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Vortex
Reminiscent of Amour, Gaspar Noé's essential film compels us to look at aspects of life we too often shy away from: declining cognitive powers, the strains and stresses it places on an elderly married couple, played by Dario Argento and Françoise Lebrun.
Je t'aime moi non plus
Jane Birkin is Johnny, a waitress in a truck stop cafe. Enter Krass (Warhol star Joe Dallesandro), a gay haulage driver. Krass is immediately drawn to the boyish looking Johnny. What ensues is carnal, confusing, comic, tragic, and oh so cool.
Enter the Void
Venturing where angels fear to tread, virtuoso filmmaker Gaspar Noé (Vortex) creates a dazzling journey into the Tokyo night, a mind-bending exploration of the outer reaches of human experience inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Lux Aeterna
Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg are on a film set telling stories about witches. Technical problems and psychotic outbreaks plunge the shoot into chaos. It's less than an hour long but a self aware tour de force from Gaspar Noé (Vortex).
Cinema of Gaspar Noé
Vortex
Reminiscent of Amour, Gaspar Noé's essential film compels us to look at aspects of life we too often shy away from: declining cognitive powers, the strains and stresses it places on an elderly married couple, played by Dario Argento and Françoise Lebrun.
Lux Aeterna
Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg are on a film set telling stories about witches. Technical problems and psychotic outbreaks plunge the shoot into chaos. It's less than an hour long but a self aware tour de force from Gaspar Noé (Vortex).
Enter the Void
Venturing where angels fear to tread, virtuoso filmmaker Gaspar Noé (Vortex) creates a dazzling journey into the Tokyo night, a mind-bending exploration of the outer reaches of human experience inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Memoria
Cannes ’21 Jury Prize winner
The latest from Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a dreamy, hallucinatory meditation on sound, memory, and history starring Tilda Swinton as an ex-pat orchid grower in Colombia, haunted by a booming noise only she can hear…
Opening May 27
Cinema en français
VIFF Pop-Up
Kamloops and Nelson
We’ve partnered with some beloved independent cinemas to deliver a series of festival favorites, Q&As, VR experiences and hands-on workshops to film-loving audiences across British Columbia. Upcoming VIFF Pop-Ups:
The Paramount Theatre – Kamloops, BC
May 20–21
Civic Theatre – Nelson, BC
May 27–31
Run Towards the Danger with Sarah Polley
Vancouver Writers Fest in partnership with VIFF
Monday, May 30 at 7:30pm
In Person at Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Presented in partnership with VIFF.
Canadian writer, director, and Academy Award-nominated actor Sarah Polley joins the Vancouver Writers Fest in celebration of her evocative release, Run Towards the Danger.
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