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Enter the Void

Dir. Gaspar Noé
161 min

Venturing where angels fear to tread, virtuoso filmmaker Gaspar Noé (Vortex) creates a dazzling journey into the Tokyo night, a mind-bending exploration of the outer reaches of human experience inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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8:30 pm
Fri Aug 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sat Aug 02
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Little Big Man

Dir. Arthur Penn
139 min

Dustin Hoffman ages a century in Arthur Penn's epic picaresque anti-western, the tall tale of 121-year-old Jack Crabb, a white man rescued and raised by the Cheyenne, a one-time snake-oil salesman, gunslinger, and mule skinner under General George Custer.

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2:00 pm
Sun Aug 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:45 pm
Wed Aug 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Margaret

Dir. Kenneth Lonergan
186 min

Seventeen-year-old Lisa is rocked with guilt after a woman is killed in a traffic accident. But that’s only one thread in a teeming social tapestry this intense, passionate teen must negotiate as she comes of age in a time of contradiction and confusion.

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5:00 pm
Sun Aug 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Fri Aug 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Between the Mountain and the Sky

Dir. Jeremy Power Regimbal
94 min

After being named CNN HERO, Maggie Doyne, guardian to over fifty Nepalese children, confronts an unimaginable loss. Join us for a Q&A with Maggie Doyne, Tope & filmmaker Jeremy Power Regimbal after the screening.

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7:30 pm
Mon Aug 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Husbands

Dir. John Cassavetes
142 min

Men behaving badly: reeling from the death of a friend, three middle-aged buddies go on an epic drinking binge. It's not enough. They roll home, collect their passports, and take off for a weekend of gambling, women and booze in London.

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7:30 pm
Tue Aug 05
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Nashville

Dir. Robert Altman
159 min

With 26 actors getting more-or-less equal screen time and half of them singing their own tunes, Robert Altman's state-of-the-nation satire on bicentennial USA is a movie that repays multiple views.

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2:00 pm
Wed Aug 06
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Certain Women

Dir. Kelly Reichardt
107 min

Spare, incisive portraits of four Montana women (Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and Lily Gladstone) brushing up against the everyday wears and tears of difficult men, their own circumstances, and the desire for something better.

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5:50 pm
Wed Aug 06
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Mon Aug 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Wed Aug 13
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Samia

Dir. Yasemin Şamdereli
102 min

Despite growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, during the civil war, Samia Yusuf Omar persists in her dream of becoming an Olympic athlete and competes in Beijing, 2008 -- with London, 2012 next on her agenda. Based on a true story.

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1:30 pm
Fri Aug 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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2:30 pm
Mon Aug 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sudan, Remember Us

Dir. Hind Meddeb
78 min

A portrait of young artists and activists, Meddeb's doc charts events in Khartoum between 2019 -- in the immediate wake of the revolution that deposed dictator Omar al-Bashir -- and the mood four years later, when the country has been torn apart by civil war.

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3:30 pm
Fri Aug 08
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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7:45 pm
Tue Aug 12
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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6:40 pm
Wed Aug 13
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Scarecrow

Dir. Jerry Schatzberg
112 min

A bittersweet, touching buddy movie with Gene Hackman as a volatile tramp, Max, and Al Pacino as "Lion", a drifter now set on returning to the wife and kid he abandoned years ago. Hackman's favourite of his own movies.

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8:00 pm
Fri Aug 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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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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Wed Aug 13
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