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13 Lakes
[Feature] - Vancouver Int'l Film Centre
(USA, 2004, 133 min)
A film of astonishing beauty, one-man filmmaker James Benning's
structural masterpiece is both a meditation on nature, and a radical
political statement. Thirteen lakes across the United States, each one
shot with one ten-minute take. But it's much, much more... More >
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3 Needles
[Feature] - Canadian Images
(Canada, 2005, 124 min)
Thom Fitzgerald's visually stunning and emotionally powerful look at the global reach of the AIDS pandemic features a star-studded ensemble cast including Chloë Sevigny, Lucy Liu and Stockard Channing. Unfolding across three continents, this is the unforgettable experience of three women thrust into crisis. More >
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[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Russia, 2004, 126 min)
Winner of a prestigious Tiger Award at Rotterdam earlier this year, Ilya Khrzhanovsky's mesmerizing debut feature circles around four strangers who meet in a bar and then go their separate ways. What follows is a surreal, intense, wittily despairing, and altogether unique look, full of wild gallows humour, at contemporary Russia. The Russian release was delayed because of objections from the Ministry of Culture to its "non-normative language and disgusting scenes." More >
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9 Months and 6 Blocks
[Short] - Canadian Images
(Canada, 2005, 28 min)
precedes Ice Breaker
Award-winning cinematographer Chris Romeike's latest film captures a trio of lives within the aging neighbourhood of South Parkdale, Toronto. Peter, a long-time resident, takes comfort in routine and his curmudgeonly comments celebrate the constantly changing face of his beloved neighbourhood. Jade is a former gang member, struggling with all too grown-up decisions about his future and Tsering is a new immigrant trying to build a life for her family after the passing of her husband. This is a loving portrait of the seasons of change in the inner city. More >
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a/k/a Tommy Chong
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(USA, 2005, 75 min)
In February, 2003, as part of a $12-million sting called Operation Pipe Dream, comedian Tommy Chong was arrested and sentenced to a $20,000 fine and nine months in a federal prison. Featuring interviews with Cheech Marin, Jay Leno and Bill Maher, Josh Gilbert's condemnation of the American "war on drugs" shows how silly and damaging the so-called "war" can really be. More >
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Abdullah Ibrahim - A Struggle for Love
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Germany, 2005, 60 min)
Considered by many to be the spiritual heir to Duke Ellington, South African jazz great Abdullah Ibrahim is the focus of Ciro Cappellari's stirring biographical tribute. A tireless campaigner for human rights during the Apartheid era, Ibrahim's political voice was as strong as his musical soul and the film more than does justice to both. More >
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Accused
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Denmark, 2005, 103 min)
A middle-class father is accused by his teenage daughter of sexually abusing her in Jacob Thuesen's taut, suspenseful drama. Kim Fupz Aakeson's (he was responsible for last year's stellar In Your Hands) script keeps the audience guessing as it bores beneath the surface of his characters' daily lives. More >
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After Innocence
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(USA, 2005, 95 min)
Jessica Sanders' complex and deeply troubling portrait of the American justice system captured the Special Jury Prize at Sundance earlier this year. "A powerfully affecting documentary on the subject of wrongful convictions overturned by DNA evidence... An unquestionably (and rightfully) angry film..."--Variety More >
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Air Quality
[Shorts Program] - Canadian Images
(Canada, 2005, 12 min)
plays in I'm So Over You?
