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Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling

Art, Music & Photography Documentary

No artist instills a sense of sublime awe like the legendary Robert Irwin, Elusive yet down to earth, Irwin is a true original. His extraordinary work is honored in this stunning portrait of one of the most influential contemporary artists of our age.

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3:45 pm
Thu Sep 28
International Village 9
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6:00 pm
Sun Oct 08
International Village 8
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A Cooler Climate

Documentary LGBTQIA2S+

In a recollection of veteran filmmaker James Ivory's unfinished film about Afghanistan. Old footage provides a pronounced air of mystery to compliment its rough beauty, setting the scene for a look back into Ivory's life.

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4:15 pm
Thu Sep 28
Vancity Theatre
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6:15 pm
Mon Oct 02
International Village 9
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Winter Chants

Women Directors

This moving doc zooms in on Ho Chung Village, which lies in the hilly rural area of Hong Kong. Once a decade, its citizens hold the Peace and Light Festival as a tribute to their village, its departed souls, and the gods that preside over them all.

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6:30 pm
Thu Sep 28
The Cinematheque
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12:45 pm
Fri Oct 06
Vancity Theatre
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Apolonia, Apolonia

Art, Music & Photography Documentary Women Directors

Filmed over thirteen years, viewers follow Apolonia Sokol's seemingly storybook life. In a portrait of the vibrant, charismatic force that is Apolonia, in tandem with a remarkable document of the creative interplay between the filmmaker and her subject.

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8:45 pm
Thu Sep 28
SFU Woodwards
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3:45 pm
Sun Oct 01
SFU Woodwards
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The Royal Hotel

Drama Women Directors

In Kitty Green's harrowing follow up to The Assistant, Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) are backpacking across Australia. Running low on funds, they decide tending bar in an Outback mining town could be a lark. This proves a mistake.

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9:15 pm
Thu Sep 28
Park Theatre
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6:00 pm
Thu Oct 05
The Rio Theatre
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The Old Oak

Drama

The local pub is virtually the last community gathering place in an impoverished northern town. when an influx of Syrian refugees stokes xenophobic backlash, TJ, the bar's owner steps up and help the newcomers -- to the anger of some of his regulars.

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12:15 pm
Fri Sep 29
Vancouver Playhouse
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6:00 pm
Tue Oct 03
Vancouver Playhouse
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3:30 pm
Fri Oct 06
Vancouver Playhouse
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Lonely Oaks

Documentary

In 2018, when a police raid evicted tree-house dwelling activists in Hambach Forest, student and journalist Steffen Meyn fell to his death. His classmates compiled the two years of footage he'd shot, asking whether a cause is ever worth dying for.

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12:45 pm
Fri Sep 29
International Village 9
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8:45 pm
Thu Oct 05
International Village 9
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Caiti Blues

Art, Music & Photography Documentary Women Directors

In a deserted mining town, 29-year-old Caiti Lord faces existential ennui. As her childhood aspirations feel impossible, Lord has taken a life as a struggling singer songwriter, working at her local bar. Captured through the quiet rhythms of her hometown.

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1:15 pm
Fri Sep 29
International Village 8
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6:00 pm
Tue Oct 03
Vancity Theatre
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Green Border

Drama Human Rights & Social Justice Women Directors

In her seventies Agnieszka Holland has made a ferocious, emotionally charged film about the brutal treatment of refugees arriving over the Polish land border from Belarus. This is a vehement denunciation of resurgent fascism and utterly compelling cinema.

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3:00 pm
Fri Sep 29
Park Theatre
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5:00 pm
Sun Oct 01
Park Theatre
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They Shot the Piano Player

Animation Art, Music & Photography Documentary Human Rights & Social Justice

The fate of a prodigious Brazilian samba pianist murdered in Argentina in 1976 fuels this animated docu-fiction from the team who gave us the Academy Award-nominee Chico & Rita. Jeff Goldblum voices the writer who digs into Francisco Tenório Jr's story.

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3:15 pm
Fri Sep 29
Vancouver Playhouse
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9:15 pm
Mon Oct 02
Park Theatre
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3:15 pm
Wed Oct 04
Vancouver Playhouse
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La Chimera

Comedy Drama Women Directors

Rohrwacher's first feature since Happy As Lazzaro is an exhilaratingly wild, mysterious, rough and tumble tale of a disheveled English tomb raider (Josh O'Connor) living with a roisterous group of Italian bohemians: singers, smugglers and petty thieves.

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6:00 pm
Fri Sep 29
Vancouver Playhouse
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3:15 pm
Mon Oct 02
Vancouver Playhouse
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Wild Goat Surf

Drama Women Directors

Scrounging and scheming her way through the summer, 12-year-old Goat talks a big game about becoming a world-class surfer... Despite having never actually surfed or even seen the ocean. A charming tale about trying to slip the shackles of circumstance.

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6:00 pm
Fri Sep 29
The Rio Theatre
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3:45 pm
Tue Oct 03
International Village 10
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