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Intimate and unapologetic stories of women and queer lives are uncovered through provocative and deeply personal accounts that examine memory, identity, and dignity.

 

Oct 3 & 11: Q&A

 

This short film program includes the following films:

Rezbotanik
Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro, Portugal/Brazil/Spain (19 min)

After a night partying, Rezmorah sobers up in the botanical gardens of Lisbon, pondering what the plants can teach us about queerness.

 


Abortion Party
Julia Mellen, Spain (14 min)

Director Julia Mellen animates and celebrates the termination of her pregnancy with an unexpected array of guests.

 


It Must Be Because I Decided to Leave
Zhuoyun Chen, China/USA (19 min)

A young woman’s drifting consciousness traces the mystery of an elusive red car.

 


Daria’s Night Flower
Maryam Tafakory, Iran/UK/France (16 min)

Daria has written her first manuscript about falling in love with a mysterious girl called Blue. The night flowers in her garden hide the secrets of a country that has turned love stories into routine crime scenes.

 


Goodbye, Fishies
Jonathan Zhang, Australia (12 min)

Personal stories reinterpreted by the actors and director, depict a Thai mother consumed with deep regret for missing her grandmother’s last moments.

 


Lloyd Wong, Unfinished
Lesley Loksi Chan, Canada (29 min)

Thirty years after his passing, filmmaker Lesley Chan re-examines Lloyd Wong’s uncompleted video art project about living with HIV.

 

Community Partner

     

Director

Various

Country of Origin

Various

Year

2024 & 2025

Language

Various

18+
109 min
Animation Art, Music & Photography Comedy Documentary Experimental & Avant Garde Family Relations Human Rights & Social Justice LGBTQIA2S+ Shorts Women Directors

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Frankenstein

Dir. Guillermo del Toro
149 min

Frankenstein and Guillermo del Toro might have been made for each other. The movie does not disappoint, a ripping yarn of grand adventure, spectacle, hubris, passion and XXL body parts, a tale of the fantastic that rings the imagination. Screening in 35mm.

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The Ballad of a Small Player

Dir. Edward Berger
105 min

Colin Farrell stars in this noir film about a gambler running out of luck in Macau, from the director of Conclave and All Quiet on the Western Front. Tilda Swinton, Fala Chen and Deannie Yip costar.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Woman in the Dunes

Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
147 min

Teshigahara's collaboration with novelist Kōbō Abe's is vividly strange, erotic and unsettling allegory about an amateur entymologist who is himself ensnared in a trap he only dimly understands. Screening in 35mm.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

Dir. Göran Hugo Olsson
240 min

Drawing on 30 years of television archives, Göran Hugo Olsson relates the early history of the state of Israel, as reported by Swedish filmmakers, politicians and journalists. "An astonishing, invaluable document." William Mullally, The National

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Checkpoint Zoo

Dir. Joshua Zeman
107 min

The amazing true story of the rescue of thousands of animals trapped on the frontline at an Ecopark when Russia invades Ukraine in 2022.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Predators

Dir. David Osit
96 min

"Punk'd for pedophiles." That's what Jimmy Kimmel called Chris Hansen's true crime/reality TV show, To Catch a Predator (2004-07). Two decades on, David Osit examines why the show made such an impact, for good or ill, and sits down with Hansen himself.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre