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The Last One for the Road

Dir. Francesco Sossai
100 min

Two middle-aged drunkards drive across the Veneto region on a freewheeling bender, taking a young college student along for the ride. A celebration of the spirit of drink and the kinds of stories told around a table of old friends and too much wine.

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8:30 pm
Sat Oct 11
Alliance Francaise
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6:15 pm
Sun Oct 12
Granville Island Stage
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10: The new socialism; ceasefire now!

Dir. Various
114 min

Shorts from: Belgium, Canada, China, India, Myanmar, UK.

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9:00 pm
Sat Oct 11
International Village 7
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3:00 pm
Sun Oct 12
International Village 7
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The Plague

Dir. Charlie Polinger
95 min

At a water polo camp, Ben is plunged into the deep end of toxic peer pressure. Terrified of incurring his campmates’ wrath, he joins them in tormenting a kid whose skin rash has been branded “the plague”. But then he experiences a breakout of his own...

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9:00 pm
Sat Oct 11
The Rio Theatre
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6:45 pm
Sun Oct 12
International Village 9
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Romería

Dir. Carla Simón
112 min

An orphan from a young age, 18-year-old Marina intends to pursue a university scholarship. The application, however, requires the signatures of her paternal grandparents, compelling her to embark on a pilgrimage and seek out the family she has never met.

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9:15 pm
Sat Oct 11
International Village 9
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1:00 pm
Sun Oct 12
International Village 10
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Dir. Rian Johnson
140 min

In this third entry in the wildly entertaining, ever-evolving Knives Out series, Benoit Blanc recruits a priest as his partner as delves into a decidedly Gothic-tinged whodunnit centred on a New England church and its eccentric parishioners.

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9:30 pm
Sat Oct 11
Vancouver Playhouse
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Resurrection

Dir. Bi Gan 毕赣
156 min

In this broken-mirror reality, humanity has lost its ability to dream. A Fantasmer proves a puckish outlier, slipping into the dreamworld and being reincarnated over the course of a century, each time from within a different film genre.

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11:15 am
Sun Oct 12
SFU Woodwards
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Short Fuse

Dir. Various
75 min

An eye-opening collection of shorts exploring memories, experiences and relationships between friends, family, and across generations. From powwows in North America, to the rivers of Ethiopia and beyond, these shorts offer memorable stories on screen.

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11:30 am
Sun Oct 12
International Village 7
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Köln 75

Dir. Ido Fluk
116 min

The true story behind the greatest solo concert in jazz history, this is Keith Jarrett's legendary 1975 Köln Concert — as organized by 18-year-old rebel music promoter Vera Brandes. Fun, inventive and feminist, it's the Bend It Like Beckham of jazz films.

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3:15 pm
Sun Oct 12
Vancouver Playhouse
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MODES 3

Dir. Various
111 min

Moving through often uncharted (subaltern) territory, these works and their subjects carry the remnants of emotional and physical labour on their shoulders, both literally and figuratively.

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6:00 pm
Sun Oct 12
International Village 7
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Magellan

Dir. Lav Diaz
160 min

Magellan (Gael García Bernal) undertakes a bold expedition to the fabled lands of the East. Upon reaching the islands of the Malayan Archipelago, he becomes obsessed with conquest and conversion, which sparks violent uprisings beyond his control.

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8:30 pm
Sun Oct 12
SFU Woodwards
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Dead Lover

Dir. Grace Glowicki
83 min

A foul-smelling gravedigger’s romance ends in tragedy, spurring her to attempt a resurrection through a madcap series of science experiments. Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie’s film is a zany DIY horror that zaps fresh life into Mary Shelley’s classic.

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8:45 pm
Sun Oct 12
International Village 7
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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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8:45 pm
Sun Oct 12
The Rio Theatre
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