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Tokyo Godfathers

Dir. Satoshi Kon
92 min

Shinjuku, Tokyo, Christmas Eve. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging drag artist Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are three homeless friends who stumble across an abandoned baby and do their best to care for the infant over the course of a long and perilous night.

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12:00 pm
Fri Dec 26
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Rebuilding

Dir. Max Walker-Silverman
95 min

The western gets climate changed in this gentle, pensive portrait of a modern cowboy (Josh O'Connor) picking up the pieces after losing his Colorado homestead to a wildfire.

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12:30 pm
Fri Dec 26
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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5:10 pm
Fri Dec 26
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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2:45 pm
Sat Dec 27
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Auction

Dir. Pascal Bonitzer
91 min

Inspired by a true story, writer-director Pascal Bonitzer has crafted an inquiring, witty drama about the art market. When a long-lost Egon Schiele masterpiece reemerges, art appraiser Alex is initially skeptical. And yet...

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2:00 pm
Fri Dec 26
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:15 pm
Fri Dec 26
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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3:00 pm
Sat Dec 27
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Librarians

Dir. Kim A Snyder
92 min

Dispatches from the front line of America's culture wars (and ours too): librarians speak out about the war against ideas, history, freedom of expression and sexual identity, a campaign in which an open mind is the ultimate enemy.

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3:00 pm
Fri Dec 26
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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2:50 pm
Tue Dec 30
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Secret Agent

Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
158 min

Having run afoul of an influential bureaucrat in Brazil’s military dictatorship circa 1977, Marcelo decamps to Recife to live under an assumed name — but he’ll soon come to understand precisely how rampant the country’s corruption has become.

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4:00 pm
Fri Dec 26
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:30 pm
Thu Jan 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sinners

Dir. Ryan Coogler
137 min

This year's unexpected box office sleeper is that rare beast, a genre movie full of bold invention and surprise. We are in Mississippi in the early 1930s, and the opening of a new blues joint on the edge of town is the signal for all hell to break out.

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7:30 pm
Fri Dec 26
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sat Dec 27
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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La venue de l'avenir

Dir. Cédric Klapisch
124 min

Four cousins are tapped to investigate an abandoned house that is their joint inheritance. As they explore, they learn their story of their ancestor Adele (Suzanne Lindon) and her foray into Paris in the age of Impressionism.

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12:00 pm
Sat Dec 27
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:15 pm
Sat Dec 27
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sun Dec 28
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Orwell: 2+2=5

Dir. Raoul Peck
119 min

Oscar-nominated director Raoul Peck reimagines 1984 in this urgent essay on power, language, and control. With narration by Damian Lewis, it’s a chilling portrait of how Orwell’s warnings became our reality.

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12:30 pm
Sat Dec 27
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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1:30 pm
Mon Dec 29
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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1:15 pm
Wed Dec 31
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Weapons

Dir. Zach Creggar
128 min

Why did a whole class of pre-teens (barring one kid) simultaneously disappear in the middle of the night? In what has been a banner year for horror films, Zach Creggar's Weapons is a film of outstanding originality and flair.

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8:00 pm
Sat Dec 27
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:00 pm
Sun Dec 28
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Musicians

Dir. Grégory Magne
102 min

Brought together to perform a specially commissioned piece, a string quartet of virtuoso musicians descends into squabbling and animosity in this classy French comedy.

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12:45 pm
Sun Dec 28
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:00 pm
Mon Dec 29
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Tue Dec 30
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The Nutcracker at Wethersfield

Dir. Annie Sundberg
83 min

Back in the long, dark Covid winter of 2020, there was no way the New York City Ballet could mount their traditional Christmas production of Tchaikovsky's fairytale. But choreographer Troy Schumacher had a dream to save the show -- reimagining a classic.

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1:10 pm
Sun Dec 28
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Tale of Silyan

Dir. Tamara Kotevska
81 min

From Oscar-nominee Tamara Kotevska (Honeyland), this is a poetic, curious and enchanting non-fiction fable about a farmer's son who turns into a stork.

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3:15 pm
Sun Dec 28
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Tue Dec 30
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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