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Kidnapped

VIFF 2023: Showcase

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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Puan

VIFF 2023: Panorama
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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La Chimera

VIFF 2023: Galas & Special Presentations
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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The Braid

VIFF 2023: Panorama
Drama Women Directors

Laetitia Colombani's assured, involving adaptation of her own best-selling novel weaves together three stories of female perseverance across three continents, in India, Italy, and Canada. This is a strongly acted movie with a big emotional pay-off.

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11:30 am
Sun Oct 01
Park Theatre
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8:45 pm
Tue Oct 03
International Village 9
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Il Boemo

VIFF 2023: Showcase
Art, Music & Photography Drama

In the baroque courts of 18th Century Venice, the egos of patrons and artists clash in the rise and fall of one of history’s greatest unsung composers, Josef Mysliveček.

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3:00 pm
Tue Oct 03
Park Theatre
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6:00 pm
Sat Oct 07
SFU Woodwards
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The Oceans Are the Real Continents

VIFF 2023: Panorama
Drama

Set in San Antonio De Los Baños, a sleepy town in inland Cuba, and shot in langurous black and white tableaux, The Oceans Are the Real Continents traces the stories of three generations of townspeople. "An exquisite love poem to Cuba." The Film Verdict.

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6:30 pm
Tue Oct 03
International Village 10
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12:45 pm
Thu Oct 05
International Village 9
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Priscilla

VIFF 2023: Galas & Special Presentations
Drama Women Directors

Priscilla Beaulieu (Cailee Spaeny) is just 14 when she meets Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi, Euphoria) on a US military base in Germany, 1959. Courteous, respectful and a little sad, he sweeps her off her feet. But this fairy tale romance is an illusion.

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9:30 pm
Sat Oct 07
Vancouver Playhouse
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