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Baljit Sangra’s Because We Are Girls
A B.C. film about three sisters from a conservative Indo-Canadian family coming to terms with the sexual abuse opens the 18th annual DOXA Documentary Film Festival.
On May 3, Baljit Sangra’s Because We Are Girls kicks off the festival, which runs May 2 – May 12. Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival, DOXA will present 82 films (shorts and features) from across Canada and around the world. See below for more highlights of this year’s DOXA.
Still from Co-Creators, one of the docs screening at this year’s DOXA Film Festival.
A Vancouver radical, a Japanese contemporary artist, and autistic Finnish punk musicians are among the people whom audiences at this year’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival will meet.
This year’s DOXA features 93 films (shorts and features). Spotlight series include Press Play and Quietute, about the power of music and the benefits of silence and observation, respectively. Guest curated programs look at the rise of the rightwing and environmental crises facing Tibetan China. are autistic are among the people.
The DOXA Documentary Film Festival runs May 3 –13. For more info on tickets and some of the films, see below.
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Five films to see at this year’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival
A scene from Porcupine Lake, one of the films at this year’s Vancouver International Women in Film Festival.
Adolescent growing pains, military conscription and small-town redemption are among the subjects in films at this year’s Vancouver International Women in Film Festival.
A co-presentation of Women in Film and Television and the VIFF Vancity Theatre, the 13th annual edition runs March 6 to 11. Celebrating the best of cinema created by women. the festival als features film panels, master classes, guest filmmakers, artist talks, pitch sessions, receptions, and an awards gala. All screenings take place at Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour St.).
See below for some of the highlights of the festival.
A scene from Martina and Tania Halik’s Epic Coast Mountain Adventure.
With 40 shows in eight venues, this year’s Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival is the biggest yet. The annual event will screen 83 films, and host 44 speakers. These range from an Iranian woman who has become a symbol of moutain-climbing freedom, the first man to paddle-board across an ocean, and a mother-daughter team who spent five months traversing the Coast Mountains.
See below for more info on some of the guests coming to this year’s VIMFF.
Matilda de Angelis is featured in the 2016 movie Veloce come il vento (Italian Race), which screens at this year’s Italian Film Festival.
A couple Fellinis, three Tavianis, a Rossellini and a Bertolucci. It must be time for the Italian Film Festival.
Each year, the festival screens old, restored and new films by Italian filmmakers. This year’s runs Jan. 5-11 and features classics, documentaries and examples of new Italian cinema. Screenings take place at Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour St.). Here are some highlights.
A scene from As We Were Dreaming, one of the films screening at this year’s European Film Festival.
The East German Trainspotting, Hungary’s highest-budgeted film, and Romania’s entry for the upcoming Academy Awards are among the films screening at this year’s European Film Festival (Nov. 24-Dec. 4).
Presented by Cinematheque (1131 Howe St.), the Vancouver consulates and the Ottawa embassies of the member states of the European Union and the Delegation of the European Union to Canada, the 20th Annual European Union Film Festival features entries from 25 EU members. Vancouver audiences can experience the culture of these countries without buying a plane ticket, never mind squeezing into those narrower and narrower seats and fighting for space in the overhead bins.
Here are some, but by no means all, of the highlights from this year’s festival.
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Eight movies to see at this year’s European Film Festival in Vancouver
Liane Prefontaine in a scene from Sophie Goyette’s film Mes nuits feront echo, one of over 40 French films screening with this year’s Rendez-Vous French Film Festival in Vancouver.
Practice your French – or at least your English-subtitle-reading – at the Rendez-Vous French Film Festival. The festival’s 23rd year features over 40 films from Quebec and France Feb. 2-12 in several locations. Besides award-winning films. The festival includes Q&As with special guests, a tremendous short-film program, and a gala evening Feb. 4 at Auditorium Jules Verne.
So what’s on the agenda? Let’s take a look at some of the highlights.
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What to see at this year’s Rendez-Vous French Film Festival in Vancouver
