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Beyond 150 Years: An Acknowledgement of Cinematic Territory Beyond 150 Years Flipping the Script: Angry Inuk MAR 6 - 7, 2017 - FREE EVENTS Making Films to Make Change: ALETHEA ARNAQUQ-BARIL, CANADA, 2016, 85 MIN. IMPACT Canada's sesquicentennial is a complicated celebration Artist Talk with Lisa Jackson MON MAR 6 9:00AM - SCHOOLS SCRENING for Indigenous peoples. A Reel Canada initiative, Beyond 60 MIN. TRUE NORTH 150 Years: An Acknowledgement of Cinematic Territory 7:00PM is an opportunity to celebrate the impact of Indigenous MON MAR 6 - 2:00PM Wryly tackling both misinformation and aggressive ap- cinematic stories. It will feature two days of free public With a background in documentary, including acclaimed peals to emotion, Inuk filmmaker Arnaquq-Baril reframes film screenings, film talks, artist talks, and a high school shorts Suckerfish, and the CBC-broadcast How a People the controversial topic of the seal hunt as a cultural issue screening presented at Vancity Film Centre in partnership Live, Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson expanded into in this award-winning hit. “Angry Inuk delivers important with the VIFF and the National Film Board of Canada. fiction with Savage, which won a 2010 Genie award for information about an issue we tend to think we know ev- Best Short Film. Cross-genre work includes current affairs, erything about, and delivers a powerful emotional punch.” animation, performance art film, and a musical. Lisa Jack- Now Magazine. Filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril will be in son will discuss her influences and process, work, and her attendance. recent foray into new technologies with the virtual reality documentary Highway of Tears. Moderated by Doreen Manuel.

Kanehsatake: Past, Present and Future: Atanarjuat: The Fast 270 Years of Resistance & Runner ALANIS OBOMSAWIN, CANADA, 1993, 119 MIN. TRUE NORTH Amanda Strong ZACHARIAS KUNUK, CANADA, 2001, 161 MIN. TRUE NORTH TUE MAR 7 - 9:00AM 90 MIN. TRUE NORTH TUE MAR 7 - 7:00PM This powerful documentary takes you right to the heart of TUE MAR 7 - 1:00PM Based on an ancient Inuit legend, Atanarjuat is an epic tale the action, painting a sensitive and deeply affecting portrait of love, betrayal and revenge. The beautiful Atuat (Ivalu) has of the people behind the barricades of the 1990 Oka Crisis. In 2016, celebrated documentary filmmaker Alanis Obo- been promised to the short-fused Oki (Arnatsiaq), the son Winner of the International Film Festival’s Best Ca- msawin won the Clyde Gilmour Technicolour Award. This of the tribe’s leader. However, she loves the good-natured nadian Feature Film prize. award allowed her to select a young filmmaker to receive Atanarjuat (Ungalaaq), a fast runner and excellent hunter. $50,000 in post-production services. Without hesitation, When Atanarjuat is forced to battle the jealous Oki for Atu- Preceded by short film: Mia (Directed by Amanda Strong, Obomsawin chose stop-motion animator and Vancouver at’s hand, the events that follow determine not only his fate, 2015) A young Indigenous street artist struggles to return resident Amanda Strong. but that of his people. Atanarjuat won 20 awards, including home after being transformed into a salmon. Join us to witness a conversation between these two fasci- eight Genies and the Caméra d’Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Filmmakers Alanis Obomsawin and Amanda Strong will be nating filmmakers as they exchange stories of their careers, Festival. This highly-celebrated film was recently voted as in attendance for a Q&A following the screening. their craft, their process and the intersection of their work TIFF’s Best Canadian Film of All Time. documenting different facets of life and culture. Join us at 6pm for an introductory talk by filmmaker and Preceded by short film: Four Faces of the Moon professor Gregory Coyes.

