What’s on May 13 - June 16, 2018 at the Vancouver LIFE, ANIMATED International

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Kusama: Infinity

Documentaries Kusama: Infinity HEATHER LENZ, USA, 2018, 80 MIN. M/A/D FRI MAY 18 - 8:30PM • SAT MAY 19 - 6:00PM SUN MAY 20 - 7:00PM • MON MAY 21 - 5:50PM, 9:30PM TUE MAY 22 - 6:30PM • WED MAY 23 - 5:00PM Yes, you are seeing spots. But don’t worry, they’re supposed to be there. This is a rapturous, eye-popping portrait of the brilliant Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, whose unique vision has led to decades in a mental institution, but who has never wavered in her commitment to her art. In Japanese, English with English subtitles.

Shakespeare on Screen

Kusama: Infinity

Vancity Impact Talk Royal Shakespeare Company presents: Macbeth POLLY FINDLAY, UK, 2018, 150 MIN. PANORAMA MON MAY 14 - 2:00PM Christopher Eccleston (Dr Who; The Leftovers) makes his RSC debut in this modern dress version of the Scot- tish play. Directed by Polly Findlay, this is a stage Mac- beth informed with a cinematic sense of dread, loss, and horror. The three witches are children, a brilliant stroke which puts the Macbeths’ hunger for power in a Boom for Real: new light. And the Porter is a ubiquitous presence here, The Invisible Heart a creepy puppet-master orchestrating the tragedy’s NADINE PEQUENEZA, CANADA, 2017, 80 MIN. IMPACT The Late Teenage Years mounting blood-rush. Running time: 2 hrs 13 mins + 20 mins interval TUE MAY 15 - 6:30PM of Jean-Michel Basquiat SARA DRIVER, USA, 2017, 78 MIN. M/A/D Tickets $15 What happens when you pay private investors a profit for helping society’s most vulnerable? An unorthodox marriage FRI JUN 8 - 9:00PM • TUE JUN 12 - 5:00PM Guest: Mary Hartman, Director of Education (Bard on between capitalism and charity, Social Impact Bonds have WED JUN 13 - 8:40PM the Beach). made strange bedfellows: social workers and Wall Street Both an inspiring introduction to the nascent genius of bankers, the homeless and venture capitalists, conservative Jean-Michel Basquiat and an immersive time-trip to the and liberal politicians. creative caldron that was New York City in the dark and dirty From the halls of power to the late , Sara Driver’s documentary has a you-are-there struggling underclass, The Invisible quaility that can’t be reproduced. At this point in his life Heart follows an unusual cast Basquiat was couch-surfing, but creating art out of anything of characters as they attempt to within reach. But he was painting too (including his friend’s tackle everything from crime to clothes and fridges), making music, and making waves. homelessness to poverty.

Followed by Vancity Impact Talk with panel discussion. The Royal Opera House presents: Verdi’s Macbeth 2018, 200 MIN. M/A/D WED MAY 16 - 2:00PM Verdi’s opera inspired by Shakespeare’s tragedy is con- ducted by Antonio Pappano, with a magnificent cast including Anna Netrebko, Željko Lučić and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo. Running time 200 min approx includes intermission. Financial Times **** What’s On Stage **** Five Seasons - Leaning into the Wind: The Independent ***** Times **** The Gardens of Piet Oudolf Andy Goldsworthy Guardian **** Tickets $18 THOMAS PIPER, NETHERLANDS/USA, 2017, 75 MIN. M/A/D THOMAS RIEDELSHEIMER, GERMANY, 2017, 92 MIN. M/A/D SAT MAY 19 - 4:15PM • SUN MAY 20 - 3:00PM FRI JUN 1 - 5:30PM • SAT JUN 2 - 6:30PM Rupture MON MAY 21 - 1:45PM MON JUN 4 - 6:30PM • WED JUN 6 - 6:30PM This is no spring break. This is Rupture. THU JUN 7 - 8:50PM Revolutionary landscape designer Piet Oudolf is known for Join us May 24 - 27 for Rupture: a showcase of innovative designing public works like New York City’s popular High The ultimate landscape artist, Andy Goldsworthy works films that bend rules, blend genres, explore inventive Line and the Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park outdoors, using natural materials—including the rain takes on venerable tropes and elude easy categorization. itself—to create sculptures and other works. Most of them that redefine our conception of gardens as works of art The inaugural edition will be headlined by the Western will disintegrate, and they’re most often photographed or in themselves. This gorgeous, meditative doc elucidates Canadian Premiere of Hereditary, the year’s most filmed before—or as—they do so. In this follow-up to their his ideas about the beauty of plants beyond the blooming anticipated horror film. Other highlights include festival popular collaboration Rivers and Tides, artist and filmmaker cycle; how gardens should emulate nature; the aesthetics standouts American Animals and Damsel, as well capture moments of awe and astonishment. of regeneration. as the latest documentary from the legendary William In English, Dutch with English subtitles. Friedkin (The Exorcist). Full details at viff.org.

