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Short Forum 4: Immanence: A Life
Take Care film image; a beach

Short Forum 4: Immanence: A Life

111 min

You don’t have to look far; life is beautiful!

International Village 8
Short Forum 5: Somewhere Else
Acid City film image; kids playing in a parking lot at night

Short Forum 5: Somewhere Else

108 min

If space and time are pure perception, let’s build them differently.

International Village 8
Short Forum 6: Archive Lives!
These Voices Are Real film image; feet walking past a doll on the ground

Short Forum 6: Archive Lives!

107 min

Before anything becomes archival, it’s lived.

International Village 8
Short Forum 7: War at Home
Rotation film image; upside down image of woman sitting in a field

Short Forum 7: War at Home

107 min

Truly, no one is safe until everyone is safe.

International Village 8
Short Forum 8: Sticky & Wet
Dance of the Sun On the Water film image; person pinned against a column with arrows

Short Forum 8: Sticky & Wet

115 min

No matter the age, things can always get sticky and wet.

International Village 8
Short Forum 9: Big Time Sensuality
Vulnus film image; overlaid faces under red light

Short Forum 9: Big Time Sensuality

116 min

Explorations of desire and intimacy serve both pain and pleasure.

International Village 8
Smudge the Blades
Smudge the Blades headshot; hockey players in a faceoff

Smudge the Blades

Dir. Cody Lightning
96 min

This rousing hockey drama centres on the Treaty 6 Blades, a team of Indigenous youth on a quest for redemption. Blessed with a terrific cast, this is a crowd-pleaser in which victory is about much more than winning the game.

The Rio Theatre International Village 9

Species

Dir. Marion Le Corroller
103 min

Species follows Margot, a young doctor who wakes covered in blood as the pressures of a demanding French ER take a physical toll. As lesions spread across her body, workplace burnout transforms into skin-tearing body horror.

Image: © ARP Sélection Trésor Films Windy Production

The Rio Theatre The Park Theatre

Still Night, Burning House

Dir. Carol Nguyen
76 min

A world premiere at TIFF Docs, Still Night, Burning House follows Vietnamese-Canadian filmmaker Carol Nguyen and her family to Vietnam to try and understand her uncle’s mysterious death and the grief left unspoken.

International Village 8 VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
Strong Son
Strong Son film image; two men flexing their arm muscles

Strong Son

Dir. Ian Bawa
88 min

A bodybuilder returns home to care for his ailing father in Ian Bawa's debut feature. A moving exploration of masculinity, filial duty, and the emotional distance between first-generation immigrant parents and their children.

International Village 8 International Village 9
Sweet Milk Lake
Sweet Milk Lake film image; two people overlooking a valley

Sweet Milk Lake

Dir. Harvey Zielinski
94 min

In Sweet Milk Lake, a trans man is mistaken for his cisgender twin in a darkly comic thriller about deception, gender, and dangerous wish fulfilment.

Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only International Village 9
Take Me Home
Take Me Home film image; two women with their heads pressed together

Take Me Home

Dir. Liz Sargent
91 min

Liz Sargent’s film stars her sister Anna, who plays a woman quite like her real self: thirty something, cognitively disabled, and utterly vivacious. Exploring one unique family and the hardships it faces, this is a film of deep empathy and subtle beauty.

Image: © FarhadAhmedDehlvi

International Village 10 Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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