, only to find danger lying in their path at exactly the worst moment… Set on an island marked with blood-red rocks and tides, this is a beautiful, ballad-like film.

Canadian Premiere. Isabella Eklöf’s directorial debut—an unsparing and bold study of the gilded prison inhabited by the girlfriend of a drug dealer—packs a wallop. In a lavish Turkish villa, Sascha (Victoria Carmen Sonne) is allowed a life of leisure, but only if she adheres to rules laid down by gangster boyfriend Michael (Lai Yde). When she starts flirting with another man (Thijs Römer), the consequences are shattering. “Astonishing… Holiday is a fearless work anchored by Sonne’s bold, subtle performance…”—IndieWire

Cast Hamed Alipour, Zohreh Eslami, Asma Danehchin, Mohammad Banouj Prod Abbas Amini, Pouria Heidary

Cast Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Römer Prod David B. Sørensen

USA

Gali Guliyaan

TUE, OCT 2 FRI, OCT 5

9:30 PM 11:15 AM

IN10 IN10

Canadian Premiere. In Dipesh Jain’s haunting thriller, Khuddoos (Manoj Bajpayee) is a man with an obsession: audiovisual surveillance. He neglects his job, shuts himself in with his elaborate equipment and watches an outside world he’s afraid to join. One day he picks up on something the old-fashioned way: through the wall of his dwelling. The boy next door (Om Singh) is being beaten by his father, and suddenly Khuddoos has a higher purpose in life--one that will lead him to a place he never thought he’d reach...

Grand Prix, Mumbai 17 Cast Manoj Bajpayee, Ranvir Shorey, Neeraj Kabi, Shahana Goswami, Om Singh Prod Shuchi Jain, Dipesh Jain, Lena Vurma

SFU SFU

A sad-sack TV cameraman by trade, Armin (Hans Löw) wakes up one day and, without explanation, the Earth’s population has disappeared. What will he do now? What kind of man will he become? What does it mean to be independent? And what happens when someone else arrives on the scene? Taking inspiration from “last man on Earth” stories, director Ulrich Köhler has forged an intelligent, fascinating identity study of what happens when a man is forced to redefine himself and his relation to his environment.

Cast Hans Löw, Elena Radonicich, Michael Wittenborn, Ruth Bickelhaupt, Emma Bading Prod Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen

TUE, OCT 2 WED, OCT 3

1:15 PM 7:00 PM

SAT, SEP 29 MON, OCT 1

In den Gängen

THOMAS STUBER, GERMANY, 2018, 125 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6 MON, OCT 8

9:00 PM 1:00 PM

IN09 RIO

North American Premiere. Toni Erdmann’s Sandra Hüller and Victoria’s Franz Rogowski turn in great performances in Thomas Stuber’s hugely engaging tale of love in the workplace. In a giant East German supermarket, abused wife Marion (Hüller) is a confectionary clerk with an eye for the new forklift driver, ex-con Christian (Rogowski). Stuber’s gliding camera gives the monster-sized setting a surreal feel, while the two leads shine as emotional misfits trying to connect. “Utterly engrossing and richly humane.”—Guardian Cast Franz Rogowski, Sandra Hüller, Peter Kurth, Andreas Leupold, Michael Specht Prod Jochen Laube, Fabian Maubach Filmography Teenage Angst; A Heavy Heart

Leto

JON JONES, UK, 2018, 97 MIN.

IN09 IN10

In the Aisles

Russia

Last Summer

BILL OLIVER, USA, 2018, 100 MIN.

DIPESH JAIN, INDIA, 2017, 117 MIN.

4:00 PM 9:00 PM

UK

Jonathan

In the Shadows

FRI, SEP 28 MON, OCT 8

Filmography Bungalow; Montag kommen die Fenster; Sleeping Sickness

Filmography Valderrama

India

Germany

In My Room (Germany)

ISABELLA EKLÖF, DENMARK/SWEDEN/ NETHERLANDS/TURKEY, 2018, 93 MIN.

ABBAS AMINI, IRAN, 2018, 88 MIN.

TUE, OCT 9 THU, OCT 11

Germany

Contemporary World Cinema

6:30 PM 4:15 PM

KIRILL SEREBRENNIKOV, RUSSIA, 2018, 126 MIN.

IN09 IN10

Canadian Premiere. When we first meet Jonathan (Ansel Elgort), his life seems pretty mundane. In fact, he’s keeping—or rather sharing—a deep secret. This film about identity, brotherhood and betrayal features Elgort doing a fantastic job, and the film’s central premise, once revealed, makes for fascinating and moving psychological drama. First-time feature director Bill Oliver is a name to mark down; he’s made a character study you won’t soon forget. “[I]ntelligent, absorbing... [a] quietly involving drama...”—Variety

World Premiere. Here is a movie about childhood that captures both its magic and the awful intrusions of the adult world upon it.

Set in rural Wales in the 70s, Jon Jones’ drama evokes the pleasure of summer for children— so wonderfully, in fact, that it’s all the more devastating when mortal violence fractures it. Noa Thomas is superb as Davy, a kid who values friendship enough to take on the adult world, and there are other great performances from boys Gruffydd Weston, Rowan Jones and Christopher Benning.

Cast Ansel Elgort, Suki Waterhouse, Douglas Hodge, Patricia Clarkson Prod Randy Manis, Ricky Tollman

Cast Noa Thomas, Gruffydd Weston, Rowan Jones, Christopher Benning Prod Katherine Lannon, Cerise Hallam

FRI, SEP 28 THU, OCT 4

1:00 PM 9:15 PM

IN09 PLAY

Leningrad rocks! This biopic, set in the early 80s, surveys the Russian rock scene of the time, through the experiences of rock legend Viktor Tsoi (Teo Yoo). Great cinematography and an eclectic soundtrack push the movie to a tour de force level as it depicts a subculture that serves as a form of rebellion. And speaking of rebellion: director Kirill Serebrennikov, a truly subversive artist, is now under house arrest on dubious charges. May he be freed to make more superb movies like this one.

Cast Teo Yoo, Irina Starshenbaum, Roman Bilyk, Filipp Avdeev, Alexandr Gorchilin Prod Pavel Burya, Georgy Chumburidze, Mikhail Finogenov, Murad Osmann, Ilya Stewart Filmography Playing the Victim; Yuri’s Day; The Student

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Contemporary World Cinema

Panorama

Brazil

Serbia

Poland

Mexico

Liquid Truth

The Load

Mug

CAROLINA JABOR, BRAZIL, 2017, 90 MIN.

OGNJEN GLAVONIC, SERBIA/FRANCE/CROATIA/IRAN/ QATAR, 2018, 98 MIN.

MALGORZATA SZUMOWSKA, POLAND, 2018, 91 MIN.

Aos Teus Olhos

SAT, SEP 29 TUE, OCT 2

9:45 PM 11:00 AM

Teret

IN10 IN09

Canadian Premiere. A handsome, arrogant lifeguard (standout Daniel de Oliveira) in a provincial Brazilian town finds his self-centred life turned upside down when the parents of a young boy accuse him of kissing the pre-teen.

Director Carolina Jabor and screenwriter Lucas Paraizo cleverly add a critique of how social media can be used to insidious ends in this intelligent, “did he or didn’t he?” drama.

“De Oliveira gives an impressively complex performance… This is a bold piece of work with a lot to say.”--Eye for Film Audience Award, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Rio 17 Cast Daniel de Oliveira, Marco Ricca Prod Leonardo M. Barros, Renata Brandão, Maria Amelia M. P. Leão Teixeira

SUN, OCT 7 FRI, OCT 12

6:00 PM 5:15 PM

IN08 VCT

Kosovo, 1999: the UN bombing campaign continues. Against this backdrop, a lone trucker (Leon Lucev) carrying a deadly secret cargo makes his way across a landscape strewn with obstacles... Ognjen Glavonic’s tense fiction feature debut draws on his documentary background to present a mesmerizing critique of wartime atrocities. “Harshly intelligent and uncompromisingly spare... [T]his impressive new filmmaker illuminates a painful truth that inculpates more of us than we’d like to believe…”—Variety Cast Leon Lucev, Pavle Cemerikic, Tamara Krcunovic, Ivan Lucev Prod Dragana Jovovic, Stefan Ivancic, Ognjen Glavonic, Sophie Erbs Filmography Zivan Makes a Punk Festival; Depth Two

Filmography Good Luck

Czech Republic

Spain

Tátova volha

JAIME ROSALES, SPAIN/FRANCE/DENMARK, 2018, 107 MIN.

JIRÍ VEJDELEK, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2018, 90 MIN.

MON, OCT 1 TUE, OCT 9

9:45 PM 4:15 PM

IN10 IN09

North American Premiere. Sorting through her late husband’s things, Eva (Eliška Balzerová) makes a seemingly innocuous discovery that soon suggests some major indiscretions.

At her daughter’s (Tatiana Vilhelmová) insistence, the two set off on a cross-country trek in their vintage Volga GAZ 21, leaving no stone unturned or ex-lover uninterrogated as they try to assemble a more honest family history.

Jirí Vejdelek demonstrates why he’s one of the Czech Republic’s most beloved filmmakers with this heartfelt and poignant comedy.

Cast Eliška Balzerová, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Martin Myšicka, Emília Vášáryová Prod Tomáš Hoffman, Jirí Vejdelek Selected Filmography Václav; Tender Hope; Women in Temptation

THU, OCT 4 SAT, OCT 6

FRI, SEP 28 SUN, SEP 30

Nadie sabrá nunca

9:30 PM 11:00 AM

SFU IN09

Canadian Premiere. Jacek (Mateusz Kosciukiewicz), a longhaired metalhead in a small Polish town, has an accident while working on the construction of a 33-metre-high concrete Jesus and has to have Poland’s first face transplant. Thus does Malgorzata Szumowska (Body) set the stage for a pithy and occasionally scathing skewering of Polish hypocrisy and prejudice. “Scabrous and strangely affecting… a drama that puts you inside its extended community with a mix of robust realism and a streak of fantasy comedy.”—Guardian Silver Bear: Grand Jury Prize, Berlin 18 Cast Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Malgorzata Gorol, Anna Tomaszewska Prod Jacek Drosio, Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert

4:45 PM 6:30 PM

IN09 IN09

JESÚS TORRES TORRES, MEXICO, 2018, 102 MIN.

MON, OCT 1 WED, OCT 3

1:30 PM 6:00 PM

IN09 RIO

Comforting fictions are what make life tolerable for Lucia (a terrific Adriana Paz) and her son Braulio (Luciano Marti). Husband Rigoberto (Jorge A. Jiménez) is not exactly enlightened, and to make matters worse, he opposes his wife’s dream of moving to the city. This film maintains a beautiful but sad tone—until one night, when Rigoberto is absent, a stranger arrives and things take a magical turn. Jesús Torres Torres has made a film of wonder and tragedy—wistful, haunting and lovely to look at.

Cast Adriana Paz, Jorge A. Jiménez, Luciano Marti, David Medel, Arcelia Ramírez Prod Ernesto Martínez Arévalo, Iliana Reyes Chávez

Selected Filmography 33 Scenes from Life; In the Name of; Body

Greece

Petra

Patrimony

No One Will Ever Know

Twarz

Palestine

Pity Oiktos

BABIS MAKRIDIS, GREECE/POLAND, 2018, 99 MIN.

MON, OCT 8 WED, OCT 10

6:30 PM 4:00 PM

RIO SFU

Canadian Premiere. Artist Petra (Bárbara Lennie) draws close to a dysfunctional family when she takes on the much older Jaume (Joan Botey) as a mentor. Jaume lives on an estate with various discontented members of his clan, including his son Lucas (Alex Brendemühl), with whom Petra flirts... To reveal more would spoil Jaime Rosales’ cunning mystery and powerful drama; let’s just say that Petra has a secret reason for her presence at the estate... “[A] sophisticated tragedy with classical undertones...”—Cineuropa

Canadian Premiere. A mordant black comedy that is played deadpan straight, Babis Makridis’ latest gives us a weak-willed lawyer (Yannis Drakopoulos) grieving over his comatose wife. When he realizes that he’s happier as a sad sack, he decides to stay that way…

Co-written by Yorgos Lanthimos’ regular collaborator Efthimis Filippou, this film proves the Greek “Weird Wave” is still thriving. “A disturbing and oftentimes very funny satiredrama… about that complex, primal human craving called empathy…”—RogertEbert.com

Cast Bárbara Lennie, Alex Brendemühl, Joan Botey, Marisa Paredes Prod Bárbara Díez, José María Morales, Antonio Chavarrías, Jérôme Dopffer, Katrin Porsmikkel, Jersineva Jakobsen

Cast Yannis Drakopoulos, Evi Saoulidou, Nota Tserniafski, Makis Papadimitriou, Georgina Chryskioti Prod Amanda Livanou, Christos V., Konstantakopoulos, Klaudia Smieja, Beata Rzezniczek

Selected Filmography The Hours of the Day; Tiro en la cabeza; Beautiful Youth

Filmography L

The Reports on Sarah and Saleem MUAYAD ALAYAN, PALESTINE/NETHERLANDS/ GERMANY/MEXICO, 2018, 127 MIN.

SUN, OCT 7 THU, OCT 11

8:30 PM 4:30 PM

IN09 IN10

The adulterous affair between Palestinian deliveryman Saleem (Adeeb Safadi) and Israeli café manager Sarah (Sivane Kretchner) catches the attention of the authorities on both sides and threatens to destroy the couple’s lives. Set in Jerusalem, Muayad Alayan’s tale serves as a state-of-the-union report for a divided city. “Engrossing... This frequently taut psychosocial drama with political-thriller elements deftly conveys the tensions, both physical and mental, between West and East Jerusalem.”—Variety Audience Award, Rotterdam 18; Grand Jury Prize, Seattle 18 Cast Adeeb Safadi, Sivane Kretchner, Ishai Golan, Maisa Abd Elhadi Prod Muayad Alayan, Rami Alayan Filmography Love, Theft and Other Entanglements

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Diary of My Mind

The Valley

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India

Shock Waves: Program 3&4 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 115 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 7

9:00 PM 11:00 AM

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Shock Waves: Diary of My Mind

Shock Waves: Sirius

URSULA MEIER, SWITZERLAND, 2018, 70 MIN.

FRÉDÉRIC MERMOUD, SWITZERLAND, 2018, 64 MIN.

Shock Waves: First Name Mathieu

Shock Waves: The Valley JEAN-STÉPHANE BRON, SWITZERLAND, 2018, 51 MIN.

LIONEL BAIER, SWITZERLAND, 2018, 60 MIN.

Made for Swiss television, the four-part Shock Waves series examines one crime scenario per episode. “Diary of My Mind” is a classic take on the psychology of torment: when a pupil of hers commits murder, a French teacher is left to reflect on her possible complicity while knowing the issue will forever remain unresolved. The lucid, compassionate “First Name: Mathieu” examines a rape victim’s response to his violation; brave and inquisitive, he’s driven by an urge to speak with his unknown assailant...

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Germany

Sofia

MERYEM BENM’BAREK, MOROCCO/FRANCE/QATAR, 2018, 80 MIN.

TUE, OCT 9 THU, OCT 11

The brilliant Swiss series continues with two entries that lead us slowly into danger. “Sirius” is the portrait of a New Age cult whose leader is preparing his followers for their biggest endeavour yet. The episode is marked by its wealth of detail and scarcity of motive, and the combination gives it a horrible power. “The Valley” is a classic of suspense, following a sympathetic young car thief on a mission that takes him into the mountains, where he becomes a running, shivering target...

9:00 PM 1:45 PM

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North American Premiere. In Casablanca, 20-year-old Sofia (newcomer Maha Alemi, excellent) has a baby out of wedlock and then must face the consequences from both her status-seeking family and Moroccan society at large, in which sex outside of marriage is still considered a crime. Meryem Benm’Barek’s very well-written and acted debut feature lays bare the sanctimony at the root of Morocco’s patriarchal culture.

“Benm’barek’s lean, nuanced script astutely… picks apart class hypocrisy within Moroccan society.”—Variety Best Screenplay, Un Certain Regard, Cannes 18 Cast Maha Alemi, Lubna Azabal, Sarah Perles, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Hamza Khafif Prod Olivier Delbosc

The Snatch Thief El Motoarrebatador

ROHENA GERA, INDIA/FRANCE, 2018, 99 MIN.

9:30 PM 4:00 PM

PLAY IN10

This smart romantic drama from Rohena Gera has young widow Ratna (Tillotama Shome), who dreams of a career in fashion, moving from her village to Mumbai, where she gains employment as a servant to the scion of a rich family. A romance soon develops, but problems of class and caste—and patriarchal traditions that refuse to die—are a continuing threat to the young couple. “A delicately observed and attractive drama with some great Mumbai cityscapes and an excellent performance from Shome.”—Guardian Cast Tillotama Shome, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjati Kulkarni, Rahul Vohra Prod Brice Poisson, Thierry Lenouvel, Rohena Gera Filmography What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Germany

Styx

WOLFGANG FISCHER, GERMANY/AUSTRIA, 2018, 94 MIN.

THU, OCT 4 SAT, OCT 6

Argentina

Sir

SUN, OCT 7 MON, OCT 8

6:30 PM 12:45 PM

PLAY PLAY

AGUSTÍN TOSCANO, ARGENTINA, 2018, 93 MIN.

MON, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 12

4:00 PM 9:00 PM

RIO SFU

Canadian Premiere. Miguel (Sergio Prina) makes his living by driving a motorbike by people while his accomplice (Daniel Elias) grabs their belongings. It’s a dubious trade, to say the least, but the rottenness of it really hits home for our protagonist when a theft of his causes brutal injury to an old woman (Liliana Juárez). Miguel winds up concealing his identity and caring for her—an act that, it turns out, is not wholly altruistic. Prina and Juárez make a great screen pair in Agustín Toscano’s subtly tense film.

Cast Sergio Prina, Liliana Juárez, León Zelarrayán, Daniel Elias, Camila Plaate Prod Natacha Cervi, Hernán Musaluppi, Georgina Baisch, Cecilia Salim

Ukraine

Transit

CHRISTIAN PETZOLD, GERMANY/FRANCE, 2018, 101 MIN.

SAT, SEP 29 MON, OCT 8

Contemporary World Cinema

9:30 PM 3:45 PM

PLAY PLAY

Both a parable about the West’s reaction to the refugee crisis and an exhilarating exercise in pure cinema, Wolfgang Fischer’s drama features Susanne Wolff (amazing) as a doctor who sets out on a solo ocean voyage.

She soon encounters a sinking trawler full of refugees and radios the coast guard, who tell her to back off. What can she do? “This is All Is Lost with a spinning moral compass and a topical dimension that proves even more gripping than its brilliantly achieved visceral action.”—Variety

With occupying forces closing in, a haunted refugee (Franz Rogowski, Germany’s Joaquin Phoenix) assumes a dead writer’s identity— and transit papers—and flees to Marseille in hopes of sailing to safety. However, he soon becomes entangled in the lives of those who’ve been left behind, including the widow (Paula Beer) of the man he’s posing as. Christian Petzold (Phoenix) masterfully conjures a fever-dream-fuelled, noir-tinged romantic thriller that’s equally indebted to Casablanca and current affairs.

Cast Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekes Prod Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny

Cast Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese Prod Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber

Filmography What You Don’t See

Selected Filmography The State I Am In; Barbara; Phoenix

Volcano

ROMAN BONDARCHUK, UKRAINE/GERMANY/ MONACO, 2018, 103 MIN.

SUN, OCT 7 TUE, OCT 9

8:45 PM 1:15 PM

SFU VCT

North American Premiere. City-boy interpreter Lukas (Serhiy Stepansky) gets separated from the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) bureaucrats he works with and finds himself very much in trouble in the badlands of Ukraine’s war-torn east. Roman Bondarchuk’s visually resplendent dark comedy brings to mind the visions of Lynch and Kafka as it follows its hapless hero. “A poetically surreal love letter to an untamed corner of the Wild East… rich in sumptuous visuals and lyrical strangeness.”— Hollywood Reporter Cast Serhiy Stepansky, Victor Zhdanov, Khrystyna Deilyk Prod Olena Yershova Filmography Euromaidan. Rough Cut; Dixie Land; Ukrainian Sheriffs

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Playhouse

10:30am 117min p87

No. 1 Chung Ying S...

Intl Village 10

10:45am 89min p71

11:00

What Walaa W...

10:00

10:00

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Monday, October 01

00:00

00:00

00:00

00:00

01:0

01:0

01:0

01:0

3:30pm 136min p84

Father to Son

18:00

discover viff.org

Vancity

10:30am 200min p59

Coincoin and the Extra-Humans

1:30pm 73min p79

1:00pm 125min p49

The Image...

What They Had

11:00am 101min p57

1:00pm 104min p29

The Grizzlies

2:45pm 80min p64

Ala Changso

3:30pm 115min p84

6:45pm 104min p31

The Happy Prince

All Good

20:00

7:00pm 93min p45

6:15pm 90min p78

O Horizon

7:00pm 81min p93

Quiet Killing

6:15pm 90min p69

6:30pm 99min p50

At War

Pity

6:30pm 112min p58

6:30pm 94min p57

6:45pm 84min p75

Working Woman

The Serenget...

6:30pm 90min p79

5:45pm 70min p63

Inside My...

20:00 Distant Barking...

6:00pm 102min p45

19:00 Bel Canto

The Grand...

18:00

6:00pm 105min p88

Manta Ray

6:30pm 85min p58

Another Day ...

The Image Book

6:30pm 86min p97

6:30pm 125min p45

Birds of Passage

7:00pm 99min p87

20:00

Mori, The Artis...

6:00pm 94min p101

The Load

Teen Perspectives

6:00pm 98min p50

6:30pm 68min p63

Communion...

5:30pm 120min p37

The Sisters Brothers

19:00

6:00pm 200min p59

6:30pm 96min p81

22:00

9:15pm 105min p45

9:00pm 120min p49

Notes on ...

9:00pm 60min p63

In My Room (Germany)

9:00pm 114min p47

Barefoot

The Dead and the O...

9:15pm 104min p45

8:45pm 132min p59

Sorry Angel

Carmen and Lola

7:30pm 230min p85

An Elephant Sitting Still

Relaxer

8:45pm 120min p45

22:00 Capernaum

8:45pm 91min p95

21:00

8:30pm 88min p102

MODES 2

8:45pm 103min p51

M/M

Volcano

9:00pm 86min p72

Sir

23:00

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00:00

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One Cut of the ...

23:00

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9:30pm 89min p79

Cuban Food S...

8:30pm 127min p50

Reports on Sarah and ...

8:30pm 79min p75

N.O.N.

8:30pm 100min p65

Burning

8:30pm 148min p85

21:00

9:00pm 107min p71

What Is Democracy?

Boy Erased

9:15pm 118min p23 8:30pm 91min p95

Relaxer

Memoir of War

23:00

9:30pm 126min p59

In the Aisles

9:00pm 125min p49

8:45pm 95min p81

John McEnroe: ...

The Grand...

8:45pm 70min p63

8:45pm 107min p25

22:00

Wine Calling

9:00pm 95min p81

Can You Ever Forgi...

21:00

Amateurs

9:00pm 102min p45

9:30pm 155min p94

Studio 54

The House That Jack Built

9:30pm 98min p93

9:15pm 126min p87

23:00

The Scythian Lamb

8:30pm 92min p48

Sheherazade

Hat-Trick

9:00pm 109min p59

8:45pm 123min p63

22:00

What Are You Gonna Do...

21:00

What Comes A...

Coincoin and the Extra-Humans

Shirkers

6:00pm 100min p47

Fugue

6:00pm 135min p64

Awards + Anthem of a Tee...

7:00pm 90min p93

United Skates

6:30pm 107min p50

Petra

6:15pm 73min p59

Keep an E...

6:30pm 96min p75

20:00

The Silence of ...

Shadow

19:00

6:00pm 118min p39

Bethune: The Makin...

6:45pm 85min p57

6:15pm 140min p94

5:45pm 116min p35

18:00

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4:00pm 93min p51

Transit

The Snatch Thief

3:45pm 101min p51

4:00pm 99min p51

Sir

3:45pm 126min p59

17:00

Memoir of War

3:00pm 104min p98

The Curtain Calls

3:00pm 116min p35

Shadow

16:00

4:00pm 71min p63

4:30pm 80min p91

Introduzi...

Carmine Stre...

The Guilty

4:00pm 85min p48

3:45pm 105min p64

4:30pm 74min p78

Baikonur,...

17:00

Anthem of a Teenag...

3:00pm 109min p95

Level 16

The Darling

2:00pm 70min p65

Finding B...

1:30pm 96min p95

Rio

11:15am 120min p61

Sicilian Ghost Story

15:00

One Cut of the ...

14:00

2:00pm 82min p102

MODES 1

3:00pm 103min p44

Ben Is Back

16:00

4:00pm 82min p69

The New Roma...

2:45pm 134min p61

Escape Routes

2:00pm 81min p65

Mirai

Love and Bullets

3:30pm 98min p87

4:15pm 133min p87

Long Day's Journey In...

3:45pm 107min p79

Dreaming Under Cap...

3:15pm 123min p63

17:00

Capernaum

4:00pm 120min p45

What Are You Gonna Do...

3:00pm 90min p41

2:45pm 96min p99

When the Sto...

1:15pm 105min p95

Profile

1:00pm 90min p93

12:00pm 108min p101

13:00

Hat-Trick

1:45pm 92min p48

United Skates

Love and Compassion

12:00

11:45am 81min p71

A Sister's S...

11:30am 95min p81

Wine Calling

11:00am 115min p51

12:45pm 94min p93

14:00

15:00

1:30pm 95min p48

The Heiresses

Yellow is Forbi...

Song of a Seer

13:00

12:15pm 85min p73

Shock Waves: 3 & 4

10:45am 115min p85

11:00

9:30am 450min p77

12:30pm 85min p91

SFU-GCA

10:00

12:00

10:45am 85min p91

Impulso

11:00

Styx

Blue Note Re...

12:45pm 94min p51

1:30pm 132min p59

16:00 Non-Fiction

3:00pm 106min p31

DGC: Paris Barc...

15:00

Sorry Angel

1:15pm 90min p69

Quiet Killing

Sustainable Production Forum - D2

11:00am 104min p45

Barefoot

14:00

12:15pm 113min p100

Crisis of Our Age

13:00

In the Aisles

Playhouse

Intl Village 10

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Monday, October 08

Vancity

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Intl Village 10

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Sunday, October 07

Vancity

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Intl Village 10 10:45am 130min p51

Shock Waves: 1 & 2

Intl Village 9

10:00

12:00

10:45am 86min p74

11:00

9:30am 450min p77

Sustainable Production Forum - D1

Dawnland

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Saturday, October 06

Vancity

1:15pm 130min p61

Happy as Lazzaro

Nome di donna

Science Fair

6:00pm 108min p101

Song of a Seer

6:15pm 85min p73

19:00

Love and Compassion

18:00

4:45pm 92min p61

Ash Is Purest White

3:30pm 113min p48

17:00

Garden Store: Suitor

3:15pm 120min

TBA

16:00

Winter Flies

Edge of the Knife

10:30am 100min p65

Dressage

15:00

2:00pm 95min p47

1:30pm 71min p89

The Runni...

1:00pm 77min p69

14:00

Everything O...

13:00

11:15am 117min p49

In the Shadows

11:00am 105min p88

Manta Ray

12:00

Rio

11:00

SFU-GCA

10:00

10:00

Under the Silver Lake

Playhouse

Intl Village 10

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Friday, October 05

01:0

01:0

01:0

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Sofia

18:00

Dovlatov

20:00

discover viff.org

Vancity

SFU-GCA

3:00pm 98min p75

4:00pm 98min p93

The Oslo Diaries

Studio 54

3:30pm 93min p91

Notes on ...

7:45pm 60min p63

6:30pm 98min p93

The Price of Ev...

6:00pm 120min

6:30pm 113min p48

TBA

Garden Store: Suitor

6:30pm 120min

Burning

5:15pm 98min p50

20:00 6:30pm 113min p21

19:00

3:00pm 148min p85

The Load

18:00

Man Who Stole B...

10:30am 230min p85

17:00

Rio 1:30pm 101min p57

16:00

5:30pm 317min p62

La Flor (Part 3)

Blue Note Re...

6:45pm 85min p91

6:30pm 94min p97

Ruben Brandt, C...

Playhouse

Intl Village 10

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

An Elephant Sitting Still

15:00

Woman at War

14:00

Nome di donna

6:30pm 103min p79

Grass

21:00

9:45pm 88min p49

TBA

9:30pm 120min

9:00pm 93min p51

The Snatch Thief TBA

The Guilty

9:30pm 85min p48

9:00pm 94min p93

Minute Bodies: ...

Profile

23:00 9:30pm 120min

22:00

8:45pm 105min p95

21:00

The Third Wife

9:00pm 96min p89

Keep an E...

9:00pm 73min p59

9:15pm 134min p61

Hendi and Ho...

23:00

Love and Bullets

Dear Son

8:45pm 100min p47

TBA

9:00pm 120min

9:00pm 103min p44

22:00 Ben Is Back

8:30pm 66min p85

7:30pm 92min p61

Iyengar: The Ma...

TBA

13:00

3:15pm 90min p89

4:00pm 125min p45

Nervous Transla...

Birds of Passage

3:45pm 102min p45

4:30pm 127min p50

Reports on Sarah and ...

Bel Canto

6:30pm 93min p91

Man Who Stole B...

6:00pm 97min p57

Yomeddine

6:30pm 115min p91

6:15pm 106min p31

19:00

5:30pm 357min p62

TBA

9:15pm 120min

8:30pm 155min p94

TBA

The House That Jack Built

9:15pm 120min

Ala Changso

23:00

9:30pm 115min p84

Father to Son

9:15pm 115min p85

8:45pm 79min p97

Theatre of War

The Wolf House

9:00pm 82min p81

8:45pm 106min p33

22:00

9:00pm 130min p61

A Private War

21:00

La Flor (Part 2)

6:30pm 126min p47

6:00pm 85min p91

Impulso

6:30pm 94min p93

7:15pm 88min p74

Yellow is Forbi...

The Devil We...

6:30pm 91min p99

6:30pm 86min p89

Reel Youth Film...

The Seen and...

7:15pm 73min p79

Cinematheque

12:00

Aga

17:00

4:00pm 96min p44

3:00pm 98min p99

Matters of Grav...

16:00

20:00 The Image...

6:15pm 120min

TBA

19:00

La Flor (Part 1)

8:00pm 81min p95

Djon Africa

23:00

9:45pm 95min p47

Happy as Lazzaro

Sofia

9:00pm 80min p51

Piazza Vitto...

8:30pm 84min p79 8:30pm 82min p61

Jamilia

8:45pm 88min p25

22:00

Cold War

21:00

Mega Time Sq...

6:00pm 230min p62

6:30pm 95min p48

The Front Runner

11:00

1:00pm 86min p89

Maria by Callas

The Seen and...

1:15pm 113min p90

1:30pm 126min p87

The Scythian Lamb

1:45pm 80min p51

12:45pm 82min p81

15:00

CT: RZA

7:00pm 97min p85

The Heiresses

It's Boring Her...

6:30pm 96min p44

Aga

Centre for Arts

Friday, October 12

Jamilia

10:45am 84min p79

Winter Flies

Vancity

10:45am 85min p57

SFU-GCA

Rio

11:15am 95min p47

Djon Africa

Playhouse

Intl Village 10

11:30am 88min p74

The Devil We...

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8 Theatre of War

14:00

3:15pm 94min p93

Minute Bodies: ...

Pity

4:00pm 99min p50

6:30pm 90min p89

The Proposal

6:15pm 86min p93

Eyes of Orson Welles

13:00

4:30pm 111min p71

3:45pm 100min p44

3 Faces

Through Black Spruce

18:00

20:00

Nervous Transla...

6:00pm 101min p57

19:00 What They Had

6:00pm 60min p41

18:00

Cinematheque

12:00

1:15pm 84min p84

14 Apples

O Horizon

1:45pm 81min p93

2:00pm 100min p47

Fugue

4:00pm 105min p45

Carmen and Lola

3:30pm 102min p99

17:00

Various Positions

16:00

Grass

4:15pm 66min p85

3:30pm 123min p45

Becoming Astrid

4:00pm 114min p47

4:15pm 90min p50

The Dead and the O...

