The Vancouver International Film Festival Program Guide 2022

Vancouver International Film Festival

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41st Festival

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Welcome to the Festival

Greetings from the Musqueam Indian Band

Greetings from the Squamish Nation

Greetings from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation

ʔa: si:y̓ém̓ nə siyéy̓ə

Ta newyáp Síiy̓am̓ Ta newyáp síiyay̓

Friends and Relatives:

To all our Friends, to all our Respected Leaders.

ʔo: si:y̓ém̓ nə siyéy̓ə,

ʔəm̓i ce:p kʷətxʷiləm ʔi ʔə tə n̓a šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaʔɬ təməxʷ, tə šxʷʔam̓əts tə shən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓qən

Stl’i7 chet wa kw’enmantúmiyap kwis na tl’iḵ I tti na7 ta temíxwcht

Welcome to the ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓speaking Musqueam people

ʔiʔ ƛ̓əw tə šxʷʔaləqʷaʔ ct tə sqʷχʷaməx ʔiʔ tə səl̕ ilwətaʔɬ məsteyəxʷ along with our relatives, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh.

Musqueam has used storytelling as a way to share our teachings for thousands of years—it is an intrinsic part of who we are as Indigenous people. We are also innovators, continually adapting and utilizing new technologies to build upon ancestral knowledge that has sustained us for millennia.

Through film and other media, Indigenous peoples are finding new ways to share our stories, experiences, struggles, and successes. Film provides an essential platform to amplify Indigenous voices—voices that have been silenced for far too long—and helps to ensure that new generations of Indigenous filmmakers will be inspired to continue creatively telling these important stories.

Musqueam acknowledges that the Vancouver International Film Festival works hard to bring diverse local, national, and international stories to our beautiful territory, while also featuring many Indigenous films during the festival and all year round.

We want to thank you all and welcome you all to our land.

Nilh ta s7ulh temíxw tta Sḵwx̱wú7meshulh Úxwmixw iy tta Xwmets’kwiy̓emulh Úxwmixw iy tta Selílwetulh Úxwumixw This is the land of our Squamish People, and the Musqueam People, and Tsleil-Waututh People.

For many generations, Squamish People have created a culture of oral literature to teach our history, values, and advice to the next generation. Our storytelling traditions are how we inspire ourselves and our children to be a good person, to treat family, land, and water with respect, and work together as a people. We celebrate all storytelling traditions, including new ways of telling stories through film and cinema.

Squamish Nation recognizes the Vancouver International Film Festival’s work to bring diverse local, national, and international stories to our beautiful territory, while also featuring Indigenous films during the festival and all year round.

Congratulations, VIFF, on your 41st festival!

Ann Whonnock Spokesperson & Councilor

Friends and Relatives,

ʔəm̓i ce:p kʷətxʷiləm ʔə tə n̓a səlilwətaɬ təməxʷ, ʔiʔ ƛ̓əw tə šxʷʔaləqʷaʔ ct tə sqʷx̌ʷaməx ʔiʔ tə xʷməθkʷəy̓əm məsteyəxʷ.

Welcome to the territory of the Tsleil-Waututh people, along with our relatives Squamish and Musqueam.

Congratulations to the Vancouver International Film Festival on the launch of its 41st season. Storytelling is at the heart of VIFF and it is also at the heart of our Tsleil-Waututh community. It is through stories that we connect with one another, and preserve our culture and traditions for future generations. Focusing on our next generation is one of the main priorities for our Nation.

Since our initial screening with VIFF of Tsleil-Waututh’s documentary film When the Tide Goes Out in 2019, we continue to build and strengthen our partnership. Thank you to VIFF for the work they are doing with the youth and members of our community. VIFF works closely with us to provide access to movies and documentaries during the festival and year-round, which contributes to teaching our next generation about the importance of stories.

Congratulations on launching another meaningful season of this outstanding festival.

Chief Jen Thomas

We look forward to continuing to build our relationship with VIFF and inspiring new Musqueam filmmakers.

Chief Wayne Sparrow (yəχʷyaχʷələq)

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VIFF thanks the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations for their continued stewardship of the unceded and occupied land on which our work takes place. As an organization founded and predominantly directed by settlers and immigrants, we understand our responsibility to seek out and build authentic relationships with Indigenous communities, and to allow this ongoing dialogue to influence our practices. As part of this process, we remain committed to supporting and collaborating with Indigenous artists, filmmakers, curators, and audiences.

Contents Welcome to the Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Venues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Festival Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Donors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Letters of Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 About This Year’s Festival Program . . . . . . . . . . 15 Galas & Special Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Highly anticipated films screening in our marquee venue.

An Evening With Michael Abels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Meet the composer of Nope, Us, and Get Out, featuring the VSO

VIFF Talks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Showcase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Exceptional cinema that will resonate strongly with VIFF audiences.

NOSFERATU 100 by BIG KILL: A Symphony of Horror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Panorama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 An array of remarkable narrative films from every corner of the globe.

Festival Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Vanguard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Northern Lights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 The next wave of Canadian and Indigenous storytellers.

Insights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Documentaries that change the way we see the world.

Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 A collection of innovative nonfiction filmmaking.

Portraits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 A kaleidoscope of ground-breaking artists, great performances, and cultural icons.

Altered States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 This is where the wild ones come out to play.

International Shorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 In only minutes, these films immerse you in fully realized narratives that leave a mark.

MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 International short works that explore how far the form of cinema is capable of bending.

VIFF Short Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 The perspectives and approaches that are elevating short-form storytelling in Canada.

VIFF Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 VIFF Amp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Staff List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Rising international talents bring their singular visions to the screen.

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Published September 16, 2022 in Vancouver, BC, Canada by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society

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

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VIFF Centre (Vancity Theatre & Studio Theatre) 1181 Seymour

Annex 823 Seymour

The Centre for Performing Arts 777 Homer

The Cinematheque 1131 Howe

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PARKING: Metered street

PARKING: Metered street

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ENTRANCE: Elevator to the 2nd floor

ENTRANCE: Street level, elevator to theatre

ENTRANCE: Street level

WHEELCHAIR: 3 spaces

WHEELCHAIR: 10-14 spaces

WHEELCHAIR: 4 spaces

WASHROOMS: Fully accessible, gender neutral

WASHROOMS: Fully accessible, gendered.

WASHROOMS: Fully accessible, gender neutral

Metered street ENTRANCE: Street level WHEELCHAIR: 2-4 spaces (Vancity Theatre), 3 spaces (Studio) WASHROOMS: Fully accessible, gender neutral

The Vancouver Playhouse 600 Hamilton

There is a single stall, gender neutral washroom on the second floor

SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts 149 W Hastings

International Village 88 W Pender

St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church 1022 Nelson PARKING: Underground paid

PARKING: Metered street and underground

PARKING: Metered street

PARKING: Parking passes available

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ENTRANCE: Ramp from courtyard, street level

ENTRANCE: Street level, elevator to theatre

ENTRANCE: Street level

from Hastings, elevator to theatre WHEELCHAIR: 4-6+ spaces WASHROOMS: Fully accessible, gender neutral

WHEELCHAIR: 2-4 per theatre

WHEELCHAIR: 4-5 spaces WASHROOMS: Fully accessible, gender neutral

WASHROOMS: Fully accessible, gendered

ENTRANCE: Street level entrance from Nelson WHEELCHAIR: Unlimited main floor seating WASHROOMS: Fully accessible, gender neutral

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Rio Theatre 1660 E Broadway PARKING: Metered street ENTRANCE: Street level WHEELCHAIR: 4-6 spaces

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Accessibility For more information regarding accessibility needs, please email accessibility@viff.org.

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Festival Information In-Cinema Tickets

Ticket Packs Galas and Regular Special Screenings Presentations

Passes

Adult

$15

Regular

$84

Senior (65+)

$13

VIFF+

$66

Student

$10

VIFF+ Premium

$57

Accessible

$10

Senior

$72

Youth* (18 and under)

$10

Student / U25

$54

VIFF+

$12

$14

VIFF+ Premium

$10

$12

VIFF+ U25

$10

$12

VIFF+ Patron

$10

$12

$17

VIFF Connect Online Tickets Adult

$10

VIFF+

$8

VIFF+ Premium

$6

VIFF+ U25

$6

How Does VIFF Connect Work?

• When you book an online ticket, you will receive an email with the streaming link when the film becomes available to watch. Click the link or enter your voucher code at connect.viff.org to watch.

• Once you click ‘Play’ on the film, you have 48 hours to finish watching.

• If you buy a VIFF Connect pass, you do not need to buy individual tickets. Simply log in at connect.viff.org and you will be able to see all available online films and talks throughout the festival.

• Online films are only available to viewers in British Columbia.

• Full streaming FAQs are available on viff.org. In this guide, films marked with CONN are streaming on VIFF Connect.

Regular

VIFF+

VIFF+ Premium

VIFF+ Patron

Platinum

$1000

$900

$800

$800

Festival

$350

$315

$280

$280

Senior

$300

Student/U25

$120

VIFF Connect

$70

$63

$56

$56

6-Ticket Pack

10-Ticket Pack Regular

$135

How Do Festival Passes Work?

VIFF+

$100

VIFF+ Premium

$90

Passholders are the first people through the doors at each screening.

Senior

$110

Student / U25

$80

How Do Ticket Packs Work?

Planning on seeing multiple films during VIFF? Want to take all your friends to see a film? Ticket packs are your chance to save and watch more!

• We put aside a generous allotment of passholder seats for all screenings.

• Passholders are granted entrance to these seats until the passholder allotment is reached.

• Passholder seats are held until 10 minutes before showtime.

• If the passholder allocation is full for a particular screening, our front of house team will ask any passholders wishing to see the film to wait in the Standby line.

• Once all other patrons are seated, the Standby line will be admitted, if there are seats remaining.

• Ticket packs work like credits on your viff.org account.

• You must be age 19+ to buy a pass.

• 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 a single screening or individual tickets across multiple screenings.

• Passes do not guarantee entry.

Please note: Passes can only be printed and picked up at the VIFF Centre box office at 1181 Seymour Street.

• Ticket packs cannot be redeemed for VIFF Repeats screenings held at the VIFF Centre after the festival.

• Ticket packs are not valid for VIFF Connect online films.

• Ticket packs cannot be used to attend Industry events.

Age Restrictions & Membership Because the majority of our films have not been classified, you must be age 18+ to attend most films at VIFF. Due to their liquor license, all events at The Rio Theatre are strictly 19+ and the door staff will ask for ID. VIFF presents many films that have not been classified

by Consumer Protection BC. By law, anyone wishing to watch these films at the festival must be a member of the VIFF Society. Your VIFF Society Membership is included in the cost of your ticket—there is no need to buy an additional membership as your ticket will indicate your membership upon entry.

Every year, a selection of films is classified so that film lovers younger than 18 can experience the festival.

Check out the Rated for Youth titles or learn about our Ignite High School Program by visiting viff.org.

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Signature Partners

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Premier Supporters

Supporting Partners

ACFC WEST, LOCAL 2020 UNIFOR

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Silver Media Partners

Consulate and Cultural Funders

CONSULAT GÉNÉRAL DE FRANCE À VANCOUVER

Consulate General of Italy Vancouver

Technical Sponsors & Official Suppliers

ITS CONSULTING INC. www.itsconsul nginc.ca

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Three cheers to our amazing Volunteers!

Nothing can stop these fine folks from donating their time and talents to make VIFF a reality. From behind the scenes to front of house, VIFF Volunteers do it all.

Donors VIFF would like to thank and recognize our incredible Patron Circle supporters whose investment in our mission and festival allows us to share the magic of cinema with film lovers across BC and beyond.

Show your love for cinema by making a donation today at viff.org/donate!

Anndraya Luui

Jane Macdonald

Mike & Kathy Gallagher

Barbara Lewison

John Bell Honorary Consul, Cote D’Ivoire

Nurit Barkan-Ascher

John Hooge

Paul Bennett & Catherine Olson

Kyle Fostner

Pavol Hell

Leonard Schein

Peter Cheng & Vincent Wheeler

Linda Gorrie

Rosemary Perera

Eileen Mate

Lucille & Russ Pacey

Sally Yukawa

Elizabeth Kao

Manoj Shankar

Scott Bell

Fiona Tinwei Lam

Maret Christiansen

Selwyn Jacob

Gina Haggerty

Miriam Moses

Steven Savitt

Gladys Reinarz

Mark Gatha

Terry Whitehead

Graham Mccarthy

Matt Kunau & Ingrid Lae

Tony Devenyi

Ian & Rene Merkel

Matthew Hall

Valerie Tereszko

J Allan Quinn & Takanobu Iida

Melina Buckley & JJ Camp

Walter Daroshin & Tina Thorndycraft

Collin Koo & Kevin Smith David & Dana Hewitt Derek Langer Edward Pascal in memory of Kathy Evans

Nurjehan & Nizar Mawani

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Welcome to the Festival A message from the Prime Minister of Canada

A message from the Premier of British Columbia

Dear Friends:

As Premier of the Province of British Columbia, I’m pleased to welcome everyone to the 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).

I am pleased to extend my warmest greetings to everyone attending the 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).

This much-anticipated event offers a wonderful opportunity to experience some of the best cinema from around the world. I am certain that everyone in attendance will be entertained and engaged by the diverse selection of films being screened this year and that the many talks, workshops, performances, and other events scheduled to take place will enhance the experience for everyone involved.

I would like to commend The Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society for its hard work in coordinating this year’s VIFF. You can take pride in your commitment to fostering a greater understanding of the world’s cultures through the medium of film. I would also like to thank the many volunteers for their efforts in ensuring the smooth operation of this event.

This 11-day festival offers a window into diverse and innovative perspectives through the compelling medium of film. With 120 features and 100 short films as well as a wide array of performances, talks, and other unique events on offer, there is sure to be something for everyone at VIFF. It has been a long two years for everyone, and I am greatly encouraged to see a return to important platforms for artistic expression and connection. I have no doubt everyone participating will find this festival a wonderful opportunity for enrichment, education, and entertainment.

Please accept my best wishes for an enjoyable and memorable experience.

Artists are vital to the vibrancy of BC communities, and I would like to thank the dedicated organizers, volunteers, adjudicators, and sponsors whose efforts help to ensure that more voices and viewpoints are heard. I would also like to extend my congratulations to the filmmakers for their inclusion in this prestigious event.

Sincerely,

Enjoy the festival!

The Rt. Hon. Justin P. J. Trudeau, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada

Honourable John Horgan

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 congratulations to the organizers of the 41st annual Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).

VIFF encourages understanding of the world’s cultures through the art of cinema. This year’s VIFF program will showcase a vibrant blend of international selections, which celebrates the complexity of the human condition. It is through the arts that we have the power to create a meaningful change in our world.

Thank you and congratulations to the filmmakers, artists, organizers, and volunteers for another successful year of VIFF. Mayor Kennedy Stewart

A message from the Executive Director and Board Chair of VIFF Welcome to the 41st edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival!

We are delighted to share this vibrant and dynamic celebration of cinema with you, boasting exceptional films from emerging talent and masters from around the world, including the finest Canadian and Indigenous filmmakers working today.

After a few difficult years, it is an honour to welcome our community back to cinema. We are so fortunate to have the opportunity to watch films together, as they were meant to be experienced.

For many, streaming films online has been a much-needed outlet during prolonged periods of isolation. Being able to watch films throughout provided us with a meaningful connection with the greater world, and expanded our horizons through ideas, perspectives, and catharsis. But too often it lacked the feeling of communal experience, of having witnessed something remarkable with our friends and neighbours.

And, for the filmmaker themselves, nothing can replace sharing their work directly with audiences. It takes years of their lives to produce the films we share at VIFF, and so we’re excited to host them again at the festival this year, so they can feel our appreciation and admiration firsthand.

Thank you to our partners, sponsors, staff, and incredible volunteers who ensure that the festival continues to be a success, and to all our donors who have been so instrumental in helping VIFF navigate the challenging waters of the pandemic.

Thank you to the Board of Directors who believe in the power and importance of cinema, and who work so hard to ensure VIFF is always moving forward.

And thank you for joining us at the festival this year. See you in the cinema!

Kyle Fostner (Executive Director) • Lucille Pacey (Board Chair)

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A message from the Minister of Canadian Heritage

A message from the Interim Executive Director and CEO of Telefilm Canada

Welcome to the 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival!

The arts have the power to transform us, expand our horizons, and help us better understand people in our communities and around the world. Our government is proud to support events like VIFF that give Canadians the opportunity to experience our arts and culture and to make discoveries that educate, enlighten, and entertain. I am delighted that this festival will once again bring film lovers back together to enjoy some outstanding works and participate in unique activities that celebrate film.

As Minister of Canadian Heritage, I would like to thank all the organizers, volunteers, and filmmakers who helped bring this year’s event to life. I hope everyone taking part in the festival enjoys discovering these films and celebrating voices and stories from Canada and around the world.

We could not be more excited to come back to the festival circuit to celebrate the artistry of film and showcase Canadian creatives around the world and at home. That is why we are proud to support the Vancouver International Film Festival!

We want to thank and congratulate the Vancouver International Film Festival for its continued support of diverse voices in film and for fostering the return to cinemas so we can all celebrate these talents from around the world in theatres once again.

And remember, keep supporting Canadian talent in theatres and online whenever you can!

Francesca Accinelli

Honourable Pablo Rodriguez

A message from the Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport

A message from the Chief Executive Officer of Creative BC

On behalf of Premier John Horgan and the Government of British Columbia, I am pleased to welcome you to the 41st Vancouver International Film Festival!

Congratulations from all of us at Creative BC on 41 dynamic editions of the Vancouver International Film Festival! VIFF is one of the world’s most prominent festivals and we are pleased to support ongoing, committed adaptations, but we are most excited to be hosted again in person.

Cinema enables an artistic journey that tells our stories, creates connections, and builds bridges. The Vancouver International Film Festival is a superb opportunity to shine a bright light on all the film industry has to offer. This event is also a wonderful showcase of diversity, creativity, and resilience. The pandemic brought so many challenges for the sector, but creators continued to share their passion and to shape our world through the art of film. Without you, we were deprived of the opportunity to learn and be inspired; thank you for doing your part! Festivals like this are an opportunity to celebrate the people in front of and behind the camera once again.

Congratulations to those who were involved in so many outstanding projects. I look forward to seeing the new stories and perspectives shown in this year’s lineup, as well as welcoming the world to our beautiful province for this festival. Special thanks to the organizers and volunteers for staging this world-class event.

T’ooyaksim’ N’iisim’

Creative BC unites and champions the success of B.C.’s creative industries. We are proud to support a local festival with such a long history of engagement, growth, and innovation. VIFF has truly anchored a culture of film in this province, connecting the local ecosystem nationally and internationally with diverse creators and audiences since its inception in 1982.

VIFF has always played a vital role in our community, highlighting vibrant storytelling, diverse voices, and emerging talent, strengthening our province’s reputation and brand as a premier destination and leader in motion picture.

Our sincerest congratulations to the team and volunteers at VIFF! Thank you for bringing us back together in person once again to celebrate the best in domestic and international film for 2022.

Prem Gill

Honourable Melanie Mark Hli Haykwhl Ẃii X _ sgaak

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About This Year’s Festival Program While we’ve been working for eight months to curate the lineup for our 41st edition, it’s been a two-and-half year process to restore our festival to a scale befitting the exceptional work we’ll be sharing with you: one of the most engaged audiences I’ve had the privilege of experiencing a film with.

We’re thrilled to be back in some familiar venues and equally excited to unveil our re-envisioned film series. A selection of timely films that illustrate the breadth of VIFF’s programming, Showcase provides another entry point into the festival for both newcomers and seasoned attendees. Spectrum explores innovative, immersive nonfiction filmmaking, while Vanguard marks the return of an international narrative competition to VIFF. Deeply tied to the histories and cultures of their regions, these films are keenly perceptive and wonderfully vibrant.

A collection of more than 235 films reflects an equal number of unique perspectives, artistic practices, and modes of expression. Given that, I’m hesitant to make any sweeping statements that aim to tie a tidy bow around such a diverse, complex complement of films.

Instead, I’ll share a couple of observations that I hope linger with you as you explore our program and venture into our venues.

Almost two-thirds of the titles in this year’s lineup are either a World, International, North American, or Canadian premiere. Put plainly, that means that Vancouver audiences will be the first in our country to experience these films. Our programmers understand the privi-

“Make no mistake: cinema allows us to witness miracles.

Let’s not take this art that enriches us for granted.”

lege of being able to host such premieres. We likewise recognize our responsibility to ensure that the presentation of these films befits their high calibre. Beyond projection and sound, this means ensuring that they create a dialogue between one another and spark conversation after the end credits have rolled.

Additionally, close to half of the program’s fulllength films are a director’s first feature. When these filmmakers started down their creative path, it’s unlikely they envisioned that their first feature would be shot amidst a pandemic, with all the restrictions and considerations that accompany such a crisis. Even directors in the lineup who’ve plied their trade for decades undoubtedly found themselves encountering challenges they’d never considered possible. And yet, against almost insurmountable odds, these films find their way to us uncompromised thanks to the unwavering vision of their creators.

Make no mistake: cinema allows us to witness miracles. Let’s not take this art that enriches us for granted. While you’re attending this year’s VIFF, I encourage you to contribute to a culture of appreciation. As these films hit the screen, I invite you to not just admire their exceptional craft and transportive power, but also the resilience and resolve of the filmmakers who found a way to bring these stories to us.

These have undoubtedly been challenging times, but we now have much celebrate. Let’s have a wonderful festival!

Curtis Woloschuk Director of Programming

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Opening Gala

Bones of Crows MARIE CLEMENTS, CANADA, 2022, 127 MIN.

In these troubled and lopsided times, we need our storytellers to help us understand our inheritance, be it pain or privilege, and to lay the intellectual and emotional groundwork not only for reconciliation, but for reparation and restoration. Vancouver-born Dene/Métis writer-director Marie Clements (whose previous films The Road Forward and Red Snow have been part of VIFF’s year-round and festival programming) squares up to the challenge with this bold, necessarily harrowing tale of oppression and resilience which spans the greater part of the 20th century.

government policy will act as an instrument of abuse and trauma. Despite this, Aline enlists in WWII, where, ironically, her fluency in Cree becomes a national asset. The reward for her service is yet more anguish and struggle.

Aline Spears (played at different ages by Grace Dove, Summer Testawich, and Carla Rae) is a happy, gifted child, until she and her siblings are removed to a residential school. The scars of that experience will run deep through the remainder of their days, though it will not be the only time that official

This program contains scenes that may distress some viewers, especially those who have experienced harm, abuse, violence, and/or intergenerational trauma due to colonial practices.

This is a tough film, but it has epic ambition, deep-rooted conviction, anger, and urgency. Clements is not afraid to make provocative and important connections, and she marshals an outstanding cast of Indigenous actors with care and compassion.

THU SEP 29 TUE OCT 4

6:00 PM 9:00 PM

CENT CENT

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Cast Grace Dove, Phillip Forest Lewitski, Alyssa Wapanatâhk, Michelle Thrush, Gail Maurice, Carla Rae Exec Marie Clements, Sam Grana, Aaron Gilbert, Steven Thibault, Noah Segal Prod Marie Clements, Trish Dolman, Christine Haebler Scr Marie Clements Cam Vince Arvidson Ed Maxime Lahaie Prod Des James Philpott Mus Jesse Zubot, Wayne Lavallee Prod Co Ayasew Ooskana Pictures, Marie Clements Media, Screen Siren Pictures, Grana Productions Dist/Print Elevation Pictures Filmography The Road Forward (2017); Red Snow (2019)

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Closing Gala

Broker

SAT OCT 8 SUN OCT 9

HIROKAZU KORE-EDA, SOUTH KOREA, 2022, 129 MIN.

Working for the first time in South Korea, long-term festival favourite Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters) has come up with a sprawling crime story about a baby adoption scam. But in characteristic Kore-eda style, the tone is predominantly compassionate and melancholic—even the cops warm to the perpetrators. It helps of course that the baby broker, Sang-hyeon, is played by Song Kang-ho, the charismatic star of Parasite, Memories of Murder, The Host, and so many others (Song was named Best Actor at Cannes for this performance). His scheme involves intercepting infants abandoned at a church baby box, but things get messy when a young mom (Lee Jieun) changes her mind and discovers his racket. She decides to go along with him to meet the the baby’s prospective buyers—actually cops in a sting operation.

Kore-eda fashions plenty of twists and turns as Sang-hyeon, his accomplice (Gang Dong-won), and the girl try to evade the law and find a safe home for the child, but as always, he’s more invested in character than plot mechanics, and the truths we learn about this thrown-together family are revealed in simple, telling gestures, looks, and shadings.

“Miraculous in its sensitivity, asking questions about issues of ethics, of choice, of money, and murder, and family, and how to find love in all this sorry mess.” ELLA KEMP, INDIEWIRE Best Actor Award (Song Kang-ho), Cannes 2022

6:00 PM 5:30 PM

CENT CENT

Cast Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Doona Bae, Lee Ji-eun, Lee Jooyoung Exec Miky Lee, Kang Ho Sung Prod Lee Eugene Scr Hirokazu Kore-eda Cam Hong Kyung-Pyo Ed Hirokazu Kore-eda Prod Des Mok-won Lee Mus Jung Jae-il Prod Co Zip Cinema Dist/Print Elevation Pictures Selected Filmography Still Walking (2008); Air Doll (2009); Our Little Sister (2015); Shoplifters (2018) Presented by

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Special Presentations

Highly anticipated films screening in our marquee venue.

The Banshees of Inisherin

Corsage

MARTIN MCDONAGH, IRELAND/UK/USA, 2022, 109 MIN.

SAT OCT 1

9:15 PM

MARIE KREUTZER, AUSTRIA/FRANCE/GERMANY, 2022, 112 MIN.

CENT

Martin McDonagh is the poet laureate of profanity and invective, as fans of In Bruges and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri can swear to. He will take a simple difference of opinion and transform it into deadpan comic aria of pigheadedness and mounting consternation. And in Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson he has a perfect double act: the dim hunk—Pádraic—and the old curmudgeon, Colm, best buddies almost by default. But then one day, out of the blue, Colm announces he’s had it up to here with his best friend, and cuts him off once and for all. One more word, he dares him, he’ll take a pair of garden shears and start chopping off the fingers on his own hand. The way he says it, you know he’d do it, and before long the whole village is consumed in the breakup.

Set on one of the Aran Islands on the west coast of Ireland in the 1920s, The Banshees of Inisherin may be a quieter, more contemplative film than McDonagh’s shown us before (County Galway has never looked more ravishing), but it’s uproariously funny all the same, guaranteed to bring the house down.

MON OCT 3 THU OCT 6

6:00 PM 6:00 PM

CENT CENT

Vicky Krieps gives a superb performance as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Marie Kreutzer’s splendid biopic. Blending historical fact and whimsical creative license, Kreutzer takes us back to the late 19th century: the Empress, pushing 40, is a most discontented woman.

Obsessed with her appearance, Elisabeth takes her corset as a measurement of beauty, and is determined that it must be laced tighter and tighter. She’s been politically sidelined against her will, and is growing restless and rebellious.

With sly inventiveness, wry humour, and a strong feel for visual splendour, Kreutzer guides us through Elisabeth’s world. It’s one of great opulence, but also stifling confinement; the writer-director portrays the luxury and the oppression as two sides of the same coin. As the Empress moves to protect her legacy and recapture the passion of her youth, the film deepens in power. The final act is a bold departure from the historical record, with Kreutzer asserting her feminist prerogative and giving her film a subversive conclusion.

Best Performance Prize (Vicky Krieps), Cannes 2022 (Un Certain Regard)

Cast Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan Exec Diarmuid McKeown, Ben Knight, Daniel Battsek, Ollie Madden Prod Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh Scr Martin McDonagh Cam Ben Davis Ed Mikkel E.G. Nielsen Prod Des Mark Tildesley Mus Carter Burwell Filmography In Bruges (2008); Seven Psychopaths (2012); Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Cast Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Manuel Rubey, Finnegan Oldfield, Aaron Friesz, Rosa Hajjaj Exec Vicky Krieps Prod Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz Scr Marie Kreutzer Cam Judith Kaufmann Ed Ulrike Kofler Prod Des Martin Reiter Mus Camille Prod Co Film AG Dist/Print IFC Films Selected Filmography The Fatherless (2011); Gruber is leaving (2015); We Used to be Cool (2016); The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019)

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Special Presentations

Decision to Leave

Empire of Light

Heojil kyolshim

SAM MENDES, UK/USA, 2022, 119 MIN.

PARK CHAN-WOOK, SOUTH KOREA, 2022, 138 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 THU OCT 6

FRI SEP 30 9:15 PM 9:00 PM

CENT CENT

Virtuoso Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook (The Handmaiden; Oldboy) picked up rave reviews and the Best Director Prize at Cannes for this singularly strange genre piece, a neo-noir mystery about a homicide detective who falls in love with the widow (Lust Caution’s Tang Wei) of an apparent suicide. The deceased was a mid-level bureaucrat in the department of immigration, and an older man; the widow is young, beautiful, and Chinese.

She’s so apologetic about her Korean she uses a translation app on her phone during her questioning, but her words don’t allay suspicion in either language, and it emerges that the dead man used to beat her. Then again, she has an ironclad alibi.

These narrative elements are familiar from a 1001 thrillers. And yet we must be on our game; Park shuffles the pack with dizzying skill, concocting a visual syntax which is wildly original and quite idiosyncratic. Scenes are highly abbreviated, and often distilled into a handful of eye-catching compositions; he’ll place an unusual emphasis there or here, and it’s only later that everything falls into place. This is a tantalizing, teasing movie, and in its own weird way, desperately romantic.

Best Director Award, Cannes 2022

Cast Tang Wei, Park Hae-il Exec Miky Lee Prod Park Chan-wook Scr Chung Seo-kyung, Park Chan-wook Cam Kim Ji-yong Ed Kim Sang-bum Prod Des Ryu Seong-hie Mus Cho Young-wuk Prod Co Moho Film Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc. Selected Filmography Oldboy (2003); Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005); Thirst (2009); The Handmaiden (2016)

6:00 PM

CENT

A valentine to the movies from 1917 and Skyfall director Sam Mendes (here taking a solo screenplay credit for the first time), set in and around an English seaside cinema in the early 1980s. For Hilary (Olivia Colman), it’s not the most glamorous job in the world, shoveling popcorn and warmed over dogs for a dwindling number of punters, and sordid backroom fumblings with her manager (Colin Firth) don’t make her feel any better about herself. But when young, good-looking Stephen (Micheal Ward) joins the team, her outlook soon brightens. Indeed, the two of them forge an unexpectedly intense bond.

