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Nightbitch
Nightbitch film image; woman jogging at night with four dogs

Nightbitch

Dir. Marielle Heller
98 min

Amy Adams gives a fearlessly feral performance as the exhausted mother to a demanding toddler who begins to suspect she's turning into... a dog? Rachel Yoder's bracingly strange novel has been adapted by Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?).

The Rio Theatre

Ninan Auassat: We, the Children

Dir. Kim O’Bomsawin
93 min

Shot over six years, this groundbreaking documentary brings us the moving stories of three groups of youth from three different Indigenous nations. With no adult voices included in the film, we meet a new generation with a burning desire to be heard.

SFU Woodwards
No Other Land
No Other Land film image; man lying on a rocky terrain

No Other Land

Dir. Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
96 min

For Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist from the southern West Bank, the fight against the mass expulsion of his community has been a lifelong struggle. Filmed vérité-style over five years, this is a sobering look at the realities of Israeli occupation.

SFU Woodwards Fifth Avenue Aud 3
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl film image; woman wearing sequin-studded helmet

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Dir. Rungano Nyoni
95 min

After finding her uncle's dead body on the roadside by a brothel, Shula grapples with her Zambian family's sanctification of a monstrous man. This darkly comedic absurdist drama was a prize winner at Cannes for director Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch).

International Village 9 VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
Ouaga Girls
Ouaga Girls film image; two women in a vehicle on the street

Ouaga Girls

Dir. Theresa Traore Dahlberg
83 min

In this documentary we meet a group of young women training to become mechanics in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It's a male-dominated profession, but they are determined to prove they can handle it.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre International Village 10

Párvulos

Dir. Isaac Ezban
119 min

Years after a viral zombie outbreak, three young brothers are forced to fend for themselves in a remote cabin in the woods. Isaac Ezban (The Similars) presents a gory, coming-of-age fable with a warm heart and a dark twist, destined to be a cult classic.

The Rio Theatre International Village 10

Paying For It

Dir. Sook-Yin Lee
85 min

Sook-Yin Lee adapts a graphic novel by her ex-boyfriend Chester Brown about the end of their relationship and Brown’s decision to start paying for sex. Brave, bracing, and funny, this is a film unafraid to explore sexuality in all its complexity.

The Rio Theatre Fifth Avenue Aud 3

Pepe

Dir. Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias
122 min

In 2009, a hippopotamus named Pepe, formerly a part of Pablo Escobar’s private zoo, became the first—and so far only—such animal to be killed in the Americas. In this unclassifiable, formally audacious feature, Pepe tells us his side of the story.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre The Cinematheque

Pierce

Dir. Nelicia Low
107 min

This hypnotic drama features two brothers separated by an awful uncertainty: one of them may or may not be a murderer. Using the sport of fencing as its central metaphor, Pierce has a thrilling atmosphere of danger and two superb lead performances.

SFU Woodwards
Pol Pot Dancing

Pol Pot Dancing

Dir. Enrique Sánchez Lansch
101 min

The story of a boy and future dictator, and the woman who saved Khmer classical dance after the brutal Cambodian genocide, Enrique Sánchez Lansch’s documentary is a stunning achievement that sheds new light on one of the darkest moments of history.

International Village 9 International Village 8

Preface to a History

Dir. Devan Scott & Willa Harlow Ross
61 min

This short experimental feature applies minimalist dramatic techniques to a fraying millennial relationship with rich, fulsome cinematography and a sophisticated sound mix to explore the destabilising dichotomy between our interior and external selves.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre International Village 8

Presence

Dir. Steven Soderbergh
85 min

When a family moves into a new home, tensions simmer, melancholy takes a stranglehold, and things go bump in the night... Steven Soderbergh re-imagines the haunted house film by shooting every eerie scene from a spectre's viewpoint.

The Rio Theatre
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