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The Maids of Wilko film image; woman lingering under a tree's canopy

The Maids of Wilko

Dir. Andrzej Wajda
118 min
Andrzej Wajda 100

This wistful tale finds jaded WWI veteran Wiktor (Daniel Olbrychski) returning to the summer estate he used to visit before the war, and to the Wilko farm, where five sisters remember him fondly. Academy Award Nominee: Best Foreign Language Film

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2:00 pm
Tue Dec 15
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Meet Me In St. Louis film image; smiling man and woman in fancy clothes

Meet Me In St. Louis

Dir. Vincente Minnelli
113 min
Pantheon

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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Danton film image; man standing in front of a guillotine

Danton

Dir. Andrzej Wajda
136 min
Andrzej Wajda 100

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 film image; man looking intently at something offscreen

Korczak

Dir. Andrzej Wajda
118 min
Andrzej Wajda 100

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 film image; overhead shot of a crowded prison camp

Katyn

Dir. Andrzej Wajda
115 min
Andrzej Wajda 100

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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