Colman must be odds-on favourite to make it four Academy Award nominations in five years for her deeply affecting and acutely nuanced portrait of an unhappy woman rediscovering her sense of joy. But there is another story going on here: Stephen is Black, and not likely to forget it in the racially entrenched and divisive surroundings of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain.

Small wonder the lovers seek refuge in the romance of “the flicks.”

Master cinematographer (and Mendes regular) Roger Deakins conjures all his wizardry here, and the Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross score pulls everything together. Mendes has helmed a transformative movie.

Cast Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Tom Brooke Exec Michael Lerman, Julie Pastor Prod Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes Scr Sam Mendes Cam Roger Deakins Ed Lee Smith Prod Des Mark Tildesley Mus Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross Prod Co Neal Street Productions Selected Filmography American Beauty (1999); Revolutionary Road (2008); Skyfall (2012); 1917 (2019)

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Special Presentations

EO

The Grizzlie Truth

JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI, POLAND/UK/ITALY, 2022, 88 MIN.

SUN OCT 2 SAT OCT 8

4:00 PM 9:30 PM

KATHLEEN S. JAYME, CANADA, 2022, 97 MIN.

PLAY CENT

Veteran director Jerzy Skolimowski returns in triumphant form with this lovely tale of animal life. Sometimes harsh, sometimes sweet, always beautiful, EO tells the story of a donkey and its journey through a world dominated by humans. As the film begins, EO is living a happy life as part of a circus, performing alongside Kasandra (Sandra Dryzmalska). When animalrights protesters disrupt the situation, the poor creature is shipped off to Italy; the rest of the film portrays its subsequent adventures, which include becoming part of a petting zoo, getting involved in a Polish soccer game, and encountering a countess.

As certain readers might have gathered by now, EO is an homage to Robert Bresson’s masterpiece Au hasard Balthazar. Though their methods are different, Bresson and Skolimowski both use their animal protagonists as litmus tests for humanity, with their varying treatments showing the best and the worst in us. Where Bresson is austere and suggestive, Skolimowski is emotive and lyrical; this is a wonderfully moving film.

Prix du Jury (tied), Cannes 2022

Cast Hola, Tako, Marietta, Ettore, Rocco, Mela, Sandra Drzymalska, Tomasz Organek, Mateusz Kościukiewic, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Isabelle Huppert Exec Jeremy Thomas Prod Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski Scr Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski Cam Michał Dymek Ed Agnieszka Glińska Mus Paweł Mykietyn Dist/Print FilmsWeLike Selected Filmography 30 Door Key (1991); Four Nights With Anna (2008); Essential Killing (2010); 11 Minutes (2015)

SAT OCT 1 WED OCT 5

2:00 PM 6:00 PM

CENT CENT

World Premiere. Having successfully tracked down NBA enigma Bryant Reeves in 2018’s festival hit Finding Big Country, director Kathleen S. Jayme now investigates a sprawling true sports crime: who’s responsible for robbing us of the Vancouver Grizzlies?

In revisiting the short history of the bad luck bears who racked up all the wrong kinds of records (see that 23-game losing streak in the 1995-1996 season), Jayme’s documentary doubles as a testament to the enduring passion of true teal blue fans. It’s this passion that fuels a dogged odyssey that finds Jayme infiltrating corridors of power at the NBA’s head offices and knocking on doors as she connects the dots and reconnects with the heroes and villains of Grizzlies lore, including former players like Shareef Abdur-Rahim and Mike Bibby, and the team’s architect, Stu Jackson.

The level of access is astonishing—there are “gets” that we don’t dare reveal—and so too is the candour of the interviewees. What emerges is a rousing story about the irrational fervour of fandom and sport’s unique ability to create identity, strengthen family ties, and forge community.

Feat Kathleen S. Jayme, Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Stu Jackson, Steve Francis, Mike Bibby, Bryant Reeves, Shawn Kemp Exec Vinay Virmani, Scott Moore, Mark Slone, Kathleen S. Jayme Prod Michael Tanko Grand, James Brown Scr Kathleen S. Jayme Cam Michael Dinsmore Ed Greg Ng Prod Des Ryan MacInnes Print Grizz Films Inc. Presented by

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Special Presentations

One Fine Morning

The Son

MIA HANSEN-LØVE, FRANCE/GERMANY, 2022, 112 MIN.

SUN OCT 2 TUE OCT 4

9:00 PM 6:00 PM

FLORIAN ZELLER, UK, 2022, 123 MIN.

CENT CENT

Living in a small Parisian apartment, Sandra (Léa Seydoux) is barely able to support herself and her eight-year-old daughter Linn as a freelance translator. As her father Georg (Pascal Greggory) continues to lose his sight and memory from Benson’s syndrome, Sandra must navigate the labyrinthine system of national care homes, with all their financial burdens and logistical nightmares.

As her entire life begins to revolve around her banal obligations, Sandra has a chance encounter with an old friend, Clément (Melvil Poupaud), which blossoms into a passionate affair. After experiencing her daily life for so long as a series of duties and responsibilities towards others, Sandra attempts to reconcile her role as mother and caretaker to her nascent love affair with Clément, feeling almost guilty at the sudden, unexpected burst of love and happiness as her father’s condition worsens. In her intimate, thoughtful exploration through the fragile vagaries of love—romantic, filial, domestic—Mia Hansen-Løve (Things to Come, Bergman Island), delivers another poignant, personal film that resonates long after it ends.

“Seydoux’s performance anchors the film, ultimately rendering it a love letter to the present, and to the ways heartbreak and hope intertwine.” ALISSA WILKINSON, VOX

Cast Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud, Nicole Garcia, Camille Leban Martins Prod David Thion, Philippe Martin Scr Mia Hansen-Løve Cam Denis Lenoir Ed Marion Monnier Prod Des Mila Preli Prod Co Les Films Pelleas Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc. Selected Filmography Father of My Children (2009); Eden (2014); Things to Come (2016); Bergman Island (2020)

SAT OCT 1

6:00 PM

CENT

Critics have called the prolific French writer Florian Zeller “the most exciting playwright of our times,” and his second film as writer-director confirms that he’s equally adept when it comes to cinema. Despite Anthony Hopkins’ Academy Award for Best Actor, The Father didn’t find the audience it should have (its release coincided with COVID-19). His follow-up, adapted from the play of the same name by Zeller’s regular English translator, Christopher Hampton, is as sharp, insightful, and devastating. Teenager Nicolas (Zen McGrath) is suffering from depression and has stopped going to school. It’s so bad, his mom Kate (Laura Dern) hands him over to his father, Peter (Hugh Jackman), who is celebrating a baby with his new wife, Beth (Vanessa Kirby). Perhaps a stepbrother will raise Nic’s spirits? Peter vows to do everything he can to help—but Nic descends still further.

As in The Father, Zeller uses the subjectivity of the camera to access mental spaces that seem impenetrable from the outside. There are no easy answers here, but the film’s emotional pull is direct and undeniable.

Cast Hugh Jackman, Zen McGrath, Vanessa Kirby, Laura Dern, Hugh Quarshie, Anthony Hopkins Exec Simon Gillis, Philippe Carcassonne, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Battsek, Ollie Madden, Lauren Dark, Peter Touche, Christelle Conan, Hugo Grumbar, Tim Haslam Prod Joanna Laurie, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Florian Zeller, Christophe Spadone Scr Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller Cam Ben Smithard Ed Yorgos Lamprinos Prod Des Simon Bowles Mus Hans Zimmer Prod Co See-Saw Films Production, Inthevoid Production Dist/Print Elevation Pictures Filmography The Father (2020) Presented by

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Special Presentations

Stars at Noon

Triangle of Sadness

CLAIRE DENIS, FRANCE, 2022, 137 MIN.

MON OCT 3 SAT OCT 8

RUBEN ÖSTLUND, SWEDEN/UK/USA/FRANCE/GREECE, 2022, 149 MIN.

9:00 PM 1:00 PM

PLAY CENT

Canadian Premiere. Updating Denis Johnson’s Nicaragua-set novel from the Revolution to the present-day and working in English and Spanish, French auteur Claire Denis is venturing into Graham Greene territory here—espionage and dirty deeds in the tropics. It’s worth remembering that she herself grew up in French colonial West Africa; westerners getting hot and bothered in foreign climes pop up in Beau Travail, White Material, L’intrus, and her first film, Chocolat.

The focus here is on a young American, Trish (Margaret Qualley), a freelance journalist who has gotten in over her head and whose passport has been seized after she embarrassed the authorities. Marooned indefinitely in an unnamed Managua, Trish is forced to trade sex for protection and rum money. She tries to put on a tough and cynical front, but secretly she’s desperate. Then she meets Daniel (Joe Alwyn), a dashing English businessman. At first, she thinks he could be her ticket out of here. Gradually she realizes he’s in worse trouble than she is.

Too languid and languorous to be described as a thriller, but more plot-driven than most Denis films, Stars at Noon is a moody, almost malevolent romance, a tropical neo-noir; love and disillusion in the time of COVID. Grand Prix (tied), Cannes 2022

Cast Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Danny Ramirez, Benny Safdie, Nick Romano, Stephan Proaño, Monica Bartholomew, Carlos Bennett Exec Christine De Jekel, Olivier Gauriat, Pituka Ortega Heilbron, Marcela Heilbron Prod Olivier Delbosc Scr Claire Denis, Léa Mysius, Andrew Litvack Cam Eric Gautier Ed Guy Lecorne Prod Des Arnaud De Moléron Mus tindersticks Prod Co Curiosa Films Dist/Print Sphere Media Selected Filmography White Material (2009); Bastards (2013); Let the Sunshine In (2017); High Life (2018)

MON OCT 3 SUN OCT 9

9:00 PM 9:00 PM

CENT CENT

Social satirist Ruben Östlund (The Square; Force Majeure) picked up his second Palme d’Or at Cannes earlier this year with this gleefully mischievous assault on the State of Things.

Influencer couple Carl and Yaya (Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean) join a luxury cruise for the super rich. While the crew bends over backwards to accommodate the passengers’ whims (even one woman’s insistence that the entire staff stops what they are doing to enjoy a swim), the captain refuses to leave his cabin before the mandatory dinner given in his name—a tumultuous banquet which coincides with a dire turn in the weather. Östlund retains his knack for hitting on potent and provocative situations—the banquet is an unforgettable, uproarious set piece presided over by a gloriously unflappable, stiffly inebriated Woody Harrelson. Östlund really turns the screws in the film’s second half, when a shipwreck upends the social hierarchy and suddenly, all bets are off. Granted, most of the characters are truly awful and the satire is subtle as a baseball bat. Yet the movie keeps building and damn if we don’t care about them by the end. It’s a must-see.

Palme d’or, Cannes 2022

Cast Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Zlatko Burić, Iris Berben, Vicki Berlin, Henrik Dorsin, Jean-Christophe Folly, Amanda Walker Prod Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober Scr Ruben Östlund Cam Fredrik Wenzel Ed Mikel Cee Karlsson, Ruben Östlund Prod Des Josefin Åsberg Prod Co Plattform Produktion, Coproduction Office Dist/Print Elevation Pictures Selected Filmography The Guitar Mongoloid (2005); Play (2011); Force Majeure (2014); The Square (2017)

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Special Presentations

The Whale

Women Talking

DARREN ARONOFSKY, USA, 2022, 117 MIN.

SUN OCT 2

SARAH POLLEY, USA, 2022, 104 MIN.

5:45 PM

CENT

The director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, and Mother!, Darren Aronofsky has never been one to play safe. Here, in his first film in five years, Aronofsky bucks expectations again with a chamber piece about an English teacher, Charlie (Brendan Fraser, still recognizable under layers of latex), who appears to be on the verge of eating himself to death. The term “morbidly obese” is rightfully considered problematic, but in Charlie’s case it may apply: his eating is a kind of death wish, a semi-conscious bid to be reunited with his dead, gay lover.

Before that happens, he reaches out to the teenage daughter he hasn’t seen in ten years.

Adapted from Samuel D. Hunter’s play, The Whale confronts prejudice in all shapes and sizes.

It’s a gripping, compassionate drama which keeps us hooked without leaving the confines of Charlie’s apartment. Along with what is probably Fraser’s career-best performance, there’s sterling work here from Hong Chau (Downsizing) as his friend and de facto nurse, Samantha Morton as his ex-wife, and Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) as his rebellious daughter, Ellie.

Cast Brendan Fraser, Hong Chau, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins, Samantha Morton Exec Scott Franklin, Tyson Bidner Prod Jeremy Dawson, Ari Handel, Darren Aronofsky Scr Samuel D. Hunter Cam Matthew Libatique Ed Andrew Weisblum Prod Des Mark Friedberg, Robert Pyzocha Mus Rob Simonsen Prod Co Protozoa Pictures, A24 Dist/Print Elevation Pictures Selected Filmography Pi (1998); Requiem for a Dream (2000); The Wrestler (2008); Mother! (2017) Presented by

WED OCT 5

9:15 PM

CENT

Sarah Polley’s riveting adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel catapults her to the forefront of North American filmmakers. This is the strongest and most compelling movie to come out of the #MeToo movement to date. The subject matter is unquestionably daunting, but the treatment is impassioned and fierce—and, often, also, desperately funny.

Some background: Toews grew up in a Mennonite community in Manitoba. Her 2018 novel was a response to a horrific news story exposing the systemic abuse of more than 130 women who were repeatedly drugged and raped in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia between the years 2005-09. Polley (who also wrote the screenplay) doesn’t shy away from the challenge of the title: as in the book, the action here centres on a secret meeting eight women hold in a hayloft as they come to terms with the revelation that they were not assaulted by “demons,” but by their supposed “protectors,”the husbands and fathers at the heart of their enclosed community. The stellar cast (including Oscar nominees Jessie Buckley and Rooney Mara, and Oscar winner Frances McDormand) unearths every shred of human dignity in this nightmarish scenario.

Cast Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand Exec Brad Pitt, Lyn Lucibelllo Brancatella, Emily Jade Foley Prod Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Frances McDormand Scr Sarah Polley Cam Luc Montpellier Ed Christopher Donaldson, Rosyln Kalloo Prod Des Peter Cosco Mus Hildur Guðnadóttir Prod Co Plan B Entertainment, hear/say Productions, Orion Pictures Filmography Away From Her (2006); Take This Waltz (2011); Stories We Tell (2012)

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An Evening with Michael Abels THU OCT 6

7:00 PM

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Two-time Emmy-nominated composer Michael Abels is known for his genre-defying scores for the Jordan Peele films Get Out, Nope, and Us, for which Abels won a World Soundtrack Award, the Jerry Goldsmith Award, a Critics Choice nomination, and multiple critics awards. Join us for an intimate evening of insight, creativity, and performances of Abels’ music, featuring the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

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Brother: In Conversation with Clement Virgo, Director SUN OCT 2

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6:00 PM

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Guest: Clement Virgo, Director Host: Mina Shum, Writer/Director Acclaimed director-writer Clement Virgo is one of Canada’s foremost film directors. His numerous TV credits include Empire, The Wire, The L Word, and CBC’s record-breaking The Book of Negroes, which he directed and co-wrote. Join us for a unique conversation and get new insights into his highly anticipated film, Brother, a VIFF 2022 Showcase selection. The talk is moderated by his fellow Canadian Film Centre graduate, Vancouver-based director Mina Shum.

Avatar: The Way of Water: Costume Design Masterclass with Deborah Lynn Scott MON OCT 3

7:00 PM

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Guest: Deborah Lynn Scott, Costume Designer Best known for her work in James Cameron’s recordbreaking blockbuster Titanic, which won her the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Deborah Lynn Scott has over 50 credits for her work, which includes the iconic films Back to the Future, Minority Report, and Transformers. Join us for a fascinating conversation about Scott’s process: designing costumes for action movies versus period pieces, the importance of research, and creative collaboration required to pull off a director’s vision.

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Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Dean Fleischer Camp FRI OCT 7

1:00 PM

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Guest: Dean Fleischer Camp, Director In 2010, Dean Fleischer Camp, an award-winning filmmaker and New York Times bestselling author, along with Jenny Slate, created a short film about Marcel, an endearingly cheerful talking shell with one eye and little shoes. The little character became a viral hit, leading to a feature adaptation produced by A24. We’re excited to hear Fleischer Camp share his singular process about creating a feature film that combines elements of narrative, documentary feature, improvisation, and two forms of animation.

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Showcase

Exceptional cinema that will resonate strongly with VIFF audiences.

Alcarràs

Before, Now & Then Nana

CARLA SIMÓN, SPAIN/ITALY, 2022, 120 MIN.

FRI OCT 7 SUN OCT 9

6:15 PM 2:30 PM

SFU PLAY

North American Premiere. Steeped in the warmth of summer and the sweetness of peaches, Alcarràs tells the tale of a family in Catalonia suddenly faced with eviction from the land they’ve farmed for generations. Immediate, joyous, and complex in its exploration of family dynamics, director Carla Simón’s naturalistic, immersive filmmaking tells a bittersweet tale of love and family in a last idyllic summer.

Golden Bear for Best Film, Berlin 2022 Cast Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otín, Xènia Roset, Albert Bosch, Ainet Jounou Prod María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno

KAMILA ANDINI, INDONESIA, 2022, 103 MIN.

WED OCT 5 SAT OCT 8

9:30 PM 3:45 PM

Canadian Premiere. Dreamlike, sensual, and intensely lyrical, Kamila Andini’s Indonesian 1960s period drama is a rare glimpse into the emotional life of a woman who escapes war and enters into the pampered existence of a passionless marriage. Lonely and isolated, Nana eventually befriends her husband’s mistress. The film features extraordinary sound design and sumptuous music that evokes the last luxurious remnants of pre-Suharto Indonesia.

Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance (Laura Basuki), Berlin 2022 Cast Happy Salma, Laura Basuki, Arswendy Bening Swara, Ibnu Jamil, Rieke Diah Pitaloka Prod Ifa Isfansyah, Gita Fara

Black Ice

Boy From Heaven

Brother

HUBERT DAVIS, CANADA, 2022, 97 MIN.

TARIK SALEH, SWEDEN/FRANCE/FINLAND, 2022, 125 MIN.

CLEMENT VIRGO, CANADA, 2022, 119 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 THU OCT 6

6:00 PM 9:30 PM

PLAY IN09

Black Ice is a sweeping dissection of systematic racism in Canadian hockey culture. Hubert Davis’ engrossing film documents personal stories of Black hockey players dealing with racism from fans, coaches, and colleagues, and the institutional pressure to stay silent about their mistreatment. It also revisits the lost history of the Maritimes’ Coloured Hockey League and the advancements its Black players brought to early 20th century hockey.

Feat Akim Aliu, Wayne Simmons, Matt Dumba, Anthony Duclair, Saroya Tinker, Sarah Nurse, P.K. Subban Prod Vinay Virmani, Scott Moore, Karen Volden, Karen Zylak Presented by

FRI OCT 7 SUN OCT 9

9:15 PM 9:15 PM

SFU PLAY

North American Premiere. Tarik Saleh’s drama tells the story of Adam (Tawfeek Barhom), who is studying at a leading religious institution, when he becomes a pawn in the struggle between government spies and radical religious leaders. Boy From Heaven has the shrewd plotting of a thriller, and Barhom gives a superbly expressive performance, claiming our sympathy from the first moments of the film. “[A]n intriguingly damning portrait of the corruption currently hitting Egypt on all levels.”

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Best Screenplay, Cannes 2022 Cast Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Mohammad Bakri, Makram J. Khoury, Sherwan Haji, Mehdi Dehbi Prod Kristina Åberg, Fredrik Zander

PLAY SFU

SAT OCT 1 TUE OCT 4

Call Jane 6:00 PM 9:15 PM

PHYLLIS NAGY, USA, 2022, 121 MIN.

PLAY RIO

SUN OCT 2 SAT OCT 8

6:30 PM 9:15 PM

RIO PLAY

Against the backdrop of suburban Scarborough, two brothers (Lamar Johnson and Aaron Pierre) strive to justify their mother’s sacrifices and realise their own ambitions.

However, fate has other plans. Maintaining the precision of David Chariandy’s acclaimed novel, Clement Virgo’s adaptation is a richly cinematic work. Virgo’s direction is both elegant and authoritative as Brother details the devastating repercussions of violence, while also exploring masculinity, family, race, and the healing process.

A privileged housewife (Elizabeth Banks) in 1968 Chicago finds herself at odds with the patriarchal medical establishment when she requires an abortion to save her life. Directed

by Phyllis Nagy, Call Jane deftly balances light and dark in the telling of the stories of desperate women who require abortions and the women who risk their lives for them. A timely and relevant film about reproductive justice in the year that Roe v. Wade was overturned, the film is accessible, passionate, and hugely entertaining.

Cast Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Kiana Madeira, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Lovell Adams-Gray, Maurice Dean Wint Prod Damon D’Oliveira, Aeschylus Poulos, Sonya Di Rienzo, Clement Virgo

Cast Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara, Wunmi Mosaku, Cory Michael Smith, Grace Edwards, John Magaro Prod Robbie Brenner, David Wulf, Kevin McKeon, Lee Broda, Claude Amadeo, Michael D’Alto

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Crystal Pite: Angels’ Atlas

LUKAS DHONT, BELGIUM/FRANCE/NETHERLANDS, 2022, 105 MIN.

SUN OCT 2 TUE OCT 4

CHELSEA MCMULLAN, CANADA, 2022, 64 MIN.

1:00 PM 9:15 PM

SFU PLAY

SUN OCT 2 SUN OCT 9

6:30 PM 4:00 PM

PLAY IN09

On the cusp of adolescence, Léo and Rémi spend their carefree summer building an intimate friendship, but as their days of bicycle rides through dappled flower farms and cuddling sleepovers fade into the school year, their bond is scrutinized by their classmates. Rémi is unfazed, but Léo pulls away from Rémi out of self-conscious fear, and the rift between them widens into an irreparable, tragic rupture in this stunningly lyrical tour de force that explores the fragile nature of friendship and masculinity.

World Premiere. In February 2020, Angels’ Atlas premiered to rapturous reviews, but it soon became the National Ballet of Canada’s final show before the pandemic shutdown; when the company returned in November 2021, this ballet was the first that was performed. Crystal Pite: Angels’ Atlas brilliantly captures the ballet’s rebirth. Sublime, moving, cathartic in its pulsing grief and meditation on mortality and transience, this documentary is one of the most moving pieces of art to ever be captured on film.

Grand Prix (tied), Cannes 2022

Prod Sean O’Neill

Cast Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Émilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker, Kevin Janssens, Marc Weiss, Igor Van Dessel, Léon Bataille Prod Michiel Dhont, Dirk Impens

Emily

Holy Spider

Klondike

FRANCES O’CONNOR, UK/USA, 2022, 130 MIN.

ALI ABBASI, DENMARK/GERMANY/SWEDEN/FRANCE, 2022, 117 MIN.

MARYNA ER GORBACH, UKRAINE/TURKEY, 2022, 100 MIN.

SAT OCT 8 SUN OCT 9

6:00 PM 6:15 PM

PLAY SFU

Readers have always been fascinated by how the shy, demure preacher’s daughter Emily Brontë created something as dangerously romantic as Wuthering Heights. Writer-director Frances O’Connor imagines a secret liaison with a curate in her father’s employ, and even a kind of emotional love triangle with her brother, Branwell. This well-directed, superbly acted movie (Emma Mackey is sensational in the title role) finds nuance and sensitivity as it sounds subtle echoes of Brontë’s novel.

Cast Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Alexandra Dowling, Adrian Dunbar, Amelia Gething, Gemma Jones Prod Piers Tempest, Robert Connolly, David Barron

FRI OCT 7 SUN OCT 9

9:15 PM 9:30 PM

PLAY SFU

Mashhad, Iran, 2001. A serial killer known as The Spider has murdered over a dozen women. Rahimi, a journalist returning to her hometown to cover the murders, soon becomes obsessed with finding the killer and bringing him to justice. What she soon finds is a skewed social morality that praises the perpetrator and condemns his victims. Directed

by Ali Abbasi, Holy Spider considers the unexpected outcome of a man’s horrendous acts and the social structure that allowed him to continue his reign of terror.

Award for Best Actress (Zar Amir Ebrahimi), Cannes 2022 Cast Mehdi Bajestani, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Arash Ashtiani, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Alice Rahimi, Sara Fazilat Prod Sol Bondy, Jacob Jarek, Ali Abbasi

SAT OCT 1 FRI OCT 7

Motherhood 3:00 PM 9:45 PM

PLAY IN09

Canadian Premiere. Maryna Er Gorbach’s film is set in the Donbass region of Ukraine, and its depiction of war has a grim topicality today. It’s 2014, and Irka (Oxana Cherkashyna) is seven months pregnant and living in the countryside with her partner Tolik (Sergiy Shadrin). As the film opens, they are facing the dilemma of whether or not to flee the area; it’s a conflict that will threaten to tear them apart as the film unfolds. Tense, haunting, and tragic, this is a truly powerful work of art.

Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic, Sundance 2022 Cast Oxana Cherkashyna, Sergiy Shadrin, Oleg Scherbina, Oleg Shevchuk, Artur Aramyan, Evgenij Efremov Prod Maryna Er Gorbach, Mehmet Bahadir Er, Sviatoslav Bulakovskyi

Bosei

RYUICHI HIROKI, JAPAN, 2022, 116 MIN.

WED OCT 5 FRI OCT 7

6:00 PM 9:15 PM

PLAY CINE

World Premiere. Ryuichi Hiroki’s film tells the story of a woman who loves her mother but can’t muster the same feelings for her daughter. Shot in widescreen, Motherhood plumbs the mysteries of character and motivation like a detective trying to solve a crime. The director draws terrific performances from his actors, and he creates a rich atmosphere of psychological danger. Brave, beautiful, and utterly captivating, this is a sad story, but one that has room in it for tenderness and compassion.

Cast Erika Toda, Mei Nagano, Masaki Miura, Yuri Nakamura, Rio Yamashita, Atsuko Takahata, Mao Daichi Prod Tatsuhiko Taniguchi, Shunsuke Koga, Yasushi Minatoya

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Pacifiction Tourment sur les îles

MARIO MARTONE, ITALY/FRANCE, 2022, 118 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 FRI OCT 7

9:15 PM 6:15 PM

SFU PLAY

North American Premiere. Felice (the excellent Pierfrancesco Favino) returns to Naples and for the first time in 40 years. His mother is ailing and he’s dismayed by how she’s living. He’s also overwhlemed by memories of his adolescence, memories mixing joy and shame. As the days turn to weeks, this flood of memories glues him to the city. He’s not proud of who he used to be, but he knows he must reconnect with his best friend from those days, Oreste, now a feared crime boss in a squalid part of town, and make peace between them.

Cast Pierfrancesco Favino, Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno, Aurora Quattrocchi, Sofia Essaidi Prod Luciano Stella, Roberto Sessa, Maria Carolina Terzi, Carlo Stella

Peter Von Kant FRANÇOIS OZON, FRANCE, 2022, 84 MIN.

THU SEP 29 SAT OCT 1

9:00 PM 12:45 PM

PLAY SFU

ALBERT SERRA, FRANCE/SPAIN/GERMANY/PORTUGAL, 2022, 165 MIN.

SAT OCT 1 SUN OCT 9

9:00 PM 5:30 PM

IN09 PLAY

Albert Serra casts his eye on the tropics with this beguiling, satirical film. De Roller, the High Commissioner of French Polynesia, has a problem on his hands: the French Marines have arrived on the islands, and their presence coincides with rumours that nuclear testing is soon to commence. As De Roller’s investigation is stymied, he’s lost in a miasma of suspicion and resentment. Shooting in widescreen, Serra conveys the lushness of the tropics.

Cast Benoît Magimel, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Marc Susini, Matahi Pambrun, Alexandre Melo Prod Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Dirk Decker, Andrea Schütte, Joaquim Sapinho, Marta Alves, Laurent Jacquemin

R.M.N.

Tori and Lokita

Viking

CRISTIAN MUNGIU, ROMANIA/FRANCE, 2022, 125 MIN.

JEAN-PIERRE AND LUC DARDENNE, BELGIUM, 2022, 88 MIN.

STÉPHANE LAFLEUR, CANADA, 2022, 104 MIN.

SAT OCT 1 THU OCT 6

9:30 PM 9:00 PM

PLAY SFU

Canadian Premiere. VIFF regular François Ozon and lead actor Denis Ménochet must have had a ball crafting this wickedly campy, thoroughly cinematic, gender-reversed take on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. Successful director Peter sees his world fall apart when his young lover dumps him. Cue the rage. Featuring bravura turns from Stéfan Crépon, Hanna Schygulla, and Isabelle Adjani, Screen Daily calls this film “authentically Fassbinderian and altogether Ozonesque.”

The title may imply an inward focus, but this gripping Romanian drama from Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Graduation) addresses social pressures that are wreaking havoc everywhere: globalization, immigration, xenophobia, and economic injustice are all part of the story’s thick stew.

Matthias returns home from Germany to his hometown in Transylvania when he learns his eight-year-old son has stopped speaking.

Meanwhile, the entire community is up in arms over the arrival of two migrants from Sri Lanka.

Cast Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani, Khalil Gharbia, Hanna Schygulla, Stéfan Crépon, Aminthe Audiard Prod François Ozon

Cast Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Bârlădeanu, Orsolya Moldován, Andrei Finţi Prod Cristian Mungiu

THU SEP 29 SAT OCT 1

6:30 PM 11:00 AM

PLAY IN10

Canadian Premiere. When so much of cinema is dominated by escapist fantasies of power and strength, the Dardenne brothers have grounded their stories in social realism and empathy for the vulnerable and the weak.

Here, we are invested in the plight of two West African immigrants, children who pass themselves off as siblings but whose fate hangs by a thread. The movie pummels the heart.

Special 75th Anniversary Prize, Cannes 2022 Cast Pablo Schils, Joely Mbundu, Alban Ukaj, Tijmen Govaerts, Charlotte De Bruyne, Nadège Ouedraogo, Marc Zinga Prod Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Delphine Tomson, Denis Freyd

TUE OCT 4 SAT OCT 8

6:00 PM 4:00 PM

PLAY IN09

When the first manned mission to Mars hits turbulence due to personality clashes amongst the crew, the higher-ups devise a solution: create a simulacrum of the spacecraft, stock it with surrogates who possess the same personalities as the feuding astronauts, and have them re-enact events occurring light years away. The long-awaited return of Stéphane Lafleur (Tu dors Nicole) sees his cast displaying “complete commitment to the mission” by dialing into his deadpan wavelengths and mining poignancy from folly.