One Time Only!

Maison du bonheur Godard: La Chinoise Scarlet Diva SOFIA BOHDANOWICZ, CANADA/FRANCE, 2017, 62 MIN. TRUE NORTH JEAN-LUC GODARD, FRANCE, 1967, 93 MIN. PANORAMA ASIA ARGENTO, ITALY, 2000, 90 MIN. ALT WED MAY 16 - 6:30PM THU MAY 17 - 8:50PM FRI MAY 18 - 10:10PM This piquant valentine of a doc is a simple, heartfelt Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a Scarlet Diva is a poison pen letter to Hollywood from the tribute to Juliane, a Parisienne of a certain age whose group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean- unique perspective of Asia Argento, Italian scream queen, accomplishments are, on the face of it, unremarkable, Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a indie film provocateur and an outspoken leader in the and yet who has evidently mastered the art of living. The small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any #metoo movement. In this semi-autobiographical film, Montmartre apartment in which she has lived for half a means necessary. After studying the growth of communism Argento plays Anna Battista, a young, popular, 24-year-old century is, as the title suggests, a charmed place of taste in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and Italian actress who engages in a hectic and self-destructive and beauty - at least, that is how it appears filtered through violence to ignite their own revolution. spree across Europe and America to become an “artist.” the loving lens of Bohdanowicz’s 16mm camera. “A beautiful, troubling, prophetic work.” Bilge Ebiri, Village “Such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it’s Plus short film, A Drownful Brilliance of Wings (8 min.) Voice hard to know what to praise first.” LA Times In French, English with English subtitles. In French with English subtitles.

Vancouver Foreign Film Society presents The French Touch Cinema Salon

Waterboys Ma vie de courgette Jeremiah Johnson ROBERT JAN WESTDIJK, NETHERLANDS/UK, 2016, 89 MIN. PANORAMA My Life as a Zucchini SIDNEY POLLACK, USA, 1972, 108 MIN. PANORAMA C. BARRAS, M. SINTERNIKLAAS, SWITZERLAND/FRANCE, 2016, 70 MIN. ALT WED MAY 16 - 8:15PM TUE JUN 12 - 7:30PM Unceremoniously dumped by his wife, Dutch crime novel- SAT MAY 19 - 12:00PM One of the most realistic and satisfying films of its genre ist Victor decides to attend a book launch in Edinburgh and This is not your typical animated family film. Rather, it’s a and based on a true story, Jeremiah Johnson is based on to bring along his grown (but equally dumped) son, Zack. piercing, poignant and original story about a child sent to an the true story of a Mexican American war vet who becomes If the trip is meant to repair his bruised ego and regain his orphanage after the accidental death of his alcoholic single a mountain man of the nineteenth century American West. boy’s respect, well, it’s not exactly smooth sailing. But the mother, the friends he makes there, and the relationship he Alone, he turns his back on civilization towards the power prospect of seeing his favourite band from the 1980s play- strikes up with a friendly cop. of nature with its majesties and brutalities. Here he learns a new code of survival in a brutal land of inaccessible ing live (Mike Scott’s The Waterboys) at least holds out the Free all-ages screening presented by Spark CG Society and mountains and hostile natives. promise of a happy ending... VIFF Vancity Theatre in collaboration with Institut Français In English, Dutch with English subtitles. and the Consulate General of France in Vancouver. Guest presenter: singer-songwriter Barney Bentall. In French with English subtitles.

Vancouver International Film Festival’s Year-Round Showcase May 13 - June 16, 2018

