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First Comes Love: Nakabingwit
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First Comes Love: Nakabingwit

Dir. Joella Cabalu
65 min

An engaging hybrid documentary with a rom-com aesthetic, First Comes Love: Nakabingwit follows Canadian women in the Filipino diaspora as they search for the language to discuss race, privilege, and love with their white romantic partners.

International Village 10 Alliance Francaise
Fjord
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Fjord

Dir. Cristian Mungiu
146 min

A conservative family faces state scrutiny over their parenting in a progressive Norwegian town. Starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or–winning Fjord is a morally knotty drama about the limits of tolerance.

Vancouver Playhouse
Flesh and Fuel
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Flesh and Fuel

Dir. Pierre Le Gall
90 min

Étienne lives a solitary existence as a truck driver for French company, his love life consisting of anonymous sex with men in empty parking lots. But after a passionate encounter with a Polish truck driver, his steady routine is thrown out of gear.

Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only

Flies

Dir. Fernando Eimbcke
99 min

Flies is the story of elderly and embittered Olga, the father and son she accepts as tenants, and the spiritual reawakening they provoke in her. Director Eimbcke plots Olga’s shift from battle-axe to benevolent spirit with grace. A heartwarming gem.

International Village 10

Forest High

Dir. Manon Coubia
106 min

High in the northern Alps, three women take turns caring for a mountain lodge as hikers come and go. Divided into three sections, we follow each caretaker as they settle in for their respective season and have their lives touched in different ways.

Image: © The Blue raincoat

The Cinematheque VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Fruit Gathering

Dir. Aung Phyoe
97 min

Achingly sensual and graced with fine performances, Fruit Gathering depicts embattled desire in a conservative society. Two working-class women fall into a romantic relationship in contemporary Myanmar — but is their love real, or borne of desperation?

SFU Woodwards International Village 10

Fugs Film!

Dir. Chuck Smith
84 min

Originating as a group of New York beatniks, The Fugs' taboo-embracing contempt for social norms made them one of the strangest bands of the 1960s. Fugs Film! is a raucous, irreverent celebration of rebellion, poetry, and counterculture legacy.

The Cinematheque

Gabin

Dir. Maxence Voiseux
105 min

Filmed over 10 years, Gabin follows Gabin Jourdel from age 8 to 18 and the animals, schoolwork, chores, and imagined futures that define his youth. As he grows, his adolescence becomes a question of inheritance and choosing one’s own future.

International Village 10
Gasmask
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Gasmask

Dir. Harry Cepka
61 min

Part post-apocalyptic fable, part film essay, Harry Cepka's Gasmask is an enigmatic meditation on memory, ritual, and art. Evoking Chris Marker's La Jetée, it asks what remains of cinema after the world that created it has disappeared.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Hear the Yellow

Dir. Banu Sıvacı
104 min

Suna returns to her native Anatolian village for her nephew’s wedding, where the mystery of her sister’s disappearance still looms over the small community. Determined to finally get to the bottom of it, she must reckon with complicated circumstances.

Image: © Anagraffilm

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema The Cinematheque

Heysel 85

Dir. Teodora Ana Mihai
91 min

This harrowing drama recreates the 1985 European Cup Final in Belgium, when rival football fans clashed before a ball had even been kicked. Teodora Mihal's film captures the hubris, incompetence, and politicking that compounded the escalating chaos.

Alliance Francaise
How We Stand
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How We Stand

Dir. Marie Clements
110 min

How We Stand follows three Indigenous sisters separated after their family relocates to Los Angeles under Native American Relocation Program in the 1950s. Twenty years later, they navigate identity, trauma, and very different lives.

Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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