What’s on Aug 26 - Nov 3, 2018 at the Vancouver LIFE, ANIMATED International Film Centre Aquarius 1181 Seymour Street 604.683.3456 Discover more at viff.org My Generation Exclusive First Runs We the Animals The Cakemaker Under the Tree JEREMIAH ZAGAR, USA, 2018, 94 MIN. PANORAMA OFIR RAUL GRAIZER, GERMANY/ISRAEL, 2018, 105 MIN. PANORAMA HAFSTEINN GUNNAR SIGURDSSON, ICELAND, 2018, 89 MIN. PANORAMA FRI AUG 31 - 8:30PM • SAT SEP 1 - 8:30PM FRI SEP 14 - 6:20PM • SAT SEP 15 - 6:20PM FRI SEP 14 - 8:25PM • SAT SEP 15 - 4:30PM SUN SEP 2 - 4:50PM • MON SEP 3 - 6:30PM SUN SEP 16 - 3:00PM • MON SEP 17 - 5:00PM SUN SEP 16 - 8:45PM • THU SEP 20 - 6:30PM A coming-of-age film that seems drawn from personal ex- THU SEP 20 - 8:20PM • FRI SEP 21 - 6:30PM FRI SEP 21 - 8:35PM • SAT SEP 22 - 6:30PM perience but also dreamed, We the Animals evokes the joys SAT SEP 22 - 8:20PM • TUE SEP 25 - 6:30PM Thrown out of the house by his wife, Atli is forced to move and hardships of a working class childhood, a father who Thomas, a young German baker, is having an affair with back in with his parents in 60s Reykjavik. While he fights for is sometimes loving and sometimes abusive and violent, a Oren, an Israeli married man who has regular business custody of his four-year-old daughter, he is gradually sucked mom who doesn’t know which way to turn, the push and in Berlin. When Oren dies in a car crash in Israel, Thomas into a dispute between his parents and their neighbors pull of older siblings, and the confusing first inklings of travels to Jerusalem seeking answers regarding his death. over an old and beautiful tree. What starts as a typical spat sexual desire. Reminiscent of Beasts of the Southern Wild Without revealing his reasons, Thomas infiltrates the life of between neighbors soon boils over into all-out suburban and the rapturous cinema of Terrence Malick, but with a Anat, his lover's widow, and even accepts a job in her cafe... warfare. "Dark, hilarious, and unpredictable." Vogue particular edge that makes this debut very special. "Sad and sweet, and with a rare lyricism ... a master class in "Easy to watch, funny and thoughtful... near-perfect calibra- Winner: NEXT Innovator Award, Sundance Film Festival exquisite restraint." New York Times tion between family drama and black comedy." Deborah 9 Israeli Film Academy Award nominations, including Young, Hollywood Reporter Best Film Cult Hits Good Manners As Boas Maneiras JULIANA ROJAS, MARCO DUTRA, BRAZIL, 2017, 135 MIN. ALT The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Perfect Blue SAT OCT 20 - 8:15PM • SUN OCT 21 - 4:45PM RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER, GERMANY, 1972, 124 MIN. PANORAMA KON SATOSHI, JAPAN, 1997, 81 MIN. ALT TUE OCT 23 - 7:30PM SAT SEP 1 - 1:00PM FRI SEP 14 - 10:15PM • MON SEP 17 - 8:45PM Wealthy, carnivorous Ana hires working class Clara as a This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbal- nanny for her soon-to-be-born baby, but they wind up in bed The first feature from the brilliant animator Kon Satoshi anced relationship between a haughty fashion designer (Paprika), Perfect Blue is an exceptionally slippery psycho- together, a turn of events that will prove fortuitous for young (Margit Carstensen) and a beautiful but icy ingenue (Hanna Joel when he arrives, a baby on his own lunar cycle... This in- logical thriller, and an overt inspiration on Darren Aronofsky. Schygulla)—based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer- It's the story of a J-pop idol who is persuaded to transition toxicatingly unpredictable Brazilian movie evokes fairy tales director’s own desperate obsession with a young actor—is and the creature features of Hollywood's Golden Age, and to acting. Her real troubles start when she realizes she has a true Fassbinder affair, featuring exquisitely claustrophobic an obsessive online fan... Lurid in the style of De Palma and throws in a few musical numbers for good measure, but it's cinematography by Michael Ballhaus and full-throttle per- a social allegory too, an altogether poetical cinematic treat. Argento, Perfect Blue treads in some disturbingly murky formances by an all-female cast. waters, but Kon's sinuous animation is always thrilling to Winner: Special Jury Award, Locarno Film Festival This free screening is presented by The Midtwenties behold. New 4K restoration. Theatre Society who will be performing the piece in the "Both a critique of Japan's pop culture system and an effec- Vancouver Fringe Festival. This screening is supported by tive woman-in-peril psycho-thriller." Tony Rayns, Time Out Vancity Credit Union. Tickets will be redeemed at the door on a first come, first served basis, & do not guarantee