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James McNeill Whistler

Dir. David Bickerstaff
90 min

One of America’s greatest artists, James McNeill Whistler fashioned his life as a work of art in its own right. James McNeill Whistler looks beyond his famous portraits and self-styled “nocturnes” to dive into the true depths of Whistler’s legacy.

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10:30 am
Wed Oct 07
International Village 10
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10:30 am
Fri Oct 09
International Village 8
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Forest High

Dir. Manon Coubia
106 min

High in the northern Alps, three women take turns caring for a mountain lodge as hikers come and go. Divided into three sections, we follow each caretaker as they settle in for their respective season and have their lives touched in different ways.

Image: © The Blue raincoat

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10:45 am
Wed Oct 07
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Jaripeo

Dir. Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig
70 min

Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig set their sights on Penjamillo, Michoacán, where the annual Jaripeo — a rodeo of bull riding, drinking, and dust that serves as the town’s public theatre of masculinity — becomes a stage for queer desire.

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10:45 am
Wed Oct 07
International Village 8
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9:00 pm
Sat Oct 10
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Afterpiece

Dir. Keane T.K. Wong 王德健 王
112 min

This wry, twisty theatrical farce stars Stephen Fung as a playwright, actor, and director who writes a play based on his own past. His rich ex-lover wants to co-star, but our hero has found a sexy new actress, and he’s got a plan to get her the part…

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12:15 pm
Wed Oct 07
International Village 9
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3:15 pm
Sun Oct 11
International Village 10
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Short Forum 6: Archive Lives!

107 min

Before anything becomes archival, it’s lived.

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12:30 pm
Wed Oct 07
International Village 8
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Árru

Dir. Elle Sofe Sara
95 min

Set against the mountains and fjords of northern Norway, Árru follows reindeer herder Maia as a proposed copper mine threatens her Sámi community, forcing her to fight to protect both her community and the land that sustains it.

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1:00 pm
Wed Oct 07
Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only
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A Safe Distance

Dir. Gloria Mercer
86 min

Following a camping trip gone awry, a woman is rescued by a free-spirited couple living off the grid. As she warms to the pair, she finds herself becoming dangerously entangled in their psychosexual affairs in Gloria Mercer’s red-hot crime drama.

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1:30 pm
Wed Oct 07
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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First Comes Love: Nakabingwit

Dir. Joella Cabalu
65 min

An engaging hybrid documentary with a rom-com aesthetic, First Comes Love: Nakabingwit follows Canadian women in the Filipino diaspora as they search for the language to discuss race, privilege, and love with their white romantic partners.

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1:30 pm
Wed Oct 07
International Village 10
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3:45 pm
Sat Oct 10
Alliance Francaise
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Take Me Home

Dir. Liz Sargent
91 min

Liz Sargent’s film stars her sister Anna, who plays a woman quite like her real self: thirty something, cognitively disabled, and utterly vivacious. Exploring one unique family and the hardships it faces, this is a film of deep empathy and subtle beauty.

Image: © Farhad Ahmed Dehlvi

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2:00 pm
Wed Oct 07
Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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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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3:00 pm
Wed Oct 07
The Park Theatre
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Fireflies in the Dark

Dir. Yogesh Lohan
85 min

Three interwoven stories explore survival, resilience, and the human cost of civil conflict against the ethnic violence that erupted in 2023 in Manipur, Northeast India. Yogesh Lohan offers an intimate portrait of lives caught in the strife.

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3:15 pm
Wed Oct 07
International Village 9
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Dear Future Self

Dir. Ella Cieslinski, Nina Wesemann
79 min

Prompting their students to write a letter to their future selves, two friends find themselves questioning the intertwined trajectory of their own lives. Dear Future Self is a sharply tender story about friendship, dreams, and the desire for agency.

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3:30 pm
Wed Oct 07
Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only
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