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True North

To Live To Sing Ash Easy Land Huo Zhe Chang Zhe ANDREW HUCULIAK, CANADA, 2019, 104 MIN. SANJA IVKOVI , CANADA, 2019, 88 MIN. JOHNNY MA, CHINA/FRANCE/CANADA, 2019, 100 MIN. FRI MAR 20 - 8:25PM • SAT MAR 21 - 9:15PM SAT MAR 21 - 7:15PM • SUN MAR 22 - 5:30PM SUN MAR 22 - 7:30PM • TUE MAR 24 - 8:10PM TUE MAR 24 - 6:10PM SAT MAR 14 - 4:30PM • SUN MAR 15 - 5:00PM WED MAR 25 - 8:30PM WED MAR 18 - 6:00PM • THU MAR 19 - 6:00PM Demonstrating a gift for subtle but deeply affecting story- Andrew Huculiak (drummer in We Are the City) follows up telling, Sanja Ivkovi ‘s feature debut compassionately ex- Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Johnny Ma enlisted a real life his acclaimed feature debut Violent with a brave, risky, ac- amines the psychological toll that relocation takes on im- opera troupe to play fictionalized versions of themselves complished psychological drama set against the burning migrants and refugees. Jasna, a trained architect at home, in this bittersweet tribute to the ailing traditions of musical hillsides of the Okanagan.. Local reporter Stan (a stunning is condemned to mind-numbing internships in Toronto. theatre. Trying to revive their glory days, the Jinli (“Golden performance from Tim Guinnee) seizes on the wildfires Meanwhile her teen daughter Nina faces the indignity of and Glittering”) Sichuan Opera Troupe limp from gig to gig, as his big break. Instead he suffers a nervous breakdown repeating her final year of high school. yet Ma captures the prevailing magic of the enterprise, as when a devastating guilty secret comes out. Cinematic and well as how the odds stack up against them. There are mo- “Everything that speaks to the struggles of recent immi- unapologetically personal, Ash challenges our moral certi- ments of droll, surreal absurdism and pageantry too. grants to Canada rings true... Easy Land has a big beating tude and requests compassion and understanding. heart.” Gate First Stories: Films by and about Indigenous Women

The Body Remembers When Rustic Oracle Kuessipan the World Broke Open SONIA BONSPILLE-BOILEAU, CANADA, 2019, 101 MIN. MYRIAM VERREAULT, CANADA, 2019, 117 MIN. ELLE-MÁIJÁ TAILFEATHERS, KATHLEEN HEPBURN, CANADA/NORWAY, SUN MAR 29 - 8:40PM • WED APR 1 - 6:00PM SUN MAR 29 - 6:20PM • TUE MAR 31 - 8:20PM 2019, 105 MIN. After her teenage sister vanishes from their Mohawk com- “Freely inspired” by Naomi Fontaine’s novel, Myriam Ver- SUN MAR 29 - 4:10PM • WED APR 1 - 8:10PM munity, eight-year-old Ivy joins her mother Susan in a des- reault tells the story of two best friends in an Innu com- Discovering Rosie (Violet Nelson), a pregnant teenager, perate search that lays bare the indifference of the authori- munity. While Mikuan has a loving family, Shanis is picking sobbing on a rainy East Vancouver street, Aila (Elle-Máijá ties. As their investigation unfolds, Sonia Bonspille Boileau up the pieces of her shattered childhood. As children, they Tailfeathers) takes her home before working feverishly to uncovers instances of warmth and grace in this delicate promised each other to stick together no matter what. But get her access to proper support networks. Unfolding in real depiction of a child’s anguished rite of passage. as they near adulthood, their friendship is shaken when Mi- kuan falls for a white boy, and starts dreaming of leaving the time, this deft drama from Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hep- “This Canadian made film grabbed my heart and squeezed reserve. 2 CSA Nominations burn (Never Steady, Never Still) employs a riveting combi- tight... Films like this need to be seen, stories like this need nation of intimacy and immediacy as these two Indigenous to be told.” Leanne McLaren, iHeartradio “Quiet and mesmerizing and tragic and full of hope.” Globe women embark on a revelatory odyssey. & Mail 6 CSA nominations including Best Film, Director, Actress

