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March 5 - April 8, 2017
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Beyond 150 Years: An Acknowledgement of Cinematic Territory
Beyond 150 Years
MAR 6 - 7, 2017 - FREE EVENTS
Canada's sesquicentennial is a complicated celebration
for Indigenous peoples. A Reel Canada initiative, Beyond
150 Years: An Acknowledgement of Cinematic Territory
is an opportunity to celebrate the impact of Indigenous
cinematic stories. It will feature two days of free public
film screenings, film talks, artist talks, and a high school
screening presented at Vancity Film Centre in partnership
with the VIFF and the National Film Board of Canada.
Flipping the Script:
Making Films to Make Change:
Artist Talk with Lisa Jackson
60 MIN. TRUE NORTH
MON MAR 6 - 2:00PM
With a background in documentary, including acclaimed
shorts Suckerfish, and the CBC-broadcast How a People
Live, Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson expanded into
fiction with Savage, which won a 2010 Genie award for
Best Short Film. Cross-genre work includes current affairs,
animation, performance art film, and a musical. Lisa Jackson will discuss her influences and process, work, and her
recent foray into new technologies with the virtual reality
documentary Highway of Tears.
Angry Inuk
ALETHEA ARNAQUQ-BARIL, CANADA, 2016, 85 MIN. IMPACT
MON MAR 6
9:00AM - SCHOOLS SCRENING
7:00PM
Wryly tackling both misinformation and aggressive appeals to emotion, Inuk filmmaker Arnaquq-Baril reframes
the controversial topic of the seal hunt as a cultural issue
in this award-winning hit. “Angry Inuk delivers important
information about an issue we tend to think we know everything about, and delivers a powerful emotional punch.”
Now Magazine. Filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril will be in
attendance.
Moderated by Doreen Manuel.
Past, Present and Future:
Kanehsatake:
270 Years of Resistance Alanis Obomsawin &
Atanarjuat: The Fast
Runner
TUE MAR 7 - 9:00AM
TUE MAR 7 - 7:00PM
ALANIS OBOMSAWIN, CANADA, 1993, 119 MIN. TRUE NORTH
Amanda Strong
90 MIN. TRUE NORTH
This powerful documentary takes you right to the heart of
the action, painting a sensitive and deeply affecting portrait
of the people behind the barricades of the 1990 Oka Crisis.
Winner of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Best Canadian Feature Film prize.
Preceded by short film: Mia (Directed by Amanda Strong,
2015) A young Indigenous street artist struggles to return
home after being transformed into a salmon.
Filmmakers Alanis Obomsawin and Amanda Strong will be
in attendance for a Q&A following the screening.
TUE MAR 7 - 1:00PM
In 2016, celebrated documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin won the Clyde Gilmour Technicolour Award. This
award allowed her to select a young filmmaker to receive
$50,000 in post-production services. Without hesitation,
Obomsawin chose stop-motion animator and Vancouver
resident Amanda Strong.
Join us to witness a conversation between these two fascinating filmmakers as they exchange stories of their careers,
their craft, their process and the intersection of their work
documenting different facets of life and culture.
Preceded by short film: Four Faces of the Moon
ZACHARIAS KUNUK, CANADA, 2001, 161 MIN. TRUE NORTH
Based on an ancient Inuit legend, Atanarjuat is an epic tale
of love, betrayal and revenge. The beautiful Atuat (Ivalu) has
been promised to the short-fused Oki (Arnatsiaq), the son
of the tribe’s leader. However, she loves the good-natured
Atanarjuat (Ungalaaq), a fast runner and excellent hunter.
When Atanarjuat is forced to battle the jealous Oki for Atuat’s hand, the events that follow determine not only his fate,
but that of his people. Atanarjuat won 20 awards, including
eight Genies and the Caméra d’Or at the 2001 Cannes Film
Festival. This highly-celebrated film was recently voted as
TIFF’s Best Canadian Film of All Time.
