Skip to main content
My Thoughts Exactly film image, director Mike Archibald

My Thoughts Exactly

World Premiere

Two strangers bring their love, frustration, and desire to the cruising trails within Stanley Park.

 

Supported by

Media Partner

Community Broadcast Partner

Community Partner

Director
Cast

Ishan Sandhu, Robert L. Duncan, Nathaniel Vossen, Mickey Brazeau, Ranjit Samra

Credits
Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2022

Language

English

Film Contact
G
18 min

Featured in:

Late Summer film image

VIFF Short Forum: Program 4

Bouncing through nostalgic aesthetics and genre storytelling, a contemporary point of view comes into focus.

 

MORE INFO

Missing VIFF? Check out what's playing at the VIFF Centre

Silence

Dir. Martin Scorsese
141 min

This sober, probing examination of faith, ego, cruelty and compassion is the most underrated film from the often under-valued latter half of Martin Scorsese's brilliant career; a passion project, about Catholic missionaries in 17th Century Japan.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Last Breath

Dir. Costa-Gavras
100 min

At the age of 91 the revered filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Z) has made a gentle, curious, hopeful film about life on a palliative ward.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Souleymane's Story

Dir. Boris Lojkine
92 min

Exhausted by the grueling grind of the Parisian gig economy and hopping between homeless shelters, Guinean immigrant Souleymane races against time to prepare for his asylum interview. An angry, tender film which is as gripping as any thriller.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Hard Eight

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
101 min

Anderson's debut is a deceptively modest character piece about a veteran gambler (Philip Baker Hall) who takes a much younger man under his wing and teaches him how to play the system and win. Until things take a darker turn...

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Boogie Nights

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
155 min

Being the rise and fall of a prodigiously-endowed performer on the seventies porno scene. Paul Thomas Anderson's flamboyant 1997 calling card movie revels in the wild success of xxxcess, before crashing to earth with a bump.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

The Last Class

Dir. Elliot Kirschner
72 min

Economist and former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich embarks on what will be his last year teaching at Berkeley. What can he impart to the latest generation to inspire and empower them for the grievous challenges ahead?

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Credits

Producer

Mike Archibald, Sophy Romvari, Susanna Barlow

Screenwriter

Mike Archibald

Cinematography

Devan Scott

Editor

Will Ross

Production Design

Maria Katarina

Original Music

Scott Archibald

Director

Mike Archibald headshot, My Thoughts Exactly director

Mike Archibald

A copywriter by trade and a late-blooming filmmaker, Mike Archibald was born and raised in Vancouver. He is a graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University.