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The Whistlers La Gomera Beanpole The Wild Goose Lake CORNELIU PORUMBOIU, ROMANIA/FRANCE/GERMANY, 2019, 97 MIN. KANTEMIR BALAGOV, RUSSIA, 2019, 137 MIN. Nan fang che zhan de ju hui FRI MAR 13 - 6:00PM • SAT MAR 14 - 6:40PM FRI MAR 13 - 8:10PM • SAT MAR 14 - 8:45PM DIAO YINAN, CHINA/FRANCE, 2019, 113 MIN. SUN MAR 15 - 7:00PM • WED MAR 18 - 8:10PM SUN MAR 15 - 2:00PM, 9:00PM FRI MAR 20 - 6:00PM • SUN MAR 22 - 3:00PM Riffing entertainingly on the conventions of the cop thriller, MON MAR 16 - 6:00PM • THU MAR 19 - 8:10PM MON MAR 23 - 6:00PM • WED MAR 25 - 6:00PM SAT MAR 28 - 9:20PM Police, adjective director Corneliu Porumboiu sends cor- Set in a suburb of Wuhan, this Chinese gangster movie rupt detective Cristi (Vlad Ivanov) from miserable Bucharest Leningrad immediately after WWII. Lanky nurse “Beanpole” from the director of Black Coal, Thin Ice plunges us into a to the sunny Canary on a mission to uncover a drug suffers from from PTSD blackouts. She pins her hopes on slippery underworld of criss-crossed allegiances, constant ring - or is he actually just out for himself? There’s a sexy the return of her beloved Masha from the front lines, but danger, and furtive intimacies. By wrapping his portrait of femme fatale, convoluted flashbacks, twists, turns, and an their intense relationship is marked by inconsolable, almost contemporary China in the trappings of film noir Diao Yinan unorthodox whistling code, all in the service of a spry, clev- unspeakable tragedy. Prospects for love and renewal con- gets away with a mordant, poetic and sometimes surreal er film noir which hides its deconstructionism in plain sight. tinually run into the dire circumstances of post-war depriva- take on our era of criminal capitalism. His atmospheric and tion. Rapturous visuals and unforgettable performances are evocative, rain-soaked nocturne is punctuated with synco- the hallmarks of a major work from an exciting new talent. pated shoot outs and a labyrinthine manhunt. “Brilliantly directed and acted drama.” NY Times

Bacurau A White, White Day Matthew Barney’s KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO, JULIANO DORNELLES, BRAZIL/FRANCE, Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur 2019, 130 MIN. “Redoubt” FRI APR 3 - 8:00PM • SAT APR 4 - 6:00PM HLYNUR PÁLMASON, ICELAND/DENMARK/SWEDEN, 2019, 109 MIN. MATTHEW BARNEY, 2019, 134 MIN. SUN APR 5 - 7:30PM • TUE APR 7 - 8:20PM SAT APR 4 - 8:35PM • SUN APR 5 - 3:00PM FRI APR 10 - 8:10PM • SAT APR 11 - 1:30PM WED APR 8 - 8:00PM • FRI APR 10 - 1:15PM TUE APR 7 - 6:00PM • THU APR 9 - 6:00PM SUN APR 12 - 3:15PM • TUE APR 14 - 8:10PM A few years from now... Bacurau, a small village in the Brazil- SAT APR 11 - 9:00PM The new film by acclaimed artist and director Matthew ian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who In a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief begins Barney, creator of the CREMASTER Cycle and the film op- lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late era River of Fundament, unfolds as a series of hunts in the Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradu- wilderness of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains. The characters most maps and a UFO-shaped drone starts flying overhead. ally his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and communicate a mythological narrative through dance, let- There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. ting movement replace language as they pursue their prey. and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed merce- naries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabit- Following up his brilliant debut Winter Brothers, Pálmason “Breathtakingly beautiful…An emotional power that’s un- ants one by one. has created an intense, nailbiting, emotionally raw psycho- usual in any kind of art.” NY Times logical drama about a man on the edge, toppling headlong “ Stunning.,.. Viscerally satisfying, emotionally cathartic.” LA over it. Times Vancity Impact Talk Anime Day

