The Vancouver International Film Festival Program Guide 2017

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The 36th Vancouver International Film Festival September 28 to October 13 2017 Festival Guide

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Contents How to VIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Festival Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Greater Vancouver Film Festival Society . . . . . 7 Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Letters of Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Panorama

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Galas & Special Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Contemporary World Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Spotlight on France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Documentaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Festival Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Sea to Sky

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BC Spotlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Totally Indie Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 True North

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VIFF AMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 VIFF Industry Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Virtual Reality at VIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Buffer Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Creator Talks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Gateway

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Dragons & Tigers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 M/A/D

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M/A/D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 VIFF LIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 ALT

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Altered States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Short Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

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True North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Future//Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Impact

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Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Indexes Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Films by Country and Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Sustainable Production Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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

Editor Curtis Woloschuk Associate Editor Jack Vermee Publications Coordinator Mike Archibald Database Publishing Sandy Gow Graphic Design Steve Chow Cover Design Cause + Affect Printing Mitchell Press

About VIFF

Published August 31, 2017 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 • www.viff.org

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

How to VIFF

How to VIFF Pick your films or events

Enjoy

Stay in the know with instant updates

Browse through the programming streams in this guide. Here, you’ll find information on all of our films and events. Are you only available for a few days during the festival? Turn directly to the VIFF schedule in the centre of this guide to see what’s happening on any given day. Need more information? Visit viff. org for longer descriptions, enhanced search functions and schedule changes or updates. Alternatively, you can download the VIFF App for notifications on the go!

We pride ourselves on offering our guests unique and often unforgettable experiences. All we ask is that you also play your part by being considerate to your fellow audience members, volunteers, and festival staff.

Subscribe to daily email updates during the festival:

Skip the box office lines at the venues and purchase your tickets online at viff.org. If you plan on seeing a number of films, a Ticket Pack or Pass might give you the most flexibility and value for money. You’ll find details on all of your options for attending VIFF on Pages 4 and 5 of this guide.

Arrive at the venue with your tickets ready Make things easy at the venue by printing your PDF tickets at home or having the barcode of your PDF tickets ready to display on your smartphone. If you’re printing your tickets, be sure you don’t shrink or distort the barcode. We need to scan it at the door.

Follow @viffest on:

Important Reminders • By law, you must buy a $2 VIFF or VIFF Year Round Annual Membership before your first screening and present your membership card at every screening you attend.

If you lose your membership card, you will be asked to buy a replacement. If you’re a VIFF+ Member, your VIFF+ Membership card will need to be shown. After the festival, VIFF Festival Memberships are valid Year Round at Vancity Theatre.

• Because the majority of our films are not rated, you must be age 18+ to attend a film at VIFF. (19+ at The Rio Theatre.)

There are, of course, some exceptions. We try to get a good selection of films rated so that film lovers under 18 get to experience VIFF. Check out the Youth Stream on viff. org, or discover more about our High School Program for secondary students on Page 41.

• All films are shown in their original language with English subtitles.

Download the VIFF App from the App Store (iPhone) or Google Play Store (Android)

Festival Infoline:

604 683 3456 Speak to a friendly, well-informed volunteer.

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

Weekdays until September 13: 9am-7pm Every day September 14 until October 13: 9am-7pm Questions?

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Visit viff.org Email feedback@viff.org 604 683 3456 Call

If you purchased your tickets in advance, arrive at the venue and join the appropriate line. If you plan on buying your tickets at the venue, be sure you allow yourself sufficient time. You can tell how busy a screening or event is expected to be by checking its listing on viff.org.

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Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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Festival Info

Screening Tickets Evening Weekday Weekend Matinee Special Gala Holiday (before 5pm) Presentations Screenings

Adults

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Student (18+)

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Accessible Youth

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Youth tickets are only available for films listed in the Youth section of viff.org.

Screening Ticket Packs

Festival Screening Passes

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

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

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Student or Senior 5-Ticket Pack

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6-Ticket Pack

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10-Ticket Pack

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10-Weekday Matinee Ticket Pack

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20-Ticket Pack

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30-Ticket Pack

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Student and Senior ticket purchasers must present valid ID at screening.

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

Service Charges and Important Notes:

Please note that each individual attendee will require a $2 VIFF, $2 VIFF Year Round, or VIFF+ Membership.

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

Service Charges and Important Notes:

• Exchanges are permitted on purchased tickets, but there is a $1 service charge for each ticket exchanged in person at any VIFF box office. Tickets can be exchanged free of charge by calling the Festival Infoline. All exchanges must be made at least 60 minutes prior to the screening you no longer want. Exchanges cannot be made for missed screenings.

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

Purchasing Tickets Tickets can be purchased up to 60 minutes prior to showtime either online at viff.org or at any VIFF venue box office.

Within 60 minutes of showtime, tickets are only available at the screening venue, subject to availability.

Purchase Online & Print at home, or be “Smart”about it.

Bypass the box office lines by purchasing your tickets at viff.org! Your tickets will be emailed to you as an attached PDF file so you can print them at home or, if you want to save paper and ink, simply display the barcode portion on your smart phone at the venue.

If you’re printing your tickets, ensure you open the attachment (not just the preview) and keep the ticket its original size – don’t shrink or distort it, as the barcode on it will need to be scanned at the venue.

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

• Ticket Packs can be redeemed up to 60 minutes prior to showtime, online or in person at any VIFF box office. Starting 60 minutes prior to showtime, tickets are only available at the box office of the screening venue, subject to availability.

• Ticket Packs work like credits on your viff.org online account; they can only be redeemed by the original purchaser.

If you are considering purchasing a Ticket Pack as a gift, please purchase a gift card instead.

• Ticket Packs cannot be redeemed for “VIFF Repeats” screenings held after the festival closes on October 13.

They are also not eligible for Films+ events.

• The 10 Weekday Matinee Ticket Pack can only be redeemed against Weekday Matinee Screenings (screenings which start before 5pm, excluding Special Presentations).

• All other Ticket Packs can be redeemed for Special Presentations and Gala Screenings by paying an upgrade fee of $2 or $7 per ticket, respectively. This fee is calculated when selecting one of these screenings from within your Ticket Pack and will require an extra payment to complete the order.

• There is a $4 service charge per 8-and larger Ticket Pack; $2 service charge on the 6-Ticket Pack and the Student/ Senior 5-Ticket Pack.

• There is a $1 service charge for each ticket exchanged in person. Tickets must either be exchanged without charge via the Festival Infoline or in person at any VIFF box office at least one hour prior to the screening you no longer want.

Exchanges cannot be made for missed screenings.

• Student and Senior Ticket Pack purchasers must present valid ID. • All sales are final. VIFF only offers refunds in cases of technical failure.

Platinum Pass

Admission to all festival screenings with guaranteed seating until 5 minutes before showtime. Preferred access as soon as the auditorium is open to the public. (Excludes Gala parties and The Green Fog).

Festival Pass

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Admission to all festival screenings (subject to availability), excluding Opening and Closing Galas and The Green Fog. 330

Student (18+) and Senior (65+) price:

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Weekday Matinee Pass

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Admission to all weekday matinee screenings (before 5pm).

Subject to availability. Excludes Special Presentations.

Service Charges and Important Notes: • There is a $4 service charge per pass.

• Passes are available for purchase online now at viff.org or in person at the Vancouver International Film Centre (1181 Seymour Street) starting at noon on Thursday, September 14. Other VIFF Venues will not be able to print your pass.

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

• Passes include your annual VIFF Membership.

• Student and Senior Festival Passes require valid ID.

Annual Membership: $2 VIFF presents films that have not been classified by Consumer Protection BC. By law, anyone wishing to watch films at the festival must be a member of the VIFF society and 18 years of age or older, unless otherwise stated.

Following the festival, your 2017 Membership Card may be used to attend VIFF Year Round films at Vancity Theatre until the expiry date on the card.

VIFF+ Whether you see a few films or dozens, there is a VIFF+ Membership level for you!

Our wonderful customer loyalty program offers discounts and perks year-round, and during the Festival it offers exceptional value! VIFF+ Members get reduced ticket prices for all regular VIFF festival films. Silver and Gold VIFF+ Members get a 15% or greater discount on ticket packs and passes.

Discover more with VIFF+. Details: goviff.org/plus

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What’s the best deal?

Films+ In 2017, VIFF continues to expand the frame with everything from intimate one-on-one conversations to dynamic panel discussions to live music. Engage with the world’s leading content creators, from rising innovators to legendary masters.

You can attend all Films+ events as well as all the film screenings you want by purchasing a Films+ pass.

Sustainable Production Forum

A ground-breaking, one-day event that showcases Vancouver as a world-class destination for sustainable screen-based industry production. Free Event. Pre-registration recommended. (p. 73)

Buffer Festival

PASSES Films+ Pass

Gala Awards Screening & Red Carpet Event

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Admission to all festival screenings, and all Films+ events (subject to availability, excludes Gala Screenings and The Green Fog).

399

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Creator Day

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

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Everyone who pre-registers for these sessions will receive accreditation that they can pick up on the day of the event at the venue.

Admission to all VIFF LIVE events (excluding The Green Fog), the AMP all-day event and ‘How To’ session. Single ticket admissions to VIFF LIVE are also available, individually priced. (p. 76) Creator Talks At these exclusive events, audiences will be inspired by some of the world’s leading creators and innovators as they share expertise on their craft. (p. 79) Creator Talk tickets

Expanding Frontiers in Storytelling: Virtual Reality A day dedicated to VR and AR, with key insights from some of the most respected futurists in the world, as well as conversations and demos from leading VR creators, technology companies and distributors. (p. 77)

150 $ 120 $

VIFF Industry Exchange A must-attend forum that provides attendees with high-level education and business development opportunities from global industry leaders in the ever-evolving digital entertainment market. (p. 77) VIFF Industry Exchange Day ticket Student Discount (valid ID required)

VIFF LIVE is a new series that expands the frame so that live music from British Columbia’s brightest rising talent can share the festival spotlight with the world’s finest cinema. (p. 91) Individual VIFF LIVE event tickets

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Virtual Reality Day ticket Student Discount (valid ID required)

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Totally Indie Day A dynamic day designed to provide independent insights and hands-on advice from top experienced industry pros and rising new talent. (p. 61) Totally Indie Day Morning ticket Totally Indie Day Afternoon + Reception ticket Totally Indie Day All Day ticket Student All Day ticket

75 95 $ 125 $ 99 $ $

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

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

Admission to all Next Stream programming, Totally Indie Day, VIFF LIVE events and up to three (3) Creator Talks (subject to availability, excludes The Green Fog). $

• Ticket Packs offer savings and may be your best option if you plan to attend at least six evening screenings and want guaranteed admission.

Vancouver fans and fellow screen-based storytellers will have the chance to see exclusive YouTube premieres celebrating the latest artistic, innovative work from acclaimed digital creators. (p. 78)

Intended for anyone who wants to learn more about becoming a YouTube creator, or wishes to take their content to the next level. Free event. Pre-registration recommended.

AMP Pass

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

How do I know if I’ll get in?

What is “Standby”?

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

A limited number of “Standby Tickets” will be available at the venue just before showtime. These could be passholder seats that haven’t been taken, or last minute no shows we can release for sale. If you want to explore this option, arrive at the theatre early and join the “Standby Line”. Be advised: When this line is admitted, it will be one ticket per person — you won’t be able to buy tickets for anyone who isn’t present.

Where to buy tickets: Accessibility

Online at viff.org

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

24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Hearing Assistance

Vancouver International Film Centre 1181 Seymour Street (at Davie)

QSC has supplied VIFF venues with a hearing assistance system. A signal is fed directly from our audio system to the supplied hearing assistance device. The user of the device can either wear it like headphones, or hook it into their hearing aid device.

These devices are available at VIFF concierge tables free of charge.

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

In Person (Before the Festival)

Thursday, September 14 until Thursday, September 28 Hours: Mondays-Saturdays: Noon-7pm; Sundays: 2-7pm Theatre Box Offices During the Festival From Thursday, September 28 until Friday, October 13, all of our theatres serve as box offices. You can buy tickets for any film in the festival at any festival theatre (during hours of operation). Box offices open 30 minutes prior to the first screening of the day at that theatre.

Venues VIFF Screening venues have accessible entrances and wheelchair spaces which will be subject to availability.

With the exception of The Rio, all washrooms are accessible. At The Rio, access to the washroom is limited; the nearest accessible washroom is at Starbucks on Commercial Drive which may not be open during late night screenings.

For more information, visit goviff.org/accessibility.

Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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The Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society

Board of Directors Chair

Films+ Curators

Creator Talks & Total Indie Day

Dave Hewitt

Frances Bergin

Chair Emeritus

Michael Francis

Sustainable Production Forum

Board Members

VIFF LIVE

Colin Browne, Kevin Campbell, Scott Dunlop, Joan Elangovan, J. Joly, Liz Shorten, Terry Whitehead Festival Founder

Leonard Schein

Jacqueline Dupuis

Rob Calder/Secret Study Industry Exchange & Virtual Reality

Storytech ® Immersive Brian Seth Hurst, Caitlin Burns, Irena Cronin

Director of Corporate Partnerships

Colin Jarvis

Sponsorship Manager

Morgaine Jennings

Programming Associate Director of Programming

Curtis Woloschuk Director of International Programming

Alan Franey

Sponsorship & Development Coordinator

Andrea Cheng Sponsorship Contracting & Engagement Coordinator

Ashleigh Withall Year round Films+ Curator & Grant Manager

Frances Bergin

Program Manager & Senior Programmer

PoChu AuYeung Year Round Programmer

Marketing

Tom Charity

Director of Marketing

Canadian Programmer: Documentaries & Quebec Cinema

Marketing Coordinator

Terry McEvoy Programming Associate

Mark Peranson International Shorts Programmer

Sandy Gow Future//Present Programmer

Adam Cook MODES Programmer & International Program Coordinator

Tammy Bannister Canadian Program & Guest Coordinator

Melanie Lemaire Dragons & Tigers Programming Consultants

Shelly Kraicer, Maggie Lee Cinema Salon Programmer

Melanie Friesen

International Programming Consultants

Tom Charity, Pavol Hell, Alissa Simon, Michael Falter International Screening Committee

Lainé Slater

Cecelia Cheung Digital Communications Coordinator

Georgina Chaplin VIFF+ Manager

Brie Koniczek VIFF+ Membership & Marketing Coordinator

Ellyn Hadley Social Media Coordinator

Natalie Walters / Jive Communications Digital Production Coordinator

Daniel Lins Graphic Designers

Peng Wei, Georgina Chaplin, Morgaine Jennings, Vivian Chen

Marketing Intern

Heather Hildebrandt

Ticketing Systems Ticketing & Sales Coordinator

Jane Harrison

Mike Archibald, Tania Alekson, Jorge Ignacio Castillo, Iuliana Constantinescu, Venay Felton, Melanie Friesen, Dylan Griffiths, Jane Harrison, David House, Robert & Gretchen Ingram, Morgaine Jennings, Meagan Lum, Joel Martineau, Giancarlo Moro, Graham Peat, Lisa Rasmussen, Milena Salazar, Jonathan Stonehouse, Jack Vermee, Donna Welstein, Keith Yoshida

AV Specialist

International Shorts Screening Committee

Accreditation Assistant

Josh Hamm, Kaen Seguin, Liam Strong, Lori Strong, Ruby Strong

Josh Cabrita, Nelson MacDonald Canadian Screening Committee

Michelle Bjornson, Susan Buie, Andree Faucher, Brie Koniczek, Rai Lai, Janos Sitar, Amanda Thomson

Guest Services Assistant Manager

Ken Tsui

Publicity Coordinator

Guest travel coordinator

Neal Pellegrino

Gregory Adams

Operations

Ticketing Administrator

Lora Haber Accreditation Coordinator

Denice Jagic

Brian Hum

Chris Wakely

Kyle Fostner Special Event Manager

Sheila Galati Distribution Coordinator

Caroline Ballhorn Vancity Theatre Operations Manager

J Bradford

Tallulah

Films+ Films+ Logistics Manager

Michelle Buser

Films+ Production Manager

Robert Wilson Films+ Coordinator

Ori Nevares

Year Round Tech Coordinator

Kathy Evans Operations Coordinator

Patrycja Kamska Business Administrative Coordinator

Ruthie Tabata

Transportation & Distribution Transportation Manager

Cassin Elliott Transportation Assistant

Bookkeeper

Kevin Bredeson

Michelle Honsberger

Chris Kirby

Transportation Dispatcher

Custodial Services

Shawn Brazeau

Print Logistics Festival Exhibitions Festival Exhibitions Manager

Sean Wilson Festival Exhibitions Assistant Manager

Lora Haber Exhibitions Front of House Coordinator

Renee Sutton Box Office Coordinator

Erin Aldridge Exhibitions Assistant

Marvin Wipfler

Venue Captains

Jackie Hoffart, Amanda Thomson

Technical Crew

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

Information Systems Information Systems Coordinator

Jeffrey Lee

Kaen Seguin, Michael Challenor, Peter Quin-Conroy Information Systems Assistant Exhibitions Supervisors

Stephanie Mah

Daphne Andrews, Savannah Kemp Database Administrator Venue Managers

Brent Coate, Sue Cormier, Paul Denis, Frances Fee, Elizabeth Glancy, Janet Glassford, D’arcy Hamilton, Frans Hancke, Alex Henderson, Nancy Kurek, Pat Leong, Graham Lim, Francisca Lau, Veronica Maynard, Jonah McGarva, Zoe Peled, Darrell Stables, Rodney Stewart, Wayne Stewart, Jonathan Stonehouse, Tyson Storozinski, Jennifer Tennant, Vincent Ternida, Madeline Wahl, Vanessa Yip, Keely Langford

Sandy Gow

Festival Publications Editor

Curtis Woloschuk

Associate Editor

Jack Vermee Publications & Scheduling Coordinator

Volunteer Programme

Mike Archibald

Volunteer Engagement Manager

Publications & Publicity Assistant

Brie Koniczek Volunteer Department Assistants

Julia Hopfner, Lena Kruse, Parker O’Brian, Janice Walter Onboarding team

Ya’el Campbell, Janene Preston, Chris Wakely, Kathleen Wright

Publicity & Communications

Guest Services

Communications Manager

Guest Services Manager

Darren Johnson

Guest Experience Coordinator

Director of Operations

Savannah Kemp

Ticketing Assistant Canadian Programming Consultants

Helen Yagi, Andrew Poon, Owen Cameron

Zena Harris/Green Spark Group

Sponsorship Executive Director

Senior Publicists

Jenny Lee Craig

Josh Cabrita Database Publishing

Sandy Gow Graphic Designer

Steve Chow | chowdesign.ca Contributing Writers

Mike Archibald, Tammy Bannister, Josh Cabrita, Jorge Ignacio Castillo, Tom Charity, Adam Cook, Alan Franey, Lawrence Garcia, Sandy Gow, Dylan Griffith, Josh Hamm, Shelly Kraicer, Terry McEvoy, Paloma Pacheco, Mark Peranson, Alissa Simon, Jack Vermee, Curtis Woloschuk Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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Sponsors

Premier Sponsor

Major Partners

Festival Sponsors

Public Supporters

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Premier Supporters

Sponsors

Media Partners

Community Media Partners

the evolution of

Consulate and General Funders

Consulat général de France à Vancouver

Supporting Partners

ACFC WEST, LOCAL 2020 UNIFOR

Technical Sponsors and Official Suppliers

FURNITURE RENTALS + SALES info@rentfluff.com

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rentfluff.com

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Donors & Awards

Donors Private Foundations

Luminary Patrons $1000+

Innovator Patrons $500

Eileen E Mate

Andrea Budzinski

Julie Molnar

Gladys Reinarz

Peter Cheng

Gwendelyn O’Neil

Gus Wong

Mike and Kathy Gallagher

Patricia Shields

Dave Hewitt

Neva Singh

Selwyn Jacob

Vincent Wheeler

Reet Kana

Terry Whitehead

Collin Koo

Michelle Yung

John LeBlanc

Awards Sea to Sky

#mustseebc

Recognizes the outstanding work of a female key creative on a BC-produced feature or short.

Launching at mustseebc.viff.org on September 7.

Presented by TELUS $20,000

Best BC Film Award

Presented by the Harold Greenberg Fund and Encore by Deluxe

$10,000 development bursary sponsored by the Harold Greenberg Fund & $15,000 post-production services credit supplied by Encore by Deluxe.

BC Emerging Filmmaker Award Presented by UBCP/ACTRA, AFBS & William F. White

$7,500 cash prize sponsored by UBCP/ACTRA and ACTRA Fraternal Benefits Society, plus a $10,000 equipment credit supplied by William F. White.

Best BC Short Film Award Presented by Creative BC $5,000

Presented by STORYHIVE

Best Canadian Film Presented by Directors’ Guild of Canada $10,000

Impact Award

Presented by the Lochmaddy Foundation $5,000

Super Channel People’s Choice Award Presented by Super Channel

Emerging Canadian Director Presented by Directors’ Guild of Canada $2,000

Best Canadian Documentary Presented by the Rogers Groups of Funds $15,000

Best Canadian Short Film Presented by Lexus $2,500

Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film

Presented by an anonymous donor $2,000 A round-trip flight anywhere that Delta Air Lines flies.

Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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Hospitality & Catering Partners

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Letters of Welcome

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, it is my pleasure to welcome everyone attending the 36th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).

I am pleased to extend my warmest greetings to everyone attending the 36th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).

Over 36 years, the VIFF has grown in size and influence to become one of North America’s leading destinations for film lovers. This year’s festival provides a wonderful opportunity to enjoy hundreds of films from emerging and well-known filmmakers from Canada and around the world.

I would like to commend the organizers for their commitment to bringing people together through the medium of film. This year’s diverse lineup of films is sure to entertain, challenge assumptions, and offer fresh perspectives.

This festival’s commitment to celebrating and sharing unique and diverse excellence in screen based storytelling has made it one of the most acclaimed film festivals in the world.

VIFF allows us to discover the beauty and intricacies of different cultures, and also presents us with the chance to explore the expansive range of Canadian film.

VIFF is an incredible opportunity for cinema professionals from around the world to network and discover all that BC has to offer, and I would like to thank the Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society for everything they have done to make this event a tremendous success.

Please accept my best wishes for a most enjoyable experience.

Sincerely, The Honourable John Horgan

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

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Letters of Welcome

A Message from the Mayor of Vancouver

A Message from the Minister of Canadian Heritage

On behalf of the City of Vancouver and my colleagues on City Council, I want to extend my warmest greetings to everyone attending the 36th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival.

Welcome to the 36th Vancouver International Film Festival!

The Vancouver International Film Festival is the largest film festival in Western Canada and has become one of the Vancouver’s premier events. It has developed a national and international reputation. This event will recognize the 150th anniversary of Canada; the 50th anniversary of Telefilm Canada, and the 36th Vancouver International Film Festival while showcasing the Government of Canada’s past, present and future support of Canada’s talented film, television and digital media sector, and engage the private sector. This is a credit to the founders, organizers and thousands of volunteers who have worked so hard over the years to make the Film Festival such a success. Film exposes us to new realities, emotion, social and cultural experiences, like nothing else is able to do. We are drawn to the images on the screen for entertainment and insight. I want to congratulate all those who bring this wonderful event to life on the screen.

As we celebrate Canada 150, we have an incredible opportunity to highlight our rich culture and the talent of our artists and artisans. This is why the Government of Canada is pleased to support the Vancouver International Film Festival, which offers some of the best contemporary films from this country and beyond. This major celebration of cinema provides us with one-of-a-kind artistic experiences, and allows us to discover the creativity and originality of film and our filmmakers.

As Minister of Canadian Heritage, I would like to thank the organizers, volunteers and filmmakers who worked with passion to make this event possible. I would also like to congratulate all of this year’s award nominees and recipients. Enjoy the festival!

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

Yours truly,

The Honourable Mélanie Joly

Gregor Robertson

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Letters of Welcome

A Message from the Minister of Jobs, Tourism As the Minister of Tourism, Arts & Culture, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 36th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF). British Columbia’s film industry is an ever-growing part of the city and our province’s culture. Not only do we have breathtaking backdrops and a highly skilled film industry, we also have institutes like the Vancouver Film School and Capilano University that are developing the next generation of talented British Columbians right here in Vancouver.

I’d like to acknowledge the VIFF staff, volunteers and supporters for their efforts in organizing the largest film festival in Western Canada. Together, over the next few weeks, we will have profound film experiences that will enrich our lives with knowledge and laughter.

This festival is yours to enjoy and we are honoured to entertain you in the most hospitable way.

Lisa Beare

A Message from the Chair of the Board, Telefilm Canada

A Message from the Chief Executive Officer of Creative BC

Telefilm Canada joins with the Vancouver International Film Festival to celebrate our films and gather together the industry, creative talents and the public around stories—funny, sad or deeply moving—that shape our culture and mark our collective imagination.

Creative BC is excited to welcome you to the 36th annual Vancouver International Film Festival!

Placing the promotion of Canadian film firmly at the centre of its mission, and seeking to get more and more film lovers to experience our movies, Telefilm supports original initiatives that foster the discovery of emerging creative talents and the rediscovery of more seasoned filmmakers. Our organization works closely with the industry and with numerous partners to spur our cinema to ever-greater heights, at home and on the international scene.

Although our movies begin their careers at home in Canada, they are increasingly sought after by the world’s most prestigious film festivals, winning awards as well as praise from international critics.

While this success is built primarily on talent, the international renown of our productions, for its part, is the result of the initiatives put forward by you and our supportive industry.

We are thrilled once again to partner and support VIFF in delivering one of the world’s most prominent film festivals.

As the provincial film commission, Creative BC is tremendously proud to support British Columbia’s dynamic and diverse creative community as it collaborates to grow our increasingly rich and distinctive film culture.

As one of North America’s largest film festivals, VIFF is certainly one of the city’s most anticipated annual events. From audiences and storytellers to industry and community, VIFF brings us together and supports BC on so many levels – socially, economically, culturally and more.

Congratulations to everyone involved this year, especially to the participating filmmakers, organizers and volunteers.

Thank you for your hard work, creativity, commitment and vision. Your efforts are sincerely appreciated by all of us who will now simply delight in experiencing all that VIFF 2017 offers.

Together again, let’s enjoy the show!

On behalf of Telefilm, thank you for sharing our passion and for contributing in such a wonderful way to the promotion of our film industry.

Enjoy the festival!

Prem Gill

Michel Roy

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Panorama

The world’s boldest creators and their exceptional works.

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

Galas & Special Presentations Contemporary World Cinema Spotlight on France Documentaries

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Opening Gala

Sea to Sky / British Columbia

“Movie Nights Across Canada”

Opening Gala

Meditation Park MINA SHUM, CANADA, 2017, 94 MIN.

THU, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 30 WED, OCT 11

7:00 PM 12:30 PM 6:15 PM

CENT PLAY RIO

Maria (Cheng Pei Pei) has spent decades of devoted marriage dutifully excusing the prejudices and vices of her husband Bing (Tzi Ma). Whether he’s insisting that she never mention their estranged son or swilling his inexplicably preferred cocktail of red wine and Coca Cola, Maria chooses to focus on the considerable sacrifices he’s made for their family. But when she discovers another woman’s thong in his pocket (and handles the racy undergarment as if it were toxic waste), she’s no longer able to turn a blind eye to his indiscretions.

Flushed out of her domestic sanctum, she engages in some unintentionally comic sleuthing that not only uncovers clues to Bing’s clandestine activities but also introduces her to new East Van communities and ultimately sets her on a course to self-discovery.

Mina Shum makes an inspired return to narrative filmmaking with this richly detailed, unmistakably Vancouver story that recalls her breakout Double Happiness. Viewers who came to know Cheng Pei Pei through her ferocious turn in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

will delight in watching Maria’s long-dormant inner fire being slowly stoked as she asserts herself in ways Bing had always discouraged. Meanwhile, anyone who’s ever coughed up $20 to illegally park in a PNE-adjacent backyard will find hilarity in Shum’s depiction of a turf war between rival racketeers in the form of ornery Don McKellar and a band of brightly clad Chinese-Canadian seniors. Packed with note-perfect performances—including the exceptional Sandra Oh as Maria’s conflicted daughter—Shum’s bittersweet film is emotionally rewarding and endlessly relatable. After all, we all have families.

Cast Cheng Pei Pei, Sandra Oh, Tzi Ma, Don McKellar, Liane Balaban, Zak Santiago Prod Stephen Hegyes, Raymond Massey, Mina Shum Scr Mina Shum Cam Peter Wunstorf Ed Daria Ellerman Mus Andrew Lockington Prod Co Thoughts From The Asylum Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc.

As part of our 2017 sesquicentennial celebrations, our Opening Gala red carpet screening is in partnership with Movie Nights Across Canada, a nation-wide program connecting Canadians as proud fans, consumers and supporters of Canadian creative, cultural and content sectors.

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SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs, in collaboration with SCA, is supporting Wells Hill from its inception to its premiere performance through experimental stages of cutting-edge development and innovation.

Three years in the making, Vancouver’s Vanessa Goodman brings the world premiere of Wells Hill to the DanceHouse stage. Seven exceptional dancers splice themes of technology and communication into this smart, vibrant new work based on the sweeping philosophies of Marshall McLuhan and Glenn Gould.

These two Canadian luminaries altered how we consume art and information, and their prescient ideas provide an engaging framework for an exciting, immersive performance that is both visceral and cerebral.

November 23-26, 2017 www.sfuwoodwards.ca

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M/A/D / USA

The Green Fog – A San Francisco Fantasia with Kronos Quartet GUY MADDIN, EVAN JOHNSON, GALEN JOHNSON, USA, 65 MIN.

TUE, OCT 10

8:00 PM

CENT

This multi-experiential, visual and sound collage by award-winning filmmaker and cultural iconoclast Guy Maddin, in collaboration with brothers Evan and Galen Johnson (The Forbidden Room, Seances), re-imagines Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Originally commissioned by SFFILM with support from Nion McEvoy and Stanford Live, this must-attend event features the world-renowned Kronos Quartet performing live the score composed by Jacob Garchik.

Maddin and his co-directors’ interpretation of the Hitchcock classic doesn’t use any footage from the original film. Instead, San Francisco Bay Area-based footage from a variety of sources—studio classics, ‘50s noir, documentary and experimental films, and ‘70s prime-time TV—is pieced together to create a “parallel-universe version,” (Maddin’s words) employing the Canadian filmmaker’s unique assemblage technique and style.

“I’m so excited we get to team up with Kronos Quartet to lay some green fog over Vancouver. And what a strange experience it was working on this project. How often does one get to recast the stars of his or her favourite film? Or completely replace its soundtrack with a new one played live? How delightful to move archetypes aroundlike so much furniture in a dream!” - GUY MADDIN

For more than 40 years, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet—David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to continually re-imagining the string quartet experience. In the process, Kronos has become one of the world’s most celebrated and influential ensembles, performing thousands of concerts, releasing more than 60 recordings, collaborating with an eclectic mix of composers and performers, commissioning over 900 works and arrangements for string quartet, and receiving more than 40 awards. Kronos’ work has also featured prominently in a number of films, including two recent Academy Award–nominated documentaries: the AIDSthemed How to Survive a Plague and Dirty Wars. Additional films featuring Kronos’ music include Hochelaga terre des ames, Noah, The Fountain, Requiem for a Dream, Dracula, and Mishima, as well as La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty), 21 Grams, Heat, and True Stories, among others.

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Closing Gala

Panorama / USA

Closing Gala

Wonderstruck TODD HAYNES, USA, 2017, 117 MIN.

FRI, OCT 13 FRI, OCT 13

7:30 PM 9:15 PM

CENT PLAY

CANADIAN PREMIERE. Todd Haynes (Carol, Far From Heaven) returns with a marvellous time-travelling tale that—as so many have already said—will, indeed, leave you feeling what the title suggests. Based on The Invention of Hugo Cabret author Brian Selznick’s YA novel, this dazzlingly inventive drama runs on parallel tracks while following the fortunes of two deaf 12-year-olds: Ben (Oakes Fegley), a lad in 1977 Michigan who loses his mother (Michelle Williams), and Rose (luminous newcomer Millicent Simmonds), a girl in 1927 New Jersey obsessed with silent screen star Lillian Mayhew (Julianne Moore, channelling Lillian Gish). For (seemingly) very different reasons, both kids find themselves drawn to a gloriously rendered New York City in search of their own burgeoning identities. Haynes, aided by cinematographer Ed Lachman’s perfect evocation of New York in black and white (1927) and colour (1977) as well as Carter Burwell’s beautiful score, masterfully interweaves their picaresque tales (no spoilers here about how he ties them together) to soul-stirring effect.

“Intricate and ambitious… Wonderstruck embraces so many shimmery, evanescent ideas, it’s a marvel that any one picture—let alone one you can take your kids to—can hold them.

This is a romance of New York City, a love letter to the pleasure of making anything by hand (with paper or paint or even, possibly, film), a story of finding the place where you belong…

Cinematographer Edward Lachman gives us a New York whose majesty lies in its textures and colors, a world of warm, silvery black-and-white and gritty-glorious gray-greens. And every performance is wonderful, though it’s young Simmonds whose face is likely to haunt you.”—Stephanie Zacharek, Time Cast Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Oakes Fegley, Millicent Simmonds, Jaden Michael, Cory Michael Smith Exec Brian Bell, Sandy Powell Prod Christine Vachon, Pam Koffler, John Sloss Scr Brian Selznick Cam Ed Lachman Ed Affonso Goncalves Prod Des Mark Friedberg Mus Carter Burwell Prod Co Amazon Studios Dist/Print Elevation Pictures

Selected Filmography Safe; Far From Heaven; Carol

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Special Presentations

Panorama / Sweden

Panorama / UK

Borg vs. McEnroe

Breathe

JANUS METZ, SWEDEN/DENMARK/FINLAND, 2017, 100 MIN.

SAT, OCT 7 WED, OCT 11 FRI, OCT 13

8:45 PM 6:30 PM 3:30 PM

ANDY SERKIS, UK, 2017, 117 MIN.

CENT CENT PLAY

One of the greatest tennis matches of all time—the 1980 Wimbledon Men’s Final between Björn Borg and John McEnroe—provides the baseline drama for this riveting sports movie. The media position it as a clash of opposites: the cool, imperturbable Swede vs. the hot, volatile New Yorker—the master vs. the upstart—but the film suggests the two young men actually share much in common. And like all the best tennis games, this memorable final proves a nail-biting psychological thriller, a contest not so much of skill as of nerve.

At the grand old age of 25, Borg is on course for his fifth straight Wimbledon title. His patient, unflappable style and impeccable technique have made him unbeatable. But McEnroe, at 21, is aggressive, brilliant and unpredictable, and he’s ready to put his stamp on Centre Court. Director Janus Metz comes from documentary (including the intense Afghan war doc Armadillo), but he shoots the game in ways we have never seen before and elicits superb performances from Shia LaBeouf as McEnroe and Sverrir Gudnason (an uncanny lookalike) as Borg. The always-excellent Stellan Skarsgård is the Swede’s trainer and mentor. It’s the first tennis movie to truly ace it.

Cast Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Sverrir Gudnason Exec Tim King Prod Jon Nohrstedt, Fredrik Wikström Nicastro Scr Ronnie Sandahl Cam Niels Thastum Ed Per Sandholdt, Per K. Kirkegaard Prod Des Lina Nordqvist Mus Jonas Struck, Vladislav Delay, Jon Ekstrand, Carl-Johan Sevedag Prod Co SF Studios Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc.

FRI, SEP 29

6:15 PM

CENT

In the kind of technically accomplished and emotionally involving role that often captures Academy Award voters’ hearts, Andrew Garfield plays Robin Cavendish, a handsome and charming young man apparently living a blessed life—until, at 26, shortly after learning he is to become a father, he’s struck down by polio and left paralyzed, unable even to breathe without the help of machines. Yet his wife Diana (Claire Foy) refuses to allow Robin to succumb to despair, and together they find a way to restore meaning and joy to their lives—with a little help from inventor Teddy Hall (Hugh Bonneville).

The directorial debut of Andy Serkis, the actor famous for modelling Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Caesar in Planet of the Apes, Breathe is an inspiring true story about a breakthrough in disability treatment, told with sensitivity and finesse. Pedigree runs right through the production, from screenwriter William Nicholson (Shadowlands, Les Misérables, Gladiator) to cinematographer Robert Richardson (JFK, Hugo, Kill Bill) and composer Nitin Sawhney (Midnight’s Children). Ultimately, of course, this is Garfield’s movie, and this brilliant young actor effortlessly commands the screen with a witty, compelling and very touching performance.

Cast Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Tom Hollander, Diana Rigg, Miranda Raison, Hugh Bonneville Exec Phil Robertson, Christine Langan, Joe Oppenheimer, Tim Haslam, Hugo Grumbar, Claudia Bluemhuber, Ian Hutchinson, Florian Dargel, Irene Gall, James Spring, Larry Taube, Natascha Wharton Prod Jonathan Cavendish Scr William Nicholson Cam Robert Richardson Ed Masahiro Hirakubo Prod Des James Merifield Mus Nitin Sawhney Prod Co Imaginarium Productions Dist/ Print Elevation Pictures

Filmography Armadillo

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Special Presentations

Panorama

Panorama / USA

Panorama / Chile

Call Me by Your Name

A Fantastic Woman Una mujer fantástica

LUCA GUADAGNINO, USA/ITALY/FRANCE, 2017, 131 MIN.

THU, OCT 5 SUN, OCT 8 THU, OCT 12

9:00 PM 9:00 PM 3:15 PM

CENT CENT CENT

In the summer of 1983, “somewhere in Northern Italy,” Elio (Timothée Chalamet), the 17-year-old son of an American archeology professor (Michael Stuhlbarg), lounges, reads, composes and shows slight interest in a local girl his age. But then his father’s apprentice, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a chef d’oeuvre with an impressive physique, washes up on the Mediterranean coast and Elio’s initial ploy to pass time is abruptly abandoned. A visceral urge, consummated in a late-night dance to the propulsive rhythms of The Psychedelic Furs’ “Love my Way,” brings the pair’s desires to the forefront and heightens Elio’s dilemma of denial: “Is it better to speak, or die?”

André Aciman’s 2007 novel is the perfect vessel for I Am Love director Luca Guadagnino’s extravagant style. Working from a screenplay co-written by the always reliable James Ivory, Guadagnino and his illustrious cast build the drama to an insurmountable emotional tenor, imbuing this sun-drenched romance with the resplendence of overlong summers and the first loves they often arouse.

“Call Me by Your Name has a choking emotional intensity that will be apparent to anyone who’s ever dared to reach out to another.”—Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York Cast Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois Exec Tom Dolby, Naima Abed, Nicholas Kaiser, Lourenço Sant’Anna, Sophie Mas, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Derek Simonds, Margarethe Baillou Prod Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman Scr James Ivory, Luca Guadagnino, Walter Fasano Cam Sayombhu Mukdeeprom Ed Walter Fasano Prod Des Samuel Deshors Art Dir Roberta Federico Prod Co Frenesy / La Cinéfacture Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc. Selected Filmography I Am Love; A Bigger Splash

SEBASTIÁN LELIO, CHILE/GERMANY/USA/SPAIN, 2017, 104 MIN.

MON, OCT 2 THU, OCT 5 WED, OCT 11

3:45 PM 6:15 PM 9:00 PM

From the director who gave us Gloria, a smash hit at VIFF 13, comes this life-affirming gem. Sebastian Lelio’s film features Daniela Vega in a stunning performance as Marina, a trans woman of proud bearing. As the film begins, she and Orlando (Francisco Reyes) are a happy couple. She’s a part-time singer in her 20s; he’s a divorced executive in his 50s. His sudden death is a terrible blow, but the aftermath is even worse: faced with flagrant disrespect, first from the authorities and then from his surviving family, Marina finds herself having to fight for the basic recognition most of us take for granted.

By turns joyous and heart-wrenching, A Fantastic Woman is dynamite drama. This one has huge popular appeal, but it bears no trace of commercial compromise and, in a refreshing contrast to Hollywood practice, its protagonist is played by an actual trans performer. Marina is a heroine for our times: a victim of cruel conservatism but a triumphant figure nonetheless. Compassionate, courageous and lovingly made, this is a movie that will reach out and touch you.

“Ravishing… represents a huge leap in terms of trans narratives onscreen, but by any standard, it’s a powerful drama of a woman whose suffering never dims her determination to keep moving forward.”—David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter Best Screenplay, Berlin 17 Cast Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Kuppenheim, Nicolas Saavedra, Amparo Noguera Exec Rocío Jadue, Mariane Hartard, Ben von Dobeneck Prod Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín Scr Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza Cam Benjamín Echazarreta Ed Soledad Salfate Prod Des Estefanía Larraín Mus Matthew Herbert Prod Co Fabula Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc. Selected Filmography The Year of the Tiger; Gloria

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Special Presentations

Panorama / USA

Panorama / France

The Florida Project

Happy End

SEAN BAKER, USA, 2017, 115 MIN.

SAT, OCT 7

MICHAEL HANEKE, FRANCE/AUSTRIA/GERMANY, 2017, 107 MIN.

6:00 PM

CENT

In a group of dilapidated, pastel-coloured motels near Disney World in Orlando, Florida, troubled, down-at-heel families try to make do. Originally built to hold the tourist overflow, these are now surreal places, one of which is overseen by manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe, at his most understated) who does what he can to help cash-strapped parents like 22-year-old single mom Halley (Bria Vinaite) and her whirlwind of a sixyear-old daughter, Moonee (an unstoppable Brooklynn Prince). Moonee couldn’t care less about the real-world problems of adults; as far as she and her friends--wonderfully feral kids all, brimming with equal parts innocence and devil-may-care insouciance-are concerned, they are living in a magical wonderland, and they plan on exploiting it to the full… As he tracks their increasingly daring adventures, writer-director Sean Baker (Starlet, Tangerine) gives us an immersive, moving drama awash in the colours of faded dreams and youthful hope, and a slice of Americana that, in its combination of desperation and defiance, seems particularly apt right now.

