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An Incomplete Calendar

Dir. Sanaz Sohrabi
77 min

A forgotten vinyl record from Venezuela becomes Sanaz Sohrabi's guide through interlocking histories of oil, Iran, music, and political memory in An Incomplete Calendar.

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6:00 pm
Sat Oct 03
International Village 8
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12:15 pm
Sun Oct 04
International Village 10
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How We Stand

Dir. Marie Clements
107 min

How We Stand follows three Indigenous sisters separated after their family relocates to Los Angeles under Native American Relocation Program in the 1950s. Twenty years later, they navigate identity, trauma, and very different lives.

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6:15 pm
Sat Oct 03
Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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3:00 pm
Sun Oct 04
The Rio Theatre
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3:15 pm
Sun Oct 11
Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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Minotaur

Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
141 min

Russia, 2022. While contending with the fallout of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a corporate executive tries to insulate his home life from the consequences of the war. But when he discovers that his wife has been unfaithful, things start to implode.

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6:15 pm
Sat Oct 03
The Park Theatre
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8:30 pm
Fri Oct 09
Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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2:30 pm
Sun Oct 11
Vancouver Playhouse
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Smudge the Blades

Dir. Cody Lightning
96 min

This rousing hockey drama centres on the Treaty 6 Blades, a team of Indigenous youth on a quest for redemption. Blessed with a terrific cast, this is a crowd-pleaser in which victory is about much more than winning the game.

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6:15 pm
Sat Oct 03
The Rio Theatre
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3:00 pm
Mon Oct 05
International Village 9
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The Ballad From Wednesday to Thursday

Dir. Christoph Otto
79 min

As evening approaches, residents of Cologne gather in bars, cafes, and clubs, talking about everything from immigration, war in the Middle East, feminism, and racial profiling. As the alcohol flows, conversations get louder and opinions looser.

Image: © Montell Taraschewski_Monte Kalk Film

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6:30 pm
Sat Oct 03
The Cinematheque
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3:30 pm
Sun Oct 04
The Cinematheque
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Fatherland

Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski
82 min

Nobel laureate Thomas Mann returns to postwar Germany alongside his fiercely loyal daughter Erika. Winner of Best Director at Cannes, Paweł Pawlikowski's drama is a piercing study of complicity, family fractures, and the impossibility of true homecoming.

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6:30 pm
Sat Oct 03
Vancouver Playhouse
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6:30 pm
Tue Oct 06
The Park Theatre
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9:30 pm
Thu Oct 08
Vancouver Playhouse
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Concrete Land

Dir. Asmahan Bkerat
101 min

Filmed over eight years, Concrete Land follows the Najar family, one of Jordan’s last Afro-Palestinian-Bedouin families, as luxury villas close in on their grazing space outside Amman. Asmahan Bkerat preserves their way of life in the face of erasure.

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8:00 pm
Sat Oct 03
SFU Woodwards
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12:15 pm
Sun Oct 04
Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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Short Forum 3: Workers of the World

111 min

The grind of the working class in a system that betrays its promises.

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8:15 pm
Sat Oct 03
International Village 8
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3:30 pm
Sun Oct 04
International Village 8
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TAKKUUK

120 min

Arctic Indigenous artists reckon with culture, colonialism, and a rapidly changing world in this visually explosive film, featuring a hypnotic Bicep score. With live performances from Inuit throat-singing duo Silla and Greenlandic rapper Tarrak.

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8:30 pm
Sat Oct 03
SFU - Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre
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Nina Roza

Dir. Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
103 min

Mihail, a contemporary art expert, has been living in Montreal since he left Bulgaria with his daughter almost thirty years ago. When he is commissioned to authenticate the work of an 8-year-old painting prodigy, he returns to Bulgaria for the first time.

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8:30 pm
Sat Oct 03
International Village 10
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2:45 pm
Sun Oct 04
International Village 10
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6:00 pm
Sat Oct 10
Alliance Francaise
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Dir. Bảo Lê
128 min

Bảo Lê makes a notable entrance with this lush, meticulously composed feature debut that unfolds as a series of film tableaux drawing on moments in the life of a middle-aged mechanic whose work involves installing decibel meters across public spaces.

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8:30 pm
Sat Oct 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:00 pm
Sun Oct 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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MODES 3

89 min

Interior worlds reveal wisdom, intuitive connections, the esoteric, and death. Or is it liberation? A bid to commune with the feminine, other realms, and ghosts.

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9:00 pm
Sat Oct 03
The Cinematheque
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6:30 pm
Sun Oct 11
International Village 8
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