VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
MINI-GUIDE
Complete Film Descriptions and Schedule
SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 11, 2013 • VIFF.ORG
The Centre For The Performing Arts | SFU’s Goldcorp Centre For The Arts
Cineplex Odeon International Village | The Cinematheque | The Rio
Vancity Theatre | Vancouver Playhouse
SUPPORTING
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OF FILM
LIKE
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BEFORE
Welcome to the 32nd Vancouver International Film Festival . . .
W
hat an amazing year for cinema this has been!
Filmmakers around the world are taking advantage of emerging technologies to tell compelling stories worthy
of the big-screen experience.
In this new expanded Mini-Guide you will find information on all the feature
film programs at this year’s Festival. We are presenting 500 screenings of 340
carefully selected films from 70 countries, and bringing to town many filmmakers to engage with audiences in post-screening discussions. For full information
on all our films—including the shorts—look online at viff.org, or better yet, pick
up a copy of the official 196-page Program Catalogue ($10, see next column).
We strongly believe in the theatrical experience of cinema. No other form of the
moving image equals the quality and collective nature of projected cinematic
images in a theatre. It is this immersive quality of attention that allows us to tran-
Table of Contents
Theatre and Ticket Information............................4
Partners, Supporters and Sponsors .......................6
VIFF Film Series for 2013 ......................................7
Film Notes (listed alphabetically)...........9–14, 19–26
Screening Schedule.........................................15–18
Film & TV Forum ................................................27
Vancity Theatre Year-round ................................28
Index of Feature Films by Country and Region ....29
A Guide to the Films...........................................30
scend our own personal experience and to share with our fellow audience-members
the window into other cultures and other people's lives that cinema offers so
vividly. Whether you go to the movies to be moved, enlightened or entertained,
here’s your chance to explore new worlds.
We have some fabulous venues this year. Our excellent technical partners have
helped us convert a few of Vancouver’s finest auditoriums into state-of-the-art
cinemas during VIFF. Turn the page to our handy map to pinpoint exactly where
our theatres are located.
We now have three distinctive neighbourhoods: Granville and Davie + Commercial
and Broadway + Gastown/Crosstown. The last of these offers 3,600 comfortable
seats and six screens, all within seven blocks of each other!
VIFF’s New Venues
The Centre for the Performing Arts
This exceptionally grand and comfortable 1,800-seat auditorium with a HUGE
screen and superb sound will make for ideal viewing.
Vancouver Playhouse
Gracious and spacious (668 seats!), with the latest in digital cinema
technology newly installed by VIFF, just for the Festival.
Cineplex Odeon International Village #8, #9, #10
We’re delighted to be using three screens (188, 303 and 308 seats) at this
popular and well-equipped multiplex.
SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Not just a new venue, a whole new partnership with SFU Woodwards
Cultural Programs. (The cinema—350 seats—is on the third floor.)
Rio Theatre
VIFF returns to Commercial Drive at this popular licensed music and movie
venue, sporting 420 seats.
VIFF continues at . . .
Vancity Theatre
VIFF’s own state-of-the-art facility (185 seats), showing festival films (and
serving beer and wine) year-round.
The Cinematheque
Our treasured neighbour and colleague (194 seats).
viff 2013 Program Catalogue Retailers (from Sept. 19)
VIFF Venues (pre-festival)
Vancouver International Film Centre—1181 Seymour St.
The Cinematheque—1131 Howe St.
Rio Theatre—1660 East Broadway
Book & Magazine Stores
Banyen Books & Sound—3608 West Broadway.
Book Warehouse—632 West Broadway
Bookmark, The Library Store—350 West Georgia St.
Canterbury Tales—2010 Commercial Dr. &
1990 West 4th Ave.
Chapters (Coquitlam)—2991 Lougheed Highway
Chapters (Burnaby)—Metrotown, 1174-4700 Kingsway
Chapters (Richmond)—8171 Ackroyd Rd.
Chapters (Surrey)—100-12101 72nd Ave.
Chapters (Vancouver)—2505 Granville St
Chapters (Vancouver)—788 Robson St.
The British Newsagent—3195 Edgemont Blvd.
Indigo Books—1025 Marine Drive & 900 Park Royal South
Indigo Books—900 Park Royal South, West Vancouver
Oscar’s Art Books—1533 W. Broadway
People’s Co-op Bookstore—1391 Commercial Drive
The Postcard Place—1666 Johnston St. #11, Granville Island
SFU Bookstores—Harbour Centre & Burnaby Campus
Video Outlets
Black Dog Video—3451 Cambie St. & 1470 Commercial Drive
Limelight Video—2505 West Broadway at Alma St.
They Live Video—4340 Main St.
Videomatica—1976 W. 4th Ave.
Others
Culprit Coffee—2028 Vine St.
Highlife Records—1317 Commercial Drive
Tourism Vancouver Visitor Centre—200 Burrard St.,
Plaza Level
Want to join this list?
Please contact Sue Cormier sue@viff.org.
Additional locations will be posted on viff.org.
What’s new this year?
OUR NEW THEATRES! We’re delighted with our
new venues. They are exactly what we were hoping
for! Christie Digital, Dolby Digital Cinema, Sony
Professional Products, Zoom Audiovisual Networks,
Eagle Cinematronix and The City of Vancouver are
among those committed supporters who have
helped us convert a few of Vancouver’s finest auditoriums into state-of-the-art cinemas during VIFF.
We now have 3 distinctive neighbourhoods:
Granville & Davie; Commercial & Broadway;
Gastown/Crosstown. Gastown/Crosstown alone
offers 3600 comfortable seats on 6 screens within
7 blocks of each other.
EXPANDED BOX OFFICES: All 7 VIFF theatres
now act as advance box offices. Best of all, you can
buy online and print at home, or just use your smart
phone. (We don’t need separate will call anymore, nor do we offer ticket sales by phone.)
NO MORE PASS ENTRY TICKETS: Passholders
simply join the passholder line at each theatre.
Note to other festival organizers: Our new
AudienceView ticketing system is available to all
our renters and partners at the Vancouver
International Film Centre.
How can I know if I’ll get in?
You can tell how busy a screening is expected to be
by checking our online film guide at viff.org or the
“Screening Today” signs in front of each theatre. Plan
ahead to avoid disappointment, and please arrive
early. This may be your only chance to see many of
these excellent films.
PLENTY
GOING FAST
LIMITED! = Buy now!
RUSH ONLY! =
Advance tickets sold out; Rush tickets
may be available at the door just prior
to showtime. In the Rush Line it is one
person/one ticket, and complimentary
vouchers may not be used.
What’s the best deal?
TICKETS are best if you want to
keep it simple or just want to
attend a few films.
TICKET PACKS offer savings and
may be best if you plan to attend
at least 5 evening films. The more
you buy, the better the deal.
PASSES are best if you want maximum flexibility to see as many
films as possible and don’t mind
taking
your
chances
on
available seats. There is ample
room for passholders at the majority of screenings.
PLATINUM PASSES are ideal if you want the
best of all worlds, including guaranteed seating up to 5 minutes before showtime.
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BOX OFFICES
THEATRES
1. ONLINE at viff.org
The Centre for the Performing Arts (CENT)
777 Homer Street (at Robson)
The Cinematheque (CINE)
1131 Howe (at Helmcken)
Cineplex Odeon International Village
(IN08–10)
88 W Pender St (at Abbott)
Rio Theatre (RIO)
1660 East Broadway (at Commercial)
Liquor served. This venue is 19+ only. ID and bag checks
are possible.
Thursday, Sept. 5 (from noon)–Friday, Oct. 11
2. IN PERSON (Pre-festival)
Vancity Theatre
1181 Seymour Street (at Davie)
Monday, Sept.14–Wednesday, Sept. 25
Noon–7 pm
3. THEATRE BOX OFFICES
During VIFF, all of our theatres serve as
box offices for every film in the festival
and open 30 minutes before the first show
of the day at that venue.
VIFF accepts Visa and MasterCard everywhere, and
debit cards in person.
ADVANCE TICKETS
SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (SFU)
149 W Hastings St (between Cambie and
Abbott)
SFU Woodwards
Advance tickets can be purchased up to 1/2 hour
prior to showtime online or at any VIFF Box Office.
PRINT AT HOME
To avoid long lines, take advantage of the PRINT
Vancity Theatre (VCT)
AT HOME option. Have your tickets emailed to you
The Vancouver International Film Centre
so you can print them or display them on your
1181 Seymour Street (at Davie)
smart phone. This is also best if you want to purLiquor served. This venue is 19+ only unless otherwise chase tickets for someone else; simply forward the
noted.
ticket email to them.
Vancouver Playhouse (PLAY)
600 Hamilton Street (at Dunsmuir)
PICK-UP
If you would like us to print your tickets for you for
any reason (can’t print them, forgot them at home
or you just like a hard copy ticket) come to any VIFF
Box Office with your order number, photo ID and
the credit card you used for purchase. Please allow
sufficient time to pick up your tickets before your
screening; we suggest 30 minutes as a minimum.
SERVICE CHARGES
• $1 per ticket ordered online up to a maximum
charge of $4.
• $4 per ticket pack purchased online or in person.
• $4 per pass purchased online.
EXCHANGES
Exchanges can be made for a $3 handling fee per
ticket in person at a VIFF box office at least 1 hour
in advance of showtime. Exchanges cannot be made
for missed screenings.
T I C K E T S AT T H E D O O R
On the day of your show, tickets will be available
from any box office until 1/2-hour before showtime.
After that, tickets are only available at the screening venue. Note that even when those tickets are
sold out, rush tickets are often available.
See How can I know if I’ll get in?
SEEING TWO SCREENINGS
IN A ROW?
If you have tickets to the next screening in the same
theatre, you may stay in your seat if you choose
while the auditorium is being tidied up. Feel free
to step outside of the auditorium; you do not need
to go outside the venue. Please ensure the ticket to
the second screening you wish to attend is verified
upon entry to the theatre.
TICKETS
Regular: $13
Weekday Matinee (before 6 pm): $11
Student (18+) | Senior (65+): $11
Children & Youth (under 18): $9
Opening and Closing Gala Films: $15 each
(price applies to repeat screenings as well).
Opening and Closing Gala Films
and Party: $175 each
Membership Requirement $2
Annual membership is required by BC Law for any
person attending VIFF screenings, and members
must be 18+. This enables VIFF, a registered nonprofit film society, to provide its members with the
benefit of access to specially imported films. See
MEMBERSHIP FEE for more information, and
for details on the few exceptions.
T I C K E T PA C K S
PA S S E S
Passes are available for purchase online at viff.org
or in person at the Vancity Theatre. Passes are available for pickup at the Vancity Theatre starting
September 14. (If you plan on attending media
screenings starting September 9, we may be able to
supply you with your pass at that time.)
A generous allotment of seats is reserved for
passholders at every screening. This includes media
screenings in advance of VIFF, but not “VIFF
Repeats” after Oct. 11. While a pass (with the exception of the two “Platinum” options) does not
guarantee seating, passes offer flexibility, freedom
to move between screenings and potentially the
greatest savings of all. Passholders are allowed
entry until the passholder seat-allotment is
reached. All passes are strictly nontransferable and
photo ID may be required. Pass purchasers should
see viff.org/festival/passes for detailed information on how to benefit from passes.
Films and screening times are
subject to change.
Please visit our program update page at
viff.org for the most current information
regarding added films and screenings. Send a
message to programupdate@viff.org and we’ll
email you news throughout the Festival.
VIFF does not generally offer refunds on tickets sold.
That being said, all programs are subject to change,
and in the rare event that a program does need to
be cancelled, refunds will of course be given.
Important: in the event of a refund due to a cancelled screening you will be required to show your
ticket.
viff.org
Complete, constantly updated info
about VIFF & Vancity Theatre year-round.
Info Line:
604-683-film (3456)
Weekdays: 9 am–7 pm
Weekends and holidays: noon–7pm
Operated by helpful volunteers starting Sept. 5.
Platinum Plus Pass: $2,500
This top-tier pass provides guaranteed seating to
Ticket Packs offer savings. Ticket packs can all festival, gala and media screenings via immebe used to reserve advance tickets to regular screen- diate entry (no waiting in line) to a reserved
ings up to 1/2 hour before showtime OR in person section. Alternatively, any other individual seat
at the box office, subject to availability. See may be reserved with 24-hour advance notice. Also
includes a ticket for a guest to one gala screening
ADVANCE TICKETS.
and party of your choice, program catalogue and
5-Ticket Pack: $60 ($12 per ticket. Limit one
poster. Limited supply!
ticket per screening)
Platinum Pass: $900
12-Ticket Pack (NEW): $144 ($12 per ticket.
Provides guaranteed seating until 5 minutes before
Limit two tickets per screening)
showtime to all festival and media screenings via
20-Ticket Pack: $220 ($11 per ticket. Limit two immediate entry (no waiting in line). Includes protickets per screening)
gram catalogue. Limited supply!
30-Ticket Pack: $300 ($10 per ticket. Limit two Festival Pass: $400
tickets per screening)
Admits valid passholder to all festival and media
Student/Senior 5-Ticket Pack: $50 (Limit one screenings, excluding Opening and Closing Galas.
ticket per screening. Valid ID must be presented at Senior and Student Pass: $325
all screenings.)
Available to students (18+)* and seniors (65+). Admits
Please note age restrictions (19+) at some theatres passholder to all festival and media screenings,
before you make your purchase.
excluding Opening and Closing Galas. Must present valid ID at all screenings.
PROGRAM CHANGES AND
U P D AT E S
FILM & FESTIVAL
I N F O R M AT I O N
Daily Updates
Sept. 26 – Oct. 10
MEMBERSHIP FEE: $2
To see films at VIFF, you must—with a few exceptions—be age 18* or older and a member of our
registered nonprofit society, renewed annually.
Your membership card (or pass) is proof that you
are a member, and you are required to present it
at every screening that you attend. (Or be prepared
to buy another one.)
*Please note that entrance to Vancity Theatre and
The Rio is usually 19+ because of liquor laws.
Weekday Matinee Pass: $175
Admits valid passholder to all weekday matinee Membership benefits all of us, because it’s only by
screenings (before 6 pm). Not valid for media being a member-based organization that we’re able
screenings.
to present such a wide array of international
cinema.
Under the laws of our province, only regDragons and Tigers Pass: $100
Admits valid passholder to all films in our Dragons istered nonprofit film societies are allowed to
and Tigers series. Not valid for media screenings. screen films that have not been classified by
Consumer Protection BC.
*Please note age restrictions (19+) at some theatres
We need to know who our members are! Please
before making your purchase. All passes include a
fill in your membership information completely
membership. There is no reserved seating for any
online or in person (and return it to any VIFF staff
pass during media screenings.
or volunteer). Members are emailed VIFF and
Vancity Theatre updates. You can opt out of receiving our emails at any time and VIFF will not share
FILM AND TELEVISION
your membership information with anyone.
F O R U M PA S S E S
We do ask for certain films to be classified for
youth access and for our High School Program. In
these cases, people under 18 may attend without
Forum Early Bird Delegate Pass (available
becoming a member. See the “Youth Under 18 May
until Sept. 13): $260
Attend” section of our GUIDE TO FILMS or viff.org
Forum Regular Delegate Pass: $285
for a listing of these films.
Digital Lab Program: $85
Day Pass: $120
New Filmmakers’ Day Pass: $85
Films are in their original
language with English subtitles.
New Filmmakers’ Day Student Pass: $76.50
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T H A N K YO U TO O U R O U T S TA N D I N G S U P P O RT E R S
M A J O R PA R T N E R S
PREMIER SPONSORS
OFFICIAL SPONSORS
M E D I A PA R T N E R S
PUBLIC SUPPORTERS
F E S T I VA L S P O N S O R S
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VIFF Film Series for 2013
Film listings in this Mini-Guide are arranged alphabetically. To help you see which series films belong to, we’ve colourcoded the film notes. The colour of the bar above the pictures corresponds to the series’ colours listed below.
Get with the program! The best way to know about the films and how the Festival is organized is by getting your
own copy of the official 196-page Program Catalogue. There we’ve laid things out according to series and include
detailed film descriptions, credits, large colour pictures and lots of valuable extra information.
