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Dean Thiessen Plays Vince Guaraldi + The Peanuts Movie

180 min

In 1965 jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi created the perfect soundtrack to Charles Schultz's beloved Peanuts. Dean Thiessen's 5-tet pays tributes to Guaraldi's catchy tunes, followed by a screening of the charming 2015 feature film (93 min).

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2:00 pm
Sat Dec 19
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Meet Me In St. Louis

Dir. Vincente Minnelli
113 min

Vincente Minnelli's heartwarming evergreen chronicles an ordinarily tumultuous year in the life of a prosperous household in 1904. It's debatable that MGM ever conjured a more affecting musical.

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11:00 am
Sun Dec 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:50 pm
Tue Dec 22
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Christmas Music of Ella Fitzgerald Performed by Casey Thomas-Burns + Pete Kelly's Blues

180 min

Vocalist and trombonist Casey Thomas-Burns interprets Ella Fitzgerald's classic holiday album Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas in this joyful jazz performance, followed by the vintage, jazzy gangster movie, Pete Kelly's Blues.

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4:00 pm
Sun Dec 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Danton

Dir. Andrzej Wajda
136 min

A morally and politically complex drama set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, Wajda's fiery film clearly reflected his experiences of what was going on in Poland at the time, for all that was made in exile.

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8:00 pm
Sun Dec 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:00 pm
Wed Dec 23
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Korczak

Dir. Andrzej Wajda
118 min

With an admirably unsentimental script by Agnieszka Holland, and black-and-white cinematography by Robby Müller (Paris, Texas), Wajda relates the true story of the renowned doctor and teacher who ran a Jewish orphanage in the midst of the Holocaust.

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5:30 pm
Mon Dec 21
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:20 pm
Tue Dec 22
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Katyn

Dir. Andrzej Wajda
115 min

Returning to the subject of WWII once more, Wajda made perhaps his most personal film, broaching the once taboo topic of the massacre of some 22,000 Polish prisoners of war by the Red Army in the Kaytn forest, 1940. Among the victims, Wajda's father.

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1:30 pm
Sun Dec 27
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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