Join us at 6pm for an introductory talk by filmmaker and
professor Gregory Coyes.
Returning From VIFF
Kedi
Antarctica: Ice & Sky
MON MAR 13 - 7:00PM • TUE MAR 14 - 6:30PM
WED MAR 15 - 6:45PM • THU MAR 16 - 4:45PM
FRI MAR 17 - 6:00PM • SAT MAR 18 - 6:00PM
SUN MAR 19 - 3:00PM • WED MAR 22 - 4:30PM
THU MAR 23 - 8:30PM
FRI MAR 17 - 4:10PM • SAT MAR 18 - 12:00PM
MON MAR 20 - 6:20PM • WED MAR 22 - 6:20PM
THU MAR 23 - 4:30PM • FRI MAR 24 - 4:30PM
CEYDA TORUN, TURKEY/GERMANY/USA, 2015, 79 MIN. PANORAMA
The cat-umentary we have all been waiting for, this irresistibly charming film chronicles the fortunes of the beloved
street cats of Istanbul. In Turkish culture caring for these
animals is a cultural and religious obligation, and it’s estimated that in the capital there are as many cats as citizens.
This beautifully crafted and crafty film has asides on a relationship more symbiotic than it first appears. Suitable for
all ages. “Splendidly graceful and quietly magical.” Variety
In Turkish with English subtitles.
LUC JACQUET, FRANCE, 2016, 89 MIN. IMPACT
Veteran glaciologist Claude Lorius discovered his calling as
a young college student in 1955 when he joined an expedition the coldest and most deserted place on earth, Antarctica. Sixty years and twenty-two Antarctic expeditions
later, Lorius shares his insights, memories and film archives,
tracing his groundbreaking and earth-shattering discoveries about climate change: how the evidence of aeons can
be distilled from the ice. From the director of March of the
Penguins.
In English, French with English subtitles.
A New Moon
Over Tohoku
LINDA OHAMA, CANADA/JAPAN, 2016, 98 MIN. IGNITE
FRI MAR 17 - 7:45PM • SAT MAR 18 - 7:40PM
SUN MAR 19 - 6:30PM • THU MAR 23 - 6:30PM
Notes on disaster: Linda Ohama interviews survivors from
the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that
befell the coastal region of Tohoku. Structuring this elegant,
eloquent film around the four elements, Ohama combines
extraordinary images of devastation with deeply moving
interviews attesting to the best in human nature. “Captures
the heartache of loss in the subjects’ own words but delivers a life-affirming message of hope in the face of adversity.”
Justin Trudeau
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Filmmaker Q&A - Linda Ohama will be present at opening
weekend screenings.
Hello Destroyer
After the Storm
KEVAN FUNK, CANADA, 2016, 110 MIN. IGNITE
TUE MAR 21 - 6:30PM • SAT MAR 25 - 9:50PM
Nominated for four Canadian Screen Awards, including
Best Film, Direction, Screenplay and Best Actor (Jared Abrahamson), Hello Destroyer is one of the most impressive BC
productions in years, a powerful and very moving dramatic
feature debut from Emily Carr grad Kevan Funk. When Junior hockey enforcer Tyson puts someone in hospital he has
no conception of how his life is about to turn upside down.
His journey is a rude awakening that cuts deep into how we
structure society.
Winner: Best Canadian Film, Best BC Film, Vancouver Film
Critics Awards. BC Emerging Filmmaker Award, VIFF.
O, Brazen Age
HIROKAZU KORE-EDA, JAPAN, 2016, 117 MIN. GATEWAY
ALEXANDER CARSON, CANADA, 2015, 80 MIN. TRUE NORTH
FRI MAR 24 - 6:20PM • SAT MAR 25 - 5:40PM
MON MAR 27 - 6:20PM • TUE MAR 28 - 8:40PM
WED MAR 29 - 6:20PM • THU MAR 30 - 1:00PM
MON APR 3 - 8:35PM
TUE APR 4 - 6:45PM
Working in the same sensitive, poignant and affectionately
humorous register he brought to Like Father Like Son and
Still Walking (with several of the same actors, too), modern
master Kore-eda crafts a charming, insightful tale of a deadbeat dad/private eye trying to win his family back.
