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The Chef & the Daruma

Dir. Mads K. Baekkevold
90 min

The inventor of the California Roll, chef Hidekazu Tojo helped bring sushi to mainstream popularity through his renowned Vancouver restaurant, Tojo's. The Chef & the Daruma is a mouthwatering film touching on immigration, identity, and reinvention.

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Sugarcane

Dir. Julian Brave Noisecat & Emily Kassie
107 min

"Deeply impactful", Sugarcane is an important contribution to the ongoing process of Truth & Reconciliation in this country, a compassionate, sensitive account of the investigation into residential school abuse at Williams Lake, BC.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Ghostlight

Dir. Kelly O'Sullivan & Alex Thompson
115 min

A family riven apart by grief finds solace and redemption in an unexpected place...

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Between the Temples

Dir. Nathan Silver
111 min

A cantor (Jason Schwartzman) in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.

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Physician, Heal Thyself

Dir. Asher Penn
78 min

One of the world's foremost experts on addiction and trauma, Dr Gabor Maté shares not only his theories, but also his own story: his difficult childhood in Hungary and his long years of therapeutic practice in and around Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

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Burden of Dreams

Dir. Les Blank
95 min

This fascinating account of Werner Herzog's struggles in getting Fitzcarraldo made is as good as the original film, and one of the few essential documentaries about filmmaking.

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Total Cinema | Returns Oct 7

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Designed to showcase our new immersive sound system, laser projection and brand new screen, Total Cinema celebrates the elevated experience that comes with watching the best films on the big screen. This season highlights an exciting range of great movies in an ideal setting, and invites audiences to zero in on those aesthetic qualities which allow them to stand the test of time: imaginative sound design, bold use of colour and the ambitious scope and scale which makes for spectacular, epic cinema.

 

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Pantheon: The Greatest Films of All Time

Pantheon, presented by MUBI, is a monthly series showcasing a selection of the “greatest movies of all time,” inspired by the mother of all film lists, the critics’ poll that has run once a decade in the UK’s Sight & Sound magazine since 1952.

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The Etiquette of Dying: Film + Ron Samworth Concert
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The Etiquette of Dying: Film + Ron Samworth Concert

Dir. Melissa Hubert
110 min

Guitarist Ron Samworth's brush with cancer a few years ago inspired a suite, which in turn inspired Melissa Hubert's contemplative 51-minute animated film. After the screening Ron will lead a 4-piece band in an improvised performance.

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Vampyr

Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
73 min

This Halloween, experimental music duo Magazinist will perform a live score to 1932 classic Vampyr using an array of supernatural contraptions, including a homemade tagelharpa, dulcimers, zithers, synthesizers, and ethereal vocal drones.

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A Page of Madness: Live Score by Anju Singh / The Nausea

Dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa
73 min

Experimental artist Anju Singh uses her project The Nausea to explore Teinsuke Kinugasa's expressionist horror masterpiece. An asylum janitor wants to help his beloved wife escape, but she doesn't want to leave...

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Feven Kidane Quartet: Music Inspired by the Film Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat

Dir. Johan Grimonprez
100 min

Trumpeter Feven Kidane, with Quincy Mayes on keys, Bernie Arai on drums, and Milo Johnson on bass, present a special set of original music inspired by Johan Grimonprez's brilliant essay film on the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Jazz, and the Cold War.

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Nosferatu With Radiohead: A Silents Synced Film
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Nosferatu With Radiohead: A Silents Synced Film

Dir. F.W. Murnau
95 min

F.W. Murnau, meet Thom Yorke. Radiohead's mind-blowing "Kid A" (2000) and "Amnesiac" (2001) albums breathe new life into the first great vampire movie.

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Theremin Man Goes to the Movies
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Theremin Man Goes to the Movies

65 min

In this unique live presentation "Theremin Man", Stephen Hamm, leads us through the early electronic instrument's origins, its eclectic Hollywood career, and his own personal history with this strange instrument -- concluding with a live score improv.

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Ru + Kim Thúy in Conversation

Dir. Charles-Olivier Michaud
116 min

At ten, Tinh and her family are forced to flee Vietnam and eventually find refuge in wintery but welcoming Quebec. A lyrical, warm adaptation of the award-winning novel by Kim Thúy, who will join us in conversation after the screening.

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