“Near-perfect… brilliant, buoyant, and ultimately heart-wrenching… Baker’s approach is to immerse you so deep in a place, and the patter of the people who live there, that it begins to feel like your home… The film adheres to the flighty, anarchic whims of its protagonists… tracking them in gorgeous 35mm shot by Alexis Zabe, whose day-glo Florida facades and pastel clouds fizz off the screen.”—Emily Yoshida, Vulture Cast Willem Dafoe, Bria Vinaite, Brooklynn Prince Exec Darren Dean, Elayne Schneiderman Schmidt Prod Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kevin Chinoy, Andrew Duncan, Alex Saks, Francesca Silvestri, Shih-Ching Tsou Scr Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch Cam Alexis Zabé Ed Sean Baker Prod Des Stephonik Youth Mus Matthew Hearon-Smith Prod Co June Pictures Dist/Print Elevation Pictures Selected Filmography Prince of Broadway; Starlet; Tangerine

TUE, OCT 3 THU, OCT 5 SUN, OCT 8

6:15 PM 3:30 PM 6:15 PM

CENT CENT CENT

With Michael Haneke directing, you know the title of his latest work is nothing if not deeply ironic. Against the unfolding refugee crisis in the coastal town of Calais, the rich, disaffected Laurent family inhabits a grand estate as if it was entitled royalty from a bygone era. The king-like paterfamilias, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant), is losing his wits and wants to end it all; aunt Anne (the glacial Isabelle Huppert, as good as ever), now in charge of the family’s construction firm, is awaiting her marriage to a British lawyer (Toby Jones) while dealing with a terrible business crisis: her alcoholic wastrel of a son Pierre (Franz Rogowski) is responsible for a devastating accident on a construction site, and fears of a civil suit have the family quivering. Enter Anne’s 13-year-old niece Ève (Fantine Harduin, superb), a frighteningly calm young woman with a penchant for smart devices and a possibly sociopathic personality…

“Happy End is a satirical nightmare of haute-bourgeois European prosperity: as stark, brilliant and unforgiving as a halogen light… It is also as gripping as a satanically inspired soap opera, a dynasty of lost souls… It is unmistakably [Haneke’s] work, presented with his usual masterly compositional flair, a mosaic of horror, filmed by cinematographer Christian Berger [Haneke’s Benny’s Video, Caché and The White Ribbon] in crystal-clear light, often with icily detached long-shot camera positions… Yet here there is an intriguing new tang of comedy or even grisly farce…”—Peter Bradshaw, Guardian Cast Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Franz Rogowski, Laura Verlinden Exec Margaret Menegoz, Uwe Schott, Michael Katz Prod Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduscka Cam Christian Berger Ed Monika Willi Prod Des Olivier Radot Prod Co Les Films du Losange / X Filme Creative Pool / Wega Film Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc. Selected Filmography The Piano Teacher; The White Ribbon; Amour

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Special Presentations

Panorama

Gateway / China

Sea to Sky / Canada

The Hidden Sword

Indian Horse

Daobei cangshen

STEPHEN CAMPANELLI, CANADA, 2017, 100 MIN.

XU HAOFENG, CHINA, 2017, 136 MIN.

WED, OCT 4 SAT, OCT 7 WED, OCT 11

9:00 PM 2:30 PM 9:00 PM

PLAY CENT RIO

In 1933, Chinese soldiers led by heroic officer Shen Feixue defeat a Japanese attack on the Great Wall using only swords. But Shen disappears, and an imposter (Huang Jue) seduces Shen’s widow, the sword-wielding beauty Zhihui (Xu Qing). Together, they try to steal Shen’s teacher Master Kong’s ultimate sword techniques, and manage to establish a flamboyantly despotic rule over their small town. But heroic young Kong Dingyi (Zhang Aoyue), Master Kong’s grandson and prize student, stands in their way.

Complications ensue in the person of an exotic female dancer/acrobat (Li Bo), who appears as a travelling saleswoman. And the Kongs adopt orphaned wastrel Qingqing, who grows into a beautiful young woman with eyes for Dingyi. Will he defeat his own longings and enemies both intimate and foreign, and preserve his family’s honour?

China’s new master of elegant chivalric swordplay, Xu Haofeng, is famous for his intellectually acute martial arts novels, and for his three previous art-action movie showpieces, with their elegant, spare, authentically executed action set pieces. Here, Xu adds big-budget eye-popping spectacle and real comic brio to his palette, and the results are both exciting and seductive. Xu Qing’s sparkling eroticism, Zhang Aoyue’s youthful heroism (and utterly convincing martial arts moves) and a parade of soon-tobe-classic swordplay set pieces anchor this dazzlingly shot, star-studded comic action masterpiece.

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SAT, SEP 30 MON, OCT 2

6:30 PM 1:45 PM

PLAY IN10

In this moving adaptation of Richard Wagamese’s acclaimed novel, director Stephen Campanelli condemns Canada’s most deplorable injustice while celebrating our national game’s transcendent power. Torn from his Ojibwe family as a child in the 1950s, Saul Indian Horse is left to languish in an Ontario residential school, where he’s forbidden to speak his own language and faces corporal punishment for the slightest transgression. Undaunted, Saul finds salvation on a sheet of ice, where he demonstrates a hockey sense that allows him to slip bodychecks with a dancer’s grace and constantly leaves him three moves ahead of opponents. However, even when his talent allows him to escape the school and places him on the precipice of stardom, he can’t evade the ramifications of past abuses.

A frequent member of Clint Eastwood’s camera team, Campanelli ensures that Indian Horse is lensed in inspired fashion, contrasting the claustrophobic confines of the school that restrict Saul’s self-expression with the expansive canvas of the ice where he’s allowed to demonstrate an artist’s flair. Abetted by Dennis Foon’s empathetic script, the director also elicits tremendous performances from the three actors— Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck and Ajuawak Kapashesit—who play our guides through Saul’s two decades of trials and triumphs. Saul’s resolve and strength in his struggle ultimately serve as a testament to the Indigenous peoples’ indomitable spirit.

Cast Xu Qing, Chun Xia, Zhang Aoyue, Huang Jue, Geng Le, ChenKuan Tai Exec Yang Yang, Wu Bing Prod Guan Dandan, Chen Dongqiu Cam Shao Dan Ed Xu Haofeng, He Sisi Prod Des Cui Ren Mus An Wei Prod Co Poly Film Print Poly Film Investment Co., Ltd.

Cast Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck, Ajuawak Kapashesit, Michiel Huisman, Martin Donovan Exec Clint Eastwood, Roger Frappier Prod Christine Haebler, Trish Dolman, Paula Devonshire Scr Dennis Foon Cam Yves Bélanger Ed Geoff Ashenhurst, Jamie Alain Prod Des Oleg M. Savytski, Rocco Matteo Mus Jesse Zubot Prod Co Screen Siren Pictures / Terminal City Pictures / Devonshire Productions Dist/Print Elevation Pictures

Selected Filmography The Sword Identity; Judge Archer; The Final Master

Filmography Momentum

Special Presentations

Panorama / UK

Panorama / Poland

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Loving Vincent

YORGOS LANTHIMOS, UK, 2017, 121 MIN.

MON, OCT 2

DOROTA KOBIELA, HUGH WELCHMAN, POLAND/UK, 2017, 95 MIN.

9:00 PM

CENT

From the twisted mind of the man who gave us The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos, this is another wildly original, blackly comic, sinister and disturbing parable about what it means to be human. Colin Farrell plays Andrew, a brilliant heart surgeon whose happy home is threatened by a teenage interloper, the son of a patient who died under the knife. Martin (Barry Keoghan) tells him that to make reparations, Andrew must sacrifice one of his own family, son, daughter, or wife (Nicole Kidman), or lose them all. Suffice it to say, the creepy Martin leaves the surgeon in no doubt that he can deliver on his macabre threats. So: who to choose?

If the scenario smacks of a 90s revenge thriller, Lanthimos keeps us off balance by mixing suspense with surrealism and absurdity, delivering a ruthlessly controlled but utterly unhinged shocker that is funniest when it’s scariest, and vice versa.

“The rich vein of unsettling darkness and psychological unease that ripples like a treacherous underground stream beneath the absurdist humor of Yorgos Lanthimos’ work becomes a brooding requiem of domestic horror in his masterfully realized fifth feature.”—David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

THU, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 30

6:30 PM 4:30 PM

RIO CENT

Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman’s remarkable animated work—”the world’s first fully painted feature”—brings to life the paintings of Vincent van Gogh via a kind of rotoscoping technique similar to the one used in Richard Linklater’s Waking Life but with an obsessive attention to detail never seen before. To wit: the film took seven years to make, and each of its 65,000 frames was hand-painted by one of 115 professional oil-painters.

More than 130 paintings by van Gogh serve as the initial backgrounds for a kind of detective tale wherein Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth), the son of the postmaster in Arles, tries to understand how the painter (Robert Gulaczyk) could go from the tranquil artist he knew to a suicide in only six weeks. Travelling from Arles in the south, where van Gogh produced some of his most amazing work, to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, where the painter died and is buried (alongside brother Theo), Roulin questions those close to van Gogh in his quest for knowledge. And all the while, he is immersed in the world of the master’s paintings—and so are we…

Cast Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone Exec Andrew Lowe, Daniel Battsek, Sam Lavender, David Kosse, Nicki Hattingh, Amit Pandya, Anne Sheehan, Peter Watson, Marie-Gabrielle Stewart Prod Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos Scr Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou Cam Thimios Bakatakis Ed Yorgos Mavropsaridis Prod Des Jade Healy Prod Co Element Pictures Dist/Print Elevation Pictures

“A truly awe-inspiring portrait of the great Dutch artist… [that pulls] audiences into the delirious, hyper-sensual world suggested by van Gogh’s oeuvre… Mere photography couldn’t possibly capture van Gogh’s paradoxical nature, and indeed, previous biopics have tended to pick one facet and stick to it. By contrast, this one embraces his complexity, withholding a clear view of Vincent… until the very end—a tactic that reinforces the notion that we can only truly understand him through the work he left behind.”— Peter Debruge, Variety

Selected Filmography Dogtooth; Alps; The Lobster

Best Animated Film, Best Director, Shanghai 17

Best Screenplay, Cannes 17

Cast Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk, Helen McCrory, Chris O’Dowd, Saoirse Ronan Exec Claudia Bluemhuber, Gerd Schepers, Ian Hutchinson, Charlotte Ubben, Laurie Ubben, Edwart Noeltner, David Parfit Prod Hugh Welchman, Ivan MacTaggart, Sean Bobbit Scr Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Jacek Dehnel Cam Tristan Oliver, Lukasz Zal Ed Justyna Wierszynska, Dorota Kobiela Prod Des Matthew Button Mus Clint Mansell Prod Co Breakthru Films / Trademark Films Dist/Print Mongrel Media Inc. Filmography (Dorota Kobiela) The Flying Machine

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Special Presentations

Panorama

Panorama / Australia

Gateway / South Korea

Mountain

Okja

JENNIFER PEEDOM, AUSTRALIA, 2017, 74 MIN.

SUN, OCT 8 THU, OCT 12

BONG JOON HO, SOUTH KOREA/USA, 2017, 121 MIN.

4:00 PM 6:30 PM

CENT CENT

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Jennifer Peedom takes us to exhilarating heights as she

explores mountain climbing in this breathtaking, immersive documentary. You may just find yourself gripping the seat arms tightly as you view a climber hanging off a sheer rock face sans ropes; the line between awe and fear is often blurry, and never more so than at these elevations. Along for the thrill ride here are Richard Tognetti and his Australian Chamber Orchestra, who give us a succession of rousing pieces, both repertory and original, to carry us through the journey. The music and the images work in beautiful synchronicity, and you most certainly need the theatre setting to experience their full effects.

Peedom’s movie, wonderfully narrated by Willem Dafoe, takes the time to provide some more contemplative moments, and these are equally beautiful. The director also takes us through the history of recreational mountain climbing, with fascinating archival footage illustrating just how much the sport has changed in the years since Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay. Mountaineers aren’t the only ones looking to cheat death; we get footage of heliskiers, tightrope walkers and other compatriots as well. The common denominators are altitude and adrenaline; with this movie, you get both without risking your neck. “[A] 70-minute rush of adrenaline; a safari into the sublime; a vertiginous voyage to the top of the world.”—Janine Israel, Guardian Featuring Willem Dafoe Prod Jennifer Peedom, Jo-anne McGowan Cam Robert Macfarlane Scr Renan Ozturk Ed Christian Gazal, Scott Gray Mus Richard Tognetti, Australian Chamber Orchestra Print Dogwoof

SAT, SEP 30

7:00 PM

CENT

For 10 idyllic years, young Mija (An Seo Hyun) has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja--a massive animal and an even bigger friend--at her home in the mountains of South Korea. But that changes when a family-owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and transports her to New York, where image obsessed and self-promoting CEO Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton) has big plans for Mija’s dearest friend.

With no particular plan but single-minded in intent, Mija sets out on a rescue mission, but her already daunting journey quickly becomes more complicated when she crosses paths with disparate groups of capitalists, demonstrators and consumers, each battling to control the fate of Okja… while all Mija wants to do is bring her friend home.

Deftly blending genres, humor, poignancy and drama, Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer, The Host) begins with the gentlest of premises--the bond between man and animal--and ultimately creates a distinct and layered vision of the world that addresses the animal inside us all.

Okja is a Plan B Entertainment, Lewis Pictures and Kate Street Picture Company production in association with Netflix.

Cast Tilda Swinton, An Seo Hyun, Jake Gyllenhaal, Byun Heebong, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun Prod Dooho Choi, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Woo Sik Seo, Lewis Taewan Kim, Bong Joon Ho Scr Bong Joon Ho, Jon Ronson Cam Darius Khondji Ed Yang Jinmo Prod Des Lee Ha Jun, Kevin Thompson Mus Jaeil Jung Prod Co Plan B Entertainment / Lewis Pictures / Kate Street Picture Company Dist/Print Netflix Selected Filmography Memories of Murder; The Host; Snowpiercer

This VIFF Visionary Special Presentation is a celebration of the filmmaking achievements of Bong Joon Ho. Co-Presented by IATSE891, this event will feature an extended “In Conversation” session with Bong Joon Ho and Oscar awardwinning VFX supervisor Erik-Jan de Boer of Method Studios.

Bong Joon Ho has been a staple of VIFF’s programming for years. VIFF has showcased many films from his outstanding repertoire, including the masterly Memories of Murder, Mother, The Host, and Snowpiercer. Filmed, in part, in British Columbia, Okja is a larger than life, propulsive movie, positively Spielbergian in its mixture of VFX mastery, sentiment, and action.

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Special Presentations

Panorama / Sweden

Panorama / New Zealand

The Square

Top of the Lake: China Girl

RUBEN ÖSTLUND, SWEDEN/GERMANY/FRANCE/DENMARK, 2017, 145 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 TUE, OCT 3

9:00 PM 3:15 PM

JANE CAMPION, ARIEL KLEIMAN, NEW ZEALAND/AUSTRALIA, 2017, 360 MIN.

CENT PLAY

In this Palme d’Or-winning satire from Force Majeure director Ruben Östlund, Claes Bang plays Christian, a clean shaven, Prius-driving curator of a contemporary art museum in Stockholm. Around the same time he acquires the installation of the title—a 4x4 meter zone wherein we “all share equal rights and obligations”—Christian’s phone and wallet are stolen along with some precious inherited cufflinks. While he’s out tracking the culprit—an escapade that takes him outside the utopian space of the gallery—a couple of outsourced nincompoops are back at the office devising a controversial ad campaign for The Square’s grand opening that will land our protagonist in even hotter water.

Without sacrificing his dark and biting sense of humour, the always rambunctious Östlund endeavours to ask pressing moral questions using the drollest of manners.

Can art save the world? Are people less likely to help a victim when others are present?

And are high art patrons really only there to devour the complimentary smorgasbord?

“Ruben Östlund truly anoints himself with The Square, an excoriating razor-burn of a movie that deploys drollery like an instrument of torture.”— Jessica Kiang, The Playlist Palme d’Or, Cannes 17 Cast Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary, Christopher Laessø, Marina Schiptjenko Exec Tomas Eskilsson, Agneta Perman, Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas Prod Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober Cam Fredrik Wenzel Ed Ruben Östlund, Jacob Secher Schulsinger Prod Des Josefin Åsberg Prod Co Plattform Produktion AB / Essential Film / Parisienne / Coproduction Office Dist/Print The Archive

SUN, OCT 1 SUN, OCT 8

10:30 AM 11:30 AM

VCT IN10

CANADIAN PREMIERE. The scene of the crime has changed—rural New Zealand has

been replaced by downtown Sydney, Australia—but all the qualities that made Jane Campion’s feminist police procedural a must-see show four years ago are still very much present and correct in the follow-up: Elisabeth Moss, superb, as the troubled detective, Robin Griffin; an engrossing, vertiginous mystery for her to unravel; Campion’s acute emotional intelligence, sharp social conscience and keen cinematic eye. Plus Nicole Kidman bringing her exacting glamour to the role of a lesbian academic, the mother of the now-teenage daughter Robin put out for adoption as a baby.

When a suitcase washes up on Bondi Beach, visible human hair hinting at the contents, the chances of tracking down the killer appear slim. But this is not an isolated incident, and as Robin digs deeper, the net must be cast wider…

“Call it television, call it a six-hour movie, call it ‘the future,’ it doesn’t matter. Whatever the hell you call it, Top of the Lake: China Girl is as beautiful and soul-stirring as anything you’ll see on any kind of screen this year.”—David Ehrlich, IndieWire Cast Elisabeth Moss, Nicole Kidman, Alice Englert, Gwendoline Christie, David Dencik, Ewen Leslie Exec Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Jane Campion Prod Philippa Campbell, Libby Sharpe Scr Gerard Lee, Jane Campion Cam Germain McMicking Ed Alexandre de Franceschi, Scott Gray Prod Des Annie Beauchamp Mus Mark Bradshaw Prod Co See-Saw Films for BBC Two Print BBC Worldwide Selected Filmography (Jane Campion) Sweetie; The Piano; Holy Smoke; (Ariel Kleiman) Partisan Note: In addition to the 360 min. runtime, there will be two 15-minute intermissions.

Selected Filmography Involuntary; Play; Force Majeure

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Contemporary World Cinema

Panorama

Germany

In the Fade Aus dem Nichts

FATIH AKIN, GERMANY/FRANCE, 2017, 95 MIN.

SUN, OCT 1 WED, OCT 4

3:15 PM 9:00 PM

CENT CENT

Fatih Akin’s (Head-On, Soul Kitchen) taut drama could not be more timely, as it deals with the resurgence of fascism plaguing the West in general and his native Germany in particular. When her Kurdish husband and young son are killed in a bomb blast triggered by neo-Nazis, Katja (a magnificent Diane Kruger) will stop at nothing to ensure the perpetrators pay for their senseless slaughter. “Kruger’s beautifully modulated performance as a woman seeking justice… anchors this skilled… drama.”—Variety Cast Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Johannes Krisch, Samia Chandrin, Numan Acar, Ulrich Tukur Prod Fatih Akin, Ann-Kristin Hofmann, Nurhan Sekerci-Porst, Herman Weigel Selected Filmography Head-On; The Edge of Heaven; Soul Kitchen

UK

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

The Party

SALLY POTTER, UK, 2017, 71 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 MON, OCT 9 FRI, OCT 13

1:30 PM 4:15 PM 5:00 PM

RIO PLAY CENT

Canadian Premiere. When a Westminster politician (Kristin Scott Thomas) invites some of her most acid-tongued, comically contemptible friends (including Cillian Murphy, Patricia Clarkson and Timothy Spall) to a celebratory dinner, those subjects that aren’t to be discussed in polite company start being hurled around like pies in a food fight. Delightfully ill-mannered, wickedly dry and wildly entertaining, Sally Potter’s film is “a deliciously heightened, caviar-black comedy… played with relish by a dream ensemble.”—Variety The Queen of Spain PRESENTED BY

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Cast Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall Prod Christopher Sheppard, Kurban Kassam Selected Filmography Orlando; The Tango Lesson; Rage

Panorama

Italy

Argentina

Iran

7 Minutes

At the End of the Tunnel

MICHELE PLACIDO, ITALY/FRANCE/SWITZERLAND, 2016, 92 MIN.

RODRIGO GRANDE, ARGENTINA/SPAIN, 2016, 120 MIN.

7 Minuti

WED, OCT 4 FRI, OCT 6

Al Final del Tunel

1:30 PM 9:45 PM

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Canadian Premiere. It doesn’t seem like too much to accept: to keep their jobs secure, all the female workers at a textile factory have to do is give up seven minutes of their 15-minute daily lunch break… For Bianca (Ottavia Piccolo), convincing her ten fellow workers’ reps that this is the thin edge of the wedge is a battle worth fighting in Michele Placido’s impassioned political drama. “Resonant, compelling, timely filmmaking… It’s gripping, for such an apparently unsexy subject, and surprisingly cinematic.”—Variety Cast Ambra Angiolini, Cristiana Capotondi, Fiorella Mannoia, Maria Nazionale, Violante Placido, Clémence Poésy Prod Federica Vincenti Selected Filmography The Big Dream; Angel of Evil; The Lookout

SAT, SEP 30 MON, OCT 9 THU, OCT 12

3:30 PM 1:15 PM 9:00 PM

RIO RIO PLAY

Canadian Premiere. Referencing Reservoir Dogs, Rear Window, The Maltese Falcon and more, Rodrigo Grande’s visually stylish and nastily entertaining thriller revels in its clever plot twists and reversals. After hearing voices on the other side of his basement wall, a paraplegic (Leonardo Sbaraglia) installs a camera and discovers a plot to rob a bank— and sees that his female boarder is deeply involved… “An expertly paced caper film with enough twists and turns to keep audiences in a heightened state of suspense.”—Variety Best Film, Best Director, Seattle 17

Tunisia

Azar

Beauty and the Dogs Aala Kaf Ifrit

MOHAMMAD HAMZEI, IRAN, 2017, 85 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 8 WED, OCT 11

Contemporary World Cinema

10:30 AM 6:00 PM 9:00 PM

VCT VCT SFU

International Premiere. First seen racing on a dusty motocross track, Azar (Niki Karimi) isn’t exactly the conventional ideal wife, at least not in Iran. She’s confident, capable and deeply committed to the fledgling pizzeria she runs with her husband, Amir (Hamidreza Azarang), but she’s a little too progressive for some tastes. So when a terrible tragedy threatens the future of both Amir and the business, she ends up paying the price. Mohammad Hamzei’s debut is a deeply felt snapshot of gender inequality in contemporary Iran.

Cast Niki Karimi, Hamidreza Azarang, Farid Sjadi Hoseini, Shirin Aghakashi Prod Niki Karimi

Cast Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pablo Echarri, Clara Lago, Javier Godino, Federico Luppi, Walter Donado Prod Mariela Besuievsky, Pablo Echarri, Gerardo Herrero, Axel Kuschevatzky, Vanessa Ragone, Martín Seefeld

KAOUTHER BEN HANIA, TUNISIA/FRANCE/SWEDEN/ NORWAY/LEBANON/QATAR/SWITZERLAND, 2017, 100 MIN.

TUE, OCT 10 THU, OCT 12

1:15 PM 7:00 PM

IN10 IN10

Canadian Premiere. Told in nine chapters, each consisting of a single fluid shot, Kaouther Ben Hania’s (Challat of Tunis, VIFF 14) fiction debut is as ambitious as it is disturbing.

Based in fact, her film follows student Mariam (Mariam Al Ferjani, exceptional) who, on a night out, is raped (offscreen) by two police officers and then finds both the medical bureaucracy and the police force aligned against her. Laying bare the misogyny that permeates modern Tunisia, this is “a harrowing and necessary film.”—Hollywood Reporter Cast Mariam Al Ferjani, Ghanem Zrelli, Noomane Hamda, Mohamed Akkari, Chedly Arfaoui, Anissa Daoud Prod Habib Attia, Nadim Cheikhrouha Selected Filmography Challat of Tunis

Selected Filmography Gangs from Rosario

Russia

Germany

Casting

The Bolshoi

NICOLAS WACKERBARTH, GERMANY, 2017, 91 MIN.

VALERY TODOROVSKY, RUSSIA, 2017, 132 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 FRI, OCT 6 THU, OCT 12

3:45 PM 9:00 PM 8:45 PM

Dominican Republic

IN09 VCT CENT

North American Premiere. Plunging into the beautiful-yet-harsh world of Russian ballet, director Valery Todorovsky maps out the heartbreak, petty politics and wide-eyed dreams of aspiring ballerinas. The tale of a hopeful girl swept up in currents of dance unfolds against the dramatic backdrop of Tchaikovsky’s own majestic ballets, striving for authenticity while keeping the audience on its toes. “Moving and entertaining, The Bolshoi is a majestic treasure that succeeds on the big screen.”—Screen-Space Cast Margarita Simonova, Anna Isaeva, Alisa Freindlich, Valentina Telishkina, Alexander Domogarov, Nicolas Le Riche Prod Valery Todorovsky, Anton Zlatopolsky Selected Filmography Country of the Deaf; The Lover; Hipsters

WED, OCT 4 FRI, OCT 6

9:00 PM 4:00 PM

SFU SFU

North American Premiere. As the start date for her remake of Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant looms, director Vera (Judith Engel) has yet to find her lead. Casting assistant Gerwin (Andreas Lust), while testing many female actors for the part, sees his chance for acting glory… Nicolas Wackerbarth’s sly and funny take on power relations would make Fassbinder proud. “Every bit as complex [as Fassbinder’s Beware of a Holy Whore] in its mapping of the emotional dynamics between volatile artists and wannabes…”—Fandor Cast Andreas Lust, Judith Engel, Milena Dreissig, Nicole Marischka, Stephan Grossmann, Tim Kalkhof Prod Franziska Specht Filmography Everyday Objects

USA

Cocote

NELSON CARLO DE LOS SANTOS ARIAS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/ARGENTINA/GERMANY/QATAR, 2017, 106 MIN.

SAT, OCT 7 TUE, OCT 10

9:00 PM 3:45 PM

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Rare is a film like Cocote, Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias’ fascinating opus. Learning of his father’s murder, Alberto treks across the Dominican Republic to participate in death rituals that offend his evangelical sensibilities. As his family plots revenge and the ritual becomes more boisterous, Alberto’s agitation grows, with this restlessness mirrored by shifting film stocks and a barrage of camera styles. Cocote “speaks to a country’s irrepressible urge to give free rein to emotion…”—Slant Best Film, Signs of Life Section, Locarno 17 Cast Vicente Santos, Judith Rodríguez, Yuberbi de la Rosa, Pedro Sierra, Isabel Spencer, José Miguel Fernandez Prod Fernando Santos Díaz, Lukas V. Rinner

Columbus

KOGONADA, USA, 2017, 104 MIN.

SUN, OCT 8 THU, OCT 12

7:00 PM 6:00 PM

IN09 IN08

Canadian Premiere. The Columbus, Indiana of the film’s title is home to some gorgeously designed buildings; it’s that kind of beauty that brings Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) and Jin (John Cho) together. He’s a book translator returning home from South Korea; she’s a high school grad with a deep love for architecture.

It’s clearly a love shared by director Kogonada, who makes inspired use of the city’s buildings and other locales for this spellbinding film about art, conversation and other essentials of life.

Cast John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey, Michelle Forbes, Rory Culkin Prod Danielle Renfrew Behrens, Aaron Boyd, Giulia Caruso, Ki Jin Kim, Andrew Miano, Chris Weitz

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Contemporary World Cinema

Panorama

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Argentina

Bulgaria

The Desert Bride

Directions

CECILIA ATÁN, VALERIA PIVATO, ARGENTINA/CHILE, 2017, 78 MIN.

STEPHAN KOMANDAREV, BULGARIA/GERMANY/ MACEDONIA, 2017, 103 MIN.

La novia del desierto

THU, SEP 28 FRI, SEP 29

6:30 PM 4:15 PM

Posoki

PLAY PLAY

Canadian Premiere. The wonderful Paulina García, best actress winner for Gloria at Berlin 13, stars as Teresa, maid to the same family for three decades, who finds herself out of a job. Travelling to a new position in distant San Juan (in the western Argentinean desert), her bus breaks down, leading to a chance encounter and possibilities she’d never even dreamt of before… “A delicate late-life love story that is also a tale about the empowerment of a woman who has lived her whole life in the shadow of others.”—Screen Cast Paulina García, Claudio Rissi Prod Eva Lauría, Alejo Crisóstomo

Netherlands

6:15 PM 3:45 PM

BOUDEWIJN KOOLE, NETHERLANDS/NORWAY, 2017, 92 MIN.

8:45 PM 12:00 PM

RIO PLAY

Hauntingly beautiful, deeply perceptive and emotionally devastating, Boudewijn Koole’s film explores the complex relationship between an adult woman and her emotionally reticent mother. Effortlessly establishing a tangible sense of shared history and complicated emotional bonds between its characters, Disappearance portrays familial love as a fragile tension between profound intimacy and polarizing alienation. Brilliantly acted and finely crafted, this is a strange, honest and bittersweet film.

Cast Rifka Lodeizen, Elsie de Brauw, Marcus Hanssen, Jakob Oftebro Prod Ineke Kanters, Jan van der Zanden Selected Filmography Beyond Sleep; Kauwboy; Drawn Out of Love

North American Premiere. Set largely in taxis, Stephan Komandarev’s gem of an ensemble drama dissects the sometimes cruel, sometimes ironic vagaries of life in today’s Sofia. Beginning with the story of Misho (Vassil Vassilev), a broke father who shoots a corrupt banker and then turns the gun on himself in an unsuccessful suicide attempt.

Komandarev fashions a daisy-chain narrative both melancholy and hopeful. “[This] clever, fleet-footed film observes [life in Sofia] with poignant accuracy and flashes of wry humour.”—Variety Cast Vassil Vassilev, Ivan Barnev, Assen Blatechki, Irini Zhambonas, Vasil Banov, Troyan Gogov Prod Stephan Komandarev, Katya Trichkova, Stelios Ziannis, Vera Weit, Vladimir Anastasov, Angela Nestorovska

The Divine Order Die Göttliche Ordnung

PETRA VOLPE, SWITZERLAND, 2016, 96 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 MON, OCT 2

4:30 PM 6:30 PM

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Until 1971, women in Switzerland had no voting rights. This startling fact is the basis for Petra Volpe’s small gem, which traces the political awakening of young wife and mother Nora (Marie Leuenberger). As news of the ‘60s counterculture finally reaches her quiet hamlet, Nora decides to go against “the divine order” and advocate for enfranchisement in the upcoming referendum. This does not go over well… “Volpe dramatizes her action with a light touch that allows for flashes of pointed comedy…”—Variety Audience Award, Best Actress, Tribeca 17 Cast Marie Leuenberger, Max Simonischek, Rachel Braunschweig, Sibylle Brunner, Marta Zoffoli, Bettina Stucky Prod Reto Schaerli, Lukas Hobi Filmography Dreamland

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Switzerland

Disappearance SAT, SEP 30 SAT, OCT 7

TUE, OCT 10 THU, OCT 12

Panorama

Colombia

USA

The Dragon Defense

En el séptimo día

La defensa del dragon

6:30 PM 11:00 AM

SFU IN09

North American Premiere. The shabby bars, cafés, chess clubs and casinos of Bogotá serve as the atmospheric setting for Natalia Santa’s winsome debut, a tale of three amiable, middle-aged losers that plays like Latinflavoured Kaurismäki. Samuel (Gonzalo de Sagarminaga) ekes out a living playing chess for cash and, like his two friends, seems resigned to his lot—but is he really…? “This wry, compassionate female perspective on some uncomfortably familiar midlife male traits… repays the viewer in deadpan charm.”—Hollywood Reporter Cast Gonzalo de Sagarminaga, Hernan Mendez, Manuel Navarro, Maia Landaburu, Martha Leal, Laura Osma Prod Ivette Liang, Nicolás Ordóñez, Natalia Santa, Ivan Herrera

Brazil

6:30 PM 1:30 PM

CINE SFU

International Premiere. Jim McKay’s return to filmmaking is a genuine triumph, a throwback to the early 1990s (when he helmed Sundance hit Girls Town) as well as to neorealism.

Set in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, this classical drama explores the “invisible” life of a neighbourhood by trailing José, an illegal Mexican immigrant, who must balance his work as a delivery man and his obligations to his pregnant wife (who’s still in Mexico) and his soccer team (who are about to compete for a championship). “Exquisitely crafted...”—Variety Cast Fernando Cardona, Gilberto Jiménez, Alfonso Velazquez, Abel Perez, Genoel Ramírez, Gilberto Arenas Prod Alex Bach, Lindsey Cordero, Caroline Kaplan, Jim McKay, Michael Stipe

8:30 PM 2:00 PM

VCT IN10

North American Premiere. While on a long trip that culminated in an exploration of parts of Africa, director Fellipe Barbosa’s friend Gabriel Buchmann died on a mountain in Malawi. Buchmann (winningly played by João Pedro Zappa) was a generous and friendly idealist who gave away large parts of his budget, and Barbosa sensitively dramatizes his story, enlisting the help of those who knew Buchmann to play themselves. Gorgeously shot, “this uplifting drama… [is] a moving look at the transformative nature of travel…”—Screen France 4 Visionary Award, Cannes 17 Cast João Pedro Zappa, Caroline Abras, Alex Alembe, Lenny Siampala, John Goodluck, Rashidi Athuman Prod Rodrigo Letier, Roberto Berliner, Clara Linhart, Yohann Cornu

SUN, OCT 8 MON, OCT 9

1:00 PM 8:30 PM

IN08 IN08

FRI, SEP 29 THU, OCT 12

9:15 PM 3:45 PM

Cast Ana Geislerova, Martin Finger, Jiři Macháček, Klára Melíškova, Gabriela Míšova Prod Viktor Tauš Selected Filmography Divided We Fall; Kawasaki’s Rose; The Teacher

9:30 PM 4:30 PM

IN10 IN10

Cast Sven Dolinski Prod Astrid Johanna Ofner

Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, Berlin 17 Cast Véro Tshanda Beya, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka Prod Arnaud Dommerc, Alain Gomis, Oumar Sall Selected Filmography Andalucia; Aujourd’hui

USA

Golden Exits

FRANCIS LEE, UK, 2017, 104 MIN.

International Premiere. Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, 1939: after the Gestapo arrest three men, a family friend provides for their wives and children, but over the years a forbidden love blossoms. An assured period piece which uses the familiar WWII backdrop as fertile soil, VIFF fave Jan Hrebejk’s latest takes root as a moving, humane drama unafraid to wrestle with the fraught tensions of love, family, and betrayal with a twinkle in its eye. “Family Friend achieves an exquisite balance between comedy and drama.”—Prague Reporter

TUE, OCT 10 WED, OCT 11

Alain Gomis’ vibrant, impressionistic drama, set in the streets of Kinshasa, focuses on a single mother (the riveting Congolese singer Véro Tshanda Béya), a bar singer who tries to go it alone in a megacity where corruption, violence and ingrained sexism make every day a challenge. When her 14-year-old son is badly injured in an accident, she reaches out… “Gomis’ latest… [weaves] a sensual, sometimes hopeful, sometimes disturbing urban tapestry with threads of image, sound, poetry, and song.”—Variety

God’s Own Country PLAY PLAY

ALAIN GOMIS, SENEGAL/FRANCE/BELGIUM/ GERMANY/LEBANON, 2017, 123 MIN.

Canadian Premiere. Based on Peter Weiss’ 1960 story of the same name, Farewell traces the early years and initial forays into artistic creation of the novelist, playwright, artist and filmmaker who became one of the German language’s most important artistic figures of the 20th century. Framed as a struggle to escape both historical events (he and his halfJewish kin undertook a cross-Europe odyssey in the 1930s and 40s) and the reins of family, Astrid Johanna Ofner’s debut is a literary adaptation unlike any other.

UK

JAN HREBEJK, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2017, 130 MIN.

FELLIPE BARBOSA, BRAZIL/FRANCE, 2017, 131 MIN.

ASTRID JOHANNA OFNER, AUSTRIA, 2017, 80 MIN.

Filmography Everyday People; Our Song; Girls Town

Garden Store: Family Friend

Gabriel e a Montanha

Félicité

Abschied von den Eltern

Czech Republic

Gabriel and the Mountain MON, OCT 2 TUE, OCT 3

WED, OCT 4 FRI, OCT 6

Senegal

Farewell

JIM MCKAY, USA, 2017, 92 MIN.

NATALIA SANTA, COLOMBIA, 2017, 80 MIN.

SAT, OCT 7 MON, OCT 9

Austria

Contemporary World Cinema

FRI, OCT 6 WED, OCT 11

9:15 PM 11:30 AM

ALEX ROSS PERRY, USA, 2017, 94 MIN.

PLAY IN10

SAT, OCT 7 MON, OCT 9

9:30 PM 2:15 PM

IN10 IN10

Announcing himself as a major talent with this remarkable, award-winning debut, writerdirector Francis Lee has crafted a sharply observed, richly textured and thrillingly sensual story about the redemptive powers of love and self-acceptance. Josh O’Connor is outstanding as mistrustful Johnny, who slowly opens up to the possibility of happiness with the help of gentle Gheorghe (Alec Secăreanu), a ruggedly handsome Romanian farmhand whose soulful appreciation for rural life provides the catalyst for transformative change.

Canadian Premiere. An acerbic delight with a satirical edge, Alex Ross Perry’s latest offers up an intriguing tangle of unrequited desire. Oblivious to overtures from her married employer (Adam Horowitz), Naomi (Emily Browning), a new arrival in NYC, sets her sights on the equally unhappily betrothed Buddy (Jason Schwartzman). Caught between their passions and their better judgment, the ensemble finds themselves in a roundabout of seduction and malaise. “Elegant and supremely expressive…”—Hollywood Reporter

Teddy Award, Berlin 17; Best British Feature, Edinburgh 17

Cast Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Mary-Louise Parker, Lily Rabe, Jason Schwartzman, Chloë Sevigny Prod Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Alex Ross Perry, Adam Piotrowicz, Katie Stern, Joshua Blum

Cast Josh O’Connor, Alec Secăreanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart, Harry Lister Smith, Patsy Ferran Prod Manon Ardisson, Jack Tarling

Selected Filmography The Color Wheel; Listen Up Philip; Queen of Earth

Filmography Laura; Casa Grande Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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Contemporary World Cinema

Panorama

Brazil

Israel

Good Manners

Holy Air

JULIANA ROJAS, MARCO DUTRA, BRAZIL/FRANCE, 2017, 135 MIN.

SHADY SROUR, ISRAEL, 2017, 81 MIN.

As Boas Maneiras

WED, OCT 4 FRI, OCT 6

Hawa Moqadda

6:15 PM 1:30 PM

RIO IN09

Canadian Premiere. Clara, a lonely, lowerclass black nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by the mysterious, wealthy and white Ana to be the nanny of her unborn child.

The two women develop an unlikely bond, which, under the full moon, eventually becomes sexual. But all is not well with Ana, and a fateful night changes their plans and alters the film itself. Creating a dreamy, stylized São Paulo, Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra tell their story as a political fairy tale, creating a warped Walt Disney film.

Cast Isabél Zuaa, Marjorie Estiano, Miguel Lobo, Cida Moreira, Andrea Marquee Prod Sara Silveira, Maria Ionescu, Clément Duboin, Frédéric Corvez Filmography (Juliana Rojas) Hard Labor; Necropolis Symphony (Marco Dutra) Hard Labor; When I Was Alive; The Silence of the Sky

India

PLAY SFU

Canadian Premiere. A droll yet melancholic undercurrent runs throughout this alternately funny and tender satire about a subject you rarely see onscreen—the lives of modern Arab Christians in Israel. Adam (writer-director Shady Srour), an unsuccessful 40-ish ArabChristian businessman living in Nazareth with his wife, decides to bottle the “holy air” from Mount Precipice and sell it to tourists—if, that is, he can avoid the gangsters demanding protection money and the priest who controls the market on Christian trinkets...

Cast Shady Srour, Laëtitia Eïdo, Shmulik Calderon, Tareq Copti, Dalia Okal, Bian Anteer Prod Ilan Moskovitch, Shady Srour Filmography Sense of Need

Ice Mother Bába z Ledu

Mukti Bhawan

SHUBHASHISH BHUTIANI, INDIA, 2016, 102 MIN.

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

VCT IN09 PLAY

Canadian Premiere. The aged Daya (Lalit Behl) has a dream foretelling his own death and demands that his beleaguered son Rajiv (Adil Hussain), an accountant, take him to the holy city of Varanesi to await his fate. Rajiv has no choice but to agree and soon they are in the eponymous Varanesi hotel, a vermin-infested dive… Featuring lovely views of the holy city, Shubhashish Bhutiani’s debut is warm, funny and charming by turns. “An Indian comedy full of emotional depth and understated paradox…”—Hollywood Reporter Unesco Award, Venice 16 Cast Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Palomi Ghosh, Navnindra Behl, Anil K. Rastogi Prod Sanjay Bhutiani, Sajida Sharma

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9:30 PM 4:00 PM

Czech Republic

Hotel Salvation FRI, SEP 29 MON, OCT 2 TUE, OCT 10

SUN, OCT 8 THU, OCT 12

BOHDAN SLÁMA, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2017, 106 MIN.

MON, OCT 9 THU, OCT 12

7:00 PM 1:45 PM

IN10 IN10

Canadian Premiere. With her lonely weeks bookended by fraught visits from her sons, widowed Hana (Zuzana Kronerová) is adrift-until she pulls the drowning Brona (Pavel Nový) from a freezing river. As she succumbs to his odd charms, she’s likewise seduced by the invigoration of ice-swimming and the camaraderie of the eccentrics who claim it as their passion. Bohdan Sláma’s film is a beautifully rendered reminder that self-realization and a sense of belonging can be discovered through the most unlikely circumstances.

Best Screenplay (International), Tribeca 17 Cast Zuzana Kronerová, Pavel Nový, Václav Neužil, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Marek Daniel Prod Pavel Strnad, Petr Oukropec Selected Filmography Four Sons

Panorama

Lebanon

Norway

Cuba

Slovakia

The Insult

The King’s Choice

Last Days in Havana

ZIAD DOUEIRI, FRANCE/LEBANON, 2017, 110 MIN.

ERIK POPPE, NORWAY, 2016, 130 MIN.

FERNANDO PÉREZ, CUBA/SPAIN, 2016, 93 MIN.

L’Insulte

THU, OCT 5 FRI, OCT 6

Kongens Nei

7:00 PM 11:00 AM

IN09 IN09

During a renovation in Beirut, a disagreement over plumbing escalates until Toni, a Lebanese Christian, utters a grievous insult at Yasser, a Palestinian refugee. Filing a formal complaint that leads to a highly publicized trial, Yasser inadvertently fuels a national debate between their respective communities. Reminding us how the trivial can serve as tinder for a political wildfire, director Ziad Doueiri crafts a modern day fable about how someone can play oppressor and victim in the same conflict.

Cast Adel Karam, Christine Choueiri, Kamel El Bacha, Rita Hayek, Elie Njem, Tatal El Jurdi Prod Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Julie Gayet, Nadia Turincev Filmography The Attack; Lila Says; West Beirut

SAT, SEP 30 THU, OCT 5 THU, OCT 12

11:00 AM 3:30 PM 9:30 PM

Canadian Premiere. Chronicling the nerveracking days before and after the Norwegian monarch King Haakon VII (Jesper Christiansen) made the decision to resist the invading German army during WWII, Eric Poppe’s (Hawaii, Oslo) exceedingly well-acted drama was short-listed for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar earlier this year. Classical filmmaking at its finest, it “benefits from excellent cinematography by John Christian Rosenlund [and] retrieves a part of the past that deserves to be remembered.”—Hollywood Reporter Audience Award, Edinburgh 17 Cast Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Karl Markovics, Tuva Novotny, Arthur Hakalahti, Svein Tindberg Prod Finn Gjerdrum, Stein B. Kvae Selected Filmography Troubled Water; 1,000 Times Goodnight

India

Russia

SUN, OCT 8 THU, OCT 12

6:45 PM 1:15 PM

IN10 SFU

Alankrita Shrivastava weaves together four stories of Indian women refusing to play by the rules in this warmly funny tale. Shirin (Konkona Sen Sharma) hides her job from her husband; Leela (Aahana Kumra) gets engaged while having an affair; religious student Rehana (Plabita Borthakur) discovers sensual pleasures; and Auntie Usha (Ratna Pathak Shah) is obsessed with erotic fiction… “Lipstick is audaciously outspoken about women’s sexual desires and fantasies, both visually and verbally.”—Hollywood Reporter Best Film, London Asian Film Festival 17; Spirit of Asia Award, Tokyo 16

IN10 SFU

North American Premiere. Fernando Pérez’s tragicomic tale expertly captures Havana’s faded glory while detailing the lives of those caught up in uncertain times. Exuberant Diego (Jorge Martínez) has AIDS and is confined to his bed; lifelong friend Miguel (Patricio Wood) is a dishwasher who takes care of his every need. When Diego’s spunky (and pregnant) 15-year-old niece Yusi (Gabriela Ramos) arrives on the scene, his days liven up considerably… “A touching celebration of love, devotion and stoical endurance.”—Screen Best Feature, Havana 17 Cast Jorge Martínez, Patricio Wood, Gabriela Ramos, Cristian Jesús Pérez Prod Danilo León, José María Morales Selected Filmography Life is to Whistle; Havana Suite; Madrigal

9:00 PM 3:15 PM 9:15 PM

CENT PLAY PLAY

Once again, modern Russia comes under the knife of master vivisectionist Andrei Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, VIFF 14). The marriage of Boris (Alexei Rozin) and Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) is in its death throes when their son Alyosha (Matvey Novikov) disappears after hearing them fight. Was he kidnapped? As Boris and Zhenya face bureaucratic lethargy and their own selfish desires, time may be running out… “An eerie thriller of hypnotic, mysterious intensity.”—Guardian Jury Prize, Cannes 17

Cast Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak Shah, Aahana Kumra, Plabita Borthakur, Sushant Singh, Vikrant Massey Prod Prakash Jha

Cast Maryana Spivak, Alexey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasilyeva, Andris Keishs, Alexey Fateev Prod Alexandre Rodnyansky, Serguey Melkumov

Filmography Turning 30!!!

Selected Filmography The Return; Leviathan; Elena

THU, SEP 28 SUN, OCT 1 THU, OCT 5

PETER BEBJAK, SLOVAKIA/UKRAINE/CZECH REPUBLIC, 2017, 112 MIN.

TUE, OCT 3 THU, OCT 5

1:15 PM 9:30 PM

IN09 IN10

North American Premiere. The corrupt, shifting boundary between the Slovak Republic and Ukraine in the days prior to the former’s entry into the EU is the setting for Peter Bebjak’s tense crime drama about the head of a cigarette-smuggling ring (a star-making turn from Tomáš Maštalír) whose personal and professional lives are starting to unravel…

“Redolent of The Godfather and The Sopranos with a soupçon of Animal Kingdom and a welcome dose of black humor, The Line is an entertaining, fast-paced crime thriller…”— Variety Best Director, Karlovy Vary 17 Cast Tomáš Maštalír, Emília Vášáryová, Andy Hryc, Zuzana Fialová, Eugen Libeznuk, Kristína Kanátova Prod Wanda Adamík-Hrycová Filmography Zlo; The Cleaner

Ukraine

JOHN CARROLL LYNCH, USA, 2017, 88 MIN.

ANDREI ZVYAGINTSEV, RUSSIA/FRANCE/BELGIUM/ GERMANY, 2017, 127 MIN.

SUN, OCT 1 WED, OCT 4 MON, OCT 9

8:45 PM 3:45 PM

Lucky

Nelyubov

ALANKRITA SHRIVASTAVA, INDIA, 2016, 116 MIN.

TUE, OCT 3 THU, OCT 5

Čára

USA

Loveless

Lipstick Under My Burkha

The Line

Últimos días en La Habana

IN09 PLAY IN10

Contemporary World Cinema

9:00 PM 3:45 PM 9:45 PM

SFU SFU IN09

Harry Dean Stanton is a mainstay of American acting, and this film is his valediction: a funny, poignant portrait of a man approaching death with all the dignity he can muster. Stanton’s Lucky is a man who lives life on his own terms: from his yoga exercises to the pack of smokes he consumes every day, he does it his way, all the time. But now he’s approaching the end of the road, and it’s time to take stock…Stirring monologues, lovable characters and, of course, superb acting make this film a winner.

Cast Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley Jr., Tom Skerritt, Beth Grant Prod Greg Gilreath, Adam Hendricks, John Lang, Danielle Renfrew Behrens, Ira Steven Behr, Richard Kahan, Drago Sumonja, Logan Sparks

The Nest of the Turtledove Gnizdo gorlytsi

TARAS TKACHENKO, UKRAINE/ITALY, 2016, 102 MIN.

WED, OCT 11 THU, OCT 12

6:00 PM 11:00 AM

IN08 IN09

North American Premiere. Taras Tkachenko’s sensitively directed film centres on married mother Daryna (Rymma Ziubina), who returns to the rural Bukovina region of Ukraine after two years in Genoa working as a maid.

Can the newly independent Daryna possibly resume her traditional roles—especially given she is pregnant? Employing finely etched realism, Tkachenko drops in subtle examples of Ukrainian traditions that add to the flavour of this affecting drama.

Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Ukrainian National Film Awards 17 Cast Rymma Zyubina, Vitaliy Linetsky, Mauro Cipriani, Natalya Vasko, Mykola Boklan Prod Volodymyr Filippov, Andriy Suyarko, Alla Ovsiannikova, Oleksandr Kovalenko Filmography Lovers in Kiev Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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Contemporary World Cinema

Panorama

India

Egypt

Newton

The Nile Hilton Incident

AMIT V. MASURKAR, INDIA, 2017, 104 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 SUN, OCT 1

9:00 PM 10:45 AM

TARIK SALEH, EGYPT/SWEDEN, 2017, 107 MIN.

IN10 IN09

3:45 PM 9:00 PM

IN09 SFU

Canadian Premiere. On Election Day in the conflict-ridden jungle of Chhattisgarh, central India, Newton (Rajkummar Rao), an idealistic polling clerk, is caught between indifferent security forces and a public that refuses to vote for fear of reprisals. Darkly comic and surprisingly tense, Amit V. Masurkar’s dramedy exposes the contradictions faced by the world’s largest democracy. “The shades of grey that Newton must ultimately confront… are splashed across the screen with subtle power and simmering poignancy.”—Screen

Canadian Premiere. By setting his gripping neo-noir in a Cairo on the edge of revolution, director Tarik Saleh elevates a riveting tale into a forceful political allegory. Cynical cop Noredin (Fares Fares) sees his inquiries about a murdered singer stymied at every turn. The deeper he goes into Cairo’s underworld, the higher up the political ladder the crime reaches… “Perfumed with an enervated atmosphere of decrepitude… Saleh’s striking feature parts the curtains on an era in the final throes of decline…”—Hollywood Reporter

Jury Award, Hong Kong 17

Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic, Sundance 17

Cast Rajkummar Rao, Anjali Patil, Pankaj Tripathi, Raghubir Yadav Prod Manish Mundra Filmography Sulemani Keeda

Cast Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yaser Ali Maher, Ahmed Selim, Slimane Dazi, Hichem Yacobi Prod Kristina Aberg Filmography Gitmo; Metropia; Tommy

GermanFilmsVIFF2016_Artwork 18.08.16 12:47 Seite 1

Bangladesh

Iran

No Bed of Roses

No Date, No Signature

MOSTOFA SAWAR FAROOKI, BANGLADESH/INDIA, 2017, 86 MIN.

VAHID JALILVAND, IRAN, 2017, 104 MIN.

Bedoune Tarikh, Bedoune Emza

Doob

FRI, OCT 6 SUN, OCT 8

7:30 PM 1:00 PM

IN10 VCT

North American Premiere. Indian star Irrfan Khan is riveting as a vain filmmaker who leaves his wife for his daughter’s classmate in Mostofa Sawar Farooki’s realistic dissection of family dysfunction. With a dispassionate camera that captures every subtle expression and action, Sawar Farooki crafts probing visuals that perfectly match Khan’s layered performance. “Irrfan Khan takes the lead in this nuanced film from Bangladesh about… the quietly devastating impact of a husband’s infidelity on those closest to him.”—Screen Cast Irrfan Khan, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Parno Mittra, Rokeya Prachy, Rahad Hossain Prod Abdul Aziz, Ashok Dhanuka, Himanshu Dhanuka Selected Filmography Bachelor; Made in Bangladesh; Television

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WED, OCT 4 SAT, OCT 7

SAT, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 1

9:30 PM 3:45 PM

IN09 IN10

North American Premiere. Vahid Jalilvand’s film gives us Dr. Nariman (Amir Agha’ee), a forensic pathologist and upstanding member of the community. When he injures a child in a motor vehicle accident, the good doctor is willing to take him to the hospital, but the kid’s father declines his help. The next morning Nariman discovers that the boy has died...

Besides being a riveting drama, No Date, No Signature offers a nuanced look at class and power relations in contemporary Iran. It’s a disquieting but profoundly satisfying movie.

Best Director, Fajr Film Festival 17 Cast Amir Agha’ee, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Hediyeh Tehrani, Sa’eed Dakh, Alireza Ostadi, Zakiyeh Behbahani Prod Ali Jalilvand, Ehsan Alikhani Filmography Wednesday, May 9

Panorama

Finland

Chile

The Other Side of Hope Toivon tuolla puolen

AKI KAURISMÄKI, FINLAND, 2017, 98 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 MON, OCT 9 FRI, OCT 13

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

SFU CENT SFU

The Finnish master of the droll and the deadpan, Aki Kaurismäki, returns with a second feature concerning the European refugee crisis, this one about a Syrian (Sherwan Haji) who washes up on Finland’s glum shores and becomes an unlikely friend to a middle-aged Finnish shirt salesman (Sakari Kuosmanen) in the midst of re-making his life. Compassionate and wryly funny by turns, this is Kaurismäki firing on all cylinders. “A deeply humane film…”—Time Out Best Director, Berlin 17 Cast Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Janne Hyytiäinen, Ilkka Koivula, Nuppu Koivu, Simon Hussein Al-Bazoon Prod Aki Kaurismaki, Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff, Reinhard Brundig Selected Filmography Drifting Clouds; The Man Without a Past; Le Havre

Sweden

Spain

Los Perros WED, OCT 4 MON, OCT 9

2:30 PM 9:30 PM

IN10 IN10

Canadian Premiere. In Marcela Said’s (The Summer of Flying Fish, VIFF 13) icily effective drama, wealthy upper class married woman Mariana (a nuanced Antonia Zegers) is drawn to her riding instructor Juan (Alfredo Castro), known as “The Colonel.” Her infatuation doubles when she learns he is being investigated for human rights’ abuses during the Pinochet era. Used to getting her own way, Mariana is unprepared for what comes next… “Supremely assured and intriguing… Said’s precise filmmaking… rivets the attention.”—Variety Cast Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro, Rafael Spregelburd, Alejandro Sieveking, Elvis Fuentes Prod Sophie Erbs, Tom Dercourt, Augusto Matte, Santiago Gallelli, Benjamin Domenech, Joao Matos, Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo Selected Filmography I Love Pinochet; The Summer of Flying Fish

AMANDA KERNELL, SWEDEN/DENMARK/NORWAY, 2016, 110 MIN.

ANA URUSHADZE, GEORGIA/ESTONIA, 2017, 107 MIN.

6:15 PM 11:15 AM

Sashishi deda

PLAY IN10

6:00 PM 3:45 PM

CENT PLAY

4:30 PM 7:15 PM

IN10 IN10

North American Premiere. Ana Urushadze’s remarkable debut finds a Tblisi housewife (Nata Murvanidze) forced to choose between her family life in the patriarchal Georgian society and her lifelong repressed passion for writing. Opting to plunge into the artistic abyss, she sacrifices herself to her book both mentally and physically and her fantasy life begins to merge with her reality.

When she decides to read her novel to her family, it becomes clear she is using her writing to sublimate her frustrations, and all hell breaks loose.

Grand Jury Prize, Best Actress, Seattle 17; Special Jury Prize, Best Actress, Tokyo 17; Best Director of a Debut Film, Venice 16

Cast Nata Murvanidze, Ramaz Ioseliani, Dimitri Tatishvili, Avtandil Makharadze Prod Lasha Khalvashi, Tinatin Kajrishvili, Ivo Felt

FRI, SEP 29 MON, OCT 2

6:45 PM 1:30 PM

IN09 IN09

The sly Fernando Trueba (Oscar-winner for Belle Epoque) places Penélope Cruz front and centre in this farcical comedy about a Hollywood movie shoot in 50s Spain, when Franco was at the height of his power. Cruz is the beautiful, much-married superstar Macarena Granada, who gets mixed up in a leftist plot while essaying the role of Queen Isabella in a costume epic. Mandy Patinkin and Cary Elwes co-star. “Cruz carries the film. She has a ridiculous kind of heroism, and her disguises are hilarious…”—Guardian

Kurdish director Hussein Hassan shot this affecting drama—about a Yazidi woman (Diman Zandi), kidnapped by ISIS members during the Yazidi genocide, who is rejected by her community after being rescued by her fiancé (Rekesh Shabaz)—in refugee camps in Kurdistan with the help of the Yazidi community.

Unfussy visuals and a fast pace add urgency to a subject never before filmed. “Hassan’s sensitive, muted handling of potentially explosive subject material has the undeniable ring of authenticity…”—Screen

Cast Penélope Cruz, Chino Darín, Mandy Patinkin, Cary Elwes, Clive Revill, Antonio Resines Prod Penélope Cruz, Mercedes Gamero, Mikel Lejarza Ortiz

Best Fiction Feature, Dubai 16

Selected Filmography The Girl of Your Dreams; Calle 54; Chico & Rita

Filmography Narcissus Blossom

MON, OCT 9 TUE, OCT 10

Cast Rekesh Shabaz, Diman Zandi, Maryam Boobani, Imad Lezgin Prod Mehmet Aktaş

Greece

SANAL KUMAR SASIDHARAN, INDIA, 2017, 85 MIN.

The indigenous Sami of northern Scandinavia have been labelled “inferior” throughout modern history. Half Sami herself, debuting director Amanda Kernell crafts a deeply moving coming-of-age tale, set in 1930s Sweden, about a 14-year-old Sami girl (Lene Cecilia Sparrok, riveting) whose rejection of her heritage has profound consequences. “A stirring debut… Robustly blends adolescent fears that resonate across borders and generations with a fascinatingly specific, rarely depicted cultural context.”—Variety

Cast Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Mia Erika Sparrok, Maj Doris Rimpi, Julius Fleischanderl Hanna Ahlström Prod Lars G Lindström

WED, OCT 4 FRI, OCT 6

Sexy Durga

Scary Mother

TUE, OCT 10 THU, OCT 12

HUSSEIN HASSAN, KURDISTAN/QATAR/GERMANY, 2016, 92 MIN.

FERNANDO TRUEBA, SPAIN, 2016, 128 MIN.

India

Sami Blood

SAT, OCT 7 WED, OCT 11

Reseba: The Dark Wind

La reina de España

Georgia

Sameblod

Kurdistan

The Queen of Spain

MARCELA SAID, CHILE/FRANCE, 2017, 94 MIN.

Contemporary World Cinema

4:45 PM 6:45 PM

IN10 RIO

Durga (Rajshree Deshpandey) and Kabeer (Kannan Nair), a young couple in Kerala, accept a ride from two young men in a van.

So begins their nightmare… Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s powerful thriller was, reportedly, completely improvised, which explains its disturbing realism and the feeling that anything might happen at any moment. “Generates a steady thrum of dread… The story of one couple’s journey gone horribly awry feel[s] universal, an allegory about the violent misogyny that plagues India.”—Slant Tiger Award, Rotterdam 17 Cast Rajshree Deshpandey, Vishnu Vedh, Sujeesh K. S., Bilas Nair, Kannan Nair, Arun Sol Prod Shaji Mathew Selected Filmography Parole; Six Feet High

Son of Sofia O Gios tis Sofias

ELINA PSYKOU, GREECE/BULGARIA/FRANCE, 2017, 111 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 MON, OCT 2

11:15 AM 9:30 PM

IN10 PLAY

Canadian Premiere. After his father dies, 11-year-old Russian Misha (Viktor Khomut) is reunited with his mother in Athens and has to accept a new culture, a new language and a new father while dealing with conflicting adolescent desires… Set during the 2004 Olympics, Elina Psykou’s occasionally disturbing work boasts surreal, deadpan touches and a striking blend of reality and fantasy. “Psykou’s fairy tale-ish coming-of-age drama… takes one surprising left turn after another… [Her] film is never less than unique.”—Variety Jury Award, Best International Narrative Feature, Tribeca 17 Cast Viktor Khomut, Valery Tscheplanowa, Thanassis Papageorgiou, Artemios Havalits, Areti Seintaridou, Ivonni Maltezou Prod Giorgos Karnavas, Konstantinos Kontovrakis

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Panorama

Turkey

Spain

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Sour Apples

Summer 1993

Ekşi Elmalar

Estiu 1993

YILMAZ ERDOGAN, TURKEY, 2016, 114 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 WED, OCT 11

1:45 PM 6:15 PM

CARLA SIMÓN, SPAIN, 2017, 96 MIN.

IN10 PLAY

Cast Yilmaz Erdogan, Songül Öden, Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Sükran Ovali, Devrim Yakut, Sükrü Özyildiz Prod Necati Akpinar

Best First Feature, Berlin 17

PHILIPPA LOWTHORPE, UK, 2017, 96 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 WED, OCT 11

Cast Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí, David Verdaguer, Fermi Reixacha Prod Valérie Delpierre

USA

Swallows and Amazons 2:00 PM 6:45 PM

CENT IN09

Pippa Lowthorpe’s loving adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s 1930 novel is a delightful throwback, a Tom Sawyer-like tale of four children adventuring on a lake, where they encounter imaginary pirates and possibly less-imaginary spies. The past is as strange as an alternate universe here, but the film’s values (integrity and curiosity, endeavour and courage) are as potent as ever. “A charmingly old-fashioned family adventure…”—Time Out Youth Jury Award, Best Feature, Seattle 16 Cast Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, Kelly Macdonald Prod Nicholas Barton, Nick O’Hagan, Joe Oppenheimer

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Sweet Virginia

JAMIE M. DAGG, USA/CANADA, 2017, 92 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 SUN, OCT 1 SAT, OCT 7

9:30 PM 1:00 PM 6:15 PM

IN09 RIO RIO

Drawing comparisons with the Coen brothers’ work at its noirish best, Jamie M. Dagg’s dark drama is set in small-town Alaska and features a stone-cold killer (Christopher Abbott), a nasty femme fatale (Imogen Poots) and a retired rodeo star (Jon Bernthal) who cross paths when a murder plot goes awry, spreading collateral damage everywhere… “Part neonoir, part latter-day Western, this exceptional indie thriller… yields one of the gnarliest and most unsettling movies we’re likely to get this year.”—Variety Cast Christopher Abbott, Jon Bernthal, Imogen Poots, Rosemarie DeWitt, Odessa Young, Jared Abrahamson Prod Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Chris Ferguson, Fernando Loureiro, Robert Vasconcellos Filmography River

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IN10 IN10

Canadian Premiere. When both of her parents die of AIDS, six-year-old Frida (an amazing Laia Artigas) is sent to live with her uncle in the Catalan countryside. Unsure about how her parents died—shame keeps the adults mum—and thrown by her new surroundings, she begins to act out… Debuting director Carla Simón draws on her own experience for this deeply affecting drama. “A delicate sleeper of a film that movingly looks at an orphaned sixyear-old’s loneliness and confusion without the usual dip into sentimentality.”—Variety

UK

VIFF 2017

11:15 AM 7:15 PM

Canadian Premiere. Poet, actor and filmmaker Yilmaz Erdogan reaches a career high in this epic dramedy, using his feel for mood, wit and the nuances of character to spectacular effect. Telling the story of a proud man and his three beautiful daughters over the course of decades, the film generates laughs and poignancy in copious measures. Graced with casting coups, vivid colours and wonderful performances, it’s an old-fashioned delight of the kind Hollywood has lost the ability to make.

Selected Filmography Magic Carpet Ride; The Butterfly’s Dream

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SUN, OCT 1 THU, OCT 5

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Mexico

Germany

Tales of Mexico

Tehran Taboo

La habitación

CARLOS CARRERA, DANIEL GIMÉNEZ CACHO, CARLOS BOLADO, ERNESTO CONTRERAS, ALFONSO PINEDA ULLOA, ALEJANDRO VALLE, IVÁN ÁVILA DUEÑAS, NATALIA BERISTÁIN, MEXICO/POLAND, 2016, 120 MIN.

THU, OCT 5 WED, OCT 11

6:00 PM 4:00 PM

Italy

RIO IN09

Canadian Premiere. The eight enthralling narratives that make up this kaleidoscopic anthology film are anchored by the single studio apartment that serves as their shared setting.

Over a hundred-year span, we witness the growing pains of a Mexico in flux, with revolution and human trafficking but two sources of conflict. Remarkable cinematography turns the same room into eight unique time capsules, and accomplished performances led

by Irène Jacob (Three Colors: Red) transform this into a visceral experience.

Cast Irène Jacob, Kaori Momoi, Kristyan Ferrer, Sofía Espinosa, Noé Hernández, Francisco Barreiro Prod Edher Campos, Luis Salinas, Marta Lewandowska, Marta Habior

ALI SOOZANDEH, GERMANY/AUSTRIA/IRAN, 2017, 96 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 MON, OCT 2

7:00 PM 4:00 PM

IN09 IN09

North American Premiere. A youthful lust for life and taboo sexual adventure is at the heart of Iran-born, German-based Ali Soozandeh’s brash, animated combination of rotoscoped characters and drawn settings, some in 3D. The sex lives of a prostitute, a male musician, and two young women ingeniously intersect in a version of Tehran never before seen on screen. “This wily account of 20-something Iranians negotiating an assault course of laws and prohibitions to get their kicks fizzes with energy and bad behaviour.”— Screen Cast Elmira Rafizadeh, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Arash Marandi, Bilal Yasar, Negar Mona Alizadeh, Payam Madjlessi Prod Frank Geiger, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Mark Fencer, Armin Hofmann, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner

Romania

La Tenerezza

GIANNI AMELIO, ITALY, 2016, 103 MIN.

THU, OCT 5 WED, OCT 11

Contemporary World Cinema

6:30 PM 1:30 PM

PLAY IN09

Canadian Premiere. One of Italy’s finest contemporary filmmakers, Gianni Amelio scores a late-career triumph with this intimate drama. Alienated from his own children, elderly Lorenzo (Renato Carpentieri) finds himself drawn to the neighbours across from his apartment. Fabio (Elio Germano), Michela (Micaela Ramazzotti) and their children are a happy brood on the surface, but, as the old man gets closer to them, tragedy reaches out… Gorgeously shot and populated with memorable characters, this is a quietly devastating film.

Cast Renato Carpentieri, Elio Germano, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Micaela Ramazzotti, Greta Scacchi, Arturo Muselli Prod Elisabetta Trautteur Selected Filmography Lamerica; The First Man; Happy to be Different

That Trip We Took with Dad Die Reise mit Vater

ANCA MIRUNA LĂZĂRESCU, ROMANIA/GERMANY/ HUNGARY, 2016, 111 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 8 WED, OCT 11

6:15 PM 9:30 PM 12:15 PM

IN08 IN09 IN08

Canadian Premiere. In 1968, brothers Mihai (Alexandru Mărgineanu), a doctor, and Emil (Răzvan Enciu), an 18-year-old contrarian, accompany their ill father William (Ovidiu Schumacher) on a trip from Arad, Romania, to Dresden, where Dad is scheduled for surgery.

The Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia puts a large crimp in their plans… Anca Miruna Lăzărescu’s debut, drawing from her own father’s life, “wraps its political message up in a warm and engaging family dramedy…

Deserves every one of its 111 minutes.”—Eye for Film Cast Alex Mărgineanu, Răzvan Enciu, Ovidiu Schumacher, Susanne Bormann, Manuel Klein, Doru Ana Prod David Lindner Leporda, Verona Maier Filmography The Secret of Deva

Norway

USA

NATHAN SILVER, USA, 2017, 83 MIN.

JOACHIM TRIER, NORWAY/SWEDEN/FRANCE/ DENMARK, 2017, 116 MIN.

1:00 PM 6:30 PM

IN09 PLAY

This Nordic thriller features Eili Harboe in a star-making role. Playing the titular character, she gives a beguiling performance, expressing angst and repression yet still giving off a powerful erotic charge. A small-town girl gone to study in Oslo, Thelma meets her first love— and starts to experience seizures. Things get even more drastic from there, as director Joachim Trier (Louder Than Bombs) combines the religious, the sexual and the supernatural to mesmerizing effect.

Cast Eili Harboe, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Kaya Wilkins Prod Thomas Robsahm Filmography Oslo, August 31st; Reprise

WED, OCT 11 THU, OCT 12

9:00 PM 4:00 PM

Brazil

Tom of Finland

Thirst Street

Thelma FRI, SEP 29 MON, OCT 9

Finland

CINE IN09

Canadian Premiere. Nathan Silver (Exit Elena, Soft in the Head, both VIFF 13) takes a step up with this blackly comic thriller about amour fou, set largely in Paris. Flight attendant Gina (Lindsay Burdge), reeling from her lover’s suicide, has a one-night stand with sleazy Parisian bartender Jerôme (Damien Bonnard) and then promptly moves to Paris in order to pursue the “love of her life”—despite Jerôme’s lack of interest… Fuelled by Burdge’s highoctane performance, this is an unforgettably twisted story of neurotic passion.

Cast Lindsay Burdge, Damien Bonnard, Esther Garrel, Lola Bessis, Jacques Nolot, Françoise Lebrun Prod Louise Bellicaud, Claire Charles-Gervais, Josh Mandel, C. Mason Wells, Ruben Amar, Katie Stern, Joshua Blum, Matthew Ellison, David Solal, Elsa Leeb, Jordan Goldnadel Selected Filmography Exit Elena; Uncertain Terms; Stinking Heaven

DOME KARUKOSKI, FINLAND/GERMANY/DENMARK/ SWEDEN, 2017, 116 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 SAT, OCT 7

9:45 PM 1:45 PM

PLAY IN10

LGBTQ icon Tom of Finland—the artist who saw his “pornographic” drawings of wellendowed hunks go from criminal to celebrated—is the fascinating focus of director Dome Karukoski’s biopic, starring an excellent Pekka Strang. Moving from WWII through to Tom’s halcyon days and nights in the California of the 1970s and 80s, the drama “is most effective at showcasing the bountiful beauty of [Tom’s] fleshy, filthy sketches, as well as the empowered pursuit of pleasure for which they continue to stand.”—Variety FIPRESCI Prize, Gothenburg 17 Cast Pekka Strang, Lauri Tilkanen, Jessica Grabowsky, Taisto Oksanen, Seumas Sargent, Jakob Oftebro Prod Aleksi Bardy, Miila Haavisto, Annika Sucksdorff

Vazante

DANIELA THOMAS, BRAZIL/PORTUGAL, 2017, 116 MIN.

TUE, OCT 3 THU, OCT 5

9:15 PM 1:15 PM

PLAY IN10

Canadian Premiere. Set in 1820s Brazil, Daniela Thomas’ first solo directorial effort (she co-directed three films with Walter Salles) centres on mine owner Antonio (Adriano Carvalho), a widower whose ineffectual colonial ways and fading estate, powered by increasingly rebellious slaves, mirror the decline of Portuguese fortunes in general. “[A] striking study of racial and gender politics in colonial Brazil… The arresting black-andwhite cinematography and the intriguing, textured sound design [are] first rate.”—Screen Cast Adriano Carvalho, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Sandra Corveloni, Roberto Audio, Vinicius Dos Anjos, Luana Nastas Prod Beto Amaral, Maria Ionescu, Sara Silveira Selected Filmography Midnight; Sunstroke

Selected Filmography Forbidden Fruit; Heart of a Lion; The Grump

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Germany

Denmark

Western

10:45 AM 6:15 PM 9:00 PM

For High School Students

Winter Brothers Vinterbrødre

VALESKA GRISEBACH, GERMANY, 2017, 119 MIN.

MON, OCT 2 WED, OCT 4 FRI, OCT 13

Contemporary World Cinema

VCT SFU SFU

The long-awaited follow-up to her wonderful Longing (VIFF 06), Valeska Grisebach’s tense drama chronicles the culture clash when a team of male German workers sets up camp in the Bulgarian countryside to construct a river-fed power plant. The amazing work of the non-professional cast and Grisebach’s unstinting realism make for a superb social critique. “There are no stagecoaches or sixshooters in this sharp, simmering drama of German-Bulgarian discord, but the spirit of John Ford graces it.”—Variety Cast Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Veneta Frangova, Vyara Borisova, Kevin Bashev Prod Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Valeska Grisebach, Michel Merkt Filmography Be My Star; Longing

South Africa

HLYNUR PÁLMASON, DENMARK/ICELAND, 2017, 94 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 WED, OCT 4

1:45 PM 7:15 PM

SFU IN10

Captivatingly shot in a cool 16mm that complements its snowy environment, Hlynur Pálmason’s film is an immersive look into the world of an Icelandic limestone mine through the eyes of Emil (Elliott Crosset Hove), an awkward, fragile man who can’t quite fit in. An eccentric, dissonant account of outsiderdom, it’s punctuated with bursts of surrealism and bouts of dark humour. “An impressively original, auspiciously idiosyncratic debut, one that scratches away at truths about masculinity, lovelessness and isolation…”—Variety Cast Elliott Crosset Hove, Simon Sears, Victoria Carmen Sonne, Peter Plaugborg, Lars Mikkelsen Prod Julie Waltersdorph Hansen, Per Damgaard Hansen, Hlynur Pálmason

VIFF High School Program

Bad Genius

Each year, VIFF welcomes over 1,000 secondary students to weekday matinee screenings, offering them the chance to experience great cinema from around the world. In 2017, we’ve chosen films that speak to younger audiences on their own terms. This year’s program features youth exploring indigenous identity, the power of writing, the passage to adulthood and more. From Thailand to Toronto, Sweden to the States, these films cross borders and cultures to bring audiences together. Each of them is unique, and all of them are vital.

France

High School Groups: Only $8 per ticket Full details and film ratings at viff.org

AlphaGo p. 48

Sami Blood p. 41

GREG KOHS, USA

MON, OCT 2

The Young Karl Marx

JOHN TRENGOVE, SOUTH AFRICA/GERMANY/ NETHERLANDS/FRANCE, 2017, 88 MIN.

RAOUL PECK, FRANCE/GERMANY/BELGIUM, 2017, 118 MIN.

SUN, OCT 8 THU, OCT 12

Le Jeune Karl Marx

6:00 PM 1:00 PM

IN08 IN08

Ritual circumcision of South African Xhosa boys as a passage into manhood is only one form of wound on display in John Trengove’s sensitive debut. Centred around the closeted Xolani (well-known gay singer Nakhane Touré), a caregiver to the newly circumcised boy-men; his (married) lover, Vija (Bongile Mantsai); and Xolani’s latest charge, the rebellious teen Kwanda (Niza Jay Ncoyini), this powerful drama is “[a] hard-edged but beautifully wrought study of clashing Xhosa models of masculinity.”—Variety Audience Award, Sydney Film Festival 17 Cast Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay Ncoyini, Thobani Mseleni Prod Elias Ribeiro, Cait Pansegrouw

MON, OCT 9 FRI, OCT 13

9:00 PM 3:30 PM

IN09

CENT SFU

Canadian Premiere. Fresh off the success of I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck—aided by screenwriter Pascal Bonitzer—tackles the early days of the friendship between Karl Marx (August Diehl) and Friedrich Engels (Stefan Konarske) as they struggle to establish the Communist Party and complete the Communist Manifesto… “This intense, fervent film about the early development of communism… shouldn’t work, but it does, due to the intelligence of the acting and the stamina and concentration of the writing and directing.”

—Guardian Cast August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Hannah Steele, Olivier Gourmet, Alexander Scheer Prod Nicolas Blanc, Rémi Grellety, Robert Guédiguian, Raoul Peck Selected Filmography The Man on the Shore; Lumumba; I Am Not Your Negro

Bad Genius p. 82

NATTAWUT POONPIRIYA, THAILAND

FRI, OCT 6

10:45 AM

I N10

Subject to Classification

11:15 AM

IN10

VARIOUS

WED, OCT 4

MIAO WANG, USA/CHINA

1:00 PM

Teen Years: Heaven and Hell p. 98 11:15 AM

SFU

Subject to Classification

Maineland p. 49 THU, OCT 5

THU, OCT 12

Violence, Coarse Language

No Advisory

The Wound Inxeba

AMANDA KERNELL, SWEDEN/DENMARK/NORWAY

11:00 AM

SFU

Unarmed Verses p. 65 CHARLES OFFICER, CANADA

WED, OCT 4

Coarse Language

1:00 PM

SFU

Subject to Classification

Reel Youth Film Festival p. 97

The Workshop p. 47 LAURENT CANTET, FRANCE

VARIOUS

TUE, OCT 10

11:00 AM

IN09

FRI, OCT 13

12:30 PM

SFU

Subject to Classification

Also note that we have classified several other films at the festival for viewers under the age of 18. Please visit the “Youth” section at viff.org Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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Spotlight on France

Panorama

France

Faces Places Visages, Villages

AGNÈS VARDA, JR, FRANCE, 2017, 90 MIN.

SUN, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 6

11:00 AM 6:45 PM

SFU PLAY

The great Agnès Varda, now 89, hits the road with the photographer JR in search of people and their villages—faces and places—that make rural France what it is. As the two artists work with villagers to affix JR’s monumental portraits of the locals to various buildings, the documentary celebrates the transformative power of art, as embodied in our two witty and wise hosts. “If Faces Places is Agnès Varda’s last film, it’s a profoundly moving and absolutely essential farewell.”—IndieWire Featuring Agnès Varda, JR Prod Emile Abinal, Charles S. Cohen, Julie Gayet, Nadia Turincev, Nichole Fu, Etienne Comar Selected Filmography (Agnès Varda) Cleo from 5 to 7; The Gleaners & I; The Beaches of Agnès; (JR) Women are Heroes

France

Spotlight on France

The rich cinematic culture that continues to flourish in France is celebrated with this selection of fine big-screen offerings.

BPM (Beats Per Minute) 120 battements par minute

ROBIN CAMPILLO, FRANCE, 2017, 144 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 MON, OCT 2

3:15 PM 6:15 PM

PLAY PLAY

A crowd favourite at Cannes this year, Robin Campillo’s fast-paced drama positively vibrates with energy, commitment and joie de vivre. As the AIDS crisis claims more and more lives in early 1990s Paris, the AIDS activist group ACT-UP begins a heated campaign to raise awareness and disrupt the blasé middle class. “Five stars! Compellingly combines elegy, tragedy, urgency and a defiant euphoria… This film has what its title implies: a heartbeat. It is full of cinematic life.”—Guardian Grand Prix, FIPRESCI Award, Cannes 17 Ismael’s Ghosts SERIES SPONSORS

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Cast Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud, Ariel Borenstein Prod Hugues Charbonneau, Marie-Ange Luciani

Panorama

France

France

Ava

Dalida

LÉA MYSIUS, FRANCE, 2017, 105 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 SUN, OCT 1

3:00 PM 6:45 PM

France

IN08 IN09

SUN, OCT 1 WED, OCT 4

3:45 PM 9:15 PM

France

Django

LISA AZUELOS, FRANCE/ITALY, 2016, 124 MIN.

Ismael’s Ghosts Les Fantômes d’Ismaël

ÉTIENNE COMAR, FRANCE, 2017, 117 MIN.

IN09 RIO

FRI, SEP 29 THU, OCT 12

Spotlight on France

3:15 PM 6:00 PM

CENT SFU

North American Premiere. Soon to go blind, defiant 13-year-old Ava (Noée Abita) resolves to exploit her summer at the beach to its fullest. In debuting director Léa Mysius’ hands, this resolution takes us to some exciting places as Ava explores her sexuality and falls in with a beach-bum bad boy (Juan Cano)… “[The] startlingly assured, exquisitely shot Ava is a film that doesn’t simply explore the textural possibilities of 35mm film for the hell of it, it makes thematic use of them, to stunning, evocative effect.”—Variety

Canadian Premiere. Paris-based singer/actress Dalida is given the biopic she deserves in Lisa Azuelos’ chronicle of the woman who galvanized the French music scene between the late 50s and the mid-80s. While selling 170 million records worldwide, she endured unbearable tragedy in her personal life and committed suicide in 1987. Newcomer Sveva Alviti in the lead “is not only a dead ringer for the dead star but also, just like the title character, a charismatic force of nature that’s impossible to ignore.”—Hollywood Reporter

Writer Étienne Comar (Of Gods and Men) makes a daring directorial debut by confining this look at the life of legendary jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt (played marvellously by A Prophet’s Reda Kateb) to the soul-forging months during WWII when the musician had to make a choice: collaborate and go on a tour of Germany or face up to the facts and resist… Co-starring the great Cécile de France.

“Kateb [gets] the chance to shine in… [this] handsomely made affair with one of the best scores imaginable.”—Variety

Cast Noée Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano, Tamara Cano, Daouda Diakhate, Baptiste Archimbaud, Franck Beckmann Prod Jean-Louis Livi, Fanny Yvonnet

Cast Sveva Alviti, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jean-Paul Rouve, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Alessandro Borghi, Valentina Carli Prod Julien Madon, Lisa Azuelos, Jérôme Seydoux

Cast Reda Kateb, Cécile de France, Beata Palya, BimBam Merstein, Gabriel Mirété, Vincent Frade Prod Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier

Selected Filmography LOL; Quantum Love

ARNAUD DESPLECHIN, FRANCE, 2017, 132 MIN.

TUE, OCT 3 WED, OCT 11

9:00 PM 10:45 AM

CENT IN09

Canadian Premiere. VIFF fave Arnaud Desplechin (My Golden Days, Kings and Queen) returns with his most daring film yet, a tour-de-force of mise-en-scène, shown here in the longer director’s cut not screened at the Cannes festival earlier this year. A dream cast—Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel—enacts this fraught drama about a filmmaker (Amalric), haunted by his past mistakes, whose current production is interrupted when his ex-wife (Cotillard) suddenly appears after 21 years away…

Cast Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel Prod Pascal Caucheteux, Vincent Maraval Selected Filmography Kings and Queen; A Christmas Tale

France

France

Milla

VALÉRIE MASSADIAN, FRANCE/PORTUGAL, 2017, 128 MIN.

THU, SEP 28 WED, OCT 4

8:45 PM 11:45 AM

VCT IN08

North American Premiere. Forsaking sentimentality in favour of authenticity, Valérie Massadian employs immaculate mise-enscène and precise camerawork to craft a portrait of a 17-year-old runaway (Séverine Jonkeere, discovered by in teen shelter) who suddenly finds herself with child, abandoned by her boyfriend and forced to embrace adult responsibility. Sometimes to be simple is to be daring, and in creating Milla’s world and simply allowing her to live in it, Massadian has fashioned a moving, memorable and transformative work.

