Other free screenings in store this month include The Wild Robot, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Mean Girls
Read MoreRunning September 4 to 14, celebration also includes Canada Looks South and Mexico Today series, New Directors Competition, and much more
Read MoreThe big-city sins of Sweet Smell of Success mingle with the small-town nightmares of Moonrise in this year’s darkly adventurous lineup
Read MoreDocumentary restores more than a hundred shorts by the legendary Lumière Brothers, in Visions Ouest presentation
Read MoreCopresented with Visions Ouest, new comedy mixes unvarnished look at alcoholism with desert adventure
Read MoreCreated by Vancouver’s Shana Myara, docuseries available for streaming on OUTtv.com highlights racialized and queer comedians
Read MoreFilmmaker Mahdi Fleifel’s compelling portrait of two Palestinian refugees trying to escape hardscrabble limbo in an unrecognizable Athens
Read MoreIn Virginia Tangvald’s haunting new NFB documentary, she unravels the mysteries of a father and brother who lost their lives to the oceans that called them
Read MoreAt VIFF Centre, Petra Costa’s compelling new documentary ties the rise of right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro into the boom in Christian fundamentalism
Read MoreTitles in store span Green Snake on opening night and a special co-presentation of Once Upon a Time in China II with the Chinese Canadian Museum
Read MoreFive short films take on deeper meaning against a backdrop of armed conflict and women’s rights struggles
Read MoreWith highlights such as “Space Oddity” and “Moonage Daydream”, the 1970s documentary about one of David Bowie’s greatest shows lights up The Polygon Gallery’s series of starlight screenings
Read MoreJules Arita Koostachin’s feature, set in the 1930s, centres a young pregnant woman who discovers she is of Cree ancestry
Read MorePut away your degraded VHS dub and celebrate: the 1977 story of dying, drug-addled Montreal counterculture soon screens at the Cinematheque
Read MoreFilm gives a front-row view of complex fight to protect old-growth forests, in largest act of disobedience in Canadian history
Read MoreAt the 15th annual event, here are six titles festival director Duncan Carr calls “a full experience in the briefest amount of time”
Read MoreIn new film at Vancouver Short Film Festival, the well-known influencer and stylist digs movingly into what it means to raise a teen girl these days
Read MoreLyana Patrick’s NFB documentary, recounting the Stellat’en and Saik’uz Nations’ ongoing fight for justice, returns for local screenings
Read MoreSeries includes all 13 of the French director’s films, including A Man Escaped, Pickpocket, Au hasard Balthazar, and more
Read MoreJulie Rubio’s extensive new documentary, making its local debut at the VIFF Centre, reveals a trailblazing woman who was an outsider on several counts
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