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September 26, 2012
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Highlights: Tomorrow and Friday at VIFF
Related Links: Director’s Website | Griot Fri. Sep 28, 9:00 pm, Vogue
When both kora player Ablaye Cissoko and trumpeter Volker Goetze from the film Griot accepted an invitation to VIFF to present the film, the opportunity to have these two amazing musical collaborators perform for a Vancouver audience was too hard to resist. Goetze’s own soulful trumpet stylings and the extraordinary voice and calabash harp artistry of Ablaye Cissoko. See these giants of World music perform live at the Vogue. Special Event pricing: $20.00. Open to all, young and old—VIFF membership not required!
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Chile/USA/France | Dir: Pablo Larrain Thu. Sep 27, 6:00 pm, Granville 7
Mon. Oct 1, 1:00 pm, Granville 7
Thu. Oct 4, 10:30 am, Granville 7 Gael García Bernal is superb as an advertising whiz who masterminds the "No" campaign against General Pinochet’s continued rule of Chile in Pablo Larrain’s period-perfect and very moving drama. "Weirdly funny and rousing, both intellectually and emotionally… the nightmare legacy of the coup d’état [is] vanquished by a brilliant coup de théâtre."—New York Times |
(De rouille et d’os)France/Belgium | Dir: Jacques Audiard Related Links: Trailer | Trailer Thu. Sep 27, 11:30 am, Granville 7
Sat. Sep 29, 6:30 pm, Granville 7
Sat. Oct 6, 3:15 pm, Granville 7 Jacques Audiard follows up his electrifying Un prophète with this tender/brutal Côte d’Azur-set drama featuring the rising star Matthias Schoenaerts (Bullhead) and Marion Cotillard (La vie en rose). He’s a damaged boxer with a young son in tow and she’s a whale trainer at Antibes’ Marine Land who, after suffering a shocking accident at work, allows him into her life. |
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(Je suis venu vous dire… Gainsbourg by Ginzburg)France | Dir: Pierre-Henry Salfati Thu. Sep 27, 3:00 pm, Granville 7
Sat. Sep 29, 10:45 am, Cinematheque
Sat. Oct 6, 7:30 pm, Granville 6 Featuring previously unreleased personal footage from Serge Gainsbourg’s own collection and a soundtrack that mines his wealth of wonderful music, Pierre-Henry Salfati’s chronicle of France’s favourite musical son has Gainsbourg himself describing how his days as a Jewish boy in France during WWII marked him as an outsider and provided the impetus for his musical persona. |
(Djeca)Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany/France/Turkey | Dir: Aida Begic Thu. Sep 27, 6:20 pm, Granville 3
Sat. Sep 29, 3:30 pm, Granville 3
Wed. Oct 3, 9:30 pm, Granville 3 In war-ravaged Sarajevo, Rahima (a mesmerizing Marija Pikic) has rebuilt herself through her faith. Now, she yearns to be her delinquent brother’s salvation. An intense sensory experience, Aida Begic’s drama offers us "a passionately stark story of the strength of family, driven by an intense sense of honour and compassion…"—Screen. Winner, Special Jury Prize (Un Certain Regard), Cannes 2012. |
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India/USA | Dir: Musa Syeed Related Links: Official Website | Trailer Canadian PremiereThu. Sep 27, 9:15 pm, Granville 4
Sun. Sep 30, 1:30 pm, Cinematheque
Tue. Oct 2, 10:30 am, Granville 2 When violent protests curtail Gulzar and Afzal’s escape from Kashmir’s picturesque-but-impoverished Dal Lake, the lifelong friends butt heads over the beguiling scientist who’s studying the polluted lake. Political tensions, personal conflicts and environmental concerns conspire in Musa Syeed’s absorbing drama. Winner, Audience Award (World Cinema: Dramatic), Sundance 2012. |
Canada | Dir: Mike Clattenburg Related Links: Trailer Fri. Sep 28, 6:30 pm, Granville 7
Sun. Sep 30, 11:30 am, Granville 7
Hilarious and heartwarming, Mike Clattenburg’s film tells the story of four working-class stiffs. Our hero (Will Sasso), is a put-upon father with dreams of something bigger…
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Canada | Dir: Nisha Pahuja Related Links: Official Website | Trailer Fri. Sep 28, 6:20 pm, Granville 4
