Canadian Premiere
In the southwest of Texas, the small-town Eagle Pass borders the city of Piedras Negras in Mexico, connected by a bridge over the Rio Grande. Unmoored after the death of her brother Marcelo, filmmaker Robie Flores is drawn back to Eagle Pass, and, while processing her grief, finds echoes and reverberations of her own memories in the hopes, dreams, and daily lives of the youth there.
As the debut feature film of Flores, The In Between is both an immersive, beautiful distillation of fronterizo culture and the rich heritage of Mexican-Americans, and a deeply personal account capturing the liminal headspaces of grief and nostalgia. As she chronicles the quinceañeras, football practices, fishing trips, and aimless adolescent angst in Eagle Pass, she processes her past through their present. Embedding herself in the communities she grew up in, Flores adopts a verité style with her subjects while using her own musings and memories to provide the scaffolding for the film’s emotional weight. A subtle, heartfelt portrait of tejana life in a border town.
Oct 2 & 3: Q&A with producer Alex Flores
USA
2024
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
Book Tickets
Indigenous & Community Access
Indigenous Access Tickets Community Access Tickets Ticket Donation Requests
Credits & Director
Producer
Alejandro J Flores, Kellen Quinn
Cinematography
Robie Flores, Alejandro J Flores
Editor
Robie Flores, Chloe Abrahams
Original Music
Camilo Lara, Demian Galvez
Robie Flores
Robie Flores is an independent filmmaker and video editor based in New Orleans and Eagle Pass, Texas. She is drawn to telling stories that explore the nuances of her fronterizo and Mexican-American communities. The In Between is her first documentary feature. She also directed a documentary short, Boundless (2022) for the Bridge Builders series about justice.
Missing VIFF? Check out what's playing at the VIFF Centre
The Secret Agent
Having run afoul of an influential bureaucrat in Brazil’s military dictatorship circa 1977, Marcelo decamps to Recife to live under an assumed name — but he’ll soon come to understand precisely how rampant the country’s corruption has become.
La venue de l'avenir
Four cousins are tapped to investigate an abandoned house that is their joint inheritance. As they explore, they learn their story of their ancestor Adele (Suzanne Lindon) and her foray into Paris in the age of Impressionism.
Sentimental Value
A once-revered director crashes back into his family’s lives, eager to recruit his daughter for a film role. When she declines, he finds a new muse in an eager but unpolished Hollywood star, sending his botched reconciliation spiraling into chaos.
L'Étranger
Recreating 1940s Algeria in vivid, high contrast black and white cinematography, L'Etranger is erotic, enigmatic and brutal in equal measures, a masterful screen version of Albert Camus's insoluble classic of existential alienation.