GALAS & SPECIAL
PRESENTATIONS
Our leading section combines major works from today’s masters with several other films
that we are specially showcasing on the HUGE screen of The Centre for the Performing
Arts, all topped off with a sprinkling of 3D art like you’ve never seen.
CANADIAN
IMAGES &
BC SPOTLIGHT
VIFF 2013 will present 100 films from across our great land, including a strong showing
from our home, sweet home. With a record number of BC-made feature films submitted for
consideration, we are shining our spotlight brightly on our homegrown talent. Two new
cash prizes will help to keep local storytellers creating and for the first time in VIFF history, audiences will have an exciting opportunity to choose their “must-see” BC films at
mustseeBC.viff.org prior to the Festival. All of this is possible thanks to generous collaboration and partnerships with local and national film-industry stakeholders. The 2013 BC
Spotlight will surely delight film fans and proud British Columbians alike!
DRAGONS
& TIGERS
The largest annual exhibition of East Asian films outside Asia is internationally recognized as one of the most significant in the world, and attracts a strong list of filmmakers,
distributors, film critics and scholars each year. Begun in 1985, this focus addresses the
continued excellence of East Asian cinema, Vancouver's key geographic situation and its
splendid ethnic mix.
CINEMA OF
OUR TIME
With a selection of works from more than 40 countries, Cinema of Our Time is the place to
see top films from around the world and to discover emerging visions and new perspectives. There are 120 of them: 60 features, 60 shorts. Same planet; different worlds!
SPOTLIGHT ON
FRANCE
This ongoing series celebrates the fertile cinematic culture that continues to thrive in
France, owing to its rich heritage and enlightened investment in cinematographic art.
NONFICTION
FEATURES
What other film festival presents 75 nonfiction features?! Why do we? Google “How Documentary Became the Most Exciting Kind of Filmmaking.” Why “nonfiction?” Google
“Thought in Action: The Art of the Essay Film.” This year’s amazing nonfiction features
are not only enlightening and entertaining—they kick ass.
ARTS & LETTERS
Cinema can convey the power of the other arts—theatre, painting, photography, architecture, dance and music, especially music—in astonishing ways. Big-screen sound and
image facilitate a special kind of intimacy and a quality of experience that is unique. This
popular section highlights wonderful performances and in-depth visits with some of our
greatest artistic talents.
ALTERED STATES
As the hour grows late, the strange ones come out to play... In our late-night series, VIFF
unveils some of the best in international genre films, as well as fantastic cinema that
defies ready classification. Best experienced on the big screen, these oddities demand that
you play by their rules as they slowly bend you to their will and leave a lasting impression. Be warned: Your dreams may never be the same…
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11.6 (France/Belgium, 102 min.)
15 Reasons to Live (Canada, 83 min.)
3 Days in Havana (Canada, 82 min.)
3X3D (Portugal/France/UK, 70 min.)
In 2009, French security van driver Toni Musulin
disappeared with 11.6 million euros (hence the
film’s title), instantly propelling himself to celebrity
status in France. François Cluzet (Intouchables)
stars in Philippe Godeau’s noirish, psychological
take on the heist and its aftermath. “Fascinates
from beginning to end.”—Hollywood Reporter
Sharing personal reminiscences and interviews
with others, director Alan Zweig constructs an
affirming journey that encompasses personal
quests, amazing anecdotes and poignant reflections. Whether it’s a young girl who takes a brave
stand against religious conformity or a man who
decides to walk the Earth, there’s something valuable to be gleaned from each of these encounters.
In Havana on business, Jack Petty (Gil Bellows, who
directs with Tony Pantages) finds himself mixed up
in a conspiracy that includes assassination, kidnapping and more. The fun here comes not just
from the gritty details, sharp plot twists, close
shaves and slick repartee, but from the knowledge,
quickly acquired, that nothing is what it seems.
“The [Cannes] festival’s most brilliant movie was
Jean-Luc Godard’s The Three Disasters... 3D as you
have never seen it before... A masterpiece, the
first movie of the cinematic future.” —Film
Comment. Peter Greenaway’s and Edgar Pêra’s
parts of this trilogy are pretty eye-popping too!
With Cochemare (QC, 13 min.)
Fri
Mon
9/27
9/30
8:45 PM
3:40 PM
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Fri
Sun
10/4
10/6
9:30 PM
11:30 AM
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Special 3D Presentations.
Sat
Fri
9/28
10/4
6:15 PM
4:20 PM
RIO
IN10
9 Muses of Star Empire (South Korea, 82 min.)
Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (USA, 105 min.)
K-pop as you’ve never seen it! Lee Harkjoon gets
incredibly intimate access to the grooming and
launch of girl band 9 Muses (the endless rehearsals,
the rivalries) and nails the whole system. Dragons
& Tigers Award nominee. With Wedding March
(South Korea, 6 min.) Park Chaiyoung’s satirical
homage to Buñuel.
(USA/Finland, 85 min.)
Representative of the best new face of eco-tourism,
Jessica Oreck’s (Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo)exquisite documentary examines the skilled humble lives
and rugged routines of one enterprising Finnish
family, celebrating the uncommon relationship
they’ve forged with nature. “A work of ethereal
beauty... utterly engrossing...”—Variety
Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara are perfect as a
Texas hooligan couple, deeply in love, who face a
crossroads when he is jailed... “The excitement of
a bold new voice... Lowery’s gorgeously shot third
feature suggests a lost artifact freshly unearthed
from the 1970s, or the origin story behind a longlost folk ballad about criminal lovers whom prison
couldn’t keep apart.”—Variety
Mon
Tue
Wed
Sun
Mon
Fri
Wed
Fri
9/30
10/1
10/9
9:00 PM
4:00 PM
9:15 PM
VCT
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CINE
9/29
9/30
10/11
6:15 PM
10:50 AM
5:00 PM
IN08
IN08
VCT
10/2
10/4
1:00 PM
9:00 PM
IN09
RIO
Sun
Tue
Sun
9/29
10/1
10/6
1:30 PM
9:15 PM
2:15 PM
IN09
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Al Helm: Martin Luther King in
Palestine (USA, 96 min.)
An African-American gospel choir goes to
Palestine to sing in a Palestinian play about Martin
Luther King Jr. It isn’t just the glorious strains of
gospel music that wash over the West Bank in
Connie Field’s (Freedom on My Mind) scintillating
new film. An impassioned cultural exchange
ensues, new friendships are forged, eyes are
opened and attitudes are altered.
Sun
Tue
Thu
9/29
10/1
10/3
7:00 PM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
IN10
SFU
CINE
Ali (Spain, 85 min.)
All About the Feathers (Costa Rica, 85 min.)
All Is Lost (USA, 105 min.)
All the Wrong Reasons (Canada, 118 min.)
Chain-smoking and peddling booze, teenaged Ali
isn’t one to drop her guard. Nevertheless, Paco R.
Baños’ debut exposes her vulnerabilities and
thoughtfully explores her insecurities. A comingof-age tale hinging on hard-won lessons, Ali “locks
the viewer in by virtue of its earthy performances
and generosity of spirit.”—Hollywood Reporter
Buying a gamecock with grand schemes of reaping the financial spoils, introverted Chalo instead
discovers a new best friend. Chalo’s lack of bloodlust is mirrored by writer-director Neto Villalobos,
who keeps the cockfighting off-screen and focuses
his attention squarely on the deadpan comedy that
arises from a relationship that’s neither fish nor
fowl.
Robert Redford gives a tour de force performance
and J.C. Chandor (Margin Call) is equally virtuosic
with his camera in this gripping Indian Ocean survival drama. “Wistfully but resolutely alone, initially
bemused by his predicament,” Redford quietly and
craftily fights to survive after his 39-foot sailboat
is damaged very far from land.
The paths of four troubled souls intersect inside an
unassuming department store in Gia Milani’s
romantic tragicomedy. Commanding fantastic performances from her stellar cast—Karine Vanasse,
Emily Hampshire, Kevin Zegers and Corey
Monteith in his final film role—Milani shows that
there are right and wrong ways to love, and that
learning the difference is a worthy struggle.
Canadian Images Opening Film.
Thu
Sun
Fri
9/26
9/29
10/4
12:15 PM
4:00 PM
6:45 PM
VCT
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RIO
Sat
Sun
10/5
10/6
6:30 PM
4:15 PM
IN09
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Fri
Sun
9/27
9/29
6:45 PM
4:00 PM
RIO
RIO
Fri
Sat
9/27
9/28
6:30 PM
1:10 PM
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Anatomy of a Paperclip (Japan, 99 min.)
Another House (Canada, 99 min.)
Antisocial (Canada, 90 min.)
Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Film Tour
The spirit of Eraserhead lives on in Ikeda Akira’s droll,
deadpan story of a paperclip maker and his romantic longing for a butterfly woman. Featuring weird
juice drinks, unknown languages and a human
cocoon! Dragons & Tigers Award nominee. With
Mirror (Japan, 6 min.) A disturbing anime from
Iwasaki Hirotoshi.
The first fiction feature by Mathieu Roy (Surviving
Progress) stars Marcel Sabourin as the increasingly
erratic and forgetful father of a jet-setting reporter
(Roy Dupuis) and an ambitious pilot in training
(Émile Proulx-Cloutier). The two brothers must
overcome their differences when they accompany
their father to the enigmatic “other home” that he
seeks.
Something sinister just went viral, coursing through
social networks and sparking an apocalyptic outbreak. As five university students try to make sense
of the chaos, Cody Calahan’s thriller offers an “intelligent and nicely claustrophobic spin on the killer
virus/zombie film... Impressively designed and
staged... [it] keeps on developing its structure and
concept...”—Screen. With Flammable (ON, 16 min.)
(USA, 61 min.)
Bill Callahan (aka Smog), a truly great artist likened
to Scott Walker playing with Calexico, took his
latest album Apocalypse on the road, with director
Hanly Banks in tow. Her impressionistic film will
bring a huge smile to the face of anyone who appreciates superb music and sound. “A clutch of terrific performances captured by a rapt but also
visually skilled fan.”—MusicFilmWeb. With America
Wed
Thu
Sun
Mon
Wed
Fri
Thu
Mon
(France/USA, 7 min.)
10/2
10/3
7:00 PM
1:20 PM
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9/29
9/30
6:45 PM
1:00 PM
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10/9
10/11
4:45 PM
11:30 PM
CINE
RIO
9/26
9/30
9:15 PM
4:30 PM
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Araf: Somewhere in Between
Arctic Defenders (Canada, 90 min.)
The Armstrong Lie (USA, 122 min.)
Atambua 39° Celcius (Indonesia, 90 min.)
(Turkey/France/Germany, 124 min.)
Araf means purgatory and that’s where the longings of the spirit and body will take young Zehra.
With stunningly directed scenes using seductive
music and striking winter vistas, Ye im Ustao lu’s
potently soulful drama “creates resonant images
that blend countryside, village and landscape into
rich visual emotions...”—Hollywood Reporter.
In his latest masterful documentary, John Walker
traces the origins of Nunavut. The furthest thing
from a stodgy history lesson, this is an epic drama
featuring radicals, visionaries and Western civilization’s largest land claim. It’s also an incredibly
personal film, as it charts Walker’s return to the
High Arctic he first explored as a wide-eyed
teenager.
Heroes rarely fall from grace with the velocity of
Lance Armstrong. Aiming to capture the cancer
survivor’s bid for an eighth Tour de France title, Alex
Gibney (Oscar winner for Taxi to the Dark Side) found
himself documenting one of sports’ most infamous
doping scandals. Gibney’s access and characteristic rigour culminate in a compelling investigation
of the ethics of winning.
Riri Riza’s very realistic fiction focuses on the
refugees who fled to Indonesia when East Timor
became independent... but longed to go back home.
Deeply humane and beautifully acted, this crowdfunded film was shot in Atambua itself. With Ninja
& Soldier (Japan, 10 min.) An ant-war anime from
Hirabayashi Isamu.
Winner, Best Film, Abu Dhabi 2012.
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Autumn’s Spring (France, 52 min.)
The Bag of Flour (Belgium/Morocco/France,
Belleville Baby (Sweden, 76 min.)
Bends (Hong Kong, 95 min.)
Twenty retirees from Marseille, aged 60 to 87 and
without any dance experience, spent seven years
working with choreographer Thierry Thieû Niang
on a performance of Stravisnky’s The Rite of Spring.
It became a hit throughout France and Denis
Sneguirev and Philippe Chevallier’s delightful film
shows the culmination of this extraordinary journey.
With Dawn of a Memory (Colombia, 15 min.)
92 min.)
Just as bright young Sarah is learning to negotiate
life in a Belgian Catholic orphanage she is wisked
away to a remote Moroccan village. Director Kadija
Leclere draws from her own abduction experiences
to craft a remarkably immersive film. “Piercingly
bittersweet... Beautifully low-key... [A] valiant first
feature...”—Hollywood Reporter
Mia Engberg’s personal docu-essay is a sly model
of the genre—it weaves memory, love, loss, politics, class, aging, cynicism and hope into one deeply
affecting tapestry. When Engberg was young and
living in Paris’ Belleville district, she fell in love with
an Algerian crook, who disappeared. Back in
Sweden many years later, she gets a call from him...
This gorgeously shot (by Chris Doyle, regular DOP
of Wong Kar-wai) and elegantly restrained drama
is a remarkably assured debut by Flora Lau. Hong
Kong movie queen Carina Lau gives a tour de force
performance as a matron whose husband suddenly
disappears. Her driver (Chen Kun) has secrets of
his own: will they overcome their own solitudes?
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Big Bad Wolves (Israel, 110 min.)
Big Men (USA, 99 min.)
Blind Detective (Hong Kong, 129 min.)
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (France, 179 min.)
A disgraced cop and grieving father look to exact
vengeance on a suspected pedophile murderer in
this grisly tale. With its heady mix of brutality, merciless black comedy and potent subtext, Aharon
Keshales and Navot Papushado’s thriller leaves
you reeling and forces you to question where your
sympathies lie.
Hong Kong superstars Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng
team up with Johnnie To for this wild, sparklingly
madcap genre-bender: a romantic/detective/
horror/thriller/comedy. He’s a blind amateur investigator; she’s a feisty young cop. To at his most dazzlingly playful, with beguiling performances by HK’s
best.
A tour de force of unbridled intimacy and graphic
sexuality, Abdellatif Kechiche’s acclaimed drama
features superb performances from Léa Seydoux
and Adèle Exarchopoulos as young women finding their love for each other. “A shattering masterpiece about sexual awakening, heartbreak and
self-discovery...”—Atlantic.
Winner, Best Film, Best Screenplay, Fantasia 2013.
“Rachel Boynton’s compelling documentary follows what happens when Texas oil exploration firm
Kosmos Energy makes an enormous discovery
called the Jubilee Field off the coast of Ghana... no
film offers a more incisive look at how the enormous wealth oil creates subverts the morality of
individuals, corporations, even entire countries.”
—LA Times
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Winner, Palme d’Or (for film and lead actors),
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Boomerang Family (South Korea, 113 min.)
Borgman (Netherlands, 113 min.)
Breach in the Silence (Venezuela, 90 min.)
Korea has all but cornered the market in comedydramas about the family, and Song Haesung’s film
is one of the best. A middle-class failure (the wonderful Park Haeil) has to learn to live with his criminal brother and his sexually incontinent sister—not
to mention his unflappable mom.
As a vagrant trickster plays funny games with an
affluent family, Alex van Warmerdam’s outrageous
provocation casts a sinister, enthralling spell.
Oblivious to the abstract class warfare being waged
against them, the homeowners likewise can’t envision the deranged nightmare that’s about to enter
their waking lives. “Sly, insidious and intermittently
hilarious...”—Variety
Born deaf and mute, and exploited by her parents,
19-year-old Ana resolves to save her siblings from
suffering similar indignities. Former social workers
Andrés and Luis Rodríguez ensure that the hardwon victories in their visually spectacular debut
ring true and resonate deeply.
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Winner, Best First Film, Best Actress, Cairo 2013.
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Breathing Earth:
Susumu Shingu Working with the Wind
(Germany/UK, 93 min.)
Artist and architect Susumu Shingu has had a lifelong “dialogue with the wind and with water.” Now
he wants to create wind-powered communities.
