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Kidnapped

Veteran director Marco Bellocchio (The Traitor) returns with a passionate historical drama about a Jewish child abducted by Pope Pius IX in 1865 on the grounds that he had been secretly baptized. This is a rich, operatic film that resonates strongly.

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4:00 pm
Thu Sep 28
Park Theatre
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6:15 pm
Tue Oct 03
Park Theatre
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12:30 pm
Fri Oct 06
Vancouver Playhouse
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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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Tiger Stripes

Action & Suspense Award Winners Drama Women Directors

Winner of Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prix, Tiger Stripes is a coming-of-age body horror film set in a Malaysian girls' school. 12-year-old Zaffan’s body starts to change before everyone else’s, and she becomes convinced she's turning into a monster.

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6:00 pm
Thu Sep 28
International Village 8
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9:00 pm
Sat Oct 07
The Rio Theatre
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The Animal Kingdom

Action & Suspense Drama Horror & Sci-Fi

In a world where mysterious mutations are gradually evolving humans into animal hybrids in an unpredictable and frightening way, a father tries to protect his 16-year-old son who is starting to acquire beastly characteristics.

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6:00 pm
Thu Sep 28
The Rio Theatre
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9:00 pm
Sun Oct 08
The Rio Theatre
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The Rapture

Drama Women Directors

In this evocative, enigmatic psychological thriller, an unhappy, lonely Parisian midwife tells a foolish lie and then has to live with the consequences...

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6:30 pm
Thu Sep 28
International Village 10
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1:30 pm
Sat Sep 30
International Village 10
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If Only I Could Hibernate

Drama Women Directors

In the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, a story unfolds of perseverance under a truly daunting predicament. A teen with a gift for physics enters a national competition, struggling to make ends meet while pushing to succeed against all odds.

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8:15 pm
Thu Sep 28
International Village 8
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12:45 pm
Sat Sep 30
International Village 8
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Puan

Comedy Drama Women Directors

After the death of his mentor a professor of philosophy finds his professional standing is in jeopardy, and his own students are threatening to revolt. What use Rousseau, Hobbes et al when his life is spiraling out of control?

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8:30 pm
Thu Sep 28
Vancity Theatre
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1:00 pm
Wed Oct 04
International Village 9
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Orlando, My Political Biography

Award Winners Documentary LGBTQIA2S+

Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, the transgressive novel is used as a framework to investigate the very real contemporary struggles of trans and non-binary people. Winner of the Teddy Award and Encounters Jury Prize at Berlin Film Festival.

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9:00 pm
Thu Sep 28
The Cinematheque
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8:30 pm
Sun Oct 08
Vancity Theatre
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Last Summer

Action & Suspense Drama Women Directors

When lawyer Anne begins a taboo affair with her 17-year-old stepson, the balance of her life is threatened. In an exploration of power dynamics, Last Summer lures you in and refuses to shy away from discomfort.

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9:15 pm
Thu Sep 28
Vancouver Playhouse
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9:30 pm
Fri Oct 06
Vancouver Playhouse
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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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