Returning From VIFF

Kedi Antarctica: Ice & Sky A New Moon CEYDA TORUN, TURKEY/GERMANY/USA, 2015, 79 MIN. PANORAMA LUC JACQUET, FRANCE, 2016, 89 MIN. IMPACT Over Tohoku MON MAR 13 - 7:00PM • TUE MAR 14 - 6:30PM FRI MAR 17 - 4:10PM • SAT MAR 18 - 12:00PM LINDA OHAMA, CANADA/JAPAN, 2016, 98 MIN. IGNITE WED MAR 15 - 6:45PM • THU MAR 16 - 4:45PM MON MAR 20 - 6:20PM • WED MAR 22 - 6:20PM FRI MAR 17 - 6:00PM • SAT MAR 18 - 6:00PM THU MAR 23 - 4:30PM • FRI MAR 24 - 4:30PM FRI MAR 17 - 7:45PM • SAT MAR 18 - 7:40PM SUN MAR 19 - 3:00PM • WED MAR 22 - 4:30PM SUN MAR 19 - 6:30PM • THU MAR 23 - 6:30PM Veteran glaciologist Claude Lorius discovered his calling as THU MAR 23 - 8:30PM a young college student in 1955 when he joined an expe- Notes on disaster: Linda Ohama interviews survivors from The cat-umentary we have all been waiting for, this irresist- dition the coldest and most deserted place on earth, Ant- the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that ibly charming film chronicles the fortunes of the beloved arctica. Sixty years and twenty-two Antarctic expeditions befell the coastal region of Tohoku. Structuring this elegant, street cats of Istanbul. In Turkish culture caring for these later, Lorius shares his insights, memories and film archives, eloquent film around the four elements, Ohama combines animals is a cultural and religious obligation, and it’s esti- tracing his groundbreaking and earth-shattering discover- extraordinary images of devastation with deeply moving mated that in the capital there are as many cats as citizens. ies about climate change: how the evidence of aeons can interviews attesting to the best in human nature. “Captures This beautifully crafted and crafty film has asides on a re- be distilled from the ice. From the director of March of the the heartache of loss in the subjects’ own words but deliv- lationship more symbiotic than it first appears. Suitable for Penguins. ers a life-affirming message of hope in the face of adversity.” all ages. “Splendidly graceful and quietly magical.” Variety Justin Trudeau In English, French with English subtitles. In Turkish with English subtitles. In Japanese with English subtitles. Filmmaker Q&A - Linda Ohama will be present at opening weekend screenings.

Hello Destroyer After the Storm O, Brazen Age KEVAN FUNK, CANADA, 2016, 110 MIN. IGNITE HIROKAZU KORE-EDA, JAPAN, 2016, 117 MIN. GATEWAY ALEXANDER CARSON, CANADA, 2015, 80 MIN. TRUE NORTH TUE MAR 21 - 6:30PM • SAT MAR 25 - 9:50PM FRI MAR 24 - 6:20PM • SAT MAR 25 - 5:40PM TUE APR 4 - 6:45PM Nominated for four Canadian Screen Awards, including MON MAR 27 - 6:20PM • TUE MAR 28 - 8:40PM Part coming-of-age story, part art-cinema meditation on Best Film, Direction, Screenplay and Best Actor (Jared Abra- WED MAR 29 - 6:20PM • THU MAR 30 - 1:00PM photography, memory and souvenirs, Alexander Carson’s hamson), Hello Destroyer is one of the most impressive BC MON APR 3 - 8:35PM debut feature creates a tender and haunting portrait of productions in years, a powerful and very moving dramatic Working in the same sensitive, poignant and affectionately friendship and faith in the 21st century. feature debut from Emily Carr grad Kevan Funk. When Ju- humorous register he brought to Like Father Like Son and nior hockey enforcer Tyson puts someone in hospital he has Still Walking (with several of the same actors, too), modern no conception of how his life is about to turn upside down. master Kore-eda crafts a charming, insightful tale of a dead- His journey is a rude awakening that cuts deep into how we beat dad/private eye trying to win his family back. structure society. In Japanese with English subtitles. Winner: Best Canadian Film, Best BC Film, Vancouver Film Critics Awards. BC Emerging Filmmaker Award, VIFF.

