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Festival Encores

Whether you missed a movie at VIFF, or want to give a title a second look, here’s your chance. Catch these audience favourites as they return to the big screen.

Blue Heron

Dir. Sophy Romvari
90 min

In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. Their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behaviour from Jeremy, the family’s oldest child.

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3:50 pm
Sat Jun 06
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:10 pm
Sun Jun 07
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Silent Friend

Dir. Ildikó Enyedi
147 min

In this entrancing reverie from On Body and Soul director Ildikó Enyedi, we are invited to contemplate several human specimens from the vantage point of a mighty Ginkgo biloba tree on the grounds of a German university.

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7:00 pm
Fri Jun 12
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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6:30 pm
Sat Jun 13
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Hanami

Dir. Denise Fernandes
96 min

On the volcanic island Cape Verde, young Nana is on the cusp of self-discovery. When her long-absent mother returns, the lyricism and magic of Nana's childhood take a different shape. Winner of the Best Emerging Director Award, Locarno Film Festival.

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7:00 pm
Tue Jun 16
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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3:40 pm
Sat Jun 20
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Company of Strangers

Dir. Cynthia Scott
106 min

In this Canadian gem, seven elderly women find themselves stranded when their bus breaks down in the wilderness. With only their wits, memories and some roasted frogs' legs to sustain them, this remarkable group of strangers share their life stories.

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2:00 pm
Sun Jun 21
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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4:45 pm
Tue Jun 23
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:30 pm
Wed Jun 24
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Romería

Dir. Carla Simón
112 min

An orphan from a young age, 18-year-old Marina intends to pursue a university scholarship. The application, however, requires the signatures of her paternal grandparents, compelling her to embark on a pilgrimage and seek out the family she has never met.

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12:30 pm
Fri Jul 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:30 pm
Sat Jul 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:50 pm
Sun Jul 05
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Dir. Anna Hints
89 min

Within the confines of a smoke sauna deep in an Estonian forest, groups of women gather to cleanse themselves in both body and soul, sharing in traditional sauna-based rituals, while also revealing their hurts and longings, joys and pains.

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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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The Lives of Others

Dir. Florian Henkel von Donnesmarck
137 min

This month's Talking Pictures film is a masterly Cold War thriller set in East Berlin. An agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives...

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The Golden Spurtle

Dir. Constantine Costi
75 min

Each year the sleepy highland village of Carrbridge awakens with excitement as locals and competitors from around the globe vie for the honour of winning The Golden Spurtle in the World Porridge Making Championships.

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