Thomas Riedelsheimer (Rivers and Tides) documents this combination of passionate environmental story and moving exploration of creativity
with characteristic eloquence and lustrous imagery.
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Burn, Release, Explode, the Invincible
Burning Bush (Czech Republic, 231 min.)
Camille Claudel, 1915 (France, 97 min.)
(Belgium/Netherlands, 110 min.)
A bluegrass musician and his wife learn their young
daughter has cancer in Felix van Groeningen’s masterful evocation of the power of music to convey
both joy and sadness. “An immaculately observed,
desperately moving story of love, loss, and bluegrass music...”—Indiewire.
(South Korea, 53 min.)
Kim Soohyun’s portrait of a phenomenal woman:
she works as a voice artist (games, ads) but when
she’s asked to consider a Brecht role, a flood of
reflections on gender and madness is unleashed.
Dragons & Tigers Award nominee. With The Line
(South Korea, 26 min.) Kim Soojin explores urban
paranoia.
Here’s your only chance to see Agnieszka
Holland’s epic three-part docudrama—made for
HBO Europe—examining the emotional, political
and societal fallout from Czech student Jan
Palach’s 1969 self-immolation in Prague’s
Wenceslas Square. A riveting thriller plot, complex characters and sumptuously re-created
period detail make for “a master class in modern
historical drama.”—Indiewire.
The great Juliette Binoche gives a stirring performance as the sculptress and lover of Rodin who
was unjustly confined to a benevolent asylum in
Provence for 30 years. A gorgeously filmed and
deeply disturbing portrait from iconoclastic master
Bruno Dumont (L’humanité).
Winner, Audience Award (Panorama), Berlin 2013; Best
Actress, Tribeca 2013.
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Chi (Canada, 59 min.)
Cinemanovels (Canada, 89 min.)
The Closed Circuit (Poland, 114 min.)
(Ecuador/Germany/Switzerland, 88 min.)
Long a German resident, filmmaker Dario Aguirre
gets called home to Ecuador to help save his father’s
grill from bankruptcy. As the vegetarian son and
meat-loving father circle each other warily amidst
talk of spreadsheets and the advantages of wholesale, a humorous and deeply touching family
odyssey emerges.
Losing her long battle with cancer, beloved
Vancouver actress Babz Chula journeys to India to
undergo ayurvedic healing. Anne Wheeler’s compassionate documentary keeps us at Babz’s side
during her final months. “A hard, often unflinching
look at ‘the art of dying,’ Chifully earns the tears you’ll
likely be shedding.”—Globe & Mail. With Softening
(ON, 39 min.)Kelly O’Brien’s visually arresting, deeply
personal documentary is a lyrical-yet-candid account
of her family’s experiences raising a disabled child.
Curating a retrospective of her late father’s films,
Grace embarks on a journey, but one without a
clear destination. Terry Miles’ latest is strong on
detail: every social situation and behavioural quirk
rings true. And, as with the best realist films, there’s
a foundation of mystery beneath the surface.
Three successful entrepreneurs celebrate their
latest factory opening only to find themselves victims of a very hostile takeover and in prison on
trumped up charges. A massive hit in Poland,
Ryszard Bugajski’s unrelenting thriller reminds us
of the brutality that regimes may resort to when
they feel their power slipping.
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Dedicated to the memory of film critic and VIFF friend
Ian Caddell.
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Closed Curtain (Iran, 106 min.)
Coast of Death (Spain, 81 min.)
Code Black (USA, 81 min.)
The Congress (Israel/Germany/
Despite still being under house arrest, Jafar Panahi
somehow continues to make masterful films. His
latest—co-directed with Kambuzia Partovi—sees
a man and a woman holed up in a seaside villa,
where mind games and paranoia run deep. “The
rewards—heady, emotional, provocative and invigorating—are limitless.”—Time Out.
Home to shipwrecks and oil spills, Spain’s Costa
da Morte has rightfully earned its moniker. Lois
Patiño’s poetic documentary explores these
treacherous shores and the people who inhabit
them through a series of immaculate tableaux. “A
visually stimulating and gently engrossing film...”
—Next Projection.
A doctor at LA County Hospital, first-time filmmaker Ryan McGarry provides the ultimate
insider’s look at the realities of the ER and the adrenaline-charged residents who work there. Fastpaced and provocative, McGarry’s accomplished
work will disturb and enlighten by turns.
Winner, Best Screenplay, Berlin 2013.
Winner, Best Emerging Director, Locarno 2013.
Poland/Luxembourg/France/Belgium, 123 min.)
Waltz with Bashir’s Ari Folman again pushes the
boundaries of animation with this audacious reinvention of Stanislaw Lem’s The Futurological
Congress. When Robin Wright (playing herself) consents to being digitally preserved, she’s inadvertently plunged into a dystopian “animation zone.”
A mind-bending “ode to the wonders of cinematic
invention.”—Indiewire
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Winner, Best Documentary, Los Angeles 2013.
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Crisis Management (Various, 106 min.)
Dark Matter (Canada, 101 min.)
Desert Runners (USA, 91 min.)
The Dick Knost Show (Canada, 84 min.)
Whether it’s trying to cope with addiction, divorce,
unemployment, familial responsibilities, impotence, strange mutations, the scars from abuse or
a deathbed goodbye, there are crises afoot in this
entertaining and enlightening program of short
films. This is an emotional roller coaster that’s well
worth the ride!
Just as the concept of dark matter leaves astrophysicists scratching their heads, the short films
assembled here snub their noses at straightforward synopses by finding inventive takes on
familiar tropes.
The power, intensity and drama of desert ultramarathon racing is impressively conveyed in Jennifer
Steinman’s documentary. Following a small group
of runners competing in the Four Desert (the
Atacama, the Gobi, the Sahara and Antarctica)
series of races, the film is a compelling look at what
motivates these extraordinary competitors.
In Bruce Sweeney’s latest, the prickly, acerbic and
chronically impulsive host of a sports talk show
(Tom Scholte) faces two major catastrophes as an
inappropriate series of tweets and an ironic injury
leave his job hanging by a thread. It’s up to his veteran producer (Gabrielle Rose) to save both their
livelihoods—by any means necessary...
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The Dirties (Canada, 84 min.)
Distant (China, 88 min.)
Dormant Beauty (Italy/France, 115 min.)
Down River (Canada, 90 min.)
In Matt Johnson’s conceptually daring debut, a high
school movie geek’s power fantasies about exacting revenge on his tormentors spill over into reality and spiral out of control. “The most empathetic
and human portrait of bullying, and its deadly consequences, ever put on film.”—Huffington Post.
In just 13 fixed shots, without dialogue, new director Yang Zhengfan creates a series of striking
scenes set in southern China. Each one hints at a
micro-story, some humorous, some tragic, others
rich with symbolic meaning. Surrender to the film’s
measured pace and prepare to be enthralled.
Isabelle Huppert and Toni Servillo (Il Divo) are
superb in Italian master Marco Bellocchio’s caustic political critique and keenly observed social
drama centring on the hot-button issue of euthanasia. A powerful and supremely intelligent work,
showing Bellocchio at the peak of his powers.
What happens when you lose your guide before
you find your way? Inspired by writer-director Ben
Ratner’s long-time friendship with the iconic
actress Babz Chula, and featuring an enviable
ensemble cast, this is a charming film about mentorship, companionship, living life to the fullest and,
ultimately, letting go. BC Spotlight Gala.
Winner, Best Narrative Feature, Slamdance 2013.
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Exhibition (UK, 105 min.)
Exit Elena (USA, 72 min.)
The Expedition to the End of the World
The Face of Love (USA, 92 min.)
A tour de force of directorial precision and control,
Joanna Hogg’s unnerving drama dissects the marriage of two middle-aged artists (Viv Albertine, of
1970s punk legends The Slits, and Turner Prizenominated artist Liam Gillick) as they prepare to
vacate their gleaming modernist digs. “A brilliantly
chilly portrait of a couple, a home, and an unspoken horror...”—Guardian
While caring for an elderly woman, a young nursing assistant is deemed the miracle cure for an
entire family’s multiple dysfunctions. Employing
improvisation and invention in his accomplished
sophomore effort, Nathan Silver “locates the ordinary madness bubbling just beneath the surface
of his own life, and flickers of lunacy abound...”
—Village Voice
(Denmark/Sweden, 90 min.)
Set against ancient glaciers, an old-fashioned
schooner carries a merry band of scientists and
artists (Daniel Richter and Tal R) to absolutely sublime arctic lands previously unvisited. Displaying
a spirit of adventure and sense of the absurd, Daniel
Dencik’s striking documentary takes us on “a sublimely idiosyncratic odyssey.”—Maclean’s
Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams and
Amy Brenneman are equally excellent in Arie
Posin’s intriguing, emotionally complex drama. Five
years after the death of her husband Garrett
(Harris), Nikki (Bening) finds herself falling for a
man (Harris again) who is the spitting image—
physically and emotionally—of her dead spouse...
Closing Gala.
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Fanie Fourie’s Lobola (South Africa, 96 min.)
Fatal Assistance
Felix (South Africa, 120 min.)
A Field in England (UK, 91 min.)
When an Afrikaan man romances a Zulu woman,
there’s bound to be a price to pay. In the case of
Fanie and Dinky, it’s her dowry (known in South
Africa as lobola). Cultures clash and sparks fly in
Henk Pretorius’ star-crossed romantic comedy.
(France/Haiti/USA/Belgium, 99 min.)
Raoul Peck gets to the heart of the problem in this
cogent and powerful look at why post-earthquake
Haiti is worse off than ever. “Shines a damning light
on the damage done by international aid agencies
whose well-meaning but ignorant assumptions
turned a nightmare into an unsolvable tragedy.”—
Variety
Guided by the joyous rhythms of Cape Jazz, this
rousing crowd-pleaser centres on a teenaged saxophonist torn between honouring his late father
and obeying his protective mother. Roberta Durrant
delivers an inspiring coming-of-age tale about finding the courage to fulfill your ambitions and the
strength to let the past go.
Genre-bender Ben Wheatley’s deranged, magic
mushroom-fueled vision of the English Civil War
climaxes with a “sequence of pure psychedelic
freefall and freakout [that’s] one of the most captivating, hypnotic and beautiful things you’ll ever
see on a cinema screen.” —Time Out.
Winner, Audience Award, Durban 2013.
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Winner, Special Jury Prize, Karlovy Vary 2013.
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Field of Amapolas (Colombia, 87 min.)
Fifi Howls From Happiness (Iran, 95 min.)
Finding Vivian Maier (USA, 83 min.)
Flashback Memories 3D (Japan, 72 min.)
Thrusting us into the turmoil of the Colombian
civil war, Juan Carlos Melo Guevara’s alternately
gripping and gentle drama delivers a kaleidoscope
of affecting storylines and well-drawn characters,
including a compromised father desperate to
instill strong values in his son. A tremendous cinematic achievement from a country whose films
we rarely see.
In the 60s and 70s, Bahman Mohassess was a
famous artist in Tehran. In 2006, he destroyed his
work and disappeared. Mitra Farahani tracked him
to a hotel room in Rome and the result is this fascinating, moving and ribald portrait. “Evidence of
what Iran has lost by silencing or scattering the
voices of its culture.”—Screen
The incredible artistry of New York nanny and
closet street photographer Vivian Maier came to
light and went viral in 2007 when John Maloof discovered 100,000 of her negatives in Chicago. Now
Maloof and Charlie Siskel bring this formerly
unknown artist’s gorgeous black-and-white photos
and remarkable life story to the big screen. A treat.
Midway between a rave concert and a Koreeda
documentary, Matsue Tetsuaki’s trippy film (in
hypnotic 3D) looks at Goma, a Japanese didgeridoo player who has trained himself to play again
after an accidental brain injury. Small film, big experience! With My Socks (Japan, 7 min.) Kato Ikuo’s
anime on boyhood misdemeanours.
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Forty Years from Yesterday (USA, 77 min.)
Four Ways to Die in My Hometown
Grief in all its forms takes over a family after a man
discovers that his wife of 40 years has died unexpectedly. Robert Machoian and Rodrigo OjedaBeck’s moving debut is “a superb opening salvo
from a filmmaking team with a fine future... Not a
moment in the film is wasted, nor an affectation
indulged...”—Film Comment
(China, 90 min.)
Through the story of a young woman who returns
to her native village in Gansu (next to Tibet and
spiritually close, too), journalist-turned-director
Chai Chunya builds a poetic, Buddhist meditation
on dying traditions. Dragons & Tigers Award nominee. With Maze King (Japan, 7 min.) Kim Hakhyun’s
anime on divided identities.
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From Neurons to Nirvana:
The Great Medicines (Canada/UK, 108 min.)
Oliver Hockenhull’s eye-popping documentary is a
lively, in-depth analysis of psychedelic drugs in light
of current scientific and cultural knowledge. He
examines the validity of psychedelics as adjuncts
to therapy, as crucial but neglected taboo medicines
and as paths to consciousness. Note: The Oct. 1
matinee will be the alternate Understanding
Psychedelic Medicines version. See viff.org for details.
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The Future
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Roberto Bolaño’s writing is finally adapted for the
silver screen in the form of fellow Chilean Alicia
Scherson’s surreal, moody, Rome-set drama.
Following the death of their parents, two schoolage siblings fend for themselves in the family home.
A nuanced Rutger Hauer is superb as an ex-Mr.
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Gabrielle (Canada, 104 min.)
The Gardener (Iran, 87 min.)
Garibong (South Korea, 79 min.)
Gebo and the Shadow
Director Louise Archambault avoids the obvious
traps in this thoughtful telling of the love between
Gabrielle, a young woman affected by a neurodevelopmental disorder, and a boy she meets through
her choir. With the stirring participation of famous
Quebec singer Robert Charlebois, this is a crowdpleaser with integrity.
A low-key, observational doc about Garibong, the
area of Seoul now dominated by Korean-Chinese
immigrants; Park Kiyong quietly goes beyond sociology to empathy with a group notorious for hostility to the host community. With Dinner (South
Korea, 14 min.) Shim Hyunseok explores an end-ofthe-world dilemma.
(Portugal/France, 95 min.)
Michael Lonsdale and Claudia Cardinale are superb
in Manoel de Oliveira’s gorgeous period piece
about the return of a prodigal son bent on destroying his family. “An exquisite yet anguished spectacle, a grand piece of cinematic chamber music for
a cast of mighty soloists...”—New Yorker
Winner, Audience Award, Locarno 2013.
Iranian master Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s return to
filmmaking is at once radical and celebratory.
Shooting, with son Maysam, at Baha’i headquarters in Haifa and Acre, Israel (!), he crafts a colourful, playful and yet deeply intelligent look at the
Baha’i faith. “Images and metaphors whimsically
combine in a fine, fast-flowing documentary...”
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Giselle (New Zealand, 105 min.)
Gloria (Chile/Spain, 105 min.)
Gold (Germany, 101 min.)
Good Vibrations (Ireland/UK, 111 min.)
Director Toa Fraser’s cinematic interpretation of
the New Zealand Royal Ballet’s superb, universally
lauded production of the great romantic ballet
Giselle stars the American Ballet Theater’s Gillian
Murphy as the peasant girl with a passion for dance
who discovers that the man she loves—played by
acclaimed Chinese/New Zealand dancer Qi
Huan—is engaged to another...
Paulina García is fantastic as the eponymous
lead, a woman in her mid-50s, newly divorced,
who refuses to give up on love and sex in
Sebastián Lelio’s intimate drama. “Funny,
melancholy and ultimately uplifting, Lelio’s
enormously satisfying [film] never puts a foot
wrong.” —Hollywood Reporter.
Winner, Best Actress, Berlin 2013.
Making glorious use of both its BC locations and
luminous lead Nina Hoss (Barbara), Thomas
Arslan’s revisionist Western follows a band of
German immigrants traversing the wilds on the
Klondike Gold Rush trail of the 1890s. Betrayal,
romance, the unforgiving wilderness and Arslan’s
cool style make this a unique filmic odyssey.
Forget the Troubles and get your “Teenage Kicks”
instead! Set in 70s Belfast, Lisa Barros D’Sa and
Glenn Leyburn’s exhilarating biopic celebrates the
gregarious godfather of Northern Irish punk. “An
impassioned, funny and monumentally likable
myth-making comedy.”—Time Out
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Gore Vidal: The United States of
Amnesia (USA, 89 min.)
