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The Outrun

Dir. Nora Fingscheidt
118 min

After living life on the edge in London, Rona (Saoirse Ronan) attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands — where she grew up — hoping to heal.

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1:30 pm
Wed Oct 30
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Janet Planet

Dir. Annie Baker
110 min

For her first film as writer-director, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Annie Baker gives us a lonely and imaginative 11-year-old, Lacey (Zoe Zigler) besotted with her single mom, Janet (Julianne Nicholson).

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1:50 pm
Wed Oct 30
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Chef & the Daruma

Dir. Mads K. Baekkevold
90 min

The inventor of the California Roll, chef Hidekazu Tojo helped bring sushi to mainstream popularity through his renowned Vancouver restaurant, Tojo's. The Chef & the Daruma is a mouthwatering film touching on immigration, identity, and reinvention.

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12:30 pm
Thu Oct 31
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Mon Nov 04
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Thu Nov 07
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Monkey on a Stick

Dir. Jason Lapeyre
106 min

Monkey on a Stick is a feature-length documentary exposé of the criminal activity that took place in the Hare Krishna movement in America in the 1970s and ‘80s, adapted from the New York Times bestselling book.

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2:00 pm
Thu Oct 31
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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4:30 pm
Wed Nov 06
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Dahomey

Dir. Mati Diop
68 min

The return of stolen cultural artifacts to the Republic of Benin is the inspiration for Mati Diop's Berlin Golden Bear prize winner, which fuses dreamy metaphysics and incendiary political commentary on issues of restitution and self-determination.

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2:30 pm
Thu Oct 31
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Agent of Happiness

Dir. Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó
94 min

In the Kingdom of Bhutan, the government makes a point of asking citizens about their level of contentment. This droll, poetical doc follows census-taker Amber as he takes villagers through the 148-question survey and contemplates his own life too.

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12:30 pm
Fri Nov 01
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Fri Nov 15
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Sat Nov 16
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Inay (Mama)

Dir. Thea Loo
74 min

Bold and deeply personal, Inay investigates the emotional and psychological repercussions of Canada's Live-In Caregiver Program, which attracted Filipino women migrant workers who left their children to care for strangers out of economic necessity.

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1:00 pm
Fri Nov 01
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Tue Nov 05
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Tue Nov 05
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Megalopolis

Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
138 min

Francis Coppola's self-funded, self-styled new Roman epic -- set in a futuristic city that looks a lot like New York -- has garnered pans, raves and everything in-between. And it deserves them all. Go with it, see where it takes you.

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1:30 pm
Mon Nov 04
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Thu Nov 07
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Physician, Heal Thyself

Dir. Asher Penn
78 min

One of the world's foremost experts on addiction and trauma, Dr Gabor Maté shares not only his theories, but also his own story: his difficult childhood in Hungary and his long years of therapeutic practice in and around Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

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2:30 pm
Mon Nov 04
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Thu Nov 07
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Fri Nov 15
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The Manchurian Candidate

Dir. Jonathan Demme
130 min

Jonathan Demme's superbly orchestrated take on Richard Condon's 1959 paranoia novel feels weirdly prescient in its anxieties around global corporate brainwashing, war profiteering, assassination and election fixing.

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5:20 pm
Tue Nov 05
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6:10 pm
Wed Nov 06
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Adrianne & the Castle

Dir. Shannon Walsh
86 min

Artist and mascot-maker Alan St-George devoted his life and work to his wife, Adrianne. Shannon Walsh's film becomes an extension of Alan's art, a tribute to a grand romance, a love that transcends all...

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6:15 pm
Tue Nov 05
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Winter Kills

Dir. William Richert
97 min

An inspired black comic adaptation of the ultimate conspiracy theory, based on a novel by Richard (Manchurian Candidate) Condon. It's a lunatic riff on the Kennedy assassination(s), with Jeff Bridges finding who really killed his brother, the President. Screening in 35mm print.

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Tue Nov 05
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Wed Nov 06
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