Cast Steve Laplante, Larissa Corriveau, Fabiola N. Aladin, Hamza Haq, Denis Houle, Marie Brassard Prod Luc Déry, Kim McCraw

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TUE OCT 4

8:00 PM

ST. ANDREW’S

Destructive pop duo BIG KILL (the latest project from We Are the City’s Cayne McKenzie and Andrew Huculiak) resurrects horror centenarian Nosferatu in the gothic setting of St. Andrew’s-Wesley for a spellbinding night of hyperpop frenzy. Cinema’s first adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, F.W. Murnau’s masterpiece casts a long shadow over the history of movie horror. A viral hit, Nosferatu emerged just four years after the 1918 H1N1 pandemic claimed the lives of 50 million souls, fanning fears of the Other.

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Panorama

An array of remarkable narrative films from every corner of the globe.

Aftersun

The Beasts As bestas

CHARLOTTE WELLS, UK/USA, 2022, 98 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 SUN OCT 2

6:30 PM 9:15 PM

IN09 IN09

With their strong resemblance and rapport, Calum (Paul Mescal) and Sophie (Frankie Corio), his 11-year-old daughter, are often mistaken for siblings. Away on a discount holiday in Turkey, they conduct themselves like impish kids playing hooky. However, Calum’s personal demons are about to come calling. Charlotte Wells demonstrates a gentle command of emotional complexities, as well as astonishing formal prowess as her acclaimed feature debut reminds us how life’s turning points often arrive without warning.

Cast Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall Prod Adele Romanski, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins, Mark Ceryak

The Blue Caftan MARYAM TOUZANI, MOROCCO/FRANCE/BELGIUM/ DENMARK, 2022, 122 MIN.

THU OCT 6 SAT OCT 8

9:00 PM 3:45 PM

IN10 IN10

Richly erotic and deeply moving, Maryam Touzani’s queer-themed film takes us to urban Morocco and into the lives of three beautiful souls. Halim (Saleh Bakri) is a master tailor; Mina (Lubna Azabal) is his loyal wife; Youssef (Ayoub Missioui) is the man who slowly comes between them. Touzani creates human portraits that are as powerful in their physicality as they are relatable in their psychology. This is a loving, sensuous, gently radiant film—a triumph of sympathetic imagination.

Cast Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui Prod Nabil Ayouch

RODRIGO SOROGOYEN, SPAIN/FRANCE, 2022, 137 MIN.

THU SEP 29 FRI OCT 7 SUN OCT 9

3:15 PM 3:45 PM 6:15 PM

IN09 INT09 VCT

North American Premiere. In this gripping, tense rural thriller about a French couple trying to make a new life by starting a farm and fixing abandoned homes in Galicia, Spain, director Rodrigo Sorogoyen presents the feral underbelly of country life where tensions between foreigners and locals, educated and uneducated, brutally come to the fore.

Cast Denis Ménochet, Marina Foïs, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido, Marie Colomb Prod Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé, Sandra Tapia Díaz, Eduardo Villanueva, Nacho Lavilla, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Jean Labadie, Anne-Laure Labadie, Thomas Pibarot

Carajita

Dos estaciones

Falcon Lake

SILVINA SCHNICER, ULISES PORRA GUARDIOLA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/ARGENTINA, 2021, 89 MIN.

JUAN PABLO GONZÁLEZ, MEXICO/FRANCE/USA, 2022, 99 MIN.

CHARLOTTE LE BON, CANADA/FRANCE, 2022, 100 MIN.

THU SEP 29 MON OCT 3 FROM SUN OCT 2

8:30 PM 4:15 PM

IN08 CINE CONN

Canadian Premiere. Yarisa and Sara are not mother and daughter, but they might as well be. In the Dominican Republic, Yarisa works for Sara’s wealthy, powerful family as a maid, but more importantly, as Sara’s beloved nanny. At times, Sara even seems to take priority over Yarisa’s own daughter, who strives to be closer to her distant mother. When Yarisa suffers a personal tragedy, she must re-evaluate the last two decades of her life and her relationship with the family to whom she has given so much of her heart and soul.

Cast Cecile Van Welie, Magnolia Núñez, Adelanny Padilla, Genesis Buret, Richard Douglas, Javier Hermida Prod Alexandra Guerrero, Ulla Prida

FRI OCT 7 SUN OCT 9

9:15 PM 4:15 PM

IN10 IN10

THU SEP 29 SAT OCT 1

6:45 PM 1:15 PM

RIO RIO

Canadian Premiere. Juan Pablo González’s first narrative feature tackles the desolate effects of globalization on culture, tradition, and a generations-led tequila industry. Knowledgeable, magnanimous, and full of pride in both her craft and societal status, María Garcia (played by Teresa Sánchez) slowly reveals her loneliness, longing, and leashed passion while single-mindedly focused on saving her family’s legacy. Winner of a Special Jury Award for acting at Sundance and the True Vision Award at the True/False Film Festival.

When their families get together for a summer vacation, Bastien, a shy teenage boy, finds himself captivated by Chloé, a slightly older girl who takes him under her wing and introduces him to a world of teenage debauchery.

But as they grow closer, lines of emotional and physical intimacy get blurred, and heartache ensues. Le Bon meticulously crafts an atmosphere of exhilarating summer awakenings while drawing on genre conventions to maintain a foreboding tone that adds weight to every emotional beat.

Cast Teresa Sánchez, Rafaela Fuentes, Manuel García-Rulfo, José Galindo Prod Jamie Gonçalves, Ilana Coleman, Bruna Haddad, Makena Buchanan

Cast Joseph Engel, Sara Montpetit, Monia Chokri, Arthur Igual, Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Anthony Therrien Prod David Gauquié, Julien Deris, Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant, Jalil Lespert, Dany Boon, JeanLuc Ormières

Annex Theatre Annex Theatre The Centre for Performing Arts The Centre for Performing Arts The Cinematheque The Cinematheque International Village 8 International Village 8 International Village 9 International Village 9 International Village 10 International Village 10 Vancouver Playhouse Vancouver Playhouse Rio Theatre Rio Theatre SFU's Goldcorp SFU's Goldcorp Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre

Friday, September 30

Friday, September 30 Friday, September 30

Annex Theatre Annex Theatre The Centre for Performing Arts The Centre for Performing Arts The Cinematheque The Cinematheque International Village 8 International Village 8 International Village 9 International Village 9 International Village 10 International Village 10 Vancouver Playhouse Vancouver Playhouse Rio Theatre Rio Theatre SFU's Goldcorp SFU's Goldcorp Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre

Thursday, September 29

Thursday, September 29 Thursday, September 29

10:00AM 10:00AM

10:00AM 10:00AM

11:00AM 11:00AM

11:00AM 11:00AM

12:00PM 12:00PM

12:00PM 12:00PM

5:00PM 5:00PM

6:30pm 81min p55

Maigret Maigret

3:30pm 94min p59 3:30pm 94min p59

1:15pm 90min p59

Cesária Évora Cesária Évora

3:45pm 83min p55

My Imaginary...

3:45pm 83min p55 My Imaginary...

3:30pm 121min p45

1:15pm 90min p59

Goya...

Goya...

1:30pm 77min p54

Adam Ondra:...

1:30pm 77min p54 Adam Ondra:...

1:00pm 88min p41

Riverside Mukolitta 3:30pm 121min p45 Riverside Mukolitta

4:00pm 77min p49

12:45pm 131min p47

8:00PM 8:00PM

Thunder Thunder

6:00pm 90min p51

6:00pm 90min p51

back home back home

6:30pm 79min p65

6:30pm 79min p65

Anyox Anyox

8:45pm 87min p51

8:45pm 87min p51

9:15pm 118min p33

MODES 1 MODES 1

9:15pm 118min p33 6:15pm 84min p55

Nostalgia Nostalgia

9:15pm 116min p63 6:15pm 84min p55

Unarchived Unarchived

6:30pm 99min p43

6:30pm 99min p43

Something in the Dirt 9:15pm 116min p63 Something in the Dirt

9:00pm 117min p51

6:00pm 97min p30

Nanny Nanny

9:00pm 117min p51

Riceboy Sleeps Riceboy Sleeps

9:30pm 77min p46

What We Do Next 9:30pm 77min p46 What We Do Next

9:00pm 96min p53

9:00pm 96min p53

You Can...

You Can...

8:45pm 84min p53

8:45pm 84min p53

Soft Soft

8:45pm 100min p47

8:45pm 100min p47

9:15pm 138min p20

11:00PM 11:00PM Decision to Leave 9:15pm 138min p20 Decision to Leave

10:00PM 10:00PM

The Word The Word

9:00PM 9:00PM

8:30pm 119min p45

Rabiye Kurnaz...

8:30pm 119min p45 Rabiye Kurnaz...

9:00pm 103min p41

9:00pm 103min p41

Karaoke Karaoke

9:30pm 80min p63

Smoking Causes...

9:30pm 80min p63 Smoking Causes...

9:00pm 84min p33

Peter Von Kant 9:00pm 84min p33 Peter Von Kant

9:30pm 127min p41

9:30pm 127min p41

9:00pm 92min p46

9:00pm 92min p46

8:30pm 89min p35

8:30pm 89min p35

11:00PM 11:00PM

Joyland Joyland

9:00pm 103min p57

10:00PM 10:00PM

Geographies of...

9:00pm 103min p57 Geographies of...

Carajita Carajita

9:00PM 9:00PM

6:00pm 97min p30

Black Ice Black Ice

6:15pm 101min p61

Melt Goes On Forever:...

6:15pm 101min p61 Melt Goes On Forever:...

6:30pm 98min p35

6:30pm 98min p35

Aftersun Aftersun

6:00pm 88min p41

6:00pm 88min p41

Field of Blood Field of Blood

4:00pm 109min p57

Moja Vesna Moja Vesna

6:30pm 81min p55

Love Will...

Love Will...

6:00pm 119min p20

6:00pm 119min p20

Empire of Light Empire of Light

7:00PM 7:00PM

4:00pm 109min p57

The Eclipse The Eclipse

5:00PM 5:00PM

6:30pm 77min p49

4:00PM 4:00PM

6:30pm 77min p49 3:45pm 115min p57

Moja Vesna Moja Vesna

6:30pm 92min p43

The Novelist's...

6:30pm 92min p43 The Novelist's...

6:45pm 100min p35

6:45pm 100min p35

Falcon Lake Falcon Lake

6:30pm 88min p33

6:30pm 88min p33

Tori and Lokita Tori and Lokita

6:45pm 115min p43

6:45pm 115min p43

3:45pm 115min p57

Day After...

Day After...

4:00pm 105min p43

The Mountain The Mountain

6:30pm 87min p46

3:15pm 137min p35

A Matter of Trust 4:00pm 105min p43 A Matter of Trust

6:30pm 87min p46

Utama Utama

6:15pm 83min p43

3:45pm 100min p55

Nayola Nayola

6:15pm 115min p43

3:15pm 137min p35

The Beasts The Beasts

8:00PM 8:00PM

No Prior Appointment 6:15pm 115min p43 No Prior Appointment

6:00pm 127min p16

6:00pm 127min p16

Bones of Crows Bones of Crows

7:00PM 7:00PM

6:15pm 83min p43

6:00PM 6:00PM

6:00PM 6:00PM

3:45pm 100min p55

Killing of...

Killing of...

3:45pm 97min p57

See You Friday...

3:45pm 97min p57 See You Friday...

4:00PM 4:00PM

4:00pm 77min p49

3:00PM 3:00PM

3:00PM 3:00PM

12:45pm 131min p47

Zátopek Zátopek

2:00PM 2:00PM

2:00PM 2:00PM

1:00pm 88min p41

1:00PM 1:00PM

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12:00AM 12:00AM

12:00AM 12:00AM

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Films

Annex Theatre Annex Theatre The Centre for Performing Arts The Centre for Performing Arts The Cinematheque The Cinematheque International Village 8 International Village 8 International Village 9 International Village 9 International Village 10 International Village 10 Vancouver Playhouse Vancouver Playhouse Rio Theatre Rio Theatre SFU's Goldcorp SFU's Goldcorp Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre

Monday, October 3

Monday, October 03 Monday, October 03

Annex Theatre Annex Theatre The Centre for Performing Arts The Centre for Performing Arts The Cinematheque The Cinematheque International Village 8 International Village 8 International Village 9 International Village 9 International Village 10 International Village 10 Vancouver Playhouse Vancouver Playhouse Rio Theatre Rio Theatre SFU's Goldcorp SFU's Goldcorp Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre

Sunday, October 2

Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre Sunday, October 02 Sunday, October 02

Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre

SFU's Goldcorp

Rio Theatre

Vancouver Playhouse

International Village 10

International Village 9

International Village 8

The Cinematheque

The Centre for Performing Arts

Annex Theatre

Saturday, October 1

Saturday, October 01

10:00AM 10:00AM

10:00AM 10:00AM

10:00AM

11:00am 103min p57

12:00PM 12:00PM

1:00PM 1:00PM

3:00PM 3:00PM

Rebellion Rebellion

7:00pm 60min p29

Corsage Corsage

3:00pm 119min p66 3:00pm 119min p66

12:30pm 100min p47

Short Forum 1 Short Forum 1

6:00pm 92min p54

Goya...

Goya...

Aftersun Aftersun

Short Forum 2 Short Forum 2

6:00pm 95min p49

Other Cannibals 6:00pm 95min p49 Other Cannibals

6:30pm 79min p65

6:30pm 79min p65

MODES 1 MODES 1

6:15pm 117min p51

6:15pm 117min p51

Short Forum 3 Short Forum 3

8:30pm 99min p66

8:30pm 99min p66

9:30pm 75min p54

Framing Agnes 9:30pm 75min p54 Framing Agnes

9:00pm 137min p24

Riceboy Sleeps Riceboy Sleeps

9:00pm 137min p24

Stars at Noon Stars at Noon

9:00pm 81min p47

A Woman Escapes 81min p47 A 9:00pm Woman Escapes

9:30pm 121min p45

Riverside Mukolitta 9:30pm 121min p45 Riverside Mukolitta

8:45pm 117min p51

8:45pm 117min p51

The Maiden The Maiden

9:15pm 87min p51

9:15pm 87min p51

Anyox Anyox

9:00pm 149min p24

Triangle of Sadness 9:00pm 149min p24 Triangle of Sadness

10:00PM 10:00PM

8:30pm 106min p66

8:30pm 106min p66

9:00pm 82min p55

11:00PM 11:00PM

9:30pm 99min p63

Rebellion Rebellion

9:00pm 82min p55

9:00PM 9:00PM

11:00PM 11:00PM

Quantum Cowboys 9:30pm 99min p63 Quantum Cowboys

9:00pm 98min p53

Until Branches Bend 9:00pm 98min p53 Until Branches Bend

9:00pm 81min p47

A Woman Escapes 81min p47 A 9:00pm Woman Escapes

9:15pm 98min p35

9:15pm 98min p35

8:45pm 78min p41

8:45pm 78min p41

Like a...

Like a...

8:45pm 79min p57

8:45pm 79min p57

6:00pm 69min p55

7:00pm 90min p59

9:00pm 112min p23

One Fine Morning 9:00pm 112min p23 One Fine Morning

10:00PM 10:00PM

The Hermit...

The Hermit...

9:00PM 9:00PM

Short Forum 1

8:45pm 119min p66

Ever Deadly

Leonor Will...

9:15pm 99min p63

R.M.N.

9:30pm 125min p33

A Piece of Sky

9:30pm 136min p45

Pacifiction

9:00pm 165min p33

The Maiden

9:15pm 117min p51

Stonewalling

9:00pm 148min p46

9:15pm 109min p19

11:00PM

Banshees of Inisherin

10:00PM

9:00pm 90min p59

9:00PM

6:00pm 69min p55

Klabona...

Klabona...

3:45pm 82min p55

A Fire Inside A Fire Inside

5:45pm 107min p64

5:45pm 107min p64

7:00pm 90min p59

6:30pm 90min p51

Concrete Valley 6:30pm 90min p51 Concrete Valley

6:00pm 112min p19

6:00pm 112min p19

6:00pm 92min p54

4:30pm 87min p46

8:00PM 8:00PM Deborah L....

7:00pm 60min p29 Deborah L....

7:00PM 7:00PM

Morality Plays Morality Plays

6:00PM 6:00PM

6:00pm 95min p49

Tortoise Under...

6:00pm 95min p49 Tortoise Under...

6:30pm 67min p65

6:30pm 67min p65

MODES 3 MODES 3

6:30pm 93min p55

6:30pm 93min p55

Retrograde Retrograde

6:30pm 121min p30

3:45pm 82min p55

4:30pm 87min p46 1:15pm 136min p45

Utama Utama

4:15pm 89min p35

Carajita Carajita

4:15pm 89min p35

5:00PM 5:00PM

1:15pm 136min p45

A Piece of Sky A Piece of Sky

3:00pm 120min p69

DGC Visionaries 3:00pm 120min p69 DGC Visionaries

3:45pm 105min p54

Good Night Oppy 3:45pm 105min p54 Good Night Oppy

3:45pm 77min p46

6:30pm 121min p30

Call Jane Call Jane

6:30pm 65min p31

4:00pm 88min p21

Crystal Pite:...

Crystal Pite:...

6:00pm 106min p55

Last Flight Home 6:00pm 106min p55 Last Flight Home

6:30pm 65min p31

What We Do Next 3:45pm 77min p46 What We Do Next

4:00PM 4:00PM

7:00pm 72min p61

8:00PM 8:00PM

Music Pictures:...

7:00pm 72min p61 Music Pictures:...

5:45pm 111min p64

4:00pm 88min p21

EO EO

4:00pm 101min p61

Melt Goes On Forever:...

101min p61 Melt 4:00pm Goes On Forever:...

3:15pm 84min p53

5:45pm 111min p64

Connect...

Connect...

6:30pm 56min p61

Soviet Bus...

Soviet Bus...

5:45pm 117min p25

5:45pm 117min p25

The Whale The Whale

6:00pm 60min p29

6:00pm 60min p29

3:45pm 90min p51

Soft Soft

12:30pm 100min p47

The Word The Word

Family Ties Family Ties

1:45pm 108min p64

1:45pm 108min p64

2:00PM 2:00PM

1:30pm 60min p69

11:30am 60min p69

Geographies of...

11:00am 103min p57 Geographies of...

11:00AM 11:00AM

1:30pm 60min p69

11:30am 60min p69

On film On film

1:00pm 105min p31

1:00pm 105min p31

Close Close

12:45pm 116min p63

7:00PM 7:00PM

Nightsiren

6:15pm 109min p49

6:30pm 78min p65

MODES 2

6:15pm 75min p54

Framing Agnes

Huesera

6:30pm 93min p63

6:30pm 56min p61

3:00pm 90min p51

Something in the Dirt 12:45pm 116min p63 Something in the Dirt

Brother

6:00pm 119min p30

Piaffe

8:00PM

7:00pm 86min p45

Plan 75

6:15pm 112min p45

Family Ties

6:00pm 108min p64

6:30pm 75min p53

This House

The Son

6:00pm 123min p23

7:00PM

Clement...

Clement...

6:00PM 6:00PM

6:00PM

3:45pm 90min p51

3:15pm 84min p53

Rosie Rosie

5:00PM 5:00PM

back home back home

4:00PM 4:00PM

3:00pm 90min p51

Unarchived Unarchived

3:00PM 3:00PM

3:15pm 119min p45

12:00pm 97min p55

1:15pm 87min p41

1:15pm 87min p41

Field of Blood Field of Blood

12:30pm 94min p54

2:00PM 2:00PM

All That Breathes 12:30pm 94min p54 All That Breathes

1:00PM 1:00PM

Meet...

1:30pm 60min p69

4:00pm 91min p57

Riotsville, U.S.A. Rabiye Kurnaz...

Klondike

3:00pm 100min p31

Joyland

4:00pm 127min p41

The Mountain

5:00PM

3:30pm 115min p43

Reel Youth...

3:15pm 76min p67

2:15pm 220min p59

The King of Wuxia

4:00PM

12:00pm 97min p55

International...

International...

10:30am 108min p43

12:00PM 12:00PM

Mediterranean Fever 10:30am 108min p43 Mediterranean Fever

11:00AM 11:00AM

11:30am 120min p69

12:45pm 84min p33

Peter Von Kant

Falcon Lake

1:15pm 100min p35

Thunder

1:30pm 92min p46

We Are Family

12:45pm 100min p46

Day After...

2:00pm 97min p21

3:00PM

The Grizzlie Truth

2:00PM

12:15pm 115min p57

1:00PM

Filmmaker’s Influence

11:00am 88min p33

Tori and Lokita

Nayola

12:00PM

10:30am 83min p43

11:00AM

12:00AM 12:00AM

12:00AM 12:00AM

12:00AM

Annex Theatre Annex Theatre The Centre for Performing Arts The Centre for Performing Arts The Cinematheque The Cinematheque International Village 8 International Village 8 International Village 9 International Village 9 International Village 10 International Village 10 Vancouver Playhouse Vancouver Playhouse Rio Theatre Rio Theatre SFU's Goldcorp SFU's Goldcorp Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre

Thursday, October 6

Thursday, October 06 Thursday, October 06

Annex Theatre Annex Theatre The Centre for Performing Arts The Centre for Performing Arts The Cinematheque The Cinematheque International Village 8 International Village 8 International Village 9 International Village 9 International Village 10 International Village 10 Vancouver Playhouse Vancouver Playhouse Rio Theatre Rio Theatre SFU's Goldcorp SFU's Goldcorp Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre

Wednesday, October 5

Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre Wednesday, October 05 Wednesday, October 05

Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre

SFU's Goldcorp

Rio Theatre

Vancouver Playhouse

International Village 10

International Village 9

International Village 8

The Cinematheque

The Centre for Performing Arts

Annex Theatre

Tuesday, October 4

Tuesday, October 04

10:00AM 10:00AM

10:00AM 10:00AM

10:00AM

12:00PM 12:00PM

3:00PM 3:00PM

10:45am 90min p59

Goya...

Goya...

12:00PM 12:00PM

10:45am 90min p59

11:00AM 11:00AM

3:30pm 105min p66

Short Forum 4 Short Forum 4

3:30pm 105min p66 1:00pm 100min p55

8:00PM 8:00PM

Lay Down...

Lay Down...

Women Talking Women Talking

9:45pm 77min p54

Queens of...

Queens of...

8:45pm 120min p0

6:00pm 120min p0

8:30pm 104min p67

8:30pm 104min p67

Short Forum 6 Short Forum 6

8:45pm 120min p0

6:00pm 120min p0

TBA TBA

9:00pm 125min p33

6:15pm 111min p59

TBA TBA

9:00pm 125min p33

6:15pm 111min p59

R.M.N. R.M.N.

9:00pm 105min p63

Dancing Pina Dancing Pina

9:00pm 105min p63

Rodeo Rodeo

9:00pm 122min p35

The Blue Caftan 9:00pm 122min p35 The Blue Caftan

9:30pm 97min p30

9:30pm 97min p30

Black Ice Black Ice

9:45pm 91min p41

9:45pm 91min p41

Leonora addio Leonora addio

9:00pm 118min p57

9:00pm 118min p57

De Humani...

De Humani...

9:00pm 138min p20

11:00PM 11:00PM Decision to Leave 9:00pm 138min p20 Decision to Leave

10:00PM 10:00PM

6:30pm 99min p63

9:00PM 9:00PM

8:15pm 112min p67

Short Forum 5 Short Forum 5

9:00pm 94min p54

All That Breathes 9:00pm 94min p54 All That Breathes

9:30pm 97min p63

9:30pm 97min p63

Sick of Myself Sick of Myself

9:30pm 103min p30

Before, Now & Then 9:30pm 103min p30 Before, Now & Then

9:15pm 100min p46

9:15pm 100min p46

We Are Family We Are Family

8:45pm 122min p45

8:15pm 112min p67

11:00PM 11:00PM

Adam Ondra:...

9:45pm 77min p54 Adam Ondra:...

9:15pm 90min p51

Concrete Valley 9:15pm 90min p51 Concrete Valley

9:15pm 104min p25

9:15pm 104min p25

10:00PM 10:00PM

8:45pm 122min p45

9:00PM 9:00PM

Short Forum 4

9:00pm 105min p66

Brother

9:15pm 119min p30

Close

9:15pm 105min p31

9:00pm 108min p53

Something You Said

9:15pm 92min p43

9:30pm 83min p55

11:00PM

My Imaginary...

The Novelist's...

Like a...

Bones of Crows

9:00pm 127min p16

10:00PM

8:45pm 78min p41

9:00PM

6:30pm 99min p63

Leonor Will...

Leonor Will...

7:00pm 90min p27

Michael Abels Michael Abels

7:00pm 90min p27

7:00pm 93min p55

7:00pm 93min p55

Retrograde Retrograde

6:45pm 108min p53

Something You Said 6:45pm 108min p53 Something You Said

6:30pm 97min p57

See You Friday...

6:30pm 97min p57 See You Friday...

6:15pm 70min p59

1:00pm 100min p55

Killing of...

Killing of...

Corsage Corsage

6:00pm 112min p19

6:00pm 112min p19

7:00PM 7:00PM

6:15pm 79min p49

6:15pm 79min p49

The Locust The Locust

6:30pm 67min p65

6:30pm 67min p65

MODES 3 MODES 3

6:00pm 90min p59

6:00pm 90min p59

Hopper ...

Hopper ...

6:15pm 120min p51

Golden Delicious 6:15pm 120min p51 Golden Delicious

6:00pm 116min p31

6:00pm 116min p31

Motherhood Motherhood

6:15pm 90min p51

North of Normal 6:15pm 90min p51 North of Normal

6:00pm 86min p61

6:15pm 70min p59

Scarlet Scarlet

OKAY! (The...

OKAY! (The...

6:30pm 114min p64

Having a Bad Day 6:30pm 114min p64 Having a Bad Day

6:30pm 95min p49

Other Cannibals 6:30pm 95min p49 Other Cannibals

6:00pm 97min p21

3:30pm 100min p46

4:15pm 111min p46

7:00pm 60min p29

6:00pm 86min p61

6:00PM 6:00PM

8:00PM 8:00PM Katie Byron 7:00pm 60min p29 Katie Byron

7:00PM 7:00PM

The Grizzlie Truth 6:00pm 97min p21 The Grizzlie Truth

6:00PM 6:00PM

5:45pm 118min p49

Know Your Place

MODES 2

6:30pm 78min p65

6:15pm 105min p63

Rodeo

6:00pm 104min p33

Viking

6:00pm 90min p51

Rosie

Cesária Évora

6:45pm 94min p59

6:30pm 105min p65

8:00PM

Personal Journeys

8 Stories...

6:00pm 112min p23

One Fine Morning

7:00PM

6:00pm 86min p57

6:00PM

3:30pm 100min p46

4:15pm 111min p46 1:15pm 116min p41

Septet:...

Septet:...

4:00pm 86min p57

4:00pm 86min p57

8 Stories...

8 Stories...

3:30pm 133min p43

Once Upon...

Once Upon...

5:00PM 5:00PM

3:30pm 133min p43

4:00PM 4:00PM

1:15pm 116min p41

The Forger The Forger

1:00pm 105min p65

Personal Journeys 1:00pm 105min p65 Personal Journeys

2:00PM 2:00PM

3:30pm 99min p66

1:00pm 92min p54

Short Forum 3 Short Forum 3

3:15pm 69min p55

3:30pm 99min p66

3:00PM 3:00PM

Klabona...

Klabona...

3:30pm 91min p57

4:30pm 75min p53

Riotsville, U.S.A. 3:30pm 91min p57 Riotsville, U.S.A. 3:15pm 69min p55

This House This House

4:30pm 75min p53

3:15pm 118min p49

5:00PM 5:00PM

Know Your Place 3:15pm 118min p49 Know Your Place

4:00PM 4:00PM

1:00pm 92min p54

A Fire Inside A Fire Inside

1:15pm 72min p61

Music Pictures:...

1:15pm 72min p61 Music Pictures:...

1:30pm 107min p64

10:45am 115min p43

Morality Plays Morality Plays

2:00PM 2:00PM

Short Forum 2

3:15pm 112min p45

Plan 75

4:00pm 106min p55

Last Flight Home

Soviet Bus...

5:00PM

4:15pm 56min p61

Stonewalling

2:45pm 147min p46

4:00PM

2:45pm 106min p66

3:00PM

1:30pm 107min p64

1:00PM 1:00PM

1:00PM 1:00PM

12:30pm 95min p49

1:15pm 111min p59

Dancing Pina

Connect...

1:00pm 111min p64

2:00PM

Tortoise Under...

