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What’s on March 5 - April 8, 2017 at the Vancouver LIFE, ANIMATED International Film Centre Aquarius 1181 Seymour Street 604.683.FILM Discover more at viff.org Personal Shopper 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 Alanis Obomsawin & 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 Toronto 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.