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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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Restore Point

Drama Horror & Sci-Fi

Central Europe, 2041. Citizens have the right to be revived from unnatural deaths. When a scientist is murdered and revived through an unstable, outdated backup detective Em Trochinowska pursues her prime suspect, a hacker tied to a Luddite terror cell.

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9:00 pm
Thu Sep 28
The Rio Theatre
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6:15 pm
Sat Oct 07
The Rio Theatre
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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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White Plastic Sky

Action & Suspense Animation Drama Horror & Sci-Fi Women Directors

2123: When Stefan's wife consents to a macabre metamorphosis before her appointed time, he races across a devastated landscape to save her. This richly detailed rotoscoped dystopia is a spectacle to behold, and a warning to be heeded.

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4:00 pm
Fri Sep 29
Vancity Theatre
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8:45 pm
Thu Oct 05
The Rio Theatre
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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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Seagrass

Drama Women Directors

With their parents tending to their crumbling marriage, 11-year-old Stephanie is drawn to a pack of unruly teens, while six-year-old Emmy answers an eerie cave's siren call. A deftly orchestrated, deeply moving portrait of a family about to implode.

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9:00 pm
Fri Sep 29
The Rio Theatre
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9:00 pm
Sun Oct 01
SFU Woodwards
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It's Only Life After All

Documentary LGBTQIA2S+ Women Directors

For many growing up in the 1990s, Indigo Girls was the band that defined a generation, admired for their unique alt-folk sound, and gender norm defiance. In a recollection of their 40-year career, their legacy is solidified through earnest interviews.

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3:00 pm
Sat Sep 30
The Rio Theatre
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9:15 pm
Wed Oct 04
The Rio Theatre
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Float

Romance Women Directors

The summer before college, a city girl finds herself in Tofino, alienated by the local beach culture—that is, until she falls for the charming local lifeguard, which throws her carefully planned future into question.

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6:00 pm
Sat Sep 30
The Rio Theatre
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1:00 pm
Mon Oct 02
International Village 10
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Comedy Drama Horror & Sci-Fi Women Directors

Meet Sasha, the world’s most compassionate young vampire. Her family is at their wits' end with her refusal to embrace their lethal traditions and threaten to cut her off -- until she meets a brooding boy hoping to end his life, and strikes a unique deal.

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9:00 pm
Sat Sep 30
The Rio Theatre
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8:15 pm
Mon Oct 02
International Village 9
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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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Fitting In

Drama Women Directors

16 and ready to lose her virginity, Lindy is distressed to learn she has a rare condition which means she will never conceive and penetrative sex will require intervention. McGlynn's raw, funny film resonates with debates around sex and gender conformity.

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6:00 pm
Sun Oct 01
The Rio Theatre
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3:45 pm
Mon Oct 02
International Village 10
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