1:00PM

10:45am 115min p43

The Mountain The Mountain

11:00AM 11:00AM

Piaffe

12:00PM

10:45am 86min p45

11:00AM

12:00AM 12:00AM

12:00AM 12:00AM

12:00AM

Annex Theatre Annex Theatre The Centre for Performing Arts The Centre for Performing Arts The Cinematheque The Cinematheque International Village 8 International Village 8 International Village 9 International Village 9 International Village 10 International Village 10 Vancouver Playhouse Vancouver Playhouse Rio Theatre Rio Theatre SFU's Goldcorp SFU's Goldcorp Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre

Sunday, October 9

Sunday, October 09 Sunday, October 09

Annex Theatre Annex Theatre The Centre for Performing Arts The Centre for Performing Arts The Cinematheque The Cinematheque International Village 8 International Village 8 International Village 9 International Village 9 International Village 10 International Village 10 Vancouver Playhouse Vancouver Playhouse Rio Theatre Rio Theatre SFU's Goldcorp SFU's Goldcorp Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre

Saturday, October 8

Vancity Theatre @ VIFF Centre Saturday, October 08 Saturday, October 08

Studio Theatre @ VIFF Centre

SFU's Goldcorp

Rio Theatre

Vancouver Playhouse

International Village 10

International Village 9

International Village 8

The Cinematheque

The Centre for Performing Arts

Annex Theatre

Friday, October 7

Friday, October 07

12:00PM 12:00PM

The Locust The Locust

12:00PM 12:00PM

1:00pm 100min p41

10:45am 90min p54

10:00am 103min p57

Short Forum 5 Short Forum 5

12:30pm 112min p67

12:30pm 112min p67

12:15pm 90min p59

12:15pm 90min p59

Ever Deadly Ever Deadly

12:15pm 120min p51

Golden Delicious 12:15pm 120min p51 Golden Delicious

1:00pm 100min p41

10:45am 90min p54

Fogaréu Fogaréu

1:15pm 70min p59

6:00PM 6:00PM

Short Forum 6 Short Forum 6

3:30pm 104min p67

3:30pm 104min p67

2:45pm 114min p53

When Time Got Louder 2:45pm 114min p53 When Time Got Louder

3:45pm 101min p63

Blaze Blaze

Pacifiction Pacifiction

9:00pm 91min p57

The Beasts The Beasts

6:15pm 137min p35

9:15pm 97min p63

9:15pm 97min p63

Sick of Myself Sick of Myself

8:45pm 120min p0

TBA TBA

8:45pm 120min p0

9:30pm 117min p31

9:30pm 117min p31

Holy Spider Holy Spider

9:30pm 99min p0

9:30pm 99min p0

I Like Movies I Like Movies

9:15pm 125min p30

Boy From Heaven 9:15pm 125min p30 Boy From Heaven

6:30pm 67min p65

6:15pm 137min p35

TBA TBA

9:30pm 120min p0

9:30pm 120min p0

9:00pm 108min p43

Mediterranean Fever 9:00pm 108min p43 Mediterranean Fever

8:15pm 88min p41

8:15pm 88min p41

Maigret Maigret

9:00pm 149min p24

11:00PM 11:00PM Triangle of Sadness 9:00pm 149min p24 Triangle of Sadness

10:00PM 10:00PM

Riotsville, U.S.A. 9:00pm 91min p57 Riotsville, U.S.A.

9:00PM 9:00PM

8:45pm 81min p55

8:45pm 81min p55

6:30pm 67min p65

MODES 3 MODES 3

6:15pm 130min p31

6:15pm 130min p31

Emily Emily

6:30pm 93min p46

6:30pm 93min p46

There There There There

5:30pm 165min p33

7:00pm 103min p41

7:00pm 103min p41

6:00pm 116min p41

6:00pm 116min p41

The Forger The Forger

6:15pm 74min p54

Karaoke Karaoke

6:30pm 109min p57

If You...

If You...

6:15pm 74min p54

5:30pm 165min p33

3:45pm 101min p63

The Eclipse The Eclipse

6:30pm 109min p57

5:30pm 129min p17

5:30pm 129min p17

Broker Broker

7:00PM 7:00PM

6:00pm 118min p57

6:00pm 118min p57

Love Will...

Love Will...

8:45pm 120min p0

De Humani...

De Humani...

8:45pm 120min p0

TBA TBA

9:00pm 99min p43

9:00pm 99min p43

Nanny Nanny

9:00pm 103min p63

9:00pm 103min p63

Huesera Huesera

9:15pm 121min p30

9:15pm 121min p30

Call Jane Call Jane

9:30pm 96min p53

9:30pm 96min p53

You Can...

You Can...

9:00pm 100min p46

9:00pm 100min p46

Scarlet Scarlet

8:45pm 133min p43

8:45pm 133min p43

Once Upon...

Once Upon...

9:00pm 99min p63

6:30pm 78min p65

8:00PM 8:00PM

EO EO

9:30pm 88min p21

9:30pm 88min p21

10:00PM 10:00PM

Quantum Cowboys 9:00pm 99min p63 Quantum Cowboys

9:00PM 9:00PM

The Uncle

9:00pm 104min p49

11:00PM 11:00PM

9:15pm 125min p30

TBA

Boy From Heaven

Blaze

9:00pm 101min p63

Holy Spider

9:15pm 117min p31

9:15pm 99min p35

Dos estaciones

Klondike

9:45pm 100min p31

Zátopek

9:00pm 131min p47

Motherhood

11:00PM

9:15pm 116min p31

10:00PM

8:45pm 120min p0

9:00PM

6:30pm 78min p65

MODES 2 MODES 2

6:30pm 90min p54

1341 Frames...

6:30pm 90min p54 1341 Frames...

6:45pm 80min p63

Smoking Causes...

6:45pm 80min p63 Smoking Causes...

2:30pm 120min p30

Alcarràs Alcarràs

Emily Emily

6:00pm 130min p31

6:00pm 130min p31

6:45pm 100min p55

6:45pm 100min p55

Killing of...

Killing of...

6:30pm 91min p41

6:30pm 91min p41

Leonora addio Leonora addio

6:00pm 115min p43

No Prior Appointment 6:00pm 115min p43 No Prior Appointment

2:30pm 120min p30

4:15pm 99min p35

Dos estaciones 4:15pm 99min p35 Dos estaciones

4:00pm 65min p31

4:00pm 65min p31

Crystal Pite:...

Crystal Pite:...

3:45pm 104min p49

Lay Down...

Lay Down...

1:30pm 76min p67

The Uncle The Uncle

2:15pm 220min p59

5:00PM 5:00PM

3:45pm 104min p49

Reel Youth...

Reel Youth...

The King of Wuxia 2:15pm 220min p59 The King of Wuxia

4:00PM 4:00PM

1:30pm 76min p67

10:30am 111min p46

1341 Frames...

1341 Frames...

3:00PM 3:00PM

3:30pm 99min p0

2:00PM 2:00PM

3:30pm 99min p0

1:00pm 120min p0

I Like Movies I Like Movies

3:45pm 103min p30

Before, Now & Then 3:45pm 103min p30 Before, Now & Then

1:00pm 120min p0

TBA TBA

1:00pm 105min p54

Good Night Oppy 1:00pm 105min p54 Good Night Oppy

4:00pm 109min p49

Nightsiren Nightsiren

4:00pm 109min p49

2:30pm 114min p53

When Time Got Louder 2:30pm 114min p53 When Time Got Louder

3:45pm 122min p35

The Blue Caftan 3:45pm 122min p35 The Blue Caftan

4:00pm 104min p33

4:00pm 104min p33

Viking Viking

3:30pm 97min p57

See You Friday...

3:30pm 97min p57 See You Friday...

6:15pm 115min p57

Day After...

Day After...

6:15pm 115min p57

8:00PM 8:00PM

3:30pm 90min p49

1:30pm 86min p45

1:15pm 70min p59

1:00PM 1:00PM

Broker Broker

7:00PM 7:00PM

3:30pm 90min p49

1:30pm 86min p45

10:30am 111min p46

Septet:...

Septet:...

11:00AM 11:00AM

1:00pm 86min p61

10:45am 77min p54

Piaffe Piaffe

1:00pm 86min p61

10:45am 77min p54

OKAY! (The...

OKAY! (The...

1:30pm 88min p41

Maigret Maigret

1:15pm 79min p49

1:15pm 79min p49

1:30pm 88min p41

Adam Ondra:...

Adam Ondra:...

6:00PM 6:00PM

6:00pm 129min p17

5:00PM 5:00PM

6:00pm 129min p17

Harvest Moon Harvest Moon

4:00PM 4:00PM

Harvest Moon

6:15pm 90min p49

6:30pm 79min p65

MODES 1

6:15pm 120min p30

Alcarràs

6:00pm 98min p53

1:00pm 137min p24

3:00PM 3:00PM

TBA

3:30pm 120min p0

6:15pm 118min p33

Nostalgia

Fogaréu

6:00pm 100min p41

7:00pm 105min p43

8:00PM

A Matter of Trust

There There

6:15pm 93min p46

Queens of...

6:00pm 122min p45

7:00PM

Until Branches Bend

6:00PM

1:00pm 137min p24

Stars at Noon Stars at Noon

2:00PM 2:00PM

TBA

1:00pm 120min p0

North of Normal

The Beasts

3:45pm 137min p35

Hopper ...

1:15pm 90min p59

If You...

4:15pm 74min p54

The Hermit...

5:00PM

4:00pm 79min p57

4:00PM

3:00pm 90min p51

3:00PM

Having a Bad Day 1:00pm 114min p64

2:00PM

10:30am 131min p47

1:00PM 1:00PM

1:00PM

10:30am 131min p47

Zátopek Zátopek

11:00AM 11:00AM

Cesária Évora

12:00PM

10:45am 94min p59

11:00AM

Geographies of...

10:00am 103min p57 Geographies of...

10:00AM 10:00AM

10:00AM 10:00AM

10:00AM

12:00AM 12:00AM

12:00AM 12:00AM

12:00AM

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Panorama

Field of Blood

Fogaréu

Campo de Sangue

JOÃO MÁRIO GRILO, PORTUGAL, 2022, 87 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 SUN OCT 2

The Forger

6:00 PM 1:15 PM

IN08 IN09

North American Premiere. In this metaphysical psychodrama, a grieving writer is visited by the troubled protagonist of her novel, who has come to life to torment her. In her novel, the protagonist awaits trial for a serious crime, and the circumstances leading up to it are gradually revealed: a lonesome lifestyle of falsehoods; a pathological fixation on beauty; and a romance steeped in delusion. Field of Blood blurs the line between story and storywithin-story to thrilling effect.

FRI OCT 7 SUN OCT 9

6:00 PM 1:00 PM

Joyland

Der Passfälscher

FLÁVIA NEVES, BRAZIL/FRANCE, 2022, 100 MIN.

IN10 IN10

Canadian Premiere. Director Flávia Neves follows a curious woman, Fernanda, upon her return to her hometown to scatter the ashes of her adoptive mother. This is a city full of mysteries and tradition, from the divine to the cruel. Through a series of kind strangers, Fernanda instead learns of the disturbing source of her family’s wealth, her biological mother’s identity, and the limits of her own strength.

With an air of magical realism, Fogaréu forces us to question how much we really want to know about our own histories.

SAIM SADIQ, PAKISTAN, 127 MIN.

MAGGIE PEREN, GERMANY/LUXEMBOURG, 2022, 116 MIN.

THU OCT 6 SUN OCT 9 FROM THU SEP 29

1:15 PM 6:00 PM

IN09 IN09 CONN

North American Premiere. Based on a true story, Cioma Schönhaus, a young Jewish man living in 1942 Berlin, works at a munitions factory until he’s recruited by a former Nazi bureaucrat to forge passports for Jewish people to escape the country. Cioma waltzes through Berlin with reckless abandon, impersonating military personnel even as he risks discovery by the Gestapo. The film balances the playful atmosphere of his ingenuity against the sombre backdrop of Nazi Germany and the looming danger he faces.

THU SEP 29 SAT OCT 1 FROM THU OCT 6

9:30 PM 4:00 PM

IN10 IN10 CONN

Unemployed and emasculated in the shadow of his father and older brother, Haider accepts a job at a theatre as a backup dancer for Biba, a trans woman trying to succeed as an erotic dancer, hiding the truth from his family as he begins an affair with her. Joyland finds intimacy and grace as it explores a patriarchal family bursting at the seams with sexual repression and buckling under cultural pressures and expectations of gender and tradition.

Cast Ali Junejo, Alina Khan, Rasti Farooq, Sarwat Gilani, Sohail Sameer, Salman Peerzada Prod Apoorva Charan, Sarmad Khoosat, Lauren Mann, Kathryn M. Moseley, Oliver Ridge, April Shih, Katharina OttoBernstein

Cast Carloto Cotta, Luísa Cruz, Sara Carinhas, Teresa Madruga, Fernanda Neves, Suzana Borges Prod Ana Pinhão Moura

Cast Bárbara Colen, Eucir de Souza, Allan Jacinto Santana, Timothy Wilson, Kelly Crifer Prod Mayra Auad, Vania Catani, Thomas Sparfel, Nathalie Mesuret

Karaoke

Leonora addio

Like a Fish on the Moon

Maigret

MOSHE ROSENTHAL, ISRAEL, 2022, 103 MIN.

PAOLO TAVIANI, ITALY/FRANCE, 2022, 91 MIN.

DORNAZ HAJIHA, IRAN, 2022, 78 MIN.

PATRICE LECONTE, FRANCE/BELGIUM, 2022, 88 MIN.

THU SEP 29 SUN OCT 9

9:00 PM 7:00 PM

SFU IN10

THU OCT 6 SAT OCT 8

9:45 PM 6:30 PM

IN08 IN09

Meir is slumping towards retirement. But an encounter with new neighbour Itsik proves transformative. Itsik isn’t just rich and successful, he’s also charming and gregarious. Under the bright wattage of his smile, Meir and his wife Tova begin to imagine a new chapter is possible. Moshe Rosenthal’s sharp comedy of manners has a deft, light touch, but hits harder than you might expect. It shows us a decent, downtrodden, foolish man willing to do almost anything (karaoke!) to recover his self-respect.

Canadian Premiere. Filmmaker Paolo Taviani returns with his surrealistic exploration of the legacy of one of Italy’s most celebrated writers, Luigi Pirandello. Rather than a standard biopic, the film follows the writer in his immaterial form as a collection of ashes along their delicate journey from Rome to Sicily. Ending with a blunt adaptation of one of Pirandello’s short stories, the film considers the artist’s complex influence on a nation’s literature through his work and his life (or rather, his remains).

Cast Sasson Gabay, Lior Ashkenazi, Rita Shukrun, Arie Tcherner, Kobi Farag, Michal Levi Prod Efrat Cohen, Iris Ben-Moshe

Cast Fabrizio Ferracane, Matteo Pittiruti, Dania Marino, Dora Becker, Claudio Bigagli Prod Donatella Palermo

Cast Louis Hofmann, Jonathan Berlin, Luna Wedler, Nina Gummich, Marc Limpach, André Jung Prod Alexander Fritzemeyer, Martin Kosok

SUN OCT 2 TUE OCT 4

8:45 PM 8:45 PM

IN08 CINE

North American Premiere. Ilya is a normal, healthy four-and-a-half year-old boy. He comes from a stable background with loving parents. But for reasons known only to himself, he has stopped talking. In her spare, empathetic first feature film, Hajiha establishes such authenticity, it’s almost as if we are watching an observational documentary. As the distressed parents consult one specialist after another, all to no avail, their own mental health suffers and the marriage cracks apart, leading to a devastating climax.

Cast Sepidar Tari, Shahdiyar Shakiba, Ali Ahmadi Prod Ehsan Rasoulof

FRI SEP 30 SAT OCT 8 SUN OCT 9

1:00 PM 1:30 PM 8:15 PM

IN09 IN09 IN08

In the aftermath of a young woman’s bloody murder in Paris—her identity shrouded in mystery—detective Jules Maigret (Gérard Depardieu) begins to unravel the strange details surrounding her life and death. In this elegant adaptation of Georges Simenon’s Maigret et la Jeune Morte, director Patrice Leconte situates the tale in a postwar Paris, crafting a thoughtful yet thrilling spin on the classic detective story.

Cast Gérard Depardieu, Jade Labeste, Mélanie Bernier, Aurore Clément, André Wilms, Hervé Pierre Prod Jean-Louis Livi

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A Matter of Trust

Mediterranean Fever

Ingen kender dagen

ANNETTE K OLESEN, DENMARK, 2022, 105 MIN.

THU SEP 29 FRI OCT 7

4:00 PM 7:00 PM

The Mountain

MAHA HAJ, PALESTINE/GERMANY/FRANCE/CYPRUS/ QATAR, 2022, 108 MIN.

IN10 IN09

SUN OCT 2 SUN OCT 9

10:30 AM 9:00 PM

IN09 IN09

Canadian Premiere. In the course of one lovely summer afternoon in Denmark, lives are irrevocably changed. A Matter of Trust features five unrelated stories which are seamlessly woven and unfold organically, as characters discover trust and mistrust between strangers and those with whom they are closest. Moving and emotional, the film delights with its unpredictability and shocks with its raw, unflinching moments of betrayal.

A thought-provoking, intensely felt, and tender look at modern relationships.

North American Premiere. In this nuanced black comedy, Waleed, a cynical Palestinian Arab living in Haifa, struggles with depression, married life, and writer’s block. Upon learning that his cocky new neighbour Jalal (a handyman and low-level criminal) is indebted to some dangerous men, Waleed becomes fascinated with him. He starts tagging along for Jalal’s shake-downs, ostensibly as research for a crime novel. Their complicated friendship takes a darker and more dangerous turn when Waleed’s ulterior motives come to light.

Cast Trine Dyrholm, Emil Aron Dorph, Ellen Rovsing Knudsen, Jakob Cedergren, Sofie Juul Blinkenberg, Morten Hee Andersen, Lisbet Dahl Prod Jonas Frederiksen

Cast Amer Hlehel, Ashraf Farah, Anat Hadid, Samir Elias, Cynthia Saleem Prod Baher Aghbariya, Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel, Juliette Lepoutre, Pierre Menahem, Marios Piperides, Janine Teerling

Nayola

No Prior Appointment

THU SEP 29 SAT OCT 1

6:15 PM 10:30 AM

North American Premiere. At the height of the Angolan civil war, Nayola scours combat zones and treks through perilous terrain in search of her missing husband. Sixteen years later, her bereaved daughter Yara—now a politically censored rap artist, striving for social change—is on the run from the police, lying low at her grandmother’s house. One night, an encounter with a masked intruder brings the scars of the past into stark relief. Dreams, reality, myth, past, and present fluidly intertwine in this stunning animated feature.

Cast Elisângela Rita, Vitória Soares, Feliciana Délcia Guia, Marinela Furtado Prod Ana Carina Estróia, Geert Van Goethem, Linda Sterckx, Camille Raulo, Jean-François Bigot, Arnoud Rijken, Michiel Snijders, Serge Kestemont, Tomás Oom Martins, Jorge António

THU SEP 29 SAT OCT 8

6:15 PM 6:00 PM

THU SEP 29 SAT OCT 1 WED OCT 5

6:45 PM 3:30 PM 10:45 AM

IN10 IN09 IN08

North American Premiere. Pierre (writerdirector Thomas Salvador) is a robotics engineer. After presenting at a conference in Chamonix, he calls in sick, buys climbing gear, and heads out into the Alps. It is a fateful turning point. The only thing that speaks to him now is the mountain. A deep mystery opens up at the heart of this story, a fissure in the fabric of the real, and Salvador/Pierre plunges in after it. This simple but remarkable movie will inspire or infuriate, according to your taste for adventure.

Cast Thomas Salvador, Louise Bourgoin, Martine Chevallier, Laurent Poitrenaux, Andranic Manet, Sylvain Frendo Prod Julie Salvador

HONG SANGSOO, SOUTH KOREA, 2022, 92 MIN.

CINE IN08

North American Premiere. Introspective and subtle, No Prior Appointment tells the story of an Iranian immigrant who, after 30 years, is compelled to return to her home country upon learning of her estranged father’s death.

Director Behrooz Shoaibi explores the ideas of return, leftover threads of memory of a land, and the sense of self that was long left behind.

Cast Pegah Ahangarani, Mostafa Zamani, Elham Korda, Amin Miri, Mohammad Kiani, Erfan Ebrahimi, Saber Abar Prod Mahmoud Babaie

THU SEP 29 TUE OCT 4

6:30 PM 9:15 PM

FRI SEP 30 SAT OCT 8

6:30 PM 9:00 PM

RIO SFU

When Aisha (Anna Diop), a Senegalese immigrant, is hired as a nanny by a self-absorbed Manhattan couple, she’s prepared to deflect micro-aggressions, objectifications, and inept attempts at wokeness. What she’s less equipped to deal with are the predatory mermaids and trickster spirits manifesting in both her dreams and waking world. The uncanny elements of Nikyatu Jusu’s psychological drama are undeniably haunting, but it’s Nanny’s depictions of immigration’s dark realities that chill you to the bone.

Cast Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls, Morgan Spector, Rose Decker, Leslie Uggams Prod Nikkia Moulterie, Daniela Taplin Lundberg

Once Upon a Time in Calcutta

So-seol-ga-ui yeong-hwa

BEHROOZ SHOAIBI, IRAN, 2022, 115 MIN.

IN08 IN09

NIKYATU JUSU, USA, 2022, 99 MIN.

THOMAS SALVADOR, FRANCE, 2022, 115 MIN.

The Novelist’s Film

Bedoun-e Gharar-e Ghabli

JOSÉ MIGUEL RIBEIRO, PORTUGAL/BELGIUM/ FRANCE/NETHERLANDS, 2022, 83 MIN.

Nanny

La Montagne

SFU IN09

Canadian Premiere. Novelist Junhee (Lee Hyeyoung) is taking a break from writing, going on a daytrip to a small town where her encounters with friends, both old and new, cause her to reconsider an idea she has been mulling over: what if she were to write and direct her own film? Variety calls Hong Sangsoo’s 28th feature a “gently circuitous, conversation-driven charmer” that takes the audience along on a single day that sees an artist reassess her life and her creative goals.

Cast Lee Hyeyoung, Kim Minhee, Seo Younghwa, Park Miso, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee Prod Hong Sangsoo

ADITYA VIKRAM SENGUPTA, INDIA/FRANCE/NORWAY, 2021, 133 MIN.

THU OCT 6 SAT OCT 8 FROM FRI SEP 30

3:30 PM 8:45 PM

CINE IN08 CONN

Canadian Premiere. Ela, a TV host, strikes out for a new life in the wake of her daughter’s death and a floundering marriage. The Calcutta she navigates is, like herself, haunted by its past and unsure of its future. Director Aditya Vikram Sengupta finds a lyrical atmosphere, exploring the depths and vagaries of the human condition against the backdrop of a crumbling, nostalgia-mired city in the midst of urban development and cultural upheaval.

Cast Sreelekha Mitra, Satrajit Sarkar, Arindam Ghosh, Shayak Roy Prod Priyanka Agarwal, Anshulika Dubey, Shashwat Singh, Vikram Mohinta

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Piaffe

A Piece of Sky

SAT OCT 1 TUE OCT 4 SAT OCT 8

7:00 PM 10:45 AM 1:30 PM

IN10 IN08 RIO

In modern-day Berlin, Eva, a timid foley artist, moves around the world with both curiosity and caution. Her latest project, creating sound effects for a medication commercial starring a dark bay horse, releases Eva from her past inhibitions and transforms her physical form beyond the realm of possibility. Described as an “erotic and sexual neo-Buñuelian pas-dedeux” (Clarisse Fabre, Le Monde), director Ann Oren fearlessly examines the extremes of human desire and self-acceptance.

Cast Simone Bucio, Sebastian Rudolph, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Bjørn Melhus, Sarah Nevada Grether, Lea Draeger Prod Kristof Gerega, Sophie Ahrens, Fabian Altenried

Rabiye Kurnaz vs.

George W. Bush 8:30 PM 3:15 PM

MICHAEL KOCH, SWITZERLAND, 2022, 136 MIN.

SAT OCT 1 MON OCT 3

9:30 PM 1:15 PM

IN10 IN09

Canadian Premiere. Rabiye, a Turkish-German housewife, would go to the ends of the Earth to see her son freed from Guantánamo Bay. For her, the Earth ends at the Supreme Court in Washington. Against the odds, Rabiye must cut through red tape, international political tensions, and language barriers to make her voice heard. With her lawyer as a travel companion, hope persists in the form of a new friendship. Brimming with charm, Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush weaves a true story of determination to speak truth to power.

Cast Meltem Kaptan, Alexander Scheer, Charly Hübner, Nazmi Kirik, Sevda Polat Prod Claudia Steffen, Christoph Friedel

SAT OCT 1 TUE OCT 4

6:15 PM 3:15 PM

IN09 IN10

North American Premiere. In a remote alpine village, Anna, a young mother, falls deeply in love with Marco, a strong and silent farmhand from the lowlands. But soon after they get married, Marco’s behaviour starts to grow increasingly erratic, leading up to a severe transgression that threatens to tear their family apart. With impressive restraint and rigour, Michael Koch’s sophomore drama weighs the heavy questions about illness and mortality, and highlights how compassion can prevail under the most dire of circumstances.

In a near future Japan, seniors aged 75-plus are encouraged to voluntarily euthanize themselves for the good of society. While on the surface, the plan seems to solve the dilemma of Japan’s aging population, everyone involved—from retired cleaning lady Michi, to bureaucrat Hiromu and migrant care worker Maria—struggles with the morality of it.

Featuring heartbreaking performances, Plan 75 captured audiences at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, winning a Caméra d’or Special Mention Award.

Cast Michèle Brand, Simon Wisler, Elin Zgraggen, Daniela Barmettler, Josef Aschwanden Prod Christof Neracher

Cast Chieko Baisho, Hayato Isomura, Stefanie Arianne, Yuumi Kawai, Taka Takao Prod Eiko MizunoGray, Jason Gray, Frédéric Corvez, Maéva Savinien

NAOKO OGIGAMI, JAPAN, 2021, 121 MIN.

VCT SFU

Queens of the Qing Dynasty

CHIE HAYAKAWA, JAPAN/FRANCE/PHILIPPINES/ QATAR, 2022, 112 MIN.

Riverside Mukolitta

ANDREAS DRESEN, GERMANY/FRANCE, 2022, 119 MIN.

THU SEP 29 SAT OCT 1

Plan 75

Drii winter

ANN OREN, GERMANY, 2022, 86 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 MON OCT 3

3:30 PM 9:30 PM

IN09 IN09

North American Premiere. In this gentle comedy/drama, Yamada, an ex-con dealing with the sudden death of his estranged father, tries to make a fresh start by moving to a small fishing town. Here he takes up residence in an old apartment building populated by a group of quirky misfits. Based on director Naoko Ogigami’s own 2019 novel, Riverside Mukolitta takes us along with Yamada and his newfound friends as he learns that life’s sorrows and burdens are easier to bear with kindred spirits to help you bear them.

ASHLEY MCKENZIE, CANADA, 2022, 122 MIN.

WED OCT 5 FRI OCT 7

8:45 PM 6:00 PM

IN09 CINE

Recovering from a suicide attempt, a neurodiverse Cape Breton teen is drawn into the orbit of a genderqueer hospital volunteer who hails from Shanghai. Despite their disparate backgrounds, the pair operate on identical idiosyncratic frequencies. A heady mix of unvarnished-yet-eloquent dialogue, transportive electronic compositions, and visual flourishes, Ashley McKenzie’s second feature upholds her social realist principles while exploring a more expansive, sensorially rich brand of cinema.

Cast Sarah Walker, Ziyin Zheng, Wendy Wishart, Jana Reddick, Yao Xue, Cherlena Brake Prod Ashley McKenzie, Britt Kerr, Nelson MacDonald

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Scarlet L’Envol

PIETRO MARCELLO, FRANCE/ITALY/GERMANY, 2022, 100 MIN.

THU OCT 6 SAT OCT 8

3:30 PM 9:00 PM

IN10 IN09

Canadian Premiere. Using tinted archival footage and shot in lush, saturated colours, Scarlet is a romantic coming-of-age period tale about a young woman who is ostracized by her small French village. Italian director Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden), in his first French-language film, crafts an enchanting, lyrical world of dreams infused with a large dose of post-World War I realism and a touch of magic. Based on Alexander Grin’s Russian novella Scarlet Sails and featured in 2022 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Cast Juliette Jouan, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, Raphaël Thierry, Yolande Moreau

Thunder Foudre

CARMEN JAQUIER, SWITZERLAND, 2022, 92 MIN.

THU SEP 29 SAT OCT 1

9:00 PM 1:30 PM

IN09 IN10

1900: Elisabeth (Lilith Grasmug), 17, is forced to leave her convent in the Swiss Alps because her sister has died and the family farm needs help. What begins as a gorgeously photographed tale of a religious community soon morphs into a fever dream of sexual hysteria when Elisabeth, emboldened by her sister’s journal, seeks spiritual enlightenment through sexual exultation. First-time writerdirector Carmen Jaquier embraces the vividness of being alive with bold imagery that will remain with you for days.

Cast Lilith Grasmug, Mermoz Melchior, Benjamin Python, Noah Watzlawick, Sabine Timoteo, François Revaclier Prod Flavia Zanon, Joëlle Bertossa

Septet: The Story of Hong Kong

Stonewalling

SAMMO HUNG, ANN HUI, PATRICK TAM, YUEN WO PING, JOHNNIE TO, RINGO LAM, TSUI HARK, HONG KONG/CHINA, 2020, 111 MIN.

THU OCT 6 SUN OCT 9

4:15 PM 10:30 AM

There There

HUANG JI, RYUJI OTSUKA, JAPAN, 2022, 147 MIN.

IN09 IN09

This group of shorts from seven of Hong Kong’s best filmmakers is an elegiac tribute to the city’s past—and a subversive commentary on its present. The themes vary between films, but there is significant overlap among them as they shine a light on current conditions and honour cultural memory. From kung fu to the cultural politics of cuisine, the filmmakers mine their city’s history with wit and poignancy. “[A] film that remains appealing through all its changing moods and tones.”

SAT OCT 1 TUE OCT 4

9:00 PM 2:45 PM

ANDREW BUJALSKI, USA, 2022, 93 MIN.

CINE CINE

In the latest from husband-and-wife directing team Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka, Yao Honggui plays a pregnant 20-something who sells her unborn child to her mother’s debtors.

Unfolding in a series of long, precisely framed shots, Stonewalling depicts life in China as a ruthlessly capitalistic nightmare; its vision of consumerism will make your blood run cold.

The filmmakers choreograph a descent into desperation, and their vision of urban alienation is powerful and resonant.

Cast Yao Honggui, Liu Long, Xiao Zilong, Huang Xiaoxiong, Liu Gang Prod Ryuji Otsuka

FRI OCT 7 SUN OCT 9

6:15 PM 6:30 PM

IN08 RIO

North American Premiere. A little goes a long way in this ingeniously conceived series of wry conversation pieces by indie auteur Andrew Bujalski (Support the Girls; Computer Chess). Faced with the challenge of making movies under quarantine conditions, Bujalski came up with six two-handers, and shot each actor separately—a technical feat he carries off with casual elan.

Cast Jason Schwartzman, Lili Taylor, Molly Gordon, Lennie James, Avi Nash, Annie LaGanga Prod Houston King, Dia Sokol Savage, Sam Bisbee

ALLAN HUNTER, SCREEN DAILY

Cast Timmy Hung, Francis Ng, Jennifer Yu, Yuen Wah, Ng Wing Sze Prod Johnnie To, Elaine Chu

Utama

We Are Family

ALEJANDRO LOAYZA GRISI, BOLIVIA/URUGUAY/ FRANCE, 2022, 87 MIN.

BENNY LAU, HONG KONG, 2022, 100 MIN.