Part coming-of-age story, part art-cinema meditation on
photography, memory and souvenirs, Alexander Carson’s
debut feature creates a tender and haunting portrait of
friendship and faith in the 21st century.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Popular Demand
Legendary Notes
I Am Not Your Negro
My Life As A Zucchini
FRI MAR 3 - 4:45PM, 8:00PM • MON MAR 13 - 8:40PM
TUE MAR 14 - 8:10PM • WED MAR 15 - 3:20PM
THU MAR 16 - 8:00PM • TUE MAR 21 - 9:10PM
CLAUDE BARRAS, 2016, 70 MIN. M/A/D
RAOUL PECK, USA, 2016, 95 MIN. IMPACT
In one of the most courageous and assertive documentaries of the year, Raoul Peck picks up on an unfinished manuscript by James Baldwin to examine the issue of race in
America through the (too-short) lives of Martin Luther King,
Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X. Connecting these martyrs
of the Civil Rights movement with Black Lives Matter, Peck
has produced a searing work that cuts to the very heart of
American identity. “One of the best movies you are likely to
see this year.” NY Times
Winner: Audience Award, TIFF, Chicago, Hamptons Film
Festival
Ma vie de Courgette
MON MAR 13 - 5:30PM • WED MAR 15 - 5:15PM
THU MAR 16 - 6:30PM • FRI MAR 17 - 2:45PM
SUN MAR 19 - 4:45PM
Shortlisted for both the best animated feature of the year
and the best foreign language film, this is not your typical
family movie. Rather, it’s a piercing, poignant and original
story about a child sent to an orphanage after the accidental
death of his alcoholic single mother, the friends he makes
there, and the relationship he strikes up with a friendly cop.
Winner: Audience Award, Annecy and Melbourne Film Festivals. Golden Globe nominee, Best Animated Feature.
Leonard Cohen:
Bird on a Wire
TONY PALMER, UK, 1972/2010, 106 MIN. M/A/D
FRI MAR 17 - 10:00PM • SAT MAR 18 - 10:00PM
SUN MAR 19 - 8:35PM • MON MAR 20 - 8:10PM
WED MAR 22 - 8:10PM
A portrait of the legendary musician/songwriter/poet
(1934-2016) at his creative peak, on his 1972 European
concert tour, performing many of his classics (“Suzanne,”
“Sisters of Mercy,” “So Long, Marianne”). "The movie is a
worthy time capsule and a must for Cohen devotees.” Glenn
Kenny, New York Times
Nominated for Animated (Feature) for Oscars 2017
Nominated for Documentary (Feature) for Oscars 2017
Vancouver International Film Festival’s Year-Round Showcase
March 5 - April 8, 2017
SUNDAY
MONDAY
MAR 5
TUESDAY
6
9:00am Angry Inuk
2:45 Positively Beautiful Schools Screening
(Grandmothers
2:00 Highway of Tears VR
Campaign Fundraiser)
and Artist Presentation -
7
9:00am Kanehsatake:
270 Years of Resistance
Free Screening
1:00 Past, Present
Flipping the Script: Making and Future: Alanis
Films to Make Change:
Obomsawin & Amanda
Artist Talk with Lisa Jackson Strong
Beyond 150 Years
Mar 5 - 6
canadianfilmday.ca/
beyond150years
Free
7:00 Atanarjuat: The
Fast Runner Free
Screening
7:00 Beyond 150 Years: 7:00 Angry Inuk Free
Reception
Screening
The Art Of Film
Lecture Series
Mar 13 - Apr 10
12
10:30am Technique and
Talent
12:15 Billy Lynn’s Long
Halftime Walk
3:00 Stingray Sisters
5:30 My Life As A Zucchini
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
9
Vancouver
International Women
in Film Festival
Mar 8 - 12
womeninfilm.ca
10:30am WIFTI Showcase
12:00 Unveiled: The
Kohistand Video Scandal
5:30 Panel Discussion:
Gender and Diversity
Initiatives...
