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Vancouver: No Fixed Address

Exclusive First Runs Vancouver: No Fixed Address CHARLES WILKINSON, CANADA, 2017, 75 MIN. IGNITE FRI MAY 19 - 6:30PM • SAT MAY 20 - 6:30PM SUN MAY 21 - 3:00PM, 6:35PM MON MAY 22 - 4:00PM, 7:20PM TUE MAY 23 - 6:30PM • THU MAY 25 - 8:10PM FRI MAY 26 - 5:30PM • SAT MAY 27 - 8:30PM SUN MAY 28 - 3:00PM • TUE MAY 30 - 6:30PM WED MAY 31 - 6:30PM • FRI JUN 2 - 4:45PM TUE JUN 6 - 6:30PM •THU JUN 8 - 8:30PM How is it that life in one of the world’s greenest and “most liveable cities” seems increasingly unsustainable to its own citizens? We all know why we live here, but it’s not so easy to figure out how, when house prices are astronomi- cal, property taxes are going through the roof, and rental vacancy rates bump around below 1%. The team behind hit documentary Haida Gwaii has produced an insightful, com- passionate contribution to what will become the defining debate in the evolution of this place we call home. The film talks to a group of residents deeply affected by the housing boom, as well as many key influencers in the city including: Mayor Gregor Robertson, Musqueam playwright Quela- mia Sparrow, “Condo King” Bob Rennie, journalist Sandy Garossino, Senator Pau Yuen, and scientist/broadcaster/ Vancouver: No Fixed Address activist David Suzuki.

My Entire High School The Wedding Plan Land of Mine Laavor et hakir Under sandet Sinking Into the Sea RAMA BURSHTEIN, ISRAEL, 2016, 110 MIN. PANORAMA MARTIN ZANDVLIET, DENMARK/GERMANY, 2016, 100 MIN. PANORAMA DASH SHAW, USA, 2016, 75 MIN. ALT FRI MAY 19 - 9:15PM FRI MAY 26 - 7:15PM • SUN MAY 28 - 4:45PM FRI JUN 2 - 6:30PM • SAT JUN 3 - 9:30PM SAT MAY 20 - 4:50PM, 8:45PM TUE MAY 30 - 8:10PM • THU JUN 1 - 8:30PM MON JUN 5 - 6:30PM • TUE JUN 6 - 8:10PM WED JUN 7 - 8:30PM • THU JUN 8 - 4:20PM SUN MAY 21 - 5:00PM, 8:30PM A bride without a groom, a romantic comedy without a MON MAY 22 - 2:30PM, 5:45PM leading man... This quietly subversive gem from the gifted This piercing WWII drama is an intense, poignant and sur- TUE MAY 23 - 8:30PM • THU MAY 25 - 6:30PM writer-director Rama Burshtein (Fill the Void) is a portrait of prisingly beautiful film inspired by a little known historical This quirky animated caper melds the coming-of-age movie an Orthodox Jew in her mid 30s, Michal. Ditched abruptly by footnote: after the War, German POWs were put to work with a disaster epic: think The Poseidon Adventure crossed her fiance 3 weeks before the wedding, Michal resolves to clearing the beaches of Denmark of thousands of land with The Breakfast Club. School newspaper reporters and go through with the ceremony, trusting in God to deliver her mines they had planted against a suspected Allied invasion. best buds Dash and Assaf are about to have the biggest a husband in time... The work is precise, arduous and terrifying... bust up of their young lives when nature (and budget cut- Winner of 6 Israeli , including Best Film, "An act of expiation, Land of Mine is honorable, harrowing backs) throws everything into a new perspective: seems like Director, Actress and Screenplay. and stirring." Joe Morgernstern, Wall Street Journal no one is getting out of this high school alive. That is, unless our heroes can work together to save the day.... In Hebrew with English subtitles. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Lan- guage Film