Eternally opinionated, brilliantly funny and terminally political, Gore Vidal—novelist, essayist,
polemicist, politician, pundit, screenwriter—was
the true protean man. Using fascinating and apt
recent and legendary archival footage, and interviews—including an exclusive with a fierce and
fearless Vidal as he neared the end of his life—
Nicholas Wrathall gives the man his due.
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Grand Central (France/Austria, 94 min.)
The Great Beauty (Italy/France, 142 min.)
The Great Flood (USA, 80 min.)
Two of France’s hottest young stars, Léa Seydoux
(Blue Is the Warmest Colour) and Tahar Rahim (The
Prophet), play workers at a nuclear power station
who fall in love in Rebecca Zlotowski’s powerful
drama. Offers a rare and fascinating look inside the
everyday workings of a nuclear power plant.
“Engrossing, superbly acted.”—Variety
Reminiscent of Fellini at his most symphonic, Paolo
Sorrentino’s (Il Divo) story of a high-flying journalist (Toni Servillo, superb) brought low by the death
of his first love is both visually dazzling and emotionally rich. “Sorrentino’s magnificent return to
form... A lush, classical tale of middle-age hedonism and lost love.”—Guardian
Director Bill Morrison weaves together compelling
archival footage of the great Mississippi flood of
1927, complemented by a very well-considered
Bill Frisell original score. That flood led to an exodus
of sharecroppers, all heading north. The result?
Chicago blues, rhythm & blues and, ultimately,
rock ‘n’ roll...
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The Great Passage (Japan, 133 min.)
The Great War: Director’s Cut
Grigris (Chad/France, 101 min.)
A Gun in Each Hand (Spain, 97 min.)
After Sawako Decides and Mitsuko Delivers, Ishii Yuya
gives us: the making of a dictionary! Matsuda
Ryuhei (Gohatto) plays the geek who finds spiritual fulfilment—and a side-order of true love—in
a huge editorial challenge. The humour and
warmth you might expect; the Dickensian flavour
is a wonderful surprise.
(Hong Kong, 97 min.)
Two iconic 90s Hong Kong pop groups, fabulous
glam-pop Grasshopper and brilliantly satirical
Softhard, mount a joint concert in 2012 and sell out
12 consecutive days. Yan Yan Mak captures not
just the shows, but their fans’ fervour and HK’s passionate attachment to its ever-changing identity.
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (A Screaming Man) follows
the exploits of a disabled young man (Souleymane
Démé) who still manages to wow them on the
dance floor. When he gets involved with gangsters,
however, the music stops... “A calm, lucid drama...
the director’s compassion shines out, and so does
the charisma of Souleymane Démé.”—Guardian
Cesc Gay directs an all-star Spanish-language
cast—Ricardo Darín, Eduardo Noriega, Jordi Mollà,
Candela Peña—in this formidably acted, quietly
acerbic comedy about the male ego brought low.
“A witty, perceptive dissection of mid-life masculine insecurities... the dialogue is by turns acidly
observant, hilarious and quotable.”—Variety.
Winner, Best Supporting Actress, Goya Awards 2013.
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H & G (Canada, 95 min.)
Halley (Mexico/Netherlands, 83 min.)
Harmony Lessons
Heli (Mexico/Germany/Netherlands/
Danishka Esterhazy’s provocative and challenging
film is a tale of survival against all odds, updating
the story of Hansel and Gretel to reflect some grim
contemporary realities: single parenthood, substance abuse, child neglect, pedophilia and serial
murder. It’s a potent mix, and the performances are
superb.
Despite his best efforts, Beto can no longer mask
the fact he’s dead and rapidly decomposing.
Sebastián Hofmann’s melancholic, meditative film
mines Beto’s final days amongst the living for dark
humour, horror and, ultimately, transcendence. “A
disturbingly stylish and surrealistic drama...”
—Screen
(Kazakhstan/Germany/France, 110 min.)
With its culture of intimidation, the playground has
always resembled a prison yard. Lyrical and jarring,
Emir Baigazin’s commanding debut centres on a
teenager trapped in a cycle of mind games and bullying. “Poetic, formally disciplined and psychologically gripping...”—Hollywood Reporter.
Winner, Best New Director, Seattle 2013;
Outstanding Artistic Contribution, Berlin 2013.
France, 105 min.)
Cannes 2013’s Steven Spielberg-led jury awarded
Best Director to Amat Escalante for this tale ripped
from blood-soaked headlines. “New Wave
Mexican style: raw, gritty, and force fed... A film
about supporting others as you yourself are written out of the picture. A damning indictment of
contemporary Mexico, capturing its institutionalised corruption, its endemic cruelty.”—Guardian
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Honeymoon
Hotell (Sweden, 100 min.)
Hue: A Matter of Colour (Canada, 86 min.)
I Belong (Norway, 117 min.)
(Czech Republic/Slovakia, 92 min.)
When an unwelcome guest crashes a wedding, his
presence casts a pall over the fairytale occasion.
Capping the trilogy that includes VIFF favourites
Kawasaki’s Rose and Innocence, Jan Hr̆ebejk crafts a
compelling reminder of Faulkner’s assertion, “The
past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
In a crisis, should you look back at the past or forward to a better future? Lisa Langseth’s (Pure)
haunting drama poses this question when a young
woman in mental disarray (Alicia Vikander, A Royal
Affair) turns her back on therapy and moves from
hotel to hotel with a group of like-minded sufferers, searching for peace of mind...
Taking us around the globe to examine national
and ethnic attitudes, Vic Sarin’s documentary
shines a light on skin colour—not race in itself—as
a factor in shame and bigotry. The film starts from
a personal position—Sarin’s insecurity about his
colour—and becomes an act of catharsis for himself, for his subjects and, hopefully, for many in the
audience.
A nurse’s forgiving nature proves her undoing. A
translator’s reputation is left in tatters. A cashstrapped senior’s pride takes a beating. Dag Johan
Haugerud’s three-part tragicomedy is alternately
playful and pointed, displaying a remarkable understanding of our frailties and the daily dilemmas that
trip us up.
Winner, Best Film, Norwegian Critics Association 2012.
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Winner, Best Director, Karlovy Vary 2013.
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Ilo Ilo (Singapore, 96 min.)
In Bloom (Georgia/Germany/France, 102 min.)
The Invisible Woman (UK, 111 min.)
Set in 1990s Singapore, Anthony Chen’s vivid, bittersweet debut chronicles the relationship between
a family of three and their newly arrived Filipino
maid, Teresa. As she develops a bond with rascally
son Jiale, the parents face economic and personal
crises with dignity and unexpected reserves of love.
Winner, Caméra d’Or, Cannes 2013.
“Nana Ekvtimishvili [with Simon Gross] marks her
filmmaking debut in an impressive coming-of-age
feature about female friendship, fatal feuds and
family friction in post-Soviet Georgia... With superb
performances and high technical polish... In Bloom
has the texture of authentic experience.”
—Hollywood Reporter
Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) never breathed a
word of his affair with young actress Nelly Ternan
(Felicity Jones) until his dying day. Told from Nelly’s
perspective, Fiennes’ sweeping romantic drama
reveals a life of compromise in which Dickens’ insistence on discretion demanded that she remain, for
all intents and purposes, invisible and unfulfilled.
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The Italian Character:
The Story of a Great Italian Orchestra
(Italy/Germany, 100 min.)
As polyphonic as a great orchestra at its peak,
Angelo Bozzolini’s behind-the-scenes chronicle of
Rome’s famous Orchestra dell’Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is a stirring, fascinating
and insightful portrait. Enhanced by archival material of famous conductors and soloists who’ve
played with the orchestra, it is a grand trip, indeed.
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La jaula de oro (Mexico/Spain, 102 min.)
Karaoke Girl (Thailand, 77 min.)
Kids Return: the Reunion (Japan, 107 min.)
The Kill Team (USA, 79 min.)
“A powerful yet unsentimental thriller, [this is a]
striking ground-level view of four teens travelling
from Central America to the US border... Director
Diego Quemada-Díez assembles La jaula de oro out
of moments rich in action, humour and intrigue.”—
Variety.
Visra Vichit Vadakan’s debut is a sisterly, fictionalized portrait of Sa Sittijun, who sells her body in
a karaoke lounge in Bangkok and has trouble with
a “serious” boyfriend. Sensitive and intimate. With
The Mother (Thailand, 15 min.) A woman stands up
to the man who caused her daughter’s death.
Pimpaka Towira directs.
Remember high-school drop-outs Masaru (the
yakuza) and Shinji (the boxer) in Kitano Takeshi’s
1996 film? Here’s what happened next, as imagined by Kitano and directed by his former assistant
Shimizu Hiroshi. The key issue—how to succeed?—
is played out vividly by an excellent young cast.
If you were a young soldier in Afghanistan and
thought the line between the “fog of war” and
“killing for sport” was being crossed, would you
blow the whistle? Adam Winfield did, and then
found himself a target of one of the largest war
crimes investigations in US history. Dan Krauss
directed this riveting, must-see exposé of what
armed foreign intervention can lead to.
Winner, Certain Talent award (ensemble acting),
Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2013.
Winner, Best Documentary, Tribeca 2013.
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Kiss the Water (UK/USA, 80 min.)
A Lady in Paris
The Last Ocean (New Zealand, 87 min.)
Lawrence & Holloman (Canada, 88 min.)
A visually stunning celebration of the artistry and
idiosyncrasy of Megan Boyd, the reclusive Scot
whose intricate, hand-tied fishing flies made her a
legend to anglers and artisans alike. An amalgam
of breathtaking painted animation and reverential
musings regarding the allure of fly fishing, Eric
Steel’s enchanting documentary is “an elegant and
fascinating delight...”—Screen. With Virtuoso
Virtual (Germany, 8 min.)
(Estonia/France/Belgium, 94 min.)
Jeanne Moreau gives another in a lifetime’s worth
of great performances as Frida, an Estonian woman
long settled in Paris who must accept a fellow
Estonian caregiver (Laine Mägi) into her upscale
home. Ilmar Raag’s moving observational tale is “a
story of gradual transformation, slight, graceful and
incidental.”—Sydney Morning Herald
Unfortunately for Antarctica’s Ross Sea, there’s
“white gold” swimming in its depths. Lured by
schools of incredibly valuable toothfish, fishermen
have set course for these pristine waters. Peter
Young’s urgent, absorbing documentary makes an
impassioned plea for retreat before a virtually
untouched ecosystem is ruined.
Having just chickened out of a suicide attempt,
malcontent Holloman turns his attention to orchestrating the ruin of Lawrence, a man of few morals
and no brains. Matthew Kowalchuk’s film—
adapted from Morris Panych’s play—works on
many levels: as wacky sketch comedy, as absurdist fable and, most pungently, as a satire on the
modern rat race.
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Leap 4 Your Life (Canada, 80 min.)
Lebanon Emotion (South Korea, 106 min.)
Let the Fire Burn (USA, 95 min.)
Like Father, Like Son (Japan, 119 min.)
Backstage drama meets reality TV in this juicy
mockumentary about a teen dance troupe. Think
Canadian Idol or Step Up, but with a little more bite.
Here we get to see the downside of things that
movies usually glorify: beauty, ambition, competition, dedication. There are plenty of laughs, and
some superb dance numbers to boot.
A young man grieving over a family death finds
himself nursing an injured woman—who has a
vicious gangster on her trail. The poetic title refers
to unspoken feelings, which run rife in a violent tale
of hatred and revenge. It won the Best Director
prize at the Moscow Festival for Jung Youngheon,
who also scripted. With I Have Nothing to Lose
Reassembling archival news footage and interviews
concerning one of Philadelphia’s darkest hours,
Jason Osder sheds new light on the 1985 standoff
between police and a radical black liberation group
that culminated in an inferno that claimed 11 lives.
This found-footage documentary “has the force
and intrigue of a courtroom thriller... it ripples with
urgency and moral complexity.”—Screen
Koreeda Hirokazu’s prizewinner asks: what if two
male babies were accidentally switched at birth
and, six years later, the parents decided to restore
the boys to their “rightful” homes? The conundrum
is a clever pretext for a study of differences in class,
temperament and the ability to love.
(South Korea, 10 min.)
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Winner, Jury Prize, Cannes 2013.
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Liv & Ingmar (Norway/UK/India, 83 min.)
A Long and Happy Life (Russia, 77 min.)
Longing for the Rain
Ludwig II (Germany/Austria, 140 min.)
One of the great cinematic pairings—Bergman and
Ullman—comes vividly to life in Dheeraj Akolkar’s
vibrant documentary, aided immeasurably by the
radiant Liv Ullmann’s on-screen narration.
Beautifully rendered excerpts from their films and
candid reminiscences complete a lovely picture.
Offered a lucrative payoff if he abandons his land,
Sasha instead stages a “mini-revolution” at the
behest of his farmhands. Exacting, efficient and
clearly indebted to High Noon, Boris Khlebnikov’s
standoff drama is “an elemental tale of rural conflict... [and] a fatalistic social drama in the grand
Russian tradition.”—Hollywood Reporter
(Hong Kong/China, 98 min.)
Chinese indie documentarian Yang Lina’s first fiction film is unprecedented in Chinese cinema: a
truly erotic depiction of female desire, shot from a
woman’s point of view. After a mysterious ghost
seduces a bored housewife, her psychological turmoil leads to a series of increasingly weird religious
experiences.
Gorgeously designed and photographed, Peter
Sehr and Marie Noëlle’s epic life of “Mad King”
Ludwig of Bavaria (Sabin Tambrea) paints a
humanizing picture of a young monarch brought
low by his belief that culture—exemplified by the
music of Richard Wagner—could change society
for the better.
Winner, Best Young Actor, Bavarian Film Awards 2013.
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The Lunchbox
(India/Germany/France, 104 min.)
When a lunchbox painstakingly prepared and
intended for Ila’s (Nimrat Kaur) husband is mistakenly delivered to Saajan (the wonderful Irrfan
Khan, Life of Pi), the under-appreciated Mumbai
housewife and lonely accountant strike up an intimate correspondence, sharing their inner thoughts
and life stories. Ritesh Batra’s soulful debut is “a
wistful, elegant love story.”—Screen
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The Machine Which Makes Everything
Disappear (Georgia/Germany, 101 min.)
During a series of open auditions, Tinatin Gurchiani
turns her camera on young Georgians, discovering both aspiring stars and disenfranchised strugglers eager to share their stories. Self-deprecating
humour and heartrending accounts of war and
domestic strife conspire in highly cinematic
vignettes.
Winner, World Cinema Directing Award:
Documentary, Sundance 2013.
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La maison de la radio
Manakamana (USA/Nepal, 118 min.)
(France/Japan, 99 min.)
A wonderful film about listening, and about the
value of great public institutions. Nicolas Philibert
(To Be and To Have) turns his probing, sensitive
camera on the inner workings of public broadcaster
Radio France to enchanting, enlightening and frequently surprising effect. “A terrific documentary...
humorous as well as continually insightful.”
—Variety
Produced by Leviathan’sLucien Castaing-Taylor and
Véréna Paravel from Harvard’s Sensory
Ethnography Laboratory, Stephanie Spray and
Pacho Velez’s debut documentary takes us high
above the jungle in Nepal, where pilgrims go on an
ancient journey, travelling by cable car to reach the
Manakamana temple.
Winner, Golden Leopard (Filmmakers of the Present),
Locarno 2013.
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Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Iran, 125 min.)
Matterhorn (Netherlands, 88 min.)
Max Beckmann: Departure
Measuring the World (Germany, 123 min.)
Like Jafar Panahi (see Closed Curtain), Mohammad
Rasoulof is under a 20-year filmmaking ban, and,
like Panahi, he has made a clandestinely shot film,
this one an angry political thriller focusing on two
assassins working for Iran’s security apparatus. “A
brave, challenging picture that makes the viewer
complicit in the action...”—Variety
Humane and hugely enjoyable! An isolated widower is shaken from his persnickety routine when
a gentle, not-quite-right stranger wanders into his
neighbourhood. As he strives to better his new
charge’s lot in life, Diederik Ebbinge’s comedy takes
a turn for the absurd.
(Germany/Austria, 92 min.)