Patrimony

Close Quarters

17:00

3:30pm 95min p98

16:00

Non-Fiction

11:00

1:45pm 94min p57

15:00

Working Woman

12:45pm 87min p72

14:00

Museum of Fo...

13:00

Volcano

1:15pm 103min p51

1:45pm 88min p49

2:00pm 96min p89

The Third Wife

15:00

Hendi and Ho...

12:45pm 92min p73

14:00

The Stone Speak...

13:00

Centre for Arts

Thursday, October 11

11:00am 90min p79

Vancity

11:00am 96min p81

11:15am 97min p85

It's Boring Her...

The Serenget...

11:15am 84min p75

12:00

Distant Barking...

11:00

Shirkers

10:00

10:00

11:00am 94min p97

Ruben Brandt, C...

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Intl Village 10

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Wednesday, October 10

Vancity

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

11:15am 103min p79

Intl Village 10

11:00am 126min p47

12:00

Iyengar: The Ma...

11:00

Dovlatov

10:00

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Tuesday, October 09

Mega Time Sq...

11:15pm 81min p95

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Panorama

USA

Turkey

What They Had

11:00 AM 6:00 PM

SFU CENT

Summoned home by her estranged brother (Michael Shannon), Bridget (Hilary Swank) has to contend with a mother (Blythe Danner) wrestling with Alzheimer’s and an overbearing father (Robert Forster) in denial. Elizabeth Chomko’s actors are at the height of their powers in her deft drama, which finds humour and healing in the most trying of circumstances.

“Exquisite... There’s raw power in Chomko’s writing, but so much scrupulousness and craft that you feel safe when the time comes to weep.”—Vulture Cast Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Blythe Danner, Robert Forster Prod Keith Kjarval, Bill Holderman, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Alex Saks, Sefton Fincham, Tyler Jackson

Winter Flies

NURI BILGE CEYLAN, TURKEY/FRANCE/GERMANY/ BULGARIA, 2018, 188 MIN.

OLMO OMERZU, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2018, 85 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 MON, OCT 1

8:30 PM 2:30 PM

Woman at War

Všechno bude

PLAY PLAY

Master Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Cannes winner Winter Sleep) returns with his most humane work to date, a profound and often funny meditation on the artistic life. Sinan (Aydin Dogu Demirkol), a wannabe writer, oscillates between the tourist city of Çanakkale and his home village, where he must come to terms with his gambling-addict father (a mesmerizing Murat Cemcir)… “Sensual and lyrical, tremendously well acted, heavy in visual and verbal metaphor, and… ablaze with pastoral beauty.”—Daily Telegraph Cast Aydin Dogu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yildirimlar, Hazar Ergüçlü, Serkan Keskin Prod Zeynep Özbatur Atakan Selected Filmography Distant; Once Upon a Time in Anatolia; Winter Sleep

Israel

Iceland

The Wild Pear Tree Ahlat Agaci

ELIZABETH CHOMKO, USA, 2018, 101 MIN.

MON, OCT 8 TUE, OCT 9

Czech Republic

FRI, OCT 5 THU, OCT 11

Contemporary World Cinema

6:45 PM 10:45 AM

Kona fer í stríð

BENEDIKT ERLINGSSON, ICELAND, 2018, 101 MIN.

SFU SFU

Two teenage boys steal an Audi and go on a joyride that traverses the Czech Republic in Olmo Omerzu’s fresh and honest debut. A picaresque that turns the clichés of the roadmovie and coming-of-age genres on their heads, Omerzu’s film embraces a deadpan, matter-of-fact approach that lets its leads— newcomers Tomáš Mrvík and Jan František Uher—shine as the central odd couple.

“There are moments of magic and moments of mayhem, but the emotional effect… is a piercingly bittersweet melancholy…”—Variety Best Director, Karlovy Vary 18 Cast Tomáš Mrvík, Jan František Uher, Eliška Krenková, Lenka Vlasáková, Martin Pechlát Prod Jiri Konecný Filmography A Night Too Young; Family Film

THU, SEP 27 SAT, SEP 29 FRI, OCT 12

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

SFU IN09 SFU

From the opening scene—in which 50-ish Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir), choirmaster and stalwart of the community, uses a bow and arrow to destroy an electrical tower—you know you are in for a treat. Benedikt Erlingsson’s tale of an eco-warrior on the verge of adopting a child is a quirky, visually splendid delight. “Is there anything rarer than an intelligent feel-good film that knows how to tackle urgent global issues with humour as well as a satisfying sense of justice? Look no further…”—Variety Cast Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Davíõ Þór Jónsson, Magnús Trygvason Eliasen, Ómar Guõjónsson Prod Marianne Slot, Benedikt Erlingsson, Carine Leblanc Filmography Of Horses and Men

Egypt

Stay connected.

Yomeddine

Working Woman

A.B. SHAWKY, EGYPT, 2018, 97 MIN.

MICHAL AVIAD, ISRAEL, 2018, 94 MIN.

MON, OCT 8 WED, OCT 10

6:30 PM 1:45 PM

IN10 IN09

The woman of the title is Orna (Liron Ben Shlush); she’s strong-willed and smart, but that isn’t enough to save her from Benny (Menashe Noy), her mentor in the world of real estate. At first he’s encouraging, then he’s too forward; eventually he reveals his intentions, which will be familiar to the many women who have endured workplace harassment and worse. In Michal Aviad’s tense drama, Noy is perfectly cast as the imposing boss and Ben Shlush radiates strength and courage as his resilient victim.

Cast Liron Ben Shlush, Menashe Noy, Oshri Cohen Prod Ayelet Kait, Amir Harel Selected Filmography Jenny and Jenny; Invisible; Dimona Twist

WED, OCT 3 THU, OCT 11

1:15 PM 6:00 PM

IN09 IN08

North American Premiere. Cured leper Beshay (Rady Gamal, himself a member of an Egyptian leper colony) seeks to reunite with his long-lost family in A.B. Shawky’s picaresque road movie. Unbeknownst to Beshay, his cart contains a stowaway: a 10-year-old ragamuffin (Ahmed Abdelhafiz) with the nickname of Obama… “A simple story told with abundant gentleness, Yomeddine looks at a group of outcasts with such compassion and generosity that it has the good manners not to artificially inflate their tale with phony uplift.”—Screen Cast Rady Gamal, Ahmed Abdelhafiz Prod Dina Emam

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Panorama

France

At War En guerre

STÉPHANE BRIZÉ, FRANCE, 2018, 112 MIN.

Panorama

Spotlight on France The rich cinematic culture that continues

WED, OCT 3 MON, OCT 8

4:15 PM 6:30 PM

IN10 PLAY

Stéphane Brizé’s labour drama opens in crisis mode: a strike is underway, with the employees of a French manufacturer facing off against its predominantly German management. Union spokesman Laurent (Vincent Lindon) is trying to keep his comrades united, but the workers are torn between pragmatism and principle... Brizé shows a talent for evoking raw physicality, as does the superb Lindon, and stressing the human body is a great way to give labour rights their due. At War is a taxing but thrilling film.

Cast Vincent Lindon, Mélanie Rover, Jacques Borderie, David Rey, Olivier Lemaire Prod Christophe Rossignon, Philip Boëffard Selected Filmography Mademoiselle Chambon; The Measure of a Man; A Woman’s Life

to flourish in France is celebrated with this selection of fine big-screen offerings.

France

The Image Book Le Livre d’image

JEAN-LUC GODARD, SWITZERLAND/FRANCE, 2018, 85 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28 SUN, OCT 7 SERIES PRESENTERS

1:15 PM 6:30 PM

In this wildly inventive arrangement of film footage, music clips, text and more, Jean-Luc Godard dares us to think and feel as much as we can. The movie’s key themes include history and ideology, and their treatment in media, but the subsidiary meanings are probably infinite--that’s the director’s challenge to us, and his gift. Godard is an artist exploding with things to express, so take what you can from the horror and the beauty, the passion and the sadness; some of it you may never let go of.

Prod Fabrice Aragno, Mitra Farahani

MEDIA PARTNER

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VCT SFU

Selected Filmography Breathless; In Praise of Love; Goodbye to Language

Panorama

France

France

Coincoin and the ExtraHumans Coincoin et les Z’inhumains

BRUNO DUMONT, FRANCE, 2018, 200 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6 MON, OCT 8

6:00 PM 10:30 AM

VCT VCT

North American Premiere. From the wonderfully deranged mind of Bruno Dumont comes this rollicking procedural, a sequel to the 2014 miniseries Li’l Quinquin that reunites us with the cast of misfits a handful of years later. Made up of four lively 52-minute episodes (presented consecutively at a single screening), Coincoin follows its teenaged protagonist (Alane Delhaye) as he investigates a new mystery on the Opal Coast: what is this extraterrestrial gunk that’s suddenly started falling from the sky, and how did it get there?

Cast Alane Delhaye, Bernard Pruvost, Philippe Jore, Julien Bodart, Christophe Verheeck Prod Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin Selected Filmography Li’l Quinquin; Humanité;

France

France

Keep an Eye Out

Memoir of War

A Paris Education

QUENTIN DUPIEUX, FRANCE/BELGIUM, 2018, 73 MIN.

EMMANUEL FINKIEL, FRANCE/BELGIUM, 2017, 126 MIN.

JEAN PAUL CIVEYRAC, FRANCE, 2018, 136 MIN.

Au poste!

SAT, OCT 6 THU, OCT 11

6:15 PM 9:00 PM

La Douleur

IN08 RIO

SAT, OCT 6 MON, OCT 8

9:30 PM 3:45 PM

Mes provinciales

IN10 IN09

FRI, SEP 28 THU, OCT 4

6:15 PM 1:30 PM

IN09 IN10

Canadian Premiere. Remember the “killer tire” movie, Rubber, from VIFF 10? Well, DJturned-filmmaker Quentin Dupieux is back and crazier than ever! Benoît Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog) stars as a police captain who spends a night surreally interrogating a witness (Grégoire Ludig) about a body the latter has discovered. Accidental death, lunatic jokes and mayhem ensue… “[Dupieux’s films are] equal parts Michel Gondry, Tex Avery and the Coen brothers… His latest... [is a] fun… exercise in genre-bending.”—Hollywood Reporter

Canadian Premiere. Mélanie Thierry stars as Marguerite Duras in this period piece by Emmanuel Finkiel, who uses Duras’ memoir about life under the Nazis as the basis for engrossing drama. Duras’ husband, Resistance soldier Robert Antelme, was captured, and here she plays a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a policeman/collaborator (Benoît Magimel) to try and secure his release… “Thierry is utterly convincing and compelling from first to last, in a deglamourized but sensual performance…”—Hollywood Reporter

Cast Benoît Poelvoorde, Grégoire Ludig, Marc Fraize, Anaïs Demoustier, Orelsan Prod Thomas Verhaeghe, Mathieu Verhaeghe

Cast Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, Shulamit Adar, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Prod Yaël Fogiel, Laetitia Gonzalez

Cast Andranic Manet, Gonzague Van Bervesselès, Corentin Fila, Diane Rouxel, Jenna Thiam, Sophie Verbeeck Prod Frédéric Niedermayer, Michèle Pétin, Laurent Pétin

Selected Filmography Rubber; Wrong Cops; Reality

Selected Filmography Voyages; A Decent Man; Nulle part terre promise

Selected Filmography Man’s Gentle Love; Through the Forest; My Friend Victoria

Twentynine Palms

France

Spotlight on France

Canadian Premiere. Jean Paul Civeyrac’s gorgeously shot, black-and-white bildungsroman is a paean to cinephilia. Etienne (Andranic Manet), a working-class kid from Lyon, is studying filmmaking in the capital.

Will disillusionment grind him down, or will his new lovers and film friends buoy him up?

“With its pared-down aesthetic and naturalistic performances, Education recalls such… classics of French cinema as Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore and Philippe Garrel’s Regular Lovers.”—Hollywood Reporter

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JEAN-BERNARD MARLIN, FRANCE, 2018, 109 MIN.

CÉDRIC KAHN, FRANCE, 2018, 107 MIN.

TUE, OCT 2 THU, OCT 4

Sorry Angel

Shéhérazade

La Prière

7:00 PM 10:45 AM

IN09 SFU

Canadian Premiere. After an overdose, 22-year-old heroin addict Thomas (Berlin Best Actor winner Anthony Bajon) is sent to a Catholic mountain retreat, where he goes cold turkey. Ensconced amongst his fellow recovering addicts, he knows he must make some hard choices… Cédric Kahn’s (L’Ennui) brisk direction is a pleasure to watch, but it is the remarkable performance of new star Bajon that gives the film its heart and soul.

“Kahn returns in strong, unfussy form with this poignant but unsentimental study.” —Variety Best Actor, Berlin 18 Cast Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Alex Brendemühl, Louise Grinberg, Hanna Schygulla Prod Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon

WED, OCT 3 FRI, OCT 5

12:15 PM 9:00 PM

IN08 IN08

Winner of the Prix Jean Vigo for France’s best first feature of the past year, Jean-Bernard Marlin’s slice-of-life drama about young love on the mean streets of Marseille harkens back to Italian neorealism in its use of non-professional actors and gritty locations. Kenza Fortas, as the tough teen prostitute Shéhérazade, is a real find. A native Marseillais, Marlin has crafted “an ultra-realist portrait of juvenile delinquency… and a surprising and engaging love story to boot…”—Cineuropa Prix Jean Vigo 18 Cast Dylan Robert, Kenza Fortas, Idir Azougli, Lisa Amedjout, Kader Benchoudar Prod Grégoire Debailly

Plaire, aimer et courir vite

CHRISTOPHE HONORÉ, FRANCE, 2018, 132 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6 MON, OCT 8

1:30 PM 8:45 PM

IN10 IN10

Set in 1993, Christophe Honoré’s superb drama centres on the relationship between playwright Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps) and his younger lover Arthur (Vincent Lacoste), but the film also includes a rich cross-section of deftly sketched secondary characters, making it a winning plunge into life, literature, cinema and philosophy.

“Graceful, subtle, satisfying and emotionally complex, this is one of Christophe Honoré’s best films, with a standout performance from Vincent Lacoste.”—Sight & Sound

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Cast Vincent Lacoste, Pierre Deladonchamps, Denis Podalydès Prod Philippe Martin, David Thion Selected Filmography Dans Paris; Ma mère; Love Songs

Selected Filmography L’Ennui; Red Lights; Wild Life

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Italy

Daughter of Mine Figlia mia

LAURA BISPURI, ITALY/GERMANY/SWITZERLAND, 2018, 100 MIN.

SAT, SEP 29 SUN, SEP 30

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7:15 PM 3:30 PM

IN10 RIO

Canadian Premiere. On sun-drenched Sardinia, ten-year-old Vittoria (Sara Casu), born of alcoholic party girl Angelica (Alba Rohrwacher, a whirlwind) but raised as her own by sensible Tina (Valeria Golino), is drawn into her birth mother’s chaotic sphere, despite having no knowledge of the truth of her situation. “Laura Bispuri’s sunswept, emotive, and elemental sophomore [narrative] film… a noble rarity… unfolds with such a barefoot sense of place that you can almost feel the Sardinian sand between your unwashed toes.”—Variety Cast Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu, Michele Carboni, Udo Kier Prod Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa, Maurizio Totti, Alessandro Usai, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, Dan Wechsler Filmography Sworn Virgin; Via Del Pigneto

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Dogman

MATTEO GARRONE, ITALY/FRANCE, 2018, 103 MIN.

THU, SEP 27 MON, OCT 1 WED, OCT 3

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6:00 PM 9:00 PM 3:30 PM

RIO CENT PLAY

Matteo Garrone returns to the criminal milieu that made his name in Gomorrah with this spellbinding look at a sympathetic dog groomer (Marcello Fonte, Best Actor at Cannes) whose sideline as a coke dealer leads inexorably to greater criminal misdeeds—and tragedy. Tense, tough and thoroughly grounded in its seedy suburban Neapolitan locations, this is Garrone in peak form. “Terrific… A compelling opera of beta-male criminal martyrdom… [This is] a movie with incomparable bite and strength.”—Guardian Best Actor, Cannes 18 Cast Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Alida Baldari Calabria, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi Prod Matteo Garrone, Jean Labadie, Jeremy Thomas, Paolo Del Brocco Selected Filmography Gomorrah; Reality; Tale of Tales

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Euforia

9:15 PM 12:30 PM

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As ruthless as he is charming, Matteo (Riccardo Scamarcio) hasn’t just tasted success, he’s feasted on it. When his hedonistic idyll is trespassed on by his ailing brother Ettore (Valerio Mastandrea), the playboy can’t accept the harsh realities of the situation. Instead, he takes measures to hide the extent of his brother’s illness from everyone, Ettore included. Valeria Golino’s involving melodrama plunges us into a charade that ultimately accords these siblings a keener understanding of one another.

Cast Riccardo Scamarcio, Valerio Mastandrea, Isabella Ferrari, Valentina Cervi, Andrea Germani, Marzia Ubaldi, Jasmine Trinca Prod Viola Prestieri, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori Filmography Honey

Love and Bullets

ALICE ROHRWACHER, ITALY/SWITZERLAND/FRANCE/ GERMANY, 2018, 130 MIN.

MARCO MANETTI, ANTONIO MANETTI, ITALY, 2017, 134 MIN.

FRI, OCT 5 TUE, OCT 9

1:15 PM 9:00 PM

Nome di donna

Ammore e malavita

SFU PLAY

SAT, OCT 6 THU, OCT 11

2:45 PM 9:15 PM

MARCO TULLIO GIORDANA, ITALY, 2018, 92 MIN.

RIO PLAY

Canadian Premiere. At once a fable, a realist drama and a social critique, Alice Rohrwacher’s follow-up to The Wonders (VIFF 14) is another enthralling work. The good and innocent Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo), part of a community of indentured sharecroppers on a tobacco estate, serves as our guide to a world where time is in flux, modernity and tradition are at war, and miracles are possible… “Rewards viewers… with humour and uncanny grace, sealing Rohrwacher’s status... as a truly distinctive European major.”—Variety

Canadian Premiere. A dazzling cinematic confection, this irreverent Camorra musical hinges on two star-crossed lovers: Fatima (Serena Rossi), a good-hearted nurse who saw something she shouldn’t have, and Ciro (Giampaolo Morelli), the mobster tasked with taking her out but destined to fall for her. Fueled by operatic emotion and ornamented with stylistic flourishes, Marco & Antonio Manetti’s action-comedy features boisterous melodies so catchy that even the dearly departed can’t keep themselves from joining in.

Best Screenplay (ex-aequo) Cannes 18

Best Film, David di Donatello Awards 18

Cast Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Chikovani, Tommaso Ragno, Sergi Lopez Prod Carlo Cresto-Dina

Cast Giampaolo Morelli, Serena Rossi, Claudia Gerini, Carlo Buccirosso Prod Carlo Macchitella

Filmography Corpo Celeste; The Wonders

Italy

Italy

Happy as Lazzaro Lazzaro felice

VALERIA GOLINO, ITALY, 2018, 115 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 29

Italy

Focus on Italy

FRI, OCT 5 THU, OCT 11

4:45 PM 7:30 PM

IN10 IN10

Canadian Premiere. Marco Tullio Giordana (The Best of Youth, VIFF 03) returns with another beautifully directed story, this one about sexual harassment and the poisonous atmosphere it creates. Nina (Cristiana Capotondi, superb) is groped by her boss at the retirement home where she works. Advised by her co-workers, boyfriend and even the church to just let it go, she chooses to fight back… Tullio Giordana, who began working on this long before the #MeToo movement started, has fashioned a powerful and very timely drama.

Cast Cristiana Capotondi, Valerio Binasco, Stefano Scandaletti, Michela Cescon, Bebo Storti Prod Lionello Cerri Selected Filmography One Hundred Steps; The Best of Youth; Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Selected Filmography Zora the Vampire; The Arrival of Wang; Song ‘e Napule

Italy

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Sicilian Ghost Story

ABEL FERRARA, ITALY, 2017, 82 MIN.

TUE, OCT 2 TUE, OCT 9

4:30 PM 8:30 PM

IN10 IN08

FABIO GRASSADONIA, ANTONIO PIAZZA, ITALY, 2017, 120 MIN.

MON, OCT 1 MON, OCT 8

6:00 PM 11:15 AM

RIO IN10

North American Premiere. Rome’s vibrant, cosmopolitan Piazza Vittorio—home to hopeful new immigrants—has been Abel Ferrara’s base for the past few years, and this is the director’s love letter to an amazing place.

“World cinema currently has no shortage of documentaries venturing beyond the headlines to examine the… consequences of mass migration. Piazza Vittorio stands out from the pack by simultaneously functioning as a heartfelt, evocative tribute to an atmospheric and fascinating urban neighbourhood.”—Hollywood Reporter

Canadian Premiere. Luca Bigazzi’s (The Great Beauty) stunning camerawork raises Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s blend of reality and fantasy to the level of the sublime.

To keep 13-year-old Giuseppe’s hitman father from talking, the Mafia kidnaps the lad. Classmate Luna (Julia Jedlikowska, wonderful) has a crush on him, and she begins a search that takes her to strange and mysterious places.

“Superb… evocatively interweave[s] the richness of fairy tales with the obscenity of Mafia control.”—Variety

Prod Andrea de Liberato

Best Adapted Screenplay, David di Donatello Awards 18

Selected Filmography Bad Lieutenant; Ms. 45; King of New York

Cast Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari, Andrea Falzone, Federico Finocchiaro Prod Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori, Massimo Cristaldi

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Filmography Salvo

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Argentina

La Flor (Part 1)

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MARIANO LLINÁS, ARGENTINA, 2018, 230 MIN.

TUE, OCT 9

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MARIANO LLINÁS, ARGENTINA, 2018, 317 MIN.

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La Flor (Part 2)

MARIANO LLINÁS, ARGENTINA, 2018, 357 MIN.

slightly ahead of the curve, this series

6:00 PM

WED, OCT 10

La Flor (Part 3) THU, OCT 11

Shot over ten years and in almost as many countries, Mariano Llinás’ wildly entertaining 14hour epic is more than just the filmic event of the year; it’s a landmark work in South American film history. La Flor pays tribute to the history of narrative cinema via six episodes inspired by the different forms of cinematic art, bound together by the sensational, varied performances of four of Argentina’s greatest actresses: Elisa Carricajo, Pilar Gamboa, Valeria Correa, and Laura Paredes.

Each of the six episodes of La Flor takes off from a genre. The first episode could be regarded as a B-movie, the kind that Americans used to shoot with their eyes closed and now just can’t shoot anymore. The second episode is a sort of musical with a touch of mystery.

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And then there are 40 minutes of credits.

La Flor is a constantly surprising work of incredible invention: miss it at your own peril.

Grand Jury Prize, BAFICI 18 Cast Elisa Carricajo, Pilar Gamboa, Valeria Correa, Laura Paredes Prod Laura Citarella Selected Filmography Balnearios; Extraordinary Stories

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USA

USA

Communion Los Angeles

The Grand Bizarre

4:00 PM 6:30 PM

VCT CINE

North American Premiere. A visual and sonic reverie of modern-day musique concrète, Peter Bo Rappmund and Adam R. Levine’s latest contribution to the psychogeographic charting of the Greater Los Angeles area follows the 110, California’s oldest freeway, as it winds from the San Gabriel Mountains through the metropolitan core, ending at the Pacific Ocean. As the working day cedes to Lynchian night, it all becomes a spasmodic blur. What Walt Whitman said about himself can also apply to L.A.: I am large, I contain multitudes.

SAT, OCT 6 MON, OCT 8

8:45 PM 5:45 PM

CINE IN08

Ready for a Mack attack? A bona fide expert in experimental stop-motion animation, Jodie Mack brings her playful, handmade collage aesthetic to her feature-length debut. Jiving and juking textiles serve as “characters,” taking viewers on a magical, musical, mystery trip in two respects: as we embark on a worldwide voyage to far flung sites of fabric production, Mack transforms the material elements of this world into something unquestionably psychedelic, and more than a little bit danceable.

Prod Jodie Mack

GASTÓN SOLNICKI, ARGENTINA/AUSTRIA, 2018, 71 MIN.

THU, OCT 4 SUN, OCT 7

9:15 PM 4:00 PM

CINE VCT

Canadian Premiere. Following the 2017 passing of Hans Hurch, the Viennale’s influential festival director, Gastón Solnicki was moved to both grieve and celebrate his dear friend by committing their relationship to film. Playing a loosely fictionalized version of himself, the filmmaker wanders like a flâneur through the vestiges of a post-empire Vienna, where the signs of death, and of Hurch, present themselves everywhere. What emerges is a moving, unique tribute to a friend, and to the notion of friendship itself.

Featuring Han-Gyeol Lin, Alexandra Prodaniuc, Karin Krank, Gastón Solnicki, Ka-Ming Man Prod Benjamín Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda, Paolo Calamita, Gastón Solnicki

Prod Peter Bo Rappmund, Adam R. Levine Filmography (Peter Bo Rappmund) Psychohydrography; Tectonics; Topophilia

Germany

USA

Introduzione all’Oscuro

JODIE MACK, USA, 2018, 60 MIN.

PETER BO RAPPMUND, ADAM R. LEVINE, USA, 2018, 68 MIN.

MON, OCT 1 SUN, OCT 7

Argentina

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Notes on an Appearance RICKY D’AMBROSE, USA, 2018, 60 MIN.

MON, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 12

9:00 PM 7:45 PM

VCT VCT

Canadian Premiere. David (Bingham Bryant), hired by his friend Todd (Keith Poulson) as a research assistant for a dissertation Todd is writing about a controversial rightwing philosopher, disappears, leaving behind a cache of letters, postcards and maps…

Ricky D’Ambrose’s Brooklyn-set, sui generis mystery uses Todd’s search for his friend to present “a vision of the closed circuits of a hothouse intellectual city that, whether or not it still exists, remains one of the dominant myths of modern life…”—New Yorker Cast Keith Poulson, Tallie Medel, Bingham Bryant Prod Graham Swon Filmography University People

Filmography Süden; Papirosen; Kékszakállú

UK

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Quantification Trilogy TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 222 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 WED, OCT 3

6:15 PM 12:45 PM

CINE VCT

Ray & Liz

RICHARD BILLINGHAM, UK, 2018, 108 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 TUE, OCT 2

3:30 PM 9:00 PM

VCT CINE

In the sci-fi tinged Quantification Trilogy, Jeremy Shaw’s characters escape the physical world through ecstatic practices. The three inventive, interconnected “para-fictions” that make up the trilogy deal with “Quantum Humans”: immortal, cyborg-like entities who use dance as a ritual to transcend the oppression of technology. Using vintage means to craft each mid-length film, the Vancouver-born artist creates a fascinating creative work about the relationship between the individual and the collective.

Richard Billingham, the Turner Prize-nominated photographer, brings his enthralling “squalid realism” visual sensibility to this deeply personal examination of his hard scrabble Birmingham upbringing and the rituals and transgressions that defined his family.

The result is a singular cinematic work that’s by turns deeply unsettling and disarmingly comic. “A rare and remarkable cine-memoir... formally arresting and rigorous, though not at the expense of its direct emotional force.”— Variety

Quantification Trilogy - Quickeners

Cast Ella Smith, Justin Salinger, Joshua Millard-Lloyd, Patrick Romer, Deirdre Kelly Prod Jacqui Davies

JEREMY SHAW, GERMANY, 2014, 37 MIN.

Quantification Trilogy- Liminals

What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?

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ROBERTO MINERVINI, ITALY/USA/FRANCE, 2018, 123 MIN.

FRI, OCT 5 SAT, OCT 6

8:45 PM 3:15 PM

CINE IN08

Roberto Minervini proves himself an intrepid investigator of America’s margins with this immersive study of Black communities left reeling by 2017’s rash of race-related murders.

These travesties may’ve left many Americans unwilling to look in the mirror for fear of what they might glimpse staring back, but Minervini is unflinching as he imparts the anguish of those betrayed by their own country and left fighting for justice and basic human dignity.

This is undoubtedly one of 2018’s most powerful films.

JEREMY SHAW, GERMANY, 2017, 31 MIN.

Prod Paolo Benzi, Roberto Minervini, Denise Ping Lee

Quantification Trilogy - I Can See Forever

Filmography The Passage; Low Tide; The Other Side

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JEREMY SHAW, GERMANY, 2018, 43 MIN.

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Anthem of a Teenage Prophet ROBIN HAYS, CANADA, 2018, 100 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6 SUN, OCT 7

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World Premiere. “Prophet of Death” isn’t a nickname that any teenager looks to be saddled with. But such is the unfortunate fate of Luke (Shameless’ Cameron Monaghan) who’s not only just lost his best friend but also predicted the tragedy. Falling for his dead friend’s girl (Peyton List), he likewise spirals into more macabre premonitions. In adapting Joanne Proulx’s awardwinning novel, Robin Hays cranks the 90s-era soundtrack and amplifies all of the angst, elation and uncertainty rattling around in Luke’s head.

Cast Cameron Monaghan, Peyton List, Juliette Lewis, Grayson Gabriel, Alex MacNicoll Prod Tina Pehme, Kim Roberts

BC Spotlight Awards SAT, OCT 6

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The ceremony commences at 6:00pm, with the film following at 6:30pm.

British Columbia

British Columbia

Because We Are Girls BALJIT SANGRA, CANADA, 2018, 83 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 WED, OCT 3

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SFU IN10

World Premiere. Raised in a conservative Indo-Canadian household, three sisters were haunted by a childhood secret: they were survivors of sexual abuse by an older relative. Twenty-five years later, they break their silence in order to set an example for their daughters and protect other young relatives.

Documentarian Baljit Sangra turns her empathetic lens on these courageous women’s search for justice, crafting a moving portrait of their healing journey and a tribute to women’s strength in the face of profound trauma.

Prod Selwyn Jacob

SERIES PRESENTER

PLAY PLAY

The Darling

LEE SEUNG-YUP, CANADA/SOUTH KOREA, 2018, 80 MIN.

WED, OCT 3 MON, OCT 8

8:45 PM 2:45 PM

VCT VCT

North American Premiere. Arriving in Vancouver under a shadow of mystery, famed Korean actress Lee Sun-hwa (Jang Jieun) wanders the city, visits with relatives and frequents tourist attractions, afflicted all the while by debilitating anxiety. Deriving its title from the Chekhov story of the same name, Lee Seung-Yup’s miraculous debut is a marvel of low-budget filmmaking—utterly devastating in its depiction of a woman caught between the restrictive ways of tradition and the undefinable inclinations of the heart.

Cast Jang Jieun, Park Kangyeon, Jung Sooeun, Jung Junhyuk Prod Lee Seung-Yup, Jong-Bae Kim

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Edge of the Knife

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KATHLEEN S. JAYME, CANADA/USA, 2018, 44 MIN.

GWAAI EDENSHAW, HELEN HAIG-BROWN, CANADA, 2018, 100 MIN.

WED, OCT 3 FRI, OCT 5

6:15 PM 10:30 AM

British Columbia

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Shot on stunning Haida Gwaii and scripted in two Haida dialects, Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown’s 19th-century epic is both a landmark work of cinema and a nod to the grand storytelling traditions that lure us to the big screen. Guilt-ridden after a tragic accident, Adiits’ii (Tyler York) retreats into the wilderness where he’s plagued by spirits and transformed into Gaagiixid, the Haida Wildman. As his loved ones set out to capture and cure him, a riveting tale of survival and forgiveness unfolds.

Cast Tyler York, William Russ, Adeana Young Prod Jonathan Frantz, Stephen Grosse

SUN, SEP 30 MON, OCT 8

6:30 PM 2:00 PM

PLAY IN10

World Premiere. The Vancouver Grizzlies’ inglorious six-year history may’ve lacked for highlights but it undeniably had a poster boy: Bryant “Big Country” Reeves, whose lessthan-sculpted man-mountain frame made him an easy target for criticism. Documentarian Kathleen S. Jayme sets out to track down her hard luck hero who was forced into early retirement by injuries. Fueled by nostalgia and punctuated by endearing revelations, this quest ultimately allows us to reevaluate one of the city’s most maligned sports figures.

SUN, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 7

9:00 PM 8:30 PM

6:30 PM 9:00 PM

RIO RIO

Kept under lock and key by her paranoid father (Emile Hirsch), seven-year-old Chloe (Lexy Kolker, a revelation) yearns to experience the simple pleasures of childhood. But when she finally ventures outside, she quickly realizes that she’s no ordinary girl and that the world beyond the dead bolt is stranger still. In turn, Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein’s skewed sci-fi thriller ratchets up the go-for-broke audacity as it laces the family drama of Room with genre confections indebted to vintage Spielberg.

