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I Used to Be Funny
Sam Cowell (Rachel Sennott) used to spend her nights working the comedy clubs of Toronto and her days as an au pair for Brooke (Olga Petsa). Now Sam hides from the world, tormented by PTSD and grappling with the news of Brooke’s disappearance.
Invisible Nation
An intimate view of the presidency of Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's first female president, as she fights for the future of her country's democracy at a time when freedom around the world is under threat from authoritarianism.
It’s Time for Our Next Chapter
This summer, we’re upgrading the VIFF Centre’s main theatre, installing immersive sound, state-of-the-art projection, and refurbishing our much-loved seats. With your help, we can showcase exceptional cinema as it deserves to be experienced.
Erickson on Film
A Centennial Celebration | Jun 14 – 18
Architecture critic and historian Trevor Boddy (FRAIC) guest-curates three special events combining dialogue, special guests, and film charting Vancouver’s most famous and influential architect, Arthur Erickson.
Intersecting Lives: Talk + Intersection Screening
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Arthur Erickson, Erickson on Film curator Trevor Boddy will give an introductory talk on the architect's early life and work, followed by a screening of the Vancouver-shot movie Intersection + special guests.
Documenting the Designer: Talk + Concrete Poetry Screening
As his fame grew, Arthur Erickson became the subject of several documentaries. Curator Trevor Boddy will share clips from several of these as he outlines the later phase of Erickson's career, and director Michele Smolkin intros her film Concrete Poetry.
Image: Concrete Poetry © Erickson Family Collection
The Smell of Wet Concrete: Talk + The Groundstar Conspiracy Screening
Curator Trevor Boddy discusses Erickson's major public buildings, including Robson Square, the Waterfall Building, and most important of all, the entire original campus of SFU -- which really should have star billing in 1972's Cold War thriller.
Concrete Poetry + Arthur Erickson's Dyde House
In this program we pair two of the best documentaries about Arthur Erickson: Michelle Smolkin's 2002 profile for the CBC, Concrete Poetry, and Colin Waugh's recent Arthur Erickson's Dyde House, an insightful look at one of his earliest designs.
VIFF Live
Live performances that push the boundaries of traditional film programming, intersecting cinema culture with music, comedy, podcasting, and performance in unique, cinema-infused live shows.
A Page of Madness: Live Score by Anju Singh
Jun 16
Performer Anju Singh premieres a new multi-instrumental live score to Teinsuke Kinugasa’s expressionist horror masterpiece. An asylum janitor wants to help his beloved wife escape, but she doesn’t want to leave…
Pantheon: The Greatest Films of All Time
Pantheon, presented by MUBI, is a monthly series showcasing a selection of the “greatest movies of all time,” inspired by the mother of all film lists, the critics’ poll that has run once a decade in the UK’s Sight & Sound magazine since 1952.
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Individual tickets $18
Sunrise
Jun 16
The consummate director of the silent era, Murnau was schooled in German Expressionism and embraced the fluidity and dynamism of the moving camera. Invited to Hollywood he prefigured film noir with this tale of a married villager seduced by a city vamp.
...to glimpse: African Cinema Now!
Curated by Nigerian writer and storyteller Ogheneofegor Obuwoma, this monthly series showcases contemporary African cinema that draws inspiration from the continent’s oral and filmic history. Expect an exploration of alternate possibilities—and whispers of the unexpected.
June Spotlight:
The Lost Okoroshi
Jun 20 & 22
The last film in Fegor Obuwoma’s series, to glimpse… African Cinema Now, The Lost Okoroshi is a surrealist comedy about a security guard in Lagos who finds himself transformed one morning into a mute purple spirit…
National Indigenous Peoples Day
Jun 21
For National Indigenous Peoples Day we invited Urban Ink’s Artistic Director, Corey Payette, to curate four films. Corey is a storyteller, writer, composer, producer, and directed his first film last year, Les Filles du Roi.
Les Filles du Roi
Corey Payette's rousing microbudget musical (adapted from the Urban Ink stage production he cowrote with Julie McIsaac) chronicles the friendship between a seventeenth century French woman and a Mohawk trader and his sister.
Bones of Crows
Vancouver-born Dene/Métis writer-director Marie Clements lays out a hard history of Indigenous resilience in this urgent, harrowing epic, spanning most of the 20th century; the story of a Cree woman from childhood, through residential school, WWII, and beyond.
Coming Soon
First Look Fridays
Enjoy $10 tickets + complimentary tea & coffee at the first Friday matinee screening of these films.
Nobody Wants to Talk About Jacob Appelbaum
Jun 14
Is Jacob Appelbaum a hero, or a villain? An abuser, or a victim? A truth-teller, or a paranoid narcissist? Once the heir apparent to Julian Assange at WikiLeaks, he’s now considered persona non grata. But what if the charges against him are false…?
Les Filles du Roi
Jun 21
Corey Payette’s rousing microbudget musical (adapted from the Urban Ink stage production he cowrote with Julie McIsaac) chronicles the friendship between a seventeenth century French woman and a Mohawk trader and his sister.
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