What’s on Jul 22 - Sep 8, 2018 at the Vancouver LIFE, ANIMATED International Film Centre Aquarius 1181 Seymour Street 604.683.FILM Discover more at viff.org Summer 1993 Exclusive First Runs Arrhythmia Prodigals Angels Wear White BORIS KHLEBNIKOV, RUSSIA, 2017, 116 MIN. PANORAMA MICHELLE OUELLET, CANADA, 2017, 110 MIN. TRUE NORTH Jia nian hua FRI JUL 20 - 8:10PM • SUN JUL 22 - 7:40PM SAT JUL 21 - 8:00PM • TUE JUL 24 - 6:30PM VIVIAN QU, CHINA, 2017, 107 MIN. GATEWAY MON JUL 23 - 6:20PM • WED JUL 25 - 8:10PM Wesley (David Alpay) returns to his hometown of Sault Ste. FRI JUL 27 - 6:30PM • SUN JUL 29 - 5:55PM This prize-winning Russian drama is a keenly etched por- Marie for the trial of his old friend Benny – who is charged MON JUL 30 - 6:30PM • TUE JUL 31 - 8:45PM trait of a marriage in free-fall and a health service at break- with murder after a bar fight gone bad. It’s a return which THU AUG 2 - 6:30PM ing point. Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya opens up mixed memories and old wounds. In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by works at the emergency ward. She loves Oleg, but is fed up “A riveting portrait of a man who has spent so much time a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was with him caring more about patients than her and wants a running away from his past that he has lost sight of who he working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear divorce. The new EMA substation head is under orders to really is.” Courtney Small, In the Seats of losing her job, she says nothing. Meanwhile, 12-year-old implement business efficiencies - needless to say he’s on a Wen, one of the victims, finds that her troubles have only crash-course with Oleg. Filmmaker Q&A. just begun. Trapped in a world that offers them no safety, In Russian with English subtitles. Mia and Wen will have to find their own way out. Winner: Best Actor (Aleksandr Yatsenko) Karlovy Vary International “Searing.” NY Times. “Acutely serious female noir.” LA Times Film Festival and Chicago International Film Festival Best Interna- tional Film, Haifa Film Festival In Mandarin with English subtitles. The Third Murder Summer 1993 Nico, 1988 Sandome no satsujin Estiu 1993 SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI, ITALY, 2017, 93 MIN. M/A/D HIROKAZU KORE-EDA, JAPAN, 2017, 124 MIN. GATEWAY CARLA SIMÓN, SPAIN, 2017, 96 MIN. PANORAMA FRI AUG 17 - 8:10PM • SAT AUG 18 - 7:15PM SUN AUG 19 - 8:30PM • MON AUG 20 - 8:30PM* FRI JUL 27 - 8:40PM • SAT JUL 28 - 7:10PM FRI AUG 10 - 5:30PM • SAT AUG 11 - 6:00PM WED AUG 22 - 9:20PM SUN JUL 29 - 8:00PM • TUE JUL 31 - 6:20PM SUN AUG 12 - 5:15PM • MON AUG 13 - 12:50PM WED AUG 1 - 5:00PM • THU AUG 2 - 8:30PM Two decades after Andy Warhol and Lou Reed turned In Simón’s touching autobiographical film, 6-year-old Frida German model Christa Paffgen into the epitome of A complete change of pace from Palme d’Or winner Kore- looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently bohemian chic, we find a faded but still imperious Nico eda, this is a complex crime thriller about a defence lawyer deceased mother’s apartment in Barcelona are placed doggedly touring Europe, a functioning but often infuriating who doesn’t believe his client’s confession of murder in boxes. Although her aunt, uncle, and younger cousin heroin addict. Taken in hand by an enthusiastic British (though he believes he may well be a murderer). “Sleek and welcome her with open arms, it’s only slowly that Frida promoter (John Gordon Sinclair), Nico (the great Danish suspenseful, deceptive and profound, The Third Murder is begins to get used to her new home in the countryside. actor Trine Dyrholm) dutifully warbles to semi-respectful an artful addition to the canon of modern-day crime drama, Punctuated by moments of youthful exuberance and audiences, scoring and occasionally soaring, and stumbles one whose core mysteries encompass more than just the mature ruminations, this coming of age drama is an across fleeting moments of happiness along the way. case at hand.” Michael Leader, Sight & Sound extraordinarily moving snapshot a child in an adult world. In Japanese with English subtitles. In English, German, Italian, French with English subtitles. *Music Monday Tickets $11 Support the Girls The Night is Short, Madeline’s Madeline ANDREW BUJALSKI, USA, 2018, 93 MIN. PANORAMA JOSEPHINE DECKER, USA, 2018, 93 MIN. PANORAMA FRI AUG 24 - 6:30PM Walk on Girl FRI AUG 31 - 8:30PM • SAT SEP 1 - 8:30PM SUN AUG 26 - 5:15PM, 9:00PM Yoru wa mijikashi aruke yo otome SUN SEP 2 - 4:50PM • MON SEP 3 - 6:30PM MASAAKI YUASA, JAPAN, 2017, 93 MIN. ALT MON AUG 27 - 8:30PM • TUE AUG 28 - 6:30PM