Filmography (Zach Lipovsky) Leprechaun: Origins;

TUE, OCT 2 THU, OCT 4

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World Premiere. Heartbroken and flat broke, Greg (director Zebulon Zang) struggles to reenter the workforce and suffers a series of seriocomic indignities, including single-handedly crewing an experimental film. As Greg’s existential dread steeps, Zang reveals himself to be a keen observer of human nature who’s capable of mining rich absurdity from the mundane. It’s tempting to label this the Lower Mainland’s answer to Linklater’s Slacker but that only scratches the prickly surface of this minor key, no budget gem.

Opening with the staggering sight of a “snow artist” crafting intricate patterns in an arctic mountainside, Grant Baldwin’s (Just Eat It) visually stunning documentary continues to inspire awe with every frame. Centred on a Vancouver mother and daughter’s six-month, 2,300-km trek through the Coast Mountains, This Mountain Life showcases this province’s majestic peaks and introduces us to some of the colourful characters who scale such great heights to work, play, worship and accomplish the heroic.

Cast Zac Cocciolo, Meaghen Buckley, Sung Pil Yoon, Reizza Oxales

Featuring Martina Halik, Tania Halik, Barry Blanchard Prod Jenny Rustemeyer

British Columbia

Filmography The Clean Bin Project; Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story

Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket

CODY GRAHAM, CAREY NEWMAN, CANADA, 2018, 85 MIN.

MON, OCT 1 WED, OCT 3

BRUCE SWEENEY, CANADA, 2018, 88 MIN.

SAT, SEP 29 MON, OCT 1

5:45 PM 4:30 PM

RIO IN09

Some are unlucky at love. Others are just inept. The latter populate Bruce Sweeney’s heartfelt farce that delivers finely tuned dysfunction while featuring copious local haunts and a surplus of skeletons in closets. Camille Sullivan shines as a rough diamond who must keep her emotionally frail brother (Jeff Gladstone) from unravelling as his marriage (to the brash Colleen Rennison) implodes. As Sweeney delights in pulling rugs out from under his cantankerous cast, he keeps viewers equally off-balance.

Cast Camille Sullivan, Jeff Gladstone, Gabrielle Rose, Colleen Rennison Prod Tracy Major, Bruce Sweeney, Jeff Gladstone, Rafi Spivak, David Pelletier

British Columbia

British Columbia

9:15 PM 3:30 PM

Kingsway

Selected Filmography Dirty; Last Wedding; The Dick Knost Show

Dead Rising: Watchtower

GRANT BALDWIN, CANADA, 2018, 77 MIN.

CINE CINE

FRI, SEP 28 MON, OCT 1

British Columbia

This Mountain Life

ZEBULON ZANG, CANADA, 2018, 100 MIN.

ADAM STEIN, ZACH LIPOVSKY, CANADA, 2018, 105 MIN.

Cast Lexy Kolker, Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, Amanda Crew Prod Adam Stein, Zach Lipovsky, Jordan Barber, Mitchell Waxman

British Columbia

N.O.N.

Freaks

Featuring Kathleen S. Jayme, Bryant “Big Country” Reeves Prod Michael Tanko Grand

Filmography (Helen Haig-Brown) My Legacy

British Columbia

British Columbia

7:00 PM 3:30 PM

IN10 IN09

Inspired by symbolic Indigenous blankets and created from artifacts scavenged from demolished residential schools, Carey Newman’s Witness Blanket is an astonishing installation that pays tribute to the 150,000 souls who endured one of Canada’s most oppressive eras and the institutions it spawned. Directed

by Newman and Cody Graham, this documentary charts the piece’s construction, pays tribute to strength and resistance, and reminds us just how vital survivors’ testimonies are to the healing process.

Prod Cody Graham, Carey Newman, Adam Blakesley, Graem Millala

When the Storm Fades

SEAN DEVLIN, CANADA/PHILIPPINES, 2018, 81 MIN.

THU, OCT 4 SUN, OCT 7

6:30 PM 2:00 PM

SFU SFU

North American Premiere. In this affecting, provocative docudrama from Sean Devlin, a Filipino family reenacts their own experiences of resolutely rebuilding their homes and lives in the wake of the devastation wrought by 2013’s Hurricane Yolanda. Not helping matters are two ineffectual foreign aid workers (Kayla Lorette and Aaron Read) who aren’t quite the white saviours they fancy themselves to be. Darkly humorous and deeply humane, Devlin’s film thrusts us to the frontlines of climate change and celebrates survivors’ resolve.

Cast Kayla Lorette, Aaron Read, The Pablo Family, Ryan Beil Prod Sean Devlin, Chris Ferguson Filmography Zach and Avery

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Indie Docs: Trending Now SAT, SEP 29

Totally Indie Day Saturday, September 29 Totally Indie Day, presented by STORYHIVE, is an opportunity for independent content creators to learn more about the art and business of motion pictures. The event will feature experienced industry professionals and rising new talents alike; they’ll be sharing stories, offering insights, passing on tips and more.

9:00AM–10:15AM

If you’re a fan of the non-fiction genre, get ready to be inspired by this session, which shines a spotlight on pop culture documentaries and the “hidden world” of industrial music docs. Participating will be Dava Whisenant, director/producer/co-writer of Bathtubs Over Broadway, and Brent Hodge, director of Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary. Host: Kevin Eastwood, Writer/Director/Producer, After the Sirens. Presented by STORYHIVE.

Totally Indie Day

Art of the Cut SAT, SEP 29

10:25AM–11:30AM

VIFF is honoured to present an in-depth conversation with editor extraordinaire Jay Cassidy, a three-time Oscar nominee (American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook, Into the Wild) as well as an Emmy Award (The Night Of) and ACE winner. His other feature credits include Joy, Fury, Foxcatcher and the documentaries Waiting for Superman and An Inconvenient Truth. Host: Peter Caranicas, Managing Features Editor, Variety. Presented by ACFC West, Local 2020 Unifor.

ACFC WEST, LOCAL 2020 UNIFOR

Session 3

Session 4

Session 5

Ryan J. Sidhoo

Liz Manashil

Kat Jayme

From Production to Distribution: Web Series Success Stories SAT, SEP 29

11:40AM-12:45PM

Digital series creators share their experiences in this emerging industry, from pitch to production to the process of finding distribution partners. Guests: Kate Green, director/ executive producer of NarcoLeap; Tyler Funk, creator of She’s Not Funny; and Ryan J. Sidhoo, director of True North. Host: Christina Willings, producer of TELUS Originals/ STORYHIVE. Co-presented by the IPF.

How Data Can Impact Your Film’s Release – An Interactive Presentation SAT, SEP 29

1:45PM-2:45PM

The primary goal of any independent storyteller should be finding their true audience, and in that search data and digital feedback are key. This session will detail those and other important aspects of the business, such as acquiring partnerships and searching out trends. Guest Presenters: Liz Manashil, Manager of the Sundance Institute’s Creative Distribution Initiative, and Jess Fuselier, Manager of Research and Education for the Institute’s Creative Distribution Initiative.

Session 6

Chris Jones

Breaking Through SAT, SEP 29

3:00PM–4:00PM

Getting an indie film off the ground can be tough, and on top of that challenge lies the prospect of securing a distribution deal in the current marketplace… Three auteurs, all at different stages of their careers, share the lessons they learned making and debuting their early features. Guests: Akash Sherman, writer/director of Clara, Kat Jayme, writer/ director, Finding Big Country, and Zach Lipovsky, Co-Writer/Co-Director, Freaks. Host: Curtis Woloschuk, Associate Director of Programming, VIFF.

Style on Film: Production Design SAT, SEP 29

4:10PM-5:15PM

This look at the art of production design will feature Canadian Jade Healy, who designed the story world of Oscar winner I, Tonya; her other credits include The Killing of a Sacred Deer, A Ghost Story and Mississippi Grind.

Also featured is Chris Jones, who worked on Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Lady Bird; his other credits include 20th Century Women and Oscar-winning short The Accountant. Host: Scott Smith, Director, Carter.

Celebrate our homegrown talent!

Take part in VIFF’s #mustseebc campaign and help create buzz for VIFF’s BC films. Preview trailers, promote BC filmmakers across social networks and VOTE for your most anticipated film. The film that gets the most fan votes takes the title “Audience Must-See-Film” and earns a special red carpet screening. Vote at goviff.org/mustseebc until Sep. 24.

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Ontario

Mouthpiece

PATRICIA ROZEMA, CANADA, 2018, 91 MIN.

MON, OCT 1 TUE, OCT 2

presents

True North

9:15 PM 9:00 PM

PLAY RIO

Patricia Rozema (Into the Forest) brings her singular sensibility to this tale of Cassandra, a troubled woman divided against herself and, thus, played simultaneously by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava (who also wrote the script). The interplay between the physically mismatched, misanthropically aligned leads is a sardonic wonder to behold as Rozema and her collaborators set Cassandra on a seriocomic odyssey that takes her back home to lay a loved one to rest and seek redemption for past implosions.

Cast Amy Nostbakken, Norah Sadava, Maev Beaty, Taylor Belle Puterman Prod Christina Piovesan, Patricia Rozema, Jennifer Shin Selected Filmography I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing; Mansfield Park; Into the Forest

A celebration of the extraordinary creativity and craft being demonstrated by Canadian storytellers from coast to coast.

Ontario

Giant Little Ones KEITH BEHRMAN, CANADA, 2018, 94 MIN.

SAT, SEP 29 SUN, SEP 30

6:45 PM 4:15 PM

PLAY SFU

After sharing an experience that permanently alters their long-standing friendship, Franky (Josh Wiggins) and his childhood pal Ballas (Darren Mann) engage in a protracted feud that serves as an outlet for their repressed feelings. Returning to feature filmmaking after a 16-year hiatus, Flower & Garnet (VIFF 2002) director Keith Behrman mounts an impressive comeback with this finely observed and frequently poignant study of identity and its boundaries.

Cast Josh Wiggins, Darren Mann, Maria Bello, Kyle MacLachlan, Taylor Hickson Prod Allison Black Filmography Flower & Garnet SERIES PRESENTER

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True North

Ontario

Clara

6:30 PM 4:30 PM

WED, OCT 3 FRI, OCT 5

9:00 PM 1:00 PM

RIO IN08

A brilliant astronomer (Suits’ Patrick J. Adams) obsessively scours the cosmos for signs of life while growing increasingly detached from the real world. When a new assistant (Troian Bellisario) provides unexpected inspiration, they’re sent hurtling on a collision course with a reality altering discovery. A master class in restrained and rigorously intelligent sci-fi tinged drama, Clara builds to a jaw-dropping climax and announces the arrival of a major new talent in the form of director Akash Sherman.

When circumstances conspire to leave an established Quebec artist (Louise Portal) and aspiring Lebanese-Canadian actor (Ahmed Muslimani) sharing a remote lake house, a bond develops, but the tension rarely abates.

In his debut feature, UBC grad David Findlay crafts an impressively calibrated chamber drama that’s lent a combustible air due to the emotional volatility of these complementary creatives. Despite rarely venturing past the property line, Findlay’s film finds rich thematic territory to explore.

Cast Patrick J. Adams, Troian Bellisario, Ennis Esmer, Kristen Hager, R.H. Thomson Prod Ari Lantos

Cast Louise Portal, Ahmed Muslimani, Kati Outinen Prod Dominique Dussault, David Findlay

Filmography The Rocket List

Quebec

Ontario

Genesis FRI, SEP 28 MON, OCT 1

6:15 PM 12:00 PM

CINE IN08

North American Premiere. At an all-boys conservatory in Quebec, Guillaume (Théodore Pellerin) teeters on the edge of first love, confronted by a yearning for his best friend Nicolas (Jules Roy Sicotte). His sister, the slightly older Charlotte (Noée Abita), is unnerved when her boyfriend (Pier-Luc Funk) asks to loosen the monogamous rules of their relationship. Powerful and provocative, Genesis inverts expectations and defies classification. It’s an ode to innocent love and a cruel examination of our fallen world.

Cast Noée Abita, Théodore Pellerin, Édouard Tremblay-Grenier, Pier-Luc Funk, Émilie Bierre Prod Galilé Marion-Gauvin

THU, OCT 4 SAT, OCT 6

SAT, SEP 29 MON, OCT 1

6:30 PM 3:30 PM

CINE IN08

World Premiere. Navigating the treacherous social tides of high school, Marine (Maeva Tremblay) is cut adrift by Océane (Éléonore Loiselle), her older sister who’s caught in the thrall of an older man (Emmanuel Schwartz). Meanwhile, their mother (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin) struggles to keep her head above water. Drawing from emotionally rich dramas like The Ice Storm, director David Uloth and screenwriter Chloé Cinq-Mars craft a deeply empathetic portrait of these women’s odyssey from frailty to resilience.

Cast Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Réal Bossé, Maeva Tremblay, Éléonore Loiselle, Emmanuel Schwartz Prod Galilé Marion-Gauvin

9:00 PM 4:00 PM

SAT, OCT 6 MON, OCT 8

9:30 PM 1:15 PM

IN10 IN09

Teens Lou (Michaela Kurimsky) and Chantal (Karena Evans) have only one thing on their minds: getting the hell out of their rural Ontario backwater and never looking back. Scouring their stifling surroundings for any source of income, these resilient girls butt heads with a place and a populace that threaten to rob them of their free spirits. A tribute to youthful aspiration, Jasmin Mozaffari’s feature debut offers us the chance to feel as rebellious, as animated, as alive as its protagonists.

Cast Michaela Kurimsky, Karena Evans, Callum Thompson, Tamara LeClair, David Kingston Prod Caitlin Grabham

Roads in February Les Routes en février

KIM O’BOMSAWIN, CANADA, 2018, 76 MIN.

RIO SFU

FRI, SEP 28 SUN, SEP 30

Quebec

Quiet Killing

CARLY STONE, CANADA, 2018, 82 MIN.

PHILIPPE LESAGE, CANADA, 2018, 129 MIN.

JASMIN MOZAFFARI, CANADA, 2018, 93 MIN.

DAVID ULOTH, CANADA, 2018, 104 MIN.

Quebec

The New Romantic

Genèse

Firecrackers

Dérive

DAVID FINDLAY, CANADA, 2018, 77 MIN.

SFU IN10

Ontario

The Far Shore

Everything Outside

AKASH SHERMAN, CANADA, 2018, 105 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 THU, OCT 4

Quebec

Quebec

1:15 PM 6:15 PM

IN09 SFU

Blake (Jessica Barden) is in the awkward position of being a university sex columnist despite her limited experience in such realms.

Idolizing Hunter S. Thompson and hoping to score a lucrative cash award, she goes full gonzo in a bid to see how the “sugar babies” live. Lavished with expensive gifts by an older suitor (Timm Sharp), she senses her own selfworth eroding. Influenced by Ephron and Austen, Carly Stone’s insightful comedy depicts the macabre fairy tale that modern dating has become.

Kim O’Bomsawin’s searing documentary explores the systemic failures that contribute to Indigenous women being eight times more likely to be murdered than other Canadian citizens. More importantly, it puts faces and stories to the women behind these numbers, profiling Indigenous women (including several Vancouver advocates) who seek to put an end to the cycle of violence. Ultimately, Quiet Killing is a story of resilience that carries a vital message about Indigenous women’s right to safety and justice.

Cast Jessica Barden, Hayley Law, Brett Dier, Timm Sharp Prod Jason Ross Jallet, Jonathan Bronfman, Michael Risley

Featuring Lorelei Williams, Angel Gates, Tantoo Cardinal Preceded by Holy Angels p. 101

KATHERINE JERKOVIC, CANADA/URUGUAY, 2018, 83 MIN.

TUE, OCT 2 WED, OCT 3

6:30 PM 1:30 PM

CINE SFU

In the wake of her dad’s passing, Sarah (Arlen Aguayo Stewart) abandons Montreal and decamps to her native Uruguay in order to reconnect with her estranged grandmother (Gloria Demassi). As she endeavors to bridge a divide wrought by generational differences and deep-seated resentments, Sarah comes to understand that “home” can remain perfectly preserved and yet irrevocably changed.

Luminously shot and immaculately acted, Katherine Jerkovic’s debut proves refreshingly unsentimental yet undeniably moving.

Cast Arlen Aguayo Stewart, Gloria Demassi Prod Nicolas Comeau

Selected Filmography The Heart That Beats; Les Démons; Copenhague: A Love Story

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Oct 30–Nov 4, 2018 Vancouver Playhouse

TICKETS AT THECULTCH.COM

True North

Quebec

A Sister’s Song

8:30 PM 11:45 AM

DON MCKELLAR, CANADA, 2018, 111 MIN.

THOM FITZGERALD, CANADA, 2018, 95 MIN.

VCT VCT

FRI, SEP 28 SUN, SEP 30

Quebec

Through Black Spruce

Splinters

DANAE ELON, CANADA, 2018, 81 MIN.

THU, OCT 4 SUN, OCT 7

Ontario

Nova Scotia

1:30 PM 6:00 PM

IN10 RIO

THU, OCT 4 WED, OCT 10

7:15 PM 4:30 PM

IN09 IN10

Ville Neuve

FÉLIX DUFOUR-LAPERRIÈRE, CANADA, 2018, 76 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 29

9:30 PM 1:00 PM

CINE IN08

Returning to rural Nova Scotia for a funeral, Belle (Sofia Banzhaf) relapses into old dynamics with her mother Nancy (Shelley Thompson). Nancy has just accepted Belle’s coming out, revealed years ago when Belle was a teen, so Belle isn’t eager to disclose that she’s now dating the man (Callum Dunphy) who’s unexpectedly arrived on the tense scene to offer moral support. Thom Fitzgerald’s tragicomedy explores the amorphous nature of grief through honest observations, biting humour and hard-won catharsis.

Determined to learn the fate of her missing sister, Annie (Tanaya Beatty) leaves remote Moosonee to investigate the Toronto circles she ran in. Instead, she falls prey to the same seductions that proved her sibling’s undoing.

In a world this predatory, pointed questions provoke devastating consequences that reverberate back to her Cree community, where her uncle (Brandon Oakes) finds himself under siege. Don McKellar’s taut mystery hinges on ugly truths about society’s treatment of Indigenous women.

North American Premiere. Set against the backdrop of the 1995 referendum on Quebec independence, Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s feature debut recounts the story of Joseph (Robert Lalonde), a washed-up novelist and political dissident who rekindles his relationship with his ex-wife Emma (Johanne-Marie Tremblay) at a remote cabin on the Atlantic coast. Making striking use of a monochrome animation style, Ville Neuve is a mesmerizing study of personal and collective crises, told in ambiguous shades of grey.

Prod Paul Cadieux, Danae Elon

Cast Sofia Banzhaf, Shelley Thompson, Bailey Maughan, Callum Dunphy Prod Doug Pettigrew, Thom Fitzgerald

Cast Tanaya Beatty, Brandon Oakes, Kiowa Gordon, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal Prod Tina Keeper, Barbara Samuels, Robert Lantos

Cast Robert Lalonde, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Théodore Pellerin, Gildor Roy Prod Galilé MarionGauvin

Selected Filmography P.S. Jerusalem; The Patriarch’s RoomNova Scotia

Selected Filmography The Event; 3 Needles; Cloud-

Filmography Last Night; Childstar; The Grand Se-

Filmography Transatlantique

burst

duction

North American Premiere. Twenty years after Tatiana found her calling and retreated to a Greek monastery, her sister Marina becomes convinced that the seemingly devoted nun may now regret the path she’s chosen. The incredible intimacy and involving drama that Danae Elon lends her documentary would be the envy of any narrative filmmaker. As we witness those kaleidoscopic conflicts that can only be forged by siblings play out, this enthralling film grows increasingly complex, delving into issues of acceptance, respect and faith.

Ontario

Ontario

Stay connected.

What Is Democracy?

What Walaa Wants

ASTRA TAYLOR, CANADA, 2018, 107 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6 FRI, OCT 12

9:00 PM 10:45 AM

CHRISTY GARLAND, CANADA/DENMARK, 2018, 89 MIN.

SFU SFU

MON, OCT 1 WED, OCT 3

10:45 AM 9:15 PM

IN09 IN09

Astra Taylor’s philosophical documentary reflects on a word we too often take for granted while spanning millennia and continents: from ancient Athens’ groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism’s roots in medieval Italy; from modern-day Greece grappling with financial collapse to the United States reckoning with its racist past. This urgent film connects the past and the present, the emotional and the intellectual, and the personal and the political in order to provoke and inspire.

Disorderly and defiant, 15-year-old Walaa is an unlikely candidate for the Palestinian Security Forces. Sure enough, her transition from a refugee camp to the strict regimen of military training is hardly a smooth one. Employing a cinéma vérité approach and discretely following her subject for six transformational years (this is akin to Boyhood on the West Bank), Christy Garland’s enthralling character study is a vibrant portrait of a clever, tenacious and outspoken Palestinian woman’s coming of age.

Featuring Wendy Brown, Angela Davis, Silvia Federici, Zoe Konstantopoulou, Henry M. “Mickey” Michaux Jr., Cornel West Prod Lea Marin

Featuring Walaa Khaled Fawzi Tanji, Latifa Abu Draa Prod Anne Köhncke, Matt Code, Christy Garland, Justine Pimlott

Filmography Zizek!; Examined Life

Filmography The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song; Doormat; Cheer Up

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Ontario

Ontario

Fausto

ANDREA BUSSMANN, CANADA/MEXICO, 2018, 70 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28 SUN, SEP 30

8:30 PM 1:00 PM

IN08 VCT

On the Oaxacan coast, in a space between our world and heaven and hell, Goethe’s version of the Faust legend is echoed in stories of colonization, greed and the limitations of human perception; the distinction between what we can and cannot see is shown to be an illusion. Tales of shape-shifters, telepathic animals, how a man stole a moon and the clash between mankind and the spirit world all collide in Andrea Bussmann’s mesmerizing blend of myth and reality.

True North

Future//Present

Cast Gabino Rodríguez, Fernando Renjifo, Victor Pueyo, Alberto Núñez, Ziad Chakaroun Prod Andrea Bussmann, Nicolás Pereda Filmography Tales of Two Who Dreamt

M/M

DREW LINT, CANADA/GERMANY, 2017, 82 MIN.

SAT, SEP 29 SUN, OCT 7

9:15 PM 9:00 PM

IN08 RIO

A queer arthouse thriller, Drew Lint’s M/M explores notions of identity and sexuality— and the confusion that can emerge between the two. Newly relocated from Canada, Matthew (Antoine Lahaie) is an outsider in Berlin, where he encounters the dark and mysterious Matthias (Nicolas Maxim Endlicher).

Confident and overtly sexual, Matthias is a living fantasy who represents what Matthew desires to have—and what he wishes to be.

As Matthew’s obsession grows, it threatens to consume both men.

Cast Antoine Lahaie, Nicolas Maxim Endlicher Prod Karen Harnisch, Drew Lint Preceded by The Soft Space p. 101

Preceded by ante mis ojos p. 101

Diverse independent filmmakers from across Canada who demonstrate originality and vision while challenging the medium.

Quebec

British Columbia

Mangoshake

TERRY CHIU, CANADA, 2018, 97 MIN.

MON, OCT 1 WED, OCT 3

6:30 PM 3:15 PM

CINE IN08

Terry Chiu has the eye of a comic visionary; his feature debut is anarchic and downright hilarious. After pals Ian (Ian Sheldon) and Philip (Philip Silverstein) open a mango shake stand, a series of absurd episodes ensues among a group of friends. Set amid the malaise of a suburban summertime, this is a backhanded tribute to the coming-of-age film.

It takes place in an environment that is usually defined by characters who rebel against it; here, they play within it—just like Chiu himself.

Audience Award, What the Film Festival 18 Cast Chloé Yoshino Lemay, Corrina Fisches, Adrian Vaktor, Ray Arzaga, Jessica McKnight Prod Terry Chiu SERIES PRESENTER

BOJAN BODRUŽIC, CANADA/BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, 2018, 87 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 WED, OCT 10

6:15 PM 12:45 PM

IN08 IN08

World Premiere. After being evacuated as a child in 1992, BC-based filmmaker Bojan Bodružic returned to Sarajevo in 2000 and began to film his grandparents; over the course of 15 years, he recorded their incredible life stories and their experiences during the Bosnian War. The result is at once a moving family portrait and an account of a country forever changed. The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs is an invaluable collection of memories—both personal and historical—and a deeply affecting film.

Featuring Josip Bodružic, Emilija Bodružic, Željko Bodružic, Vesna Bodružic Prod Bojan Bodružic Filmography Immigrant

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The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs

True North

Nunuvut

AÏDA MAIGRE-TOUCHET, CANADA/FRANCE/HAITI, 2018, 72 MIN.

6:15 PM 12:15 PM

VIFF High School Program

Spice It Up

Les Flâneries du voyant

FRI, OCT 5 SUN, OCT 7

For High School Students

Ontario

Song of a Seer CINE IN08

North American Premiere. Haitian poet, critic and actor Dominique Batraville rummages through a library of literature and curios while drifting between recitations, musings and memories in a hypnotic stream of consciousness. The film is shot inside his cramped Port-au-Prince home, and yet it conjures a portrait of an entirely offscreen world.

Aïda Maigre-Touchet’s Song of a Seer reveals the intangible qualities lurking beneath surfaces—and points to the infinite space of the human mind.

Featuring Dominique Batraville Prod Aïda MaigreTouchet Preceded by Three Atlas p. 101; A Fortress p. 101

LEV LEWIS, YONAH LEWIS, CALVIN THOMAS, CANADA, 2018, 82 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28 TUE, OCT 2

6:00 PM 8:30 PM

IN08 VCT

World Premiere. Film student Rene (Jennifer Hardy) struggles to complete her thesis project in this unique tragicomedy. Everyone she shares her feature with is dismissive, but she’s determined to finish it. The film-within-a-film is a piece of straight-faced absurdity in which seven female friends enlist in the Canadian army. It contrasts with the story of Rene’s creative solitude, but the portrayals of bonding and loneliness also slyly align in this satire of Canadiana from Lev Lewis, Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas.

Cast Jennifer Hardy, Shivali Barot, Samantha Cole, Déjah Dixon-Green, Jennifer Graydon Prod Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas Filmography (Lev Lewis) The Intestine; (Yonah Lewis) Amy George; The Oxbow Cure; (Calvin Thomas) Amy George; The Oxbow Cure Preceded by Where p. 101, Roy Thomson p. 101

Ontario

Last year, VIFF welcomed over 1,500 secondary students to experience exceptional cinema from around the world. From stories of youth exploring identity to films that capture historical moments and reveal previously untold stories, great cinema develops critical thinking skills, provides exposure to different perspectives and ignites imaginations. Be they set in Haida Gwaii, Palestine, France or Singapore, these stories will connect young audiences with some of the most powerful forces shaping our contemporary world and identities.

What’s New?

This year, we’ve expanded the frame of our high school program! Teachers will now have access to teacher resource guides tailored to each film. Written with reference to BC’s new curriculum, these resources will facilitate engaged discussion from the cinema to the classroom and beyond.

How to Book

We offer a special High School Program Ticket Price of $8 per student for groups of 10 or more (includes two complimentary supervisor tickets per class). Full details and resource materials can be found at goviff.org/education.

Amateurs p. 45

Edge of the Knife p. 65

GABRIELA PICHLER, SWEDEN

WED, OCT 3

10:45AM

GWAAI EDENSHAW, HELEN HAIG-BROWN, CANADA

SFU-GCA

Course & sexual language, violence

10:45AM

VARIOUS

TUE, OCT 2

SFU-GCA

SANDY TAN, USA

WED, OCT 10

Waiting for April

IGOR DRLJAČA, CANADA/BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, 2018, 92 MIN.

OLIVIER GODIN, CANADA, 2018, 78 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 TUE, OCT 9

3:30 PM 12:45 PM

IN08 IN08

In present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, economically depressed towns turn themselves into tourist destinations in order to survive— deliberately forming their own cultural narratives. Centering on four different locations, The Stone Speakers interrogates a nation’s contradictory memories. Made with subtlety and tactful distance, director Igor Drljaca’s film reveals the traumatic consequences of being a country that is stuck in a postwar identity crisis.

Prod Igor Drljača, Albert Shin Filmography Krivina; The Waiting Room

Teen Perspectives p. 100

En attendant avril

WED, OCT 3 THU, OCT 4

6:30 PM 1:00 PM

VARIOUS

CINE IN08

North American Premiere. A detective investigating the case of a mystical singing bone, an actor with the arm of a gorilla, and a cashier from the Bank of Permanent Fog all come together in Olivier Godin’s playful mix of the theatrical and the cinematic. Graced with delightfully bizarre dialogue, Waiting for April is a unique independent comedy full of romance, colour and formal pleasure. It expresses the joy of storytelling, as well as the potential tenderness of all the strange encounters awaiting us.

Cast Michel Faubert, Johanna Nutter, Étienne Pilon, Tatiana Zinga Botao Prod Olivier Godin, Renaud Després-Larose, Ana Tapia Rousiouk Filmography Le Pays des âmes; Nouvelles, Nouvelles; The Art of Speech

THU, OCT 4

IN10

Shirkers p. 81

CRISTINA COSTANTINI, DARREN FOSTER, USA

The Stone Speakers

11:15AM

Course language, violence

Science Fair p. 78 11:00AM

SFU-GCA

p. 99 SFU-GCA

Sexually suggestive scene

FRI, SEP 28

10:30 AM

Reel Youth Film Festival

CÉDRIC KAHN, FRANCE

THU, OCT 4

FRI, OCT 5

Subject to Classification

The Prayer p. 59

Quebec

Kameni Govornici

Future//Present

11:00AM

IN09

SFU-GCA

What is Democracy? p. 71 ASTRA TAYLOR, CANADA

FRI, OCT 12

Course & sexual language, violence

11:00AM

Course language, violence, nudity

10:45 AM

SFU-GCA

Course & sexual language

What Walaa Wants p. 71 CHRISTY GARLAND, CANADA

MON, OCT 1

10:45AM

Subject to Classification

Winter Flies p. 57

OLMO OMERZU, CZECH REPUBLIC

IN09

THU, OCT 11

10:45AM

SFU-GCA

Sexually suggestive scene; coarse & sexual language

Also new to the High School Program this year is VIFF Immersed: an exhibition featuring some of the best North American storytelling in the realms of Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality. With more than 15 experiences that engage viewers through a wide range of technology platforms, this exhibition celebrates the best of immersive storytelling.

We’re offering two two-hour exhibitions exclusively for secondary school groups. For more information about special group ticket prices and other VIFF Immersed details, please contact our High School Outreach Coordinator at education@viff.org

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Insights

Impact

Germany

USA

Central Airport THF

Dawnland

Zentralflughafen THF

ADAM MAZO, BEN PENDER-CUDLIP, USA, 2018, 86 MIN.

KARIM AÏNOUZ, GERMANY/FRANCE/BRAZIL, 2017, 97 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 WED, OCT 3

Impact

10:30 AM 8:45 PM

VCT CINE

Canadian Premiere. Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, once among the world’s 20 largest buildings, closed in 2008, but since 2015 it has had a new purpose: as an emergency refugee shelter. With a focus on 18-year-old Syrian refugee Ibrahim Al Hussein, director Karim Aïnouz and crew spent a year chronicling one community amongst the many; his gently probing camera, humanist perspective and sensitivity to the refugees’ plight are echoed in his feel for the architectural forms within which these asylum seekers dream of new lives.

Prod Felix von Boehm

THU, OCT 4 SAT, OCT 6

9:15 PM 10:45 AM

SFU IN09

Canadian Premiere. Residential schools, forced adoption by white families and other actions intended to “kill the Indian to save the child”: America has its own legacy of disgrace when it comes to Indigenous children. This film documents an attempt to address it by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a troubled collaboration between the five Wabanaki nations and the state of Maine.

Granted intimate access to the project, directors Mazo and Pender-Cudlip have produced an essential work—an act of bearing witness.

Prod Adam Mazo, N. Bruce Duthu, J.D. Filmography (Adam Mazo) Coexist; (Ben PenderCudlip) Get Out of the Road

Selected Filmography Madame Satã; Love for Sale; Futuro Beach

Uncompromising films and insightful discussions that spark action and change the way we see the world.

