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Happy Feet

Dir. George Miller
168 min

A tap-dancing penguin named Mumble can't sing like the others, but his unique skill may save his colony. Happy Feet is a music-filled adventure that celebrates courage, friendship, staying true to yourself, and is a perfect icy break this summer!

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11:00 am
Sat Jul 12
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Vancouver Mysteries Presents... Murder at the Movies

95 min

This summer, enter the world of film noir with a new immersive murder mystery blending elements of film with live performance and audience participation. This show turns the VIFF Centre into a crime scene and you, the audience, into detectives.

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8:00 pm
Sat Jul 12
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Thu Jul 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Thu Aug 07
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Miracle Worker

Dir. Arthur Penn
107 min

Academy Awards went to Best Actress Anne Bancroft and Best Supporting Actress Patty Duke for their moving portrayals of Annie Sullivan and her remarkable blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller. "A film that storms where most biopics respectfully tiptoe."

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2:00 pm
Sun Jul 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:30 pm
Tue Jul 15
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Children of Men

Dir. Alfonso Cuarón
109 min

2027: 18 years since the last baby was born, disillusioned Englishman Theo (Clive Owen) becomes an unlikely champion of the human race when he is asked by his former lover (Julianne Moore) to escort a young pregnant woman out of the country.

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6:30 pm
Mon Jul 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:00 pm
Wed Jul 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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1:45 pm
Wed Jul 23
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Gleaners and I

Dir. Agnès Varda
82 min

This lovely essay film about the art of foraging is also a self portrait of the artist at 72.

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6:10 pm
Tue Jul 15
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:15 pm
Wed Jul 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:00 pm
Sat Jul 19
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Rachel, Rachel

Dir. Paul Newman
101 min

The story of a shy schoolteacher whose sexual awakening in her mid-30s leads to a deeper re-evaluation of her life, the film is sensitive and sympathetic, as well as a surprising directorial debut from Paul Newman.

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2:00 pm
Wed Jul 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:50 pm
Tue Jul 22
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Chase

Dir. Arthur Penn
133 min

Bubba Reeves (Robert Redford) escapes from prison and the south Texas town where his wife (Jane Fonda) is carrying on with his best friend (James Fox) is in uproar. Sheriff Marlon Brando tries and fails to keep a lid on the unpleasantness.

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8:20 pm
Wed Jul 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:30 pm
Sun Jul 20
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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To a Land Unknown

Dir. Mahdi Fleifel
107 min

In this outstanding crime drama, two Palestinian cousins are exiled in Athens and in dire need of funds for fake passports to move their family to Germany. A slippery slope of moral compromise awaits as they resort to human smuggling and hostage-taking.

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1:30 pm
Fri Jul 18
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:20 pm
Sat Jul 19
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:10 pm
Sun Jul 20
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Graduate

Dir. Mike Nichols
106 min

In The Graduate Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman, 30 playing 20 with masterly understatement) comes home from college and is surprised to be seduced by the wife of his father's business partner, Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft).

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6:20 pm
Fri Jul 18
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:30 pm
Sat Jul 19
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:15 pm
Sun Jul 20
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Midnight Cowboy

Dir. John Schlesinger
113 min

Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman are street hustlers on different ends of the innocence / experience spectrum who establish something more than a business partnership in the seedy world of late 60s New York City in John Schlesinger's New Hollywood classic.

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8:30 pm
Fri Jul 18
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:45 pm
Sun Jul 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Headless Woman

Dir. Lucrecia Martel
87 min

The pictures tell the story -- and you better not blink -- when Veronica (the superb Maria Onetto) hits something on the road home. But what? She is too traumatized, or panic-stricken, to go back and look, and her fears are too terrible to acknowledge.

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3:20 pm
Sat Jul 19
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:15 pm
Wed Jul 23
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:30 pm
Fri Jul 25
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Cloud-Capped Star

Dir. Ritwak Ghatak
127 min

Ritwik Ghatak is the unsung genius of Bengali cinema. His best known film is a a brilliantly structured melodrama about the terrible demands of poverty and family on the prospects of a young woman.

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11:00 am
Sun Jul 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:20 pm
Tue Jul 22
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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