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Spectrum
A collection of innovative non ction lmmaking. Spectrum
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8 Stories About My Hearing Loss
CHARO MATO, ARGENTINA/URUGUAY, 2021, 86 MIN.
TUE OCT 4 6:00 PM CINE THU OCT 6 4:00 PM IN08 FROM WED OCT 5 CONN
Canadian Premiere. How do the deaf hear? Director Charo Mato began seeking an answer after undergoing surgery for cochlear implants. Flitting between childhood stories and memories, the scienti c and medical explanations of hearing loss, and poetic ruminations on the nature of life and language, Mato’s autobiographical documentary explores the stories of the d/Deaf and hard of hearing while resisting a monolithic experience. A beautiful, personal lm celebrating the perspectives of those with hearing loss.
Prod Charo Mato, Eugenia Olascuaga, Valentina Baracco
Geographies of Solitude
JACQUELYN MILLS, CANADA, 2022, 103 MIN.
THU SEP 29 9:00 PM CINE MON OCT 3 11:00 AM IN08 SUN OCT 9 10:00 AM VCT
At times, it seems like Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island manifested from a fable. Jacquelyn Mills fully immerses us in the natural wonders of a stunning ecosystem that’s home to wild horses, sparrows, invertebrates, and a devoted researcher. Employing innovative exposure and emulsion techniques and deriving a melodious soundscape from the natural world, Mills ensures that Sable isn’t so much captured on 16mm lm as incorporated into the very fabric of a documentary.
Prod Rosalie Chicoine Perreault, Jacquelyn Mills
Day After...
Anyadin... KAMAR AHMAD SIMON, BANGLADESH/FRANCE/ NORWAY, 2021, 115 MIN.
THU SEP 29 3:45 PM VCT SAT OCT 1 12:15 PM IN08 SAT OCT 8 6:15 PM CINE FROM SAT OCT 1 CONN
Canadian Premiere. The Rocket—actually a rather placid paddle steamer—has been ferrying rich and poor through the wide, slow, shallow rivers of Bangladesh for the best part of a century. Kamar Ahmad Simon’s kinetic and artfully chaotic lm immerses us in a twoday journey beset with sociopolitical crosscurrents, fog, sandbars, songs, and scenes (some of them staged). It’s a snapshot of an entire country, so vivid you can sni it.
Feat Kazi Md. Mohsin, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Ariful Islam, Tuhin Kanti Das, Surjo Polas, Noor-I-Naznin, Oniruddho Ratan Prod Sara Afreen
The Hermit of Treig
LIZZIE MACKENZIE, UK, 2022, 79 MIN.
SUN OCT 2 8:45 PM CINE FRI OCT 7 4:00 PM CINE FROM THU SEP 29 CONN
Canadian Premiere. In this rather special lm, Lizzie MacKenzie trains her camera on octogenarian Ken Smith, who has lived more than four decades o -the-grid on the shores of Loch Treig, in the Scottish Highlands. Ken is a garrulous, personable host who prefers the company of plants and animals to the comforts of civilization, and who chats happily about his lifestyle and the unusual circumstances that brought him there. The rapport between the young lmmaker and her cheerful but ailing subject makes this doc sing.
Feat Ken Smith Prod Naomi Spiro, Lizzie MacKenzie
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
VÉRÉNA PARAVEL, LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR, FRANCE/USA/SWITZERLAND, 2022, 118 MIN.
THU OCT 6 9:00 PM CINE SAT OCT 8 6:00 PM VCT
Directors Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Leviathan, Caniba) continue their ethnographic lmmaking project, utilizing micro-cameras to wander the human body without limit. Guided only by fragments of conversations of doctors and nurses, a picture forms of an institution on the brink of collapse. Un inching in its approach, the horror of open surgery gives way to the abstract beauty of medical imaging, repurposing it to craft a harrowingly immersive documentary.
Prod Valentina Novati, Charles Gillibert, Pauline Gygax, Max Karli, Verena Paravel, Lucien CastaingTaylor
Riotsville, U.S.A.