USA

Switzerland

The Devil We Know

Eldorado

STEPHANIE SOECHTIG, USA, 2018, 88 MIN.

WED, OCT 10 THU, OCT 11

7:15 PM 11:30 AM

IN10 IN09

In 1938, Dupont Co. invented the chemical compound known as Teflon, and it soon coated pans in kitchens everywhere—so much so that at least one of the chemicals involved is found in the bloodstreams of 99.7% of Americans. Stephanie Soechtig’s blistering indictment looks at the residents of Parkersburg, West Virginia—home to the Teflon plant and a large number of ill or deformed people—as they fight the corporate behemoth. “A riveting tale of long-term irresponsibility and injustice.”—Variety Featuring Bucky Bailey, Joe Kiger, Mike Papantonio, Ken Cook, Sharon Lerner, Rob Bilott Filmography Tapped; Fed Up; Under the Gun

MARKUS IMHOOF, SWITZERLAND/GERMANY, 2018, 92 MIN.

THU, SEP 27 WED, OCT 3

8:45 PM 10:30 AM

VCT VCT

North American Premiere. Veteran Markus Imhoof’s quietly angry documentary weaves together his childhood memories of displacement and tragedy during WWII with the current refugee crisis in Europe. Powerful, intimate and emotional by turns, this is the kind of personal filmmaking we rarely see anymore.

“One of the most moving statements to have been made thus far on the refugee crisis… Imhoof’s gently roaming camera holds a mirror to Western society, and it reflects a distorted and ugly face.”—Screen Featuring Caterina Genta, Robert Hunger-Bühler Prod Thomas Kufus, Pierre-Alain Meier, Markus Imhoof Selected Filmography Das Boot ist voll; Der Berg; More Than Honey

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Israel

Israel

In My Room (Israel)

The Oslo Diaries

AYELET ALBENDA, ISRAEL, 2017, 70 MIN.

SAT, SEP 29 MON, OCT 1

11:00 AM 9:15 PM

France

SFU IN09

North American Premiere. Deeply intimate, unexpectedly moving and entirely of its moment, Ayelet Albenda’s documentary unfolds through footage culled from six teenagers’ self-produced YouTube videos. Make no mistake—these aren’t social media stars or influencers. They’re just average kids documenting their trials (including pregnancy and eating disorders) and trying to make some sense of them. The remarkably honest moments they share quickly coalesce into an involving study of the myriad iterations of adolescence.

Prod Naama Pyritz

MOR LOUSHY, DANIEL SIVAN, ISRAEL/CANADA, 2018, 98 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 29 FRI, OCT 12

10:30 AM 6:15 PM 3:00 PM

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A skillful, vibrant blend of re-enactments, archival footage and present-day interviews, this timely documentary looks back to the early 90s, when PLO and Israeli negotiators came together to craft a peace deal in Oslo.

Featuring those who were in the thick of the negotiations—including former Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who gave his last interview to the filmmakers before his death in 2016— this is both a fascinating look back to a time of hope and a warning for the future. Essential viewing.

Featuring Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Dr. Yossi Beilin, Maher el-Kurd, Dr. Saeb Erekat Prod Hilla Medalia, Ina Fichman

Filmography Yom Yom

Filmography (Mor Loushy) Israel Ltd.; Censored

Insights Impact

UK

Samouni Road

The Serengeti Rules

La strada dei Samouni

NICOLAS BROWN, UK, 2018, 84 MIN.

STEFANO SAVONA, FRANCE/ITALY, 2018, 129 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 TUE, OCT 2

6:00 PM 12:00 PM

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North American Premiere. In 2009, an Israeli military operation in Gaza City led to the massacre of 48 Palestinian civilians; 29 were from the Samouni family. Stefano Savona’s forceful documentary shows the aftermath for the surviving clan members, as seen through the eyes of 14-year-old Amal Samouni. Interspersing animation and a reconstruction of the massacre with a consideration of daily life, this is an unforgettable work. “Its success at showing real lives unfathomably impacted by barbarism is beyond dispute.”—Variety Prod Penelope Bortoluzzi, Marco Alessi, Cécile Lestrade Selected Filmography Cast Lead; Palazzo delle Aquile; Tahrir: Liberation Square

MON, OCT 8 WED, OCT 10

6:45 PM 11:15 AM

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Canadian Premiere. Five brilliant research scientists from around the globe feature in Nicolas Brown’s adaptation of Sean Carroll’s influential book, a tome that suggests nature works according to certain rules and demonstrates how we may be able to reverse some of the damage we have done to ecosystems worldwide. “Compelling viewing… Stunning cinematography and arresting juxtapositions… Sounds an alarm, but… permits a chink of light into the traditionally bleak narrative of man’s impact on the land.”—Screen Featuring Bob Paine, Matthieson McCrae, Jim Estes, Jaime Excell Prod David Allen Selected Filmography Pandas: The Journey Home; Human Planet; The Truth About Global Warming

Voices; (Daniel Sivan) Monkey Business; The Life and Death of Gotel Botel; The Patriot

Spain

Lebanon

The Silence of Others

ALMUDENA CARRACEDO, ROBERT BAHAR, SPAIN/USA, 2018, 96 MIN.

THU, OCT 4 SAT, OCT 6

1:45 PM 6:30 PM

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What Comes Around Al Gami’ya

REEM SALEH, LEBANON/EGYPT/GREECE/QATAR/ SLOVENIA, 2018, 79 MIN.

MON, OCT 1 SUN, OCT 7

11:00 AM 8:30 PM

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North American Premiere. A six-year quest to break “the silence of others,” Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar’s urgent documentary chronicles the attempts by victims of Franco’s murderous 36-year dictatorship in Spain to gain justice and restitution. Depicting a country that still has statues of the Generalissimo in some towns and torturers—one of them living only metres away from one of his victims in Madrid—getting off scotfree, the film comes across as “courageous, moving, lithe, necessary and eye-opening.”

—Cineuropa

North American Premiere. Rod El Farag is one of the poorest residential areas in Cairo, a place where even basic staples like bread are beyond the reach of some inhabitants. But community spirit has led to a practice called “al Gami’ya,” wherein people contribute a little money into a pot and a decision is made each week to give it to the neediest community member. Reem Saleh spent six years following one such community, and her intimate, scrupulously detailed portrait of solidarity provides entry into an unknown world.

Audience Award, Berlin (Panorama) 18

Prod Konstantina Stravrianou, Reem Saleh

Featuring María Martín, José María Galante, Carlos Slepoy Prod Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar

VIFF Impact Award 5,000

$

Presented by the Lochmaddy Foundation

Cinema has the unique immersive power to take us behind the headlines, spin, and the short-attention-span news coverage and commentary—be it “fake” or perfectly well-intentioned—we are so inundated with in the modern media landscape. Cinema can offer profound insight into the real life dramas unfolding around the world. It can show us what needs fixing and place blame while providing hope and forgiveness.

It can inspire people to change their own lives so that they can subsequently help improve others.

Our Impact competition highlights a selection of documentaries that possess this power. For this year’s competition, we’ve foregrounded films that represent prominent themes found in the festival at large—themes that are extremely topical at this historical moment.

We’re pleased to be able to provide one film in this series with a cash award that will help amplify its message.

Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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Sustainable Impact Production Forum

Sustainable production is the future of filmmaking, and the screen-based storytelling community can shift business-as-usual practices and contribute to the global conversation about sustainability.

As the world’s first and leading conference focused on advancing the greening of the motion picture industry, the Vancouver International Film Festival’s Sustainable Production Forum provides a platform to explore, exchange and drive change at all levels of the motion picture eco-system. The 2018 Sustainable Production Forum will focus on “Transforming Culture” with expert panelists speaking to the ever-changing nature of the sustainable production movement in the motion picture and television industries.

PRESENTS

Sustainable Production Forum

DAY 1

DAY 2

Sustainable Physical Production – What’s Happening with Production in BC?

Sustainable Development Goals and Entertainment

FRI, OCT 5

11:00AM-12:00PM

Nearly all productions that shoot in British Columbia are implementing sustainable practices. This session will focus on approaches to sustainable practices in BC from those who’ve implemented them. Find out what a producer, production manager, location manager or gaffer thinks about how to reduce environmental impacts on their productions.

The Whirlwind of Commercials and Sustainable Production FRI, OCT 5

1:00PM-2:00PM

In the fast-paced advertising world, the question is, “Can sustainable production practices be implemented?” Learn from those at different points in the advertising value chain about the tools and approaches for sustainable production.

Integrated Strategies in Location Stewardship FRI, OCT 5

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

SUPPORTED BY

2:00PM-5:30PM

The Industry Stewardship panels brings decision makers at all levels of production together with local government partners and international counterparts to share the background and new strategies in location stewardship that will continue to distinguish BC’s reputation as leaders in production-industry sustainability.

SAT, OCT 6

10:00AM-11:00AM

This session will focus on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the role of entertainment. The 17 SDGs offer an opportunity to discuss the social and environmental aspect of sustainability, and to expand how we think about our ability to transform culture.

The Hollywood Effect SAT, OCT 6

11:30AM-12:30PM

In this session we explore storytelling and the ability to influence audiences: that thing known as the “Hollywood Effect.” How is consideration of the planet incorporated into the storyline and on-screen behaviour, and how can we model the changes we want to see in the world?

Systems Thinking and the Studio Lot SAT, OCT 6

2:00PM-3:00PM

There are many components to making a motion picture: material inputs, storyline, human resources, behaviour, energy, facilities—and the list goes on… In this session we’ll explore the concept of “systems thinking” and discuss how our facilities can encourage a sustainable production.

Disruption Breeds Innovation SAT, OCT 6

3:30PM-4:30PM

Climate change is the biggest threat of our time. We must disrupt our current way of doing business and create innovative ways to approach our craft. Meet changemakers and learn how they are disrupting business as usual and strategize about how our industry will operate in the future. It wouldn’t be right to end the SPF without a commitment to disrupt the system as it now stands!

Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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USA

Science Fair

CRISTINA COSTANTINI, DARREN FOSTER, USA, 2018, 90 MIN

FRI, SEP 28 TUE, OCT 2 FRI, OCT 5

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Insights

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

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Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster’s joyful documentary can’t help but inspire hope. Nine science-obsessed teenagers are portrayed in the lead-up to the esteemed Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, where the winner stands to pocket a cool $75,000 and perhaps change the world. With entries from 78 countries—a Brazilian girl and a German boy are featured alongside the Americans—the fair is huge, and the film evolves into “an affectionate and supremely entertaining celebration…”—Variety Audience Award, Sundance 18 Featuring Anjali Chadha, Ryan Folz, Harsha Paladugu, Abraham Riedel-Mishaan Prod Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster, Jeffrey Plunkett

This acclaimed series explores the endless possibilities of nonfiction filmmaking while probing involving

Italy

Switzerland

subject matter.

Baikonur, Earth

Chris the Swiss

Bajkonur, Terra

ANJA KOFMEL, SWITZERLAND/CROATIA/GERMANY/ FINLAND, 2018, 90 MIN

ANDREA SORINI, ITALY, 2018, 74 MIN

THU, OCT 4 SUN, OCT 7

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1:45 PM 6:30 PM

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World Premiere. Baikonur, home to the old Soviet Space Program, is still the place where astronauts begin their journey to the International Space Station. Andrea Sorini’s remarkable documentary, all of whose images are spectacular in their formal rigour and compositional beauty, depicts the region’s ruins and its exotic strangeness (cows inhabit a colourful modernist bus stop, camels roam the streets), as well as the ongoing use of the space centre and the launch of a manned rocket heading to the ISS.

North American Premiere. In 1992, at the height of the war in the Balkans, war reporter and shady character Christian Würtenberg was found murdered in Croatia. Filmmaker Anja Kofmel, Chris’ cousin, was just 10 years old at the time of his death, but now she has crafted a unique combination of investigative documentary and speculative animation that seeks to solve the case. “A tragical mystery tour with excellent animated elements… [This is] a stirring, suspenseful and technically accomplished work.”—Hollywood Reporter

Prod Andrea Gori, Claudio Esposito

Featuring Megan Gay, Joel Basman, Michael Würtenberg, Veronika Schwab, Carlos Ilich Prod Samir, Sinisa Juricic, Heino Deckert, Iikka Vehkalahti

Impact

Cuba

Denmark

Cuban Food Stories ASORI SOTO, CUBA/USA, 2018, 82 MIN

SAT, SEP 29 SUN, OCT 7

3:15 PM 9:30 PM

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Canadian Premiere. Cuba is experiencing something of a food renaissance these days.

That’s good news for locals, foodie tourists and viewers of this delightful movie, in which director Asori Soto revisits his homeland and explores its culinary culture. Venturing well off the beaten path, Soto makes some fascinating—and mouth-watering—discoveries, while also shining a light on his country’s rich history and traditions. “[A] gorgeous love letter to the people and country of Cuba.”—Film Threat

Greece

The Distant Barking of Dogs

SIMON LERENG WILMONT, DENMARK, 2017, 90 MIN

MON, OCT 8 WED, OCT 10

6:30 PM 11:00 AM

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Filmography Vedado

Two years in the life of 10-year-old Oleg and his fellow villagers, all living very near the frontlines of the Russian-Ukrainian war, are captured in Simon Lereng Wilmont’s haunting, immersive documentary debut. Observational in nature, the film follows the boy—an orphan being raised by his grandmother—and his friends as the psychological effects of living in a war zone begin to show and hijinks are replaced by darker actions… “Finds beauty and horror on the bleeding edge of war.”

—Hollywood Reporter

Preceded by The Harvesters p. 101

Best First Appearance, IDFA 17

Belgium/USA

Dolphin Man: The Story of Jacques Mayol LEFTERIS CHARITOS, GREECE/CANADA/FRANCE, 2017, 80 MIN

TUE, OCT 2 WED, OCT 3

9:30 PM 2:00 PM

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Canadian Premiere. The greatest free diver in history and the man who inspired Luc Besson’s The Big Blue, Jacques Mayol led a fascinating life: his obsession with dolphins, diving, ocean conservation and the limits of human endurance—400 ft. deep plunges!— took him around the world. Lefteris Charitos’ immersive documentary, replete with gorgeously photographed present-day underwater scenes, archival footage and interviews with other free-diving champs, traces the life of the peripatetic adventurer.

Featuring Jean-Marc Barr Prod Rea Apostolides, Yuri Averof, Ed Barreveld, Estelle Robin You

Prod Monica Hellström

Canada

The Image You Missed

DONAL FOREMAN, IRELAND/USA/FRANCE, 2018, 73 MIN

MON, OCT 8 WED, OCT 10

1:30 PM 7:15 PM

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Trois destins

DEBRA KELLNER, CANADA/FRANCE, 2018, 70 MIN

MON, OCT 1 MON, OCT 8

8:30 PM 5:00 PM

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Canadian Premiere. “A film between Donal Foreman and Arthur MacCaig,” reads the main credit for Foreman’s personal inquiry into the life of his rarely seen father, the late filmmaker MacCaig—a man whose focus on Irish nationalist politics in the 60s and 70s left him little time for fatherhood. Foreman weaves together a fascinating look back at an era when “The Troubles” dominated headlines and socialist politics inflamed the Republican cause. In the process, he also fashions a melancholy poem to his late father.

At the peak of the refugee and migrant crisis, three families are forced to flee war-torn Syria and Afghanistan, seeking safe harbour on foreign shores. Demonstrating the same compassionate eye with this documentary that she’s lent her award-winning photography, Debra Kellner captures moving tales of peoples’ resilience in the wake of witnessing the unthinkable and having the lives they’ve known wrested away. This is a vital reminder about the individuals who have been swept up in a global crisis.

Grand Prize, Genre & Avant-Garde, BAFICI 18

Prod Frank Giustra, Serge Lalou, Richard Copans

Featuring Arthur MacCaig, Donal Foreman, Maeve Foreman, Ernest Larsen Prod Donal Foreman

Filmography Les Vagabonds de la forêt

Filmography Out of Here

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 107 MIN.

THU, OCT 4 SAT, OCT 6

6:30 PM 3:45 PM

CINE IN09

Here are two great documentaries about work in the age of what some of us, perhaps hopefully, call late capitalism. Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs’ Washing Society is a creative study of laundromat service workers in NYC—women who do a hard job for far too little money. Sophie Bruneau’s lyrical Dreaming Under Capitalism has its subjects recount their work-related dreams; we hear of waking anxieties turned into dark, often scary symbolism. Together, the films form a soulful duet.

Dreaming Under Capitalism Rêver sous le capitalisme SOPHIE BRUNEAU, BELGIUM, 2017, 63 MIN

LIZZIE OLESKER, LYNNE SACHS, USA, 2018, 44 MIN

USA

Inside My Heart

Dreaming Under Capitalism

The Washing Society

Filmography Graine de champion; Traveling with Mr. T.

Ireland

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France

Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student’s Journey JAKE CLENNELL, USA, 2018, 103 MIN

TUE, OCT 9 THU, OCT 11

11:15 AM 6:30 PM

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World Premiere. Acclaimed cinematographer Jake Clennell (Amy, Restrepo) directs this enlightening vérité documentary about the late B.K.S. Iyengar, one of the world’s most influential spiritual leaders before—and beyond—his passing in 2014. The author of classic books on its philosophies and practices, Iyengar was pivotal in advancing yoga’s popularity both in his native India and around the world. After three years of filming, Clennell has distilled 300 hours of footage into this definitive portrait.

Featuring Silpi Padmanabhachary, BKS Iyengar, Prashant Iyengar, Geeta Iyengar, Abhijata Sridhar

Jamilia Djamilia

AMINATOU ECHARD, FRANCE/KYRGYZSTAN, 2018, 84 MIN

TUE, OCT 9 THU, OCT 11

8:30 PM 10:45 AM

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In Chingiz Aytmatov’s 1958 novella Jamilia, the titular heroine bucks convention and escapes an arranged marriage to elope with her true love. An iconic figure for women in Kyrgyzstan, she serves as the entry point for director Aminatou Echard who, by getting her subjects to talk about their relationships to the character, creates an insightful portrait of Kyrgyz women today, many of whom are modern Jamilias fighting against anti-feminist traditions. Shot beautifully on Super 8, the film is a gem.

Prod Laurence Rebouillon Filmography Broadway

Filmography The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief

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ILLUSTRATOR : OLA VOLO | PHOTOGRAPHER: KK LAW

one month. many docs.

Impact

France

USA

John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection

The Lost City of the Monkey God

L’Empire de la perfection

4:00 PM 8:45 PM

VCT IN08

In 1984, fiery tennis star John McEnroe accrued a winning percentage that has yet to be bested: a whopping 96.5%. Repurposing footage shot by Gil de Kermadec at that year’s French Open, Julien Faraut returns us to the tournament’s final match where McEnroe did battle with Ivan Lendl. Narrated by Mathieu Amalric, this agile essay film explores the strange relationship that exists between cinema and tennis. And it comes damn close to achieving the titular feat that McEnroe never quite managed.

Featuring John McEnroe, Mathieu Amalric Prod William Jéhannin, Raphaëlle Delauche Filmography Un regard neuf sur Olympia 52

SAT, SEP 29 MON, OCT 1

6:15 PM 1:00 PM

USA

Putin’s Witnesses

Shirkers

Svideteli Putina

SANDI TAN, USA, 2018, 96 MIN

VITALY MANSKY, LATVIA/SWITZERLAND/CZECH REPUBLIC, 2018, 102 MIN

BILL BENENSON, USA, 2018, 100 MIN

JULIEN FARAUT, FRANCE, 2018, 95 MIN

TUE, OCT 2 SAT, OCT 6

Latvia

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World Premiere. Rumours of a lost Maya city in the Honduran jungle have excited archaeologists for more than 100 years. Now, with the aid of laser-scanning technology and Honduran troops, explorer Steve Elkins and his team of archaeologists, scientists and filmmakers set off to find it. And they do!

Bill Benenson’s thrilling documentary shows the obstacles—thick jungle, torrential rains, deadly reptiles—the team overcomes in their quest, before revealing the amazing city itself.

The journey was worth it...

FRI, SEP 28 SUN, SEP 30

Insights

3:45 PM 9:30 PM

IN09 IN10

Vitaly Mansky was head of the documentary department for Russia’s state TV network when the nation was transitioning from the Yeltsin government to the authoritarian one that now exists under Vladimir Putin. Here, the exiled director reassembles his footage from those days to riveting, frightening effect. “An extraordinarily revealing portrait of Vladimir Putin’s ascension to power… delivers what seems almost impossibly close access to Putin, his colleagues and outgoing president Boris Yeltsin.”—Screen

Prod Bill Benenson, Laurie Benenson

Best Documentary, Karlovy Vary 18

Filmography Dirt! The Movie; The Hadza: Last of the First; The Marginal Way

Featuring Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin Prod Natalia Manskaya, Gabriela Bussmann, Filip Remunda, Vít Klusák

SAT, OCT 6 WED, OCT 10

6:30 PM 11:00 AM

SFU SFU

In 1992, filmmaker Sandi Tan was a teenager making the first Singaporean road movie— until her film teacher Georges Cardona disappeared, taking the footage with him.

Two decades later, the footage turned up, prompting Tan to direct this blend of fiction and documentary, which conflates the now and the then to marvelous effect. “An exemplary work of counter-lives and alternative histories, intimate self-portraiture and cultural reconstruction, hard-won empathy and painful reconciliation.”—New Yorker Best Director (Documentary), Sundance 18 Featuring Sandi Tan, Jasmine Ng, Sophie Siddique Prod Sandi Tan, Jessica Levin, Maya Rudolph

Selected Filmography Pipeline; Under the Sun; Motherland or Death

Argentina

France

Wine Calling

Theatre of War

Le vin se lève

Teatro de guerra

BRUNO SAUVARD, FRANCE, 2018, 95 MIN

LOLA ARIAS, ARGENTINA/SPAIN, 2018, 82 MIN

WED, OCT 10 THU, OCT 11

9:00 PM 12:45 PM

CINE IN08

FRI, OCT 5 SUN, OCT 7

9:00 PM 11:30 AM

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North American Premiere. Performance artist Lola Arias’ debut documentary brings together six traumatized veterans from both sides of 1982’s British-Argentine war in the Falklands/Malvinas. Arias then has them enact or re-enact violent confrontations in an attempt to help them exorcise their warbred demons. Treading the razor-thin edge between documentary and fiction, the film is fascinating and often moving; as a project, it does seem to have a therapeutic effect on all involved. “Witty, self-aware [and] cathartic…”

—Variety

World Premiere. Fine wines have long been associated with France, but there are select few French winemakers who’ve embraced modern sustainable practices.

Bruno Sauvard’s intoxicating documentary spends a year with this rebellious new wave as they reinvent farming practices and guide a global movement toward increased ecological responsibility without any compromise in quality. By redefining the very nature of the terroir, these pioneers have lent a whole new character to their wines. Raise a glass to the revolution!

Featuring Lou Armour, David Jackson, Rubén Otero, Sukrim Rai, Gabriel Sagastume, Marcelo Vallejo Prod Gema Juárez Allen, Alejandra Grinschpun

Featuring Laurence Manya Krief, Olivier Cros, Sylvain Respaut, Stéphane Morin Prod Nicolas Manuel

Discover more docs!

It’s a fact: This year’s VIFF boasts more than 60 documentary features spread across multiple streams!

To see the full list of these films, visit viff.org and search “Documentaries” in the “Genre” index.

Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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VIFF Immersed The Vancouver International Film Festival extends its mission of celebrating excellence in screen-based storytelling with the launch of VIFF Immersed. Dedicated to exceptional narrative storytelling in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), VIFF Immersed will host a two-day conference program where art, technology and business will intersect. Plus, the three-day public exhibition offers fans firsthand engagement with immersive experiences that are reimagining storytelling. For more information, please visit: goviff. org/immersed Conference guests include: Clifford Dawson, Greenlight • Anna Ticktin, Samsung •Joel Breton, HTC Vive • Tony Mugavero, Littlstar • Tony Mariani, Digital Domain • Lauren Selig, IMAX VR Fund • Andrew MacDonald, Cream VR • Navid Khonsaari, iNK Stories • James George, Depthkit, Scatter presents

NEXT Accelerating the advancement and innovation of creative industries in British Columbia.

DAY 1:

DAY 2:

New Realities in Storytelling

BC Immersed PRESENTED BY

Reliance Theatre Emily Carr University of Art + Design 520 East 1st Ave SAT, SEP 29

10:00AM-6:00PM

The New Realities in Storytelling conference is designed to connect VIFF attendees with global leaders in the creative-technology sector. Case studies and panel discussions will explore advancements in technologies, creative execution, distribution and commercial viability in the VR/AR/MR (XR) space.

With support from Samsung VR Video, Neweb Labs, Tourism Vancouver, Canada Media Fund, Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Reliance Theatre Emily Carr University of Art + Design 520 East 1st Ave SUN, SEP 30

10:00AM-6:00PM

BC Immersed, presented by Creative BC, is a day of workshops for creators and innovators aiming to develop skills and pick up tips that can be immediately applied to multiple aspects of immersive production. Top experts will speak on image capture, production workflow, live 360 broadcasting and more.

The program also includes “BC Showcase” presentations, which focus on immersive content produced and created by BC-based companies. With support from Samsung VR Video, Tourism Vancouver, Canada Media Fund, and Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

VIFF Immersed: Exhibition PRESENTED BY

SPONSORED BY

The Hanger The Centre for Digital Media 685 Great Northern Way VIFF Immersed: Exhibition, presented by Samsung VR Video, is a three-day ticketed public exhibition with some of the most innovative experiences to be engaged with across a wide range of technology platforms. This exhibition celebrates the best of immersive storytelling and reflects the current state of the burgeoning industry. With support from Canada Media Fund, Tourism Vancouver, Neweb Labs, and The Centre for Digital Media.

SEP 30-OCT 2 | Please check goviff.org/immersed for exhibition times.

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Kid Koala

invites you to join his “ambient turntable orchestra” p. 42

VIFF AMP

PRESENTED BY

SUPPORTED BY

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

Annex • 823 Seymour St (All events unless otherwise noted.)

VIFF AMP is a two-day summit dedicated to music in film and TV and welcomes music supervisors, composers, filmmakers and industry leaders from across North America. The summit includes panels, networking opportunities and workshops with music supervisors, composers, labels, content creators and post-production experts as well as other key industry leaders. This event is presented with support from Tourism Vancouver, SOCAN (The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada), and SCGC (The Screen Composers Guild of Canada).

The State of the Art: The Composer Landscape in 2018 Pyatt Hall at the VSO School Of Music 843 Seymour St. WED, OCT 3

6:00PM-7:30PM

Three composers get a chance to work through the scoring process from agent to producer in this interactive event. The panel consists of a composer’s agent, a music supervisor, a studio executive, a network executive and an executive producer.

VIFF LIVE Artist Showcase WED, OCT 3

8:00PM-10:00PM

VIFF LIVE expands the spotlight from festival cinema to live music, and gives BC artists the opportunity to perform at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival.

On this special night of exciting live music showcases, emerging artists will have a rare opportunity to showcase their creativity and talent in front of local and international industry delegates, music supervisors and new audiences.

International Sounds Marketplace THU, OCT 4

10:00AM-11:15PM

An in-depth look into music and motion from a diverse group of music and film panellists focusing on emerging marketplaces, global trends and ways to connect with new music and compositions in a modern world. This panel will be valuable for all filmmakers and musicians wanting to grow their careers and learn about new angles on music in all forms of film and media.

Composure in Composing THU, OCT 4

11:45AM-12:30PM

A diverse group of composers get together for an informal session on their experience, tricks of the trade and getting ahead in the ever-changing world of composition. From stock to Star Wars, learn about the whole spectrum of possibilities for the use of music in motion.

RZA

live scores a Shaw Brothers classic for the ultimate hip hop/ kung fu mashup p. 43

Everywhere Music THU, OCT 4

1:30PM-2:15PM

Speakers from the local games industry, international ad agencies and post-production studios will speak to the methods of curation and completion of content projects.

Adventures in Sync THU, OCT 4

2:45PM-4:00PM

This eclectic group of speakers will showcase key scenes from their music supervision past and present in order to provide a lens on the process of syncing music in all forms of film and media. If you are a songwriter, director, local musician, composer, label or publisher, this will be a unique behindthe-scenes conversation not to be missed.

Music BC’s SOUNDOFF THU, OCT 4

7:00PM-10:00PM

The VIFF AMP summit closes out with the second year of Music BC’s SOUNDOFF – A “How-to Series” event. World-class music supervisors discuss the ups and downs and challenges of music supervision. What’s working? What isn’t? Live music performances by local songwriters highlight this interactive night that will provide insight into placing your music in TV, film, games, ads and media.

Other Conferences

Totally Indie Day

Sustainable Production Forum

PRESENTED BY

PRESENTED BY

SEP 29

9:00AM-5:15PM

VCT

A dynamic day, designed to provide content creators with real insight and advice from top industry pros and rising new talent. Here’s where you’ll find out what you need to do to rise to the top. More info on Page 67.

More talks and events to be announced.

OCT 5-6

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China

Ash Is Purest White Jiang Hu Er Nü

JIA ZHANGKE, CHINA/FRANCE, 2018, 136 MIN.

WED, OCT 3 FRI, OCT 5

Gateway

8:45 PM 3:30 PM

CENT PLAY

Thought to be the greatest working filmmaker—not just in China but, by some, in the world—Jia Zhangke has been making masterpieces for at least two decades, and here he gives us another one. The film begins in 2001. Once again, the heroine is played by Zhao Tao; her boyfriend is gangster Bin (Liao Fan), for whom she winds up going to prison. Upon her release, she goes looking for him, and what follows is a journey of discovery and disillusionment that takes us all the way to 2018...

Cast Zhao Tao, Liao Fan, Xu Zheng, Casper Liang Prod Shozo Ichiyama Selected Filmography Platform; A Touch of Sin; Mountains May Depart

Journey into the cinematic reaches of East Asia with some of the world’s most compelling storytellers as your guides.

Taiwan

China

14 Apples

Ala Changso

Shisi ke pingguo

Ala Jiangse

MIDI Z, TAIWAN/MYANMAR, 2018, 84 MIN.

MON, OCT 1 WED, OCT 10

6:30 PM 1:15 PM

SONTHAR GYAL, CHINA, 2018, 115 MIN.

IN08 VCT

MON, OCT 8 WED, OCT 10

3:30 PM 9:30 PM

Canadian Premiere. Wang Shin-hong is Taiwanese-Burmese director Midi Z’s main fiction-film actor, and he suffers from insomnia. A fortune teller offers a cure: enter a monastery for 14 days and eat an apple each day. So Wang goes to a tiny rural Burmese monastery, and Midi Z follows with his camera. The result is a delightful, gently paced account of a temporary monk who accepts villagers’ devotion while dispensing moral advice. As documentary mutates into fable, Midi observes Wang’s world with patient respect and humour.

North American Premiere. When Tibetan farmer Drolma (Nyima Sungsung) learns she’s seriously ill, she embarks on a pilgrimage to Lhasa—a gruelling, year-long walk along mountain roads, with her prostrating herself every three steps. Her gruff, loving husband Dorje (Yungdrung Gyal) and uncommunicative son Norbu (Sechok Gyal) join her midway.

Family sadness and unexpected intimacies emerge throughout Sonthar Gyal’s beautiful, deceptively simple road movie, transforming it into a delicate psychological and spiritual journey.

Cast Wang Shin-hong Prod Midi Z, Isabella Ho, Lin Sheng-wen, Wang Shin-hong

Grand Jury Prize; Best Screenplay, Shanghai 18

Selected Filmography Return To Burma; Ice Poison; The Road To Mandalay

Cast Yungdrung Gyal, Nyima Sungsung, Sechok Gyal, Jinpa, Guru Tsetan, Zhang Wenqing Prod Du Qingchun, Sonthar Gyal, Liang Zonghao Filmography The Sun Beaten Path

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SFU IN10

Gateway

Japan

South Korea

Asako I & II

Burning

Netemo Sametemo

LEE CHANGDONG, SOUTH KOREA, 2018, 148 MIN.

