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Flow

Dir. Gints Zilbalodis
84 min

In this wordless and gorgeously atmospheric animated feature, a solitary black cat survives a tsunami and must confront his fear of water whilst sailing through a flooded world with a group of misfit animals. An enchanting adventure film for all ages. Rated: G

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5:45 pm
Sun Dec 08
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Wed Dec 11
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Sun Dec 15
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Obsessed with Light

Dir. Sabine Krayenbühl & Zeva Oelbaum
90 min

Nearly a century after her death Loie Fuller is still inspiring artists like Taylor Swift, Shakira, Bill T Jones and William Kentridge. She became world famous as an innovative dancer, combining fabric, lighting effects and movement in revolutionary ways.

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7:15 pm
Sun Dec 08
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Mon Dec 09
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Sun Dec 15
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Food Bank Benefit Screening: Hundreds of Beavers

Dir. Mike Cheslik
102 min

The funniest, and certainly the furriest movie you will see this year, Hundreds of Beavers channels the zany slapstick shtick of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Bugs Bunny through a videogame quest narrative to retell the eternal saga of Man v Nature. All proceeds from this screening go to the Vancouver Food Bank.

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7:45 pm
Sun Dec 08
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Babylon

Dir. Damien Chazelle. Presented by Donald Brackett
220 min

Damien Chazelle's second Hollywood on Hollywood movie (after La La Land) follows Margot Robbie as a starlet on the make at the tail end of the silent film era in the late 1920s, and a couple of friends she makes along the way.

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10:30 am
Mon Dec 09
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Tue Dec 10
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Dir. Raoul Peck
106 min

Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) tells the story of South African photographer Ernest Cole, who captured some of the most vivid and compelling images of the apartheid regime in the 1960s but died in near obscurity in the USA just as Mandela was released.

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2:00 pm
Mon Dec 09
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Tue Dec 10
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Mon Dec 16
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Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got

Dir. Brigitte Berman
115 min

This Academy Award-winning documentary is the definitive portrait of "the King of the Clarinet", Artie Shaw. Brigitte Berman's film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1985, and is screening in a new 4K restoration.

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3:00 pm
Mon Dec 09
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Tue Dec 10
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Wed Dec 11
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Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines

Dir. Ryan Mah & Danny Berish
80 min

This new documentary offers the most complete account so far of the life and work of Canada's greatest architect, the man responsible for several of the finest buildings in Vancouver -- including the Museum of Anthropology and the SFU Campus.

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4:15 pm
Mon Dec 09
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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8:50 pm
Wed Dec 11
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3:30 pm
Mon Dec 16
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The Six Triple Eight

Dir. Tyler Perry
127 min

Tyler Perry's inspirational drama illuminates an overlooked slice of history. It's the story of the first (and only) Black Women's battalion to serve in Europe during WWII.

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5:20 pm
Mon Dec 09
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Tue Dec 10
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The Spirit Has Eyes Toward Longing: Short Films

75 min

The five films in this short program come from across the Afro-diaspora, inquiring into alternate realities and filmic history. If you enjoy Afro-futurism, surrealism and narratives that carry you across time and space, this is the place...

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6:10 pm
Mon Dec 09
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Girl With the Needle

Dir. Magnus von Horn
115 min

A young seamstress finds herself abandoned and pregnant in post-WWI Copenhagen. With few options, she turns to a candy shop owner who offers special services to women in need, but who is not quite what she seems. Nightmarish expressionist cinema.

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8:00 pm
Mon Dec 09
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Tue Dec 10
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Wed Dec 11
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All We Imagine as Light

Dir. Payal Kapadia
115 min

What Wong Kar-wai did for Hong Kong, Payal Kapadia does for Mumbai: the Cannes Grand Prix winner is a romantic heartbreaker about three nurses at different stages of life. It's a future classic.

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4:00 pm
Wed Dec 11
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Oh, Canada

91 min

Paul Schrader is back in soul-searching mode in this adaptation of Russell Banks' last novel, Foregone, with Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi playing acclaimed filmmaker Leonard Fife at different stages of his life.

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1:30 pm
Fri Dec 13
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Sun Dec 15
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Mon Dec 16
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