7:30 Opening Gala: Breath
SATURDAY
10
11
12:00 Storyhive Shorts
12:00 A Revolution in
Four Seasons
3:15 Shorts
Programme 2
3:00 Shorts
Programme 3
6:00 On the Farm +
panel discussion
5:30 Shorts
Programme 4
9:30 Where to, Miss?
9:00 Anishoara
9:00 Lutine (plus
shorts)
17
18
15
14
RENTAL
WEDNESDAY
16
3:00 Trip Along Exodus
6:15 Shorts
Programme 5
3:20 I Am Not Your
Negro
2:45 My Life As A
Zucchini
5:15 My Life As A
Zucchini
4:10 Antarctica: Ice & Sky & Sky
6:45 Kedi
2:30 Billy Lynn’s Long
Halftime Walk
4:45 Kedi
12:00 Antarctica: Ice
6:00 Kedi
6:00 Kedi
7:45 A New Moon Over
Tohoku
7:40 A New Moon Over
Tohoku
8:30 Vancouver Iranian
6:30 Kedi
7:00 Kedi
Film Society presents: 6:30 My Life As A Zucchini 10:00 Leonard Cohen:
8:00 I Am Not Your Negro Bird on a Wire
8:40 I Am Not Your Negro 8:10 I Am Not Your Negro Mohey
7:00 Closing Night
Awards
19
20
10:30am Cinematography
and the Visual Design of
a Film
RENTAL
21
22
23
24
4:30 Kedi
4:30 Antarctica: Ice
& Sky
RENTAL
6:20 Antarctica: Ice & Sky 6:30 Hello Destroyer
Tohoku
8:35 Leonard Cohen: Bird 8:10 Leonard Cohen: Bird
on a Wire
on a Wire
26
9:10 I Am Not Your
Negro
28
27
6:20 Antarctica: Ice
& Sky
8:10 Leonard Cohen:
Bird on a Wire
29
25
2:45 Franca: Chaos
and Creation
3:00 Kedi
12:30 The Assassination
4:45 My Life As A Zucchini of Jesse James by the
Coward Robert Ford
6:30 A New Moon Over
10:00 Leonard Cohen:
Bird on a Wire
4:30 Antarctica: Ice
6:30 A New Moon Over & Sky
Tohoku
6:20 After the Storm
5:40 After the Storm
8:30 Kedi
8:40 Personal Shopper
9:50 Hello Destroyer
30
31
1:00 After the Storm
7:50 Personal Shopper
APR 1
12:00 Student Films
3:20 Personal Shopper
RENTAL
3:30 Hollywood Haute
Couture
10:30am Editing and
The Shape of a Film
6:00 Personal Shopper
12:30 Julieta
8:10 Franca: Chaos
and Creation
12:45 We Call Them
Intruders
Just Film Festival
Mar 30 - Apr 1
justfilm.ca
2:45 Julieta
6:20 After the Storm
6:30 Personal Shopper
8:40 Personal Shopper
8:40 After the Storm
4:40 Franca: Chaos and
7:00 Opening: On the
Creation
Bride’s Side
6:20 After the Storm
9:00 Occupation of the
8:40 Personal Shopper American Mind
2:00 Sonic Sea & Keepers
of the Coast
7:00 Burden of Peace
4:00 After Spring
9:00 When Two Worlds
Collide
7:00 Mali Blues
9:45 Queen of Ireland
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Reel 2 Real Festival
Apr 2 - 8
r2rfestival.org
10:30am Music and The
Emotional Connection
Reel 2 Real Festival
Apr 2 - 8
r2rfestival.org
Reel 2 Real Festival
Apr 2 - 8
r2rfestival.org
Reel 2 Real Festival
Apr 2 - 8
r2rfestival.org
1:00 David Lynch: The
Art Life
Reel 2 Real Festival
Apr 2 - 8
r2rfestival.org
12:30 There Will Be Blood
Reel 2 Real Festival
Apr 2 - 8
r2rfestival.org
6:45 The Seasons in Quincy:
Four Portraits of John Berger 6:45 O Brazen Age
9:10 Personal Shopper
8:35 After the Storm
9:00 1984
Style in Film
Hollywood Haute Couture
Presented by Michael van den Bos
With Film-Inspired Live Fashion Show!
