Colourful cast of renters organizes against a foreign-owned developer to save cultural landmark
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Colourful cast of renters organizes against a foreign-owned developer to save cultural landmark
Read MoreEvent features Carson’s self-directed documentary at the VIFF Centre, followed by a live piano concert at Pyatt Hall
Read MoreNew film captures frustrations and triumphs inherent to a punishing sport—and allows the rest of us to experience it by proxy
Read MoreIn its first return here since DOXA. documentary raises troubling questions about entrapment, national security, and democracy
Read MoreFull-length feature details the arrival of French settlers in present-day Montreal in English, French, and Kanien’kéha (Mohawk)
Read MoreWild Goat Surf carves out a new kind of coming-of-age tale; Seagrass summons ghosts of history; plus The Old Oak, Rapture, and much more
Read MoreDirector Dylan Maranda talks chaotic cinematography, family history, and meeting chef Joël Watanabe for his food-critic-centred narrative
Read MoreDocumentary shows young Siksika woman’s journey competing in the dangerous male-dominated sport with the love and support of her family
Read MoreFilmmaker Jakub Piątek’s compelling new documentary follows a handful of charismatic young keyboard stars through the world’s most prestigious classical-music contest
Read MoreKat Jayme and Asia Youngman’s new documentary humanizes figures who met with social-media-fed vigilantism and snitching
Read MoreThrough a wild mix of rare concert footage, animation, and interviews, new documentary revisits Aussie group that “annihilated” its audiences
Read MoreOpening with Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves and closing with Tran Anh Hùng’s The Pot-au-Feu, it’s a year of complexity and striking imagery
Read MoreFresh-feeling debut from Britain’s Charlotte Rega is as moving as it is deadpan-hilarious
Read MoreNew 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”
Read MoreStrong performances as Ira Sachs explores the turmoil that follows an impulsive hook-up
Read MorePuSh festival cofounder Norman Armour to curate boundary-pushing VIFF Live program
Read MoreFilmmaker Steve James tells the story of atomic physicist Ted Hall, who passed secrets to the Soviets
Read MoreFlicks coming up on the program include Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet
Read MoreFilm 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
Read MoreLife stories and lingering shots of a craft that falls somewhere between engineering, art, history—and possibly obsession
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