Capital in the Weathering With You Tenki no ko Kimi to, nami ni noretara Twenty-First Century MAKOTO SHINKAI, JAPAN, 2019, 112 MIN. MASAAKI YUASA, JAPAN, 2019, 94 MIN. JUSTIN PEMBERTON, NZ, 2020, 103 MIN. SAT MAR 14 - 12:10PM SAT MAR 14 - 2:30PM THU MAR 26 - 6:30PM - IMPACT TALK SAT MAR 28 - 10:00AM (RELAXED SCREENING) The latest from the prolific and inventive Masaaki Yuasa FRI APR 10 - 6:00PM • SUN APR 12 - 6:00PM In Japan, this dazzling magical realist love story from the (The Night is Short, Walk on Girl) is a love story in which a MON APR 13 - 6:00PM • TUE APR 14 - 6:00PM director of Your Name was the biggest homegrown hit last surfing student falls for a handsome firefighter. When the Be among the first to see Justin Pemberton’s film of French year and it’s easy to see why: its heart-stopping tale of teen latter perishes in an accident, Hinako is heartbroken - until economist Thomas Piketty’s best-seller, one of the most influen- love is bathed in spectacularly detailed but frequently fan- she sees her lover shimmering in the water... tial books of our time. Pikettty argues that capitalism is no longer tastical animation. Tokyo looks so real you can practically "An emotional and eye-popping visual feast... charming, advancing the greater good nor fostering innovation and prog- smell it. Whatever else it may be, this is a stunning climate touching and funny." slashfilm ress, but rather taking us back to the robber baron plutocracies change movie. “Irresistibly romantic... awe-inspiringly gor- of the past. Pemberton gives us an accessible history of capital geous.” The Wrap (good and bad), itemizes how the system is rigged, and suggests Relaxed Screenings extend a warm welcome to people who ways various ways we might still engineer a course correction. feel overwhelmed by the ordinary cinema environment. Vancouver International Film Festival’s Year-Round Showcase Mar 8 - Apr 11, 2020

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY MAR 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 12:10 Weathering With VIFF Ignite Campus Screenings You goviff.org/ignite 2:30 Ride Your Wave Vancouver International 6:00 The World Is Bright 4:30 To Live to Sing Women in Film Festival (Norm Theatre, 7:30 DanceHouse & 6:00 The Whistlers 6:40 The Whistlers Mar 3 - 8 UBC) VIFF present: womeninfilm.ca Impulso RENTAL 8:10 Beanpole 8:45 Beanpole 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 6:00 To Live to Sing Film Studies The World Is Bright Cat Video Festival 2020 10:30am The Piano 8:00 6:00 Beanpole (Emily Carr 10:20am • 12:10 • 1:50 2:00 Beanpole University of Art Music Mondays 3:40 • 5:25 5:00 To Live to Sing and Design) 8:40 Linda Ronstadt: 6:00 The Wild Goose 7:00 The Whistlers The Sound of My goviff.org/ignite 6:00 To Live to Sing Lake 7:15 Easy Land 9:00 Beanpole Voice RENTAL 8:10 The Whistlers 8:10 Beanpole 8:25 Ash 9:15 Ash 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 10:30am Golda 10:00am Weathering 1:00 Icons: Judy with You (relaxed Garland screening) 6:00 The Wild Goose Vancity Impact Talk: 3:00 The Wild Goose Lake 5:00 The Booksellers Lake 8:20 Marianne & 6:00 The Wild Goose 6:30 Capital in 6:00 The Booksellers 7:10 This Is Not a 5:30 Easy Land Leonard: Words of 6:10 Easy Land Lake the Twenty-First 8:10 This Is Not a Movie 7:30 Ash Love 8:10 Ash 8:30 Ash Century Movie 9:20 Beanpole 29 30 31 APRIL 1 2 3 4 10:30am The Conversation 2:00 The Booksellers First Stories 4:10 The Body Remembers 6:00 Rustic Oracle 4:00 The Cordillera of When the World Dreams Broke Open 8:10 The Body 6:00 The Booksellers 6:00 This Is Not a Remembers 6:00 The Booksellers 6:00 The Cordillera of 6:00 Bacurau 6:20 Kuessipan 8:30 Mystify: Michael Movie When the World 8:10 This Is Not a Dreams 8:35 A White, White 8:40 Rustic Oracle Hutchence 8:20 Kuessipan Broke Open Movie 8:00 Bacurau Day 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 10:30am Dolce fine 1:15 Bacurau 1:30 Matthew Barney’s giornata 4:00 The Cordillera of “Redoubt” 12:45 This Is Not a 6:15 The Cordillera of Dreams 4:15 This Is Not a Movie Dreams 6:00 Capital in the Movie 3:00 A White, White Day 6:00 A White, White Twenty-First 6:30 Pandora and the 5:30 The Cordillera of The Rolling Stones: 6:00 A White, White 6:00 The Cordillera of Day Century Flying Dutchman Dreams Rock n Roll Circus Day Dreams 8:20 The Cordillera of 8:10 Matthew Barney’s 9:00 A White, White 7:30 Bacurau 8:10 • 9:35 8:20 Bacurau 8:00 Bacurau Dreams “Redoubt” Day