“To create is to be saved,” claimed German painter
Max Beckmann, heralded alongside Picasso and
Braque as a seminal modernist master. Michael
Trabitzsch’s fascinating look at Beckmann’s persecuted and peripatetic existence uses examples
of his work, interviews, re-enactments, photos and
archival footage to illuminate a singular life.
Daniel Kehlmann’s irreverent, globetrotting “fictitious double-biography” of early 19th-century
mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and his contemporary, explorer Alexander von Humboldt, is
brought to the big screen in glorious 3D by Detlev
Buck. Epic in scope and occasionally very funny,
this is the Age of Discovery as you’ve never seen
it before.
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Winner, Audience Award, Rotterdam 2013.
Special 3D Presentation.
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Michael H. Profession: Director
Michael Kohlhaas
Miss Violence (Greece, 99 min.)
The Missing Picture
(Austria/France, 90 min.)
Spanning the totality of Michael Haneke’s career
and featuring interviews with him, as well as
footage of Haneke working on the films Amour
(Oscar winner for best foreign language film), Code
Unknown andThe White Ribbon, Yves Montmayeur’s
documentary portrait is “a must-see for anyone
who admires this director.”—Guardian
(France/Germany, 122 min.)
Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt) stars in Arnaud des
Pallières’ atmospheric adaptation of Heinrich von
Kleist’s classic novella about principles, law and
revenge. In 16th-century Cévennes, a horse-dealer
is wronged by a local lord. His search for justice will
ravage the countryside.
A grinning 11-year-old girl plummets to her death,
taking a dark secret along with her. As social services investigate her family, they learn far too late
that there are some stones best left unturned.
Methodically burrowing into the festering wound
at the heart of this household, Alexandros Avranas’
drama will chill you to the bone.
(France/Cambodia, 90 min.)
In this piercing masterpiece, Rithy Panh grapples
with the horrors Cambodia faced under the Khmer
Rouge. “A series of painstakingly crafted dioramas...
at once extremely fragile and necessarily distanced... A dam constructed to control the flow of
an ocean of sorrow.”—Film Comment.
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Money for Nothing:
Inside the Federal Reserve (USA, 103 min.)
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Winner, Best Film, Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2013.
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A Mother’s Dream
Mouton (France, 100 min.)
El mudo (Peru/France/Mexico, 90 min.)
This lucid and highly engaging account of how we
got into financial crisis takes a broad historical
view. Jim Bruce’s film also brilliantly organizes a
vast range of material and interviews with many
of the key players. Current and former Fed officials join a wide range of top economists and historians to speak frankly about their roles and warn
of dangers ahead.
(Switzerland/India, 85 min.)
Six pregnant women in India dream of the better
life they’ll enjoy the day their babies are born... and
then handed over to their rightful mothers. A sensitive, well-crafted examination of the complex
issue of surrogacy, Valerie Gudenus’ documentary chronicles these women’s aspirations and the
complications that arise during their nine-month
journeys.
“Films that truly surprise are the rarest of the rare...
Marianne Pistone and Gilles Deroo have crafted a
prose poem on the randomness of life itself, at first
focusing on a young man working as a prep chef
and then, quite suddenly, introducing a freak event
that changes the course of the picture and steers
it down unexpected paths...”—Variety
Was it a stray bullet or botched assassination
attempt that left Constantino mute? Fernando
Bacilio delivers a towering performance as an
obsessed magistrate exceeding the bounds of his
powers to get answers. Diego and Daniel Vega’s
deadpan crime procedural conjures Beckett with its
distinct and compelling mix of atmosphere and plot.
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Winner, Best Actor, Locarno 2013.
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My First Love (Japan, 82 min.)
My Prairie Home (Canada, 77 min.)
My Stolen Revolution (Iran/Sweden, 75 min.)
Nebraska (USA, 114 min.)
Tsuruoka Keiko’s excellent debut feature adapts
Turgenev’s story to Tokyo in 1994. Eighteen-yearold Kyoichi develops the mother of all crushes on
bar owner Megumi. Dragons & Tigers Award nominee. With Shisso Love Letter (Japan, 7 min.) Healthy
sperm have a long, long way to run in Yamamoto
Keisuke’s short...
A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits
stretches of rural Alberta and confronts memories
of growing up queer in an abusive, evangelical
household. Lyrical and alluring, Chelsea
McMullan’s docu-musical questions our traditional
definitions of “home” and celebrates the places in
between, be they in music, geography or gender.
With Snapshots (SK, 12 min.)
Since fleeing Iran during the revolution, documentarian Nahid Persson Sarvestani (Prostitution: Behind
the Veil) has been plagued by guilt and haunted by
thoughts of her lost brother. Seeking both answers
and absolution, she interviews survivors of the
Islamic Republic’s brutal prisons, uncovering stirring accounts of dignity and resolve. “Deeply affecting...”—Hollywood Reporter. With For the Birds
After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a
cantankerous father (Bruce Dern, Best Actor
winner at Cannes) thinks he’s struck it rich, and
wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip
to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across
four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life
in the heartland of America. Opening Gala.
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New World (South Korea, 134 min.)
No Land No Food No Life (Canada, 75 min.)
Objects of Desire (Canada, 115 min.)
Oil Sands Karaoke (Canada, 82 min.)
Park Hongjoon conflates The Godfather and the
Infernal Affairs trilogy in this massively entertaining
gangster thriller with three powerhouse star performances. Jasung stands to take over the
Goldmoon crime syndicate, but he’s actually a police
mole... and his sworn brother/rival suspects him.
Director Amy Miller (Carbon Rush, VIFF 2012)
exposes the devastating human cost of agricultural land grabbing—the contentious issue of
large-scale agricultural land acquisitions by
domestic and transnational companies, governments and individuals.
A series of irresistible short films that explore the
idealized individuals, coveted items and beguiling
ideas that elicit yearning and inspire everything
from reveries to demented rampages.
The operations in the tar sands of Fort McMurray
are certainly ripe for discussion. However, the subject is so polarizing that meaningful debate is rare.
Charles Wilkinson’s documentary addresses the
tension between work and worldliness in fluid interviews with a handful of workers who are also
preparing for a karaoke contest.
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On the Edge of the World (France, 97 min.)
Once Upon a Forest (France, 75 min.)
Open Field (Mexico/USA/UK/France, 75 min.)
Our Sunhi (South Korea, 88 min.)
Paris, at night. This is where Jeni, Wenceslas,
Christine, Pascal and the others live. Homeless,
they haunt the streets and bridges, and the corridors of the metro, on the edge of a world where
society no longer offers protection. They face us
and they talk... Claus Drexel’s luminously shot film
contrasts the beauty of the city with the plight of
the homeless to deeply moving effect.
Luc Jacquet (March of the Penguins) and pioneering
botanist and ecologist Francis Hallé fly us to the
very top of the Amazon rainforest canopy and
chronicle seven centuries in the life of this “green
lung” of the world. A glorious celebration of trees
and a call to arms for the protection of this wondrous tropical ecosystem.
Gliding with the grace of a boomerang, Juan Carlos
Martín’s documentary circles back through artist
Gabriel Orozco’s career, tracing how the Mexican
modernist’s drawings, photographs and sculptures
became so influential. And every time the camera
returns to Orozco, we see an artist wrestling with
precisely what a career retrospective signifies.
Hong Sangsoo won Best Director in Locarno for
this comedy of manners about a young woman and
the three hopeless men orbiting her. Sunhi is set
on studying abroad, but needs a character reference... With Hard to Say (South Korea, 25 min.)
Another brilliant storytelling riddle from Lee
Kwangkuk, director of Romance Joe.
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The Oxbow Cure (Canada, 79 min.)
Paradise: Hope
Particle Fever (USA, 99 min.)
The Past (France/Iran, 130 min.)
In turns sensuous and sinister, Yonah Lewis and
Calvin Thomas’ entrancing, atmospheric character study unfolds in an isolated, snowbound cabin
within which a woman is plagued by grief, illness
and a supernatural presence. “Viewers who are
unafraid to venture into cinema’s darkest hinterlands will be impressed by what they discover
here.”—Grid
(Austria/France/Germany, 90 min.)
As befits its title, the conclusion of Ulrich Seidl’s
Paradise trilogy is far more upbeat than the others.
His story of chubby 13-year-old Melanie (Melanie
Lenz), sent to weight-loss camp, still makes acerbic fun of the bourgeois, but his treatment of
Melanie and her campmates is positively tender
and affectionate.
Physicist turned filmmaker Mark Levinson takes
us behind the scenes during one of modern science’s most epochal events—the launch of the
Large Hadron Collider near Geneva. Following six
scientists, Levinson—aided by master editor
Walter Murch—crafts a celebration of discovery
while revealing the very human stories behind this
epic machine.
Iran’s Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), now working
in France, directs the brilliant Bérénice Bejo (The
Artist), Tahar Rahim (A Prophet, Grand Central) and
Ali Mosaffa in a tense domestic relationship triangle. “An intricate and often brilliant drama, with
restrained and intelligent performances... Farhadi’s
filmmaking is compelling.”—Guardian.
Winner, Best Actress, Cannes 2013.
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La Paz (Argentina, 73 min.)
Performance/Anxiety (Canada, 111 min.)
A Place in Heaven (Israel, 117 min.)
(Afghanistan/France/Germany/UK, 102 min.)
Holding vigil at her husband’s side, a devoted
Muslim (famous Iranian actress Golshifteh
Farahani) discovers unexpected empowerment. As
she expresses her frustrations and desires, new
possibilities present themselves in her war-torn
city. Atiq Rahimi’s adaptation of his novel proves a
“poetic and politically charged allegory.”—Screen.
Fresh from a psychiatric hospital, Liso tries to fit in
and fails. Whether puttering about on his scooter
or visiting with a girlfriend, no connection. Santiago
Loza uses a laconic camera to keep us at Liso’s side
and, with every scene, the mystery deepens...
Some of us were born for the stage (or screen)
while others have flop sweat in their veins. Will the
characters in these short films rise to the occasion
or go down in flames?
Joseph Madmony’s (Restoration) probing fictional
biography of a top Israeli general turned politician
(Alon Aboutboul) encompasses 40 years of Israeli
history while providing an intimate portrait of an
obstinate man whose principles come before
everything else. Just the right hint of Madmony’s
characteristic mystical overtones adds to its allusive weight.
Winner, Best Argentine Film, Buenos Aires 2013.
Winner, Best Actress, Abu Dhabi 2012.
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A Place to Take Away (Brazil, 80 min.)
The Priest’s Children
The Project (USA, 89 min.)
The favelas of Brazil have long fascinated foreigners. But what happens when these impoverished
slums become a thriving tourist attraction? Felippe
Schultz Mussel’s probing documentary not only
explores Rio’s Favela da Rocinha but also the perspectives of the tour guides who navigate its corridors and the residents whose squalid homes have
somehow been deemed postcard perfect.
(Croatia/Serbia, 93 min.)
Alarmed by his parishioners’ fondness for birth
control, an over-enthusiastic young priest sets
about sabotaging the condom stocks in his tiny
island diocese. As birthrates spike, the laughs follow
suit in Vinko Brešan’s charming testament to the
fact that sex and religion make fine comedic bedfellows. “Colourful, fun and breezy...”—Screen
Emmy-winning 60 Minutes producers Shawn Efran
and Adam Ciralsky tell the near-unbelievable story
of the Puntland Maritime Police Force, a group of
heavy-hitting American and South African mercenaries and ragtag soldiers brought together to
combat Somali pirates. A gripping chronicle of highseas warfare and an unforgettable journey into the
heart of darkness.
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Purgatorio: A Journey to the Heart of
the Border (Mexico/USA, 80 min.)
Rodrigo Reyes focuses on the human rather than
the overtly political in this stunningly shot look at
the contrasting lives and landscapes on either side
of the wall separating the US and Mexico. “A searing, horrifying, at times starkly beautiful documentary ode to the netherworlds surrounding the
US-Mexico barrier.”—Variety
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Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Rap Is WAR (USA/Cuba, 74 min.)
The Ravine of Goodbye (Japan, 118 min.)
Redemption (Portugal, 27 min.)
(Russia/UK, 86 min.)
The saga of Russian feminist punk collective Pussy
Riot is well-known by now, but the lives of the three
brave young women beneath the balaclavas much
less so. Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin
change that with this smart and exclusive behindthe-scenes look at the group. “The most important
film at Sundance this year.”—Moviemaker Magazine
Refused airplay, the nevertheless very popular
Cuban protest rappers Los Aldeanos soldier on,
playing secret shows island wide. Jesse Acevedo’s
vital documentary offers incredible insight into
Cuba now and is a testament to the power of both
guerrilla filmmaking and underground music.
Onishi Shima and Maki Yoko give breathtaking performances in a mystery drama by Omori Tatsushi.
They play a seemingly happy couple with a very
active sex life who by chance become tabloid newspaper targets; it turns out the guy has a very dark
secret. So what keeps the couple together?
In the first of these brilliant films from Portugal, Miguel
Gomes’ (Tabu) found-footage collage examines
human fallibility in its many forms. + The King’s Body
(30 min.) Taking into account the first Portuguese
king’s myth-like status, João Pedro Rodrigues’ ruminates on just what the body of Dom Afonso Henriques
might have looked like...+ Mahjong (33 min.): João Rui
Guerra da Mata and João Pedro Rodrigues enact a
mysterious mahjong-like game between East and
West, a man and a missing woman...
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Winner, Audience Award, Miami 2013.
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The Reel Youth Film Festival
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
The Right Kind of Wrong (Canada, 97 min.)
A River Changes Course
(Various, 76 min.)
Once again, VIFF partners with The Reel Youth Film
Festival to showcase a collection of incredibly
diverse youth-made shorts. They are deeply
honest, disarmingly beautiful and sometimes just
plain hilarious. Chosen by a youth selection panel
from hundreds of international submissions, this
collection will show you the world through the eyes
of the next generation of filmmakers.
(Canada, 88 min.)
Revenge is a rite of passage in Jeff Barnaby’s audacious, genre-bending debut. The reigning “weed
princess” of Red Crow reserve, teenage Aila communes with spirits as she plots vengeance against
the callous Indian Agent tormenting her community. Swirling fantasy and harrowing reality conspire in this riveting tale of a feminist, First Nations
heroine for the ages.
This quixotic quest film is directed by Jeremiah
Chechik (Benny & Joon) and stars True Blood’s Ryan
Kwanten as Leo Palamino, a failed writer who toils
as a dishwasher. Leo is reluctantly famous thanks
to a blog and a book written by his ex-wife called
“Why You Suck.” But there’s light at the end of his
tunnel vision...
(Cambodia/USA, 83 min.)
A sobering look at how encroaching modernity is
threatening the livelihoods and traditions of three
families in different parts of Cambodia, Kalyanee
Mam’s vérité documentary “handles its material so
deftly that you can’t help but become an active participant in the journey.”—The AU Review.
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Winner, World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary,
Sundance 2013.
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The Rocket (Australia/Laos/Thailand, 96 min.)
Salmon Confidential (Canada, 71 min.)
Sarah Prefers to Run (Canada, 97 min.)
See You Never (Hasta Nunca)
A ten-year-old pariah desperately strives to earn
redemption and reverse his family’s fortunes by
constructing a prize-winning rocket. Making exemplary use of his Laos setting, Kim Mordaunt crafts
“a lush and bruising coming-of-age story...”
—Screen.
Winner, Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature, Best
Actor, Tribeca 2013; Audience Award, Sydney 2013.
Riding shotgun with biologist Alexandra Morton,
documentarian Twyla Roscovich details the dangerous viruses that are flourishing in BC’s wild
salmon and our government’s efforts to suppress
evidence of this epidemic. An alarming document
of our elected officials working against our best
interests, this exposé is a must-see for every British
Columbian. With Gateway (USA, 18 min.)
Bursting out of the starting blocks, Chloé
Robichaud’s debut feature is a breathless account
of a fiercely driven runner (Sophie Desmarais)
who’s tripped up while navigating a romantic obstacle course. As the athletically gifted, socially
stunted Sarah, Desmarais impresses with displays
of physical prowess offset by the slightest, most
revealing gestures.
(Uruguay/USA, 80 min.)
