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The Zone of Interest

Glazer's award-winning film follows Hedwig Höss (Sandra Hüller), mother of five, and wife to Rudolph. They live in an idyllic villa with a the bucolic garden, literally a stone's throw from Rudolph's place of work -- he's Camp Commandant at Auschwitz.

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Tue Apr 23
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Thu Apr 25
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Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus

Filmed across a week at his home just a few months before he died from cancer, this simple, pensive, poignant concert film comprises 20 pieces selected and performed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and spans a lifetime of composition and artistry.

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4:00 pm
Tue Apr 23
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Tue Apr 30
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A Matter of Life and Death

In this splendid WWII fantasy, RAF pilot Peter (David Niven) cheats death when his plane is downed over the Channel. Washing up on an English beach, he must plead his case for a life extension in the highest court of them all...

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5:50 pm
Tue Apr 23
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Silvicola

After working as a tree planter for ten years, Jean-Philippe Marquis decided to explore the intersection of forests and men. Atmospheric, alive, complex, this is one of the definitive BC films of recent times.

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6:10 pm
Tue Apr 23
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Thu Apr 25
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Mon Apr 29
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Before I Change My Mind

Trevor Anderson's coming of age movie -- set in Edmonton, 1987 -- slyly subverts expectations, embracing complexity and contradiction in its nuanced take on fledgling identities, while delivering laugh-out-loud moments and big emotional showdowns.

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8:00 pm
Tue Apr 23
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Wed Apr 24
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Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World

Radu Jude takes two days in the life of a stressed Romanian p.a. and gives us an urgent, pissed off, sourly funny polemic on the state of late capitalism. Exploitation, discrimination and hypocrisy are his targets; dialectics are his dynamite.

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8:10 pm
Tue Apr 23
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Wed Apr 24
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Thu Apr 25
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Chicken For Linda!

Husband and wife duo Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach (The Girl Without Hands) evoke the freewheeling farcical slapstick spirit of Jacques Tati and the palette of Henri Matisse in this sparkling animated gem for all ages.

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12:45 pm
Wed Apr 24
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Fri Apr 26
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Augure

Using magical realism to paint a portrait of "undesirables" and "sorcerers" in the Congo, Augure (Omen) delves into the intricacies of identity, culture, and belief systems through a deeply rich and visually captivating lens.

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7:30 pm
Thu Apr 25
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Fri Apr 26
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The Great Salish Heist

Created by Orca Cove Media and shot in Cowichan Valley, The Great Salish Heist is a scrappy indie Ocean's 11 with bags of charm and some authentic things to say about cultural colonialism.

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2:00 pm
Fri Apr 26
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Fri Apr 26
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The Old Oak

The local pub is virtually the last community gathering place in an impoverished northern town. when an influx of Syrian refugees stokes xenophobic backlash, TJ, the bar's owner steps up and help the newcomers -- to the anger of some of his regulars.

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Fri Apr 26
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A Difficult Year

The latest from the jackpot writing-directing team Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano (Les Intouchables; The Specials) is a buddy comedy which finds a wryly original perspective on the serious theme of climate change denialism.

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Fri Apr 26
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I Don't Know Who You Are

Sexually assaulted one night, gay Toronto musician Benjamin has just 72 hours to take HIV-preventative meds... But first he'll need to rustle up hundreds of dollars to pay for them, even as he processes this trauma.

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Fri Apr 26
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Sat Apr 27
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