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Short Forum 1: The Scarier One

93 min

The return of scary: fear in all its chilling, suspenseful, and unsettling shades.

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10:30 am
Sat Oct 03
International Village 8
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That Shadow Fading

Dir. Samuel Urbina
76 min

Samuel Urbina's feature debut is a quiet, deeply affecting mother and son drama following Sol, a single mother about to become an empty nester as her son Junior prepares to move to Lima upon graduating college.

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11:00 am
Sat Oct 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

Dir. Noah Segan
88 min

A career thief’s circumstances grow desperate when he fences valuable merchandise stolen from a vengeful crime family. John Turturro is exquisite as a wiseacre who is typically one step ahead of everyone but now finds himself behind the eight ball.

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11:30 am
Sat Oct 03
Vancouver Playhouse
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5:45 pm
Tue Oct 06
The Rio Theatre
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11:00 am
Sat Oct 10
Vancouver Playhouse
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Gabin

Dir. Maxence Voiseux
105 min

Filmed over 10 years, Gabin follows Gabin Jourdel from age 8 to 18 and the animals, schoolwork, chores, and imagined futures that define his youth. As he grows, his adolescence becomes a question of inheritance and choosing one’s own future.

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11:45 am
Sat Oct 03
International Village 10
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6:45 pm
Sat Oct 10
International Village 10
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Frank & Louis

Dir. Petra Volpe
95 min

In a bid to increase his changes at parole, Frank joins an initiative where long-term inmates care for aging prisoners suffering from dementia. But when he meets the elderly Louis, it puts his own predicament into perspective.

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12:00 pm
Sat Oct 03
Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only
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Iron Boy

Dir. Louis Clichy
90 min

Iron Boy, a hand-painted animated feature, follows a hardworking preteen farm boy and his sublime flights of fancy as he faces the earthshaking upheavals of growing up in an iron back brace. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes 2026.

Image: © Eddy Cinema, Beside Productions, Regular Production, France 3 Cinema, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, RTBF

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12:00 pm
Sat Oct 03
Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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6:30 pm
Sat Oct 10
Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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The Story of Documentary Film – The 2000s

Dir. Mark Cousins
117 min

The Story of Documentary Film – The 2000s enters a decade shaped by 9/11, war, fear, and politics. Through films such as The Cove and Grizzly Man, these chapters trace the documentary medium's encounter with modernity as it begins to unravel.

Image: © Iraq in Fragments, 2006, dir. James Longley, USA, Daylight Factory Typecast-Pictures

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12:00 pm
Sat Oct 03
International Village 9
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11:30 am
Sun Oct 11
SFU Woodwards
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Vengeance Is Mine

Dir. Michael Roemer
118 min

Michael Roemer’s Vengeance Is Mine follows Jo, a troubled young woman returning to her Rhode Island hometown to confront childhood wounds. An attempt to confront one family's past gradually becomes entangled with another family's dysfunction.

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1:00 pm
Sat Oct 03
The Cinematheque
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1:00 pm
Sat Oct 10
The Cinematheque
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Gasmask

Dir. Harry Cepka
61 min

Part post-apocalyptic fable, part film essay, Harry Cepka's Gasmask is an enigmatic meditation on memory, ritual, and art. Evoking Chris Marker's La Jetée, it asks what remains of cinema after the world that created it has disappeared.

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1:00 pm
Sat Oct 03
International Village 8
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9:15 pm
Thu Oct 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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La Gradiva

Dir. Marine Atlan
145 min

Winner of the Grand Prize at Cannes’ Critics’ Week, Marine Atlan's feature debut follows a class of French high-school students on a trip to Naples. While learning about the ruins of Pompeii by day, a different kind of education takes place at night.

Image: © Films du poisson, Bibi Film TV, Arte France Cinema

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1:15 pm
Sat Oct 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:15 pm
Sat Oct 03
Alliance Francaise
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8:00 pm
Fri Oct 09
International Village 9
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Trial of Hein

Dir. Kai Stänicke
122 min

After 14 years on the mainland, Hein returns to the cloistered fishing village where he grew up. But when he arrives, he goes unrecognized. Amid mounting suspicion and hostility, the community holds a three-day trial to verify his identity.

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2:30 pm
Sat Oct 03
Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only
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We Are All Strangers

Anthony Chen
157 min

Anthony Chen tells the soulful story of a father and son in contemporary Singapore, each of whom gets married for very different reasons. This is a film about the human cost of poverty — poignant, relatable, and profound.

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2:30 pm
Sat Oct 03
Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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8:45 pm
Mon Oct 05
International Village 9
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3:00 pm
Wed Oct 07
The Park Theatre
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