HAMAGUCHI RYUSUKE, JAPAN/FRANCE, 2018, 120 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 29

4:00 PM 9:15 PM

IN10 IN09

Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s film takes a staple of romance stories and makes it literal: here, the sexy, wild man and the handsome, stable one are actual doubles. Asako (Karata Erika) gets with the first of them (both played by Higashide Masahiro) in a hot, fast encounter, and winds up falling hard for him, but one day he disappears. Years later, she meets his double, and they wind up in a solid relationship. Asako has found happiness... or has she? “[S]weet, soulful and achingly sad.”—Sight & Sound Cast Higashide Masahiro, Karata Erika Prod Sadai Yuji, Yamamoto Teruhisa, Hattori Yasuhiko Selected Filmography Passion; The Depths; Happy Hour

Taiwan

SUN, OCT 7 FRI, OCT 12

8:30 PM 3:00 PM

Riffing nimbly on a Murakami Haruki short story, Lee Changdong’s masterful thriller flickers with mystery. Jongsoo (Yoo Ahin, Veteran) reunites with classmate Haemi (Jun Jongseo), who seduces him and then scoots off to Africa. She returns with suave, moneyed Ben (Okja’s Steve Yeun), who makes Jongsoo roil with envy and self-pity; a creepy confession plunges him into tormenting despair. The critics’ favorite at Cannes, Burning imbues South Korea’s simmering social unrest with universal resonance.

FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes 18 Cast Yoo Ahin, Steven Yeun, Jun Jongseo Prod Lee Joondong, Lee Changdong, Hamano Takahiro, Matsudaira Morihisa, Nakamura Masato, Kotani Ryota

HSIAO YA-CHUAN, TAIWAN, 2018, 115 MIN.

HONG SANGSOO, SOUTH KOREA, 2018, 66 MIN.

TUE, OCT 9 THU, OCT 11

4:15 PM 8:30 PM

VCT IN08

North American Premiere. This beguiling movie charts two journeys—one of them from Taiwan, the other to it. Van Pao-te (Michael Jq Huang), gravely ill at the age of 60, travels from his home country to Japan in the company of his son (Fu Meng-Po). In the second journey, a young man (Aria Wang) somehow connected to Van travels from Hong Kong to Taiwan. As the title suggests, father-son relationships are at the centre of the film, but director Hsiao YaChuan widens out from that subject to take on history, memory and more.

Canadian Premiere. Hong Sangsoo adds another unassuming, poetic film to his oeuvre, which is now considered one of the greatest in contemporary cinema. Kim Minhee plays Areum, an observer of social folly much like the director himself. She sits in a coffee shop with her laptop, all the while writing down the interactions of its patrons. Questions emerge about the context, chronology and even veracity of the various conversations… Playful, mysterious and profound, this is typical Hong—in other words, a masterpiece.

Best Director, Taipei 18

Cast Kim Minhee

Cast Michael Jq Huang, Aria Wang, Fu Meng-Po, Chuang Kai-Hsun, Samuel K, Lu Hsueh-Feng Prod Hsiao Jui-Lan

Selected Filmography Right Now, Wrong Then; On the Beach at Night Alone; Claire’s Camera

Filmography Mirror Image; Taipei Exchanges

HU BO, CHINA, 2018, 230 MIN.

YING LIANG, TAIWAN/HONG KONG/SINGAPORE/ MALAYSIA, 2018, 107 MIN.

MON, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 12

7:30 PM 10:30 AM

IN08 VCT

This epic, heart-rending, beautiful first film by the young Chinese director Hu Bo would have heralded a filmmaker of great promise if he hadn’t committed suicide while fighting to finish it. Four main characters—a young, charismatic hoodlum (Zhang Yu); two students, each trapped in scandal (Peng Yuchang, Wang Yuwen); and a retiree pushed out of his home (Liu Congxi)—fight despair while dreaming of a possibly unattainable future. A snapshot of contemporary China’s ethos, and a masterwork of cinema. - SHELLY KRAICER FIPRESCI Prize, Forum, Berlin 18

Zi you xing

SAT, SEP 29 MON, OCT 1

6:15 PM 1:30 PM

SFU IN10

North American Premiere. Exiled Chinese filmmaker Yang Shu (Gong Zhe), mired in Hong Kong, yearns to see her mother Chen Xiaolin (Nai An), who lives in China. They can only meet in Taiwan using a scheme to send Chen there with a mainland Chinese tour group. As Yang, along with her husband and son, shadows the tour, the family’s emotional reunion and uncertain future generate a poignant tension. Ying Liang has based this story on his own life, which he transforms, with quiet intensity, into a beautiful political drama.

- SHELLY KRAICER

Cast Zhang Yu, Peng Yuchang, Wang Yuwen, Liu Congxi, Wang Ning

Cast Gong Zhe, Nai An, Tham Xin Yue, Peng Shan, Pete Teo Prod Jeremy Chua, C. Melanopterus, Tseng Wen Chen, Lee Shuping, Yu Pei Hua Selected Filmography Taking Father Home; The Other Half; When Night Falls

China

It’s Boring Here, Pick Me Up

Pul-lip-deul

IN09 IN09

A Family Tour

Daxiang xi di er zuo

Japan

Grass

10:45 AM 9:15 PM

An Elephant Sitting Still

Selected Filmography Oasis; Secret Sunshine; Poetry

Father to Son MON, OCT 8 WED, OCT 10

CENT PLAY

South Korea

Van Pao-te

Taiwan

China

Jinpa

Zhuangsi le yi zhi yang PEMA TSEDEN, CHINA, 2018, 87 MIN.

Koko wa Taikutsu Mukae ni Kite

HIROKI RYUICHI, JAPAN, 2018, 97 MIN.

TUE, OCT 9 WED, OCT 10

7:00 PM 11:15 AM

IN10 IN10

World Premiere. Passing through the hometown she was dying to leave 10 years ago, “I” (Hashimoto Ai) tries to look up high school crush Shiina (Narita Ryo), the town’s golden boy. Meanwhile, “Me” (Kadowaki Mugi), who once dated Shiina, still wallows in nostalgia and regret. So what ever happened to “him”? Far from making your typical slushy Japanese teen drama, Hiroki Ryuichi (Vibrator, Kabukicho Love Hotel) juggles three romantic strands with his usual flair, pulling everything together in a revelatory ending.

Cast Hashimoto Ai, Kadowaki Mugi, Narita Ryo, Watanabe Daichi, Kishii Yukino Prod Udagawa Yasushi, Taguchi Yusuke, Sugiyama Tsuyoshi

FRI, SEP 28 SUN, SEP 30

1:15 PM 9:30 PM

IN08 IN09

In this gripping, fantastical and sometimes humorous Tibetan Western, two (?) killers meet in a truck on a desolate highway. Both are named Jinpa (actors Jinpa and Genden Phuntsok); one has run over a sheep, and the other must kill a man who he says is the murderer of his father. Master filmmaker Pema Tseden has created a spectacularly photographed tale of sensuality, unbridled masculinity, revenge, devotion and—possibly—redemption. Be prepared to be astonished. - SHELLY KRAICER Cast Jinpa, Genden Phuntsok, Sonam Wangmo, Japal Tso, Dargye Tenzin Prod Wong Kar-wai, Jacky Pang Selected Filmography The Silent Holy Stones; The Sacred Arrow; Tharlo

Selected Filmography Tokyo Trash Baby; Vibrator; It’s Only Talk

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Gateway

China

China

Long Day’s Journey Into Night Diqiu zuihoude yewan

BI GAN, CHINA, 2018, 133 MIN.

THU, OCT 4 SAT, OCT 6

9:30 PM 4:15 PM

IN10 IN10

Hailed at this year’s Cannes as the most beautiful film of the festival, Bi Gan’s rhapsodic cinematic poem is constructed as a noir romance: Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue) finds a mysterious woman named Wan Qiwen (Tang Wei), loses her and sets off on a quest to find her again. Amidst Bi’s luscious set design—his corroded purple-red walls bloom with a decay you can almost smell—Luo follows a hallucinatory logic to its bravado conclusion: one of the longest, most thrilling sustained shots in cinema history. - SHELLY KRAICER Cast Sylvia Chang, Huang Jue, Tang Wei, Lee Hongchi, Chen Yongzhong, Luo Feiyang Prod Shan Zuolong Filmography Kaili Blues

Hong Kong

Japan

Lush Reeds

Mirai

Zhi zi yu gui

9:00 PM 3:15 PM

MAMORU HOSODA, JAPAN, 2018, 98 MIN.

CINE VCT

World Premiere. A female reporter (Huang Lu) ventures into hostile territory in Yang Yishu’s sharp, cerebral thriller about power and repression in China. Xiayin tries to investigate injustices near her Yangtze River home of Nanjing, but her cautious editor shuts her down. Frozen out of her lifeless marriage, she embarks on a perilous trip to the countryside to report on a case of industrial poisoning.

Yang’s low-key, reflective approach unfolds dreamlike mysteries with a gentle beauty.

- SHELLY KRAICER Cast Huang Lu, Lin Zheyuan, Feng Yizhi, Chai Meiying, Jin Meimei Prod Zhang Xianmin, Yang Yishu, Zhou Haotian, Yin Xiaoye

USA

SFU IN10

North American Premiere. Hong Kong’s past history and future prospects have never seemed more contested than today. Derek Chiu’s courageous melodrama confronts this head-on by contrasting two thrilling stories set along the China-HK border: one about two student activists (Fish Liew, Yau Hawk Sau) and the leftist anti-colonial riots of 1967; the other about the tense near-future of postUmbrella Movement activism. Depicted in vivid black and white, Chiu’s young protagonists fight for their passions, principles and dreams. - SHELLY KRAICER

SFU PLAY

Mamoru Hosoda’s anime tells the story of Kun (voiced by Kamishiraishi Moka), a little boy who lives a happy life until the arrival of a new sister throws everything off-kilter. What follows is a retreat into a fantasy world, populated by some interesting characters: a prince (Mitsuo Yoshihara), Mirai’s deceased grandpa (Koji Yakusho) and even a future version of himself (Kuroki Haro). It’s a child’s adventure of the mind, portrayed with the superb animation we’ve long come to expect from Japan.

Cast Kamishiraishi Moka, Kuroki Haru, Hoshino Gen, Mitsuo Yoshihara, Koji Yakusho Prod Saito Yuichiro, Ito Takuya, Adachi Yuichi, Kawamura Genki

THU, SEP 27 THU, OCT 4

6:30 PM 1:45 PM

As riveting as it is disturbing, Hao Wu’s documentary depicts an online world gone crazy.

YY is a Chinese live-streaming site where people become internet superstars for their meagre performative acts. Their fans, who are looking for virtual relationships, leave them tips, which can generate serious money…

“Tragic and terrifying in equal measure… Wu’s fascinating, deeply alarming film ushers us into a bold new world where our pleasure is simulated, but our pain is real.”—IndieWire Grand Jury Prize, Documentary, SXSW 18 Prod Hao Wu

Cast Fish Liew, Yau Hawk Sau, Lo Chun Yip Prod Derek Chiu

Filmography Beijing or Bust; The Road to Fame

SUN, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 7

4:00 PM 7:00 PM

IN09 IN10

Canadian Premiere. For 30 years, painter Kumagai Morikazu (1880-1977) never left home, preferring his garden, whose ecosytem provided infinite inspiration. Imagining one day in the life of the artist at 94, this movie is far from idle or monotonous. An eccentric duo, Mori and his wife (screen legends Yamazaki Tsutomu of Tampopo and Kiki Kirin of An) busily ward off hangers-on, a medal from the Emperor, even an alien. Okita Shuichi is Japan’s wittiest director, and this minimalist comedy is enchantingly Zen. Cast Yamazaki Tsutomu, Kiki Kirin, Kase Ryo, Yoshimura Kaito, Mitsuishi Ken Prod Yoshida Kenichi, Utagawa Yasushi

Wangzha de yuxie

YOSHIDA DAIHACHI, JAPAN, 2018, 126 MIN.

CINE SFU

OKITA SHUICHI, JAPAN, 2018, 99 MIN.

Wangdrak’s Rain Boots

Hitsuji no Ki

FRI, OCT 5 THU, OCT 11

Mori no Iru Basho

China

The Scythian Lamb

Best Film, Osaka 18

Selected Filmography Oh My Three Guys; Frugal Game; The Road To Dawn

1:30 PM 3:30 PM

Japan

HAO WU, USA/CHINA, 2018, 95 MIN.

9:15 PM 10:30 AM

SAT, SEP 29 SAT, OCT 6

Filmography Who Is Haoran?; On the Road; One Summer

No. 1 Chung Ying Street People’s Republic of Zhong Ying Jie yihao Desire DEREK CHIU, HONG KONG, 2018, 117 MIN. SAT, SEP 29 MON, OCT 1

Mori, The Artist’s Habitat

Mirai no Mirai

YANG YISHU, CHINA, 2018, 105 MIN.

MON, OCT 1 WED, OCT 3

Japan

9:15 PM 1:30 PM

LHAPAL GYAL, CHINA, 2018, 91 MIN.

IN10 IN10

To repopulate a seaside town, six ex-convicts are released into it, unbeknownst to the locals.

Genteel civil servant Tsukisue (Nishikido Ryo) strives to rehabilitate them, until charismatic Miyakoshi (Matsuda Ryuhei) seduces his dream girl. As violent pasts emerge, the curse of Nororo, the town’s Kraken-like mythic god, reawakens. Yoshida Daihachi, who made the VIFF 17 hit A Beautiful Star, slides from wry satire of Japanese country life to a frightening pagan realm of evil, chaos and retribution.

Kim Jiseok Award, Busan 17 Cast Nishikido Ryo, Kimura Fumino, Kitamura Kazuki, Yuka, Ichikawa Mikado, Matsuda Ryuhei Prod Ide Yoko

TUE, OCT 2 THU, OCT 4

6:45 PM 3:15 PM

IN10 IN08

North American Premiere. The one thing primary school student Wangdrak (Druklha Dorje) wants in life is a pair of rain boots, just like his classmates have. But his father (Jinpa), an impoverished Tibetan barley farmer, can’t afford them. In Lhapal Gyal’s gentle, beautiful first feature (produced by Pema Tseden), a child’s dreams and his steadfast determination prepare him to confront life on his own terms, against a background of modernizing rural Tibetan society. Suitable for children and equally enchanting for grown-ups. - SHELLY KRAICER Cast Druklha Dorje, Pakmo Yangdrom, Jinpa, Shanma Jyi, Gatu Tashi Prod Pema Tseden, Bai Yang, Yu Jianhong

Selected Filmography Permanent Nobara; Pale Moon; A Beautiful Star

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China

Singapore

Girls Always Happy

A Land Imagined

Rou qing shi

Huangxiang guotu

YANG MINGMING, CHINA, 2018, 117 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 29

Gateway

Dragons & Tigers

8:30 PM 11:15 AM

VCT IN10

Canadian Premiere. In a tiny home down an ancient lane in modern Beijing, aspiring writer Wu and her mom are at loggerheads whenever they’re not empathetically making up. Wu is played by director Yang Mingming, one of China’s brightest young talents, and in this screwball melo-comedy she deftly scooters around her neighbourhood while middleaged mom (Nai An) copes with the men they may or may not need in their lives. Intense, joyous and witty, this is Chinese urban life as redefined by two indomitable, vibrant women.

- SHELLY KRAICER

YEO SIEW HUA, SINGAPORE/FRANCE/NETHERLANDS, 2018, 95 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 TUE, OCT 2

6:45 PM 3:30 PM

IN10 IN08

North American Premiere. A Chinese migrant worker (Liu Xiaoyi) has gone missing from his factory. Inspector Lok (Peter Yu), a brooding and low-key man, is on the case. In true neo-noir style, his discoveries lead to ever-deepening mysteries. Lok wanders sleeplessly among towering constructions built on shifting sands. Hyper-controlled Singapore has never seemed so mysterious, unstable and eerie as in this hallucinatory fantasy of missing bodies, vicious exploitation, femmes fatales, lost connections and buried dreams.

- SHELLY KRAICER

FIPRESCI Award, Panorama, Berlin 18 Cast Yang Mingming, Nai An, Zhang Xianmin, Li Qinqin, Huang Wei, Yuan Li, Li Wenbo Prod Yang Chao, Yang Jing

Golden Leopard, Locarno 18 Cast Peter Yu, Liu Xiaoyi, Luna Kwok, Jack Tan, Ishtiaque Zico, Kelvin Ho Prod Fran Borgia Filmography In the House of Straw

This internationally celebrated series continues to introduce the most exciting

Thailand

South Korea

talents from East Asia to the world.

Manta Ray

Microhabitat

PHUTTIPHONG AROONPHENG, THAILAND/FRANCE/ CHINA, 2018, 105 MIN.

JEON GOWOON, SOUTH KOREA, 2017, 106 MIN.

So-gong-nyeo

Kraben Rahu

FRI, OCT 5 SUN, OCT 7

11:00 AM 6:00 PM

IN09 VCT

Many Rohingya refugees have perished on their journeys to Thailand, and director Phuttiphong Aroonpheng has said that his film is dedicated to them. It’s no screed, but its explorations of identity and ownership certainly have political undertones. Wanlop Rungkumjad plays a Thai fisherman who discovers a mute, injured man (Aphisit Hama) near the coast. He takes him into his home and names him Thongchai, but when the fisherman disappears at sea, Thongchai starts to take on his rescuer’s identity...

Cast Wanlop Rungkumjad, Aphisit Hama, Rasmee Wayrana Prod Mai Meksawan, Philippe Avril MEDIA PARTNERS

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SUN, SEP 30 TUE, OCT 2

6:30 PM 4:00 PM

IN09 IN09

If your rent goes up, do you give up a) cigarettes, b) whisky or c) your apartment? Mi-so, a college dropout who scrapes by as a housekeeper, decides to move out and couch-surf with buddies from her former rock band. Her whimsical trip through the homes and heartaches of Seoul’s 30-somethings will strike a chord with Vancouverites suffering from the housing blues. Disarmingly offbeat yet unexpectedly poignant, this ode to bad habits and female independence is buoyed by winsome model-actress Esom.

Best Film, NY Asian FF 17 Cast Esom, Ahn Jaehong, Choi Dukmoon Prod Kim Soonmo

Gateway

Philippines

South Korea

Nervous Translation 6:30 PM 3:15 PM

CINE VCT

Canadian Premiere. Immersing us in an indie version of Wes Anderson cuteness, Shireen Seno’s feature is set in a Manila bungalow bursting with artifacts of 80s nostalgia.

Here, eight-year-old Yael (Jana Agoncillo) makes miniature meals for her dollhouse and pines for her absent dad and other “Overseas Filipino Worker” relatives. Raised in Japan

by OFW parents, Seno is able to capture the heartaches of the Filipino diaspora through the eyes of a lonely child’s nervous incomprehension of familial and national hardships.

Cast Jana Agoncillo, Angge Santos, Sid Lucero Prod John Torres, Ronald Arguelles Filmography Big Boy

Vietnam

The Running Actress

The Seen and Unseen

The Third Wife

MOON SORI, SOUTH KOREA, 2017, 71 MIN.

KAMILA ANDINI, INDONESIA/NETHERLANDS/ AUSTRALIA/QATAR, 2017, 86 MIN.

ASH MAYFAIR, VIETNAM, 2018, 96 MIN.

Yeo-bae-u-neun O-neul-do

SHIREEN SENO, PHILIPPINES, 2018, 90 MIN.

TUE, OCT 9 THU, OCT 11

Indonesia

Dragons & Tigers

THU, OCT 4 FRI, OCT 5

9:45 PM 1:30 PM

Sekala Niskala

IN09 IN09

All Koreans know Moon Sori, star of Lee Changdong and Hong Sangsoo’s masterpieces. When she wants a quiet drink, oafish men invite themselves to her table; a dentist dangles free implants for her mom as bait for autographs... Her shelves are lined with trophies, but lately she gets few scripts, except for cameos and “mom” roles. Playing herself in a directorial debut that whisks fact and fiction into an inseparable blend, Moon delivers a mordant parody of ageism and sexism in the film industry.

Cast Moon Sori, Sung Byoungsook, Yoon Sanghwa, Jeon Yeobin Prod Jenna Ku

WED, OCT 10 THU, OCT 11

6:30 PM 1:00 PM

Va Ba

IN08 VCT

Children and their imaginative subconscious are explored with great finesse in one of the most haunting Asian films in years. This magical tale draws on Balinese art and silent cinema to evoke out-of-body communication between a pair of twins (Ni Kadek Thaly Titi Kasih and Ida Bagus Putu Radithya Mahijasena). Shadow puppets and mythical animals come alive in visually ravishing scenes.

Director Kamila Andini won the top prize in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus section for her unique voice.

Grand Prize, Generation Kplus, Berlin 18 Cast Ni Kadek Thaly Titi Kasih, Ida Bagus Putu Radithya Mahijasena, Ayu Laksmi Prod Gita Fara, Ifa Isfansyah, Kamila Andini

TUE, OCT 9 THU, OCT 11

2:00 PM 9:00 PM

IN09 SFU

Vietnam in the 19th century: 14-year-old Ha (Tran Nu Yên Khê) is married off to a wealthy landowner (Lê Vu Long). Not surprisingly, the beginning of the marriage is frightening, from the consummation to the imposition of strict rules and customs. Eventually, Ha settles in, and the sadness of her acquiescence is palpable. But there’s worse to come... With its rich colours and immaculate production design, this recalls classics like Raise the Red Lantern, but it has a melancholy beauty all its own.

Cast Tran Nu Yên Khê, Mai Thu Huong, Nguyen Phuong Trà My, Nguyen Nhu Quynh, Lê Vu Long Prod Tran Thi Bích Ngoc, Ash Mayfair

Filmography The Mirror Never Lies

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Insights

Impact

France

Maria by Callas TOM VOLF, FRANCE, 2017?, 113 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 THU, OCT 11

M/A/D

3:45 PM 1:15 PM

PLAY SFU

A spellbinding amalgam of previously unseen photographs and performances, personal Super 8 films, private recordings, letters and behind-the-scenes archival footage, Tom Volf’s portrait of the world’s most popular opera singer confines itself solely to the words and thoughts of the divine Maria Callas. “An immense celebration… A great gift to music lovers all over the world…

Offers the viewer almost two hours in the company of a talented, fascinating, passionate and tragic woman.”—Cineuropa Featuring Fanny Ardant, Maria Callas Prod Tom Volf, Thierry Bizot, Emmanuel Chain, Gaël Leiblang, Emmanuelle Lepers

Music, art and design receive their deserved big-screen treatment in this aesthetically alluring stream.

USA

Sweden

Bathtubs Over Broadway

Bergman - A Year in a Life Bergman – Ett år, ett liv

DAVA WHISENANT, USA, 2018, 87 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28 SUN, SEP 30

6:45 PM 10:30 AM

SFU SFU

Where did Chita Rivera, Martin Short and the late Florence Henderson (all present here) get their starts? In “industrial” musicals—musicals commissioned by corporate America from the 50s through the 80s to entertain employees and celebrate, say, bathroom fixtures or Fords… Dava Whisenant’s supremely entertaining film follows industrial musical obsessive Steve Young (a writer for David Letterman, who also appears) as he uncovers a hidden world. “Get ready to laugh, sing, cheer, and be dazzled.”—POV Best New Documentary Director, Tribeca 18 Featuring Steve Young, David Letterman, Martin Short, Chita Rivera, Susan Stroman Prod Amanda Spain, Dava Whisenant, Susan Littenberg SUPPORTING SPONSOR OF FINE ART FILMS

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JANE MAGNUSSON, SWEDEN, 2018, 116 MIN.

THU, SEP 27 SAT, SEP 29

8:45 PM 11:00 AM

CINE IN09

North American Premiere. 2018’s celebration of the centenary of Ingmar Bergman’s birth reaches its apex with Jane Magnusson’s essential documentary. It uses one epochal year (amazingly, 1957 marked the unveiling of both The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries) as a springboard to explore Bergman’s exacting on-set tendencies, thorny personal relationships and multifaceted personae. This is a vivid portrait of one of cinema’s masters.

“A complex and conflicted work about a man who could be similarly described.”—Hollywood Reporter Featuring Liv Ullmann, Thorsten Flinck, Barbra Streisand, Elliott Gould, Lena Endre Prod Fredrik Heinig, Cecilia Nessen, Mattias Nohrborg Filmography Trespassing Bergman; Ebbe: The Movie

M/A/D

Switzerland

Canada

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

Carmine Street Guitars RON MANN, CANADA, 2018, 80 MIN.

SOPHIE HUBER, SWITZERLAND/USA/UK, 2018, 85 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6 THU, OCT 11

UK

12:30 PM 6:45 PM

RIO SFU

Canadian Premiere. One can’t overstate the influence of Blue Note Records, the jazz record label founded in New York in 1939 by German refugees Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. Coltrane, Davis, Monk, Powell—the list of stars who recorded for the label is astounding. Sophie Huber’s musical celebration of Blue Note’s history includes interviews with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Norah Jones and others, as well as a recording session with current star Robert Glasper and a consideration of the label’s stunning cover art.

Featuring Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Robert Glasper, Don Was, Norah Jones Prod Hercli Bundi, Chiemi Karasawa, Susanne Guggenberger, Sophie Huber

TUE, OCT 2 SUN, OCT 7

6:15 PM 4:30 PM

RIO SFU

Nestled in Greenwich Village, Carmine Street Guitars is a showcase for Rick Kelly’s custom instruments—and heaven on earth for music fans. Repurposing wood from storied New York establishments, Kelly crafts stunning Telecasters that double as lightning rods for musical luminaries. Ron Mann’s documentary invites us into this singular establishment where the esteemed likes of Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, Eleanor Friedberger, Jim Jarmusch and Charlie Sexton stop by to sample the wares and share some songs.

Featuring Rick Kelly, Nels Cline, Kirk Douglas, Dallas Good, Travis Good, Jim Jarmusch Prod Ron Mann Selected Filmography Comic Book Confidential; Grass; Altman

Filmography Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

France

EMILIO BELMONTE, FRANCE/SPAIN, 2017, 85 MIN.

SUN, OCT 7 WED, OCT 10

10:45 AM 6:00 PM

IN09 RIO

Dancer and choreographer Rocío Molina is the face of modern flamenco, an artist so inspired that, after seeing one of her performances, Baryshnikov himself got down on his knees in front of her. Part biography of the riveting performer—who has suffered the wrath of flamenco’s more conservative advocates—and part chronicle of the preparations for a show at Paris’ Théâtre National de Chaillot, Emilio Belmonte’s infectious documentary perfectly captures Molina’s passion. And oh, what glorious dance!

Featuring Rocío Molina Prod Nicolas Lesoult

The Eyes of Orson Welles MARK COUSINS, UK, 2018, 115 MIN.

TUE, OCT 2 THU, OCT 11

11:00 AM 6:30 PM

VCT CINE

Canadian Premiere. The estimably knowledgeable film-critic-turned-filmmaker Mark Cousins (A Story of Children and Film, VIFF 13) has made a quirky, loving and deeply felt portrait of the legendary Orson Welles that is sure to delight cinephiles and casual filmgoers alike. Connecting Welles’ lifelong love of painting and drawing to his filmmaking through an astute and revelatory use of clips and archival images, Cousins manages the most difficult of tasks: his film “looks deep into the soul of an artist.”—Guardian Featuring Mark Cousins, Beatrice Welles Prod Mary Bell, Adam Dawtrey Selected Filmography The First Movie; What Is This Film Called Love?; I Am Belfast

Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable

SASHA WATERS FREYER, USA, 2018, 90 MIN.

FRI, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 29

5:45 PM 3:30 PM

VCT IN08

Canadian Premiere. The quintessential New York street photographer, who raised his métier to the level of art, Garry Winogrand gets the biographical treatment he deserves in Sasha Waters Freyer’s compelling and intelligent documentary. Winogrand shot over a million photos in his career (many on display here) and suffered critical disdain at times, but he was of his time and place, as noted in interviews with Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner, writer Geoff Dyer, artist Laurie Simmons and others. “Fascinating.”—Hollywood Reporter Featuring Garry Winogrand, Thomas Roma, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Jeffrey Henson Scales Prod Sasha Waters Freyer Filmography Whipped; This American Gothic; Chekhov for Children

France

Impulso

USA

Italy

Le Grand Bal

LAETITIA CARTON, FRANCE, 2018, 99 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 WED, OCT 3

11:30 AM 9:30 PM

IN10 SFU

North American Premiere. The village of Gennetines, in central France, is transformed every summer by thousands of people who’ve come to take part in Le Grand Bal—seven days of dancing to numerous bands playing all styles of music under colourful tents.

With four cameras capturing the event in its myriad forms, Laetitia Carton has fashioned an impressionistic and joyous document that is full of terpsichorean wonder. “A compact and tingling package… An accomplished and fascinating piece of work…”—Hollywood Reporter Prod Jean-Marie Gigon Filmography Edmond, un portrait de Baudoin; J’avancerai vers toi avec les yeux d’un sourd

USA

The Man Who Stole Banksy

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.

STEPHEN LOVERIDGE, USA/SRI LANKA/UK, 2018, 95 MIN.

MARCO PROSERPIO, ITALY, 2018, 93 MIN.

THU, OCT 11 FRI, OCT 12

6:30 PM 3:30 PM

IN09 RIO

Canadian Premiere. What happens when a Palestinian taxi driver cuts out a four-ton chunk of a Banksy wall mural in Bethlehem and puts it on eBay? All hell breaks loose in the art world and beyond, that’s what. Director Marco Proserpio chronicles the political, cultural and ethical fallout of Walid Zawahrah’s actions with verve and intellectual rigour. “A must-see… this is a rich, stylish documentary that favours intellect over narrative. Yes, it’s a wild ride, [but] it entertains while it stimulates…”—Ioncinema Featuring Iggy Pop Prod Marco Proserpio, Filippo Perfido

THU, SEP 27 SAT, SEP 29

8:45 PM 2:00 PM

RIO IN10

A decade after “Paper Planes” launched M.I.A. into the charts’ upper stratosphere, Stephen Loveridge’s all-access documentary offers sharp insights into the pop-culture firebrand whose creativity and charisma are rivalled by her combativeness and appetite for controversy. Decades of personal footage reveal a conflicted artist—torn between her Tamil resistance fighter heritage, her desire for superstardom and her capacity for acts of self-sabotage (one being her infamous Super Bowl performance).

Special Jury Award, Documentary, Sundance 18 Featuring Mathangi Arulpragasam Prod Steve Loveridge, Lori Cheatle, Andrew Goldman, Paul Mezey

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October 6, 2018 - January 28, 2019 Whistler, B.C. audainartmuseum.com Spinifex Men’s Collaborative. Wati Kutjarra (Two Men Story), 2003 Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 82 11/16 x 74 13/16 in.

Promised gift of Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum © Spinifex Men’s Collaborative, photo by Susan Cole Courtesy American Federation of Arts

M/A/D

UK

UK

Minute Bodies: The Intimate Lives of F. Percy Smith

O Horizon MON, OCT 8 WED, OCT 10

3:15 PM 9:00 PM

VCT CINE

International Premiere. Stuart A. Staples’ latest foray into filmmaking sees the Tindersticks’ frontman reassembling F. Percy Smith’s pioneering science films into mesmeric collages that explore the miniscule, invisible worlds surrounding us. Still astonishing a century after they were committed to film, Smith’s micro-photographic images demonstrate a fascination with the natural world that proves utterly beguiling—and accordingly, they’ve inspired a wonderful score

by Tindersticks.

7:00 PM 1:45 PM

USA

The Price of Everything

THE OTOLITH GROUP, UK/INDIA, 2018, 81 MIN.

STUART A. STAPLES, UK, 2016, 58 MIN.

WED, OCT 10 FRI, OCT 12

USA

NATHANIAL KAHN, USA, 2018, 98 MIN.

VCT SFU

Drawing on the theories and practices developed by the revered Bengali multi-hyphenate Rabindranath Tagore in his “living laboratory,” The Otolith Group have assembled a sumptuous offering that reminds us of the world’s extraordinary beauty, and that our own lives — through dance, music, art, thought, and action — reveal the rhythms of this beauty. Complemented by new footage shot on the campus, the film allows Tagore’s utopian community to forge a dialogue with the contemporary world.

WED, OCT 3 FRI, OCT 12

10:45 AM 6:30 PM

IN09 SFU

Featuring interviews with such art-world luminaries as Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, Marilyn Minter and Larry Poons, Nathaniel Kahn’s first film since the brilliant My Architect (2003) delves deep into the machinations of the contemporary art market, a world seemingly gone insane in its pursuit of money and prestige.