SIERRA PETTENGILL, USA, 2022, 91 MIN.
SAT OCT 1 4:00 PM RIO WED OCT 5 3:30 PM IN09 SUN OCT 9 9:00 PM CINE
Consisting entirely of government and TV news footage from the 1960s (with commentary and brief on-screen contextual notes), Sierra Pettengill’s trans xing, resonant essay lm harks back nostalgically to a period of widespread civil unrest in the United States. In July 1967, President Johnson established the Kerner Commission to investigate. At much the same time a mock town was built in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, to train military and police in containing civil disorders. They called it “Riotsville.”
Prod Sara Archambault, Jamila Wignot
The Eclipse
Formørkelsen / Pomračenje NATAŠA URBAN, NORWAY, 2022, 109 MIN.
FRI SEP 30 4:00 PM CINE SUN OCT 9 6:30 PM CINE
Canadian Premiere. In this powerful, poetic documentary, Nataša Urban (b. 1977) revisits the con ict that tore Yugoslavia apart through the prism of her immediate family and friends’ often reluctant recollections, piercing a web of self-protective amnesia. Artfully conjured through poetic Super 8 and Super 16mm footage, some of it quite abstract, some metaphorical, the lm is a fascinating insight into a side of history that is rarely explored.
Prod Ingvil Giske
See You Friday, Robinson
À vendredi, Robinson MITRA FARAHANI, FRANCE/SWITZERLAND/IRAN/ LEBANON, 2022, 97 MIN.
THU SEP 29 3:45 PM CINE THU OCT 6 6:30 PM CINE SAT OCT 8 3:30 PM IN08
Canadian Premiere. Iranian lmmaker Mitra Farahani’s mission to introduce a pair of nonagenarian directors results in a quiet, contemplative examination of the role of the artist and poet in the modern world. Ebrahim Golestan, an Iranian lmmaker and author, corresponds with his new pen pal Jean-Luc Godard in a series of cryptic meditations and mutual reverence, writing back and forth as if in search of a great, de nitive answer to the many questions that plague an artist of the 21st century.
VIFF Ignite High School Program
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Each year, VIFF welcomes hundreds of secondary students to experience exceptional international cinema at the festival. From stories of Indigenous activism to lms that capture historic events as they’re unfolding, great world cinema challenges our perspectives, promotes inquiry, develops critical thinking skills, and ignites imaginations. Be they set in the Philippines, Angola, Canada, or light minutes away on Mars, this year’s selected lms present stories that connect youth with powerful forces and experiences shaping our contemporary world and identities.
Film Educational Resources
These lms o er bold approaches to pressing social and environmental concerns and personal journeys, and o er thoughtprovoking connections to subjects across the BC curriculum. Prior to the screenings, teachers will receive lm resource guides. Written with the curriculum in mind, these guides facilitate engaged discussion and are designed to open up in-depth exploration that connects the cinema and the classroom.
Exclusive Dialogue with Filmmakers and Subject Experts
Many of the in-cinema screenings will be followed by a Q and A session, o ering students the rare opportunity to ask questions with the directors, producers, or subject experts connected to the lms.
How to Book
Free for schools, all Ignite lms will be screened in-cinema with select titles streamed online. Capacity for all lms is limited. Find lm details, schedule, and booking information at vi .org/ignite.
Black Ice
WED OCT 5 12:30 PM IN10
Good Night Oppy
MON OCT 3 12:30 PM IN10
The Klabona Keepers
TUE OCT 4 12:30 PM IN10 FROM THU SEP 29 CONN
Leonor Will Never Die
FRI OCT 7 10:15 AM IN09
Moja Vesna
THU OCT 6 12:30 PM IN10 FROM THU SEP 29 CONN
Nayola
TUE OCT 4 10:15 AM IN09
Rebellion
THU OCT 6 10:15 AM IN09 FROM THU SEP 29 CONN
Reel Youth Film Festival
FRI OCT 7 12:30 PM IN10 FROM THU SEP 29 CONN
Rosie
MON OCT 3 10:15 AM IN09