Special Jury Prize, Locarno 17 Cast Séverine Jonckeere, Luc Chessel, Ethan Jonckeere Prod Sophie Erbs Filmography Nana

France

France

A Season in France

The Valley of the Wolves The Workshop

MAHAMAT-SALEH HAROUN, FRANCE, 2017, 100 MIN.

JEAN-MICHEL BERTRAND, FRANCE, 2016, 92 MIN.

La Vallée des loups

Une saison en France

FRI, OCT 6 TUE, OCT 10

7:00 PM 1:30 PM

IN09 IN09

Having fled the civil war-ravaged Central African Republic for Paris, a respected teacher (Eriq Ebouaney) now barely fends for his family by peddling produce. While he finds a loving companion (Sandrine Bonnaire) who helps him confront his past traumas, French bureaucracy proves a harsher mistress, impeding his bid for asylum and chance at a new life. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun offers a compassionate and visceral account of the unenviable lot of illegal immigrants struggling to maintain a sense of dignity.

Cast Eriq Ebouaney, Sandrine Bonnaire, Ibrahim Burama Darboe, Aalayna Lys, Bibi Tanga Prod Florence Stern Filmography Grigris; Dry Season; Abouna

THU, OCT 5 SAT, OCT 7

L’Atelier

6:30 PM 11:15 AM

SFU IN10

North American Premiere. Director JeanMichel Bertrand (Flirting with Heights, VIFF 11) spent three years deep in the French Alps single-mindedly seeking out wolves in their natural habitat. Gradually, he managed to closely observe one wolf pack—and ended up being accepted by them… Full of sublime images of the titular mountain valley (which Bertrand refuses to reveal the location of), captured in all four seasons, and the spectacular flora and fauna that live there, this is a gorgeous adventure story worthy of Jack London.

Prod Jean-Pierre Bailly Filmography Flirting with Heights

LAURENT CANTET, FRANCE, 2017, 113 MIN.

TUE, OCT 10 FRI, OCT 13

9:00 PM 12:30 PM

PLAY SFU

Expanding on ideas that made his The Class (VIFF 08) a Palme d’Or winner, Laurent Cantet’s deft and captivating drama focuses on a literary workshop in depressed La Ciotat (near Marseille) and the push-pull relationship that develops between hot-headed—and possibly violent—student Antoine (Matthieu Lucci, excellent) and workshop head Olivia (Marina Fois). “Cantet makes an enthralling return to form with this topical fusion of political debate session and socially conscious thriller.”—Variety Cast Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Warda Rammach, Issam Talbi, Florian Beaujean, Mamadou Doumbia Prod Denis Freyd Selected Filmography Human Resources; Time Out; The Class

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Documentaries

Panorama

Iran

Documentaries This acclaimed series explores the endless possibilities of nonfiction filmmaking while probing involving subject matter.

USA

24 Frames

ABBAS KIAROSTAMI, IRAN/FRANCE, 2017, 120 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 WED, OCT 4

3:15 PM 9:00 PM

VCT CINE

Canadian Premiere. The late Abbas Kiarostami’s last film contains 24 four-and-a-halfminute segments, each inhabiting a fixed frame and depicting landscapes, animals, even a digitized reproduction of Bruegel’s The Hunters in the Snow. They also contain a haunting summation of the master’s life’s work that will have you seeing the world through new eyes. “A mesmeric glimpse into Kiarostami’s mysterious mind… Gorgeous…

Watching it is akin to opening a series of nesting dolls, or leafing through a book of dreams.”—Guardian Prod Ahmad Kiarostami, Charles Gillibert Selected Filmography Taste of Cherry; Certified Copy; Like Someone in Love

USA

GEETA GANDBHIR, ASAD FARUQI, USA, 2017, 74 MIN.

Preceded By Divide (p. 99) and Invisible Line (p. 99)

9:00 PM 11:00 AM

SFU SFU

North American Premiere. This harrowing documentary takes us to an exceptionally dangerous area along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. Hunkering down with members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bomb Disposal Unit, Geeta Gandbhir and Asad Faruqi document their bravery and dedication. America’s military actions in the region have had deadly consequences for the neighbouring nations, and this film confronts a most agonizing aspect of the struggle. Tense, taut and ultimately quite moving, it’s a tribute to bravery and much more besides.

Prod Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Geeta Gandbhir, Asad Faruqi Selected Filmography (Geeta Gandbhir) Love the Sinner; I Am Evidence Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey

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GREG KOHS, USA, 2017, 90 MIN.

MON, OCT 2 TUE, OCT 3

11:00 AM 6:30 PM

IN09 PLAY

Canadian Premiere. “I think it will be five to zero, or perhaps four to one,” says a confident Lee Sedol, the world’s greatest player of Go, the Chinese game of strategy, in the lead up to his match against Google’s AlphaGo A.I. program. Because of its simple rules and near-infinite possible outcomes, Go is ideal for testing A.I. programs; Greg Kohs’ fascinating documentary follows the Google team as it prepares for the impossible—beating the champ—and reveals what could be a breakthrough in the humans vs. machines battle.

Featuring Lee Sedol Prod Kevin Proudfoot, Josh Rosen, Gary Krieg Selected Filmography Song Sung Blue

USA

Armed with Faith THU, OCT 5 SAT, OCT 7

AlphaGo

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story ALEXANDRA DEAN, USA, 2016, 90 MIN.

THU, SEP 28 SUN, OCT 8 WED, OCT 11

6:45 PM 9:30 PM 3:45 PM

SFU IN10 PLAY

Canadian Premiere. “Any girl can look glamorous; all she has to do is stand still and look stupid.” So declares Hollywood icon Hedy Lamarr, whose legendary beauty and affinity for scandal—denounced by the Pope at 18, six ex-husbands, drug addiction, financial ruin— blinded the world to the brilliant mind behind the invention of a secret WWII communications system that became the basis for modern WiFi. “The underexposed, amazing story of a Hollywood glamour queen who could have been a scientist.”—Hollywood Reporter Featuring Hedy Lamarr, Susan Sarandon, Mia Farrow, Mel Brooks, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Osborne Prod Katherine Drew

Panorama

USA

USA

Caniba

VERENA PARAVEL, LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR, USA/ FRANCE, 2017, 96 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 TUE, OCT 10

9:15 PM 6:45 PM

CINE CINE

“Caniba is a film that reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun Sagawa.

Rather than taking cover behind facile outrage, or creating a masquerade out of humanity’s voyeuristic attraction to the grotesque… we try to treat cannibalistic desire and acts with the unnerving gravity they deserve...”

—Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor Prod Valentina Novati, Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor Selected Filmography Somniloquies

Sweetgrass; Leviathan;

Warning: Viewer discretion advised.

USA

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? 9:00 PM 4:45 PM

IN08 IN10

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VCT IN09

Marking the 40th anniversary of NASA’s Voyager launch, this wonderful documentary recounts that triumph with verve and details the still-ongoing mission. Illustrated with fascinating CGI imagery and laced with anecdotes that run from the poignant to the comical, it’s a crowd-pleaser through and through. “[A]weinspiring…It’s rare for a film to make one swell with pride about something he or she had no direct hand in, but The Farthest accomplishes that feat with aplomb.”—Variety Audience Award, Seattle 17 Prod John Murray, Clare Stronge Selected Filmography Here Was Cuba

7:30 PM 2:15 PM 6:15 PM

VCT PLAY VCT

DAVE O’LESKE, USA, 2017, 96 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 SUN, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 13

6:30 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PM

PLAY RIO VCT

Canadian Premiere. Dina and Scott are set to be hitched and are adorably, head-overheals in love. But, with each of them dealing with unique challenges—Scott has Asperger’s Syndrome and Dina a “smorgasbord” of mental disabilities—an awkward case of cold feet arises. Scott is squeamish about sex, while his fiancée, very much an expert in that department, craves intimacy. Antonio Santini and Daniel Sickle’s heartfelt and charming doc portrait “is alternately comic and tragic and best when it’s both at once…”—IndieWire

Prod Travis Wilkerson

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, Sundance 17

Selected Filmography An Injury to One; Who Killed Cock Robin?

Prod Daniel Sickles, Antonio Santini

Featuring Fred Beckey Prod Dave O’Leske, Jason Reid, Colin Plank, Andy McDonough

Filmography Mala Mala

Filmography Spirit of Snow

India

BEN RUSSELL, FRANCE/GERMANY, 2017, 143 MIN.

Preceded By Chasing Stars p. 99

SAT, SEP 30 SAT, OCT 7 THU, OCT 12

Canadian Premiere. The political and personal intersect in Travis Wilkerson’s revisiting of a fateful Alabama night in 1946 when a white man (who also happened to be his great-grandfather) took a black man’s life and never served a day in prison. Wilkerson frames his masterful film as a mystery investigation into this family secret, returning to his hometown to uncover the truth. As with all good historical inquiries, Wilkerson’s powerful film speaks volumes to the present—and demands that we never forget.

Good Luck

EMER REYNOLDS, USA, 2017, 121 MIN.

Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey

DANIEL SICKLES, ANTONIO SANTINI, USA, 2017, 101 MIN.

TRAVIS WILKERSON, USA, 2017, 90 MIN.

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CINE CINE

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Machines

RAHUL JAIN, INDIA/FINLAND/GERMANY, 2016, 71 MIN.

THU, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 30

International Premiere. “Dirtbag climber: n. a person who dedicates her or his entire existence to the pursuit of climbing…” Beginning in the 1940s, Seattle’s ornery Fred Beckey, now 94, made climbing as many unscaled peaks as humanly possible his life’s goal. Hundreds of mountains and 70 years later, he gets his due with Dave O’Leske’s portrait, which offers keen insight into the climber’s life—and beautiful archival footage—while charting the successes (all those peaks) and failures (all those relationships) of a man obsessed.

7:00 PM 12:30 PM

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MIAO WANG, USA/CHINA, 2017, 90 MIN.

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SFU IN09

Two mining communities on opposite sides of the world, one blasting away rock for copper, the other dredging water and panning for gold; one deep below the earth’s surface, the other above, in the tropical heat; one stateowned and organized, the other independent and illegal. Ben Russell reveals the working conditions of miners in Serbia and Suriname through a careful mix of calm observation, focused formalism and ecstatic surrealism, finding common ground between these men, workers and humans all.

Inside a textile factory in India’s Gujarat region, shirtless workers toil alongside the many machines needed to produce dyes and fabrics. Working 12-hour shifts, these men earn the equivalent of $3 per day… Rahul Jain’s pointedly political documentary gives a voice to these workers while capturing the paradoxical beauty of the machines, both human and man-made, at work. “With the mystery and potency of a dream, Rahul Jain’s brief, fierce documentary… [is] a sombre, relevant piece of work.”—Guardian

Canadian Premiere. Maine, USA, meets Mainland China in this look at Freyburg Academy, an American boarding school known for welcoming East Asian students. Director Miao Wang follows expat teens Harry and Stella as they negotiate this new environment, and she portrays their trials and triumphs with a sympathetic eye. Warmhearted and wonderfully energetic, this is a tribute to multiculturalism that never ignores its complexity. “[S]erves to remind audiences of the power, and beauty, in differences.”—Austin Chronicle

Prod Janja Kralj, Guillaume Cailleau

Prod Thanassis Karathanos, Rahul Jain, Iikka Vehkalahti

Special Jury Award, SXSW 17

Selected Filmography Let Each One Go Where He May; A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

Prod Miao Wang, Violet Du Feng, Damon G. Smith, Robert Chang Selected Filmography Beijing Taxi

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A Marriage Story

Searching for a New Science

Strnadovi

HELENA TREŠTÍKOVÁ, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2017, 102 MIN.

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Prod Kateřina Černá, Pavel Strnad

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3:45 PM 8:45 PM

MICHAEL GLAWOGGER, MONIKA WILLI, AUSTRIA/ GERMANY, 2017, 107 MIN.

VCT SFU

International Premiere. Framed around a spirited, ongoing debate between Oxford physicist/devout churchgoer Ard Louis and filmmaker/avowed atheist David Malone, this singular documentary takes a deep dive into probing questions about the nature of the universe and whether notions like meaning, purpose, morality and even “god” can be reconciled with what we now understand about the world. Bursting with catalytic ideas and captivating images, Malone’s documentary is sure to inspire endless post-screening philosophical debate.

Prod David Malone

Selected Filmography Private Universe

THU, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 30

9:00 PM 3:30 PM

CINE IN08

Canadian Premiere. VIFF veteran Michael Glawogger was a bravely experimental documentary director; he looked at the world with the eyes of an awed observer but never dropped his critical stance. Shot across Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean and subSaharan Africa, and completed by Monika Willi after his death, Untitled documents poverty, the aftermath of war and more, making poetry out of the momentous and the ordinary alike. Glawogger has ended his life with a valediction on film—a gesture of love towards a troubled world.

Prod Tommy Pridnig, Peter Wirthensohn Selected Filmography (Michael Glawogger) Workingman’s Death; Whores’ Glory

Filmography Testing God

France

Israel

Untitled

DAVID MALONE, UK, 2017, 106 MIN.

North American Premiere.

Helena Treštíková’s film documents a staggering 35 years in the life and marriage of Ivana and Vaclav Strnad. Starting with a humble wedding and gathering in force as it progresses, the film has its share of quotidian moments but pushes into some unexpected territory as well. As time passes on and the triumphs and defeats pile up, the film gains a novelistic density. Fans of the British 7 Up series will be pleased, but this film has its own unique virtues. It’s an indelible human portrait.

West of the Jordan River AMOS GITAI, ISRAEL/FRANCE, 2017, 88 MIN.

MON, OCT 2 SAT, OCT 7

6:45 PM 1:45 PM

IN08 SFU

North American Premiere. In this examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Amos Gitai displays his trademark curiosity and passion, taking us to the streets of Hebron and beyond to interview citizens about their resentments, hopes and fears. Also prominent are the journalists, politicians and activists who shape the dominant narratives of this struggle. This is liberal filmmaking in the best sense: compassionate, generous and open to nuance. There are many voices to be heard and Gitai ensures that each of them seems vital.

Featuring Amos Gitai Prod Amos Gitai Selected Filmography Promised Land; Free Zone; Rabin, the Last Day

USA

Winnie

PASCALE LAMCHE, FRANCE/NETHERLANDS/SOUTH AFRICA, 2017, 98 MIN.

SAT, OCT 7 WED, OCT 11

Austria

Documentaries

11:00 AM 6:30 PM

IN09 SFU

The complicated, controversial life of South Africa’s Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the “mother of a nation,” is the focus of Pascale Lamche’s complex portrait. Beginning with her marriage to Nelson Mandela in 1958, Lamche’s sympathetic chronology marshals ample archival footage and interviews with Madikizela-Mandela, as well as family members, allies and opponents to craft a revealing perspective on the people and events that changed South Africa forever. “Densely packed and informative.”—Screen Directing Award, World Cinema Documentary, Sundance 17 Featuring Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Prod Christoph Jörg Selected Filmography Sophiatown; Black Diamond

The Work

JAIRUS MCLEARY, GETHIN ALDOUS, USA, 2017, 88 MIN.

SUN, OCT 8 TUE, OCT 10

9:00 PM 11:00 AM

SFU IN10

Canadian Premiere. Twice a year, members of the public are invited into Folsom State Prison to join convicts—many serving time for brutally violent offenses—for four days of intensive group therapy. Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous’ vérité tour-de-force powerfully illuminates how trauma and toxic masculinity impact men on both sides of the prison’s walls. “An emotionally riveting documentary that may very well be the most powerful group therapy ever caught on camera.”—IndieWire Grand Jury Award, Documentary, SXSW 17 Prod Alice Henty, Jairus McLeary, Eon McLeary, Miles McLeary, Angela Sostre Filmography (Gethin Aldous) Renzo Gracie: Legacy

Discover more docs!

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

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

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4:15pm 71min p34

4:45pm 85min p41

The Party

5:00pm 240min p78

Buffer Festival - Screening

6:30pm 102min p89

6:30pm 102min p89

Louise Lecavali...

Schumann's Bar ...

6:30pm 116min p43

23:00

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The Endless

9:00pm 112min p95

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9:15pm 127min p39

Los Perros

9:30pm 94min p41

9:15pm 93min p71

Hondros

9:00pm 132min p91

8:30pm 80min p37

Farewell

Streetscapes [Dialogue]

9:00pm 118min p45

Young Karl Marx

8:15pm 95min p83

9:00pm 88min p51

Suck It Up

The Work

9:00pm 99min p65

Holy Air

9:30pm 81min p38

23:00

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Bombshell: ...

9:30pm 90min p48

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The First Lap

9:00pm 101min p84

The Crescent

21:00

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Call Me by Your Name

8:15pm 100min p94

21:00

Chaplin in B...

9:30pm 80min p89

9:00pm 107min p40

Nile Hilton Incident

Tiger Girl

8:45pm 90min p95

Becoming Who I ...

7:00pm 106min p38

Thelma

Ice Mother

Motherland

6:45pm 94min p85

Animals

6:00pm 96min p94

6:30pm 99min p65

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19:00

Azar

6:15pm 93min p88

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Big Time

ACORN and the F...

6:00pm 85min p35

18:00

Sexy Durga

4:15pm 96min p83

2 Cool 2 Be 4go...

Home & Garden

3:15pm 103min p96

16:00

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Creator Talk

3:30pm 90min p79

Infiltration

Bunch of Kunst

3:30pm 103min p88

Bad Genius

6:00pm 130min p82

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Lipstick Under My ...

Columbus

7:00pm 80min p85 6:00pm 88min p45

The Wound

20:00 Last Roar of...

Happy End

19:00 6:15pm 107min p29

Our People Will...

13:00

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No Bed of Ro...

1:00pm 86min p40

Tragedy Girls

King of Peking

3:15pm 88min p85

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Top of the Lake p3

Crisis Management

3:15pm 98min p97

New Skins & Old...

18:00

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The Dragon D...

Cinematheque

11:00am 80min p37

Luk'Luk'I

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16:00

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Schumann's Bar ...

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Sweet Virginia

Golden Exits

23:00

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A Marriage Story

Cocote

9:00pm 106min p35

Dragonfly Eyes

9:15pm 81min p84

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22:00 Borg Vs. McEnroe

21:00

The Bolshoi

9:00pm 132min p35

Frank Serpico

9:00pm 98min p71

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The Crescent

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7 Minutes

God's Own Country

9:45pm 92min p35

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23:00

Have a Nice Day

8:45pm 105min p98

Good Luck

8:45pm 143min p49

22:00

Touching the Poetic

21:00

BC SPOTLIGHT GALA

7:00pm 91min p65

Worst Case, We ...

Maineland

6:30pm 90min p49

6:15pm 118min p84

The Foolish Bird

6:45pm 76min p59

On Putin's B...

6:00pm 115min p29

19:00 The Florida Project

Other Side of H...

11:00

12:00

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David Hockne...

Burma Storyb...

12:30pm 82min p59

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1:15pm 91min p65

Shut Up and ...

11:30am 120min p33

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4:45pm 100min p82 3:45pm 110min p94

Bitch

Paradox

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Scary Mother

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Unarmed Verses

Faces Places

7:30pm 86min p40

No Bed of Ro...

7:00pm 100min p47

20:00

Season in France

6:15pm 100min p71

The Venerable W

6:15pm 82min p83

Burma Storyb...

19:00

Centre for Arts

Monday, October 09

Vancity

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Intl Village 10

Worst Case, We ...

Frank Serpico

12:00

West of the ...

1:45pm 88min p51

Totally Indie Day

Farewell

11:00

11:00am 93min p48

1:00pm 84min p58

2:15pm 101min p49

Dina

1:45pm 116min p43

Eye on Juliet

17:00

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Fish Out of Water

2:30pm 136min p30

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Casting

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Queen of Spain

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A Beautiful Star

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Once There W...

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In Time to C...

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The Hidden Sword

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Tom of Finland

Planeta Petr...

1:15pm 81min p89

Entanglement

12:00pm 92min p36

Disappearance

11:15am 92min p47

Armed with Faith

14:00

Intl Village 9

10:00

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Winnie

12:15pm 111min p59

13:00

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Never Steady, Neve...

Valley of the W...

11:00am 98min p51

12:00

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VR Day

En el septimo dia

2:00pm 75min p58

city before ...

Good Manners

15:00

1:30pm 135min p38

12:45pm 114min p85

14:00

Sweating the Small...

13:00

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Sunday, October 08

Vancity

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Intl Village 10

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Saturday, October 07

Vancity

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

10:45am 130min p82

Bad Genius

11:00am 110min p39

12:00

Intl Village 10

11:00

11:00

The Insult

10:00

10:00

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Friday, October 06

00:00

00:00

Friendly Beast

11:00pm 98min p95

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The Endless

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Vancity

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Intl Village 10

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Friday, October 13

Vancity

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Intl Village 10

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Thursday, October 12

Vancity

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Intl Village 10

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Wednesday, October 11

Vancity

SFU-GCA

Rio

Playhouse

Intl Village 10

Intl Village 9

Intl Village 8

Cinematheque

Centre for Arts

Tuesday, October 10

TBA

12:00

1:45pm 93min p85

15:00

Marlina the Mur...

12:30pm 113min p47

14:00

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Last Roar of...

1:15pm 116min p39

Lipstick Under My ...

1:45pm 106min p38

Ice Mother

Motherland

15:00

1:30pm 94min p85

The Wound

1:00pm 88min p45

14:00

Dragonfly Eyes

1:30pm 81min p84

Bosch: ...

Suck It Up

2:00pm 99min p65

1:30pm 103min p43

The Workshop

13:00

11:45am 76min p91

13:00

Where You're...

11:15am 110min p41

Sami Blood

Nest of the Tur...

11:00am 102min p39

12:00

Louise Lecavali...

11:00am 102min p89

11:30am 104min p37

15:00

La Tenerezza

1:30pm 90min p88

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That Trip We Took ...

13:00

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Touching the Poetic

1:15pm 100min p35

1:30pm 100min p47

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Season in France

14:00

Beauty and the ...

12:15pm 101min p84

The First Lap

13:00

God's Own Country

10:45am 132min p47

Ismael's Ghosts

12:00

10:30am 120min

11:00

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Leaning Into th...

11:00am 88min p51

The Work

Reel Youth F...

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3:30pm 118min p45

Young Karl Marx

3:30pm 100min p27

Borg Vs. McEnroe

18:00 The Party

5:00pm 71min p34

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Directions

Holy Air

3:45pm 130min p37

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Close-Knit

Thirst Street

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Call Me by Your Name

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Searching for a Ne...

3:45pm 92min p59

Meet Beau Dick:...

3:45pm 90min p48

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Felicite

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Tales of Mexico

Catch/Release

3:15pm 102min p96

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Cocote

3:45pm 106min p35

3:45pm 102min p38

Hotel Salvation

3:30pm 109min p58

Gregoire

Big Time

17:00

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Left to Their O...

16:00 Caniba

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Bad Genius

6:15pm 80min p89

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David Hockne...

Other Side of H...

6:15pm 91min p66

Black Cop

6:15pm 130min p82

Frank Serpico

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Paradox

Wonderstruck

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TBA

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Western

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Shadowman

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Searching for a Ne...

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Have a Nice Day

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Housewife

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Tiger Girl

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The Bolshoi

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A Yangtze Landscape

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Azar

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The Hidden Sword

TBA

Animals

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TBA

ACORN and the F...

8:30pm 120min

Thirst Street

9:00pm 104min p28

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TBA

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Friendly Beast

The Workshop

Felicite

23:00

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On Putin's B...

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8:45pm 76min p91

The Foolish Bird

9:00pm 118min p84

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Where You're...

Wonderstruck

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Django

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King of Peking

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Winnie

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Sour Apples

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Swallows and Am...

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Nest of the Tur...

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Chaplin in B...

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Borg Vs. McEnroe

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Marlina the Mur...

6:45pm 85min p41

Sexy Durga

6:15pm 110min p41

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Sami Blood

Close-Knit

6:45pm 111min p59

Never Steady, Neve...

6:15pm 103min p36

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Sea to Sky A showcase of the inspired works emerging from the creative nexus that is British Columbia.

BC Spotlight

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BC Spotlight

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British Columbia

BC Spotlight

British Columbia

c’ sna m: the city before the city

Dead Shack

PETER RICQ, CANADA, 2017, 82 MIN.

ELLE-MÁIJÁ TAILFEATHERS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MUSQUEAM FIRST NATION AND THE UBC MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY CURATORIAL TEAM, CANADA, 2017, 75 MIN.

The latest feature films from our province’s best and brightest creators will leave audiences thrilled by our homegrown talent.

SUN, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 6

9:00 PM 2:00 PM

SFU IN10

World Premiere. We live on land that was never ceded or sold by those who were living here at “first contact,” and yet we know precious little about the Lower Mainland before real estate. This film aims to correct that with a meaningful reminder of the history and prehistory of this land and her first people. VIFF alumnus Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, in collaboration with the Musqueam First Nation and the UBC Museum of Anthropology curatorial team, shares this reflection on a time when BC was indeed super and natural.

Featuring Musqueam First Nation Prod Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

British Columbia

6:15 PM 1:00 PM

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With their best attempt at a wholesome family vacation already being sabotaged by f-bombs and baser desires, three teenage friends are suddenly sent careening on a detour into over-the-top, gory horror in this ode to ‘80s genre flicks from Peter Ricq (whose band HUMANS supplies the synth score). Thanks to the equal attention lavished on characters and physical comedy/carnage (courtesy of firstrate practical effects), this severed-tongue-incheek film’s blunt-force trauma packs all the more punch.

Cast Matthew Nelson-Mahood, Lizzie Boys, Gabriel LaBelle, Donovan Stinson, Valerie Tan, Lauren Holly Prod Amber Ripley Filmography Come Together

CODY BOWN, CANADA, 2017, 109 MIN.

RIO RIO

TUE, OCT 3 TUE, OCT 10

9:15 PM 3:30 PM

RIO IN10

Intent on ending his misery, Ben (Silicon Valley’s Thomas Middleditch) merely adds to a laundry list of embarrassments. So it’s no surprise when subsequent efforts to connect with the woman who was nearly his adoptive sister (Jess Weixler) send him into a darkly comic tailspin that leaves him questioning every relationship in his life, as well as his increasingly tenuous grip on reality. Jason James’ sophisticated film poignantly questions whether it’s ever advisable to let things go.

Shot in his hometown of Fort McMurray before it was ravaged by wildfires, Cody Bown’s drama draws on real-life events to capture snapshots of a community teetering on a precipice and a collection of twentysomethings whose seemingly directionless lives have intersected. Bown draws remarkable performances from an ensemble cast (headed by Jared Abrahamson); his film will resonate with anyone who’s reached that stage in life where there’s no other option than making a life-changing decision.

Cast Thomas Middleditch, Jess Weixler, Diana Bang, Randal Edwards, Marilyn Norry, Eric Keenleyside Prod Amber Ripley, Jason James

Cast Jared Abrahamson, Jedidiah Goodacre, Morgan Taylor Campbell, Emily Haine, Ben Cotton, Robyn Ross Prod Cody Bown, Jan Klompje, Tito Guillen, Aaron Mallin

Filmography That Burning Feeling

SERIES SPONSOR

RIO RIO

Gregoire

JASON JAMES, CANADA, 2017, 84 MIN.

Entanglement

11:30 PM 8:45 PM

British Columbia/Alberta

Entanglement SAT, SEP 30 SAT, OCT 7

FRI, SEP 29 THU, OCT 5

Sea to Sky

British Columbia

British Columbia

Hollow in the Land

Luk’Luk’I

SCOOTER CORKLE, CANADA, 2017, 100 MIN.

SUN, OCT 1 MON, OCT 9

6:15 PM 11:30 AM

WAYNE WAPEEMUKWA, CANADA, 2017, 90 MIN.

RIO IN10

When a body is found in a trailer park, and her missing brother (Jared Abrahamson) becomes the number one suspect, headstrong Alison (Dianna Agron) decides to take things into her own hands, setting out to track him down and clear his name before the cops find him first. The harder this amateur detective looks, the more people turn up dead, and soon she becomes a suspect herself. In a town tucked away amidst a mountain range, secrets get buried deep. If Alison’s not careful, she’ll get buried with them.

Cast Dianna Agron, Shawn Ashmore, Rachelle Lefevre, Michael Rogers, Jared Abrahamson Prod Marlaina Mah, Jesse Savath

British Columbia

BORIS IVANOV, CANADA, 2017, 76 MIN.

6:45 PM 9:30 PM

CINE IN09

World Premiere. An engaging and timely tour d’horizon of Mother Russia and her place in today’s world. We witness the wounded pride of Russians as the Soviet Empire crumbles and the jingoistic xenophobia born out of an increased reliance on foreign investment grows. Propaganda and demonization of the “other” result in institutionalized racism and a culture of disdain. Boris Ivanov brings us up to speed on the shameful adoption crisis, statesanctioned Internet hacking and the heartless treatment of LGBTQ citizens.

Prod Boris Ivanov

TUE, OCT 3 SUN, OCT 8

6:30 PM 12:45 PM

RIO RIO

February 2010: as Canada battles the US for Olympic hockey supremacy, a handful of engrossing, life-and-death dramas unfold in the back alleys, seedy bars and SROs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Filmmaker Wayne Wapeemukwa invites some of the city’s marginalized citizens to step into starring roles, and he shines a light on the urban realities we’re often too eager to avert our eyes from.

In the process he crafts a discordant city symphony that charts Vancouver’s complexities.

Cast Angel Gates, Eric Buurman, Joe Dion Buffalo, Ken Harrower, Ms. Rollergirl Prod Matt Drake, Spencer Hahn, Wayne Wapeemukwa

British Columbia

Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters

LATIESHA TI’SI’TLA FAZAKAS, NATALIE BOLL, CANADA, 2017, 92 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 WED, OCT 11

9:15 PM 3:45 PM

SFU SFU

World Premiere. Admirers of Pacific Northwest art are notably unanimous in their admiration of the oeuvre of the late Kwakwaka’wakw artist Beau Dick, whose generosity and prolific nature embodied the very spirit of potlatch. LaTiesha Ti’si’tla Fazakas and Natalie Boll’s intimate profile details the man’s rare charisma; his carvings, which remain revered in art circles; and his passionate activism, which culminated in the breaking of coppers in Victoria and Ottawa as an act of protest against legislative injustices.

Featuring Beau Dick Prod Beau Dick, Uwe Boll

British Columbia

On Putin’s Blacklist SAT, OCT 7 TUE, OCT 10

British Columbia

British Columbia

KYLE RIDEOUT, CANADA, 2017, 86 MIN.

MON, OCT 2

ANA VALINE, CANADA, 2017, 86 MIN.

SUN, OCT 1 FRI, OCT 6

9:00 PM 4:30 PM

RIO IN09

World Premiere. The Canadian north’s unforgiving nature is amplified to chilling effect in this claustrophobic, white-knuckle thriller from Ana Valine (Sitting on the Edge of Marlene). What is supposed to be a quick stop at a remote trailer turns into a standoff between embittered brothers, with an innocent woman (Kate Corbett) caught in the crossfire. As old wounds are reopened and fresh blood is spilled, the wolves at the door pose little threat in comparison to the personal demons being unleashed inside.

Cast Kate Corbett, Teach Grant, Juan Riedinger, Kris Demeanor Prod Ana Valine, Lori Lozinski, Seanna McPherson Filmography Sitting on the Edge of Marlene

6:30 PM

RIO

Book-smart but unschooled in the ways of life, home-schooled teen Liam (Daniel Doheny) has a bright future laid out, even if casual conversation amounts to a social minefield for him. But then he lays eyes on the wooden leg of the prettiest girl in public school and decides on self-sabotage; the result is an extended Grade 12 stay. This comedy from Kyle Rideout (Eadweard) is fuelled by chemistry between Liam and his helicopter mom (Judy Greer) that is so spectacularly awkward it would make Oedipus blush.

Cast Judy Greer, Daniel Doheny, Siobhan Williams, Andrew McNee, Alex Barima, Andrew Herr, Grace Park, Russell Peters Prod Josh Epstein, Adam Folk Filmography Eadweard

Never Steady, Never Still

KATHLEEN HEPBURN, CANADA, 2017, 111 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 SAT, OCT 7 TUE, OCT 10

8:45 PM 12:15 PM 6:45 PM

RIO IN08 IN09

Set against a spectacular northern BC backdrop, Kathleen Hepburn’s debut is the intimate story of a devoted mother wrestling with Parkinson’s (Shirley Henderson, astonishing in a demanding role) and a son saddled with his first adult responsibilities (future star Théodore Pellerin). Eloquently scripted, and directed with both tenderness and assurance, the film uses its note-perfect, naturalistic performances and intricately calibrated revelations to create powerful, cathartic drama.

Cast Shirley Henderson, Théodore Pellerin, Nicholas Campbell, Mary Galloway, Lorne Cardinal, Jared Abrahamson Prod Tyler Hagan, James Brown

British Columbia

Public Schooled

Once There Was a Winter

BC Spotlight

Shut Up and Say Something

MELANIE WOOD, CANADA, 2017, 82 MIN.

WED, OCT 4 SUN, OCT 8

6:15 PM 12:30 PM

PLAY PLAY

Internationally acclaimed spoken-word artist Shane Koyczan gives a poignant and powerful voice to those relegated to the margins: the bullied, awkward and visibly different. In this entrancing documentary, Melanie Wood reveals a bashful alchemist who creates dazzling rhetorical fireworks. With candour, Koyczan shares his momentous and deeply personal journey to finally meet his estranged father. The result is his most important poem yet—and the more intimate his words are, the more universal they become.

Featuring Shane Koyczan Prod Melanie Wood Filmography School of Secrets; A Stranger In Our Home

Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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The Owl Who Married a Goose Caroline Leaf

World of Tomorrow Don Hertzfeldt

KOOKS& LEGENDS

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THE DIRECTORS GUILD OF CANADA IS A PROUD SPONSOR OF VIFF

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2017-08-10 8:53 PM

Sea to Sky

Panelists

Totally Indie Day

BC Spotlight Awards Sea to Sky Award Presented by TELUS. This $20,000 prize will recognize the outstanding work of one female key creative on a BC-produced feature or short.

The awarded prize money can be used for a future production or towards customized training that will further advance the creator’s career.

Cowboy Smithx Jem Garrard

Best BC Film Award One narrative feature will receive a $10,000 development bursary provided by the Harold Greenberg Fund and a $15,000 post-production services credit supplied by Encore (Deluxe Ent Services Group).

Mina Shum

Totally Indie Day

Dennis Heaton

Saturday, October 7

Totally Indie Day, presented by STORYHIVE, invites independent content creators to benefit from a dynamic day designed to provide real insights and hands-on advice from top experienced industry pros and rising new talent.

Moving Forward with Inclusivity SAT, OCT 7

9:00AM – 10:00AM

Digital Storytelling Platforms SAT, OCT 7

11:30AM-12:30PM

Experts discuss how meaningful diversity and inclusion transforms their ways of working in their organizations and on set. The conversation will push us to remove barriers and reimagine what truly representative content can be.

Finding the right distribution platform for monetizing high-quality episodic series is the biggest issue facing our content creators right now. Our guests will outline the state of the online market for producers navigating digital storytelling platforms.

Panelists: Emily Best (Seed&Spark), Jem Garrard (Android Employed), Doreen Manuel (Capilano University), Cowboy Smithx (Elder in the Making), Shirley Vercruysse (NFB), Mayumi Yoshida (Akashi)

Panelists: Chris Harris (CBC Digital), Meredith Carlin (ULIVE.com at Scripps Networks Interactive), Emily Best (Seed&Spark), Winston Rowntree (peopleWatching), Ali Adab (BBTV)

Moderator: Megan Lau (STORYHIVE)

Moderator: Marcia Douglas (CMPA)

PRESENTED BY

PRESENTED BY

SAT, OCT 7

SAT, OCT 7

10:15AM – 11:15AM

Panelists: Simon Davis Barry (Creator/Executive Producer), Dennis Heaton, (Writer/ Executive Producer), Kristin Lehman (Actor), James Robbins (Production Designer), Sara Irvine Erickson (1st AD) PRESENTED BY ACFC WEST, LOCAL 2020 UNIFOR

TV writers share their inspiration about having a voice in the writers’ room, breaking a story and lessons learned along the way.

Panelists include: Simon Davis Barry (Ghost Wars), Sheri Elwood (Lucifer), Michael Grassi (Riverdale), Thomas Schnauz (Better Call Saul), Tim Goodman (The Hollywood Reporter)

Sponsored by Creative BC, a $5,000 prize is awarded for the Best BC Short Film.

BC Emerging Filmmaker Award This award includes a $7,500 cash prize sponsored by UBCP/ACTRA and the ACTRA Fraternal Benefits Society and a $10,000 equipment credit supplied

by William F. White. This award is open to first or second narrative features that are signatory to a UBCP/ACTRA agreement.

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2:45PM-3:45PM

Creating episodic TV is a collaborative medium. A Day in the Life goes behind the scenes with the key creatives from the upcoming SyFy and Netflix horror series Ghost Wars as they share their combined effort in transforming a show into visual magic.

SAT, OCT 7

In the Writers Room

Best BC Short Film

A Day in the Life

1:30PM-2:30PM

VR is already breaking boundaries but where will filmmakers take the technology next? Meanwhile, podcasters are bypassing the old gatekeepers to tell their stories their way. We’ll discuss the implications of this brave new world of screenwriting.

Panelists: Cary Smith (Red Bull Media House), Evette Vargas (Digital Reign Productions), Nina Sudra (VICE Canada), Kyle Gest (The Lapse Storytelling Podcast)

4PM-5PM

All hail the multi-hyphenates! The writer-director asserts his/her vision on screen, crafting words and translating them into imagery as if the movies sprang from the mind’s eye fully-formed. Our three writer-directors share insights into the challenges and opportunities that come with taking on this most demanding of dual roles.

Panelists: Mina Shum (Meditation Park), Kyle Rideout (Public Schooled), Kathleen Hepburn (Never Steady, Never Still) PRESENTED BY

#mustseebc In advance of the festival, the #mustseeBC campaign invites audiences to preview trailers, promote BC filmmakers across social networks and VOTE for their most-anticipated films. The film that earns the most fan votes takes the title “Audience Must-See-Film” and receives a special red carpet screening. Voting starts on September 7 at mustseebc.viff.org.

Moderator: Kim Guise (TELUS) PRESENTED BY

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True North Our country’s best narrative films and documentaries from directors beloved

by VIFF audiences as well as exciting new voices.

Eye on Juliet

KIM NGUYEN, CANADA, 2017, 90 MIN.

WED, OCT 4 SAT, OCT 7

6:15 PM 3:45 PM

IN09 IN09

Preoccupied with escaping the preordained life that awaits her and so many other Middle Eastern women, Ayusha (Lina El Arabi) is unaware that she’s acquired a secret admirer in Gord (Joe Cole), a North America-based security specialist who watches her via the spider-like robot he remotely operates. Open-hearted, inventive and visually enthralling, Kim Nguyen’s (Rebelle) latest explores loneliness in the age of surveillance and the ability of simple communication to overcome deeply entrenched paranoia.

Cast Joe Cole, Lina El Arabi Prod Pierre Even Selected Filmography Two Lovers and a Bear; Rebelle; Truffe

Canada

Canada

Like a Pebble in the Boot

Infiltration

Comme un caillou dans la botte

Le Problème d’infiltration

HÉLÈNE CHOQUETTE, CANADA, 2017, 70 MIN.

ROBERT MORIN, CANADA, 2017, 93 MIN.

THU, OCT 5 SUN, OCT 8

6:30 PM 3:45 PM

VCT SFU

This dark thriller brings us into the carefully constructed world of narcissistic plastic surgeon Dr. Louis Richard (Christian Bégin) as it comes crashing down around him. Director Robert Morin delivers a voyeuristic and claustrophobic experience. His camera parallels the control-freak doctor’s state of mind as his sense of authority over his wife, his son and his career slips away. A beautifully shot and lit journey into isolation and madness.

Cast Christian Bégin, Sandra Dumaresq, William Monette, Guy Thauvette Prod Luc Vandal Selected Filmography Requiem for a Handsome Bastard; Operation Cobra; Petit Pow! Pow! Noël Tattoos SERIES SPONSOR

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TUE, OCT 3 THU, OCT 5

6:45 PM 4:45 PM

CINE IN09

World Premiere. Against the picturesque backdrop of Brunelleschi’s Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Senegalese migrants peddle Chinese trinkets and selfie sticks to tourists—but only if they’re lucky.

People are often racist, street vending is illegal and many of the vendors are undocumented. It’s frustrating, and they’re barely scraping by, but their families in Africa depend on them. Filmmaker Hélène Choquette turns her empathetic eye on these harassed peddlers, resilient victims of global inequality.

Prod Anne-Marie Gélinas Filmography Fists of Pride; Chienne de vie

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Canada

Canada

Our People Will Be Healed

Rebels on Pointe

9:00 PM 6:30 PM

VCT CINE

With her 50th documentary, Alanis Obomsawin transports us to remote Norway House, where Cree children are learning the necessary skills to ensure proud, prosperous lives.

While addressing past tragedies, Obomsawin focusses on the future in the form of these bright-eyed youths who are potentially the Indigenous leaders of tomorrow. Recognizing this cause for celebration, her film closes with a rousing jamboree that leaves us grateful to have been permitted access to a place so rich in culture and tradition.