“Brilliant and captivating… Kahn’s enthralling documentary is about how the art world got taken over by money, but it’s no screed. It’s a look at the value of beauty…”—Variety Featuring Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, George Condo, Larry Poons Prod Jennifer Blei Stockman, Debi Wisch, Carla Solomon Filmography My Architect

Cast F. Percy Smith Prod David Reeve, Stuart A. Staples

The Proposal

JILL MAGID, USA, 2018, 86 MIN.

THU, OCT 4 TUE, OCT 9

11:15 AM 6:15 PM

VCT IN08

After his death, Mexican architect Luis Barragán’s archive was purchased by the Swiss foundation Vitry, which promptly forbade anyone from seeing it. Artist Jill Magid, needing access for a project, woos the foundation’s imperious Federica Zanco and then comes up with an ingenious and controversial proposal… Raising questions about artistic legacies and posthumous rights, Magid’s document of her battle is “[I]ntriguing and approachable… a multilayered and thought-provoking work of art.”—Screen Featuring Jill Magid, Rosario Uranga, Federica Zanco Prod Jarred Alterman, Charlotte Cook, Laura Coxson

Preceded by The Great Wall of China p. 101

USA

United Skates

Studio 54

DYANA WINKLER, TINA BROWN, USA, 2018, 90 MIN.

MATT TYRNAUER, USA, 2017, 98 MIN.

FRI, OCT 5 FRI, OCT 12

9:30 PM 4:00 PM

PLAY SFU

Studio 54 was the pulsating epicentre of 1970s hedonism, a disco hothouse of celebrities, drugs and sex that earned it the sobriquet “the greatest club of all time.” With co-founder Ian Schrager as his guide, director Matt Tyrnauer unearths fabulous archival footage; he also coaxes the 72-year-old Schrager into revealing the club’s history as it’s never been heard before. “Tyrnauer’s thrilling and definitive documentary captures the delirium—and the dark side—of the legendary New York disco.”—Variety Featuring Ian Schrager, Bob Colacello Prod Matt Tyrnauer, John Battsek, Corey Reeser Filmography Valentino: The Last Emperor; Citizen Jane: Battle for the City; Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

SAT, OCT 6 SUN, OCT 7

New Zealand

USA

USA

7:00 PM 1:00 PM

IN10 PLAY

America’s roller rinks have long been strongholds of regional African-American culture. But gentrification—rink owners (usually white) selling to developers—is killing the scene. Dyana Winkler and Tina Brown’s charming documentary provides access to a world of style, slang, dance and music while profiling some of the skaters and owners who refuse to quit. “This kaleidoscopically vibrant, essential-viewing survey plunges audiences into a dazzling underground scene.”—Variety Audience Award, Tribeca 18 Featuring Salt-N-Pepa, Vin Rock, Coolio, Alonzo Williams, Phelicia, Reggie, Buddy Love Prod Dyana Winkler, Tina Brown

The Whistleblower of My Lai CONNIE FIELD, USA, 2018, 64 MIN.

MON, OCT 1 TUE, OCT 2

7:15 PM 1:45 PM

IN09 VCT

World Premiere. In this artful, resonant documentary, Connie Field counterpoints archival footage from the Vietnam War with the production of an acclaimed new opera about the helicopter pilot who broke the story of the notorious My Lai massacre. Composed by Jonathan Berger in collaboration with librettist Harriet Chessman, and performed by the Kronos Quartet, tenor Rinde Eckert and Vietnamese musician Van-Anh Vo, the opera brings to life the disturbing events of 50 years ago for both the artists and audience alike.

Featuring Hugh Thompson Prod Connie Field, Gregory Scharpen Selected Filmography Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine; Salud; Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine

Yellow is Forbidden

PIETRA BRETTKELLY, NEW ZEALAND/FRANCE/CHINA, 2018, 94 MIN.

SUN, OCT 7 WED, OCT 10

12:45 PM 6:30 PM

IN09 PLAY

When Rihanna walked the 2015 Met Gala red carpet sporting a 25-kilo dress spun from gold and fox fur, a fashion star was born: Chinese designer Guo Pei. Director Pïetra Brettkelly had full cooperation from the energetic Guo, as well as behind-the-scenes access to the preparations for her make-or-break Paris runway show. The result is “an intimate, involving portrait… Brettkelly finds just the right sweet spot between pie-eyed flattery and sober appraisal of Guo and her methods.”—Hollywood Reporter Featuring Guo Pei, Philip Treacy, Wendi Murdoch, Godfrey Deeny Prod Pietra Brettkelly, Richard Fletcher, Naomi Wallwork Selected Filmography The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins; Maori Boy Genius; A Flickering Truth

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Denmark

The House That Jack Built LARS VON TRIER, DENMARK/SWEDEN/FRANCE/GERMANY, 2018, 155 MIN.

FRI, OCT 5 WED, OCT 10

ALT

9:30 PM 8:30 PM

RIO RIO

The Cannes premiere of Lars von Trier’s masterful provocation sparked both bilious outrage and begrudging admiration. In detailing the murderous exploits of unrepentant serial killer Jack (Matt Dillon), the Peter Pan of enfants terribles also engages in some perverse self-reflection (if not outright character suicide) as he marches us to a dizzying climax featuring an astonishingly cinematic depiction of damnation. “All I know is that what I saw and felt was filled with an indescribable beauty.”—Filmmaker Cast Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman, Riley Keough, Bruno Ganz Prod Louise Vesth, Jonas Bagger, Marianne Slot Selected Filmography Breaking the Waves; Antichrist; Melancholia

Genre-bending features that defy traditional classification and creators who push short form storytelling to its limits.

USA

Under the Silver Lake DAVID ROBERT MITCHELL, USA, 2018, 140 MIN.

Altered States This is where the strange ones come out to play, demanding that you follow their warped rules.

FRI, SEP 28 FRI, OCT 5

9:30 PM 6:15 PM

RIO RIO

When his neighbour (Riley Keough) goes missing, Sam’s (Andrew Garfield) bumbling investigation plunges him down a La La Land rabbit hole into seedy realms, corridors of obscene power and stranger places still. As Sam questions whether it’s all connected or he’s coming apart at the seams, it’s evident that David Robert Mitchell has let It Follows’ success go to his head in the best possible way. “Hypnotic, spiraling and deliriously high on its own supply of amateursleuth movie references...”—TimeOut Cast Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Jimmi Simpson, Topher Grace, Zosia Mamet, Sydney Sweeney Prod Michael De Luca, Chris Bender, Jake Weiner, Adele Romanski Filmography The Myth of the American Sleepover; It Follows

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France

Canada

Climax

Level 16

GASPAR NOÉ, FRANCE/BELGIUM, 2018, 96 MIN.

SAT, SEP 29

11:15 PM

New Zealand

RIO

Another hallucinatory vision from the fecund mind of Gaspar Noé (Irreversible), Climax commences as a gorgeous meditation on the power of dance. After the rehearsing troupe on display imbibes some acid-laced sangria, however, things rapidly disintegrate into a mind-blowing amalgam of horror tropes and visually stunning set pieces. The result will leave you gasping. “Visually extraordinary, structurally and formally audacious… Noé makes you experience his cinema intravenously.”—Guardian Art Cinema Award, Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 18 Cast Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Claude Gajan Maull Prod Edouard Weil, Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua Selected Filmography I Stand Alone; Irreversible; Enter the Void

Canada

SUN, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 7

8:45 PM 3:00 PM

Japan

Mega Time Squad

DANISHKA ESTERHAZY, CANADA, 2018, 104 MIN.

One Cut of the Dead Camera wo Tomeru na

TIM VAN DAMMEN, NEW ZEALAND, 2018, 81 MIN.

RIO IN09

TUE, OCT 9 FRI, OCT 12

8:00 PM 11:15 PM

RIO RIO

Canadian Premiere. In Danishka Esterhazy’s thematically rich fantasy, teenaged Vivien (Katie Douglas) and Sophia’s (Celina Martin) rebellious tendencies are only amplified by their surreal existence: trapped in a sterile facility, they’re taught “feminine virtues” by a Stepford-like headmistress (Sara Canning) and left to question what fate awaits them when they age out of the institution. Wedding of-the-moment concerns to throwback aesthetics, Esterhazy crafts a sinister allegory that packs a wicked feminist punch.

In Tim van Dammen’s high-concept comedy, the mind-bending power of time travel falls into the incredibly irresponsible hands of a small-time criminal (Anton Tennet) who inadvertently assembles a squad of temporally displaced doppelgängers. Maybe this will even the odds against the aggrieved gangster (Jonny Brugh) who’s gunning for him? As an uproariously clumsy game of cat and mouse ensues, van Dammen’s sharp scripting is abetted by formidable visual wit. “Delightfully dorky...”—RogerEbert.com

Cast Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Peter Outerbridge, Sara Canning Prod Judy Holm, Michael McNamara, Stéphanie Chapelle

Cast Anton Tennet, Jonny Brugh Prod Anna Duckworth, Tim van Dammen

Selected Filmography Endings; Black Field; H&G

Altered States

Filmography Romeo and Juliet: A Love Song

UEDA SHINICHIRO, JAPAN, 2017, 96 MIN.

SAT, OCT 6 MON, OCT 8

10:45 PM 1:30 PM

RIO IN09

Gory and goofy in equal measure, Ueda Shinichiro’s gonzomedy (gonzo-zombie-comedy) starts with an unbroken 37-minute shot, serving notice of the unhinged mayhem to come when the cast and crew of a low-rent zombie flick are set upon by a horde of the legitimately undead. But that’s just the beginning of the twists in Ueda’s wild romp, which seamlessly transforms into a showbiz satire and sympathetic character study while delivering thrills at every blood-soaked turn. “Marvelously inventive...”—Variety Cast Takayuki Hamatsu, Mao, Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya, Manabu Hosoi Prod Koji Ichihashi Filmography Neko bun no 4

Preceded by Caterpillarplasty p. 101

USA

USA

Follow Follow us. us.

Follow us.

Parallel

Profile

ISAAC EZBAN, CANADA, 2018, 104 MIN.

SAT, SEP 29 SUN, SEP 30

8:30 PM 1:00 PM

Relaxer

TIMUR BEKMAMBETOV, USA, 2018, 105 MIN.

RIO SFU

SUN, OCT 7 FRI, OCT 12

1:15 PM 8:45 PM

JOEL POTRYKUS, USA, 2018, 91 MIN.

RIO RIO

SAT, OCT 6 MON, OCT 8

8:30 PM 8:45 PM

RIO CINE

Isaac Ezban (The Similars) again digs into his bag of Twilight Zone-influenced tricks, this time to conjure a warped reality in which ambitious app developers stumble across a portal to the multiverse. Doing the time-warp again and again, they scavenge information from other realities with the intention of bettering their lot. Instead, they only ensure that their looming reckoning grows all the more catastrophic. Ezban confirms himself to be one of sci-fi cinema’s talents to watch. Accept no substitutes!

Posing as a disaffected teen flirting with the idea of turning jihadi war bride, a British journalist (Valene Kane) employs social media and Skype to entrap an ISIS recruiter (Shazad Latif) for a lucrative exposé. With a laptop screen serving as the claustrophobic stage for this high-stakes masquerade, Timur Bekmambetov transforms innocuous search engines and chat windows into the stuff of nerve-fraying suspense and unanticipated temptation.

“Gripping and eye-opening... Thrillingly topical.”—Playlist

As Y2K approaches and apocalyptic paranoia hits a fever pitch, Abbie (Joshua Burge) has but one objective: he’s finally going to conquer a legendary level of PAC-MAN and he won’t be leaving the couch until he’s done so. Punk auteur Joel Potrykus (Buzzard, VIFF 14) takes this living-room-as-Lifeboat concept and runs with it, anchoring his slacker protagonist in place as civilization crumbles around him and rampant absurdity rises in its place. “A masterpiece of depraved ’90s nostalgia.”—IndieWire

Cast Aml Ameen, Alyssa Diaz, David Harewood, Georgia King, Mark O’Brien, Kathleen Quinlan, Martin Wallström Prod Garrick Dion, Matthias Mellinghaus

Audience Award, Panorama, Berlin 18; Audience Award, Visions, SXSW 118

Cast Joshua Burge, David Dastmalchian, Andre Hyland, Adina Howard, Amari Cheatom Prod Ashley Young, Joel Potrykus

Filmography The Incident; The Similars

Cast Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Morgan Watkins, Christine Adams, Kate Watson, Kelley Mack Prod Timur Bekmambetov, Olga Kharina

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Filmography Ape; Buzzard; The Alchemist Cookbook

Selected Filmography Night Watch; Wanted

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Seder-Masochism NINA PALEY, USA, 2018, 78 MIN.

WED, OCT 3 THU, OCT 4

ALT

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7:00 PM 11:15 AM

SFU IN10

Inventive, eye-popping animation that

Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues, VIFF 08) goes for broke with this imaginative, irreverent take on the Exodus narrative. Her framework is the traditional Passover Seder—a ritual in which family members retell the story of the Israelites’ liberation. The tale is told to her by her own father, who occupies the role of God, as well as by Moses, Jesus and other big names in the Judeo-Christian tradition... Expect to be surprised, amused and moved; this is a feast for the eyes and much more besides...

practically bursts off the big screen.

Cast Barry Gray, Hiram Paley, Nina Paley Prod Nina Paley, Producer X Filmography Sita Sings the Blues

Poland

Hungary

Another Day of Life

MILORAD KRSTIC, HUNGARY, 2018, 94 MIN.

RAÚL DE LA FUENTE, DAMIAN NENOW, POLAND/ SPAIN/BELGIUM/GERMANY/HUNGARY, 2018, 86 MIN.

3:30 PM 6:30 PM

Chile

Ruben Brandt, Collector Virus Tropical

Jeszcze dzien zycia

FRI, SEP 28 SUN, OCT 7

Colombia

VCT RIO

North American Premiere. Using revered Polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski’s front-line reporting as its basis, Damian Nenow and Raúl de la Fuente’s animated odyssey plunges us into the chaos of the Angolan Civil War. As we’re immersed in the conflict, Kapuscinski comes to question his role as a journalist amidst such strife. “Visually, the film is rarely less than spectacular... It’s redolent of Waltz With Bashir in its combination of the comic illustration aesthetic with a heightened attention to realism...”—Hollywood Reporter Featuring Luis Alberto Ferreira, Artur Queiroz, Joaquim Antonio Lopes Farrusco, Kerry Shale, Daniel Flynn Prod Jarek Sawko, Ole Wendorff-Ostergaard, Amaia Remirez, Raul de la Fuente

TUE, OCT 9 THU, OCT 11

11:00 AM 6:30 PM

The Wolf House La casa lobo

SANTIAGO CAICEDO, COLOMBIA, 2018, 96 MIN.

VCT RIO

THU, SEP 27 SUN, SEP 30

6:30 PM 4:15 PM

SFU IN10

North American Premiere. Inspired, inventive and jam-packed with action, Milorad Krstic’s movie gives us the story of a psychiatrist with a roster of criminal patients and some strange demons he needs to exorcise.

Ruben Brandt (voiced by Iván Kamarás) is tormented by violent dreams involving some of the world’s great paintings; soon, he and his patients are burglarizing MOMA, the Louvre and other museums... This is a beautifully animated work and a surefire crowd-pleaser. “[A] magnificent achievement.”—Cineuropa

Santiago Caicedo’s vibrant adaptation of Powerpaola’s acclaimed graphic novel not only proves wholly faithful to Paola’s autobiography but also instantly relatable to anyone who’s weathered the trials of adolescence. As her formative year’s shuttle Paola between Ecuador and Chile, Caicedo traces her tentative first steps towards independence, adult intimacy and artistic expression. And while the animation may be monochromatic, it captures a brilliant kaleidoscope of experiences.

Expect to be dazzled.

Cast Iván Kamarás, Csaba “Kor” Márton, Gabriella Hámori, Katalin Dombi, Matt Devere Prod Péter Miskolczi, János Kurdy-Fehér, Milorad Krstic, Hermina Roczkov, Radmila Roczkov

Audience Award, SXSW 18 Cast María Cecilia Sánchez, Alejandra Borrero, Diego León Hoyos, Martina Toro

CRISTÓBAL LEÓN, JOAQUÍN COCIÑA, CHILE, 2018, 74 MIN.

THU, OCT 4 WED, OCT 10

3:45 PM 8:45 PM

VCT IN08

Canadian Premiere. A phantasmagorical treat, Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León’s stop-motion animation draws on the dark side of fairy tales (Little Red Riding Hood in particular) to tell of young Maria, a member of an isolated German community in Chile. Guilty of letting three little pigs escape in the night, she takes refuge in the mysterious, magical “wolf house…” “Fascinating… Entrance[s] and enchant[s]… Reminiscent of an Eraserheadstyle Lynchian nightmare turned into sculpture, paintings and stop-motion.”—Screen Caligari Film Prize (Best Film), Forum, Berlin 18 Cast Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause Prod Catalina Vergara, Niles Atallah Preceded by Carlotta’s Face p. 101

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Short Films

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Canada

Canada

7A

Mahalia Melts in the Rain

Close Quarters

The Curtain Calls

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 95 MIN.

TUE, OCT 2 TUE, OCT 9

9:15 PM 3:30 PM

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 104 MIN.

IN08 IN08

Animal Behaviour ALISON SNOWDEN, DAVID FINE, CANADA, 2018, 14 MIN.

NATHAN DOUGLAS, CANADA, 2018, 34 MIN.

A young girl investigates her neighbour and his wildly boring running route.

In a matter of minutes, these films immerse you in fully realized narratives that leave an indelible mark.

Maybe if It Were a Nice Room ALICIA K. HARRIS, CANADA, 2017, 2 MIN.

An incident between two people is examined through the exploration of rooms.

From Across the Street and Through Two Sets of Windows STEVEN MCCARTHY, CANADA, 2018, 15 MIN.

An increasingly isolated city woman takes refuge in her apartment, where she observes her neighbour’s daily life. One night she finally summons the courage to go out in search of the simplest of human connections.

Hole G. GOLETSKI, CANADA, 2018, 6 MIN.

An adult with autism spectrum disorder, Mo spends a lot of time in their brain. Today, a hole started following them.

Paddock MICHEL KANDINSKY, CANADA, 2018, 8 MIN.

A city observed from a distance. Ordinary people doing ordinary things. Ordinary, yes, but something isn’t right. Someone is watching, someone is preparing. Is it just surveillance or something more sinister?

Dealing with what comes naturally isn’t easy, especially for animals. Five such beasts gather to discuss their inner angst in a group therapy session.

Compete EMMANUELLE LACOMBE, CANADA, 2018, 17 MIN.

Rosalie coaches her younger sister Sara in their village’s figure-skating club. On the eve of a major competition, friction intensifies between them.

Encore CONNOR GASTON, VAUGHN GASTON, CANADA, 2018, 13 MIN.

A young piano player tries to help his mother cope with the death of her husband the only way he knows how—through music.

Haus JOSEPH AMENTA, CANADA, 2018, 15 MIN.

As Makai and Trevon prepare for a night of competition at a local Kiki Ball, Makai is forced to reconnect with his disapproving older brother.

The Lure of the Deep LARISSA CORRIVEAU, CANADA, 2018, 16 MIN.

An introverted voice actor records littleknown seafaring tales and posts them to the web without anyone noticing. Then, he suddenly attracts a devoted follower.

Mahalia Melts in the Rain EMILIE MANNERING, CARMINE PIERRE-DUFOUR, CANADA, 2018, 12 MIN.

Two best friends reminisce over Skype while carving pumpkins.

Mahalia, a timid nine-year-old black girl, feels different from the other girls in her ballet class. Hoping to boost her confidence, her mother brings her to the hair salon to get her hair straightened for the very first time.

Turbine

Medical Drama

Pumpkin Movie SOPHY ROMVARI, CANADA, 2018, 11 MIN.

ALEX BOYA, CANADA, 2018, 9 MIN.

A surreal, romantic tragicomedy about a man who merges with his war plane and can no longer connect with his wife.

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ZACHARY RUSSELL, CANADA, 2018, 10 MIN.

La Cartographe

Short Films

8:45 PM 3:00 PM

7A A woman is interrupted as she prepares to record a video. An innocuous encounter quickly descends into chaos.

ALT

MON, OCT 1 MON, OCT 8

SOPHIE JARVIS, CANADA, 2017, 17 MIN.

A struggling actor abandons all logic when she finds a stranger, unconscious, in her laundry room.

ALT

Canada

Canada

Biidaaban

Escape Routes TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 96 MIN.

SUN, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 7

8:45 PM 2:45 PM

IN08 IN08

Acres REBECCAH LOVE, CANADA, 2018, 27 MIN.

When a remote farmer’s childhood sweetheart shows up unexpectedly, old flames are reignited as they unravel the mess that caused their separation.

Best Friends Read the Same Books MATTHEW TAYLOR BLAIS, CANADA, 2018, 8 MIN.

An anxiety-free day punctuated by trees, flowers, bridges, the ocean and people reading the same book.

Biidaaban AMANDA STRONG, CANADA, 2018, 18 MIN.

Biidaaban, a gender-fluid Indigenous youth, and Sabe, a Sasquatch shape shifter, set out to harvest sap from sugar maples in a city’s private neighbourhoods.

Girl on a Bus MATTHEW B. SCHMIDT, CANADA, 2018, 15 MIN.

An anxious girl traveling alone by bus joins the search for a lost passenger.

The Subject PATRICK BOUCHARD, CANADA, 2018, 10 MIN.

An animator dissects his own body, extracting memories, emotions and fears that will nurture his work. As he cuts into his skin with a scalpel, various symbolic objects recalling his past emerge.

Train Hopper

Matriarch Rising

Loretta’s Flowers

Matters of Grave Importance 9:15 PM 3:00 PM

Reel Youth Film Festival

Various Positions

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 91 MIN.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 102 MIN.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 98 MIN.

THU, OCT 4 THU, OCT 11

International Shorts

Canada

Fauve

IN08 IN08

Broken Bunny MEREDITH HAMA-BROWN, CANADA, 2018, 11 MIN.

A girl attempts to save a brutally wounded rabbit and finds that her moral compass is sent into a tailspin in the process.

EXIT CLAIRE EDMONDSON, CANADA/USA, 2018, 15 MIN.

A single day in the life of a woman confronting the consequences of an irreversible decision.

An emotional exploration of rage, fear and acceptance.

Fauve JEREMY COMTE, CANADA, 2018, 17 MIN.

While playing around a surface mine, two boys sink into a power game—with Mother Nature as the sole observer.

Glitter’s Wild Women DANIELLE RONEY, CANADA, 2018, 13 MIN.

Two sisters live in isolation on their farmland, harvest glitter and smoke this drug that gives them super strength.

Guts NANO CLOW, CANADA, 2018, 11 MIN.

Pressured to keep quiet about a friend’s indiscretion, Harry is forced to deal with his secret head-on when the victim’s sister walks into his shop.

My Life Is a Joke

AMÉLIE HARDY, CANADA, 2018, 18 MIN.

CHELSEA MCMULLAN, SARAFINA DIFELICE, CANADA, 2018, 7 MIN.

A young man travels across America hopping from one freight train to another.

A woman comes back from the dead to give a motivational talk about how her life was a joke.

Paseo MATTHEW HANNAM, CANADA, 2018, 14 MIN.

An actress shooting in Barcelona intentionally misses her flight home after a disappointing visit. That night she tries once more for a genuine experience in a city overrun with tourists.

WED, OCT 3 WED, OCT 10

9:15 PM 3:30 PM

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11:15 AM 6:30 PM

Century

Big Girls Don’t Cry

LEVI HOLWELL, GABE ROMERO, CANADA, 2018, 11 MIN.

REBECCA SHAPASS, USA, 2016, 10 MIN.

Three young women search for ways to kill time at a church as they await the arrival of an organ player.

Jasmine Stung

A Dreaming House DEVIN SHEARS, CANADA, 2017, 8 MIN.

A field recordist listens in on an old house’s dreams and nightmares.

Hazel Isle JESSICA JOHNSON, CANADA, 2018, 14 MIN.

A mesmerizing look at the tranquil countryside found on the Isle of Coll, Scotland.

Loretta’s Flowers BRENDAN PROST, CANADA, 2018, 16 MIN.

On a long summer’s day in Toronto, a young woman cycles between increasingly intimate encounters with three diverse people, but remains trapped in a pattern of insatiable longing.

Titanyum GÖKÇE ERDEM, CANADA/TURKEY, 2018, 15 MIN.

A promising young figure skater in 90s Turkey has to overcome the self-doubt that is jeopardizing her performance.

Under the Viaduct NORM LI, CANADA, 2017, 5 MIN.

A reflection on how consumerism and development can lead to the destruction of homeless communities.

The Urge to Run a Lap LESLEY LOKSI CHAN, CANADA, 2017, 14 MIN.

A middle-aged woman goes back to visit the maternity home where she lived as a pregnant teenager.

Veslemøy’s Song SOFIA BOHDANOWICZ, CANADA, 2018, 9 MIN.

ANDREW GILLINGHAM, CANADA, 2018, 10 MIN.

A young woman delves into the New York Public Library’s archives in hopes of uncovering a rare recording by a classical violinist whose importance has been diluted by time.

A sensitive waiter is triggered when he sees prawns burning alive for the dinner special.

Woman in Stall

Prawn

Short Films

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PARTHO GUPTE, INDIA, 2017, 5 MIN.

Gift YOHANN GRIGNOU, FRANCE, 2017, 2 MIN.

Rami & Mohammed’s Story KHALED AHMED, MOHAMED B., RAMI AL MITWALI, FOUAD HAMMOUD, CANADA, 2018, 4 MIN.

Somethings SHIRA HAIMOVICI, ISRAEL, 2017, 4 MIN.

The Bunny Odyssey TAERANG YUN, SOUTH KOREA, 2018, 5 MIN.

Foreign TIMOTHY ROSS, SWITZERLAND, 2018, 4 MIN.

Matriarch Rising HELEN MOTTS TOMMY, SAVANNAH M. KELLY YELLOWBIRD, SHAINA W., JENNA QUOCK, CANADA, 2018, 3 MIN.

Little Jerusalem MONIKA NAVICKAITE, LITHUANIA, 2017, 7 MIN.

Gone Astray MABEL YE, USA, 2018, 4 MIN.

Pulse GAGE OXLEY, UK, 2017, 6 MIN.

Urban Poetry ANTON GUTTENBERG, GERMANY, 2017, 1 MIN.

If Teardrops Were Pennies TIANA BATES, ALEXANDRIA SAYERS, CANADA, 2017, 7 MIN.

Slurp ANYA MARTIN, USA, 2018, 2 MIN.

Replica HAN PHAM, CANADA, 2018, 5 MIN.

My Clayey Conception ZANYAR MUHAMMADINEKO, IRAN, 2017, 3 MIN.

iRony RADHEYA JEGATHEVA, AUSTRALIA, 2017, 8 MIN.

Squats KARINA JESSON, CANADA, 2017, 3 MIN.

MADELEINE SIMS-FEWER, DUSTY MANCINELLI, CANADA/UK, 2018, 10 MIN.

Gary, Mary, Barry, and Craig

A woman finds herself trapped in a bathroom stall by a man whose intentions are not entirely clear.

BEN COCKELL, SYLVIE HOPKINS, RANI LI , OWEN LIU, CARISSA CLARKSON, CANADA, 2017, 8 MIN.

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International Shorts

Trophy Boy

Akeda

Danger Signs

Crisis of Our Age

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 115 MIN.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 113 MIN.

THU, OCT 4 SAT, OCT 6

6:00 PM 12:15 PM

IN08 IN08

Akeda (The Binding) DAN BRONFELD, USA, 2018, 18 MIN.

Acclaimed poet and activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner explores the nuclear-testing legacy of her country and one particular island that houses a dark secret.

An orphan boy has his humanity tested when his film director encourages him to give a violent performance that will blend fiction with reality.

Aquarium

The Beetle at the End of the Street

Dawn JÖRN THRELFALL, USA/UK, 2018, 15 MIN.

New Mexico, July 1945. In this land the paths of an old farmer and a young Navajo boy cross, just prior to a world-changing event.

Green SUZANNE ANDREWS CORREA, USA, 2017, 13 MIN.

An undocumented Turkish immigrant works as a pedicab driver in New York, but he’s struggling, to his brother’s consternation.

Mamartuile ALEJANDRO SAEVICH, MEXICO, 2017, 12 MIN.

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The President of Mexico is nearing the end of his term when his frivolous future planning is interrupted by an international conflict.

Password: Fajara SÉVERINE SAJOUS, PATRICIA SANCHEZ MORA, SPAIN, 2017, 18 MIN.

JOAN VIVES LOZANO, SPAIN, 2017, 19 MIN.

After the fishmonger’s seer daughter points to him and says he will die in seven days, a dull, self-sacrificing man becomes a celebrity amongst the townsfolk—but it’s not going to last.

Exit Toll MOHAMMAD NAJARIAN DARIANI, FRANCE/IRAN, 2017, 18 MIN.

While he works at an airport toll booth, a bored Iranian man is trying to learn English as he dreams of taking off to the promised land abroad.

The Light Refracts into the Shadows TSUNG HSUAN YEH, UK, 2018, 16 MIN.

When an aging man’s glasses get broken, he is thrust into a hallucinatory journey of selfdiscovery that has him questioning his world view, both literally and figuratively.

Open House PHILIP ACETO, USA, 2018, 18 MIN.

Ghost-like figures and trucks, the fragility of existence and the hopes of trapped, desperate refugees caught between worlds and the phantoms of meaning.

A marginalized high-school custodian, fearing the loss of his authority and job, is faced with obnoxious students, a sense of loneliness and an ever increasing stress load.

Precious

Shadow Animals

MOHAMMED HAMMAD, SAUDI ARABIA, 2018, 6 MIN.

JERRY CARLSSON, SWEDEN, 2017, 22 MIN.

Precious’ childhood dreams of a happy marriage and family life run headlong into patriarchal repression in a male-dominated society.

At a Swedish winter party, a young girl quickly starts to wonder about her parents’ slightly odd behavior; soon she is completely puzzled by the bizarre dance they are indulging in.

Trophy Boy EMRHYS COOPER, USA, 2018, 13 MIN.

James, a sexy, youthful, sought-after Instagram star and internet personality gets dumped by his wealthy sugar daddy.

You Don’t Know Me RODRIGO SÉLLOS, BRAZIL, 2017, 14 MIN.

A riveting performance of a woman’s courtroom statement about her rape, and the physical, emotional and psychological ordeal she still endures.

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DAN LIN, USA/MARSHALL ISLANDS, 2018, 7 MIN.

During a carefree day at the swimming pool, a boy’s fantasy of a girl he’s infatuated with suddenly becomes a lucid nightmare

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Anointed

LORENZO PUNTONI, ITALY, 2018, 15 MIN.

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Sorceress MAX BLUSTIN, UK, 2018, 4 MIN.

A waitress overhears a couple’s emotional and tragic conversation... but she goes to take their order anyway. Staring Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones).

ALT

International Shorts

International Shorts

Shorts Films

Bodies

In Lucia’s Skin

Love and Compassion TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 108 MIN.

FRI, OCT 5 MON, OCT 8

Short Films

6:00 PM 12:00 PM

IN08 IN08

Teen Perspectives TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 94 MIN.

THU, OCT 4 SUN, OCT 7

11:00 AM 6:00 PM

IN09 IN09

Coming of Age

Bodies

DOUG TOMPOS, USA, 2018, 8 MIN.

LAURA NAGY, AUSTRALIA, 2018, 16 MIN.

In the afterglow of sex, a generation gap opens between two men as they struggle to define trust in the age of open marriage and NSA hookups.

In the fast and slow world of two teen girl BFFs, their bond and school experience will be seriously challenged by a dangerous crush.

Eli COLIN GERRARD, UK, 2017, 11 MIN.

An old man’s routine visit to a local doctor’s office takes a twist when there’s a lack of civility from a woman tired of waiting her turn.

Gerry VICTORIA HOLLUP, PAUL AGAR, UK, 2018, 16 MIN.

Facing years of loneliness and isolation while packing up her deceased husband’s belongings, Hilda (Joan Collins) unearths a longburied secret.

In Lucia’s Skin MAYRA HERMOSILLO, ÁNGEL DE GUILLERMO, MEXICO, 2018, 14 MIN.

A day at the circus with her daughter is a reminder to Lucia of her constant struggle with poverty and a traumatic past.

Mino Bimaadiziwin SHANE MCSAUBY, USA, 2017, 10 MIN.

