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Faya Dayi takes a hallucinatory look at Ethiopia’s khat crops, to November 24 at The Cinematheque

Poetic black-and-white imagery explores the intoxicating hold the green leaves have on a people

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 19, 2021The Cinematheque

Film review: Jane Campion's cleverly constructed The Power of the Dog reimagines the western

Set on a vast Montana ranch, the story takes an engrossing look at weakness and strength

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 16, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre, Power of the Dog, Homepage feature

The Six explores untold story of Chinese men who survived Titanic sinking, via KDocsFF, November 17 to 19

Panel on November 19 features the director and lead researcher who uncover a lost history

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 16, 2021KDOCS, Kdocs, KDocsFF

VIFF Centre to bring Jane Campion's award-winning The Power of the Dog to the big screen

The Piano director turns the classic western on its head

SCREENStir VancouverNovember 15, 2021Partner Content, VIFF, ViFF Centre

In Balanchine's Classroom takes you into the studio of one of ballet's most influential masters, at VIFF Centre starting November 14

In a new documentary, dancers recall the rigour and precision of the iconic choreographer

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 12, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre

Film reviews: Red herrings and real-life intrigue at the European Union Film Festival

Three thought-provoking picks, including the wickedly bleak Slovenian opener Inventory

SCREENStir VancouverNovember 10, 2021The Cinematheque, European Union Film Festival, EUFF

Lin-Manuel Miranda makes directorial debut with tick, tick...Boom!

VIFF presents the acclaimed artist’s new film, inspired by the real-life experience of Rent creator Jonathan Larso

SCREENStir VancouverNovember 9, 2021Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre

Film review: Only the Animals tells an engrossing mystery from multiple points of view

Perspective-playing structure reveals the grim lengths lonely characters will go for love

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 7, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers sheds light on the opioid crisis in Kanai First Nation in new film

The NFB documentary Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy looks at efforts to practice harm reduction on the largest reserve in Canada.

Film reviews: 3 movies to check out at the South African Film Festival, from a must-see family drama to powerful documentaries

Barakat, Zero to Zero, and Murder in Paris are some of the standouts streaming November 4 to 14

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 2, 2021South Africa, South African Film Festival, VSAFF

Gender parity as Whistler Film Festival unveils online and in-person programming for December event

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter opens a lineup with a strong female contingent

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 2, 2021WFF, Whistler Film Festival

Honoré de Balzac's Eugénie Grandet comes to atmospheric cinematic life, in French Movie Club screening at new time November 4

Visions Ouest Productions and Alliance Francaise screening takes a ferocious look at lives of women in early-19th-century France

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 2, 2021VISIONS OUEST, Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, Alliance Francaise

The Magnitude of All Things links personal and planetary loss on a profound scale, at VIFF Centre to November 4

Travelling from Australia to the Amazon, the director finds a way through grief

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 30, 2021NFB, National Film Board, Jennifer Abbott

Film review: Passing unpacks a story about race and aspiration with dreamlike style

Shot in mesmerizing black-and-white, a tale of two women dealing with the racial segregation of 1920s New York

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 29, 2021Passing, VIFF, VIFF Centre, Netflix

UBC instructor Igor Drljaca’s The White Fortress is going to the Oscars

VIFF film will represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2022 Academy Awards in foreign-language film category

SCREEN, NEWSJanet SmithOctober 28, 2021VIFF, The WhiteFortress

Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre conjures real creepiness on the big screen, October 29 and 30, and November 3

Klaus Kinski’s unforgettable ghoul hits The Cinematheque in time for Halloween

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 25, 2021The Cinematheque

Stir Cheat Sheet: 6 fine films beyond Shoplifters by Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda

The Cinematheque fetes the filmmaker who finds the poetic in family bonds

SCREENStir VancouverOctober 16, 2021The Cinematheque

Maria Chapedelaine brings a Quebec-literature classic to handsome life onscreen, October 20 and 21

Alliance Française and Visions Ouest present the new film at Vancouver and Coquitlam theatres

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 15, 2021VISIONS OUEST

Film reviews: The White Fortress, White Cube, and more worth cramming in VIFF's final days

An aching ode to Sarajevo’s youth, and art as a force of radical change in the Congo

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 10, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021

Night Raiders director Danis Goulet draws on Cree heritage, painful residential-school legacy for dystopian thriller

Her film opened this weekend with the widest release of any Indigenous Canadian feature

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 9, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021, Indigenous film

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