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Meadowlarks

Dir. Tasha Hubbard
91 min

Fifty years after being separated during the Sixties Scoop, four Cree siblings reunite for the first time on a long weekend trip to Banff. Tasha Hubbard’s sensitive drama relates an emotional and life-affirming story of kinship and belonging.

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2:30 pm
Sat Nov 29
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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6:35 pm
Sat Nov 29
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2:20 pm
Sun Nov 30
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Jay Kelly

Dir. Noah Baumbach
130 min

In Noah Baumbach's wise and witty comedy, George Clooney plays Jay Kelly, a world-famous movie star touring Europe with his friend and manager, Ron (Adam Sandler). Faced with nagging dissatisfaction, Jay starts to ask himself some tough questions.

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3:30 pm
Sat Nov 29
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:10 pm
Sat Nov 29
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:50 pm
Sat Nov 29
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Mistress Dispeller

Dir. Elizabeth Lo
94 min

Sensing her husband has strayed, a Chinese woman hires a mistress dispeller to insinuate herself between the lovers and sow enough doubt to break up the liaison. A documentary.

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4:30 pm
Sat Nov 29
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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4:30 pm
Sun Nov 30
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5:15 pm
Mon Dec 01
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Peter Hujar's Day

Dir. Ira Sachs
76 min

Ben Whishaw is extraordinary in this conjuring trick of a movie from Ira Sachs (Passages), a minimalist masterpiece recreating a conversation between New York photographer Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974.

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8:35 pm
Sat Nov 29
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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6:45 pm
Wed Dec 03
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? + The Soda Crackers

Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
107 min

Join us for a fun afternoon of bluegrass music with the Soda Crackers, followed by a special 25th anniversary screening of the Coen brothers' beloved Homeric comedy, O Brother, Where Art Thou? starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson.

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2:00 pm
Sun Nov 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Left-Handed Girl

Dir. Shih-Ching Tsou
109 min

Co-written and edited by Sean Baker (Anora), Shi-Ching Tsou's heartwarming solo feature debut follows a single mom in Taipei who is too consumed with her noodle stand to keep tabs on her five-year-old daughter's burgeoning shoplifting habit.

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5:30 pm
Sun Nov 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Measures for a Funeral

Dir. Sofia Bohdanowicz
142 min

When a young academic discovers a personal link to Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow, she is compelled to dig deeper. Her investigations lead her on the trail of an elusive concerto, lost for over a century, but which she is determined to bring to light.

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6:45 pm
Sun Nov 30
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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2:10 pm
Mon Dec 01
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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3:45 pm
Wed Dec 03
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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He Ran All the Way

Dir. John Berry
78 min

John Berry's gripping, poignant thriller stars John Garfield in his final film performance. He plays Nick Robey, a small-time hood on the run from a stick-up gone wrong. The last gasp of "Red" Hollywood, this fine film deserves to be better known.

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11:00 am
Mon Dec 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The New Year That Never Came

Dir. Bogdan Mureşanu
138 min

Bogdan Mureşanu’s polyphonic tragi-comedy tracks six interconnected stories to capture the mood in Romania on the brink of revolution in 1989.

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6:30 pm
Mon Dec 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Traffic

Dir. Teodora Mihai
119 min

Natalia and Ginel leave their small Romanian Danube village to work abroad in a big Flemish city. One evening, when she is assaulted after meeting a local, Natalia asks Iță, a friend from home turned into a crook, to help her.

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6:20 pm
Tue Dec 02
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Box of Freedom

Dir. Adelina Șuvagău
86 min

Escaping post-Communist Romania in a cargo ship's container bound for Canada, comedian Dora writes and performs new comedic material to the other two passengers in the container.

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8:50 pm
Tue Dec 02
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Milk Teeth

Dir. Mihai Mincan
104 min

Romania, 1989. The twilight of Nicolae Ceaușescu's dictatorship. In a small, isolated town, Maria, a ten-year-old girl, becomes the last witness to her sister's mysterious disappearance.

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6:15 pm
Wed Dec 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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