At a cultural preservation dance, a trans Anishinaabe man meets a vivacious young woman who pushes them to reconnect with Indigenous culture.

Matria ALVARO GAGO, SPAIN, 2017, 21 MIN.

Faced with many challenges in her daily life, a disgruntled cannery worker takes refuge in her relationship with her daughter and granddaughter.

Open Your Eyes ILAY MEVORACH, ISRAEL, 2017, 15 MIN.

Ilana is going blind. When she goes to the clinic with her son for her monthly injections, she is terrified when her usual doctor is absent.

Theo & Celeste HANNAH DOUGHERTY, AUSTRALIA, 2018, 3 MIN.

A couple on a teeter-totter play a game of “Would you still be my friend if...” to test their new friendship.

Yesterday or the Day Before HUGO SANZ, SPAIN, 2018, 10 MIN.

The relationship between two sisters who’ve had a special bond since childhood is tested one last time.

Boy Saint TOM SPEERS, IRELAND, 2018, 8 MIN.

Moments of joy, bonding and roughhousing on a school trip to the beach counterpoint one teen boy’s introspective sexual awakenings and questionings.

First Generation JEANNIE NGUYEN, USA, 2017, 9 MIN.

A teen Vietnamese-American girl, confused about her self-image by mass media and pressured by her friends, must decide how she fits into the two worlds she inhabits.

Hard Rubbish STEPHEN PACKER, AUSTRALIA, 2018, 12 MIN.

A group of middle-class teen boys out for a night of destruction and affirmation are caught off guard by a gang of the very people they are trying to emulate.

A Picnic Table, At Dusk SHERIDAN O’DONNELL, USA, 2018, 12 MIN.

Distressed and unable to find meaning in life, a grieving teen girl receives help from a stranger through a unique communication method.

The Racer ALEX HARRON, SCOTLAND, 2018, 14 MIN.

Jodie lives and breathes motorcycling, but in a male-dominated sport the fight for recognition and sponsors is a hard road— if it weren’t for her dad’s unwavering support.

Seen From Above PATRICK BROOKS, USA, 2017, 12 MIN.

While vacationing with her family at a mountain lake, teenage Vivian finds herself drawn to a boy neighbour... and his remote-control drone.

Skates MADDELIN MCKENNA, AUSTRALIA, 2018, 11 MIN.

A teen boy working at the local roller rink forms a bond with a girl skater as they try to navigate their way through a dismal New Year’s Eve, 1979.

The Harvesters

Shorts with Features ante mis ojos LINA RODRIGUEZ, COLOMBIA/CANADA, 2018, 7 MIN.

Holy Angels JAY CARDINAL VILLENEUVE, CANADA, 2017, 14 MIN.

Set on Colombia’s Lake Guatavita, the sacred site that inspired the legend of El Dorado, this is a richly textured meditation on landscape and its abstract contours.

A document of Canada’s colonialist history that also speaks of the resilience of a people who have found ways of healing—and of coming home again.

Screens with: Fausto p. 72

Screens with: Quiet Killing p. 69

Carlotta’s Face

In the Valley of Wild Horses

VALENTIN RIEDL, FRÉDÉRIC SCHULD, GERMANY, 2018, 5 MIN.

Afflicted with a rare condition, Carlotta sees someone different in the mirror each day because she cannot remember peoples faces—even her own.

Screens with: The Wolf House p. 97

Caterpillarplasty DAVID BARLOW-KRELINA, CANADA, 2018, 5 MIN.

In a technologically advanced society where body modifications are the fashion of the day, people seek extreme metamorphosis to realize their ideal self-image.

Screens with: Level 16 p. 95

A Fortress MIRYAM CHARLES, CANADA/HAITI, 2018, 6 MIN.

After the death of an adopted daughter, a couple seeks answers—and has hopes for a miraculous resurrection in Haiti.

Screens with: Song of a Seer p. 73

The Great Wall of China ALEKSANDRA ODIC, GERMANY/BOSNIA, 2017, 36 MIN.

When the aunt she idolizes attempts a secret escape to Germany, Maja, a young Bosnian girl, must decide whether she should inform on her.

Screens with: Minute Bodies: The Intimate Lives of F. Percy Smith p. 93

The Harvesters DEREK HOWARD, CANADA/KENYA, 2018, 7 MIN.

Three Maasai men harvest honey in Kenya’s Mau Forest in this carefully composed portrait of often-invisible labour.

Screens with: Cuban Food Stories p. 78

TREVOR MACK, ASIA YOUNGMAN, CANADA, 2018, 23 MIN.

Every summer, the community of Xeni Gwet’in travels 200 km by horse and wagon from their home in Nemiah Valley to the famous Williams Lake stampede to honour a 94-year tradition of inclusion, trade and relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

Screens with: Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket p. 65

Roy Thomson SOFIA BOHDANOWICZ, CANADA, 2018, 3 MIN.

In a beautiful act of remembrance, a young girl tries to get her violinist grandfather’s attention while he performs with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Screens with: Spice It Up p. 73

The Soft Space SOFIA BOHDANOWICZ, MELANIE SCHEINER, CANADA, 2018, 4 MIN.

The corridors of a subway station are juxtaposed with the human body in a consideration of the transient spaces we unconsciously traverse every day.

Screens with: M/M p. 72

Three Atlas MIRYAM CHARLES, CANADA/HAITI, 2018, 7 MIN.

In a dialogue split apart by language, ethnicity and class, a police officer interrogates a maid—who may also be a vampire—suspected of murder.

Screens with: Song of a Seer p. 73

Where SOFIA BOHDANOWICZ, CANADA, 2018, 4 MIN.

A toxic relationship and its painful memories are traced through the spaces a couple once inhabited and are still haunted by.

Screens with: Spice it Up p. 73

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MODES

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Various

Various

The Rare Event

The Hymns of Muscovy

MODES 1

MODES 2

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 82 MIN.

TUE, OCT 2 SUN, OCT 7

6:15 PM 2:00 PM

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 88 MIN.

VCT VCT

These works subvert the dominant gaze and offer gestures of resistance that examine the mechanisms of power and disempowerment.

Unearthing. In Conversation BELINDA KAZEEM-KAMINSKI, AUSTRIA, 2017, 13 MIN.

ALT

MODES MODES sets out to explore how far the form of cinema is capable of bending. Highlighting international video and screen-based artists uninhibited by the limits of traditional approaches, these short works expand the frame on art, politics and human experience.

As the artist establishes an oppositional gaze, we are confronted by the methodic removal of an ethnographer’s colonial perspective.

The White Elephant SHURUQ HARB, PALESTINE, 2018, 12 MIN.

Using found audiovisual web-fragments and YouTube clips of young Tsahal soldiers raving to trance music in the 90s, a Palestinian teenager struggles to self-identify.

Lost Head & the Bird SOHRAB HURA, INDIA, 2018, 10 MIN.

Evolving from photo essay to multi-platform installation, Hura’s poetic essay film examines India’s unseen sexual, religious and political violence.

Julio Iglesias’s House NATALIA MARÍN, SPAIN, 2018, 13 MIN.

Attempting to replicate Spain, Shanghai’s architects concluded “Spain means Julio Iglesias”. Marín expertly critiques such fatuous notions of national identity.

LHB CHARLOTTE PRODGER, UK (SCOTLAND), 2017, 20 MIN.

Prodger explores the nuance of ‘queer rurality’; how queer lives are lived beyond the urban contexts that generally dominate LBGTQI narratives.

The Hymns of Muscovy DIMITRI VENKOV, RUSSIA, 2018, 14 MIN.

The act of flipping Moscow on its head allows for an unanchored glimpse of Russia’s past— and imagined future.

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Poetry or malware? To be in the frame, or not to be in the frame? Philosophizing within, around, and about perceived dimensions reveals the liminal space between existence and appearance—which is where the magic happens.

Hi I Need To Be Loved MARNIE ELLEN HERTZLER, USA, 2018, 11 MIN.

Craigslist respondents read and enact manipulative, nonsensical and personal emails in an attempt to realize and humanize the digital and inhumane.

A Room with a Coconut View TULAPOP SAENJAROEN, THAILAND, 2018, 29 MIN.

In a work that dissects the political relationship between what is captured and what is left out, an automated Thai tour guide leads a traveller through Bangsaen as he fantasizes about exiting the frame.

The Rare Event BEN RIVERS, BEN RUSSELL, UK/SWITZERLAND, 2018, 48 MIN.

Notable activists, thinkers, and artists discuss the theme of “resistance” as a roving lens documents an inaugural “forum of ideas,” inspired by the late philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. Dialectical layers, irreverent humour and dimensional cross-pollination culminate in the slow happening of a truly rare event.

Acknowledgements Ablaze Image Yen-Chen Chen

Cohen Media Gary Rubin

Films Distribution Joris Boyer

AFCOOP Martha Cooley, Heather Young

Consulate General of France in Vancouver Etienne Farreyre

Films du Losange Lise Zipci

Asmik Ace, Inc. Mai Kato Autlook Films Stephanie Fuchs, SalmaAbralla

Consulate General of Italy Gianluca Biscardi, Luigi Sarno

Axia Films Inc. Armand Lafond

Consumer Protection BC

Core Music Agency Ari Wise

BAFICI Juan Manuel Dominguez, Agustin Masaedo, Javier Porta Fouz

Creative BC Prem Gill, Erika Kumar, Robert Wong

BC Arts Council Chris Gilpin

D Films Angie Power, Michael Robson, Peter Mulone, Jim Sherry

BETA CINEMA

Cosima Finkbeiner Biograf Jan Svěrák Martina Moudrá BRON Studios Calgary Underground Film Festival Brenda Lieberman, Brennan Tilley

Delta Steven Larkin, Luciana Spagna, Laura Di Tamaso Deluxe Suzanne Thompson DeVisser Gary LLP Cameron Dong, William Nichols

DGC Canada Border Services Agency Catherine Middleton Sheila Curran DGC BC Canadian Heritage Andrea Moore Jeremy Arbuthnot, Mélanie Martineau, Guinevere Sanderson, La Distributrice Erica Tao, Kirk Thompson, Serge Abiaad Cannes Marché du Film Jerome Paillard

Doc & Film International Hannah Horner

CCDI Richmond

Dogwoof Luke Brawley

Cercamon Edgar Roche Chroma Systems Ltd. Sam Scott Clarity Films Connie Field

DreamLab Films Nasrine Médard de Chardon Edko Films Julian Chiu El Pamperocine Laura Citarella

The Cinematheque Jim Sinclair, Kate Ladyshewsky, Elevation Pictures Linton Murphy, Shaun Inouye, Staff, Olivier Gauthier-Mercier Board and Volunteers Elle Driver Cinephil Semira Hedayati, Grégoire Bideau Ela Elbaz FACTOR Cineplex Entertainment Evelyn Cream, Duncan McKie Mert Inal, Craig Di’Rocco, Stephanie Critelli, Kelly Haley The Festival Agency Leslie Vuchot, Elodie Dupont Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas The Film Collaborative

Jeffrey Winter Cinetic Media Jason Ishikawa, Caroll Gerderman Film Factory Manon Barat City of Vancouver Debra Bodner, Dino Di Fonzo , Film Movement Patrica Eng, Branislav Henselmann, Maxwell Wolkin Cherryl Masters, Stephanie McLellan, Pasquale Pucci, Film Sales Company Alix Sales, Tara Simmer, Sandi Lucas Verga Swanigan Film Society of Lincoln Centre Clarks AV Kent Jones, Dennis Lim James Downey FilmRise CMPA BC Olivia Priedite Liz Shorten, Linda Hay, Ryan MacArthur Films Boutique Valeska Neu

Filmoption Andrew Noble Filmswelike Ron Mann, Michael Boyuk Finecut Jina Park, Jeon Yejin First Run Features Julianne Augustine Fox Searchlight Russell Nelson, Isabelle Sugimoto FunFilm Martin Desroches, Francis Ouellette German Films Dennis Ruh Global Convention Services LTD Andrew Brewster Golden Scene Company Ltd. Felix Tsang, Winnie Tsang Graal S.A. Konstantina Stavrianou Great Point Media Lucas Meurin

Lexus Dawn Soulis, Jared Wall, Nicolas Metayer, Adi Underwood, Alex Light Luxbox Valentin Carre Lux Alice Lea M-Appeal Torsten Schulze The Match Factory GmbH Sergi Steegman Memento Films Sata Cissokho Minerva Pictures Francesca Delise Mira Film GmbH Susanne Guggenberger MK2 Anne-Laure Barbarit, Margot Rossi MK2 Mile End Ariane Giroux Daillaire, Julie Griesser M-Line Distribution Rachel Joo, Jin Park MMPIA Leslie Wooton

Passion Pictures Films Chris Gent Perfect Village Entertainment HK Limited Ellen Eliasoph, Xu Jing Persia Film Distribution Ali Ghasemi The Piranesi Experience Claudio Esposito Pluto Film Daniela Chlapikova Post Pro Randy Egan, Kylie Kumar, Jordan Taylor, Cory Clarkson, Don Macdonell, Caspian Kai, Austin Wendenburg, Stephanie Beerwald

RAI COM S.p.A. Lucetta Lanfranchi, Filippo Matsi

Universal Films Canada/ NBC Universal Canada Janice Luke

Ramonda Paris Pascale Ramonda

Urban Distribution International Arnaud Bélangeon-Bouaziz

Raven Banner Entertainment Michael Paszt Reel Suspects Alberto Alvarez Aguilera

Rogers Group of Funds Robin Mirsky

Heretic Outreach Christina Liapi

MPM Films Luminițsa Cotruta, Gaëlle Palluel

Iberoamerican Images Victor Martinez

Music BC Alex Grigg

Rotterdam International Film Festival Bero Beyer

Icarus Livia Bloom

National Film Board of Canada Shirley Vercruysse, Rob Seattle International Film McLaughlin, Loc Dao, Danielle Viau Festival Beth Barrett National Geographic Kristin Montalbano, Jennifer Bond Seashore Image Isabella Ho Netflix Kate Fox, Sabrina Phillips, SFU Woodward’s Cultural Christi Lardi Programs Michael Boucher, Janice Beley, New Europe Film Sales Lori Strong, Kate Stadel, All Staff Ewa Bojanowska Shanghai Film Festival New Zealand Film Festival Zhuang Weihuan, Wang Xiao, Guo Bill Gosden, Sandra Reid Rubing, Wei Tianyao

Janus Films Brian Belovarac Jet Tone Films Ltd. Jamie Ho, Jacky Pang Jour2Fête Clémence Michalon KimStim Mika Kimoto Kino Lorber Wendy Lidell, Jonathan Hertzberg KinoSmith Robin Smith Latido Films Marta Hernando

Toei Company Daichi Yashiki

True Colours Gaetano Maiorino, Francesca Tiberi

MPI Media Wyatt Ollestad

ITS Consulting Jason Davies, Herman LeRoux, Michael Scott

TELUS Kim Hsu Guise, Lizzy Karp, Amber Orchard, Jonas Woost, Christine Willings

Pyramide International Ilaria Gomarasca

Henderson Development LTD Katherine Chan, Mimi Kwong

Intuitive Pictures Ina Fichman, Hilla Medalia

Telefilm Canada Christa Dickenson, Francesca Accinelli, John Dippong, Carrie MacGregor

Tourism Vancouver Ty Speer, Steven Pierce, Brenda Longland

Heaven’s Gate Olga Štěpánková

Indie Sales Martin Gondre, Elise Camoin

Swedish Film Institute Theo Tsappos, Sara Rüster

Pro Line Communications Ltd. Brian Abs

Mongrel Media Hussain Amarshi, Tom Alexander, Ai Suzuki

IMPARK Jason Sun

Sutton Place Hotel Penny Graham, Robyn Stick, Tracy Vugrinec, Tony D’Alessandro, Mira Barnett

Rio Theatre Corinne Lea

Vancouver Civic Theatres Sandra Gajic, Krista Edwardson, Peter Kendall, Michelle Surette, Miles Muir, Tara Nazemi, Tim Hennessy, Dave Winstanely Vancouver Economic Commission David Shepheard Vancouver Film School Will Meadows Visit Films Tarek Shoukri

Rutherford Global Logistics Inc. Well Go USA Shareen Prasad, Edmond Wong Dylan Marchetti

Nikkatsu Corporation Mami Furukawa

Sixpack Film Americas Ralph McKay

Noori Pictures Katayoon Shahabi

SODEC Valérie Ascah, José Dubeau

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Still Moving Pierre Menahem

The Otolith Group and The Otolith Collective

Orchard Films Dan Goldberg

Storyline Entertainment Inc. Ed Barreveld, Katie Murray

Pacific Northwest Pictures Emily Alden, Lindsey Hodgeson

Stray Dogs Lison Hervé

Parallel Rentals Inc./ Whites LES Ed Brando, Jason Cox

Super Channel Kim Ball

Strand Releasing Marcus Hu, Nathan Faustyn

Westside Church Ken Chung, Casey Wickham Wide Management Matthias Angoulvant Wild Bunch Esther Devos Woodhouse & Associates Inc. Natasha Woodhouse William L. Rutherford (BC) Ltd. Edmond Wong, Shareen Prasad Alice AuYeung Poping AuYeung Sofia Bohdanowicz Antoine Bourges Charles Campbell Donna Chisholm David D’Arcy Luc Déry Ann Marie Fleming Nancy Gerstman Joey Klein Ken MacIntyre Catherine McInnis Charles Officer Phil Parks Berenice Reynaud Sue Simon Patrick Stark Calvin Thomas Lili Vieira de Carvalho Gus Wong

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Index of Directors

A Abrantes, Gabriel.................... 47 Aceto, Philip........................... 100 Agar, Paul................................ 100 Ahmed, Khaled........................ 99 Aïnouz, Karim........................... 74 Al Mitwali, Rami...................... 99 Alayan, Muayad....................... 50 Albenda, Ayelet....................... 75 Amenta, Joseph....................... 98 Amini, Abbas............................ 49 Andini, Kamila.......................... 89 Andrews Correa, Suzanne............................... 100 Arias, Lola................................. 81 Aroonpheng, Phuttiphong........................... 88 Assayas, Olivier....................... 31 Audiard, Jacques..................... 37 Aviad, Michal............................ 57

B B., Mohamed............................ 99 Badkoobeh, Pooya.................. 47 Bahar, Robert........................... 75 Baichwal, Jennifer................... 23 Baier, Lionel.............................. 51 Baldwin, Grant......................... 65 Barlow-Krelina, David............ 95 Bates, Tiana.............................. 99 Behrman, Keith........................ 68 Bekmambetov, Timur............. 95 Belmonte, Emilio..................... 91 Ben Attia, Mohamed.............. 47 Benenson, Bill.......................... 81 Benm’barek, Meryem............ 51 Bi Gan......................................... 87 Billingham, Richard................ 63 Bispuri, Laura........................... 60 Blais, Matthew Taylor............ 99 Blustin, Max............................ 100 Bodružic, Bojan....................... 72 Bohdanowicz, Sofia............................ 72, 73, 99 Bondarchuk, Roman............... 51 Borsos, Phillip.......................... 39 Bouchard, Patrick................... 99 Boya, Alex.................................. 98 Brettkelly, Pietra...................... 93 Brizé, Stéphane....................... 58 Bron, Jean-Stéphane.............. 51 Bronfeld, Dan......................... 100 Brooks, Patrick....................... 101 Brown, Nicolas........................ 75 Brown, Tina............................... 93 Bruneau, Sophie...................... 78 Burtynsky, Edward.................. 23 Bussmann, Andrea................. 72

C Caicedo, Santiago.................. 97 Carlsson, Jerry....................... 100 Carracedo, Almudena........... 75 Carton, Laetitia........................ 91 Ceylan, Nuri Bilge................... 57 Chan, Lesley Loksi.................. 99 Charitos, Lefteris..................... 78 Charles, Miryam...................... 73 Chiu, Derek............................... 87 Chiu, Terry................................. 72 Chomko, Elizabeth.................. 57 Civeyrac, Jean Paul................. 59

Clennell, Jake........................... 78 Clow, Nano............................... 99 Cociña, Joaquín....................... 97 Comte, Jeremy......................... 99 Cooper, Emrhys..................... 100 Corriveau, Larissa................... 98 Costantini, Cristina................. 78 Cousins, Mark.......................... 91

D D’Ambrose, Ricky.................... 63 De Guillermo, Ángel............. 101 de la Fuente, Raul................... 97 de Pencier, Miranda............... 29 de Pencier, Nicholas.............. 23 Devlin, Sean.............................. 65 DiFelice, Sarafina.................... 99 Dougherty, Hannah.............. 101 Douglas, Nathan..................... 98 Drljaca, Igor.............................. 73 Dufour-Laperrière, Félix........ 71 Dumont, Bruno........................ 59 Dupieux, Quentin.................... 59

E Echard, Aminatou...................

Echevarría, Arantxa................

Edenshaw, Gwaai...................

Edgerton, Joel..........................

Edmondson, Claire.................

Eklöf, Isabella...........................

Elon, Danae..............................

Erdem, Gökçe..........................

Erlingsson, Benedikt..............

Esterhazy, Danishka...............

Everett, Rupert.........................

Ezban, Isaac.............................

78 45 65 23 99 49 71 99 57 95 31 95

H Haig-Brown, Helen................. 65 Haimovici, Shira...................... 99 Hama-Brown, Meredith......... 99 Hamaguchi Ryusuke.............. 85 Hammad, Mohammed........ 100 Hammoud, Fouad................... 99 Hannam, Matthew.................. 99 Hao Wu...................................... 87 Harb, Shuruq.......................... 102 Hardy, Amélie........................... 99 Harris, Alicia K......................... 98 Harron, Alex............................ 101 Hays, Robin............................... 64 Hedges, Peter.......................... 44 Heineman, Matthew.............. 33 Heller, Marielle........................ 25 Hermosillo, Mayra................ 101 Hertzler, Marnie Ellen.......... 102 Hiroki Ryuichi........................... 85 Hollup, Victoria...................... 101 Holwell, Levi............................. 99 Hong Sangsoo......................... 85 Honoré, Christophe................ 59 Hosoda, Mamoru.................... 87 Howard, Derek......................... 78 Hrebejk, Jan.............................. 48 Hsiao Ya-Chuan....................... 85 Hu Bo.......................................... 85 Huber, Sophie.......................... 91 Hura, Sohrab.......................... 102

I Imhoof, Markus....................... 74

F Faraut, Julien............................

Farhadi, Asghar.......................

Ferrara, Abel.............................

Field, Connie............................

Findlay, David...........................

Fine, David................................

Finkiel, Emmanuel..................

Fischer Christensen, Pernille....................................

Fischer, Wolfgang...................

Fitzgerald, Thom.....................

Foreman, Donal.......................

Foster, Darren..........................

Guerra, Ciro.............................. 45 Gupte, Partho........................... 99 Guttenberg, Anton.................. 99

81 27 61 93 69 98 59 45 51 71 78 78

G Gago, Alvaro........................... 101 Gallego, Cristina...................... 45 Garland, Christy...................... 71 Garrone, Matteo...................... 60 Gaston, Connor....................... 98 Gaston, Vaughn....................... 98 Gera, Rohena........................... 51 German Jr., Alexey.................. 47 Gerrard, Colin......................... 101 Gillingham, Andrew................ 99 Glavonic, Ognjen..................... 50 Godard, Jean-Luc.................... 58 Godin, Olivier........................... 73 Goletski, G................................. 98 Golino, Valeria.......................... 61 Graham, Cody.......................... 65 Grassadonia, Fabio................ 61 Grignou, Yohann..................... 99

J Jabor, Carolina.........................

Jain, Dipesh..............................

Jarvis, Sophie...........................

Jayme, Kathleen S...................

Jegatheva, Radheya................

Jeon Gowoon...........................

Jerkovic, Katherine.................

Jesson, Karina..........................

Jia Zhangke...............................

Johnson, Jessica......................

Jones, Jon..................................

Jones, Kent................................

50 49 98 65 99 88 69 99 84 99 49 47

K Kahn, Cédric............................. 59 Kahn, Nathanial....................... 93 Kandinsky, Michel................... 98 Kazeem-Kaminski, Belinda.................................. 102 Kellner, Debra........................... 78 Kelly Yellowbird, Savannah M........................... 99 Kofmel, Anja............................. 78 Köhler, Ulrich............................ 49 Kore-eda Hirokazu.................. 37 Krstic, Milorad.......................... 97

L Labaki, Nadine......................... 45 Lacombe, Emmanuelle......... 98 Lanthimos, Yorgos.................. 29

Lavafi, Ramtin........................... 48 Lazarov, Milko.......................... 44 Lee Changdong....................... 85 Lee Seung-Yup......................... 64 León, Cristóbal........................ 97 Lereng Wilmont, Simon........ 78 Lesage, Philippe...................... 69 Levine, Adam R........................ 63 Lewis, Lev................................. 73 Lewis, Yonah............................ 73 Lhapal Gyal............................... 87 Li, Norm..................................... 99 Lin, Dan.................................... 100 Lint, Drew.................................. 72 Lipovsky, Zach......................... 65 Llinás, Mariano........................ 62 Loushy, Mor.............................. 75 Love, Rebeccah....................... 99 Loveridge, Stephen................ 91 Lowery, David........................... 33

M Mack, Jodie............................... 63 Mack, Trevor............................ 65 Magid, Jill.................................. 93 Magnusson, Jane.................... 90 Maigre-Touchet, Aïda............ 73 Makridis, Babis........................ 50 Mancinelli, Dusty.................... 99 Manetti, Antonio..................... 61 Manetti, Marco........................ 61 Mann, Ron................................. 91 Mannering, Emilie.................. 98 Mansky, Vitaly.......................... 81 Marín, Natalia........................ 102 Marlin, Jean-Bernard.............. 59 Martin, Anya............................. 99 Martinessi, Marcelo............... 48 Mayfair, Ash.............................. 89 Mazo, Adam............................. 74 McCarthy, Steven................... 98 McKellar, Don........................... 71 McKenna, Maddelin............. 101 McMullan, Chelsea................ 99 McSauby, Shane................... 101 Meier, Ursula............................ 51 Mermoud, Frédéric................ 51 Mevorach, Ilay........................ 101 Midi Z......................................... 84 Miller Guerra, João................. 47 Minervini, Roberto.................. 63 Mitchell, David Robert........... 94 Möller, Gustav.......................... 48 Moon Sori................................. 89 Morgen, Brett........................... 39 Motts Tommy, Helen.............. 99 Mozaffari, Jasmin.................... 69 Muhammadineko, Zanyar...................................... 99

N Nader Messora, Renée......... 47 Nagy, Laura............................. 101 Najarian Dariani, Mohammad......................... 100 Navickaite, Monika................. 99 Nenow, Damian....................... 97 Newman, Carey....................... 65 Nguyen, Jeannie.................... 101 Nguyen, Kim............................. 19 Noé, Gaspar............................. 95

O O’Bomsawin, Kim.................... 69 O’Donnell, Sheridan............. 101 Odic, Aleksandra..................... 93 Okita Shuichi............................ 87 Olesker, Lizzie.......................... 78 Oliver, Bill................................... 49 Omerzu, Olmo.......................... 57 Otolith Group, The.................. 93 Oxley, Gage............................... 99

P Packer, Stephen.................... 101 Paley, Nina................................ 97 Panahi, Jafar............................. 44 Pawlikowski, Pawel................. 25 Pema Tseden........................... 85 Pender-Cudlip, Ben................ 74 Petzold, Christian.................... 51 Pham, Han................................ 99 Piazza, Antonio........................ 61 Pichler, Gabriela...................... 45 Pierre-Dufour, Carmine......... 98 Potrykus, Joel........................... 95 Prodger, Charlotte................ 102 Proserpio, Marco.................... 91 Prost, Brendan......................... 99 Puntoni, Lorenzo................... 100

Q Quock, Jenna............................ 99

R Rappmund, Peter Bo.............. 63 Reis, Filipa................................. 47 Reitman, Jason......................... 21 Riedl, Valentin.......................... 97 Rivers, Ben.............................. 102 Rodriguez, Lina........................ 72 Rohrwacher, Alice................... 61 Romero, Gabe.......................... 99 Romvari, Sophy........................ 98 Roney, Danielle........................ 99 Rosales, Jaime......................... 50 Ross, Timothy.......................... 99 Rozema, Patricia..................... 68 Russell, Ben............................ 102 Russell, Zachary...................... 98

Sherman, Akash...................... 69 Shireen Seno............................ 89 Sims-Fewer, Madeleine........ 99 Sivan, Daniel............................. 75 Smoczynska, Agnieszka....... 47 Snowden, Alison..................... 98 Soechtig, Stephanie............... 74 Solnicki, Gastón...................... 63 Sonthar Gyal............................. 84 Sorini, Andrea.......................... 78 Soto, Asori................................. 78 Speers, Tom............................ 101 Staples, Stuart A..................... 93 Stein, Adam.............................. 65 Stewart, Rob............................. 35 Stone, Carly.............................. 69 Strong, Amanda...................... 99 Stuber, Thomas....................... 49 Sverák, Jan................................ 45 Sweeney, Bruce....................... 65 Szumowska, Malgorzata....... 50

T Tan, Sandi.................................. 81 Taylor, Astra.............................. 71 Thomas, Calvin........................ 73 Threlfall, Jörn.......................... 100 Tompos, Doug........................ 101 Torres Torres, Jesús............... 50 Toscano, Agustín.................... 51 Trobisch, Eva............................ 45 Tullio Giordana, Marco.......... 61 Tyrnauer, Matt.......................... 93

U Ueda Shinichiro....................... 95 Uloth, David.............................. 69

V Vallée, Jean-Marc.................... 38 van Dammen, Tim................... 95 Vejdelek, Jirí.............................. 50 Venkov, Dimitri....................... 102 Villeneuve, Jay Cardinal........ 69 Vives Lozano, Joan............... 100 Volf, Tom.................................... 90 von Trier, Lars........................... 94

W

S Sachs, Lynne............................ 78 Saenjaroen, Tulapop............ 102 Saevich, Alejandro................ 100 Sajous, Séverine.................... 100 Salaviza, João........................... 47 Saleh, Reem............................. 75 Sanchez Mora, Patricia....... 100 Sangra, Baljit............................ 64 Sanz, Hugo............................. 101 Sauvard, Bruno........................ 81 Savona, Stefano....................... 75 Sayers, Alexandria.................. 99 Scheiner, Melanie................... 72 Schmidt, Daniel....................... 47 Schmidt, Matthew B.............. 99 Schuld, Frédéric...................... 97 Séllos, Rodrigo....................... 100 Serebrennikov, Kirill............... 49 Shapass, Rebecca.................. 99 Shaw, Jeremy............................ 63 Shawky, A.B.............................. 57 Shears, Devin........................... 99

W., Shaina............................... 101 Waters Freyer, Sasha............. 91 Weitz, Paul................................ 45 Westmoreland, Wash............. 27 Whisenant, Dava..................... 90 Winkler, Dyana......................... 93

Y Yang Mingming....................... 88 Yang Yishu................................ 87 Ye, Mabel................................... 99 Yeh, Tsung Hsuan................. 100 Yeo Siew Hua........................... 88 Ying Liang................................. 85 Yoshida Daihachi.................... 87 Youngman, Asia....................... 65 Yun, Taerang............................. 99

Z Zang, Zebulon.......................... 65 Zhang Yimou............................ 35

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Index of Films with Screening Times

14 Apples p. 84 (Mon, Oct 1, 6:30pm, IN08 + Wed, Oct 10, 1:15pm, VCT) 1’24

Carmen and Lola p. 45 (Mon, Oct 8, 9:15pm, IN09 +

3 Faces p. 44 (Wed, Oct 3, 9:15pm, PLAY + Wed, Oct

Carmine Street Guitars p. 91 (Tue, Oct 2, 6:15pm, RIO

Ága p. 44 (Tue, Oct 9, 6:30pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 11, 4:00pm, IN09) 1’36