The host of a radio call-in show in Montevideo,
Mario serves as a sounding board for his fellow
Uruguayans’ insecurities and fears. As the hipster
DJ endures an identity crisis of his own, Mark
Street’s ingenious hybrid docudrama melds vérité
and poetic invention to explore the state of a nation
in transition.
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So Much Water (Uruguay/Mexico/
Soft in the Head (USA, 71 min.)
Sol LeWitt (Netherlands, 72 min.)
Soul (Taiwan, 112 min.)
Netherlands/Germany, 90 min.)
This quietly humorous coming-of-age story
focuses on 14-year-old Lucía (Malú Chouza, perfect) as she suffers through a rain-drenched vacation in Uruguay’s northwest with her
always-underfoot divorced dad (Néstor Guzzin,
hilarious and touching) and her little brother.
An accident that can’t wait to happen, Natalia displays an arsonist’s flair for burning bridges. Even
after her downward spiral lands her in a men’s shelter, Nathan Silver’s engrossing character study continues to knock us for a loop.
When Sol LeWitt died in 2007, The New York Times
called him the “master of conceptualism... whose
deceptively simple geometric sculptures and drawings, and ecstatically colored jazzy wall paintings
established him as a lodestar of modern American
art.” Chris Teerink’s excellent appreciation visits
NY, Holland and Italy, providing a compelling
demonstration of the rewards of economy and clarity. With Tollings (Italy, 26 min.)
A son is possessed; gory murders accumulate; a
father (veteran star Jimmy Wang Yu) is chillingly
loyal; cops are confounded. Frequent VIFF director
Chung Mong-hong (Parking, The Fourth Portrait)
brings new elements—horror and some lusciously
photographed blood—to his refined dramatic sensibility: creepy and thought-provoking.
Winner, Best Actress, Brooklyn 2013.
Winner, Best First Film, Guadalajara 2013.
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Winner, Best Narrative Film, Best Actor, Taipei 2013.
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A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
The Spider’s Lair (Philippines, 101 min.)
The Spirit of ‘45 (UK, 98 min.)
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
(Estonia/France, 98 min.)
Art-house titans (and mutual admirers) Ben Rivers
and Ben Russell conspire on this uncompromising,
three-part sensory experience that commences in
a bucolic Estonian commune and culminates with
a black metal concert. “[A] tapestry of beautifully
rendered concepts [that’s] impressively committed to its poetic design... Rivers and Russell have
certainly cast a spell that sticks.”—Indiewire
Cat-and-mouse games get a turtle-and-monkey
makeover in Jason Laxamana’s tale of 21st-century grifters. Bam Bonifacio is a dream hunk on a
dating site, adept at persuading his admirers to
part with cash. Behind ‘Bam’ is Greg, less impressive and much more fallible... Dragons & Tigers
Whatever happened to the values of cooperation
and support that were instilled in Britain during
WWII? This rare documentary from Ken Loach
seems like the film he was always meant to make.
“Rousing and saddening... [It] works all at once as
a lament, a celebration and a wake-up call to
modern politicians and voters.”—Time Out. With
Dry Stone Waller (UK, 5 min.)
(USA, 94 min.)
An autistic 13-year-old embarks on an underground
odyssey that would give Orpheus pause: 11 days
patiently lost on New York’s subway. As his family
searches frantically for him, Hurricane Sandy lurks
on the horizon. “As intense and indelible an immersion in the real New York as I have seen in a long
time... Completely, exhilaratingly alive.”—New York
Times
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Award nominee.
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Stemple Pass (USA, 121 min.)
A Story of Children and Film (UK, 101 min.)
The Story of My Death
The Strange Little Cat (Germany, 72 min.)
Equally entrancing and unsettling, James Benning’s
rigorous study of the Unabomber’s bucolic hideaway habitat and, through extensive readings from
his journals, his tortured inner world “explores profound ideas about [man’s place in] nature,
America, time, technology and film itself.”—Variety
Mark Cousins (A Story of Film) continues his fascinating and highly entertaining personal exploration
of cinema history with this delightful look at the
onscreen representation of kids from the silent era
through today. “A nimble and distinctive cine-essay
featuring a mosaic of clips... One of the most beguiling events at Cannes...”—Guardian
(Spain/France/Romania, 148 min.)
Albert Serra`s (Honor de Cavelleria) dreamy period
piece finds an aging Giacomo Casanova (Vicenç
Altaió) coming face to face with the new age, as
embodied in the form of Dracula... “Serra’s most
accessible work... Casanova is a vivid character rich
with metaphor... [Serra] turns the characters into
symbols of history in flux.”—Indiewire.
This droll, remarkably controlled comedy chronicling one day in the life of a multigenerational family
prepping a celebratory dinner in their cramped
Berlin apartment buzzes with life. A sunny delight,
it has catapulted young director Ramon Zürcher to
the forefront of German cinema.
Winner, New Talent Grand Prize, Copenhagen 2013.
With Clear Blue Skies (UK, 2 min.)
Winner, Golden Leopard, Locarno 2013.
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Stray Dogs (Taiwan/France, 138 min.)
The Summer of Flying Fish
The Summit (Ireland/UK, 100 min.)
Tall as the Baobab Tree (Senegal, 82 min.)
Tsai Ming-liang’s first feature in four years is a masterpiece: a blackly funny and unexpectedly warm
comic tale of a father—Tsai’s usual brilliant actor
Lee Kang-sheng—and two children adrift amongst
the urban decay of Taipei. Part Buster Keaton, part
rigorous art film, always enthralling.
(Chile/France, 87 min.)
“An enticing first fiction feature by accomplished
Chilean documentarian Marcela Said. Set in what
should be a vacation paradise, it charts the coming
to consciousness of a teenage girl, who, in a single
summer, has her first love affair and discovers
another world—that of the Mapuche Indians, who
are being displaced from their land by men like her
wealthy, brutish, arrogant father...”—Film Comment
In 2008, 18 climbers from a party of 24 reached
the summit of the world’s second-highest mountain, the treacherous K2; 48 hours later 11 were
either dead or had simply vanished. What happened? Nick Ryan weaves together found footage,
eerie reenactments and interviews with survivors
to try and solve this tragic mystery.
Coumba and Debo, sisters from a Sengalese village, are the first of the family to attend school.
When their brother is injured, father decides to sell
young Debo as a bride. Coumba concocts a plan
to save her... Jeremy Teicher’s accomplished and
understated drama sensitively captures the tradition/modernity split in Africa today.
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Teen Tales 2013 (Various, 102 min.)
That Burning Feeling (Canada, 95 min.)
There Will Come a Day
‘Til Madness Do Us Part
It’s a tough life for teens, trying to find your way in
the world with parents who usually can’t relate to
your reality. This revealing and sometimes inspiring program of short films shows us teens facing
critical choices, trying to fit in and/or following their
dreams and desires. These films will be classified
so that those under 18 may attend.
A real estate developer in Vancouver, Adam (Paulo
Costanzo) seemingly has it made. But when he
wakes up with “that burning feeling,” his life comes
unravelled. While courting Ms. Right (Ingrid Haas),
he has to reach out to the women he’s wronged.
Jason James directs this hilarious account of a man
making amends—even as he goes down in flames.
With I Saw You (BC, 9 min.)
(Italy/France, 110 min.)
The Amazon, gorgeously photographed in all its
splendour, is a major character in Giorgio Diritti’s
(The Man Who Will Come) heartfelt, piercingly beautiful tale. After losing her unborn child, Augusta
(Jasmine Trinca) flees Italy for Brazil to do aid work.
Her spiritual and physical journey leaves her—and
the audience—profoundly changed.
(Hong Kong/France/Japan, 227 min.)
Wang Bing is one of the greatest documentary filmmakers working today: his new film explores the
patients/inmates of a run down mental institution
somewhere in China. Wang’s astonishingly observant camera reveals these patients’ inner beings,
their loves and their sometime madness with
absolute respect and limitless compassion.
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Time Goes By Like a Roaring Lion
A Time in Quchi (Taiwan, 109 min.)
Tito on Ice (Sweden/Germany/Bosnia, 77 min.)
Tom at the Farm (Canada/France, 95 min.)
(Germany, 80 min.)
Director Philipp Hartmann puts his chronophobia
to fascinating and occasionally funny use in this
philosophical and psychological investigation into
the phenomenology of time. Confining himself to
a rigorous formal pattern wherein each minute of
film corresponds to a year of his life, his continenthopping journey is poetic and evocative by turns.
Chang Tso-chi’s luminous Taiwanese coming-ofage story describes young Bao’s summertime trip
to his grandfather’s rural home. What starts as
gentle elegy, all sun-dappled scenes of play and
discovery, gradually darkens as Bao confronts
maturity and its tough truths. A gem of soft-spoken
cinema.
On a barnstorming tour of the former Yugoslavia,
graphic novelists Max Andersson (who directs,
with Helena Ahonen) and Lars Sjunneson bring a
macabre “mummy” of Marshal Tito along for the
ride. Astonishing stop-motion animation
sequences render their journey all the more surreal while a Balkan new wave soundtrack affirms
this doc’s punk rock spirit.
Xavier Dolan (I Killed My Mother), one of Canada’s
most provocative and boundary pushing filmmakers, dips his toes into the mainstream with this gripping psychological thriller. Dolan plays the
grief-stricken Tom, who ventures into the bucolic
Quebec countryside for his lover’s funeral, only to
become a pawn in a savage, sadistic game perpetrated by members of the grieving family.
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A Touch of Sin (China/Japan, 133 min.)
Tracks (Australia, 106 min.)
Trap Street (China, 92 min.)
Trapped (Iran, 92 min.)
Master director Jia Zhangke’s most popular film
yet, this Cannes prize-winning drama shows
China’s gangsters, massage parlours, vicious
bosses and desperate workers drawn into a
whirlwind of violence, passion and vengeance.
This brilliantly achieved film is a vital state-ofChina bulletin, torn straight from today’s bloody
headlines.
Mia Wasikowska commands the screen in John
Curran’s mesmerizing character study based on
Robyn Davidson’s best-selling adventure journal.
With her faithful dog and four unruly camels in tow,
she departs Central Australia on foot, bound for
the Indian Ocean. Her only obstacles are 2,700
kms of desert and her own personal demons...
Vivian Qu’s remarkable debut feature cuts to the
quick of China’s surveillance culture. The romance
between a trainee surveyor and a woman scientist
is suddenly derailed. Could it be because he also
installs hidden cameras? Dragons & Tigers Award
nominee. With Futon (Japan, 6 min.) A delicious
anime from Mizushiri Yoriko.
Parviz Shahbazi’s engrossing moral thriller hinges
on the bristling relationship between two young
women in contemporary Tehran. Forced to share
an apartment with party-loving Sahar, determined
med-student Nazanin feels like a prisoner in her
own home. But when Sahar is wrongfully arrested,
Nazanin campaigns for her release.
Winner, Best Director, Fajr 2013.
Winner, Best Screenplay, Cannes 2013.
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Two-Handers, for the most part
La última película
Under the Rainbow (France, 112 min.)
The Unity of All Things (USA, 97 min.)
(Various, 105 min.)
Though not classic two-handers in the theatrical
sense, this program of shorts shares the same
essential elements as its stage cousins. The relationship between two characters told with tight,
well-crafted dialogue, top-notch acting, directing
and some very original scenarios, these films
demonstrate that this is all you need to create a
very dynamic experience.
(Canada/Denmark/Philippines/Mexico, 88 min.)
A famous American filmmaker (The Color Wheel
director Alex Ross Perry) travels to the Yucatán to
scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan
intercedes.
Raya
Martin
Apocalypse
(Independencia) and Mark Peranson (Waiting for
Sancho) co-direct.
All of the fairytale archetypes—be they wolves or
fairy godmothers—are present in Agnès Jaoui’s
(The Taste of Others) delightful comedy. However,
as a beguiling ensemble of lovelorn Parisians navigate their romantic entanglements, the playful narrative skirts conventional happily-ever-afters and
steers itself into far more realistic and rewarding
territory.
Adventurous and irreverent, Alexander Carver and
Daniel Schmidt’s speculative satire explores the
concept of utopia and tests the bounds of visual
art with an exhilarating sense of daring. “A bizarre,
gentle and lyrical meld of sci-fi, incest, and pantheism… [Unity] demonstrates how irrationally
beautiful something can be when shot and scored
well...”—Slant
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The Venice Syndrome
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Canada, 95 min.)
Village at the End of the World
Vojta Lavic̆ka : Ups and Downs
(Germany/Italy/Austria, 80 min.)
Venice is sinking—under the weight of more than
21 million tourists per year. Andreas Pichler’s revelatory and compassionate documentary is
squarely on the side of the locals as they use
humour and heart to cope with unconcerned governments, oblivious day-tourists and the disastrous
crumbling of a way of life.
Desire and revenge fuel Denis Côté’s entrancing
tragicomedy about two lesbian ex-cons trying—
and failing—to discover normalcy in the Quebec
countryside. A dizzying climax certifies this as “one
of the more bizarre and original films to emerge
from a territory that seems to specialize in this cinematic commodity...”—Screen.
Winner, Alfred Bauer Award, Berlin 2013.
(UK/Denmark/Greenland, 76 min.)
A truly memorable documentary about the cycles
of life in the remote northwest coastal Greenland
village of Niaqornat. The remaining 59 citizens,
most of them Inuit, are on thin ice, their traditions
jeopardized by climate change and the influence
of the outside world. Sarah Gavron directed this
“beautiful, austere movie.”—Observer
(Czech Republic, 89 min.)
Despite enviable accomplishments, Romany musician, activist and reporter Vojta Lavi ka still wrestles with self-destructive tendencies. Unfolding
over 16 years, Helena Trestíková’s intimate documentary examines the lot of the Czech Republic’s
marginalized Roma, while a sweeping Romany
music soundtrack grabs your heartstrings and
never loosens its grip.
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Wadjda (Saudi Arabia/Germany, 98 min.)
Watermark (Canada, 92 min.)
Way Out There (Various, 106 min.)
We Are the Nobles (Mexico, 108 min.)
The first feature film made entirely within Saudi
Arabia, female director Haifaa Al Mansour’s drama
follows 10-year-old Wadjda as she asserts her independence and negotiates the realities of growing
up a woman in that nation. “One of 2013’s best
films so far... a massively endearing tale...”—
Guardian.
In their boldly cinematic new collaboration, celebrated documentarian Jennifer Baichwal and influential photographer Edward Burtynsky globetrot
from floating farms in China to the once-mighty
Colorado River, detailing our complex relationship
with our most precious resource: water. Shot in
staggering 5K ultra high-definition video, this is an
eco film tailor-made for the big screen.
A state of tortured inebriation, a state of consciousness, a state of history, a state that transcends time, a state of mysticism, a state of
enlightenment, a state of revolution. This eclectic
shorts program will entertain, educate and shock
you as it explores these many states that coexist
both within and outside our conventional realities.
Mexico’s all-time box office champ, Gary “Gaz”
Alazraki’s hilarious satire takes as it subject the
spoiled children of Mexico’s rich and then mercilessly lampoons their outrageous sense of entitlement. When Father (supposedly) loses all his
money, twenty-something siblings Barbie, Javi and
Cha must do the unthinkable—get jobs.
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Winner, Best Film, Dubai 2012; Audience Award,
Los Angeles 2013.
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Le Week-End (UK, 93 min.)
What Now? Remind Me (Portugal, 164 min.)
Re-teaming for the first time since The Buddha of
Suburbia, director Roger Michell (Persuasion, Notting
Hill) and writer Hanif Kureishi send a British academic couple in their early 60s (Jim Broadbent and
Lindsay Duncan, both superb) to Paris for a fraught
anniversary weekend. Devoid of cliché, this brilliantly written drama also features an hilarious Jeff
Goldblum in support.
“One of the [Locarno’s] biggest surprises and
most rewarding films... [Joaquim Pinto’s film]
emerged from a year in which Pinto, HIV-positive
since the 90s, endured an experimental clinical
trial... This profoundly moving film about living in
the shadow of death becomes an all-encompassing meditation on what it means to be alive.”
—Los Angeles Times.
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When Evening Falls on Bucharest
or Metabolism (Romania/France, 89 min.)
Corneliu Porumboiu follows up on Police, Adjective
with this film within a film about a director whose
affair with one of his supporting actresses threatens to cross over into—and change the shape of—
the film he is making. A clever and intimate look at
the easily crossed fine line between art and life.