Prod Alanis Obomsawin Selected Filmography Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance; We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice

MON, OCT 2 TUE, OCT 3

9:30 PM 10:45 AM

Canada

A Skin So Soft

Suck It Up

Ta peau si lisse

BOBBI JO HART, CANADA, 2016, 90 MIN.

ALANIS OBOMSAWIN, CANADA, 2017, 99 MIN.

THU, OCT 5 MON, OCT 9

Canada

IN10 IN09

For over 40 years, the all-male drag troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has been delighting audiences around the world.

In size 11 toe shoes, the Trocs send up the formality of classical ballet. Director Bobbi Jo Hart shares the rich archival history of this New York collective, born in the wake of the Stonewall Riots, and their progress from preposterous to phenomenal. Best of all, we get to know the international ballerinos while enjoying their satiric wit and outré virtuosity.

Featuring Les BalletsTrockadero de Monte Carlo Prod Robbie Hart, Bobbi Jo Hart Selected Filmography She Got Game; I Am Not a Rock Star; Rise

JORDAN CANNING, CANADA, 2017, 99 MIN.

DENIS CÔTÉ, CANADA, 2017, 93 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 SAT, SEP 30

8:30 PM 2:30 PM

IN08 VCT

Iconoclastic director Denis Côté is at his playful best with this equally awe-inspiring and amusing profile of bronzed, inked and bulging-at-the-sinews bodybuilders. While there’s abundant absurd comedy courtesy of the surreal sight of these man-mountains negotiating suburban homes or labouring to meet their caloric needs, Côté’s inquisitive camera reverentially appraises the astonishing frames that their devotion has wrought, while also revealing glimpses of vulnerability lurking in these Goliaths’ eyes.

Featuring Alexis Légaré, Benoit Lapierre, Cédric Doyon, Jean-François Bouchard, Ronald Yang, Maxim Lemire Prod Jeanne-Marie Poulain, Joëlle Bertossa, Dounia Sichov, Denis Côté

SUN, OCT 8 WED, OCT 11

9:00 PM 2:00 PM

RIO IN10

Determining that Ronnie (Grace Glowicki), her hot mess of a besty, is in desperate need of a change of scenery, obsessive-compulsive Faye (Erin Carter) whisks her away to placid Invermere. However, the best laid recovery program derails into debauchery as the two fall prey to ill-advised hookups and bowling under the influence. And that’s before the MDMA kicks in. Jordan Canning’s wickedly funny, BC-set buddy comedy shirks sentimentality in favour of a barbed sincerity that leaves a lasting mark.

Cast Erin Carter, Grace Glowicki, Daniel Beirne, Toby Marks, Michael Rowe, Nancy Kerr Prod Marc Tetreault, Jason Levangie Filmography We Were Wolves

Selected Filmography Bestiaire; Vic + Flo Saw a Bear; Boris without Beatrice

Canada

Canada

Unarmed Verses

Tattoos

Les Faux Tatouages

CHARLES OFFICER, CANADA, 2017, 86 MIN.

PASCAL PLANTE, CANADA, 2017, 87 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 1

Canada

9:00 PM 2:00 PM

CINE IN08

World Premiere. Crossing post-gig paths with Mag (Rose-Marie Perreault), Théo (Anthony Therrien) is all scowling swagger until she calls him on the fake tattoo he’s brandishing. As he sheepishly drops his defences, Pascal Plante’s “punk rock romance” likewise abandons brashness in favour of character-centric drama reminiscent of Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy. Demonstrating a remarkable gift for eliciting naturalistic performances, Plante traces the formative experiences that will shape Mag and Théo’s adult lives.

Cast Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault, Lysandre Nadeau, Brigitte Poupart, Nicole-Sylvie Lagarde, Léona Rousseau Prod Katerine Lefrançois

WED, OCT 4 FRI, OCT 6

1:00 PM 6:00 PM

SFU RIO

At the cusp of adolescence and facing forced relocation, Francine has a lot on her mind.

And while this Toronto tween possesses a way with written words, she has yet to develop the necessary confidence to express herself in full voice. Charles Officer’s luminous, poignant documentary charts this marginalized yet magnetic young woman’s determination to make herself and her community heard.

“Like [Jim Jarmusch’s] Paterson, Unarmed Verses is both about poetry and a work of poetry in itself.”—RogerEbert.com Best Canadian Feature Documentary, Hot Docs 17 Prod Lea Marin Filmography Nurse.Fighter.Boy; Mighty Jerome

Canada

Worst Case, We Get Married

You’re Soaking in It SCOTT HARPER, CANADA, 2016, 77 MIN.

Et au pire, on se mariera

LÉA POOL, CANADA/SWITZERLAND, 2017, 91 MIN.

SAT, OCT 7 SUN, OCT 8

7:00 PM 1:15 PM

IN10 IN09

Léa Pool’s 13th film is not for the faint of heart. Working from a novel by Sophie Bienvenu, Pool tells the disturbing, poignant story of 14-year-old Aïcha (a luminous Sophie Nélisse), who spends most of the time roaming around her Montreal neighbourhood.

She lives with her distracted mother Isabelle (Karine Vanasse) and the memory of her turfed stepfather. When she encounters Baz (Jean-Simon Leduc), a sympathetic twentysomething musician, she falls hard for him, and teenage fantasy rules.

MON, OCT 2 WED, OCT 4

7:00 PM 11:00 AM

IN10 IN09

Advertising is no longer the arcane territory of a few well-lubricated characters. The creative leaps of Mad Men have been replaced by precise, targeted surveillance rooted in complicated computer modelling. The data collected is often very personal information, and it is used to design advertising that influences you at the precise moment you are most ready to spend. Scott Harper documents this chilling shift and introduces us to corporate execs who proudly let us know how much they know about us.

Exec Prod Andrew Burnstein Prod Scott Harper Filmography The Age of Anxiety; Flying Solo

Cast Sophie Nélisse, Karine Vanasse, Jean Simon Leduc, Isabelle Nélisse, Mehdi Djaâdi Prod Lyse Lafontaine, François Tremblay, Elisa Garbar Selected Filmography Set Me Free; Lost and Delirious; Pink Ribbons, Inc.

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Nova Scotia

Ontario

Black Cop

Fail to Appear

CORY BOWLES, CANADA, 2017, 91 MIN.

TUE, OCT 3 WED, OCT 4 FRI, OCT 13

7:15 PM 4:45 PM 6:15 PM

ANTOINE BOURGES, CANADA, 2017, 70 MIN.

IN09 IN10 RIO

Cast Ronnie Rowe Jr., Koumbie, Kirsten Olivia Taylor, Simon Paul Mutyimana, Emmanuel John, Jeff Schwager Prod Aaron Horton

Cast Deragh Campbell, Nathan Roder, Shawn Collins, Michelle Tiffin, Mohammed Ahmed, Delphine Roussel Prod Dan Montgomery, Karen Harnisch

Quebec

MATTHEW TAYLOR BLAIS, CANADA, 2017, 65 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 MON, OCT 9

6:45 PM 1:00 PM

CINE IN08

World Premiere. A young woman dreams of the forest. Upon waking she texts a friend, cancelling their plans. She packs up, compelled to head into the woods. The deeper she moves into the forest, the more it begins to take on a life of its own. What waits for her there? Hypnotic, deceptively simple, and graced with strikingly sensual cinematography, Matthew Taylor Blais’ Forest Movie is a liberating experience that plays like a call to embrace nature, slow down, pay attention, and get in touch with your thoughts.

Canada who demonstrate originality and vision while challenging the medium.

Cast Ana Escorse Prod Haya Kailani, Manny Mahal

Black Cop

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CINE IN08

World Premiere. Isolde (Deragh Campbell) is a caseworker adjusting to the challenges of her new job when she is assigned to a man charged with theft and facing an upcoming court hearing. She does her best to help, but when the two meet she struggles to connect.

Antoine Bourges’ film is many things at once: a portrait of those who fall through the cracks and the few who try to help them, a studious analysis of the systems in place and how they operate, and a poignant reflection on the difficulty of human connection across social strata.

Forest Movie

Diverse independent filmmakers from across

7:00 PM 4:30 PM

With tension growing and Black Lives Matter putting the heat on law enforcement, a black police officer is torn between his affinity for the badge and the colour of his skin. He decides to take matters into his own hands and changes the priority of his targets from black to white, embarking on a spree of vengeance.

With its provocative use of dash-cam and chest-cam footage, Cory Bowles’ film is as stylistically bold as it is politically charged, standing pointedly between the satirical and the dead serious.

British Columbia

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FRI, SEP 29 MON, OCT 2

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In the Waves

JACQUELYN MILLS, CANADA, 2017, 61 MIN.

WED, OCT 4 THU, OCT 12

4:45 PM 7:00 PM

IN08 CINE

In Jacquelyn Mills’ impressionistic documentary, her grandmother Joan Alma Mills is struggling to come to terms with the death of her younger sister and searching for answers in the natural beauty that surrounds her coastal village home. With a delicate attention to detail, spoken musings on mortality and meaning are intricately interwoven with elegiac imagery. This is a soulful rumination on the passage of time—its ebbs, flows and eternal mysteries.

Prod Jacquelyn Mills, Aonan Yang, Andreas Mendritzki, Nguyen-Anh Nguyen

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Ontario

Future//Present

Nova Scotia

Canadian Awards Maison du bonheur

Mass for Shut-Ins

SOFIA BOHDANOWICZ, CANADA/FRANCE, 2017, 62 MIN.

WINSTON DEGIOBBI, CANADA, 2017, 65 MIN.

6:00 PM 12:45 PM

Best Canadian Film

Preceded By There Lived the Colliers p. 99

Preceded By Scaffold p. 99

SUN, OCT 1 TUE, OCT 3

While VIFF welcomes films from every corner of the globe to Vancouver screens, we also host one of the world’s largest exhibitions of new Canadian Cinema. VIFF demonstrates our continued commitment to Canadian directors with three cash awards for feature films.

VCT IN08

2016’s Emerging Canadian Director awardwinner Sofia Bohdanowicz (Never Eat Alone) returns with the colourful documentary Maison du bonheur. When asked to make a film about her friend’s mother, a widowed Parisian astrologer named Juliane, the director sets off for Montmartre and produces a lovingly made portrait of an infectiously exuberant personality and the lovely pre-war apartment she’s called home for 50 years. Shooting gorgeously on 16mm, Bohdanowicz again transforms quotidian details into beauty.

Featuring Juliane Lumbroso-Sellam, Nadia Cassel, Roberto Cassel, Albert Eddassouki, Manouk Kurdoghlian, Claude Tougard-Lumbro Prod Sofia Bohdanowicz, Calvin Thomas

MON, OCT 2 THU, OCT 5

6:15 PM 3:30 PM

CINE IN08

World Premiere. Amidst poverty in New Waterford, Cape Breton, 25-year old Kay Jay is sleeping on his grandfather’s couch. Without much of anything, the two sit around eating 5-cent candies, drinking pop and watching movies. This film looks squarely at a type of comatose living in which the aging residents are dwindling away and the futures of the young are dim at best. Director Winston DeGiobbi bends the mundane slightly towards the surreal, distilling the directionless daily existence of his characters into poetry.

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

Emerging Canadian Director $2,000 award sponsored by the Directors Guild of Canada.

Like a Pebble in the Boot dir. Hélène Choquette Nominees

The Crescent* dir. Seth A. Smith

Quebec

Entanglement dir. Jason James Eye on Juliet dir. Kim Nguyen Fail to Appear* dir. Antoine Bourges

SOPHIE GOYETTE, CANADA, 2016, 98 MIN.

Preceded By Idizwadidiz p. 99

9:30 PM

Infiltration dir. Robert Morin

Mes nuits feront écho

BLAKE WILLIAMS, CANADA/USA, 2017, 63 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30

Indian Horse dir. Stephen Campanelli

Still Night, Still Light

PROTOTYPE

IN10

SUN, OCT 1 TUE, OCT 3

9:00 PM 3:15 PM

CINE IN08

From experimental filmmaker Blake Williams comes this ambitious 3D sci-fi film, which reimagines the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and its aftermath with the presence of a mysterious, futuristic televisual device. Then the cultural centre of Texas, Galveston was devastated by the storm. PROTOTYPE moves from stereoscopic pictures of the city to an awesome visceral conjuring of the storm and then into further sense-engaging abstraction, interrogating notions of origin and historical memory.

An existential meditation on longing, loss and memory, Sophie Goyette’s lyrical drama seamlessly moves between three characters and three distinct locations. Haunted by the death of her parents, Eliane leaves her Montreal home to teach piano in Mexico City. Her student’s father Romes is coping with midlife disappointment. Lastly, Pablo’s father harbours memories of a lost love. Each character is processing their past and unsure about how to move into the future.

Prod Blake Williams

Bright Future Award, Rotterdam 2017 Cast Éliane Préfontaine, Gerardo Trejoluna, Felipe Casanova, Marie-Ginette Guay, Ian López Vinaver, Patricia Ilvia Prod Sophie Goyette

c’ sna m: the city before the city dir. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers in collaboration with the Musqueam First Nation and the UBC Museum of Anthropology Curatorial Team In the Waves dir. Jacquelyn Mills

Black Cop* dir. Cory Bowles

Ontario

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

Nominees

Cast Charles William McKenzie, Joey Lee MacLean, Stephen Melanson, John Lancleve, Zailynne Durant, Annie Marie Racki Prod Winston DeGiobbi

Filmography Never Eat Alone

Best Canadian Documentary

Luk’Luk’I* dir. Wayne Wapeemukwa Mass for Shut-Ins* dir. Winston DeGiobbi Meditation Park dir. Mina Shum Never Steady, Never Still* dir. Kathleen Hepburn

Louise Lecavalier in Motion dir. Raymond St-Jean Maison du Bonheur dir. Sofia Bohdanowicz Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters dir. LaTiesha Ti’si’tla Fazakas, Natalie Boll On Putin’s Blacklist dir. Boris Ivanov Our People Will Be Healed dir. Alanis Obomsawin PROTOTYPE dir. Blake Williams Rebels on Pointe dir. Bobbi Jo Hart Shut Up and Say Something dir. Melanie Wood A Skin So Soft dir. Denis Côté Unarmed Verses dir. Charles Officer You’re Soaking in It dir. Scott Harper

Public Schooled* dir. Kyle Rideout Still Night, Still Light* dir. Sophie Goyette Suck It Up* dir. Jordan Canning Tattoos* dir. Pascal Plante

* Indicates films eligible for both Best Canadian Film and Emerging Canadian Director

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Impact With messages that resonate long after the end credits, these documentaries possess the ability to be powerful agents for change.

Human Flow

AI WEIWEI, GERMANY/USA, 2017, 140 MIN.

SUN, OCT 1 MON, OCT 9

5:45 PM 1:00 PM

CENT PLAY

Directed by artist-activist Ai Weiwei and filmed in 40 refugee camps in 23 countries, this stunningly cinematic documentary, reminiscent of the work of Edward Burtynsky, chronicles the staggering breadth of the global refugee crisis with uncommon insight, as Ai’s camera captures the condition of today’s more-than-65-million displaced individuals. “The film is made with deep beliefs in the value of human rights. In this time of uncertainty, we need more tolerance, compassion and trust...”—Ai Weiwei Prod Heino Deckert, Ai Weiwei, Chin-Chin Yap Selected Filmography Disturbing the Peace; Ordos 100; Stay Home

USA

Australia

BLUE

ACORN and the Firestorm

KARINA HOLDEN, AUSTRALIA, 2017, 76 MIN.

REUBEN ATLAS, SAM POLLARD, USA, 2017, 84 MIN.

Preceded By American Psychosis p. 99

SUN, OCT 8 WED, OCT 11

6:30 PM 9:00 PM

RIO IN09

Canadian Premiere. A bastion of progressive activism for 40 years, ACORN was undermined by doctored video footage purporting to show its workers advising a pimp in 2009.

A scandalous harbinger of America’s current political crisis, the ACORN affair is recounted in Reuben Atlas and Sam Pollard’s enthralling doc. Polarization, vicious media attacks and the rise of Breitbart: all the key elements of American political malaise are to be found in this tragedy which looks back on the Obama years with an eye towards the present.

Prod Reuben Atlas, Sam Pollard Filmography (Reuben Atlas) Brothers Hypnotic; Sour Grapes (Sam Pollard) Two Trains Runnin’ Keep Talking

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MON, OCT 9 THU, OCT 12

12:15 PM 6:45 PM

SFU PLAY

North American Premiere. Karina Holden’s urgent documentary charts the drastic decline in the health of our oceans—more than half of all marine life has been lost due to plastic pollution, overfishing, habitat destruction and the expansion of industrialization—sets out the challenges we are facing, and illustrates the opportunities for positive change.

Filmed on location in Australia, Hawaii, the South Pacific, the Philippines and Indonesia, BLUE is a cogently argued, beautifully shot and truly inspired call to action.

Prod Sarah Beard, Karina Holden, Sue Clothier

Impact

USA

USA

Evolution of Organic

Frank Serpico

MARK KITCHELL, USA, 2016, 87 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 1

6:30 PM 1:15 PM

USA

Hondros

ANTONINO D’AMBROSIO, USA, 2017, 98 MIN.

SFU SFU

International Premiere. “Organic” has become such a garden variety term that few of us give much thought to how this movement might’ve originated. Consequently, Mark Kitchell’s insightful documentary makes for engrossing viewing as it retraces the first steps of the motley, rebellious pioneers who thumbed their noses at chemical farming and set in motion a wave of change. Much more than just backstory, Evolution is essential viewing thanks to the glimpses it offers of the sustainable alternatives waiting on the horizon.

Prod Mark Kitchell Selected Filmography Berkeley in the Sixties; A Fierce Green Fire

FRI, OCT 6 SUN, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 13

9:00 PM 11:00 AM 6:30 PM

USA

Keep Talking

GREG CAMPBELL, USA, 2017, 93 MIN.

SFU IN09 CINE

International Premiere. Played by Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet’s Serpico (1973), Frank Serpico was the counterculture hero of the NYPD for his unflinching stand against corruption.

Antonino D’Ambrosio’s rewarding portrait includes interviews with Serpico and his colleagues and supporters, including former US Attorney General Ramsay Clark, writer Luc Sante and actor John Turturro. Context is provided via clips from Lumet’s film. “An enjoyable expansion on the fictional account, with a where-is-he-now bonus.”—Hollywood Reporter Featuring Frank Serpico, Luc Sante, John Turturro Prod Antonino D’Ambrosio, Brooke Devine, Brian Devine, Jason Orans

FRI, SEP 29 MON, OCT 9

4:00 PM 9:15 PM

KAREN LYNN WEINBERG, USA, 2017, 80 MIN.

SFU IN09

TUE, OCT 3 THU, OCT 5

6:30 PM 10:45 AM

VCT IN10

War photographer Chris Hondros was an award-winning legend by the time he was killed in Libya, at age 41, in 2011. Fellow journalist Greg Campbell—a friend who had also worked with Hondros—has fashioned a balanced, deeply researched, and profoundly affecting portrait that shows Hondros in all his humanity. “An eloquent tribute… The film succeeds partly because Hondros was such a gifted war photographer, and partly because of the thoughtful and loving portrait created by… Campbell.”—Hollywood Reporter

World Premiere. Filmed in and around Kodiak, Alaska, this is a beautifully crafted film about resilience, empowerment and community told through the stories of four young women who are fighting to revitalize the Kodiak Alutiiq language. Interweaving personal narratives, local history, interviews with academics and elders, animated Alutiiq legends and footage of various initiatives to teach the language to Alutiiq youth, Karen Lynn Weinberg’s documentary is a celebration of the power of language and culture.

Audience Award: Documentary, Tribeca 17

Prod Karen Lynn Weinberg

Prod Greg Campbell, Daniel Junge, Geoff McLean, Mike Shum

Selected Filmography We’re Still Here: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited

Estonia

France

China

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ASKOLD KUROV, ESTONIA/POLAND/CZECH REPUBLIC, 2017, 70 MIN.

SUN, OCT 1 WED, OCT 4

7:15 PM 2:45 PM

IN08 IN08

North American Premiere. Currently serving a 20-year sentence as an alleged terrorist, filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was a vocal opponent of Russia’s invasion of the Crimea before being taken by the FSB, tortured, tried and sentenced. Askold Kurov examines the case—using evidence available to anyone—and puts the lie to the government’s position, fashioning a frightening study in corruption along the way. “A scrappy testament to the true nature of the Vladimir Putin regime [that] leaves you with a shuddering chill.”—Variety Featuring Oleg Sentsov, Vladimir Putin Prod Maria Gavrilova, Max Tuula, Dariusz Jabłoński, Izabela Wójcik, Violetta Kamińska

The Venerable W.

BARBET SCHROEDER, FRANCE/SWITZERLAND, 2017, 100 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 FRI, OCT 6

12:30 PM 6:15 PM

IN08 IN08

A Yangtze Landscape

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Chang Jiang

XU XIN, CHINA, 2017, 157 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 THU, OCT 12

12:00 PM 8:30 PM

IN08 IN08

Canadian Premiere. With Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk, unrepentant Islamophobe and avowed Trump admirer, serving as our guide, Barbet Schroeder’s riveting documentary embeds us in a Myanmar where violence—and even ethnic “purifying”—is being fuelled by incendiary religious rhetoric. Supplementing interviews with on-the-ground amateur footage, the veteran filmmaker invites us to stare into the face of intolerance and leaves us questioning whether any of us have the luxury of turning a blind eye to such heinous conduct.

North American Premiere. From the lights of Shanghai’s Bund to its source on the Tibetan plateau, Xu Xin’s beautiful black-andwhite documentary follows the entire length of the Yangtze River, providing a panorama of China’s land and people. One of China’s preeminent independent filmmakers has crafted an epic, moving, provocative portrait of China today. We see, amidst China’s progress, those left behind in the margins, scrabbling for life and livelihood. Epic and intimate: an ode to the Yangzte and a lament for its inhabitants.

Prod Margaret Menegoz , Lionel Baier

Prod Xu Feixue, Zhang Jun, Lu Zhixin

Selected Filmography Barfly; Reversal of Fortune; Our Lady of the Assassins

Filmography Karamay; Pathway

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Selected Filmography September 25; Leninland

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Sustainable Production Forum Wednesday, October 4

The Sustainable Production Forum, sponsored by Creative BC, Western Economic Diversification Canada, Tourism Vancouver and the Vancouver Economic Commission, is a cornerstone event at VIFF’s annual festival and the leading event of its kind in the world. Given the ever-changing nature of the sustainable production movement, the Forum offers bold, dynamic programming to address the most relevant issues, debate the most provocative topics and ultimately help advance sustainability in the motion picture and television industries.

The 2017 Sustainable Production Forum will focus on Action Now. Panels of international experts will discuss the ever-changing nature of sustainability in physical production from the studio and city perspective, international collaborations, innovations and education for the next generation filmmakers.

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

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

Our Impact stream highlights a selection of documentaries that possess this power.

Together, they offer a broad global perspective on the hot topics of our day: war zones; refugees; the freedom of the press in the face of corruption; the preservation of language and culture; the preservation of our planet itself.

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

Admission to the Sustainable Production Forum is free. Register in advance at viff.org. A full list of speakers and updates may be found on the Sustainable Production Forum website: goviff.org/SPFinfo.

Keynote address Get inspired about the movement that’s revolutionizing the motion picture and television industries.

Studio Roundtable Learn from the major studios about the latest and greatest in sustainable production as well as the tools and systems that enable a lighter footprint on set.

Collaboration and Collective Action An overview of the sustainable production efforts that have resulted from collaboration and multi-stakeholder collective action, including an update on the local Reel Green program.

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Policy Advances for Sustainable Production Familiarize yourself with the stakeholders involved in policy advancement at the municipal and regional levels that can enable sustainable production practices.

Next Generation Sustainable Production This session will bring together professors and film students to share their approach to sustainable production inside and out of the classroom.

Power Hour An applied session to discuss innovative technology and practical applications that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Looking for a venue extraordinaire?

Designed to dazzle, the beautifully appointed Vancouver International Film Centre can be used for screening films, multi media presentations, live simulcasts, closed circuit broadcasts, seminars, receptions and live performances.

The greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society is a not-for-profit educational and cultural organization incorporated and registered in British Columbia, and a federally charity.

Chartiable Registration Number: BN118946821 RR0001

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Enjoy an exclusive VIFF menu at all Donnelly Group Public Houses from Sept 28 - Oct 13*

THE LAMPLIGHTER - LIBRARY SQUARE - THE BLACKBIRD - TAVERN THE THREE BRITS - THE BUTCHER & BULLOCK - THE NEW OXFORD

d o n n e l l y g r o u p .c a

*excluding The Railway, Belfast Love, Death & Taxes

THE BIMINI - CINEMA - BELFAST LOVE - DEATH & TAXES

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

VIFF AMP

Sustainable Production Forum Virtual Reality Buffer Festival

VIFF Industry Exchange Creator Talks

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VIFF AMP

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VIFF AMP New to the Vancouver International Film Festival this year, VIFF AMP, presented by FACTOR, Radio Starmaker, Music BC and the BC Music Fund, is a two-day summit that highlights the intersection between film and music in today’s changing industry landscape. This summit will focus on the creation of content for film and television, including composed music, source music and the world of post-production and sound design. Plus: Networking opportunities and showcases will ensure that AMP attendees make themselves heard.

Monday, October 2 The summit will launch with an evening Creator Talk focusing on how Vancouver is uniquely situated to become a leader in both the film and music industries and how artists, producers, composers and filmmakers can enhance their careers. A VIFF LIVE showcase, featuring four of BC’s finest export-ready artists follows later in the night.

Tuesday, October 3 A full-day conference at the Vancity Theatre, including panels, networking and workshops with attending music supervisors, agents, executives and other key industry leaders. With conference delegates attending from Los Angeles, Toronto and across North America, this promises to be an informative, inspiring and potentially transformative day. A second evening VIFF LIVE showcase of BC talent will follow.

Summit conference attendees include:

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

Draw Me Close PRESENTED BY

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Valerie Biggin

Daniel Kuypers

The SongRep Music Supervision Inc.

Energy BBDO

John Bissell

Todd Legault

Mothlight Music

X-It Music, Inc.

PJ Bloom

Rob Lowry

Warner Film & TV

Dirk Gently

Natasha Duprey

Sean Mulligan

Silent Joe

Entertainment One

Liz Gallacher

Michael Permultter

Masters of Sex

Instinct Entertainment

Jon Granat

Ron Proulx

Nettwerk Music Group

ARPIX

David Hayman

Tony Scudelerri

Supergroup Sonic Branding Co

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Abbey Hendrix

Cynthia Stegner

Walker

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Joel C High

Ari Wise

Creative Control Entertainment

Core Music Agency

Mark Jowett

Full conference details available at viff.org.

Attendees are subject to change.

Nettwerk Music Group

Burden

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Industry Exchange + VR

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VIFF Industry Exchange Thursday, October 5

Disruption. In some ways this seems to be the hallmark of the ever-evolving digital entertainment market. And that market is “glocal,” with key players filling both local and international pipelines. While the television industry adapts, the digital landscape is an ecosystem that continues to grow while still leaving room for upstarts amongst the tall trees. This program, presented by CMPA-BC, with support from Creative BC, Telefilm Canada, the Canada Media Fund, Delta Airlines and Western Economic Diversification Canada, is the perfect opportunity for executives and content creators to learn about the latest trends and developments and join industry leaders as they discuss the global environment and the opportunities it presents.

Virtual Reality at VIFF Friday, October 6

The Expanding Frontiers in Storytelling series will transport attendees into the new mediums of VR and AR, with key insights from some of the most respected futurists in the world as well as conversations and demos from leading VR creators, companies, technologists and distributors. Presented by Creative BC, this is a must-attend event for anyone looking to understand or hoping to capitalize on this transformational medium.

PRESENTED BY PRESENTED BY

Keynote: The Changing International Telescape THU, OCT 5

10:00AM-10:30 AM

Presentation: Demand Your Independence THU, OCT 5

3:30PM-4:25PM

Keynote and Conversation: An Industry Evolves FRI, OCT 6

10:00AM-10:30 AM

How and Where: VR Financing and Distribution FRI, OCT 6

1:35PM-2:25PM

The traditional, the digital and the upstarts vie for content and eyeballs.

The ins and outs of funding independent film and television.

What is the current state of the Virtual Reality industry?

Where are we in the rapid development of the virtual reality ecosystem?

Content with a Cause: The Changing Landscape of News and Documentary Filmmaking

Key Trends in Canadian Media

The Rise of Cinematic VR

Case Study. “Great Performers: L.A. Noir”

THU, OCT 5

10:35AM-11:25AM

Changes in production technology and distribution models are creating new opportunities in news and doc filmmaking.

Anatomy of a Digital Hit THU, OCT 5

11:40AM-12:30PM

The creators of the YouTube Red hit “Escape the Night” talk about the show.

You Say You Want a Revolution THU, OCT 5

4:30M-4:45PM

Every year, the CMF researches key trends in the North American and Canadian media marketplace that are essential to the development of traditional and new media environments. Learn what’s in store for 2018 and beyond.

Keynote: Jump-In. The Emergence of Immersive Entertainment THU, OCT 5

4:50M-5:30PM

What does Immersive Entertainment (AR/VR/ MR) mean for the entertainment industry?

1:35PM-2:25PM

It used to be that there was an entrenched process for commissioning, pitching, funding and distributing shows, but the game has changed and will continue to do so.

Fireside Chat THU, OCT 5

THU, OCT 5

2:30PM-3:25PM

Full conference details available at viff.org.

Attendees are subject to change.

FRI, OCT 6

10:35AM-11:25AM

Moving from the initial “wow” of VR to truly cinematic immersive narratives.

Fireside Chat. Case Study: Bear 71 FRI, OCT 6

11:40AM-12:30PM

From the National Theater, the National Film Board of Canada and Co-Creators Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison, Bear 71 VR is an interactive documentary that uses trail camera footage and animal tracking to follow the life of one grizzly in Banff National Park.

Originally produced as a web-interactive documentary, Bear 71 has been re-released as an immersive WebVR experience. Representing the next step forward in web-interactive technology and the NFB’s initiative to update experiences that have been affected by changing technology, Bear 71 VR’s experience takes you into the world of grizzlies at a time when they are at even greater risk than when the original piece was launched.

FRI, OCT 6

2:30PM-3:25PM

LA Noir is among the most revolutionary virtual reality pieces of the year. How did its creators adapt this classic genre to a brand new medium?

VR News and Documentary Best Practices FRI, OCT 6

3:30PM-4:25PM

VR has powerful applications in journalism and documentary filmmaking.

Brands Jump In: 360 Advertising and Branded Content FRI, OCT 6

4:30PM-5:15PM

With branded content already gaining a foothold in traditional and digital media, is it now revolutionizing 360 content?

INDUSTRY HUB Pass

$

399

Admission to all Next programming, Totally Indie Day and 3 Creator Talks of your choice.

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Buffer Festival

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Buffer Festival @ VIFF Monday, October 9

This year, VIFF expands the frame to include a full day of programming from Buffer Festival, the world’s largest showcase of elevated YouTube content by digital-first creators.

Gala Awards Screening & Red Carpet Event APPROX. 240 MIN

MON, OCT 9

5:00 PM-9:00 PM

VCT

Vancouver fans and fellow screen-based storytellers will have the chance to see exclusive YouTube premieres celebrating the latest artistic, innovative work from acclaimed digital creators. A rare opportunity to enjoy this work on the big screen, this special event will also see the red carpet rolled out so that fans can meet some of their favourite YouTube creators in person.

The evening’s special screening will be loaded with award winners from Toronto’s Buffer Festival (Sep. 28-30, 2017), which will be celebrating excellence in eight different categories: • Cinematography

• Inspiration

• Comedy

• Production

• Cultural Showcasing

• Storytelling

• Diversity

• Writing

Tickets: $25 Preceded by:

Creator Day MON, OCT 9

PostPro Media Group Inc. 217 West 6th Avenue Vancouver BC Canada V5Y 1K7 604 688 8786 postpro.media

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10 AM-3:00 PM

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Intended for anyone who wants to learn more about becoming a YouTube Creator or wishes to take their elevated content to the next level, this full-day event includes educational seminars, workshops and keynotes from some of this year’s Buffer Featured Creators. Topics will include video production and post-production, camera equipment, tips and tricks, monetization, legal and copyright support and much more.

Admission to Creator Day is free. Register in advance at viff.org.

Next 16 FILMS Creator Talks

Sea to Sky

True North

Bates Motel

Game of Thrones

Carlton Cuse

6:00 PM

Creator Talks

Ane Crabtree

Director, Game of Thrones VCT

Carlton Cuse has mastered the art of primetime storytelling. One of television’s most successful scribes, he’s currently writing, executive-producing and showrunning Colony and the upcoming series Jack Ryan. Carlton’s TV credits include The Strain, Bates Motel and the smash hit Lost; he also wrote the hit disaster film San Andreas. He is the recipient of 10 Emmy Nominations.

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

The Handmaid’s Tale

Jeremy Podeswa

Writer/Executive Producer/Showrunner, Bates Motel FRI, SEP 29

M/A/D

Costume Designer, The Handmaid’s Tale

Greg Middleton

MON, OCT 2

Cinematographer, Game of Thrones SAT, SEP 30

5:00 PM

VCT

Emmy nominees and the winners of multiple awards for their work, Jeremy Podeswa and Greg Middleton are two of Canada’s most successful artists in the film and television industries. They most recently worked on the HBO series Game of Thrones, directing and shooting the Season 7 premiere and finale.

Earlier collaborations include the feature films Fugitive Pieces and The Five Senses. Hosted

by Helen du Toit, Breaking Barriers Film Fund, CBC.

M/A/D

A costume designer for film and television, Ane Crabtree has made a lasting impression with her work on The Sopranos, Westworld and Luck for HBO and The Handmaid’s Tale for Hulu. She is currently designing for The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2; other recent work includes the Scott Free/FOX pilot for The Passage. A Costume Designers Guild Award nominee for PanAm, Masters of Sex, and Westworld, Ane also recently received an Emmy nomination for The Handmaid’s Tale.

Hosted by Helen du Toit, Breaking Barriers Film Fund, CBC.

Other Full Day Sessions

Sustainable Production Forum WED, OCT 4 Blade Runner 2049

American Gods

David Slade

Director/Executive Producer, American Gods and Black Mirror 6:30 PM

VCT

PRESENTED BY

ALT

WED, OCT 4

6:30 PM

VCT

Join us for a fascinating and informative session, as David shares the unique experiences he’s had directing pilots and forming a cinematic language for shows including the hit series American Gods and the critically acclaimed anthology Black Mirror. Hosted by Tim Goodman, Chief TV Critic, Hollywood Reporter.

Dennis Gassner

Production Designer, Blade Runner 2049 SUN, OCT 8

3:30 PM

VCT

One of Hollywood’s top production designers, Dennis Gassner has received four Academy Award nominations for his work, winning for Bugsy in 1992. His credits include the hotly anticipated Blade Runner 2049, directed by Denis Villeneuve, as well as Barton Fink, Road to Perdition, The Golden Compass, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and Into the Woods.

PRESENTED BY

ALL DAY

Totally Indie Day SAT, OCT 7 VCT

A one-day event that showcases Vancouver as a world-class destination for sustainable screen-based industry production. This will be a day of inspiration, where we learn about trends and the next phase of opportunities to further sustainable production.

More info on Page 73.

ALL DAY

VCT

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

More info on Page 61.

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More talks and events to be announced.

Stay tuned at viff.org

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FILM NEWS & REVIEWS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. vancouversun.com

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Gateway

Journey into the compelling cinematic worlds envisioned by some of East Asia’s most adventurous artists.

Dragons & Tigers

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Gateway

Thailand

Dragons &Tigers Bad Genius

This internationally celebrated series continues to introduce the most exciting talents from East Asia to the world.

Chalard Games Goeng

NATTAWUT POONPIRIYA, THAILAND, 2017, 130 MIN.

FRI, OCT 6 SUN, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 13

MEDIA SPONSORS

10:45 AM 6:00 PM 6:15 PM

IN10 PLAY PLAY

In Nattawut Poonpiriya’s high-school thriller, kids memorize codes, hijack printing presses and recruit a squad of motorbike couriers—all in order to cheat on their exams. Plotted and paced like a heist film, this also delivers scathing commentary on class and corruption. Should we really be rooting for these kids? However you ultimately answer that, there’s no question that this is a gripping film and a razor-sharp satire. “Ceaselessly entertaining... a relentless, high-octane caper.”—Hollywood Reporter Best Film, NY Asian FF 17; Best Director, Fantasia 17 Cast Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Eisaya Hosuwan, Teeradon Supapunpinyo, Chanon Santinatornkul, Thaneth Warakulnukroh Prod Jira Maligool, Vanridee Pongsittisak, Suwimon Techasupinan, Chenchonnee Soonthornsaratul, Weerachai Yaikwawong

Hong Kong

Paradox

WILSON YIP, HONG KONG, 2017, 100 MIN.

SAT, OCT 7 MON, OCT 9 FRI, OCT 13

4:45 PM 1:30 PM 8:30 PM

PLAY IN09 RIO

North American Premiere. Ace director Wilson Yip, dashing leading man Louis Koo and one of cinema’s greatest action choreographers Sammo Hung team up for this gritty crime thriller.

Koo plays a detective who travels to Thailand in search of his missing daughter; there he finds corruption, sleaze and plenty of danger. In the best tradition of Hong Kong action cinema, the film offers colourful characters and good storytelling in addition to the mayhem. Thai martial artist Tony Jaa features in a small but memorable role.

Cast Louis Koo, Tony Jaa, Gordon Lam, Wu Yue, Chris Collins, Ken Low Prod Paco Wong, Cheang Pou-Soi Selected Filmography SPL: Kill Zone; Ip Man; Triumph in the Skies

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Philippines

South Korea

2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten

PETERSEN VARGAS, PHILIPPINES, 2016, 96 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 MON, OCT 9

6:00 PM 4:15 PM

IN08 IN09

North American Premiere. Smart, funny and very moving, Petersen Vargas’ queer coming-of-age drama ranks with the best of its kind. Closeted teenager Felix (Khalil Ramos) is resigned to going it alone in life, but then happens upon Magnus (Ethan Salvador), a wispy dreamboat with feline features and a devil-may-care expression. Felix thanks his lucky stars when Magnus and his brother Maxim (Jameson Blake) bring him into their lives. There’s a dark side to these brothers though, and turmoil, tears and violence are soon to come...

Best Film, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Cinema One Originals 16 Cast Khalil Ramos, Ethan Salvador, Jameson Blake, Ana Capri Prod Alemberg Ang

Cambodia

Anarchist from the Colony LEE JOONIK, SOUTH KOREA/JAPAN, 2017, 129 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 MON, OCT 2

2:00 PM 9:00 PM

Japan

Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia

Park Yeol

IN09 IN09

ROBERT H. LIEBERMAN, CAMBODIA/USA, 2017, 90 MIN.

SUN, OCT 1 TUE, OCT 3

Dragons & Tigers

6:30 PM 11:30 AM

CINE IN10

A Beautiful Star Utsukushii Hoshi

YOSHIDA DAIHACHI, JAPAN, 2017, 127 MIN.

WED, OCT 4 FRI, OCT 6

9:00 PM 4:15 PM

IN09 IN10

North American Premiere. Thrilling and hilarious, this is the story of a family that comes to believe they come from other planets and are here to serve alien agendas. Number one among the crazies is patriarch Juichiro (Lily Franky); he’s the first to claim alien heritage, and he becomes convinced he has to save Earth from destruction. This is a comedy of sorts; you could also call it science fiction.

But ultimately it’s so unique it almost resists comparison. It’s a triumph of creativity, and a delight from start to finish.

North American Premiere. In the wake of a 1923 massacre—and subsequent disinformation campaign—perpetrated by occupying Japanese forces, Korean anarchist/activist Park Yeol (Lee Jehoon, radiating charismatic impudence) and his compatriots scheme to assassinate Crown Prince Hirohito. Taking cues from its anti-authoritarian anti-hero, director Lee Joonik thumbs his nose at stodgy period drama trappings, instead delivering an explosive call to arms that strikes a chord in this current era in which tyrants threaten to run amok.

Canadian Premiere. Zeroing in on the devastating legacy of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal four-year regime, this is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Cambodia’s brutal past and tenuous future. Balancing historical context with disarming intimacy and continuing the legacy of The Killing Fields, it employs commendable directness to bring the human scale of the nation’s tragedy into sharp relief. “As an analytical narrative of tragedy, testimony and a way ahead, [Robert H. Lieberman’s documentary] has an undeniable power.”—L.A. Times Prod Deborah C. Hoard, Robert H. Lieberman

Cast Lily Franky, Kamenashi Kazuya, Hashimoto Ai Prod Honoki Hiromi, Suzuki Yutaka

Cast Lee Jehoon, Choi Heeseo, Prod Lee Jungse, Sean Kim

Selected Filmography They Call it Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain

Selected Filmography Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!; Pale Moon

Kim

Inwoo

Selected Filmography Blades of Blood; Battlefield Heroes; The Throne

South Korea

Netherlands

Becoming Who I Was

MOON CHANGYONG, JEON JIN, SOUTH KOREA, 2017, 95 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 SUN, OCT 8 WED, OCT 11

4:45 PM 8:15 PM 6:15 PM

IN09 VCT VCT

This doc chronicles the early life of Angdu, named as the reincarnation of a prominent Buddhist monk. Precocious, but full of the unruly spirits that mark childhood, the boy is mentored by the elderly Urgyan. It’s a tender, loving relationship, wonderful to behold.

Eventually the film focuses on Angdu’s trek from his home in northern India to Tibet, as he seeks to fulfill his destiny. “Bright, brisk and harmonious… A charmingly intimate portrait that ultimately assumes epic-journey proportions.”—Variety Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, Seattle 17; Grand Prix, Generation Kplus, Berlin 17 Prod Jeon JIn

South Korea

Burma Storybook

PETR LOM, NETHERLANDS/CZECH REPUBLIC, 2017, 82 MIN.

