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Paper Tiger

Dir. James Gray
115 min

An engineer and his brother fall prey to a dangerous mob scheme in 1986 Queens. James Gray’s Paper Tiger is a tense crime drama about family, loyalty, and the price of ambition. Starring Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson.

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9:00 pm
Thu Oct 08
The Park Theatre
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Revolutionaries Never Die

Dir. Mohanad Yaqubi
81 min

Revolutionaries Never Die is Mohanad Yaqubi’s reply to Jocelyne Saab, who passed away before the two could collaborate. Yaqubi's film serves as equal parts tribute, conversation, and partnership with the revolutionary past.

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9:00 pm
Thu Oct 08
International Village 9
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3:30 pm
Sat Oct 10
SFU Woodwards
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Tender Loving Care

Dir. Mike Leigh
107 min

Mike Leigh’s film depicts the lives of Amy and Rosie, best friends and fellow social workers, who care for the dispossessed with all the strength they have. Sometimes it's funny, tragic, and often it's balancing both, this is a work of humble compassion.

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9:00 pm
Thu Oct 08
The Rio Theatre
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6:00 pm
Sun Oct 11
Vancouver Playhouse
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Gasmask

Dir. Harry Cepka
61 min

Part post-apocalyptic fable, part film essay, Harry Cepka's Gasmask is an enigmatic meditation on memory, ritual, and art. Evoking Chris Marker's La Jetée, it asks what remains of cinema after the world that created it has disappeared.

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9:15 pm
Thu Oct 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Peril at Pincer Point

Dir. Noah Stratton-Twine, Jake Kuhn
83 min

A hapless sound recordist sails to an island seeking a missing girl and the perfect sound for a monster’s roar, but faces a phantom pirate and giant crabs. Handmade and hilarious, The Peril at Pincer Point revels in the scrappy joy of indie filmmaking.

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9:15 pm
Thu Oct 08
International Village 10
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6:15 pm
Sun Oct 11
Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only
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Short Forum 8: Queer Magic

115 min

Do you believe in magic?

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9:30 pm
Thu Oct 08
International Village 8
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3:45 pm
Fri Oct 09
International Village 8
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Yugo Goes to America

Dir. Filip Grujić, Aleksa Borković
87 min

In Yugo Goes to America, millennials from Belgrade drive a Yugo — Yugoslavia’s notoriously unreliable vehicle — from New York to Los Angeles. Their freewheeling road trip traces the car’s volatile history alongside the breakup of Yugoslavia itself.

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12:00 pm
Fri Oct 09
International Village 9
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6:00 pm
Sat Oct 10
SFU Woodwards
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MODES 1

115 min

Archive and the land reveal other ways of seeing, ensuring that what is meant to endure cannot be erased.

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1:15 pm
Fri Oct 09
International Village 8
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Lali

Dir. Sarmad Sultan Khoosat
116 min

Lali explores the turbulent union of Zeba and Sajawal, two wounded souls bound by fate, through a compelling visual language, rich symbolism, and emotional depth. A distinctive and significant work of contemporary Pakistani cinema.

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2:30 pm
Fri Oct 09
Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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The Dreamed Adventure

Dir. Valeska Grisebach
164 min

In Valeska Grisebach’s subtle, gripping crime drama, archaeologist Vesna (Yana Redeva) unearths more than she bargained for when she returns to the southern Bulgarian town of her youth, running afoul of local gangsters in the process.

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2:30 pm
Fri Oct 09
SFU Woodwards
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5:30 pm
Sat Oct 10
Fifth Avenue Cinema - 19+ only
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The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony

Dir. Habiba Nosheen
92 min

The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony follows a group of young female gymnasts in Pakistan's Machar Colony, a highly conservative fishing settlement. Habiba Nosheen's deeply empathetic documentary is a celebration of girlhood, resilience, and self-expression.

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5:30 pm
Fri Oct 09
Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island
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12:00 pm
Sat Oct 10
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:00 pm
Sun Oct 11
Alliance Francaise
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Midnight Momo

Dir. Tenzin Yeshi
83 min

Kunga, a waiter at a Queens momo shop, finds himself trapped in a loop of the final minutes of his shift. Midnight Momo is a frenetic, distinctly Tibetan American indie comedy that puts a working-class spin on the Buddhist cycle of suffering and rebirth.

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5:30 pm
Fri Oct 09
International Village 9
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3:45 pm
Sun Oct 11
International Village 9
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