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Ma - Cry of Silence

Dir. The Maw Naing
74 min

This bracing political drama tells the story of female sweatshop workers in Myanmar and their courageous struggle for justice. It’s a dark, unflinching work, in which the depiction of oppression is meant to spark outrage and action.

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3:15 pm
Thu Oct 02
International Village 8
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Thu Oct 09
International Village 9
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Sat Oct 11
International Village 8
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A Private Life

Dir. Rebecca Zlotowski
103 min

Jodie Foster is terrific as Lilian Steiner, an expert shrink whose own neuroses complicate her investigation into a patient’s death. A Private Life combines the amusements of satire with the pleasures of a good mystery thriller.

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5:45 pm
Thu Oct 02
Granville Island Stage
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8:30 pm
Sat Oct 04
Alliance Francaise
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5:45 pm
Tue Oct 07
Vancouver Playhouse
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Late Shift

Dir. Petra Volpe
92 min

A nurse finds herself pushed to the brink as she attempts to maintain order over one high-pressure night in a Swiss hospital’s surgical ward. Petra Volpe’s drama unfolds at an exhilarating pace and instils a deep sense of admiration for its heroine.

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8:30 pm
Thu Oct 02
Granville Island Stage
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Fri Oct 03
Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only
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6:15 pm
Wed Oct 08
International Village 9
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Night Stage

Dir. Filipe Matzembacher & Marcio Reolon
117 min

Love becomes an act of defiance when a queer actor and a closeted politician discover a mutual fetish for public sex in the streets of Porto Alegre. A steamy, slow-burn erotic thriller with a dreamy neo-noir aesthetic.

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8:45 pm
Thu Oct 02
The Rio Theatre
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Fri Oct 10
International Village 8
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It Was Just an Accident

Dir. Jafar Panahi
105 min

Having offered some late-night assistance to a stranger in the wake of an auto accident, a mechanic grows convinced that he recognizes the supposed stranger’s voice as that of his torturer during a grueling prison spell.

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9:30 pm
Thu Oct 02
Vancouver Playhouse
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Thu Oct 09
Vancouver Playhouse
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OBEX

Dir. Albert Birney
90 min

A computer nerd is transported into a video game fantasy world when his dog is taken by the evil demon Ixaroth. Alberty Birney’s lo-fi adventure combines analog horror with RPG mechanics, rendered with nostalgic black-and-white vaporwave aesthetics.

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3:30 pm
Fri Oct 03
International Village 7
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Sat Oct 04
International Village 10
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Wrangler

Dir. Seo Eun-sun
107 min

Two sisters face each other down over the course of this tense, mysterious psychological thriller. Hayoung is trainer of violent rescue dogs; Sora is fresh out of prison. Their reacquaintance will lead to a violent, cathartic climax.

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5:45 pm
Fri Oct 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sat Oct 04
International Village 8
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Deathstalker

Dir. Steven Kostanski
102 min

As the Dreadite horde cuts a path of destruction across the land, one man weilds the power to rid the world of their evil — Deathstalker, a ruthless and courageous hero. FX wizard Steven Kostanski conjures a bloody, entertaining hack-and-slash adventure.

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9:00 pm
Fri Oct 03
The Rio Theatre
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Sun Oct 05
International Village 10
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Sirât

Dir. Óliver Laxe
115 min

Searching for his daughter in an unforgiving Moroccan desert, Luis falls in with a group of ravers and places himself at the mercy of an unimaginably perilous landscape. As ecstasy is eclipsed by damnation, a devastating assault on the senses.

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9:15 pm
Fri Oct 03
Vancouver Playhouse
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Sun Oct 12
The Rio Theatre
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The Things You Kill

Dir. Alireza Khatami
113 min

Thirty-something professor Ali leads an apparently stable life. But when his ailing mother dies under ambiguous circumstances, he starts to unravel, resulting in an act that shatters our understanding of his person.

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Fri Oct 03
International Village 10
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Sat Oct 04
International Village 7
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Fri Oct 10
Alliance Francaise
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Everest Dark

Dir. Jereme Watt
90 min

As the death toll on Everest rises, legendary mountaineer Mingma Tsiri Sherpa leads an elite team on a life-threatening mission to retrieve the fallen and restore peace to Chomolungma, the sacred “Mother Goddess of the World".

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3:15 pm
Sat Oct 04
SFU Woodwards
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Sun Oct 05
Granville Island Stage
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Arco

Dir. Ugo Bienvenu
88 min

Chasing a rainbow through the woods, Iris comes across Arco, a boy who's stolen a time-travelling suit from his scientist parents — and crash-landed in 2075. This is a sweet, futuristic animated fantasy.

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Sat Oct 04
Granville Island Stage
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Sat Oct 11
Granville Island Stage
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