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The Wind's Thirst

Dir. Alejandro Valbuena
86 min

In The Wind’s Thirst, three Indigenous Wayuu guardians confront mining and energy corporations exploiting Colombia’s La Guajira desert to defend their water, sacred sites, and right to remain.

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8:45 pm
Thu Oct 08
Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only
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1:45 pm
Fri Oct 09
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Paper Tiger

Dir. James Gray
115 min

An engineer and his brother fall prey to a dangerous mob scheme in 1986 Queens. James Gray’s Paper Tiger is a tense crime drama about family, loyalty, and the price of ambition. Starring Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson.

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9:00 pm
Thu Oct 08
The Park Theatre
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Revolutionaries Never Die

Dir. Mohanad Yaqubi
81 min

Revolutionaries Never Die is Mohanad Yaqubi’s reply to Jocelyne Saab, who passed away before the two could collaborate. Yaqubi's film serves as equal parts tribute, conversation, and partnership with the revolutionary past.

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9:00 pm
Thu Oct 08
International Village 9
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3:30 pm
Sat Oct 10
SFU Woodwards
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Tender Loving Care

Dir. Mike Leigh
107 min

Mike Leigh’s film depicts the lives of Amy and Rosie, best friends and fellow social workers, who care for the dispossessed with all the strength they have. Sometimes it's funny, tragic, and often it's balancing both, this is a work of humble compassion.

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9:00 pm
Thu Oct 08
The Rio Theatre
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6:00 pm
Sun Oct 11
Vancouver Playhouse
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Gasmask

Dir. Harry Cepka
61 min

Part post-apocalyptic fable, part film essay, Harry Cepka's Gasmask is an enigmatic meditation on memory, ritual, and art. Evoking Chris Marker's La Jetée, it asks what remains of cinema after the world that created it has disappeared.

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9:15 pm
Thu Oct 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Peril at Pincer Point

Dir. Noah Stratton-Twine, Jake Kuhn
83 min

A hapless sound recordist sails to an island seeking a missing girl and the perfect sound for a monster’s roar, but faces a phantom pirate and giant crabs. Handmade and hilarious, The Peril at Pincer Point revels in the scrappy joy of indie filmmaking.

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9:15 pm
Thu Oct 08
International Village 10
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6:15 pm
Sun Oct 11
Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only
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Fatherland

Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski
82 min

Nobel laureate Thomas Mann returns to postwar Germany alongside his fiercely loyal daughter Erika. Winner of Best Director at Cannes, Paweł Pawlikowski's drama is a piercing study of complicity, family fractures, and the impossibility of true homecoming.

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9:30 pm
Thu Oct 08
Vancouver Playhouse
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Short Forum 8: Queer Magic

115 min

Do you believe in magic?

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9:30 pm
Thu Oct 08
International Village 8
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3:45 pm
Fri Oct 09
International Village 8
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Whatcha Want

Dir. Mina Shum
90 min

Whatcha Want, a hip-hop-infused drama from award-winning Vancouverite Mina Shum (Meditation Park), sees a restless trophy wife from Hong Kong rise above her wealthy husband’s infidelity by rekindling her passion for dance.

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10:00 am
Fri Oct 09
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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3:30 pm
Sun Oct 11
The Rio Theatre
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James McNeill Whistler

Dir. David Bickerstaff
90 min

One of America’s greatest artists, James McNeill Whistler fashioned his life as a work of art in its own right. James McNeill Whistler looks beyond his famous portraits and self-styled “nocturnes” to dive into the true depths of Whistler’s legacy.

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10:30 am
Fri Oct 09
International Village 8
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Agridulce (Bittersweet)

Dir. Frank Pavich
98 min

Four aspiring young musicians in the Dominican Republic find fulfilment in the study of bachata music. Tinged with melancholy but full of joy, Agridulce (Bittersweet) is rooted in hopefulness of a bright future through music.

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10:45 am
Fri Oct 09
International Village 10
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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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12:00 pm
Fri Oct 09
International Village 9
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6:00 pm
Sat Oct 10
SFU Woodwards
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