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Film reviews: Visually stunning journeys to far-away lands, with The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs and Neptune Frost

Folklore with a feminist twist in Himalayan India, and a mind-bending Afro-futurist trip through Burundi, at The Cinematheque

SCREENJanet SmithJune 11, 2022The Cinematheque

Film screenings mark National Indigenous People's Day, at MOA on June 21

Several short films will honour the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Musqueam territory that the museum sits on

Film review: Mystifying Memoria casts a strange spell

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest cinematic odyssey heightens sound to create a waking dream

SCREENJanet SmithMay 28, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre, Homepage feature

Tilda Swinton and award-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul join forces for dreamlike Memoria

Winner of the Cannes 2021 Jury Prize opens at VIFF Centre’s Vancity Theatre May 27

SCREENJanet SmithMay 24, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre, SPRING

Stir Cheat Sheet: 6 films to catch at The Cinematheque's retrospective on pioneering female filmmaker Tanaka Kinuyo

Famous as an actor, the postwar Japanese director crafted almost-forgotten films centred around strong women

SCREENJanet SmithMay 23, 2022The Cinematheque, Homepage feature

Film review: Vortex's radical act of cinema adds up to a devastating look at mortality

Using split screens and long takes, auteur Gaspar Noé takes viewers on an uncompromising trip to an elderly couple’s agonizing end

SCREENJanet SmithMay 20, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre

Film review: Mau takes a brisk, style-savvy, but revelatory look at Canadian design maverick

Fittingly fuelled by block text and imagery, documentary also digs into Bruce Mau’s unlikely beginnings for meaning

ART & DESIGN, SCREENJanet SmithMay 19, 2022Bruce Mau, VIFF

Bright colours and progressive ideas as Mississippi Masala sees a vivid new restoration, at The Cinematheque starting May 19

Mira Nair’s cult classic, with its spicy story of cross-cultural love and family, has aged well

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 18, 2022The Cinematheque

Hello World, Love in the Time of Fentanyl, and more winners announced for 2022 DOXA Festival

Galb’Echaouf and Children of the Mist also earn juried prizes

SCREEN, NEWSJanet SmithMay 15, 2022DOXA

S'all good as VIFF picks the brain of Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould, online May 17

The writer for all five seasons of Breaking Bad now works as co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer for Saul Goodman’s final journey

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 15, 2022VIFF

Cardboard, feathers, and street lights: a dreamlike 360-degree taxi ride from Australia's Film Camp

As part of Boca del Lupo’s VR Salon, stop-motion film Passenger speaks to the surreal experience of arriving in a new country at night

THEATRE, SCREENJanet SmithMay 11, 2022BOCA DEL LUPO, Boca del Lupo, Film Camp, VR

Film review: Petite Maman weaves gentle magic around childhood and motherhood

In Céline Sciamma’s profoundly moving film, a little girl makes a new friend in a fairy-tale forest

SCREENJanet SmithMay 7, 2022Spring Guide 2022

Crazy8s gala and after-party celebrate filmmakers' ability to work fast, May 7 at the Centre and Science World

This year’s top flicks span fully realized fantasy-horror and not-so-garden-variety black comedy

SCREENJanet SmithMay 6, 2022Crazy8s, SPRING

The Lake / nx̌aʔx̌aʔitkʷ marks a meeting of minds, cultures, and opera music, at DOXA

Film traces soprano Heather Pawsey’s long journey to decolonize a work about an Okanagan homesteader

MUSIC, OPERA, FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithMay 5, 2022Vancouver Opera, Astrolabe Musik Theatre, SPRING, DOXA

Film reviews: Striking DOXA documentaries travel from the mouths of volcanoes to the hills of Vietnam and beyond

This year’s standouts include Fire of Love, Rewind & Play, and Children of the Mist

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithMay 5, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, DOXA

Stop-motion puppetry to old travel footage, DOXA filmmakers play with format in poetic new ways

Terra Femme fashions its own pioneering archeology; 1970 looks back at the brutality of Cold War Poland; From the Balcony captures humanity from a unique perspective

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithMay 4, 2022DOXA

At DOXA, Love in the Time of Fentanyl shows the Downtown Eastside's humanity and heart

Colin Askey’s documentary takes viewers inside the Overdose Prevention Society

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonApril 29, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, DOXA

Doug and the Slugs get their due as true Canadian legends in new DOXA documentary

In which filmmaker Teresa Alfeld helps a former doubter find a fevered appreciation for one of Vancouver’s most misunderstood bands

SCREENStir VancouverApril 29, 2022DOXA, SPRING

Image Before Us series highlights the human spirit and immigration policy at The Cinematheque, May 4

BC film Turbulence explores the fallout of Iran-Iraqi war, while Continuous Journey takes a well-crafted look back at the Komagata Maru incident

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithApril 28, 2022The Cinematheque

Crazy8s unveils its top six short films at live Gala Screening, May 7 at The Centre

Tickets are on sale for red-carpet event, followed by vintage-circus-inspired AfterParty

SCREENJanet SmithApril 21, 2022Crazy8s, SPRING

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