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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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5:00 pm
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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7:30 pm
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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4:45 pm
Mon Aug 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:15 pm
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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7:45 pm
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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2:30 pm
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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7:30 pm
Wed Aug 13
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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Sat Aug 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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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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