With sweeping scope, documentary at VIFF Centre blends styles to track respected Indigenous astronomer’s journey
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The NFB’s chilling documentary reminds us that a society is measured by the compassion it extends to its most vulnerable
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Aunjanue L. Ellis-Taylor stars in a triumphant and unusual adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Documentary filmmaker Afton Quast Saler turned a camera on herself and her family to explore why she and other women are so often underdiagnosed
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Director Kaouther Ben Hania’s riveting mix of reality and re-enactment just got nominated for an Oscar
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A-list interviewees, rapturous film clips, and reflections from an auteur who’s travelled from Peruvian jungles to Antarctic snowscapes
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Opening night of the series, copresented with the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre, features tapas, wine, and flamenco
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Stories span crash-landing a Cessna into an open field with James Taylor and doing 61 takes of Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London”
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Intimate and sensuous, documentary lets us in on women’s secrets that resound around the world
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Lush music and cinematic flourishes capture Leonard Bernstein’s aesthetic energy, while drawing us into his complicated marriage
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Colourful cast of renters organizes against a foreign-owned developer to save cultural landmark
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Narrating live at VIFF, the filmmaker explores the physics and metaphysics of sound
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Wild 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
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My Animal blends poetic horror and hockey; Bitten is a dark and gorgeously shot fairy tale; Octopus Skin finds fear in an eccentric family
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Filmmaker Jakub Piątek’s compelling new documentary follows a handful of charismatic young keyboard stars through the world’s most prestigious classical-music contest
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Kat Jayme and Asia Youngman’s new documentary humanizes figures who met with social-media-fed vigilantism and snitching
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Through a wild mix of rare concert footage, animation, and interviews, new documentary revisits Aussie group that “annihilated” its audiences
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Fresh-feeling debut from Britain’s Charlotte Rega is as moving as it is deadpan-hilarious
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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”
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Strong performances as Ira Sachs explores the turmoil that follows an impulsive hook-up
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