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Lifeline

Dir. Ilhan Abdullahi
77 min

When a Somali youth worker is assigned a high-stakes case, her professional responsibilities pull her back toward a community — and a past — she has worked to leave behind. Lifeline is an intimate exploration of belonging and responsibility.

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4:30 pm
Sat Oct 10
International Village 8
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The Dreamed Adventure

Dir. Valeska Grisebach
164 min

In Valeska Grisebach’s subtle, gripping crime drama, archaeologist Vesna (Yana Redeva) unearths more than she bargained for when she returns to the southern Bulgarian town of her youth, running afoul of local gangsters in the process.

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5:30 pm
Sat Oct 10
Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only
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Nina Roza

Dir. Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
103 min

Mihail, a contemporary art expert, has been living in Montreal since he left Bulgaria with his daughter almost thirty years ago. When he is commissioned to authenticate the work of an 8-year-old painting prodigy, he returns to Bulgaria for the first time.

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6:00 pm
Sat Oct 10
Alliance Francaise
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A Long Winter

Dir. Andrew Haigh
117 min

Based on a short story by Colm Toibin and set in the Rockies in the 1950s, the latest from All of Us Strangers director Andrew Haigh is a piercing emotional drama about a family facing hardships over a few months in a cabin far above town.

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6:00 pm
Sat Oct 10
The Rio Theatre
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Yugo Goes to America

Dir. Filip Grujić, Aleksa Borković
87 min

In Yugo Goes to America, millennials from Belgrade drive a Yugo — Yugoslavia’s notoriously unreliable vehicle — from New York to Los Angeles. Their freewheeling road trip traces the car’s volatile history alongside the breakup of Yugoslavia itself.

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6:00 pm
Sat Oct 10
SFU Woodwards
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Afterlives

Dir. Kevin B. Lee
88 min

An immersive, essayistic documentary, Afterlives examines the effects of violent spectacle via propaganda, refusing reductive answers or cliched responses to questions about extremism, justice, and art.

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6:15 pm
Sat Oct 10
The Cinematheque
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4:00 pm
Sun Oct 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Yellow Letters

Dir. İlker Çatak
128 min

Derya and Aziz, a theatre couple based in Ankara, are celebrating the premiere of their latest play when they find themselves targeted by state investigations. Their lives change practically overnight, they find their political convictions put to the test.

Image: © EllaKnorz ifProductions Alamode Film

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6:15 pm
Sat Oct 10
The Park Theatre
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Wild Horse Nine

Dir. Martin McDonagh
118 min

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). There, the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies.

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6:15 pm
Sat Oct 10
Vancouver Playhouse
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Iron Boy

Dir. Louis Clichy
90 min

Iron Boy, a hand-painted animated feature, follows a hardworking preteen farm boy and his sublime flights of fancy as he faces the earthshaking upheavals of growing up in an iron back brace. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes 2026.

Image: © Eddy Cinema, Beside Productions, Regular Production, France 3 Cinema, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, RTBF

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6:30 pm
Sat Oct 10
Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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Ana, En Passant

Dir. Fernanda Salgado
90 min

Fernanda Salgado makes an elegant feature debut with this lyrical animated drama about a young Black woman returning to her late grandmother’s native town in Brazil to make sense of distant memories and her family’s legacy.

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6:30 pm
Sat Oct 10
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:30 pm
Sun Oct 11
The Cinematheque
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MODES 2

100 min

At the intersection of culture, technology, and capital, a yearning for human connection and the possibility of release endures.

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6:30 pm
Sat Oct 10
International Village 8
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Gabin

Dir. Maxence Voiseux
105 min

Filmed over 10 years, Gabin follows Gabin Jourdel from age 8 to 18 and the animals, schoolwork, chores, and imagined futures that define his youth. As he grows, his adolescence becomes a question of inheritance and choosing one’s own future.

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6:45 pm
Sat Oct 10
International Village 10
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