Popular Demand Legendary Notes

I Am Not Your Negro My Life As A Zucchini Leonard Cohen: RAOUL PECK, USA, 2016, 95 MIN. IMPACT Ma vie de Courgette CLAUDE BARRAS, 2016, 70 MIN. M/A/D Bird on a Wire FRI MAR 3 - 4:45PM, 8:00PM • MON MAR 13 - 8:40PM TONY PALMER, UK, 1972/2010, 106 MIN. M/A/D TUE MAR 14 - 8:10PM • WED MAR 15 - 3:20PM MON MAR 13 - 5:30PM • WED MAR 15 - 5:15PM THU MAR 16 - 8:00PM • TUE MAR 21 - 9:10PM THU MAR 16 - 6:30PM • FRI MAR 17 - 2:45PM FRI MAR 17 - 10:00PM • SAT MAR 18 - 10:00PM SUN MAR 19 - 8:35PM • MON MAR 20 - 8:10PM In one of the most courageous and assertive documenta- SUN MAR 19 - 4:45PM WED MAR 22 - 8:10PM ries of the year, Raoul Peck picks up on an unfinished manu- Shortlisted for both the best animated feature of the year script by James Baldwin to examine the issue of race in and the best foreign language film, this is not your typical A portrait of the legendary musician/songwriter/poet America through the (too-short) lives of Martin Luther King, family movie. Rather, it’s a piercing, poignant and original (1934-2016) at his creative peak, on his 1972 European Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X. Connecting these martyrs story about a child sent to an orphanage after the accidental concert tour, performing many of his classics (“Suzanne,” of the Civil Rights movement with Black Lives Matter, Peck death of his alcoholic single mother, the friends he makes “Sisters of Mercy,” “So Long, Marianne”). "The movie is a has produced a searing work that cuts to the very heart of there, and the relationship he strikes up with a friendly cop. worthy time capsule and a must for Cohen devotees.” Glenn American identity. “One of the best movies you are likely to Kenny, New York Times Winner: Audience Award, Annecy and Melbourne Film Festi- see this year.” NY Times vals. Golden Globe nominee, Best Animated Feature. Winner: Audience Award, TIFF, Chicago, Hamptons Film Nominated for Animated (Feature) for Oscars 2017 Festival Nominated for Documentary (Feature) for Oscars 2017

Vancouver International Film Festival’s Year-Round Showcase March 5 - April 8, 2017

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Vancouver MAR 5 6 7 International Women 9 10 11 9:00am Angry Inuk 9:00am Kanehsatake: in Film Festival 2:45 Positively Beautiful Schools Screening 270 Years of Resistance Mar 8 - 12 Free Screening womeninfilm.ca (Grandmothers 2:00 Highway of Tears VR 12:00 A Revolution in Campaign Fundraiser) and Artist Presentation - 1:00 Past, Present 10:30am WIFTI Showcase 12:00 Storyhive Shorts Four Seasons Flipping the Script: Making and Future: Alanis 12:00 Unveiled: The Beyond 150 Years 3:15 Shorts 3:00 Shorts 3:00 Trip Along Exodus Films to Make Change: Obomsawin & Amanda Kohistand Video Scandal Mar 5 - 6 Programme 2 Programme 3 Artist Talk with Lisa Jackson Strong 5:30 Panel Discussion: 6:15 Shorts canadianfilmday.ca/ 6:00 On the Farm + 5:30 Shorts Programme 5 beyond150years Free 7:00 Atanarjuat: The Gender and Diversity panel discussion Programme 4 7:00 Beyond 150 Years: 7:00 Angry Inuk Free Fast Runner Free Initiatives... 9:00 Lutine (plus Reception Screening Screening 7:30 Opening Gala: Breath 9:30 Where to, Miss? 9:00 Anishoara shorts) The Art Of Film 12 Lecture Series 14 15 16 17 18 Mar 13 - Apr 10 3:20 I Am Not Your 2:45 My Life As A 10:30am Technique and Negro Zucchini 12:00 Antarctica: Ice Talent 5:15 My Life As A 4:10 Antarctica: Ice & Sky & Sky 12:15 Billy Lynn’s Long Zucchini 2:30 Billy Lynn’s Long 6:00 Kedi 6:00 Kedi RENTAL Halftime Walk Halftime Walk 6:45 Kedi 7:45 A New Moon Over 7:40 A New Moon Over 5:30 My Life As A Zucchini 4:45 Kedi 3:00 Stingray Sisters 8:30 Vancouver Iranian Tohoku Tohoku 7:00 Closing Night 7:00 Kedi 6:30 Kedi Film Society presents: 6:30 My Life As A Zucchini 10:00 Leonard Cohen: 10:00 Leonard Cohen: Awards 8:40 I Am Not Your Negro 8:10 I Am Not Your Negro Mohey 8:00 I Am Not Your Negro Bird on a Wire Bird on a Wire 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 10:30am Cinematography and the Visual Design of RENTAL a Film 3:00 Kedi 12:30 The Assassination 2:45 Franca: Chaos 4:45 My Life As A Zucchini of Jesse James by the 4:30 Kedi 4:30 Antarctica: Ice and Creation RENTAL 6:30 A New Moon Over Coward Robert Ford 6:20 Antarctica: Ice & Sky 4:30 Antarctica: Ice Tohoku 6:20 Antarctica: Ice & Sky 6:30 Hello Destroyer & Sky 6:30 A New Moon Over & Sky 5:40 After the Storm 8:35 Leonard Cohen: Bird 8:10 Leonard Cohen: Bird 9:10 I Am Not Your 8:10 Leonard Cohen: Tohoku 6:20 After the Storm 7:50 Personal Shopper on a Wire on a Wire Negro Bird on a Wire 8:30 Kedi 8:40 Personal Shopper 9:50 Hello Destroyer 26 27 28 29 30 31 APR 1 1:00 After the Storm 12:00 Student Films 3:20 Personal Shopper RENTAL 12:45 We Call Them Just Film Festival Intruders 10:30am Editing and 2:45 Julieta Mar 30 - Apr 1 3:30 Hollywood Haute 2:00 Sonic Sea & Keepers justfilm.ca Couture The Shape of a Film 4:40 Franca: Chaos and of the Coast 7:00 Opening: On the 12:30 Julieta Creation 6:00 Personal Shopper Bride’s Side 7:00 Burden of Peace 4:00 After Spring 6:20 After the Storm 6:30 Personal Shopper 6:20 After the Storm Mali Blues 8:10 Franca: Chaos 9:00 Occupation of the 9:00 When Two Worlds 7:00 and Creation 8:40 Personal Shopper 8:40 After the Storm 8:40 Personal Shopper American Mind Collide 9:45 Queen of Ireland 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Reel 2 Real Festival 10:30am Music and The Reel 2 Real Festival Reel 2 Real Festival Reel 2 Real Festival Reel 2 Real Festival 1:00 David Lynch: The Apr 2 - 8 Emotional Connection Apr 2 - 8 Apr 2 - 8 Apr 2 - 8 Apr 2 - 8 Art Life r2rfestival.org 12:30 There Will Be Blood r2rfestival.org r2rfestival.org r2rfestival.org r2rfestival.org 6:45 The Seasons in Quincy: Reel 2 Real Festival Four Portraits of John Berger 6:45 O Brazen Age Apr 2 - 8 9:10 Personal Shopper 8:35 After the Storm 9:00 1984 r2rfestival.org