FRI, OCT 6 SUN, OCT 8

6:15 PM 11:00 AM

CINE SFU

North American Premiere. Recently freed from a half-century of military dictatorship and violence, Myanmar is in transition. Petr Lom’s patient, beautiful documentary explores the country’s past and present through the eyes of Maung Aung Pwint, its most celebrated dissident poet and a man whose activism led to decades of imprisonment. Lom’s lens captures scenes of festivities and modernity interspersed with more reflective moments of spiritual devotion, ultimately painting a portrait of a society tentatively reinventing itself.

Prod Corinne van Egeraat Selected Filmography Letters to the President

Japan

Claire’s Camera

Close-Knit

HONG SANGSOO, SOUTH KOREA/FRANCE, 2017, 69 MIN.

NAOKO OGIGAMI, JAPAN, 2017, 127 MIN.

La Caméra de Claire

FRI, SEP 29 SUN, OCT 1

7:00 PM 1:45 PM

Karera Ga Honki De Amu Toki Wa

IN10 IN10

A master of droll comedy and tricky plotting, VIFF favourite Hong Sangsoo scored at this year’s Cannes with a film about the revered festival itself. Isabelle Huppert, the reigning queen of French actresses, plays the title role. Attending Cannes for the premiere of a friend’s film, Claire meets Manhee (Kim Minhee of last year’s hit The Handmaiden).

Bonding, booze and some great laughs ensue.

“Easy on the eye and strewn with humorous gems... A short and sweet divertissement.”— Hollywood Reporter Cast Isabelle Huppert, Kim Minhee, Chang Mihee, Jung Jinyoung, Yoon Heesun, Mark Peranson Selected Filmography Woman on the Beach; Oki’s Movie; Our Sunhi

TUE, OCT 10 THU, OCT 12

6:30 PM 4:15 PM

IN10 IN10

Canadian Premiere. Abandoned by her mom, tween Tomo (Rinka Kakihara) needs a new place to live. Uncle Makio (Kenta Kiritani) is glad to take her in, but offers a gentle warning: his live-in partner is a bit “unusual.” She’s played by Ikuta Toma, one of Japan’s hottest young stars, and he steals the show with his note-perfect turn. That’s right: girlfriend Rinko is a trans woman—a surprise to Tomo and the source of her awakening in Naoko Ogigami’s drama. “Gentle, sweet-souled… a nuanced, softly lit family portrait.”—Variety Teddy Jury Award, Berlin 17; Audience Award, NY Asian Film Festival 17 Cast Toma Ikuta, Rinka Kakihara, Kenta Kiritani, Mimura, Eiko Koike, Mugi Kadowaki Prod Kumi Kobata, Mayumi Amano, Noriaki Takagi, Masashi Igarashi, Kenzo Ishiguro Selected Filmography Rentaneko Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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Gateway

USA

China

The Departure

8:30 PM 1:30 PM

VCT VCT

Ittetsu Nemoto is not your typical Buddhist priest. A former punk rocker who used to work at a Tokyo McDonald’s, he loves Prince, his motorcycle and dancing in clubs. He also has become famous in Japan for his extraordinary success in inspiring suicidal men and women to keep on living. But when a health crisis puts Nemoto at serious risk, can he live by the same advice he gives out? Lana Wilson’s extraordinary portrait is “immensely moving… often lyrical and deeply meditative.”—IndieWire Prod Lana Wilson Selected Filmography After Tiller

Taiwan

Dragonfly Eyes

The First Lap

XU BING, CHINA, 2017, 81 MIN.

KIM DAEHWAN, SOUTH KOREA, 2017, 101 MIN.

Qingting zhi yan

LANA WILSON, USA/JAPAN, 2017, 88 MIN.

SUN, OCT 1 MON, OCT 2

South Korea

SAT, OCT 7 WED, OCT 11

9:15 PM 1:30 PM

A Fish Out of Water

Cho-haeng

CINE VCT

SUN, OCT 8 TUE, OCT 10

9:00 PM 12:15 PM

Shang’an de yu

LAI KUO-AN, TAIWAN, 2017, 95 MIN.

CINE IN08

One of China’s greatest contemporary artists, Xu Bing, has made an extraordinary experimental-narrative first film. With nothing but clips of publicly available surveillance and dash-cam footage, he constructs the love story of Qing Ting and Ke Fan. She has left a monastery for a dairy farm; they end up on the run; she disappears and he believes she’s turned into the internet celebrity Xiao Xiao.

What if our lives are so thoroughly surveilled that we are made of nothing but our captured images? —SHELLY KRAICER

North American Premiere. Staring down the prospect of unplanned parenthood, a couple visits each of their families—hers affluent and judgmental, his working class and estranged. Their arduous cross-country trek provides them with ample opportunity to confront where their lives might be headed. No wonder they almost seem to be actively avoiding their destination… Buoyed by its humour, observations and relatability, Kim Daehwan’s film “is tiny and sharply focused, yet its effect is of a spreading, enlarging warmth...”—Variety

Prod Xu Bing, Zhai Yongming, Matthieu Laclau

Best New Director, Locarno 17 Cast Cho Hyunchul, Kim Saebyuk Prod Jang Woojin

Preceded By Hsiang Yi p. 99

MON, OCT 2 SAT, OCT 7

8:30 PM 3:15 PM

CINE IN08

Yi-an is a young Taiwanese boy who perplexes his parents: he speaks in a slightly creepy monotone, and imagines that he grew up by the seaside with a previous mother and father.

Is he disturbed? Clairvoyant? Gifted? Haunted? This soft-voiced, immaculately shot and ultimately deeply moving family story keeps all options open. Mixing sadness, compassion and mystery, Lai portrays a family at the breaking point, struggling to grasp a happiness that may be just out of reach. —SHELLY KRAICER Cast Pai Junto, Peggy Tseng, Cheng Ren-shuo Prod Gene Yao, Jason Liao

Filmography End of Winter

China

Taiwan

China

The Foolish Bird

The Great Buddha+

Gukoroku - Traces of Sin Have a Nice Day

HUANG JI, RYUJI OTSUKA, CHINA, 2017, 118 MIN.

HUANG HSIN-YAO, TAIWAN, 2017, 104 MIN.

ISHIKAWA KEI, JAPAN, 2016, 120 MIN.

Ben niao

SAT, OCT 7 TUE, OCT 10

6:15 PM 9:00 PM

Dafo pulasi

IN08 CINE

North American Premiere. Lynn is a typical 16-year-old high school student from rural Hunan, China. Left behind by her absent working parents, she and her friend May take to stealing her classmates’ cellphones for cash. As Lynn and May loiter in Internet cafes, they learn of a shocking murder-rape at their school. Co-directors Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka’s dark coming-of-age story daringly explores a teenage girl’s growing maturity as she is forced to confront sexuality, violence, and the stirrings of desire. —SHELLY KRAICER Cast Yao Honggui, Xiao Liqiao, Yao Fang, Huang Zifang, Liu Xiaoling, Yan Shixiang Prod Hsu Hsiaoming, Ryuji Otsuka Selected Filmography (Huang Ji) Underground; Egg and Stone; Trace (Ryuji Otsuka) Lingling’s Garden; Trace; Beijing Ants

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Japan

Preceded By Shepherd’s Purse p. 99

TUE, OCT 3 THU, OCT 5

5:30 PM 4:15 PM

Hao ji le

Gukoroku

IN10 IN10

Pickle works as a night guard in a foundry, where a giant bronze statue of Buddha is under construction. Belly Button collects scrap by day, and hangs out with Pickle at night.

When they discover their well-connected, overly amorous boss keeps dash-cam recordings of his nocturnal prowlings, they become obsessed with his lurid private secrets. Huang Hsin-yao uses the darkest black humour to probe the moral underbellies of Taiwan’s upper and lower classes to hilarious and devastating effect. —SHELLY KRAICER Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature, Grand Prize, Taipei 17 Cast Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chen, Leon Dai, Chang Shao-Huai, Chen Yi-Wen, Na Dow Prod Yeh Jufeng, Chung Mong-Hong

FRI, SEP 29 TUE, OCT 3

1:45 PM 9:45 PM

LIU JIAN, CHINA, 2017, 77 MIN.

IN10 IN09

Haunting as it is, this is still terrific entertainment—a compelling mystery story, expertly told. Tanaka (Tsumabuki Satoshi of The Vancouver Asahi, VIFF 14) is a reporter probing the murder of a businessman and his family; as he digs closer to the truth, the distinction between perpetrator and victim gets murky.

The film has a core of rage, but everything— including murder—is portrayed in hushed, funereal tones. Morbid, seductive and, in the end, very moving, this is genre filmmaking on a high level.

Cast TsumabukI Satoshi, Mitsushima Hikari, Koide Keisuke, Usuda Asami, Ichikawa Yui, Nakamura Tomoya Prod Kakurai Makoto

Preceded By Lunar Dial p. 99

FRI, OCT 6 MON, OCT 9 THU, OCT 12

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

IN09 RIO RIO

There’s a suitcase of cash on the loose and a rich menagerie of underworld characters are hustling to snag it. Liu Jian’s darkly comic animated feature follows a Tarantino-esque procession of articulate lowlifes (a hitman, a driver, two slackers, a gangster boss, a weird inventor) as they tell brilliant, piquant, entirely subversive stories about a corrupt urban environment that seems to resemble a large Chinese city. Liu’s old school animation and beautifully drawn atmospheric backgrounds are spellbinding. —SHELLY KRAICER Cast Zhu Changlong, Cao Kai, Liu Jian, Yang Siming, Shi Haitao, Ma Xiaofeng Prod Lynne Wang, Yang Cheng, Liu Jian Filmography Piercing I

Gateway

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Honeygiver Among the Dogs DECHEN RODER, BHUTAN, 2016, 132 MIN.

SUN, OCT 1 TUE, OCT 3

9:00 PM 4:00 PM

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North American Premiere. When a woman goes missing from a small village, cop Kinley (Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk) is put on the case, and his number one suspect is sexy dame Choden (Sonam Tashi Choden). Yes, this is film noir territory, but we’re far from the usual hardboiled milieu: the country is Bhutan, the missing woman is a Buddhist abbess and the femme fatale has some very special powers. Sexy, spiritual and beguiling, this film is subtle enough to have you parsing its mysteries long after the case has been solved.

Cast Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, Sonam Tashi Choden Prod Dechen Roder, Esther Koo

Singapore

I’ve Got the Blues 6:30 PM 12:45 PM

King of Peking Jing cheng zhi wang

TAN PIN PIN, SINGAPORE, 2017, 62 MIN.

ANGIE CHEN, HONG KONG, 2017, 90 MIN.

WED, OCT 4 THU, OCT 5

China

In Time to Come

Shuidi xingzou de ren

SAM VOUTAS, CHINA/AUSTRALIA/USA, 2017, 88 MIN.

Preceded By Canton Novelty p. 99

IN08 IN08

World Premiere. One of the most original and fascinating documentaries to come out of Hong Kong, Angie Chen’s portrait of preeminent abstract painter, blues musician, activist and art director Yank Wong is a Hong Kong rhapsody. We move from Hong Kong to Macao to Paris tracing his art, his loves, his complex family, his feelings about creating at home and creating a home. Remarkably, old friends Chen and Wong go at each other in powerful scenes that question the possibility of even making a documentary this truthful.

Prod Angie Chen, Pamela Lay

THU, OCT 5 FRI, OCT 6

Dragons & Tigers

9:00 PM 3:30 PM

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A time capsule is unearthed; a “time cube” is set up. “What’s worth preserving from Singapore today?” asks Tan Pin Pin’s elegant, incisive experimental documentary. Is it the discipline imposed on public school children?

The sterile malls and expressways of which the city-state is so proud? As trees are violently cut down and carted away to an uncertain future, Tan questions, “What’s the price of this perfectly pruned order?” Sometimes the quietest voice of protest carries the greatest weight. —SHELLY KRAICER

SUN, OCT 8 THU, OCT 12

3:15 PM 6:15 PM

PLAY IN09

At the height of the DVD boom, a Beijing projectionist holes up in a theatre basement and bonds with his young son by bootlegging and redubbing blockbusters. But the black market is rife with pitfalls for such misguided pirates, ensuring that this open-hearted love letter to cinema elevates its stakes (and charm) with each subsequent scene. Sam Voutas’ wry, nostalgic comedy-drama “highlights the exhilarating, protective and terrifying lengths parents will go for their children.”—Rolling Stone

Prod Tan Pin Pin

Best Director, LA Asian FF

Selected Filmography To Singapore, with Love; 7 Letters; 10+10

Cast Zhao Jun, Wang Naixun, Han Qing, Si Chao, Geng Bowen, Yi Long Prod Jane Zheng, Melanie Ansley Selected Filmography Red Light Revolution

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Philippines

Indonesia

Japan

The Last Roar of a Mother Bear

Marlina the Murderer in Motherland Bayan Ina Mo Four Acts RAMONA S. DIAZ, PHILIPPINES/USA, 2017, 94 MIN.

DOUG CHAN, MACAO, 2017, 80 MIN.

MOULY SURYA, INDONESIA/FRANCE/MALAYSIA/ THAILAND, 2017, 93 MIN.

Xiong mama zuihou de baoxiao

SUN, OCT 8 THU, OCT 12

7:00 PM 1:45 PM

Marlina si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak

CINE VCT

International Premiere. One of the strangest blackly comic murder-mystery art-horrorthrillers of the year! In 1990, an obsessive Macanese cop (director Doug Chan) unravels two murders that transpire in an atmospherically decaying Macao. A mother protects her daughter from a kidnapper who kills cops while abducting children. Eleven years later, the daughter, now a bride, is mysteriously murdered. Chan weaves images of mad memories and past and future traumas in this absurdist Dada-like collage of violence and obsession. —SHELLY KRAICER Cast Shannian Chan, Lucy Fong, Shanguo Chan, Shanti Chan, Akimoto Chan, Doug Chan Prod Doug Chan Selected Filmography Thou Shall Not Commit; Love Is Not a Sin

TUE, OCT 10 FRI, OCT 13

6:15 PM 1:45 PM

MON, OCT 9 THU, OCT 12 VCT VCT

Marlina (Marsha Timothy), a recently bereaved widow, is set upon by a group of men with rape on their minds—but she sure knows how to fight back. This film has been likened to a Western, and in its portrayal of a trek across the land to seek justice it does recall some classics of the genre. But ultimately it stands on its own, a proudly feminist work and a slam-bang revenge drama. “Kicks ass... At once an enjoyable genre ride and a feminist art-house story.”—Hollywood Reporter Cast Marsha Timothy, Dea Panendra, Egi Fedly, Yoga Pratama, Rita Matu Mona, Yayu Unru Prod Rama Adi, Fauzan Zidni Filmography Fiksi; What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love

6:45 PM 1:30 PM

IN09 IN09

Canadian Premiere. At once immersive and illuminating, Ramona S. Diaz’s vérité-style documentary plunges us into the workings of the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital, one of the Philippines’ busiest maternity wards. The film keenly balances intimate human detail with sweeping Wiseman-like institutional (and cultural) documentation. It’s a compelling, detailed cinematic portrait that’s sobering without ever once feeling grim—a perfect balance for a documentary so steeped in a sense of place. “Lively and engaging…”—Variety Prod Ramona S. Diaz, Rey Cuerdo Selected Filmography Spirits Rising; Imelda

Sweating the Small Stuff Edaha no koto

NINOMIYA RYUTARO, JAPAN, 2017, 114 MIN.

WED, OCT 4 FRI, OCT 6

9:30 PM 12:45 PM

IN10 IN08

North American Premiere. Largely content to trudge through the paces of his boozy, bare-knuckled life—piss-ups, hook-ups and punch-ups are the staples of his weekends—Ryutaro deviates from his debauched routine and willful stagnation to pay a visit to a friend’s terminally ill mother; the reasons he’s avoided this seemingly innocuous encounter for so long are slowly revealed. Director/star Ninomiya Ryutaro draws from true events and real people in his life to guide us through an investigation of Japan’s societal maladies.

Cast Ninomiya Ryutaro, Ninomiya Tetsuo , Matsumoto Daiki , Yajima Yasumi , Kimura Tomoki , Imaoka Shinji Prod Ninomiya Ryutaro Filmography The Charm of Others

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

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M/A/D

Music/Art/Design: Cinema conveys the power of other art forms in astonishing ways and allows us unrivalled insights into great creative minds.

Beuys: Art as a Weapon ANDRES VEIEL, GERMANY, 2017, 107 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 MON, OCT 9

1:15 PM 9:00 PM

SFU SFU

SUN, OCT 8 TUE, OCT 10

6:15 PM 4:00 PM

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North American Premiere. Seven arduous, successful years in the life of “starchitect” Bjarke Ingels are chronicled in Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s intimate portrait. Named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world, Ingels comes across as a paradox: he’s a down-to-earth visionary. Starting in Copenhagen with a power station boasting a ski slope on its roof, the film follows him to New York, where the focus is on his VIA 57 West apartments—and health issues… This is fast-paced, entertaining and enlightening filmmaking.

Featuring Joseph Beuys Prod Thomas Kufus

Featuring Bjarke Ingels Prod Sara Stockmann

Selected Filmography If Not Us, Who?; Der Kick; Addicted to Acting

Selected Filmography The Invention of Dr. Nakamats; Waiting for the Sun

Germany

Bunch of Kunst

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

CHRISTINE FRANZ, GERMANY, 2017, 103 MIN.

FRI, OCT 6 SUN, OCT 8

El Bosco, el jardín de los sueños

JOSÉ LUIS LÓPEZ-LINARES, SPAIN/FRANCE, 2016, 90 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 WED, OCT 11

6:30 PM 1:30 PM

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North American Premiere. Director José Luis López-Linares was given unprecedented access to Madrid’s Prado museum and Hieronymus Bosch’s most famous work, The Garden of Earthly Delights. Placing behind-thescenes footage (restoration work, the X-raying of the painting, etc.) alongside interviews with writers Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk, soprano Renée Fleming, philosopher Michel Onfray and others, López-Linares has crafted a fascinating, gorgeously shot film about one of the most mysterious art works of all time.

Featuring Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, Michel Onfray, Max Prod José Luis López-Linares Selected Filmography Storm the Skies; Extras

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KASPAR ASTRUP SCHRÖDER, DENMARK, 2017, 93 MIN.

North American Premiere. Germany’s Joseph Beuys, one of the most important European artists to come to prominence in the wake of WWII, produced confrontational performances and installations that shocked the establishment and expanded the boundaries of what art could be. Andres Veiel’s wide-ranging portrait—the first detailed look at Beuys’ life—is chock full of archival footage showing how the man and his art rose to nearmythological status. What might be surprising is how humorous and generous this revolutionary really was...

Spain

David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts

Big Time

6:30 PM 3:30 PM

VCT RIO

North American Premiere. Iggy Pop— who makes an appearance here—calls the Sleaford Mods “the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band,” and Christine Frantz’s straightshooting documentary captures the politically charged duo at their profane best. When we first see vocalist/ranter Jason Williamson and musician Andrew Fearns, they are 40-ish and still schlepping to gigs in a van. Two years later, their ferocious live performances and scathing, hilarious lyrics have propelled them to stardom. This is one ride you don’t want to miss!

Featuring Sleaford Mods, Iggy Pop, Steve Ignorant Prod Christine Franz

M/A/D

France

USA

Chaplin in Bali: Journey to the East RAPHAEL MILLET, FRANCE, 2017, 80 MIN.

SAT, OCT 7 MON, OCT 9 WED, OCT 11

9:30 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM

VCT SFU CINE

North American Premiere. With the coming of sound to motion pictures, Charlie Chaplin found himself at a creative crossroads, fearful that talking pictures may spell the end for him. So, he and his brother Sydney took a trip to Bali to find some peace and ponder their futures. Captivated by the local customs, especially the dances, Charlie began filming extensively… Raphael Millet has marshalled the footage Chaplin shot and created a time capsule that transports us to another world, a world from which Chaplin drew inspiration.

Prod Marion Hansel, Shirlene Noordin, Olivier Bohler Selected Filmography Gaston Méliès and His Wandering Star Film Company

Germany

Chavela

CATHERINE GUND, DARESHA KYI, USA, 2017, 92 MIN.

SUN, OCT 1 THU, OCT 5 MON, OCT 9

9:30 PM 9:00 PM 2:15 PM

IN09 PLAY SFU

A towering figure in Mexican pop and favourite of Almodóvar, Chavela Vargas was both a myth and a cypher. A singer who turned Rancheras into dark journeys of the soul, Vargas endured a hard life but each trial (including her late-in-life coming out) made her deep, coarse voice richer. Directors Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi use the devastatingly beautiful lyrics of Chavela’s songs to illustrate the stages of a career punctuated by heartbreak.

It’s a fascinating story with a killer soundtrack to boot.

Featuring Chavela Vargas, Pedro Almodóvar, Laura García-Lorca Prod Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi Selected Filmography (Catherine Gund) Making Grace

Canada

Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy

THOMAS RIEDELSHEIMER, GERMANY, 2017, 92 MIN.

SUN, OCT 1 MON, OCT 2 TUE, OCT 10

USA

6:15 PM 11:15 AM 10:30 AM

SFU IN10 VCT

Canadian Premiere. Sixteen years ago, Thomas Riedelsheimer’s documentary on artist Andy Goldsworthy, Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time, was a VIFF smash. Now the director-artist duo has re-teamed for another exquisite chronicle of Goldsworthy’s ongoing fascination with reshaping the natural world, as we follow him on his extensive travels from one site-specific work to another, revelling in his imagination and his art. Anchored by Riedelsheimer’s gorgeous images, this is pure cinema for the soul.

Featuring Andy Goldsworthy Prod Leslie Hills, Stefan Tolz Selected Filmography Soul Birds; Breathing Earth; Garden in the Sea

Clive Davis: The David Hockney at the Soundtrack of Our Lives Royal Academy of Arts CHRIS PERKEL, USA, 2017, 123 MIN.

THU, SEP 28 SAT, SEP 30

8:45 PM 3:45 PM

PHIL GRABSKY, UK, 2017, 80 MIN.

PLAY SFU

International Premiere. What do Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow, Patti Smith, Whitney Houston, Sean “Puffy” Combs, and Alicia Keys have in common? They all owe much of their success to legendary recording exec Clive Davis. Brimming with fantastic archival performance footage, Chris Perkel’s info-packed portrait traces Davis’ life from childhood to his epiphany at the Monterey Pop music festival (where Joplin blew his mind) to his tenure at the top of the music industry. What a ride it’s been!

Featuring Clive Davis, Aretha Franklin, Patti Smith, Jimmy Iovine, Alicia Keys, Sean “Puffy” Combs, Anthony DeCurtis Prod Michael Bernstein Filmography The Town That Was

Romania

ANDREI DASCALESCU, ROMANIA, 2016, 81 MIN.

RAYMOND ST-JEAN, CANADA, 2017, 102 MIN.

6:30 PM 11:00 AM

SFU VCT

Since commencing her career as a platinumblonde dreadlocked dynamo in the early ‘80s, Louise Lecavalier has established herself as a Canadian contemporary dance icon. Having toured with Zappa and Bowie, the Montreal dancer/choreographer (now 58) embodies electric energy, extreme dedication and unrelenting inventiveness. In Raymond St-Jean’s mesmerizing homage, Lecavalier’s unwavering creative vision is fully explored, illuminating a woman in perpetual motion: spiritually, mentally and physically.

Featuring Louise Lecavalier Prod Michel Ouellette Selected Filmography A Chair Fit for an Angel; Cabaret Neiges Noir

THU, OCT 5 SAT, OCT 7

FRI, OCT 6 SUN, OCT 8 FRI, OCT 13

6:30 PM 10:30 AM 6:15 PM

SFU VCT VCT

International Premiere. VIFF favourite Phil Grabsky (The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, VIFF 04; In Search of Beethoven, VIFF 09; In Search of Chopin, VIFF 14) returns with this probing and celebratory documentary on the work of Britain’s greatest living artist, David Hockney. Focusing on two exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, in 2012 and 2016, the film features extensive, in-depth interviews with Hockney himself. And, with Grabsky at the helm, you know the images will be both beautiful and revealing.

Featuring David Hockney Prod Amanda Wilkie Selected Filmography Leonardo Live; In Search of Chopin; The Impressionists

Germany

Planeta Petrila

Louise Lecavalier in Motion MON, OCT 9 WED, OCT 11

UK

6:30 PM 1:15 PM

CINE IN09

North American Premiere. The Romanian mining town of Petrila is about to see its mine shut down, its last group of miners laid off and the mine’s buildings demolished. Enter former-miner-turned-anarchic-artist Ion Barbu, an energetic surrealist determined to save the buildings and re-construct a sense of community through his art, which includes paintings, murals and performances. Mixing anger, comedy and empathy in equal measures, Andrei Dacalescu’s superb documentary revels in the power of art to unite people in common cause.

Prod Anamaria Antoci Filmography Constantin and Elena

Schumann’s Bar Talks Schumanns Bargespräche

MARIEKE SCHROEDER, GERMANY, 2017, 102 MIN.

SAT, OCT 7 MON, OCT 9 FRI, OCT 13

4:00 PM 6:30 PM 8:30 PM

SFU RIO VCT

International Premiere. Munich’s Charles Schumann, now 76, is to bartenders what Barcelona’s Ferran Adrià is to chefs—a bigger-than-life legend who rewrote the rules of his artistic calling. Marieke Schroeder’s very entertaining odyssey follows the snappily dressed Schumann, who resembles a cross between Max von Sydow, Humphrey Bogart and Bruno Ganz, as he travels the world (Munich, Berlin, Vienna, New York, Havana, Tokyo, Paris) seeking out the best cocktail bars and expounding on the art of bartending. A Sazerac, anyone?

Featuring Charles Schumann Prod Marieke Schroeder, Christoph Fisser, Henning Molfenter, Charlie Woebcken

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Shadowman

6:45 PM 2:00 PM 8:45 PM

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OREN JACOBY, USA, 2017, 83 MIN.

SAT, SEP 30 MON, OCT 2 THU, OCT 12

VIFF LIVE

PAT COLLINS, IRELAND/ CANADA, 2017, 104 MIN.

IN10 IN08 VCT

A staple of Manhattan’s art scene in the 1980s, erstwhile Vancouverite Richard Hambleton painted menacing, shadowy figures all over a metropolis that was equally dangerous and exciting. Covering the street-art pioneer’s heyday (when he was frequently mentioned in the same breath as Basquiat) and his subsequent long fall from grace, Oren Jacoby crafts a portrait of the often toxic New York art scene that left Hambleton more comfortable lurking in back alleys. “[An] intense, surprising story.”—Screen Featuring Richard Hambleton, Richard Hell, Penny Arcade Prod Oren Jacoby Selected Filmography Constantine’s Sword

FRI, SEP 29 SUN, OCT 1

8:45 PM 4:45 PM

SFU IN08

The rare tribute to an artist that aspires to be as boldly creative as its subject, Pat Collins’ biography of celebrated Irish sean-nós singer Joe Heaney seamlessly combines elements of narrative, documentary and lyrical filmmaking to create an evocative portrait of an artist and the land that forged him. “Heaney’s story shows that this is music that doesn’t originate with a spark but is carefully honed over the course of centuries, manifesting itself in magnetic talents.”—IndieWire Featuring Macdara Ó Fatharta, Mícheál Ó Chonfhaola, Jaren Cerf, Pól Ó Ceannabháín, Colm Seoighe Prod Alan Maher, Jessie Fisk, Martin Paul-Hus Selected Filmography Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living; John McGahern: A Private World; Silence

October 2-3, 4-6, 10

VIFF LIVE, presented by FACTOR, Radio Starmaker, Music BC and the BC Music Fund, is a new series that expands the frame so that live music from British Columbia’s brightest rising talent can share the festival spotlight with the world’s finest cinema.

The first two nights of the series (Monday, October 2 and Tuesday, October 3) headline the VIFF AMP conference, with a total of eight BC bands showcased in front of international music industry attendees and local audiences. Featuring bands such as Jon and Roy, Brasstronaut and LIINX, these shows will highlight some of the province’s notable emerging live acts.

The following three evenings (Wednesday, October 4-Friday, October 6) will see VIFF LIVE creating exceptional immersive experiences for artists and audiences alike. These one-timeonly shows will provide an exciting opportunity for talented visual artists to collaborate with musicians and explore the interplay between visions and voices.

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Of course, the headliners for the inaugural edition of VIFF LIVE are the legendary Kronos Quartet, who’ll perform a live score for The Green Fog on Tuesday, October 10 at The Centre.

Full details of that special event can be found on Page 23.

Scotland

Featured acts in VIFF LIVE include:

IMUR

Hybrid electronic trio fusing hip-hop, R&B, soul and experimental, collaborating with visual artist Laine Butler

Streetscapes [Dialogue] Where You’re Meant to HEINZ EMIGHOLZ, GERMANY, 2017, 132 MIN. Be MON, OCT 9 THU, OCT 12

9:00 PM 9:00 PM

CINE CINE

Canadian Premiere. Ambitious, experimental and never less than stimulating, Heinz Emigholz’s film was written by himself and psychologist Zohar Rubinstein in the form of a dialogue. And what a dialogue it is: nuanced, digressive and unabashedly cerebral, it’s the work of men for whom thinking is an art, an avocation and a pleasure. Performers John Erdman and Jonathan Perel enact the exchanges against a backdrop of architecture that informs the speech, complicates it and at times overwhelms it.

Prod Frieder Schlaich, Irene von Alberti Selected Filmography Sense of Architecture

PAUL FEGAN, SCOTLAND, 2016, 76 MIN.

FRI, SEP 29 TUE, OCT 10 THU, OCT 12

1:15 PM 8:45 PM 11:45 AM

VCT IN08 VCT

Canadian Premiere. For pop tunester Aidan Moffat, formerly of indie band Arab Strap, it seemed like a good idea at the time: reconfigure folk legend Sheila Stewart’s classic Scottish folk songs for a modern audience. Then he comes up against the dynamic 79-year-old hurricane herself, and she is forcefully opposed to his plans… Paul Fegan’s frequently very funny and deeply musical film is “affectionate, playful and irreverent in spirit. But it becomes something else altogether, something affecting and profound…”—Guardian

Graftician

Jon and Roy

Folk rock and reggae

LIINKS

Collaboration between vocalist/writer Georgia Murray and producer/DJ DWhiz

Experimental music with live visuals, including a combination of traditional techniques, processing and stop-motion collage

Little Destroyer

Brasstronaut

Sam the Astronaut

Synth-infused alt-pop

Sextet with roots in myriad musical styles, including pop, rock and jazz

A melting pot of pop, rock and hip-hop

Louise Burns

Experimental hip-hop duo

Celebrated songwriting that’s equal parts grit and gloss

Desi Sub Culture Global dance music

So Loki Tonye

Dynamic, sultry R&B Full VIFF LIVE listings can be found at viff.org

Horsepowar

Theatrical, Bollywood-influenced Desi rap

Featuring Aidan Moffat, Sheila Stewart Prod Paul Fegan

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Genre-bending features that defy traditional classification and creators who push short form storytelling to its limits.

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Bad Day for the Cut

Tiere

CHRIS BAUGH, NORTHERN IRELAND, 2017, 99 MIN.

GREG ZGLINSKI, SWITZERLAND/AUSTRIA/POLAND, 2017, 96 MIN.

MON, OCT 9 WED, OCT 11

6:00 PM 9:45 PM

IN08 IN10

After running headlong into a sheep in the Swiss Alps, a feuding couple are thrust into a cracked-mirror reality stocked with doppelgängers, temporal loops and other surreal phenomena. Seemingly born under the total eclipse of a Lynch-Hitchcock Venn diagram, this mind-bender from Kieslowski protégé Greg Zglinski will leave viewers warily eyeing both their better halves and their own reflections. “Edgy marital drama, inky black comedy and blood-freezing horror combine to intoxicating effect...”—Variety Cast Birgit Minichmayr, Philipp Hochmair, Mona Petri, Mehdi Nebbou, Michael Ostrowski Prod Bruno Wagner, Antonin Svoboda, Lukasz Dzięcioł

THU, SEP 28 WED, OCT 4

9:00 PM 3:45 PM

RIO SFU

Canadian Premiere. When his elderly mother is inexplicably murdered by organized criminals, Donal (Nigel O’Neill), an unassuming farmer, ensures that the assailants reap what they’ve sown. But just as his quarry foolishly underestimates this shotgun-wielding hayseed, our unkempt, sad-eyed anti-hero is wholly unprepared for the revelations his rampage will unearth. A fatalistic revenge thriller in the bloody vein of Blue Ruin, Chris Baugh’s debut is “an unusually soulful genre outing... resolutely unconventional.”—Screen Cast Nigel O’Neill, Susan Lynch, Józef Pawtowski, Stuart Graham, David Pearse, Brian Milligan Prod Brendan Mullin, Katy Jackson

Filmography One Long Winter Without Fire; Courage; Anna’s Time

USA

Canada

The Crescent

Bitch

SETH A. SMITH, CANADA, 2017, 100 MIN.

MARIANNA PALKA, USA, 2016, 97 MIN.

Preceded By Manivald p. 99

FRI, SEP 29 SAT, OCT 7

Altered States

6:15 PM 3:45 PM

With her psyche ripped to shreds by her unfaithful spouse and unruly brood, Jill’s (Marianna Palka) repressed fury is unleashed in primal fashion, leaving her conducting herself like a junkyard dog hopped up on amphetamines. As she claims the basement as her territory, her husband (a wonderfully hapless Jason Ritter) is forced to step up and clumsily embrace domestic responsibilities.

Boldly written and directed by Palka, this feral satire is “a hilarious and vicious bite at the patriarchy.”—Screen Anarchy

This is where the strange ones come out to play, demanding that you follow their warped rules.

Cast Jason Ritter, Jaime King, Marianna Palka, Brighton Sharbino, Rio Mangini, Kingston Foster Prod Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, Elijah Wood, Mike Moran Selected Filmography Good Dick Friendly Beast

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FRI, OCT 6 SUN, OCT 8

8:15 PM 8:15 PM

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Retreating to a remote beach house, a mother (Danika Vandersteen) and her two-yearold son (Woodrow Graves, giving a toddler performance for the ages) are bedeviled by both the personal torment that drove them to this desolate outpost and the otherworldly figures lurking outside. Inventively employing an arsenal of practical effects to conjure psychedelia and shifting realities, Seth Smith’s astonishingly ambitious Maritime Gothic is the trippiest Canadian genre film this side of Beyond the Black Rainbow.

Cast Danika Vandersteen, Woodrow Graves, Terrance Murray, Britt Loder, Andrew Gillis, Andrea Kenyon Prod Nancy Urich Filmography Lowlife

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Brazil

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Friendly Beast

11:00 PM 9:00 PM

SAT, OCT 7 TUE, OCT 10

11:00 PM 9:00 PM

FRI, OCT 13

RIO RIO

Continuing their rewrite of the genre rulebook, the endlessly resourceful directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (the Linklatermeets-Lovecraft Spring) also play brothers who ill-advisedly return to the compound of the “UFO death cult” they escaped years earlier. That’s but the beginning of the enthralling illogic that fuels this descent into an uncanny realm, one in which menace manifests itself in many haunting forms. “The kind of fantastical horror that creeps under your skin…”—Screen Anarchy

When two thieves botch a holdup of his eatery, a harried restaurateur (Murilo Benício) abandons the forced congeniality instilled by the service industry in favour of unhinged ferocity as he takes the perpetrators, as well as his patrons and staff, hostage. Hints of Dog Day Afternoon and The Exterminating Angel are to be savored in Gabriela Amaral Almeida’s carnal, grisly Grand Guignol confection. “Weird and uncomfortable and strangely alluring...

It’s fascinating to watch it all unfold.”—Bloody Disgusting

Cast Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Callie Hernandez, Emily Montague, Lew Temple, Tate Ellington, James Jordan Prod Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Thomas R. Burke, David Lawson Jr., Leal Naim

Cast Murilo Benício, Luciana Paes , Ernani Moraes, Jiddu Pinheiro, Camila Morgado, Irandhir Santos Prod Rodrigo Teixeira

Germany

USA

Canadian Premiere. Saddled with a selfinvolved husband and the psychological baggage of her childhood trauma, Holly (Clémentine Poidatz) is shaken from her complacency when she attends a motivational seminar by an infamous “dream surfer” (David Sakurai) whose beliefs make Scientology seem sensible. As she’s set adrift in a swirling, Argentoindebted phantasmagoria and a band of cultists close in, Can Evrenol (Baskin) ramps up the delirium and Housewife escalates to an utterly deranged climax that’s one for the end times.

Cast Clémentine Poidatz, David Sakurai, Alicia Kapudağ Prod Müge Büyüktalas, Metin Anter, Erhan Özogul Filmography Baskin

SAT, SEP 30 MON, OCT 2

4:30 PM 9:15 PM

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Cranking the volume and amping the carnage, Ryan Prows’ crime drama hits like an adrenaline shot to the heart, reminding us just how exhilarating rampant badassery can be when conducted with a ringleader’s flair. Ex-cons, luchadores and other reprobates are part of thug life’s rich pageant in the alternately darkly comic and unrelentingly tense vignettes that depict an illicit world of organ harvesting, human trafficking and, as one might expect, vengeance. “A seriously nasty treat…”—Hollywood Reporter Cast Nicki Micheaux, Mark Burnham, Jon Oswald, Ricardo Adam Zarate, Shaye Ogbonna, Santana Dempsey, Jose Rosete, King Orba, Clayton Cardenas Prod Tim Cairo, Derek Bishé, Narineh Hacopian

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TYLER MACINTYRE, USA/CANADA, 2017, 96 MIN.

JAKOB LASS, GERMANY, 2017, 90 MIN.

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Condemned to playing rent-a-cop after flunking police academy, meek Maggie (Maria Dragus) finds a brash mentor in Tiger (Ella Rumpf), who helps her channel her inner “Vanilla the Killer.” As this rampaging pair turns Berlin into their playground and men into their chew toys, Jakob Lass employs kinetic camerawork and swaggering improvisation to heighten his film’s anarchic appeal. “An anthem to the marginalized youth of Europe… and women who need to kick ass if they are going to survive.”—Screen Anarchy

Like many teens, Sadie (Brianna Hildebrand) and McKayla (Alexandra Shipp) just want to be “liked.” Granted, their sociopathic bid for social media immortality hinges on boosting their online followers by reporting on a killing spree that they’re also perpetrating. Deftly balancing comedy and commentary, Tyler MacIntyre’s film recalls Heathers while crafting a blood-soaked snapshot of our selfieinvolved times. “One of the freshest, funniest horror-comedies to emerge in Scream’s long wake.”—Variety

Cast Ella Rumpf, Maria Dragus, Enno Trebs, Orce Feldschau, SWISS, Benjamin Lutzke Prod Ines Schiller, Golo Schultz

Cast Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Josh Hutcherson, Craig Robinson, Kevin Durand, Jack Quaid Prod Anthony Holt, Armen Aghaeian, Edward Mokhtarian, Cameron Van Hoy, Tara Ansley, Craig Robinson

Selected Filmography Love Steaks

RYAN PROWS, USA, 2017, 96 MIN.

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Tiger Girl

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Lowlife

CAN EVRENOL, TURKEY, 2017, 82 MIN.

GABRIELA AMARAL ALMEIDA, BRAZIL, 2017, 98 MIN.

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Housewife

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AARON MOORHEAD, JUSTIN BENSON, USA, 2017, 112 MIN.

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Turkey

Altered States

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Lira’s Forest

Catch/Release

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TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 102 MIN.

In a matter of minutes, these

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films immerse you in fully realized narratives that leave an indelible mark.

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Bickford Park

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 103 MIN.

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Full Moon Party

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GABRIEL ADELMAN, CANADA/THAILAND, 2017, 17 MIN.

LINSEY STEWART, DANE CLARK, CANADA, 2016, 13 MIN.

Amidst the hedonism of an infamous full moon party in Thailand, Terrance must come to terms with the news that he’s going to be a father.

Avoiding her husband and their marital problems, a woman secretly starts taking skateboarding lessons from a handsome teenager.

The Glow Is Gone RYAN ERMACORA, CANADA, 2017, 17 MIN.

Disillusioned with living on the margins of Vancouver, a young woman escapes to a Gulf Island in order to work on a farm.

Go Play Outside ADIB ALKHALIDEY, CANADA, 2017, 18 MIN.

One summer morning, young Abel decides to solve his parents’ financial hardship by taking matters into his own hands and embarking on a crime spree.

La pesca PABLO ÁLVAREZ-MESA, FERNANDO LÓPEZ ESCRIVÁ, CANADA/COLOMBIA, 2017, 22 MIN.

Bird MOLLY PARKER, CANADA, 2017, 12 MIN.

Already at her wit’s end, Sam pays a visit to her aged parents and accidentally let’s her mother’s beloved bird escape the house.

His Name Is Willy LIZ CAIRNS, CANADA, 2017, 16 MIN.

Two estranged siblings plan a DIY funeral for their mom and strive to honour her dying wish that her corpse be thrown to the wolves.

Lower Plenty Garden Views ADRIAN ST. LOUIS, CANADA, 2016, 7 MIN.

Liam remembers an afternoon spent with Sally.

A poetic, sensorial documentary portrait of Colombian fisherman weaving nets, cooking and waiting for the fish to come.

Memory of the Peace

Lira’s Forest

Three Fort St. John residents navigate the cyclical forces of industry, resource extraction and colonization that have shaped Canada.

CONNOR JESSUP, CANADA, 2017, 9 MIN.

