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In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis

Master documentarian Gianfranco Rosi (Fire At Sea; Notturno) assembles a mixed progress report on the current pontiff, drawing from archives' of Francis's travels (he's visited 53 countries in a decade), including last summer's trip to Canada.

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5:50 pm
Fri Mar 31
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Wed Apr 12
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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A Cedar Is Life

The cedar tree has always been central to First Nations cultural practice on the northwest coast. It is, you could say, foundational flora. A Cedar Is Life is an illuminating, passionate film which speaks to a defining aspect of this part of the world.

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6:20 pm
Fri Mar 31
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Sat Apr 01
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Navalny

As enthralling as any thriller, Canadian Daniel Roher's Academy Award-winning documentary gives us the inside story as the outspoken Russian dissident pieces together the evidence proving that Russian security forces attempted to assassinate him.

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7:30 pm
Fri Mar 31
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Enys Men

Folk horror-adjacent, Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin's follow up to BAFTA winner Bait builds an eerie, ominous ode to island life from echoes, intimations, hallucinations and a dark bottomless pit.

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8:50 pm
Fri Mar 31
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Sat Apr 01
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Sat Apr 01
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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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Sat Apr 01
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Sun Apr 02
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Living

Oscar-nominee Bill Nighy as a London civil servant who reassesses his life when he's given a terminal cancer diagnosis. Kazuo Ishiguru wrote the screenplay, based on Akira Kurosawa's classic Ikiru, itself inspired by a novella by Leo Tolstoy.

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Sun Apr 02
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Mon Apr 03
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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12:45 pm
Mon Apr 03
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Sat Apr 08
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Fri Apr 14
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Last Film Show

Slumdog Millionaire meets Cinema Paradiso? There's something of The Fabelmans too in this semi-autobiographical story about a 9-year-old boy whose first trip to the movies proves life-changing.

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2:30 pm
Fri Apr 07
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Sat Apr 08
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Sun Apr 09
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Metronom

Seventeen and in love, Ana is in for a rude awakening when Ceausescu's secret police crash the student party where she and her friends have been listening to the pirate station Radio Free Europe. This is 1972 and rock-n-roll is an enemy of the state...

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5:00 pm
Fri Apr 07
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Sat Apr 08
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Sun Apr 09
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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The Colour of Ink

For Jason Logan, master inkmaker, pigmentation is a living element. Brian D. Johnston's radiant, artisanal doc is a real eye-opener.

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Fri Apr 07
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Sat Apr 08
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Sun Apr 09
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Le Corbeau

One of the most cynical mystery thrillers of a cynical time, this searing drama exposes a midsized town to the contagion of rumour and innuendo when poison pen letters expose the lies and hypocrisies of prominent citizens. Clouzot spares no one.

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7:15 pm
Fri Apr 07
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Mon Apr 10
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Sat Apr 15
VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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Smoking Causes Coughing

After a battle with a foam-rubber turtle, superheroic, hard-smoking Tobacco Force are ordered to undergo a week of team-building. Alas, there’s no rest for the spandex-clad, as the reigning Emperor of Evil schemes to annihilate the universe.

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9:15 pm
Fri Apr 07
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre
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