Matinee Documentaries

The Gardener The Seasons in Quincy: Kedi SÉBASTIEN CHABOT, CANADA, 2015, 87 MIN. TRUE NORTH Four Portraits of John Berger CEYDA TORUN, TURKEY/GERMANY/USA, 2015, 79 MIN. PANORAMA MON MAY 8 - 3:50PM WED MAY 10 -2:45PM TILDA SWINTON, COLIN MACCABE, CHRISTOPHER ROTH, BARTEK Nestled amongst the rolling hills of the Charlevoix County DZIADOSZ, UK, 2016, 90 MIN. M/A/D The cat-umentary we have all been waiting for, this irresist- in Quebec, Les Quatre Vents has become one of the world’s MON MAY 8 - 5:40PM • WED MAY 10 - 1:00PM ibly charming film chronicles the fortunes of the beloved foremost private gardens. Created over three generations, FRI MAY 12 - 1:00PM street cats of Istanbul. In Turkish culture caring for these it is an enchanted place of beauty and surprise, a horticul- animals is a cultural and religious obligation, and it’s esti- tural masterpiece of the 21st century. Through the words Author of the seminal Ways of Seeing, the late John Berger mated that in the capital there are as many cats as citizens. of horticulturalist Frank Cabot and his family, the film looks was a prolific artist, philosopher, writer and “radical human- This beautifully crafted and crafty film has asides on a re- back at this remarkable man's personal story and the artistic ist”. In this loving portrait assembled by a coterie of acolytes lationship more symbiotic than it first appears. Suitable for philosophy that gave birth to one of the greatest gardens in over four seasons in Berger’s adopted home, the remote all ages. “Splendidly graceful and quietly magical.” Variety the world. Alpine village of Quincy, Berger’s acutely curious and stimu- lating intellect comes shining through. In Turkish with English subtitles. Winner: Audience Prize, Quebec Film Festival

I Am Not Your Negro Karl Marx City Citizen Jane: RAOUL PECK, USA, 2016, 95 MIN. IMPACT PETRA EPPERLEIN, MICHAEL TUCKER, USA, 2016, 89 MIN. PANORAMA Battle for the City THU MAY 11 - 1:00PM THU MAY 11 - 2:50PM MATT TYRNAUER, USA, 2016, 92 MIN. IMPACT In one of the most courageous and assertive documenta- Fifteen years after her father killed himself, Petra Epperlein FRI MAY 12 - 2:50PM ries of the year, Raoul Peck picks up on an unfinished manu- returns to her hometown in former East Germany to inves- script by James Baldwin to examine the issue of race in tigate his rumoured links with the Stasi (the East German Nearly 60 years since the publication of Jane Jacobs’ semi- America through the (too-short) lives of Martin Luther King, Secret Police) and how the apparatus of state control main- nal work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, this Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X. Connecting these martyrs tained Communist rule. Stylized in the form of a Cold War radical urban planner/activist/philosopher remains a vital of the Civil Rights movement with Black Lives Matter, Peck espionage thriller this fascinating documentary is a potent touchstone for today’s planners and politicians. “Fascinat- has produced a searing work that cuts to the very heart of reminder of how the political is always, ultimately, personal. ing... pulses with contemporary resonance... explores the American identity. “One of the best movies you are likely to scope and meaning of that overly familiar thing — the city see this year.” NY Times — in ways that will box open your thinking. It’s a finely wo- ven tapestry that feels as relevant and alive as the place you Winner: Audience Award, TIFF, Chicago, Hamptons Film live.” Owen Gleiberman, Variety Festival. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Docu- mentary (Feature)

One Time Only!