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY MAY 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 The French Touch 2:00 Royal Shakespeare The Royal Opera 2:00 12:00 Ma vie de RENTAL Company present: House presents: Verdi’s courgette Macbeth Macbeth 2:00 Lu Over the Wall* RENTAL 6:30 Maison de 4:30 Walk With Me 4:15 Five Seasons - The 7:00 Providence bonheur 6:30 Grace Jones: Vancity Impact Talk 6:30 Venus Gardens of Piet Oudolf Health Care presents: 8:15 Vancouver Bloodlight and Bami Life Before Death 6:30 The Invisible Heart Foreign Film Society 8:50 Godard: La 8:30 Kusama: Infinity 6:00 Kusama: Infinity presents: Waterboys Chinoise 10:10 Scarlet Diva 7:45 Venus 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1:45 Five Seasons - The Rupture 3:00 Five Seasons - The Gardens of Piet Oudolf May 24 - 27 6:30 Blue My Mind Gardens of Piet Oudolf 3:30 Lu Over the Wall* viff.org 8:30 An Evening with RENTAL 4:40 Lu Over the Wall** 5:50 Kusama: Infinity 5:00 Kusama: Infinity Beverly Luff Lunn 7:00 Kusama: Infinity 7:30 Venus 6:30 Kusama: Infinity 6:45 Lu Over the Wall** 6:45 American Animals 10:30 The Forest of the 7:30 Fake Blood 8:45 Venus 9:30 Kusama: Infinity 8:15 Venus 8:55 Venus 9:00 Rock Steady Row Lost Souls 9:30 Hereditary 27 28 29 30 31 JUN 1 2 2:15 Vancouver Impressions (The Early 60s) 4:15 The Rankin File: RENTAL Legacy of a Radical Her Stories AGM Leaning into the 6:30 Leaning into the 5:00 The Devil and 7:30 Ana Valine 5:30 Wind: Andy Goldsworthy Father Amorth introduces Sally Potter’s Wind: Andy Goldsworthy 6:30 Damsel RENTAL RENTAL 6:00 VIFF AGM Orlando 7:30 Sweet Country 8:30 Sweet Country 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 RENTAL 6:20 The Guardians 6:30 Leaning into the 6:30 The Rankin File: 6:30 Leaning into the 6:30 Sweet Country 9:00 Boom for Real: The Wind: Andy Goldsworthy Legacy of a Radical Wind: Andy Goldsworthy 8:50 Leaning into the Late Teenage Years of RENTAL 8:30 Sweet Country 8:30 Sweet Country 8:30 Sweet Country Wind: Andy Goldsworthy Jean-Michel Basquiat RENTAL 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 5:00 Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of 6:00 The Guardians Jean-Michel Basquiat RENTAL 6:00 The Guardians Music Monday Cinema Salon 8:40 Boom for Real: The 3:00 The Guardians 8:40 Bill Evans: Time 7:30 Jeremiah Johnson Late Teenage Years of 7:00 Reel Jazz 4 Remembered Jean-Michel Basquiat RENTAL TBA RENTAL

The Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society Annual General Meeting will be held at The Vancouver International LeaningFilm Centre,into the Wind: 1181 Andy Seymour Goldsworthy Street. Business of the meeting will include: Appointment of Auditors, approving the minutes of the AGM 2017 Annual General Meeting, Election of Directors, applicable reports, a general review and update of the Bylaws of the Society WED MAY 30 - 6:00PM to conform to the new BC Societies Act and receiving the financial statements of the Society for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017. Any nominations for VIFF Board of Directors, by VIFF members in good standing, shall be forwarded to nominations@ Be Heard. Be Informed. Be Entertained. viff.org no later than ten (10) days prior to the VIFF Annual General Meeting. All current Society members are entitled to vote. Fol- lowing the AGM, attending members will be treated to a free screening (film TBA). Some snacks and beverages will be provided. VIFF’s AGM + Member Appreciation Screen- ing - All current VIFF Members welcome! Please bring your 2017/18 Society (VIFF Vancity Theatre) membership card. More details at goviff.org/AGM

Vancouver

The Rankin File: Vancouver Impressions The Bridge Legacy of a Radical (The Early 60s) GEORGE ORR, CANADA, 2018, 52 MIN. SEA TO SKY TERESA ALFELD, CANADA, 2018, 90 MIN. SEA TO SKY VARIOUS, CANADA, 85 MIN. SEA TO SKY SUN JUN 17 - 3:30PM June 17th is the 60th anniversary of the collapse of the SAT JUN 2 - 4:15PM • TUE JUN 5 - 6:30PM SAT JUN 2 - 2:15PM Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing. The Should development provide affordable housing for Early 1960s Vancouver was a very different place compared tragedy claimed the lives of 18 workers who plunged citizens or luxury condos for the super rich? That was with the vibrant multicultural city we know today. This 100 ft into the waters below, and a 19th, a diver who died the key question in the Vancouver mayoral campaign of archival programme of films produced by CBUT (CBC later during the search for the bodies. George Orr’s film 1986, a campaign that pitched veteran socialist firebrand Vancouver) between 1961 and 65 treats the viewer is built around rediscovered, never-before-seen 16mm Harry Rankin against a young rightwinger named Gordon to scenes of a predominantly low-rise provincial city, colour footage shot by young draftsman Peter Hall as he Campbell. We know how it turned out, but this warts- mostly white and European; a place familiar, yet alien to chronicled the construction, and includes interviews with and-all portrait of Rankin (culled from a never-finished contemporary eyes. Films include Immigrant Impressions Hall and remaining survivors. documentary from the time) offers plenty of food for thought (1965), City Song (1961), and three short pieces from the World Premiere about politics then and now. Day in the Life series. Special guests in attendance Filmmaker Q&A Guest intro: Christine Hagemoen