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When I Walk (Canada/USA, 85 min.)
When M.S. suddenly robbed filmmaker Jason
DaSilva of his ability to walk, the Emily Carr graduate did what came naturally: started making a
documentary. This intimate, affecting piece spans
seven years and charts both DaSilva’s slow acceptance of his degenerative condition and staunch
refusal to relinquish his lust for life.
Winner, Best Canadian Feature, Hot Docs 2013.
Winner, Special Jury Prize, Locarno 2013.
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Whitewash (Canada, 90 min.)
Willow Creek (USA, 77 min.)
With You, Without You (Sri Lanka, 90 min.)
Wolf Children (Japan, 117 min.)
Provoked into an act of violence, a taciturn widower (Thomas Haden Church, spectacular) pilots
his snowplow into a Quebec forest and sets about
living as an outlaw. In turns amusing, morbid, tragic
and tense, Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais’ singular
debut signals the arrival of a formidable new talent.
Having graphically depicted the ghastly behaviour
we’re capable of in his black comedies, maverick
writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait now employs
the found-footage horror genre to explore our
enduring obsession with the sasquatch myth. As
a couple strays off California’s “Bigfoot Scenic
Byway” and into the woods, Willow Creek transports us into a realm of primal terror.
With Dostoyevsky serving as inspiration and wartorn Sri Lanka the backdrop, Prasanna Vithanage’s
clear-eyed drama centres on the unlikely marriage
between an aloof pawnbroker and a kindhearted
young woman. As past secrets reveal themselves,
the lasting schisms wrought by civil war likewise
come to the fore. A deeply moving and impeccably acted film.
“Anime helmer Mamoru Hosoda tenderly imagines the complications that follow when an ordinary girl takes a lupine lover... Embracing the
patient, poetic style of such Japanese masters as
Ozu and Mizoguchi... this elegant project lovingly
upholds Japan’s hand-drawn tradition.”—Variety.
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Winner, Best New Narrative Director, Tribeca 2013.
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Note: Families welcome at the matinee screenings!
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XL (Iceland, 87 min.)
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Young & Beautiful (France, 95 min.)
Young Offenders (Canada, 110 min.)
Leifur (Olafur Darri Ólafsson) wakes up hung over,
buck naked, smelling of sex and slathered in
makeup. All told, it’s just another day at the office
for Iceland’s most notorious politician. Emulating
Leifur’s chronologically jumbled, kaleidoscopic reality, Marteinn Thórsson’s extremist fever dream
plunges us into a bacchanalian hell.
(France/Germany, 115 min.)
The great Alain Resnais brings together a fantastic cast—Piccoli, Azéma, Arditi, Amalric and
others—for a roundelay of theatre and passion in
a country house. “Digital technology meets lyrical
drama... in this puckishly daring, intricately original work.”—New Yorker. Dedicated to the memory of
François Ozon’s controversial drama follows 17year-old Isabelle (Marine Vacth), from a comfortable Parisian background, who chooses to become
a high-class prostitute. Ozon’s refusal to judge coupled with Vacth’s amazing performance make for
a disturbing and deeply affecting work.
Taking their cues from the vagaries of youth, these
capricious short films tackle those formative experiences that either shape our futures or simply leave
us forever scarred.
Winner, Best Actor, Karlovy Vary 2013.
film critic, professor and VIFF friend Mark Harris.
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The Youngest (Philippines, 91 min.)
Your Day Is My Night (USA, 64 min.)
Youth (Israel/Germany, 107 min.)
Yumen (China/USA, 65 min.)
Based on the alarmingly true story of a nine-yearold girl who was impregnated by her father and
had the baby, Joseph Israel Laban’s film gets to
the core of a peculiarly Filipino tangle of
Catholicism, superstition and untamed desires.
Soberly made but still shocking, and brutally realistic in its conclusions.
Innovative in form and revealing in content, Lynne
Sachs’ tenderly poetic “hybrid documentary” uses
scripted monologues, improvised scenes and
vérité footage to paint a vivid portrait of contemporary immigrant life in “bed-shift” rooming
houses in New York’s Chinatown. With Jerusalem
ER (Israel, 17 min.)
“An amateur kidnapping plotted by two teenage
brothers goes wrong in Tom Shoval’s quirky first
feature... A fetching addition to the Israeli
panorama, an offbeat but not completely downbeat dramedy and coming-of-age tale that incidentally portrays the suburban class struggle and
decline of the country’s middle class.”—Hollywood
Reporter
This Chinese experimental-fiction-documentary—
poetic, quasi-plotless, adorned with groovy pop
hits—dazzlingly combines ghost stories and “ruin
porn” to form a celluloid psycho-collage. Wandering
souls seek connections with one another and a lost
collective history among the remnants of an abandoned Chinese oil town. With Lovers Are Artists
(Part 2) (China, 12 min.) A young Chinese woman
plays with dirt and chocolate, and performs unspeakable acts on fancy shoes with a circular saw...
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Zentai (Japan, 61 min.)
Zentai are full-body-suit fetishists, and Hashiguchi
Ryusuke’s wonderful comedy introduces us to four
of them, two men and two women. Warning: secret
identities are involved. With Jury (South Korea,
24 min.) Kim Dongho’s short has the inside dope
on filmfest juries. and Two Boys and a Sheep
(South Korea, 18 min.) The director of Western Movie
(VIFF 11) returns with a film set in and around a tin
outhouse.
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Winner, Best Animated Feature, Sitges 2012.
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Program updates and full film descriptions—including details
regarding our many shorter films—are available at viff.org and
in the invaluable 196-page Program Catalogue. See page 3.
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Muscle Shoals
Oct 18–29 What drew the likes of the Rolling Stones,
Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Percy Sledge
and Wilson Pickett to a small Alabama town
on the banks of the Tennessee River? Rick
Hall’s famous studio became synonymous
with the sound of 60s R&B. In this, the music
doc of the year, a host of stars explain what
made Muscle Shoals so special. “Propelled
in equal measure by its gorgeous music and
rich anecdotes, it’s joyous, uplifting—and as
funky as the music at its heart.” —David Gritten, Daily Telegraph
Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
Oct 26 & 31 Vancouver’s Funerary Call provides a live
score for this mind-blowing 1922 cult classic. Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns
and a satanic Sabbath are just a few of the
ingredients that make up Benjamin
Christensen’s witches’ brew of superstition,
sorcery, surrealism and enlightenment. “An
amazing experience. The film is overflowing
with dark fairy-tale imagery, incredible
makeup effects (especially Christensen himself in the role of a leering Lucifer) and shocking portrayals of torture that still make
viewers cringe over 90 years later.” —Gregory Burkart
The Best Film You Have Never Seen:
The Swimmer
Oct 12
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Designed to dazzle, the beautifully appointed Vancity
Theatre and Citytv Atrium can be used for screening
films, multi-media presentations, live simulcasts,
closed circuit broadcasts, seminars, receptions and
live performances.
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educational and cultural organization incorporated and registered in British
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Author Robert K. Elder asked 35 filmmakers
to champion a movie that they love, but
which had either been overlooked or reviled
by critics and audiences. The result, “The Best
Film You’ve Never Seen,” is fascinating both
for what it reveals about the directors he
talked to and for their insights into some seriously neglected films. Case in point: Frank
Perry’s The Swimmer, starring Burt Lancaster
as a man who decides to swim his way home
across Connecticut, one backyard swimming pool at a time. Selected by Alex Proyas
(Dark CIty), this is seriously strange movie, but one that stands the test of time.
The Witches
This Halloween a coven of witches communes at the Vancity Theatre in a series of
classic films ranging from the silent era to
the 1980s: Haxan (Oct 26 & 31) Vancouver's Funerary
Call performs a new, specially commissioned live score for this mind-blowing 1922
cult classic.
The Devils (Oct 26) starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave.
Black Sunday (Oct 27) Barbara Steele in Mario Bava’s 1960 classic.
Inferno (Oct 29, 31) Dario Argento’s super-stylish masterpiece.
I n d ex o f Fe a t u re F i l m s b y C o u n t r y & R e g i o n
This list indicates where a film was produced,
financed, where it is set,or its subject.
Afghanistan
Chad
The Kill Team
The Patience Stone
Grigris
Amazon
Chile
Measuring the World
Once Upon a Forest
There Will Come a Day
Desert Runners
The Future
Gloria
The Summer of Flying Fish
Arctic & Antarctic
China
Aatsinki: The Story
of Arctic Cowboys
Arctic Defenders
The Expedition to the
End of the World
The Last Ocean
Village at the End of the World
Bends
Desert Runners
Distant
Four Ways to Die
in My Hometown
Garibong
Giselle
Longing for the Rain
‘Til Madness Do Us Part
A Touch of Sin
Trap Street
The Unity of All Things
Your Day Is My Night
Yumen
Argentina
La Paz
Australia
The Rocket
Tracks
Austria
Grand Central
Ludwig II
Max Beckmann: Departure
Michael H. Profession: Director
Paradise: Hope
The Venice Syndrome
Colombia
Belgium
The Priest’s Children
11.6
The Bag of Flour
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Fatal Assistance
A Lady in Paris
Cuba
Field of Amapolas
Costa Rica
All About the Feathers
Croatia
3 Days in Havana
Rap Is WAR
Czech Republic
La Paz
Burning Bush
Honeymoon
Vojta Lavi ka: Ups and Downs
Bosnia
Denmark
Tito on Ice
The Expedition to the
End of the World
La última película
Village at the End of the World
Bolivia
Brazil
A Place to Take Away
There Will Come a Day
Cambodia
East Timor
The Missing Picture
A River Changes Course
Ecuador
Canada
César’s Grill
Measuring the World
15 Reasons to Live
3 Days in Havana
All the Wrong Reasons
Another House
Antisocial
Arctic Defenders
Chi
Cinemanovels
The Dick Knost Show
The Dirties
Down River
From Neurons to Nirvana
Gabrielle
Gold
H&G
Hue: A Matter of Colour
Lawrence & Holloman
Leap 4 Your Life
My Prairie Home
No Land No Food No Life
Oil Sands Karaoke
The Oxbow Cure
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
The Right Kind of Wrong
Salmon Confidential
Sarah Prefers to Run
That Burning Feeling
Tom at the Farm
La última película
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Watermark
When I Walk
Whitewash
Atambua 39° Celcius
Once Upon a Forest
Open Field
Paradise: Hope
The Past
The Patience Stone
Redemption
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
The Story of My Death
Stray Dogs
The Summer of Flying Fish
There Will Come a Day
‘Til Madness Do Us Part
Tom at the Farm
Under the Rainbow
Le Week-End
When Evening Falls on
Bucharest or Metabolism
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Young & Beautiful
Iran
Palestine
Thailand
Closed Curtain
Fifi Howls From Happiness
The Gardener
Manuscripts Don’t Burn
My Stolen Revolution
The Past
Trapped
Al Helm: Martin Luther King
in Palestine
Karaoke Girl
The Rocket
Peru
Tibet
El mudo
Four Ways to Die
in My Hometown
French Guiana
Dormant Beauty
Fifi Howls From Happiness
The Future
Gore Vidal:
The United States of Amnesia
The Great Beauty
The Italian Character: The Story
of a Great Italian Orchestra
Redemption
Sol LeWitt
There Will Come a Day
The Venice Syndrome
Once Upon a Forest
Georgia
In Bloom
The Machine Which Makes
Everything Disappear
Germany
Araf: Somewhere in Between
Breathing Earth: Susumu Shingu
Working with the Wind
César’s Grill
The Congress
The Future
Gold
Harmony Lessons
Heli
In Bloom
The Italian Character: The Story
of a Great Italian Orchestra
Ludwig II
The Lunchbox
The Machine Which Makes
Everything Disappear
Max Beckmann: Departure
Measuring the World
Michael Kohlhaas
Paradise: Hope
The Patience Stone
Redemption
So Much Water
The Strange Little Cat
Time Goes By Like a Roaring Lion
Tito on Ice
The Venice Syndrome
Wadjda
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Youth
Ireland
Good Vibrations
The Summit
Israel
Big Bad Wolves
The Congress
The Gardener
A Place in Heaven
Youth
Italy
Romania
The Story of My Death
When Evening Falls on
Bucharest or Metabolism
Russia
A Long and Happy Life
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Saudi Arabia
Wadjda
Scotland
Uruguay
USA
Kazakhstan
Harmony Lessons
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola
Felix
Laos
South Korea
The Rocket
9 Muses of Star Empire
Boomerang Family
Burn, Release, Explode,
The Invincible
Garibong
Lebanon Emotion
New World
Our Sunhi
Mexico
Village at the End of the World
Mongolia
Miss Violence
3X3D
Gebo and the Shadow
Redemption
What Now? Remind Me
Senegal
Greenland
11.6
3X3D
Araf: Somewhere in Between
Autumn’s Spring
The Bag of Flour
Belleville Baby
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Camille Claudel, 1915
Dormant Beauty
Fatal Assistance
Gebo and the Shadow
Grand Central
The Great Beauty
Grigris
Harmony Lessons
Heli
In Bloom
A Lady in Paris
The Lunchbox
La maison de la radio
Michael H. Profession: Director
Michael Kohlhaas
The Missing Picture
Mouton
El mudo
On the Edge of the World
Big Men
Portugal
3X3D
Breathing Earth: Susumu Shingu
Working with the Wind
Exhibition
A Field in England
From Neurons to Nirvana
Good Vibrations
The Invisible Woman
Kiss the Water
Liv & Ingmar
Open Field
The Patience Stone
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
The Spirit of ‘45
A Story of Children and Film
The Summit
Village at the End of the World
Le Week-End
See You Never (Hasta Nunca)
So Much Water
France
Ghana
Burning Bush
The Closed Circuit
Araf: Somewhere in Between
UK
Anatomy of a Paperclip
Breathing Earth: Susumu Shingu
Working with the Wind
Flashback Memories 3D
The Great Passage
Kids Return: The Reunion
Like Father, Like Son
La maison de la radio
My First Love
The Ravine of Goodbye
‘Til Madness Do Us Part
A Touch of Sin
Wolf Children
Zentai
Greece
Finland
Poland
Turkey
Japan
Aatsinki: The Story
of Arctic Cowboys
A Spell to Ward off the Darkness
A Lady in Paris
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
Ilo Ilo
The Spider’s Lair
La última película
The Youngest
Kiss the Water
Halley
Heli
La jaula de oro
El mudo
Open Field
Purgatorio: A Journey
to the Heart of the Border
So Much Water
La última película
We Are the Nobles
Estonia
Philippines
Guatemala
Desert Runners
La jaula de oro
Morocco
Tall as the Baobab Tree
Serbia
The Priest’s Children
Tito on Ice
Singapore
Ilo Ilo
Slovakia
Honeymoon
Somalia
The Project
South Africa
Spain
Ali
Coast of Death
The Future
Gloria
A Gun in Each Hand
La jaula de oro
The Story of My Death
The Unity of All Things
What Now? Remind Me
Aatsinki: The Story
of Arctic Cowboys
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Al Helm: Martin Luther King
in Palestine
All Is Lost
Apocalypse:
A Bill Callahan Film Tour
The Armstrong Lie
Big Men
Code Black
The Congress
Desert Runners
Exit Elena
The Face of Love
Fatal Assistance
Finding Vivian Maier
Forty Years from Yesterday
