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What’s on December 23 - January 26, 2019 December 23 - January 26, 2019 at the Vancouver International SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Film Centre DEC 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 1181 Seymour Street 12:30 Mirai 604.683.FILM RENTAL 12:30 Mirai 11:45am Mirai 2:30 Roma 2:30 Roma Discover more at viff.org 2:30 Roma 3:00 Roma 11:30am Mirai 1:45 Roma 5:15 Roma 5:15 Roma 5:15 Roma 5:45 Mirai 1:45 Roma 4:30 Roma Best of 2018 8:00 Leave No Trace 8:00 The Death of Stalin 7:45 Roma 4:30 Tokyo Godfathers HAPPY HOLIDAYS 7:15 Roma 8:00 Phantom Thread 10:00 Children of Men 10:10 Mandy 30 31 JAN 1 2 3 4 5 Italian Film Festival 12:30 The Magnificent 1:50 Liz and the Blue 1:50 Liz and the Blue 12:00 Once Upon Ambersons Jan 4 - 10 Bird Bird iffest.ca a Time in America - 12:20 Children of Men 2:15 Roma extended director’s cut 3:45 Nothing Like a 3:45 Nothing Like a 6:00 Opening Gala: 2:30 Roma 12:00 Paddington 2 5:00 Roma Dame Dame The Man Who Bought 5:00 Look Up 5:15 Roma 2:15 Roma 7:45 First Reformed 5:45 Roma 5:45 Roma the Moon 7:00 Boys Cry 8:00 Foxtrot 5:00 La La Land 10:00 Edge of the Knife 8:25 Sorry to Bother You 8:25 Support the Girls 9:00 Allegro non troppo 9:00 Fists in the Pocket 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12:45 Tribute to 3:00 Resina Bertolucci: La Commare Secca 5:20 A Cat on a Highway 1:00 Cinecitta Babilonia 1:15 Once Upon a 2:30 Fists in the Pocket 12:00 Look Up 2:30 Umberto D Time in America - 4:30 Look Up 4:40 The Woman Who 7:30 V6A 2:00 The Leopard 5:00 The Woman Who extended director’s cut Loves Giraffes 9:15 Tribute to 4:30 Tutti a Casa - 6:30 Everybody’s Fine 5:45 Walking on Water Loves Giraffes Power to the People? 6:30 The Guest 6:30 Look Up Bernardo Bertolucci: 8:30 The Man Who 7:45 The Grossi Gang 7:30 Is There a Picture The Conformist 7:00 Juliet of the Spirits 8:25 I’m Back Bought the Moon 8:20 Is There a Picture A Bread Factory Part One: For the Sake of Gold 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1:00 Yellow Is 4:20 Science Fair A Bread Factory, 3:00 Yellow Is Forbidden Forbidden 6:10 6:00 Science Fair Exclusive First Runs 3:00 Is There a Picture Part One: For the Sake 5:00 Is There a Picture 4:30 Yellow Is Forbidden 4:30 Yellow Is Forbidden of Gold 4:00 The Guilty 7:00 The Woman Who 6:30 The Woman Who 6:30The Woman Who 8:30 A Bread Factory, The Woman Loves Giraffes Loves Giraffes 6:30 Yellow Is Forbidden Loves Giraffes Part Two: Walk With Me Who Loves Giraffes 8:45 V6A RENTAL 8:10 Is There a Picture 8:25 Is There a Picture 8:15 Is There a Picture A While VOLUNTEER PARTY ALISON REID, CANADA, 2018, 83 MIN. IMPACT FRI JAN 11 - 5:00PM • SAT JAN 12 - 4:40PM 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 SUN JAN 13 - 7:00PM • TUE JAN 15 - 6:30PM THU JAN 17 - 6:30PM 3:00 PuSh Film Series: In 1956, 4 years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world The Children Are of chimpanzees and 7 years before Dian Fossey left to Watching Us work with mountain gorillas, in fact, before anyone, man or 5:00 Strange Victory 4:20 Science Fair woman had made such a trip, 23-year-old Canadian biolo- gist, Anne Innis Dagg, made an unprecedented solo journey 6:30 A Bread Factory, 2:00 A Bread Factory, 6:10 A Bread Factory, to South Africa to study animal behavior in the wild on that Part One: For the Sake 6:30 Science Fair Part One: For the Sake Part One: For the Sake continent.... of Gold of Gold of Gold Vancouver Short Vancouver Short “Reid’s terrific doc is a must-see: a biography of one of 8:45 A Bread Factory, 4:20 A Bread Factory, 8:30 A Bread Factory, Film Festival Film Festival Canada’s greatest scientists, woman or man.” POV Part Two: Walk With Me VIFF+ Members Part Two: Walk With Me Part Two: Walk With Me Jan 25 - 26 Jan 25 - 26 A While Preview Screening RENTAL A While A While vsff.com vsff.com Japanese Animation The Woman Who Loves Giraffes Mirai Tokyo Godfathers Liz and the Blue Bird MAMORU HOSODA, JAPAN, 2018, 98 MIN. GATEWAY SATOSHI KON, JAPAN, 2003, 92 MIN. GATEWAY YAMADA NAOKO, JAPAN, 2018, 90 MIN. GATEWAY Nothing Like a Dame Yellow Is Forbidden Science Fair FRI DEC 21 - 5:15PM • SAT DEC 22 - 12:30PM, 5:15PM FRI DEC 21 - 9:50PM • SAT DEC 22 - 9:50PM WED JAN 2 - 1:50PM • THU JAN 3 - 1:50PM ROGER MICHELL, UK, 2018, 84 MIN. PANORAMA PIETRA BRETTKELLY, NEW ZEALAND, 2018, 94 MIN. M/A/D CRISTINA COSTANTINI, DARREN FOSTER, USA, 2018, 90 MIN. IMPACT SUN DEC 23 - 5:45PM • MON DEC 24 - 11:30AM MON DEC 24 - 4:30PM* WED DEC 26 - 11:45AM • THU DEC 27 - 12:30PM Shinjuku, Tokyo, Christmas Eve. Middle-aged has-been Gin, From the (female) director of anime hit A Silent Voice, this WED DEC 19 - 1:00PM • THU DEC 20 - 1:00PM SUN JAN 13 - 3:00PM • MON JAN 14 - 1:00PM FRI JAN 18 - 4:20PM • SAT JAN 19 - 6:00PM FRI DEC 28 - 12:30PM aging cross-dresser Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are spin off from the TV series Sound! Euphonium is a delicate- WED JAN 2 - 3:45PM • THU JAN 3 - 3:45PM TUE JAN 15 - 4:30PM • WED JAN 16 - 6:30PM MON JAN 21 - 6:30PM • THU JAN 24 - 4:20PM Mamoru Hosoda’s anime tells the story of Kun (voiced by three homeless friends who stumble across an abandoned ly observered portrait of two high school girls, friends and Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and THU JAN 17 - 4:30PM Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster’s joyful documentary Kamishiraishi Moka), a little boy who lives a happy life until baby and do their best to care for the infant over the course concert bandmates. Mizore plays the oboe, Nozomi plays Maggie Smith have let the cameras in on a friendship that A hit at last year’s VIFF, this is a revealing documentary can’t help but inspire hope. Nine science-obsessed teenag- the arrival of a new sister throws everything off-kilter. What of a long and perilous night. This 2003 seasonal classic the flute. For their last concert together before heading off goes back more than half a century. The four acting greats about Chinese superstar fashion designer Guo Pei, whose ers are portrayed in the lead-up to the esteemed Intel In- follows is a retreat into a fantasy world, populated by some from Satoshi Kon, the brilliant anime director of Paprika and to college they will be playing a duet (the title tune), but discuss their careers and reminisce about their humble glittering designs are featured in a current exhibition at ternational Science and Engineering Fair, where the winner interesting characters: a prince (Yoshihara Mitsuo), Mirai’s Perfect Blue is both sentimental and rude, very funny with somehow the music seems to reflect a growing distance beginnings in the theatre... It’s uproariously funny, candid, the Vancouver Art Gallery (ending Jan 20). Showing Guo stands to pocket a cool $75,000 and perhaps change the deceased grandpa (Yakusho Koji) and even a future version a gob-smacking slapstick chase finale, dazzling to the eye between them...“One of the most touching and moving and utterly irresistible. “Wildly enjoyable... I can’t think of any at home and at work in preparations for her make-or-break world. With entries from 78 countries—a Brazilian girl and of himself (Haru Kuroki). It’s a child’s adventure of the mind, and touching to the heart. experiences I’ve seen this year.” IGN other recent documentary in which I have laughed pretty Paris runway show, the film celebrates her artistry and sug- a German boy are featured alongside the Americans—the portrayed with the superb animation we’ve long come to much all the way through.” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian gests her importance both in China and globally. “Finds the fair is huge, and the film evolves into “an affectionate and expect from Japan. *Matinee Screening Classified 14A 100% Fresh, Rotten Tomatoes sweet spot between pie-eyed flattery and sober appraisal of supremely entertaining celebration…” Variety Guo and her methods.” Hollywood Reporter PuSh Film Series PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is one of Vancouver’s signature events. Produced over three weeks each January and February, the PuSh Festival presents Gift Cards groundbreaking work in the live performing arts. VIFF is thrilled to partner with PuSh to co-present our 2nd annual PuSh Film Series. Give the To round out your PuSh Festival experience, we offer a selection of films inspired by, and intended to be paired with, performances and artists in the 2019 PuSh pro- gram.