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Common Ground

Award Winners Documentary

An impassioned plea to care for the very thing that feeds us, balances the climate, and sustains life on earth: soil. Common Ground unveils the potential of regenerative farming, to show us how saving the soil can help save us along with it.

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3:30 pm
Sat Sep 30
Park Theatre
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6:30 pm
Sun Oct 01
Studio Theatre
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6:15 pm
Wed Oct 04
International Village 9
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Four Little Adults

Comedy Drama Women Directors

Upon learning of her husband's year long affair, Juulia proposes an open marriage free of secrets. As a polyamory guide becomes their bible, Juulia falls in love with someone new, filling their journey in polyamory with love, compassion, and compromise.

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6:00 pm
Sat Sep 30
SFU Woodwards
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12:45 pm
Mon Oct 02
Park Theatre
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Just the Two of Us

Action & Suspense Drama Women Directors

Beginning as a sunny romance, this film slowly, subtly becomes a defiant feminist drama. When Blanche meets Greg at a seaside party, she’s quickly won over by his confidence and charm, but once they’re married, he reveals a much darker side.

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6:15 pm
Sat Sep 30
Park Theatre
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3:45 pm
Mon Oct 02
Park Theatre
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3:15 pm
Tue Oct 03
Vancouver Playhouse
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Close to You

Drama LGBTQIA2S+

In his first feature film role since 2017, Elliot Page delivers a deeply felt and nuanced performance as a young man reuniting with his family for the first time since his transition, four years earlier.

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9:15 pm
Sat Sep 30
Park Theatre
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8:45 pm
Mon Oct 02
The Rio Theatre
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The Braid

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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Tótem

Drama Women Directors

During the chaotic preparations for the birthday of her terminally ill father, a seven-year-old girl finds herself caught amid a complex adult world interspersed with a sense of change. A Buñuelian class study keyed to the interior life of a child.

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2:30 pm
Sun Oct 01
Park Theatre
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6:00 pm
Wed Oct 04
SFU Woodwards
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Swan Song

Art, Music & Photography Documentary Women Directors

Legendary ballet dancer Karen Kain chose to direct Swan Lake at the National Ballet of Canada as her swan song. Chelsea McMullen's thrilling backstage documentary shows the grueling physical and emotional toil required to produce artistry at this level.

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3:00 pm
Sun Oct 01
Vancouver Playhouse
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6:30 pm
Wed Oct 04
Park 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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5:00 pm
Sun Oct 01
Park Theatre
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About Dry Grasses

Award Winners Drama

In a remote village in eastern Turkey, an art teacher enters his fourth and final year at a state-mandated teaching post, but finds himself having to navigate two tricky relationships which force him into existential crisis.

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8:30 pm
Sun Oct 01
Park Theatre
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12:15 pm
Sun Oct 08
SFU Woodwards
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I'm Just Here for the Riot

Documentary Women Directors

Vancouver, June 15, 2011. Hours after the Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, rioters laid waste to blocks of downtown. In this absorbing documentary, Kathleen S. Jayme (The Grizzlie Truth) and Asia Youngman revisit that chaotic night.

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6:30 pm
Mon Oct 02
Vancouver Playhouse
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8:45 pm
Thu Oct 05
Park Theatre
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12:45 pm
Sun Oct 08
Vancouver Playhouse
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Four Daughters

Award Winners Documentary Experimental & Avant Garde Women Directors

A stimulating and cathartic docu-drama from Academy-Award nominee, Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, about a mother who lost two teenage daughters when they fled to Libya to fight for ISIS.

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6:30 pm
Mon Oct 02
Park Theatre
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8:45 pm
Sun Oct 08
SFU Woodwards
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A Normal Family

Action & Suspense Drama

During a fancy dinner with their wives, two brothers with divergent moral principles learn of a disturbing situation involving both their teenage kids. In the fallout of this dreadful discovery, the families are faced with an unimaginable choice.

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9:00 pm
Mon Oct 02
Vancouver Playhouse
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3:30 pm
Wed Oct 04
Park Theatre
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