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Vancouver filmmaker Antoine Bourges's Concrete Valley explores displacement and unease

New feature follows an immigrant Syrian family, with an entire cast of non-actors and an eye for “the weird pace and unexpectedness of real life”

Vancouver Latin American Film Festival to spotlight Cuba's Pavel Giroud, Argentina’s Santiago Mitre, and more, September 7 to 17

Event kicks off with Brazil’s provocative Rule 34 and closes with Pinochet-era-set Chile ‘76

FESTS, SCREEN, CULTUREJanet SmithAugust 17, 2023VLAFF, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Latinx

Out of the Past conjures dark film noir magic at The Cinematheque August 18 and 24

Robert Mitchum’s jaded P.I., Jane Greer’s enigmatic femme fatale, and a swirl of cigarette smoke

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithAugust 16, 2023The Cinematheque

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture uncovers damage of a single word, at the Vancouver Playhouse August 16

Documentary traces introduction of the term “homosexual” to Bible in mid-20th century, spurring decades of prejudice, at Vancouver Queer Film Festival

SCREENJanet SmithAugust 14, 2023Vancouver Civic Theatres, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, LGBTQ+

Film review: Passages takes a compelling look at an uncomfortable triangle of modern pansexual Parisians

Strong performances as Ira Sachs explores the turmoil that follows an impulsive hook-up

SCREENJanet SmithAugust 11, 2023VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival

Atom Egoyan, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ken Loach as Vancouver International Film Festival unveils first of its programming

PuSh festival cofounder Norman Armour to curate boundary-pushing VIFF Live program

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithAugust 10, 2023Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF

Film review: A Compassionate Spy documentary deepens the historical discourse around Oppenheimer

Filmmaker Steve James tells the story of atomic physicist Ted Hall, who passed secrets to the Soviets

SCREENJanet SmithAugust 3, 2023VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival

VIFF’s Back to the 80s film screenings and talks continue to August 31

Flicks coming up on the program include Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet

SCREENStir VancouverAugust 2, 2023Partner Content, VIFF

The Cinematheque hosts this year's film noir event from August 3 to September 4

This year’s round-up features 12 masterpieces of the era, opening with The Maltese Falcon

SCREENStir VancouverJuly 31, 2023Partner Content, The Cinematheque

North of Normal brings Cea Sunrise Person's memoir of free-range childhood to big screen

Film release has author reflecting on the bad and good that came with the ‘60s and ‘70s counterculture movement that brought her to the BC wilderness

SCREENJanet SmithJuly 28, 2023VIFF, VIFF Centre, Cea Sunrise Person

Top Gun: Maverick kicks off a purely popcorn-flavoured Sunset Cinema series, August 2 to 30

Vancouver Civic Theatres hosts the free outdoor movies on a giant inflatable screen outside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJuly 23, 2023Vancouver Civic Theatres, Sunset Cinema, Summer 2023

Film reviews: Toy guns and Gallic courtship at The Cinematheque's ode to France's peerless Jean Eustache

The uncomfortably honest The Mother and the Whore and the autobiographical coming-of-age movie Mes petites amoureuses were the late, great director’s only two feature-length films

SCREENJanet SmithJuly 19, 2023The Cinematheque, Summer 2023