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Ocean Waves

Taku and his best friend Yutaka are headed back to school for what looks like another uneventful year. But they soon find their friendship tested by the arrival of Rikako, a beautiful new transfer student from Tokyo...

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3:00 pm
Tue Mar 21
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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8:30 pm
Wed Mar 22
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Chess Story

In a standoff he can't win with a Nazi SS officer, Josef Bartok is condemned to solitary confinement until he gives up his secrets. Fate throws him a lifeline: a stolen book... a book of chess games. Yet this book will be key to his escape...

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3:30 pm
Tue Mar 21
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Wed Mar 22
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Thu Mar 23
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Queens of the Qing Dynasty

Recovering from a suicide attempt, a neurodiverse Cape Breton teen is drawn into the orbit of a genderqueer hospital volunteer who hails from Shanghai. Despite their disparate backgrounds, the pair operate on identical idiosyncratic frequencies.

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5:50 pm
Tue Mar 21
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Thu Mar 23
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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8:10 pm
Sat Mar 25
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Beau Travail

Inspired by Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Claire Denis' transfixing Beau Travail is set in East Africa. Sgt Galoup (Denis Lavant) reflects on his time in the French Foreign Legion, and the impact of the handsome Sentain (Gregoire Colin).

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6:20 pm
Tue Mar 21
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Porco Rosso

Pigs will fly! This spirited adventure yarn features an anti-fascist flier (who happens to look like a pig) tracking sky pirates over the Adriatic in the 1930s. An exhilarating romp with a melancholy undertow - and amazing flying machines!

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8:30 pm
Tue Mar 21
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Pom Poko

As their habitat is stripped and paved by the encroaching humans, good-natured but rather undisciplined shape-shifting raccoons embark on a campaign of disruption and distraction. Another charmer from the director of Kiki's Delivery Service.

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3:00 pm
Wed Mar 22
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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8:20 pm
Thu Mar 23
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Godland

In the late 19th century, a Danish Lutheran priest is dispatched to a far corner of Iceland where a devout farmer has seen fit to build a church. The physical journey is arduous. His spiritual journey, more taxing still.

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5:30 pm
Wed Mar 22
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Thu Mar 23
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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7:45 pm
Sat Mar 25
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Tenzin

Made collaboratively with the Tibetan community in Parkdale, Ontario, Tenzin is a poignant character study with deft political and philosophical shadings, and a striking electronic/drone score by composer Colin Stetson (Hereditary; The Menu).

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5:50 pm
Wed Mar 22
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Whisper of the Heart

A lovely change of pace from Studio Ghibli, this is a teenage first-love story, set in a realistically observed modern day Tokyo. Bookish schoolgirl Shizuku meets her soul mate with a little help from a portly cat. "A beautiful film." Time Out

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3:00 pm
Thu Mar 23
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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5:20 pm
Fri Mar 24
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Until Branches Bend

Discovering a potentially invasive insect inside a peach, fruit packer Robin immediately reports it. When management refuses to take action, she goes public with her concerns and precipitates a widescale shutdown in her Okanagan town.

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12:50 pm
Fri Mar 24
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Fri Mar 24
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Sat Mar 25
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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My Neighbours the Yamadas

Takashi Yamada and his wacky wife Matsuko navigate their way through the ups and downs of work, marriage, and family life with a sharp-tongued grandmother who lives with them, a teen son who wishes he had cooler parents, and a pesky daughter.

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3:00 pm
Fri Mar 24
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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5:30 pm
Sat Mar 25
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Riceboy Sleeps

Raising her son Dong-hyun (Dohyun Noel Hwang, then Ethan Hwang) in Vancouver’s suburbs, So-young (Choi Seung-yoon), a South Korean immigrant, desperately wants to instill a sense of pride in the boy. Meanwhile, he just wants to fit in.

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3:20 pm
Fri Mar 24
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Fri Mar 24
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Sat Mar 25
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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