Song to Song Revelstoke - The Transfiguration TERRENCE MALICK, USA, 2016, 129 MIN. PANORAMA A Kiss in the Wind MICHAEL O’SHEA, USA, 2016, 97 MIN. ALT MON MAY 15 - 3:00PM NICOLA MORUZZI, CANADA, 2015, 74 MIN. TRUE NORTH SAT MAY 20 - 10:15PM Mondo-Malick: fragmented emanations of divine transcen- This sombre, character-driven vampire movie is a disturb- MON MAY 8 - 7:30PM dence, made manifest in fleeting emotional connections, ing but compassionate portrait of a deeply troubled African- in rapt beauty and hushed reveries. Set against the Austin, October 15, 1915, in the mountains of British Columbia, a American teenager whose fascination with the dark side Texas music scene, two entangled couples - struggling tragic accident snuffed out the life of 28-year-old Angelo has gone over the edge into murder. Yet 14-year-old Milo is songwriters Faye (Rooney Mara) and BV (Ryan Gosling), and Conte, an Italian immigrant railway worker. In the 30 months in many ways a sympathetic and very normal kid, and when music mogul Cook (Michael Fassbender) and the waitress away from his wife Anna, Angelo never stopped writing the equally lonely Sophie moves into his apartment building whom he ensnares (Natalie Portman) - seek the things that home. One hundred years later, Nicola Moruzzi, discovered the film holds out the hope for some kind of redemption... humans seek, and sometimes find... his great-grandfather’s letters, and decided to retrace his “Crafts quiet moments of primal terror with steadfast au- footsteps with his partner, Irene, and a camera. Their film thenticity.” Collider is a fascinating historical document, and a poignant reflec- tion on the immigrant experience. In Italian, English with English subtitles. Filmmaker Q&A. Copresented with the Vancouver Italian Film Festival

Vancouver International Film Festival’s Year-Round Showcase May 7 - June 10, 2017

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY MAY 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1:00 The Seasons in 3:50 The Gardener 1:00 The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of Quincy: Four Portraits of 1:00 I Am Not Your John Berger 5:40 The Seasons in John Berger Negro Quincy: Four Portraits of 2:50 Citizen Jane: Battle DOXA Documentary DOXA Documentary John Berger 2:45 Kedi 2:50 Karl Marx City for the City RENTAL Film Festival Film Festival 7:30 Revelstoke - A Kiss May 4 - 14 DOXA Documentary DOXA Documentary DOXA Documentary May 4 - 14 7:45 Karl Marx City in the Wind doxafestival.ca Film Festival Film Festival Film Festival doxafestival.ca 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 RENTAL Canada Golden Maple Festival 1:00 After Separation 4:50 My Entire High 3:00 Romance on School Sinking Into the Sea Lushan Mountain 6:30 Vancouver: No Fixed Address DOXA Documentary 6:30 Vancouver: No Song to Song Film Festival 3:00 8:45 Vancouver Iranian Fixed Address 8:45 My Entire High May 4 - 14 7:00 Palliative Care Film Society presents: 9:15 My Entire High School School Sinking Into the Sea doxafestival.ca Screening & Panel Bench Cinema RENTAL RENTAL Sinking Into the Sea 10:15 The Transfiguration 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2:30 My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea RENTAL 4:00 Vancouver: 3:00 Vancouver: No No Fixed Address 6:30 Chasing Trane: Fixed Address RENTAL 5:45 My Entire High School 4:30 Melody Makers, The John Coltrane 5:00 My Entire High Sinking Into the Sea Should’ve Been There 5:30 Vancouver: No Documentary School Sinking Into the Sea 7:20 Vancouver: 6:30 Vancouver: No 6:30 My Entire High Fixed Address 8:30 Vancouver: No 6:35 Vancouver: No No Fixed Address Fixed Address School Sinking Into 7:15 The Wedding Plan Fixed Address Fixed Address MUSIC MONDAYS 8:30 My Entire High the Sea 9:30 Chasing Trane: 9:00 Demme Jam: A 8:30 My Entire High 8:45 Melody Makers, School Sinking Into 8:10 Vancouver: No The John Coltrane Tribute to Jonathan School Sinking Into the Sea Should’ve Been There the Sea RENTAL Fixed Address Documentary Demme 28 29 30 31 JUN 1 2 3 4:30 Chasing Trane: RENTAL The John Coltrane 3:00 Vancouver: No Documentary Vancouver: No 4:45 Vancouver: No Fixed Address 6:30 6:30 Reel Jazz 3: The 6:30 Chasing Trane: Fixed Address 6:30 Chasing Trane: Fixed Address 4:45 The Wedding Plan Divas, The Drummers The John Coltrane 6:30 Vancouver: No 8:10 Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane 6:30 Land of Mine and the Latin Lovers 7:30 Singin’ in Documentary Fixed Address The John Coltrane Documentary 8:30 I Called Him the Rain 8:30 Miles Ahead 8:10 The Wedding Plan Documentary 8:30 The Wedding Plan Morgan 9:30 Land of Mine 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 RENTAL 4:20 Land of Mine I Called Him Vancouver Festival 6:30 Vancouver Taiwanese Vancouver Taiwanese of Ocean Films 6:30 Land of Mine 6:30 Vancouver: No 6:30 I Called Him Morgan Film Festival Film Festival georgiastrait.org/ Fixed Address Morgan vancouver-festival-of- 8:30 I Called Him 8:30 Vancouver: No Jun 9 - 11 Jun 9 - 11 ocean-films/ Morgan 8:10 Land of Mine 8:30 Land of Mine Fixed Address twff.ca twff.ca

