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In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis

Master documentarian Gianfranco Rosi (Fire At Sea; Notturno) assembles a mixed progress report on the current pontiff, drawing from archives' of Francis's travels (he's visited 53 countries in a decade), including last summer's trip to Canada.

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A Cedar Is Life

The cedar tree has always been central to First Nations cultural practice on the northwest coast. It is, you could say, foundational flora. A Cedar Is Life is an illuminating, passionate film which speaks to a defining aspect of this part of the world.

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Navalny

As enthralling as any thriller, Canadian Daniel Roher's Academy Award-winning documentary gives us the inside story as the outspoken Russian dissident pieces together the evidence proving that Russian security forces attempted to assassinate him.

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Enys Men

Folk horror-adjacent, Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin's follow up to BAFTA winner Bait builds an eerie, ominous ode to island life from echoes, intimations, hallucinations and a dark bottomless pit.

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Until Branches Bend

Discovering a potentially invasive insect inside a peach, fruit packer Robin immediately reports it. When management refuses to take action, she goes public with her concerns and precipitates a widescale shutdown in her Okanagan town.

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Living

Oscar-nominee Bill Nighy as a London civil servant who reassesses his life when he's given a terminal cancer diagnosis. Kazuo Ishiguru wrote the screenplay, based on Akira Kurosawa's classic Ikiru, itself inspired by a novella by Leo Tolstoy.

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Home Truths

Starts March 17

What is this place we call home? Between now and National Canadian Film Day (April 19) we invite you to take a closer look at the evolving face of a country busily reimagining itself.

 

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A Cedar Is Life

The cedar tree has always been central to First Nations cultural practice on the northwest coast. It is, you could say, foundational flora. A Cedar Is Life is an illuminating, passionate film which speaks to a defining aspect of this part of the world.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre

Until Branches Bend

Discovering a potentially invasive insect inside a peach, fruit packer Robin immediately reports it. When management refuses to take action, she goes public with her concerns and precipitates a widescale shutdown in her Okanagan town.

VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre

Riceboy Sleeps

Raising her son Dong-hyun (Dohyun Noel Hwang, then Ethan Hwang) in Vancouver’s suburbs, So-young (Choi Seung-yoon), a South Korean immigrant, desperately wants to instill a sense of pride in the boy. Meanwhile, he just wants to fit in.

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French Noir: 1931-1959

April 7 - May 3

We dig out the French roots of film noir, and the seedy, jazzy, cool French crime movies of the late 40s and 50s which mirrored the influence of American thrillers of the time; the heist films of Jacques Becker, Jean-Pierre Melville and American-in-exile Jules Dassin, as well as a trio of shockingly abrasive, modern masterpieces by Henri-Georges Clouzot: Le Corbeau, Quai des Orfèvres, and Les Diaboliques.

Opening Night Special

Get into the swing of April’s French Noir series of classic French crime films with the opening night screening of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1943 masterpiece, Le Corbeau (The Raven), followed by a cool jazz set inspired by the mood music of the late 40s and 50s performed by the Vince Mai Quartet.

Le Corbeau

One of the most cynical mystery thrillers of a cynical time, this searing drama exposes a midsized town to the contagion of rumour and innuendo when poison pen letters expose the lies and hypocrisies of prominent citizens. Clouzot spares no one.

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La Chienne

A hen-pecked office clerk and Sunday painter, Legrand (Michel Simon) is seduced by Lulu at the behest of her pimp. He sets her up in a studio-apartment and worries about how to extricate himself from his wife while Lulu cashes in on his paintings.

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La Bête Humaine

A stationmaster with a pretty wife (Simone Simon) murders the wealthy businessman who is her sugar daddy. There is a witness, but train engineer Lantier (Jean Gabin) prefers class solidarity to snitching, and anyway, the woman is awfully pretty.

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First Look Fridays

Enjoy $10 tickets + complimentary tea & coffee at the first Friday matinee screening of these films.

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Last Film Show

April 7

Slumdog Millionaire meets Cinema Paradiso? There’s something of The Fabelmans too in this semi-autobiographical story about a 9-year-old boy whose first trip to the movies proves life-changing.

 

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Showing Up

April 14

Lizzie has a gallery show in a week. But like most of us, she is occupied by keeping a roof over her head. Kelly Reichardt’s latest is a gently observant, wry, understated film about carving out a creative life without much reward or recognition.

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Matinee Screenings

A Cedar is Life

  • Apr 1 & 2

Enys Men

  • Apr 1 & 2

Riceboy Sleeps

  • Apr 3

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