110 MIN. PANORAMA
SUN MAR 26 - 3:30PM
Hollywood and fashion fit together like Audrey Hepburn
in Givenchy. It’s one of the things we love about the movies, the elegant enthrall of sartorial splendor on the silver
screen. In Hollywood Haute Couture, film scholar Michael
van den Bos has designed a sparkling spring collection of
chic clips that represents the world of fashion in film. From
classic musicals, comedies and dramas, Michael will introduce a runaway of cinema’s most stylish stars in scenes
where the fashion is the story.
As a special treat within this program, feast your eyes on
a mini-live fashion show by internationally renowned Vancouver fashion designer Roxanne Nikki, who has curated a
cinematic-inspired presentation of her most fatally seductive works. Make-up and hairstyling provided by Denise
Meikle, award-winning Vancouver hairstylist and owner of
Salon Origins hair studio.
Hollywood Haute Couture Presented by Michael van den Bos
Franca: Chaos and
Creation
Personal Shopper
Julieta
FRI MAR 24 - 8:40PM • SAT MAR 25 - 7:50PM
SUN MAR 26 - 6:00PM • MON MAR 27 - 8:40PM
TUE MAR 28 - 6:30PM • WED MAR 29 - 8:40PM
THU MAR 30 - 3:20PM • SUN APR 2 - 9:10PM
MON MAR 27 - 12:30PM • WED MAR 29 - 2:45PM
OLIVIER ASSAYAS, FRANCE, 2016, 105 MIN. PANORAMA
FRANCESCO CARROZZINI, USA/ITALY, 2016, 80 MIN. PANORAMA
FRI MAR 24 - 2:45PM • SUN MAR 26 - 8:10PM
WED MAR 29 - 4:40PM
Marking Vancouver Fashion Week, and in tribute to Franca
Sozzani who died in December, this VIFF favourite casts
light on Sozzani’s daring and provocative stewardship of
Vogue Italia, considered the world’s most important fashion
magazine. Featuring interviews with (among others) Baz
Luhrmann, Courtney Love, Jeff Koons, Karl Lagerfeld, Naomi Campbell, Peter Lindbergh and the grande dame herself.
A teasingly strange and tingling supernatural tale from
French master Olivier Assayas and his Clouds of Sils Maria
muse, Kristen Stewart. The material world meets the uncanny as Stewart stocks up on frocks for her supermodel
boss, while she searches for a sign from her deceased twin
(a gifted medium when he was alive). A series of mysterious text messages eggs her towards transgression, but are
these messages from the grave, or a sinister trap?
PEDRO ALMODOVAR, SPAIN, 2016, 96 MIN. PANORAMA
Based on a couple of stories by Alice Munro, Pedro Almodovar returns with a thrilling melodrama that criss-crosses
between a mother’s story and her daughter’s, as well as the
mother’s back-story. For Julieta, the turning point in her life
has been her teenage daughter’s disappearance. But there
have been other critical junctures which she may not be
prepared to acknowledge...