THU SEP 29 MON OCT 3

6:30 PM 4:30 PM

IN09 IN09

SAT OCT 1 WED OCT 5

12:45 PM 9:15 PM

What We Do Next STEPHEN BELBER, USA, 2022, 77 MIN.

IN09 IN10

As a drought makes their already austere existence ever more precarious, an elderly Quechua couple living high in the Bolivian Andes are pressured to move to the city—but Virginio is every bit as stubborn as the llamas he herds: this is his home, his life, and when the time comes he knows how the story must end. A Grand Jury Prize winner at Sundance, this stark, strikingly photographed film illuminates a remote corner of the world and a different way of thinking about mortality.

Canadian Premiere. Veteran Hong Kong star Eric Tsang (Infernal Affairs) has a field day here as a terrible actor (actually a retiree who works as an extra in HK movies) whose unwaveringly cheerful and sunny disposition makes him a natural for WeFamily, a renta-mom-and-pop operation. If the opening salvos favour broad slapstick and farce, this unapologetic crowd-pleaser has a few tricks up its sleeve and more emotional registers than you might expect. It’s a full meal, and Tsang’s fans will savour every moment.

Cast José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Santos Choque Prod Santiago Loayza Grisi, Federico Moreira

Cast Eric Tsang, Carlos Chan, Catherine Chau, Tien Niu Prod Eric Tsang, Jason Siu

FRI SEP 30 SUN OCT 2 FROM MON OCT 3

9:30 PM 3:45 PM

IN10 RIO CONN

Canadian Premiere. Haunted by her involvement in a crime that occurred 16 years earlier, a New York City councilwoman asks a newly released convict to lie to save her political career, with the support of a corporate lawyer.

But one lie begets another, pitting three wellmeaning people against each other in a web of blackmail as they walk the razor’s edge between their morals and the standard judicial process. Stephen Belber’s heart-wrenching drama provides incisive commentary on gun control, trauma, and systemic injustice.

Cast Corey Stoll, Karen Pittman, Michelle Veintimilla Prod Chris Mangano, Merry-Kay Poe, Max Neace

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A Woman Escapes

The Word

SUN OCT 2 MON OCT 3

9:00 PM 9:00 PM

Zátopek

Slovo

SOFIA BOHDANOWICZ, BURAK ÇEVIK, BLAKE WILLIAMS, CANADA/TURKEY, 2022, 81 MIN.

IN10 IN10

North American Premiere. From a Parisian apartment willed to her by a late friend, a young woman begins a series of video correspondences with two filmmakers, Blake Williams in Toronto and Burak Çevik in Istanbul, to process her grief. With co-directors Çevik and Williams, director Sofia Bohdanowicz’s crafts a spiritual sequel to her 2017 film Maison du bonheur, blurring lines between diary film and traditional narrative. The film unfolds like an epistolary novel, offering a collaborative meditation on grief and healing.

Cast Deragh Campbell, Mustafa Akkaya, Mehmet Ayışığı, Burak Çevik, Dorota Lech, Juliane Sellam, Emilia Szydło Prod Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, Blake Williams

BEATA PARKANOVÁ, CZECH REPUBLIC/SLOVAKIA/ POLAND, 2022, 100 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 MON OCT 3 FROM SAT OCT 1

8:45 PM 12:30 PM

CINE VCT CONN

DAVID ONDŘÍČEK, CZECH REPUBLIC/SLOVAKIA, 2021, 131 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 FRI OCT 7 SAT OCT 8

12:45 PM 9:00 PM 10:30 AM

IN08 IN08 IN09

North American Premiere. Set in politically turbulent Czechoslovakia in 1968, Beata Parkanová’s graceful film depicts the lives of Václav and Věra and their practical but enduring bond. Martin Finger shines in a subtly powerful performance as a man who struggles with depression but remains true to his inner calling, and Gabriela Mikulková is forceful as a woman who is a controlled pillar of strength.

Winner of Best Director and Best Actor at the 2022 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

Canadian Premiere. David Ondříček’s thoroughly winning biopic tells the story of the legendary long distance runner Emil Zátopek, still the only man to have struck Olympic gold in the 5000m, 10,000m, and the marathon in the same year (1952). Gangly and gregarious (even mid-marathon), Zátopek is an engagingly eccentric athlete, and the film celebrates the bouncy Czech’s combination of bonhomie and competitiveness, finding focus in his love affair with Olympic javelin champion Dana Zátopková (a splendidly spunky Martha Issová).

Cast Martin Finger, Gabriela Mikulková, Jenovéfa Boková, Marek Geišberg Prod Vojtěch Frič, Ondřej Kulhánek, Maroš Hečko, Peter Veverka, Ondřej Zach

Cast Václav Neužil, Martha Issová, James Frecheville, Robert Mikluš, Jiří Šimek Prod Kryštof Mucha, David Ondříček

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Harvest Moon

Know Your Place

The Locust

AMARSAIKHAN BALJINNYAM, MONGOLIA, 2022, 90 MIN.

ZIA MOHAJERJASBI, USA, 2022, 118 MIN.

FAEZE AZIZKHANI, IRAN/GERMANY, 2022, 79 MIN.

FRI OCT 7 SAT OCT 8

6:15 PM 3:30 PM

VCT CINE

World Premiere. A delightfully tender drama following a man returning to his native village to tie up loose family ends, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 10-year-old orphan boy determined to claim his place in the vast Mongolian grasslands. Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam deftly plays on both sides of the camera in this heartfelt feature debut that astutely captures the shifting sands of a culture in transition.

Cast Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam, Tenuun-Erdene Garamkhand Prod Uran Sainbileg

Nightsiren Světlonoc

5:45 PM 3:15 PM

VCT CINE

6:15 PM 4:00 PM

VCT RIO

Canadian Premiere. A visual feast and a thrill ride, Nightsiren follows a young woman as she returns to her native mountain village, trying to find out what happened to her mother and sister after she ran away as a child. But her arrival causes quite a stir in the remote community, sparking vicious rumours and resurrecting old superstitions that reveal a troubled family history. Nvotová skillfully supplements the spectacle with richly textured character dynamics and nuanced cultural take on the witch myth.

Cast Natália Germán, Eva Mores, Juliána Brutovská, Iva Bittová, Jana Oľhová, Marek Geišberg Prod Miloš Lochman

WED OCT 5 SAT OCT 8

6:15 PM 1:15 PM

SARA KERN, AUSTRALIA/SLOVENIA, 2022, 77 MIN.

VCT IN08

Canadian Premiere. Running an important errand across south Seattle, teenagers Robel and Fahmi find their trek growing increasingly labyrinthine. As they pass abandoned houses and encounter members of the working class, they become aware of how their rapidly gentrifying, constant redeveloping city is slowly forcing out people of colour such as themselves. Clear-eyed and tender in turns, Zia Moharjerjasbi’s Emerald City odyssey investigates themes of personal identity, family responsibility, and community.

Canadian Premiere. Facing eviction, Hanieh (Hanieh Tavassoli) sells her semi-autobiographical screenplay to a friend who’s rushing it into production. However, rehearsals prove dispiriting, with the cast lambasting the material and taking issue with the character modelled after Hanieh. In depicting a dizzying, tragicomic descent into the living nightmare of a female filmmaker striving for creative freedom, Faeze Azizkhani infuses her film with anarchic energy, rapid-fire dialogue, palpable anxiety, and biting humour.

Cast Joseph Smith, Natnael Mebrahtu, Selamawit Gebresus, Esther Kibreab, Haileselassie Kidane Prod Ty Walker, Zia Mohajerjasbi

Cast Hanieh Tavassoli, Pegah Ahangarani Farahani, Ali Mosaffa, Pedram Sharifi, Ramin Sadighi, Amaneh Agharezakashi Prod Manijeh Hekmat, Mahshid Ahangarani Farahani

Other Cannibals

Tortoise Under the Earth

Altri Cannibali

TEREZA NVOTOVÁ, SLOVAKIA/CZECH REPUBLIC, 2022, 109 MIN.

SAT OCT 1 SAT OCT 8

TUE OCT 4 WED OCT 5

Moja Vesna

SHISHIR JHA, INDIA, 2021, 95 MIN.

FRANCESCO SOSSAI, GERMANY, 2021, 95 MIN.

MON OCT 3 WED OCT 5

6:00 PM 6:30 PM

VCT CINE

North American Premiere. Fausto and Ivan are making important preparations. Both are careful to maintain boundaries and honour their side of the arrangement. Except they keep postponing the main event. That’s understandable, as it involves taking a life. Francesco Sossai enters the scene as a true dark horse with this morbidly engaging existentialist comedy that leans brilliantly into the Italian food culture in its meditation on mortality.

Cast Diego Pagotto, Walter Giroldini, Luisa Mondin, Barbara Turrin, Giovanni Tomassetti, Diego de Francesco Prod Cecilia Trautvetter

SUN OCT 2 TUE OCT 4

6:00 PM 12:30 PM

VCT VCT

International Premiere. Set in India’s state of Jharkhand, Shishir Jha crafts an exquisitely nuanced observational docu-drama that positions an intimate story of loss against the backdrop of cultural and environmental devastation caused by the profit-driven uranium mining. The filmmaker delivers a gentle, contemplative piece that honours a dying way of life, revealing in the process a singular new voice with a distinctly humanist touch.

Cast Jagarnath Baskey, Mugli Baskey Prod Vinay Mishra, Pallavi Rohatgi, Preety Ali, Raghavan Bharadwaj, Shishir Jha, Mritunjay Jha

THU SEP 29 FRI SEP 30 FROM FRI SEP 30

6:30 PM 4:00 PM

VCT IN08 CONN

North American Premiere. Ten-year-old Moja has her hands full taking care of her pregnant sister Vesna and their grief-stricken father, all reeling from the sudden loss of their mother. Astutely homing in on the sense of family void, the understated drama gently probes the mundane moments that reveal the array of emotional wavelengths grief operates on. Newcomer Sara Kern impresses with her ability to distill situational lightness, tapping into cultural duality, and the ingrained sense of pragmatism that kicks in when tragedy hits.

Cast Loti Kovačič, Mackenzie Mazur, Gregor Baković, Claudia Karvan Prod Gal Greenspan, Rok Bicek, Sharlene George

The Uncle Stric

DAVID KAPAC, ANDRIJA MARDEŠIĆ, CROATIA/SERBIA, 2022, 104 MIN.

FRI OCT 7 SUN OCT 9

9:00 PM 3:45 PM

VCT IN08

North American Premiere. Somewhere in the 1980s Balkan countryside, a family of three nervously prepares for the arrival of their uncle from Germany. Everything has to be perfect, as the uncle will carefully inspect every detail of the Christmas presentation. They eat turkey, sing, watch family videos, and open presents. But something is amiss, and with each failed attempt, the stakes rise. An impressive debut that draws from familiar genre prompts and regional socio-political tensions to craft a terrifying psychological thriller.

Cast Predrag Miki Manojlović, Ivana Roščić, Goran Bogdan, Roko Sikavica, Kaja Šišmanović Prod Ivan Kelava, Tomislav Vujić

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The next wave of Canadian and Indigenous storytellers.

Northern Lights

Presented by

Anyox

back home

Concrete Valley

JESSICA JOHNSON, RYAN ERMACORA, CANADA, 2022, 87 MIN.

NISHA PLATZER, CANADA/CUBA, 2022, 90 MIN.

ANTOINE BOURGES, CANADA, 2022, 90 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 MON OCT 3

8:45 PM 9:15 PM

VCT CINE

North American Premiere. In northwestern British Columbia, Anyox sits all-butabandoned. Once a thriving company town, it now boasts only two year-round residents.

While investigating this exploited environ, Ryan Ermacora and Jessica Johnson plunge us into the archival records charting the town’s rise and fall. Indebted to early cinema’s pace, compositions, and structure, Anyox’s concerns are undeniably contemporary as it offers an immaculately crafted portrait of the damage wrought by the callousness of colonial ambition.

FRI SEP 30 SUN OCT 2

6:00 PM 3:45 PM

VCT CINE

World Premiere. In 1999, 11-year-old Nisha Platzer lost her brother, Josh, to suicide.

Twenty years later, her search for a specialized medical treatment inadvertently leads her to the door of Josh’s chosen family. An eloquent collage of candid interviews, lyrical visuals, evocative motifs, and hand-processed sequences, Platzer’s back home gently asserts that both grieving and healing are meant to be communal experiences. As it builds to a quietly staggering close, it instills a desire to connect with those you hold dear.

MON OCT 3 WED OCT 5 FROM TUE OCT 4

6:30 PM 9:15 PM

Golden Delicious JASON KARMAN, CANADA, 2022, 120 MIN.

CINE CINE CONN

Among the concrete block towers of Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park unfurls a tender portrait of a Syrian immigrant struggling to hold on to his identity as his family adjusts to life in Canada.

Director Antoine Bourges (Fail to Appear) continues his social realist project, turning a lens this time to struggles faced by new immigrants to Canada. Anchored by two understated lead performances, Bourges crafts a story that asks if adjusting to a new culture always costs one a piece of their identity.

Prod Ryan Ermacora, Jessica Johnson, Alysha Seriani

Feat Nisha Platzer, Swan, Sara Kendall, Sam Bligh, Zac Bligh, Rebecca Bligh Prod Joella Cabalu, Nisha Platzer

Cast Hussam Douhna, Amani Ibrahim, Abdullah Nadaf, Lynn Nantume Prod Shehrezade Mian

The Maiden

North of Normal

Riceboy Sleeps

GRAHAM FOY, CANADA, 2022, 117 MIN.

CARLY STONE, CANADA, 2022, 90 MIN.

ANTHONY SHIM, CANADA, 2022, 117 MIN.

SAT OCT 1 MON OCT 3

9:15 PM 8:45 PM

IN08 IN08

Colton’s life is turned upside down when he loses his best friend Kyle in a tragic accident.

But as he mourns the death of his closest confidante, a missing girl’s diary turns up, and the intricate ties of his suburban teenage circle start to intertwine in unexpected ways.

The Maiden is a striking feature debut that probes with remarkable finesse the adolescent yearning for emotional intimacy.

Cast Jackson Sluiter, Marcel T. Jiménez, Hayley Ness Prod Daiva Žalnieriunas, Dan Montgomery

WED OCT 5 FRI OCT 7

6:15 PM 3:00 PM

IN10 IN10

FRI SEP 30 MON OCT 3

9:00 PM 6:15 PM

WED OCT 5 SUN OCT 9

6:15 PM 12:15 PM

RIO RIO

World Premiere. Golden Delicious is a fresh and engaging coming-of-age story about an Asian-Canadian teenager who is torn between his girlfriend’s dreams of their future and his father’s ambition, all the while struggling with finding himself and following his own desires. In his first feature, director Jason Karman vividly brings to life the joys and complications of a young man who suddenly discovers feelings for the boy next door.

Cast Cardi Wong, Chris Carson, Parmiss Sehat, Ryan Mah, Leeah Wong, Claudia Kai Prod Kristyn Stilling

Rosie GAIL MAURICE, CANADA, 2022, 90 MIN.

PLAY RIO

SUN OCT 2 TUE OCT 4

3:00 PM 6:00 PM

IN10 IN10

Having spent her early years in a wilderness commune founded by her anti-establishment grandfather, Cea (initially River PriceMaenpaa, then Amanda Fix) must shed her alternative upbringing and acclimatize to civilization when her mother, Michelle (Sarah Gadon), desires even greater freedom. Adapting Cea Sunrise Person’s memoir, Carly Stone (The New Romantic) brings both compassion and energy to this tale of a young woman’s bid to come of age while living with a mother experiencing arrested development.

Raising her son Dong-hyun (Dohyun Noel Hwang) in Vancouver’s suburbs, So-young (Choi Seung-yoon), a South Korean immigrant, desperately wants to instill a sense of pride in the boy. Meanwhile, he just wants to fit in. Elegantly entwining social realism with fable-like sequences, Anthony Shim (Daughter, VIFF 2019) crafts an emotionally and sensorially rich film. Wedding the autobiographical and universal, he likewise achieves an exquisite balance between Dong-hyun and So-young’s perspectives.

Set in the fringes of 1980s Montréal, Rosie is a love letter to misfits and an ode to found families. When Rosie (Keris Hope Hill), an Englishspeaking Indigenous orphan, is deposited at the doorstep of her Francophone Aunty Fred (Mélanie Bray), they must learn to find beauty and magic amidst their trying circumstances.

Drawing from her lived experience as a queer Cree/Métis woman, Gail Maurice infuses her debut with a buoyant charm that makes its passionate appeal for acceptance all the more persuasive.

Cast Sarah Gadon, James D’Arcy, Amanda Fix, River Price-Maenpaa, Benedict Samuel, Robert Carlyle Prod Kyle Mann, Jonathan Bronfman

Cast Choi Seung-yoon, Ethan Hwang, Dohyun Noel Hwang, Anthony Shim, Hunter Dillon, Jerina Son Prod Anthony Shim, Rebecca Steele, Bryan Demore

Cast Mélanie Bray, Keris Hope Hill, Constant Bernard, Alex Trahan, Josée Young, Jocelyne Zucco, Arlen Aguayo Stewart Prod Gail Maurice, Jamie Manning

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The next wave of Canadian and Indigenous storytellers.

Northern Lights

Presented by

Soft JOSEPH AMENTA, CANADA, 2022, 84 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 SUN OCT 2 FROM MON OCT 3

8:45 PM 3:15 PM

IN08 IN08 CONN

Roaming wild in Toronto’s streets, three queer adolescents hone their survival skills and scheme to run amok in a gay club. And while some petty theft finally grants them admission, it likewise leaves them confronting dark consequences. Joseph Amenta’s debut feature is a love letter to childhood friendships and a testament to the queer community’s perseverance. Serving up a cocktail of irreverence and melancholy, Amenta lends intoxicating atmosphere and intimate understanding to this quest for belonging.

Cast Matteus Lunot, Zion Matheson, Harlow Joy, Miyoko Anderson, Krista Morin, Trevor Hayes Prod Alexandra Roberts, Danny Sedore

Something You Said Last This House Cette maison Night MIRYAM CHARLES, CANADA`, 2022, 75 MIN. LUIS DE FILIPPIS, CANADA/SWITZERLAND, 2022, 96 MIN.

TUE OCT 4 THU OCT 6

9:00 PM 6:45 PM

IN10 IN08

Having already suffered the humiliation of losing her job, Ren must now endure a week of summer vacation with her overbearing parents and extroverted, overachieving younger sister. A 20-something trans woman eager to prove her self-sufficiency, Ren finds it increasingly difficult to distinguish between rebellion and regression. With its intricate family dynamics, Luis de Filippis’ debut is disarmingly intimate and exceedingly well-observed.

Cast Carmen Madonia, Ramona Milano, Paige Evans, Joey Parro Prod Luis De Filippis, Jessica Adams, Harry Cherniak, Michael Graf, Rhea Plangg Preceded by It’s What Each Person Needs, p. 67

SAT OCT 1 WED OCT 5

6:30 PM 4:30 PM

CINE IN08

With its 16mm cinematography lending it an uncanny air, Miryam Charles’ haunting nonfiction work examines the mysterious circumstances surrounding her teenage cousin Tessa’s death, while speculating on the life that she might’ve had. Equal measures puzzle and poetry, This House transports us between New England, Haiti, and Montreal as it retraces the immigration odyssey of Tessa’s kin. Abstract yet aching, it’s a lyrical reminder of violence’s capacity to rupture reality and shake the foundations of family.

Feat Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Florence Blain Mbaye, Eve Duranceau, Matthew Rankin, Yardly Kavanagh Prod Félix Dufour-Laperrière

Canadian Film Awards Best Canadian Film Award Presented by

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Best Canadian Documentary Award Presented by

$15,000 award presented by the Rogers Group of Funds

Until Branches Bend SOPHIE JARVIS, CANADA/SWITZERLAND, 2022, 98 MIN.

SUN OCT 2 FRI OCT 7

9:00 PM 6:00 PM

PLAY RIO

Emerging Canadian Director Award

When Time Got Louder

You Can Live Forever

CONNIE COCCHIA, CANADA, 2021, 114 MIN.

SARAH WATTS, MARK SLUTSKY, CANADA, 2022, 96 MIN.

SAT OCT 8 SUN OCT 9

2:30 PM 2:45 PM

PLAY SFU

Discovering a potentially invasive insect inside a peach, fruit packer Robin (Grace Glowicki) immediately reports it. When management refuses to take action, she goes public with her concerns and precipitates a widescale shutdown in her Okanagan town.

Parallels and allegories abound as Sophie Jarvis’ psychological drama delves into the ills of this seemingly postcard-perfect community. This intimate whistleblowing drama ultimately grows apocalyptic in scale, all while preserving the human story at its core.

Canadian Premiere. Leaving home for university, Abbie (Willow Shields) thrives and experiences self-actualization. However, she’s tormented by the knowledge that her brother Kayden (Jonathan Simao), who has autism and is non-verbal, is reeling in her absence. Drawing from her own experiences growing up with a sibling with ASD, Connie Cocchia offers a clear-eyed depiction of autism’s impacts on an individual and their family. A deeply moving story about good people trying to do their best—and just how hard that can be.

Cast Grace Glowicki, Alexandra Roberts, Quelemia Sparrow, Lochlyn Munro, Antoine DesRochers Prod Tyler Hagan, Sara Blake, Magali Gillon-Krizaj, Michela Pini, Olga Lamontanara

Cast Willow Shields, Lochlyn Munro, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jonathan Simao, Ava Capri Prod Connie Cocchia, Ken Frith, Jason Bourque

FRI SEP 30 SAT OCT 8

9:00 PM 9:30 PM

Presented by

IN09 IN10

Sarah Watts and Mark Slutsky make their feature directing debut with this richly layered retro drama about first love, sexual awakenings, and navigating religious conditioning.

Set in a Jehovah’s Witness congregation, the film follows queer teenager Jamie as she resists the tight community hold while falling in love with one of its members. Anwen O’Driscoll hits it out of the park in a charismatic turn that embodies the full spectrum of teen angst and first heartbreak.

Cast Anwen O’Driscoll, June Laporte, Liane Balaban, Deragh Campbell, Antoine Yared, Hasani Freeman, Tim Campbell Prod Robert Vroom

$3,000 award presented by the Directors Guild of Canada

Best BC Film Award Presented by

$10,000 award from Creative BC and $15,000 in post-production services credit supplied by Company 3

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Insights

Documentaries that change the way we see the world.

Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits

All That Breathes SHAUNAK SEN, INDIA/USA/UK, 2022, 94 MIN.

JAN ŠIMÁNEK, PETR ZÁRUBA, CZECH REPUBLIC/ITALY, 2022, 77 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 1:30 PM WED OCT 5 9:45 PM SAT OCT 8 10:45 AM FROM MON OCT 3

1341 Frames of Love and War RAN TAL, ISRAEL/UK/USA, 2022, 90 MIN.

SAT OCT 8 SUN OCT 9

6:30 PM 10:45 AM

SFU IN10

Canadian Premiere. “Sometimes the most horrific things are aesthetic,” says Micha Bar-Am, one of Israel’s most important photojournalists. Warfare, atrocities, and domestic life are hauntingly juxtaposed in his photo reels, chronicling over 50 years of Israeli history. Composed of stills selected from Bar-Am’s masterful archive, Ran Tal’s sobering documentary provides a deep focus on the beauty and horror of humanity, as captured from the distinct vantage point of a photographer who chose to bear witness.

Feat Micha Bar-Am Prod Ran Tal, Sarig Peker

IN10 IN08 IN10 CONN

North American Premiere. One of the best rock climbers in the world, Adam Ondra prepares to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. He not only undergoes grueling physical training, but must also navigate the internal and external pressures of competition and status as a national celebrity. An intimate portrait of devotion and dedication to the art of climbing alongside the mental and physical toll it takes along the path to greatness.

SUN OCT 2 WED OCT 5

12:30 PM 9:00 PM

IN08 SFU

The air in New Delhi is so polluted that birds are falling from the skies. Two Muslim brothers—former bodybuilders Nadeem and Saud—are determined to nurse the megacity’s ailing black kites back to health. As they strive to keep their wildlife rescue clinic afloat, political tensions loom over their neighbourhood as ominously as the smog. Shaunak Sen’s sophomore documentary serves as a powerful meditation on the climate crisis, New Delhi’s ecology, and the interconnectedness of All That Breathes.

Prod Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann, Teddy Leifer

Prod Alice Tabery

A Fire Inside

Framing Agnes

Good Night Oppy

JUSTIN KROOK, LUKE MAZZAFERRO, AUSTRALIA, 2021, 92 MIN.

CHASE JOYNT, CANADA/USA, 2022, 75 MIN.

RYAN WHITE, USA, 2022, 105 MIN.

MON OCT 3 WED OCT 5 FROM WED OCT 5

6:00 PM 1:00 PM

IN10 VCT CONN

North American Premiere. During Australia’s apocalyptic bushfires in the Black Summer of 2019-2020, unprecedented destruction hit the countryside, destroying land, animals, and homes. While exploring the environmental causes and solutions, there’s a focus on the volunteer firefighters who put their lives on the line to save their communities, and their mental trauma in the aftermath. The film is a clarion call about climate change and an ode to the inspirational camaraderie of strangers coming together in the midst of a crisis.

Prod Michael Hilliard, Camilla Mazzaferro, Casey Ventura

SAT OCT 1 MON OCT 3

6:15 PM 9:30 PM

SFU RIO

SUN OCT 2 SAT OCT 8

3:45 PM 1:00 PM

If You Are a Man SIMON PANAY, FRANCE/BURKINA FASO, 2022, 74 MIN.

SFU SFU

Exhuming transcripts from a 1950s study on transgender individuals, Chase Joynt (No Ordinary Man) and his collaborators employ re-enactments, reinvention, and personal reflections to examine the trans stories that are told and how—and by whom—they are authored. Joynt restages interrogations of several individuals who transitioned, while creating space for his performers to share their experiences. The resulting film is in constant dialogue with itself, serving as both a vital record and bold deconstruction.

Sent on a mission to Mars with a life expectancy of 90 days, the exploration rover Opportunity instead lived on for 15 years. With its devotion to its mission and its indomitable spirit, the rover earned the nickname Oppy and won the hearts of the earthbound NASA staff. Ryan White reassembles key figures involved with Oppy’s mission, exhumes incredible archival footage, and employs aweinspiring re-creations in this comprehensive documentary that doubles as an open-hearted, intergalactic underdog tale.

Feat Jules Gill-Peterson, Chase Joynt, Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, Max Wolf Valerio, Silas Howard, Stephen Ira, Zackary Drucker Prod Samantha Curley, Shant Joshi, Chase Joynt

Feat Angela Bassett, Brandon Goldberg Prod Ryan White, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank

FRI OCT 7 SUN OCT 9 FROM SUN OCT 2

4:15 PM 6:15 PM

IN08 IN08 CONN

North American Premiere. Simon Panay’s film takes us into the world of Opio, a boy of 13 who works at a gold mine in Burkina Faso. It’s a harsh existence, and to earn the money for an education that might liberate him from it, the child must take a new, dangerous step in his occupation. In eye-catching widescreen, we are shown a life in which little is guaranteed; the harsh stakes lend the work a heightened suspense and a special poignancy.

Prod Xavier Castano, Christie Molia

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Insights

The Killing of a Journalist

The Klabona Keepers

Last Flight Home

MATT SARNECKI, DENMARK, 2022, 100 MIN.

TAMO CAMPOS, JASPER SNOW-ROSEN, CANADA, 2022, 69 MIN.

ONDI TIMONER, USA, 2022, 106 MIN.

THU SEP 29 THU OCT 6 SAT OCT 8 FROM THU SEP 29

3:45 PM 1:00 PM 6:45 PM

IN08 VCT IN10 CONN

MON OCT 3 WED OCT 5 FROM WED OCT 5

6:00 PM 3:15 PM

PLAY IN10 CONN

SUN OCT 2 TUE OCT 4

6:00 PM 4:00 PM

Matt Sarnecki’s documentary explores the murder of a crusading Slovak reporter and its aftermath. This is a film that grips like a true page-turner: among the story ingredients are gangsters, crooked cops, blackmail, hidden thumb drives, and the coordination of murder via emoji-laced text messages. From these lurid ingredients, Sarnecki shapes a narrative of justice pursued and evil exposed. “[A] riveting true crime tale. As an exposé, it’s explosive.

As journalism, it’s watertight.” POV MAGAZINE Prod Signe Byrge Sørensen

Prod Rhoda Quock

My Imaginary Country

Rebellion

Retrograde

MAIA KENWORTHY, ELENA SÁNCHEZ BELLOT, UK, 2021, 82 MIN.

MATTHEW HEINEMAN, USA, 2022, 93 MIN.

PATRICIO GUZMÁN, CHILE/FRANCE, 2022, 83 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 TUE OCT 4

3:45 PM 9:30 PM

IN10 IN08

Patricio Guzmán is the poet laureate of Chilean cinema and its foremost historian.

Here he returns to his early work of frontline reportage, documenting the recent, extraordinary uprising which promises to transform the country. This is a rare good news story, and Guzmán himself seems scarcely able to contain his disbelief: students, upset about transit fare hikes, ignited a movement that rapidly grew over a million strong—energized predominantly by women. This is people power at its most inspiring.

Prod Renate Sachse

SUN OCT 2 MON OCT 3 FROM FRI SEP 30

Prod Ondi Timoner, David Turner

FRI SEP 30 SAT OCT 8

6:30 PM 8:45 PM

CINE VCT

North American Premiere. Like many young Moroccans, Samir considers marrying a foreigner the key to pursuing a better life in Europe—but his family would rather arrange a marriage for him with a Moroccan woman. When he falls in love with a tourist, he weighs a life-changing decision: follow his girlfriend to Europe? Or take his family’s expectations to heart? Complemented by a stirring soundtrack, this wistful documentary explores the emotional complexity of longdistance relationships and culture clash in a globalized world.

Prod Franziska Sonder, Stella Händler

9:00 PM 3:45 PM

SFU IN10 CONN

Canadian Premiere. It was 2018 when former organic farmer Roger Hallam decided it was time to make a nuisance of himself and cofounded Extinction Rebellion. Their mission: peaceful protest with maximum disruption to the UK economy. First-time filmmakers Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sánchez Bellot were there in the room before anyone knew what Extinction Rebellion was all about, and this candid observational doc charts the inspiring impact that direct action can have, as well as the stresses and strains within the movement.

Prod Kat Mansoor

JULIA FURER, SWITZERLAND, 2021, 81 MIN.

