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The Chef & the Daruma
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.
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
The Night of the Hunter
One of the strangest and most beguiling movies you'll ever see, from a poetic, nightmarish novel by Davis Grubb, a fable about two children fleeing from a psychotic evangelical preacher (Robert Mitchum). Charles Laughton's only film as director.
Physician, Heal Thyself
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.
Total Cinema | Returns Oct 7
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.
VIFF Live
Unparalleled experiences that go beyond the screen.
The Etiquette of Dying: Film + Ron Samworth Concert
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.
Vampyr
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.
A Page of Madness: Live Score by Anju Singh / The Nausea
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...
Feven Kidane Quartet: Music Inspired by the Film Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat
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.
First Look Fridays
Enjoy $10 tickets at the first Friday matinee screening of these films.
Paradise Is Burning
Oct 25
“A declaration of love to sisterhood,” according to director Mika Gustafson, Paradise Is Burning won the top prize at the Swedish Film Awards in January. Laura (16), Mira (12), and Steffi (7) embrace their freedom when their unreliable mother takes off…
Agent of Happiness
Nov 1
In the Kingdom of Bhutan, the government makes a point of asking citizens about their level of contentment. This droll, poetical doc follows census-taker Amber as he takes villagers through the 148-question survey and contemplates his own life too.
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