Jazz Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary JOHN SCHEINFELD, USA, 2016, 99 MIN. M/A/D FRI MAY 26 - 9:30PM • SAT MAY 27 - 6:30PM MON MAY 29 - 6:30PM • WED MAY 31 - 8:10PM THU JUN 1 - 6:30PM • SAT JUN 3 - 4:30PM The definitive Coltrane documentary we’ve been waiting for, John Scheinfeld’s film digs deep to illuminate the in- credible artistic path of one of 20th century music’s most innovative iconoclasts. From recording the bebop landmark Kind of Blue with Miles Davis to creating such free jazz clas- sics as Giant Steps and A Love Supreme, Coltrane forged a spiritual music that transcended his time - and ours. You will come out of it inspired by the example of a true artist, a man who believed in the spirituality of his calling, and who expressed those sentiments beautifully - but with complex- ity and courage - and so what if people weren't ready to hear it? Trane transcended. The music endures. “You could walk into this movie knowing nothing about Col- trane and walk out an impassioned convert.” Variety

Chasing Train: The John Coltrane Documentary

Music Mondays

I Called Him Morgan KASPER COLLIN, SWEDEN/USA, 91 MIN. M/A/D Melody Makers, Miles Ahead FRI JUN 2 - 8:30PM • MON JUN 5 - 8:30PM* DON CHEADLE, USA, 2016, 100 MIN. M/A/D WED JUN 7 - 6:30PM • THU JUN 8 - 6:30PM Built around a recently recovered interview with Helen Should’ve Been There MON MAY 29 - 8:30PM LESLIE ANN COLES, CANADA, 2016, 97 MIN. M/A/D More, widow of jazz legend Lee Morgan (The Sidewinder), A bold, sometimes bewildering biopic that refuses to play MON MAY 22 - 8:45PM • THU MAY 25 - 4:30PM this is not just an evocative music film but a sucker punch of by the rules and instead takes a mad stab at approximating a crime story, related with palpable love and respect. "Musi- Our popular Music Mondays series returns with this fasci- its subject’s cavalier spirit, Don Cheadle’s directorial debut cians sometimes paraphrase Debussy, or one another, in nating insiders’ eye on the rock-n-roll revolution of the late is the kind of movie Miles Davis might have wanted to see saying that music is the silence between the notes. I Called 60s/early 70s. British music weekly Melody Maker was at about himself. Facts go flying out the window, but Cheadle Him Morgan has it all — the notes and the silence, plus the the forefront of the scene that grew up in the wake of the (who also plays Miles brilliantly) catches at what makes him music of spoken language, pitched in rueful tones of recol- Beatles and the Stones: Hendrix, Bowie, The Who, Elton such a transfixing artistic presence. It’s flawed, but original lection." Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal John, YES... For a decade, it was Melody Maker that dictated and passionate. fashion and fame in popular music. Leslie Ann Coles’ doc *Music Mondays: Tickets $10 is loaded with rare anecdotes, great music, and stunning Music Mondays: Tickets $10 photographs by MM snapper Barrie Wentzell. Music Mondays: Tickets $10