IN10 IN09

Canadian Premiere. Dig! filmmaker Ondi Timoner has never made a more personal film than this. In January 2021, her father Eli told his family it was time. He was ready to die. Immediately, or as soon as California law would allow. Last Flight Home is a vérité record of his last few weeks on earth. It relates the remarkable and tragic life story of a high flyer cut down by paralysis in his prime, Eli’s regrets and shame, and how, on his deathbed, he was granted a different measure of success, by way of the love of his family.

The Klabona Keepers is a fierce account of the Tahltan Nation’s struggle to protect the Klabona Sacred Headwaters, an important natural habitat in northwest British Columbia, from commercial mining. Interspersing verité cinematography with intimate interviews, the film documents the tactics used by the land defenders. As blockades are met with arrests by police, the trauma of residential schools and forced relocations are recollected as part of the ongoing resistance to colonialism.

Mi país imaginario

Love Will Come Later

SUN OCT 2 THU OCT 6

Unarchived 6:30 PM 7:00 PM

HAYLEY GRAY, ELAD TZADOK, CANADA, 2022, 84 MIN.

SFU IN09

Canadian Premiere. In the summer of 2021, the United States withdrew its military forces from Afghanistan, leaving behind a hamstrung government and an undersupplied Afghan National Army to fend for themselves against increasingly aggressive Taliban forces. Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land) captures intimate details of American and Afghan soldiers navigating the politics and bureaucracy, focusing in on the beleaguered General Sami Sadat, who is left bearing the brunt of responsibility to fight an unwinnable war.

Prod Matthew Heineman, Caitlin McNally

FRI SEP 30 SUN OCT 2 FROM TUE OCT 4

6:15 PM 12:00 PM

SFU IN10 CONN

World Premiere. For too long, the past has been the exclusive domain of the white colonial establishment. In this zippy NFB documentary, Gray and Tzadok talk to curators and archivists across British Columbia from groups traditionally marginalized or excluded communities: Indigenous, Queer, Trans, the Chinese Canadian Museum, the Tahltan Nation, the South Asian Legacy Project, and others. Along the way, we learn the secret, neglected, and untold histories of this place we only think we know.

Prod Teri Snelgrove Preceded by A Motorcycle Saved My Life, p. 67

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Spectrum

A collection of innovative nonfiction filmmaking.

8 Stories About My Hearing Loss

Day After...

Anyadin...

CHARO MATO, ARGENTINA/URUGUAY, 2021, 86 MIN.

TUE OCT 4 THU OCT 6 FROM WED OCT 5

6:00 PM 4:00 PM

CINE IN08 CONN

Canadian Premiere. How do the deaf hear?

Director Charo Mato began seeking an answer after undergoing surgery for cochlear implants. Flitting between childhood stories and memories, the scientific and medical explanations of hearing loss, and poetic ruminations on the nature of life and language, Mato’s autobiographical documentary explores the stories of the d/Deaf and hard of hearing while resisting a monolithic experience. A beautiful, personal film celebrating the perspectives of those with hearing loss.

KAMAR AHMAD SIMON, BANGLADESH/FRANCE/ NORWAY, 2021, 115 MIN.

THU SEP 29 SAT OCT 1 SAT OCT 8 FROM SAT OCT 1

3:45 PM 12:15 PM 6:15 PM

VCT IN08 CINE CONN

Canadian Premiere. The Rocket—actually a rather placid paddle steamer—has been ferrying rich and poor through the wide, slow, shallow rivers of Bangladesh for the best part of a century. Kamar Ahmad Simon’s kinetic and artfully chaotic film immerses us in a twoday journey beset with sociopolitical crosscurrents, fog, sandbars, songs, and scenes (some of them staged). It’s a snapshot of an entire country, so vivid you can sniff it.

De Humani Corporis Fabrica THU OCT 6 SAT OCT 8

9:00 PM 6:00 PM

The Hermit of Treig

Riotsville, U.S.A.

LIZZIE MACKENZIE, UK, 2022, 79 MIN.

SIERRA PETTENGILL, USA, 2022, 91 MIN.

CINE IN08 VCT

At times, it seems like Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island manifested from a fable. Jacquelyn Mills fully immerses us in the natural wonders of a stunning ecosystem that’s home to wild horses, sparrows, invertebrates, and a devoted researcher. Employing innovative exposure and emulsion techniques and deriving a melodious soundscape from the natural world, Mills ensures that Sable isn’t so much captured on 16mm film as incorporated into the very fabric of a documentary.

Prod Rosalie Chicoine Perreault, Jacquelyn Mills

SUN OCT 2 FRI OCT 7 FROM THU SEP 29

8:45 PM 4:00 PM

CINE CINE CONN

CINE VCT

FRI SEP 30 SUN OCT 9

4:00 PM 6:30 PM

CINE CINE

Canadian Premiere. In this powerful, poetic documentary, Nataša Urban (b. 1977) revisits the conflict that tore Yugoslavia apart through the prism of her immediate family and friends’ often reluctant recollections, piercing a web of self-protective amnesia. Artfully conjured through poetic Super 8 and Super 16mm footage, some of it quite abstract, some metaphorical, the film is a fascinating insight into a side of history that is rarely explored.

Prod Ingvil Giske

Prod Valentina Novati, Charles Gillibert, Pauline Gygax, Max Karli, Verena Paravel, Lucien CastaingTaylor

Geographies of Solitude 9:00 PM 11:00 AM 10:00 AM

NATAŠA URBAN, NORWAY, 2022, 109 MIN.

Directors Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Leviathan, Caniba) continue their ethnographic filmmaking project, utilizing micro-cameras to wander the human body without limit. Guided only by fragments of conversations of doctors and nurses, a picture forms of an institution on the brink of collapse. Unflinching in its approach, the horror of open surgery gives way to the abstract beauty of medical imaging, repurposing it to craft a harrowingly immersive documentary.

Feat Kazi Md. Mohsin, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Ariful Islam, Tuhin Kanti Das, Surjo Polas, Noor-I-Naznin, Oniruddho Ratan Prod Sara Afreen

THU SEP 29 MON OCT 3 SUN OCT 9

Formørkelsen / Pomračenje

VÉRÉNA PARAVEL, LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR, FRANCE/USA/SWITZERLAND, 2022, 118 MIN.

Prod Charo Mato, Eugenia Olascuaga, Valentina Baracco

JACQUELYN MILLS, CANADA, 2022, 103 MIN.

The Eclipse

SAT OCT 1 WED OCT 5 SUN OCT 9

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

See You Friday, Robinson À vendredi, Robinson

RIO IN09 CINE

Canadian Premiere. In this rather special film, Lizzie MacKenzie trains her camera on octogenarian Ken Smith, who has lived more than four decades off-the-grid on the shores of Loch Treig, in the Scottish Highlands. Ken is a garrulous, personable host who prefers the company of plants and animals to the comforts of civilization, and who chats happily about his lifestyle and the unusual circumstances that brought him there. The rapport between the young filmmaker and her cheerful but ailing subject makes this doc sing.

Consisting entirely of government and TV news footage from the 1960s (with commentary and brief on-screen contextual notes), Sierra Pettengill’s transfixing, resonant essay film harks back nostalgically to a period of widespread civil unrest in the United States.

In July 1967, President Johnson established the Kerner Commission to investigate. At much the same time a mock town was built in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, to train military and police in containing civil disorders. They called it “Riotsville.”

Feat Ken Smith Prod Naomi Spiro, Lizzie MacKenzie

Prod Sara Archambault, Jamila Wignot

MITRA FARAHANI, FRANCE/SWITZERLAND/IRAN/ LEBANON, 2022, 97 MIN.

THU SEP 29 THU OCT 6 SAT OCT 8

3:45 PM 6:30 PM 3:30 PM

CINE CINE IN08

Canadian Premiere. Iranian filmmaker Mitra Farahani’s mission to introduce a pair of nonagenarian directors results in a quiet, contemplative examination of the role of the artist and poet in the modern world. Ebrahim Golestan, an Iranian filmmaker and author, corresponds with his new pen pal Jean-Luc Godard in a series of cryptic meditations and mutual reverence, writing back and forth as if in search of a great, definitive answer to the many questions that plague an artist of the 21st century.

Feat Ebrahim Golestan, Jean-Luc Godard Prod Mitra Farahani

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Black Ice WED OCT 5

VIFF Ignite High School Program

Nayola 12:30 PM

IN10

Good Night Oppy MON OCT 3

TUE OCT 4

10:15 AM

IN09

THU OCT 6 10:15 AM FROM THU SEP 29

IN09 CONN

Rebellion

12:30 PM

IN10

Presented by

The Klabona Keepers TUE OCT 4 12:30 PM FROM THU SEP 29

Each year, VIFF welcomes hundreds of secondary students to experience exceptional international cinema at the festival. From stories of Indigenous activism to films that capture historic events as they’re unfolding, great world cinema challenges our perspectives, promotes inquiry, develops critical thinking skills, and ignites imaginations. Be they set in the Philippines, Angola, Canada, or light minutes away on Mars, this year’s selected films present stories that connect youth with powerful forces and experiences shaping our contemporary world and identities.

Film Educational Resources These films offer bold approaches to pressing social and environmental concerns and personal journeys, and offer thoughtprovoking connections to subjects across the BC curriculum. Prior to the screenings, teachers will receive film resource guides.

Reel Youth Film Festival IN10 CONN

FRI OCT 7 12:30 PM FROM THU SEP 29

IN10 CONN

Written with the curriculum in mind, these guides facilitate engaged discussion and are designed to open up in-depth exploration that connects the cinema and the classroom.

Exclusive Dialogue with Filmmakers and Subject Experts Many of the in-cinema screenings will be followed by a Q and A session, offering students the rare opportunity to ask questions with the directors, producers, or subject experts connected to the films.

Leonor Will Never Die FRI OCT 7

10:15 AM

Rosie IN09

MON OCT 3

10:15 AM

IN09

WED OCT 5 10:15 AM FROM THU SEP 29

IN09 CONN

How to Book Free for schools, all Ignite films will be screened in-cinema with select titles streamed online. Capacity for all films is limited. Find film details, schedule, and booking information at viff.org/ignite.

Moja Vesna THU OCT 6 12:30 PM FROM THU SEP 29

Unarchived IN10 CONN

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Fine Art Films Presented by

Portraits

A kaleidoscope of ground-breaking artists, great performances, and cultural icons.

Dancing Pina

Ever Deadly

FLORIAN HEINZEN-ZIOB, GERMANY, 2022, 111 MIN.

TUE OCT 4 THU OCT 6

Cesária Évora ANA SOFIA FONSECA, PORTUGAL, 2022, 94 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 TUE OCT 4 FRI OCT 7 FROM SAT OCT 1

3:30 PM 6:45 PM 10:45 AM

VCT IN09 IN08 CONN

Canadian Premiere. Ana Sofia Fonseca’s documentary about legendary Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora reveals the complex woman behind the rich, deeply resonant voice that catapulted her to international fame at the age of 50. The film offers a rare glimpse into both tragic and triumphant experiences of the singer, and captures Évora’s mischievous humour, her love of Cape Verde, and her extraordinary ability to translate emotion into melody. Fascinating for both devotees and those discovering her for the very first time.

Prod Ana Sofia Fonseca, Irina Calado

Hopper - An American Love Story

Goya, Carrière and the Ghost of Buñuel

PHIL GRABSKY, UK/USA, 2022, 90 MIN.

JOSÉ LUIS LÓPEZ-LINARES, FRANCE/SPAIN/ PORTUGAL, 2022, 90 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 MON OCT 3 THU OCT 6

1:15 PM 7:00 PM 10:45 AM

VCT IN09 IN08

WED OCT 5 FRI OCT 7 FROM THU OCT 6

6:00 PM 1:15 PM

SFU IN09 CONN

International Premiere. Following his acclaimed Bosch: The Garden of Dreams, José Luis López-Linares invited the French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière to survey the work of the 18th-century Spanish artist Francisco Goya. Carrière’s credentials? He scripted Goya’s Ghosts for Milos Forman, and was Luis Buñuel’s closest collaborator.

The film doubles as a remembrance for the charming and erudite Carrière, who died before completing the film.

World Premiere. Short of hanging the painting on your wall, Phil Grabsky’s popular Exhibition on Screen series may be the best way to spend quality time with a favourite artist.

At least, so it feels as we’re immersed in the infinitely evocative oils of Edward Hopper, an American poet with a paintbrush. A realist on the surface, Hopper always suggested worlds going on beyond his compositions, distilling a vivid, solitary sense of life in the 20th century, cryptic narratives, and the complex play of light and space.

Feat Jean-Claude Carrière, Julian Schnabel, Carlos Saura Prod José Luis López-Linares, Antonio Saura, Stéphane Sorlat

Prod Michael Cascio, Cynthia Weber Cascio, Phil Grabsky, Amanda Wilkie

1:15 PM 6:15 PM

IN09 SFU

North American Premiere. A decade after her passing, the emotive brilliance of Tanztheater choreographer Pina Bausch lives on.

This stunning documentary takes us behind the scenes as the Semperoper Dresden’s ballet ensemble rehearses Pina’s poignant dance-opera Iphigenia in Tauris. Meanwhile, dancers from all over Africa gather at the École des Sables in Senegal to breathe new life into Pina’s visceral reimagining of The Rite of Spring. A fascinating insight into the lives of dancers and the expressive power of movement.

Feat Malou Airaudo, Clémentine Deluy, Josephine Ann Endicott, Jorge Puerta Armenta, Sangeun Lee, Courtney Richardson Prod Florian Heinzen-Ziob, Georg Heinzen

The King of Wuxia

SAT OCT 1 SUN OCT 9 FROM THU OCT 6

9:00 PM 12:15 PM

SFU SFU CONN

Ever Deadly is an intimate portrait of the acclaimed Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq.

Co-directed by Tagaq and Canadian documentary filmmaker Chelsea McMullan (who directed the award-winning My Prairie Home in 2013), this beautifully crafted documentary combines exceptional performance recordings with interviews, verité camerawork, archival material, and hand-drawn animation.

Feat Tanya Tagaq, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Mary Gillis, Inuuja Gillis, Lucas Kalluk Prod Lea Marin, Anita Lee

Lay Down Your Heart

Da Xia Hu Jin Quan

MARIE CLEMENTS, CANADA, 2022, 70 MIN.

LIN JING-JIE, TAIWAN, 2022, 220 MIN.

SAT OCT 1 SUN OCT 9

TANYA TAGAQ, CHELSEA MCMULLAN, CANADA, 2022, 90 MIN.

2:15 PM 2:15 PM

CINE CINE

THU OCT 6 SUN OCT 9

6:15 PM 1:15 PM

IN10 IN09

International Premiere. Lin Jing-Jie’s film is a detailed, deeply poignant tribute to master filmmaker King Hu (1932-1997). Actors, crew members, and fellow directors pay tribute to the man and his work, and their recollections and analyses form a mosaic-like depiction.

Part I focuses on Hu as an artist, while Part II takes us through his fascinating personal life, from youth in China to old age in California.

This is a beautiful tribute, and a must-see for lovers of East Asian cinema.

Directed by theatre artist and film director Marie Clements, Lay Down Your Heart is a touching tribute to Niall McNeil, a multi-talented artist in theatre who happens to be a person living with Down Syndrome. Shot mostly in front of an all-white backdrop with McNeil’s drawings animated on-screen, the film has a distinctly playful visual style. Colourful, full of joy, and possessing an imaginative spirit, the documentary is a heartwarming celebration of a local artist who has succeeded on his own terms.

Prod Hsu Hui-lin, Steven Tu

Prod Shirley Vercruysse

WHISTLER, BC

Raymond Boisjoly Karin Bubaš Andrew Dadson Hannah Dubois Noah Friebel Tim Gardner Dan Graham Bracken Hanuse Corlett Christian Huizenga Mikaela Kautzky Andrew Kent Cameron Kerr Alex Morrison Michelle Pezel

September 17, 2022 to January 8, 2023

Samuel Roy-Bois Ron Terada

the concrete art of skateboarding

Ian Wallace Amir Zaki Raphaël Zarka

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Fine Art Films Presented by

Portraits

The Melt Goes On Music Pictures: Forever: The Art and New Orleans Times of David Hammons BEN CHACE, USA, 2021, 72 MIN. JUDD TULLY, HAROLD CROOKS, USA/CANADA, 2022, 101 MIN.

FRI SEP 30 SUN OCT 2 FROM SUN OCT 2

6:15 PM 4:00 PM

IN10 IN09 CONN

North American Premiere. An astonishing documentary about the elusive and provocative African-American artist David Hammons, The Melt Goes On Forever chronicles the legendary artist’s incredible body of work, firmly rooted in the questioning of dominant culture and exposing racial injustice. Using archival footage, interviews with artists, curators, and critics, alongside animation, this film is a remarkable record of the work of an artist who constantly defies the establishment and remains subversive at every turn.

SUN OCT 2 WED OCT 5

7:00 PM 1:15 PM

OKAY! (The ASD Band Film)

Soviet Bus Stops KRISTOFFER HEGNSVAD, DENMARK/CANADA/UK/ SWEDEN/LATVIA, 2022, 56 MIN.

MARK BONE, CANADA, 2022, 86 MIN.

IN09 IN09

WED OCT 5 SAT OCT 8

6:00 PM 1:00 PM

IN09 IN10

Canadian Premiere. Four snapshots from behind the rich music scene of New Orleans.

Filmmaker and musician Ben Chace (Sin Alas) dips into four recording sessions—soul, jazz, blues, and more jazz—beginning with the Queen of Soul, Irma Thomas; Benny Jones from the Treme Brass Band; Little Freddie King; and finally, father and son, Ellis and Jason Marsalis (piano and vibraphone). These veterans have stories to share, even as they continue to compose, perform, and inspire. As for the music, you’ll want to get up and dance.

“ASD Band is a group of musicians who are all on the autism spectrum: we’re all autistic and we’re all in a band,” explains Jackson, who plays guitar and sings, alongside singer Rawan, drummer Spenser, pianist Ron, and their musical director, Maury. Filled with infectious melodies and catchy earworms, this heartfelt, insightful documentary chronicles the band preparing to record their first album of original songs and play their first live show, while exploring their experience of being autistic.

Feat Irma Thomas, Ellis Marsalis, Little Freddie King, Benny Jones Sr., Prod Ben Chace, Bill Ramsey

Feat Rawan Tuffaha, Jackson D. Begley, Spenser Murray, Ron Adea, Maury LaFoy Prod Gregory Rosati

SUN OCT 2 TUE OCT 4 FROM TUE OCT 4

6:30 PM 4:15 PM

CINE IN08 CONN

Canadian Premiere. Soviet architecture was typically utilitarian, regimented, and mass-produced. Yet the bus stops Canadian photographer Chris Herwig discovers criss-crossing the vast former Soviet Bloc are whimsical, eccentric, audacious, colourful. Herwig wants to know how this came to pass, but above all he wants to commemorate these roadside way stations before it’s too late. This is a joyous film about the intersection of photography, creativity, politics, and history, and you won’t look at a bus stop the same way again.

Feat Christopher Herwig Prod Kristoffer Hegnsvad, Christopher Herwig, Ian Toews, Nicholas Zajicek

Prod Judd Tully

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Audience Awards

VIFF’s Audience Awards allow you to take your festival experience to the next level by championing your favourite films. At the end of the festival, we’ll announce Audience Award winners for every one of our series. So be sure to vote after every screening.

Galas & Special Presentations Audience Award

Vanguard Audience Award

Spectrum Audience Award

Showcase Audience Award

Northern Lights Audience Award

Portraits Audience Award

Panorama Audience Award

Insights Audience Award

Altered States Audience Award

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Altered States

This is where the wild ones come out to play.

Blaze

Huesera

DEL KATHRYN BARTON, AUSTRALIA, 2022, 101 MIN.

MICHELLE GARZA CERVERA, MEXICO/PERU, 2022, 93 MIN.

FRI OCT 7 SUN OCT 9

9:00 PM 3:45 PM

RIO RIO

SAT OCT 1 SAT OCT 8

Leonor Will Never Die 6:30 PM 9:00 PM

RIO RIO

After witnessing a brutal assault, 12-yearold Blaze (Julia Savage) takes shelter in an imaginary world that’s home to Zephyr, a papier-mâché dragon who’ll stoke her warrior spirit and allow her to roar. Del Kathryn Barton unleashes a towering debut that fuses live action, practical puppetry, stop motion animation, and expressive visual effects to chart Blaze’s tumultuous passage into adulthood, illustrate what the imagination is capable of, and assert that rage can be every bit as purifying as fire.

Valeria and Raúl are over the moon about their pregnancy, busy preparing for the baby’s arrival. But when Valeria suddenly starts experiencing disturbing visions and night terrors, she finds little support from those closest to her.

Little by little, her reality comes crashing down and she is forced to seek help from a mysterious group of women specializing in this type of threat. A bone-chilling, spidery genre-bender drawing from supernatural lore in its wider exploration of motherhood and female agency.

Cast Julia Savage, Simon Baker, Yael Stone, Josh Lawson, Sofia Hampson Prod Samantha Jennings

Cast Natalia Solián, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Batalla, Mercedes Hernández, Aída López, Martha Claudia Moreno Prod Paulina Villavicencio, Edher Campos Preceded by Zeb’s Spider, p. 67

Rodeo

Sick of Myself

LOLA QUIVORON, FRANCE, 2022, 105 MIN.

KRISTOFFER BORGLI, NORWAY, 2022, 97 MIN.

TUE OCT 4 THU OCT 6

6:15 PM 9:00 PM

RIO RIO

WED OCT 5 SUN OCT 9

9:30 PM 9:15 PM

RIO VCT

When Julia (Julie Ledru), a feral loner, infiltrates a local “rodeo”—a high-octane, higher testosterone underground motocross circuit where brash bikers one-up one another—it’s apparent that she’ll need to deliver something showstopping to earn acceptance. As it so happens, she has an idea for an audacious heist. While Lola Quivoron’s Rodeo boasts tour-de-force stuntwork, its character dynamics are equally transfixing: Julia has entered a world in which every encounter is as perilous as hairpin turn.

Canadian Premiere. When her boyfriend becomes a cause célèbre in conceptual art circles, Signe’s (Kristine Kujath Thorp) attention junkie tendencies hit overdrive. Inhaling banned meds in order to incur hideous side effects, she’s elated when a wave of sympathy follows. Kristoffer Borgli helms an utterly merciless takedown of fame culture. As Signe gorges her pathological need for validation, this transgressive satire serves as a wickedly comic reminder of how cringe-inducing the concept of “going viral” should be.

Cast Julie Ledru, Yanis Lafki, Antonia Buresi, Cody Schroeder, Louis Sotton, Junior Correia Prod Charles Gillibert

Cast Kristine Kujath Thorp, Eirik Sæther, Fanny Vaager, Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen, Sarah Francesca Brænne, Ingrid Vollan Prod Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Dyveke Bjørkly Graver

Quantum Cowboys

Ang Pagbabalik ng Kwago

GEOFF MARSLETT, USA, 2022, 99 MIN.

MARTIKA RAMIREZ ESCOBAR, PHILIPPINES, 2022, 99 MIN.

SAT OCT 1 THU OCT 6

9:15 PM 6:30 PM

RIO RIO

Once a prominent action filmmaker, Leonor spends her senior years in her cramped apartment, distracting herself by daydreaming about her movies, until a freak accident causes her to fall into a coma. Colourful, exuberant, packed with thrills and B-movie nostalgia, writer-director Martika Ramirez Escobar’s debut feature is an homage to the power of stories, the enduring force of grief, and a tender love letter to filmmaking itself.

2022 winner of the Special Jury Prize for Innovative Spirit at Sundance.

Cast Sheila Francisco, Bong Cabrera, Rocky Salumbides, Anthony Falcon Prod Monster Jimenez, Mario Cornejo

Smoking Causes Coughing

RIO CINE

Canadian Premiere. In 1870s Arizona, a pair of drifters (Kiowa Gordon and John Way) take a deep dive into a multiverse in which a dozen different mediums—including 16mm, paper cutouts, rotoscoping, handdrawn animation, oil paints, 8k video, collage, and digital animation—depict disparate realities. Cerebral, psychedelic, and just plain silly in turns, physics scholar-turned-filmmaker Geoff Marslett’s staggeringly ambitious, deliriously entertaining Quantum Cowboys is overwhelming in the most exhilarating way possible.

Cast Kiowa Gordon, Lily Gladstone, John Way, David Arquette, Frank Mosley, Gary Farmer Prod William Way, Melodie Sisk, Geoff Marslett

JUSTIN BENSON, AARON MOORHEAD, USA, 2022, 116 MIN.

QUENTIN DUPIEUX, FRANCE, 2022, 80 MIN.

9:30 PM 6:45 PM

9:30 PM 9:00 PM

Something in the Dirt

Fumer fait tousser

THU SEP 29 SAT OCT 8

SUN OCT 2 SAT OCT 8

RIO RIO

After a viscera-spilling battle with a foamrubber turtle, superheroic, hard-smoking Tobacco Force are ordered to undergo a week of team-building. Alas, there’s no rest for the spandex-clad, as the reigning Emperor of Evil schemes to annihilate the universe. Assembling a constellation of notable French stars, outfitting them in cut-rate costumes, and surrounding them with janky technology, Quentin Dupieux concocts the absurd superhero sendup that we never would’ve believed that we desperately needed.

Cast Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Oulaya Amamra, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Alain Chabat, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zadi Prod Hugo Sélignac

FRI SEP 30 SUN OCT 2

9:15 PM 12:45 PM

RIO RIO

Determined to escape Los Angeles, Levi (Justin Benson) instead falls in with John (Aaron Moorhead), a kindred conspiracy theorist. After witnessing an inexplicable event in Levi’s apartment, the neighbours become intent on monetizing the paranormal activity by shooting a Netflix-style docuseries. Giddily riffing on numerology, symbology, energy fields, and mass simulations, directors Benson and Moorhead possess an infectious enthusiasm for mining mystery and endless possibility from the seemingly mundane.

Cast Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead Prod David Lawson Jr., Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson

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In only minutes, these films immerse you in fully realized narratives that leave a mark.

International Shorts

Island of Freedom

Mumu

International Shorts: Connect/Disconnect/ Reconnect TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 111 MIN.

SUN OCT 2 TUE OCT 4

5:45 PM 1:00 PM

IN08 IN08

Bye Bye

Plastic Killer

International Shorts: Family Ties

International Shorts: Having a Bad Day

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 108 MIN.

SAT OCT 1 MON OCT 3

6:00 PM 1:45 PM

PETR JANUSCHKA, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2022, 27 MIN.

It’s 1981 in Czechoslovakia, and a young man surprisingly reunites with his teen love on board a charter flight to Cuba.

The Ceremony LISLE TURNER, UK, 2021, 10 MIN.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 107 MIN.

IN08 IN08

BASILE VUILLEMIN, FRANCE/BELGIUM/SWITZERLAND, 2022, 20 MIN.

On the way to the airport a teen girl jumps from a moving car to flee a sex trafficking abduction; while she escapes, she records it all on a stolen cell phone.

At the end of an unsuccessful fishing trip, a small trawler’s desperate captain and crew ultimately agree they have to do something risky, but potentially lucrative, to change their fortune.

MO SHA, CHINA, 2021, 25 MIN.

The six-year-old daughter of a deaf-mute couple frustrates her father, who believes she can hear and speak.

Baby

OST ABHICHOKE CHANDRASEN, THAILAND, 2021, 20 MIN.

A perfectionist scoring assistant on a horror film rush job becomes convinced she is being haunted by a spirit from the movie she’s working on.

CRISTINA SÁNCHEZ SALAMANCA, COLOMBIA, 2022, 15 MIN.

Starfuckers

The daughter from a man’s first marriage feels left out and misunderstood at a birthday celebration for her younger stepsister.

ANTONIO MARZIALE, USA, 2021, 15 MIN.

Ellie FERNANDO BONELLI, SPAIN, 2022, 20 MIN.

An intimate evening between a film director and an escort is disrupted when a familiar face arrives.

Judy, Judy, Judy JESSICA MCGAUGH, USA, 2022, 7 MIN.

The Cormorant

Nest

Marianne

JAMES HUNTER, AUSTRALIA, 2021, 9 MIN.

JULIEN GASPAR-OLIVERI, FRANCE, 2021, 17 MIN.

An isolated father haunted by his child’s cries of hunger takes up work as a timber feller, only to find operations halted by a mysterious alarm coming from deep in the woods.

A woman gets interviewed by a young journalist for her heroic act of saving children, but she’s a moody and reluctant participant.

Magnified City ISAKU KANEKO, JAPAN, 2022, 12 MIN.

In a ruined city, a wandering Magnifying Glass Human encounters a secret society of Projector Humans with grand plans to reconnect to the past in a surviving mountaintop theatre.

IN08 IN08

The Silent Ones

Written by Iman Qureshi, The Ceremony is a searingly honest take on non-binary marriage, with a twist.

A mother and son live in a secluded house on an isolated island, where memory merges with the present, intertwining two moments of their lives—youth and maturity.

5:45 PM 1:30 PM

ANDREAS VAKALIOS, FILI OLSEFSKI, GREECE, 2022, 16 MIN.

An emergency room nurse arrives late for work after being involved in a serious car accident and soon has to make life or death choices involving a loved one.

LUBNA PLAYOUST, FRANCE, 2021, 23 MIN.

MON OCT 3 WED OCT 5

My Name Is Anti

Mumu

Island of Freedom

6:30 PM 1:00 PM

MAYA YADLIN, ISRAEL, 2021, 15 MIN.

A Different Place On a clandestine date, a 40-something woman battling with her identity embarks on a journey of rediscovery that she cannot ignore nor fully encompass.

WED OCT 5 FRI OCT 7

Killing Ourselves

A man who left his native Normandy to build a bigger life for himself in Paris returns to his hometown, where he runs into an old flame.

SOPHIE BLACK, UK, 2022, 14 MIN.

International Shorts: Morality Plays

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 114 MIN.

IN08 IN08

A film student and her family drive to the desert to shoot a scene for her latest film, but things quickly deteriorate and nothing goes as planned.

AMÉLIE BONNIN, FRANCE, 2021, 25 MIN.

The Lone Wolf

Further and Further Away POLEN LY, CAMBODIA, 2022, 24 MIN.

A young Bunong woman and her older brother spend one last day in their rural Cambodian village before a move to the city in search of a more prosperous life.

A menopausal woman wakes up in the midst of a hot flash, and everything just goes downhill from there.

