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Super Happy Forever

Dir. Kohei Igarashi
94 min

This beguiling film depicts a man’s return to the Japanese seaside town where he met his now-deceased wife five years earlier. He tries to relive the past, and in the film's final section -- a flashback to 2018 -- the audience is afforded that privilege.

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9:20 pm
Fri Jun 27
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:45 pm
Sat Jun 28
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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3:50 pm
Sun Jun 29
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Jesse Zubot in Concert

Dir. Liz Cairns
180 min

Using a violin, viola and miscellaneous electronics, and incorporating multiple sounds and techniques that relate to his work as a film composer, Jesse Zubot promises a unique and thrilling concert, followed by a preview of the the new BC film Inedia.

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3:30 pm
Sat Jun 28
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Giant

Dir. George Stevens
198 min

This was the Yellowstone of its time: a big, sweeping modern Western built around an imposing ranch and family dynamics -- except Giant is much more subversive. James Dean strikes it rich as Jett Rink, much to the disgust of his former boss, Rock Hudson.

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1:30 pm
Sun Jun 29
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:00 pm
Wed Jul 02
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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While You Weren't Looking

Dir. Catherine Stewart
72 min

The changing landscape of South African politics and lifestyles is portrayed through a trio of artfully counter-pointed relationships.

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8:00 pm
Sun Jun 29
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:30 pm
Wed Jul 02
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Romeo and Juliet

Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
138 min

Franco Zeffirelli directed one of the most successful and beloved of Shakespeare films, casting teenagers Leonard Whiting and Oliva Hussey as his star-crossed lovers. This month's Premium Pick by Sandy Dowling.

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7:30 pm
Mon Jun 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Boxcutter

Dir. Reza Dahya
88 min

The first feature from former Toronto Flow OTA Live host and producer Reza Dahya is a boisterous, sometimes bruising day-in-the-life of wannabe rapper Rome (Ashton James), set on meeting megastar Richie Hill (Rich Kidd).

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7:00 pm
Tue Jul 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:00 pm
Fri Jul 04
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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8:30 pm
Sat Jul 05
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Fugitive Kind

Dir. Sidney Lumet
121 min

Sidney Lumet's movie brings together two of the greatest actors of the period, Brando and Anna Magnani, reason enough to check out this underrated poetical drama about a handsome musician who washes up in a small southern town.

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2:00 pm
Thu Jul 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:50 pm
Sat Jul 05
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Inedia

Dir. Liz Cairns
107 min

Liz Cairns makes a mesmerizing feature debut that sees a young woman suffering from mysterious food allergies join a remote island community practicing alternative healing methods. She soon realizes that not everything is as it seems.

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3:30 pm
Fri Jul 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:00 pm
Sat Jul 05
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:30 pm
Sun Jul 06
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Drop Dead City

Dir. Michael Rohatyn & Peter Yost
108 min

New York, 1975. The city is minutes away from bankruptcy and President Gerald Ford wants no part of it. Sanitation workers are on strike and cops are telling tourists it's not safe to visit. The town is going up in flames and they can't pay the firemen.

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3:45 pm
Fri Jul 04
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sat Jul 05
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sun Jul 06
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Hustler

Dir. Robert Rossen
135 min

Prime Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson, a hungry pool shark who knows he's the sharpest guy in the room. Jackie Gleason and George C Scott have other ideas.

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5:50 pm
Fri Jul 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:00 pm
Mon Jul 07
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Hud

Dir. Martin Ritt
112 min

Landmark modern western with Brandon de Wilde from Shane worshipping the wrong hero, Paul Newman’s eponymous heel. According to Paul Schrader, this movie marks the birth of the cynical (anti-)hero in American cinema.

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8:30 pm
Fri Jul 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:50 pm
Mon Jul 07
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Jimi James: Blues for Brando

Dir. Laszlo Benedek
140 min

The Jimi James Quintet pays tribute to the emergence of bebop, in many ways a parallel artistic innovation to Method acting. A set of bebop classics will be followed by a screening of Marlon Brando in The Wild One.

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8:00 pm
Sat Jul 05
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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