The obsessive energy of young love proves suffocating. More >
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Alice & Bastard
[Shorts Program] - Canadian Images
(Canada, 2005, 18 min)
plays in Inherited Disorder
A charming depiction of a 1970s latch-key kid living with her loser brother and single mother in a trailer park just outside of nowhere. More >
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All Points of the Compass
[Mid-Length] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Australia, 2005, 55 min)
plays with Vietnam Symphony
Charles Tran Van Lam, a lover of democracy, was foreign minister in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Judy Rymer's affecting contemporary documentary looks at the cost of conflict and the reality of exile by telling the story of Tran Van Lam and his nine children, forced to flee to all points of the compass. More >
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All Winter Without Fire
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Switzerland, 2005, 90 min)
Winner of the 2005 Swiss Film Award for best picture, Greg Zglinski's controlled, meticulously crafted film features Aurelien Recoing (star of Laurent Cantet's Time Out) and Marie Matheron as parents trying to cope with the death of their child while struggling to maintain their livelihoods as farmers in the beautiful Jura Mountains region of Switzerland. More >
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Alternative Anime Strikes Back
[Shorts Program] - Dragons and Tigers
(76 min)
The return of one of the VIFF’s most popular features, a state-of-the-indie-art selection of the year’s best non-mainstream animation from Japan. Here are psychedelic ecosystems, body horrors, nose inspections, line drawings, computerized marvels and animation/live-action combinations--something for everyone! More >
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Amu
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(India, 2005, 102 min)
A 21-year-old second generation Indian-American woman struggles for acceptance in both countries, while discovering a long-buried family secret revolving around the riots following Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's 1984 assassination. "An extremely significant film for India... Every character richly etched... An unbelievable first film... It is truly cinema."--Shyam Benegal More >
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Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Switzerland, 2005, 97 min)
Gendun Choephel was no regular monk and his was no regular anger. Born in 1903, Choephel left an indelible mark on Tibetan culture and became an icon for young Tibetans today. As directed by Luc Schaedler, this vivid, beautiful and refreshing documentary truly explodes the clichés. More >
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Animal Farm
[Shorts Program] - Dragons and Tigers
(South Korea, 2005, 16 min)
plays in If You Were Me: Anima Vision
The story of a goat who stopped at nothing to become a sheep. More >
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Apartment
[Shorts Program] - Canadian Images
(Canada, 2004, 5 min)
plays in This Is My Story
Glances through windows display shared loneliness in an urban complex. More >
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April Snow
[Feature] - Dragons and Tigers
(South Korea, 2005, 105 min)
In the mood for love? A man and woman meet in a hospital where their respective spouses are being treated after a road accident. The injured pair were having an affair, and the central couple soon find that their own feelings for each other are growing... From Hur Jin-Ho, director of Christmas in August and One Fine Spring Day, and starring Bae Yong-Joon, known to his millions of fans in East Asia as "Yon-sama." More >
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The Argument (A "Burnt Toast" Opera)
[Shorts Program] - Canadian Images
(Canada, 2005, min)
plays in I'm So Over You?
Lawn chores frame a seemingly henpecked husband's (Colin Mochrie) obsessive rendering of a potential argument. More >
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Aristide and the Endless Revolution
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Switzerland, USA, 2005, 82 min)
Compelling and informative, this documentary by Nicolas Rossier examines events in Haiti--including the history leading up to the 2004 kidnapping of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide--via interviews with a wide range of opponents and supporters as well with the former parish priest himself. More >
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Around Sanford
[Shorts Program] - Canadian Images
(Canada, 2005, 11 min)
plays in Toeing the Line
In a small prairie community, homophobia is manifested as a personal demon. More >
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Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Estonia, 2004, 87 min)
The first major documentary about the brilliant and reclusive Estonian composer follows Pärt over the course of three years and includes footage of rehearsals, premieres, seminars, meetings and recollections. A rare glimpse into the life of this modern classical genius, directed by Dorian Supin. More >
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At Her House
[Shorts Program] - Dragons and Tigers
(South Korea, 11 min)
plays in If You Were Me: Anima Vision
A woman is about to leave for work when her mother calls to say she can’t babysit today. So the woman stays home with her child, and starts to do housework... More >
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At My Mother's Breast
[Mid-Length] - Canadian Images
(Canada, 2005, 56 min)
plays with She's Only Six
Filmmaker Heather Watson-Burgess comes from a long line of women with breast cancer. Highly aware of her destiny she captures the difficult choices that have to be made when breast cancer is part of the family legacy. More >
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At the Quinte Hotel
[Short] - Canadian Images
(Canada, 2005, 4 min)
precedes Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, The
In this vibrant and kinetic riff on one of Al Purdy's best-known works, the poet waxes on about beer and flowers in a small-town basement tavern. More >
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Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Israel, 2005, 104 min)
By reflecting upon the resolve that must be needed in order to take one's own life rather than fall into the hands of the enemy, the inimitable Avi Mograbi draws lines between the founding myths of the Israeli state (Masada, Samson, the Holocaust) and the current plight of the Palestinians. Smart, personal/political filmmaking of the highest order. More >
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