Censor of Dreams LÉO BERNE, RAPHAËL RODRIGUEZ, FRANCE, 2021, 18 MIN.

For many nights, The Censor and his team have been moderating a woman’s dreams to keep them in safe territory. Tonight, nothing happens as planned.

Plastic Killer JOSE POZO, ANDORRA/SPAIN, 2022, 21 MIN.

Amparo lives in an old abandoned haberdashery in the centre of Madrid. Her only companion is Carmela, a plastic bag whom she considers her daughter.

Solar Eclipse ALIREZA GHASEMI, RAHA AMIRFAZLI, FRANCE/IRAN, 2021, 15 MIN.

A teen girl and her two friends and are off for an afternoon in the largest park in Teheran to photograph a rare total solar eclipse.

A Moral Man PAUL AND SIMON WADE, UK, 2021, 19 MIN.

A right-to-die evangelist must wrestle with his faith and morality when his latest client turns out to be not what she claimed.

For Real ERNEST LOREK, POLAND, 2022, 19 MIN.

A young man’s house party takes an unexpected turn when his gangster neighbour breaks into his apartment.

Perspective ALAA ALGBURI, IRAQ/JORDAN, 2021, 10 MIN.

A symbolic examination of how men treat women in most of the Middle East from a young woman’s perspective.

The Lone Wolf FILIPE MELO, PORTUGAL, 2021, 24 MIN.

A talk show radio host has chosen emotions as his theme for tonight’s show, which proves surprisingly banal until he gets a call from an old friend.

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MODES

International short works that explore how far the form of cinema is capable of bending.

Ponto Final

It’s Raining Frogs Outside

International Shorts: Personal Journeys

MODES 1

6:30 PM 1:00 PM

IN08 IN08

FRI SEP 30 MON OCT 3 FRI OCT 7

6:30 PM 6:30 PM 6:30 PM

Perforated Realities

MODES 2

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 79 MIN.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 105 MIN.

TUE OCT 4 THU OCT 6

Parasite Family

MODES 3

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 78 MIN.

STU STU STU

SAT OCT 1 TUE OCT 4 SAT OCT 8

6:30 PM 6:30 PM 6:30 PM

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 67 MIN.

STU STU STU

SUN OCT 2 WED OCT 5 SUN OCT 9

6:30 PM 6:30 PM 6:30 PM

STU STU STU

Lake of Fire

Prelude Op. 28 No.2

backflip

NEOZOON, GERMANY, 2022, 11 MIN.

JENNI TOIKKA, FINLAND, 2022, 9 MIN.

NIKITA DIAKUR, GERMANY/FRANCE, 2022, 12 MIN.

Fear of death and interpretations of hell filter through online social bubbles to distill a singular divine message.

The Stopover

Chopin’s notable repertory prelude now receives an updated treatment, with a shifting focal gaze and staging that implicates the performer as the listener and listener as the performer.

Given his own limited abilities and the present danger of physical injury, filmmaker Nikita Diakur decides to teach his computer-generated avatar to do a backflip.

CHAD CHARLIE, USA, 2022, 14 MIN.

COLLECTIF FAIRE-PART (PAUL SHEMISI, NIZAR SALEH, ANNE REIJNIERS, ROB JACOBS), BELGIUM/DR CONGO, 2022, 14 MIN.

Laika

Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look

In this personal documentary, Indigenous comedian Chad Charlie goes to participate in the Standing Rock occupation and has a transformative experience.

Travelling from Kinshasa to Frankfurt, filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh find themselves unjustly relegated to airport purgatory.

DEBORAH STRATMAN, USA, 2022, 5 MIN.

CARLOS VELANDIA, COLOMBIA, 2022, 8 MIN.

Some forms we can only know by their shadow. Laika is an homage to the spirits of space test dogs, or any being we use in the name of progress.

Unpacking the male gaze by splicing together a staccato montage of found footage. An ode to obsessive deconstructionism emerges.

Ponto Final

Very, Very, Tremendously

MIGUEL LÓPEZ BERAZA, SPAIN/PORTUGAL, 2022, 23 MIN.

GUANGLI LIU, CHINA/FRANCE, 2022, 12 MIN.

The director returns to his parents’ home and talks them into playing roles in a film he is making, addressing delicate personal and familial subjects in the process.

Virtual currency and digital junk, along with virtual acts of production and consumption, interact with systems in our lived reality, highlighting their coexistence in geopolitical conflicts.

Before Birth ÁLEX MENA, CARMEN JIMÉNEZ, SPAIN, 2022, 20 MIN.

A documentary/diary film that focuses on one of the directors, Álex Mena, who journeys to her grandmother’s village looking for a closure never realized after she died.

Firecracker Bullets

Will You Look at Me SHULI HUANG, CHINA, 2022, 20 MIN.

A 25-year-old gay man returns to his hometown in China after film school, and reflects how his coming out as gay affected (and continues to affect) his mother.

For You Today the Light of the Sun Will Not Shine

It’s Raining Frogs Outside MARIA ESTELA PAISO, PHILIPPINES, 2021, 14 MIN.

Forced to return to the Philippines as the world abruptly closes, Maya recedes into a terrorizing solitude and a fever dream of mixed animation ensues.

The Earth Will Swallow it All

ANDREA BORDOLI, SWITZERLAND, 2021, 19 MIN.

DOMINIK RITSZEL, POLAND, 2022, 9 MIN.

Two construction workers wander through a hybrid natural-industrial zone by day and night, exploring and discovering seemingly insignificant details.

A period of rapid modernization in Poland in the 1990s brought with it anxiety and fears inflicted by hegemonic order and a complete disregard for the social costs or traumatic after-effects.

Empire of My Melodious Mind JEANNETTE LOUIE, USA, 2022, 9 MIN.

The odds and ends within a single cabinet spark an interior rumination of the self, family, and culture that form the identity of an American-born Asian woman.

Watch the Fire or Burn Inside it CAROLINE POGGI, JONATHAN VINEL, FRANCE, 2022, 19 MIN.

In Corsica, a woman chooses to care for the earth by burning it.

Parasite Family PRAPAT JIWARANGSAN, THAILAND, 2022, 6 MIN.

Re-discovered film negatives represent families of affluence who absorbed Thailand’s wealth, like parasites. The journey from analog to digital, and finally to AI-generated images, gradually evolves these captured faces into a new species of monster.

The Fruit Tree ISABELLE TOLLENAERE, BELGIUM, 2022, 15 MIN.

For Sharleece, looking out of the window of a house for rent in a desert town where she lives evokes unexpected memories of her childhood home in Los Angeles.

Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories ANNA VASOF, AUSTRIA/GREECE, 2022, 14 MIN.

As a point of departure for Anna Vasof, a survey of the damage left by a flood in her parents’ house reveals a simple yet multilayered work about memory, loss, and how we deal with the past.

Neighbour Abdi DOUWE DIJKSTRA, THE NETHERLANDS, 2022, 29 MIN.

How can you understand a violent history? Abdi reenacts his life in Somalia, marked by war and criminality, with the help of filmmaker Douwe Dijkstra. They embark on a candid and investigative journey through Abdi’s painful past.

Zoon JONATAN SCHWENK, GERMANY, 2022, 5 MIN.

Salamander-like creatures copulate under the moonlight. A feast ensues, propelling a hungry group of forest dwellers to new heights.

Intermission RÉKA BUCSI, HUNGARY, 2022, 5 MIN.

Set to a minimalist score, simple dots and lines appear at first, then connect, meet, and separate again, as the forms become ever more complex with time, celebrating the joy of ornamentation.

Perforated Realities GUSTAF BROMS, SWEDEN, 2021, 16 MIN.

As identification with the self slowly dissolves, the borders between beings evaporate and the environment disintegrates. This mirrored photo performance takes frames away rather than adding them, forming a myriad of sentient beings.

Hardly Working TOTAL REFUSAL (SUSANNA FLOCK, ROBIN KLENGEL, LEONHARD MÜLLNER, MICHAEL STUMPF), AUSTRIA, 2022, 21 MIN.

The Non-Playable Characters (NPCs) of the popular action-adventure game, Red Dead Redemption, break out of their routines momentarily to display their faultiness and present something touchingly human.

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The perspectives and approaches that are elevating short-form storytelling in Canada.

VIFF Short Forum

From Chile to Canada: Media Herstories

Patty Vs. Patty

VIFF Short Forum 1

VIFF Short Forum 2

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 119 MIN.

SAT OCT 1 MON OCT 3

8:45 PM 3:00 PM

Horse Brothers

VIFF Short Forum 3

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 106 MIN.

VCT VCT

SUN OCT 2 TUE OCT 4

8:30 PM 2:45 PM

Late Summer

VIFF Short Forum 4

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 99 MIN.

VCT VCT

MON OCT 3 WED OCT 5

8:30 PM 3:30 PM

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 105 MIN.

VCT VCT

TUE OCT 4 THU OCT 6

9:00 PM 3:30 PM

Municipal Relaxation Module

i see me watching

Tidal

Red House

MATTHEW RANKIN, CANADA, 2022, 6 MIN.

SIDNEY GORDON, CANADA, 2022, 8 MIN.

BARRY DOUPÉ, CANADA, 2022, 3 MIN.

Ken has a perfect spot for a city bench, and is calling the city to share his idea.

A singular self has been split in two.

NIAMH WILSON, CHLOE VAN LANDSCHOOT, CANADA, 2022, 10 MIN.

The Runner AMAR CHEBIB, CANADA, 2022, 17 MIN.

A man from the Lower Nicola First Nation attempts to run an ultramarathon.

Scaring Women at Night KARIMAH ZAKIA ISSA, CANADA, 2022, 11 MIN.

Two strangers walk alone at night: while one becomes increasingly afraid, the other tries— unsuccessfully—to appear less threatening.

Coin Slot

Blond Night

SCOTT JONES, CANADA, 2021, 17 MIN.

GABRIELLE DEMERS, CANADA, 2022, 17 MIN.

A paraplegic writer navigates the many shades of trauma and healing.

An autistic man meets a sex worker ejected from a customer’s vehicle.

Nanitic

Adore

CAROL NGUYEN, CANADA, 2022, 15 MIN.

BETH WARRIAN, CANADA, 2022, 11 MIN.

A day in the life of Mai and Trang, their aunt Útty, and Trang’s ailing grandmother.

A queer Peruvian-Canadian woman gives her nephew a sequined dress.

Mariposa

First Months of Freedom

JOHN GREYSON, BONGANI NDODANA-BREEN, CANADA, 2022, 6 MIN.

KRISS LI, CANADA, 2021, 10 MIN.

An operatic cine-poem about Portia White, Phelokazi Ndlwana, and the Free Gender group.

From Chile to Canada: Media Herstories SARAH SHAMASH, SONIA MEDEL, CANADA, 2022, 17 MIN.

Latinx women reveal an intergenerational network of media art genealogies.

I Thought the World of You KURT WALKER, CANADA, 2022, 17 MIN.

The lore around Canadian musician Lewis and his 1983 album, L’Amour.

Rumination ASHLEIGH VAILLANCOURT, CANADA, 2022, 4 MIN.

Cat, a transgender woman in Tennessee, has completed parole. A portrait emerges of the challenges posed by her newfound freedom.

Tongue KAHO YOSHIDA, CANADA, 2022, 2 MIN.

Tired of her date’s racist and sexist comments, a woman decides to liberate his tongue.

Patty Vs. Patty CHRIS STRIKES, CANADA, 2022, 19 MIN.

In 1985, Jamaican bakers went head-to-head with the government over a name.

Minus Twenty JACK PARKER, CANADA, 2022, 7 MIN.

A day in the life of a cold storage facility worker.

At night, a woman’s mind wanders as she chops firewood.

Sikiitu

Mother’s Skin

In Ivujivik, Ali dreams of being a hip-hop superstar instead of going hunting with his dad.

LEAH JOHNSTON, CANADA, 2022, 20 MIN.

Six-year-old Molly and her mother discover a secret hidden underneath the floor grate.

GABRIEL ALLARD GAGNON, CANADA, 2021, 21 MIN.

Examining the cyclical nature of workplace trauma and the relentlessness of health care work. The daily grind of a bedside nurse is embodied through movement, rhythm, and dance.

Chasing Birds UNA LORENZEN, CANADA/ICELAND, 2022, 8 MIN.

A hand-drawn animation of parallel universes in which strangers share the use of a long table as their worlds gradually merge.

Paco KENT DONGUINES, CANADA, 2022, 15 MIN.

While keeping a secret from his family overseas, Paco struggles to uphold his responsibilities and aspirations.

Hills and Mountains SALAR PASHTOONYAR, CANADA, 2022, 8 MIN.

Filmed on location in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, an Afghan woman recalls how the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan led to her forced displacement and marriage.

Dhulpa KUNSANG KYIRONG, CANADA, 2022, 18 MIN.

VCT VCT

Created using the Amiga computer console and Deluxe Paint IV software, hand-drawn sequences undergo a continual metamorphosis.

My Thoughts Exactly MIKE ARCHIBALD, CANADA, 2022, 18 MIN.

Two strangers bring their love, frustration, and desire to the cruising trails within Stanley Park.

Tibi JARRET TWOYOUNGMEN, CANADA, 2022, 14 MIN.

The teaching of Îethka culture is documented through the making of a tipi under supervision of knowledge keepers.

Framing the Self ANDREA CRISTINI, CANADA/ITALY, 2022, 12 MIN.

An animated character improvises in a cinematic vacuum through the direction of their creator.

Sexy Highland Stream NATHAN ADLER, CANADA, 2021, 5 MIN.

This poem is a love letter to the beauty found in nature. Written and spoken in English and Anishinaabemowin.

The stories of a Tibetan immigrant community working at a local laundry facility.

Late Summer

Square Peg

A young loner grows attached to his camp counsellor at a haunted summer camp.

CHRISTIAN BUNEA, CANADA, 2022, 8 MIN.

RYAN STEEL, CANADA, 2022, 12 MIN.

A freshman international student tries to print their essay before an exam.

The Ballad of Gus

Horse Brothers

Encouraged by two father figures—one a drug dealer, the other an artist—Gus faces a pivotal moment in his life.

MILOS MITROVIC, FABIAN VELASCO, CANADA, 2022, 8 MIN.

A tale of sibling betrayal and revenge as told by a ranch horse (voiced by Guy Maddin).

Terror/Forming RYLAN FRIDAY, CANADA, 2022, 24 MIN.

Parker and his boyfriend Darren make a disturbing discovery on their way to Parker’s late kokum’s cabin.

BRIAN BARNHART, CANADA, 2022, 16 MIN.

Rose ROXANN WHITEBEAN, CANADA, 2022, 25 MIN.

Indigenous teen Rose is pressured to give up her baby for adoption. Her family does all they can to intervene.

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Community Broadcast Partner

Supported by

Heartbeat of a Nation

N’xaxaitkw

VIFF Short Forum 5

VIFF Short Forum 6

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 112 MIN.

WED OCT 5 SUN OCT 9

8:15 PM 12:30 PM

Fireworks

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 104 MIN.

VCT VCT

THU OCT 6 SUN OCT 9

8:30 PM 3:30 PM

VCT VCT

Reste

The Flying Sailor

GINGER LE PÊCHEUR, CANADA, 2022, 8 MIN.

AMANDA FORBIS, WENDY TILBY, CANADA, 2022, 8 MIN.

Alone in a messy home, a young girl spends the day playing by herself.

Based on the true events of the Halifax Explosion in 1917, a sailor soars above the blast towards the great unknown.

Pro Pool ALEC PRONOVOST, CANADA, 2022, 8 MIN.

A recent graduate in Viking history begins a new job at a pool shop.

Meeting With Robert Dole FRANÇOIS HARVEY, CANADA, 2021, 16 MIN.

ARNAUD BEAUDOUX, CANADA, 2022, 13 MIN.

Dialectical in form and content, this documentary explores the connection between schizophrenia and theology through the life of Robert Dole.

Fifteen days on a commercial trawler: life and death on the high seas.

N’xaxaitkw

Agony

ASIA YOUNGMAN, CANADA, 2021, 17 MIN.

The Faraway Place KENNY WELSH, CANADA, 2022, 14 MIN.

A young woman and her father, both of whom have horns, flee from a violent cult on a mission to eradicate their kind.

I Empower as a Mother INDER NIRWAN, DANI BARKER, CANADA, 2022, 11 MIN.

Patricia Massy of Massy Arts Society and Indigenous Brilliance collective shares aspects of her life, work, and business, Massy Books.

Brasier EMILIE MANNERING, CANADA, 2021, 19 MIN.

After joining a high school soccer team made up of older girls, 11-year-old Pierre-Amelia is exposed to teenager sex talk.

The Passing JACKSON HARVEY, CANADA, 2022, 6 MIN.

A dairy farmer searches for one of his cows that has wandered off in a blizzard.

Rocket Fuel JESSIE POSTHUMUS, CANADA, 2021, 12 MIN.

Three siblings face obstacles on the way to the bottling depot.

Heartbeat of a Nation ERIC JANVIER, CANADA, 2022, 21 MIN.

The healing of a community and nation through the reclamation and passing down of traditional teachings within a Dene family.

New to town, Zaraya befriends her next-door neighbour, who invites her to go on a search for the legendary lake monster, N’xaxaitkw— known to settlers as Ogopogo.

I, Sun JULIEN FALARDEAU, CANADA, 2022, 12 MIN.

A sun worshipper’s commitment grows desperate when he catches a sunflower turning towards him.

Baba MERAN ISMAILSOY, ANYA CHIRKOVA, CANADA, 2022, 14 MIN.

All hell breaks loose when a depressed father calls in his son to help mediate an argument with the landlord.

Grown in Darkness DEVIN SHEARS, CANADA, 2021, 17 MIN.

Emmanuel pays his longtime friend, Henry, a visit on his rhubarb farm during harvest.

Through the next few days, the two examine the nature of their relationship.

Zeb’s Spider

Reel Youth Film Festival

Shorts with Features It’s What Each Person Needs

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 76 MIN.

SAT OCT 1 SUN OCT 9

3:15 PM 1:30 PM

IN08 IN08

The Reel Youth Film Festival is a diverse collection of short films made by emerging filmmakers around the world. Chosen by an international youth jury from 1300+ submissions and 100 countries. Whether it is a writer fishing for her next idea, a Māori boy grieving his father’s absence, or a hilarious young Black man expressing frustration with pandemic lockdown, the Reel Youth Film Festival will show you the world through the eyes of its talented youth.

A l’unisson (Paper talk) Baile da Magia (Prom and Potions) Trailblazer The Hill We Climb Self The White Rose Solitude For My Father Lonely Souls Dear Karen Pasapalabra (Whisperer) Sound of Borders Patterns in Our Lives Fishing She Said, She Said CITSALP Power Through Fireworks Not Quite Quarantine

SOPHY ROMVARI, CANADA, 2022, 12 MIN.

An intimate and provocative portrait of Becca Willow Moss, a young woman who provides companionship for two very different communities through online chats and phone calls.

Screens with Something You Said Last Night, p. 53

A Motorcycle Saved My Life LORI LOZINSKI, CANADA, 2022, 13 MIN.

A personal meditation recounting how a motorcycle and the open road allowed the narrator to come to terms with her grief and set herself on the path to healing.

Screens with Unarchived, p. 55

Zeb’s Spider ALICIA EISEN, SOPHIE JARVIS, CANADA, 2022, 10 MIN.

In this beautifully realized stop motion animation, a superstitious homebody becomes consumed with satisfying the ever-growing needs of an uninvited eight-legged guest.

Screens with Huesera, p. 63

Canadian Short Film Award Presented by

La plage aux êtres KENDRA MCLAUGHLIN, CANADA/FRANCE, 2021, 20 MIN.

Time, memory, and grief are explored in this close look at the preservation of an unidentified creature.

• $2,000 cash award from VIFF • $5,000 equipment credit supplied by William F. White International

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More events to be announced, please check

viff.org/industry

VIFF Industry VIFF Industry provides an exceptional opportunity for film and TV professionals at every level to hear directly from those setting the bar in the international and local industry today. This year’s lineup highlights the work of both established and emerging creators, with a balanced mix of new discoveries and the most acclaimed works. The panels will be complemented by industry networking opportunities.

Sunday, October 2 Saturday, October 1 11:30am - 12:30pm

The Filmmaker’s Influence in the Time of Climate Change

11:30am - 12:30pm

International Coproduction with Canada: Challenges and Opportunities Presented by

Meet the Showrunners: Sci-Fi Edition

VIFF Labs empower the emerging creator by cultivating meaningful direct engagement extending beyond the boundaries of their craft.

On Film: Shooting Analog

Designed for intimate, invitation-only groups formed through targeted community partnerships, VIFF Labs facilitate interactive, hands-on knowledge sharing and nurture conversations between established global talent and local creators.

Supported by

Presented by

Presented by

1:30 - 2:30pm

VIFF Labs

1:30 - 2:30pm

Presented by

3:00 - 4:30pm

DGC Visionaries Presented by

Supported by

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VIFF Amp

Check out more at

viff.org/amp

October 6-9

VIFF Amp explores every aspect of the intersection of music and sound in visual media. Amp supports an annual cohort of songwriters, composers, music supervisors and managers through a competitive and juried application process, with a focus on providing access to artists from traditionally marginalized communities. This four-day event features expertly curated masterclasses, case studies, panel discussions, networking, breakout sessions and musical showcases, all of which are designed to develop skills and create connections that can excel a career in film and television.

Featuring: Michael Abels - Composer, Nope Miriam Cutler - Composer, RBG Mato Wayuhi - Composer, Reservation Dogs Sarah Bromberg - Music Supervisor, Rap Sh!t Stephanie Diaz-Matos - Music Supervisor, P-Valley Christine Greene Roe - Music Supervisor, For All Mankind Yvette Metoyer - Music Supervisor, The Boys Shannon Murphy - Music Supervisor, WandaVision John Swihart - Composer, Napoleon Dynamite Mikaela Simmons - Music Supervisor, Diggstown Amritha Vaz - Composer, Mira, Royal Detective Brian and Caleb Chan - Composers, Panhandle and more!

Funded by

Supported by

Community Broadcast Partner

Presented by

Music BC’s SOUNDOFF Presented by Music BC, SOUNDOFF is a platform for our most promising local musicians, with a focus on song placement and sync licensing in film and TV. Local artists perform songs and connect with music supervisors at this expansive yet intimate live gathering.

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Signals October 1 & 2 Presented by

Check out more at

viff.org/signals

A unique interactive exhibition, Signals celebrates the creative power, playfulness, and storytelling potential of new technologies. In its first edition, Signals will feature BC’s wealth of talent in a multi-day showcase of Canadian and Indigenous works.

Featuring virtual production, volumetric capture, holograms, and VR/AR/XR technologies.

Located at Great Northern Way at E. 1st Ave (Emily Carr University, Centre for Digital Media, and Departure Lounge)

This Is Not a Ceremony bears witness to the darker side of living life in Canada while Indigenous.

Sanctuary: A Tale of Two Forests takes an ecological adventure through two distinct and threatened BC rainforests.

Live From the Underworld goes on an operatic and hip-hop trip to the luminescent caverns of the underworld.

Supported by

Invest Vancouver • Departure Lounge • Emily Carr University • IM4 Media Lab, Centre for Digital Media

Also featuring

V-Unframed October 1-3

Alliance Française Vancouver invites you to explore and connect at V-Unframed, your journey between Art and Virtual Reality.

The fourth edition of this immersive digital art exhibition showcases artworks from local and international artists, including “Espace V,” Alliance Française Vancouver’s unique VR space.

More information:

Presented in partnership with

alliancefrancaise.ca/v-unframed

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Staff List Board of Directors Chair Lucille Pacey Vice Chair Matthew Hall Second Vice Chair Am Johal Treasurer Farnaz Riahi Secretary Catherine Olsen Board Members Colin Browne, Ross Gentleman, Lydia Guo, Catherine Olsen, Doreen Manuel, Sirish Rao, Faranz Riahi, Michelle Yung VIFF Advisory Board Kevin Campbell, Walter Daroshin, Kyle Fostner, Matthew Hall, David Hewitt, Lucille Pacey, Terry Whitehead Chair Emeritus Michael Francis, David Hewitt Festival Founder Leonard Schein

Executive

Cinema Salon Programmer Melanie Friesen Screening Committee Tania Alekson, Amy Anderson, Hanna Banian, William Banks, Michelle Bjornson, Matthew Broughton, Susan Buie, Michel Castagné, Tish Chambers, John Dippong, Philip Dovey, Rae Grant Duff, Andrée Faucher, Sandi Hall, Josh Hamm, John Hollands, David House, Patrycja Kamska, JaeWoo Kang, Ray Lai, Jin Lee, Steffanie Ling, Meredeth Mackay, Chris Magee, Joel Martineau, Stephen Morgan, Kayoko Nakanishi, Fay Nass, Bailey Nicholson, Jaz Papadopoulos, Shana Schiopu, Janos Sitar, Lori Strong, Nural Sumbultepe, Mary Ungerleider, Ana Valine, Lyn Vasey, Christian Vistan, Joel Warhaft, Donna Welstein, Qiuli Wu, Onjana Yawnghwe, Keith Yoshida Programming Consultants Ann Marie Fleming, Melanie Friesen, Tristin Greyeyes, Pavol Hell, Selwyn Jacobs, Rami Katz, Jack Vermee

Industry & Events Industry & Events Producer Kinga Binkowska

Executive Director Kyle Fostner

Industry & Events Logistics Manager Caroline Jalbert

Executive Assistant Jeraldine Chong

Industry & Events Coordinator Gaël Chabot-Leclerc

Programming

AMP Curator Rob Calder

Director of Programming Curtis Woloschuk

AMP Curator Tony Scudellari

Program Manager & Senior Programmer PoChu Auyeung

Labs Curator Ken Tsui

International Feature Film Programmer & Festival Director Emeritus Alan Franey International Shorts Programmer Sandy Gow

Talks Programmer Kinga Binkowska Technical Producer Robert Wilson, Here & Now Productions

Welcome Video Crew

VIFF Short Forum Programmer Casey Wei

Director & Editor Aya Garcia

MODES Curator T Bannister

Camera Operator Laurel K. Brown, Lucy Jensen, Lauren Yim

Associate Programmer Sonja Baksa Catalyst Programmer Laura Arboleda Ignite Programmer Jessa Alston-O’Connor Year-Round Programmer Tom Charity Program Logistics Manager Melanie Lemaire Feature Film Coordinator Bailey Nicholson Short Film Coordinator John Hollands Film & Education Coordinator Natalie Murao

Philanthropy

VIFF Centre Operations

Director of Philanthropy Shahriar Pedram

Senior Manager of VIFF Centre Operations Sean Wilson

Philanthropy Coordinator Hillary Lee

Marketing Director of Marketing Lainé Slater Senior Marketing Manager Ellyn Hadley Marketing Coordinator Andrea Cheng Digital Communications Coordinator Samara Malkin Email Marketing Coordinator Ashleigh Baker Community Coordinator (Films) Jacob Woike

Partnerships Activations Coordinator Epiphany Cooper

VIFF Centre Technicians Jurgen Beerwald, Bruno Benedetto, Ryan Ermacora, Tory Ip VIFF Centre Maintenance Shawn Brazeau, Ruben Fiodelmondo, Howie Rabey Database Administrator Sandy Gow

Technical Crew

Community Coordinator (VIFF Amp) Gabrielle Rutman

VIFF Centre Cashiers Lora Haber, Savannah Kemp, Austin Neaves, James Narvey, Joy McDerment

Video Content Creator Candelario Andrade, Julian La Brooy

VIFF Centre Concessions Marina Carnio, Adam Karolewski, Andrew Taillon, Dennis Tokarsky, Janice Walter

HR & Festival Operations

Streaming Festival Technician Eric St Laurent

Senior Graphic Designer Steve Chow Graphic Designers Lee Abbott, Dragan Nikodijevic

Publicity & Digital Marketing Murray Paterson Marketing Group Laura Murray, Ines Min, Angela Vannatter, Brian Paterson, Pamela Churchill

Festival Publications Publication Manager Melanie Lemaire Content Coordinator Karla Comanda

Graphic Designer Steve Chow

Partnerships Coordinator Caterina Capizzano

VIFF Centre IT & Office Coordinator Sam Jira

Cashiers Aya Alvarez, Isabelle Bottin, Brandon Fitzpatrick, Savannah Kemp, River Kero, Wade Knott, Keno Kolthoff, Joy McDerment, John Mendes, Sean Morgan-Lynne, James Narvey, Austin Neaves, Gregory Samek, Robert Tanikawa, Stephen Tweedale, Jasmine Wang, Graham Wong, Mustafa Syed Yahya, Rana Zokai, Léonard Cailteaux, Allan Bishop, Jeffrey Lee, Emilee Nimetz, Aliya Breen, Lilah Orkin, Zoe Beatty, Noor Zaib, Maddie Wahl, Amélia Simard, Meghan Trahar

Projection Jesse August, Matt Beebe, Jurgen Beerwald, Bruno Benedetto, Andy Buxton, Andreas Dracopol, Rich Eiboff, Ryan Ermacora, Tim Fernandes, Marshall Freund, Brian Iankovs, Tory Ip, Dave Jones, Matt Kunau, Ron Lacheur, Ingrid Lae, Thierry Latremoille, Nic McRobbie, James Neves, Ciara O’Donnell, Orlando Ruiz, Peter Schweiger, Graeme Scott

Sponsorship

Government Relations Manager Marla Penner

VIFF Centre Technical Coordinator Shana Schiopu

Customer Service Representatives Lora Haber, Kevin Ho, Kaylee Louws, Patricia Richardson, Maryam Salah, Tiawna Sherie

VIFF Centre Venue Managers Zoe BT, Aliya Breen, Lilah Orkin, Madeline Wahl, Noor ul ain Zaib

Contributing Writers Mike Archibald, Mikaela Asfour, Sonja Baksa, Tom Charity, Josh Hamm, Chris MaGee, Eve O’Dea, Jack Vermee, Curtis Woloschuk, Onjana Yawnghwe

Partnerships Manager Marco Fratarcangeli

VIFF Centre Projection Manager Ron Lacheur

Festival Customer Service Coordinator Kevin Pham

Community Coordinator (Industry & Events) Kyra Fequet

Drone Operator, Tsleil-Waututh Nation Member Jeff Sisson

Director of Corporate Partnerships Colin Jarvis

VIFF Centre Rental Logistics Manager J Bradford

Festival Technical Support Jorge Barragan

Business Office Director of Finance Linda Gorrie Business Administrative Coordinator Ruthie Tabata Bookkeeper Elodie Pequignot

Senior Operations Manager Brie Koniczek

Venue Operations

Print Logistics Print Logistics Manager Eirinn McHattie

Festival Venue Operations Manager Alexis Clinton

Print Logistics Coordinator Gregory Adams

Festival Venue Operations Coordinator Amanda Swan

Volunteer Program

Venue Captains Karl Chen, David C. Jones, Anna Mishina, Sunny Tse Venue Manager Nathan Cao, Alexandra Carmonda, Esmée Colbourne, Natalia De Anda, Paul Denis, Elizabeth Glancy, Janet Glassford, B Hoare, Ellen Kibble, Pat Leong, Isaac Luwero, Tamika Tallio, Jenny Tennant, Catherine-Thanh Le, Rodney Stewart, Wayne Stewart, Dheeraj Waran

Ticketing & Box Office Ticketing and CRM Manager Jane Harrison Ticketing and Box Office Manager Daphne Andrews Box Office Coordinator Monique Teate

Volunteer Engagement Manager Christian Díaz Durán Festival Volunteer and HR Coordinator Karen Tsui Volunteer and Operations Assistant Maja Oetvoes

Hospitality Galas and Hospitality Producer Kat Single-Dain Hospitality Suite Manager Jenny Craig Hospitality Suite Caterer Zoe Currelly Transportation Manager Kevin Bredeson

Guest Ticketing Coordinator Roberta Fraser

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Algburi, Alaa .....................................