Central Airport THF p. 74 (Sun, Sep 30, 10:30am, VCT

Ala Changso p. 84 (Mon, Oct 8, 3:30pm, SFU + Wed,

Chris the Swiss p. 78 (Sat, Sep 29, 1:45pm, IN09 +

All Good p. 45 (Tue, Oct 2, 2:00pm, IN10 + Fri, Oct 5,

Clara p. 69 (Sun, Sep 30, 6:30pm, SFU + Thu, Oct 4,

10, 3:45pm, PLAY) 1’40

Oct 10, 9:30pm, IN10) 1’55

+ Sun, Oct 7, 4:30pm, SFU) 1’20

+ Wed, Oct 3, 8:45pm, CINE) 1’37 Thu, Oct 4, 6:30pm, RIO) 1’30

7:00pm, IN10) 1’33

4:30pm, IN10) 1’45

Amateurs p. 45 (Wed, Oct 3, 10:45am, SFU + Fri, Oct 5,

Climax p. 95 (Sat, Sep 29, 11:15pm, RIO) 1’36

9:00pm, SFU) 1’42

Another Day of Life p. 97 (Fri, Sep 28, 3:30pm, VCT +

Sun, Oct 7, 6:30pm, RIO) 1’26

Anthem of a Teenage Prophet p. 64 (Sat, Oct 6, 6:00pm, PLAY + Sun, Oct 7, 3:45pm, PLAY) 1’45

ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch p. 23 (Fri,

Sep 28, 1:45pm, SFU + Sun, Sep 30, 6:30pm, CENT) 1’27

Asako I & II p. 85 (Fri, Sep 28, 4:00pm, IN10 + Sat, Sep 29, 9:15pm, IN09) 2’0

Ash Is Purest White p. 84 (Wed, Oct 3, 8:45pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 5, 3:30pm, PLAY) 2’16

At War p. 58 (Wed, Oct 3, 4:15pm, IN10 + Mon, Oct 8,

6:30pm, PLAY) 1’52

Baikonur, Earth p. 78 (Thu, Oct 4, 7:00pm, IN10 + Sun, Oct 7, 4:30pm, IN10) 1’14

Barefoot p. 45 (Sat, Oct 6, 11:00am, SFU + Mon, Oct 8, 9:15pm, PLAY) 1’44

Bathtubs Over Broadway p. 90 (Fri, Sep 28, 6:45pm, SFU + Sun, Sep 30, 10:30am, SFU) 1’27

Because We Are Girls p. 64 (Sun, Sep 30, 9:30pm, SFU + Wed, Oct 3, 11:15am, IN10) 1’23

Becoming Astrid p. 45 (Sun, Sep 30, 9:00pm, CENT + Tue, Oct 9, 3:30pm, PLAY) 2’3

Bel Canto p. 45 (Mon, Oct 8, 6:00pm, CENT + Thu, Oct 11, 3:45pm, PLAY) 1’42

Ben Is Back p. 44 (Sun, Oct 7, 3:00pm, CENT + Thu,

Oct 11, 9:00pm, CENT) 1’43

Bergman - A Year in a Life p. 90 (Thu, Sep 27, 8:45pm, CINE + Sat, Sep 29, 11:00am, IN09) 1’56 Bethune: The Making of a Hero p. 39 (Fri, Oct 5,

6:00pm, VCT) 1’58

Birds of Passage p. 45 (Sun, Oct 7, 6:30pm, PLAY +

Thu, Oct 11, 4:00pm, SFU) 2’5

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes p. 91 (Sat,

Oct 6, 12:30pm, RIO + Thu, Oct 11, 6:45pm, SFU) 1’25

Boy Erased p. 23 (Sat, Oct 6, 9:15pm, PLAY) 1’58 Burning p. 85 (Sun, Oct 7, 8:30pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 12,

Close Quarters p. 98 (Tue, Oct 2, 9:15pm, IN08 + Tue, Oct 9, 3:30pm, IN08) 1’34

Coincoin and the Extra-Humans p. 59 (Sat, Oct 6,

6:00pm, VCT + Mon, Oct 8, 10:30am, VCT) 3’20

Cold War p. 25 (Tue, Oct 2, 6:30pm, CENT + Tue, Oct 9, 8:45pm, CENT) 1’28

Colette p. 27 (Sat, Sep 29, 3:00pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 3,

6:00pm, CENT) 1’52

Communion Los Angeles p. 63 (Mon, Oct 1, 4:00pm, VCT + Sun, Oct 7, 6:30pm, CINE) 1’8

Crisis of Our Age p. 100 (Thu, Oct 4, 6:00pm, IN08 +

Sat, Oct 6, 12:15pm, IN08) 1’53

Cuban Food Stories p. 79 (Sat, Sep 29, 3:15pm, RIO + Sun, Oct 7, 9:30pm, IN10) 1’29

The Curtain Calls p. 98 (Mon, Oct 1, 8:45pm, IN08 +

Mon, Oct 8, 3:00pm, IN08) 1’44

1’20

Dovlatov p. 47 (Tue, Oct 9, 11:00am, IN09 + Wed, Oct 10, 6:30pm, SFU) 2’6 Dreaming Under Capitalism p. 79 (Thu, Oct 4, 6:30pm, CINE + Sat, Oct 6, 3:45pm, IN09) 1’47 Dressage p. 47 (Wed, Oct 3, 6:30pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 5, 2:00pm, IN10) 1’35

Edge of the Knife p. 65 (Wed, Oct 3, 6:15pm, PLAY + Fri, Oct 5, 10:30am, SFU) 1’40

Eldorado p. 74 (Thu, Sep 27, 8:45pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 3, 10:30am, VCT) 1’32

An Elephant Sitting Still p. 85 (Mon, Oct 8, 7:30pm, IN08 + Fri, Oct 12, 10:30am, VCT) 3’50

Escape Routes p. 99 (Sun, Sep 30, 8:45pm, IN08 + Sun, Oct 7, 2:45pm, IN08) 1’35

Euforia p. 61 (Fri, Sep 28, 9:15pm, IN09 + Sat, Sep 29, 12:30pm, RIO) 1’55

Everybody Knows p. 27 (Fri, Sep 28, 9:00pm, CENT) 2’10

Everything Outside p. 69 (Wed, Oct 3, 9:00pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 5, 1:00pm, IN08) 1’17

The Eyes of Orson Welles p. 91 (Tue, Oct 2, 11:00am, VCT + Thu, Oct 11, 6:30pm, CINE) 1’55

A Family Tour p. 85 (Sat, Sep 29, 6:15pm, SFU + Mon, Oct 1, 1:30pm, IN10) 1’47

The Far Shore p. 69 (Sat, Sep 29, 6:30pm, CINE + Mon, Oct 1, 3:30pm, IN08) 1’44

Danger Signs p. 100 (Sun, Sep 30, 12:15pm, IN08 +

Father to Son p. 85 (Mon, Oct 8, 10:45am, IN09 + Wed, Oct 10, 9:15pm, IN09) 1’55

The Darling p. 64 (Wed, Oct 3, 8:45pm, VCT + Mon, Oct

Fausto p. 72 (Fri, Sep 28, 8:30pm, IN08 + Sun, Sep 30, 1:00pm, VCT) 1’17

1’57

Wed, Oct 3, 6:00pm, IN08) 1’55 8, 2:45pm, VCT) 1’20

Daughter of Mine p. 60 (Sat, Sep 29, 7:15pm, IN10 + Sun, Sep 30, 3:30pm, RIO) 1’40

Dawnland p. 74 (Thu, Oct 4, 9:15pm, SFU + Sat, Oct 6, 10:45am, IN09) 1’26 The Dead and the Others p. 47 (Mon, Oct 8, 9:00pm, RIO + Tue, Oct 9, 4:00pm, IN10) 1’54

Dear Son p. 47 (Thu, Oct 4, 4:00pm, SFU + Thu, Oct 11, 8:45pm, IN09) 1’40

The Devil We Know p. 74 (Wed, Oct 10, 7:15pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct 11, 11:30am, IN09) 1’28

Diamantino p. 47 (Sat, Sep 29, 4:00pm, SFU + Wed, Oct 3, 9:45pm, IN10) 1’32 Diane p. 47 (Fri, Sep 28, 3:30pm, IN08 + Sat, Sep 29,

The Favourite p. 29 (Tue, Oct 2, 9:00pm, CENT) 2’1 Finding Big Country p. 65 (Sun, Sep 30, 6:30pm, PLAY + Mon, Oct 8, 2:00pm, IN10) 0’44 Firecrackers p. 69 (Fri, Sep 28, 9:30pm, IN10 + Sun, Sep 30, 1:15pm, IN09) 1’33

Freaks p. 65 (Fri, Sep 28, 6:30pm, RIO + Mon, Oct 1, 9:00pm, RIO) 1’45 The Front Runner p. 21 (Fri, Oct 12, 6:30pm, CENT)

1’53

Fugue p. 47 (Sat, Oct 6, 6:00pm, RIO + Wed, Oct 10, 2:00pm, IN10) 1’40 Garden Store: Suitor p. 48 (Fri, Oct 5, 3:30pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 12, 6:30pm, PLAY) 1’53

9:15pm, CINE + Thu, Oct 4, 1:30pm, VCT) 1’35

Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable

The Distant Barking of Dogs p. 79 (Mon, Oct 8,

IN08) 1’30

6:30pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 10, 11:00am, VCT) 1’30

Can You Ever Forgive Me? p. 25 (Sat, Oct 6, 8:45pm,

Djon África p. 47 (Tue, Oct 9, 9:45pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct

Capernaum p. 45 (Fri, Oct 5, 4:00pm, SFU + Mon, Oct

Dogman p. 60 (Thu, Sep 27, 6:00pm, RIO + Mon, Oct 1, 9:00pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 3, 3:30pm, PLAY) 1’43

8, 8:45pm, CENT) 2’0

Dolphin Man: The Story of Jacques Mayol p. 79 (Tue, Oct 2, 9:30pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 3, 2:00pm, IN10)

Dallas Buyers Club p. 38 (Wed, Oct 3, 4:00pm, SFU)

3:00pm, PLAY) 2’28

CENT) 1’47

106

Wed, Oct 10, 4:00pm, IN09) 1’45

11, 11:15am, IN10) 1’35

p. 91 (Fri, Sep 28, 5:45pm, VCT + Sat, Sep 29, 3:30pm,

Genesis p. 69 (Fri, Sep 28, 6:15pm, CINE + Mon, Oct 1, 12:00pm, IN08) 2’9

Giant Little Ones p. 68 (Sat, Sep 29, 6:45pm, PLAY + Sun, Sep 30, 4:15pm, SFU) 1’34

Index of Films with Screening Times

Girls Always Happy p. 88 (Fri, Sep 28, 8:30pm, VCT + Sat, Sep 29, 11:15am, IN10) 1’57

Jinpa p. 85 (Fri, Sep 28, 1:15pm, IN08 + Sun, Sep 30, 9:30pm, IN09) 1’27

Mega Time Squad p. 95 (Tue, Oct 9, 8:00pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 12, 11:15pm, RIO) 1’21

The Grand Bizarre p. 63 (Sat, Oct 6, 8:45pm, CINE + Mon, Oct 8, 5:45pm, IN08) 1’1

John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection p. 81 (Tue, Oct 2, 4:00pm, VCT + Sat, Oct 6, 8:45pm, IN08) 1’35

Memoir of War p. 59 (Sat, Oct 6, 9:30pm, IN10 + Mon,

Grass p. 85 (Tue, Oct 9, 4:15pm, VCT + Thu, Oct 11, 8:30pm, IN08) 1’6

Jonathan p. 49 (Tue, Oct 2, 1:15pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 3, 7:00pm, IN10) 1’40

Microhabitat p. 88 (Sun, Sep 30, 6:30pm, IN09 + Tue, Oct 2, 4:00pm, IN09) 1’46

The Grizzlies p. 29 (Mon, Oct 1, 6:30pm, PLAY + Mon, Oct 8, 1:00pm, PLAY) 1’44

Keep an Eye Out p. 59 (Sat, Oct 6, 6:15pm, IN08 + Thu,

Minute Bodies: The Intimate Lives of F. Percy Smith p. 93 (Wed, Oct 10, 3:15pm, VCT + Fri, Oct 12,

The Guilty p. 48 (Sun, Oct 7, 4:00pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 12,

Kingsway p. 65 (Sat, Sep 29, 5:45pm, RIO + Mon, Oct 1,

Happy as Lazzaro p. 61 (Fri, Oct 5, 1:15pm, SFU + Tue,

La Flor (Part 1) p. 62 (Tue, Oct 9, 6:00pm, VCT) 3’50

9:30pm, PLAY) 1’25

Oct 9, 9:00pm, PLAY) 2’10

The Happy Prince p. 31 (Tue, Oct 2, 3:15pm, PLAY +

Oct 11, 9:00pm, RIO) 1’13

4:30pm, IN09) 1’28

La Flor (Part 2) p. 62 (Wed, Oct 10, 5:30pm, VCT) 5’57

Fri, Oct 5, 6:45pm, PLAY) 1’44

La Flor (Part 3) p. 62 (Thu, Oct 11, 5:30pm, VCT) 5’17

Hat-Trick p. 48 (Fri, Oct 5, 8:30pm, IN09 + Sun, Oct 7,

A Land Imagined p. 88 (Sun, Sep 30, 6:45pm, IN10 +

1:45pm, IN10) 1’32

Tue, Oct 2, 3:30pm, IN08) 1’35

The Heiresses p. 48 (Sat, Oct 6, 1:30pm, SFU + Tue,

Last Summer p. 49 (Sat, Sep 29, 6:30pm, IN09 + Mon,

Oct 9, 6:30pm, PLAY) 1’35

Oct 1, 4:15pm, IN10) 1’37

Hendi and Hormoz p. 49 (Tue, Oct 9, 1:45pm, IN10 +

Le Grand Bal p. 91 (Sun, Sep 30, 11:30am, IN10 + Wed,

Thu, Oct 11, 9:45pm, IN10) 1’28

Oct 3, 9:30pm, SFU) 1’39

Holiday p. 49 (Fri, Sep 28, 6:45pm, IN10 + Sat, Sep 29,

Leto p. 49 (Fri, Sep 28, 1:00pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 4,

4:30pm, IN10) 1’33

9:15pm, PLAY) 2’6

The House That Jack Built p. 94 (Fri, Oct 5, 9:30pm,

Level 16 p. 95 (Sun, Sep 30, 8:45pm, RIO + Sun, Oct 7,

RIO + Wed, Oct 10, 8:30pm, RIO) 2’35

3:00pm, IN09) 1’49

The Hummingbird Project p. 19 (Thu, Sep 27, 7:00pm, CENT + Sun, Sep 30, 1:00pm, PLAY) 1’51

Liquid Truth p. 50 (Sat, Sep 29, 9:45pm, IN10 + Tue, Oct 2, 11:00am, IN09) 1’30

The Image Book p. 58 (Fri, Sep 28, 1:15pm, VCT + Sun,

The Load p. 50 (Sun, Oct 7, 6:00pm, IN08 + Fri, Oct 12,

Oct 7, 6:30pm, SFU) 1’25

5:15pm, VCT) 1’38

The Image You Missed p. 79 (Mon, Oct 8, 1:30pm,

Long Day’s Journey Into Night p. 87 (Thu, Oct 4,

SFU + Wed, Oct 10, 7:15pm, CINE) 1’13

9:30pm, IN10 + Sat, Oct 6, 4:15pm, IN10) 2’13

Impulso p. 91 (Sun, Oct 7, 10:45am, IN09 + Wed, Oct 10,

The Lost City of the Monkey God p. 81 (Sat, Sep 29,

6:00pm, RIO) 1’25

6:15pm, VCT + Mon, Oct 1, 1:00pm, VCT) 1’40

In My Room (Germany) p. 49 (Fri, Sep 28, 4:00pm,

Love and Bullets p. 61 (Sat, Oct 6, 2:45pm, RIO + Thu,

SFU + Mon, Oct 8, 9:00pm, SFU) 2’0

Oct 11, 9:15pm, PLAY) 2’14

In My Room (Israel) p. 75 (Sat, Sep 29, 11:00am, SFU + Mon, Oct 1, 9:15pm, IN09) 1’10

Love and Compassion p. 101 (Fri, Oct 5, 6:00pm, IN08 + Mon, Oct 8, 12:00pm, IN08) 1’48

In the Aisles p. 49 (Sat, Oct 6, 9:00pm, IN09 + Mon, Oct

Lush Reeds p. 87 (Mon, Oct 1, 9:00pm, CINE + Wed,

8, 1:00pm, RIO) 2’5

Oct 3, 3:15pm, VCT) 1’45

In the Shadows p. 49 (Tue, Oct 2, 9:30pm, IN10 + Fri,

M/M p. 72 (Sat, Sep 29, 9:15pm, IN08 + Sun, Oct 7, 9:00pm, RIO) 1’26

Inside My Heart p. 79 (Mon, Oct 1, 8:30pm, VCT + Mon, Oct 8, 5:00pm, VCT) 1’10

The Man Who Stole Banksy p. 91 (Thu, Oct 11,

Introduzione all’Oscuro p. 63 (Thu, Oct 4, 9:15pm,

Mangoshake p. 72 (Mon, Oct 1, 6:30pm, CINE + Wed,

Oct 5, 11:15am, IN10) 1’57

6:30pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 12, 3:30pm, RIO) 1’33

CINE + Sun, Oct 7, 4:00pm, VCT) 1’11

Oct 3, 3:15pm, IN08) 1’37

It’s Boring Here, Pick Me Up p. 85 (Tue, Oct 9, 7:00pm, IN10 + Wed, Oct 10, 11:15am, IN10) 1’37

Manta Ray p. 88 (Fri, Oct 5, 11:00am, IN09 + Sun, Oct 7,

Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student’s Journey p. 79 (Tue, Oct 9, 11:15am, IN10 + Thu, Oct 11,

Maria by Callas p. 90 (Sun, Sep 30, 3:45pm, PLAY +

6:30pm, PLAY) 1’43

Jamilia p. 79 (Tue, Oct 9, 8:30pm, CINE + Thu, Oct 11,

10:45am, VCT) 1’24

Jane (with Dr. Jane Goodall in person) p. 39 (Thu,

6:00pm, VCT) 1’45

Thu, Oct 11, 1:15pm, SFU) 1’53

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. p. 91 (Thu, Sep 27, 8:45pm, RIO + Sat, Sep 29, 2:00pm, IN10) 1’35

Matters of Grave Importance p. 99 (Thu, Oct 4,

9:15pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 11, 3:00pm, IN08) 1’38

Oct 8, 3:45pm, IN09) 2’6

9:00pm, CINE) 1’34

Mirai p. 87 (Sat, Sep 29, 1:30pm, SFU + Sat, Oct 6, 3:30pm, PLAY) 1’38

MODES 1 p. 102 (Tue, Oct 2, 6:15pm, VCT + Sun, Oct 7, 2:00pm, VCT) 1’22

MODES 2 p. 102 (Thu, Sep 27, 6:30pm, VCT + Sun, Oct 7, 8:30pm, VCT) 1’28

Mori, The Artist’s Habitat p. 87 (Sun, Sep 30, 4:00pm, IN09 + Sun, Oct 7, 7:00pm, IN10) 1’39

Mouthpiece p. 68 (Mon, Oct 1, 9:15pm, PLAY + Tue, Oct 2, 9:00pm, RIO) 1’31

Mug p. 50 (Fri, Sep 28, 9:30pm, SFU + Sun, Sep 30, 11:00am, IN09) 1’31 The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs p. 72 (Sun,

Sep 30, 6:15pm, IN08 + Wed, Oct 10, 12:45pm, IN08) 1’27

N.O.N. p. 65 (Sun, Sep 30, 9:00pm, CINE + Sun, Oct 7, 8:30pm, CINE) 1’40 Nervous Translation p. 89 (Tue, Oct 9, 6:30pm, CINE + Thu, Oct 11, 3:15pm, VCT) 1’30

The New Romantic p. 69 (Thu, Oct 4, 9:00pm, RIO + Sat, Oct 6, 4:00pm, SFU) 1’22

No One Will Ever Know p. 50 (Mon, Oct 1, 1:30pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 3, 6:00pm, RIO) 1’42

No. 1 Chung Ying Street p. 87 (Sat, Sep 29, 9:15pm, SFU + Mon, Oct 1, 10:30am, IN10) 1’57

Nome di donna p. 61 (Fri, Oct 5, 4:45pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct 11, 7:30pm, IN10) 1’32 Non-Fiction p. 31 (Sat, Oct 6, 3:00pm, CENT + Thu, Oct 11, 6:15pm, CENT) 1’46

Notes on an Appearance p. 63 (Mon, Oct 8, 9:00pm, VCT + Fri, Oct 12, 7:45pm, VCT) 1’0

O Horizon p. 93 (Mon, Oct 8, 7:00pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 10, 1:45pm, SFU) 1’21 The Old Man & the Gun p. 33 (Sat, Sep 29, 6:00pm, CENT) 1’33

One Cut of the Dead p. 95 (Sat, Oct 6, 10:45pm, RIO + Mon, Oct 8, 1:30pm, IN09) 1’36 The Oslo Diaries p. 75 (Fri, Sep 28, 10:30am, VCT + Sat, Sep 29, 6:15pm, IN08 + Fri, Oct 12, 3:00pm, VCT) 1’38

Parallel p. 95 (Sat, Sep 29, 8:30pm, RIO + Sun, Sep 30, 1:00pm, SFU) 1’44

A Paris Education p. 59 (Fri, Sep 28, 6:15pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 4, 1:30pm, IN10) 2’16

Oct 4, 6:30pm, CENT) 1’30

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Index of Films with Screening Times

Patrimony p. 50 (Mon, Oct 1, 9:45pm, IN10 + Tue, Oct 9, 4:15pm, IN09) 1’30

The Serengeti Rules p. 75 (Mon, Oct 8, 6:45pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 10, 11:15am, IN09) 1’24

Through Black Spruce p. 71 (Thu, Oct 4, 7:15pm,

People’s Republic of Desire p. 87 (Thu, Sep 27, 6:30pm, CINE + Thu, Oct 4, 1:45pm, SFU) 1’35

Shadow p. 35 (Sat, Oct 6, 5:45pm, CENT + Mon, Oct 8,

Transit p. 51 (Sat, Sep 29, 9:30pm, PLAY + Mon, Oct 8,

Petra p. 50 (Thu, Oct 4, 4:45pm, IN09 + Sat, Oct 6, 6:30pm, IN09) 1’47

Sharkwater Extinction p. 35 (Fri, Sep 28, 6:30pm,

Under the Silver Lake p. 94 (Fri, Sep 28, 9:30pm, RIO

Piazza Vittorio p. 61 (Tue, Oct 2, 4:30pm, IN10 + Tue,

Shéhérazade p. 59 (Wed, Oct 3, 12:15pm, IN08 + Fri,

United Skates p. 93 (Sat, Oct 6, 7:00pm, IN10 + Sun,

Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket p. 65 (Mon, Oct 1, 7:00pm, IN10 + Wed,

Shirkers p. 81 (Sat, Oct 6, 6:30pm, SFU + Wed, Oct 10, 11:00am, SFU) 1’36

Various Positions p. 99 (Wed, Oct 3, 9:15pm, IN08 + Wed, Oct 10, 3:30pm, IN08) 1’42

Shock Waves: Program 1 & 2 p. 51 (Sat, Sep 29, 8:45pm, VCT + Sat, Oct 6, 10:45am, IN10) 2’10

Ville Neuve p. 71 (Fri, Sep 28, 9:30pm, CINE + Sat, Sep 29, 1:00pm, IN08) 1’16

Shock Waves: Program 3 & 4 p. 51 (Sun, Sep 30,

Virus Tropical p. 97 (Thu, Sep 27, 6:30pm, SFU + Sun,

Shoplifters p. 37 (Sun, Sep 30, 3:30pm, CENT + Mon, Oct 1, 6:00pm, CENT) 2’1

Volcano p. 51 (Sun, Oct 7, 8:45pm, SFU + Tue, Oct 9,

Sicilian Ghost Story p. 61 (Mon, Oct 1, 6:00pm, RIO +

Waiting for April p. 73 (Wed, Oct 3, 6:30pm, CINE +

Oct 9, 8:30pm, IN08) 1’22

Oct 3, 3:30pm, IN09) 1’49

Pity p. 50 (Mon, Oct 8, 6:30pm, RIO + Wed, Oct 10,

4:00pm, SFU) 1’39

The Prayer p. 59 (Tue, Oct 2, 7:00pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 4, 10:45am, SFU) 1’47

The Price of Everything p. 93 (Wed, Oct 3, 10:45am, IN09 + Fri, Oct 12, 6:30pm, SFU) 1’38

A Private War p. 33 (Wed, Oct 10, 8:45pm, CENT) 1’46

CENT + Sun, Sep 30, 2:00pm, IN10) 1’28

Oct 5, 9:00pm, IN08) 1’49

9:00pm, VCT + Sun, Oct 7, 11:00am, IN10) 1’55

Mon, Oct 8, 11:15am, IN10) 2’0

3:45pm, PLAY) 1’41

+ Fri, Oct 5, 6:15pm, RIO) 2’20

Oct 7, 1:00pm, PLAY) 1’30

Sep 30, 4:15pm, IN10) 1’36

1:15pm, VCT) 1’43

Thu, Oct 4, 1:00pm, IN08) 1’18

Profile p. 95 (Sun, Oct 7, 1:15pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 12, 8:45pm, RIO) 1’45

The Silence of Others p. 75 (Thu, Oct 4, 1:45pm, IN09 + Sat, Oct 6, 6:30pm, CINE) 1’36

IN10 + Thu, Oct 4, 3:15pm, IN08) 1’31

The Proposal p. 93 (Thu, Oct 4, 11:15am, VCT + Tue,

Sir p. 51 (Sun, Oct 7, 9:30pm, PLAY + Mon, Oct 8,

The Washing Society p. 79 (Thu, Oct 4, 6:30pm, CINE

Putin’s Witnesses p. 81 (Fri, Sep 28, 3:45pm, IN09 + Sun, Sep 30, 9:30pm, IN10) 1’42

A Sister’s Song p. 71 (Thu, Oct 4, 8:30pm, VCT + Sun, Oct 7, 11:45am, VCT) 1’21

What Comes Around p. 75 (Mon, Oct 1, 11:00am, VCT + Sun, Oct 7, 8:30pm, IN08) 1’19

Quantification Trilogy p. 63 (Sun, Sep 30, 6:15pm,

The Sisters Brothers p. 37 (Sat, Sep 29, 8:30pm,

What Is Democracy? p. 71 (Sat, Oct 6, 9:00pm, SFU) +

Quiet Killing p. 69 (Sat, Oct 6, 1:15pm, IN09 + Mon, Oct

The Snatch Thief p. 51 (Mon, Oct 8, 4:00pm, RIO + Fri,

What They Had p. 57 (Mon, Oct 8, 11:00am, SFU + Tue,

Ray & Liz p. 63 (Sun, Sep 30, 3:30pm, VCT + Tue, Oct 2,

Sofia p. 51 (Tue, Oct 9, 9:00pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 11,

What Walaa Wants p. 71 (Mon, Oct 1, 10:45am, IN09 + Wed, Oct 3, 9:15pm, IN09) 1’29

Reel Youth Film Festival p. 99 (Tue, Oct 2, 11:15am,

Song of a Seer p. 73 (Fri, Oct 5, 6:15pm, CINE + Sun,

Relaxer p. 95 (Sat, Oct 6, 8:30pm, RIO + Mon, Oct 8,

Sorry Angel p. 59 (Sat, Oct 6, 1:30pm, IN10 + Mon, Oct

The Reports on Sarah and Saleem p. 50 (Sun, Oct 7,

Spice It Up p. 73 (Fri, Sep 28, 6:00pm, IN08 + Tue, Oct

Oct 9, 6:15pm, IN08) 1’26

CINE + Wed, Oct 3, 12:45pm, VCT) 1’51

8, 6:15pm, SFU) 1’30

9:00pm, CINE) 1’48

IN10 + Wed, Oct 10, 6:30pm, IN09) 1’31

8:45pm, CINE) 1’31

4:00pm, IN10) 1’39

CENT + Sun, Oct 7, 5:30pm, CENT) 2’0

Oct 12, 9:00pm, SFU) 1’33

1:45pm, IN09) 1’20

Oct 7, 12:15pm, IN08) 1’25 8, 8:45pm, IN10) 2’12

8:30pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 11, 4:30pm, IN10) 2’7

2, 8:30pm, VCT) 1’29

Roads in February p. 69 (Tue, Oct 2, 6:30pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 3, 1:30pm, SFU) 1’23

Splinters p. 71 (Fri, Sep 28, 1:30pm, IN10 + Sun, Sep 30,

Ruben Brandt, Collector p. 97 (Tue, Oct 9, 11:00am,

The Stone Speakers p. 73 (Sun, Sep 30, 3:30pm, IN08

6:00pm, RIO) 1’35

VCT + Thu, Oct 11, 6:30pm, RIO) 1’34

+ Tue, Oct 9, 12:45pm, IN08) 1’32

The Running Actress p. 89 (Thu, Oct 4, 9:45pm, IN09

Studio 54 p. 93 (Fri, Oct 5, 9:30pm, PLAY + Fri, Oct 12,

+ Fri, Oct 5, 1:30pm, IN09) 1’11

4:00pm, SFU) 1’38

Samouni Road p. 75 (Sun, Sep 30, 6:00pm, VCT + Tue, Oct 2, 12:00pm, IN08) 2’9

Styx p. 51 (Thu, Oct 4, 6:30pm, PLAY + Sat, Oct 6, 12:45pm, PLAY) 1’34

Science Fair p. 78 (Fri, Sep 28, 11:00am, SFU + Tue, Oct

Teen Perspectives p. 101 (Thu, Oct 4, 11:00am, IN09

The Scythian Lamb p. 87 (Fri, Oct 5, 9:15pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct 11, 1:30pm, IN10) 2’6

Theatre of War p. 81 (Wed, Oct 10, 9:00pm, CINE + Thu, Oct 11, 12:45pm, IN08) 1’22

Seder-Masochism p. 97 (Wed, Oct 3, 7:00pm, SFU + Thu, Oct 4, 11:15am, IN10) 1’18

The Third Wife p. 89 (Tue, Oct 9, 2:00pm, IN09 + Thu,

The Seen and Unseen p. 89 (Wed, Oct 10, 6:30pm,

This Mountain Life p. 65 (Tue, Oct 2, 9:15pm, PLAY +

2, 6:30pm, IN08 + Fri, Oct 5, 6:15pm, IN09) 1’30

IN08 + Thu, Oct 11, 1:00pm, VCT) 1’26

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3:00pm, CENT) 1’56

IN09 + Wed, Oct 10, 4:30pm, IN10) 1’51

+ Sun, Oct 7, 6:00pm, IN09) 1’34

Oct 11, 9:00pm, SFU) 1’36

Thu, Oct 4, 3:30pm, PLAY) 1’17

Wangdrak’s Rain Boots p. 87 (Tue, Oct 2, 6:45pm,

+ Sat, Oct 6, 3:45pm, IN09) ’44

Fri, Oct 12, 10:45am, SFU) 2’0

Oct 9, 6:00pm, CENT) 1’41

What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?

p. 63 (Fri, Oct 5, 8:45pm, CINE + Sat, Oct 6, 3:15pm, IN08) 2’3

When the Storm Fades p. 65 (Thu, Oct 4, 6:30pm, SFU + Sun, Oct 7, 2:00pm, SFU) 1’21

The Whistleblower of My Lai p. 93 (Mon, Oct 1, 7:15pm, IN09 + Tue, Oct 2, 1:45pm, VCT) 1’4 The Wild Pear Tree p. 57 (Sun, Sep 30, 8:30pm, PLAY + Mon, Oct 1, 2:30pm, PLAY) 3’8

Wine Calling p. 81 (Fri, Oct 5, 9:00pm, VCT + Sun, Oct 7, 11:30am, SFU) 1’35

Winter Flies p. 57 (Fri, Oct 5, 6:45pm, SFU + Thu, Oct 11, 10:45am, SFU) 1’25 The Wolf House p. 97 (Thu, Oct 4, 3:45pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 10, 8:45pm, IN08) 1’19

Woman at War p. 57 (Thu, Sep 27, 9:00pm, SFU + Sat, Sep 29, 4:00pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 12, 1:30pm, SFU) 1’41 Working Woman p. 57 (Mon, Oct 8, 6:30pm, IN10 + Wed, Oct 10, 1:45pm, IN09) 1’34 Yellow Is Forbidden p. 93 (Sun, Oct 7, 12:45pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 10, 6:30pm, PLAY) 1’34 Yomeddine p. 57 (Wed, Oct 3, 1:15pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 11, 6:00pm, IN08) 1’37

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