VIFF 2024 Program: See It Now!
The wait is over! We are excited to share with you the stellar line-up for the 43rd Vancouver International Film Festival, September 26 – October 6. Over 150 films, 80 shorts, VIFF Live performances, Talks and special events will light up the screens and stages across Vancouver. Take a moment, explore the program and get ready to VIFF!
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The Goldman Case
In 1976, Jewish radical Pierre Goldman was facing the death penalty, accused of committing a double murder during an armed robbery. Goldman admitted to a string of similar robberies, but denied murder. Instead, he put the cops on trial.
His Three Daughters
Three sisters -- Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olson, and Natasha Lyonne -- congregate to attend the final few days of their father's life. They bring with them years of barely-repressed jealousy and resentment, as well as wildly different personalities.
Filtration: Three Colours: Blue
Directly filtering the image that comes into a lens allows cinematographers to vastly alter how a scene looks and feels. We'll analyze the radical ways Kieslowski's closet collaborator, Slawomir Idziak, editorializes in such films as Three Colours: Blue.
Green Border
In her seventies Agnieszka Holland has made a ferocious, emotionally charged film about the brutal treatment of refugees arriving over the Polish land border from Belarus. This is a vehement denunciation of resurgent fascism and utterly compelling cinema.
Lyd
Lyd is the Arab name for 5000-year-old town that is now the Israeli city of Lod. Made by a Palestinian and a Jewish American, this creative non-fiction film excavates the history of this place leading to a detailed examination of the events of 1948.
Amadeus
In which the celebrated court composer Salieri welcomes a much ballyhooed young prodigy to Vienna. To his dismay, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an impudent, callow upstart. Worse, he's a genius. Winner of 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Total Cinema | Aug 17 – Sept 20
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.
Film Studies: Creating Colour
Monday Afternoons Aug 19 – Sept 16
In this five-part series, cinematographer, film colourist and educator Devan Scott will illuminate the distinctive ways in which filmmakers have created mood and meaning through the manipulation of colour. Each talk will examine a different colour process, paired with a corresponding film screening that highlights that day’s theme.
Tickets: $22
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Filtration: Three Colours: Blue
Sept 9
Directly filtering the image that comes into a lens allows cinematographers to vastly alter how a scene looks and feels. We’ll analyze the radical ways Kieslowski’s closet collaborator, Slawomir Idziak, editorializes in such films as Three Colours: Blue.
Digital Colour Grading: Amelie
Sept 16
Digital color grading tools have vastly expanded the possibilities in how filmmakers manipulate color palettes, and the look of films and video have changed rapidly as a result. We’ll look at the early days of this technology with Amelie.
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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Pather Panchali
Sept 15
Satyajit Ray’s first film opened eyes in the West. It’s a naturalistic portrait of the childhood of a Brahman child, Apu, growing up in a village far from twentieth century technology in West Bengal.
VIFF Live & Special Events
John Coltrane's Blue World: The Mike Allen Trio + Le chat dans le sac
Join us as we celebrate the 98th birthday of John Coltrane and the 60th Anniversary of the French Canadian new wave classic which he scored. Coltrane's music for the film was only released two years ago, as the album Blue World.
Elisapie - Uvattini
JUNO award-winning Inuk artist Elisapie presents the West Coast Premiere of her new multimedia show, Uvattini.
Eno | A live performance screening and Q&A with Director Gary Hustwit
Join us for the Vancouver Premiere of Eno, the world’s first generative documentary, celebrating the visionary artist and musician Brian Eno. For this special event, the film will be created live in real time, and this version will never be seen again. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Gary Hustwit and special guests.
GIFT: A Film by Ryusuke Hamaguchi X Live Score by Eiko Ishibashi
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Eiko Ishibashi, presents the Canadian Premiere of GIFT—a new silent film directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, and accompanied by a dynamic, live soundtrack performed by Ishibashi.
First Look Fridays
Enjoy $10 tickets at the first Friday matinee screening of these films.
Girls Will Be Girls
Sept 13
A prize-winner at Sundance, Shuchi Talati’s sensitive debut feature is an unusual coming-of-age drama for its nuanced and sympathetic portrait of mother-daughter dynamics in a sexually repressive culture; it doesn’t go where you expect.
Will & Harper
Sept 20
In this acclaimed, touching, funny documentary – rapturously received at Sundance – Will Ferrell goes on a road trip with one of his oldest friends, Harper, who has recently surprised him after transitioning to female.
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