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Women Talking

104 min

Sarah Polley's adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel is the most compelling movie to come out of the #MeToo movement to date, with stellar performances from Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, and Claire Foy, as Mennonite women confronting a terrible truth.

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11:00 am
Tue Mar 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Take Me In Your Arms

Dir. Julio Bracho
91 min

In this boldly stylized musical melodrama mixing reformist politics with outrageous musical numbers, the incomparable Ninón Sevilla is the poor fisherman's daughter navigating a success of dodgy men on her way to true love.

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2:00 pm
Tue Mar 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:00 pm
Thu Apr 02
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Tough Old Broads

Dir. Stacey Tenenbaum
90 min

Tough Old Broads is a feature documentary that follows three trailblazing women as they continue to make waves well into their 70s. Because you can't keep a good woman down.

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2:00 pm
Tue Mar 31
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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4:15 pm
Wed Apr 01
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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1:45 pm
Thu Apr 02
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Nika & Madison

Dir. Eva Thomas
87 min

Two young Indigenous women become fugitives following an act of self-defence and are forced to flee into the wilderness. Inspired by Thelma and Louise, this compelling story of unbreakable friendship sheds light on systemic injustices.

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4:00 pm
Tue Mar 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Montreal, ma belle

Dir. Xiaodan He
118 min

In this Valentine to discovering love later in life, the ever-elegant Joan Chen plays Feng Xia, a 53-year-old Chinese immigrant and mother in Montreal whose world is turned upside down when she meets and falls in love with a young Quebecoise.

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4:30 pm
Tue Mar 31
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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6:20 pm
Wed Apr 01
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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12:20 pm
Sat Apr 11
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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A Magnificent Life

Dir. Sylvain Chomet
91 min

Animator Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville; The Illusionist) crafts a loving biopic of the revered French writer, playwright and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (Jean de Florette; My Father's Glory)

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6:00 pm
Tue Mar 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:45 pm
Thu Apr 02
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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4:15 pm
Fri Apr 03
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Eyes of Ghana

Dir. Ben Proudfoot
90 min

In his debut feature doc Ben Proudfoot unearths the story — and the images — of Chris Hesse, personal cameraman to Ghana's revolutionary leader, Kwame Nkrumah, who was deposed in a coup in 1966. This is a fascinating history reclaimed from the archives.

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7:30 pm
Tue Mar 31
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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6:15 pm
Fri Apr 03
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Mr. Nobody Against Putin

Dir. David Borenstein & Pavel Talankin
90 min

Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, and Special Jury Prize Winner, Sundance, 2025, this exposé shot by a Russian primary teacher shows how the Putin propaganda machine works to militarize children.

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8:10 pm
Tue Mar 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The President's Cake

Dir. Hasan Hadi
105 min

Nine year old Lamia and her friend Saeed venture into the city to scrounge ingredients for a cake to celebrate Sadaam Hussein's birthday — a quest fraught with real peril in precarious times. Winner, Camera d'Or, Cannes.

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3:30 pm
Wed Apr 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes

Dir. Jenn Strom
82 min

A beautiful portrait of E.J. Hughes, who quietly helped reshape the artistic landscape of British Columbia in the 20th century. This extraordinary documentary explores Hughes’s legacy not only as an artist, but as a devoted, humble human being.

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5:45 pm
Wed Apr 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:50 pm
Sat Apr 11
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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5:45 pm
Tue Apr 14
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Happy Together

Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
96 min

Buenos Aires, the end of the world, 1997. Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung are lovers trying to hash out their on-off relationship in an alien environment.

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7:30 pm
Wed Apr 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Turner & Constable

Dir. David Bickerstaff
93 min

Filmed as a supplement to a blockbuster exhibition at Tate Britain happening right now, this doc in the popular Exhibition on Screen series allows us to view these competitive, complementary English landscape artists side by side.

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2:00 pm
Thu Apr 02
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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