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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
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6:40 pm
Wed Aug 13
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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
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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
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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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2:30 pm
Sat Aug 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:00 pm
Sun Aug 17
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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
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Oscar Peterson Centenary Tribute: Triology Plays Peterson

Dir. Daryl Duke
180 min

Celebrates Oscar Peterson's centenary with an evening of Canadian jazz and film. Triology — Jodi Proznick (bass), Bill Coon (guitar) and Miles Black (piano) — pays tribute to the legendary Oscar Peterson, followed by cult thriller The Silent Partner.

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7:30 pm
Sat Aug 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Dir. Céline Sciamma
120 min

Céline Sciamma's queer costume drama -- about a painter covertly studying a young noblewoman who refuses to sit for her portrait -- was voted 30th Greatest Film Ever Made in a 2022 poll, the highest ranking film of the past decade.

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11:00 am
Sun Aug 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:30 pm
Tue Aug 19
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Moonlight

Dir. Barry Jenkins
111 min

Moonlight is many things -- a portrait of a young black man coming of age in Miami in the 1980s, a film about fathers and sons, about mentorship and about the scourge of drugs -- but it is also one of the most piercing movie romances of the last decade.

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6:20 pm
Mon Aug 18
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:30 pm
Wed Aug 20
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Get Out

Dir. Jordan Peele
104 min

Guess who's coming to dinner? Daniel Kaluuya is the Black boyfriend justifiably anxious about meeting his white girlfriend's folks for the first time.

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8:45 pm
Mon Aug 18
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sat Aug 23
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8:00 pm
Sun Aug 24
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Raging Bull

Dir. Martin Scorsese
129 min

In the throes of a near-fatal drug problem Martin Scorsese made what he believed could be his last movie. Its subject: the Bronx Bull, Jake La Motta, a graceless but indomitable boxer who never quits beating himself up. De Niro has never dug deeper.

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2:00 pm
Wed Aug 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sun Aug 24
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