Documentary

The Booksellers This Is Not a Movie The Cordillera of D.W. YOUNG, USA, 2019, 99 MIN. YUNG CHANG, CANADA, GERMANY, 2019, 106 MIN. Dreams La Cordillera de los Suenos FRI MAR 27 - 6:00PM • SAT MAR 28 - 5:00PM FRI MAR 27 - 8:10PM • SAT MAR 28 - 7:10PM PATRICIO GUZMÁN, CHILE, 2019, 85 MIN. SUN MAR 29 - 2:00PM • MON MAR 30 - 6:00PM TUE MAR 31 - 6:00PM • THU APR 2 - 8:10PM THU APR 2 - 6:00PM SUN APR 5 - 12:45PM • SAT APR 11 - 4:15PM FRI APR 3 - 6:00PM • SAT APR 4 - 4:00PM SUN APR 5 - 5:30PM • MON APR 6 - 6:15PM Book lovers will lap up this tribute to the engaging ec- British journalist Robert Fisk is one of the most experi- WED APR 8 - 6:00PM • THU APR 9 - 8:20PM centrics who ply their trade off line, at bookfairs and in enced, respected and reviled foreign correspondents FRI APR 10 - 4:00PM • SUN APR 12 - 1:15PM bookshops. Writers like Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, in the world. For more than 40 years he has reported on and Gay Talese weigh in with fond reminiscences of violent conflicts across the globe, and specifically in the Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes crawling over dusty bookstore floors, poring over rare Middle East, where his courageous and compassionate Film Festival, master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s The finds, and the elusive value of the tetish object that is the reporting has often run counter to prevailing Western me- Cordillera of Dreams completes his trilogy (with Nostal- printed manuscript. dia narratives. Yung Chang’s film offers multiple insights gia for the Light and The Pearl Button) investigating the into geopolitics, the Palestine problem, and the vital impor- relationship between historical memory, political trauma, “Lovely and wistful... for anyone who can still look at a tance of objective reporters on the ground. and geography in his native country of Chile. The cordil- book and see a dream, a magic teleportation device, an lera would be the Andes, the most definitive of borders. object that contains the world.” Variety “Sublime... a beautiful film about nightmares that have yet to end.” NY Times Golda SAGI BORNSTEIN, UDI NIR, SHANI ROZANES, ISRAEL, 2019, 88 MIN. Music Mondays SUN MAR 22 - 10:30AM Music Monday Series - Tickets $11 Shortly before her passing, Golda Meir was interviewed for Israeli television. After shooting ended, the cameras Linda Ronstadt: Marianne & Leonard: kept rolling, recording an intimate talk with the first and only woman to ever rule Israel. As she lit one cigarette The Sound of My Voice Words of Love after the other, Golda spoke freely, pleading her case for ROB EPSTEIN, JEFFREY FRIEDMAN, US, 2019, 95 MIN. NICK BROOMFIELD, UK, 2019, 102 MIN. her term as Prime Minister - five turbulent years that se- MON MAR 16 - 8:40PM MON MAR 23 - 8:20PM cured her place in history, albeit at a high personal cost. After five platinum albums in a row, Linda Ronstadt was Nick Broomfield’s very moving film chronicles the deep but firmly established as one of the musical superstars of the often strained relationship between his friend, the free- 70s. A restless and adventurous artist, she turned away spirited Scandinavian Marianne Ihlen - who was so much Special Events from pop music to explore an astonishing variety of musi- more than a muse - and the Canadian troubadour Leonard cal styles, from American standards to country to classical Cohen. All three met on the Greek isle of Hydra in the 1960s, operetta before circling back to her family roots with tradi- a kind of bohemian utopia, and were forever marked by their Icons: Judy Garland tional Mexican canciones. time there. “Heartbreaking and heartening in Zen-like equal presented by Michael van den Bos measure.” Washington Post 80 MIN. SUN MAR 22 - 1:00PM (ALL AGES) Renée Zellweger’s recent portrayal of Hollywood legend Judy Garland’s final year in the biopic Judy received criti- cal acclaim and earned Zellweger ample awards, including the Oscar for Best Actress. However, that movie didn’t fully convey the full breadth and power of Judy Garland’s career. To remedy that omission, classic film scholar Michael van den Bos presents an all-singing, all-dancing, all-Judy jubilee with a collection of clips from film and television showcas- ing