What's On
Other People's Children
The luminous Virginie Efira (Madeleine Collins) stars in this affecting portrait of a teacher whose biological clock is ticking. Rachel falls in love with Ali (Roschdy Zem), but their relationship is complicated by his four-year-old daughter Leila.
Blue Horse Opera
Rick Maddocks' visionary song cycle fuses indie, folk, classical music and dance, drawing inspiration from the climate emergency and the cinematic landscapes of spaghetti westerns. Followed by Sergio Sollima's The Big Gundown, starring Lee van Cleef.
On the Beach At Night Alone
Kim Minhee (The Handmaiden, Right Now, Wrong Then) plays Younghee, an actress reeling in the aftermath of an affair with a married film director (an echo of her relationship with Hong in real life.)
Right Now, Wrong Then
A visiting filmmaker arrives a day early for a festival screening. He meets and courts a painter (Kim Minhee) and spends the evening with her. Halfway through, the movie starts over: Same people, same places, significantly different outcomes.
Two of Us
This French love story is as tense and edgy as a thriller. Nina (Barbara Sukowa) has the apartment adjacent to Madeleine's, which is convenient: the women have been secret lovers for decades. Then a stroke renders Madeleine paralyzed, and Nina is bereft.
George Garzone Live
Saxophone giant George Garzone celebrates free jazz with the help of the explosive Jerry Steinhilber Trio. Their set will be followed by a screening of Tom Surgal's documentary, Fire Music, featuring John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor.
Image: © Lee Tanner, The Jazz Image
Breathless
In anticipation of Richard Linklater's extremely cool Nouvelle Vague (VIFF's opening gala), this is an opportune moment to revisit Godard's iconic debut feature, a criminal romance about a petty criminal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) on the lam with Jean Seberg.
Clearcut (Tribute to Graham Greene)
As a tribute to the beloved Graham Greene, we're screening one of his personal favourites, an intense, subversive environmental thriller directed by the Polish filmmaker Ryszard Bugajski.
Plainclothes
New York, mid 90s. An undercover cop used as bait to entrap homosexuals secretly suspects he's gay himself. Coming out could cost him everything...
The Glassworker
In this romantic, Ghibli-esque animated feature a young apprentice glassblower falls in love with a violinist. But his father is a pacifist, while hers is a colonel in the military, and the country is on the verge of war...