Giselle
Gore Vidal:
The United States of Amnesia
The Great Flood
The Kill Team
Kiss the Water
Let the Fire Burn
Manakamana
Max Beckmann: Departure
Money for Nothing:
Inside the Federal Reserve
Nebraska
Open Field
Particle Fever
The Project
Purgatorio: A Journey
to the Heart of the Border
Rap Is WAR
A River Changes Course
See You Never (Hasta Nunca)
Soft in the Head
Sol LeWitt
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Stemple Pass
The Unity of All Things
When I Walk
Willow Creek
Your Day Is My Night
Yumen
Haiti
The Bag of Flour
Fatal Assistance
Nepal
Hong Kong
Manakamana
The Summit
Sri Lanka
Netherlands
Sweden
Borgman
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Heli
Matterhorn
So Much Water
Sol LeWitt
Belleville Baby
The Expedition to the
End of the World
Hotell
My Stolen Revolution
Tito on Ice
Chi
Hue: A Matter of Colour
Liv & Ingmar
The Lunchbox
A Mother’s Dream
New Zealand
Switzerland
Giselle
The Last Ocean
César’s Grill
A Mother’s Dream
Venezuela
Nigeria
Taiwan
Breach in the Silence
Big Men
Indonesia
Norway
Atambua 39° Celcius
I Belong
Liv & Ingmar
Soul
Stray Dogs
A Time in Quchi
Bends
Blind Detective
The Great War: Director’s Cut
Longing for the Rain
‘Til Madness Do Us Part
Iceland
XL
India
With You, Without You
29
A G u i d e t o Fe a t u re F i l m s : T h e m e s & G e n re s
Aboriginal/First
Nations
Arctic Defenders
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola
Felix
Gold
Measuring the World
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Village at the End of the World
Action, Thrills &
Suspense
11.6
3 Days in Havana
All Is Lost
Antisocial
Big Bad Wolves
Blind Detective
Borgman
The Closed Circuit
Desert Runners
The Dirties
Field of Amapolas
Halley
Heli
Honeymoon
Lebanon Emotion
Manuscripts Don’t Burn
New World
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Tom at the Farm
Trapped
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Whitewash
Willow Creek
XL
Adventures Outdoors
Aatsinki: The Story of
Arctic Cowboys
All Is Lost
Desert Runners
The Expedition to
the End of the World
Gold
H&G
La jaula de oro
Measuring the World
The Rocket
The Summit
There Will Come a Day
Tracks
The Unity of All Things
Village at the End of the World
Animals
Aatsinki: The Story of
Arctic Cowboys
Kiss the Water
Mouton
Once upon a Forest
Salmon Confidential
Tracks
What Now? Remind Me
Animation
The Congress
Flashback Memories 3D
Kiss the Water
Once Upon a Forest
Tito on Ice
Audience AwardWinners
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola
Felix
Gabrielle
Matterhorn
Rap Is WAR
The Rocket
Wadjda
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Biography
The Armstrong Lie
Burning Bush
Camille Claudel, 1915
Fifi Howls From Happiness
Finding Vivian Maier
Good Vibrations
Gore Vidal: The United States
of Amnesia
Hue: A Matter of Colour
The Invisible Woman
The Italian Character: The Story
of a Great Italian Orchestra
Kiss the Water
Liv & Ingmar
Ludwig II
Max Beckmann: Departure
My Prairie Home
Open Field
Redemption
Stemple Pass
The Story of My Death
Vojta Lavi ka: Ups and Downs
Buddhist Interest
Distant
Four Ways to Die in My
Hometown
Comedy
All About the Feathers
All the Wrong Reasons
Anatomy of a Paperclip
Big Bad Wolves
Blind Detective
Boomerang Family
Borgman
The Dick Knost Show
The Dirties
Down River
Exit Elena
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola
Felix
A Field in England
Gloria
Good Vibrations
The Great Passage
A Gun in Each Hand
I Belong
Lawrence & Holloman
Leap 4 Your Life
Matterhorn
El mudo
Nebraska
Our Sunhi
Paradise: Hope
The Priest’s Children
The Right Kind of Wrong
Sarah Prefers to Run
Soft in the Head
The Strange Little Cat
That Burning Feeling
La última película
Under the Rainbow
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
We Are the Nobles
Le Week-End
When Evening Falls on
Bucharest or Metabolism
Whitewash
Willow Creek
XL
Zentai
Crime
11.6
Big Bad Wolves
Blind Detective
The Closed Circuit
The Dirties
Field of Amapolas
Grigris
The Kill Team
Let the Fire Burn
Manuscripts Don’t Burn
Miss Violence
New World
The Project
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Stemple Pass
A Touch of Sin
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Whitewash
The Youngest
Youth
Disabilities
Another House
Camille Claudel, 1915
Dormant Beauty
Flashback Memories 3D
Gabrielle
Grigris
El mudo
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
‘Til Madness Do Us Part
When I Walk
Drama
3 Days in Havana
Ali
All Is Lost
All the Wrong Reasons
Another House
Araf: Somewhere in Between
Blind Detective
Boomerang Family
Borgman
Breach in the Silence
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Burn, Release, Explode,
The Invincible
Burning Bush
Cinemanovels
The Closed Circuit
The Dirties
Dormant Beauty
Down River
Exhibition
Exit Elena
The Face of Love
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola
Felix
A Field in England
Field of Amapolas
Forty Years from Yesterday
The Future
Gabrielle
Gloria
Grand Central
The Great Beauty
The Great Passage
Grigris
Halley
Harmony Lessons
Heli
Honeymoon
Hotell
I Belong
In Bloom
The Invisible Woman
La jaula de oro
Karaoke Girl
Kids Return: The Reunion
Lebanon Emotion
Like Father, Like Son
A Long and Happy Life
Longing for the Rain
Ludwig II
The Lunchbox
Manuscripts Don’t Burn
Michael Kohlhaas
Miss Violence
Mouton
El mudo
Nebraska
New World
The Oxbow Cure
Paradise: Hope
The Past
La Paz
A Place in Heaven
The Ravine of Goodbye
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
The Rocket
Sarah Prefers to Run
See You Never (Hasta Nunca)
Soft in the Head
The Spider’s Lair
There Will Come a Day
A Time in Quchi
Tom at the Farm
A Touch of Sin
Trap Street
Trapped
Under the Rainbow
Wadjda
Whitewash
With You, Without You
Young & Beautiful
The Youngest
Youth
Economics &
Globalization
Bends
Big Men
César’s Grill
The Closed Circuit
Distant
Grand Central
The Last Ocean
Money for Nothing:
Inside the Federal Reserve
Oil Sands Karaoke
Redemption
A River Changes Course
The Spirit of ‘45
The Venice Syndrome
Yumen
Environment
Aatsinki: The Story of
Arctic Cowboys
Arctic Defenders
Big Men
Breathing Earth: Susumu Shingu
Working with the Wind
Coast of Death
The Expedition to
the End of the World
The Great Flood
Kiss the Water
No Land No Food No Life
Oil Sands Karaoke
Once Upon a Forest
A Place to Take Away
A River Changes Course
Salmon Confidential
Stemple Pass
The Summer of Flying Fish
A Touch of Sin
Village at the End of the World
Watermark
Yumen
Experimental &
Avant-garde
3X3D
Belleville Baby
Borgman
Coast of Death
Distant
Exhibition
A Field in England
From Neurons to Nirvana
Halley
Manakamana
The Oxbow Cure
Redemption
See You Never (Hasta Nunca)
Sol LeWitt
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
The Story of My Death
The Strange Little Cat
Time Goes By Like a Roaring Lion
La última película
The Unity of All Things
XL
Yumen
Family Relations
15 Reasons to Live
Another House
Big Bad Wolves
Boomerang Family
Borgman
Breach in the Silence
The Broken Circle Breakdown
César’s Grill
Cinemanovels
Down River
Exhibition
Exit Elena
Field of Amapolas
Forty Years from Yesterday
Gabrielle
Gebo and the Shadow
H&G
Hue: A Matter of Colour
I Belong
Ilo Ilo
Like Father, Like Son
Matterhorn
Miss Violence
Nebraska
The Past
A Place in Heaven
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
The Rocket
Sarah Prefers to Run
So Much Water
Soft in the Head
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
The Strange Little Cat
Stray Dogs
Tall as the Baobab Tree
A Time in Quchi
Tom at the Farm
A Touch of Sin
Under the Rainbow
When I Walk
Wolf Children
The Youngest
Youth
Fantasy
Antisocial
A Field in England
H&G
Halley
Longing for the Rain
The Oxbow Cure
Soul
The Story of My Death
Stray Dogs
Yumen
Filmmaking
3X3D
Cinemanovels
Closed Curtain
The Dirties
Liv & Ingmar
The Machine Which Makes
Everything Disappear
Michael H. Profession: Director
Our Sunhi
A Story of Children and Film
La última película
When Evening Falls on
Bucharest or Metabolism
Willow Creek
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
A G u i d e t o Fe a t u re F i l m s : T h e m e s & G e n re s
Fine Arts & Theatre
3X3D
Al Helm: Martin Luther King
in Palestine
Breathing Earth: Susumu Shingu
Working with the Wind
Burn, Release, Explode, The
Invincible
Down River
Exhibition
The Expedition to
the End of the World
Fifi Howls From Happiness
Finding Vivian Maier
From Neurons to Nirvana: The
Great Medicines
Gebo and the Shadow
The Invisible Woman
Kiss the Water
La maison de la radio
Max Beckmann: Departure
Michael H. Profession: Director
The Missing Picture
Open Field
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Sol LeWitt
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
Stemple Pass
Tito on Ice
Two-Handers, for the most part
The Unity of All Things
The Venice Syndrome
Watermark
What Now? Remind Me
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Yumen
Food, Farm & Gardens
Aatsinki: The Story of
Arctic Cowboys
César’s Grill
The Last Ocean
No Land No Food No Life
Once Upon a Forest
A River Changes Course
Salmon Confidential
Health (Mental &
Physical)
15 Reasons to Live
Another House
Autumn’s Spring
Breach in the Silence
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Chi
Code Black
The Dick Knost Show
Down River
Exit Elena
Forty Years from Yesterday
From Neurons to Nirvana
Gabrielle
Hotell
The Oxbow Cure
Salmon Confidential
That Burning Feeling
Time Goes By Like a Roaring Lion
What Now? Remind Me
When I Walk
History
Al Helm: Martin Luther King
in Palestine
Arctic Defenders
Burning Bush
Camille Claudel, 1915
A Field in England
Finding Vivian Maier
Gold
Gore Vidal: The United States of
Amnesia
The Great Flood
Let the Fire Burn
Ludwig II
Max Beckmann: Departure
Measuring the World
Michael Kohlhaas
The Missing Picture
Redemption
The Spirit of ‘45
Stemple Pass
A Touch of Sin
La última película
When Evening Falls on
Bucharest or Metabolism
Yumen
Human Rights
Arctic Defenders
Atambua 39° Celcius
Big Men
Breach in the Silence
Burning Bush
Closed Curtain
Dormant Beauty
Fatal Assistance
Felix
Field of Amapolas
Garibong
Harmony Lessons
Hue: A Matter of Colour
La jaula de oro
The Kill Team
Let the Fire Burn
A Long and Happy Life
Manuscripts Don’t Burn
The Missing Picture
On the Edge of the World
A Place to Take Away
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Rap Is WAR
A River Changes Course
The Spirit of ‘45
The Summer of Flying Fish
Tall as the Baobab Tree
There Will Come a Day
‘Til Madness Do Us Part
A Touch of Sin
Trapped
Vojta Lavi ka: Ups and Downs
The Youngest
Immigration
Atambua 39° Celcius
The Bag of Flour
César’s Grill
The Future
Garibong
Gold
Hue: A Matter of Colour
Ilo Ilo
La jaula de oro
A Lady in Paris
Purgatorio: A Journey to the
Heart of the Border
Your Day Is My Night
Jewish Interest
Al Helm: Martin Luther King
in Palestine
Big Bad Wolves
The Congress
Down River
Exit Elena
The Gardener
A Place in Heaven
Soft in the Head
Sol LeWitt
Youth
Literary (inc.
Adaptations)
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Camille Claudel, 1915
The Congress
The Future
Giselle
Gore Vidal: The United States
of Amnesia
The Great Passage
The Invisible Woman
Measuring the World
Michael Kohlhaas
My First Love
The Patience Stone
The Story of My Death
Tracks
With You, Without You
Music & Dance
9 Muses of Star Empire
Al Helm: Martin Luther King
in Palestine
Apocalypse:
A Bill Callahan Film Tour
Autumn’s Spring
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Down River
Felix
Flashback Memories 3D
Gabrielle
Giselle
Good Vibrations
The Great Beauty
The Great Flood
The Great War: Director’s Cut
Grigris
The Italian Character: The Story
of a Great Italian Orchestra
Leap 4 Your Life
La maison de la radio
My Prairie Home
Oil Sands Karaoke
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Rap Is WAR
Sol LeWitt
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
Vojta Lavi ka: Ups and Downs
Mystery
11.6
3 Days in Havana
Big Bad Wolves
Blind Detective
The Face of Love
Finding Vivian Maier
The Future
Gebo and the Shadow
Manuscripts Don’t Burn
Miss Violence
The Oxbow Cure
The Past
The Ravine of Goodbye
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Soul
The Summit
Tom at the Farm
Trap Street
Whitewash
Power Politics
Arctic Defenders
Big Men
The Closed Circuit
Dormant Beauty
Fatal Assistance
Redemption
Queer Interest
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Gore Vidal: The United States of
Amnesia
A Gun in Each Hand
Honeymoon
Ludwig II
My Prairie Home
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Sarah Prefers to Run
The Spider’s Lair
The Story of My Death
Tom at the Farm
The Unity of All Things
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
What Now? Remind Me
Religion, Spirituality &
Myth
15 Reasons to Live
Anatomy of a Paperclip
The Bag of Flour
Camille Claudel, 1915
Chi
Dormant Beauty
Forty Years from Yesterday
Four Ways to Die in My
Hometown
The Gardener
Manakamana
The Priest’s Children
There Will Come a Day
Trapped
Revolution &
Empowerment
Burning Bush
Fatal Assistance
A Long and Happy Life
Manuscripts Don’t Burn
My Stolen Revolution
Rap Is WAR
Romance
All the Wrong Reasons
Anatomy of a Paperclip
Araf: Somewhere in Between
Belleville Baby
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
The Broken Circle Breakdown
The Face of Love
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola
Gabrielle
Gloria
Grand Central
The Great Beauty
The Invisible Woman
Our Sunhi
The Right Kind of Wrong
That Burning Feeling
A Touch of Sin
Under the Rainbow
What Now? Remind Me
When I Walk
Sci-fi & Horror
Antisocial
The Congress
A Field in England
Halley
Soul
The Unity of All Things
Willow Creek
XL
Science & Technology
The Armstrong Lie
Breathing Earth: Susumu Shingu
Working with the Wind
Coast of Death
Code Black
The Expedition to the End of the
World
From Neurons to Nirvana:
The Great Medicines
From Neurons to Nirvana:
Understanding Psychedelic
Medicines
Grand Central
The Great Flood
Kiss the Water
The Last Ocean
Measuring the World
Once Upon a Forest
Open Field
Particle Fever
Sol LeWitt
Time Goes By Like a Roaring Lion
The Unity of All Things
Sex & Eroticism
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Borgman
Exhibition
Karaoke Girl
Longing for the Rain
Miss Violence
Paradise: Hope
XL
Young & Beautiful
War & Espionage
A Field in England
The Kill Team
Ludwig II
Michael Kohlhaas
The Missing Picture
My Stolen Revolution
The Patience Stone
The Project
The Spirit of ‘45
Tito on Ice
With You, Without You
Women Directors
Aatsinki: The Story of
Arctic Cowboys
Al Helm: Martin Luther King
in Palestine
All the Wrong Reasons
The Bag of Flour
Belleville Baby
Bends
Big Men
Chi
Desert Runners
Exhibition
Felix
The Future
Gabrielle
Gold
H&G
Hotell
In Bloom
Longing for the Rain
The Machine Which Makes
Everything Disappear
Manakamana
A Mother’s Dream
My Prairie Home
My Stolen Revolution
No Land No Food No Life
A River Changes Course
The Rocket
Salmon Confidential
Sarah Prefers to Run
So Much Water
The Summer of Flying Fish
There Will Come a Day
Trap Street
Under the Rainbow
Vojta Lavi ka: Ups and Downs
Wadjda
Watermark
Your Day Is My Night
Under 18 May Attend
Ali
All the Wrong Reasons
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola
Felix
Gabrielle
Giselle
H&G
Ilo Ilo
The Last Ocean
Once Upon a Forest
Rap Is WAR
The Reel Youth Film Festival
The Rocket
Sarah Prefers to Run
So Much Water
Tall as the Baobab Tree
Teen Tales 2013
A Time in Quchi
Wadjda
Wolf Children
Sport
All Is Lost
The Armstrong Lie
Desert Runners
The Dick Knost Show
Kiss the Water
Sarah Prefers to Run
The Summit
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