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Amenta, Joseph ...............................

Amirfazli, Raha .................................

Andini, Kamila ..................................

Archibald, Mike................................

Aronofsky, Darren ...........................

Azizkhani, Faeze..............................

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Dardenne, Luc..................................

Davis, Hubert....................................

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Demers, Gabrielle ...........................

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Dhont, Lukas.....................................

Diakur, Nikita.....................................

Dijkstra, Douwe ...............................

Donguines, Kent..............................

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E Eisen, Alicia....................................... 63 74

F Falardeau, Julien..............................

Farahani, Mitra.................................

Flock, Susanna ................................

Fonseca, Ana Sofia.........................

Forbis, Amanda................................

Foy, Graham......................................

Friday, Rylan......................................

Furer, Julia..........................................

67 57 65 59 67 51 66 55

G

B Baljinnyam, Amarsaikhan.............

Barker, Dani.......................................

Barnhart, Brian.................................

Barton, Del Kathryn ........................

Beaudoux, Arnaud ..........................

Belber, Stephen ...............................

Benson, Justin ..................................

Berne, Léo .........................................

Black, Sophie....................................

Bohdanowicz, Sofia........................

Bone, Mark........................................

Bonelli, Fernando ............................

Bonnin, Amélie.................................

Bordoli, Andrea ................................

Borgli, Kristoffer ...............................

Bourges, Antoine.............................

Broms, Gustaf...................................

Bucsi, Réka........................................

Bujalski, Andrew..............................

Bunea, Christian ..............................

Er Gorbach, Maryna ....................... 31 Ermacora, Ryan................................ 51

Garza Cervera, Michelle ...............

Gaspar-Oliveri, Julien .....................

Ghasemi, Alireza .............................

González, Juan Pablo .....................

Gordon, Sidney ................................

Grabsky, Phil .....................................

Gray, Hayley ......................................

Greyson, John...................................

Grilo, João Mário .............................

Guzmán, Patricio.............................

63 64 64 35 66 59 55 66 41 55

H Haj, Maha ..........................................

Hajiha, Dornaz..................................

Hansen-Løve, Mia...........................

Harvey, François..............................

Harvey, Jackson ...............................

Hayakawa, Chie ...............................

Hegnsvad, Kristoffer.......................

Heineman, Matthew ......................

Heinzen-Ziob, Florian.....................

Hiroki Ryuichi ...................................

Hong Sangsoo .................................

Huang Ji..............................................

Huang Shuli ......................................

Hui, Ann..............................................

Hung, Sammo ..................................

Hunter, James...................................

43 41 23 67 67 45 61 55 59 31 43 46 65 46 46 64

I Ismailsoy, Meran ............................. 67

J Jacobs, Rob ....................................... 65 Januschka, Petr................................ 64 Janvier, Eric........................................ 67 Jaquier, Carmen............................... 46 Jarvis, Sophie............................. 53, 63 Jayme, Kathleen S. .......................... 21 Jha, Shishir ........................................ 49 Jiménez, Carmen............................. 65 Jiwarangsan, Prapat ....................... 65 Johnson, Jessica.............................. 51 Johnston, Leah ................................. 66 Jones, Scott....................................... 66 Joynt, Chase...................................... 54 Jusu, Nikyatu..................................... 43

K Kaneko Isaku ....................................

Kapac, David .....................................

Karman, Jason ..................................

Kenworthy, Maia..............................

64 49 51 55

Kern, Sara...........................................

Klengel, Robin ..................................

Koch, Michael...................................

Kore-eda Hirokazu ..........................

Kreutzer, Marie.................................

Krook, Justin......................................

Kyirong, Kunsang ............................

49 65 45 17 19 54 66

L Lafleur, Stéphane ............................

Lam, Ringo ........................................

Lau, Benny.........................................

Le Bon, Charlotte.............................

Le Pêcheur, Ginger.........................

Leconte, Patrice...............................

Li, Kriss ...............................................

Lin Jing-Jie .........................................

Liu Guangli ........................................

Loayza Grisi, Alejandro..................

López Beraza, Miguel ....................

López-Linares, José Luis...............

Lorek, Ernest.....................................

Lorenzen, Una ..................................

Louie, Jeannette............................... lozinski, lori........................................

Ly, Polen .............................................

33 46 46 35 67 41 66 59 65 46 65 59 64 66 65 55 64

M

64 47 45 24 46 33

P Paiso, Maria Estela .........................

Panay, Simon ....................................

Paravel, Véréna ................................

Park Chan-wook ..............................

Parkanová, Beata.............................

Parker, Jack........................................

Pashtoonyar, Salar ..........................

Peren, Maggie..................................

Pettengill, Sierra ..............................

Platzer, Nisha....................................

Playoust, Lubna ...............................

Poggi, Caroline.................................

Polley, Sarah .....................................

Porra Guardiola, Ulises..................

Posthumus, Jessie ..........................

Pozo, Jose ..........................................

Pronovost, Alec................................

65 54 57 20 47 66 66 41 57 51 64 65 25 35 67 64 67

Q Quivoron, Lola .................................. 63

MacKenzie, Lizzie ........................... 57 Mannering, Emilie........................... 67 Marcello, Pietro ............................... 46 Mardešić, Andrija............................ 49 Marslett, Geoff ................................. 63 Martone, Mario................................ 33 Marziale, Antonio............................ 64 Mato, Charo ...................................... 57 Maurice, Gail .................................... 51 Mazzaferro, Luke............................. 54 McDonagh, Martin ......................... 19 McGaugh, Jessica........................... 64 McKenzie, Ashley............................ 45 McLaughlin, Kendra....................... 67 McMullan, Chelsea ................. 59, 31 Medel, Sonia..................................... 66 Melo, Filipe........................................ 64 Mena, Alex......................................... 65 Mendes, Sam ................................... 20 Mills, Jacquelyn ............................... 57 Mitrovic, Milos ................................. 66 Mohajerjasbi, Zia............................. 49 Moorhead, Aaron............................ 63 Müllner, Leonhard........................... 65 Mungiu, Cristian.............................. 33

N Nagy, Phyllis......................................

Ndodana-Breen, Bongani.............

NEOZOON .........................................

Neves, Flávia.....................................

Nguyen, Carol...................................

Nirwan, Inder....................................

Nvotová, Tereza ...............................

Olsefski, Fili .......................................

Ondříček, David ...............................

Oren, Ann........................................... Östlund, Ruben ................................

Otsuka Ryuji......................................

Ozon, François .................................

30 66 65 41 66 67 49

O O’Connor, Frances.......................... 31 Ogigami Naoko ................................ 45 Olesen, Annette K ........................... 43

R Ramirez Escobar, Martika ............

Rankin, Matthew .............................

Reijniers, Anne.................................

Ribeiro, José Miguel.......................

Ritszel, Dominik ...............................

Rodriguez, Raphaël ........................

Romvari, Sophy ................................

Rosenthal, Moshe...........................

63 66 65 43 65 64 53 41

S Sadiq, Saim .......................................

Saleh, Nizar.......................................

Saleh, Tarik........................................

Salvador, Thomas............................

Sánchez Bellot, Elena ....................

Sánchez Salamanca, Cristina .....

Sarnecki, Matt..................................

Schnicer, Silvina ..............................

Schwenk, Jonatan ...........................

Sen, Shaunak....................................

Sengupta, Aditya Vikram ..............

Serra, Albert......................................

Sha Mo ...............................................

Shamash, Sarah...............................

Shears, Devin ...................................

Shemisi, Paul ....................................

Shim, Anthony..................................

Shoaibi, Behrooz ............................. Šimánek, Jan.....................................

Simon, Carla .....................................

Skolimowski, Jerzy ..........................

Slutsky, Mark ....................................

Snow-Rosen, Jasper.......................

Sorogoyen, Rodrigo........................

Sossai, Francesco...........................

Steel, Ryan.........................................

Stone, Carly.......................................

41 65 30 43 55 64 55 35 65 54 43 33 64 66 67 65 51 43 54 30 21 53 55 35 49 66 51

Stratman, Deborah ......................... 65 Strikes, Chris..................................... 66 Stumpf, Michael .............................. 65

T Tagaq, Tanya .....................................

Tal, Ran ...............................................

Tam, Patrick.......................................

Taviani, Paolo....................................

Tilby, Wendy......................................

Timoner, Ondi...................................

To, Johnnie.........................................

Toikka, Jenni......................................

Tollenaere, Isabelle ........................

Touzani, Maryam.............................

Tsui Hark ............................................

Tully, Judd ..........................................

Turner, Lisle.......................................

Twoyoungmen, Jarret ....................

Tzadok, Elad......................................

59 54 46 41 67 55 46 65 65 35 46 61 64 66 55

U Urban, Nataša .................................. 57

V Vaillancourt, Ashleigh....................

Vakalios, Andreas............................

Van Landschoot, Chloe.................

Vasof, Anna .......................................

Velandia, Carlos...............................

Velasco, Fabian................................

Vinel, Jonathan.................................

Virgo, Clement .................................

Vuillemin, Basile ..............................

66 64 66 65 65 66 65 30 64

W Wade, Paul.........................................

Wade, Simon.....................................

Walker, Kurt .......................................

Warrian, Beth....................................

Watts, Sarah......................................

Wells, Charlotte................................

Welsh, Kenny ....................................

White, Ryan .......................................

Whitebean, Roxann ........................

Williams, Blake .................................

Wilson, Niamh..................................

64 64 66 66 53 35 67 54 66 47 66

Y Yadlin, Maya......................................

Yoshida Kaho....................................

Youngman, Asia...............................

Yuen Wo Ping ...................................

64 66 67 46

Z Zakia Issa, Karimah......................... 66 Záruba, Petr....................................... 54 Zeller, Florian .................................... 23

Films and Programs # 1341 Frames of Love and War .............................................. 54 8 Stories About My Hearing Loss .................................... 57

A Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits..........................

Adore...................................................

Aftersun..............................................

Agony ..................................................

Alcarràs ..............................................

All That Breathes.............................

Anyox ..................................................

54 66 35 67 30 54 51

B Baba.....................................................

Baby..................................................... back home......................................... backflip ...............................................

Ballad of Gus, The...........................

Banshees of Inisherin, The ..........

Beasts, The........................................

Before Birth .......................................

Before, Now & Then.......................

Black Ice.............................................

Blaze....................................................

Blond Night .......................................

Blue Caftan, The..............................

Bones of Crows................................

Boy From Heaven............................

Brasier.................................................

Broker..................................................

Brother................................................

Bye Bye ...............................................

67 64 51 65 66 19 35 65 30 30 63 66 35 16 30 67 17 30 64

C Call Jane .............................................

Carajita ...............................................

Censor of Dreams...........................

Ceremony, The.................................

Cesária Évora ...................................

Chasing Birds ...................................

Close ...................................................

Coin Slot.............................................

Concrete Valley................................

Cormorant, The................................

Corsage..............................................

Crystal Pite: Angels’ Atlas.............

30 35 64 64 59 66 31 66 51 64 19 31

D Dancing Pina ....................................

Day After.............................................

De Humani Corporis Fabrica ......

Decision to Leave............................

Dhulpa ................................................

Different Place, A ............................

Dos estaciones ................................

59 57 57 20 66 64 35

E Earth Will Swallow it All, The.......

Eclipse, The.......................................

Ellie ......................................................

Emily....................................................

Empire of Light.................................

65 57 64 31 20

Empire of My Melodious Mind .................................................... 65 EO......................................................... 21 Ever Deadly ....................................... 59

J

F

K

Falcon Lake.......................................

Faraway Place, The.........................

Field of Blood....................................

Fire Inside, A.....................................

Firecracker Bullets..........................

First Months of Freedom..............

Flying Sailor, The .............................

Fogaréu ..............................................

For Real ..............................................

For You Today the Light of the Sun Will Not Shine..............

Forger, The ........................................

Framing Agnes ................................

Framing the Self ..............................

From Chile to Canada: Media Herstories ............................

Fruit Tree, The..................................

Further and Further Away............

35 67 41 54 65 66 67 41 64 65 41 54 66 66 65 64

G Geographies of Solitude...............

Golden Delicious.............................

Good Night Oppy ............................

Goya, Carrière and the Ghost of Buñuel...............................

Grizzlie Truth, The...........................

Grown in Darkness .........................

57 51 54 59 21 67

H Hardly Working ................................

Harvest Moon ..................................

Heartbeat of a Nation ....................

Hermit of Treig, The .......................

Hills and Mountains .......................

Holy Spider........................................

Hopper - An American Love Story..........................................

Horse Brothers.................................

Huesera..............................................

65 49 67 57 66 31 59 66 63

I I Empower as a Mother................. 67 i see me watching........................... 66 I Thought the World of You .......... 66 I, Sun.................................................... 67 If You Are a Man .............................. 54 Intermission ...................................... 65 International Shorts: Connect/Disconnect/ Reconnect ......................................... 64 International Shorts: Family Ties ........................................ 64 International Shorts: Having a Bad Day ............................ 64 International Shorts: Morality Plays ................................... 64 International Shorts: Personal Journeys........................... 65 Island of Freedom........................... 64 It’s Raining Frogs Outside ............ 65 It’s What Each Person Needs............................ 53, 55

Joyland................................................ 41 Judy, Judy, Judy................................. 64

Karaoke...............................................

Killing of a Journalist, The.............

Killing Ourselves..............................

King of Wuxia, The ..........................

Klabona Keepers, The ...................

Klondike..............................................

Know Your Place..............................

41 55 64 59 55 31 49

L La plage aux êtres...........................

Laika ....................................................

Lake of Fire........................................

Last Flight Home.............................

Late Summer ....................................

Lay Down Your Heart.....................

Leonor Will Never Die....................

Leonora addio ..................................

Like a Fish on the Moon................

Locust, The .......................................

Lone Wolf, The .................................

Love Will Come Later.....................

67 65 65 55 66 59 63 41 41 49 64 55

M Magnified City..................................

Maiden, The......................................

Maigret ...............................................

Marianne............................................

Mariposa............................................

Matter of Trust, A ............................

Mediterranean Fever .....................

Meeting With Robert Dole ...........

Melt Goes On Forever: The Art and Times of David Hammons, The ....................

Minus Twenty...................................

MODES 1 ...........................................

MODES 2 ...........................................

MODES 3 ...........................................

Moja Vesna .......................................

Moral Man, A....................................

Mother’s Skin ...................................

Motherhood......................................

Motorcycle Saved My Life, A.......

Mountain, The..................................

Mumu..................................................

Municipal Relaxation Module ...............................................

Music Pictures: New Orleans.....................................

My Imaginary Country...................

My Name Is Anti..............................

My Thoughts Exactly .....................

64 51 41 64 66 43 43 67

61 66 65 65 65 49 64 66 31 55 43 64 66 61 55 64 66

N N’xaxaitkw .........................................

Nanitic ................................................

Nanny..................................................

Nayola.................................................

Neighbour Abdi ...............................

Nest .....................................................

Nightsiren..........................................

No Prior Appointment ...................

67 66 43 43 65 64 49 43

North of Normal............................... 51 Nostalgia............................................ 33 Novelist’s Film, The ........................ 43

O OKAY! (The ASD Band Film) ........

Once Upon a Time in Calcutta .........................................

One Fine Morning...........................

OST ......................................................

Other Cannibals...............................

61 43 23 64 49

P Pacifiction..........................................

Paco.....................................................

Parasite Family.................................

Passing, The .....................................

Patty Vs. Patty...................................

Perforated Realities........................

Perspective .......................................

Peter Von Kant..................................

Piaffe....................................................

Piece of Sky, A..................................

Plan 75................................................

Plastic Killer ......................................

Ponto Final ........................................

Prelude Op. 28 No.2 .......................

Pro Pool..............................................

33 66 65 67 66 65 64 33 45 45 45 64 65 65 67

Something in the Dirt.....................

Something You Said Last Night ..........................................

Son, The .............................................

Soviet Bus Stops..............................

Square Peg........................................

Starfuckers........................................

Stars at Noon....................................

Stonewalling.....................................

Stopover, The....................................

Terror/Forming ................................

There There ......................................

This House ........................................

Thunder..............................................

Tibi .......................................................

Tidal.....................................................

Tongue................................................

Tori and Lokita..................................

Tortoise Under the Earth ..............

Triangle of Sadness........................

Unarchived........................................

Uncle, The .........................................

Until Branches Bend ......................

Utama..................................................

V Very, Very, Tremendously..............

VIFF Short Forum: Program 1 ..........................................

VIFF Short Forum: Program 2 ..........................................

VIFF Short Forum: Program 3 ..........................................

VIFF Short Forum: Program 4 ..........................................

VIFF Short Forum: Program 5 ..........................................

VIFF Short Forum: Program 6 ..........................................

Viking ..................................................

33 45 55 66 67 67 55 51 57 45 67 63 66 51 66 66

S Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories .......................

Scaring Women at Night...............

Scarlet.................................................

See You Friday, Robinson.............

Septet: The Story of Hong Kong.........................................

Sexy Highland Stream ...................

Sick of Myself ...................................

Sikiitu ..................................................

Silent Ones, The ..............................

Smoking Causes Coughing .........

Soft.......................................................

Solar Eclipse.....................................

65 66 46 57 46 66 63 66 64 63 53 64

66 46 53 46 66 66 66 33 49 24

U

Quantum Cowboys......................... 63 Queens of the Qing Dynasty ....... 45

R.M.N. .................................................

Rabiye Kurnaz vs.

George W. Bush...............................

Rebellion ............................................

Red House.........................................

Reel Youth Film Festival................

Reste ...................................................

Retrograde.........................................

Riceboy Sleeps ................................

Riotsville, U.S.A................................

Riverside Mukolitta.........................

Rocket Fuel .......................................

Rodeo..................................................

Rose.....................................................

Rosie....................................................

Rumination ........................................

Runner, The.......................................

53 23 61 66 64 24 46 65

T

Q

R

63

55 49 53 46

65 66 66 66 66 67 67 33

W Watch the Fire or Burn Inside it ...............................................

We Are Family ..................................

Whale, The ........................................

What We Do Next............................

When Time Got Louder.................

Will You Look at Me........................

Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look...........

Woman Escapes, A.........................

Women Talking ................................

Word, The ..........................................

65 46 25 46 53 65 65 47 25 47

Y You Can Live Forever ..................... 53

Z Zátopek............................................... 47 Zeb’s Spider ............................... 63, 55 Zoon..................................................... 65

75

Countries of Production and of Interest Afghanistan Retrograde....................................... 55

Andorra Plastic Killer .................................... 64

Angola Nayola............................................... 43

Argentina 8 Stories About My Hearing Loss .................................. 57

Australia Blaze..................................................

A Fire Inside....................................

Moja Vesna .....................................

Nest ...................................................

63 54 49 64

Austria Corsage............................................ 19 Hardly Working .............................. 65 Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories ..................... 65

Bangladesh Day After........................................... 57

Belarus Soviet Bus Stops............................ 61

Belgium Close .................................................

The Fruit Tree.................................

The Silent Ones .............................

The Stopover ..................................

Tori and Lokita................................

31 65 64 65 33

Bolivia Utama................................................ 46

Brazil Fogaréu ............................................ 41

Burkina Faso If You Are a Man ............................ 54

Cabo Verde Cesária Évora ................................. 59

Cambodia Further and Further Away.......... 64

Canada Adore.................................................

Agony ................................................

Anyox ................................................

Baba................................................... back home.......................................

The Ballad of Gus..........................

Black Ice...........................................

Blond Night .....................................

Bones of Crows..............................

Brasier...............................................

Brother..............................................

Chasing Birds .................................

Coin Slot...........................................

Concrete Valley..............................

Crystal Pite: Angels’ Atlas...........

Dhulpa ..............................................

Ever Deadly .....................................

Falcon Lake.....................................

The Faraway Place........................

Firecracker Bullets........................

First Months of Freedom............

The Flying Sailor............................

Framing Agnes ..............................

Framing the Self ............................

From Chile to Canada: Media Herstories ..........................

76

66 67 51 67 51 66 30 66 16 67 30 66 66 51 31 66 59 35 67 65 66 67 54 66 66

Geographies of Solitude.............

Golden Delicious...........................

The Grizzlie Truth..........................

Grown in Darkness .......................

Heartbeat of a Nation ..................

Hills and Mountains .....................

Horse Brothers...............................

I Empower as a Mother............... i see me watching.........................

I Thought the World of You ........

I, Sun..................................................

It’s What Each Person Needs................................................

The Klabona Keepers ..................

La plage aux êtres.........................

Late Summer ..................................

Lay Down Your Heart...................

The Maiden.....................................

Mariposa..........................................

Meeting With Robert Dole .........

Minus Twenty.................................

Mother’s Skin .................................

A Motorcycle Saved My Life......

Municipal Relaxation Module .............................................

My Thoughts Exactly ...................

N’xaxaitkw .......................................

Nanitic ..............................................

North of Normal.............................

OKAY! (The ASD Band Film) ......

Paco...................................................

The Passing ....................................

Patty Vs. Patty.................................

Pro Pool............................................

Queens of the Qing Dynasty .....

Red House.......................................

Reste .................................................

Riceboy Sleeps ..............................

Rocket Fuel .....................................

Rose...................................................

Rosie..................................................

Rumination ......................................

The Runner......................................

Scaring Women at Night.............

Sexy Highland Stream .................

Sikiitu.................................................

Soft.....................................................

Something You Said Last Night ........................................

Soviet Bus Stops............................

Square Peg......................................

Terror/Forming ..............................

This House ......................................

Tibi .....................................................

Tidal...................................................

Tongue..............................................

Unarchived......................................

Until Branches Bend ....................

Viking ................................................

When Time Got Louder...............

A Woman Escapes........................

Women Talking ..............................

You Can Live Forever ...................

Zeb’s Spider ....................................

57 51 21 67 67 66 66 67 66 66 67 53 55 67 66 59 51 66 67 66 66 55

Congo (DR) The Stopover .................................. 65

Croatia The Uncle ........................................ 49

Czech Republic Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits........................

Island of Freedom.........................

The Word .........................................

Zátopek.............................................

Denmark Holy Spider......................................

The Killing of a Journalist............

A Matter of Trust ...........................

Soviet Bus Stops............................

31 55 43 61

Dominican Republic Carajita ............................................. 35

53 61 66 66 53 66 66 66 55 53 33 53 47 25 53 63

65

My Imaginary Country................. 55

China 20 65 59 64 45 46 65 65

Colombia Baby................................................... 64

Piaffe.................................................. 45 Rabiye Kurnaz vs.

George W. Bush............................. 45 Zoon................................................... 65

My Name Is Anti............................ 64 Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories ..................... 65

This House ...................................... 53

Hong Kong The King of Wuxia ......................... 59 Septet: The Story of Hong Kong....................................... 46 We Are Family ................................ 46

Hungary Intermission .................................... 65

India

Boy From Heaven.......................... 30

All That Breathes........................... 54 Once Upon a Time in Calcutta ....................................... 43 Tortoise Under the Earth ............ 49

Eritrea

Indonesia

Know Your Place............................ 49

Before, Now & Then..................... 30

Estonia

Iran

Soviet Bus Stops............................ 61

Holy Spider......................................

Like a Fish on the Moon..............

The Locust ......................................

No Prior Appointment .................

See You Friday, Robinson...........

Solar Eclipse...................................

Egypt

Finland Prelude Op. 28 No.2 ..................... 65

France The Beasts.......................................

The Blue Caftan.............................

Bye Bye .............................................

Censor of Dreams.........................

The Cormorant...............................

De Humani Corporis Fabrica..............................................

Falcon Lake.....................................

For You Today the Light of the Sun Will Not Shine............

Goya, Carrière and the Ghost of Buñuel.............................

If You Are a Man ............................

La plage aux êtres.........................

Maigret .............................................

Marianne..........................................

The Mountain.................................

One Fine Morning.........................

Pacifiction........................................

Peter Von Kant................................

Rodeo................................................

Scarlet...............................................

See You Friday, Robinson...........

The Silent Ones .............................

Smoking Causes Coughing .......

Solar Eclipse...................................

The Son ............................................

Stars at Noon..................................

Watch the Fire or Burn Inside it...................................

A Woman Escapes........................

35 35 64 64 64 57 35

59 54 67 41 64 43 23 33 33 63 46 57 64 63 64 23 24 65 47

Georgia Soviet Bus Stops............................ 61

Germany backflip .............................................

Dancing Pina ..................................

The Forger.......................................

Lake of Fire......................................

Other Cannibals.............................

Peter Von Kant................................

65 59 41 65 49 33

31 41 49 43 57 64

Iraq Perspective ..................................... 64

Ireland The Banshees of Inisherin ......... 19

Israel 1341 Frames of Love and War ............................................

Karaoke.............................................

Killing Ourselves............................

Mediterranean Fever ...................

54 41 64 43

66 41 33 49 46 53

Boy From Heaven.......................... 30 Perforated Realities...................... 65 Triangle of Sadness...................... 24

Neighbour Abdi ............................. 65

Nicaragua Stars at Noon.................................. 24

Norway

17 64 31 45 45 46 66

Lithuania Soviet Bus Stops............................ 61

Mexico Dos estaciones .............................. 35 Huesera............................................ 63

Mongolia Harvest Moon ................................ 49

Switzerland For You Today the Light of the Sun Will Not Shine............

Love Will Come Later...................

A Piece of Sky.................................

Thunder............................................

65 55 45 46

The Eclipse...................................... 57 Sick of Myself ................................. 63

Syria

Pakistan

Tahiti

Joyland.............................................. 41

Pacifiction........................................ 33

Palestine

Taiwan

Mediterranean Fever ................... 43

The King of Wuxia ......................... 59

It’s Raining Frogs Outside ..........

Leonor Will Never Die..................

Paco...................................................

Triangle of Sadness......................

Concrete Valley.............................. 51

Thailand

Philippines 65 63 66 24

OST .................................................... 64 Parasite Family............................... 65

Tibet Dhulpa .............................................. 66

Poland

Turkey

The Earth Will Swallow it All...... 65 EO....................................................... 21 For Real ............................................ 64

Rabiye Kurnaz vs.

George W. Bush............................. 45 A Woman Escapes........................ 47

Portugal

UK

Cesária Évora .................................

Field of Blood..................................

The Lone Wolf ................................

Nayola...............................................

Ponto Final ......................................

59 41 64 43 65

Romania R.M.N. ............................................... 33

Scotland

Aftersun............................................

The Ceremony................................

A Different Place ...........................

Emily..................................................

Empire of Light...............................

The Hermit of Treig.......................

Hopper - An American Love Story........................................

A Moral Man...................................

Rebellion ..........................................

35 64 64 31 20 57 59 64 55

The Hermit of Treig....................... 57

Ukraine

Senegal

Klondike............................................ 31 Soviet Bus Stops............................ 61

Dancing Pina .................................. 59 Nanny................................................ 43

USA

Serbia

Slovakia Island of Freedom......................... 64 The Killing of a Journalist............ 55 Nightsiren........................................ 49

Slovenia Moja Vesna ..................................... 49

Japan Broker................................................

Magnified City................................

Motherhood....................................

Plan 75..............................................

Riverside Mukolitta.......................

Stonewalling...................................

Tongue..............................................

Sweden

The Blue Caftan............................. 35 Love Will Come Later................... 55

The Eclipse...................................... 57 The Uncle ........................................ 49

Italy Framing the Self ............................

Leonora addio ................................

Nostalgia..........................................

Other Cannibals.............................

Scarlet...............................................

Something You Said Last Night ........................................

Morocco

Netherlands

Greece

Haiti 54 64 47 47

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Chile

Decision to Leave..........................

Empire of My Melodious Mind ............................

The King of Wuxia .........................

Mumu................................................

Queens of the Qing Dynasty .....

Stonewalling...................................

Very, Very, Tremendously............

Will You Look at Me......................

Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look ........................ 65

South Korea Broker................................................

Decision to Leave..........................

The Novelist’s Film .......................

Riceboy Sleeps ..............................

Square Peg......................................

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Spain Alcarràs ............................................

The Beasts.......................................

Before Birth .....................................

Ellie ....................................................

Goya, Carrière and the Ghost of Buñuel......................

Pacifiction........................................

Plastic Killer ....................................

Ponto Final ......................................

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Call Jane ...........................................

Empire of My Melodious Mind ..................................................

Firecracker Bullets........................

Framing Agnes ..............................

Good Night Oppy ..........................

The Grizzlie Truth..........................

Hopper - An American Love Story........................................

Judy, Judy, Judy...............................

Know Your Place............................

Laika ..................................................

Last Flight Home...........................

The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art and Times of David Hammons ........................................

Music Pictures: New Orleans ...

Nanny................................................

Quantum Cowboys.......................

Retrograde.......................................

Riotsville, U.S.A..............................

Something in the Dirt...................

The Son ............................................

Starfuckers......................................

There There ....................................

The Whale .......................................

What We Do Next..........................

Women Talking ..............................

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Vietnam Nanitic .............................................. 66

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