Special Presentations

Demme Jam: Singin’ in the Rain Reel Jazz 3: West Coast Tap Dance Collective A Tribute to celebrates International Tap Day The Divas, The Drummers, STANLEY DONEN, GENE KELLY, USA, 1952, 103 MIN. M/A/D and the Latin Lovers 140 MIN. M/A/D SUN MAY 28 - 7:30PM Presented by Michael Van den Bos SAT MAY 27 - 9:00PM Michael van den Bos will introduce what remains, surely, Featuring a Live Jazz Performance by Share your favourite cuts from one of American film's shin- the greatest movie musical ever made, Stanley Donen and The Laura Crema Quartet ing lights. Starting out in our atrium with a DJ set of tracks Gene Kelly’s sublime Singin’ in the Rain (65 years young in 2017, 155 MIN. M/A/D 2017). A Hollywood on Hollywood satire, the film is dynamic, from Demme's music movies , Neil SAT JUN 3 - 6:30PM Young Heart of Gold, Justin Timberlake and the Tennessee romantic, and very funny, with some of the most memorable Kids, as well as from the soundtracks of Philadelphia, and dance numbers ever shot - including, of course, the legend- Michael van den Bos has curated another eclectic col- Something Wild, the Demme Jam will then move into the ary title number. lection of cinematic clips featuring some of the greatest names in jazz. It’s a Jazz at the Film-harmonic program that theatre for a video jukebox celebration of choice scenes & Copresented with West Coast Tap, this special event will spotlights stylish songstresses, including Lena Horne and sequences from Silence of the Lambs, Melvin and Howard also feature tap dance demonstrations in the atrium (from Anita O’Day; swaying sambas, rhythmic rumbas, mondo etc. Line up a clip and contribute your own highlight! 6.30pm). mambos and blissful bossa novas; and the burnin’ beat of the swing era’s original Whiplash drumming dynamos. Plus: Vancouver vocalist Laura Crema will perform jazzy versions Vancouver Iranian Film Society presents: of classic movie songs in a 45 min set in the atrium. AGM WED MAY 31 - 7:00PM The Vancouver International Film Centre 1181 Seymour Street Business of the Annual General Meeting of the Society will include: Appointment of Auditors, approving the minutes of the 2016 Annual General Meeting, Election of Directors, applicable reports, and receiving the finan- Bench Cinema cial statements of the Society for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016. Any nominations for VIFF Board MOHAMMAD RAHMANIAN, IRAN, 2016, 117 MIN. PANORAMA of Directors, by VIFF members in good standing, shall be forwarded to [email protected] no later than ten TUE MAY 16 - 8:45PM (10) days prior to the VIFF Annual General Meeting. All current Society members are entitled to vote. Nasi spends months after release from prison, watching Please bring your 2016/17 Society (VIFF Vancity Theatre) membership card. the films and memorizes all the lines. He then travels around to perform the films as a one man show on a bench. Gradually he forms a theatre group called Cin- Whether you see a few films or dozens of films each year, there ema Bench... "A love letter to the golden days of cinema, is a VIFF+ Membership level that will help save you money, join especially American films." a community of film lovers and support the VIFF society. Filmmaker and dramatist Mohammad Rahmanian will be present at this screening. Discover More. Visit viff.org for more info, or contact [email protected].

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