Exclusive First Runs Sweet Country WARWICK THORNTON, AUSTRALIA, 2017, 113 MIN. PANORAMA FRI JUN 1 - 7:30PM • SAT JUN 2 - 8:30PM MON JUN 4 - 8:30PM • TUE JUN 5 - 8:30PM WED JUN 6 - 8:30PM • THU JUN 7 - 6:30PM Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Venice, and the Platform Prize at TIFF, this outstanding Australian drama from indig- enous filmmaker Warwick Thornton is inspired by a real life incident from the 1920s, a miscarriage of justice that exposes the deep racism underlying that country’s foun- dational myth. A counter western, the film is seared with pain and anger, but burnished with Thornton’s own lustrous photography of a magntic and mysterious land. "A searing indictment of frontier racism as remarkable for its sonic restraint as its visual expansiveness." Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

Sweet Country

Venus Lu Over the Wall The Guardians Les gardiennes EISHA MARJARA, CANADA, 2017, 95 MIN. TRUE NORTH MASAAKI YUASA, JAPAN, 2017, 112 MIN. GATEWAY , FRANCE, 2017, 138 MIN. PANORAMA FRI MAY 18 - 6:30PM • SAT MAY 19 - 7:45PM SAT MAY 19 - 2:00PM* • SUN MAY 20 - 4:40PM** FRI JUN 8 - 6:20PM • SUN JUN 10 - 3:00PM SUN MAY 20 - 8:45PM • MON MAY 21 - 7:30PM MON MAY 21 - 3:30PM* • WED MAY 23 - 6:45PM** MON JUN 11 - 6:00PM • WED JUN 13 - 6:00PM TUE MAY 22 - 8:15PM • WED MAY 23 - 8:55PM Winner of the Grand Prize at the Annecy Animation Festival From the director of Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauois, this When 14-year-old Ralph tracks down his biological father, last year, this contemporary, all-ages fairy tale follows three painterly WWI period piece focuses on the women left at he gets more than he bargained for. Not only is Sid (Debargo teens whose attempts to form a pop band attract an unex- home while the men are at the front. Matriarch Hortense Sanyal) of Indian heritage, he is also a she. In other words, pected guest vocalist: a mermaid named Lu. Cult anime (Nathalie Baye) takes responsibility for keeping the family his dad is also his mom. Ralph’s reaction? “Cool!” Writer- director Masaaki Yuasa lets his imagination fly in a series of farm running, with the help of her daughter Solange (Laura director Eisha Marjara’s humanist movie explores myriad gloriously over-the-top musical set pieces. Smet) and Francine (Iris Bry), a teenage orphan she hires questions of identity and twenty first century relationships “Almost criminally enjoyable.” Financial Times on. “Beauvois opens up this isolated world with stirring with generous helpings of warm humour, sensitivity and emotional force.” Manohla Dargis, New York Times compassion. **Screening in original Japanese language with English subtitles In French with English subtitles. Winner: Best Film, Cinequest; Audience Award, Kingston Film Festival *Screening English language dub Her Stories Jazz

Ana Valine introduces Reel Jazz 4: Bill Evans: Sally Potter’s Orlando Swing-a-Ding Ding! Time Remembered SALLY POTTER, UK, 1992, 94 MIN. PANORAMA Presented by Michael van den Bos BRUCE SPIEGAL, USA, 2016, 84 MIN. M/A/D THU MAY 31 - 7:30PM 120 MIN. M/A/D MON JUN 11 - 8:40PM* Her Stories (Women Call the Shots) is a series of SUN JUN 10 - 7:00PM One of the giants of jazz piano, Bill Evans was part of the films directed by women, selected and presented by Featuring a dynamic line-up of swing and hot jazz Miles Davis sextet that recorded Kind of Blue in 1959, contemporary women filmmakers. This month Ana Valine performances from Hollywood movies, Michael will the best-selling jazz album of all time. With Scott LaFaro (Sitting on the Edge of Marlene) introduces Sally Potter’s introduce clips of big bands in propulsive performances, and Paul Motian he recorded the seminal Sunday at the 1992 masterpiece Orlando, her inspired take on Virginia headed by such luminary leaders as Harry James, Count Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debbie, and formed an Woolf’s novel, starring as the Elizabethan Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman . equally successful partnership with bassist Chuck Israels. nobleman who lives for centuries, first as a man, and latterly . . and the legendary Louis Armstrong. Also on the bill are But Evans' beautiful compositions and performances as a woman... explosive examples of lightning fast Lindy Hop dancing and belied a troubled life. Eight years in the making, Spiegel's documentary is the definitive portrait of Bill Evans. Co- This screening will be followed by a discussion and classic swing themed animated cartoons. Are you hep to presented by Coastal Jazz. *Music Mondays $11 Tickets social mixer. the jive?

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