As the end of her life approaches, an elderly woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.

Where Do Cats Go After 9 Lives?

MARION DUHAIME, CANADA, 2017, 19 MIN.

In a speculative future, Lily-May decides to end her teen angst with assisted suicide. But first she has to say her goodbyes.

JENNIFER CHIU, JEAN PARSONS, CANADA, 2017, 26 MIN.

Milk HEATHER YOUNG, CANADA, 2017, 15 MIN.

Being constantly surrounded by pregnant cattle at a dairy farm isn’t helping a young woman curb her anxiety over her own unplanned pregnancy.

Scratchy MARV NEWLAND, CANADA, 2016, 3 MIN.

From the twisted mind of an animation icon comes a cautionary tale about scratching your itches that’s accompanied by an earworm for the ages.

Slap Happy MADELEINE SIMS-FEWER, DUSTY MANCINELLI, CANADA, 2017, 11 MIN.

A dysfunctional couple with a penchant for twisted sexual fantasies fight to keep their relationship from crumbling over the course of a day.

The Martyr

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A Woman on the Telephone: Carol

Left to Their Own Devices TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 98 MIN.

TUE, OCT 3 TUE, OCT 10

9:15 PM 3:15 PM

SUN, OCT 1 SUN, OCT 8

9:15 PM 3:15 PM

Reel Youth Film Festival TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 78 MIN.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 100 MIN.

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Grandmother

Cherry Cola

Birdlime

TREVOR MACK, CANADA, 2017, 13 MIN.

JOSEPH AMENTA, CANADA, 2017, 15 MIN.

EVAN DERUSHIE, CANADA, 2016, 11 MIN.

Struggling to cope with the death of his grandmother, an indigenous boy discovers a connection with her through an old camcorder.

Two drag queens move through the city on a night of debauchery, insights and revenge.

Narrowly escaping being trapped in the exotic bird-trade industry, an unfortunate fowl still ends up caged and corrupted by unfamiliar stimuli.

The Martyr DEVAN SCOTT, WILL ROSS, CANADA, 2017, 14 MIN.

A film set assumes a purgatorial air as an intense, unstable indie director struggles to elicit the performances a crucial scene requires.

Rupture YASSMINA KARAJAH, CANADA/JORDAN, 2017, 19 MIN.

On a hot summer day, four Arab teens set off on a quest to find a public pool in their new Canadian home.

Shadow Nettes PHILLIP BARKER, CANADA, 2017, 18 MIN.

The use of Shadow Nettes became popular amongst single men, widowers, and those fishrs left behind during the Felting Decade that drew many wyfs and single ladyes to the major cities.

The Tesla World Light MATTHEW RANKIN, CANADA, 2017, 9 MIN.

Flood AMANDA STRONG, CANADA, 2017, 5 MIN.

A classroom daydream rendered in mysterious, reverential stop-motion tableaux.

The Good Fight MINTIE PARDOE, CANADA, 2017, 11 MIN.

A young nun yearns to explore her sexuality before taking her final vows and committing to a lifetime of celibacy...

Let Your Heart Be Light DERAGH CAMPBELL, SOPHY ROMVARI, CANADA, 2016, 10 MIN.

Resigned to spending Christmas alone after a breakup, a young woman receives a comforting visit from a friend.

Lost Paradise Lost YAN GIROUX, CANADA, 2017, 25 MIN.

Disenchanted with their routines, Julie and Victor impulsively follow a group of mysterious strangers to the middle of nowhere. Once there, things get seriously strange.

In 1905, Nikola Tesla makes a desperate plea to his one-time benefactor JP Morgan... An explosion of electrifying animation ensues.

Sea Monster

Voices of Kidnapping

Cooped up in a seaside motel and coping with trauma, Aria allows her tentacles to unfurl from the depths of her subconscious.

RYAN MCKENNA, CANADA, 2017, 15 MIN.

For two decades, a Colombian radio station has invited families to transmit messages they hope will reach their kidnapped loved ones in the Amazon jungle.

A Woman on the Telephone: Carol ERICA GENEREUX SMITH, CANADA, 2017, 10 MIN.

Recognizing certain patterns as they develop, a secretary in a surreal office starts to suspect that she may not actually exist.

DANIEL ROCQUE, KASSANDRA TOMCZYK, CANADA, 2017, 16 MIN.

Thug DANIEL BOOS, CANADA, 2017, 16 MIN.

Desperate to land a role, an aspiring actor takes extreme measures, risking a close relationship and inciting dramatic repercussions.

Etymology

The Knits

Strangers in Strange Lands

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 98 MIN.

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Cherry Cola

New Skins & Old Ceremonies

Short Films

Crème de menthe JEAN-MARC E. ROY, PHILIPPE DAVID GAGNÉ, CANADA, 2017, 23 MIN.

Packing up her deceased hoarder-father’s seemingly endless possessions, a young woman finds herself questioning what her place was in his cluttered life.

The Crying Conch VINCENT TOI, CANADA, 2017, 20 MIN.

The life of an 18th-century Haitian slave rebellion leader serves as inspiration for this modern fable concerning brutality and resilience.

Do We Leave This Here JULIA HUTCHINGS, CANADA, 2017, 17 MIN.

Intending to report on the controversial Site C dam, a journalist instead finds himself caught in the middle of a domestic drama.

Fence ALEXIS FORTIER GAUTHIER, CANADA, 2017, 9 MIN.

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Talking Too Loud ABEL RUBINSTEIN, GEORGIA MILTON, UK, 2016, 5 MIN.

Munchies SINEAD STODDART, UK, 2016, 2 MIN.

We Belong JEREMY HERRON, USA, 2017, 3 MIN.

Etymology FAITH PARÉ, CANADA, 2016, 3 MIN.

High Moon DAVID ZHU, USA, 2016, 1 MIN.

100 Second Red Light NAVID ZARE, IRAN, 2016, 2 MIN.

From Here To DARYNN BEDNARCZYK, CANADA, 2016, 3 MIN.

Ballooinator JOSHUA SIEGEL, USA, 2016, 7 MIN.

C.O.D. ONUR DOGAN, TURKEY, 2015, 5 MIN.

Who is in Charge Here?

STUDENTS OF STUDIO DA, RUSSIA, 2015, 5 MIN.

Refugee Rescue RICHARD YANG, CANADA, 2016, 1 MIN.

It Just Might Be True EVAN MCDERMOT, SAMANTHA CAMPBELL, CANADA, 2016, 1 MIN.

Say No to Early Sex

While presenting his work at a prestigious gallery, an unpretentious indigenous artist must contend with fawning curators and foreign buyers.

ALUSINE KAMARA, SUSAN KARGBO, IBRAHIM KAMARA, JAMESTNA, MARIAMA KARGBO WITH WAYOUT, SIERRA LEONE, 2016, 3 MIN.

The Knits

Wardrobe

LISA BIRKE, CANADA, 2017, 10 MIN.

PRANAV BHASIN, INDIA, 2016, 2 MIN.

A sweater, lovingly and arduously knit by a mother, incrementally unravels as her daughter treks her way across Canada by foot.

Life is Lifeless

The Mountain of SGaana

SABA KARSELADZE, GEORGIA, 2016, 2 MIN.

CHRISTOPHER AUCHTER, CANADA, 2017, 10 MIN.

A magical, dreamlike tale of a young man who is stolen away to the spirit world and the young woman who rescues him.

Alice Ayalik SAM, IRIS, JORDAN, ALAN, CANADA, 2016, 5 MIN.

HAWAR RAHIMI, IRAN, 2016, 3 MIN.

Royal Fool Lights Beneath My Feet LAZ, CANADA, 2017, 6 MIN.

Bunbun Blast DRAKE TUURA, CANADA, 2017, 1 MIN.

Walk of Shame MAISIE BUCK, UK, 2016, 4 MIN.

Anne Doll LEVI MARSHALL, CANADA, 2017, 2 MIN.

Life Goes On: John Dub MOE YANG, CANADA, 2017, 5 MIN.

When Food Goes Bad BEN SPRENGER, CANADA, 2016, 7 MIN. Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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Wave

Yes, God, Yes

Sisters

Rhythm of Being

Crisis Management TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 113 MIN.

THU, OCT 5 SUN, OCT 8

6:00 PM 4:00 PM

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The Animal ATASAY KOÇ, TURKEY, 2017, 9 MIN.

A woman driver hits a dog on a back road at night. When her teen son realizes it is still alive, he forces her to make a difficult choice...

Flag MATAN BEN MOREH, ISRAEL, 2017, 8 MIN.

After finding the Israeli flag burnt outside her neglected, backwater school, the principle must choose between solving the problem and finding out the truth...

Hunger ALEJANDRO MONTALVO, MEXICO, 2017, 14 MIN.

After living a life full of unsatisfied desires, a mild-mannered man suddenly rebels at his 57th birthday party and leaves to quench his lustful hunger.

Marlon JESSICA PALUD, BELGIUM/FRANCE, 2017, 20 MIN.

Marlon, 14 years old and now living with her grandmother and uncle, has anxiety on the eve of visiting her mother in jail for the first time...

Maxwell’s Demon MARCOS VAZ, BRAZIL, 2017, 22 MIN.

A father tries to mend the relationship with his disabled teen daughter after she is caught seducing boys in the school washroom.

Promise NEVILLE PIERCE, UK, 2017, 16 MIN.

A desperate British couple employ a Syrian refugee to be a surrogate mother, but their illicit pact has unexpected consequences.

There Was a Man, a Girl, and a Rocket TERENCE CHIM, UK, 2017, 10 MIN.

A journey through the dreams and memories that six-year-old Belinda has of her father, who she imagines is still alive—and an astronaut.

Wave BENJAMIN CLEARY, TJ O’GRADY PEYTON, IRELAND, 2017, 14 MIN.

A man awakens from a five-year coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language, baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.

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Teen Years: Heaven and Hell TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 114 MIN.

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Damn Bro! TRAVIS FRICK, USA, 2017, 8 MIN.

A Haitian-American high-school student is bullied by a star basketball player into doing his homework, yet his hard work yields surprises for both of them.

Don’t Be Afraid of the Light JASON A. ROSTOVSKY, USA, 2017, 15 MIN.

A mysterious supernatural force helps a teen girl find the strength to fight back against a group of vicious bullies and a dark creature that haunts her at night.

The Fashion Show LUCY LUMSDEN, UK, 2017, 16 MIN.

A teenage girl’s quiet rural life is interrupted by an unusual little competition at the local farming town fair.

Game

Those Ties That Bind

Touching the Poetic

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 111 MIN.

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6:00 PM 1:45 PM

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 105 MIN.

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Afterglow

On a drive through the tunnel of dreams and memories, love remains eternal.

Backstory

FRANCESCO SAVIANO, USA, 2017, 12 MIN.

JOSCHKA LAUKENINKS, GERMANY, 2016, 8 MIN.

A story about how everything we love, everything we learn, everything we build, everything we fear, will one day be gone.

Forever Now KRISTIAN HASKJOLD, DENMARK, 2016, 19 MIN.

A young couple decide to break up. Trying to do it amicably, they have a drug-fuelled “last hurrah” weekend, where beautiful heartbreak, punctuated with moments of tenderness, tests their vulnerabilities and insecurities.

The Good Girls CLARA ROQUET, SPAIN, 2017, 14 MIN.

Home, Sweet Home

Overlove LUCAS HELTH, DENMARK, 2017, 22 MIN.

Olivia, 17, appears to be living a “normal life,” but destructive thoughts from her struggles with anxiety and OCD threaten to overwhelm her.

TV in the Fish Tail IESH THAPAR, INDIA/USA/UK, 2017, 14 MIN.

As electricity is introduced to a remote Transhimalayan village, a teen boy whose family has the first TV struggles to reconcile his excitement and new found status.

Yes, God, Yes KAREN MAINE, USA, 2017, 12 MIN.

Alice, 15, has always been a good Catholic, but when an innocent AOL chat turns unexpectedly racy, she finds her sex-and-marriage class the next day only complicates her raging desires.

7ÚN3L KLYCH LÓPEZ, COLOMBIA, 2016, 13 MIN.

Nobody Likes You The relationship between two teen punks is put to the test as they are confronted by violence, their attraction to girls and their inability to express their emotions.

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A gay man tries to understand and comfort his partner, who suffers from long-term depression, and help him find the joy of living again.

Two sisters navigating the no man’s land between childhood and adulthood have to deal with the consequences of their actions after one of the horses on their farm loses an eye.

MARK SEAN HAYNES, KELLY WYDRYK, CANADA/USA, 2016, 12 MIN.

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AKIRA KAMIKI, BRAZIL, 2017, 12 MIN.

When a new transfer joins the tryouts for a topflight high-school basketball team, it changes the competition in more ways than one.

JEANNIE DONOHOE, USA, 2016, 15 MIN.

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CARLOS POLO, SPAIN, 2017, 6 MIN.

After 50 years of marriage, a crisis occurs when an elderly man is hospitalized—but his wife arrives at a creative solution to their problems.

Land of Happy Dreams JOSH AUTER, USA, 2016, 15 MIN.

The grip of poverty threatens a mother’s ability to supply her daughter’s nightly transfusions, but she will do everything she can to provide for her and deflect grim reality.

Outlines ELLIE ROGERS, UK, 2017, 16 MIN.

A teenage girl unexpectedly spends an evening with her father’s hired escort. Despite initial prejudice, a bond develops between them.

Sisters TONI KAMULA, DENMARK, 2017, 21 MIN.

When two estranged sisters attend to the details of their father’s estate, it doesn’t take long for old, long-suppressed tensions to manifest themselves.

Bullroarer On a trip to a remote cabin, a young man discovers something ominous may be lurking close by.

Chasing Stars MARKUS EICHENBERGER, SWITZERLAND, 2017, 7 MIN.

Dazzling time-lapse panoramas of night skies and spectacular vistas high in the Swiss Alps.

I Love You Forever Now YOUYANG YU, UK, 2016, 8 MIN.

Questions about time and existence reveal our commonality, differences and shared mortality.

Images of Nowhere RUBÉN GUZMÁN, ARGENTINA, 2016, 22 MIN.

An audiovisual essay on Patagonian photographer Ernst Standhardt, spiritual rocks and miniatures.

The Kodachrome Elegies JAY ROSENBLATT, USA, 2017, 11 MIN.

This ode to Kodachrome film is a very personal experimental picture of 1950s innocence.

The Language of Ball RAMÓN RODRÍGUEZ, USA, 2017, 9 MIN.

One morning on the basketball court, a lonely immigrant teen is forced out of his comfort zone.

Rhythm of Being GIADA GHIRINGHELLI, SWITZERLAND/UK, 2017, 7 MIN.

In a throbbing cosmos, a being emerges pulsating with beams of light and searching for identity.

Sissyman JOSHUA ATESH LITLE, USA, 2017, 7 MIN.

In the chaos of 1969’s Stonewall riots, a cop and a drag queen share a dark past.

Walt & Me YAZ CANLI, USA, 2016, 9 MIN.

A woman hikes into the wilderness to find her inner self—and to let it go at the same time.

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LUNAR DIAL

American Psychosis

Lunar Dial

AMANDA ZACKEM, USA, 2016, 15 MIN.

GAO YUAN, CHINA, 2016, 15 MIN.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and activist Chris Hedges discusses modern-day consumerism, totalitarian corporate power and living in a culture dominated by pervasive illusion.

Beautiful hand-painted images evoke mesmerizing worlds in this experimental animated short.

Screens with: ACORN and the Firestorm, p. 48

Canton Novelty FANG LU, CHINA, 2017, 25 MIN.

Three young women vacation in Guangzhou, China, shooting the everyday miracles they experience with cell phones.

Screens with: Have a Nice Day, p. 84

Manivald CHINTIS LUNDGREN, CANADA/CROATIA/ESTONIA, 2017, 13 MIN.

A bizarre love triangle develops between a 33-year-old fox, his hot-to-trot mother and the burly wolf repairman who comes to fix their washing machine.

Screens with: In Time to Come, p. 85

Screens with: Bitch, p. 94

Chasing Stars

Scaffold

MARKUS EICHENBERGER, SWITZERLAND, 2017, 7 MIN.

Dazzling time-lapse panoramas of night skies and spectacular vistas high in the Swiss Alps.

Screens with: The Farthest, p. 49

KAZIK RADWANSKI, CANADA, 2017, 16 MIN.

Two immigrants work on a scaffolding, observing passersby and interacting with the homeowner, at once a part of and abstracted from their surroundings.

Divide

Screens with: Maison du bonheur, p. 67

RABBIA ARSHAD, ALYSHA SIDDIGI, JAMIL UR REHMAN, USA/PAKISTAN, 2017, 8 MIN.

Shepherd’s Purse

Ramadan 2011. Gilgit City, North Pakistan.

What is the path to peace in this microcosm where neighbours of differing faiths have become enemies?

DONG HAO, CHINA, 2017, 14 MIN.

Screens with: Armed with Faith, p. 48

Screens with: The Great Buddha+, p. 84

Hsiang Yi

There Lived the Colliers

WU ZI EN, TAIWAN, 2017, 16 MIN.

NELSON MACDONALD, CANADA, 2017, 7 MIN.

Two boys have an extraordinary day in this meticulously designed, heartbreakingly lovely story.

The once booming mining industry of Nova Scotia now has a ghostly presence in the decrepit wooden houses built to accommodate workers of the past.

Screens with: A Fish Out of Water, p. 84

Idizwadidiz ISIAH MEDINA, CANADA, 2017, 8 MIN.

Gorgeous, troubling images of work, dust, decay and destruction saturate this short experimental piece with an eerie calm.

Screens with: Mass for Shut-Ins, p. 67

Short Film Awards Many filmmakers who were first introduced to VIFF audiences through their short films have subsequently returned with features, including VIFF 2017’s Kathleen Hepburn (Never Steady, Never Still), Wayne Wapeemukwa (Luk’Luk’I), Cory Bowles (Black Cop) and Seth A. Smith (The Crescent). We anticipate that you’ll be seeing a lot more of this year’s selected short filmmakers in the very near future.

Best BC Short Film Sponsored by Creative BC, a $5,000 prize is awarded for the Best BC Short Film.

Do We Leave This Here dir. Julia Hutchings Flood dir. Amanda Strong The Glow is Gone dir. Ryan Ermacora The Good Fight dir. Mintie Pardoe Grandmother dir. Trevor Mack

VIFF presents the Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film with a $2,000 prize (sponsored by an anonymous donor) and a round-trip ticket anywhere that Delta Air Lines flies.

The Martyr dir. Devan Scott, Will Ross Memory of the Peace dir. Jennifer Chiu, Jean Parsons

Screens with: PROTOTYPE, p. 67

Rupture dir. Yassmina Karajah

The lack of a physical boundary in the sea between Pakistan and India has cruelly impacted the lives of fishermen and the families they leave behind.

Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film

Lower Plenty Garden Views dir. Adrian St. Louis

The Mountain of SGaana dir. Christopher Auchter

SHAHNAWAZ CHACHAR, SOURATH BEHAN, DANIAL SHAH, USA/PAKISTAN, 2017, 11 MIN.

Sponsored by Lexus, a $2,500 prize is awarded for the Best Canadian Short Film. All films playing in the Canadian Shorts programs are eligible for this award.

The eligible films include:

Two friends walk and draw circles. It is what it is, idizwadidiz, c’est ce que c’est, seskeceě.

Nice weather. —ISIAH MEDINA

Invisible Line

Best Canadian Short Film

Scratchy dir. Marv Newland Sea Monster dir. Daniel Rocque, Kassandra Tomczyk

Screens with: Armed with Faith, p. 48 Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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Martin Cries

A Tall Tale

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MODES 2

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 105 MIN.

THU, SEP 28 WED, OCT 11

6:00 PM 8:45 PM

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 84 MIN.

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The first of MODES’ two programs features works that revolve around the subjective notion of “being.” Rendered through memory, environment, drones, a complex machine and the untruths of childhood, these films ask us to consider unexplored thresholds of reality.

Find Fix Finish SYLVAIN CRUIZIAT, MILA ZHLUKTENKO, GERMANY, 2017, 20 MIN.

Mesmerizing drone images conjure Plato’s cave, as four American pilots share the intimate experience of monitoring their “target” and preparing for termination.

A Photo of Me DENNIS TUPICOFF, AUSTRALIA, 2017, 11 MIN.

MODES MODES sets out to explore how far the form of cinema is capable of bending. Highlighting international video and screen-based artists uninhibited by the limits of traditional approaches, these short works expand the frame on art, politics and human experience.

Oscillating between past and present in a 1950s Queensland suburb, rotoscoped images of childhood memory and a mysterious film noir collide, illustrating an uncanny sense of death.

Jardins d’Été QUAYOLA, ITALY/UK, 2016, 12 MIN.

In a sumptuous homage to Monet’s gardens, nature is studied and synthesized with an extensive technological apparatus to capture the “sensitive nuances of reality beyond our senses.”

Martin Cries JONATHAN VINEL, FRANCE, 2017, 17 MIN.

On a fearless and volatile quest to find his friends, Martin displays a love that is insistent and harshly palpable; it’s all set within the confines of the video game Grand Theft Auto V.

Studies on the Ecology of Drama

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The second of MODES’ programs features works that take a reflexive approach to culture, asking us to consider the means with which it can be portrayed and understood.

Tashlikh (cast off) YAEL BARTANA, ISRAEL/NETHERLANDS, 2017, 12 MIN.

In Yael Bartana’s arresting performance, the artist discards private belongings as a means of liberation from historical trauma.

Roadside Attraction IVETE LUCAS, PATRICK BRESNAN, USA, 2017, 10 MIN.

Gawkers take focus near a strip of Florida highway to glimpse the size and shape of American greatness.

Green Screen Gringo DOUWE DIJKSTRA, BRAZIL/NETHERLANDS, 2016, 16 MIN.

A mixtape portrait of Brazil emerges from within a mobile green screen, as a Dutch gringo observes Rio’s teeming street life.

Charged Landscapes SARA NAOMI GOODMAN, USA, 2017, 5 MIN.

Circuit-bent gear and various mixers play with texture and sound, resulting in a glitched-out, GIF view of land, climate and astral planes as analog/digital hybrid paintings.

489 Years HAYOUN KWON, SOUTH KOREA/FRANCE, 2016, 12 MIN.

In this narrative of danger and wonder, the memories of a former South Korean soldier are rendered through a digital landscape behind the gates of the DMZ.

Batrachian’s Ballad

EIJA-LIISA AHTILA, FINLAND, 2017, 27 MIN.

LEONOR TELES, PORTUGAL, 2016, 12 MIN.

By establishing a reflexive distance, Eija-Liisa Ahtila moves us beyond cinematic anthropocentrism and shifts our gaze away from people and onto their environment.

Leonor Teles delivers a work of anti-xenophobic defiance. part poetic fairy-tale and part performance art.

Strange Says the Angel SHALIMAR PREUSS, FRANCE, 2017, 18 MIN.

Nina’s imagination is impacted by the stories adults tell. In a world threatened by contamination, what is Nina’s place?

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A Tall Tale MAYA SCHWEIZER, IRELAND/GERMANY, 2017, 17 MIN.

Cinematic association leads the viewer through an Irish landscape, rich with spectral folklore and haunted by the presence of celluloid ghosts. Maya Schweizer will be in attendance thanks to the support of German Films, AG-Kurzfilm and the Goethe Institute.

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Index of Directors

A Adelman, Gabriel..................... 96 Ahtila, Eija-Liisa......................100 Ai Weiwei.................................... 70 Akin, Fatih.................................. 34 Aldous, Gethin.......................... 51 Alkhalidey, Adib........................ 96 Almeida, Gabriela.................... 95 Álvarez-Mesa, Pablo............... 96 Amelio, Gianni.......................... 43 Amenta, Joseph........................ 97 Arshad, Rabbia.................. 48, 99 Atán, Cecilia.............................. 36 Atlas, Reuben............................ 70 Auchter, Christopher............... 97 Auter, Josh.................................. 98 Azuelos, Lisa............................. 47

B Baker, Sean................................ 29 Balagov, Valeria........................ 36 Barbosa, Fellipe Gamarano............................... 37 Barker, Phillip............................ 97 Bartana, Yael...........................100 Baugh, Chris.............................. 94 Bebjak, Peter............................. 39 Bednarczyk, Darynn................ 97 Behan, Sourath.................. 48, 99 Ben Hania, Kaouther............... 35 Ben Moreh, Matan................... 98 Benson, Justin........................... 95 Beristáin, Natalia...................... 43 Bertrand, Jean-Michel............ 47 Bhasin, Pranav.......................... 97 Bhutiani, Shubhashish........... 38 Birke, Lisa................................... 97 Blais, Matthew Taylor............. 66 Bohdanowicz, Sofia................. 67 Bolado, Carlos........................... 43 Boll, Natalie............................... 59 Bong Joonho.............................. 32 Boos, Daniel.............................. 97 Bourges, Antoine..................... 66 Bowles, Cory............................. 66 Bown, Cody................................ 58 Bresnan, Patrick.....................100 Buck, Maisie.............................. 97

C Cacho, Daniel Giménez......... 43 Cairns, Liz.................................. 96 Campanelli, Stephen............... 30 Campbell, Deragh.................... 97 Campbell, Greg........................ 71 Campbell, Samantha.............. 97 Campillo, Robin........................ 46 Campion, Jane.......................... 33 Canli, Yaz.................................... 98 Canning, Jordan....................... 65 Cantet, Laurent......................... 47 Carrera, Carlos.......................... 43 Castaing-Taylor, Lucien.......... 49 Chachar, Shahnawaz....... 48, 99 Chan, Doug................................ 85 Chim, Terence........................... 98 Chiu, Jennifer............................ 96 Choquette, Hélène.................. 64 Clark, Dane................................ 96 Cleary, Benjamin...................... 98 Collins, Pat................................. 91

Comar, Etienne......................... 47 Contreras, Ernesto................... 43 Corkle, Scooter......................... 59 Côté, Denis................................ 65 Cruiziat, Sylvain......................100

D D’Ambrosio, Antonino............ 71 Dagg, Jamie M.......................... 42 Dascalescu, Andrei................. 89 De Los Santos Arias, Nelson Carlo.......................... 35 Dean, Alexandra....................... 48 DeGiobbi, Winston.................. 67 DeRushie, Evan........................ 97 Desplechin, Arnaud................ 47 Diaz, Ramona S........................ 85 Dijkstra, Douwe......................100 Dogan, Onur.............................. 97 Dong Hao............................ 84, 99 Donohoe, Jeannie.................... 98 Doueiri, Ziad.............................. 39 Dueñas, Iván Ávila................... 43 Duhaime, Marion..................... 96 Dutra, Marco............................. 38

E Eichenberger, Markus....................... 49, 98, 99 Emigholz, Heinz....................... 91 Erdogan, Yilmaz....................... 42 Ermacora, Ryan........................ 96 Evrenol, Can.............................. 95

F Fang Lu................................ 85, 99 Farooki, Mostofa Sawar......... 40 Faruqi, Asad.............................. 48 Fegan, Paul................................ 91 Fortier Gauthier, Alexis........... 97 Franz, Christine........................ 88 Frick, Travis................................ 98

G Gagné, Philippe David............ 97 Gandbhir, Geeta....................... 48 Gao Yuan............................. 84, 99 Genereux Smith, Erica............ 97 Ghiringhelli, Giada................... 98 Giroux, Yan................................. 97 Gitai, Amos................................ 51 Glawogger, Michael................ 51 Gomis, Alain.............................. 37 Goodman, Sara Naomi.........100 Goyette, Sophie........................ 67 Grabsky, Phil.............................. 89 Grande, Rodrigo....................... 35 Grisebach, Valeska.................. 45 Guadagnino, Luca................... 28 Gund, Catherine....................... 89 Guzmán, Rubén........................ 98

H Hamzei, Mohammad............... 35 Haneke, Michael...................... 29 Haroun, Mahamat-Saleh....... 47 Harper, Scott............................. 65 Hart, Bobbi Jo............................ 65 Haskjold, Kristian..................... 98

Hassan, Hussein...................... 41 Haynes, Mark Sean................. 98 Haynes, Todd............................ 25 Hayoun Kwon..........................100 Helth, Lucas.............................. 98 Hepburn, Kathleen.................. 59 Herron, Jeremy.......................... 97 Holden, Karina.......................... 70 Hong Sangsoo.......................... 83 Hrebejk, Jan............................... 37 Huang Hsin-yao........................ 84 Huang Ji...................................... 84 Hutchings, Julia........................ 97

I Ishikawa Kei............................... 84 Ivanov, Boris.............................. 59

J Jacoby, Oren.............................. 91 Jain, Rahul.................................. 49 Jalilvand, Vahid......................... 40 James, Jason............................. 58 Jamestna.................................... 97 Jeon Jin....................................... 83 Jessup, Connor......................... 96 Johnson, Evan........................... 23 Johnson, Galen......................... 23 JR.................................................. 46

K Kamara, Alusine....................... 97 Kamara, Ibrahim....................... 97 Kamiki, Akira.............................. 98 Kamula, Toni.............................. 98 Karajah, Yassmina.................... 97 Kargbo, Mariama..................... 97 Kargbo, Susan........................... 97 Karseladze, Saba...................... 97 Karukoski, Dome...................... 43 Kaurismäki, Aki......................... 41 Kernell, Amanda....................... 41 Kiarostami, Abbas.................... 48 Kim Daehwan............................ 84 Kitchell, Mark............................ 71 Kleiman, Ariel............................ 33 Kobiela, Dorota......................... 31 Koç, Atasay................................ 98 Kogonada................................... 35 Koh, Greg.................................... 48 Komandarev, Stephan............. 36 Koole, Boudewijn..................... 36 Kurov, Askold............................. 71 Kyi, Daresha............................... 89

L Lai Kuo-an.................................. 84 Lamche, Pascale...................... 51 Lanthimos, Yorgos................... 31 Lass, Jakob................................. 95 Laukeninks, Joschka............... 98 Laz................................................ 97 Lazarescu, Anca Miruna........ 43 Lee Joonik.................................. 83 Lee, Francis............................... 37 Lelio, Sebastián........................ 28 Lieberman, Robert H.............. 83 Litle, Joshua Atesh................... 98 Liu Jian........................................ 84

Lom, Petr.................................... 83 López Escrivá, Fernando....... 96 López-Linares, José Luis........ 88 López, Klych.............................. 98 Lowthorpe, Phillippa............... 42 Lucas, Ivete..............................100 Lumsden, Lucy......................... 98 Lundgren, Chintis............. 94, 99 Lynch, John Carroll.................. 39

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Pollard, Sam.............................. 70 Polo, Carlos............................... 98 Pool, Léa..................................... 65 Poppe, Erik................................. 39 Potter, Sally................................ 34 Preuss, Shalimar....................100 Prows, Ryan............................... 95 Psykou, Elina............................. 41

Q Quayola.....................................100

MacDonald, Nelson......... 67, 99 MacIntyre, Tyler....................... 95 Mack, Trevor............................. 97 Maddin, Guy.............................. 23 Maine, Karen............................. 98 Malone, David........................... 51 Mancinelli, Dusty..................... 96 Marshall, Levi............................ 97 Massadian, Valérie.................. 47 Masurkar, Amit V...................... 40 McDermot, Evan...................... 97 McKay, Jim................................. 37 McKenna, Ryan......................... 97 McLeary, Jairus......................... 51 Medina, Isiah...................... 67, 99 Metz, Janus................................ 27 Miao Wang................................. 49 Millet, Raphael.......................... 89 Mills, Jacquelyn........................ 66 Milton, Georgia......................... 97 Montalvo, Alejandro................ 98 Moon Changyong.................... 83 Moorhead, Aaron..................... 95 Morin, Robert............................ 64 Mysius, Léa................................ 47

Radwanski, Kazik.............. 67, 99 Rahimi, Hawar........................... 97 Rankin, Matthew...................... 97 Reynolds, Emer......................... 49 Ricq, Peter.................................. 58 Rideout, Kyle............................. 59 Riedelsheimer, Thomas......... 89 Rocque, Daniel......................... 97 Roder, Dechen.......................... 85 Rodríguez, Ramón................... 98 Rogers, Ellie............................... 98 Rojas, Juliana............................. 38 Romvari, Sophy......................... 97 Roquet, Clara............................ 98 Rosenblatt, Jay.......................... 98 Ross, Will.................................... 97 Rostovsky, Jason A.................. 98 Roy, Jean-Marc E...................... 97 Rubinstein, Abel....................... 97 Russell, Ben............................... 49 Ryuji Otsuka.............................. 84

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Nattawut Poonpiriya............... 82 Newland, Marv......................... 96 Nguyen, Kim.............................. 64 Ninomiya Ryutaro.................... 85

O O’Grady Peyton, TJ................... 98 O’Leske, Dave........................... 49 Obomsawin, Alanis................. 65 Officer, Charles......................... 65 Ofner, Astrid Johanna............. 37 Ogigami, Naoko........................ 83 Östlund, Ruben......................... 33

P Palka, Marianna........................ 94 Pálmason, Hlynur..................... 45 Palud, Jessica............................ 98 Paravel, Verena......................... 49 Pardoe, Mintie.......................... 97 Paré, Faith.................................. 97 Parker, Molly.............................. 96 Parsons, Jean............................ 96 Peck, Raoul................................ 45 Peedom, Jennifer..................... 32 Pérez, Fernando....................... 39 Perkel, Chris.............................. 89 Perry, Alex Ross........................ 37 Pierce, Neville........................... 98 Placido, Michele...................... 35 Plante, Pascal............................ 65

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Said, Marcela............................ 41 Saleh, Tarik................................ 40 Santa, Natalia............................ 37 Santini, Antonio........................ 49 Sasidharan, Sanal Kumar....... 41 Saviano, Francesco................. 98 Schröder, Kaspar Astrup........ 88 Schroeder, Barbet.................... 71 Schroeder, Marieke................. 89 Schweizer, Maya....................100 Scott, Devan.............................. 97 Serkis, Andy............................... 27 Shah, Danial....................... 48, 99 Shrivastava, Alankrita............. 39 Shum, Mina............................... 21 Sickles, Dan............................... 49 Siddigi, Alysha................... 48, 99 Siegel, Joshua........................... 97 Silver, Nathan............................ 43 Simon, Carla.............................. 42 Sims-Fewer, Madeleine......... 96 Sláma, Bohdan.......................... 38 Smith, Seth A............................ 94 Soozandeh, Ali.......................... 43 Sprenger, Ben........................... 97 Srour, Shady.............................. 38 St-Jean, Raymond.................... 89 St. Louis, Adrian....................... 96 Stewart, Linsey......................... 96 Stoddart, Sinead...................... 97 Strong, Amanda....................... 97 Surya, Mouly............................. 85

T Tailfeathers, Elle-Máijá........... 58 Tan Pin Pin................................. 85 Teles, Leonor...........................100 Thapar, Iesh............................... 98 Thomas, Daniela...................... 43 Ti’si’tla Fazakas, LaTiesha..... 59 Tkachenko, Taras..................... 39 Todorovsky, Valery................... 35 Toi, Vincent................................ 97 Tomczyk, Kassandra............... 97 Trengove, John.......................... 45 Treštíková, Helena................... 51 Trier, Joachim............................ 43 Trueba, Fernando.................... 41 Tupicoff, Dennis.....................100 Tuura, Drake.............................. 97

U Ulloa, Alfonso Pineda............. 43 Ur Rehman, Jamil.............. 48, 99 Urushadze, Ana........................ 41

V Valine, Ana................................. 59 Valle, Alejandro......................... 43 Varda, Agnès............................. 46 Vargas, Petersen...................... 83 Vaz, Marcos............................... 98 Veiel, Andres............................. 88 Vinel, Jonathan.......................100 Volpe, Petra................................ 36 Voutas, Sam............................... 85

W Wackerbarth, Nicolas............. 35 Wapeemukwa, Wayne............ 59 Weinberg, Karen Lynn............ 71 Welchman, Hugh..................... 31 Wilkerson, Travis...................... 49 Willi, Monika.............................. 51 Williams, Blake.......................... 67 Wilson, Lana.............................. 84 Wood, Melanie.......................... 59 Wu Zi En............................... 84, 99 Wydryk, Kelly............................. 98

X Xu Bing........................................ 84 Xu Haofeng................................ 30 Xu Xin.......................................... 71

Y Yang, Moe.................................. 97 Yang, Richard............................ 97 Yip, Wilson................................. 82 Yoshida Daihachi..................... 83 Young, Heather......................... 96 Yu, Youyang............................... 98

Z Zackem, Amanda.............. 70, 99 Zare, Navid................................. 97 Zglinski, Greg............................ 94 Zhluktenko, Mila.....................100 Zhu, David.................................. 97 Zvyagintsev, Andrei................. 39

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Index of Films by Country & Region

Afghanistan

Burma

Manivald................................94, 99

The Hidden Sword.....................30

Finland

Cocote...........................................35

Armed with Faith........................48

Burma Storybook.......................83

The Martyr....................................97

Human Flow................................70

Borg Vs. McEnroe......................27

Directions.....................................36

Hondros........................................71

The Venerable W........................71

Mass for Shut-Ins.......................67

King of Peking.............................85

Machines......................................49

The Divine Order........................36

Meditation Park..........................21

Lunar Dial..............................84, 99

The Other Side of Hope...........41

A Fantastic Woman...................28

Maineland....................................49

Farewell.........................................37

Shepherd’s Purse................84, 99

Studies on the Ecology of Drama................................. 100

A Yangtze Landscape...............71

Tom of Finland............................43

Find Fix Finish.......................... 100

Africa

Cambodia

Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters...............................59

Gabriel and the Mountain.......37

Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia............................83

Memory of the Peace...............96

Hondros........................................71 Untitled..........................................51

Argentina At the End of the Tunnel..........35 Cocote...........................................35 The Desert Bride........................36 Images of Nowhere...................98

The Mountain of SGaana........97

7ÚN3L............................................98

24 Frames.....................................48

The Dragon Defense.................37

489 Years................................... 100

Nobody Likes You......................98

La pesca........................................96

Ava..................................................47

On Putin’s Blacklist....................59

Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy..................89

Voices of Kidnapping................97

Beauty and the Dogs................35

Machines......................................49

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams.......................................88

Reseba: The Dark Wind...........41

Alice Ayalik...................................97

New Skins & Old Ceremonies..............................97

Bickford Park...............................96 Bird..................................................96 Birdlime.........................................97 Black Cop......................................66

Happy End....................................29

France

Never Steady, Never Still.........59

Anne Doll......................................97

Good Luck....................................49

Colombia

Canada

Bunbun Blast...............................97

Once There Was a Winter.......59 Our People Will Be Healed......65 PROTOTYPE.................................67 Public Schooled.........................59

Crimea The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov.......................71

BPM (Beats Per Minute)..........46 Call Me by Your Name..............28

Human Flow................................70 In The Fade..................................34

Schumann’s Bar Talks...............89 The Square...................................33

Australia

Catch/Release............................96

BLUE...............................................70

c’ sna m: the city before the city........................................58

Rebels on Pointe........................65

Caniba............................................49

Refugee Rescue.........................97

Cherry Cola..................................97

Rupture..........................................97

Croatia

Chaplin in Bali: Journey to the East.................................89

Crème de menthe......................97

Scaffold...................................67, 99

Manivald................................94, 99

Claire’s Camera..........................83

The Crescent...............................94

Scratchy........................................96

The Crying Conch......................97

Sea Monster................................97

Cuba

Dead Shack..................................58

Shadow Nettes...........................97

Austria

Last Days in Havana..................39

Do We Leave This Here?..........97

Shadowman.................................91

Animal............................................94

Entanglement..............................58

Farewell.........................................37

Etymology.....................................97

Shut Up and Say Something.................................59

Czech Republic

Good Luck....................................49

Happy End....................................29

Eye on Juliet.................................64

A Skin So Soft..............................65

Burma Storybook.......................83

Good Manners............................38

Tehran Taboo...............................43

Fail to Appear..............................66

Slap Happy...................................96

Happy End....................................29

Untitled..........................................51

Fence.............................................97

Garden Store: Family Friend..........................................37 Ice Mother....................................38

Ismael’s Ghosts..........................47

The Line........................................39

Loveless........................................39

The Killing of a Sacred Deer.............................................31

A Marriage Story........................51

Maison du bonheur...................67

Son of Sofia..................................41

That Trip We Took with Dad.....................................43

Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts...................................85

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov.......................71

Marlon...........................................98

Hong Kong

Martin Cries.............................. 100

Paradox.........................................82

King of Peking.............................85 Mountain......................................32 A Photo of Me.............................00 Top of the Lake: China Girl......33

Flood..............................................97

Balkans Untitled..........................................51

Forest Movie................................66 From Here To...............................97 Full Moon Party..........................96 The Glow Is Gone......................96

Bangladesh

Go Play Outside..........................96

No Bed of Roses.........................40

The Good Fight...........................97

Belgium Félicité...........................................37 Marlon...........................................98 The Young Karl Marx.................45

Honeygiver Among the Dogs............................................85

Brazil

Strangers in Strange Lands....97 Suck It Up.....................................65 Sweet Virginia.............................42 Tattoos...........................................65 The Tesla World Light...............97

Félicité...........................................37 Gabriel and the Mountain.......37

There Lived the Colliers....67, 99 Thug...............................................97

Faces Places...............................46

The Insult......................................39

Tehran Taboo...............................43 That Trip We Took with Dad.....................................43 Tiger Girl.......................................95 Tom of Finland............................43 Untitled..........................................51 Western.........................................45 The Wound...................................45 The Young Karl Marx.................45

Greece

Milla................................................47 Los Perros....................................41 A Season in France...................47

