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Bonnie Northgraves Quintet: To Louis with Love

Dir. Bert Stern
160 min

Join us for To Louis with Love, a joyful celebration of the legendary Louis Armstrong by Bonnie Northgraves and her band, followed by Bert Stern's legendary concert film Jazz on a Summer's Day, featuring Monk, Gerry Mulligan, and of course Satchmo.

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2:00 pm
Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Toni Erdmann

Dir. Maren Ade
162 min

This hilarious and acerbic comedy follows a retiree as he stages a series of outrageous pranks to disrupt his executive daughter's latest business deal.

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7:00 pm
Mon Aug 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:30 pm
Wed Aug 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Godfather

Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
175 min

A family saga in more senses than one, Francis Coppola's enthralling gangster opus aims to chronicle the American experience through the twentieth century. It is both a success story and a study of moral corruption.

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1:30 pm
Tue Aug 12
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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1:30 pm
Thu Aug 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Shoplifters

Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
121 min

A Palme d'or winner in 2018, Shoplifters is both a hard-edged and heartwarming drama about a makeshift family of impoverished urchins and orphans in contemporary Tokyo.

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5:00 pm
Tue Aug 12
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:20 pm
Sun Aug 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:30 pm
Tue Aug 19
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Melancholia

Dir. Lars von Trier
135 min

Lars von Trier squares up to the end times with this grandly luxuriant but surprisingly punky sci-fi, set in an imposing country mansion house, where Justine (Kirsten Dunst) blows up what's supposed to be the happiest day of her life.

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7:30 pm
Tue Aug 12
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:30 pm
Sat Aug 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:00 pm
Sun Aug 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Missouri Breaks

Dir. Arthur Penn
126 min

This exuberant, wild and wooly western from Arthur Penn features a brazenly transgressive performance from Marlon Brando, while Jack Nicholson underplays masterfully as the cattle rustler he's been hired to eliminate.

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2:00 pm
Wed Aug 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:50 pm
Tue Aug 19
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Dancing Home

Dir. Wang Cheng Yi
90 min

In 2015 internationally acclaimed Paiwan choreographer Bulareyaung Pagarlava returned to his hometown and established a new dance company for indigenous youth, rooted to nature and ancient tradition. This is their story.

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7:30 pm
Thu Aug 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Folktales

Dir. Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady
106 min

Pasvik Folk High School in Norway provides a very special gap year education. Located in the far north, it teaches arctic survival skills (bushcraft and hunting) and dog sledding (mushing).

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1:30 pm
Fri Aug 15
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:10 pm
Sat Aug 16
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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12:00 pm
Sun Aug 17
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Materialists

Dir. Celine Song
116 min

Celine Song's follow-up to Past Lives is a witty and good-looking romantic comedy with a female eye, unafraid to broach more serious themes.

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3:45 pm
Fri Aug 15
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:40 pm
Sat Aug 16
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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4:45 pm
Sun Aug 17
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sweet Angel Baby

Dir. Melanie Oates
96 min

Everybody likes Eliza. But nobody really knows her. When her social media alter ego is exposed, the entire town is scandalized...

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6:20 pm
Fri Aug 15
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:45 pm
Sun Aug 17
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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5:10 pm
Wed Aug 20
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley

Dir. Amy Berg
106 min

Oscar-nominated documentarian Amy Berg resurrects the tragic story of the sublime singer Jeff Buckley, whose 1994 record Grace is one of the greatest albums of the modern era.

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8:30 pm
Fri Aug 15
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sat Aug 16
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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7:50 pm
Sun Aug 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Oscar Peterson Centenary Tribute: Triology Plays Peterson

Dir. Daryl Duke
180 min

Celebrates Oscar Peterson's centenary with an evening of Canadian jazz and film. Triology — Jodi Proznick (bass), Bill Coon (guitar) and Miles Black (piano) — pays tribute to the legendary Oscar Peterson, followed by cult thriller The Silent Partner.

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7:30 pm
Sat Aug 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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