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Samia

Dir. Yasemin Şamdereli
102 min

Despite growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, during the civil war, Samia Yusuf Omar persists in her dream of becoming an Olympic athlete and competes in Beijing, 2008 -- with London, 2012 next on her agenda. Based on a true story.

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1:30 pm
Fri Aug 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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2:30 pm
Mon Aug 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sudan, Remember Us

Dir. Hind Meddeb
78 min

A portrait of young artists and activists, Meddeb's doc charts events in Khartoum between 2019 -- in the immediate wake of the revolution that deposed dictator Omar al-Bashir -- and the mood four years later, when the country has been torn apart by civil war.

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3:30 pm
Fri Aug 08
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Tue Aug 12
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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6:40 pm
Wed Aug 13
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Margaret

Dir. Kenneth Lonergan
186 min

Seventeen-year-old Lisa is rocked with guilt after a woman is killed in a traffic accident. But that’s only one thread in a teeming social tapestry this intense, passionate teen must negotiate as she comes of age in a time of contradiction and confusion.

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4:00 pm
Fri Aug 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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E.1027 Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

Dir. Beatrice Minger & Christoph Schaub
89 min

In this elegant non fiction film, actors play Irish designer Eileen Gray, her lover, the architect Jean Badovici, and modernist superstar Le Corbusier, who would become obsessed with the house on the Cote d'Azur that Eileen designed.

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5:30 pm
Fri Aug 08
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Dir. Embeth Davidtz
98 min

Embeth Davidtz adapts Alexandra Fuller's memoir of growing up in Rhodesia as it transformed into post-colonial Zimbabwe in 1980. Lexi Venter is astonishing as the feral child at its centre.

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7:30 pm
Fri Aug 08
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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4:00 pm
Mon Aug 11
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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8:30 pm
Wed Aug 13
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Scarecrow

Dir. Jerry Schatzberg
112 min

A bittersweet, touching buddy movie with Gene Hackman as a volatile tramp, Max, and Al Pacino as "Lion", a drifter now set on returning to the wife and kid he abandoned years ago. Hackman's favourite of his own movies.

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8:00 pm
Fri Aug 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:30 pm
Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Vancouver Mysteries Presents... Murder at the Movies

95 min

This summer, enter the world of film noir with a new immersive murder mystery blending elements of film with live performance and audience participation. This show turns the VIFF Centre into a crime scene and you, the audience, into detectives.

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8:00 pm
Thu Aug 07
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:00 pm
Sat Aug 09
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sat Aug 09
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Bonnie Northgraves Quintet: To Louis with Love

Dir. Bert Stern
160 min

Join us for To Louis with Love, a joyful celebration of the legendary Louis Armstrong by Bonnie Northgraves and her band, followed by Bert Stern's legendary concert film Jazz on a Summer's Day, featuring Monk, Gerry Mulligan, and of course Satchmo.

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2:00 pm
Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Husbands

Dir. John Cassavetes
142 min

Men behaving badly: reeling from the death of a friend, three middle-aged buddies go on an epic drinking binge. It's not enough. They roll home, collect their passports, and take off for a weekend of gambling, women and booze in London.

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5:00 pm
Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Nashville

Dir. Robert Altman
159 min

With 26 actors getting more-or-less equal screen time and half of them singing their own tunes, Robert Altman's state-of-the-nation satire on bicentennial USA is a movie that repays multiple views.

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7:30 pm
Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Certain Women

Dir. Kelly Reichardt
107 min

Spare, incisive portraits of four Montana women (Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and Lily Gladstone) brushing up against the everyday wears and tears of difficult men, their own circumstances, and the desire for something better.

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4:45 pm
Mon Aug 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:15 pm
Wed Aug 13
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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In the Mood for Love

Dir. Wong Kar-wai
107 min

Wong Kar-wai's most acclaimed and popular film is a love story about two neighbours (Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung) who are drawn together by the long absences of their respective spouses + a newly released short companion piece from 2001.

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6:20 pm
Mon Aug 11
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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8:30 pm
Mon Aug 11
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Thu Aug 14
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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