The Hotel of Choice For 2023 Doxa Film Festival

Sandman Suites Vancouver - Davie Street is an all-suite hotel situated in Vancouver’s West End, minutes from English Bay Beach, Robson Street, and Yaletown.

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SO MANY REASONS TO STAY

Sandman Suites Vancouver - Davie Street is an all-suite hotel situated in Vancouver’s West End, minutes from English Bay Beach, Robson Street, and Yaletown.

198 comfortable suites with full kitchens | City, ocean & mountain views | In-suite washer/dryer units | Complimentary high speed Internet | Gated, underground parking |

SO MANY REASONS TO STAY

Moxies with room service | Outdoor pool | Meeting & banquet facilities | Fitness facilities

198 comfortable suites with full kitchens | City, ocean & mountain views | In-suite washer/dryer units | Complimentary high speed Internet | Gated, underground parking | Moxies with room service | Outdoor pool | Meeting & banquet facilities | Fitness facilities

A Way To B

Jos de Putter and Clara van Gool, Netherlands, 2022, 96 mins

Liant la Troca is a Barcelona-based dance collective that defies expectations, and that member Desi describes as “a message without words.” Made up of dancers with diverse physical disabilities, the collective create art with their bodies, sharing stories that invite viewers into their everyday lives and demonstrate how adversity can spawn innovation and beauty. Their movements onstage challenge ableist assumptions by embracing the nuances of humanity both within and beyond physical difference. Eschewing sentimentality, A Way To B is in turns tender, sultry, defiant, humorous, joyous and expressive, and always rewarding. -TA

Fluently merging documentary and dance into each other, the hybrid film is an ode to zest for life and love.

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Anhell69

Theo Montoya, Colombia/Romania/France/Germany, 2022, 75 mins

In the metropolis of Medellín, Colombia, filmmaker Theo Montoya turns his camera on a unique and creative group of queer friends rebelling against their increasingly dystopian surroundings. Montoya plans to create an allegorical film of speculative fiction in which these young rebels fall in love with ghosts—and face persecution for their lifestyle. However, Montoya’s project changes abruptly when tragedy strikes and a number of his friends’ lives are lost to suicide and overdose (including the charismatic Camilo Najar, who was intended for the film’s starring role). What takes the place of Montoya’s dramatic film is a startling and unusual hybrid documentary. Haunted by the film that never was, Montoya constructs an elegy for his queer community, commemorating its anarchic splendour. As Montoya traverses the shadowy streets of the city in a hearse, he attempts to process loss and grief through his hypnotic narrative. Anhell69 is an achingly poignant tribute to the precarity of youth and the uncertainty of the future that nonetheless inspires hope through the film’s liminal beauty. -KR