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Man With a Movie Camera Live Scored by Taras Luka

Dir. Dziga Vertov
67 min

Bottomless invention and frenetic, dizzying montage make this city symphony one of cinema’s sharpest, most exciting experiences nearly a century after its release — here presented with a brand new score by Ukrainian composer and pianist Taras Luka.

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7:30 pm
Sun Apr 26
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Lives of Others

Dir. Florian Henkel von Donnesmarck
137 min

This month's Talking Pictures film is a masterly Cold War thriller set in East Berlin. An agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives...

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11:00 am
Tue Apr 28
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Lingua Franca

Dir. Isabel Sandoval
95 min

Lingua Franca is a tender portrait of intimacy shaped by migration, vulnerability, and the quiet negotiations of belonging. Centered on an undocumented Filipina trans woman living in New York, the film moves with delicate restraint.

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7:30 pm
Wed Apr 29
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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M

Dir. Fritz Lang
110 min

A sophisticated and gripping suspense drama about the hunt for a child murderer, played with disturbing compassion by the great Peter Lorre. M was Fritz Lang's first sound film, and you can sense his excitement at the possibilities.

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11:00 am
Sun May 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:50 pm
Tue May 19
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Miles Davis 100! Vince Mai Plays Miles Davis

Dir. Stanley Nelson
114 min

Vancouver trumpet legend Vince Mai Vince Mai will be performing music from some of Miles Davis's most memorable 1950s albums, including Kind of Blue, Walkin', Relaxin' and more. After his live set, enjoy Stanley Nelson's definitive documentary.

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2:00 pm
Sun May 24
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:00 pm
Sun May 24
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Other Side of Hope

Dir. Aki Kaurismäki
98 min

Khaled, a Syrian (Sherwan Haji), washes up on Finland's glum shores and becomes an unlikely friend to a middle-aged Finnish shirt salesman (Sakari Kuosmanen) in the midst of remaking his life. Compassionate and wryly funny by turns.

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11:00 am
Tue May 26
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Miles Davis 100! Elevator to the Gallows + Julian Borkowski

Dir. Louis Malle
91 min

24-year-old Louis Malle came out of the gate with this cool noir about a perfect murder that goes horribly wrong. A man (Maurice Ronet) kills his boss in his office, only to get stuck in the lift... Meanwhile his lover (Jeanne Moreau) is going frantic.

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6:30 pm
Tue May 26
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Feven Kidane Plays Ethio Jazz + Broken Flowers Film Screening

Dir. Jim Jarmusch
106 min

The Kidannes Ethio-Jazz Ensemble will be performing a unique blend of traditional Ethiopian & Eritrean music, combined with a healthy dollop of Western Jazz, in advance of the Jim Jarmusch movie which popularized Ethiopian Jazz in the West.

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7:00 pm
Sun May 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Leopard

Dir. Luchino Visconti
185 min

Lampedusa's elegiac account of a 19th century Sicilian aristocrat, Prince Salina, fading into history is one of the pinnacles of Italian cinema, an epic which influenced the tempo and gravitas of The Godfather, Age of Innocence and The Deer Hunter.

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11:00 am
Sun Jun 21
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:00 pm
Tue Jun 23
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Rear Window

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
110 min

James Stewart is the man who sees too much. "Jeff" Jeffries is a sports photographer waylaid by a broken leg, doomed to spend the summer in a wheelchair in his New York apartment. That's how he comes to witness a murder in the dead of night (or does he?).

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11:00 am
Sun Jul 19
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:50 pm
Tue Jul 21
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Xala

Dir. Ousmane Sembène
123 min

Ousmane Sembène is known as the "father of African cinema". An adaptation of his own 1973 novel, Xala is a hilarious, caustic satire of political corruption under an inept post-colonial patriarchy.

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11:00 am
Sun Aug 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:50 pm
Tue Aug 18
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Andrei Rublev

Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
183 min

Andrei Tarkovsky's vast and vivid episodic epic tells the story of a Russian monk and painter of religious icons 1400-1428, during the time of the Tartar invasions.

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11:00 am
Sun Sep 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:00 pm
Tue Sep 22
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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