Borg Vs. McEnroe......................27

Son of Sofia..................................41

Forever Now................................98

The Square...................................33

Overlove........................................98

Strange Says the Angel......... 100

Sami Blood...................................41

Thelma...........................................43

A Woman on the Telephone: Carol............................................97

Sisters............................................98

Thirst Street.................................43

The Square...................................33

The Valley of the Wolves..........47

Worst Case, We Get Married.......................................65

Thelma...........................................43

The Venerable W........................71

Infiltration.....................................64

West of the Jordan River..........51

It Just Might Be True.................97

You’re Soaking in It....................65

Tom of Finland............................43 Winter Brothers...........................45

Winnie............................................51

Becoming Who I Was................83

The Workshop.............................47

Hotel Salvation............................38

The Wound...................................45

Lipstick Under My Burkha.......39

The Young Karl Marx.................45

Machines......................................49

Gregoire........................................58 His Name Is Willy.......................96 Hollow in the Land.....................59 Home & Garden..........................96 In the Waves................................66 Indian Horse................................30

Tragedy Girls...............................95 Unarmed Verses.........................65 Voices of Kidnapping................97 When Food Goes Bad...............97 Where Do Cats Go After 9 Lives?.......................................96

The Knits.......................................97 La pesca........................................96

Afterglow......................................98

Left to Their Own Devices.......97

Friendly Beast.............................95

Let Your Heart Be Light............97

Gabriel and the Mountain.......37

Life Goes On: John Dub...........97

Good Manners............................38

Lights Beneath My Feet...........97

Green Screen Gringo............. 100

Like a Pebble in the Boot.........64

Maxwell’s Demon......................98

Lira’s Forest.................................96

Vazante..........................................43

Lost Paradise Lost.....................97

Bulgaria

Still Night, Still Light..................67

Django...........................................47

A Tall Tale................................... 100

Big Time........................................88

The Green Fog............................23

Idizwadidiz............................67, 99

Bhutan

Song of Granite...........................91

Dalida.............................................47

Streetscapes [Dialogue]..........91

Denmark

Grandmother...............................97

104

Milk.................................................96

Félicité...........................................37

Louise Lecavalier in Motion........................................89

Chile

Dominican Republic

The Desert Bride........................36

Cocote...........................................35

Egypt Dalida.............................................47

Chi7na

The Nile Hilton Incident...........40

That Trip We Took with Dad.....................................43

Iceland Winter Brothers...........................45

India

Newton..........................................40

A Fantastic Woman...................28 Los Perros....................................41

Hungary

Georgia Royal Fool.....................................97 Scary Mother...............................41

No Bed of Roses.........................40 Sexy Durga...................................41 TV in the Fish Tail.......................98 Wardrobe......................................97

AlphaGo........................................48 Becoming Who I Was................83

Directions.....................................36

Lower Plenty Garden Views...........................................96

Canton Novelty....................85, 99

Son of Sofia..................................41

Luk’Luk’I........................................59

The Foolish Bird.........................84

Western.........................................45

Maison du bonheur...................67

Have a Nice Day.........................84

Dragonfly Eyes............................84

Estonia Manivald................................94, 99

Germany Backstory......................................98

Scary Mother...............................41

Beuys: Art as a Weapon...........88

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov.......................71

Casting..........................................35

Bunch of Kunst............................88

Indonesia Chaplin in Bali: Journey to the East......................................89 Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts...................................85

Index of Films by Country & Region

Iran

Libya

Philippines

South Korea

Tibet

Charged Landscapes............ 100

100 Second Red Light..............97

Hondros........................................71

2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten...................83

489 Years................................... 100

Becoming Who I Was................83

Chavela..........................................89

Motherland..................................85

AlphaGo........................................48

24 Frames.....................................48 Azar................................................35 Life is Lifeless..............................97 No Date, No Signature.............40 Tehran Taboo...............................43

Iraq Hondros........................................71

Macao The Last Roar of a Mother Bear.............................................85

Macedonia

Wave...............................................98

Animals.........................................94 Tales of Mexico...........................43

Directions.....................................36

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov.......................71

Malaysia

Portugal

Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts...................................85

Song of Granite...........................91 A Tall Tale................................... 100

Poland Loving Vincent............................31

Reseba: The Dark Wind...........41

Ireland

Anarchist from the Colony......83

Mexico Chavela..........................................89 En el séptimo día........................37

Israel

Hunger...........................................98

Flag.................................................98

Tales of Mexico...........................43

Batrachian’s Ballad................. 100

West of the Jordan River..........51

Italy

Nepal Mountain......................................32

Netherlands

Call Me by Your Name..............28

Burma Storybook.......................83

Dalida.............................................47

Disappearance...........................36

Jardins d’Été.............................. 100

Green Screen Gringo............. 100

Like a Pebble in the Boot.........64

Tashlikh (cast off).................... 100

The Nest of the Turtledove.....39 La Tenerezza................................43

Okja.................................................32

Spain At the End of the Tunnel..........35

The Good Girls............................98

Breathe..........................................27

A Fantastic Woman...................28

Home, Sweet Home..................98

Bunch of Kunst............................88

The Farthest................................49

Last Days in Havana..................39

David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts..........89

The Florida Project....................29

The Fashion Show.....................98

Game..............................................98

Qatar Beauty and the Dogs................35 Cocote...........................................35 Reseba: The Dark Wind...........41

Romania God’s Own Country...................37 Loveless........................................39

The Queen of Spain...................41 Summer 1993..............................42

That Trip We Took with Dad.....................................43

Golden Exits.................................37

I Love You Forever Now...........98

The Green Fog............................23

Suriname

Jardins d’Été.............................. 100

High Moon...................................97

Good Luck....................................49

The Killing of a Sacred Deer.............................................31

Hondros........................................71

Loving Vincent............................31

The Party.......................................34

Russia

The Nile Hilton Incident...........40

Promise.........................................98

The Bolshoi..................................35

Sami Blood...................................41

Rhythm of Being.........................98

Winnie............................................51

Loveless........................................39

The Square...................................33

Searching for a New

The Wound...................................45

On Putin’s Blacklist....................59

Thelma...........................................43

Science.......................................51

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov.......................71

Tom of Finland............................43

Swallows and Amazons...........42 Talking Too Loud........................97

Who is in Charge Here?...........97

Top of the Lake: China Girl......33

Scotland Where You’re Meant to Be......91

489 Years................................... 100

Bad Day for the Cut...................94

Sweating the Small Stuff.........85

Norway

Switzerland

There Was a Man, a Girl, and a Rocket.............................98

Animals.........................................94

TV in the Fish Tail.......................98

Beauty and the Dogs................35

Walk of Shame............................97

Chasing Stars................49, 98, 99 The Divine Order........................36

Beauty and the Dogs................35

Married.......................................65

The King’s Choice......................39

Sierra Leone

Sami Blood...................................41

Say No to Early Sex....................97

Thelma...........................................43

Pakistan

In Time to Come.........................85

Armed with Faith........................48 Divide......................................48, 99 Invisible Line.........................48, 99

Slovakia The Line........................................39

Motherland..................................85 Nobody Likes You......................98 Okja.................................................32 PROTOTYPE.................................67 Roadside Attraction................ 100

Tragedy Girls...............................95

The Other Side of Hope...........41

Walt & Me.....................................98 We Belong....................................97

USA ACORN and the Firestorm......70 AlphaGo........................................48

A Fish Out of Water...................84 The Great Buddha+...................84 Hsiang Yi................................84, 99

American Psychosis...........70, 99

Wonderstruck..............................25 The Work.......................................51 Yes, God, Yes...............................98

Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia.............................83 Armed with Faith........................48 Ballooinator..................................97 Bitch...............................................94

Thailand Bad Genius...................................82

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story............................................48

The Wound...................................45

Paradox.........................................82

Caniba............................................49

West of the Jordan River..........51

Maineland....................................49

Tom of Finland............................43

Call Me by Your Name..............28

The Insult......................................39

Lowlife...........................................95 Lucky..............................................39

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov.......................71

Bullroarer......................................98

The Insult......................................39

The Language of Ball................98

Sweet Virginia.............................42

Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts...................................85

Félicité...........................................37

Land of Happy Dreams............98

Thirst Street.................................43

Winnie............................................51

South Africa

The Kodachrome Elegies........98

The Nest of the Turtledove.....39

Borg Vs. McEnroe......................27

Palestine

King of Peking.............................85

The Line........................................39

Full Moon Party..........................96

Beauty and the Dogs................35

Keep Talking................................71

TV in the Fish Tail.......................98

Taiwan Singapore

Hondros........................................71

Invisible Line.........................48, 99

Sissyman.......................................98

Syria Hondros........................................71

Disappearance...........................36

Human Flow................................70

Shadowman.................................91

Ukraine

Serbia Good Luck....................................49

Frank Serpico..............................71

God’s Own Country...................37

Worst Case, We Get

Lebanon

The Endless.................................95

Borg Vs. McEnroe......................27

Northern Ireland

Don’t Be Afraid of the Light.....98 En el séptimo día........................37

Outlines.........................................98

North Korea

Divide......................................48, 99

Evolution of Organic..................71

Like a Pebble in the Boot.........64

Reseba: The Dark Wind...........41

Sour Apples.................................42

AlphaGo........................................48

The Venerable W........................71

Kurdistan

Housewife....................................95

UK

Rhythm of Being.........................98

Kosovo

Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey........................................49

A Fantastic Woman...................28

Félicité...........................................37

Rupture..........................................97

Dina................................................49

C.O.D..............................................97

Chavela..........................................89

Senegal

Jordan

The Animal...................................98

Vazante..........................................43

The Departure.............................84 Gukoroku - Traces of Sin..........84

The Departure.............................84

Milla................................................47

Close-Knit.....................................83 Fence.............................................97

Turkey

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?.....................................49

Beauty and the Dogs................35

AlphaGo........................................48

Caniba............................................49

The First Lap................................84

Munchies......................................97

New Zealand

A Beautiful Star...........................83

Damn Bro!.....................................98

Sweden

Untitled..........................................51

Anarchist from the Colony......83

Columbus.....................................35

Beauty and the Dogs................35

Columbus.....................................35

Planeta Petrila.............................89

7 Minutes......................................35

Japan

Claire’s Camera..........................83

Tunisia

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams.......................................88

Holy Air..........................................38 Tashlikh (cast off).................... 100

Becoming Who I Was................83

Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives...............................89

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Index of Films with Screening Times

2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten p. 83 (Fri, Sep 29, 6:00pm, IN08 + Mon, Oct 9, 4:15pm, IN09) 1’36 24 Frames p. 48 (Fri, Sep 29, 3:15pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 4, 9:00pm, CINE) 2’00 7 Minutes p. 35 (Wed, Oct 4, 1:30pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 6, 9:45pm, IN10) 1’32 ACORN and the Firestorm p. 70 (Sun, Oct 8, 6:30pm, RIO + Wed, Oct 11, 9:00pm, IN09) 1’39

AlphaGo p. 48 (Mon, Oct 2, 11:00am, IN09 + Tue, Oct 3, 6:30pm, PLAY) 1’30

Anarchist from the Colony p. 83 (Sat, Sep 30, 2:00pm, IN09 + Mon, Oct 2, 9:00pm, IN09) 2’09 Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia p. 83

28, 6:45pm, SFU + Sun, Oct 8, 9:30pm, IN10 + Wed, Oct 11, 3:45pm, PLAY) 1’30

Borg Vs. McEnroe p. 27 (Sat, Oct 7, 8:45pm, CENT +

Wed, Oct 11, 6:30pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 13, 3:30pm, PLAY)

1’40

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams p. 88 (Fri, Sep 29, 6:30pm, SFU + Wed, Oct 11, 1:30pm, SFU) 1’30 BPM (Beats Per Minute) p. 46 (Sat, Sep 30, 3:15pm, PLAY + Mon, Oct 2, 6:15pm, PLAY) 2’24

Breathe p. 27 (Fri, Sep 29, 6:15pm, CENT) 1’57 Bunch of Kunst p. 88 (Fri, Oct 6, 6:30pm, VCT + Sun, Oct 8, 3:30pm, RIO) 1’43

Burma Storybook p. 83 (Fri, Oct 6, 6:15pm, CINE +

Dead Shack p. 58 (Fri, Sep 29, 11:30pm, RIO + Thu, Oct 5, 8:45pm, RIO) 1’22

The Departure p. 84 (Sun, Oct 1, 8:30pm, VCT + Mon, Oct 2, 1:30pm, VCT) 1’28

The Desert Bride p. 36 (Thu, Sep 28, 6:30pm, PLAY + Fri, Sep 29, 4:15pm, PLAY) 1’18 Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? p. 49 (Sat, Sep 30, 9:00pm, IN08 + Mon, Oct 2, 4:45pm, IN10) 1’30

Dina p. 49 (Sat, Sep 30, 7:30pm, VCT + Sat, Oct 7, 2:15pm, PLAY + Thu, Oct 12, 6:15pm, VCT) 1’41

Directions p. 36 (Tue, Oct 10, 6:15pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 12, 3:45pm, VCT) 1’43 Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey p. 49 (Fri, Sep

1’30

Sun, Oct 8, 11:00am, SFU) 1’22

29, 6:30pm, PLAY + Sun, Oct 1, 3:30pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 13, 4:00pm, VCT) 1’36

Animals p. 94 (Mon, Oct 9, 6:00pm, IN08 + Wed, Oct 11, 9:45pm, IN10) 1’36

Call Me by Your Name p. 28 (Thu, Oct 5, 9:00pm,

Disappearance p. 36 (Sat, Sep 30, 8:45pm, RIO + Sat,

Caniba p. 49 (Fri, Sep 29, 9:15pm, CINE + Tue, Oct 10,

The Divine Order p. 36 (Fri, Sep 29, 4:30pm, IN10 + Mon, Oct 2, 6:30pm, CENT) 1’36

(Sun, Oct 1, 6:30pm, CINE + Tue, Oct 3, 11:30am, IN10)

Armed with Faith p. 48 (Thu, Oct 5, 9:00pm, SFU + Sat, Oct 7, 11:00am, SFU) 1’33

CENT + Sun, Oct 8, 9:00pm, CENT + Thu, Oct 12, 3:15pm, CENT) 2’11

6:45pm, CINE) 1’36

Oct 7, 12:00pm, PLAY) 1’32

RIO + Mon, Oct 9, 1:15pm, RIO + Thu, Oct 12, 9:00pm, PLAY) 2’00

Casting p. 35 (Wed, Oct 4, 9:00pm, SFU + Fri, Oct 6,

4:00pm, SFU) 1’31

Django p. 47 (Fri, Sep 29, 3:15pm, CENT + Thu, Oct 12, 6:00pm, SFU) 1’57

Ava p. 47 (Fri, Sep 29, 3:00pm, IN08 + Sun, Oct 1,

Oct 11, 3:15pm, IN08) 1’41

The Dragon Defense p. 37 (Sat, Oct 7, 6:30pm, SFU + Mon, Oct 9, 11:00am, IN09) 1’20

6:45pm, IN09) 1’45

Catch/Release p. 96 (Wed, Oct 4, 9:15pm, IN08 + Wed,

Azar p. 35 (Sat, Sep 30, 10:30am, VCT + Sun, Oct 8,

c’ sna

Dragonfly Eyes p. 84 (Sat, Oct 7, 9:15pm, CINE + Wed, Oct 11, 1:30pm, VCT) 1’21

At the End of the Tunnel p. 35 (Sat, Sep 30, 3:30pm,

m: the city before the city p. 58 (Sun, Oct 1,

6:00pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 11, 9:00pm, SFU) 1’25

9:00pm, SFU + Fri, Oct 6, 2:00pm, IN10) 1’15

Bad Day for the Cut p. 94 (Thu, Sep 28, 9:00pm, RIO +

Chaplin in Bali: Journey to the East p. 89 (Sat, Oct 7,

Wed, Oct 4, 3:45pm, SFU) 1’39

Bad Genius p. 82 (Fri, Oct 6, 10:45am, IN10 + Sun, Oct

8, 6:00pm, PLAY + Fri, Oct 13, 6:15pm, PLAY) 2’10

A Beautiful Star p. 83 (Wed, Oct 4, 9:00pm, IN09 + Fri,

Oct 6, 4:15pm, IN10) 2’07

Beauty and the Dogs p. 35 (Tue, Oct 10, 1:15pm, IN10

+ Thu, Oct 12, 7:00pm, IN10) 1’40

Becoming Who I Was p. 83 (Sat, Sep 30, 4:45pm, IN09 + Sun, Oct 8, 8:15pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 11, 6:15pm, VCT) 1’35

Beuys: Art as a Weapon p. 88 (Sat, Sep 30, 1:15pm, SFU + Mon, Oct 9, 9:00pm, SFU) 1’47

Big Time p. 88 (Sun, Oct 8, 6:15pm, SFU + Tue, Oct 10,

4:00pm, IN09) 1’33

Bitch p. 94 (Fri, Sep 29, 6:15pm, RIO + Sat, Oct 7, 3:45pm, RIO) 1’50

Black Cop p. 66 (Tue, Oct 3, 7:15pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 4,

4:45pm, IN10 + Fri, Oct 13, 6:15pm, RIO) 1’31

BLUE p. 70 (Mon, Oct 9, 12:15pm, SFU + Thu, Oct 12, 6:45pm, PLAY) 1’16

The Bolshoi p. 35 (Fri, Sep 29, 3:45pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 6, 9:00pm, VCT + Thu, Oct 12, 8:45pm, CENT) 2’12

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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story p. 48 (Thu, Sep

9:30pm, VCT + Mon, Oct 9, 4:30pm, SFU + Wed, Oct 11, 7:00pm, CINE) 1’20

Chavela p. 89 (Sun, Oct 1, 9:30pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 5, 9:00pm, PLAY + Mon, Oct 9, 2:15pm, SFU) 1’32

Claire’s Camera p. 83 (Fri, Sep 29, 7:00pm, IN10 + Sun, Oct 1, 1:45pm, IN10) 1’09 Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives p. 89

En el séptimo día p. 37 (Wed, Oct 4, 6:30pm, CINE + Fri, Oct 6, 1:30pm, SFU) 1’32

The Endless p. 95 (Fri, Oct 6, 11:00pm, RIO + Mon, Oct 9, 9:00pm, RIO) 1’52

Entanglement p. 58 (Sat, Sep 30, 6:15pm, RIO + Sat, Oct 7, 1:00pm, RIO) 1’24 Evolution of Organic p. 71 (Sat, Sep 30, 6:30pm, SFU + Sun, Oct 1, 1:15pm, SFU) 1’27

2’3

Eye on Juliet p. 64 (Wed, Oct 4, 6:15pm, IN09 + Sat, Oct 7, 3:45pm, IN09) 1’30

Close-Knit p. 83 (Tue, Oct 10, 6:30pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct 12, 4:15pm, IN10) 2’07

Faces Places p. 46 (Sun, Oct 1, 11:00am, SFU + Fri, Oct 6, 6:45pm, PLAY) 1’30

Cocote p. 35 (Sat, Oct 7, 9:00pm, IN08 + Tue, Oct 10, 3:45pm, VCT) 1’46

Fail to Appear p. 66 (Fri, Sep 29, 7:00pm, CINE + Mon,

Columbus p. 35 (Sun, Oct 8, 7:00pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct

A Fantastic Woman p. 28 (Mon, Oct 2, 3:45pm, PLAY + Thu, Oct 5, 6:15pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 11, 9:00pm, CENT)

(Thu, Sep 28, 8:45pm, PLAY + Sat, Sep 30, 3:45pm, SFU)

12, 6:00pm, IN08) 1’44

The Crescent p. 94 (Fri, Oct 6, 8:15pm, RIO + Sun, Oct

8, 8:15pm, IN08) 1’40

Crisis Management p. 98 (Thu, Oct 5, 6:00pm, IN08 +

Sun, Oct 8, 4:00pm, IN09) 1’53

Dalida p. 47 (Sun, Oct 1, 3:45pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 4, 9:15pm, RIO) 2’04

David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts p. 89 (Fri, Oct 6, 6:30pm, SFU + Sun, Oct 8, 10:30am, VCT + Fri, Oct 13, 6:15pm, VCT) 1’20

Oct 2, 4:30pm, IN08) 1’10

1’44

Farewell p. 37 (Sun, Oct 8, 1:00pm, IN08 + Mon, Oct 9, 8:30pm, IN08) 1’20

The Farthest p. 49 (Tue, Oct 3, 9:00pm, VCT + Thu, Oct 5, 10:45am, IN09) 2’8 Félicité p. 37 (Tue, Oct 10, 9:30pm, IN10 + Wed, Oct 11, 4:30pm, IN10) 2’3 The First Lap p. 84 (Sun, Oct 8, 9:00pm, CINE + Tue, Oct 10, 12:15pm, IN08) 1’41

Index of Films with Screening Times

A Fish Out of Water p. 84 (Mon, Oct 2, 8:30pm, CINE + Sat, Oct 7, 3:15pm, IN08) 1’51 The Florida Project p. 29 (Sat, Oct 7, 6:00pm, CENT)

Hotel Salvation p. 38 (Fri, Sep 29, 10:45am, VCT +

Mon, Oct 2, 6:30pm, IN09 + Tue, Oct 10, 3:45pm, PLAY)

1’42

Loveless p. 39 (Sun, Oct 1, 9:00pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 4, 3:15pm, PLAY + Mon, Oct 9, 9:15pm, PLAY) 2’07

Loving Vincent p. 31 (Thu, Sep 28, 6:30pm, RIO + Sat,

1’55

Housewife p. 95 (Fri, Oct 13, 11:00pm, RIO) 1’22

The Foolish Bird p. 84 (Sat, Oct 7, 6:15pm, IN08 + Tue,

Human Flow p. 70 (Sun, Oct 1, 5:45pm, CENT + Mon,

Lowlife p. 95 (Sat, Sep 30, 4:30pm, IN10 + Mon, Oct 2, 9:15pm, RIO) 1’36

Forest Movie p. 66 (Sat, Sep 30, 6:45pm, CINE + Mon,

Ice Mother p. 38 (Mon, Oct 9, 7:00pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct

Lucky p. 39 (Thu, Sep 28, 9:00pm, SFU + Sun, Oct 1, 3:45pm, SFU + Thu, Oct 5, 9:45pm, IN09) 1’28

Frank Serpico p. 71 (Fri, Oct 6, 9:00pm, SFU + Sun, Oct

In The Fade p. 34 (Sun, Oct 1, 3:15pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 4, 9:00pm, CENT) 1’35

Luk’Luk’I p. 59 (Tue, Oct 3, 6:30pm, RIO + Sun, Oct 8,

Friendly Beast p. 95 (Sat, Oct 7, 11:00pm, RIO + Tue,

In the Waves p. 66 (Wed, Oct 4, 4:45pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 12, 7:00pm, CINE) 1’01

Machines p. 49 (Thu, Sep 28, 7:00pm, CINE + Sat, Sep

Gabriel and the Mountain p. 37 (Mon, Oct 2, 8:30pm, VCT + Tue, Oct 3, 2:00pm, IN10) 2’11

In Time to Come p. 85 (Thu, Oct 5, 9:00pm, CINE + Fri, Oct 6, 3:30pm, IN08) 1’27

Maineland p. 49 (Thu, Oct 5, 1:00pm, SFU + Sat, Oct 7, 6:30pm, IN09) 1’30

Garden Store: Family Friend p. 37 (Fri, Sep 29,

Indian Horse p. 30 (Sat, Sep 30, 6:30pm, PLAY + Mon,

Maison du bonheur p. 67 (Sun, Oct 1, 6:00pm, VCT + Tue, Oct 3, 12:45pm, IN08) 1’18

God’s Own Country p. 37 (Fri, Oct 6, 9:15pm, PLAY + Wed, Oct 11, 11:30am, IN10) 1’44

Infiltration p. 64 (Thu, Oct 5, 6:30pm, VCT + Sun, Oct 8, 3:45pm, SFU) 1’33

Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts p. 85 (Tue, Oct

Golden Exits p. 37 (Sat, Oct 7, 9:30pm, IN10 + Mon, Oct 9, 2:15pm, IN10) 1’34

The Insult p. 39 (Thu, Oct 5, 7:00pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 6,

A Marriage Story p. 51 (Sun, Oct 1, 1:15pm, IN09 + Sat, Oct 7, 9:15pm, IN09) 1’42

Good Luck p. 49 (Tue, Oct 3, 9:00pm, CINE + Fri, Oct 6, 8:45pm, CINE) 2’23

Ismael’s Ghosts p. 47 (Tue, Oct 3, 9:00pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 11, 10:45am, IN09) 2’12

Mass for Shut-Ins p. 67 (Mon, Oct 2, 6:15pm, CINE +

Good Manners p. 38 (Wed, Oct 4, 6:15pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 6, 1:30pm, IN09) 2’15

Keep Talking p. 71 (Tue, Oct 3, 6:30pm, VCT + Thu, Oct 5, 10:45am, IN10) 1’20

Meditation Park p. 21 (Thu, Sep 28, 7:00pm, CENT +

The Great Buddha+ p. 84 (Tue, Oct 3, 5:30pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct 5, 4:15pm, IN10) 1’58

9:00pm, CENT) 2’01

The Green Fog p. 23 (Tue, Oct 10, 8:00pm, CENT) 1’5

King of Peking p. 85 (Sun, Oct 8, 3:15pm, PLAY + Thu,

Oct 10, 9:00pm, CINE) 1’58

Oct 9, 1:00pm, IN08) 1’05

8, 11:00am, IN09 + Fri, Oct 13, 6:30pm, CINE) 1’38 Oct 10, 9:00pm, RIO) 1’38

9:15pm, PLAY + Thu, Oct 12, 3:45pm, PLAY) 2’10

Gregoire p. 58 (Tue, Oct 3, 9:15pm, RIO + Tue, Oct 10, 3:30pm, IN10) 1’49

Gukoroku - Traces of Sin p. 84 (Fri, Sep 29, 1:45pm, IN10 + Tue, Oct 3, 9:45pm, IN09) 2’00

Happy End p. 29 (Tue, Oct 3, 6:15pm, CENT + Thu, Oct

5, 3:30pm, CENT + Sun, Oct 8, 6:15pm, CENT) 1’47

Have a Nice Day p. 84 (Fri, Oct 6, 9:30pm, IN09 + Mon,

Oct 9, 4:00pm, RIO + Thu, Oct 12, 9:00pm, RIO) 1’32

The Hidden Sword p. 30 (Wed, Oct 4, 9:00pm, PLAY

+ Sat, Oct 7, 2:30pm, CENT + Wed, Oct 11, 9:00pm, RIO)

2’16

Hollow in the Land p. 59 (Sun, Oct 1, 6:15pm, RIO + Mon, Oct 9, 11:30am, IN10) 1’40

Holy Air p. 38 (Sun, Oct 8, 9:30pm, PLAY + Thu, Oct 12, 4:00pm, SFU) 1’21

Home & Garden p. 96 (Mon, Oct 2, 9:15pm, IN08 +

Mon, Oct 9, 3:15pm, IN08) 1’42

Hondros p. 71 (Fri, Sep 29, 4:00pm, SFU + Mon, Oct 9,

9:15pm, IN09) 1’33

Honeygiver Among the Dogs p. 85 (Sun, Oct 1, 9:00pm, IN10 + Tue, Oct 3, 4:00pm, IN09) 2’12

Oct 9, 1:00pm, PLAY) 2’20

12, 1:45pm, IN10) 1’46

Oct 2, 1:45pm, IN10) 1’40

11:00am, IN09) 1’50

The Killing of a Sacred Deer p. 31 (Mon, Oct 2,

Oct 12, 6:15pm, IN09) 1’28

The King’s Choice p. 39 (Sat, Sep 30, 11:00am, IN09 + Thu, Oct 5, 3:30pm, PLAY + Thu, Oct 12, 9:30pm, IN10) 2’10

KOOKS & LEGENDS (Thu, Oct 12, 6:30pm, RIO) 1’30 Last Days in Havana p. 39 (Tue, Oct 3, 8:45pm, IN10 +

Thu, Oct 5, 3:45pm, SFU) 1’33

The Last Roar of a Mother Bear p. 85 (Sun, Oct 8, 7:00pm, CINE + Thu, Oct 12, 1:45pm, VCT) 1’20

Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy p. 89

Sep 30, 4:30pm, CENT) 1’35

12:45pm, RIO) 1’30

30, 12:30pm, VCT) 1’11

10, 6:15pm, VCT + Fri, Oct 13, 1:45pm, VCT) 1’33

Thu, Oct 5, 3:30pm, IN08) 1’12

Sat, Sep 30, 12:30pm, PLAY + Wed, Oct 11, 6:15pm, RIO)

1’34

Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters p. 59 (Sat, Sep 30, 9:15pm, SFU + Wed, Oct 11, 3:45pm, SFU) 1’32

Milla p. 47 (Thu, Sep 28, 8:45pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 4, 11:45am, IN08) 2’08 MODES 1 p. 100 (Thu, Sep 28, 6:00pm, VCT + Wed, Oct 11, 8:45pm, VCT) 1’45

MODES 2 p. 100 (Fri, Sep 29, 8:30pm, VCT + Mon, Oct 2, 4:00pm, VCT) 1’24

Motherland p. 85 (Mon, Oct 9, 6:45pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 12, 1:30pm, IN09) 1’34 Mountain p. 32 (Sun, Oct 8, 4:00pm, CENT + Thu, Oct 12, 6:30pm, CENT) 1’14

(Sun, Oct 1, 6:15pm, SFU + Mon, Oct 2, 11:15am, IN10 + Tue, Oct 10, 10:30am, VCT) 1’32

The Nest of the Turtledove p. 39 (Wed, Oct 11,

Left to Their Own Devices p. 97 (Tue, Oct 3, 9:15pm,

Never Steady, Never Still p. 59 (Fri, Sep 29, 8:45pm,

IN08 + Tue, Oct 10, 3:15pm, IN08) 1’37

Like a Pebble in the Boot p. 64 (Tue, Oct 3, 6:45pm, CINE + Thu, Oct 5, 4:45pm, IN09) 1’10

The Line p. 39 (Tue, Oct 3, 1:15pm, IN09 + Thu, Oct 5, 9:30pm, IN10) 1’52

Lipstick Under My Burkha p. 39 (Sun, Oct 8, 6:45pm, IN10 + Thu, Oct 12, 1:15pm, SFU) 1’56

Louise Lecavalier in Motion p. 89 (Mon, Oct 9, 6:30pm, SFU + Wed, Oct 11, 11:00am, VCT) 1’42

6:00pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 12, 11:00am, IN09) 1’42

RIO + Sat, Oct 7, 12:15pm, IN08 + Tue, Oct 10, 6:45pm, IN09) 1’51

New Skins & Old Ceremonies p. 97 (Sun, Oct 1, 9:15pm, IN08 + Sun, Oct 8, 3:15pm, IN08) 1’38 Newton p. 40 (Fri, Sep 29, 9:00pm, IN10 + Sun, Oct 1, 10:45am, IN09) 1’44 The Nile Hilton Incident p. 40 (Wed, Oct 4, 3:45pm, IN09 + Sat, Oct 7, 9:00pm, SFU) 1’47

No Bed of Roses p. 40 (Fri, Oct 6, 7:30pm, IN10 + Sun, Oct 8, 1:00pm, VCT) 1’26 Buy tickets and read full film descriptions at viff.org

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Index of Films with Screening Times

No Date, No Signature p. 40 (Sat, Sep 30, 9:30pm, IN09 + Sun, Oct 1, 3:45pm, IN10) 1’44

Son of Sofia p. 41 (Sat, Sep 30, 11:15am, IN10 + Mon, Oct 2, 9:30pm, PLAY) 1’51

Touching the Poetic p. 98 (Fri, Oct 6, 8:45pm, IN08 +

Okja p. 32 (Sat, Sep 30, 7:00pm, CENT) 2’01

Song of Granite p. 91 (Fri, Sep 29, 8:45pm, SFU + Sun,

Tragedy Girls p. 95 (Sat, Sep 30, 11:00pm, RIO + Sun,

On Putin’s Blacklist p. 59 (Sat, Oct 7, 6:45pm, CINE + Tue, Oct 10, 9:30pm, IN09) 1’16

Once There Was a Winter p. 59 (Sun, Oct 1, 9:00pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 6, 4:30pm, IN09) 1’26

The Other Side of Hope p. 41 (Sat, Sep 30, 11:00am,

Sour Apples p. 42 (Sat, Sep 30, 1:45pm, IN10 + Wed, Oct 11, 6:15pm, PLAY) 1’54

The Square p. 33 (Fri, Sep 29, 9:00pm, CENT + Tue, Oct 3, 3:15pm, PLAY) 2’25

SFU + Mon, Oct 9, 6:30pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 13, 6:30pm, SFU) 1’38

Still Night, Still Light p. 67 (Sun, Oct 1, 9:00pm, CINE

Our People Will Be Healed p. 65 (Thu, Oct 5, 9:00pm, VCT + Mon, Oct 9, 6:30pm, CINE) 1’39

Strangers in Strange Lands p. 97 (Thu, Oct 5, 9:15pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 12, 3:15pm, IN08) 1’40

Paradox p. 82 (Sat, Oct 7, 4:45pm, PLAY + Mon, Oct 9,

Streetscapes [Dialogue] p. 91 (Mon, Oct 9, 9:00pm,

The Party p. 34 (Sat, Sep 30, 1:30pm, RIO + Mon, Oct 9,

Suck It Up p. 65 (Sun, Oct 8, 9:00pm, RIO + Wed, Oct 11,

1:30pm, IN09 + Fri, Oct 13, 8:30pm, RIO) 1’40

+ Tue, Oct 3, 3:15pm, IN08) 1’38

CINE + Thu, Oct 12, 9:00pm, CINE) 2’12

4:15pm, PLAY + Fri, Oct 13, 5:00pm, CENT) 1’11

2:00pm, IN10) 1’39

Los Perros p. 41 (Wed, Oct 4, 2:30pm, IN10 + Mon, Oct 9, 9:30pm, IN10) 1’34

Summer 1993 p. 42 (Sun, Oct 1, 11:15am, IN10 + Thu, Oct 5, 7:15pm, IN10) 1’36

Planeta Petrila p. 89 (Thu, Oct 5, 6:30pm, CINE + Sat,

Swallows and Amazons p. 42 (Sat, Sep 30, 2:00pm,

PROTOTYPE p. 67 (Sat, Sep 30, 9:30pm, IN10) 1’11

Sweating the Small Stuff p. 85 (Wed, Oct 4, 9:30pm,

Oct 7, 1:15pm, IN09) 1’21

Public Schooled p. 59 (Mon, Oct 2, 6:30pm, RIO) 1’26 The Queen of Spain p. 41 (Wed, Oct 4, 6:00pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 6, 3:45pm, PLAY) 2’08

Rebels on Pointe p. 65 (Mon, Oct 2, 9:30pm, IN10 + Tue, Oct 3, 10:45am, IN09) 1’30

Reel Youth Film Festival p. 97 (Sun, Oct 1, 6:30pm, IN10 + Tue, Oct 10, 11:00am, IN09) 1’18

Reseba: The Dark Wind p. 41 (Fri, Sep 29, 6:45pm, IN09 + Mon, Oct 2, 1:30pm, IN09) 1’32

Sami Blood p. 41 (Tue, Oct 10, 6:15pm, PLAY + Thu, Oct 12, 11:15am, IN10) 1’50 Scary Mother p. 41 (Sat, Oct 7, 4:30pm, IN10 + Wed, Oct 11, 7:15pm, IN10) 1’47

Schumann’s Bar Talks p. 89 (Sat, Oct 7, 4:00pm, SFU +

CENT + Wed, Oct 11, 6:45pm, IN09) 1’36

IN10 + Fri, Oct 6, 12:45pm, IN08) 1’54

Sweet Virginia p. 42 (Fri, Sep 29, 9:30pm, IN09 + Sun,

Oct 1, 1:00pm, RIO + Sat, Oct 7, 6:15pm, RIO) 1’32

Tales of Mexico p. 43 (Thu, Oct 5, 6:00pm, RIO + Wed, Oct 11, 4:00pm, IN09) 2’00

Tattoos p. 65 (Sat, Sep 30, 9:00pm, CINE + Sun, Oct 1, 2:00pm, IN08) 1’27

Teen Years: Heaven and Hell p. 98 (Wed, Oct 4,

11:15am, IN10 + Sat, Oct 7, 6:45pm, VCT) 1’54

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

p. 71 (Sun, Oct 1, 7:15pm, IN08 + Wed, Oct 4, 2:45pm, IN08) 1’10

Unarmed Verses p. 65 (Wed, Oct 4, 1:00pm, SFU + Fri, Oct 6, 6:00pm, RIO) 1’26

Untitled p. 51 (Thu, Sep 28, 9:00pm, CINE + Sat, Sep 30, 3:30pm, IN08) 1’47 The Valley of the Wolves p. 47 (Thu, Oct 5, 6:30pm, SFU + Sat, Oct 7, 11:15am, IN10) 1’32

Vazante p. 43 (Tue, Oct 3, 9:15pm, PLAY + Thu, Oct 5, 1:15pm, IN10) 1’56

The Venerable W. p. 71 (Fri, Sep 29, 12:30pm, IN08 + Fri, Oct 6, 6:15pm, IN08) 1’40 West of the Jordan River p. 51 (Mon, Oct 2, 6:45pm, IN08 + Sat, Oct 7, 1:45pm, SFU) 1’28

Western p. 45 (Mon, Oct 2, 10:45am, VCT + Wed, Oct 4, 6:15pm, SFU + Fri, Oct 13, 9:00pm, SFU) 1’59 Where You’re Meant to Be p. 91 (Fri, Sep 29, 1:15pm, VCT + Tue, Oct 10, 8:45pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 12, 11:45am, VCT) 1’16

Winnie p. 51 (Sat, Oct 7, 11:00am, IN09 + Wed, Oct 11, 6:30pm, SFU) 1’38

Winter Brothers p. 45 (Fri, Sep 29, 1:45pm, SFU + Wed, Oct 4, 7:15pm, IN10) 1’34 Wonderstruck p. 25 (Fri, Oct 13, 7:30pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 13, 9:15pm, PLAY) 1’57

The Work p. 51 (Sun, Oct 8, 9:00pm, SFU + Tue, Oct 10, 11:00am, IN10) 1’28

La Tenerezza p. 43 (Thu, Oct 5, 6:30pm, PLAY + Wed,

The Workshop p. 47 (Tue, Oct 10, 9:00pm, PLAY + Fri, Oct 13, 12:30pm, SFU) 1’53

Oct 2, 4:00pm, IN09) 1’36

Oct 11, 1:30pm, IN09) 1’43

That Trip We Took with Dad p. 43 (Sat, Sep 30,

Mon, Oct 9, 6:30pm, RIO + Fri, Oct 13, 8:30pm, VCT) 1’42

Searching for a New Science p. 51 (Wed, Oct 11, 3:45pm, VCT + Thu, Oct 12, 8:45pm, SFU) 1’46

Thelma p. 43 (Fri, Sep 29, 1:00pm, IN09 + Mon, Oct 9, 6:30pm, PLAY) 1’56

A Season in France p. 47 (Fri, Oct 6, 7:00pm, IN09 +

Thirst Street p. 43 (Wed, Oct 11, 9:00pm, CINE + Thu,

Tue, Oct 10, 1:30pm, IN09) 1’40

Oct 12, 4:00pm, IN09) 1’23

Sexy Durga p. 41 (Mon, Oct 9, 4:45pm, IN10 + Tue, Oct

Those Ties That Bind p. 98 (Tue, Oct 3, 6:00pm, IN08

10, 6:45pm, RIO) 1’25

+ Thu, Oct 5, 1:45pm, IN09) 1’51

Shadowman p. 91 (Sat, Sep 30, 6:45pm, IN10 + Mon,

Tiger Girl p. 95 (Sat, Oct 7, 8:45pm, RIO + Thu, Oct 12,

Shut Up and Say Something p. 59 (Wed, Oct 4,

Tom of Finland p. 43 (Sat, Sep 30, 9:45pm, PLAY + Sat,

A Skin So Soft p. 65 (Fri, Sep 29, 8:30pm, IN08 + Sat, Sep 30, 2:30pm, VCT) 1’33

Top of the Lake: China Girl p. 33 (Sun, Oct 1,

6:15pm, PLAY + Sun, Oct 8, 12:30pm, PLAY) 1’22

Oct 8, 1:30pm, SFU) 1’36

Tehran Taboo p. 43 (Sat, Sep 30, 7:00pm, IN09 + Mon,

6:15pm, IN08 + Sun, Oct 8, 9:30pm, IN09 + Wed, Oct 11, 12:15pm, IN08) 1’51

Oct 2, 2:00pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 12, 8:45pm, VCT) 1’23

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Oct 1, 4:45pm, IN08) 1’44

Tue, Oct 10, 12:45pm, VCT) 1’45

9:00pm, IN09) 1’30

Oct 7, 1:45pm, IN10) 1’56

10:30am, VCT + Sun, Oct 8, 11:30am, IN10) 6’00

Worst Case, We Get Married p. 65 (Sat, Oct 7, 7:00pm, IN10 + Sun, Oct 8, 1:15pm, IN09) 1’31

The Wound p. 45 (Sun, Oct 8, 6:00pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 12, 1:00pm, IN08) 1’28 A Yangtze Landscape p. 71 (Sat, Sep 30, 12:00pm, IN08 + Thu, Oct 12, 8:30pm, IN08) 2’37

You’re Soaking in It p. 65 (Mon, Oct 2, 7:00pm, IN10 + Wed, Oct 4, 11:00am, IN09) 1’17

The Young Karl Marx p. 45 (Mon, Oct 9, 9:00pm, CENT + Fri, Oct 13, 3:30pm, SFU) 1’58

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