Style in Film Hollywood Haute Couture Presented by Michael van den Bos With Film-Inspired Live Fashion Show! 110 MIN. PANORAMA SUN MAR 26 - 3:30PM Hollywood and fashion fit together like Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy. It’s one of the things we love about the mov- ies, the elegant enthrall of sartorial splendor on the silver screen. In Hollywood Haute Couture, film scholar Michael van den Bos has designed a sparkling spring collection of chic clips that represents the world of fashion in film. From classic musicals, comedies and dramas, Michael will intro- duce a runaway of cinema’s most stylish stars in scenes where the fashion is the story. As a special treat within this program, feast your eyes on a mini-live fashion show by internationally renowned Van- couver fashion designer Roxanne Nikki, who has curated a cinematic-inspired presentation of her most fatally seduc- tive works. Make-up and hairstyling provided by Denise Meikle, award-winning Vancouver hairstylist and owner of Salon Origins hair studio.

Hollywood Haute Couture Presented by Michael van den Bos

Franca: Chaos and Personal Shopper Julieta Creation OLIVIER ASSAYAS, FRANCE, 2016, 105 MIN. PANORAMA PEDRO ALMODOVAR, SPAIN, 2016, 96 MIN. PANORAMA FRANCESCO CARROZZINI, USA/ITALY, 2016, 80 MIN. PANORAMA FRI MAR 24 - 8:40PM • SAT MAR 25 - 7:50PM MON MAR 27 - 12:30PM • WED MAR 29 - 2:45PM SUN MAR 26 - 6:00PM • MON MAR 27 - 8:40PM Based on a couple of stories by Alice Munro, Pedro Almo- FRI MAR 24 - 2:45PM • SUN MAR 26 - 8:10PM TUE MAR 28 - 6:30PM • WED MAR 29 - 8:40PM WED MAR 29 - 4:40PM THU MAR 30 - 3:20PM • SUN APR 2 - 9:10PM dovar returns with a thrilling melodrama that criss-crosses between a mother’s story and her daughter’s, as well as the Marking Vancouver Fashion Week, and in tribute to Franca A teasingly strange and tingling supernatural tale from mother’s back-story. For Julieta, the turning point in her life Sozzani who died in December, this VIFF favourite casts French master Olivier Assayas and his Clouds of Sils Maria has been her teenage daughter’s disappearance. But there light on Sozzani’s daring and provocative stewardship of muse, Kristen Stewart. The material world meets the un- have been other critical junctures which she may not be Vogue Italia, considered the world’s most important fashion canny as Stewart stocks up on frocks for her supermodel prepared to acknowledge... magazine. Featuring interviews with (among others) Baz boss, while she searches for a sign from her deceased twin Luhrmann, Courtney Love, Jeff Koons, Karl Lagerfeld, Nao- (a gifted medium when he was alive). A series of mysteri- In Spanish with English subtitles. mi Campbell, Peter Lindbergh and the grande dame herself. ous text messages eggs her towards transgression, but are these messages from the grave, or a sinister trap? Winner: Best Director, Cannes Film Festival Limited Runs

