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The Searchers

John Wayne costars with Monument Valley in what is often cited as the greatest of all westerns, John Ford's beautiful, ugly reckoning with the racist pathology embodied in the pioneer mythology. (See also, The Taking.)

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7:50 pm
Sun May 28
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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5:55 pm
Tue May 30
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Cadejo Blanco

A young woman infiltrates the Guatemalan underworld in order to find the truth behind her sister's disappearance in this nail-biting thriller in the vein of Miss Bala and Sin Nombre.

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8:00 pm
Sun May 28
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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8:15 pm
Thu Jun 01
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Howl's Moving Castle

Teenager Sophie is cursed by the Witch of Waste and finds herself trapped in the body of an old woman, and is unable to tell anyone what has happened. She finds help of sorts with the wizard Howl, living as a servant in his astonishing walking castle.

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8:30 pm
Mon May 29
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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8:30 pm
Thu Jun 01
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Close to Vermeer

In the run-up to the largest Vermeer exhibition ever at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a cast of curators set out in search of what makes a Vermeer truly Vermeer.

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6:10 pm
Tue May 30
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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6:30 pm
Thu Jun 01
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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6:40 pm
Mon Jun 05
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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The Taking

In this thought-provoking essay film, we are asked to reconsider Monument Valley - backdrop to seminal westerns by John Ford (including The Searchers) and an emblem of the American West... but also a real place which exists outside of Hollywood mythology.

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8:10 pm
Tue May 30
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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The Night of the 12th

A young woman is murdered. The crime scene provides scant clues but there is no shortage of suspects. Based on a true crime book, Moll's weighty, compelling whodunnit is a modern classic on a par with Zodiac and Memories of Murder.

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8:25 pm
Tue May 30
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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6:10 pm
Thu Jun 01
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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9:30 pm
Fri Jun 09
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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T.S. Eliot's The Four Quartets

Sophie Fiennes' enthralling record of her brother Ralph's monumental one-man performance of one of the key works in 20th Century literature.

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6:20 pm
Wed May 31
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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8:20 pm
Mon Jun 05
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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6:00 pm
Mon Jun 12
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Shameless: The Art of Disability

For this free ACCESS film screening, Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture will screen Shameless: The Art of Disability (71 min) by Bonnie Sherr Klein, followed by a panel discussion about art, activism, and disability communities.

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7:30 pm
Wed May 31
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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The Man in the Basement

Le Guay's tenant-from-hell thriller features strong performances from François Cluzet, Jérémie Renier and Bérénice Bejo and doubles as a deliberation on the pernicious (and prevalent) combination of Holocaust-denialism and white persecution complex.

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8:10 pm
Wed May 31
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Dancing in the Dust

The debut feature from the award-winning writer-director of A Separation and A Hero is an original morality tale about a passionate young man who foolishly decides that hunting snakes in the desert is the most expedient route to paying off his debts.

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6:20 pm
Mon Jun 05
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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2:00 pm
Tue Jun 06
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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5:30 pm
Wed Jun 07
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Beautiful City

The second film from writer-director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation; The Salesman; A Hero) finds a potent dramatic entry point in a grieving father's resistance to granting clemency to the teenager who killed his daughter -- at her urging.

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8:30 pm
Mon Jun 05
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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3:20 pm
Wed Jun 07
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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7:35 pm
Wed Jun 07
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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White Balls on Walls

Voss's observational doc is a shrewd, ironic, objective temperature gauge on the highly politicized cultural battle over "Woke" values as it plays out at Amsterdam's Museum of Modern Art -- where the collection is 90% the work of white men.

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6:30 pm
Wed Jun 07
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Fri Jun 09
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Sat Jun 10
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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