Madeline (Helena Howard) is a young woman of colour WED AUG 29 - 4:00PM • THU AUG 30 - 4:00PM FRI AUG 24 - 8:30PM • SUN AUG 26 - 7:10PM in NYC whose role in an improvisation theatre workshop The latest from prolific writer-director Andrew Bujalski MON AUG 27 - 6:30PM • TUE AUG 28 - 8:30PM grows exponentially week on week. The project's director, (Results, Computer Chess) is set in a “sports bar wtih Undoubtedly the booziest movie of the year, this deliriously Evangeline (Molly Parker) is fascinated by Madeline's curves”. Here, over the course of a day, manager Lisa (Regina alcohol-sodden dream-film free associates on infatuation, prodigious talent, but also, it seems, by her troubled history Hall) will see her essentially optimistic outlook tested on all inebriation, and the imagination (emphasis on “gin”). Over with her mother (Miranda July) and psychiatric issues. fronts, by the sad, horny customers, her obnoxious boss, the course of one night in Kyoto, Otome encounters a "One of the boldest and most invigorating American films of and her scantily-clad waitress staff, for whom Lisa is as series of oddball characters, and one repeatedly: a young the 21st century, Josephine Decker’s film is an ecstatically much a den mother as a manager. man intent on impressing her with a sense of destiny. disorienting experience." IndieWire “A biting commentary on American capitalism in the form of Bibliophiles, eroticists, sophists and epicurians all get a look a mainstream crowd pleaser.” The Film Stage in, but fans of wildly inventive chroma-saturated animation are in for a treat. In Japanese with English subtitles. Her Stories Vancity Impact Talk Albatross Kathleen Hepburn introduces Andrea Arnold's Ann Marie Fleming introduces Ulrike Ottinger's CHRIS JORDAN, USA, 2018, 97 MIN. IMPACT Fish Tank Joan of Arc of Mongolia WED AUG 22 - 6:30PM (FREE SCREENING) ANDREA ARNOLD, UK, 2009, 123 MIN. PANORAMA Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia Years in the making, Albatross is a stunning visual ULRIKE OTTINGER, GERMANY, 1989, 165 MIN. PANORAMA journey into the heart of a gut-wrenching environmental THU JUL 26 - 7:15PM tragedy. On Midway Island, one of the remotest areas on Angry and unruly 15-year-old Mia (Katie Jarvis) blossoms SUN SEP 2 - 6:45PM Earth, tens of thousands of albatross chicks lie dead on under the affectionate attention she receives from her Animator Ann Marie Fleming (Window Horses) has chosen the ground, their bodies filled with plastic. single mum's new boyfriend Connor (Michael Fassbender) to share Ulrike Ottinger’s rare 1989 epic, a creative attempt This screening is presented in this strikingly raw, real film by Andrea Arnold (American to grapple with cultural difference and exchange. New free of charge at the Honey). "Nearly flawless." NY Times Wave icon Delphine Seyrig’s Lady Windermere is one of filmmakers’ request, and Winner: BAFTA (British Film Awards) Outstanding British Film seven European women kidnapped from the Trans-Siberian will be followed by a panel Express by a Mongolian warrior princess. Her Stories: Women Call the Shots is a series of films directed discussion on plastics by women, selected and presented by contemporary women Followed by Q&A and mixer. pollution and safeguarding filmmakers. This month: Kathleen Hepburn, Never Steady Never Still the environment. Music Documentaries Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda The King Gurrumul STEPHEN SCHIBLE, JAPAN/USA, 2018, 100 MIN. M/A/D EUGENE JARECKI, USA, 2017, 117 MIN. M/A/D PAUL DAMIEN WILLIAMS, AUSTRALIA, 2018, 96 MIN. M/A/D SAT JUL 28 - 5:00PM • SUN JUL 29 - 3:45PM FRI AUG 3 - 7:45PM • SAT AUG 4 - 3:00PM FRI AUG 10 - 7:30PM • SAT AUG 11 - 4:00PM MON JUL 30 - 8:35PM* • WED AUG 1 - 7:30PM SUN AUG 5 - 8:45PM • MON AUG 6 - 8:30PM* SUN AUG 12 - 7:15PM THU AUG 2 - 6:30PM • SUN AUG 5 - 6:45PM TUE AUG 7 - 6:20PM • THU AUG 9 - 8:10PM Blind from birth, Indigenous singer/songwriter Geof- This portrait of the legendary Japanese composer is per- Elvis has left the building. The King is dead. So how do we feel frey Gurrumul Yunupingu is regarded as one of the most fectly in sync with the artist's introspective demeanour, his about the first immortal rock n roll icon 40 years later? Acclaimed important voices ever to come out of Australia. This doc environmental awareness, and musical compositions that documentarian Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) bought Presley’s celebrates the late artist and the tremendous obstacles he are simultaneously elegantly spare but deceptively complex 1963 Rolls Royce and took it for a spin across America to retrace overcame on his path to global acclaim.