Billy Lynn’s Long The Assassination of The Seasons in Quincy: Halftime Walk Jesse James by the Four Portraits of John ANG LEE, USA, 2016, 113 MIN. PANORAMA Coward Robert Ford Berger MON MAR 13 - 12:15PM • THU MAR 16 - 2:30PM ANDREW DOMINIK, USA, 2007, 160 MIN. PANORAMA TILDA SWINTON, COLIN MACCABE, CHRISTOPHER ROTH, BARTEK A casualty of the pre-Oscar screen crush late last year, DZIADOSZ, UK, 2016, 90 MIN. M/A/D MON MAR 20 - 12:30PM the latest from director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger Hidden MON APR 3 - 6:45PM Dragon; Brokeback Mountain; Life of Pi) deserves to be This elegiac, rueful western might as well have been titled I seen, and outside the context of the innovative technique Shot Jesse James”; for all Brad Pitt’s sombre grace, the film Author of the seminal Ways of Seeing, the late John Berger Lee applied to Ben Fountain’s best-seller. Newcomer Joe Al- truly belongs to Casey Affleck’s abject Bob Ford, the leg- was a prolific artist, philosopher, writer and “radical human- wyn is extraordinary as Billy, an Iraq War veteran at 19 years end’s nemesis. Cinematographer Roger Deakins conjures ist”. In this loving portrait assembled by a coterie of acolytes of age, brought home for a lap of honor at a Thanksgiving up one of the most visually authoritative movies of the 21st over four seasons in Berger’s adopted home, the remote football game along with other members of Bravo Squad. Century, a grave masterpiece that is only now beginning to Alpine village of Quincy, Berger’s acutely curious and stimu- Flashbacks contrast the hoopla with the horror. receive its due. lating intellect comes shining through.

Vancouver Iranian Film Society presents: Art of Film Just Film Festival Mar 30 - Apr 1

Mohey The Art of Film: Technique and Talent DAVOOD KHAYYAM, IRAN, 2016, 94 MIN. PANORAMA Just Film Festival Presented by Rick Staehling THU MAR 30 - SAT APR 1 WED MAR 15 - 8:30PM $80 - 5 WEEK COURSE Our mandate is to gather Vancouver’s diverse social justice Based on a true story, director Davood Khayyam uses MAR 13 - APR 10, MONDAYS - 10:30AM community to a festival that allows for reflection, provides events that resulted from the PIP implant scandal as a forum for discussion, and prompts participants to action. Movies are magical: They are seductive blends of art and inspiration for his cautionary tale. Plucked from an or- While the issues are often difficult, we feel it is important to entertainment that transport us to imaginary worlds. But phanage as a young girl, Mohey is not living the life she provide tools and ideas for solutions. hoped for. Separated from her twin sister and abused by behind this magic is a complex combination of moving her benefactor, she has become ensnared in a life of un- parts—the elements of filmmaking—that are assembled See viff.org for full program details. derhand dealings and illegal trading, where her intellect by a creative and collaborative crew. Using production stills On The Bride's Side Sonic Sea & and beauty are used as commodities. When Mohey is and film clips this tightly focused but freewheeling five-part Keepers of the Coast coerced into a temporary marriage to secure a deal, she series of lectures will investigate important aspects of the Occupation of the After Spring reluctantly agrees, determined that her cut will finally art of film and celebrate the talent and technique of movie- American Mind buy her freedom. However, the underworld is not ready makers. Topics include: Acting, Movie Stars and Fame, Cin- Burden of Peace Mali Blues ematography and the Visual Design of a Film, Editing and to let her go. Queen of Ireland The Shape of a Film, Music and the Emotional Connection, When Two Worlds Collide In Persian with English subtitles. Directing and the Auteur Theory. We Call Them Intruders Tickets and Membership

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