entry. Vancouver Irish Film Festival presents Her Stories Vancity Impact Talk A Silent Transformation Ann Marie Fleming introduces Ulrike Ottinger's S. BROTHERS, L. MISTRUZZI, A. SMOLSKI, M. PRESTON, CANADA, Michael Inside 2017, 70 MIN. IMPACT FRANK BERRY, IRELAND, 2018, 96 MIN. PANORAMA Joan of Arc of Mongolia WED SEP 12 - 6:30PM Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia SAT SEP 15 - 8:30PM The co-operative movement was built by people who When 18-year-old not-quite-innocent Michael is convicted ULRIKE OTTINGER, GERMANY, 1989, 165 MIN. PANORAMA took on the responsibility for their collective well being of drug dealing and sentenced to three months in prison SUN SEP 2 - 6:45PM in the face of government neglect, economic exclusion his life will never be the same. Developed through inten- and cultural discrimination. In the increasingly sive workshops with real inmates, Frank Berry's incisive Animator Ann Marie Fleming (Window Horses) has chosen discriminatory and unbalanced era of Late Capitalism, and powerful drama has won acclaim and awards every- to share Ulrike Ottinger’s rare 1989 epic, a creative attempt the co-operative becomes a to grapple with cultural difference and exchange. New where it has screened. rare beacon for an alternative Wave icon Delphine Seyrig’s Lady Windermere is one of economic model. Winner: Best Film, Irish Film and Television Awards; Best seven European women kidnapped from the Trans-Siberian Irish Film, Galway Film Fleadh; Audience Award, Cork Express by a Mongolian warrior princess. Followed by a Vancity Impact Film Festival Followed by Q&A and mixer. Talk panel discussion. Documentaries King Cohen STEVE MITCHELL, USA, 2017, 110 MIN. M/A/D TUE OCT 30 - 6:30PM Not familiar with the cinema of Larry Cohen? Prepare to have your mind blown. This cut price cult film auteur is a one-man industry who has been churning out screenplays for six decades. As a director, he hit his stride in the 70s with black gangster movies, horror schlock (It's Alive; Q The Winged Serpent), and almost inexplicable but inspired thrillers like God Told Me To. The films were made fast and cheap, but like the killer babies in his biggest leftfield hit, Minding the Gap My Generation they're alive, and they bite. Guest Q&A. BING LIU, USA, 2018, 93 MIN. PANORAMA DAVID BATTY, GREAT BRITAIN, 2018, 85 MIN. PANORAMA Winner: Best Documentary, Fantasia Film Festival MON SEP 10 - 6:30PM • TUE SEP 11 - 8:20PM MON SEP 10 - 8:25PM • TUE SEP 11 - 6:30PM THU SEP 13 - 8:45PM • SUN SEP 16 - 6:50PM WED SEP 12 - 4:00PM • THU SEP 13 - 5:00PM The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin SUN SEP 16 - 5:10PM • MON SEP 17 - 7:05PM A hit at DOXA earlier this year, Minding the Gap has been ARWEN CURRY, USA/CANADA, 2018, 68 MIN. PANORAMA described as "the Boyhood of skate videos". You might also Presented by Michael Caine, this is a bright and breezy round THU SEP 13 - 7:00PM call it "Hoop Dreams on wheels" (that film's co-director, up of the revolutionary decade when Britannia got her groove Steve James, is a producer here). For years, Bing Liu filmed back and London was the most happening place on the planet. When Ursula K. Le Guin passed away in January at the age his friends Zack and Keire on their boards, performing Granted, it's not exactly an untold story, but Batty's entertaining of 88 we lost one of our foremost novelists. Le Guin, mostly stunts, sometimes falling flat on their faces, on the streets doc benefits from first hand anecdotes by an all-star cast of known for her science fiction and fantasy novels such as and parking lots of Rockford, Illinois. Then something actors, models, photographers and rock-n-rollers, among them A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, de- strange happened: they grew up. Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey, Twiggy, and Marianne Faithful. fiantly held her ground on the margin of American letters It was a time of exceptional social upheaval and creativity. until the sheer excellence of her work, at long last, forced 100% Fresh, Rotten Tomatoes; Winner: Audience Award, Full the mainstream to embrace fantastic literature. Ten years Frame Documentary Festival; Sheffield Documentary Festival. Best Documentary, Sarasota Film Festival; Nashville Film Festival; in the making, this documentary is an inspiring portrait of a Minneapolis St Paul Film Festival; Sun Valley Film Festival. fiercely curious mind. Co-presented with the Vancouver Writers Festival. This Changes Everything AVI LEWIS, CANADA, 2015, 89 MIN. IMPACT THU OCT 18 - 6:30PM Naomi Klein (Shock Doctrine) has risen to prominence around the world as one of Canada's most forceful and relevant public intellectuals.