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Winner: Best Director, Cannes Film Festival
Limited Runs
Billy Lynn’s Long
Halftime Walk
ANG LEE, USA, 2016, 113 MIN. PANORAMA
MON MAR 13 - 12:15PM • THU MAR 16 - 2:30PM
A casualty of the pre-Oscar screen crush late last year,
the latest from director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger Hidden
Dragon; Brokeback Mountain; Life of Pi) deserves to be
seen, and outside the context of the innovative technique
Lee applied to Ben Fountain’s best-seller. Newcomer Joe Alwyn is extraordinary as Billy, an Iraq War veteran at 19 years
of age, brought home for a lap of honor at a Thanksgiving
football game along with other members of Bravo Squad.
Flashbacks contrast the hoopla with the horror.
The Assassination of
Jesse James by the
Coward Robert Ford
ANDREW DOMINIK, USA, 2007, 160 MIN. PANORAMA
MON MAR 20 - 12:30PM
This elegiac, rueful western might as well have been titled I
Shot Jesse James”; for all Brad Pitt’s sombre grace, the film
truly belongs to Casey Affleck’s abject Bob Ford, the legend’s nemesis. Cinematographer Roger Deakins conjures
up one of the most visually authoritative movies of the 21st
Century, a grave masterpiece that is only now beginning to
receive its due.
The Seasons in Quincy:
Four Portraits of John
Berger
TILDA SWINTON, COLIN MACCABE, CHRISTOPHER ROTH, BARTEK
DZIADOSZ, UK, 2016, 90 MIN. M/A/D
MON APR 3 - 6:45PM
Author of the seminal Ways of Seeing, the late John Berger
was a prolific artist, philosopher, writer and “radical humanist”. In this loving portrait assembled by a coterie of acolytes
over four seasons in Berger’s adopted home, the remote
Alpine village of Quincy, Berger’s acutely curious and stimulating intellect comes shining through.
Art of Film
Vancouver Iranian Film Society presents:
Mohey
DAVOOD KHAYYAM, IRAN, 2016, 94 MIN. PANORAMA
WED MAR 15 - 8:30PM
Based on a true story, director Davood Khayyam uses
events that resulted from the PIP implant scandal as
inspiration for his cautionary tale. Plucked from an orphanage as a young girl, Mohey is not living the life she
hoped for. Separated from her twin sister and abused by
her benefactor, she has become ensnared in a life of underhand dealings and illegal trading, where her intellect
and beauty are used as commodities. When Mohey is
coerced into a temporary marriage to secure a deal, she
reluctantly agrees, determined that her cut will finally
buy her freedom. However, the underworld is not ready
to let her go.
In Persian with English subtitles.
Just Film Festival Mar 30 - Apr 1
The Art of Film: Technique and Talent
Presented by Rick Staehling
Just Film Festival
$80 - 5 WEEK COURSE
MAR 13 - APR 10, MONDAYS - 10:30AM
Our mandate is to gather Vancouver’s diverse social justice
community to a festival that allows for reflection, provides
a forum for discussion, and prompts participants to action.
While the issues are often difficult, we feel it is important to
provide tools and ideas for solutions.
Movies are magical: They are seductive blends of art and
entertainment that transport us to imaginary worlds. But
behind this magic is a complex combination of moving
parts—the elements of filmmaking—that are assembled
by a creative and collaborative crew. Using production stills
and film clips this tightly focused but freewheeling five-part
series of lectures will investigate important aspects of the
art of film and celebrate the talent and technique of moviemakers. Topics include: Acting, Movie Stars and Fame, Cinematography and the Visual Design of a Film, Editing and
The Shape of a Film, Music and the Emotional Connection,
Directing and the Auteur Theory.
THU MAR 30 - SAT APR 1
See viff.org for full program details.
On The Bride's Side
Occupation of the
American Mind
Sonic Sea &
Keepers of the Coast
After Spring
Burden of Peace
Mali Blues
When Two Worlds Collide
Queen of Ireland
We Call Them Intruders
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