Sat. Sep 29, 3:00 pm, Granville 4
Thu. Oct 11, 6:00 pm, Granville 5 This energetic doc follows two young Indian women: a Hindu fundamentalist and a beauty pageant contestant. While each vies for her place in a male-dominated society, both are circumscribed by the very life-paths that claim to liberate them. Director Nisha Pahuja asks: What does the future hold? Winner, Best Documentary Feature, Tribeca; Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs. |
USA | Dir: Travis Fine Related Links: Official Website International PremiereFri. Sep 28, 12:45 pm, Granville 7
Sat. Oct 6, 11:00 am, Vancity
Mon. Oct 8, 9:30 pm, Granville 7 Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt turn in stellar performances in this 70s-set account of a gay couple’s struggles to overcome prejudice and adopt a developmentally disabled teenager. Travis Fine’s stirring drama "packages heartfelt sentiment in foul wry observations by Cumming that would make John Waters proud."—Screen. Winner, Audience Award: Narrative, Tribeca 2012, Audience Award for Best Film, Seattle 2012. |
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USA | Dir: Bob Byington Related Links: Official Website | Article | Trailer Canadian PremiereFri. Sep 28, 9:30 pm, Granville 4
Sun. Sep 30, 2:30 pm, Granville 4
Fri. Oct 5, 11:00 pm, Granville 4 Failing to mature—or even age—over the course of 35 years, Max Youngman is saddled with a considerable Peter Pan complex. An absurd look at a slacker slouching towards his destiny, Bob Byington’s tale of misadventure doles out "smarmy rapid-fire dialogue that would make Preston Sturges dizzy."—Indiewire. Winner, Special Jury Prize, Locarno 2012. |
(De jueves a domingo)Chile/Netherlands | Dir: Dominga Sotomayor Related Links: Official Website | Trailer Canadian PremiereFri. Sep 28, 6:30 pm, Granville 2
Sat. Sep 29, 4:00 pm, Cinematheque
Wed. Oct 3, 1:30 pm, Vancity A rare road movie told from the vantage point of the backseat. On a family car trip, young Lucía finds the monotony of the passing desert landscape counterpointed by the rapidly changing relationship between her parents. Dominga Sotomayor delivers close-quarters drama at its most affecting. Winner, Tiger Award, Rotterdam 2012. |
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China | Dir: Gao Feng Related Links: Official Website International PremiereFri. Sep 28, 6:00 pm, Vogue
Mon. Oct 1, 10:30 am, Granville 7 Set during the turbulent 1920s in China’s magnificent southwest, Gao Feng’s "Western" revolves around the lives of the camel men who guarded and transported goods across the Gobi Desert. Master Ge and apprentice Erga face down bandits as Erga falls for the Master’s daughter Hong’er. She, however, is promised to another… |
(Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo)Spain | Dir: Icíar Bollaín Canadian PremiereThu. Sep 27, 9:00 pm, Granville 3
Thu. Oct 4, 9:30 pm, Vogue
Fri. Oct 5, 3:00 pm, Granville 3 When a Catalan teacher (the beautiful rising star Verónica Echegui) ventures into the Himalayas, she finds her idealism undone by her adopted community’s crippling poverty and dire education system. Iciar Bollain "lets the clear mountain light bring out a full range of startling color, and the endlessly fascinating street scenes are beautifully done…"—Variety. Winner, Best Actress, Gaudi Awards 2012. |
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France | Dir: Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon Related Links: Trailer (French language) North American PremiereFri. Sep 28, 3:00 pm, Granville 1
Sun. Sep 30, 7:00 pm, Granville 2 Legendary photographer and documentarian Raymond Depardon captures moments in his native land while co-director Claudine Nougaret mines—and intercuts—chunks of Depardon’s old footage from around the world in this fascinating and moving work. "Journal of the Second Half of the 20th Century would be more accurate… A tribute to a masterful eye, a humanistic heart and a wondrous life…"—Variety |
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Just Announced
Canada | Dir: Sarah Polley Wed. Oct 10, 8:45 pm, Granville 3