Garland’s finest performances. The Rolling Stones: Mystify: Rock and Roll Circus Michael Hutchence MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG, UK, 1968, 65 MIN. RICHARD LOWENSTEIN, AUSTRALIA, 2019, 102 MIN. MON APR 6 - 8:10PM, 9:35PM MON MAR 30 - 8:30PM Filmed live in London in 1968, this was conceived as a BBC- A powerfully intimate and insightful portrait of the interna- TV special. It centers on the original line up of The Rolling tionally renowned INXS frontman, Michael Hutchence, di- Stones — (with Nicky Hopkins and Rocky Dijon) — who rected by his friend and collaborator Richard Lowenstein. serve as both the show’s hosts and featured attraction. Deftly woven from an extraordinary archive of rich imag- “The World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band” performs six ery, Michael’s private home movies and those of his lov- Stones classics.We also see The Who, Jethro Tull, Taj Ma- ers, friends, and family, the film delves beneath the public hal, Marianne Faithfull, Yoko Ono, and The Dirty Mac: Eric persona of the charismatic ‘Rock God’ and transports us Dolce fine giornata Clapton (lead guitar), Keith Richards (bass), Mitch Mitchell through the looking glass to reveal a multifaceted, intensely presented by the Vancouver Foreign Film Society (drums) and John Lennon on guitar and vocals. sensitive and complex man. JACEK BORCUCH, POLAND, 2018, 96 MIN. SUN APR 5 - 10:30AM Film Studies Polish director Jacek Borcuch’s carefully crafted drama is a study in mood, setting and ambiguity. Tackling the knotty Film Studies Series - Tickets $15 intermingling of politics and art, Borcuch provides no easy answers to Europe’s current crisis of morality and identity. The Piano The Conversation Semi-retired Jewish-Polish poet Maria Linde is living out her JANE CAMPION, AUSTRALIA/NZ, 1993, 121 MIN. FRANCIS COPPOLA, USA, 1974, 113 MIN. golden years in the luxury of a Tuscan villa, when a dalliance with an Egyptian immigrant sets of a dangerous chain of SUN MAR 15 - 10:30AM SUN MAR 29 - 10:30AM events... Time to re-immerse in one of the most powerful, passionate Gene Hackman is Harry Caul, ‘the best bugger on the West “A beautiful movie with an interesting and important per- and erotic romances of recent times. Ada, a Scottish mute Coast’, a surveillance expert whose jealously guarded ano- spective.” Globe and Mail (Holly Hunter) arrives in untamed 19th Century New Zea- nymity is threatened when he happens across what seems land with her young daughter and her piano to take up an ar- to be a murder plot. Francis Coppola’s existential thriller ranged marriage with a stolid landowner (Sam Neill). Their had the commercial good fortune to coincide with the pub- unhappy union is disrupted by the amorous attentions of lic airing of the Watergate tapes, but the soul-searching George Baines (Harvey Keitel), who rescues the abandoned here is intensely personal. Walter Murch created the bril- piano from the beach and parlays access to it for erotic fa- liant, densely layered sound design. Screening preceded vours. Screening preceded by 25 min lecture, + Q&A by 25 min lecture by crime novelist Sam Wiebe

VIFF Centre News

Our Atrium Renovation Project gets Pandora and the Flying real this month. Fear not, Vancouver’s Dutchman most comfortable theatre falls outside ALBERT E LEWIN, UK, 1951, 126 MIN. the scope of this work and we will remain open through most of this SAT APR 11 - 6:30PM • SUN APR 12 - 10:30AM period. The lobby is getting a complete Love doesn’t come easily in this surrealist romance from makeover, with new fixtures & fittings, maverick filmmaker Albert Lewin. Ava Gardner is American singer in exile Pandora Reynolds, perhaps the most beauti- New Media and Education spaces, ful woman in the world, and certainly the most desired. She and a brand new retractable 40 seat meets her match in James Mason’s dour Dutch sea captain, micro cinema due for completion by doomed forever to sail the high seas until he meets a wom- VIFF 2020. an ready to die for him. You have never really experienced colour until you have seen Jack Cardiff’s Technicolor cin- Find out more at goviff.org/reimagined ematography, restored to eye-scorching glory here.

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