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Seven Veils

Action & Suspense Art, Music & Photography Drama

Haunted by disturbing memories Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to reshape the present as she re-enters the opera world in order to remount her former mentor's most famous work, Salome. Atom Egoyan's latest is a fractured mirror of abuse and catharsis.

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6:00 pm
Sun Oct 01
Vancouver Playhouse
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9:00 pm
Wed Oct 04
Vancouver Playhouse
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International Shorts: Relational Baggage

Shorts

The short films in this program illustrate some of the barriers or difficulties people run into with their personal relationships.

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6:00 pm
Sun Oct 01
International Village 8
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12:15 pm
Tue Oct 03
International Village 8
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Fitting In

Drama Women Directors

16 and ready to lose her virginity, Lindy is distressed to learn she has a rare condition which means she will never conceive and penetrative sex will require intervention. McGlynn's raw, funny film resonates with debates around sex and gender conformity.

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6:00 pm
Sun Oct 01
The Rio Theatre
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3:45 pm
Mon Oct 02
International Village 10
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MODES 2

Questioning the nature of our material world, artists from South Africa, Spain, Iran and Brazil invite conditional realities to ponder memory, history and the length of existence. Witness and wonder, prepare to confront the possible meaning of it all.

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6:00 pm
Sun Oct 01
Vancity Theatre
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4:15 pm
Sun Oct 08
The Cinematheque
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Invisible Beauty

Award Winners Documentary Women Directors

Since her breakout as one of the most high-profile Black models in the 1970s, fashion world titan Bethann Hardison has advocated for diversity both on and off the runway. This elegant documentary traces her attempt to revolutionize the fashion world.

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6:15 pm
Sun Oct 01
International Village 9
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1:00 pm
Sat Oct 07
International Village 9
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Octopus Skin

Drama LGBTQIA2S+ Women Directors

Three siblings live with an emotionally stunted mother on a remote island off the coast of Ecuador, cocooned and deeply mistrustful of the world outside their bubble. But dark secrets loom, pulling the eldest daughter toward city life.

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6:30 pm
Sun Oct 01
The Cinematheque
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3:45 pm
Wed Oct 04
Vancity Theatre
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WaaPaKe

Documentary Human Rights & Social Justice

WaaPaKe is a story about resilience, love and transformation. Examined through an Indigenous lens, the stories of residential school Survivor-Warriors and their families offer an understanding of both intergenerational trauma and healing.

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6:30 pm
Sun Oct 01
SFU Woodwards
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3:45 pm
Wed Oct 04
International Village 9
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Irena's Vow

Drama Women Directors

In German-occupied Poland, a young woman, Irene Gut Opdyke (Sophie Nélisse) risks her life by hiding 12 Jews in the cellar of a villa where she serves as housekeeper for a Werhmacht officer. But one day, he discovers the truth... Based on a true story.

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6:30 pm
Sun Oct 01
International Village 10
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1:00 pm
Sun Oct 08
International Village 10
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Machine Folklore by Software2050 & NAXS Future

What does humanity look like to AI? Using a masterful combination of music and moving image, two of Taiwan’s foremost art collectives explore the future of digital culture, aesthetics, and the metaverse in a hypnotic performance.

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7:00 pm
Sun Oct 01
Roundhouse
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VIFF Short Forum: Program 2

Shorts

Get in for a rollercoaster journey through the depths of struggle and perseverance. Not for the faint of heart, this collection is as difficult as it is beautiful.

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8:30 pm
Sun Oct 01
Vancity Theatre
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12:15 pm
Mon Oct 02
International Village 8
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About Dry Grasses

Award Winners Drama

In a remote village in eastern Turkey, an art teacher enters his fourth and final year at a state-mandated teaching post, but finds himself having to navigate two tricky relationships which force him into existential crisis.

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8:30 pm
Sun Oct 01
Park Theatre
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12:15 pm
Sun Oct 08
SFU Woodwards
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Animalia

Action & Suspense Drama Horror & Sci-Fi Women Directors

An unexpected meteorological phenomenon means that a heavily pregnant young Moroccan woman, Itto, is forced to flee from her comfortable home alone and brave an increasingly otherworldly and apocalyptic milieu. A singular, hard-to-classify debut feature.

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9:00 pm
Sun Oct 01
The Rio Theatre
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8:30 pm
Sat Oct 07
International Village 8
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