Fri. Oct 12, 2:30 pm, Granville 3 Sarah Polley’s new film revolves around a few key questions: Who was my mother? Who is my father? Have I been told the truth? What is truth? Subjective questions indeed, but such is the formal inventiveness of the film and its deft interplay of subjectivities, that subjectivity itself is transcended. That, dear audience, is art. "A remarkable movie [that] blends factual inquiry and something else—not quite fiction, but also not really documentary—to astonishing effect."—New York Times |
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BOX OFFICE INFORMATION
- ONLINE at viff.org
- BY PHONE Noon — 7 pm at 604–685–8297
- IN–PERSON
Box Offices open 30 minutes before the first show of the day and remain open until the last show of the day at:
Vancity Theatre
Empire Granville 7 Cinemas
Pacific Cinematheque
Vogue Theatre
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During the Festival advance tickets will be available from any box office up until one hour before the showtime. After that, tickets are only available at the door of the venue, subject to availability. Note that even when those tickets are sold out, rush tickets are often available.
What’s New This Year
We’ve taken the leap into the 21st Century and are pleased to offer VIFF Audiences enhanced box office services.
PRINT AT HOME + SMART PHONE TICKET DELIVERY:
Advance Tickets can now be purchased up to one hour prior to showtime and conveniently delivered to your email for printing or to your smart phone mobile device. Please present your Print at Home ticket or Smart Phone Display at entry to the venue, where the barcode will be verified. VIFF membership must also be presented.
EXPANDED WILL CALL: Advance Ticket purchasers will enjoy the added flexibility of picking up WILL CALL tickets at any Venue Box Office during hours of festival operation.
EXPANDED FESTIVAL BOX OFFICES
During the Festival advance tickets will be available from any box office up until one hour before the showtime. After that, tickets are only available at the door of the venue, subject to availability. Note that even when those tickets are sold out, rush tickets are often available.
MASTERCARD & DEBIT CARD: VIFF now accepts Visa and MasterCard everywhere, and debit cards in person.
TICKET AVAILABILITY THIS YEAR
VIFF welcomes audiences to attend screenings and with low regular ticket prices, discount ticket packages and festival passes, VIFF is one of the most accessible International Film Festivals in North America. Seats are often still available at show time for the wide majority of films, but you'll want to plan ahead to avoid disappointment.
In order to help you with your planning, watch for the GREEN-AMBER-RED system. You can tell how busy a screening is expected to be by checking the online ticketing site or the "Screening Today" signs in front of each Theatre. If you follow the link above to the online ticketing site, you can search for your requested film in the "Search Events" box near the top of the page on the left hand side of the page.
 PLENTY = plenty seats available.
 GOING FAST = seats still available, but get there early.
 LIMITED = limited seats still available, but running out.
 RUSH ONLY = rush tickets only; advance tickets sold out.
Tickets + Passes, What’s The Best Deal For You
SINGLE TICKETS are best if you want to keep it simple or you just want to attend a few films. Simply search the film guide and select your films.
TICKET PACKS offer savings and may be the best if you want to attend at least 10 evening films and are able to decide on most of your titles ahead of time. The more you buy, the better the deal.
PASSES are best if you want maximum flexibility to see as many films as possible and don't mind taking your chances on available seats. There is ample room for passholders at the majority of screenings.
PLATINUM PASSES are ideal if you want the best of all worlds, including guaranteed seating in the reserved section up to 5 minutes before showtime
September 27 - October 12, 2012 | Film Info: 604.683.FILM (3456) | VIFF Office: 604.685.0260
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