Cate Blanchett is icily perfect as the elite conductor whose polished image starts to show cracks
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Collaborators Cameron Mackenzie and Suzanne Friesen screen three short works that illustrate their approach to filmmaking as a poetic art form
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Ruben Östlund’s latest movie sets sail on a luxury cruise liner filled with grotesque caricatures of the super-wealthy
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In a new Artscape video-podcast episode, director of programming Curtis Woloschuk reflects on the fest this year, and where it’s headed in the future
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What happens is flamboyantly disgusting and extremely funny, with Woody Harrelson in his element
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Appearing at VIFF with the VSO, the artist will talk about the diverse training that brought him to the films of Jordan Peele—as well as orchestral and operatic stages
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Fogaréu is irresistibly disquieting; Sick of Myself recalls a classic of urban cultural psychosis; and Leonor Will Never Die proves surprisingly fun; Music Pictures: New Orleans pays tribute to the NOLA sound
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A collaborative project between non-Indigenous filmmakers and Indigenous elders, the film was seven years in the making
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New documentary goes inside the choreographer’s process, then plays out the celebrated National Ballet work in its entirety
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Animation, interviews, and archival footage bring to life the works that turn urban detritus into subversive, allegorical statements
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The pair play two hapless Laurel Canyon neighbours in a crazy-making cosmic-horror flick born out of the pandemic and apocalyptic wildfires
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The Mountain is simply lovely, Golden Delicious tender and genuine; The Grizzlie Truth drives into untold history of Vancouver’s NBA team
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Dene/Métis writer, director, and producer Marie Clements’s feature tells a Cree woman’s harrowing life story, inspired by true events
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An immigrant mother’s moving struggle to raise her son in suburban Vancouver, and the fractured relationship between parent and child in Japan
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Holy Spider, Pacifiction, and Other Cannibals are guaranteed to work their way under your skin
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The documentary’s writer-director Nisha Platzer was 11 years old when her older brother took his own life
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Documentary-thriller traces the real-life hijacking of a TV station by Falun Gong movement in 2002, and its brutal repercussions
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Sea Psalm composer Stephen Smith is guest organist in mixed program that also features works by Byrd and Bach, among others
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Highlights include Broken Keys, Memory Box, and The Blue Inmates
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Marie Clements’s Bones of Crows opens, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker closes, Nosferatu gets a centenary live-score performance, and much more
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